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Ok Fella posted:The look of the film was the main problem for me. It was like what a teenager from the early 90's would think the future looks like. The world outside of his apartment wasn't quite as interesting as everything that goes on inside it, I'll give you that.
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Ok Fella posted:I like Gilliam quite a bit but this one was just wasn't doing it for me. Listen, I survived Tideland. I'll take this instead. Eraser Talk: what a lazy gently caress movie. Bad guys want to sell/keep secret a giant magic gun deal. What do they do? Use it constantly. Oh and textbook C effort James Caan and a subvillian with implied rape goals. Its weird how PG this movie is but then that just pops in. After "In like Flint", and "Our Man Flint" it saddens me to see James Coburn underutilized.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 17:29 |
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Tideland was good!
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Junkie Disease posted:Listen, I survived Tideland. I'll take this instead. Eraser is a b-tier late 90s action movie with all the good and bad that entails. I'm not sure I would recommend it, but it definitely hits all the notes you would expect.
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I was about say any movie where Arnold dives out of a plane without a parachute is great, but then I remembered he did it recently in a movie I didn't like so much.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Tideland was good! Try watching it with family
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:48 |
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Yeah no thanks.
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# ? Mar 25, 2016 19:50 |
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Gyre posted:What are some nice feel-good movies/series that aren't too schlocky? I've been very depressed and anxious lately and I thought that watching Master of None would cheer me up, only to be sucker-punched by the season finale. I can handle drama, but right now it has to be like Disney where you know everything will turn out okay. It was up on netflix instant for ages but isn't on right now. Worth finding it though. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Tideland was good! VERY good, I'd even say. I actually liked Zero Theorem OK, possibly because I clicked on it with the lowest possible expectations for a Gilliam film (I was thinking "it simply cannot be worse than Brothers Grimm and I sat through that")
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# ? Mar 26, 2016 01:09 |
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Good lord, I forgot he made Brothers Grimm.
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# ? Mar 26, 2016 02:37 |
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The hosed up thing with Grimm was that of his recent films it was the closest in look and tone to his older films, but with zero charm or decent acting. It was so close to being classic Gilliam, but with every little thing hosed up just enough that the whole becomes a complete piece of garbage.
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Junkie Disease posted:Try watching it with family I did and we all loved it. Then again, our traditional family movie growing up was RHPS so maybe we have skewed values.
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# ? Mar 26, 2016 21:48 |
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Watched the new Pee-Wee movie last night. Really liked it. First time I've seen any Pee-Wee stuff. To me, it's a pro-queer, pro-nonvanilla, pro-be-your-weird-self movie with an optimistic outlook on people in general. All set in a fun world where anything's possible. For kids and adults. Kids and adults need to hear that stuff sometimes! I'm gonna watch more Pee-Wee now.
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 00:24 |
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It was weird that in general it felt like a good kids movie, but had a couple of parts that were probably a little too racy for young kids. I liked it, though it dragged a bit after the jumped out of the plane.
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Mescal posted:Watched the new Pee-Wee movie last night. Really liked it. First time I've seen any Pee-Wee stuff. To me, it's a pro-queer, pro-nonvanilla, pro-be-your-weird-self movie with an optimistic outlook on people in general. All set in a fun world where anything's possible. For kids and adults. Kids and adults need to hear that stuff sometimes! I'm gonna watch more Pee-Wee now. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is an amazing movie. Big Top Pee-Wee...not so much. If you can find his original HBO special from the 80s it's also great, especially when viewed through the lens that a stage show targeting adults that satirized children's entertainment wound up becoming a legit children's entertainment franchise.
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Mescal posted:Watched the new Pee-Wee movie last night. Really liked it. First time I've seen any Pee-Wee stuff. To me, it's a pro-queer, pro-nonvanilla, pro-be-your-weird-self movie with an optimistic outlook on people in general. All set in a fun world where anything's possible. For kids and adults. Kids and adults need to hear that stuff sometimes! I'm gonna watch more Pee-Wee now. The 50s anachronism feels anachronistic. Whereas in the 80s people had a working knowledge of it from tv reruns and other parody, and most adults remembered it. Now it seems like something kids won't understand because they've never seen it anywhere else. "The past" is now like 1970-1985. It's like Reubens' aesthetic judgment is frozen where it was when he was 28.
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Jack Gladney posted:The 50s anachronism feels anachronistic. Whereas in the 80s people had a working knowledge of it from tv reruns and other parody, and most adults remembered it. Now it seems like something kids won't understand because they've never seen it anywhere else. The fact that it was directed by a Wonder Showzen guy instead of Tim Burton probably didn't help. In general it reminded me a bit of a (much cheaper) version of the aesthetic of The Muppets, and it even had a few of the same gags like the town population sign going down when the protagonists leaves.
