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Empress Brosephine posted:Any standout Japanese or Chinese movies from the past few years you guys reccomend? What kind of movies? This is a pretty big question.
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Jul 9, 2019 19:00
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Anything really. Realized I haven’t watched cinema from those countries for a while and would like to see some of the settings in a modern look.
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Jul 9, 2019 19:08
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DeimosRising posted:What kind of movies? This is a pretty big question. Latter half of this decade I guess I’d say Kaili Blues, The Assassin, Mountains May Depart, It’s probably worth seeing Wolf Warrior 1 and 2 just because of how huge they were. There’s a lot of stuff, though I guess much of it never gets English language releases and I don’t get to see as much as I used to
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Jul 9, 2019 19:52
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I just rewatched Johnnie To's Drug War from a few years back and it rules. It's on Shudder or free on YouTube with ads
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Jul 9, 2019 19:59
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Empress Brosephine posted:Any standout Japanese or Chinese movies from the past few years you guys reccomend? Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Jia Zhangke are always safe bets as long as you're not averse to slow cinema.
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Jul 9, 2019 20:32
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Speaking of, how's Zhangke's latest?
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Jul 9, 2019 20:47
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Speaking of, how's Zhangke's latest? I know it’s a crime flick and Touch of Sin was rad so I’m interested but if it played here I didn’t notice
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Jul 9, 2019 21:42
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Ash is Purest White is a very good movie even if he's harping on the same "capitalism is destroying the social fabric" theme as always. Sort of a career encapsulation movie so a pretty good way to get into Jia. It's long, but doesn't feel particularly slow since it's divided over three time periods and the performances, score, and shots are amazing. Definitely one of the better movies I saw last year. (Long Day's Journey into Night tops it of course)
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Jul 10, 2019 21:06
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Segue posted:Ash is Purest White is a very good movie even if he's harping on the same "capitalism is destroying the social fabric" theme as always. Sort of a career encapsulation movie so a pretty good way to get into Jia. How could I forget the decade’s best feel good romantic comedy romp in my recommendations??
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Jul 10, 2019 21:49
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wow wrong thread as hell
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Jul 11, 2019 12:03
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Does anyone know why Apocolypto has practically vanished? It's been out of print for years and not available to stream anywhere. I know Mel Gibson isn't people's favorite guy anymore but it still seems really strange for a major hollywood movie to just permanently go oop print like that and not even be available for rental.
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Jul 15, 2019 17:11
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veni veni veni posted:Does anyone know why Apocolypto has practically vanished? It's been out of print for years and not available to stream anywhere. I know Mel Gibson isn't people's favorite guy anymore but it still seems really strange for a major hollywood movie to just permanently go oop print like that and not even be available for rental. Touchstone only distributed it and it reverted to Icon. Fox distributes Icon, so...
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Jul 15, 2019 20:06
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It's on iTunes and Youtube Movies here in NZ.
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Jul 15, 2019 20:30
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I know it's not a movie, but this is the most relevant thread I know of. Remember the Crash Test Dummies? I could have sworn they did PSAs besides "Buckle your safety belt". Specifically, I have a memory from my childhood of a PSA that ends with one of them getting lots of piercings. And then his arm falls off. The end. I guess the moral was "piercings are bad"? Doesn't really make sense to me, but I've had that memory forever. Is it real? Am I mixing memories?
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Jul 19, 2019 23:06
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FaradayCage posted:I know it's not a movie, but this is the most relevant thread I know of. That sounds like it could be right out of SNL or SCTV.
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Jul 19, 2019 23:58
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FaradayCage posted:I know it's not a movie, but this is the most relevant thread I know of. I have no memory of that, but I heard their big hit song for the first time in 20 years (the HMMMHMMMHMMM one) and holy poo poo music sucked in the 90's. Or are you talking about the actual crash test dummies who used to do PSA commercials?
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Jul 20, 2019 00:15
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They were called The Incredible Crash Dummies. I don't remember that PSA, but I definitely watched the cartoon, had the Master System game and a great toy car that smashed up.
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Jul 20, 2019 01:03
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Krispy Wafer posted:holy poo poo music sucked in the 90's. A rare correct opinion on 90s music.
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feedmyleg posted:A rare correct opinion on 90s music. They at least used the 4 good 90’s songs in Captain Marvel.
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Jul 20, 2019 04:31
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feedmyleg posted:A rare correct opinion on 90s music. Jagged Little Pill would like a word
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Jul 20, 2019 05:26
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couldcareless posted:Jagged Little Pill would like a word Kinda ironic, isn't it?
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Jul 20, 2019 08:13
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Anybody know how I could go about watching Craig Baldwin's Stolen Movie?
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Jul 20, 2019 14:46
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Steal it back?
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Jul 20, 2019 17:17
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Can I watch Through the Olive Trees without having seen the rest of the director's trilogy or will it not be as meaningful? I recently rewatched Mark Cousins' The Story of Film series and am really interested into getting into 90's Iranian movies. If someone has a better suggestion for a movie to dip my toes into that scene with, let me know.
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Jul 25, 2019 00:46
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Through the Olive Trees does have a plot that stands on its own, but it really is more rewarding to watch with foreknowledge of the previous two films. My suggestion would be another Kiarostami film, Close-Up.
