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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i may not like the man's movies but he makes a quality pretzel the ones that are like all the broken hosed up pieces and they've covered them in honey mustard sauce, premium stuff
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i may not like the man's movies but he makes a quality pretzel That’s right. A local boy done good, Hanover MA born and bred
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DeimosRising posted:the ones that are like all the broken hosed up pieces and they've covered them in honey mustard sauce, premium stuff that's the good poo poo
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Jan 12, 2024 23:02
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Watching Mill of the Stone Women. I’d bet good money there’s going to be some kind of dark secret involving these creepy statues. Also I’m a big fan of the line “Call a doctor! She’s frightened!”
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Jan 12, 2024 23:04
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NieR Occomata posted:where the movie is poorly made enough but throws enough random bullshit in there that assholes can collect the ideas they like from the movie they watched because it threw everything but the loving kitchen sink in there and praise the movie that they made up in their head and you end up having to argue against a non-existent glorified fancanon. You gave it away right there. There's no such thing as an empirical measure of a movie to indicate "goodness", unless you think trivia like "average shot length" is some kind of key to quality. Like, do you understand that all movies are "made up in your head"? This starts with the empirical reality that they are a series of still images shown rapidly, quite literally tricking your brain into thinking it's watching a window into a world of motion. It then moves from there into your brain, which is processing all the sounds coming into your ears and light coming in through your ocular nerve and, in real time, constructing a narrative world weighing it against your life experiences and learned facts. The idea that there is one way to validly interpret it is childish and unsophisticated.
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Jan 12, 2024 23:11
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Empirical measures of movie quality -Does someone's head explode? -Does someone drink J&B Whiskey? -Is there a guy in a rubber suit? -Does it explore the human condition in a deep and thoughtful manner? -is there a split diopter shot? -Is there a gnarly stunt that makes you go "ouch that's gotta hurt!"? If yes to one or more it's empirically a good film.
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Watched Desperado randomly yesterday and having never sought out Rodriguez's stuff, I get why he had a career based on this alone. Was just so much fun, with Trejo's scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTYOJ3oqSs) being a highlight. Was howling when the hero had two friends that look exactly like him show up without any prior mention also with guitar cases and more so when one of the cases turned out to be a tiny rocket launcher. Gonna check out the other two films in the trilogy, but I worry a little I just saw Rod at his best. CatstropheWaitress fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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What Mike Leigh film should I watch next? Ive seen: Abigail’s Party Vera Drake Topsy Turvy Happy Go Lucky Mr Turner
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Lobster Henry posted:What Mike Leigh film should I watch next? Ive seen: Apart from Mr. Turner, the only one I've seen is Naked, which is outstanding but very bleak and depressing (and funny) (also cw: sexual assault)
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Jan 12, 2024 23:28
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El Mariachi is extremely good, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a lot of fun if you don’t just recoil at the sight of Johnny Depp, which at this point is understandable.
