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Skwirl posted:No longer worried about skynet becoming self-aware It's right about Black Mirror
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Skwirl posted:No longer worried about skynet becoming self-aware well if the martian counts then why not those
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CPL593H posted:I would remake Seven Pounds, but everyone is a jellyfish and then at the end of the movie the main jellyfish commits suicide with Will Smith.
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I'd remake From Dusk Til Dawn and keep everything the same but switch Rodriguez and Tarantino just to see how it would turn out
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Just saw La La Land. It was a movie-rear end movie and I had a huge grin on my face for most of it.
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Jimmy Fallon got what was coming to him: he was horribly unfunny and outclassed in both Trump Criticism and humor by multiple presenters and award winners.
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Hey, if you want to see a vampire and a werewolf walk towards each other while pumping bullets into each other's chests and then scream so hard at each other that the bullets fly out of their bodies, then watch Underworld: Blood Wars.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Just saw La La Land. It was a movie-rear end movie and I had a huge grin on my face for most of it. I really loved it. Semi-related, I know a woman IRL whose sole purpose in life for the past week since she saw it has been to loudly complain on social media that she hated it, its flat, there's "nothing memorable except how awful it is" and so forth, on and on, forever. I get differences in taste and opinion, but holy god can I not stand contrarianism for its own sake. Fifteen of Many fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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Matilda still really holds up. Ms. Trunchbull manages to be a better villain then anything Marvel has trotted out.
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Death By The Blues posted:Matilda still really holds up. I mean, the villains in the Marvel movies are really bland and unmemorable archetypes so this isn't saying much.
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I'm glad La La Land is getting a good reception. It turns out my cousin's friend who collaborated on him in videos and stuff in college ended up having a role in the production of the film, so much so my cousin got invited to go to the red carpet premiere and watch the movie. Dude works for Lionsgate but I'm not sure what role he plays in filming. Shame the week he was going to go down to the premiere was the week grandma died and he scrapped his plans to be a pallbearer with me. He could've still gone to the premiere, but he felt bad about having to take extra time off for the funeral and just decided to cancel the flight.
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CPL593H posted:I mean, the villains in the Marvel movies are really bland and unmemorable archetypes so this isn't saying much. Marvel movies are bland and unmemorable in general, so par for the course.
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Hostile V posted:I'm glad La La Land is getting a good reception. It turns out my cousin's friend who collaborated on him in videos and stuff in college ended up having a role in the production of the film, so much so my cousin got invited to go to the red carpet premiere and watch the movie. Dude works for Lionsgate but I'm not sure what role he plays in filming.
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Coaaab posted:Decided to catch it a second time with a more packed night crowd and when the THE END card popped up, audience promptly burst into applause. But with it sweeping every category it was nominated for at the Globes and with the general existence of twitter, now the backlash can begin in earnest. You just reminded me how angry right-wing nutjobs were that Child-Killing Sniper lost to Birdman at the Oscars.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Marvel movies are bland and unmemorable in general, so par for the course. Me and my friend who's visiting from out of town were discussing that John Williams article where he discussed how unmemorable he found his own scores for Star Wars, and he mentioned seeing this bit where a guy approached people on the street and asked them to hum theme music from famous blockbusters. Then he asked them to hum music from any Marvel film, and they were all totally dumbfounded.
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Criminal Minded posted:Me and my friend who's visiting from out of town were discussing that John Williams article where he discussed how unmemorable he found his own scores for Star Wars, and he mentioned seeing this bit where a guy approached people on the street and asked them to hum theme music from famous blockbusters. Then he asked them to hum music from any Marvel film, and they were all totally dumbfounded. It's like nutriloaf with edible glitter on top.
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So I was just thinking about this and I still surprises me how no one ever mentions how scary the synthesizers at the beginning of this version of Winter Wonderland are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoraVkKtKzY It's so goddamn spooky. It sounds like the bad scary music they used in Ghostbusters when bad scary thing happen.
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That video is such a dizzying mishmash of images, it's like it was edited by William Burroughs.
