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Martytoof posted:A dumb question, but I'm watching Into Darkness for the first time and either there's something really wrong with my TV or they made Kirk's lips super pink, bordering on purple. Is it just my TV? I can't seem to adjust it away. edit: Though I dont know how you wouldnt have seen it before :bigtran:
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Is Say Anything... (1989) the oldest movie to feature a cell phone?
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Is Say Anything... (1989) the oldest movie to feature a cell phone? I assume we're disqualifying car phones? Wall Street (87) for sure at least has one cell phone.
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Dec 26, 2014 15:21
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muscles like this? posted:I liked the subplot of the entire world falling apart and Caiden doesn't notice because he's so far up his own rear end about his play. That's a symbol of his decaying mental state not a subplot.
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Dec 26, 2014 15:54
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I assume we're disqualifying car phones? Wall Street (87) for sure at least has one cell phone. Earlier in the same year, Lethal Weapon had Danny Glover using a bag phone.
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Dec 26, 2014 16:02
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James Bond uses a car phone in...Goldfinger, I think, but I don't know if that counts since they weren't actually around then.
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Dec 26, 2014 16:23
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Rochallor posted:James Bond uses a car phone in...Goldfinger, I think, but I don't know if that counts since they weren't actually around then. In 1954, the Bogart movie, Sabrina, shows Bogie using a car phone, but those were radio-based I believe.
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Sunset Boulevard shows Norma using a car phone in her car from the late 20s. I know I read that Douglas Fairbanks was one of the first people to have a car phone IRL, but I have no idea where I saw that at.
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Yeah I gotta think car phones don't "count", you could easily go back to the 50's with car phones.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Is Say Anything... (1989) the oldest movie to feature a cell phone? The first commercially available handheld cell phone was in 1984 so you're most likely not going to get older than that.
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Dec 27, 2014 19:46
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I think I remember one of the Jackie Chan films from the 80s featuring a cell phone. Maybe it was Dragons Forever?
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Whoops, wrong thread
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Is/was there a thread for The Imitation Game? Might have been a limited release, it totally flew under my radar and I didn't even know until after I saw it today that it's been out for about a month.
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I just rewatched "The Sweet Smell of Success". I remembered being disappointed by the ending and after seeing it again I realized that it was because I didn't know what the hell is going on in the final scene or why. I still don't think I get it, so someone please explain it to me. At the end of the film, Falco has successfully framed the boyfriend of Hunsecker's sister. He does this presumably in exchange for Hunsecker allowing him to take over a column while he's away on vacation. Afterward, Falco is summoned to Hunsecker's apartment via a phone message, which he believes has been left by Hunsecker himself. When Falco gets there, the sister is alone and in despair over her boyfriend being arrested and threatens to kill herself and have Falco take the blame, insinuating that she made the phone call. She then tries to jump from the balcony but Falco stops her. Hunsecker shows up and slaps Falco around, accusing Falco of trying to put the moves on his sister. He says he didn't leave him any phone message and that he doesn't believe the suicide story. He then calls his cop buddy and tells him Falco framed the boyfriend, which leads to Falco getting beat up and arrested in the end. Meanwhile, the sister threatens to leave and Hunsecker tries to stop her, telling her she needs a shrink instead because she tried to kill herself. She leaves anyway, roll credits. I've tried to wrap my head around this sequence and it doesn't seem to make sense. If the sister made the phone call, then Hunsecker turning on Falco only makes sense if he really did think Falco was trying to put the moves with his sister. But he then tells his sister that he knows she's tried to kill herself, which backs up Falco's story. So why lose his poo poo on him, especially when he saved her from jumping? Because he didn't want Falco to think he believed him about the suicide attempt (hence why he only admitted it to his sister once Falco left) it makes me think Hunsecker's whole outrage bit was just a charade for Falco. If that is the case, then it was his plan to set up Falco before he even entered the apartment, and maybe even Hunsecker did make the phone call, but why? Falco did everything asked of him, and it was clear Hunsecker hates the boyfriend, so why let him off the hook just to burn Falco? That last bit only makes sense if he really was spontaneously outraged at Falco and didn't believe the suicide story. The only possible explanation that makes sense to me is that Hunsecker wanted Falco out of the picture so that he wouldn't have to give him a column and the whole outrage bit was the pretense he needed. He made the call, knowing his sister was home and suicidal, and set the whole thing up. The movie doesn't fully support this, because the sister heavily implies that she made the call and Falco believes it because after everything goes to poo poo, he says "you're growing up fast, kid" to her. But even if Hunsecker set it up, it still doesn't seem very plausible that someone as powerful as him would have to do some complex setup just to brush off a gnat like Falco. He could just tell him to gently caress off and die and that would be that. That's a mouthful. Someone help me out here.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Finally got around to watching Synecdoche, New York. The only thing about Synecdoche, NY that I could stand was the basic Magical Realism-ness of the movie world. I dig the idea of the house that's always burning down or the warehouse in NY that houses all of NY inside of it (including another warehouse that features all of NY within that). Tom Noonan was also pretty cool to see. I just really loving hated the rest of the movie and everything about it.
