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I didn't need necessarily hate it, but The Untouchables is really over-rated. Or at least, I remember it being so last time I saw it.
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Detective No. 27 posted:It takes 26 minutes before Toshiro Mifune shows up in The Hidden Fortress. Not saying the preceding time was bad, but he dominates as soon as he shows up. Hidden Fortress annoyed me because it didn't commit to its gimmick. I thought it was supposed to be a samurai story told from the point of view of two unimportant peasants, but there were a bunch of scenes where they weren't even present.
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Feb 17, 2017 20:58
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Samovar posted:I didn't need necessarily hate it, but The Untouchables is really over-rated. Or at least, I remember it being so last time I saw it. It's alright. There are some really good scenes but it's still probably the worst De Palma I've seen.
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Feb 17, 2017 22:17
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Huh, I rank The Untouchables higher than, say Snake Eyes or 8mm. I will say he performances in The Untouchables are a little over the top though.
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Feb 18, 2017 02:48
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Android Apocalypse posted:Huh, I rank The Untouchables higher than, say Snake Eyes or 8mm. I will say he performances in The Untouchables are a little over the top though. De Palma didn't make 8mm, that was Schumacher iirc
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Feb 18, 2017 03:03
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Well poo poo, you're right. Still, I think there are worse De Palma movies than The Untouchables.
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Feb 18, 2017 03:23
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I haven't seen any of his 60s stuff and very little of his 21st century output Maybe the real stinkers are in those eras.
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Feb 18, 2017 03:52
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FreudianSlippers posted:I haven't seen any of his 60s stuff and very little of his 21st century output Maybe the real stinkers are in those eras. His 60s stuff rules, though I've only seen Greetings and Hi, Mom! since they were posted here on the forums semi recently. But they rule.
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Feb 18, 2017 04:24
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De Palma is never bad.
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Feb 18, 2017 04:39
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got any sevens posted:Now I'm curious what awesome movies have terrible first 30 minutes. I very nearly turned eternal sunshine of the spotless mind off. Turns out it's a pretty good film.
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Feb 18, 2017 12:06
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Looper loving sucks.
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Mar 25, 2017 23:07
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Mandrel posted:Looper loving sucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuUqpZgHiEE
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Mar 25, 2017 23:09
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dont even fink about it posted:The first 30 minutes of every Taken movie are total rubbish. In the first twenty minutes of the Raid, you do get Uwais railing on a punching bag, the execution scene, lots of terrific shots of rainy Jakarta, and the beginning of the the film's titular Raid. I do also get the other side of this argument, where the first twenty minutes may feel underwhelming without the payoff later on. However, think there is a tendency for every great movie to have at least one thing in the first ten, twenty minutes that makes you sit up and go 'holy poo poo.'
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Mar 25, 2017 23:36
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The first chunk of 28 Weeks Later is pretty bad, at least in comparison to the rest of the film, and it's right around 30-40 minutes as I recall.
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Mar 26, 2017 00:00
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precision posted:The first chunk of 28 Weeks Later is pretty bad, at least in comparison to the rest of the film, and it's right around 30-40 minutes as I recall. Really? I remember when I went to see it, I thought it was the first half or so that was stellar and the back half that was just alright.
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Mar 26, 2017 00:03
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The tone changes, not the quality, so I can see someone preferring the opening. It has been a really long time since I've watched it, despite really enjoying it at the time.
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Mar 26, 2017 00:42
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precision posted:The first chunk of 28 Weeks Later is pretty bad, at least in comparison to the rest of the film, and it's right around 30-40 minutes as I recall. It opens with the incredible sequence of Robert Carlyle escaping the infected and abandoning his wife so you're crazy
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Really? I remember when I went to see it, I thought it was the first half or so that was stellar and the back half that was just alright. Yeah, I normally don't pick on plot holes, but having the woman with a deadly, civilization-wrecking plague kept in an unlocked room with no guard was a bit too much to swallow.
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