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Under Siege, where Steven Seagal vogues while knife fighting Tommie Lee Jones on a battleship. Terrorists were zany characters who did it for fun and money in the 90s.
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Just watched Good Morning Vietnam for the first time. I’m supposed to like the Robin Williams character but he’s actually kind of gross and unsympathetic in some ways what with the going after a random local girl he sees on the street and being pissy while having one of the least poo poo military jobs in Vietnam. So what if there are a couple of guys cramping your style, just do your term and get out. Movie did get better once the inevitable VC subplot happened and it wasn’t nonstop creeping by the DJ. Williams improv bits were funny as always.
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I just watched The Dreamers and that was a hell of a film to debut in, Ms. Green. 
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Wall Street and its sequel Money Never Sleeps. The first was excellent; the second seemed like it was treading the same ground as The Big Short while needlessly rehabilitating Gekko. Also if Winnie hated Gekko so much, why did she hook up with a guy in the same line of business?
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Dec 15, 2020 05:40
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The Shining deserves all the good things said about it. I laughed at the shot at the beginning with the car driving through the landscape where the camera helicopter’s shadow is visible for a couple of seconds; come on Stan you’re such a perfectionist and you left that in there?
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Jenny Agutter posted:godzilla vs kong was ultra dumb, i haven't seen that much extremely stupid poo poo in a movie since the last transformers film i watched, or maybe king of the monsters. the big monster fights kicked rear end though can you actually see what's going on this time, instead of taking place while a volcano erupts during a hurricane at night?
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Man with Hat posted:Riders of Justice was really good. yes it was, very much so.
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The most recent 007 is called No Time to Die; Spectre was the immediate predecessor. vvvvvv Edit: 
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom isn't great. Willie and Short Round both kind of suck though not bad enough to deserve the slaps they get from Indy. Short Round at least gets to do something besides screech at the scenery, which is more than I can say for the future Mrs. Spielberg. There were a lot more "huh huh look at this" gross out gags than was really necessary. The mine car sequence is by far the high point of the film. This is the least of the original three by a long shot though it beats out the fourth one.
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Splint Chesthair posted:Oh good, it wasn’t just me, lol. The last time I left a movie feeling that good was Mad Max: Fury Road. Everything Everywhere All at Once might even be better. I think it’s the best movie I’ve seen in a decade. I unironically love that James Hong is still working. The guy is a treasure.
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I liked how it became Metal Gear Solid in the last act.
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Apr 16, 2022 00:26
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Jenny Agutter posted:Watch the first three Eva rebuilds. Great animation and music, if you liked nge you’ll probably like these too Watch the last one, it cashes the checks the third one wrote.
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May 21, 2022 18:23
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CBJSprague24 posted:How do you make the next James Bond movie with no goddamn James Bond? You just reboot like they did for Craig's Casino Royale.
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Gaius Marius posted:Edge of Tomorrow just as good as the people recing it to me said it was. The only flaw is how Incredibly dark(brightness wise) the last third was. Secret MVP of the movie was just what a slimy piece of poo poo Cruise is at the start. They really wimped out on the titles for that one. The book it's based on is All You Need Is Kill and the tagline on the poster was "Live. Die. Repeat." Either of those is way more evocative.
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Maxwell Lord posted:TBF a lot of the props and decorations are from other sci fi movies and shows. A lot of the cast is too! 
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Jenny Agutter posted:Suspiria (2018). Big departure from the original but still good, not sure what to make of the ending. The whole movie is like beware of these systems and getting trapped in them but then the ending is like it’s okay you can just co-opt them? This is also maybe the latest film I’ve seen use a split diopter shot. I liked the dancing too there should have been more of it Having three Tilda Swintons in the same shot was an amusing stunt but yeah, I felt like what they were trying to say about getting caught in a cult of personality kind of missed. It was fun to see Jessica Harper again, too.
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Jenny Agutter posted:Tetsuo: the Iron Man (1989) this movie kicks rear end, a discordant surreal video tape from hell. Passion can make any budget work https://youtu.be/YK5XgMjORHc
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Mantis42 posted:
I felt like it wasn't quite as good as the original. They tried some themes that didn't quite land and got a little too cute with stunt casting though there's one shot that kind of made the stunt pay off.
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Nov 11, 2022 00:42
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Maxwell Lord posted:I disagree, I think it's part of the overall themes- the witches' school is a parallel to leftist organizations like Baader-Meinhof and those firmly believed Germany had not fully rooted out the fascists in their midst, or had a proper reckoning with their past. I agree, but it was so underdeveloped that it was a distraction. The writers would have done much better to focus on one of those two comparisons rather than try to squeeze them both in.
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dpkg chopra posted:Bullet Train I just watched it tonight and big same. Also would have appreciated more than two and a half Asian characters (snack girl and conductor count as 1/4 a character each) on a movie set in Japan with a yakuza boss featuring prominently.