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Origami Dali posted:I just rewatched "The Sweet Smell of Success". I remembered being disappointed by the ending and after seeing it again I realized that it was because I didn't know what the hell is going on in the final scene or why. I still don't think I get it, so someone please explain it to me. The ending is weak, as it's Hayes Code tradition so everything always feels rushed and neat by the end of these films. It's been awhile since I watched it, but Susie sets it all up so she can get revenge on her brother and Sydney. She makes the phone call, and arranges a situation so Sydney ends up in a compromising position in view of her brother. They end up turning on each other then, Sydney in desperation bites the hand that feeds him by telling the truth, and Hunsecker by devolving into pettiness by having Sydney fired, beaten, and kicked out. His sweet talk and concern about his sister mind no longer works as she has seen the real Hunsecker, and ends up leaving him.
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How is Michael Manns later stuff? I really enjoy his earlier work (cinematography and score in particular).
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Yaws posted:How is Michael Manns later stuff? I really enjoy his earlier work (cinematography and score in particular). Collateral's really good if that counts.
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Yaws posted:How is Michael Manns later stuff? I really enjoy his earlier work (cinematography and score in particular). As a whole Miami Vice doesn't really work, but the cinematography is pretty baller and the score fits the film..
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Miami Vice loving rules. http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/feature-articles/miami-vice/
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Criminal Minded posted:Miami Vice loving rules. I like Michael Mann, but any piece of writing that refers to him as "the greatest contemporary American filmmaker" is obviously being a bit hyperbolic in it's praises.
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Skwirl posted:I like Michael Mann, but any piece of writing that refers to him as "the greatest contemporary American filmmaker" is obviously being a bit hyperbolic in it's praises. Paging Kull the Conqueror.
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Skwirl posted:As a whole Miami Vice doesn't really work, but the cinematography is pretty baller and the score fits the film.. I saw Miami Vice in theaters, and I don't know about the flaws, I'm sure there were plenty, but it's a very engrossing film that is visually striking. It's also super nihilistic, if I remember. I really should watch it again...
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It takes itself so seriously that I actually forgot that the television show was also created by Michael Mann.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It takes itself so seriously that I actually forgot that the television show was also created by Michael Mann. Well, he was an executive producer...
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It takes itself so seriously that I actually forgot that the television show was also created by Michael Mann. The first two seasons are surprisingly more serious than people would think. It's still through the filter of MTV Cops, but there's a lot going on there that doesn't end happily for anyone. I think even in the pilot the bad guy gets away.
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The good episodes of Miami Vice the series are right up there with Thief and Heat.
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penismightier posted:The good episodes of Miami Vice the series are right up there with Thief and Heat. i feel like Thief is way, way better than Heat but what are some of these episodes?
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penismightier posted:The good episodes of Miami Vice the series are right up there with Thief and Heat. I'd be interested in these episodes as well. I just watched Thief and thought it was stellar.
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muscles like this? posted:Does that count as a "theatrical showing" though? It's not like the box office is going up every time its shown. Why wouldn't it count? They are selling tickets to show the film in a theatre
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i feel like Thief is way, way better than Heat but what are some of these episodes? No Exit, One Eyed Jack, Give a Little Take a Little, Rites of Passage The first on that list guest stars Bruce Willis, and the last has Pam Grier. I haven't seen the later seasons, but apparently one episode has Liam Neeson as a former IRA soldier and another has Willie Nelson as a Texas Ranger.
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Skwirl posted:No Exit, One Eyed Jack, Give a Little Take a Little, Rites of Passage I think you can pick a lot of Season 1 and 2 and it'll fit the bill. Later on the show became a bit of a joke, but those first 2 are pretty stellar. Though, the real goods are in Crime Story. Mann was a lot more heavily involved in that one and it shows.
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Public Enemies has one really neat scene (the cabin raid) but is sadly kind of forgettable otherwise.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i feel like Thief is way, way better than Heat but what are some of these episodes? Y Kant Ozma Diet posted:I'd be interested in these episodes as well. I just watched Thief and thought it was stellar. The pilot, Smuggler's Blues, and Bushido spring to mind.
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My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done.
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Look at him. He looks cool.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Look at him. He looks cool. he does look cool, doesn't he?
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CzarChasm posted:My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done. Jet pack.
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He was the coolest toy, too. If not for the toy, I wouldn't have known him.
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CzarChasm posted:My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done. He looks awesome. He has a great design and cool gadgets.
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