|
I really like Winslow's design and direction in general. As the phantom, his mask is very birdlike, and his movements when composing are reminiscent of birds as well, like turning his head to the side to see his sheet music.
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 17:48
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 20, 2024 07:53 |
|
|
 Seamless
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 17:54
|
|
|
^^^lol, thanks^^^BioEnchanted posted:I really like Winslow's design and direction in general. As the phantom, his mask is very birdlike, and his movements when composing are reminiscent of birds as well, like turning his head to the side to see his sheet music. There's birds everywhere. Winslow's mask is an owl, the villain is Swan and the logo is a dead bird. The female lead is Phoenix
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 18:20
|
|
|
BiggerBoat posted:
It's a Dorian Gray riff. I listen to the soundtrack almost weekly. It whips. The Phantom's Theme is so good.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 20:51
|
|
|
MacheteZombie posted:It's a Dorian Gray riff. I always kind of hate when people misunderstand Dorian Grey. As far as I recall his death isn't actually magical, the only magic is the portrait taking on his sins (which actually happens by accident, he's just kidding around when he makes the wish). His actual fate is that when he sees how bad his portrait has become after years of debauchery, his shame overtakes him, he slashes the painting to pieces then kills himself. His friends come in to see the remains of the portrait, which is now as beautiful as it was when painted, and a dead old man with severe deformities who they don't recognise (because Grey's evils rendered him unrecognisable), having no idea when Dorian has gone.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 21:00
|
|
|
BioEnchanted posted:I always kind of hate when people misunderstand Dorian Grey. As far as I recall his death isn't actually magical, the only magic is the portrait taking on his sins (which actually happens by accident, he's just kidding around when he makes the wish). His actual fate is that when he sees how bad his portrait has become after years of debauchery, his shame overtakes him, he slashes the painting to pieces then kills himself. His friends come in to see the remains of the portrait, which is now as beautiful as it was when painted, and a dead old man with severe deformities who they don't recognise (because Grey's evils rendered him unrecognisable), having no idea when Dorian has gone. The servants identify him by his rings E: to also talk about other similarities, the video is Swans contract but photos of Swan age like Dorians portrait. Swan leads a hedonistic lifestyle like Dorian (tho Dorian eventually has a change of heart only to find the picture is even uglier because his motivations aren't pure). Overall different themes but playing with the same concept. MacheteZombie has a new favorite as of 21:12 on Mar 13, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 21:04
|
|
|
I'd forgotten about that part, thanks.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 21:06
|
|
|
MacheteZombie posted:It's a Dorian Gray riff. Right...I'm not up on the source material though. I'll go Google it but, in a nutshell, did I have it basically right? Swan HAS to view the tape every day or he becomes mortal so Winslow destroys it and everything breaks, including Winslow's contract? Then crowd starts stabbing Swan too since the lines between performance and real violence have been crossed over? Because that ending is batshit. MacheteZombie posted:I listen to the soundtrack almost weekly. It whips. The Phantom's Theme is so good. Same. How The Rocky Horror Picture Show became the cult classic standard for this type of crazy midnight drive in movie and Phantom is mostly unknown and forgotten is nuts to me. RHPS is borderline unwatchable without the crowd/jokes experience. Phantom has a better story, better music better direction and never gets boring. I want to make a Phantom mask so bad for Halloween and am pretty good at sculpting and poo poo but have never done injection molding and what have you. I kind of want to figure it out because replicas go for about $250 up to like $800 on ebay. Plus a Phantom costume would own and my kid loves it. Thinking about starting a thread since more people on this board seem to have seen it than most. I found this awesome POTP website that I've been devouring. https://www.swanarchives.org/ Sorry for the POTP derail. I'll leave it alone now. BUt everyone seriously go watch it BiggerBoat has a new favorite as of 23:26 on Mar 13, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 23:24
|
|
|
Because Rocky Horror is super, ultra, mega, openly, wonderfully gay at a time when that poo poo was still literally illegal in most places and so that subculture latched onto it and developed it into a cult thing that eventually got so big that even boring straight people got into it.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 23:31
|
|
|
My dad showed me and my brother Phantom of the Paradise after we showed him Repo: A Genetic Opera. He basically said that Paradise was his Repo, in that it was a fun, over the top cult musical that he was into when he was young.
|
|
#
?
