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This isn't a direct movie question but does anyone remember some guy dying in the last decade who had been dubbed "the man who'd watched the most movies?" I remember reading an article saying he watched at least two movies a night for decades and had seen ~20K to 30K. No matter what I put into Google I get either "lists of movies for real men" or movies about dead people etc.
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Zogo posted:This isn't a direct movie question but does anyone remember some guy dying in the last decade who had been dubbed "the man who'd watched the most movies?" I remember reading an article saying he watched at least two movies a night for decades and had seen ~20K to 30K. Is it Brad Bourland? There's an article about him here. Also, be sure to do a surprisingly hard Sporcle quiz based on his lists here..
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Feb 13, 2014 01:44
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Is it Brad Bourland? There's an article about him here. Also, be sure to do a surprisingly hard Sporcle quiz based on his lists here.. Looks like his website, themovielistonline.com , is down + for sale 
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Feb 13, 2014 01:55
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Turtlicious posted:Crossposting from Stupid/Small Questions" I don't care enough to dig deep into this but the idea of someone liking Avatar for being well written really rubs me the wrong way. Seeing as how most of the others films listed have been defended I'll stand up for the first Austin Powers. It's crass, yes, but I enjoy the "Rip Van Winkle as a 60's super spy" angle. I like the culture clash that goes on as a way to look at how strange the past has been while picking out parts of it that are helpful and shouldn't be left behind. The character of a 60's movie spy has no real place in the modern world but some of the things he represented are still worth standing up for. It's also a little mind-boggling how a movie with a woman named Alotta Fagina still somehow has more character nuance than almost every James Bond film made to that point. Then the sequels came in and sucked it up pretty bad and maybe made people forget how solid the first film was.
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Feb 13, 2014 02:43
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The scene in Austin Powers where they kill a random henchman and it cuts to his wife and children finding out about his death is hilarious.bobkatt013 posted:Third Man is a good one to watch, but I will always suggest Third Man. Kiss of Death Touch of Evil Double Indemnity Big Combo The Killing Kiss Me Deadly
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Feb 13, 2014 04:41
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Is it Brad Bourland? There's an article about him here. Also, be sure to do a surprisingly hard Sporcle quiz based on his lists here.. It's possible but I was pretty confident the article I'd read was mostly an obituary or a memorial to someone who'd seen 20,000+ movies.
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Feb 13, 2014 05:24
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Lately I've been thinking of actors playing against type or playing very odd roles (the kind of movie that they generally don't play if they're an actor/actress who is somewhat typecast), can anybody think of a few out of the norm I might have missed? Preferably not bit-parts, but otherwise anything is good.
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Feb 13, 2014 07:52
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FreudianSlippers posted:The scene in Austin Powers where they kill a random henchman and it cuts to his wife and children finding out about his death is hilarious. I don't remember that at all and I've seen AP1 and 2 a ton. Sounds funny though. Re: turtle, just keep asking yourself "why" a lot to figure out why certain movies are the way they are.
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Feb 13, 2014 08:47
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PTizzle posted:Lately I've been thinking of actors playing against type or playing very odd roles (the kind of movie that they generally don't play if they're an actor/actress who is somewhat typecast), can anybody think of a few out of the norm I might have missed? Preferably not bit-parts, but otherwise anything is good. Pierce Brosnan in The Matador. Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Behind the Candelabra. Plenty others I'm sure.
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Feb 13, 2014 09:09
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What is the significance of a director using his own hands in scenes where a woman is being strangled? Hitchcock did it, Argento did it, Tarantino did it.
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Feb 13, 2014 09:31
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Steve Yun posted:What is the significance of a director using his own hands in scenes where a woman is being strangled? Hitchcock did it, Argento did it, Tarantino did it. Good question. The director admitting that making films is a way of expressing otherwise forbidden fantasies of violence, particularly sexual (as it's always a woman)?
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Feb 13, 2014 10:23
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PTizzle posted:Lately I've been thinking of actors playing against type or playing very odd roles (the kind of movie that they generally don't play if they're an actor/actress who is somewhat typecast), can anybody think of a few out of the norm I might have missed? Preferably not bit-parts, but otherwise anything is good. Robin Williams plays against type in One Hour Photo and Insomnia. Hugo Weaving's role in Priscilla Queen of the Desert is also out of type in hindsight. It's actually pretty funny how drastically his career changed after The Matrix.