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 01:57 |
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I just can't believe Paul Reubens is 63. Motherfucker still looks 30 in the movie.
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precision posted:I just can't believe Paul Reubens is 63. Motherfucker still looks 30 in the movie. Apparently a lot of the budget was due to having to use CGI to touch up Rubens to hide his wrinkles. If you see his live appearances he's smeared in pancake makeup and looks way different. Plus he uses an old drag queen trick:
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 02:56 |
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Ouch. Say what you will, the man suffers for his art.
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 02:58 |
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I haven't watched the new Pee Wee movie yet, but the revamped Breakfast Machine scene better include that neck-adhered face-stretcher.
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Mescal posted:Watched the new Pee-Wee movie last night. Really liked it. First time I've seen any Pee-Wee stuff. To me, it's a pro-queer, pro-nonvanilla, pro-be-your-weird-self movie with an optimistic outlook on people in general. All set in a fun world where anything's possible. For kids and adults. Kids and adults need to hear that stuff sometimes! I'm gonna watch more Pee-Wee now. I'm watching it now, and I agree. I might have to find Pee-wee's Big Adventure some time (which I might have seen when I was young?). I like Pee-wee's laugh and other little noises.
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DorianGravy posted:I'm watching it now, and I agree. I might have to find Pee-wee's Big Adventure some time (which I might have seen when I was young?). I like Pee-wee's laugh and other little noises. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is also on Netflix streaming.
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DorianGravy posted:I'm watching it now, and I agree. I might have to find Pee-wee's Big Adventure some time (which I might have seen when I was young?). I like Pee-wee's laugh and other little noises. You should watch it, like, right now. It's Tim Burton's second best movie. Also Danny Elfman's first movie score and interestingly enough still his best.
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Jose Oquendo posted:You should watch it, like, right now. It's Tim Burton's second best movie. Also Danny Elfman's first movie score and interestingly enough still his best. What u think is his first? Judging by this post...ima guess "Ed Wood"
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 05:18 |
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Elfman's Batman Returns score makes me want to dramatically kick in doors and make declarations.
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Hat Thoughts posted:What u think is his first? Judging by this post...ima guess "Ed Wood" I enjoy Big Adventure way more, but I think from a movie making standpoint, Ed Wood is the better one.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I enjoy Big Adventure way more, but I think from a movie making standpoint, Ed Wood is the better one. I'm just happy to have guessed correctly!
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 05:24 |
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Ya'll need to get a room... With Pee-Wee
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 06:46 |
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I love big adventure but that movie is really front loaded and I would say kind of loses steam halfway through. However it has one of my favorite gags of all time. "I remember...the Alamo" "Yeehaw!!"
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The_Rob posted:I love big adventure but that movie is really front loaded and I would say kind of loses steam halfway through. However it has one of my favorite gags of all time. Cyndi Lauper: "Where' you calling from?" Peewee: "Texas! Honest! Listen I'll prove it! The hills at night are big and bright-" *holds up phone, crowd all stops and bursts into song* "DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!" *clapclapclap*
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coyo7e posted:I dunno, I think the phone booth scene was probably the best in the movie, if I'm recalling the right peewee film. Yeah that's a great scene too.
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Sleeveless posted:Apparently a lot of the budget was due to having to use CGI to touch up Rubens to hide his wrinkles. If you see his live appearances he's smeared in pancake makeup and looks way different. Yeah he's on Gotham right now as Penguin's father and definitely doesn't look 30. Not bad for 63 though.
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# ? Mar 27, 2016 20:00 |
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Big Adventure also has the big chase through the studio at the climax which is wonderful.
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Jose Oquendo posted:You should watch it, like, right now. It's Tim Burton's second best movie. Also Danny Elfman's first movie score and interestingly enough still his best. We all know Elfman's best score is Weird Science.
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Sleeveless posted:Plus he uses an old drag queen trick: They did a similar thing to Brent Spiner on Star Trek Nemesis because he had just completely let himself go in the interim after Insurrection. It, uh, didn't help.
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Tacopocalypse posted:We all know Elfman's best score is Weird Science. If you want to get technical Oingo Boingo did the title song but not the film score itself. That song does own bones though.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I enjoy Big Adventure way more, but I think from a movie making standpoint, Ed Wood is the better one. And I just searched Netflix to watch Ed Wood again and WHAT THE HELL
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coyo7e posted:I dunno, I think the phone booth scene was probably the best in the movie, if I'm recalling the right peewee film. my man That ain't Cyndi Lauper!
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