The Official Movie Thread

[CiG]

That was different, that was more like a fed up "let's shake the game up a bit" thing. I'm just like "DON'T CARE" the moment anything political comes up. Not nihilism or anarchy, just dead pulse.

I also squeezed out a shitload of politics to make room for checking out more music, more movies and so on. Could be it, fuck knows, but my eyes glazed over trying to read some of Chaw's more politically charged reviews and the other day a Ben Shapiro video autoplayed on Youtube and I almost puked.

First Reformed is supposed to be a political film so... this could be bad, haha.

 

[challenge_everything]

First Reformed is not political, except in the sense that every film is political

 

[CiG]

I just read somewhere that the film is being described as a political drama, and that the plot involves a political activist. I'll obviously take your word for it though.

Watching this one tonight:



Planning to revisit all my Johnnie To films, focusing on the ones I felt kind of lukewarm about upon initial viewing, and ending with my favourite of all the ones I actually own; Election.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i mean, you could probably technically argue that taxi driver involves a political activist.

 

[challenge_everything]

Exactly. There is an eco-warrior type character in First Reformed but the film is not about the rights or wrongs of those views, those who think it is are missing the point.

 

[CiG]

199 minute epic. Don't often watch this one due to its length, but I love it and anything else by Hiroshi Inagaki I've seen, notably the Samurai trilogy.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Kevin Smith Confirms ‘Jay and Silent Bob’ Reboot, Starts Pre-Production

 

[Slammed]

Usually I hate reboots but I'll be inline for that one.

Kevin is a shadow of his former self these days.

 

[CiG]

Kevin is a shadow of his former self these days.

Understatement. This reboot will probably suck.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

The last thing I've seen of his is Red State which I loved. Still keen to check out Tusk sometime in the near future. His run from Clerks to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was flawless.

 

[CiG]

Agreed, and I like Clerks 2 though I know it's very flawed. Tusk is pretty good, I was surprised so many people seemed to dislike it.

The last Smith film I saw was Cop Out, which I actually gave away.

 

[Slammed]

Not being a fan of reboots I already have low expectations so I can only be pleasantly surprised

I think it's going to depend a lot on what Jay and SB can talk about. A lot of their old conversations probably don't pass muster with the current PC crowd telling people how they should act and what they should say.

 

[CiG]

Isn't Kevin Smith himself kind of in with that crowd?

 

[Slammed]

No idea. I wouldn't have thought so given some of his routines but anything is possible I guess.

 

[CiG]

I think he might be, but regardless I have faith in his sense of humour perhaps more than anything else about him. If anybody could actually revive left-wing comedy in 2019 it would be him. He always championed things like LGBT rights in his films, but maybe he will have to curb some of the more Jay-centric stuff.

 

[Slammed]

He's stated a few times that the Jay and SB stuff has often been done to raise money for Mewes to kick the drugs and Mewes as said some pretty whacked out shit that might make Kevin seem PC but I can't find anything (in a few minutes of searching) to suggest he's part of the crowd. He's made comments that he should have toned it down when picking on Ben Affleck because Garner didn't have a sense of humour but thats about all I found other than him supporting Obama which might make some people think he's gone PC.

 

[CiG]

I just mean he might find it harder to get away with writing all the sexist Jay lines these days. I can't remember what it was that made me think he leans SJW, but I could just be mixing him up with someone else.

Mewes is clean these days right?

 

[Slammed]

Since 2010 according wiki....so no probably not!

 

[CiG]

I have some of those sorta recent live Q&A DVDs Kevin and Jay did and he seems clean, but who can really tell.

 

[Slammed]

Wiki editors are special kinds of people I reckon they'd be chomping at the bit to add news like a relapse to his page. They might be slower to add good news but bad news I'm sure would be there as soon as it happened.