[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

Shawn · Jul 14, 2013

HCGLNS said:
Despicable Me 2 - had fun but damn movies are pricey these days. Friggin $80 to take me and two kids. I liked the villain tho, an Squidleybits has already forbidden me to do an impersonation of him.

Stop buying popcorn.

HCGLNS · Jul 14, 2013

Dude if I was not going with children I would be smuggling in food like you would not believe.

chris · Jul 14, 2013

80$ ? Why, for what? Three tickets, popcorn and soda are 80$ now?

Hailey Knight · Jul 14, 2013

chris said:
80$ ? Why, for what? Three tickets, popcorn and soda are 80$ now?

Three tickets is probably about $30. Kids don't want only popcorn and soda--they want candy, nachos. You know, lots of stuff they won't finish. Also, he's in Canada, so it's Canadian money. I don't know how that correlates, but it probably makes a slight difference.

Dei · Jul 14, 2013

Quotemander Prime said:
Three tickets is probably about $30. Kids don't want only popcorn and soda--they want candy, nachos. You know, lots of stuff they won't finish. Also, he's in Canada, so it's Canadian money. I don't know how that correlates, but it probably makes a slight difference.

We spend $45-$50 for 4 movie tickets these days, so... Yeah...

blotsfan · Jul 14, 2013

Steinman goes to movies: Takes out mortgage.

HCGLNS · Jul 14, 2013

Me: $13.50 for ticket
Kids: $10.50 x 2
Food: Popcorn, drink, candy = $10.50 x 3
What's that? I live in Nova Scotia Canada? oh, here have some 15% tax on top of all that.

checkeredhat · Jul 14, 2013

Prometheus

Ravenpoe · Jul 14, 2013

I smuggle so much food and drink into movie theaters.

I'm a goddamn food ninja.

I can open up my own concession stand once inside, that's how good I am.

HCGLNS · Jul 14, 2013

Ravenpoe said:
I smuggle so much food and drink into movie theaters.

I'm a goddamn food ninja.

I can open up my own concession stand once inside, that's how good I am.

I have snuck in a rack of ribs, pumpkin pie, and half a turkey dinner.

Ravenpoe · Jul 14, 2013

HCGLNS said:
I have snuck in a rack of ribs, pumpkin pie, and half a turkey dinner.

I have done quite nearly the exact same thing.

Best Thanksgiving ever.

checkeredhat · Jul 14, 2013

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Not the first time I've seen this movie, and now that I own it on DVD it won't be the last. It is simply flat-out hilarious. Finding out they wrote the movie in 5 days and filmed the whole thing in 10 makes me want to get off my ass and do something like this with my friends; all the behind the scenes material and bloopers make it clear that the set was an insanely fun place to be.

Hailey Knight · Jul 14, 2013

Pontypool: We gave the "Max" thing on Netflix a whirl for Horror and it offered up this. The description it gave was not accurate (thankfully) but we gave it a shot. It's pretty good. A radio station begins getting strange calls during a snowstorm that escalate as the movie goes on, until events come right to their studio. Very interesting and intelligent movie with some creative concepts. I'm curious about the novel it's based on, but I have a feeling this is just a point of view taken on the novel's events rather than plot-for-plot. In any case, it's worth checking out for a unique story that could've easily gone off the deep end or into stupid-land, and instead came out well.

Gilgamesh · Jul 14, 2013

Quotemander Prime said:
Pontypool: We gave the "Max" thing on Netflix a whirl for Horror and it offered up this. The description it gave was not accurate (thankfully) but we gave it a shot. It's pretty good. A radio station begins getting strange calls during a snowstorm that escalate as the movie goes on, until events come right to their studio. Very interesting and intelligent movie with some creative concepts. I'm curious about the novel it's based on, but I have a feeling this is just a point of view taken on the novel's events rather than plot-for-plot. In any case, it's worth checking out for a unique story that could've easily gone off the deep end or into stupid-land, and instead came out well.

Freakin Pontypool. Came out of nowhere and wowed me.

I on the other hand, got shit on by this:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_field_in_england/

Watched it. I think a 1 star would have been too good for it.

HCGLNS · Jul 14, 2013

Quotemander Prime said:
Pontypool: We gave the "Max" thing on Netflix a whirl for Horror and it offered up this. The description it gave was not accurate (thankfully) but we gave it a shot. It's pretty good. A radio station begins getting strange calls during a snowstorm that escalate as the movie goes on, until events come right to their studio. Very interesting and intelligent movie with some creative concepts. I'm curious about the novel it's based on, but I have a feeling this is just a point of view taken on the novel's events rather than plot-for-plot. In any case, it's worth checking out for a unique story that could've easily gone off the deep end or into stupid-land, and instead came out well.

There is also a radio play based upon it that is quite good.

