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So I got into a stupid Internet argument with some Nazi ex-coworkers and also saw Jeremy Saulnier's new movie this week. Hold the Dark is a weird mood piece/noir story. I think I enjoyed it? I don't have Netflix so that influenced my decision to pay a premium to see its premiere at TIFF but I didn't stay for the cast and crew Q&A. The last time I did that it was Paul Schrader rambling for 15 minutes.
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CPL593H posted:This kind of reflection is never a good thing to do because a lot of people have created really good poo poo when they were under 30. The only saving grace I can think of (for my self esteem) is that PTA has never bettered Boogie Nights.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:02
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It's not as much envy, just it's loving impressive when someone makes a great work of art when they're young. Is it the lack of experience or perhaps the hubristic confidence of a younger person? And I don't feel too bad considering I managed to write a feature-length screenplay when I was 21. Gorn Myson posted:The only saving grace I can think of (for my self esteem) is that PTA has never bettered Boogie Nights. welp
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Sep 13, 2018 03:08
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Coffee And Pie posted:Reminds me of a thing I read where Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright were talking about their first movies, Tarantino was jealous that Wright had made his first movie, A Fistful of Fingers, when he was only 20, while Tarantino was 32. Wright’s response was that he wished his first movie was Reservoir Dogs. Everyone forgets My Best Friend's Birthday (Tarantino was 24), and what's left of it is actually pretty dang good. Think better than/actually good version of a Kevin Smith movie.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:26
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So if American Graffiti is different groups of characters in a single day in early 1960's And Dazed & Confused is the 1970's What are the best ones for the 80's, 90's and 00's?
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Sep 13, 2018 03:30
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Alrighty, Dailymotion of the Day is the rare original, pre-Redux version of Wong Kar-wai's underrated deconstruction of the wuxia genre Ashes of Time, with none of the digital color grading, the original score, deleted fight scenes, and all those classic 1990s HK sound effects: Part 1 Part 2 It's pretty poor quality but it's probably the best it's ever going to look at this point. It's got a stacked cast, convoluted plot (it helps knowing it serves as a prequel to a famous wuxia novel, with its villain as the protagonist), and fight choreography by Sammo Hung ... undercranked and step-printed into expressionistic blurs in WKW's signature style. Double feature it with either Chungking Express, which Wong Kar-wai filmed while in the the middle of this film's massive post-production process, or The Eagle Shooting Heroes (now streaming on FilmStruck) which is a cheap bizarre parody of the source material the studio made with the same cast in order to recoup some money as Ashes of Time ran over budget and over deadline.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:32
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Franchescanado posted:So if American Graffiti is different groups of characters in a single day in early 1960's White 90s Go? Black 90s House Party
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Sep 13, 2018 03:36
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Franchescanado posted:So if American Graffiti is different groups of characters in a single day in early 1960's Do the Right Thing, 25th Hour, Can't Hardly Wait.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:38
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Franchescanado posted:So if American Graffiti is different groups of characters in a single day in early 1960's The 90s one is definitely that high school party movie with Jennifer Love Hewitt. I think it's Can't Hardly Wait, but I get a lot of those movies confused with each other.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:38
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The 90s one is Magnolia probably.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:40
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Franchescanado posted:So if American Graffiti is different groups of characters in a single day in early 1960's Richard Linklater just released Everybody Wants Some!!! as sort of an 80's-based successor to Dazed and Confused. It takes place over one weekend, not one day though.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:47
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Franchescanado posted:So if American Graffiti is different groups of characters in a single day in early 1960's 90s is definitely Slacker.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:50
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Vargo posted:Richard Linklater just released Everybody Wants Some!!! as sort of an 80's-based successor to Dazed and Confused. It takes place over one weekend, not one day though. Isn't it supposedly dogshit, though?
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Sep 13, 2018 03:54
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This is a confusing question because if we're talking about movies that take place in a day portraying a time period and are counting movies that were made in the period they're about then technically American Grafitti is that movie for the 70s and Dazed and Confused is that movie for the 90s. If it's not this then none of the ones you guys list count with the exception of Everybody Wants Some. edit: Never mind this is technically not correct either but I think you guys will get what I mean.
