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PTizzle posted:Which one, out of interest? I'm curious to check his latest stuff out eventually. Knight of Cups didn't do much for me, but Song to Song was a good bounce back. I think To The Wonder isn't well-liked but I actually enjoyed it.
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I haven't seen Song to Song, but Knight of Cups is the only Malick that I didn't get anything out of.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Did they ever release those Director’s Series DVDs on Blu-ray (the ones where each volume was dedicated to a particular director’s music videos)? I had the Jonze and Gondry ones back in the day, I think there was an Anton Corbijn one too? These DVDs are amazing, I wish I’d picked up more than just the Spike Jonze one. You used to be able to rent them on Netflix, not sure if they’re still on there.
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Was there ever a story on why Bill Cosby made such terrible movies in the 80s? Leonard, Part 6 and Ghost Dad? You would think with the popularity of the Cosby Show he would have been able to get some better gigs.
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Cosby has a pretty long history of questionable taste and poor decisions even putting aside the monstrous stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGYeDakoK1Q morestuff fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Apr 13, 2018 |
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Apr 13, 2018 23:17
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Mother Juggs and Speed was really something. I bet you didn't know driving an ambulance in the 70s was a lot like being a cowboy on a wagon train or something.
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SimonCat posted:Was there ever a story on why Bill Cosby made such terrible movies in the 80s? Leonard, Part 6 and Ghost Dad? You would think with the popularity of the Cosby Show he would have been able to get some better gigs. Eddie Murphy turned down Star Trek 4 to do The Golden Child. Everyone did weird poo poo in the '80s.
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Timby posted:Eddie Murphy turned down Star Trek 4 to do The Golden Child. What was he up for in Star Trek 4?
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Billy the Mountain posted:What was he up for in Star Trek 4? I'm pretty sure it was the marine biologist role. It was rewritten as a love interest when Eddie Murphy turned it down.
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Timby posted:Eddie Murphy turned down Star Trek 4 to do The Golden Child. It's not too crazy. He turned down a supporting role for top billing. In the end he probably made more money and it'd take a least a half dozen more stinkers until he finally reached that pinnacle of Hollywood that is voice acting. The man looks about 20 years younger than he is so he just needs to make a lot of sequels to stuff people like. <checks IMDB page> Yep, Beverly Hills Cop 4. That'll do it. Maybe put in a subplot about Black men getting shot by police.
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LesterGroans posted:I'm pretty sure it was the marine biologist role. It was rewritten as a love interest when Eddie Murphy turned it down. Correct. Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes did two drafts of the script (both of which were unfilmable because of how terrible they were), and then they were jettisoned around the same time that Murphy left. However, due to WGA scamboogery, they share screenplay credit with Harve Bennett and Nick Meyer.
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SimonCat posted:Was there ever a story on why Bill Cosby made such terrible movies in the 80s? Leonard, Part 6 and Ghost Dad? You would think with the popularity of the Cosby Show he would have been able to get some better gigs. Most people don't set out to make a bad movie, and it's nearly impossible to know how a movie will turn out when you decide to take the job.
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SimonCat posted:Was there ever a story on why Bill Cosby made such terrible movies in the 80s? Leonard, Part 6 and Ghost Dad? You would think with the popularity of the Cosby Show he would have been able to get some better gigs. Leonard Part 6 was, believe it or not, him throwing his clout around to get a movie made his way.
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Timeless Appeal posted:It's important to remember than in a lot of ways The Cosby Show was a step back for him. He had already had a decently successful sitcom, and a lot of the 70s was him trying to become a movie star. He even stared in his own Western. Hmm. Interesting. I suppose like a lot of people my age they are really only familiar with Cosby from The Cosby Show and "Bill Cosby:Himself." I forget about his earlier output which seems like it was pretty well forgotten by the 80s.
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Cosby was a cultural icon and his biggest crime is that now a massive chunk of Black mainstream work is tainted. He was either the first or the best at so many things he tried. Just for a child's perspective you had Fat Albert and Picture Pages. Cosby wasn't on the same planet as Mr. Rogers, but he was in the same solar system. As for Leonard Part 6, Cosby's shtick was goofy humor which can easily be stupid and not in a good way. That's why Leslie Nielsen is a comic genius and even his stuff stunk about half the time.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Cosby was a cultural icon and his biggest crime is that now a massive chunk of Black mainstream work is tainted. He was either the first or the best at so many things he tried. Personally I think the biggest crime is all the rape. But I see your point.
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Richard Pryor was funnier.
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This exchange is still gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZlQaE4GDUY
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Skwirl posted:Richard Pryor was funnier. It was weird hearing Norm MacDonald and Jim Carrey discussing him as if he were literally the funniest man ever when I was mostly familiar with him from the movies he did with Gene Wilder, a little of his stand-up, "dead honky" and his role in Lost Highway after he self-immolated. But Cosby, idk when he was really funny. Grew up on his sitcom but in the 80s there was no comedy in sitcoms. None. Didn't exist. Strange days.
