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Friends Are Evil posted:Here’s a dumb WIP list of bad representations of metal (real or fake) in film. I thought about the really bad concert scene from 2016 Ghostbusters while writing this. Having Tenacious D in this list seems a bit off.
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I Before E posted:Having Tenacious D in this list seems a bit off. The Metallica pick is perfect tho
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I Before E posted:Having Tenacious D in this list seems a bit off. ...yeah, what? Tenacious D literally has Dio in it e: also what the gently caress at Phenomena being on that list!?!? who in their right loving mind considers Maiden false?
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Honestly, half my picks are just legit good bands being used in weird, out of touch ways. The name's probably a little misleading.
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Sep 15, 2018 01:57
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I haven't seen it, but how about Hesher with JGL? Not really metal, but I always thought Alice Cooper and Aerosmith were really lame choices of bands for Wayne and Garth to pine over. They didn't seem to fit in with their interests and the soundtrack elsewhere in the movies. edit: Cooper was pretty funny, though, so I don't actually mind. The most authentic uses of metal are in Cremaster 2 and 3. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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Sep 15, 2018 02:41
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Comedy option: add Lords of Chaos
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It was already there.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Not really metal, but I always thought Alice Cooper and Aerosmith were really lame choices of bands for Wayne and Garth to pine over. Gotta consider that in the 70's they were the coolest. Alice Cooper was considered to be a truly dangerous performer before he became a chill radio DJ/restaurant owner. And Aerosmith used to have Rolling Stones level of sex appeal. By the early 90's they were hitting middle age, yeah, but when Wayne and Garth were growing up these dudes were living legends.
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Sep 20, 2018 15:32
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Yea for a 90's kid who's first real exposure to Aerosmith was the Armageddon soundtrack, it's hard to see them the same way Wayne and Garth do.
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Sep 20, 2018 15:34
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Basebf555 posted:Yea for a 90's kid who's first real exposure to Aerosmith was the Armageddon soundtrack, it's hard to see them the same way Wayne and Garth do. Yup. Even in my classic rock phase I was never big on them, but I get that there was a time where they were kings. Also Wayne's World rules; both movies. No one knock Wayne's World.
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Sep 20, 2018 15:38
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I can’t remember the last time I watched either WW from start to finish, but if I see either of them on tv I’m flipping it there and watching through to the end.
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Sep 20, 2018 18:47
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TrixRabbi posted:Gotta consider that in the 70's they were the coolest. Alice Cooper was considered to be a truly dangerous performer before he became a chill radio DJ/restaurant owner. I know, but these are still characters who were teens through the 80's, and it's not like their tastes were otherwise totally antiquated or ignorant of any developments since their childhoods. I think they'd be pretty unimpressed by them by the early to mid 90's. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Sep 20, 2018 23:27
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TrixRabbi posted:To be fair they're in that movie because Jim Carrey is a huge fan and lobbied to have them. And yet on his Arsenio Hall interview, he misidentified them as Napalm Death.
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K. Waste posted:And yet on his Arsenio Hall interview, he misidentified them as Napalm Death. Was he not referring to Napalm Death? I've always just assumed he was interested in several different death/grindcore bands.
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Spatulater bro! posted:Was he not referring to Napalm Death? I've always just assumed he was interested in several different death/grindcore bands. That could have been it. In context it came off different, but I probably misread. Friends Are Evil posted:Honestly, half my picks are just legit good bands being used in weird, out of touch ways. The name's probably a little misleading. Just call it, like, "A Survey in Metalsploitation" or something.
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a retrospective on metal in cinema
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Basebf555 posted:Yea for a 90's kid who's first real exposure to Aerosmith was the Armageddon soundtrack, it's hard to see them the same way Wayne and Garth do. Up until around "Done With Mirrors" they were like the Stones and their music was all grimy rock swagger. Then they cashed out in a BIG way (*) and since then they've basically been a cover band for professional songwriters. It's actually really weird if you remember the original incarnation of the band, even though it's the same people.  They didn't always suck. It's probably hard to understand (believe?) unless you witnessed it personally. I think their late career trajectory is a surreal pop culture oddity that people don't talk about much for some reason. (*) there were a whole bunch of factors that made this happen, such as the main songwriters (Perry/Tyler) getting mostly clean as to prevent dying, the fact that Perry left the band for a while mostly unsuccessfully and sort of hated Tyler and I'd imagine a bunch of provisos from their label about if they'd even have a career and not flame out like so many contemporaries playing the same sort of music they were previously did
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There was also the Walk This Way collaboration with Run DMC, which was such a big deal for the resurgence of Aerosmith that it permanently changed their career trajectory.
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Basebf555 posted:There was also the Walk This Way collaboration with Run DMC, which was such a big deal for the resurgence of Aerosmith that it permanently changed their career trajectory. I was very surprised to learn this back when, I'd always thought they were a relatively new band, not that they formed a couple years after the fuckin Beatles.
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The weirdest thing is Aerosmith's last album of new material came out in loving 2012.
