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I finally got around to watching Into The Wild last night. I've caught a few scenes of it before on TV, but never put the time in to watch it all. The cinematography as well as his views of life where absolutely stunning. It's been out almost six years now and I cant believe it took my this long to get to it, definitely worth watching.
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Zwabu posted:If you want to watch a movie that is visually pretty and full of style, action and music but has very little in the way of substance otherwise, watch "Streets of Fire". It's basically a very stylish comic book set to film. Bunraku kinds works in this way, but with more influence from pop-up books. There were a heck of a lot of things that could have been done better with the story, but it's neat to watch and see what they do with the presentation.
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"Streets of Fire" is amazing, if only for the climactic sledgehammer duel. Yes. Sledgehammer duel. It has that weird, '80s obsession with the '50s going for it, as well. Everyone has a duck's-rear end haircut and pleated pants.
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axleblaze posted:I disagree on a few levels. On a basic plot level Tommy needs to be defeated to truly let go of the past. He's spent his whole life just fighting his past and he needs to be shown that that won't work. If Tommy had won, he would have taken the money and never looked back. Brenden needs to win. There's also no way Brendan won't help Tommy with his problems while Tommy wouldn't care if Brenden lost his house. I just can't support Brenden's goal. He's fighting to save his bourgie little American dream life while Tommy is there to provide for a fallen comrade's family. Which cause is more just, a mortgage or a widowed wife and child? And you have to respect Tommy for staying with their mom while she died of cancer while Brenden left to marry his sweetheart.
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Jay Dub posted:If you've ever wanted to watch a bafflingly terrible Russian sci-fi movie about how advertising demons are taking over the earth, Branded just might be for you. Everyone should see this movie not because it's important or smart, but because it's one of the most insanely ridiculous and self-righteous bad movies ever made. The whole film is about a dude who goes crazy after bathing in cow blood and starts seeing advertisements as giant Pokemon. So he fights back against fast food chains by creating a vegetarian campaign that spawns his own dragon Pokemon to fight the other ad Pokemon. And if all that wasn't crazy enough, the film is narrated by a talking cow in the stars. It's just begging for a Rifftrax.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:More kung fu mini-reviews: I've been holding off on Tai Chi Zero cause it looked iffy, I'll give it a watch.
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:"Streets of Fire" is amazing, if only for the climactic sledgehammer duel. Yes. Sledgehammer duel. It has that weird, '80s obsession with the '50s going for it, as well. Everyone has a duck's-rear end haircut and pleated pants. It's quite the strange concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJGo2rvfSuA
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FrostedButts posted:Everyone should see this movie not because it's important or smart, but because it's one of the most insanely ridiculous and self-righteous bad movies ever made. Also one of the symptoms of society's decline is that there are fat people on TV and people aren't totally disgusted.
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Ammanas posted:I just can't support Brenden's goal. He's fighting to save his bourgie little American dream life while Tommy is there to provide for a fallen comrade's family. Which cause is more just, a mortgage or a widowed wife and child? I think dismissing "losing your home and having to move your family because your daughter was sick" as bourgie is a little cold. Tommy's goals are probably more noble but the movie doesn't really make it about who deserves it more. As I said if Tommy won, none of his problems would have really gone away and he wouldn't really have grown at all as a person. the movie makes it so losing there is the only way he can really move forward. The widow gets money if Tommy wins, but that's the only problem in the movie that gets resolved through that Regarding the second point, Tommy left, not Brenden, when they left his mom wasn't dying and Brenden didn't even know she was dying until she was dead. He was a kid and was given an instant decision of throwing away his life to help his mother. It's not a scenario that has an easy "he did the right/wrong thing answer".
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etalian posted:It's quite the strange concept: Haha that's awesome. I need to see more 80's action movies with cheesy bands. Miami Connection delivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVtyOwcQo-w Buckaroo Banzai of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbBMzGUlIRw Purple Rain, not really action but too awesome not to consider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVDdm-bpKY What else is there? 
