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James.k.Polk wrote:

kegs wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote: And I really felt bad for Katey Sagal.  All this talent and she's stuck saying things like "the glee club is your family!"

After watching her in Sons of Anarchy, I could see her playing that roll if both the family and the glee club were run by Charles Manson.

Ooh.  What if Pitch Perfect and Married... With Children  exist in a shared universe?

James.k.Polk wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:

I see it as proof that I will do anything I am told to do.  At least where certain people are concerned.

There were a few things I liked.

The Music Producer/Boss.  At first he comes across as generic asshole boss archetype #67.  He constantly berates one of his interns, even inviting him to "sit in a corner" at one point.  They turn generic asshole boss archetype #67 upside down when it is revealed that the one kid he's a jerk to is his nephew who he has agreed to allow to work there as a favor to his brother.

And honestly I can't remember anything else I liked.

I was bored the whole damn time.  And these girls are GRADUATING SENIORS and they never attend class even one time in the whole movie.

I've seen most of the first one, and I don't think they attended class either.  And also, Anna Kendrick was a freshman in the first movie, and some of the girls were older by at least a year, so how did they all get into the same graduating year?

I don't know.  Seriously the one had laugh lines around her eyes and corners of her mouth. Has to be thirty years old if she's a day.  And I really felt bad for Katey Sagal.  All this talent and she's stuck saying things like "the glee club is your family!"

Oh, no, I'm not questioning that they older in real life than in the show.  just wondering how they managed to change the time line from the first movie so they are all somehow in the same grade.

Don't know.  But at the end of the movie there's a scene where they are giving Katey Sagal's daughter the key to their (sorority?)  house because she's the only one left in the group still in school.

James.k.Polk wrote:

kegs wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote: And I really felt bad for Katey Sagal.  All this talent and she's stuck saying things like "the glee club is your family!"

After watching her in Sons of Anarchy, I could see her playing that roll if both the family and the glee club were run by Charles Manson.

Ooh.  What if Pitch Perfect and Married... With Children  exist in a shared universe?

kegs wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote: And I really felt bad for Katey Sagal.  All this talent and she's stuck saying things like "the glee club is your family!"

After watching her in Sons of Anarchy, I could see her playing that roll if both the family and the glee club were run by Charles Manson.

James.k.Polk wrote: And I really felt bad for Katey Sagal.  All this talent and she's stuck saying things like "the glee club is your family!"

rkwsuperstar wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:

I see it as proof that I will do anything I am told to do.  At least where certain people are concerned.

There were a few things I liked.

The Music Producer/Boss.  At first he comes across as generic asshole boss archetype #67.  He constantly berates one of his interns, even inviting him to "sit in a corner" at one point.  They turn generic asshole boss archetype #67 upside down when it is revealed that the one kid he's a jerk to is his nephew who he has agreed to allow to work there as a favor to his brother.

And honestly I can't remember anything else I liked.

I was bored the whole damn time.  And these girls are GRADUATING SENIORS and they never attend class even one time in the whole movie.

I've seen most of the first one, and I don't think they attended class either.  And also, Anna Kendrick was a freshman in the first movie, and some of the girls were older by at least a year, so how did they all get into the same graduating year?

I don't know.  Seriously the one had laugh lines around her eyes and corners of her mouth. Has to be thirty years old if she's a day.  And I really felt bad for Katey Sagal.  All this talent and she's stuck saying things like "the glee club is your family!"

Oh, no, I'm not questioning that they older in real life than in the show.  just wondering how they managed to change the time line from the first movie so they are all somehow in the same grade.

James.k.Polk wrote:

rkwsuperstar wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:

I see it as proof that I will do anything I am told to do.  At least where certain people are concerned.

There were a few things I liked.

The Music Producer/Boss.  At first he comes across as generic asshole boss archetype #67.  He constantly berates one of his interns, even inviting him to "sit in a corner" at one point.  They turn generic asshole boss archetype #67 upside down when it is revealed that the one kid he's a jerk to is his nephew who he has agreed to allow to work there as a favor to his brother.

And honestly I can't remember anything else I liked.

I was bored the whole damn time.  And these girls are GRADUATING SENIORS and they never attend class even one time in the whole movie.

I've seen most of the first one, and I don't think they attended class either.  And also, Anna Kendrick was a freshman in the first movie, and some of the girls were older by at least a year, so how did they all get into the same graduating year?

I don't know.  Seriously the one had laugh lines around her eyes and corners of her mouth. Has to be thirty years old if she's a day.  And I really felt bad for Katey Sagal.  All this talent and she's stuck saying things like "the glee club is your family!"

rkwsuperstar wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:The Bad nerd Reviews Un-Nerdy Movies:

Pitch Perfect 2

Pitch Perfect 2 is a sloppy mess of a movie with a few decent characters and one or two relatively funny lines. As even people who know nothing about anything know, the movie starts with Rebel Wilson (Fat Amy) splitting her pants on stage and helplessly rotating until her crotchal area is in full view of President Obama and his family.

