"Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith."
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2010: MSGx2
2012: Made In America
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2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
2015: Global Citizen Festival
2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2 2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
The beach and house scenes were filmed here in the town where I live (Carrell has a house here, usually spends about a month here in the summer). That's the beach I go to. The water park is actually in a town about 25 miles south of here by the cape Cod Canal, so the kid couldn't ride his bike there. The actual water park is pretty dated, so the joke about the owner never wanting it to age was appropriate.
I enjoyed the movie, especially the employees of Water Whiz. Carell playing a douche was definitely odd. In The Office he was a loveable douche, here he was just a douche.
It becomes apparent 5 minutes in that its set in modern time, The opening scene in the car had me wondering also, but then when they reach town you see newer cars and Carrell explains the station wagon was his father's that they used to take there every summer and he had it restored to cherry. They do have cell phones, remember when the neighbor girl is standing outside holding her iphone saying she is waiting for her dad to call back.
they --rarely-- used cell phones. the thing with the neighbor girl is the only time i can remember seeing one. and the night duncan stayed out all night, nobody made mention of trying to reach him on his phone. there is no computer anywhere around. the houses all look old. i don't know. i watched a bit of it again recently to see if i still felt that way, and it's all i thought about while watching it. rockwell's car is some 1980's POS too.
another thing that bugged me---how do all of these people have the ENTIRE SUMMER off of work? i mean they're not teachers (duncan's mom is a caterer or something).
the more i think about this movie, the more it bugs the hell out of me.
and yes-- i was really hoping rockwell would have decked carrell at the end too. haha
anyone ever see The Way Back with steve carrell and toni collette? i watched it last week. not a good movie, but those coming of age ones with the awkward kid always is a little entertaining to me. this one was weird though. carrell as a dick just didn't feel right. didn't buy it. and the movie supposedly takes place in the present day yet it looks, feels, and sounds like it was right smack in the middle of 1986. they drive an old station wagon with the wood looking shit on the sides (the kid sits in the "way back"), all the other cars are old too, nobody has a cell phone, and the water park where the kid works is a total 80's looking place. and the music was all from the 80's. there's one scene where this kid...supposedly a 12-ish year old (so born right 2000) is listening (with ear buds, on his ipod) and singing along to reo fucking speedwagon--and another girl, of a similiar age, hears him and recognizes the song.
it took me about about half the movie to figure out this was taking place in 2010 and not 25 years earlier. i think it's the only reason i kept on watching it.
The beach and house scenes were filmed here in the town where I live (Carrell has a house here, usually spends about a month here in the summer). That's the beach I go to. The water park is actually in a town about 25 miles south of here by the cape Cod Canal, so the kid couldn't ride his bike there. The actual water park is pretty dated, so the joke about the owner never wanting it to age was appropriate.
I enjoyed the movie, especially the employees of Water Whiz. Carell playing a douche was definitely odd. In The Office he was a loveable douche, here he was just a douche.
It becomes apparent 5 minutes in that its set in modern time, The opening scene in the car had me wondering also, but then when they reach town you see newer cars and Carrell explains the station wagon was his father's that they used to take there every summer and he had it restored to cherry. They do have cell phones, remember when the neighbor girl is standing outside holding her iphone saying she is waiting for her dad to call back.
they --rarely-- used cell phones. the thing with the neighbor girl is the only time i can remember seeing one. and the night duncan stayed out all night, nobody made mention of trying to reach him on his phone. there is no computer anywhere around. the houses all look old.
You must have spent some time at the shore in a summer cottage/house? Those houses don't generally get updated all that often. Those are actual beach houses that they used for filming...was by there last week....some are strictly summer getaways, rented weekly, they aren't normally set up with computer etc. The scene where they play Candlyand on the rainy day....I've experienced similar. You go to the summer place on Cape Cod or wherever, if it rains you either go to the movies (Carrell was trying to get them to do that) or you see what old board game is in a closet somewhere or you play cards.
Can't wait for that rainy day in late-August for my family vacation to the Cape.
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Yeah we played board games on rainy days when I was a kid. It looked very similar to that scene...nowadays you would see everyone's cell phone sitting on the table next to the game though. And if it wasn't his turn, a 13 yr old kid would have trouble not glancing at his phone every 2 seconds. Haha
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Also I bet if they did go to the movies, they would have looked up the movie times by checking the newspaper or calling Movie Phone.
I'm looking forward to Guardians of the Galaxy even though it is a comic book movie (although at this point only comic book movies will be produced it seems).
I watched it a few nights ago.. it was very good. Excellent acting from some young kids! And the premise of seeing how a family in Germany lived during WW2 was gripping.
Lone Survivor - Finally got around to seeing it, really liked it, incredible story
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2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1 2018 - Fenway 1&2 2022 - Hamilton, Toronto 2023 - Chicago 1&2
Cocaine Cowboys reloaded. Watched the original CC, this one is just as awesome some extra footage that was left out of the first one, etc. I have never watched Cocaine Cowboys 2. Might check that one out soon
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I feel the same.... The 1st a bit better
The story was pretty much exactly the same, they even joked about it during the movie
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2010: MSGx2
2012: Made In America
2013: Pittsburgh, Brooklynx2, Hartford, Baltimore
2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
2015: Global Citizen Festival
2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2
2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
Fucking creepy shit, man.
The last few mins...lmao, ya, alright.
It was different
another thing that bugged me---how do all of these people have the ENTIRE SUMMER off of work? i mean they're not teachers (duncan's mom is a caterer or something).
the more i think about this movie, the more it bugs the hell out of me.
and yes-- i was really hoping rockwell would have decked carrell at the end too. haha
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Watched Man of Steel last weekend ... meh ...
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2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
2023 - Chicago 1&2
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"Forgive every being,
the bad feelings
it's just me"
some extra footage that was left out of the first one, etc. I have never watched Cocaine Cowboys 2. Might check that one out soon
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