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Blisster posted:The team behind Ex Machina have a new film coming out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufaDurSCKOk That looks dope.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Lavar Burton directed Smart House Still, to this day, I get that loving song they play during the party stuck in my head sometimes achillesforever6 posted:That's one of the few ones I remember fondly, there was the phantom in the megaplex, that paper boy movie where a couple of rear end in a top hat kids had a cool rear end tree fortress, merman movie, The Luck of the Irish, the Even Stevens movie, and that space girl movie series. The *cough*merman movie was The Thirteenth Year, and Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century is the space girl movie. Brink was absolutely sick to pre-teen me. Blisster posted:The team behind Ex Machina have a new film coming out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufaDurSCKOk Oscar Isaac's back, I'm in.
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Sep 28, 2017 02:48
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Genuinely interested in what you make of both. I haven't seen the former and it sounds batshit; I have seen the latter, and I felt like it came incredibly close to being great, but didn't have enough confidence in itself to achieve it. On Creating Rem Lezar: It is batshit and uncomfortable from start to finish. The high point is when the villain's musical number is clearly inspired by King Diamond. On Captain Underpants: It was not even close to great. Thoroughly mediocre animated children's comedy. Any apparent strengths to the film are rooted in the superficial novelty of it being adapted from a prolific lowbrow children's book series, but in execution there's very little distinguishing it from any other works in the same genre.
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Sep 28, 2017 02:59
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Friday the 13th 2-6 are dope as hell
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Sep 28, 2017 02:59
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Book binding used to be so dope 
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Sep 28, 2017 03:25
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Coffee And Pie posted:Chubby pup does a point Nice Stephen King collection!
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Sep 28, 2017 03:35
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I just saw The Florida Project and it's pretty wonderful y'all. Other than Sean Baker and the Safdies, who are the best directors filming the hustle right now?
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Sep 28, 2017 04:09
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Nice Stephen King collection! Thanks, my mom is a big fan. I'm reading It as we speak actually
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Sep 28, 2017 04:10
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It is pretty good. A bit rambley at times but good. I def skipped most of the child orgy. I couldn't deal with that.
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Sep 28, 2017 04:20
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Yeah, that Wizard and Glass spine jumped out at me.Snak posted:Friday the 13th watchthrough update: I take back half of the bad things I said about part 3, if only because part 4 was so much worse. Part 5 was a vast improvement. I would say 1 and 2 are tied for best, and part 5 next. Part 5 has probably the most agressive pacing of any of them so far, which was quite welcome. Well, the first movie was just a cheap cash in on Halloween. "We need a day that is scary but isn't Halloween." "Uh I guess that leaves us with Friday the 13th and Super Bowl Sunday if you're husband is a mean drunk." But yeah, I love the third one. It's when the series really comes into its own (and when they finally get their own icon with Jason's hockey mask) and I've always been a sucker for cheap 3d movies shown in 2d.
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Sep 28, 2017 04:20
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Sep 28, 2017 04:21
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Why are you sad about that. Guy loved a long life and did amazing things, most of them sex. He's lucky as gently caress.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Thanks, my mom is a big fan. I'm reading It as we speak actually Reading what?
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Sep 28, 2017 04:30
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Hef was a serious movie buff and bankrolled a lot of film restoration work
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K. Waste posted:On Captain Underpants: It was not even close to great. Thoroughly mediocre animated children's comedy. Any apparent strengths to the film are rooted in the superficial novelty of it being adapted from a prolific lowbrow children's book series, but in execution there's very little distinguishing it from any other works in the same genre. I don't really disagree with your overall assessment of it. What struck me in particular, though, was that the movie would consistently set up really good jokes... and then immediately throw them in the garbage in favor of a really obvious and lowbrow poop joke, as if they weren't at all confident that their audience would grok smarter material. If they'd just held back a bit on the toilet humor (not necessarily excised it entirely, just shown some loving restraint) it could have been on the same tier as, say, Lego Batman; as it stands it's just watchable.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I don't really disagree with your overall assessment of it. What struck me in particular, though, was that the movie would consistently set up really good jokes... and then immediately throw them in the garbage in favor of a really obvious and lowbrow poop joke, as if they weren't at all confident that their audience would grok smarter material. If they'd just held back a bit on the toilet humor (not necessarily excised it entirely, just shown some loving restraint) it could have been on the same tier as, say, Lego Batman; as it stands it's just watchable. I actually feel that it's the opposite dilemma: None of the jokes are particularly lowbrow. The threshold has shifted since 1997. Your average animated film is already pretty scatological, now. Captain Underpants ends up feeling as tame as The Peanuts Movie. You would think that with a movie called Captain Underpants, most of the humor would revolve around really puerile stuff. Instead, most of it is expository in that manner that everything needs to be expository now. Something awkward happens and a character says, "That's awkward." Something confusing happens and a character announces their confusion. Professor Poopypants says that the emphasis is on the poop. Even running gags can't just be running gags. The characters need to run past the running gag and then pop back in to say, "Hey, look, the gag is still happening." But what actually happens in the film is that Captain Underpants punches a mime, or fights a giant inflatable gorilla, or the kids hijack a crane, it's all really tame stuff. Contrast this with The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, one of the greatest animated films of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpI0s0ky53I
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I mean, six one way, half a dozen the other. The film could have also been reasonably improved by going further in the poop joke direction, I guess, but it refuses to actually commit to anything, and I thought the non-scatological material was a lot stronger. At the end of the day, what you're left with is a very frustrating movie, because it feels like a primoridial kids-movie ooze from which a great movie could have risen, had anyone involved put in just a little more effort and focused the film a bit more narrowly and had a bit more faith in their audience.
