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So does your love for the film output of 1999 have a lot to do with you supposedly watching about 200 loving hours of it, because I feel like past a point it's sheer psychological effort justification, and that point is somewhere far in your rear view by the time you are citing Teaching Mrs. Tingle. By the way, Rushmore and Thin Red Line are great, distinctive films on your list, both of which belong to the proud Year of our Lord 1998.
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marblize posted:American Beauty is something. Boondock Saints helped launch the careers of two pretty good TV actors and also made a huge number of insufferable fans of vigilante murder. The sequel was amazingly terribly.
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GimpChimp posted:So does your love for the film output of 1999 have a lot to do with you supposedly watching about 200 loving hours of it, because I feel like past a point it's sheer psychological effort justification, and that point is somewhere far in your rear view by the time you are citing Teaching Mrs. Tingle. I left a really embarrassing movie or two off that alphabetical list. Almost put Crazy in Alabama on it. Also I've seen a lot of movies, and I bet you have too.
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Sep 14, 2015 20:39
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Snak posted:loving great is what it is. I can't believe I hadn't seen it until this year (I am not a smart man). I had an idiot screenwriting professor beat into my idiot film school freshman head that its having a dead person narrate the film was an unforgivable offense, I've been needing a rewatch.
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Sorry cheerfullydrab, but only one film from 1999 is on AFI's 2007 list of the 100 greatest films, so it was kind of a mediocre year overall. On the other hand, the years 1969, 1976, and 1982 have four entries each, so they're objectively the greatest years in American film history™.
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Sep 14, 2015 21:00
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I put off watching it for a long time because I thought I knew things about it. It was totally different film then I expected. Like any "rule" about story telling, there are always exceptions which involve "being a good storyteller". I do not, for example, want to see Troy Duffy's attempt at breaking the rule you mentioned.
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Sep 14, 2015 21:02
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I wonder how mad that teacher was when he saw Sunset Boulevard.
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Sep 14, 2015 21:04
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I will always remember Teaching Ms. Tingle because Jeffrey Tambor went on the Loveline tv show to promote it and angrily talked about how the movie had been retitled because of the Columbine shooting, and it had just happened and people were all messed up about it, but he was just pissed it wasn't called Killing Ms. Tingle any more.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Sorry cheerfullydrab, but only one film from 1999 is on AFI's 2007 list of the 100 greatest films, so it was kind of a mediocre year overall. On the other hand, the years 1969, 1976, and 1982 have four entries each, so they're objectively the greatest years in American film history™. This sounds like last year when Philadelphia's indie music station, 88.5 WXPN put out a list of the 885 greatest songs of all time as voted on by their white, upper or middle class, older listener base. The first time a song from the last 10 years appeared was like #40.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I left a really embarrassing movie or two off that alphabetical list. Almost put Crazy in Alabama on it. Also I've seen a lot of movies, and I bet you have too. I have, but if there was a year Hollywood put out five dozen films worth putting the rest of cinematic history on hold for, it sure as poo poo was not 1999, so why not try for a more focused argument. You're already aware you're naming a lot of profoundly uncared-for films, although I am happy Topsy Turvy and The Virgin Suicides finally showed up.
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GimpChimp posted:I have, but if there was a year Hollywood put out five dozen films worth putting the rest of cinematic history on hold for, it sure as poo poo was not 1999, so why not try for a more focused argument. You're already aware you're naming a lot of profoundly uncared-for films, although I am happy Topsy Turvy and The Virgin Suicides finally showed up. Which year was it, then? And which 60 movies from that year? I'm honestly interested in hearing other people's opinions. It's a good way to find good movies to watch.
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I Before E posted:I wonder how mad that teacher was when he saw Sunset Boulevard. Made me think of American History X.
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So this is kind of a meta question, but is there an index of all the scene by scene watch-throughs on here? I see the Blade one and know that there was an American Psycho one at some point, but I'm curious if I'm missing any others.
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Snak posted:I put off watching it for a long time because I thought I knew things about it. It was totally different film then I expected. yeah this is why i highlighted/admitted the idiocy. It wasn't even like he just hit on American Beauty as one instance of a few movies breaking this "rule." it was AB that he specifically chose to use to nail this point after a fellow classmate named it as their favorite movie. He also categorically trashed Gump as conservative propaganda when another student named that, to bring the recent CineD discussions vs. my former professor full circle or something ^___^ I do still need to see it again to form an opinion on whether it's actually necessary/adds things but that's a discussion for a few pages ago. Also, I feel guilty about and that I should atone for a truly egregious error I sneakily edited out of my list. I initially wrote that Paul Thomas Anderson was Kubrick's emergency backup director on Eyes Wide Shut, but I mixed up my near-death directors and was thinking of Altman on A Prairie Home Companion, lol 
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Sep 14, 2015 22:36
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Well at least you didn't put Paul W.S. Anderson.
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This is a little different than talking about year of release, but I remember not being able to watch anything for a while then driving to Houston and my choices being Goodfellas, White Hunter, Black Heart (Eastwood directing a non-genre drama was a novelty at the time), Kurosawa's Dreams, that film the brand-new NC-17 rating had been created for Henry & June (Fred Ward is cool, but who the gently caress is Uma Thurman?), and Miller's Crossing (that new movie by those brothers who did Blood Simple (1984) and Raising Arizona (1987)). I wouldn't argue that 1990 was a particularly magic year for film (I don't think any year ever is) but that's a lot of really solid cinema in original theatrical release at the same moment.