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TrixRabbi posted:Yo I got a food-for-thought question for y'all. If you could remake one movie which one and why? I'd want to remake John Carpenter's The Thing. Pretty much shot-for-shot, though, mostly just to replace the effects so as to avoid me doing a lot of work myself. Very small changes here and there (not even plot ones, things like removing that weird screech when a Thing runs past what's-his-face late in the film, or having Bennings-Thing just sitting there waiting to be killed). Oh, and whoever played Palmer would be forced in the contract to be the shadow on the wall when the Dog-thing came into their room. It was supposed to be him, but someone thought people would recognize David Clennon's shadow, and that was somehow a bad thing. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 08:33 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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CPL593H posted:It's so goddamn spooky. It sounds like the bad scary music they used in Ghostbusters when bad scary thing happen. On the topic of that, Elmer Bernstein's Ghostbusters score is one of the greatest of all time.
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Gonz posted:On the topic of that, Elmer Bernstein's Ghostbusters score is one of the greatest of all time. I bought a copy of the Ghostbusters soundtrack thinking it was going to be that stuff but it's basically a compilation of lovely 80s pop/rock. It only cost me a dollar though, so whatever.
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Criminal Minded posted:Me and my friend who's visiting from out of town were discussing that John Williams article where he discussed how unmemorable he found his own scores for Star Wars, and he mentioned seeing this bit where a guy approached people on the street and asked them to hum theme music from famous blockbusters. Then he asked them to hum music from any Marvel film, and they were all totally dumbfounded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs
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Finally got around to watching Safe, and it was really good. It's weird how little I've heard about it - I wouldn't have even known it existed if not for someone here recommending it a while back, but it seems pretty widely well-regarded. Kinda want to double-feature it with '78 Invasion of the Bodysnatchers somewhere down the line after I've let it digest for a while.
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Tampopo (1985) rules. Comedy is a genre I'm really fickle about, I think that's true of most people, but I really adore the ones that pass the bar. The marketing for the film is quick to compare it to a western, but it's really more aligned with the Leslie Nielsen school of filmmaking, if still particularly Japanese in sensibility. Tampopo is a film that really understands that food is the primal experience of love (the emblematic closing shot affirms this), and that all of our subsequent engagements with food are a nostalgic attempt to recapture that unparalleled feeling. But as we grow and mature, that simple pleasure necessarily becomes more complex: we chase novel sensory delight and the cuisine itself becomes more complex, we bind ourselves with ritual and etiquette, we layer erotic desire onto its signifiers, etc. This is pure absurdity, and it's a rich space for comedy that Tampopo exploits with a warm, affectionate sense of humanity. It's a great movie, and probably the best date movie I've ever seen.
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Lurdiak posted:You just reminded me how angry right-wing nutjobs were that Child-Killing Sniper lost to Birdman at the Oscars. Herein the problem with the right-wing mentality: They don't understand that a movie starring Michael Keaton is automatically better than a movie with an actor manipulating a baby doll with his thumb.
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The Peccadillo posted:The introduction of 9/11 in Hypernormalisation is extremely funny Yeah, it is.
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DC Murderverse posted:Jimmy Fallon got what was coming to him: he was horribly unfunny and outclassed in both Trump Criticism and humor by multiple presenters and award winners. The whole show started with a huge self-own when the teleprompter wasn't working and he panicked. A man whose career is based on doing live comedy.
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I'd remake Ghosts of Mars, because it's already a schlocky-but-fun remake of Assault on Precinct 13, but there are just a couple obvious tweaks you could make that could turn it from a dumb B movie into a legit great movie. I'd also remake Gremlins and set it in Silicon Valley. It'd be more focused on the anti-consumerist half of Gremlins that's about how the breakdown of technology affects our world, but instead of Christmas toys and such, it's about our society's focus on apps developed by absolute psychopaths that are sold to us as conveniences. The problem is that this idea already exists, and is real, and is Soylent constantly giving its customers food poisoning.
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Relevant to this thread's interests, I love that Rebecca Hall just plugged Chapo Trap House on twitter.
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Also, the newest Chapo has more from Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance. Nothing quite as good as a kid being paid to get murdered by a cop, but still drat funny. The Chapo Reading Series is maybe the best serial entertainment currently being made.
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Lobok posted:The whole show started with a huge self-own when the teleprompter wasn't working and he panicked. A man whose career is based on doing live comedy. And literally any other professional comic would have managed to bounce back from that without a problem. Like you think Chris Rock would have stalled for time by pointing out famous people in the audience?
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