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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 11:16:24 AMQuote from: Alex on March 29, 2026, 01:18:49 PMAnaconda.
We thought that Jack Black and Paul Rudd were playing themselves in this one, a la My Name Is Bruce or the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, but it turned out not to be. Very few comedies make me laugh out loud, tending to just vaguely amuse me instead and this certainly wasn't any different. I did enjoy it, but I am very glad that we bought a DVD copy of it for £10 rather than renting it on Amazon for twice that.
Pretty sure it would have been a much better movie if they had just played themselves though.
THE ANACONDA (2026):
I pretty much agree w/ Alex. Black and Rudd appear quite invested in this project, Thandiwe Newton gets great mileage w/ restraint and understatement, and I found Steve Zahn less irritating than he used to be. Early scenes are set in my home of Buffalo, NY (though not shot here) and the jokes about Zahn being "Buffalo sober" as opposed to literally sober ring true.
However this was never as funny or smart as I wanted it to be. The scene 2/3rds of the way through where the film crew runs into the other film crew on the river helped underline its shortcomings for me. There could have been an alternate universe and superior version of THE ANACONDA that was more meta, maybe darker and uncompromising, like BURDEN OF DREAMS only w/ a giant killer snake. Alex mentioned UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT and that isn't quite such a brutal meta-satire, yet it's definitely closer. The writers of THE ANACONDA obviously were just shooting for another TROPIC THUNDER, and I guess they succeeded. (I don't think TROPIC THUNDER is nearly as smart or funny as it should have been, either.)
Also, the giant killer snakes. They look extremely fake/CGI, which is fine for me actually, and yet I still could barely look at them. I've always hated snakes (even normal-sized ones) yet somehow I managed to watch and enjoy the original ANACONDA (maybe twice) and also watch its sequel, which features, like, dozens of anacondas. I must be getting old and perhaps my giant killer snake movie-watching days are behind me. I used to love scary rollercoasters too but the "Incredible Hulk" and "Jurassic Park" rides at Universal Studios were too rough and painful/unpleasant for me last week.
3/5 BTW the film wraps up at the "Buffalo International Film Festival", which (whether the screenwriters knew it or not) is a real thing but nothing really to celebrate. A true filmmaking meta-horror movie could be made about its founder!
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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
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I continue to be happy with what Grok makes
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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
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Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:06:36 AM
Not sure why CoPilot has suddenly decided to make posters square rather than, say, poster-shaped. Slightly surprised it agreed to make this one due to the word "lewd."