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Flight is a really good movie! Granted 2012 is a decade and change ago. I still keep an eye on Zemeckis. Speaking of Ridley Scott, I'm taking an official poll on Gladiator theatrical vs the extended edition, cast your vote in here. Also, Gladiator 2, that's gonna be wild.
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Grendels Dad posted:I haven't seen it but his more recent movie Anna is about secret assassins pretending to be supermodels, which as a concept is such a big Yikes nowadays without even factoring in what a disgusting POS Besson is. It's like making an action movie with a bad-rear end child soldier. I can't help but think it was already done in Zoolander. And Hitman. (Which is another fun one given one of the targets in that mission is fairly clearly a riff on Ghislaine Maxwell, being an obvious Mossad op using honey traps to gain intel and blackmail and perform assassinations)
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May 13, 2024 05:33
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Heavy Metal posted:Flight is a really good movie! Granted 2012 is a decade and change ago. I still keep an eye on Zemeckis. Extended edition by far
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May 13, 2024 05:38
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I can't help but think it was already done in Zoolander. And Hitman. (Which is another fun one given one of the targets in that mission is fairly clearly a riff on Ghislaine Maxwell, being an obvious Mossad op using honey traps to gain intel and blackmail and perform assassinations) Mossad op using honeytraps is deep loving well dating to back from for Ghislaine Maxwell was born, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying there's a lot of other things they might be referencing instead.
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Air Skwirl posted:Mossad op using honeytraps is deep loving well dating to back from for Ghislaine Maxwell was born, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying there's a lot of other things they might be referencing instead. I mean more that the target specifically resembles Ghislaine Maxwell somewhat physically as well as in role and history. Quite a few of the targets are like that. There's also a couple of wealthy black conservative socialites who are basically a riff on Lara Croft. (and one of them has an on-off relationship with a blatant Nathan Drake riff)
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May 13, 2024 06:07
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Heavy Metal posted:Flight is a really good movie! Granted 2012 is a decade and change ago. I still keep an eye on Zemeckis. Alien Covenant
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CelticPredator posted:Alien Covenant I have seen that! The Fassbender flute scene was funny. And on top of Gladiator (thanks for the take above), do you have an opinion on My Sassy Girl (2001) versus the director's cut folks. I tell ya, as a man with OCD, I'm just like losing it with these director's cuts where when you google it you get 50/50 answers on which one to watch. It's too much pressure folks. It is too hard to just make one bad version and one good version. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 06:41 on May 13, 2024 |
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May 13, 2024 06:39
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 Now, why do they call them "director's cuts?" Because they're all hacks!
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Gaius Marius posted:Three is that there are massively diminishing returns on style and novelty. I sometimes feel back for Wes Anderson in that his style is so distinctive (knolling frames, dead-pan acting) that I feel it's easy to dismiss a lot the substance (interesting quirky characters, emotionally resonate arcs) that makes his best stuff hum. Last two films aren't doing him any favors, but there's so much more going on in them than symmetrical framing. The Peccadillo posted:Lucy was pretty charming. The gently caress were the triads gonna do with a narcotic that turns you into God Was expecting Morgan Freeman to actually be the mastermind behind, or at least supplying the mafia in this flick. They never really address if the triad knows the drug turns you into a god, if they've seen this before, or if they had any idea it would do that to someone. Baron von Eevl posted:The latter at least revels in being insane, she gets brain powers that let her travel back in time and meet the early hominid Lucy. This had me laughing. If "the first human" had a name, it sure as poo poo wasn't Lucy. Not to mention that that wasn't the first human, it's just the oldest bones we discovered. It's so, so, so stupid. But the kind of stupid that you can't help but salute.
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May 13, 2024 06:49
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CatstropheWaitress posted:They never really address if the triad knows the drug turns you into a god, if they've seen this before, or if they had any idea it would do that to someone. They have that one guy test the drug in front of Lucy and seem to mistake his laughter for the drug just loving him up like drugs usually do. They also have no idea how to handle Lucy later on. Not explicit, but they seem pretty clueless.
