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Gejimayu posted:Who would you recommend as a film maker that just makes movies that have a lot to unpack and reward multiple viewings? Terry Gilliam does this well (my fondest memory of this is seeing The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and noticing a small banner in a store hawking "Only 365 shopping days until Christmas", might need to give it another rewatch to find the actual image) but recently I've been re-watching MANIAC on netflix, which is an incredibly subtle show with a whole bunch of easily missed callbacks and references.     
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oldpainless posted:I don't like this new skinny Jonah Hill His idols were belushi, candy, and farley, so he made a choice to have a different ending.
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Not exactly subtle but I just got a new 1080p version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail after reading about it in this thread and after having not seen it for about twenty years spent at least five minutes swearing and loving with vlc in the beginning trying to turn the subtitles off until I let it play long enough and the title card came up. They had no idea how well that joke would have played 45 years later but boy it did in a big way.
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James Woods posted:Not exactly subtle but I just got a new 1080p version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail after reading about it in this thread and after having not seen it for about twenty years spent at least five minutes swearing and loving with vlc in the beginning trying to turn the subtitles off until I let it play long enough and the title card came up. They had no idea how well that joke would have played 45 years later but boy it did in a big way. Ahahahaha this is great.
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Olaf The Stout posted:His idols were belushi, candy, and farley, so he made a choice to have a different ending. Holy poo poo. That really is Jonah Hill? I was going to make a joke that it looked like a skinny Jonah Hill and it is Jonah Hill.
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He's a really excellent actor and you should watch MANIAC
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bell jar posted:He's a really excellent actor and you should watch MANIAC I still think he should have won the Oscar for Moneyball.
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I love the scene in This Is The End were the other guys are busting his balls about his delivery of serious lines, then when he stops, takes a second, and gives it an honest go, they're like. "Ok yeah, that was actually really good"
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:I love the scene in This Is The End were the other guys are busting his balls about his delivery of serious lines, then when he stops, takes a second, and gives it an honest go, they're like. "Ok yeah, that was actually really good" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-CfENbH763M
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Gejimayu posted:Who would you recommend as a film maker that just makes movies that have a lot to unpack and reward multiple viewings? Ben Wheatley.
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Gejimayu posted:For content: does anyone have a favorite director that they would include here, but their movies are so full of subtleties that they just don't bother because it'd be a long list? I feel like Charlie Kaufman makes me feel like this. Sometimes the Coen Bros as well. Who would you recommend as a film maker that just makes movies that have a lot to unpack and reward multiple viewings? I was going to say, Adaptation might be the best movie for this kind of thing. There are layers and layers, hidden 'gags' (though they're not meant to really be funny). That movie is one of my favourites, because it's just so good. And it's not reliant on a gimmick, because it's got a genuinely good story, excellent acting, probably Nicolas Cage at his professional peak, because he's really all over the map. Everyone in it is fantastic, Chris Cooper sells the gently caress out of his role. And then you get into all of the meta stuff. My favourite quick example of something from that movie is the 'struggling' brother (was that Charlie, or Donald?) attending the writing workshop, and the speaker, played by Brian Cox, yells out 'and for god's sake, DON'T USE NARRATION!'. Up until that very moment, Cage as Charlie or Donald (I really can't remember which one was doing poorly, I think it was Charlie) was narrating everything, and from that moment on in the film, he doesn't. EDIT: It really is a movie about the movie you're watching, which was supposed to be based on a book about a flower.
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Adaptation is a movie about the making of a movie about the writing of a book about the writing of an article about a flower.
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Kramdar posted:I still think he should have won the Oscar for Moneyball. He was the best part of The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Adaptation is a movie about the making of a movie about the writing of a book about the writing of an article about a flower. Ok, yeah, this is a better way to think of it. And that makes the movie's cover art/main poster make so much more sense.
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Rascar Capac posted:I feel like this kind of belongs here. This is a good article, and "We Are The Mutants" looks like it has a lot of interesting little pieces of analysis. Gonna be digging through this site for a while. 
