The whiff of violent macho homophobia that was in the first one?
It takes a lot to make me take a pass on a Colin Firth movie; I sat through Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, for God's sake!
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: We live in a space ship, dear. Wash: So?
'Objects In Space'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 25, 2017 8:38:16 am PDT #708 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
Steph L. - Apr 25, 2017 8:49:23 am PDT #709 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Whereas I have zero desire to ever see a Bridget Jones movie.
Different people like different shit.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 25, 2017 10:31:05 am PDT #710 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
That lack of desire is definitely a feeling worth listening to regarding the second one. I'm told the recent sequel is quite a bit better, but I'm still gun-shy years afterward.
Sue - Apr 25, 2017 12:03:34 pm PDT #711 of 3455
hip deep in pie
Oh wait, I saw the new Bridget Jones! It was not as good as the first one, but enjoyable.
Zenkitty - Apr 25, 2017 3:52:45 pm PDT #712 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
my movie buddy will probably want to see Kingsman, so I'll probably see it with her.
Tom Scola - Apr 26, 2017 6:11:00 am PDT #713 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Shit, shit, shit.
RIP Jonathan Demme.
Shit.
Toddson - Apr 26, 2017 11:36:35 am PDT #714 of 3455
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
oy ... I had loaned a co-worker a couple of DVDs, one of which is Elmer Gantry. We spoke about it and it turns out he thought it was a comedy (!) because we'd been talking about actors and he thought Burt Lancaster was who I was talking about when I told him about Danny Kaye (!).
Fred Pete - Apr 26, 2017 12:00:32 pm PDT #715 of 3455
Ann, that's a ferret.
Toddson, (!), indeed.
tommyrot - Apr 27, 2017 7:32:44 am PDT #716 of 3455
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone seen The Girl With All the Gifts ? I love the book and liked the movie, though not as much as the book.
The film had a limited release here in the US. I either missed it or it never came to Chicago, but now it's on iTunes.
I'm curious if anyone saw it who hadn't read the book first.
One major change in the movie struck me: In the book, there's basically no cure for the zombie pathogen and humans and zombies are stuck in a war that will see most of them killed.
But in the movie, Dr. Caldwell can make a cure for the pathogen, but Melanie has to die to produce it.
So Melanie's action at the end, while producing the same result, has a very different meaning in the movie.
(Spoiler fonts because of the limited release before it became available to purchase.)
Zenkitty - Apr 27, 2017 12:48:48 pm PDT #717 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Thanks for spoiler-fonting, tommyrot, even though I read them anyway... I have the book on a shelf waiting to be read, and I never knew there was a movie. Time to move that book to the top of the stack.