Mar 13, 2020 23:34
|
|
|
Imagined posted:Because Rocky Horror is super, ultra, mega, openly, wonderfully gay at a time when that poo poo was still literally illegal in most places and so that subculture latched onto it and developed it into a cult thing that eventually got so big that even boring straight people got into it. Also it's astounding.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 00:09
|
|
|
It has a few very good songs and visuals even if it never quite comes together.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 00:11
|
|
|
BiggerBoat posted:Right...I'm not up on the source material though. I'll go Google it but, in a nutshell, did I have it basically right? Swan HAS to view the tape every day or he becomes mortal so Winslow destroys it and everything breaks, including Winslow's contract? Then crowd starts stabbing Swan too since the lines between performance and real violence have been crossed over? Like BioEnchanted said Dorians deal isn't a magical bargain, and iirc he doesn't have to look at the picture but becomes obsessed with it after he causes his gf to commit suicide. Swan's deal with the devil is a faustian influence, and you're right that the movie doesn't explain exactly how Winslow's and Phoenix's contracts are tied to Swan's but Pheonix's contract says until death do us part which might be standard language in a devil contract lol. And you're right on the last bit. Just like Beef's death the crowd thinks it's part of theatrics. MacheteZombie has a new favorite as of 02:48 on Mar 14, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 00:51
|
|
|
Does Phantom have a moment where a blond man is attacked in his bathtub? Years upon years ago, I caught a moment like that on TV, and I thought it was that movie, but I was never sure.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 01:57
|
|
|
Leavemywife posted:Does Phantom have a moment where a blond man is attacked in his bathtub? Years upon years ago, I caught a moment like that on TV, and I thought it was that movie, but I was never sure. There's a shower scene lifted from Psycho and a deal with the devil with Paul Williams in a bathtub so you might be conflating those scenes.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 02:12
|
|
|
I really like that scene with Paul Williams. How he plays both characters really works for me.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 02:41
|
|
|
In The Foreigner, Jackie Chan asks the handsome young Irish dude why he fought for the British despite being a catholic. Guy answers "I fought for the company" but why would he join the army of the colonizers tho?
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 04:15
|
|
|
Krankenstyle posted:In The Foreigner, Jackie Chan asks the handsome young Irish dude why he fought for the British despite being a catholic. Guy answers "I fought for the company" There were a lot of irritating things about this movie. Jackie's daughter, who sets the whole thing off by getting Collateral Damage'd 3 minutes into the movie, is "Female 1" according to the subtitles. So, poor mad Jackie picks some random face of the IRA guy to heckle to give up names of conspirators, simply cause he sees him on TV, as IRA guy is part of the legitimate government. Naturally, he was the ringleader of this whole plot.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 06:10
|
|
|
Jackie Chan movies give away the secret villains by how much they love Britain. So an Irishman that loves it enough to fight for it is I guess waaaay evil.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 08:17
|
|
|
Arrath posted:There were a lot of irritating things about this movie. lmao true although tbf there was a sub-plot underneath "gerry adams" as well 
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 10:16
|
|
|
anyway gonna re-recommend black 47... gently caress landlords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6znv9iBGX6w
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 10:21
|
|
|
Krankenstyle posted:anyway gonna re-recommend black 47... gently caress landlords Aaaaaaaand I know what I'll be watching tonight.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 12:22
|
|
Krankenstyle posted:anyway gonna re-recommend black 47... gently caress landlords From the title, I kinda hoped this was going to be a blaxploitation Hitman movie.
|
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 12:32
|
|
|
Arrath posted:There were a lot of irritating things about this movie. Also jackie is so nonimportant to the plot resolution that it feels like a secret history type book
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 15:10
|
|
|
In the new movie Bloodshot there's this nerd character that everybody just hates but they don't do a good job of making him hateable so it just comes across as every character in the movie being a huge bully to this guy for no reason.
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 16:18
|
|
|
Tunicate posted:Also jackie is so nonimportant to the plot resolution that it feels like a secret history type book Let's not forget that the police bust into the hideout after Jackie rolls through and wrecks everyone, to torture the bomb plot out of the survivors before straight executing them. Which, tbf was probably SOP for MI5 or whoever it was back during The Troubles but now?
|
|
#
?