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PlisskensEyePatch posted:"Streets of Fire" is amazing, if only for the climactic sledgehammer duel. Yes. Sledgehammer duel. It has that weird, '80s obsession with the '50s going for it, as well. Everyone has a duck's-rear end haircut and pleated pants. Yeah I hope some people will see it based on recs here. I saw it on the big screen as a kid and that's the best place for it, it's a big entertaining spectacle. "Streets of Fire" also features Diane Lane right in the wheelhouse of her being the Hollywood "It" girl, in the same couple years as "Outsiders" and "Rumble Fish" and "Cotton Club". So it's worth it for that alone, as well as Willem Dafoe being a hammer wielding, motorcycle riding villain, and awesome looking 50s cars and sharp musical numbers. I'm biased because of nostalgia factors, but I just saw it again this weekend and it's pretty drat entertaining, you could do a lot better watching this than a lot of dreck that gets discussed in this thread. Again not deep, but very memorable visually, and entertaining.
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Netflix recommended Bloodfist to me for liking Miami Connection. God drat they were right on the money.
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Miami Connection may be the perfect movie.
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Samfucius posted:Miami Connection may be the perfect movie. So you're against the ninja? I only wish I managed to catch it when it was out in theatres last year.
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Khorne Flakes posted:I finally got around to watching Into The Wild last night. I've caught a few scenes of it before on TV, but never put the time in to watch it all. The cinematography as well as his views of life where absolutely stunning. It's been out almost six years now and I cant believe it took my this long to get to it, definitely worth watching. If you enjoyed his life views then you really need to read the book, I caught the movie first and was uninterested and Alex came off as pretentious, I was surprised when I went back and checked and the Actor wasn't James Franco. The book I couldn't put down though.
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I'm sure it's been mentioned, but Escape From LA is up. Even one of the worst Kurt Russell movies is still a Kurt Russell movie. IIRC there's surfing on lava and a slam dunk competition to the death, not to mention a John Carpenter soundtrack.
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Tsunami surfing! Also: Pam Grier!
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:So you're against the ninja? I drove two hours for a midnight showing, one of the best times I've had in a theater. Everyone in the room was crying from laughter, it was beautiful.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:I'm sure it's been mentioned, but Escape From LA is up. Even one of the worst Kurt Russell movies is still a Kurt Russell movie. More like surfing on water and a shooting competition to the death, but still legit nonetheless.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:I'm sure it's been mentioned, but Escape From LA is up. Even one of the worst Kurt Russell movies is still a Kurt Russell movie. I remember the soundtrack was excellent when it came out. Orange 9mm, Civ, Sugar Ray before they turned into some weird Jimmy Buffet band...
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Escape from LA may be no Escape from New York but it does have this scene in it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue8TvvYik74 And it's still a lot better than its modern knock off, Lockout.
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:IIRC there's surfing on lava and a slam dunk competition to the death, not to mention a John Carpenter soundtrack. Don't rewatch it. Keep that memory alive.
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I like to watch both Escape movies and see which things are actually coming true. Those horribly disfigured plastic-surgery addicts from Escape from LA came true in a big way.
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Mrens posted:If you enjoyed his life views then you really need to read the book, I caught the movie first and was uninterested and Alex came off as pretentious, I was surprised when I went back and checked and the Actor wasn't James Franco. The book is great because Jon Krakauer is alternately admiring and admonishing of him. On the one hand you get "Isn't this awesome? He's living the dream" and on the other it's "How could you be so loving stupid". It's also interesting that McCandless mentioned how close he and his sister was etc and then when she's interviewed she's basically "I dunno, we didn't talk for years".
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I like to watch both Escape movies and see which things are actually coming true. Plus the hilarious conservative parody of them finally getting their dream of being able to exile whores, gays and other desirables to a lockdown island.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Don't rewatch it. Keep that memory alive. I rewatched it earlier today. I definitely like New York better: darker tone, better synth, crazier cast. The sequel is fun in it's own right though. It approaches the peak campiness of 90s action. I remembered it correctly as one of my least favorite Kurt Russell movies, being only slightly better than Captain Ron.