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Last year is probably my favorite movie year, it was the first I really committed to catching as much as I could. It's kind of amazing the stuff you find when you're hunting for it and not just letting it fall in your lap.
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2000 featured the American premieres of both Pokémon 2000 (which is strangely in my phone's autocorrect, including the accent) and Digimon:The Movie, so clearly that's the high water mark for cinema.
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trip9 posted:So this is kind of a meta question, but is there an index of all the scene by scene watch-throughs on here? I see the Blade one and know that there was an American Psycho one at some point, but I'm curious if I'm missing any others.
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Snak posted:loving great is what it is. I can't believe I hadn't seen it until this year (I am not a smart man). Boondock Saints 2 is one of the worst movies I've ever seen
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1964. Dr. Strangelove Goldfinger A Hard Day's Night A Fistful of Dollars A Shot in the Dark Fail-Safe The Gospel According to Matthew Mary Poppins Nothing But a Man My Fair Lady Becket Zorba the Greek Hamlet (Kozintsev) The Comedy of Terrors Marnie Charulata I Am Cuba The Masque of the Red Death The Pawnbroker The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Zulu Diary of a Chambermaid (Bunuel) Une femme mariée Red Desert The Soft Skin Kwaidan Onibaba Woman in the Dunes El Padrecíto This is just from a quick Wikipedia check.
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Snak posted:Well at least you didn't put Paul W.S. Anderson. I unironically love PWS Anderson, and not just for Event Horizon. I think Mortal Kombat is great, way more fun than it has any right to be, and Death Race is an underappreciated member of the new action canon that features so much more talent than anyone could imagine being in a movie titled "Death Race" That he made the Resident Evil movies, which are of widely-varying quality, between all of this is just icing. Oh, and he also made the almost-perfect Soldier with Kurt Russell Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Everblight posted:I unironically love PWS Anderson, and not just for Event Horizon. I think Mortal Kombat is great, way more fun than it has any right to be, and Death Race is an underappreciated member of the new action canon that features so much more talent than anyone could imagine being in a movie titled "Death Race" Mortal Kombat, Event Horizen and Soldier are great. Unironically. If you haven't, watch Soldier with the commentary. I think that PWS Anderson was great when he had limits, and when he just started getting money handed to him and cgi became cheap, it was just downhill from there. I think Death Race is garbage though.
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Best year for films was 1904: Blackpool Victoria Pier The Bold Bank Robbery Behind the Scene Buy Your Own Cherries Chased by Dogs Tchin-Chao the Chinese Conjurer Clowns The Cook In Trouble A Fire In A Burlesque Theatre Girls Taking Time Checks Burlesque Girls Taking Time Checks The Impossible Voyage The Marvelous Living Fan, Opening Of The Drill Hall In Accrington Princess Rajah Dance Princess Rajah Burlesque Dance The Brave Burlesque Burglary Troubles Of A Manager Of A Burlesque Show
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That's a lot of burlesque.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:That's a lot of burlesque.
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I may have added a few extra burlesque films but there was definitely a lot of burlesque back in the day.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I may have added a few extra burlesque films but there was definitely a lot of burlesque back in the day. How far we've come 
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Does anyone know where I can watch the unedited cut of Bad Lieutenant online? It seems like every VOD only has the R-rated version
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Skwirl posted:2000 featured the American premieres of both Pokémon 2000 (which is strangely in my phone's autocorrect, including the accent) and Digimon:The Movie, so clearly that's the high water mark for cinema. Well, at the very, very least Pokémon 2000 is at least easily the best of the Pokémon movies theatrically released in America, so there's that.
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SubG posted:The first decade of the Twentieth Century was a big decade for pornographic film. I don't know if FreudianSlippers intentionally chose 1904 for this reason, but it's generally accepted that the first multi-reel pornographic films date from this year (all, alas, now lost). Isn't there a good article from the last few years about how the movies from that decade were just as dirty as today's pornography?
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Anyone know any other movies like Beyond The Black Rainbow, Under The Skin, Valhalla Rising? -slow, ambient, I guess "artsy", great visuals/audio (is this the right thread for this kinda thing?)
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Well Upstream Color might fit into that category, and it's a pretty powerful movie.
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Cool thanks, I'll check it out! Think I remember seeing something about that when people were asking for movies like Ex Machina so I bet I'll love it.
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Since you've seen Valhalla Rising, I'm guessing you're familiar with Only God Forgives, but if not: Only God Forgives. And Upstream Color is a great suggestion.
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THE JORY posted:Anyone know any other movies like Beyond The Black Rainbow, Under The Skin, Valhalla Rising? -slow, ambient, I guess "artsy", great visuals/audio Check out Peter Strickland's films Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy.
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I've been watching a lot of ridiculous b-grade male power fantasy action movies and I realized I don't know if I've ever seen a female power fantasy movie. Maybe I have but I just don't know the frame of reference or something. Any suggestions on female power fantasy movies?
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karneisada posted:I've been watching a lot of ridiculous b-grade male power fantasy action movies and I realized I don't know if I've ever seen a female power fantasy movie. Maybe I have but I just don't know the frame of reference or something. Any suggestions on female power fantasy movies? The problem is that most would-be female power fantasy movies are made by men and end up... questionable at best. See: Sucker Punch. The closest thing I can think of off the top of my head is Haywire, which is a macho martial arts film where the main character happens to be Gina Carano. I expect we will get some sweet female power fantasy action movies out of Ronda Rousey's career as well. As for non-action female-power fantasies... hmm. I'm not sure. All of the good "strong female protagonist" films I can think of are about overcoming adversity. Basically none of them are about being awesome in the way that male power fantasies are.
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