Mar 14, 2020 18:32
|
|
|
Arrath posted:Let's not forget that the police bust into the hideout after Jackie rolls through and wrecks everyone, to torture the bomb plot out of the survivors before straight executing them. yeah, what gives, that's something you'd expect out of America!
|
|
#
?
Mar 17, 2020 00:44
|
|
|
I dug the movie just for that scene where he's hiding by holding up between the wall and ceiling like some kinda asian spiderman and then hops down and fucks up everyone. When they spot him, they have what I imagine would be the same face I would, which is a perfect "The gently caress?" expression.
|
|
#
?
Mar 17, 2020 01:58
|
|
|
Jesus Rolls threesome scene She’s anorgasmic and she’s okay with that and explaining it. This is actually pretty awesome having her be allowed to talk about that but if you ever dated someone like this it’s hard on the ego. I get why audiences would give this a pass. The guy/guy/girl threesome is already going to make some people uncomfortable. E: I made this post in the middle of watching this movie and now I can find several reasons "mr middle america" might dislike it it's challenging BaldDwarfOnPCP has a new favorite as of 09:04 on Mar 17, 2020 |
|
#
?
Mar 17, 2020 08:43
|
|
|
Something really stupid about the Stallone version of Judge Dredd is the whole framing Dredd for a crime he didn't commit part (the murder of an anti-Judge reporter.) So the reason Dredd gets convicted is that a Judge's gun DNA tags each and every bullet fired from it and it turns out that the bullets that killed the reporter match to Dredd. This happens because the gun was actually fired by Dredd's secretly alive secret clone brother Rico. The problem is that the council of Judges ruling on the case know that Rico and Dredd were clones and so they know for a fact that DNA tagging is worthless. Even though they think Rico is dead they know that clones are a thing that exist.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 03:21
|
|
|
It's pretty weird that they live in a world that's so authoritarian but they still dna test the cops like that.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 03:31
|
|
|
muscles like this! posted:Something really stupid about the Stallone version of Judge Dredd is the whole framing Dredd for a crime he didn't commit part (the murder of an anti-Judge reporter.) So the reason Dredd gets convicted is that a Judge's gun DNA tags each and every bullet fired from it and it turns out that the bullets that killed the reporter match to Dredd. This happens because the gun was actually fired by Dredd's secretly alive secret clone brother Rico. I thought the other High Judges didn't know of Project Janus except Chief Justice Fargo, and he took the Long Walk to spare Dredd's life.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 05:04
|
|
|
They didn’t know about project Janus and tbh my respect for muscles like this posting has fallen a great deal after this
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 05:10
|
|
|
More like oldrespectless
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 06:37
|
|
|
My IIMM for that movie is that Rico orders the clone computer to ditch the old sample and take a new one from him. He's got the exact same DNA as the previous sample, FFS.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 06:52
|
|
|
Android Apocalypse posted:I thought the other High Judges didn't know of Project Janus except Chief Justice Fargo, and he took the Long Walk to spare Dredd's life. No, they know, because when Judge Griffin starts pushing Janus everybody knows what he is talking about.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 10:28
|
|
|
Huh, guess I need to watch Judge Dredd again. Good way to prep myself for our future by the ways things are going.
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 17:18
|
|
|
It has also been a thing in the comics that Mega City Law is harsh and unforgiving for everyone, even the judges. Dredd isn't allowed to just shoot whoever he likes, and I vaguely recall a situation where a criminal got away by surrendering, then leaving when Dredd had to rescue his hostage from an automated trap. Another time Dredd took a dislike to a business (Cosmetic surgery to make you as ugly as possible) and spent time going over obscure laws until he found one the business was violating. So, a weird quirk but somewhat in line with certain depictions of Mega City One
|
|
#
?
Mar 18, 2020 18:10
|
|
|
It's been 16 years since Ocean's Twelve came out but I just saw five minutes of it on the tv and it turns out I'm still furious about the Julia Roberts plot twist 
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2020 23:54
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 20, 2024 07:53 |
|
|
How is undercover cops being painfully obvious still a thing in tv shows and movies? Haven't they watched any movie where they are setting up an arrest and seen how easy it is to spot the fed by looking for people talking into their wrist/touching their ear a bunch or repeating actions over and over while staring at the suspect? Just act normal, mess around on your phone, do random things, do anything but act like a cop.
|
|
#
?
Mar 20, 2020 02:37
|
|