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Lobster Henry posted:What Mike Leigh film should I watch next? Ive seen: Topst Turvy kicks rear end (and not bleak or depressing) (and has no sexual assault)
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FreudianSlippers posted:Empirical measures of movie quality I get can behind using these in the scientific method to find the empirical quality of a film. We need more exploding heads in film, extra points if it's a physical squib.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Watched Desperado randomly yesterday and having never sought out Rodriguez's stuff, I get why he had a career based on this alone. Was just so much fun, with Trejo's scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTYOJ3oqSs) being a highlight. Was howling when the hero had two friends that look exactly like him show up without any prior mention also with guitar cases and more so when one of the cases turned out to be a tiny rocket launcher. El Mariachi is fun, it’s got some screwball bits that don’t work for me, but it’s a cool flick full of criminal misunderstandings.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Watched Desperado randomly yesterday and having never sought out Rodriguez's stuff, I get why he had a career based on this alone. Was just so much fun, with Trejo's scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTYOJ3oqSs) being a highlight. Was howling when the hero had two friends that look exactly like him show up without any prior mention also with guitar cases and more so when one of the cases turned out to be a tiny rocket launcher. That scene owns so much, I wanted so badly to get throwing knives after seeing that as a kid. It cemented Danny Trejo too, dude is just a colossal badass in that scene and the movie did a perfect job setting him up as one until then. As for the Mariachi's band members, I always imagined they both had their own story similar to Antonio's character, just that when the rocket launcher guy walked into a bar seeking Bunko, the ensuing shoot-out was rather short. The dual gun guy is the same actor as El Mariachi's, iIrc. Gripweed posted:El Mariachi is extremely good, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a lot of fun if you don’t just recoil at the sight of Johnny Depp, which at this point is understandable. One of these days I need to rewatch Once Upon a Time in Mexico because I bounced off of it hard when it came out. Not even because of Depp, this was all pre-Sparrow. I just expected a direct sequel to Desperado and this was definitely not it. It was like wanting to see the next episode in your favorite cartoon show, but instead you got a different but very similar cartoon show, reusing some of the character designs.
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Lobster Henry posted:What Mike Leigh film should I watch next? Ive seen: Secrets & Lies. So good. Gripweed posted:El Mariachi is extremely good, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a lot of fun if you don’t just recoil at the sight of Johnny Depp, which at this point is understandable. This would have been a great reply to Lobster Henry's post. FreudianSlippers posted:Empirical measures of movie quality This guy gets it. Tried to watch Nyad. Dreadful. Awful, awful, heavy-handed script, which gives the actors nothing to work with, not helped by the fact that they are being badly directed to boot. If I didn't know that Bening and Foster were really good I would have thought that they were just bad actors. We stopped after 10-15 minutes and started watching The Burial instead, which is, so far, rather enjoyable.
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Pirate Jet posted:Nier Occomata literally started this conversation by saying that all praise of Army of the Dead is disingenuous. I'm aware, was just hopeful it wouldn't turn into a larger convo about his movies.  FreudianSlippers posted:Empirical measures of movie quality Finally the hard science
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Yeah, although I do wonder if it should be two from the list, not one.
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therattle posted:Yeah, although I do wonder if it should be two from the list, not one. 2 of those makes a movie that you annoy all your friends taking about
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Gripweed posted:Topst Turvy kicks rear end (and not bleak or depressing) (and has no sexual assault) It really does. An under appreciated classic for sure, and a rare period drama with a pulse. I watched an interview with Leigh on YouTube from back when it was released, and it was funny to see this celebrated theatre director, who has just made a movie about the magic of theatre, give a thoughtful and articulate explanation of why he thinks movies rule and theatre is irritating and stupid. therattle posted:This would have been a great reply to Lobster Henry's post. I’d watch Mike Leigh’s El Mariachi. Mike Leigh’s Spy Kids….?!?
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FreudianSlippers posted:Empirical measures of movie quality This list sucks. Complete lack of "Is there a shot that goes on for an excessively long time?" and "Did I see Roger Deakin's name in the credits?"
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The list is a work in progress and open to suggestions.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Empirical measures of movie quality Aside from the split diopter these are also the ingredients for a quality orgy.
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Empirically if you thought highly of The Zone of Interest but thought The Boy and the Heron was bad, you are a paedophile. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Anonymous Robot posted:That’s right. A local boy done good, Hanover MA born and bred Yes, there's Snyder's of Hanover (pretzel brand) which was not purchased by Utz (of Hanover, PA) after the purchase was blocked by the FTC, but there's also Snyder's (of Berlin (PA)) which was purchased by Utz, and is now based out of Hanover, PA but is not to be confused with Snyder's of Hanover (MA).