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Feb 13, 2014 11:40
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PTizzle posted:Lately I've been thinking of actors playing against type or playing very odd roles (the kind of movie that they generally don't play if they're an actor/actress who is somewhat typecast), can anybody think of a few out of the norm I might have missed? Preferably not bit-parts, but otherwise anything is good. Robert De Niro in The King of Comedy (or, really, anything from the 70s aside from Godfather II. It wasn't until later in his career that he became the default mob / tough guy casting) I suppose you could say almost the same thing about Gene Hackman - The Conversation Marlon Brando - Don Juan Demarco (don't watch this) Charlize Theron - Monster Henry Fonda - Once Upon a Time in the West Mad Dog and Glory has a double reversal Possibly helpful: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/PlayingAgainstType/FilmActing regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Feb 13, 2014 |
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Feb 13, 2014 11:50
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Fruits of the sea posted:Hugo Weaving's role in Priscilla Queen of the Desert is also out of type in hindsight. It's actually pretty funny how drastically his career changed after The Matrix. The same could be said of Tom Hanks and Leslie Nielsen. The films we know them for nowadays are very different from the films they made at the start of their respective careers. If I recall correctly, Elijah Wood also appeared in Sin City partly because he didn't want people to forever associate him with his role in The Lord of the Rings. The same goes for Daniel Radcliffe appearing in the stage play Equus.
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Feb 13, 2014 12:24
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Samuel Clemens posted:The same could be said of Tom Hanks and Leslie Nielsen. The films we know them for nowadays are very different from the films they made at the start of their respective careers. If I recall correctly, Elijah Wood also appeared in Sin City partly because he didn't want people to forever associate him with his role in The Lord of the Rings. The same goes for Daniel Radcliffe appearing in the stage play Equus. Wood also played a creepy villain in Eternal Sunshine alongside a morose Jim Carrey.
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Feb 13, 2014 13:22
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I know you requested no bit parts, but this one is too good to pass up: Tim "Tool Time" Allen plays a crooked millionaire businessman in Redbelt 
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Feb 13, 2014 13:53
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Steve Yun posted:What is the significance of a director using his own hands in scenes where a woman is being strangled? Hitchcock did it, Argento did it, Tarantino did it. At least for Inglorious, Tarantino discusses how he wanted the choking to basically be real, not the kind of Hollywood choking we're used to. But that sort of thing requires a ton of trust, and at that point, Diane Kruger had been working with Tarantino for months, whereas she only has a few scenes with Waltz in the movie. Long story short, it's because there was more trust built up between director and actor in that scene than between actor and actor.
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Feb 13, 2014 14:29
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Steve Yun posted:What is the significance of a director using his own hands in scenes where a woman is being strangled? Hitchcock did it, Argento did it, Tarantino did it. I don't know about Argento, but Hitchcock and Tarantino are/were huge creepy perverts.
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Feb 13, 2014 16:18
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I don't know about Argento, but Hitchcock and Tarantino are/were huge creepy perverts. I love Argento but you can pretty much file him under creepy pervert as well.
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Feb 13, 2014 16:22
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Argento made a whole film where his own eighteen year old daughter is raped repeatedly, so his hands being in the frame as a woman is choked to death is mild in comparison.
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Feb 13, 2014 16:34
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Trivia for the movie The Pit:quote:The director's wife refused to let him shoot the nude scenes, so the screenwriter shot them instead. The only shot involving nudity that the director was allowed to film was the "skinny dipping" scene and only because the actress was his daughter.
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Feb 13, 2014 16:58
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If I have the $7.50 amazon movie ticket from purchasing Robocop and the theater I am looking at going to says 'No Passes', does that mean I can't use my coupon?
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Feb 13, 2014 18:13
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foodfight posted:If I have the $7.50 amazon movie ticket from purchasing Robocop and the theater I am looking at going to says 'No Passes', does that mean I can't use my coupon?