Movie logic means that this  wardrobe malfunction gets her a capella group expelled from a cappella competition, national ridicule, shame.  Polk wonders if one of the slender, cute girls in the group had split her pants would such an outrage have occurred?  I call it "The Melissa McCarthy Effect".  The fat person in a movie will do something clumsy and/or stupid and the repercussions of that clumsy stupidness are proportionate to the fat person's body mass index.

A loophole means that their singing group can still compete in an international a cappella competition (they have those?)  and this bunch of girls whose names I do not know vow to redeem themselves.  Oh and also Katy Sagal is there playing the mother of a young ingenue who wants to join the group.  Of course new girl is a Taylor Swift-like songwriting genius.  She joins Fat Amy (the one who's name I know) and the 28 to 30 year-old college "senior" who lands an internship with a bigshot music producer.  Rounding out the group are:

Offensive stereotype lesbian group member, a chunky black girl with who wears army fatigues and who's first lines in the film are basically "I'm a lesbian, in case you can't read stereotype"

Offensive stereotype Columbian group member, a perky latina who's first line of dialogue, I shit you not, is "I had diarrhea for seven years."

Offensive stereotype Asian girl with long hair and long straight bangs.  She says very little, but at an opportune moment reveals that she has ninja training.

A cast of nearly identical cute white girls I couldn't really tell apart.

This plucky group somehow manages to fall on their faces at every opportunity.  Invited to a mysterious basement sing-off, the lose the grand prize (a forty-two thousand dollar Dave & Busters gift card) because OOPS they accidentally mixed in an original song by Innocent into the mix of 90s hip-hop standards.

Also--

Fat Amy manages to alienate the nerdy boy a cappella singer who loves her.
Music Intern girl manages to impress her tough music producer boss by doing a Christmas song mashup with  Snoop Dog (randomness alert!)
Music Intern Girl then manages to disappoint boss by providing him an audition tape of nothing but other mashups. ("I liked what you did before-- never do it again because I will hate it")
And those are, as far as I remember, the only characters who contribute anything to the story at all.

If I remember what I saw of the first movie correctly, the Asian girl also barely speaks but at one point they are sharing a bus to a competition with the boys' group and she whispers that she sets fires for fun.

James.k.Polk wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:The Bad nerd Reviews Un-Nerdy Movies:

Pitch Perfect 2

Pitch Perfect 2 is a sloppy mess of a movie with a few decent characters and one or two relatively funny lines. As even people who know nothing about anything know, the movie starts with Rebel Wilson (Fat Amy) splitting her pants on stage and helplessly rotating until her crotchal area is in full view of President Obama and his family.

Movie logic means that this  wardrobe malfunction gets her a capella group expelled from a cappella competition, national ridicule, shame.  Polk wonders if one of the slender, cute girls in the group had split her pants would such an outrage have occurred?  I call it "The Melissa McCarthy Effect".  The fat person in a movie will do something clumsy and/or stupid and the repercussions of that clumsy stupidness are proportionate to the fat person's body mass index.

A loophole means that their singing group can still compete in an international a cappella competition (they have those?)  and this bunch of girls whose names I do not know vow to redeem themselves.  Oh and also Katy Sagal is there playing the mother of a young ingenue who wants to join the group.  Of course new girl is a Taylor Swift-like songwriting genius.  She joins Fat Amy (the one who's name I know) and the 28 to 30 year-old college "senior" who lands an internship with a bigshot music producer.  Rounding out the group are:

Offensive stereotype lesbian group member, a chunky black girl with who wears army fatigues and who's first lines in the film are basically "I'm a lesbian, in case you can't read stereotype"

Offensive stereotype Columbian group member, a perky latina who's first line of dialogue, I shit you not, is "I had diarrhea for seven years."

Offensive stereotype Asian girl with long hair and long straight bangs.  She says very little, but at an opportune moment reveals that she has ninja training.

A cast of nearly identical cute white girls I couldn't really tell apart.

This plucky group somehow manages to fall on their faces at every opportunity.  Invited to a mysterious basement sing-off, the lose the grand prize (a forty-two thousand dollar Dave & Busters gift card) because OOPS they accidentally mixed in an original song by Innocent into the mix of 90s hip-hop standards.

Also--

Fat Amy manages to alienate the nerdy boy a cappella singer who loves her.
Music Intern girl manages to impress her tough music producer boss by doing a Christmas song mashup with  Snoop Dog (randomness alert!)
Music Intern Girl then manages to disappoint boss by providing him an audition tape of nothing but other mashups. ("I liked what you did before-- never do it again because I will hate it")
And those are, as far as I remember, the only characters who contribute anything to the story at all.

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This poster for the Peanuts movie has increased my cautious optimism by a small amount.

rkwsuperstar wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:

I see it as proof that I will do anything I am told to do.  At least where certain people are concerned.

There were a few things I liked.

The Music Producer/Boss.  At first he comes across as generic asshole boss archetype #67.  He constantly berates one of his interns, even inviting him to "sit in a corner" at one point.  They turn generic asshole boss archetype #67 upside down when it is revealed that the one kid he's a jerk to is his nephew who he has agreed to allow to work there as a favor to his brother.

