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Can anyone ID the blacksploitation movie this Polish guy is watching at 3:00? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpOQ4jZdtms
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Dec 16, 2012 23:33
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Snowy posted:Can anyone ID the blacksploitation movie this Polish guy is watching at 3:00? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238119/trivia?tab=mc Says they watch Death in Venice in Bolec's office, and as far as I can tell Bolec is the dude with the silly beard. I haven't seen Death in Venice, but that scene doesn't look like it would fit into a Thomas Mann adaptation so I don't know what the gently caress. Maybe he watches it in another scene.
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Dec 17, 2012 10:02
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muscles like this? posted:Its a very good movie and you should probably get around to seeing it sooner rather than later considering how bad its flopping in the box office. Why has the movie flopped so badly? You would think the next collaboration between Brad Pitt and Andrew Dominik would be more popular. How was the film marketed in America? Did it get out to enough cinemas? Or was there a backlash because of how critical the film is of capitalism? Really loved the film, and would like to discuss it. I don't know if I could write up a thread this film deserves. I remember reading the 'Assassination of Jesse James' thread last year or so, and that was pretty good. I think 'Killing Them Softly' holds up almost as well.
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Dec 17, 2012 19:42
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The Saviour posted:Why has the movie flopped so badly? You would think the next collaboration between Brad Pitt and Andrew Dominik would be more popular. How was the film marketed in America? Did it get out to enough cinemas? Or was there a backlash because of how critical the film is of capitalism? kuddles fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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Dec 17, 2012 19:54
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Yeah, when I went to see it it was in the second week of release and there was still one walk out. It was during the Gandolfini hotel bit where they probably didn't get that you were supposed to be as annoyed as Pitt was by how much Gandolfini's character is just loving around not doing anything. Personally, I loved the movie, thought it was great. I loved how shocking the ending was, even though in retrospect it makes perfect sense.
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Dec 17, 2012 21:12
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Snowy posted:Can anyone ID the blacksploitation movie this Polish guy is watching at 3:00? According to this website, it was footage shot specifically for the movie. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_53076-Chevrolet-Styleline-De-Luxe-2100-HK-1950.html
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Dec 18, 2012 03:20
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Human Tornada posted:According to this website, it was footage shot specifically for the movie. Thank you! I had never seen imcdb before and could not find a source for that clip.
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Dec 18, 2012 05:24
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What's the deal legally with slander/libel laws and portraying real organizations like the NYPD/LAPD as corrupt in movies? Yeah, I know they're horribly corrupt in real life too, but is that really the only reason movies get away with it?
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Dec 18, 2012 06:12
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User-Friendly posted:What's the deal legally with slander/libel laws and portraying real organizations like the NYPD/LAPD as corrupt in movies? They're probably fine unless they accuse real individuals of corruption.
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Dec 18, 2012 06:14
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User-Friendly posted:What's the deal legally with slander/libel laws and portraying real organizations like the NYPD/LAPD as corrupt in movies? They've got bigger fish to fry, basically, from actually being corrupt as hell.
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Dec 18, 2012 06:16
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User-Friendly posted:What's the deal legally with slander/libel laws and portraying real organizations like the NYPD/LAPD as corrupt in movies? First amendment rights are extremely strong for criticizing the government.
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Dec 18, 2012 06:42
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Does anyone know what Quentin Tarantino was actually doing in between Jackie Brown (1997) and Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003)? I know even Tarantino would have a life outside of movies, and Kill Bill was obviously a pretty big project, but it seems like the guy just sort of disappeared for a while. Were there other projects which he abandoned or something in this time?
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Dec 18, 2012 07:04
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I believe he spent a lot of that time writing Inglorious Basterds, which grew so huge and ungainly that he started working on Kill Bill to clear his head.
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Dec 18, 2012 07:52
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Does anyone know the first usage of the trombone "wah wah wah wahhhhhh" to punctuate a bad joke or shaggy dog story? There's a great example in the MST3K episode "The Amazing Colossal Man" that I can't find an excerpt of on YT (for anyone with the episode, it's when the food delivery guy asks the guard why they need so much food. After being given the official cover story, he presses for the truth and the guard says "OK, truth is we have a 60 foot man in the tent". Delivery driver pauses and says "Yeah, sure you do pal". Cue Joel and the bots mocking that audio punchline). Just curious when / how it started. e: Different key than I normally imagine it, but this is the sound I'm talking about : http://www.sadtrombone.com/
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Dec 18, 2012 08:38
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regulargonzalez posted:Does anyone know the first usage of the trombone "wah wah wah wahhhhhh" to punctuate a bad joke or shaggy dog story? It's from vaudeville, apparently. Same with the rim shot.
