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Sitting here flipping through channels and Forgetting Sarah Marshall is on. Wouldn't one think Aldous Snow (world famous singer) and Sarah Marshall (TV actress) would have booked the Kapua Suite instead if a normal/basic room?

Thoughts? Other random observations on movies?
 
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cookedw said:
Sitting here flipping through channels and Forgetting Sarah Marshall is on. Wouldn't one think Aldous Snow (world famous singer) and Sarah Marshall (TV actress) would have booked the Kapua Suite instead if a normal/basic room?

Thoughts? Other random observations on movies?
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Lead actor in that movie is annoying to me.

Saw Creed yesterday. GREAT MOVIE!
 
Phantom Thread was great

Blade Runner and Dunkirk were the best films of the year

Get Out was wonderful. I love Jordan Peele and can’t wait for his next movie
 
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cookedw said:
Sitting here flipping through channels and Forgetting Sarah Marshall is on. Wouldn't one think Aldous Snow (world famous singer) and Sarah Marshall (TV actress) would have booked the Kapua Suite instead if a normal/basic room?

Thoughts? Other random observations on movies?
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Mika Kunis has one brown and one blue eye.

So does Max Scherzer.

I like Mila. She’s purdy.
 
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That movie is what really set her off for me. Always thought she was hot, but she’s on a whole mother level in that flick.
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Yep. I also have a soft spot for Jewish actresses. It’s what makes me not Hitler. That, above average height, a whimsical affinity for gypsies and a dislike for authoritarian rule.
 
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I want to see all three of these. Which one would you watch first?
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Oh man. They're all good and different.

None of them are blow your minds great. Just great films done well.

I thought Get Out was one of the funniest dark movies I've seen in a while. I'd say that one first.

I'd check out Phantom Thread if you like Paul Thomas Anderson type stuff. He isn't for everyone. If you like Daniel Day Lewis its a good one.

Dunkirk feels like you're suffocating the entire time and I loved what Nolan does with time elements and music.

I'd end with Blade Runner, which has about 5-6 scenes that are some of the best acting of the year. The first scene of the movie might be the best scene of any scene this year.
 
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I'll throw Disaster Artist in there as well. One of the funniest movies I have seen because I'm a "The Room" cult fan.
 
cookedw said:
Sitting here flipping through channels and Forgetting Sarah Marshall is on. Wouldn't one think Aldous Snow (world famous singer) and Sarah Marshall (TV actress) would have booked the Kapua Suite instead if a normal/basic room?

Thoughts? Other random observations on movies?
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She said that suite was basically for Oprah. TV actress isn't going to be huge money (show even got canceled in the movie) and singer is probably only a little above tv actress. If they made lots of money off their songs, they wouldn't tour.
 
I saw Ready Player One Saturday and A Quiet Place on Sunday. Both were fantastic in different ways.
 
WDE_Tarp said:
She said that suite was basically for Oprah. TV actress isn't going to be huge money (show even got canceled in the movie) and singer is probably only a little above tv actress. If they made lots of money off their songs, they wouldn't tour.
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I think she said it was only $7K a night.
 
Harvey Specter said:
Definitely worth a watch. Just didn’t think it warranted all the rave reviews. I may be a dummy though
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Looks like a cool concept that will devolve into a jump-scare fest. I’m an Emily Blunt fan and John Krasinski fan (for the same reasons) so I may check it out.
 
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Also, I just finished Annihilation. I think I’d agree with most reviewers that it had promise and some pretty cool things to it. It made little sense as a stand alone movie.
 
Get out was “ok”. It was a fun movie but had no business for best picture.
 
I really didn't like Dunkirk but I can understand why some people enjoyed it. I still can't get over the little subplot of the kid who just dies on the civilian boat. It was so stupid and so poorly conceived and executed that it kind of ruined the movie for me. I also think that Nolan's insistence to not use any CGI severely limited the film's ability to accurately depict the scale and scope of the evacuation. If you didn't know the history of the event and only watched the movie, you'd think that the whole thing was a resuce mission for like 3 thousand dudes when the reality was it was hundreds times larger. It just felt so small to me. Also, aside from the opening scene to establish that the germans were closing in on them, I feel like the that whole side of the story was completely ignored which was weird.
 
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Also saw black panther recently. Not sure it meets the hype it received but it’s still a good movie. And Wakanda is definitely a cool world that will be fun to explore in future movies. But with them killing off his two biggest villains in the first movie, I wonder who the bad guys will be in the sequels.
 
