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Inherent Vice is 30 dollars at Best Buy. No other blu ray that isn't a box set or 3D is 30 dollars. Very strange. A case for Doc, indeed.
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A Most Violent Year managed to be extremely good to me but also forgettable.
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Nov 27, 2015 22:45
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:A Most Violent Year managed to be extremely good to me but also forgettable. It would probably be in my top whatever still. I really want to see Carol and The Look Of Silence.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Sounds like it should've taken some cues from A Most Violent Year, which a lot of people found dull beyond belief but manages to look quite lush. Spotlight and A Most Violent Year share the issue of feeling like haltingly adapted stage plays a lot for a lot of their runtime, but they both do a lot to cover that weakness and if you combine the strengths of both you get a near-masterpiece.
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Nov 27, 2015 22:47
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'm still unsure as to what people actually disliked about Inherent Vice. The way it meanders was not as endearing as something like The Long Goodbye or Big Lebowski. Also it's the worst of Greenwood's work, who I otherwise adore. I still thought some stretches of it, like the Martin Short scenes, were fantastic. This, though: Raxivace posted:For me it's the film's complete lack of anything visually interesting at any point in the movie whatsoever. Really? That master shot of Hong Chau's spontaneous muff dive into Phoenix moving along with that carpet wall was stupendous, just to name one thing.
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What the hell is happening in Solaris? Earlier on one of the telescreens in the movie I noticed it said "ICP" and not 5 loving minutes later an ICP song is played. I would've totally jumped on this earlier had I known it was Juggalocore. (also, when it gets to the point in the song where they say "We're the wicked Juggalos" the Amazon subtitles say this):  but continues on with the regular lyrics once it gets passed the indecipherable and indistinct "wicked juggalos" part. I will continue to search this film for ICP references and report back later with my findings.
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That reminds me, I still need to see both Solari.
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GonSmithe posted:Watching High and Low and seeing every pore dripping every drop of sweat on every actor in the police scene is worth the price of the blu-ray player and the blu itself. oh man OH MAN Self-Christmas-present inbound
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GonSmithe posted:You mean you don't like the camera literally always being in someone's face and NOTHING else? But you get to see all of the emotions of the actor's performance unlike a play!!! The camera work and editing are subpar. My main problem with it, and this is my fault for being ignorant of the stage musical, is that it's almost entirely sung. I like musicals but I'm more used to the Grease type where the songs are peppered throughout. Le Mis is nothing but singing and the singing is often bad.
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Nov 27, 2015 23:45
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Yaws posted:Le Mis is nothing but singing and the singing is often bad. The casting choices in that movie are just strange. I mean, Jackman kills it and Hathaway and Redmayne are solid, but then you have Amanda Seyfried warbling like a drunken canary and Crowe visibly focusing so much on hitting his notes (which he fails at most of the time) that he forgets to actually act and emote.
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Nov 27, 2015 23:54
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It's a dreadful film. I made it about 15 minutes in before I had to stop
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I like Crowe but his Les Mis performance is an all time stinker. Not quite Leto in the Chapman biopic but woof.
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Man Youth is an amazing movie. Everyone really is on their A game. Has anyone here seen it? How are Paolo Sorrentino's other movies?
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Glamorama26 posted:I like Crowe but his Les Mis performance is an all time stinker. Not quite Leto in the Chapman biopic but woof. I didn't think there could be a worse casting decision for a movie musical than Gerard Butler in Phantom of the Opera. I was wrong.
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Popelmon posted:Man Youth is an amazing movie. Everyone really is on their A game. Has anyone here seen it? How are Paolo Sorrentino's other movies? The Great Beauty is one of the best films of the last few years. So stoked for Youth.
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axleblaze posted:My favorite P T Anderson is still Magnolia. I loves me some Magnolia though it's also kinda away to see why people hate it. I'm seconding the love for this one. It's the movie I always suggest people watch if I hear them praise Crash. They're both ensemble films set in Cali, and both have similar editing techniques, but Magnolia is better in every way. Plus the scene when the cop doesn't understand the black kid rapping says more about race than the entirety of Crash.
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Timby posted:The casting choices in that movie are just strange. I mean, Jackman kills it and Hathaway and Redmayne are solid, but then you have Amanda Seyfried warbling like a drunken canary and Crowe visibly focusing so much on hitting his notes (which he fails at most of the time) that he forgets to actually act and emote.
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Nov 28, 2015 01:13
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GonSmithe posted:Seyfried is so unbelievably awful in that movie. Any vocal coach worth anything would have knocked that terrible warble in her singing out within the first day. The other thing is that no one was helped by Hooper insisting that all the songs be sung live on the set. I could maybe have understood that if it were a cast full of trained Broadway singers, but it wasn't, and so many of the performances suffer for it.
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Kull the Conqueror posted:The Great Beauty is one of the best films of the last few years. So stoked for Youth. And it's on Netflix! Now I know what I'm going to watch tomorrow. I'm still wrapping my head around Youth. I was really surprised by how easily it switched between serious stuff and being really loving funny. It felt a bit like a Wes Anderson movie at times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm6JnhPbHCQ The best subculture
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Le Mis looks like a bad fan film where they got top of the line equipment, but didn't bother to put any effort anywhere else. It's embarrassingly amateurish and there are no-budget films that look more competent. Some shots honestly look like outtakes used in error. I think I made it 30 minutes before giving up.
