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How much profanity/sexual content is in the movie TAPS? (Reading this you'd think I'm a parent showing this to my kid, actually I'm wondering if it's a movie my mom would like) Violence isn't as big of an issue.
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Brolita posted:How much profanity/sexual content is in the movie TAPS? (Reading this you'd think I'm a parent showing this to my kid, actually I'm wondering if it's a movie my mom would like) Violence isn't as big of an issue. Your mom is weird and awesome.
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Feb 8, 2010 05:24
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My mom will watch Rambo 4 no problem, but cannot make it more than 20 minutes into Knocked Up so I don't think it's actually that weird.
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Feb 8, 2010 05:48
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Brolita posted:How much profanity/sexual content is in the movie TAPS? (Reading this you'd think I'm a parent showing this to my kid, actually I'm wondering if it's a movie my mom would like) Violence isn't as big of an issue. I haven't watched it in a while, but to my recollection there's absolutely zero sexual content. I don't think there's a whole lot of profanity either. It's not even that violent until the end.
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Feb 8, 2010 05:57
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Is there some sort of "must see" movie list out there that isn't the IMDb top 250 out there? Like, not necessarily good movies, but just movies that are generally considered must-sees for cultural references. Also, in a generalized sense, lists of quality/notable movies. I'd like to add some more movies to my Netflix queue/get on DVD/blu-ray
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Feb 8, 2010 10:45
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Is there some sort of "must see" movie list out there that isn't the IMDb top 250 out there? Like, not necessarily good movies, but just movies that are generally considered must-sees for cultural references. Just work yourself trough the movies in the criterion collection, that's what i'm doing at the moment.
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Feb 8, 2010 12:05
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Is there some sort of "must see" movie list out there that isn't the IMDb top 250 out there? They Shoot Pictures is an exceptionally good list, and when you find stuff you like, you can search for other essentials from the same director. You can also find recommended viewing broken down by decade, the best films of the 21st century, and a really good list of just noir films there.
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Feb 8, 2010 14:01
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Is there some sort of "must see" movie list out there that isn't the IMDb top 250 out there? Like, not necessarily good movies, but just movies that are generally considered must-sees for cultural references. You need iCheckMovies.com. They compile all the various lists that are out there, including imdb, Ebert, AFI, the criterion collection, and They Shoot Pictures Don't They, plus dozens of others. There's sure to be a list that fits what you're looking for in there. In addition, you can track which movies you've seen on all of these lists. I've found it pretty addictive so far... WorldIndustries fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Feb 8, 2010 |
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Feb 8, 2010 16:55
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Is there some sort of "must see" movie list out there that isn't the IMDb top 250 out there? Like, not necessarily good movies, but just movies that are generally considered must-sees for cultural references. I have referred to Roger Ebert's list to beef up my Netflix queue: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=greatmovies_fulllist
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Is there some sort of "must see" movie list out there that isn't the IMDb top 250 out there? Like, not necessarily good movies, but just movies that are generally considered must-sees for cultural references. The various AFI lists are a solid start when you get past quibbles about individual numbering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI_100_Years..._series
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Feb 9, 2010 02:48
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The IMDb list isn't actually all that bad if you ignore most of the more recent movies on there (say, post-1995 though there are some must-see movies from that era on the list too). It hits most of the movies I'd expect people people who call themselves film loves to have seen at a bare minimum. The Criterion Collection has a bunch of must-see movies too, but also a lot of esoteric stuff that is cool, but non-essential. I'd check out the AFI, IMDb, and other similar lists, and make sure at the very least you see all the movies that pop up on all of them. There's about 100 to 200 movies that pretty much are always on lists like those.
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Feb 9, 2010 04:18
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/ Has a fairly varied outcome, it also allows you to search the top ten for various groups like Cannes or Golden Globes. The downside is that they're limited to the last decade so older, classic movies may be loaded.
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Feb 9, 2010 12:57
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Popelmon posted:Just work yourself trough the movies in the criterion collection, that's what i'm doing at the moment.
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Feb 9, 2010 16:15
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What film has the worst cost ratio between cost/income? They talk about something like Waterworld, but when you look at how much it made, it wasn't that bad.
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Feb 9, 2010 21:25
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twistedmentat posted:What film has the worst cost ratio between cost/income? The largest absolute loss on any movie was The Adventures of Pluto Nash, which cost $100M and brought in $7M. I suspect that's also the largest ratio. haveblue fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Feb 9, 2010 |
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Feb 9, 2010 21:31
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twistedmentat posted:What film has the worst cost ratio between cost/income? I think it's actually close between PLUTO NASH AND TOWN & COUNTRY, that movie Warren Beatty directed back in 2001. It cost nearly $100 million, for whatever reason, and made $10,372,291 worldwide. PLUTO made $7,103,973 worldwide but probably has made more money in DVD sales, since it's kind of a kid movie. Numbers taken from BoxOfficeMojo.com
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Feb 9, 2010 21:38
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VorpalBunny posted:PLUTO made $7,103,973 worldwide but probably has made more money in DVD sales, since it's kind of a kid movie.
