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I know I'm late to the party but I just watched Chef for the first time (streaming on Prime). What a great movie, I seriously did not want it to end. Favreau is becoming one of my favorite filmmakers.
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Chappie is on Netflix now
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precision posted:Chappie is on Netflix now I might finally watch it. That movie had a lot of things that got my interest, but I have a borderline pathological hatred of Die Antwoord
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Nov 3, 2017 05:21
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Die Antwoord is the best part of the movie tho
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Hot take: All Bond movies are garbage but the more absurd Moore and Brosnan movies the least so. Every last one of them is a ridiculous male There's nothing dark or realistic about always available consequence-free sex with impossibly gorgeous women while wiping out infinite hordes of baddies and never facing any real risk or danger. "Oooh, James Bond gets tortured for a couple minutes in the latest movie! How grimdark!" They're not dark, they're not gritty, they're not spy movies or thrillers or even action movies. They're firmly in the fantasy genre and it's not even good fantasy, it's the fever dream fantasy of a 13 year old boy. OHMSS is the only Bond film that even kinda has consequences for James Bond and is one of the few worth watching. If the producers of the latest film have any balls and actually want to makes a film with seeing and worth talking about the solution is clear, especially with Daniel Craig's disdain for the franchise and it being his swan song: Bond dies in the end. They can even tie that in to the internet theory about James Bond being a code name for various agents. Make Bond a real character again instead of an invulnerable walking penis.
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While what you've said is true, I don't think anybody was arguing your imaginary opponent's points. Also, even with the "hot take" at the beginning, I feel like you've cut yourself a few times while crafting that truly edgy post. But I still thank you for your contribution, as this is a discussion board.
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The problem with basically every other spy movie franchise is that eventually they just turn into Bond movies. The problem with the Bond franchise is their compulsive need to try to emulate whatever the new cool spy franchise is that everyone is talking about. It's no coincidence that Die Another Day came out in the same year as xXx. Or that Casino Royale and Quantum came out around the same time as the 2nd and 3rd Bourne movies.
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Simplex posted:The problem with basically every other spy movie franchise is that eventually they just turn into Bond movies. The problem with the Bond franchise is their compulsive need to try to emulate whatever the new cool spy franchise is that everyone is talking about. It's no coincidence that Die Another Day came out in the same year as xXx. Or that Casino Royale and Quantum came out around the same time as the 2nd and 3rd Bourne movies. CR did the realism pretty well by interspersing it with some really solid character work. I'm going to guess QoS didn't, because I remember my friends and I saw it opening night and I couldn't tell you the plot to that movie if you were hitting my balls with a rope.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:CR did the realism pretty well by interspersing it with some really solid character work. I'm going to guess QoS didn't, because I remember my friends and I saw it opening night and I couldn't tell you the plot to that movie if you were hitting my balls with a rope. Somebody saw Chinatown and thought a rich guy monopolizing water would be a good plot for a spy thriller
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Nov 3, 2017 07:17
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I might finally watch it. That movie had a lot of things that got my interest, but I have a borderline pathological hatred of Die Antwoord Die Antwoord play(?) infuriating retards in the movie and they gently caress everything up trough their infuriating retardation.
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Nov 3, 2017 07:19
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Ugly In The Morning posted:CR did the realism pretty well by interspersing it with some really solid character work. I'm going to guess QoS didn't, because I remember my friends and I saw it opening night and I couldn't tell you the plot to that movie if you were hitting my balls with a rope. I'm honestly never sure if QoS is supposed to be a satire. They go out of their way to paint the bad guys as a vast criminal conspiracy, but the actual plot is straight out of Exxon, BP, Suez, or really any other multinational firm like that's boardroom. And so they try really hard to portray Bond as a working class hero, which is really the exact opposite of what Bond is all about. It's definitely a more flagrant rip-off of the Bourne movies, whereas Casino merely borrows the style, QoS outright appropriates the substance.
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All I remember about QoS is the last act is a huge brawl in a fire and explosion factory. It's insane.
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All I remember is a huge eyeball.
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W424 posted:Die Antwoord play(?) infuriating retards in the movie and they gently caress everything up trough their infuriating retardation. So... it's a movie with Die Antwoord in it? I think I'll pass. Their music somehow actually makes me really angry, and I don't usually get angry.
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I hope I'm not churning up bad blood/more Tarantino chat, but I finally gave Hateful Eight a go. Verdict: Tarantino is incredibly up his own rear end. It's like he was trying to do The Thing but was too obvious with who was trustworthy and who was suspect (and all of the 'suspect' guys turned out to be the bad guys). But I will say, Walton Goggins is always a treat.
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Why did my friend tell me to watch Frontier? It's awful. The thing that confuses me about Hateful Eight is the flashback. It elongated the movie while adding absolutely nothing to it. I liked Goggins and Jackson doing their things though.