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So since I've long since moved on from playing on my phone during a movie in theaters that doesn't interest me much, I guess now I've taken to falling asleep during those kinds of movies instead. Like I saw The Secret In Their Eyes the other day and slept through most of that. And I just got home from seeing Legend, but I couldn't tell you what I thought of it overall because I must've slept through an hour and a half of it  None of the parts I was awake for were very interesting. Although Emily Browning (who plays Frances) is insanely attractive. Like, I want to marry and spend the rest of my life with a woman who looks like that  But uhh, I definitely thought the trailer gave away that Tom Hardy had split personality disorder and that Ronnie and Reggie Kray were actually just one dude, but the last 20 minutes or so of the movie (which I woke up for) did not seem to support that at all. In fact it's mentioned in the end titles that the two brothers have separate fates, so was the trailer intentionally designed to throw people off or did I pick up on something in the trailer that wasn't actually there at all? Maybe I'm remembering this entirely incorrectly, but I saw that trailer before other movies in theaters for months and I could've sworn that's what this movie was going to be about.
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This is just hilariously awful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRzvdQh8D2Q
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Nov 28, 2015 02:17
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The Keye and Peele Les Mis sketch is seriously better than the actual movie in every way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__d2FMCtgi4
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:But uhh, I definitely thought the trailer gave away that Tom Hardy had split personality disorder and that Ronnie and Reggie Kray were actually just one dude, but the last 20 minutes or so of the movie (which I woke up for) did not seem to support that at all. In fact it's mentioned in the end titles that the two brothers have separate fates, so was the trailer intentionally designed to throw people off or did I pick up on something in the trailer that wasn't actually there at all? Maybe I'm remembering this entirely incorrectly, but I saw that trailer before other movies in theaters for months and I could've sworn that's what this movie was going to be about. It's based on true events, so I think you were making assumptions
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:But uhh, I definitely thought the trailer gave away that Tom Hardy had split personality disorder and that Ronnie and Reggie Kray were actually just one dude, but the last 20 minutes or so of the movie (which I woke up for) did not seem to support that at all. In fact it's mentioned in the end titles that the two brothers have separate fates, so was the trailer intentionally designed to throw people off or did I pick up on something in the trailer that wasn't actually there at all? Maybe I'm remembering this entirely incorrectly, but I saw that trailer before other movies in theaters for months and I could've sworn that's what this movie was going to be about. Well, I knew they were real dudes beforehand so I didn't get that from the trailer at all. I do like the idea of making real people outright fictional characters in movies. Like in Straight Outta Compton, make Dre a split personality and Cube a cartoon bunny.
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Nov 28, 2015 02:22
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Timby posted:This is just hilariously awful. that sound when he hits. 
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Popelmon posted:And it's on Netflix! Now I know what I'm going to watch tomorrow. In terms of other Sorrentino I've seen, Great Beauty is brilliant, Consequences Of Love is great, This Must Be The Place got kind of a backlash as being his first English-language thing and having a truly bizarre plot arc but if you dig other Sorrentino it's definitely worth seeing. Il Divo, a semi-experimental biopic of hugely controversial prime minister Giulio Andreotti, is a total masterpiece but fairly impenetrable unless you're broadly familiar with post-war Italian history. Luckily post-war Italian history is insanely violent and clandestine so it's fascinating to find out about. Family Friend I couldn't get into at all but I'll come back to it eventually. edit: I am mad envious you got to see Youth already but I'm glad it's up to form
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morestuff posted:It's based on true events, so I think you were making assumptions LesterGroans posted:Well, I knew they were real dudes beforehand so I didn't get that from the trailer at all. That would've been a much more interesting movie, I think.
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Does the film mention that Ronnie Kray was probably loving two different members of parliament in the 60's and that this might have allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff because basically everyone in power didn't want to poke the hornets nest out of fear that it might become known that politicians were having gay sex with a gangster? Because that's pretty great.
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CelticPredator posted:that sound when he hits. I laughed so hard that I was almost crying when that happened in the theater. My wife wanted to kill me.
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Timby posted:I laughed so hard that I was almost crying when that happened in the theater. My wife wanted to kill me. The same thing happened with me and my girlfriend at the time. It's such an absolutely ridiculous crack, I don't see how you can not laugh at it. Shoutout to the song "Stars" for having maybe 2 seconds of actually seeing the sky. Thanks Tom Hooper.
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The production value is always so good in every Key and Peele sketch. Especially the cinematic spoofs.
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Anxiously awaiting the results of the BvS thread mod challenge. I'm starting to assume that GonSmithe closing the thread is the results of the mod challenge. Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:The production value is always so good in every Key and Peele sketch. Especially the cinematic spoofs. Yeah, it's crazy good.
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I chose to use the pencil tool instead of the magic marker in coloring my inks and that was.... a bad call.
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Sir Kodiak posted:I'm starting to assume that GonSmithe closing the thread is the results of the mod challenge. Haha, no, I just got home, I'm typing up my post now.
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Timby posted:I didn't think there could be a worse casting decision for a movie musical than Gerard Butler in Phantom of the Opera. Holy poo poo, Butler is terrible in that film
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GonSmithe, that was a good outcome to your challenge. Unrelated, I really like idea and theme of Tomorrowland, but the movie isn't very good.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:So since I've long since moved on from playing on my phone during a movie in theaters that doesn't interest me much, I guess now I've taken to falling asleep during those kinds of movies instead. Like I saw The Secret In Their Eyes the other day and slept through most of that. And I just got home from seeing Legend, but I couldn't tell you what I thought of it overall because I must've slept through an hour and a half of it Aww is Legend really not good? Its like the only thing besides Hateful 8 im looking forward to.
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Bad musicals own. Anyway, here's a dope 1970s band I discovered today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3KSpeiRPTc
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