The scariest moment for me was when All Quiet on the Western Front picked up a couple of prizes it was the second-favorite on and it started to look like they would win bigger prizes. I didn't really care about Best Picture, but I was going to smash something if it won for adaptation over Women Talking. The more I think about it, the more mad I get about what they did with the ending (which, if you don't know, is where the title comes from).
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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megan walker - Mar 16, 2023 10:58:34 am PDT #3261 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Steph L. - Apr 02, 2023 7:48:27 am PDT #3262 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Dungeons & Dragons was a lot of fun and much better than I expected it to be. I also had no idea that Regé-Jean Page was in it, so between him, Michelle Rodriguez, and Chris Pine, there is a LOT of pretty onscreen.
megan walker - Apr 02, 2023 1:04:38 pm PDT #3263 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Shockingly, I didn't feel the ridiculous length of John Wick 4 as much as I thought I would, but it could have been shorter. That is, many of the fight scenes just went on for too damn long and were very repetitive (in that often there were just more people coming at Wick in every situation). The best ones were the extended one-on-ones using the fight choreography the series is known for, but they were few and far between.
That said, I enjoyed it quite a bit. I loved all of the Paris stuff even if some of it had my eyes rolling vis-à-vis the geography. It wasn't as pretty as #3 (IMO, the best visuals) but the plot was somewhat better, though it still definitely suffers from the "trying to do too much" element that has plagued this series since #2. In my rewatch of the first three, #2 rose significantly in my esteem but not quite enough to topple #1, which will always have my heart for its simplicity of concept and creativity of execution.
Final ranking:
John Wick
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Steph L. - Apr 03, 2023 9:02:20 am PDT #3264 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Probably relevant only to me, but: trailer for the Blue Beetle movie!!! [link]
God, I hope it doesn't suck.
Dana - Apr 03, 2023 9:08:50 am PDT #3265 of 3455
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
That looks fun.
Kalshane - Apr 03, 2023 3:21:15 pm PDT #3266 of 3455
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
I'm excited as well. I'm kind of sad we won't have Grizzled Old Peacemaker in the mentor role, but I knew that would be the case once he was part of The Suicide Squad.
I haven't read of any of the Rebirth stuff, so I have no idea what's different from the original run.
Steph L. - Apr 03, 2023 5:19:02 pm PDT #3267 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Grizzled Old Peacemaker in the mentor role
Man, that was THE BEST.
Calli - Apr 06, 2023 11:10:34 am PDT #3268 of 3455
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I went to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves yesterday. It was fun. Not life changing, but sometimes you just want to see pretty people in fantastical situations.
Toddson - Apr 21, 2023 6:54:34 am PDT #3269 of 3455
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Coming in August, The Last Voyage of the Demeter. For those who know Dracula, it expands one chapter of the book.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 21, 2023 8:25:40 am PDT #3270 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Huh, for some reason I thought that was coming from A24, not Dreamworks. Maybe I got it mixed up with the Nosferatu remake?
Eagerly anticipating the release, regardless.