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CPL593H posted:I watched this as well and it's definitely one of those things that would at the very least have been worth seeing for how batshit crazy it would have been. Everyone I've ever mentioned the aborted Tim Burton Superman movie to just goes "eww" when I tell them it was going to be Nicholas Cage, but that's one of the most interesting things about it. I also love that Jon Peters was like "Superman has to fight a giant spider." for no real reason other than it would have been cool. He's not wrong
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wyoming posted:I still need to see Big Eyes, it definitely seems like a film I'd be into. It's not very good. That movie manages to waste Christoph Waltz in a fairly awful performance.
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Gonz posted:I saw this documentary last month on Showtime: Does this really warrant an entire documentary film? Like, maybe a magazine article but I can't imagine this project would have been so fascinating it needs t be mythologized. This isn't like Jodorowsky's Dune where a walking drug-trip of a director managed to hire Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, Pink Floyd and other people of actual interest. I think the fact that the pasty nerd director inserts himself into every interview here is a good cue-in that this film has conceptual problems.
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Egbert Souse posted:It's not very good. That movie manages to waste Christoph Waltz in a fairly awful performance. I think anyone who isn't Tarantino wastes Christoph Waltz to be honest.
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DrVenkman posted:I think anyone who isn't Tarantino wastes Christoph Waltz to be honest. i'm going to again have to mention how dope Carnage is.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i'm going to again have to mention how dope Carnage is. Yep, he's used perfectly in that, as is everyone really.
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So Making a Murderer is fine as a filmed argument for innocence but really kind of sucks as documentary
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you guys are all hype on Making a Murderer, meanwhile i'm loving thrilled at this new Pamela Smart documentary i just came across at the library
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TrixRabbi posted:Does this really warrant an entire documentary film? Like, maybe a magazine article but I can't imagine this project would have been so fascinating it needs t be mythologized. This isn't like Jodorowsky's Dune where a walking drug-trip of a director managed to hire Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, Pink Floyd and other people of actual interest. Yes. The guy who made it is clearly an amateur but the movie is really good in spite of him because the story itself is actually that fascinating. There were several people with some very out there ideas who were very passionate about making this movie and I'm glad I got to hear them tell that story. Did you actually watch the documentary? Uncle Boogeyman posted:i'm going to again have to mention how dope Carnage is. I thought I was the only on here who liked that movie.
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You might even say that Carnage Rules.
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I did not like it. I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it. I do hate that I forgot to return it to redbox and that means that I paid 25 dollars to own it.
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DrVenkman posted:I think anyone who isn't Tarantino wastes Christoph Waltz to be honest. He was great in Water for Elephants, which is a surprisingly good film.
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Snak posted:I did not like it. I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it. That isn't the movie's fault. There's no wrong way too look like a douche.
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CPL593H posted:That isn't the movie's fault. That's why I said "I hate that I forgot to return it"...
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By the way, who was it in here that was championing The Gift a while back? Because I watched it and it was real good.
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I liked it on the whole, but that ending is awful enough that it significantly hurt the movie for me
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Cool, Spanish Dracula was inducted into the National Film Registry today. edit: As was noted Greatest Film of All Time, The Shawshank Redemption
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That's a good list. Seconds is on there, a bunch of silents and shorts of course (including Dreams of A Rarebit Fiend), I actually saw Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and it's an interesting little document, etc.
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Howdy, folks! What'd I miss? Oh, Carnage chat! 
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I feel weird spoilering this, but I'd give Carnage a lot of credit for one of the best vomiting scenes in movies, right up there with Robert Rodriguez's Misbehavers segment of Four Rooms.
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Man, remember when Robert Rodriguez could DIRECT A FILM?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Man, remember when Robert Rodriguez could DIRECT A FILM? He's this generation's George Lucas.
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The idea of being George Lucas without the vast amounts of money that entails is pretty depressing.
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Robert Rodriguez is pretty well set, I mean how much money do you need? Few humans on Earth have George Lucas money.
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Plus he gets to be film pope of Austin, which sounds like a pretty fine gig
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Kevin Smith's panel discussion about Superman Lives is great, and the bit about Jon Peters' weird obsession with the giant spider fight is worth the price of admission all on its own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2KB1dEDdk The Jon Peters stuff starts around the 6 minute mark. edit: v- Good catch, thanks! Forgot how that bit actually ended. Grizzled Patriarch fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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yeah i mean, Rodriguez edits movies in his house. Sure that's not Lucas level money, but he doesn't do it cause he's poor, he does it cause he can. He has a really sweet setup that you can see in some of the behind the scenes features on his dvds. edit: [redacted] edit2: ^ np 
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morestuff posted:Plus he gets to be film pope of Austin, which sounds like a pretty fine gig Linklater is film pope of Austin.
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I think it's more like Linklater is film God of Austin.
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H. Jon Benjamin's jazz album is up on his youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-fTDK6xmjI
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Man, remember when Robert Rodriguez could DIRECT A FILM? He lost his touch at a younger age than most directors do.
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I feel like an idiot for not using the library a quarter mile from my front door as a Blockbuster until now. I just wish I could put in more than five holds.
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Yaws posted:He lost his touch at a younger age than most directors do. I wonder if it had to do with his increasing budgets, he seemed to work well within limits and once those limits were removed, his dumbass excesses were easier to indulge. Although, I did find that Sin City held up ok for me. There's a lot of dumb stuff in it, but Marv's story is so energetic that I got sucked into it all again. Bruce Willis' story fell flat for me on the 2nd go around though.
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Sin City 2 is on par with Attack of the Clones with how boring it is. Visually too.
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CelticPredator posted:Sin City 2 is on par with Attack of the Clones with how boring it is. Visually too. I saw the trailer and it looked visually ugly. Like bad. Also I've basically outgrown Sin City, so I don't plan on rewatching the original, like ever. Don't get me wrong, I'm still an immature jackass, but that sort of thing just doesn't interest me as much any more. Like, badassery for it's own sake is a dime a dozen.
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I'm like 20 minutes into The Midnight Swim and I already can't imagine this not ending up in my top 10 of the year. I love found footage of all stripes and this has maybe the best sound design I've ever encountered in the form.
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Jenny Angel posted:I'm like 20 minutes into The Midnight Swim and I already can't imagine this not ending up in my top 10 of the year. I love found footage of all stripes and this has maybe the best sound design I've ever encountered in the form. It just gets better too. Ballsy ending.
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CelticPredator posted:Sin City 2 is on par with Attack of the Clones with how boring it is. Visually too. I actually forgot that I saw that film in the cinema. It made perhaps the smallest impression on me that any film has ever made. I think Eva Green was in it.
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