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Gripweed posted:I’d always wondered why Heather Graham is so good in Childrens Hospital but so unmemorable in other roles Laughed a lot when I realised this works on two levels, well done
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Waffleman_ posted:
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Escobarbarian posted:Laughed a lot when I realised this works on two levels, well done This is an Angie Tribecca joke, right?
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Open Source Idiom posted:This is an Angie Tribecca joke, right? I was thinking of that it could either be mixing up Childrens Hospital and Scrubs or mixing up Heather Graham and Malin Akerman
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May 13, 2024 09:59
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Heavy Metal posted:and also My Sassy Girl (2001) versus the directors cut folks Well, on the one hand it makes a bloated film even more bloated (seriously, a 137 minutes long romantic comedy???), but on the other hand I wouldn't want to miss the scenes in the longer version. So... director's cut.
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Escobarbarian posted:I was thinking of that it could either be mixing up Childrens Hospital and Scrubs or mixing up Heather Graham and Malin Akerman ah. it was the later. Well, nevermind about everything I said.
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Heavy Metal posted:Gladiator 2 We'll never get to see the Nick Cave script on the big screen, but we did get a pretty good concept album out of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJsoOzdtSo
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Amy Adams' willingness to just do whatever is highly appealing in an actor.
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Heavy Metal posted:Flight is a really good movie! Granted 2012 is a decade and change ago. I still keep an eye on Zemeckis. How could anyone watch Gladiator without the grain reserves subplot??
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Amy Adams' willingness to just do whatever is highly appealing in an actor. She rules
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MacheteZombie posted:She rules :yeah 
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I was very pleasantly surprised when I saw her show up in Drop Dead Gorgeous
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She was the one okay part of hillbilly elegy
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Jay Rust posted:She was the one okay part of hillbilly elegy Yeah absolutely. Acted the pants off it.
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Gaius Marius posted:She's in some of my most rewatched scenes from Boogie Nights. I can’t believe I have to say this
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:How could anyone watch Gladiator without the grain reserves subplot?? I think I have only ever seen Gladiator on tv broadcasts. So I didn't even know I was missing out on grain.
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i really liked Amy Adams in Junebug way back when, think it was her first oscar nomination? great soundtrack by Yo La Tengo
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1790088405566591461 Edgar Wright is going to kill wokeness.
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As long as someone else is writing it
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I liked Barbarella but there’s certainly room for improvement. I would be cautiously optimistic about a remake.
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Mordiceius posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1790088405566591461 They're gonna have to zip-tie drunk guys' hands going into this
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Gripweed posted:I liked Barbarella but there’s certainly room for improvement. disagree.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:disagree. They can cut down on the number of times the story essentially restarts fresh because she crashes her spaceship and needs to find a local to fix it again.
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Duran Duran could do the soundtrack! Thanks for the movie tips folks
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The idea of an Edgar Wright sex comedy romp is instinctively unappealing to me. The balance had shifted, and dreck has been dominant for too long! The boring-rear end competence of Planet Ape 4 is exactly what the world needs right now. We need blockbusters that are without egregious flaws and just mildly stupid.
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Waffleman_ posted:
Most "Director's cut" aren't actually done by the director. Hell the Director's Cut for Dune was so far gone from the Director's vision for the movie David Lynch took his name off it.
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Need a drat Master's to figure out which version of Blade Runner to watch
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Waffleman_ posted:Need a drat Master's to figure out which version of Blade Runner to watch 2049
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Waffleman_ posted:Need a drat Master's to figure out which version of Blade Runner to watch Just pick one at random, the differences aren’t that big a deal.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:This had me laughing. If "the first human" had a name, it sure as poo poo wasn't Lucy. Not to mention that that wasn't the first human, it's just the oldest bones we discovered. It's so, so, so stupid. But the kind of stupid that you can't help but salute. Also Lucy wasn't human, she's australopithecus afarensis
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