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Dec 18, 2012 14:01
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Years ago, I remember reading a intriguing review of an asian film where the plot was that the Yakuza was basically absorbing all the biker gangs in Japan, but one gang was resisting which results in an all out war. Anybody know what I'm referring to?
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Dec 19, 2012 04:16
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Does anyone know what Quentin Tarantino was actually doing in between Jackie Brown (1997) and Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003)? I know even Tarantino would have a life outside of movies, and Kill Bill was obviously a pretty big project, but it seems like the guy just sort of disappeared for a while. Were there other projects which he abandoned or something in this time? I read an article years ago where one of his acquaintances said he pretty much just smoked a ton of weed and watched crappy movies in his home theater during a big chunk of that period. He even specified not campy crappy movies, but Lifetime Original type stuff.
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Dec 19, 2012 04:29
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So I recently watched Enter the Void. On Netflix, so it was the Short Version, but I had no idea that there was anything cut at the time. I decided to go back and read the CD thread for it. Something I'm curious about is that a poster or two was utterly insistent that there was a part in the long version where Oscar looks in the mirror and sees himself as an incredibly disturbing vegetable-like monster. Others disagreed. Googling for it, I found what was IN the cut footage but... it really made no sense whatsoever to me, and I couldn't completely discount that the vegetable monster thing happened or not. So 1.) Was there a vegetable monster scene. 2.) What's the deal with the cut reel The rest of the movie all the stuff seen is consistent with a banal reality where Oscar grew up and then died in a toilet. Except for the orgy. But in the cut reel there's apparently someone who may or may not be Oscar and he might be told by Alex that he's just dreaming? The synopsis failed to make any sense to me at all.
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Dec 19, 2012 10:31
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Yonic Symbolism posted:So I recently watched Enter the Void. On Netflix, so it was the Short Version, but I had no idea that there was anything cut at the time. I decided to go back and read the CD thread for it. Something I'm curious about is that a poster or two was utterly insistent that there was a part in the long version where Oscar looks in the mirror and sees himself as an incredibly disturbing vegetable-like monster. Others disagreed. Googling for it, I found what was IN the cut footage but... it really made no sense whatsoever to me, and I couldn't completely discount that the vegetable monster thing happened or not. I was really confused by this post until I realised the mountaineering movie I was thinking of was called Touching the Void.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:27
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Yonic Symbolism posted:So I recently watched Enter the Void. 2) It's been a while since I saw it so I can't really give you specifics, especially for a movie like this. Regardless, I don't think that additional reel really provides any more insight into the film's narrative or is necessary. An orgy scene and more hallucinatory images pretty much sums it up.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:52
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How did The Shawshank Redemption end up becoming #1 on the imdb top 250 list? I have nothin against the movie, it just seems odd that is has so many votes compared to every other title. Were their websites/online communities conspiring to make this #1?
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Dec 19, 2012 23:20
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CopywrightMMXI posted:How did The Shawshank Redemption end up becoming #1 on the imdb top 250 list? I have nothin against the movie, it just seems odd that is has so many votes compared to every other title. Were their websites/online communities conspiring to make this #1? It probably has a lot to do with the fact that tons of people have seen it (if you ever watched TBS ever then you've seen it) and that it's fairly unobjectionable. Like, some great movies are pretty contentious which would gently caress up a score aggregate.
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Dec 19, 2012 23:56
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CopywrightMMXI posted:How did The Shawshank Redemption end up becoming #1 on the imdb top 250 list? I have nothin against the movie, it just seems odd that is has so many votes compared to every other title. Were their websites/online communities conspiring to make this #1? In the early days of the IMDb top 250, it was in a war with The Godfather for the coveted #1 spot. And apparently a lot of people don't like The Godfather.
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Dec 20, 2012 00:00
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Shawshank is really pretty, well-acted, and elegant while aso being relatively new, always on TV, in color and not particularly challenging. Plus it stars a really famous semi-cult actor (Freeman) and it's somehow still under-discussed enough that people feel defensive about their love for it. That's not a dig, I think it's a really good movie, but it's like a perfect storm for capturing the hearts of people just getting into movies.
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Dec 20, 2012 00:03
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I got into movies 2 years ago or something and that [Shawshank #1] always seemed so weird to me. The other top 5 stuff like The Godfather and The Good the Bad and The Ugly, you always read and hear about in books and tv as cultural treasures. Only top250 treats Shawshank like it's the second coming of christ. This isn't to say that I don't like the film, but I think penis hits it on the head when he lines up those criteria that make it the perfect film to love and defend.
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Dec 20, 2012 00:07
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csidle posted:penis hits it on the head It seems odd at first that it's so high on the list but it makes sense once you think about it. It's definitely a crowd-pleaser, and that's what the IMDB top 250 is, right? A crowd-sourced best-ever list.