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Jul 25, 2019 01:48
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Krispy Wafer posted:Or are you talking about the actual crash test dummies who used to do PSA commercials? In my memory its the actual crash test dummies. But who knows? This might be a completely false memory altogether. Like when I was watching a Doublemint (or maybe Juicy Fruit) gum commercial and it suddenly paused and a voice over said "Wait, no no no" as it rewound to the beginning and played on just as before. As a sidebar: I'm awake at this hour because I suddenly had an image of a man kind of bounding diagonally toward someone he was planning to punch. Kind of in a mocking way. I knew it was from a movie or maybe a TV show. Mind started buzzing trying to remember what it was from. I was 99% certain it was an actual action-type movie instead of Gary Busey fighting Chris Farley in Black Sheep, or something like that. Started vetting all sorts of stuff in my head. Casino Royale? X-men? Jaime Lannister vs Euron Greyjoy? Con-Air? Face-Off? Lethal Weapon? Die Hard? I was all over the place. Then I started thinking about how I would describe it to someone. One small tidbit was "You know, I can't remember if the character was a good guy or a bad guy." Less than a minute after that, I figured it out. I'll spoiler the answer in case anyone wants to rack their brain for a bit. DJ (Benicio del Toro) in The Last Jedi, during the prison escape. On Netflix @ 1:26:40 remaining on the ticker.
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FaradayCage posted:In my memory its the actual crash test dummies. But who knows? This might be a completely false memory altogether. Like when I was watching a Doublemint (or maybe Juicy Fruit) gum commercial and it suddenly paused and a voice over said "Wait, no no no" as it rewound to the beginning and played on just as before. I had a similar "what was that FROM?!" moment yesterday, and it felt like it took forever to remember it. You ever hear a thing, and then over the years you co-opt it to fit with something you're saying? Like you might say what you want the same way someone in some movie did? Anyway, maybe I'm just weird, but I was talking to my wife in the car, we were at a 4 way stop, and someone wasn't moving who should have been. I calmly but with a bit of exasperation, said "just go..." and I knew it was from something. Some scene where either a cartoon or caricature was just fed up, but not yelling. Just totally done with the conversation and the other person was asking too many questions. The character in question had told the other person repeatedly (which I can't remember, so it's currently <blank>), and then finally said something like "just <blank>". I was going through the creaky and rusted movie line rolodex in my head all the way to our destination, and right before turning off the car, it hit me. Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men, telling that store owner to "call it. Just call it." And he really gets into this calm yet fed up mood when he tells him to do that. It's accentuated in No Country for Gay Men. Skip to about 2:55 (or don't, I don't care) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgU64f2oh-8
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Jul 26, 2019 12:56
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If you could solve the 'it doesn't do anything, that's the beauty of it' puzzle I'd appreciate it, because like many people I can hear this so so clearly...
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Chubby Henparty posted:If you could solve the 'it doesn't do anything, that's the beauty of it' puzzle I'd appreciate it, because like many people I can hear this so so clearly... Have you read this? https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/21/14952294/what-does-it-do-thats-the-beauty-of-it-movie-quote-source That article even circles back to SA, via Niel "trapezoid" Cicierega, mentioning us. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Jul 26, 2019 |
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Jul 26, 2019 13:37
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Heh, I'd read similar articles but not that one. I would have said Slartibartfast in Hitchhikers Guide as well, but my other vague guesses have been MASH or some kind of whirring claptrap machine from Dr Dolittle or Chitty Chitty Bangbang.
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Yeah, I know it's not actually from anything but my mind immediately conjures up Wilder in Chocolate Factory whenever I see it. e: obviously, it's the key to The Collective Unconscious. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jul 26, 2019 |
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Jul 26, 2019 14:54
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Chubby Henparty posted:If you could solve the 'it doesn't do anything, that's the beauty of it' puzzle I'd appreciate it, because like many people I can hear this so so clearly... My guess is that it's a combination of similar lines and because it could be more vague and generalized and therefore applicable to other things it became the most popular version even if it's not real. What does it quote? That's the beauty of it, it doesn't quote anything!
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Jul 26, 2019 15:35
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I keep going back to Catch-22. I can see Milo saying that in my brain and yet I am wrong.
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Jul 26, 2019 16:22
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The first reference I can find for the phrase on the internet is in a Snopes message board user signature from 2004, people talking about Ted's Caving Page. The fact that it's in a user signature means he's just quoting it from somewhere else. I vote on it being from a Simpsons episode. Are the SNPP transcripts still up? Edit 
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Jul 26, 2019 20:26
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:The first reference I can find for the phrase on the internet is in a Snopes message board user signature from 2004, people talking about Ted's Caving Page. If it was a Simpson's quote there would be direct evidence of it.
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Jul 26, 2019 20:42
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:The first reference I can find for the phrase on the internet is in a Snopes message board user signature from 2004, people talking about Ted's Caving Page. Maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWlMNltHIYI
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Jul 26, 2019 20:44
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There's no way on earth a Simpsons episode from the first 12 seasons or so wouldn't have even the least significant incidental dialog instantly searchable.
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Jul 26, 2019 22:44
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What annoys me the most about this bizarre quote is I can just hear the voice in my head saying "it doesn't doooo anything" with that weird emphasis. This must be some strange Mandela effect tangent.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:There's no way on earth a Simpsons episode from the first 12 seasons or so wouldn't have even the least significant incidental dialog instantly searchable. There's no way there's not dozens of people who would be able to tell you from memory what episode any dialog happened from the first 12 seasons and then you would have to do the hard work of watching a good Simpson's episode for 22 minutes so you could make a video clip of it.
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It feels like a thing advertising the pet rock. I can hear it with the same sort of glee as "you know, for kids!" from Hudsucker Proxy.
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