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Skwirl posted:One of us definitely needs to re-watch Infernal Affairs,because I'm pretty god damned it doesn't and the ending is the Matt Damon character gets away Scott free with a vague idea he'll be an honest cop from now on. I just watched it last week: The above is correct. Also the alternate ending where he gets arrested is like thirty seconds long and hilariously perfunctory, because it was mandated by the government to avoid implying extant police corruption. The ending 'changes' at 30 seconds or so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWT04Wkwtb4
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FlamingLiberal posted:Flight has some weird tonal issues. It's also kind of disjointed at times. The love interest or whatever only shows up for part of the film to preach about AA and then goes away. Then there's John Goodman as comic relief which, while good, doesn't seem to fit the tone that well. It's an alright movie but it's kinda strange.
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Simplex posted:I tend to think Mark Wahlberg is a a younger William H. Macy who doesn't know he's William H. Macy. He's the least believable serious x in any role, and should do nothing but dark comedies and Coen Brothers movies. dark comedies, like The Happening.
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Boogie Nights and The Happening are Exhibit A and Exhibit B in my hypothesis. Outside of the age difference making things real weird nothing else would be lost by switching Macy and Wahlberg's roles in that movie. If you put William H. Macy in The Happening instead of Mark Wahlberg, I think everybody would assume that the character is supposed to be a funny idiot, and the movie as a whole would be better received. Instead he tries so hard and fails to perform serious roles in so many other movies, that it seems like more of the same in The Happening. Exhibit C is Pain and Gain, which is a perfectly acceptable Mark Wahlberg performance.
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I've always loved that he gives the exact same performance in The Happening as he does in I Heart Huckabees.
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Isn't The Happening a comedy?
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Speaking of The Happing: Split, the new M. Night movie, seems to be getting a bunch of decent reviews. A sign of the end times or is the rest of January really just that bad?
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MacheteZombie posted:Isn't The Happening a comedy? Not on purpose
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Speaking of The Happing: Split, the new M. Night movie, seems to be getting a bunch of decent reviews. A sign of the end times or is the rest of January really just that bad? I heard it's pretty good. I've always believed Shyamalan had a few more good movies (and maybe even great) in him. Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, The Village is a hell of a streak. Devil, The Visit & Split all look to be doing well, particularly when considering their small-ish budgets. The smart way to watch his movies is to wait until after the reviews, basically. I haven't seen The Lady In The Water, Airbender or After Earth.
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Oh the Village is good now?
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I liked it. Good atmosphere, interesting visuals, fairly good performances. The 'twist' was ruined instantly, but it's a good watch outside of that.
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sixth sense and unbreakable are far above signs and the village. i wouldn't be surprised if he had another good movie in him.
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I totally buy into that 'fan-theory' (ugh) about the visitors in Signs, makes it really interesting on a rewatch. I'm fairly sure it's the intended meaning of the story, it's just framed as an alien invasion story. I also love The Happening, but in a very different, but equal way.
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FishBulb posted:Oh the Village is good now? Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs were good but they were followed by The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth. M Night has one of the worst filmographies I've ever seen.
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The Happening straight up rules and I'm very pumped to see The Visit and Lady In The Water on HBO the next couple of weeks cause those are his only movies I haven't seen. Everything but Airbender is good, and cool
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Improbable Lobster posted:Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs were good but they were followed by The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, The Last Airbender and After Earth. He made a movie before Sixth Sense. It belongs on the second group
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The Happening is hilarious because of how poor it is. It wouldn't have been funny if M Night was a good director. The Last Airbender and Lady in the Water are two of the worst films I've ever seen.
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Irony is a dead scene. You gotta be kidding me if you say the plant suicide movie with a wind chase scene is being serious, or that such a film could be "not funny" under any circumstances.
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plan 9 from outer space wasn't supposed to be a comedy.
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well why not posted:I totally buy into that 'fan-theory' (ugh) about the visitors in Signs, makes it really interesting on a rewatch. I'm fairly sure it's the intended meaning of the story, it's just framed as an alien invasion story. Which fan theory are we talking about here?
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I wouldn't mind a foreign remake of Lady in the Water. I think there are filmmakers in other countries would could do wonders with such a premise.
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Lady in the Water is just laughably bad, but it did have a fantastic score.
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Dexie posted:Which fan theory are we talking about here? Not aliens, but demons.
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Dexie posted:Which fan theory are we talking about here? The aliens are demons, and the water that hurts them is specifically Holy Water (since Gibson's character is a priest).
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DeimosRising posted:Irony is a dead scene. You gotta be kidding me if you say the plant suicide movie with a wind chase scene is being serious, or that such a film could be "not funny" under any circumstances. He doesn't become a better director just because one movie was pretty funny. The majority of his films are dogshit.
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I enjoyed his breakout stuff and most of his bad stuff is memorable. A bad movie should really go all out.
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The Visit was pretty good and pretty funny. I'll probably check out Split for McAvoy.
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The MSJ posted:Not aliens, but demons. What about the spaceship then
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Groovelord Neato posted:plan 9 from outer space wasn't supposed to be a comedy. What evidence is there to support this?
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The MSJ posted:Not aliens, but demons. Robot Style posted:The aliens are demons, and the water that hurts them is specifically Holy Water (since Gibson's character is a priest). Why would demons be leaving crop circles?
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Dexie posted:Why would demons be leaving crop circles? The same reason as the C.I.A./hoaxers - to distract people from the real menace.
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Sinners Sandwich posted:What about the spaceship then As I looked, behold, a whirl- wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire. 5 Within it there were figures resembling (J)four living beings And this was their appearance: they had human (K)form. 13 In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire. 15 Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four 16 The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another wheel 25 And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. 26 Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne, like lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man. 27 Then I noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him. 28 As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking.
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how is it any better if they're demons.
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For reference as to "aliens are literally the exact same thing as ghosts/demons/the boogeyman": The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher, 2015)
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K. Waste posted:What evidence is there to support this? Ed Wood's career
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Groovelord Neato posted:how is it any better if they're demons. It explains why beings who otherwise seem to have a toxic reaction to water would go within a light year of Earth, I guess, let alone hang out in a corn field creeping on people.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Ed Wood's career It's hubcap flying saucers all the way down. (Just kidding, those flying saucers were toy models, Wood just lied about it later in life because he gave no fucks.)
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Groovelord Neato posted:how is it any better if they're demons. Twists and secrets make movies good
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now that i found out there's a woke flintstones comic i want a movie of it.
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Were the aliens in signs even antagonistic? The one that made it to tv was just hanging around in a back garden and one at some point got locked inside a room and was trying to escape. I don't even remember what the at the end of the film was doing. Was it holding the son hostage?
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