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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There are so many subtle moments in The Big Lebowski it's goddamned ridiculous. Remember how The Dude hates the band The Eagles? Check out what song is playing in the background of the scene where their arch rival Jesus is introduced: Cool post. There's also the giant scissors behind dude that wind up in his dream sequence.
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Barton Fink was terrible. Fight me.
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Jan 10, 2019 01:05
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Barton Fink is solid and led to one of the best Simpsons gags ever.
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Krispy Wafer posted:So...Last Action Hero then? Loser Spider-Man is actually the regular mainline 616 Spidey.
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Jan 10, 2019 01:49
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I'm sure somebody has posted the prescient Lebowski clip of him buying half & half and watching the TV where President Bush is giving a speech about how this aggression will not stand and the date on the check is 9/11/91, but goddamn if I'ma read this whole thread to find it
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Krispy Wafer posted:
tbf cruelty is pretty funny. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 02:55 on Jan 10, 2019 |
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Jan 10, 2019 02:52
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Krispy Wafer posted:Barton Fink was terrible. Fight me. Never saw it. Now you have to shadowbox. Build a straw man
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:I'm sure somebody has posted the prescient Lebowski clip of him buying half & half and watching the TV where President Bush is giving a speech about how this aggression will not stand and the date on the check is 9/11/91, but goddamn if I'ma read this whole thread to find it The best part of that is that he’s postdating a check for less than a dollar.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The best part of that is that he’s postdating a check for less than a dollar. Hilarious, and the cashier lady is clearly not impressed by this, especially coming from a dude shopping late-night in his bathrobe.
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Jan 10, 2019 08:18
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He has also very clearly taken a sip from the carton.
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Big Lebowski ís basically a really loose adaptation of Raymond Chandler's detective fiction because the Coens thought it was a really funny idea to picture a stoner friend of theirs solving crime. So they wrote a film about it.
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Jan 10, 2019 09:09
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My Lovely Horse posted:He has also very clearly taken a sip from the carton. I always thought he went for the milk/cream that’s already close or past the expiry date so he’d get a discount, but was trying it before buying it to make sure it’s still good.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Big Lebowski ís basically a really loose adaptation of Raymond Chandler's detective fiction because the Coens thought it was a really funny idea to picture a stoner friend of theirs solving crime. So they wrote a film about it. Yeah it's a PI film where everything is flipped on its head and he fails to tie up any of the loose ends: he never gets his rug back, Bunny just comes home on her own, Treehorn's two thugs never get their comeuppance for him beating up and peeing on his rug, Treehorn slips him a mickey finn and siccs the cops on him and there's nothing The Dude can do about it, the kid is never punished for stealing his car, he eventually figures out that Lebowski stole the million dollars himself but there's no repercussions and Lebowski apparently gets away with it. But Sam Elliott's speech at the end is super effective at making you feel that the movie ended triumphantly and The Dude came out a winner, to the point where fans have actually created a religion called Dudeism with (allegedly) hundreds of thousands of ordained Dudeist ministers around the world. https://dudeism.com/ordination/ Pissed Ape Sexist posted:I'm sure somebody has posted the prescient Lebowski clip of him buying half & half and watching the TV where President Bush is giving a speech about how this aggression will not stand and the date on the check is 9/11/91, but goddamn if I'ma read this whole thread to find it Ugly In The Morning posted:The best part of that is that he’s postdating a check for less than a dollar. Also Bush gave that famous "New world order" speech on 9/11/90 so The Dude was postdating the cheque an entire year. Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 11:35 on Jan 10, 2019 |
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Jan 10, 2019 10:55
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Everyone knows this one but there’s also The Dude stealing phrases he hears throughout the movie and often misquoting them, like “this aggression will not stand” and “the parlance of our times”. My favourite quote about the movie is Ebert saying that it’s about an attitude, not a story, but that “it’s easy to miss that, because the story is so urgently pursued”.
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Jan 10, 2019 12:34
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Lmao at these smooth brains just watching different films instead of watching a film six times until you develop Stockholm syndrome for it
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Jan 10, 2019 12:42
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Not Big Lebowski, but bowling strikes in movies: In Kingpin, when Bill Murray bowls the 3(?) consecutive strikes to win the big tournament, he actually did it in real life. So the reactions from the crowd are actually genuine.
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Jan 10, 2019 13:41
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That’s cool but nothing tops Sigourney Weaver sinking a basketball from half court while walking the other way
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Jan 10, 2019 19:31
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Coffee And Pie posted:That’s cool but nothing tops Sigourney Weaver sinking a basketball from half court while walking the other way Luck, skill, fate all notwithstanding but yeah that was probably the best thing Joss Whedon ever caught on film
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Jan 10, 2019 19:38
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Coffee And Pie posted:That’s cool but nothing tops Sigourney Weaver sinking a basketball from half court while walking the other way Then bitching that the ball went out of frame at the top of the arc so nobody would ever believe she'd really done it.