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, I backed into this one via a Hikaru Utada song and knew about Bowie but wasn't expecting Beat Takeshi. I didn't feel like I understood the captain's motivation all that well. Was it as simple as a super bro crush, or did he scry Celliers' shame somehow and see his own reflection there?
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checkplease posted:Wait wasn’t the board game created for the movie. But I’d still take clue over jumanji. Clue the game was created in the 1940s.
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Enter the Void. I guess Noe succeeded in making ayahuasca trip: the movie. I found it kind of annoying; it was mostly a bunch of shitheads getting to where they were headed. I could see what he was going for with the overhead angle for many of the scenes but I felt like he spent way too much time in the transitions between shots. This movie could have been set anywhere; being in Tokyo didn't add or take away anything. Cards on the table: I don't much care for Noe's hangups on pregnancy and his choice to make one of the last shots a POV shot from inside the main character's sister's vagina while his best friend busts a nut in her may be coloring my perceptions a bit.
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Southland Tales. Not even The Rock could save this one, though watching Cheri Oteri get shot onscreen while channeling her "simma down now" SNL character was gratifying. Kelly was obviously mad about several things and tried to express all of it simultaneously; he probably would have done better to focus on one or two of those things. There were several characters that didn't really do anything (Miranda Richardson, Janeane Garofalo, Kevin Smith, Justin Timberlake). And how do you cast Timberlake in 2006 and just have him lip sync someone else's song? Always good to see John Larroquette though.
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Mantis42 posted:Now you have to watch the straight to Netflix RIPD2!! I saw that one at a friend's as background noise while we were building Gundams. It was extremely terrible. Tenet. Quite the spectacle. Washington put in a great performance and it's always nice to see Pattinson not being a superhero. I had to put subtitles on to understand the dialog, Nolan's sound mixes are borderline impenetrable to me.
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theflyingexecutive posted:It's a deliberate choice and Nolan films keep getting nominated for and winning Sound Oscars. There's definitely a lot of sound in it, I can't argue with that!
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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:(Fwiw, it's made me curious to read the books now.) If you go past the first one stop after Herbert's original six wrap up.
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Double Indemnity just owns. It's great.
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Valley of the Dolls: https://youtu.be/aGFNGH9jHyM
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: yeah okay so that happened. It was fun to hear the quote from Sublime's cover of "Smoke Two Joints". Main character's UK accent slipped out a few times.
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Splint Chesthair posted:I read a book about the history of Cannon Films, and according to Cozzi Ferrigno had no idea this was a sequel to Hercules. Technically all of his scenes for this movie were "reshoots" for a different gladiator movie Ferrigno was making around that same time. They bolted all the material together to make a Hercules sequel. lmao hell yeah
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Finally got around to John Wick 4. Excellent overall, I feel like it was a little too long but I'm not sure where I'd suggest cutting anything - maybe delete a wave of enemies in Osaka and Paris? Everyone doing the Dracula cape with their bulletproof suit coats seemed a little cheesy but on the other hand maybe it's a reaction to John doing this four movies in a row and they know they'd be dead otherwise. Plus it lets some of the hits land instead of forcing everyone to have stormtrooper accuracy or matrix dodge skills. Take a break, Keanu. You've earned it.
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distortion park posted:Ghost in the Shell (1995) - this didn't live up to the hype at all for me. The animation and art were nice enough and I enjoyed some of the mood bits (panning over the cops before the final showdown was particularly good). The characters, less so, the leads were fine although mostly because they fitted into standard archetypes cleanly, the antagonist on the other hand made little sense to me, his motivations are just explained to the audience in a speech at the end out of nowhere and seem kind of random (why would he want to die and reproduce? why are these solely possible through a cyborg body?). The philosophy in the film, also entirely told through expository dialogue, was not interesting enough to be thought provoking and too vague to feel like more than idea Calvinball. Lots of reviews on Letterboxd suggest I'm totally wrong about this though! I bounced off it really hard the first time I saw it but a few years later I appreciated it more. It felt really stylish but really empty the first time around.
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I forgot Mojo Nixon was in that.
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ShoogaSlim posted:i watched the first indiana jones for the first time maybe last year? two years ago? idk it was forgettable camp and i have no desire to watch any of the other movies, which i hear are progressively worse and worse anyway. You heard wrong about Last Crusade.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:The key to those movies is that everybody plays everything completely straight. The moment you let the audience know that you’re in on the joke it’s ruins the tone. See also: Scary Movie, Epic Movie, etc.
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I'm still amazed they got Herzog in that.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:what the gently caress look who you're replying to
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The Hudsucker Proxy: everyone but Paul Newman and Tim Robbins please shut the gently caress up forever.
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