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Feb 9, 2010 21:47
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How the hell could Town and Country cost that must? Did Betty just pay himself like 70mil for directing or something? Pluto Nash was one I suspected, as it's pretty infamous for, well, being one of the worst major releases ever.
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Feb 9, 2010 23:10
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I was watching Romancing the Stone and it had that shot where a vehicle drives up, and you see someone's feet as they get out, then the camera slowly pans up. It's a really cool shot and I was wondering who was the first to use it.
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Feb 9, 2010 23:22
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twistedmentat posted:How the hell could Town and Country cost that must? Did Betty just pay himself like 70mil for directing or something? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_Country_(film) quote:The production itself began on 8 June 1998 on a budget of $44 million, including $5 million up front for Warren Beatty. Filming was originally supposed to wrap by the fall of 1998 for a summer or fall 1999 release. Various problems occurred during filming, however, including Beatty's meticulous demand for many takes. Also, the script was still being developed, as writers were not satisfied with the ending originally written by Michael Laughlin. Various other screenwriters were brought in, including Paul Attanasio and Gary Ross. By April 1999, production was still going, but Garry Shandling had to leave to do another film (What Planet Are You From?) as did Diane Keaton (Hanging Up). It would take a full year before they could gather the cast back together to film the new pages written by Buck Henry. An example of money wasted, from IMDB: The winter mountain scenes (filmed in Sun Valley, Idaho) started filming in the early winter. Unfortunately, there was no snow on the ground at the time. Several scenes were filmed with manmade snow. After filming these scenes, over a foot of natural snow feel the next day. Some of the scenes were re-shot in the "natural" background. Interesting article about the mess: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/arts/15LYMA.html?ex=1169960400&en=b6c9a41a52441280&ei=5070
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Feb 10, 2010 00:00
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twistedmentat posted:What film has the worst cost ratio between cost/income? I don't know if the record still stands, but Cutthroat Island was listed as the biggest box office bomb ever by the Guinness Book of World records. All of the lists I look at online list only films made after 1980 starting with Heaven's Gate, with the exception that some list Cleopatra. I refuse to believe there were no major (inflation-adjusted) box office bombs before Heaven's Gate except Cleopatra because before home video the box office was the end of the line. I suspect it's mostly data collection. More recent movies have more accurate box office totals(or even have totals at all) and recent movies can add 1/3+ to their losses through prints & advertising. For many older movies those numbers just don't exist.
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VorpalBunny posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_Country_(film) That's insane. Not unlike Cimino and Heaven's Gate though. But there is a history of disastrous productions turning out great. Apocalypse Now seemed like it was headed there, but it turned out to be one of the best films ever made. Same thing with Citizen Kane. So maybe studios are willing to take risks like that.
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twistedmentat posted:That's insane. Not unlike Cimino and Heaven's Gate though. But there is a history of disastrous productions turning out great. Apocalypse Now seemed like it was headed there, but it turned out to be one of the best films ever made. Same thing with Citizen Kane. So maybe studios are willing to take risks like that. The talk of TITANIC was all doom and gloom, they even moved the release date from summer to winter to give Cameron more time to put the film together. 20th Century Fox was certain it would ruin them.
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Dr. Coffee posted:the Coens I know I'm a little late to the party, but this is awesome. After I watched Barton Fink, I was really confused about what I just saw, but I liked it anyway, if only because I am a fan of the Coens' movies. A question I have is, are all Coen brothers movies metaphors, allegories, or otherwise retold stories? I understand No Country was an adaptation, and maybe there are others, but I read about The Big Lebowski being about Jesus, and how O Brother, Where Art Thou? is pretty much The Odyssey. I wonder about Fargo, which I have seen parts of, and Blood Simple, which I have not seen yet.
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Feb 10, 2010 10:09
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Has anyone watched the movie Thirst, an asian vampire movie? It was a good movie, but I might have missed something because I did not understand one scene near the end, Why did the guy rape a girl in the tent before going off to the sunrise it just seemed pretty out of character unless i totally missed something
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Feb 10, 2010 13:36
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It was out of character compared with what he was at the start of the film, but not what he'd become. I mean he'd just (passively) assisted in the slaughter of several people, and had almost lost his ability to control his urges. Thats why he chose to kill himself and her, because he couldnt live with what they'd become. I think that scene was there just to make clear how far he'd degenerated, so that his next action made more sense, and was even kind of noble.