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I watched Knuckleball! this afternoon and it was pretty decent. Kind of similar to the 30 for 30 series. It follows Tim Wakefield and R.A. Dickey through the 2011 baseball season and shows them as sort of the last of a dying breed of knuckleball pitchers. My only complaint is that it was released before Dickey won the Cy Young and probably saved the knuckleball.
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The Vice documentary about Snoop Lion (nee Dogg) Reincarnated recently got added and I've been meaning to check it out. It was really well put together and had some real heart, and ended up being more emotionally powerful than I expected it to. Definitely recommend.
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axleblaze posted:The only thing that really bothers me in Warrior (and this might seem silly), is that Brendan's wife shows up to support him. She's really right in the movie at pretty much every point and when she gives him that speech before he leaves it really feels like him doing this is hurting her but that's just kind of forgotten because he's winning so all that subtext and all that emotional stuff just gets thrown out the window so she can support him. It just felt like they took a shortcut there. Seriously, this almost ruined the movie for me. It does so many things right, and then that. It really really pissed me off, the movie goes from presenting the characters as in a relationship to 'Whatever who cares he is winning!" bullshit. I think I would have liked it more if she had just stayed with the students or something. Luckily, the rest of the movie mostly made up for that.
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FrostedButts posted:Everyone should see this movie not because it's important or smart, but because it's one of the most insanely ridiculous and self-righteous bad movies ever made. Branded is one of the most insane, stupid movies I've ever seen that its writer/directors were clearly convinced was brilliant and important. I could feel the  radiating off the film.
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I thought Branded was more goofy than smug.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I thought Branded was more goofy than smug. My feeling was that the creators were making an attempt to spread an important message and stopped one step shy of calling the viewers "sheeple". But it was goofy, too.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I thought Branded was more goofy than smug. It has high amounts of both. It's so darn goofy because it has an awful lot of CGI creatures for a movie about the evils of advertising and so darn smug for the worst written dialogue. The movie actually ends with the Russian government declaring "a ban on all advertisements." The only way this movie could be anymore over-the-top smug and goofy is if they also passed laws banning fast-food, smoking, being a Republican, not driving an electric card and eating too many calories.
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I just saw Super and loved it. I especially liked Crimson Bolt's rant to Kevin Bacon right before stabbing him to death. It's like a better, braver Kick rear end.
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FrostedButts posted:It has high amounts of both. There are places that have a ban on advertising, though. Like, right now. Sao Paulo, Brazil has had it as a law for over 5 years and it's been almost universally praised by everyone who isn't a billionaire or an ad exec. It probably says a lot about how ingrained advertising is in our culture that it's considered one of Are Freedoms 
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quote:hefty half-vampire Blubberella sets her always-ravenous sights on a Nazi leader who's concocting a diabolical plan: to create an army of undead soldiers to help his Führer conquer the globe. How in the hell can you gently caress up a movie with THIS INCREDIBLE a description? One star. I'm heart broken. I can't watch it. But goddamn it sounds awesomely http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Blubberella/70217954?trkid=8264336 Oh my GOD the Trailer looks so awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faASWINSgJY magnificent7 fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jun 20, 2013 |
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magnificent7 posted:How in the hell can you gently caress up a movie with THIS INCREDIBLE a description? If you don't already know the story of the movie's production it's funnier than the actual movie: Uwe Boll was shooting a Bloodrayne sequel set in Nazi Germany, and he re-used the sets and actors to make an almost identical movie only as a comedy with a fat girl as the lead. Then he used those same sets to make a serious movie about Auschwitz.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It probably says a lot about how ingrained advertising is in our culture that it's considered one of Are Freedoms Even coming from Canada, when I got to the US I'm always initially taken aback by the amount of advertising that is plastered absolutely everywhere. We certainly have our fair share of public advertising up here, but the States turns it up to 11 for sure.
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AgentHaiTo posted:I just saw Super and loved it. I especially liked Crimson Bolt's rant to Kevin Bacon right before stabbing him to death. It's like a better, braver Kick rear end. Thanks for the heads-up, I'd been meaning to watch that again. 
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