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Sep 13, 2018 03:58
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So I'm watching this Argentinian movie from 2017 called 27, el club de los malditos, and while it's kind of too precious and hyperactive for my taste (like Guy Ritchie, but not as tight or polished), but it does have some really astounding production design and cinematography.  This is just the first screenshot I took, the rest of the movie isn't black-and-white, this is just a part that flashes back to Sid of the Sex Pistols K. Waste fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Sep 13, 2018 |
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Sep 13, 2018 04:01
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The 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie kind of owns??? It's like the anti-Avengers.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:09
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Isn't it supposedly dogshit, though? It's pretty good, if a bit laid back in terms of pacing.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:10
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Isn't it supposedly dogshit, though? It's basically Dazed and Confused-lite where all the characters are unlikable bros.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:15
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Mechafunkzilla posted:The 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie kind of owns??? The action is better than the rest of the tmnt's combined, and paired with the turtles obvious African American styled designs, Raphael's last speech makes it a really great movie for people of color. Splinter's fight kicks rear end.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:16
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Explaining a lot, this movie 27 is co-written by Alex Cox, of Sid & Nancy and Repo Man fame. Also, here's a tidbit on the director Nicanor Loreti's previous film Kryptonita: quote:The plot is based on an idea in the Elseworlds style (belonging to DC Comics ), where Kal-El / Superman's ship does not land in Smallville , but in Isidro Casanova , a town in the De la Matanza Party , in Argentina. From there, Superman grows and becomes Nafta Super, a " superhero " of the slums and the poor, as well as his criminal gang, which also becomes a particular version of the Justice League .
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Sep 13, 2018 04:17
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Mechafunkzilla posted:The 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie kind of owns??? Yeah, it ain't bad at all. The sequel is pretty blah though.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:17
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bushisms.txt posted:The action is better than the rest of the tmnt's combined, and paired with the turtles obvious African American styled designs, Raphael's last speech makes it a really great movie for people of color. Even the fact that New York is actually inhabited by people rather than just empty cars stands out.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:20
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I really should give TMNT '14 another shot.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:29
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It's very okay.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:30
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There is now a thread about Mandy
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Sep 13, 2018 04:53
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K. Waste posted:I really should give TMNT '14 another shot.
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Sep 13, 2018 04:59
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CelticPredator posted:I'm gonna try and do something. Do it. Speaking of which if any one is down to read the new script I co-wrote let me know. Need some fresh eyeballs and we wanna shoot next summerrrrrrr, first feature. Should be ready in a week.
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Sep 13, 2018 06:35
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Gorn Myson posted:Anyone else rewatch Boogie Nights, find themselves stunned by how perfect it is and then get insanely jealous and slightly depressed when they realise that PTA was 27 when it was released? Think of all the music Otis Redding made in his career then consider that he died at age 26.
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Sep 13, 2018 08:18
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Jimmy Hendrix invented what we know as stereo sound before he died at 27. We're all failures.
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Sep 13, 2018 08:38
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I mean Orson Welles made Citizen Kane at 25.... Chantel Akerman made Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles also at 25 Sex Lies and Videotapes at 26 Spike Lee Do The Right Thing at 32
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Sep 13, 2018 08:42
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bushisms.txt posted:We're all failures. 
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Sep 13, 2018 08:58
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What book are they talking about?
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Sep 13, 2018 09:01
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Wheat Loaf posted:What book are they talking about? Jurassic Park. Mostly because the scenes where Nedry feels his slippery intestines spilling out of him and Wu gets eaten alive are 'hecking rad'.
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Sep 13, 2018 09:03
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Gorn Myson posted:Yeah but theres a difference between "I never reached those heights at that age" and "I know that I'll never reach those heights at any point in my life". You’re entitled to your stupid, ignorant and foolish opinions but while Boogie Nights is indeed excellent, it’s no muthafucking There Will Be Blood.
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Sep 13, 2018 10:00
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Boogie Nights is, regardless of its position in the PTA filmography, the best movie Mark Wahlberg has starred in, and it is funny to me that he only ever seems to mention it nowadays in the context of lamenting that he hopes God will forgive him for being in it.
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Sep 13, 2018 10:13
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No that’s pain and gain
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Sep 13, 2018 10:26
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Death By The Blues posted:I mean Orson Welles made Citizen Kane at 25.... Alexander the Great had created one of the world's largest empire before he was 30
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Sep 13, 2018 10:48
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The average director makes his first feature at 30.
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Sep 13, 2018 10:54
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CelticPredator posted:No that’s pain and gain No that's The Other Guys
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Yeah but lots of beloved writers only published their first novel in their 40s or 50s so we've all still got a chance.
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