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It might be an unfair statement about Cosby's comedy because I've never listened/seen his stand-up and given what we now know I don't think I ever will, but I'm also not that concerned if I'm being unfair to Cosby's comedic talents, given what we now know.
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Skwirl posted:It might be an unfair statement about Cosby's comedy because I've never listened/seen his stand-up and given what we now know I don't think I ever will, but I'm also not that concerned if I'm being unfair to Cosby's comedic talents, given what we now know. His stand-up was great. Kind of the polar opposite of someone like Murphy or Pryor. Granted, John Wayne Gacy may have been the best clown ever. It wouldn't make watching him now any easier.
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Cosby was a genius standup comedian, Pryor started his career as a fake Bill Cosby.
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Bill Cosby: Himself is legit one of the all-time top 5 standup routines. Absolutely sucks that it's forever tainted because he's a horrific human being. Last time I watched it was in 2008 before everything came out with my Dutch gf who, like many in this thread, only knew of him from The Cosby Show. She was in hysterics, crying from laughing at the dentist bit and the chocolate cake bit.
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edit: posted in the wrong drat thread
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regulargonzalez posted:Bill Cosby: Himself is legit one of the all-time top 5 standup routines. Absolutely sucks that it's forever tainted because he's a horrific human being. Yep, you'd be hard pressed to beat the description of his wife's conniption fit.
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Guys, maybe Cosby will cure cancer or solve the Syrian civil war before he dies and we can call it a wash. Until then I just hope there’s nothing nasty lurking is John Mulaney’s past.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Guys, maybe Cosby will cure cancer or solve the Syrian civil war before he dies and we can call it a wash. While a funny story, if it's true his Tom Jones joke should probably qualify as a war crime and get him brought up in The Hague.
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Skwirl posted:While a funny story, if it's true his Tom Jones joke should probably qualify as a war crime and get him brought up in The Hague. It’s not unusual to feel that way.
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Krispy Wafer posted:It’s not unusual to feel that way. It was What's New Pussycat.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Until then I just hope there’s nothing nasty lurking is John Mulaney’s past. Unrelated, but my ticket to go see him has a drinks voucher attached and I can’t wait to sip on a Tunatini.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Until then I just hope there’s nothing nasty lurking is John Mulaney’s past. I mean, he was a severe alcohol and drug addict for a large chunk of his life. He's not exactly the safest bet.
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feedmyleg posted:I mean, he was a severe alcohol and drug addict for a large chunk of his life. He's not exactly the safest bet. He did talk about smoking cocaine before his high school graduation and he looks like he has fetal alcohol syndrome so maybe he's got everything out of his system early.
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feedmyleg posted:I mean, he was a severe alcohol and drug addict for a large chunk of his life. He's not exactly the safest bet. He quit drinking in his mid twenties because he would get black out drunk too often. That probably makes him the least likely to be a rapist. Doesn't have his poo poo together enough to drug someone, and if he did decide to violently assault a passed out girl he couldn't do much to her.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Cosby was a genius standup comedian, Pryor started his career as a fake Bill Cosby. Pryor actually started his career in that weird hippy panic movie about a teenager becoming president and making old people take LSD Cool movie, the crazy doesnt happen til near the end
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Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs is one of the finest things ever pressed to vinyl Cosby: "What happens if you take LSD?" Child: "You kill people!" Cosby: "What else might happen?" Child: "You kill yourself!" He then explains that drug users are all so addicted to drugs that they will smoke bananas if they run out of drugs.
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got any sevens posted:Pryor actually started his career in that weird hippy panic movie about a teenager becoming president and making old people take LSD Nah, he'd been a standup for a while before that, he'd even made it to the Ed Sullivan show in 66. Same year as Wild In The Streets was his first record, which still has some of the Cosbyized stuff he'd been doing but even that early he's well on his way to the legendary Craps (After Hours) and the dozen or so records he did with Laff Records.
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I was watching Blood and Black Lace the other night and realized I almost never can follow (or give a poo poo about) the plots or stories of giallo movies. Is that common?
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Groundskeeper Silly posted:I was watching Blood and Black Lace the other night and realized I almost never can follow (or give a poo poo about) the plots or stories of giallo movies. Is that common? Almost universal
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I think I learned to just roll with it when I first saw Deep Red, which has the main character completely forget the guy who dies being apprehended as the killer in a murder he witnessed (from ground level, happening on like the fourth floor of a building) was with him when the murder was committed
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Power of Pecota posted:I think I learned to just roll with it when I first saw Deep Red, which has the main character completely forget the guy who dies being apprehended as the killer in a murder he witnessed (from ground level, happening on like the fourth floor of a building) was with him when the murder was committed He remembers that Carlo was with him after he is killed. Carlo isn't actually arrested. If he had been, Marcus probably would have remembered before too long that they were together and told police. I think it's reasonable for his lapse in memory considering all the crazy poo poo he goes through in the interim and also Carlo's actions when confronted before his death, which included some pretty erratic behavior and shooting at a cop.
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