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Lycus posted:Why did my friend tell me to watch Frontier? It's awful. If it weren't Tarantino, I'd say they put the flashback in as a way to be able to sell the part to Channing Tatum, so that it wouldn't just be hey you show up for 5 minutes and then get your head blown off. But since it is Tarantino I'd doubt it actually went down that way. Probably just an excuse to show some graphic murders. regulargonzalez posted:Hot take: All Bond movies are garbage but the more absurd Moore and Brosnan movies the least so. Every last one of them is a ridiculous male Nobody wants Bond to be dark and gritty, I'm not sure where you're getting that from. I mean, yea I guess dark and gritty compared to like Moonraker or Die Another Day, but that's not the same thing you're talking about at all. Absurdity is a huge part of what makes Bond great, you're right about that, but in the best of them there is a balance. Is Grant a gritty and realistic character in From Russia With Love? Hell no, and that movie features a middle aged woman fighting Bond with a toe knife! Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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Casino Royales lack of wacky gadgets, fairly realistic 'down to earth' plot, and brutal, more authentic violence are all why it's considered one of the best Bond movies and a perfect refresh of a stale franchise.
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Ammanas posted:Casino Royales lack of wacky gadgets, fairly realistic 'down to earth' plot, and brutal, more authentic violence are all why it's considered one of the best Bond movies and a perfect refresh of a stale franchise. Casino Royale still has gadgets, it's just more realistic and gritty compared to what had come before. Remember, it was being compared to Die Another Day. Casino Royale is far from a realistic or "dark and gritty" film.
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cr also had mads mikkelsen crying bloody tears and that alone makes it better than every other bond movie combined
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Brosnan and Craig really had some major talent to work against when you think about it, even if the end results weren't always up to the level of that talent. Sean Bean, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Carlyle, Mads Mikkelsen, Javier Bardem, Christoph Waltz. That's a hell of a list.
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LadyPictureShow posted:I hope I'm not churning up bad blood/more Tarantino chat, but I finally gave Hateful Eight a go. I never really thought the murder mystery was the point of the movie though. My main takeaway from the movie was that the "good guys" aren't good and that people will use any flimsy excuse (including the law) to justify their enjoyment of violence. The Hangman says that if an executioner derives any pleasure from killing, it no longer resembles justice and becomes mob justice. By the end of the film, Jackson and Goggins are laughing to themselves as they hang Leigh.
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Chappie is a very good movie that is somewhat tarnished by a clearly muddled sense of identity. It also has some really weird/bad pacing and editing issues. On balance though, it's Blomkamp's second best movie.
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Chappie has a lot of issues but it's totally worth watching once and is pretty enjoyable. That's pretty much how I feel about all of neill blomkamp's movie though.
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Is there some weird rights reason why Shudder has every Phantasm movie but the second one? It just seems bizarre.
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david_a posted:Is there some weird rights reason why Shudder has every Phantasm movie but the second one? It just seems bizarre. I don't know anything specific but Phantasm II has been on HBOGO for a while, so maybe that has something to do with it. Why the rights would be split up like that I have no idea.
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veni veni veni posted:Chappie has a lot of issues but it's totally worth watching once and is pretty enjoyable. That's pretty much how I feel about all of neill blomkamp's movie though. I can't really imagine wanting to watch Elysium a second time, but I've enjoyed District 9 a half dozen or so times and I think I've watched Chappie three times.
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I'm the one weirdo that liked Elysium  I thought it was his best movie. I've only watched all of them once though.
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SleepCousinDeath posted:imo each Blomkamp is better than the last Unfortunately, with Oats Studios, we can't really vouch for that anymore. Chappie is still hella great, though. Also, on Netflix I just checked out the absurdly kinda schmaltzy and stupid, but nonetheless really beautifully shot and rather well-acted Sean Bean star-vehicle Drone, and I dig it. Soft recommend.
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SleepCousinDeath posted:imo each Blomkamp is better than the last Elysium is one of the worst movies I've seen in the last 5 years.
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Count me in on Chappie. It’s a fun thing to watch. I don’t like Die Antwoord music but I love their videos and so it is easy to please me with.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:Elysium is one of the worst movies I've seen in the last 5 years. Watch more movies
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Asnorban posted:Count me in on Chappie. It’s a fun thing to watch. I don’t like Die Antwoord music but I love their videos and so it is easy to please me with. I don't like ALL their songs, but I really like the band as people based on their interviews and such. They seem like genuinely cool people. veni veni veni posted:I'm the one weirdo that liked Elysium I liked it fine, I just have no desire to watch it again. Some flicks are just like that for me, even some that I love a lot (hell, I've only watched The Godfather once)
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I like their music and they're good in Chappie, but Ninja comes off as a tosser.
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On an objective level I could tell Chappie was a pretty mediocre film but I loving loved it because Die Antwoord.
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I'd rather be Ludovico'd with a supercut of whatever the hell Jodie Foster thought she was doing in Elysium than willingly subject myself to Die Antwoord.
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Chappie is bad and Die Whatever is bad, but Blomkamp's visuals saved it from falling into the terrible range. I'd watch it again. I love his way of making advanced technology look gritty, realistic, and like it'd seriously hurt anyone who tried to use it who wasn't careful.
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