Brian Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Safety Not Guaranteed is recommended. Duplass' taking over the world. Funny to see the guy from The League pull of drama so well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 04:24 PM) <!--quoteo(post=2628970:date=Jun 21, 2012 -> 02:34 PM:name=Balta1701)-->QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 21, 2012 -> 02:34 PM) <!--quotec--> That's a must see. It might look better than the first one! I like the gratuitous bra/bikini glimpse of the hot ass daughter. And that actor plays an eastern euro gangster in every movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 I forgot to mention that there was a trailer before the movie I saw the other day. It's called Gangster Squad and it looks f***ing awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 (edited) QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 05:16 PM) I forgot to mention that there was a trailer before the movie I saw the other day. It's called Gangster Squad and it looks f***ing awesome. Is that another Gosling movie? Think I saw the trailer months ago. Speaking of trailers, ARGO looks like Affleck could be 3 for 3 as a director. Edited June 27, 2012 by Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman delivers Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 26, 2012 -> 05:30 PM) Is that another Gosling movie? Think I saw the trailer months ago. Speaking of trailers, ARGO looks like Affleck could be 3 for 3 as a director. Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 24, 2012 -> 07:44 PM) It was awesome. My boss was telling me there is another one where he is a zombie killer or something...was on pay-per-view recently. He was describing it and I was like "how f***ing drunk was he when he watched it, because I'm positive it's about killing vampires, not zombies." Then he starts talking about how at the end he gets John Wilkes Booth to assassinate him because he can't die as a zombie, and I knew we must be talking about two different things. In other news, I just watched something called Margin Call, and it was vague and pointless. Don't waste your time, despite a pretty solid cast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Margin Call wasn't terrible. I used a few selected pieces of it with my ECON class here in China. HBO also did a similar movie on the 2008 crisis, can't remember the name of it off the top of my head though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danman31 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 10:48 PM) Margin Call wasn't terrible. I used a few selected pieces of it with my ECON class here in China. HBO also did a similar movie on the 2008 crisis, can't remember the name of it off the top of my head though. Too Big to Fail and it was good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Since I missed the Adam Sandler discussion: Click was a lie. Good movie, but it was supposed to be funny and was incredibly sad. Reign Over Me is one of my favorite movies. Not a comedy, but it's a powerful movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 27, 2012 -> 09:48 PM) Margin Call wasn't terrible. I used a few selected pieces of it with my ECON class here in China. HBO also did a similar movie on the 2008 crisis, can't remember the name of it off the top of my head though. It wasn't terrible because the cast was very solid...but they didn't ever get into any details enough to ever really tell a story...The movie opens with a big financial services firm firing 80% of their employees. One of the managers that gets whacked tries to warn his boss that he needs to look at something he's been working on...everyone in the firm says "don't worry about it now...it's not your problem anymore." Before he gets escorted out by security, he passes a zip drive onto one of his employees and says "take a look at this...and be careful." The guy then looks at it that night and realizes that they are so levered up on crappy mortgages and their trading model is showing them as beginning to exceed their volatility limits or risk tolerances over the last two weeks. They realize they have more potential losses just in that product than the overall value of the firm. He tells his boss. Who then tells his boss...and on and on...they hold emergency meetings all night with all the high executives and they determine the only option is to liquidate their position in that particular product. The managers in charge of the trading operations don't want to liquidate because they know it will cause the market to collapse and shred their reputation amongst all their counterparties. The execs go over the top of them and force them to sell. They offer incentives to their traders to sell off all their positions, which will ultimately make their jobs no longer necessary, but they tell them there is no other option. They liquidate their position, piss off all their counterparties....the market is presumably in the first days of collapse, and the movie ends....they do show throughout the movie how greedy these traders, managers, and executives are...but they never really tell the story of what led up to that point or what happened after that point. It was just sort of a look at the 24 hours before a major trading firm realizes the music is about to stop. Not a bad concept, but I just thought something was missing. I just think it was too vague... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 08:59 AM) It wasn't terrible because the cast was very solid...but they didn't ever get into any details enough to ever really tell a story...The movie opens with a big financial services firm firing 80% of their employees. One of the managers that gets whacked tries to warn his boss that he needs to look at something he's been working on...everyone in the firm says "don't worry about it now...it's not your problem anymore." Before he gets escorted out by security, he passes a zip drive onto one of his employees and says "take a look at this...and be careful." The guy then looks at it that night and realizes that they are so levered up on crappy mortgages and their trading model is showing them as beginning to exceed their volatility limits or risk tolerances over the last two weeks. They realize they have more potential losses just in that product than the overall value of the firm. He tells his boss. Who then tells his boss...and on and on...they hold emergency meetings all night with all the high executives and they determine the only option is to liquidate their position in that particular product. The managers in charge of the trading operations don't want to liquidate because they know it will cause the market to collapse and shred their reputation amongst all their counterparties. The execs go over the top of them and force them to sell. They offer incentives to their traders to sell off all their positions, which will ultimately make their jobs no longer necessary, but they tell them there is no other option. They liquidate their position, piss off all their counterparties....the market is presumably in the first days of collapse, and the movie ends....they do show throughout the movie how greedy these traders, managers, and executives are...but they never really tell the story of what led up to that point or what happened after that point. It was just sort of a look at the 24 hours before a major trading firm realizes the music is about to stop. Not a bad concept, but I just thought something was missing. I just think it was too vague... It was very realistic IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamshack Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 28, 2012 -> 08:08 AM) It was very realistic IMO. I just wanted to see the other stories that it impacted more...certainly not in a position to claim whether it was realistic or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justBLAZE Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 So anyone see 'Ted' ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 ROCK OF AGES Don't want to read the whole thread, but saw this movie today since I'm on vacation. My god that lead actress is hot. Geezus what legs; what a face. I thought this movie was harmless, decent fun. I would give it a non energetic thumbs up. Alec Baldwin amuses me; Tom Cruse amuses me in this film and that lead actress. My gawd. What say you all? I give it a 2.8 out of 4. I feel like I did not waste my money though it coulda been 10 minutes shorter and I wouldn't complain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxfan49 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 07:42 PM) So anyone see 'Ted' ? My brother saw it and claims it was very dumb yet funny in a sick way. They make jokes regarding alcoholism and snorting blow. It is what it is. Making fun of that is better than making fun of rape and terrorism, like The Dictator did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigSqwert Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I thoroughly enjoyed Moonrise Kingdom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fathom Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Went and saw Ted tonight and enjoyed it. It's basically Family Guy if it was on HBO with a talking teddy bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justBLAZE Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 10:08 PM) My brother saw it and claims it was very dumb yet funny in a sick way. They make jokes regarding alcoholism and snorting blow. It is what it is. Making fun of that is better than making fun of rape and terrorism, like The Dictator did. QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 11:30 PM) Went and saw Ted tonight and enjoyed it. It's basically Family Guy if it was on HBO with a talking teddy bear. Thank you both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 09:57 PM) ROCK OF AGES Don't want to read the whole thread, but saw this movie today since I'm on vacation. My god that lead actress is hot. Geezus what legs; what a face. I thought this movie was harmless, decent fun. I would give it a non energetic thumbs up. Alec Baldwin amuses me; Tom Cruse amuses me in this film and that lead actress. My gawd. What say you all? I give it a 2.8 out of 4. I feel like I did not waste my money though it coulda been 10 minutes shorter and I wouldn't complain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soxfan49 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 11:32 PM) Thank you both! Kaplan tweeted this morning that it was "f'ing hilarious," FWIW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiliIrishHammock24 Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape last night. Did Leo win an award for that? Because he was amazing. I kept forgetting he wasn't actually someone with a mental disability, and was the same young kid from Growing Pains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jun 30, 2012 -> 12:58 PM) I watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape last night. Did Leo win an award for that? Because he was amazing. I kept forgetting he wasn't actually someone with a mental disability, and was the same young kid from Growing Pains. He was nominated. Probably his best performance because the past few years he seems to be playing the same character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunkBomber Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 I thought Ted was really funny at parts. The ending was kind of meh but a lot of the humor had the audience literally lol'ing. I could see a lot of PC types not liking it but those types dont like much fun stuff anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chw42 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 29, 2012 -> 11:30 PM) Went and saw Ted tonight and enjoyed it. It's basically Family Guy if it was on HBO with a talking teddy bear. Just went to see it, it is exactly what fathom said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 We randomly watched two movies last night. Unstoppable (Denzel, Pine) - it was actually pretty enjoyable. We were flipping and it was starting and we enjoyed it. Chronicle - I rented this via Redbox in bluray. I don't even have words - you should see this movie. It was really, really good and clearly had a much larger budget than I realized. Seriously, if you have any sense of adventure, scifi, or enjoying "superpowers" - my God was that movie incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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