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:Is there some sort of "must see" movie list out there that isn't the IMDb top 250 out there? Like, not necessarily good movies, but just movies that are generally considered must-sees for cultural references. 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is pretty thorough: https://www.1001beforeyoudie.com
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ThirstNodrog posted:It was out of character compared with what he was at the start of the film, but not what he'd become. I mean he'd just (passively) assisted in the slaughter of several people, and had almost lost his ability to control his urges. Thats why he chose to kill himself and her, because he couldnt live with what they'd become. I think that scene was there just to make clear how far he'd degenerated, so that his next action made more sense, and was even kind of noble. but at the same time they showed that he didn't really kill the other girl in the apartment, he just pretended too. If he wanted to rape someone why didn't he just rape her, why go to a village of dying and wounded people to rape someone. Or was it just in some round about way to show those people that he wasn't a god or someone who should be worshiped. I guess that makes sense, it just seemed really out of place to me
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Ok maybe someone can help me with this. I'm looking for the name of a movie where a guy is hit by a car, launched into the air and shot with a rocket launcher. I know the movie is awful I also think the guy was on a skateboard, he also shot one of the people in the car before the above happened.
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ghoti sticks posted:I know I'm a little late to the party, but this is awesome. After I watched Barton Fink, I was really confused about what I just saw, but I liked it anyway, if only because I am a fan of the Coens' movies. A question I have is, are all Coen brothers movies metaphors, allegories, or otherwise retold stories? I understand No Country was an adaptation, and maybe there are others, but I read about The Big Lebowski being about Jesus, and how O Brother, Where Art Thou? is pretty much The Odyssey. I wonder about Fargo, which I have seen parts of, and Blood Simple, which I have not seen yet. From what I know about Blood Simple, I read once that the Coens actually wrote major portions of the film as they shot it. I don't know how true that is or which scenes where conceived on the day, but I think it's safe to say that there wasn't much in the way of allegory/metaphor there. It's more an exercise in not painting yourself into a corner.
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Jay Dub posted:From what I know about Blood Simple, I read once that the Coens actually wrote major portions of the film as they shot it. SubG fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Feb 11, 2010 |
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Feb 11, 2010 00:30
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SubG posted:What? There was an almost complete shot-for-shot storyboard of Blood Simple. (1985) before they shot the first scene. As far as I know this is true of all of the Coen brothers' films; it's one of their signature eccentricities. Huh, that's really weird. I mean, it makes perfect sense that the Coens would be meticulous storyboarders, but I distinctly remember reading about how they more or less flew by the seat of their pants on Blood Simple. I can even recall a professor of mine basing the class's entire discussion of Blood Simple around the fact. drat you, Dr. Theo 
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The Croc posted:Ok maybe someone can help me with this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBbmdJTLdE
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Feb 11, 2010 01:38
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Dr. Video Games 0069 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOBbmdJTLdE I guess my General Movie Question is - why the hell were you watching this movie? And what's the deal with the blow-up doll? I miss the 80s.
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I picked up the 30th Anniversary Close Encounters of the Third Kind 3-dvd box set, and I have the option of watching the theatrical version, the special edition, or the director's cut. I've never seen the film before. Which one should I watch?
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Feb 11, 2010 09:03
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I saw the special edition when it was released in the cinemas so I would say go with that. Any of the three is te right choice, might actually be worth going in order then switching up when you rewatch later.
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Feb 11, 2010 16:04
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Even Spielberg doesn't like the Special Edition from what I recall (something about the studio pressuring him to include the ship's interior). Watch the director's cut.
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Feb 11, 2010 16:08
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There is probably a page with this, or i could do painstaking research and figure it out, but are there any examples of movies made in my life time that have kids in them that became stars later on? Some I know are Elija Wood in Back to the Future 2, Alicia Witt in Dune, Eliza Duskhu in True likes and Thora Birch in Patroit Games.
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twistedmentat posted:There is probably a page with this, or i could do painstaking research and figure it out, but are there any examples of movies made in my life time that have kids in them that became stars later on? You might want to edit in what constitutes your "life time", for reference. Not trying to be snarky, anyone who wants to answer is going to need to know what timespan you are asking about. You have already listed things I didn't know, haha, so I have no info at all. Elija Wood was in BttF2? Holy crap.
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Barometer posted:You have already listed things I didn't know, haha, so I have no info at all. Elija Wood was in BttF2? Holy crap. You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy! 
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