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syscall girl posted:Luck, skill, fate all notwithstanding but yeah that was probably the best thing Joss Whedon ever caught on film How does a writer catch things on film?
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Jan 10, 2019 19:47
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Ferrule posted:How does a writer catch things on film? very carefully poo poo i forgot about Jean-Pierre Jeunet and i kind of like his work in general
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Jan 10, 2019 20:41
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Jedit posted:Then bitching that the ball went out of frame at the top of the arc so nobody would ever believe she'd really done it. WTF that's exactly how I explained it to my wife when we watched it together. That poo poo was real?
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Jan 10, 2019 21:09
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There was, unfortunately, editing involved. They cut around Ron Perlman saying "oh gently caress" when she made the shot
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Jan 10, 2019 21:14
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RandomFerret posted:There was, unfortunately, editing involved. If they ever re-release this they should release a basketball-shot-restored version and just let him say gently caress. It'll never be in theaters again, any re-release will only be for the hardcore fans, they'd love this moment.
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Jedit posted:Then bitching that the ball went out of frame at the top of the arc so nobody would ever believe she'd really done it. It was shot that way the other 5 times as well, in case she didn't make it (like the previous attempts) and they could replace with trick photography.
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Jan 10, 2019 21:53
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Beachcomber posted:I've started watching this movie a few times and I just don't get it. My wife was taken to see it in a big theatre by her job and she doesn't get it either.
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Jan 10, 2019 22:00
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Coffee And Pie posted:That’s cool but nothing tops Sigourney Weaver sinking a basketball from half court while walking the other way RandomFerret posted:There was, unfortunately, editing involved. I've never seen this, and after watching this clip I'm disappointed that "half court" means like 15 feet away.
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Jan 10, 2019 22:07
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Coffee And Pie posted:That’s cool but nothing tops Sigourney Weaver sinking a basketball from half court while walking the other way Kurt Russell made the full court throw in Escape from LA
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Jan 10, 2019 22:16
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I know, it's not that impressive. Now you do it.
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Jan 10, 2019 22:16
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He did it while wearing an eyepatch
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Jan 10, 2019 22:18
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Davros1 posted:He did it while wearing an eyepatch He also did it in "Escape From LA".
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Krispy Wafer posted:If I can get through 4 or 5 viewings of Ladykillers I might eventually like that film too. Well I certainly hope so. I love that film partially because it is incredibly obvious just how much fun the whole cast had making it.
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Nth Doctor posted:Well I certainly hope so. I love that film partially because it is incredibly obvious just how much fun the whole cast had making it. I like it. Although the stand out stuff was mostly the IBS guy which may not speak well for the movie or my reception of it.
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Jan 11, 2019 03:44
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The Ladykillers is very charming but not actually very funny or interesting
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On "bad" Cohen Bros. movies: I am the only person I know who actually liked Intolerable Cruelty. I just liked watching George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones ham it up and chew scenery.
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I read the most interesting goddamn article about cohen brothers movies. It was a kabbalistic reading of A Serious Man and also The Man Who Wasn't There. poo poo like, the Kabbalah says you got the father on the left, and he is the symbol of generosity, and you have the mother on the right, and she is stern, and in this scene where someone comes by to ask if they want vinyl siding on their house and the lady screams at him, she's, poo poo this is where i forget and fall apart, either she is way too into her role to a detrimental degree, or she's doing the father's stern role and I got it backwards, but anyway the gap between them is where the child, the tempering force in the family, is missing, so you know that something is out of balance here and it's expressly because they're a childless couple with no love in their life. I am recreating this from my entire rear end. It was so goddamn interesting when I read it but no matter how many times I search for cohen brothers and kabballah I can't find it again.
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PYF Subtle Movie Moments: I am recreating this from my entire rear end
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I swear I'll stop posting subtle movie moments from The Big Lebowski soon but here's another I just found: towards the end of the film the Nihilists burst into the Dude's apartment and rough him up and threaten to come back and "cut off his Johnson" if they don't get the money. At the end of the film the Nihilists return and have a huge fight with the Dude and his friends in the carpark outside the bowling alley, during which Donny has a heart attack and dies. The bowling shirt that Donny was wearing at the time has the word Johnson embroidered on the back: 
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Jan 11, 2019 06:58
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BrigadierSensible posted:On "bad" Cohen Bros. movies: I really liked it, too.
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Samovar posted:I really liked it, too. Speaking of Cohen brothers films that people didn't like, I really enjoyed The Ladykillers. How Tom Hanks delivers his lines was fantastically done. Also, it was my first non-Vern Shillinger JK Simmons experience, so that was interesting.
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