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Captain Hotbutt posted:This is a good article, and "We Are The Mutants" looks like it has a lot of interesting little pieces of analysis. Gonna be digging through this site for a while. Ugh, he missed the best bit: Reese ducks into the club while everyone is distracted by Arnie’s entrance. In fairness, it’s on screen for about a second.
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also he forgot to mentiohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37R39-mff8
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Krankenstyle posted:also he forgot to mentiohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37R39-mff8 - trying to hide in a nightclub - realizing the creepy guy she saw (Reese) is stalking her - Reese barely shooting Arnie in time - Arnie almost hitting Reese as he goes for cover - Getting trapped under the dead clubgoer - The shock of realizing Arnie's unstoppable, and that Reese is actually there to help her - The race to the car, which is facing the wrong way. - Arnie clawing at her face just out of reach That's all packed into 4-5 minutes. The stakes are high, and Arnie comes so close. There's few action scenes I can recall that come anywhere near as tense.
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ya theres a ton of meat in that, i love it so much also Sarah and Kyle are my hearts together seriously
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That scene is proof that the first Terminator is a horror movie and the rest are action.
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That's a really good point. I take it back, it's a masterclass scene in horror, not action. It's reminiscent of the recent Resident Evil game where periodically you run into the slow-moving-but-relentless Mr X.
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More stuff for Your Name/Kimi No Na Wa, stolen from these blog posts: - when Mitsuha does her hair, it's an intricate process that has something like nine steps. If Taki is inside her body, it's a lazy ponytail, presumably because he can't be bothered to deal with it - the scene where Mitsuha and her sister perform the shrine dance was choreographed by an actual kabuki actor, and tells the story of the first comet to come to Itomori, one that created the lake the town surrounds - whenever a character misses an important call or doesn't take a chance on something, they are on a bridge - Mitsuha's string matches the "red string of fate" meant to connect them, but also matches the color palette of when Taki and Mitsuha finally meet on the mountain side at twilight. Gonna have re-re-re-watch the movie now and ugly cry.
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Gonna have re-re-re-watch the movie now and ugly cry.
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I was just watching 'Friend Like Me' on youtube and noticed that the genie's pink zappy magic isn't just lines, or wavy lines, it's made to look a bit like Arabic script. Never noticed that before.
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HopperUK posted:I was just watching 'Friend Like Me' on youtube and noticed that the genie's pink zappy magic isn't just lines, or wavy lines, it's made to look a bit like Arabic script. Never noticed that before. If you look really close, you'll see that Genie in no way looks, acts, or sounds like he's from Bel Air. He's only there because his mom actually sent him; she was scared of one little fight. It's really subtle, you gotta listen to the lyrics really close. Also, Robin Williams is illiterate, he had to teach himself to read in order to summon Arabic script.
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Screaming Idiot posted:If you look really close, you'll see that Genie in no way looks, acts, or sounds like he's from Bel Air.
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minato posted:It just occurred to me today that Bel Air was a remake of Diff'rent Strokes, but with a rich black family instead of a white one. The wacky new housemate from a different class/culture is probably a pretty old plot device.
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Subtle movie moment: Jonah Hill actually isn't skinny. You just think he is because he used to be fat.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The wacky new housemate from a different class/culture is probably a pretty old plot device. The Odd Couple - wacky guy Small Wonder - wacky robot yup, checks out.
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Scent of a Woman : Al Pacino trained himself to not visually focus on anything and forgot how to see.
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minato posted:Perfect strangers - wacky foreigner The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse dates back to the 6th century B.C.
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synthetik posted:Scent of a Woman : Al Pacino trained himself to not visually focus on anything and forgot how to see. Hoo haa! *receives oscar
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Hugh Jackman recieved real adamantium treatments.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Hugh Jackman recieved real adamantium treatments. And yet he refused to undergo shrink-ray therapy...
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Hugh Jackman recieved real adamantium treatments. This is true, but it was for his role in Eddie the Eagle
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Krankenstyle posted:also Sarah and Kyle are my hearts together seriously they're what
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So what exactly sets Your Name apart from your regular mountain of crappy teen romance animes and what lessons does it teach that its imitators will inevitably ignore?
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