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The other bit of Aerosmith trivia that is amusing in a schaedenfreude sort of way is that after Joe Perry left the band in a bitter fashion he formed a new band called "The Joe Perry Project". The first single from The Joe Perry Project was called "Let The Music Do The Talking". It was a good song. Not quite as good as Aerosmith though. 4 years later and a few solo projects later, Perry rejoins Aerosmith and the first single for the band was a re-recorded version of "Let The Music Do The Talking" which promptly became (to that date) Aerosmith's biggest charting single. So much for solo careers I guess. (this was also the last album where Aerosmith was a "real" band too - after this one it was mostly collaborations with hitmen songwriters, especially for singles) InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Sep 21, 2018 |
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TrixRabbi posted:The weirdest thing is Aerosmith's last album of new material came out in loving 2012. If you dig somewhat there are a lot of bands that had lesser-known days. My favorite might be late 1960s Judas Priest during its blues era:  
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Pantera's glam rock era:
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TrixRabbi posted:The weirdest thing is Aerosmith's last album of new material came out in loving 2012. I'll never ever ever forget that either this album or the one before it is called "Honkin' on Bobo." Early Aerosmith is good. Toys in the Attic slaps. Their downturn started right around when he started lusting after his own daughter in music videos.
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Wasn't Alice Bishop one of the biggest reviewers on the site? I noticed she changed her avatar, and clicked her profile to see it, and it seems like she's almost entirely wiped her presence. https://letterboxd.com/alicebishop/ Her review blog's down too. I suppose it's no big deal, but I got used to seeing her have top review on most things. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Oct 12, 2018 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Wasn't Alice Bishop one of the biggest reviewers on the site? I noticed she changed her avatar, and clicked her profile to see it, and it seems like she's almost entirely wiped her presence. If she was, it’s news to me. Alice Stoehr’s name I’ve seen come up a lot, but I have no idea who this is. I tend not to look at the most popular reviews, though. It is a bummer sometimes when people leave. Occasionally I’ll click on somebody’s profile from I review I liked thinking I might want to follow them, only to find that they’ve been inactive for years.
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I am not loving this new font. old look: 
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Nov 2, 2018 07:56
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I really hate it. It looks dated to me. Was that font used a lot in the late Nineties/Aughts?
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I've noticed several websites moving to fatter, bolder fonts recently. Letterboxd, Gmail, maybe Netflix too?
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They've also tweaked the favicon.
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Weird and not very important question, but is there a way to remove a film from your 'watched films' list without deleting your review for said film? I posted some information on an old film which I believe to be a duplicate entry, but now I can't get rid of it. Edit: Nevermind, I'm stupid. I just realised that Letterboxd has a report function for duplicate entries. Samuel Clemens fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Nov 15, 2018 |
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Teenage Fansub posted:Wasn't Alice Bishop one of the biggest reviewers on the site? I noticed she changed her avatar, and clicked her profile to see it, and it seems like she's almost entirely wiped her presence. Good, those annoying white noise single sentence unfunny reviewers clog up the site with poo poo.
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JebanyPedal posted:Good, those annoying white noise single sentence unfunny reviewers clog up the site with poo poo. I appreciate a one liner as much as anyone, but some of these joke reviews have had spoilers and junk in them which when I go in to check out a new release's cast and stuff before seeing it really bums me out 
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JebanyPedal posted:Good, those annoying white noise single sentence unfunny reviewers clog up the site with poo poo. Glad it’s not just me. I’ve basically stopped clicking the reviews tab because for every thoughtful write-up, there’s 15 “LITERALLY SCREAMING” reviews.
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I, Butthole posted:I appreciate a one liner as much as anyone, but some of these joke reviews have had spoilers and junk in them which when I go in to check out a new release's cast and stuff before seeing it really bums me out They're all poo poo. But, you're probably safer going to IMDB for that stuff, anyway. That's what I do, at least.
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JebanyPedal posted:Good, those annoying white noise single sentence unfunny reviewers clog up the site with poo poo. Yeah, Letterboxd is a great site, but it's full of so much no-effort junk that inexplicably gets voted to the top. 3 of my top 4 movies feature one sentence reviews that tell you nothing about the film, all from the same person. And god help you if you want to find lists of similar movies, because 90% of the "Popular Lists" for any given movie are 1000+ film lists sorted by poster color or literally just lists of every movie ever made.
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JebanyPedal posted:Good, those annoying white noise single sentence unfunny reviewers clog up the site with poo poo. Honestly, they're pretty easy to ignore after a certain point. The ones that get me are the ones that look like they're multiple paragraphs so you think "Oh, they actually thought about some stuff" but it turns out to just be a list of things that happen in the movie. Also, any YouTubers on the site are garbage.
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Lester Shy posted:Yeah, Letterboxd is a great site, but it's full of so much no-effort junk that inexplicably gets voted to the top. 3 of my top 4 movies feature one sentence reviews that tell you nothing about the film, all from the same person. And god help you if you want to find lists of similar movies, because 90% of the "Popular Lists" for any given movie are 1000+ film lists sorted by poster color or literally just lists of every movie ever made. The most baffling list I've seen is "Every horror movie ever made". So much time and effort must have gone into it, yet it's 100% pointless because anyone can just go to Films and filter to horror.
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Lester Shy posted:because 90% of the "Popular Lists" for any given movie are 1000+ film lists sorted by poster color or literally just lists of every movie ever made. THANK YOU. Those super huge lists are useful for the 5 approximate seconds where you wonder "Hey, I wonder what percentage of coming-of-age movies have I seen?" and that's about it. Lists is genuinely one of my favorite features, but it's severely let down by the main page for it being 1. a set of 3 lists at the top that barely moves 2. a set of picked lists at the side that never moves 3. a bunch of lists literally just created by people that have 2 movies in them and aren't interesting at all There's some really cool and fun stuff if you dig for it, at least.
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