If she was the star of an hour long network procedural, then she would have easily been making 200-300k an episode. She should’ve been way richer in the movie and not living in that average apartment with him in the beginning
 
MomentInTheSun said:
I really didn't like Dunkirk but I can understand why some people enjoyed it. I still can't get over the little subplot of the kid who just dies on the civilian boat. It was so stupid and so poorly conceived and executed that it kind of ruined the movie for me. I also think that Nolan's insistence to not use any CGI severely limited the film's ability to accurately depict the scale and scope of the evacuation. If you didn't know the history of the event and only watched the movie, you'd think that the whole thing was a resuce mission for like 3 thousand dudes when the reality was it was hundreds times larger. It just felt so small to me. Also, aside from the opening scene to establish that the germans were closing in on them, I feel like the that whole side of the story was completely ignored which was weird.
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Yeah I kinda felt the same. I’m admittedly a person that generally dislikes a lot of movies.

I was just wanting more of a storyline it’s like bunch of guys almost drown, kid dies for no reason then a couple dozen boat owners show up and half a million people are saved the end.
 
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How much do you think you would need to make a year to pay $50K for just your hotel accommodations on a week's vacation?
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I just feel like a TV star (before her show is canceled) and one of the biggest musicians in the world would make millions a year between the two.

You seem to think the biggest musicians in the world don't make a lot.
 
MomentInTheSun said:
Also saw black panther recently. Not sure it meets the hype it received but it’s still a good movie. And Wakanda is definitely a cool world that will be fun to explore in future movies. But with them killing off his two biggest villains in the first movie, I wonder who the bad guys will be in the sequels.
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None of the comic book movies are nearly as breathless as people make them out to be when they first see them. I have found Marvel's movies to be pretty compelling as of late.
 
Denim Vest said:
I was just wanting more of a storyline it’s like bunch of guys almost drown, kid dies for no reason then a couple dozen boat owners show up and half a million people are saved the end.
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Ha, I liked all of the things you guys disliked. There wasn't a single thing I disliked about it. The best theater experience I've had and I saw it alone during the week by myself.
 
cookedw said:
I just feel like a TV star (before her show is canceled) and one of the biggest musicians in the world would make millions a year between the two.

You seem to think the biggest musicians in the world don't make a lot.
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Just try and answer the question. How much do you think you would have to make to pay 50K for a week's in Hawaii? I think I would have to be a billionaire.
 
WDE_Tarp said:
Just try and answer the question. How much do you think you would have to make to pay 50K for a week's in Hawaii? I think I would have to be a billionaire.
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whoa. Maybe you are just cheap

I would say an average week for a normal week long trip to say orange beach for a room is what, maybe $3K? I would say the average salary of a family making that trip is probably $75-$100K.

so multiply that by 17 (I'll round up), and that would make about $1.7M.

Nowhere close to $1,000,000,000
 
cookedw said:
whoa. Maybe you are just cheap

I would say an average week for a normal week long trip to say orange beach for a room is what, maybe $3K? I would say the average salary of a family making that trip is probably $75-$100K.

so multiply that by 17 (I'll round up), and that would make about $1.7M.

Nowhere close to $1,000,000,000
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Not sure you got the difference between being a billionaire and making a billion a year, but this is a silly argument so you win rice.
 
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Ha, I liked all of the things you guys disliked. There wasn't a single thing I disliked about it. The best theater experience I've had and I saw it alone during the week by myself.
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I just can’t get over the little kid’s storyline and how it all played out. Like what type of responsible adult allows some 13 year old that isn’t his kid to tag along on a trip to a fuggin war zone like it’s a trip to Arby’s? That old man is a murderer. And then we’re supposed to think he’s a good dude bc he got the kid’s name in the paper. No. You’re a dick who got a kid killed. You didn’t report the soldier who did it and you also need to be confronted by the kid’s parents and answer why you thought taking this kid was okay. If the kid had just snuck on the boat, then the story would be way different. But the old man needed to take some responsibility or something. It was just stupid. Let’s just have soldier with ptsd kill a kid and cover it up is such a weird subplot to an action packed movie
 
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Not sure you got the difference between being a billionaire and making a billion a year, but this is a silly argument so you win rice.
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Lol. You were the one who started the stupidity by "disagreeing" with a random observation about a movie.
 
cookedw said:
Lol. You were the one who started the stupidity by "disagreeing" with a random observation about a movie.
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You asked "thoughts?" and I remembered the line about it basically being for Oprah.

I agree with the train of thought of the people who made the movie on that one. Didn't seem like much of a hole.
 
Denim Vest said:
Yeah I kinda felt the same. I’m admittedly a person that generally dislikes a lot of movies.

I was just wanting more of a storyline it’s like bunch of guys almost drown, kid dies for no reason then a couple dozen boat owners show up and half a million people are saved the end.
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The movie relies too much on cinematography and superior audio but falls flat in dialogue and story line.
 
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