War Room Lounge v139: Trump has an IQ of at least 140 because he went to Wharton

[tonni]

Roger Ebert:

A movie like this is a deep mystery. It asks the question: What went wrong? "Clifford" is not bad on the acting, directing or even writing levels. It fails on a deeper level still, the level of the underlying conception. Something about the material itself is profoundly not funny. Irredeemably not funny, so that it doesn't matter what the actors do, because they are in a movie that should never have been made.

...

But Martin Short is clearly not a little boy. He is a curious adult pretending to be a little boy, with odd verbal mannerisms, like always addressing his uncle with lines like "Oh, yes, My Uncle!," and fawning up to strangers like a horny spaniel. If Clifford is not a real little boy, then what is he? The movie doesn't know and neither does the audience, and for much of the running time we sit there staring stupefied at the screen, trying to figure out what the hell we're supposed to be thinking.

...

It's not bad in any usual way. It's bad in a new way all its own. There is something extraterrestrial about it, as if it's based on the sense of humor of an alien race with a completely different relationship to the physical universe. The movie is so odd, it's almost worth seeing just because we'll never see anything like it again. I hope.​

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/clifford-1994

God, I miss Roger Ebert.

That's a hilarious review. Oh yes, my uncle! I'll probably watch it just for that.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

It just never stops.

This is how every Eminem song ever is born

 

[Trotsky]

That's a hilarious review. Oh yes, my uncle! I'll probably watch it just for that.

I was probably six or seven when I watched it. And I've never watched it again, nor do I plan to.

When a movie is so bad that a small child can tell, it must be really bad. I mean, that same child thought Anaconda and Batman & Robin were pretty good.

 

[Joe]

Roger Ebert:

A movie like this is a deep mystery. It asks the question: What went wrong? "Clifford" is not bad on the acting, directing or even writing levels. It fails on a deeper level still, the level of the underlying conception. Something about the material itself is profoundly not funny. Irredeemably not funny, so that it doesn't matter what the actors do, because they are in a movie that should never have been made.

...

But Martin Short is clearly not a little boy. He is a curious adult pretending to be a little boy, with odd verbal mannerisms, like always addressing his uncle with lines like "Oh, yes, My Uncle!," and fawning up to strangers like a horny spaniel. If Clifford is not a real little boy, then what is he? The movie doesn't know and neither does the audience, and for much of the running time we sit there staring stupefied at the screen, trying to figure out what the hell we're supposed to be thinking.

...

It's not bad in any usual way. It's bad in a new way all its own. There is something extraterrestrial about it, as if it's based on the sense of humor of an alien race with a completely different relationship to the physical universe. The movie is so odd, it's almost worth seeing just because we'll never see anything like it again. I hope.​

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/clifford-1994

God, I miss Roger Ebert.

Ebert really hated North too

I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.

 

[Trotsky]

Ebert really hated North too

I've never seen it and have no intention to since I don't really enjoy bad movies like some do.

The only movie that Ebert panned that I like is Saving Silverman. I think he panned Zoolander too but then reversed his verdict on a later rewatching. I guess I disagree with his hate of The Bucket List too, since it's objectively (in my opinion) a high quality version of what it sets out to be, a vapid, pandering hallmark comedy meant to appeal to the sensibilities of dim-witted boomers, and it keeps one's attention.

 

[Joe]

I've never seen it and have no intention to since I don't really enjoy bad movies like some do.

The only movie that Ebert panned that I like is Saving Silverman. I think he panned Zoolander too but then reversed his verdict on a later rewatching. I guess I disagree with his hate of The Bucket List too, since it's objectively (in my opinion) a high quality version of what it sets out to be, a vapid, pandering hallmark comedy meant to appeal to the sensibilities of dim-witted boomers, and it keeps one's attention.

Ebert hated the Friday the 13th movies. I think he Actively tried to speak out against them. Hated the hellraiser movies. Blue Velvet and Dead Poets Society too.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Ebert hated the Friday the 13th movies. I think he Actively tried to speak out against them. Hated the hellraiser movies. Blue Velvet and Dead Poets Society too.

