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From some reviewer:quote:What's fascinating about Exodus from a modern day perspective is its treatment of the whole Arab-Israeli conflict (and, yes, the Jews making aliyah weren't yet officially "Israeli"). Is Trumbo's screenplay perfectly even handed? Probably not, though it's notable that he at least offers one sympathetic Arab, a mukhtar named Taha (a probably miscast Jon Derek) who is a lifelong friend of Ari's. However, most of the rest of the portrayal of Arabs may be understandably thought of as one dimensional and even politically incorrect (in both senses of that term). What underlies all of this formulation, though, is the central tenet that the British were (in some ways at least) the "real" villains of the piece, though perhaps unintentionally. For real events: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
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BonoMan posted:Well it's a catch 22 because in this instance just knowing the name of the movie is part of the spoiler. If it was a single detail that's one thing but when the question is "hey what movie does this potentially unexpected thing?" then just knowing the name of the movie under the text can spoil it for those that haven't seen it yet. Maybe something like "I'm looking for movies that have spoiling element similiar to Movie ... Please spoiler tag your answers tia"
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got any sevens posted:From some reviewer: Krankenstyle posted:Maybe something like "I'm looking for movies that have spoiling element similiar to Movie ... Please spoiler tag your answers tia"
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Mierenneuker posted:I want to know more movies that have the fantasy of a happy ending, but then show you that's not how it is. The Grand Budapest Hotel
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TychoCelchuuu posted:This works except that if someone accidentally sees the spoiler then that spoils every single movie for them, whereas with the current approach, if the accidentally read a spoiler, that only spoils that particular movie. i dont think it would necessarily, cause they dont know what X from movie Y is in common with whatever movie spoiler they moused over? Could be the use of cross-narratives, final twists, what have you
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Dec 13, 2019 18:40
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does anyone happen to know what brand of clothes Al Leong was wearing in Die Hard? 
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Dec 15, 2019 15:08
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Honestly it reminds me of Z. Cavaricci clothing from that era
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Dec 15, 2019 19:47
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I watched the Moth Diaries last weekend and was really confused about Ernessa. Was she a vampire, or a ghost or a vampire that died and turned into a ghost?
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Dec 16, 2019 22:01
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She was a moth.
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Reading reviews of "Uncut Gems" and realized I'd never heard of the Safdie Brothers. Their last movie "Good Time" looks interesting. Anybody seen it?
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Reading reviews of "Uncut Gems" and realized I'd never heard of the Safdie Brothers. Their last movie "Good Time" looks interesting. Anybody seen it?
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Yeah it’s a lot of fun for sure, and I think I’m one of the people who wasn’t quite as hyped as a lot.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:17
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Heaven Knows What is good too.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:36
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Good Time is very good and is streaming with Amazon Prime in the US if you have it.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:48
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Their Lenny Cooke documentary is also good They are good
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What's the earliest example of a scene where some kind of investigator or law enforcer tells their subordinates they want to know everything about a target and starts rhyming off examples that get ever more ridiculous? Like "I wanna know his blood type, his favourite kind of pie, how many kernels of corn were in his turd this morning" etc.
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Dec 21, 2019 23:05
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Dunno if it was the first but The Fugitive has a good one like that in the middle
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Dec 23, 2019 18:07
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Hudsucker Proxy (94) had a similar scene, but it’s a newspaper editor reading off a line of things to find out. So not an criminal investigator, but similar context. Didn’t Superman (78) have a scene where Perry is reading off a list of questions he wants answered about Superman?
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Lobok posted:What's the earliest example of a scene where some kind of investigator or law enforcer tells their subordinates they want to know everything about a target and starts rhyming off examples that get ever more ridiculous? Like "I wanna know his blood type, his favourite kind of pie, how many kernels of corn were in his turd this morning" etc. Citizen Kane
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Dec 23, 2019 23:18
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There is an effect I know I've seen in martial arts, blaxploitation, and general 60s/70s film trailers and posters. Basically it's when a character is frozen in a silhouette, then a border kinda expands around them in one color, followed by another border in a similar/same color, and so on and so on until that fills the whole screen/poster. I feel like I've seen this everywhere, but I can't seem to find it when searching. I'm no artist so excuse the uh, badness of the example but it looks something like this; If the effect has a name, that'd be rad, but even some examples of it in film would be wonderful. Thanks
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Dec 24, 2019 01:18
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Not sure what the motion effect is called but it kinda reminds me of Keith Haring’s artwork. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring http://www.haring.com
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Dec 24, 2019 01:40
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Maybe it came out of people discovering video effects like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk and then applying that idea to animation.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Maybe it came out of people discovering video effects like this: I think it predates that as an animation, the EWF song is from 78 and I think it's been in use since the 60s (well before digital video was in common use.
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Dec 24, 2019 08:37
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Somehow I missed the fact that they made 4 Terminator movies after T2. Should I catch up with those?
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T3 is OK
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2/3rds of T4 isn’t awful. T3 is underrated. It has a good ending.
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T3 is like alien 3: a completely unnecessary cash-in sequel that pisses over the previous film's ending
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T3, Salvation, and Gensys all suffer from trying to do the original/T2 but more. Or just rehashing it. They each have moments but never fully escape their predecessors' shadows (then again, those are some pretty large shadows). Haven't seen Dark Fate.
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I remember Salvation being not bad, and at least it does something none of the other sequels did, which was trying something different. It wasn't a rehash of 2 like literally all of the other films in the franchise have been. It's not great, but not terrible. And the trailer for it was incredible.
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The first Terminator is the best one.
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The first Terminator is the best slasher movie.
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its super good
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the show was better than all of the movies after 2 combined (i havent seen the newest one yet) and lena headey was a great sarah connor
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The show was bad but not as bad as the movies.
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my praise is definitely faint lol. aside from a couple good things like the 9/11 scene, headey as sarah, and a couple other fun "what if a terminator..." vignette episodes it was mostly not great. the show did get cancelled right as it started to segue in to some more interesting stuff though.
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Well I've been talked out of watching any of them. Maybe ill just read the wiki
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Terminator is only good through the lens of 80s nostalgia when our grasp on provocative modern sci-fi was still, relatively, in its infancy. It's not good now - not because filmmakers are unable to do something cool with it - but because it inherently is a childish fantasy. It's literally just cool fighting robots with laser guns. Just let T1 and T2 exist, ignore the rest and abandon the franchise.
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For someone who grew up with Arnold as the biggest movie star in the world and T2 as the biggest and best action movie that'd ever come along up to that point, I think Terminator 3 is worthy of being considered part of the "original run" of the series when it still felt like a big deal and Arnold was still Arnold. Only with Salvation, when Arnold was semi-retired and the series started going off in different directions did I feel like the magic had been lost. So I'd say watch Terminator 3, it feels like a pretty fitting end to what I think of as a mostly coherent trilogy.
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Terminator 3 isn't bad, it's just ... very aggressively mediocre, in large part because it's essentially a remake of Terminator 2. But it has good aspects to it. Nick Stahl and Claire Danes are generally very good, Beltrami's score is good, some of the set pieces are excellent. Unfortunately, there are some really, really bad attempts at humor that don't land and Kristanna Loken is a black hole of charisma. There's also a bit with Arnold hammering the poo poo out of a truck hood, just pounding his fists into it over and over again, and he has the doofiest loving stare as it's happening.
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Timby posted:There's also a bit with Arnold hammering the poo poo out of a truck hood, just pounding his fists into it over and over again, and he has the doofiest loving stare as it's happening. YOU ARE ABOUT TO FAIL THAT MISSION T3 had a pretty strong trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZQJYs7z-vs
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