tonytr87

Fair enough. I only hope Nocturnal Animals is as good as HOHW.

The tones are completely different. Hell or High Water is a laid-back modern western about small town economic woes plus a subplot with one racially-charged buddy cop duo. Nocturnal Animals is a dark and mysterious neo-noir with a movie within a movie and a murder subplot. Cinematography is different, the use of color is different, the cast is different, the genre is different, the themes are different, the only thing they have in common is a cop with a cowboy hat and a few scenes that take place in the southwest. I'm only harping on this cause it seems to be a common thing online where people make these dubious comparisons all the time. Like calling Nolan's films Kubrickian. Their films are nothing alike.

You're supposed to be paying attention intellectually before the emotional part kicks in. "Lots of talking" doesn't explain it. Look at The Social Network, another Sorkin drama with lots of brilliant dialogue but it did pretty well.

No offense, but none of this makes sense. It looks nothing like Hell or High Water.

Steve Jobs' failure was one of the biggest bummers for me in recent memory. My favorite film of 2015 and nobody paid attention cause everyone thought it was going to be your standard biopic.

I'm sure this will be decent, but it feels like a missed opportunity giving two films about some of the biggest tragedies of the last decade (BP spill, Boston Marathon bombing) to Peter Berg. If I'm not mistaken, JC Chandor was originally going to direct this. And Kathryn Bigelow flirted with Patriot's Day.

You do realize some of us care because we tend to agree with critics a majority of the time...right?

I'll meet you halfway. Being unable to fathom why two men would both want to be with a woman you find unattractive may not be misogynist, but it's most definitely stupid. At least in the context we're speaking of wherein you hold it against the movie. Also, they never actually "fight over her." And even if they did, that's not why he becomes Two Face. He loves her and he loses her to a maniac whom he tried to battle through the law. Regardless, judging an actress/character solely on their looks is shallow, if not outright misogynist.

Misogyny, ladies and gentlemen.

Imitating a robot is harder than you think.

Maybe it's good, but judging from the trailer it looks like Tarantino-lite. Trying way too hard to be cool and snarky.

It's interesting, if you look at Metacritic there are a few 50s and then two 100s. Extremely split. It's rare for films with mixed reviews to receive 100s on Metacritic. It drives me crazy that Snowden is even considered a controversial figure. He did the right thing, but half of our population is fucked in the head and thinks someone is a traitor if they don't stand for a goddamn song.

Although they have very different styles, he's essentially become what everyone expected out of Blomkamp.

You lost me at comparing Assassin's Creed to Point Break. There was nothing appealing about the latter. There's plenty to like in what we've seen so far for the former.

Maybe I'm alone but I'm more excited for Assassin's Creed than Star Wars. Since I don't play video games it may as well be an original blockbuster which I'm starving for.

Dumb prediction this far out. Only if it's bad.

Yeah, the big problem is that outside of Apatow and maybe one or two here or there every time they DO make one it ends up being awful.

Mike and Dave was basically a romcom but they didn't really market it as one.

Movies like Trainwreck still count as romcoms to me. They're definitely made far less at the studio level though. In fact, I wonder if Apatow is the only guy who can get them made now.

Not in my neck of the woods.

Warning: do not read the user reviews on Rotten tomatoes. Holy hell is that one delusional group of people. Most of them obviously haven't even seen it.

I think relatively close proximity to Django and 12 Years will hurt it as far as interest. At least I have less interest anyway.

I seriously hate the washed-out look of M7.

It's the year of the witch I guess.

Eh. Sounds like it's a good movie and this person is simply not interested in the story.