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symbolic posted:kill the Willard inside your head The duck will set you free
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The Third Man: This is the kind of movie that's difficult to say something new about. Everything was well done. The sets were nice, the acting was good, and the plot was pretty standard noir fare but executed well. Some slightly more specific observations: I liked how Holly doesn't stop calling Callaway "Callaghan" until right at the end, like he finally cares enough to get it right. As someone else said, I'm really glad he didn't get the girl at the end; that would have been a cheap ending and it's used far too often in movies of the time. The sewer chase at the end was great, very claustrophobic and tense. 4 stars I think
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May 4, 2024 03:14
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The Third Man i guess they really loved 40 hour long chase sequences of villains being pursued by dozens of ppl back then. first m and now this this movie was better than m, tho. also has great cinematography but the story is actually p drat good. kinda suspected the guy was gonna turn out to be alive at the start, but they threw me in for enough loops that i forgot i had ever predicted it when the big reveal happened good movie soundtrack got boring very fast 3/5
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May 5, 2024 15:13
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May 5, 2024 15:13
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I guess I'll be the only neutral voice on Dirty Duck. If you pointed a gun at me and asked if I liked it and said you'd shoot if I said anything other than yes or no I'd say no, but it just kind of... slid off my brain for the most part. The visual style could be neat, the whole thing overall was pretty impressive to be done by a small team presumably without much in the way of budget, and every now and then they'd have something genuinely pretty interesting to look at. Mostly around cars for some reason, the pileup of photocopied cars early on, the cars later in the movie that all have really weird and unique designs just for the hell of it, the weird looking cop car turning into a weird looking cop. But none of the humor landed for me--the cop blathering in monotone in a funny voice while firing off his guns absent-mindedly and the used car commercial at the end devolving into the salesman threatening to sic his dogs on you if you don't come down and buy a car were kind of amusing and that was about it. It's clearly aiming to be obscene with all the sex organs and the gay and Mexican stereotypes etc but still somehow feels tame so it's never really funny or shocking. It reminds me of the stuff you'd draw in your notebook as a middle schooler to make your friends laugh, which is remarkably less funny outside of that context. And the story's just the "timid little nervous guy learns to get some confidence and stand up for himself thanks to the intervention of a wacky side character" we've seen a lot, though I did like the little touch of him taking the duck's hat at the very end and finally getting some color in his design. I didn't find myself actively repulsed or annoyed like The Forbidden Zone, but I wasn't engaged enough with it either to like it.
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May 6, 2024 01:32
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Dirty Duck - I never posted an actual review, so I'll give it a try now. I actually ended up watching it twice, trying to understand what anyone saw in it. Once last weekend, followed immediately by watching Fritz the Cat to have something to compare it to. I gave it another try yesterday after watching The Third Man. This movie doesn't really have its own voice. The song at the beginning makes it seem like it's going to be a parody of pretentious art movies, but it doesn't ever really parody anything except for a few bad impressions scattered through the movie. There's a bunch of attempts at jokes in the first 10 minutes revolving around the film's working title "cheap" and then doesn't do anything else with it for the rest of the movie. I think they were literally making the movie up as they went along and decided to make a different movie when the producers made them change the name. Art quality and style change rapidly from scene to scene. The movie tries to get away it by pointing out its cheapness in the opening song, but it isn't clever enough to do anything meta with it. The style changes just seem to be the artist not being able to decide who's style he wants to steal at any given time. Mostly lifting straight from R. Crumb, there's bits and pieces of Terry Gilliam, Ralph Bakshi. The movie wants to be transgressive, but it has nothing to say and doesn't know what boundaries to cross. The jokes end up just being the same broad stereotypes and sex jokes everyone else was doing after everyone else had already done them. The soundtrack was good though, and the plot didn't piss me off as much as Hell or High Water so I'll give it a 1.5/5
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May 6, 2024 05:50
