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K. Waste posted:I didn't care for Key Largo.
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Casimir Radon posted:Apparently the Randy Quaid insanity train just keeps getting worse, no I haven't watched it. The simulated stuff in the Rupert Murdoch one was bad enough. Dickeye stream the sex tapes
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Mar 23, 2015 04:25
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Coaaab posted:Are you informally going through the Bogart catalog right now? I somehow ended up promising my dad that we'd watch all of the Bogart/Bacall films. I don't regret it at all, but it was definitely an even 50/50 split as far as quality and interest. We also saw The Treasure of Sierra Madre along the way, which is insanely good. Basically, my completely impertinent ranking goes: 1) The Big Sleep ('45 cut) 2) Dark Passage 3) The Big Sleep ('46 cut) --- bare minimum threshold of quality --- 4) Key Largo 5) To Have and to Have Not
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Mar 23, 2015 04:36
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K. Waste posted:I somehow ended up promising my dad that we'd watch all of the Bogart/Bacall films. I don't regret it at all, but it was definitely an even 50/50 split as far as quality and interest. We also saw The Treasure of Sierra Madre along the way, which is insanely good. To Have and Have Not is the one where she teaches him to whistle, right? How can you not like that?
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Mar 23, 2015 04:48
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So I'm finally watching The Wire and the delivery of "Unless the report indicates that he is in fact the messiah come again" and "are you the second coming of our savior" is just loving magical. I'm dying laughing.
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Mar 23, 2015 04:54
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GonSmithe posted:So I'm finally watching The Wire and the delivery of "Unless the report indicates that he is in fact the messiah come again" and "are you the second coming of our savior" is just loving magical. I'm dying laughing. It is a good show
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Mar 23, 2015 04:56
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I'm finally starting up getting through The Wire again. Only 8 episodes until I can no longer be one of those people that has not seen The Wire!
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Skwirl posted:To Have and Have Not is the one where she teaches him to whistle, right? How can you not like that? I honestly probably would have liked it a lot better if I hadn't seen Casablanca first. That being said, To Have and to Have Not played for me a lot like a proof of concept for Casablanca. It just felt too dry for me as a thriller. Even Bacall and Bogart's sexual chemistry didn't really rally me into what was going on.
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K. Waste posted:I didn't care for Key Largo. Edward G. is the bomb in it. I don't remember much else.
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Mar 23, 2015 05:11
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Edward G. is the bomb in it. I don't remember much else. Exactly. Like, the film doesn't make any secret that it's not actually about Humphrey Bogart. The problem is that even accepting this it's just a cliche, histrionic condemnation of him instead of an actual exploration. It doesn't even have the vague, populist sympathies of a pre-war Cagney film. Like... the movie even symbolically displaces the slaughter of the Native Americans onto him. Similarly, To Have and to Have Not is absolutely about Bogie and Bacall, but proceeds to do nothing interesting with them.
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Mar 23, 2015 06:17
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A real sequel to American Sniper.
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Mar 23, 2015 06:20
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And now, for no reason whatsoever, my ranking of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies: 1) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) --- bare minimum threshold of quality --- 2) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III 3) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) 4) TMNT 5) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
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What defines the bare minimum threshold of quality? Because I'm trying to compare TMNT3 and Key Largo now
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:What defines the bare minimum threshold of quality? Because I'm trying to compare TMNT3 and Key Largo now The bare minimum threshold of quality is an arbitrary standard somewhere between abject mediocrity and two possibilities: 1) A film's exceptional qualities exceeding its flaws, 2) A film is exceptionally bad to the extent that it becomes good.
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Mar 23, 2015 06:42
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K. Waste posted:And now, for no reason whatsoever, my ranking of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies: I have a TV website where I select what shows I watch, then I can pull up a calendar and know when there's an episode. Is there anything like this for movies? I'd love to be able to add say, "Inside Out" to my calendar, and have one calendar entry when it's out in theaters and another when it's on video. Is there a website which does what I need?
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Mar 23, 2015 06:52
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K. Waste posted:
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I'm surprised to see Turtles III so high on that list. I rewatched them all when the new one came out and I felt that was the clear-cut worst one. I'd go: 1-Turtles '90 2-TMNT 3-Turtles II ^ good ^---v bad v 4-Turtles '14 5-Turtles III
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Mar 23, 2015 07:13
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:How can any of the reboots be above any of the originals? Figure it has to be #1, #2, then "I don't acknowledge this movie" It's not hard, particularly because the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles isn't even that good. If you didn't grow up with it, it still wins you over through its combination of child-like naivete and weird, almost Troma Films-like burlesque undercurrent. But the overarching problem that all the movies share regardless of when they were made is that it's an evidently ridiculous concept staged by filmmakers who, in general, either lack a sense of humor or sanitize it to the level that it becomes indistinguishable from any potboiler superhero movie with mild comic relief. Which is strange because the entire conception of TMNT is that they were a parody of the extreme levels of goofiness that comic books had reached during the '80s dark age. The 2014 film comes the closest to 'getting this,' where Shredder and the Turtles are very much parodies of exactly the sort of overkill, 'gritty' comic book aesthetic of the '80s and that the film seems to be foretelling the film industry is inevitably snowballing towards. But, again, the problem is that it just 'looks off,' the script isn't really very funny at all. III comes the closest to being so bad it's good. It's basically the kid version of Army of Darkness, and it weirdly has the best comedic writing out of the entire series. TMNT and The Secret of the Ooze are just kind of lame kids movies. The story is slightly more interesting in TMNT, but only because The Secret of the Ooze is one-note as gently caress.