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NieR Occomata posted:A coincidental point I want to make is when people go “oh the movie is actually a huge metaphor for (something about the filmmaker’s personal life) and therefore it’s better because????? Movies can be a lot of things. They may not follow your preferences, but these aren’t iron laws. It is not strange for Japans most popular film maker to self reference his own films. And many films out there are made by film makers drawing from their own life. In any case why might someone love the film? It’s superbly animated and beautiful to look at with a magnificent score again. So the presentation alone is praiseworthy. But outside of the studio/personal allegory, it’s also a contemplative film about death, loss, and rebuilding. I’ll quote part my Letterboxd: I think the heart of it is centered around Mahito and his mother and that takes until the end to really make itself clear. She chooses to go back to her time so she can have and be with mahito even though it will end in her death in a fire. It gives Mahito the closure he needed for feeling frustrated that there was nothing he could do to save his mom. This thought/optimism is further reinforced by the final lines: two years later the war ended and we moved backed to Tokyo. Tokyo was destroyed in the war by fires and bombing, so to go back is to accept the loss and rebuild again. Oh and the third act characters sure are introduced late, but they have parallels to ones you have already met. See the parakeet king as the dad (military man), the old lady as the fisher, Mahito and the tower master, and well the mom as the mom.
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Open Source Idiom posted:This list sucks. Complete lack of "Is there a shot that goes on for an excessively long time?" and "Did I see Roger Deakin's name in the credits?" Psycho Gorman and The Evil Dead have neither of these and they're perfect films, however they have monster suits and exploding heads, respectively (no i dont think the evil pov goes on for a long time. it goes on for the perfect time!)
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Gorn Myson posted:Empirically if you thought highly of The Zone of Interest but thought The Boy and the Heron was bad, you are a paedophile. gently caress.
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Gorn Myson posted:Empirically if you thought highly of The Zone of Interest but thought The Boy and the Heron was bad, you are a paedophile. This is uhhh quite the post
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FreudianSlippers posted:The list is a work in progress and open to suggestions. -Does the movie have a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 in at least one shot?
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CelticPredator posted:Psycho Gorman and The Evil Dead have neither of these and they're perfect films, however they have monster suits and exploding heads, respectively I think there's an excessively long pan around the room when Ash goes crazy.
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NieR Occomata posted:There is a common trend in film discourse, specifically film bro discourse (hello Snyder fans) where the movie is poorly made enough but throws enough random bullshit in there that assholes can collect the ideas they like from the movie they watched because it threw everything but the loving kitchen sink in there and praise the movie that they made up in their head and you end up having to argue against a non-existent glorified fancanon. You're a moron.
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Lobster Henry posted:What Mike Leigh film should I watch next? Ive seen: I didn’t read any posts after this but NAKED, and then SECRETS & LIES
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Roth posted:You're a moron. Holy gently caress we finally agree on a thing
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josh04 posted:Aside from the split diopter these are also the ingredients for a quality orgy. No more embarrassing reason to end up at a hospital.
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Roth posted:You're a moron. The menacing Snyder fan has logged on, ready to take names and snap necks!
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I wonder if i have had J&B whiskey. It’s not one I would buy, but who knows at some college bars when I got a drink.
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checkplease posted:I wonder if i have had J&B whiskey. It’s not one I would buy, but who knows at some college bars when I got a drink. Get a bottle pick out a few giallo flicks and drink while u watch em. Good times.
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Lobster Henry posted:What Mike Leigh film should I watch next? Ive seen: Watched Happy Go Lucky after seeing this post. Real refreshing to see a ditzy person be portrayed so goofy yet responsible and mature. Didn't expect it to be "Happy Go Lucky vs the Angsty Racist Driving Instructor". Will probably check out the rest of these too, Thank you to anyone posting movies they've watched here, fun way to catch some interesting flicks that definitely wouldn't have otherwise.
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Another victim of Snyder Derangement Syndrome, so sad. When will someone put a stop to those dastardly Snyder bros enjoying movies that have been empirically proven to be bad by the worlds top leading movieologists? Have they not harvested enough victims?!
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