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Dec 20, 2012 00:11
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CopywrightMMXI posted:How did The Shawshank Redemption end up becoming #1 on the imdb top 250 list? I have nothin against the movie, it just seems odd that is has so many votes compared to every other title. Were their websites/online communities conspiring to make this #1? I don't think it has to do with some kind of conspiracy or campaign to get it to #1. All the casual movie watchers I know seem to love it. The IMDb list is dominated by younger votes so it makes sense that a film that many of the "internet generation" (for lack of a better term) saw at a young and impressionable age would be cemented in as "one of the best." I was bored so I did some basic correlation analysis of the top 250 list. There's a strong correlation between IMDb rating and the number of votes a film gets (this suggests that people come on the IMDb list to vote for 9s and 10s rather than films they feel are just average and/or care more about the top 10 or so compared to films 200-250). Also there's a strong correlation between film release year and the number of votes which shows that IMDb is dominated by people who want to vote for newer films. That's what I would've guessed anyway but it was nice to verify the numbers. I've been trying to complete the 250 list for a few years and I don't know if I'll ever conquer the thing. There's always 2-3 new releases that popup and enter the list.
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Dec 20, 2012 00:42
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It's probably the least offensive of the top movies so it doesn't get a lot of hate votes. Some people will vote down old and black and white movies, and sci-fi/fantasy movies and Brad Pitt movies, but Tim Robbins is pretty harmless (as in not tabloid fodder). And the movie doesn't have any romantic subplot (or women, like the other unreasonably high on the list 12 Angry Men).
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Dec 20, 2012 01:42
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Schweinhund posted:unreasonably high on the list 12 Angry Men). You crazy.
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Dec 20, 2012 01:43
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Well I'm sure you'd agree 12 Angry Men isn't the 6th best movie of all time.
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Dec 20, 2012 01:45
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You're right, it should be replaced with Anatomy Of A Murder.
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Dec 20, 2012 02:07
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Magic Hate Ball posted:You're right, it should be replaced with Anatomy Of A Murder. But still right there below Ghostbusters.
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Dec 20, 2012 02:32
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Schweinhund posted:Well I'm sure you'd agree 12 Angry Men isn't the 6th best movie of all time. As far as completely arbitrary lists go I have no problem with its placement.
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Dec 20, 2012 03:03
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Thanks for the answers - the reasons you gave make sense. I just thought there might have been some organized online movement to have a more recent movie rated high, rather than always deferring to movies considered classic, a kill your idols movement, so to speak.
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Dec 20, 2012 03:21
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I'm not sure I'd really call an 18 year old movie "recent."
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Dec 20, 2012 03:42
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muscles like this? posted:I'm not sure I'd really call an 18 year old movie "recent." Culturally it is, though. It's on film stock that doesn't look "wrong" to modern eyes like the '60s stuff, the acting and editing styles are still contemporary and popular, the actors are still working and relevant, and so on. There's no real distance between its cinematic style and that of today. e - oh and it's a period piece so the clothes look intentional and inconspicuous, unlike a lot of early 90s stuff which is dated by its fashion. penismightier fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Dec 20, 2012 |
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Dec 20, 2012 03:59
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Looking at it closer, it has a very high percentage of 10 votes: 58.2%. Of the top 10 movies, only Godfather is also above 50%. So I guess my "least hated" theory is wrong. A lot of people just think it's perfect I guess.
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Dec 20, 2012 04:13
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penismightier posted:Shawshank is really pretty, well-acted, and elegant while aso being relatively new, always on TV, in color and not particularly challenging. Plus it stars a really famous semi-cult actor (Freeman) and it's somehow still under-discussed enough that people feel defensive about their love for it. I think TBS showing it non-stop was a major factor. The last time I had cable was when I was in a dorm and it was perfect for rainy Saturday afternoons and lazy Sundays when you have a mild hangover. Do they still show it non-stop?
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Dec 20, 2012 04:16
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Schweinhund posted:Looking at it closer, it has a very high percentage of 10 votes: 58.2%. Of the top 10 movies, only Godfather is also above 50%. So I guess my "least hated" theory is wrong. A lot of people just think it's perfect I guess. Well, there's also the rule about online ratings where 99% of people wouldn't notice if you took away every button but the "10" and "1" ranking.
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Dec 20, 2012 04:17
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Zogo posted:
Just copy the list to a word document and put the date at the top. Finish that list completely, and once it's been 6 months or a year from whatever day you copied it check the new list. I think the IMDB top 250 is an interesting cultural document. My top ten movies wouldn't resemble there's, but that's to be expected of an aggregate. There's a shocking amount of depth despite the more modern bias it has, the oldest movie on the list is from 1922 (Nosferatu) and they have movies from every subsequent decade. I keep meaning to work my way through it, but I haven't seen Godfather 2 (I know) and I never seem to be in the mood for it, maybe I should try working from the bottom up.
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