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When it comes to giant monster movies SMG and I are almost in full agreement. Kong is just real drat incredible.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Since it came up on this page, Crimson Tide is also a good Cold War movie. Great cast: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, James Gandolfini, Viggo Mortensen, just as some of the bigger names. Yeah, despite coming out in ... 1996?, it's pure Cold War terror.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:09
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The Man from Laramie is dope. Also, TCM is having a "March Malice" week from the 20th to the 25th, focusing on killers, murderers, psychos, and villains. http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.html?tz=est&sdate=2017-03-20 This has to be the greatest stretch of movies they've ever played.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:16
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Egbert Souse posted:The Man from Laramie is dope. Psycho, Peeping Tom and Night of the Hunter is a hell of a triple bill.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:24
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Don't forget tonight is Trashin'/Hard Ticket to Hawaii - 's gonna be tight.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:28
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Skwirl posted:Psycho, Peeping Tom and Night of the Hunter is a hell of a triple bill. They're showing a double-feature of Eraserhead and It's Alive next month.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:31
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therattle posted:Cold War films: Oh man, Tinker Tailor is insanely good. Its visual storytelling is so effective, which means that it doesn't have to shove a bunch of lovely exposition in there.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:38
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The longer, more exposition-heavy miniseries is also extremely good.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:43
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K. Waste posted:Don't forget tonight is Trashin'/Hard Ticket to Hawaii - 's gonna be tight. The cable guide is convinced they're not showing Thrashin' tonight so I can't DVR it, which blows
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Mar 11, 2017 20:45
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I haven't seen that yet. But yeah, exposition doesn't automatically equal worse quality, but I do appreciate when a really good movie has very little of it and is completely comprehensible and better than it would've been with more plot chat. See also Mad Max: Fury Road
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Mar 11, 2017 20:47
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its fuckin lit fam, it's totes sick, alec guinness is my spy bae, it's hella dope
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Mar 11, 2017 20:49
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Oh man, Tinker Tailor is insanely good. Its visual storytelling is so effective, which means that it doesn't have to shove a bunch of lovely exposition in there. Yeah, it's fantastic. I've got the TV series on DVD which I picked up cheaply at a charity shop but haven't watched yet.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:53
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My experience with the movie was that, by the end of it, I was utterly baffled by the plot machinations but the actual emotional experience, particularly during the montage at the end, was so powerful that I didn't even care.
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Mar 11, 2017 20:57
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:The cable guide is convinced they're not showing Thrashin' tonight so I can't DVR it, which blows That does suck. Also, classic silent short of the day is Griffith's "psychological tragedy," from 1912, The Female of the Species: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgs7iV9Mmyo (P.S.) I watched this with "Static" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor as score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qonPOiwk_hc
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Mar 11, 2017 20:58
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K. Waste posted:The more I think about it the more I dig it. My favorite part was the motif of Marlow, Kong, and Goodman all receiving cuts on their palms. I like pretty much every shot; Kong is the Most Cinematic Movie 2017. Like, I'm cheering a rack focus. That's the kind of movie it is. The overt parallels with Temple Of Doom establish it as a movie-movie, which segues into an actually-good version of Jurassic Park III (moreso than Jurassic World). It's a great film because it's played 100% straight, but with everything intensified. There's nothing sarcastic or ''meta' as in those films (e.g. Temple Of Doom's 'anything goes', JPIII's sequel-status inferiority complex). It's Prometheus-funny. The action surpasses Fury Road. It also brings me back to my point that JPIII should have been a found-footage movie, but does almost-nothing with the amateur-videographer plot point. In Kong, documentation is everything. There are shades of the original Mothra's exploration of truth versus mere factuality in journalism.
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Mar 11, 2017 21:01
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Magic Hate Ball posted:My experience with the movie was that, by the end of it, I was utterly baffled by the plot machinations but the actual emotional experience, particularly during the montage at the end, was so powerful that I didn't even care. I had read the book beforehand so it was a little more straightforward for me, but I could still see how the plot elements would fit together without that crutch. The emotional weight is definitely impactful, though, yeah
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Mar 11, 2017 21:03
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married but discreet posted:Blackhawk Down is also a one of the best pro-war movies around. Like, if you're already inclined towards rah-rah military jubilations, that movie must be straight up heroin.
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Mar 11, 2017 21:50
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Speaking of the Cold War, what are some good movies set around it? Possession, The Lives of Others, Fail Safe (fictionalized but still)... Day of the Dead 
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Mar 11, 2017 22:30
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Speaking of the cold war, just last night I watched the episode of Golden Girls where Rose writes a letter to Gorbachev.
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Mar 11, 2017 22:32
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Snak posted:Speaking of the cold war, just last night I watched the episode of Golden Girls where Rose writes a letter to Gorbachev. It's pretty great, I like the ambassador from Russia who immediately defects. There's another episode later on where they have a cousin over who's visiting from a recently-freed Eastern European country who becomes obsessed with Slurpees. You can really see how much people absolutely loathed communism.