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rodbeard posted:Dirty Duck - I never posted an actual review, so I'll give it a try now. I actually ended up watching it twice, trying to understand what anyone saw in it. Once last weekend, followed immediately by watching Fritz the Cat to have something to compare it to. I gave it another try yesterday after watching The Third Man. it's the 6th
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May 6, 2024 06:33
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New movie not announced, two more weeks of Dirty Duck
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May 6, 2024 06:35
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elf help book posted:New movie not announced, two more weeks of Dirty Duck this is a threat
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May 6, 2024 06:39
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rodbeard posted:I actually ended up watching it twice, trying to understand what anyone saw in it ur all loving insane
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May 6, 2024 08:41
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starbarrys next pick is gonna be jack and jill and ull all deserve it for encouraging him btw
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May 6, 2024 08:42
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Fucker posted:starbarrys next pick is gonna be jack and jill and ull all deserve it for encouraging him btw dude itll be worse, it would be the video toaster equivalent with a soundtrack by the singer from lostprophets
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May 6, 2024 11:15
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It'll be Leonard Part 6
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May 6, 2024 12:11
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rodbeard posted:Dirty Duck - I never posted an actual review, so I'll give it a try now. I actually ended up watching it twice, trying to understand what anyone saw in it. Once last weekend, followed immediately by watching Fritz the Cat to have something to compare it to. lmfao.
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May 6, 2024 13:06
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May 6, 2024 13:06
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May 6, 2024 13:38
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rodbeard posted:Dirty Duck - I never posted an actual review, so I'll give it a try now. I actually ended up watching it twice, trying to understand what anyone saw in it. Once last weekend, followed immediately by watching Fritz the Cat to have something to compare it to. I gave it another try yesterday after watching The Third Man. Dude why would you watch it twice lol
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May 6, 2024 13:39
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Arrhythmia posted:Dude why would you watch it twice lol Watching A Serbian Film three times in a row just to confirm that it is indeed disturbing
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May 6, 2024 13:53
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Where's the new movie? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 6, 2024 14:39
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Nostradingus posted:Watching A Serbian Film three times in a row just to confirm that it is indeed disturbing The funniest thing is watching Fritz the Cat in an attempt to understand it, lmao. it's like being perplexed by Blank Check and seeing if Dunston Checks In will clear everything up
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May 6, 2024 14:50
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and now if he strikes back you'll never find out wht the movie is :gendo:
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May 6, 2024 15:16
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 Duel to the Death Courtesy of Pragmatica  The best sword master from China vs the best sword master from Japan. Who will win? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J20FMZXlV2Y Director: Siu-Tung Ching Writer: Siu-Tung Ching, David Lai, Manfred Wong Stars: Norman Chu, Damian Lau, Flora Chong-Leen Available On: Prime, Archive.org (https://archive.org/details/duel-to-the-death) Available From: 5/6 - 5/19 
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May 6, 2024 15:19
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time over for dirty duck finally, time starts for duel to the death
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May 6, 2024 15:20
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very cool
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May 6, 2024 15:23
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god i love this thread tag
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May 6, 2024 15:26
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i have not seen nearly as many wuxia movies as i should have, looking forward to it.
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May 6, 2024 15:27
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Sick pick
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May 6, 2024 15:27
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wuxia ftmfw
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May 6, 2024 15:32
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i hope everyone enjoys it!