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Sep 28, 2017 05:18
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It just doesn't feel like a very good adaptation of Captain Underpants.
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On the one hand, hefner was a horrific sex creep, but on the other he published some great stuff. Truly, a land of contrasts.
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Budgie Jumping posted:TOS is bad because it doesn't have any Q. X-Ray Pecs posted:Still, to this day, I get that loving song they play during the party stuck in my head sometimes 
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Sep 28, 2017 05:31
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Big is like the opposite though, it's just a kid that becomes Tom Hanks I mean, someone listed 13 Going On 30. If that flies then we can have Big. Anyway I find it most amusing that there are at least three versions of Freaky Friday and two of 17 Again. SleepCousinDeath posted:there's also another version of 17 Again made for the Disney Channel that stars Taj Mowry I guess there are three. Why don't people make more kid/adult brain swap movies instead of just making new versions of the same ones? precision posted:HP Lovecraft deserves all the flak he gets for his lovely views on race but it is legitimately an amazing accomplishment that he made geometry terrifying His talent for describing all this impossible poo poo in such detail is unbelievable. His use of seriously old timey racism is also impressive. I'd never read the word "quadroon" so many times!
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Josh Lyman posted:Unironically Q is one of the most remarkable characters. He's a literal god and not a useless way Thor is, and this normally kills all dramatic tension. Honestly, I feel like this is mostly on Q being a huge dick. A benevolent literal god kills all dramatic tension; a literal god who sees the protagonists as, essentially, toys in his toybox is actually kind of terrifying.
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I Before E posted:On the one hand, hefner was a horrific sex creep, but on the other he published some great stuff. Truly, a land of contrasts. Hef is like the patron saint of "problematic fave". precision posted:i've not yet watched a single episode of rick and morty, is it worth it the quality of community is almost a perfect sine wave. starts out at base, reaches it's peak about halfway through season two, returns to base by the end of season three, reaches it's bottom about halfway through season 5, and then returns to base for the end.
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I just got back from seeing The Searchers at a theater. Never saw it before, complely forgot it was a John Ford film. I said in the past that I was shocked that squeaky clean image John Wayne got his start in Stagecoach playing an outlaw, but I didn't realize how morally dubious his portrayl of Ethan would be. What a sad, racist man.
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Am I the only person who feels like Bojack Horseman bites super hard from Eastbound and Down? I like both shows a lot and they play the material differently due to setting and general tone, but still.
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Sep 28, 2017 06:06
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James Cameron coming back for another Terminator, only if he could do the same for Aliens!
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I just want an Abyss sequel.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I just want an Abyss sequel. This time with more stock footage of war crimes.
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Lurdiak posted:This time with more stock footage of war crimes. It briefly scrolls through the Something Awful forums and immediately slams tsunamis into every coastline.
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So I rewatched The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat. e: like, the first movie is... unpleasant, but at least has some redeeming qualities. This doesn't. This seriously doesn't.
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Neither movie has anything on the absolute searing nightmarishness of Felix the Cat, which is ytotd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xioJSBnVuI0
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i made a dumb thing https://s1.webmshare.com/AdKQQ.webm edit: SA doesn't want to embed so here's a link https://webmshare.com/play/AdKQQ
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context is grizzly man (good) and a cop/military "rap song" by noted shithead fash grifter Baked Alaska (bad)
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https://twitter.com/msLAS/status/913242392639229954
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Hugh Hefner kinda looks like Leslie Nielson playing Popeye.X-Ray Pecs posted:The *cough*merman movie was The Thirteenth Year, and Zenon, Girl of the 21st Century is the space girl movie. Brink was absolutely sick to pre-teen me This discussion is reminding me, which one of you is the neckbeard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITR-FIi_oA
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Neither movie has anything on the absolute searing nightmarishness of Felix the Cat, which is ytotd: Apples and oranges. The Felix film is nightmarish because it's surreal; Nine Lives of Fritz is nightmarish because it's loving abhorrent. The first Fritz is... iffy politically, but taken in the context of Bakshi's work as a whole, I think it's aight. The Harlem sequence is basically proto-Coonskin, with Fritz's role in it working remarkably well even now as a parody of terrible white "allies," and while the film depicts some pretty loving brutal misogyny it's fairly careful not to endorse it (the scene with the horse girl is horrifying, and obviously intended to be). Nine Lives, meanwhile, takes everything the first film did okay at and takes a giant, steaming poo poo all over it. Wikipedia - seriously I'm not kidding all of this actually loving happens in the movie posted:The first character he meets on his stoned journey is Juan, a Puerto Rican. The two talk about Juan's sister Chita. The scene fades to Juan's house where Fritz is seen sitting on the couch smoking a joint next to Chita, while Juan is at the store. Chita complains to Fritz when he blows smoke in her eyes. His reaction is to tell her to loosen up and "embrace her fellow man", then he suddenly shoves a joint into her mouth, taking her off into her own hallucinogenic fantasy. The pot makes her horny. Meanwhile, outside, a pair of crows are about to rob the place, but decide to stay outside and watch what happens inside instead. A car pulls up and out comes Chita's father, who sees Fritz and Chita having sex, and blows Fritz apart with a shotgun. This violent display turns off the two crows, who decide to come back at another time. On its own, I can go "okay, it's an exploitation movie from 1974, no poo poo it's not going to be progressive." This is probably why none of this really stuck out to me (beyond the utter loving insanity of Hitler rape) on my first viewing. Going from the first movie (made by a, to my understanding, pretty openly left-leaning guy) to this, though, is jarring as gently caress.
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