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Mar 11, 2017 22:41
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Speaking of the Cold War, what are some good movies set around it? Possession, The Lives of Others, Fail Safe (fictionalized but still)... Good Bye Lenin!, a comedy set just after the Cold War. An old lady and pro-communist wakes up from a coma shortly after the fall of the USSR. Her grown up son has to keep her from finding out or else the shock might kill her.
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Mar 11, 2017 22:52
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I'm only thirty-minutes into King Kong Escapes and I've already bought that and the King Kong vs. Godzilla blu-ray. I'm on a big monkey movie bender.
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Mar 11, 2017 22:59
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Detective No. 27 posted:Good Bye Lenin!, a comedy set just after the Cold War. An old lady and pro-communist wakes up from a coma shortly after the fall of the USSR. Her grown up son has to keep her from finding out or else the shock might kill her. Oh yeah! That's a good one. Terrific film.
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Mar 11, 2017 23:00
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All of this Cold War film talk reminded me we're getting a new Armando Iannucci movie called The Death of Stalin this year, I believe.
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Mar 11, 2017 23:02
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Detective No. 27 posted:Good Bye Lenin!, a comedy set just after the Cold War. An old lady and pro-communist wakes up from a coma shortly after the fall of the USSR. Her grown up son has to keep her from finding out or else the shock might kill her. there's also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ7MfFB14xo which is a weird comedy about a town that claims to have started the revolution before bucharest
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Mar 11, 2017 23:17
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K. Waste posted:I'm only thirty-minutes into King Kong Escapes and I've already bought that and the King Kong vs. Godzilla blu-ray. I'm on a big monkey movie bender. I think there's an important distinction to make: Skull Island is a Sasquatch movie, moreso than a (giant) ape movie.
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Mar 11, 2017 23:35
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Detective No. 27 posted:Good Bye Lenin!, a comedy set just after the Cold War. An old lady and pro-communist wakes up from a coma shortly after the fall of the USSR. Her grown up son has to keep her from finding out or else the shock might kill her. I love Good Bye Lenin! It was one of the first movies I was able to watch and understand in German without subtitles, which may be part of why I tend to use some Berliner German sometimes.
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Mar 11, 2017 23:40
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Top Secret is another good Cold War movie.
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Mar 11, 2017 23:52
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Grendels Dad posted:Top Secret is another good Cold War movie. Top Secret is great.
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Mar 11, 2017 23:54
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I think there's an important distinction to make: Skull Island is a Sasquatch movie, moreso than a (giant) ape movie. I'd say the Kong of Skull Island is an interstitial figure, kind of like The Mighty Peking Man.
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Grendels Dad posted:Top Secret is another good Cold War movie. No one has mentioned Hitchcock's various Cold War thrillers, not even North by Northwest, which is the less somber obverse of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in that both skewer skullduggery and "intelligence" work as the bullshit daydreams of manchildren made real by an insane political order. Torn Curtain, by contrast, is pretty lame. Others from during the war that don't come up as often are The Bedford Incident (afaik the first "accidental nuclear war" drama) Seven Days in May, a sort of reverse Manchurian Candidate, and Les Espions, by the dude who did Les Diaboliques and Wages of Fear, Henri Clouzot. Oh, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Red Dawn, for a double feature on how the Cold War warped people's brains.
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Mar 12, 2017 00:14
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I just noticed that in trailers for Netflix original movies the "only in" (as in "only in cinemas") at the end changes to "only on [Netflix]". http://i.imgur.com/sw0ttmU.mp4
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I think there's an important distinction to make: Skull Island is a Sasquatch movie, moreso than a (giant) ape movie. How do you mean? Or rather, I get how a Sasquatch movie is different from a Kong/Mighty Joe Young style ape feature and wonder what's up with Kong that it's more of the former.
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Mar 12, 2017 00:17
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Even the worst King Kong movie (Lives) is worth watching because a giant ape wrecking poo poo is inherently great. Escapes is fun. Apparently it's technically the feature film version of a 60s Kong cartoon from Rankin Bass.
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Mar 12, 2017 00:31
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Overheard guest opinion on noted fake-looking movie The Shack: "It's the best movie I've seen in 35 years. It's pg-13, no swearing, no bad words. It is so good. I'm not gonna give it away, but it's about the transition from here to [points at the ceiling] there."
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Mar 12, 2017 00:42
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Is it a spooky creepy shack??
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Mar 12, 2017 00:45
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seattle people: david lynch fest coming soon
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Mar 12, 2017 00:46
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I did not enjoy The Nice Guys very much
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Mar 12, 2017 00:53
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Really? I thought it was hilarious. Not as good as Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, though.
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Definitely on the better side of the Shane Black spectrum, the peak being The Long Kiss Goodnight and the nadir being The Last Boyscout (which I still love tbh)
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