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K. Waste posted:Turtle Talk Counterpoint: it's called "The Secret of the Ooze".
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Friend has a big art book about movies. <--- click for big, read caption
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Mar 23, 2015 10:09
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Oh my god.
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Mar 23, 2015 10:54
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Steve Yun posted:Friend has a big art book about movies. No facepalm big enough
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K. Waste posted:III comes the closest to being so bad it's good. It's basically the kid version of Army of Darkness, and it weirdly has the best comedic writing out of the entire series. Steve Yun posted:Friend has a big art book about movies. specifically nerdy, he probably plays resident evil Honest Thief fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Mar 23, 2015 |
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Mar 23, 2015 12:33
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Steve Yun posted:Friend has a big art book about movies. Hahaha that's incredible. Slice of movie: In a little over 12 hours I'll be watching Vertigo on the big screen, and I'm so loving pumped. I've seen at least part of it, but don't remember anything about it or any plot details, so I'm pretty much going in blind. It's going to be good.
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I liked it more than I thought I would, but still think 'abject mediocrity' describes Turtles '14 rather well. And Turles 2: Ooze-fest was one of the few movies where a group of evil people gets knocked down to the sound of bowling pins falling and it didn't bother me.
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K. Waste posted:And now, for no reason whatsoever, my ranking of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies: Where do you rank the VHS special about the Comin' Out of Their Shells tour? Also Vanilla Ice and David Warner, you philistine.
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Grendels Dad posted:I liked it more than I thought I would, but still think 'abject mediocrity' describes Turtles '14 rather well. And Turles 2: Ooze-fest was one of the few movies where a group of evil people gets knocked down to the sound of bowling pins falling and it didn't bother me. Also happens in Matrix Reloaded, fyi.
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Mar 23, 2015 12:48
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Jack Gladney posted:Also happens in Matrix Reloaded, fyi. I should have worded that better, I meant that it's one of the rare movies where it doesn't bother me that they do this.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Slice of movie: In a little over 12 hours I'll be watching Vertigo on the big screen, and I'm so loving pumped. I've seen at least part of it, but don't remember anything about it or any plot details, so I'm pretty much going in blind. It's going to be good. For some reason when I read Vertigo my mind went to Vertical Limit and I was very confused by your excitement.
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Grendels Dad posted:I should have worded that better, I meant that it's one of the rare movies where it doesn't bother me that they do this. If only the Wachowskis hadn't fallen for their own bullshit by then, Reloaded should've been full of that stuff every time Neo was around because the computer world was his playground. If I had any skill in editing I'd fill that scene with Three Stooges and Looney Tunes sound effects.
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My weekend was full of Ben Mendelsohn. I watched Bloodline and the movie Black Sea and really enjoyed both of them. I'd watch that lispy gently caress-up in anything.
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LesterGroans posted:My weekend was full of Ben Mendelsohn. I watched Bloodline and the movie Black Sea and really enjoyed both of them. Watch Starred Up. Not only is he in it but it's pretty drat good.
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therattle posted:Watch Starred Up. Not only is he in it but it's pretty drat good. I keep getting recommended that but it keeps slipping my mind. I need to watch it and '71, see what all the fuss is with Jack O'Connell.
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McSpanky posted:If only the Wachowskis hadn't fallen for their own bullshit by then, Reloaded should've been full of that stuff every time Neo was around because the computer world was his playground. If I had any skill in editing I'd fill that scene with Three Stooges and Looney Tunes sound effects. I always thought they missed the ball in not exploring what happens to a man when he's an invincible kung-fu God in one reality and a skinny dweeb in another.
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K. Waste posted:And now, for no reason whatsoever, my ranking of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies: The animated one is perfectly acceptable.
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lmao that dickeye probation.
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axleblaze posted:I promised a good short today and I am delivering on a good short.
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I don't know how the first Ninja Turtles even passes the bare threshold of quality. The only thing interesting about that movie is that it's a relic from that era when the suburbs were in a moral panic about kids joining gangs, until they realized white middle class kids weren't really at risk and then society promptly forgot about the whole thing.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Hahaha that's incredible. Sweeeeeeeeeet. I think I'm in the minority here, but Vertigo might be my favorite Hitchcock. Fat Lou posted:For some reason when I read Vertigo my mind went to Vertical Limit and I was very confused by your excitement. Ha, my friend's dad did some script work on that lovely movie.
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