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ufarn posted:I would rather you unironically support Mitt Romney for president than Gravity as a good movie. Oooh, aren't you edgy! Gravity was a good movie. I didn't even think the dialogue was bad.
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goons are completely ridiculous when it comes to movies. Try not to sweat it.
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euphronius posted:goons are completely ridiculous when it comes to movies. Try not to sweat it. Yeah don't read CD ever.
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I read the greenlighted thread and the posters thread, even though the posters thread is full of some of the worst crit I've ever seen.
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I can only imagine what it must be like in the Nolan threads. I hope people at least don't consider Lindelof and JJA good at their jobs anymore, but this is the country that re-elected Bush, so who knows ...
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ufarn posted:
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zoux posted:I read the greenlighted thread and the posters thread, even though the posters thread is full of some of the worst crit I've ever seen. Is the posters thread where they slobber over fan made/redone posters that all look the same and praise them for their unique artistic look? edit: to be more specific- someone redoes the poster art of new or older movie to ape the style of other classic movie poster, and they do nothing in that thread but say "wow that is so awesome and unique, I like it! I can't wait to spend a bunch of money of a copy of that! Why aren't more movie posters like this?" Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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ufarn posted:I would rather you unironically support Mitt Romney for president than Gravity as a good movie. Gravity was a great movie if all you wanted was hard scifi disaster porn.
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David Lynch movies are good. Brian Depalma movies are good. Kubrick, Tarantino, Herzog, the Coens, Tsui Hark, Stuart Gordon, Boorman, Jodorowsky. Look at me, still clinging to auteur theory. Also, Crank: High Voltage. moller fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Aug 1, 2014 |
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moller posted:David Lynch movies are good. Brian Depalma movies are good. Kubrick, Tarantino, Herzog, the Coens, Tsui Hark, Stuart Gordon, Boorman, Jodorowsky. Since you forgot Kurosawa on that list, I have to say your auteur theory looks more like an amateur theory to me. 
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Big Trouble In Little China is a good movie. Not a great movie, but a good movie.
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facebook being down today prevented me from spending valuable time explaining to a bunch of white ancaps how telling black folks to talk more white is racist and that saying AAVE is a valid way of speaking is not racist
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i probably dont actually want to know the answer to this question, but how is it racist, in their reckoning, to say that AAVE is valid
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Majorian posted:Since you forgot Kurosawa on that list, I have to say your auteur theory looks more like an amateur theory to me. I've actually only seen Dreams and Hidden Fortress. I should work on correcting this oversight. They were both fine films, though. I was listing directors who I've seen most of the output of, I guess, and trying to mix lowbrow and highbrow.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:pretty antithetical to the metal ethos to give a gently caress what other people at a metal show think i was like 19 man
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Popular Thug Drink posted:Gravity was a great movie if all you wanted was hard scifi disaster porn.
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moller posted:I've actually only seen Dreams and Hidden Fortress. I should work on correcting this oversight. They were both fine films, though. I was listing directors who I've seen most of the output of, I guess, and trying to mix lowbrow and highbrow. There are a couple of his movies that were either remade, or outright plagiarized: The Magnificent Seven is a remake of The Seven Samurai, and A Fistful of Dollars is almost identical to Yojimbo except the "Mexicans" are all played by Italians in orange pancake makeup. If you haven't seen any of them, the Kurosawa films are preferable, but otherwise don't worry too much about watching both versions. Supposedly, The Hidden Fortress served as an inspiration for Star Wars, but that seemed kind of farfetched. At least, it wasn't to the same degree that The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo played to their respective remakes. Kurosawa also did a couple adaptations of Shakespeare, in Ran (King Lear), and in Throne of Blood (Macbeth). These are both really good and you should watch them.
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zoux posted:Yeah don't read CD ever. The Netflix thread isn't bad.
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Hedera Helix posted:There are a couple of his movies that were either remade, or outright plagiarized: The Magnificent Seven is a remake of The Seven Samurai, and A Fistful of Dollars is almost identical to Yojimbo except the "Mexicans" are all played by Italians in orange pancake makeup. If you haven't seen any of them, the Kurosawa films are preferable, but otherwise don't worry too much about watching both versions. Supposedly, The Hidden Fortress served as an inspiration for Star Wars, but that seemed kind of farfetched. At least, it wasn't to the same degree that The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo played to their respective remakes. No love for Kagemusha?
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Absurd Alhazred posted:No love for Kagemusha? it wasn't a remake of anything, afaik
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ReindeerF posted:I can't believe I haven't seen The Guard mentioned. Ok, all time, who knows, but in the last 10 years it's one of the greatest movies made - and Calvary is right up there. I can't wait for the third film in the trilogy. I don't think I laughed so hard as I did at The Guard since maybe Oh Brother Where Art Thou or The Big Lebowski. It's amazing. Calvary's a different tone, but still brilliant. The Guard is a good movie, but it is still the output of the lesser McDonagh brother. In Bruges is my favorite film, and Seven Psychopaths is also fantastic. P.S. Four Lions is awesome, thank you for your title. 