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May 6, 2024 16:18
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you know i probably will prag
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May 6, 2024 16:19
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da peace thread
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Fungah! posted:
oh hell yeah
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May 6, 2024 17:04
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Fungah! posted:The best sword master from China vs the best sword master from Japan. Who will win? We will
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May 6, 2024 21:45
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The Third Man Weird movie lol. I love the writing, the way everyone is sort of matter of fact about everything while also just relentlessly teasing each other. The soundtrack was odd at first but it gave the whole thing such an interesting feeling of being totally unable to tell what was going to happen which matched the story perfectly. This dude was just walking around with no loving clue about a god drat thing just hoping things would work out lol One of my favorite parts of the movie was when he's trying to tell Calloway about how he saw his friend and he just disappeared, and Calloway is like "oh really, he just vanished you say... right by... this... sewer entrance! mother fucker." and then they go down there and the first thing out of Holly's mouth is "What is this place? Where are we?" lmao. I also loved Anna talking about how Harry would never be stupid enough to walk into a trap, and he's right in the doorway like uuuuuuh-oh! The chase at the end was a little odd, it's not that it ran too long it just was such a drastic shift from how witty the rest of the movie is. Really fun movie, great pick!
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May 7, 2024 06:00
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I WAS BORN WITH NO LEGS is th most insane twist lmao
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May 8, 2024 19:47
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Duel to the Death absolutely kickass flick. very cool fight scenes, really liked both of th main characters a lot. so many incredible goofy scenes, ching wan's master, th puppet match, obviously the incredible I WAS BORN WITH NO LEGS!. wish i couldve found the subbed version somewhere, th dubs super goofy and low-effort nd imo a lot of the jokes work because theyre said with 100% sincerity. the final fights were insanely sick, kenji's head exploding was absolutely incredible, as was ching wan fuckin bisecting two ninjas. the ninjas kicked rear end the whole time too, so many insane tools and cool ideas, really made em feel threatening even though they ultimately kill uhhhh roughly nobody. i didnt care about th fight rigging plot all that much, felt like filler even if we got some cool moments out of it, and i didnt like the love interest very much at all. seriously fun movie, good pick prag. ★★★ ½
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May 8, 2024 20:11
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Duel the the Death Awesome movie. Completely over the top fight scenes and even in the scenes that were just people talking there was usually something entertaining around the corner, just a parade of fun ideas. the ninjas were so awesome lol: 
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May 8, 2024 23:50
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duel to the death very fun kung fu action flick with a lot of special effects thrown in, jump cuts are used extensively to simulate speed or motion, some reverse footage, the works its very corny and the plot is stretched pretty thin, i dont think theres any grand message or meaning to be found in here, just sheer entertainment speaking of the plot, i was very confused near the quarter of the way mark because sheng, a lady, is said to be "in disguise" by ching and implied to be the opposite gender but hidden and she was so obviously a woman i didnt realize the disguise was to be a man so when ching started hitting on her later i was like "huh thats pretty progressive lol" but yeah turns out her disguise was extremely flimsy to the point of nonexistence so it threw me through a loop all the scenes that have already been mentioned are excellent, i especially liked ching's original master who threw him to the shaolin temple for training, him and his bird dragon were a highlight of the movie for me with how well the comedy was done there on the ending, i liked the senselessness, it doesnt cheapen the movie at all and adds a much needed extra layer to the story and caps it off perfectly, no longer were they fighting for country but for their own personal machismo, and they get exactly what they deserve for doing so, a no-win situation, they both die powerful imagery with the waves crashing against the rocks to match the intensity of their fight, almost as if the wave is the unrelenting offensive assault of japanese swordplay versus the rock that is the reactionary more defensive minded chinese swordplay im going with a 9/10 for this one, i think im in the same boat as fungah where the dub kind of lessened the experience for me since im used to watching subbed as much as possible, its so ill-fitting to hear english words when theyre clearly mouthing another language, plus the whole experience was a bit shallow overall but the entertainment value was off the charts 
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May 9, 2024 23:23
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yeah. i was really bummed i couldn’t find a subbed version. i’m in the same boat of massively preferring subtitled films instead of english dubbing. i promise i’ll find a good sub for my next one!!! gonna watch the third man and rewatch duel to the death this weekend. 
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May 10, 2024 00:06
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rolling
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May 10, 2024 15:15
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 plebian parasite by one single atom pp get me your movie when you can
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May 10, 2024 15:17
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