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Feb 13, 2014 18:26
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foodfight posted:If I have the $7.50 amazon movie ticket from purchasing Robocop and the theater I am looking at going to says 'No Passes', does that mean I can't use my coupon? In my experience you can use those coupons at any time, since you are still buying a ticket, just with a discount. The "no passes" thing is for free movie tickets that people get somehow, I think.
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Feb 13, 2014 19:37
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effectual posted:I don't remember that at all and I've seen AP1 and 2 a ton. Sounds funny though. The henchman getting run over is in the regular cut but I believe the "family finding out" part is only in deleted scenes.
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Feb 13, 2014 22:29
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Monkeyseesaw posted:The henchman getting run over is in the regular cut but I believe the "family finding out" part is only in deleted scenes. I've seen that film often enough to think you're wrong.
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Feb 13, 2014 23:55
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therattle posted:I've seen that film often enough to think you're wrong. Nah he's right.
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Feb 13, 2014 23:57
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Nah he's right. Mein gott... That makes me worry about how many times I've watched the deleted scenes alone...
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Feb 14, 2014 00:09
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Yeah, the family thing is a deleted scene. Source: my dad has Austin Powers on repeat. Repeat. Constant, y'all.
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Feb 14, 2014 00:10
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I only knew it for certain because I too have seen Austin Powers a million times, but I've never watched the deleted scenes. So I've never seen the family bit you guys are talking about.
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Feb 14, 2014 00:12
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Maybe you guys get a different cut over there but the dead henchman joke isn't just in the main film it's also repeated 3 or 4 times. AP1 & 2 are pretty good and any one who disagrees is just silly...
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Feb 14, 2014 00:44
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I remember being 9 years old and getting dropped off at the theater, my mom suggested Austin powers cause it was "some spy movie". I went and saw it alone and thought it was possibly the best movie ever made.
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Feb 14, 2014 02:42
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midnightclimax posted:I hope that quote shows up one day on a special editions collector's box of Casablanca. That could make a good Photoshop thread. Make a movie poster and slap on some quotes from CineD.
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Feb 14, 2014 03:05
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Mike Jittlov at some point in his life worked as an animator. He is best known for a short called The Wizard of Speed and Time, which I admit I have a soft spot for because of it's sheer exuberance. On YouTube, people insist that this Jittlov fellow is a genius of special effects, but when I look at his IMDb record, he has hardly done anything. What does he do for a living these days?
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Feb 14, 2014 21:32
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Baron Bifford posted:Mike Jittlov at some point in his life worked as an animator. He is best known for a short called The Wizard of Speed and Time, which I admit I have a soft spot for because of it's sheer exuberance. On YouTube, people insist that this Jittlov fellow is a genius of special effects, but when I look at his IMDb record, he has hardly done anything. What does he do for a living these days? Looks interesting, thanks. Also from imdb: quote:Lives with his mother after her severe stroke left her unable to live alone. [June 2007]
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Feb 14, 2014 22:16
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syscall girl posted:Wood also played a creepy villain in Eternal Sunshine alongside a morose Jim Carrey. He's pretty good in that Maniac remake, too.
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Feb 16, 2014 19:37
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PTizzle posted:Lately I've been thinking of actors playing against type or playing very odd roles (the kind of movie that they generally don't play if they're an actor/actress who is somewhat typecast), can anybody think of a few out of the norm I might have missed? Preferably not bit-parts, but otherwise anything is good. It's probably not quite what you're looking for but I've always found John C. Reilly's career somewhat strange. I first knew who he was from a serious role in Chicago and ever since then I've only seen him in things like Stepbrothers or Walk Hard.
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Feb 17, 2014 17:14
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KasioDiscoRock posted:It's probably not quite what you're looking for but I've always found John C. Reilly's career somewhat strange. I first knew who he was from a serious role in Chicago and ever since then I've only seen him in things like Stepbrothers or Walk Hard. He still does a lot of small flicks. Check out Netflix and you'll see him in all sorts of Indy comedies.
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Feb 17, 2014 18:49
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CopywrightMMXI posted:He still does a lot of small flicks. Check out Netflix and you'll see him in all sorts of Indy comedies. And stuff like We need to talk about Kevin.
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And if you're willing to call Chicago a serious role, then he had something similar in Scorsese's Gangs of New York and The Aviator.
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