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Hedera Helix posted:There are a couple of his movies that were either remade, or outright plagiarized: The Magnificent Seven is a remake of The Seven Samurai, and A Fistful of Dollars is almost identical to Yojimbo except the "Mexicans" are all played by Italians in orange pancake makeup. If you haven't seen any of them, the Kurosawa films are preferable, but otherwise don't worry too much about watching both versions. Supposedly, The Hidden Fortress served as an inspiration for Star Wars, but that seemed kind of farfetched. At least, it wasn't to the same degree that The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo played to their respective remakes. Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis was also Yojimbo. I believe they credited it, though.
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My top five: 1) Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 2) The Rundown 3) They Live 4) Bring It On 5) My Cousin Vinny I'm not saying these are the best movies, just my favorites. Definite honorable mentions to the first two Alien movies, Terminator 2, The Thing, The Whole Nine Yards (way better than it gets credit for), and most of Tarantino's movies.
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Good film: Four Lions
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paranoid randroid posted:i probably dont actually want to know the answer to this question, but how is it racist, in their reckoning, to say that AAVE is valid probably because it's demeaning to hold black people to a lower, lesser standard when they're perfectly capable of speaking proper white people english (  southern lower class rural spoken english is basically AAVE )GWBBQ posted:From everything I've seen about it, if you didn't see it in IMAX there's basically no point in seeing it. yeah it's not exactly subtle or full of delicate cinematography and quiet character moments, it's about watching the ISS get totally owned by a cloud of debris moving at 30k mph so you kind of want to see it on the biggest screen possible
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moller posted:I've actually only seen Dreams and Hidden Fortress. I should work on correcting this oversight. They were both fine films, though. I was listing directors who I've seen most of the output of, I guess, and trying to mix lowbrow and highbrow. Sure, sure, I was just goofin'.  But you really should see some more of his stuff, because it genuinely lives up to the hype, and I say this as someone who was a doubter until a couple years ago. "The Seven Samurai" is one of those films that IMO genuinely deserves to be the most well-known of the filmmaker's, because I think it's his best. "Kagamusha" doesn't get nearly enough love either - that's a great one, if you love historical epics. Also "Throne of Blood," his Macbeth adaptation.
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My favorite movie is The Core.
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Joementum posted:My favorite movie is The Core. You say that about every Aaron Eckhart movie.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:probably because it's demeaning to hold black people to a lower, lesser standard when they're perfectly capable of speaking proper white people english exactly this almost verbatim also you're encouraging divisiveness because recognizing racism is racism and if everyone would just act the same(ie white) then racism would go away and *long wet farting sound*
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Majorian posted:You say that about every Aaron Eckhart movie. Olympus Has Fallen was the better of the two movies about blowing up the White House that year, but there is no excusing Battle: Los Angeles. That one was just bad. And from looking at his IMDB I see that they are making an Olympus Has Fallen sequel titled London Has Fallen 
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Joementum posted:My favorite movie is The Core. To be fair, without The Core, we wouldn't have Die, Hippies, Die. Majorian posted:You say that about every Aaron Eckhart movie.
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AAVE makes perfect linguistic sense though and i've found that when i'm traveling far from home and i'm getting toasty i tend to slip into verb conjugations (i'm a have another drink, i been drinkin, naw naw he my friend, he with me)
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Geokinesis posted:Good film: Rubber dinghy rapids, bro.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:AAVE makes perfect linguistic sense though and i've found that when i'm traveling far from home and i'm getting toasty i tend to slip into verb conjugations (i'm a have another drink, i been drinkin) shocking reveal: dudes don't actually know anything about linguistics and came up with a conclusion (AAVE is a broken form of speach descending from lack of education of slaves and simply furthers oppression) and then proceeded to restate it until it became The Truth the whole "talking about racism just furthers the divide and plays into the hands of The Man is a depressingly common thing you see in white males who are vaguely connected with leftist groups(the "arnarcho" in anarchocapitalism makes them think they're counterculture).
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Thanatosian posted:Oh my god, how could I have forgotten about Thank You for Smoking! That movie is loving awesome! That really is a good one, and I point people to it whenever I hear them say Eckhart's a bad actor, because he's definitely not. He just has been in really horrific movies for the past...six years, I guess?
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That movie is the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit's favorite film for some reason. He should probably recuse himself from any tobacco cases because of that
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Majorian posted:That really is a good one, and I point people to it whenever I hear them say Eckhart's a bad actor, because he's definitely not. He just has been in really horrific movies for the past...six years, I guess? Yeah. He's been on a bad run. A really bad run. But, I mean, it's not like other great actors haven't made bad movies. Morgan Freeman has been in some terrible poo poo (like, say, Olympus has Fallen); the Acadamy-Award-Winning Sir Ben Kingsley was in Bloodrayne and The Love Guru; sometimes, dudes just gotta eat.
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Jagchosis posted:That movie is the Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit's favorite film for some reason. He should probably recuse himself from any tobacco cases because of that Have you ever watched the movie? It's not really about smoking. And it is totally unsurprising that a judge would enjoy that movie.
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