And honestly I can't remember anything else I liked.

I was bored the whole damn time.  And these girls are GRADUATING SENIORS and they never attend class even one time in the whole movie.

I've seen most of the first one, and I don't think they attended class either.  And also, Anna Kendrick was a freshman in the first movie, and some of the girls were older by at least a year, so how did they all get into the same graduating year?

kegs wrote:Good morning peoples!!

James.k.Polk wrote:

I see it as proof that I will do anything I am told to do.  At least where certain people are concerned.

There were a few things I liked.

The Music Producer/Boss.  At first he comes across as generic asshole boss archetype #67.  He constantly berates one of his interns, even inviting him to "sit in a corner" at one point.  They turn generic asshole boss archetype #67 upside down when it is revealed that the one kid he's a jerk to is his nephew who he has agreed to allow to work there as a favor to his brother.

And honestly I can't remember anything else I liked.

I was bored the whole damn time.  And these girls are GRADUATING SENIORS and they never attend class even one time in the whole movie.

James.k.Polk wrote:

NebulaJack wrote:Evenin' gang.

evening Nebs. Bad movie review below

NebulaJack wrote:Evenin' gang.

Patch wrote:Polk. I bet taken 3 is worse
As for still around. I am. Just enjoying some summer break with the wifey
Apparently everyone is better at ping pong than me.  Still snacking on some cheese and chips while drinking some blood and honeys isn't a bad way to accept defeat.
Going to Shreveport tomorrow for a few days but I'll be peeking in

James.k.Polk wrote:

I see it as proof that I will do anything I am told to do.  At least where certain people are concerned.

There were a few things I liked.

The Music Producer/Boss.  At first he comes across as generic asshole boss archetype #67.  He constantly berates one of his interns, even inviting him to "sit in a corner" at one point.  They turn generic asshole boss archetype #67 upside down when it is revealed that the one kid he's a jerk to is his nephew who he has agreed to allow to work there as a favor to his brother.

And honestly I can't remember anything else I liked.

I was bored the whole damn time.  And these girls are GRADUATING SENIORS and they never attend class even one time in the whole movie.

James.k.Polk wrote:
Long story short (too late, I know...) the group goes to Germany, competes in and wins the international glee club sing-off, Fat Amy decides she likes dating the nerdy boy, and Music Intern Girl and discount Taylor Swift produce an original song that gets Intern girl a full time gig as a music producer.  whether or not discount TS also got a music contract for her trouble.

James.k.Polk wrote:

James.k.Polk wrote:The Bad nerd Reviews Un-Nerdy Movies:

Pitch Perfect 2

Pitch Perfect 2 is a sloppy mess of a movie with a few decent characters and one or two relatively funny lines. As even people who know nothing about anything know, the movie starts with Rebel Wilson (Fat Amy) splitting her pants on stage and helplessly rotating until her crotchal area is in full view of President Obama and his family.

Movie logic means that this  wardrobe malfunction gets her a capella group expelled from a cappella competition, national ridicule, shame.  Polk wonders if one of the slender, cute girls in the group had split her pants would such an outrage have occurred?  I call it "The Melissa McCarthy Effect".  The fat person in a movie will do something clumsy and/or stupid and the repercussions of that clumsy stupidness are proportionate to the fat person's body mass index.

A loophole means that their singing group can still compete in an international a cappella competition (they have those?)  and this bunch of girls whose names I do not know vow to redeem themselves.  Oh and also Katy Sagal is there playing the mother of a young ingenue who wants to join the group.  Of course new girl is a Taylor Swift-like songwriting genius.  She joins Fat Amy (the one who's name I know) and the 28 to 30 year-old college "senior" who lands an internship with a bigshot music producer.  Rounding out the group are:

Offensive stereotype lesbian group member, a chunky black girl with who wears army fatigues and who's first lines in the film are basically "I'm a lesbian, in case you can't read stereotype"

Offensive stereotype Columbian group member, a perky latina who's first line of dialogue, I shit you not, is "I had diarrhea for seven years."

Offensive stereotype Asian girl with long hair and long straight bangs.  She says very little, but at an opportune moment reveals that she has ninja training.

A cast of nearly identical cute white girls I couldn't really tell apart.

This plucky group somehow manages to fall on their faces at every opportunity.  Invited to a mysterious basement sing-off, the lose the grand prize (a forty-two thousand dollar Dave & Busters gift card) because OOPS they accidentally mixed in an original song by Innocent into the mix of 90s hip-hop standards.

Also--

Fat Amy manages to alienate the nerdy boy a cappella singer who loves her.
Music Intern girl manages to impress her tough music producer boss by doing a Christmas song mashup with  Snoop Dog (randomness alert!)
Music Intern Girl then manages to disappoint boss by providing him an audition tape of nothing but other mashups. ("I liked what you did before-- never do it again because I will hate it")
And those are, as far as I remember, the only characters who contribute anything to the story at all.