Dead Poets Society is the only Robin Williams movie I refuse to watch ever again
Fucking god I hated that damn thing

 

[Joe]

Dead Poets Society is the only Robin Williams movie I refuse to watch ever again
Fucking god I hated that damn thing

I've only seen it once. that was in school. I don't remember much but the ending of it. Currently has an 92% score on rotten tomatoes.

 

[Trotsky]

Ebert hated the Friday the 13th movies. I think he Actively tried to speak out against them. Hated the hellraiser movies. Blue Velvet and Dead Poets Society too.

The F13 movies are unbelievably awful given their success. Even for a genre/period that was putting out terrible flicks, the F13's were the worst despite being the best funded. They couldn't even be provocative or openly exploitative like I Spit on Your Grave.

Hellraiser films are bad too, but not nearly as much so. Never seem Dead Poets Society.

 

[Joe]

The F13 movies are unbelievably awful given their success. Even for a genre/period that was putting out terrible flicks, the F13's were the worst despite being the best funded. They couldn't even be provocative or openly exploitative like I Spit on Your Grave.

Hellraiser films are bad too, but not nearly as much so. Never seem Dead Poets Society.

I understand his hate towards those movies but he got seriously rustled by them. He took them way too seriously. Just cheap movies kids watched on a Friday night. his blue velvet hate I didn't get considering his love of the rest of lynchs stuff.

 

[Lead]

One cool thing relating to the new search feature is you can see a decent breakdown of posts by subforum. Search your name the go under filters and click forum. It will list a number to each subforum for the results it found. It didn’t capture my full post count (28k out of 38k) but I’m assuming that’s just the forum delete super old material as time goes on.

 

[Trotsky]

I understand his hate towards those movies but he got seriously rustled by them. He took them way too seriously. Just cheap movies kids watched on a Friday night. his blue velvet hate I didn't get considering his love of the rest of lynchs stuff.

Meh, it's kind of antithetical to art and thought. Even superficial movies can be well-crafted.

I haven't seen Blue Velvet, but Lynch is polarizing. I loved Eraserhead, but I think Mulholland Drive is extremely overrated and that Twin Peaks sucked.

 

[weed]

want

 

[Joe]

Meh, it's kind of antithetical to art and thought. Even superficial movies can be well-crafted.

I haven't seen Blue Velvet, but Lynch is polarizing. I loved Eraserhead, but I think Mulholland Drive is extremely overrated and that Twin Peaks sucked.

Mulholland Drive made no sense to me but ebert loved it. Inland empire he loved more which I could never get around to watching because it felt more of the same. I did like the first season of twin peaks. Never saw the movie.

 

[Limbo Pete]

I've only seen it once. that was in school. I don't remember much but the ending of it. Currently has an 92% score on rotten tomatoes.

Man, I hate that frickin movie

 

[Anung Un Rama]

want

Illegal in Australia

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

Does anyone really buy the "I meant nothing racist, I just want more people to register to vote" excuse? She was literally saying (white) people better get registered because if they don't the blacks--they's a comin' to take yer 'lection.

It's the old Bibi netanyahu the Arabs are comijg out to vote I'm droves.

 

[AnGrYcRoW]

Fun fact: 15 Australians die every year from boomerangs that they threw and then forgot about.

When I was about six a friend of my mother's gave me a boomerang after a trip to Australia, it was probably the coolest thing I owned , later that day I was at my grandmother's , I went out in the yard down by the water , I reared back and threw that thing as hard as I could , instantly hit the deck and covered up , sure that that thing was on it's way back to hit me upside the head ...

I looked for that thing forever , everytime I went there I resumed the search but never did find it .

 

[lsa]

You say WPEM? Typical ARAWCSSWPEM

You Belgians and your weird food.

 

[Sketch]

One cool thing relating to the new search feature is you can see a decent breakdown of posts by subforum. Search your name the go under filters and click forum. It will list a number to each subforum for the results it found. It didn’t capture my full post count (28k out of 38k) but I’m assuming that’s just the forum delete super old material as time goes on.

Just give us the old one back please