Bowielee · Jul 14, 2013

Quotemander Prime said:
Pontypool: We gave the "Max" thing on Netflix a whirl for Horror and it offered up this. The description it gave was not accurate (thankfully) but we gave it a shot. It's pretty good. A radio station begins getting strange calls during a snowstorm that escalate as the movie goes on, until events come right to their studio. Very interesting and intelligent movie with some creative concepts. I'm curious about the novel it's based on, but I have a feeling this is just a point of view taken on the novel's events rather than plot-for-plot. In any case, it's worth checking out for a unique story that could've easily gone off the deep end or into stupid-land, and instead came out well.

I had not heard about this Max thing, I will have to fire up the PS3 when I get home.

Hailey Knight · Jul 14, 2013

Bowielee said:
I had not heard about this Max thing, I will have to fire up the PS3 when I get home.

It's hit and miss, but kind of fun to mess with, and we wouldn't have found the movie we watched tonight on our own.

ThatNickGuy · Jul 15, 2013

Pontypool was great. I worked with a guy at Blockbuster that knew a couple of people that worked on the film. He was always raving about it. Raving positively, that is.

Fun Size · Jul 15, 2013

Quotemander Prime said:
Pontypool: We gave the "Max" thing on Netflix a whirl for Horror and it offered up this. The description it gave was not accurate (thankfully) but we gave it a shot. It's pretty good. A radio station begins getting strange calls during a snowstorm that escalate as the movie goes on, until events come right to their studio. Very interesting and intelligent movie with some creative concepts. I'm curious about the novel it's based on, but I have a feeling this is just a point of view taken on the novel's events rather than plot-for-plot. In any case, it's worth checking out for a unique story that could've easily gone off the deep end or into stupid-land, and instead came out well.

Find the BBC radio play version. It's fucking amazing.

sixpackshaker · Jul 15, 2013

Ravenpoe said:
I smuggle so much food and drink into movie theaters.

I'm a goddamn food ninja.

I can open up my own concession stand once inside, that's how good I am.

So, do you do the fake sneeze to cover up the sound of opening a can of Coke?

Gilgamesh · Jul 15, 2013

sixpackshaker said:
So, do you do the fake sneeze to cover up the sound of opening a can of Coke?

Fake cough.

Ravenpoe · Jul 15, 2013

sixpackshaker said:
So, do you do the fake sneeze to cover up the sound of opening a can of Coke?

Bottles.

Also, there's a gas station right next to my movie theater that sells candy in the large boxes, the same kind you typically buy in the theater. Except they're $0.50 at the gas station, and $3.50 in the theater.

That gas station knows what's up.

GasBandit · Jul 15, 2013

Ravenpoe said:
Bottles.

Also, there's a gas station right next to my movie theater that sells candy in the large boxes, the same kind you typically buy in the theater. Except they're $0.50 at the gas station, and $3.50 in the theater.

That gas station knows what's up.

More like $5 in the theater. I was aghast last I went. The ticket was 5.50... but hotdog? 5 bucks. Soda? 5 bucks. Nachos? 5 bucks.

sixpackshaker · Jul 15, 2013

It costs me $10.50 to see a movie. $5 for the ticket and $5.50 for Large Coke and Popcorn.

Cajungal · Jul 15, 2013

Gilgamesh said:
Fake cough.

Same here! Or an explosion or something.

Fun Size · Jul 15, 2013

Loud flatulence. Works every time.

CynicismKills · Jul 15, 2013

Woman In Black. Shit's creepy, yo.

ThatNickGuy · Jul 15, 2013

CynicismKills said:
Woman In Black. Shit's creepy, yo.

Definitely a movie I went into with low expectations and came out pleasantly surprised.

Gilgamesh · Jul 15, 2013

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2332831/

Highly recommend to anyone who's atheist or mostly removed from religion. Phenomenal take on the horrors of religion and loneliness wrapped in a horror thriller mind fuck film.

Fun Size · Jul 16, 2013

CynicismKills said:
Woman In Black. Shit's creepy, yo.

I'm glad to hear it. I saw the previews and did what I always do in these cases - I read the book. It was super effective, to the point where I was afraid that the movie would disappoint. I'll have to check this one out.

CynicismKills · Jul 16, 2013

Goon. Thought I'd be getting another goofy Sean William Scott comedy, ended up with a spectacular sports comedy. Surprisingly awesome.

ThatNickGuy · Jul 16, 2013

That's not The Goon movie I want.

Fun Size · Jul 16, 2013

God that trailer. I ran out and read three or four trades based on that trailer, and just wanted a movie that much more. Cruel, cruel tease.

Yoshimickster · Jul 16, 2013

I was gonna ask if there's a kickstarter for that, but apparently it was all ready kick started...last November. Fleh, I can deal animation takes time.

Shakey · Jul 18, 2013

I'm watching the Hobbit for the first time out of the theater. Do the proportions seem out of whack in Bilbo's house at the beginning of the movie to anyone else? The Dwarves aren't that much bigger than Bilbo, but everything of Bilbos is tiny to them. Even the ones who are the same height as him.