What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?

The minute someone starts talking about liberals and Hollywood, I immediately tune them out because at that point they have nothing of value to add to any conversation.

quozl wrote: I wouldn't have guessed from the previews but Boss Baby is extremely creative. Recommended.

There are ads for that everywhere in Paris and Brussels (current vacation). Except it's called Baby Boss, and there's no mention of Alec Baldwin, so I imagine it's dubbed.

Also, is it weird that I had poutine for the first time in a Canadian pub in Paris?

As far as I remember, GIST: Standalone Complex season 2 was pretty heavy on politics. They spent whole chapters of heavy political exposition. But it was about Japanese politics (like whether some country had the right to have a regular army or disputes about the ownership of some islands, and the concept of honor, etc.), and it was so very obtuse I wouldn't dare say whether they were leaning right or left. Best parts were firefights, anyway.

Hollywood is full of commies, of course. We all know that they don't care at all about the money, only about spreading their ideology. And that's why China is their main market.

Disgustipater wrote:

quozl wrote: I wouldn't have guessed from the previews but Boss Baby is extremely creative. Recommended.

Also, is it weird that I had poutine for the first time in a Canadian pub in Paris?

there's so much going on here...

first of all, there's no such thing as a Canadian pub. There are Irish pubs, English pubs, but i've never seen a Canadian pub. The pubs they have in St.John's are indeed pretty unique though.

I would wager that having poutine in a so-called Canadian pub in Paris isn't proper poutine. Can you describe it? Was the cheese in cheese curd format (i.e. squeeky cheese?) or was it some garbage like melted mozzarella. I had a poutine in the US once and the cheese was melted velveeta sauce. I wanted to fly a plane into a building.

i bet the fries were pretty damn good though in Paris. We have AWFUL fries here. There are only restaurants in the entire city that have fries I like.

i embarassingly enough had a pretty decent poutine in the movie theatre last friday when I saw Logan. The waitress looked exactly like Hailee Steinfeld, i almost lost my mind.

Continuing my run of movies I hope will be guilty pleasures, I watched Crank with Jason Statham being injected with a drug that will kill him unless he keeps his adrenaline flowing. It is a tolerable 6.5/10 action film, basically what you would expect from Jason Statham in the mid 00's (or Chuck Norris in the 80s, Jet Li in the 90's or Liam Neeson in the 10s). Moderate spoiler follows for those who actually want to watch this in the future: he dies at the end which isn't a surprise as they say all along the poison is incurable, and I was pleased because it meant that there would be those 3/10 sequels that followed similar films like The Transporter or Taken, but no I check imdb and they used a deus ex machina to keep him alive for a crap sequel. Surely they could just have done the crap sequel thing where the same shit happens to a different B-movie action star.

The sequel is even better. And by better, I mean awful in the best possible way. He's got a female co-"star" who is Chinese. In the beginning, she's speaking to him in her language and he says to her "What is that...Cuntonese?" A+ just for that ridiculous line.

Black Barney wrote: [ We have AWFUL fries here. There are only restaurants in the entire city that have fries I like.

Try Au Pied Cochon. Pricey, but excellent food, including the fries.

Not much of a poutine fan myself, I'd rather have the gravy separate so as to keep the fries crisp.

I like soggy fries

I did Au Pied du Cochon once. They had foie gras poutine which was nuts. I think my favourite part of that restaurant was actually the bread. These big rustic round loaves that they decimate with a bat'leth, it was AWESOME.

They have a Cabane-a-Sucre from the guys that do Pied du Cochon, I've been meaning to try it but it's hard to reserve and far.

Black Barney wrote: first of all, there's no such thing as a Canadian pub.

Hey, the menu said 'pub' and there were hockey pictures on the wall. Who am I to argue?

Black Barney wrote: Was the cheese in cheese curd format (i.e. squeeky cheese?) or was it some garbage like melted mozzarella.

It was some kind of half step between mozzarella and cheese curds.

Black Barney wrote: oh COME ON, how can that be good?

It beat Beauty & the Beast over the weekend and i couldn't believe it.

It shocked me too but it's really good. Like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs good.

Moonrise Kingdom. What a fantastic film. I'm already a Wes Anderson fan but this just reinforces why.

Man, I like Wes Anderson way more than I dare to admit in public. Thing is, I liked him before he became an icon of whimsical film making. I still think Rushmore is his best film.
But Moonrise Kingdom is great and I really enjoyed Grand Hotel Budapest. Best Ralph Fiennes' work since Strange Days.

You are ALL OVER THE PLACE

Vlad wrote: Man, I like Wes Anderson way more than I dare to admit in public. Thing is, I liked him before he became an icon of whimsical film making. I still think Rushmore is his best film.
But Moonrise Kingdom is great and I really enjoyed Grand Hotel Budapest. Best Ralph Fiennes' work since Strange Days.

Rushmore is my favorite from Wes Anderson, too. I actually didn't like Bottle Rocket or The Royal Tenenbaums. I'm very hit or miss with Anderson, so I haven't even seen Moonrise Kingdom or Grand Hotel Budapest yet.

Strange Days. I saw that a long time ago, only remember one scene, but it was funny.

Shell, you have to see Moonrise. You hafta. I still can't decide if I like it better than Rushmore but it's the first to come close enough

The only thing I remember from Strange Days are Juliette Lewis's pencil erasers. It's honestly the single only thing I remember.