What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[Lola]

Ghostbusters 2 with the kiddo.

[gravedigger]

CYRUS- Holy shit, whoever did the marketing for this did not watch the movie AT ALL. I thought this was going to be a weird but funny movie about an Oedipal Jonah Hill. Instead it's an almost depressing slow motion car crash with seriously damaged people. Jesus.

[BillyG]

Cyrus is awesome and I will never watch it again.

[B_Metal]

Cyrus is awesome and I will never watch it again.

That

[Bobby Bear]

Brotherhood was so promising, guys, but there were too many half-baked notions tossed in. The loss of focus became stultifying.

I couldn't even enjoy it as a goofball action movie with period attire because it took itself so seriously. Where, to paraphrase C. Montgomery Burns, was the heart?

If you're gonna do style over substance, you better be prepared to deliver. I'm talking Ryan Gosling in Drive style levels here. Ultra-flat archetypes and tawdry metal video photography (all the oh-so-in-your face angles and cuts...) just won't suffice.

Bobby: try watching BOTW with Van Halen playing. You'll laugh.

I can see the logic in that, but I'd probably enjoy closing my eyes and imagining my own version of that film whilst listening to V.H. better, to be honest.

As for logic/plot holes in Akira, its pros so outweigh its cons that I just can't be mad at it (even if some of it makes me laugh when it isn't meant to.) There are just too many classic set-pieces or touching dramatic moments to not let them slide, I think. Ambition of that film's magnitude warrants extra slack in my book, especially when it's brought so charmingly to life.

[Lisa]

Ghostbusters 2 with the kiddo.

"He is VIGO! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!"

("Oh, but I wooo'd...")

[Lola]

We went from that to a movie called Lifted on Netflix. Omg,my daughter and I were both in tears. Bawled our freakin' eyes out,I tell ya!

[Martin]

I liked Akira when I was 14. Just like I liked Andrew Dice Clay.

Then I grew up. Every attempt to rewatch it ended in failure.

[Matt]

I liked Akira when I was 14. Just like I liked Andrew Dice Clay.

Then I grew up. Every attempt to rewatch it ended in failure.

Hit the nail on the head, my friend. Tip of the hat to you.

[BillyG]

I liked Akira when I was 14. Just like I liked Andrew Dice Clay.

Then I grew up. Every attempt to rewatch it ended in failure.

The first time I saw Akira I was 19. I never got to enjoy those years of ignorance.

[B_Metal]

The first time I saw Akira I was 19. I never got to enjoy those years of ignorance.

You and I both fren. You and I both.

[Captain Russ]

Akira

touching dramatic moments

Pick one.

It's a truncated, garbled mess. A litany of concepts that don't even attempt to tell a cohesive story or construct a single character worth caring about. Ambition it has, for what, who the fuck knows?

And before the OIDF (OIrish Defense Force) comes in with guns blazing, if you enjoy it for the attempt at animated surrealism, fine. I can't stand it, frankly. Or the mongoloid children it helped to spawn.

[Martin]

Akira's 2 touching dramatic moments:

"TETSSSSSSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

"KENEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

There's half the movie's dialogue right there.

[Martin]

The Phantom Menace

Still is an ok movie at best, with the pod race and the Maul sequences to elevate this above the mediocre status it has without them.

Ever wondered at what age someone like Jar-Jar Binks? Well, he works well on 1 and 3 years old so far. But at least the son demands to rewatch the 2 scenes mentioned above...

[BillyG]

I hate the fucking pod race. Encapsulates everything bad about Lucas.