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sweeperbravo posted:Aged poorly: The CGI in the Langoliers Scaring the little GIRL?! Man, I loved that movie as kid, too. obviously had some misses, but I always felt like it did a really good job of just creating this super creepy atmosphere where you're wondering what the gently caress happened to the world, and what that sound is the girl keeps hearing. Although the reveal of what is coming...well, I did mention the misses. Part of me wonders if a remake could be decent?
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Josef bugman posted:I think the Simpsons version is better. Yeah, no offense to Scorcese but that movie’s sole legacy at this point is as the basis for one of the all time great classic Simpsons episodes and the world is better off for it.
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Cape Fear is a brilliant comedy of you watch the end where De Niro yells in tongues as he drowns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctyDL-6f90w&t=69s
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sweeperbravo posted:This is how it is in the novel IIRC. I love reading King but it's one of those things where you sometimes don't realize how goofy somethign is until it's translated literally to film that way. The better quality movies made of his works (Green Mile, the Kubrick Shining) take a lot more liberties and don't follow the book exactly. I was really sick for a week when I was in high school, don’t remember what I had, but I was out of school and ran a fever for like 5 days. I was in and out of consciousness for most of those days but I know that movie was playing quite a few times during it. I cannot remember the plot at all and all I can remember at this point is random bits and pieces like weird monster things eating the world and I honestly don’t know if it was a fever dream or the actual movie.
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:I was really sick for a week when I was in high school, don’t remember what I had, but I was out of school and ran a fever for like 5 days. I was in and out of consciousness for most of those days but I know that movie was playing quite a few times during it. I cannot remember the plot at all and all I can remember at this point is random bits and pieces like weird monster things eating the world and I honestly don’t know if it was a fever dream or the actual movie. Nah that happens. I think the Langoliers could work pretty well if the effects were decent enough. There's a bit in the movie where the creatures are over the horizon and you see power lines and trees start to topple and sway and that works nicely.
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AceOfFlames posted:Yeah, no offense to Scorcese but that movie’s sole legacy at this point is as the basis for one of the all time great classic Simpsons episodes and the world is better off for it. Nah Scorcese is way overrated, has made far more bad films than good, and is a bitter old rear end in a top hat jealous that people have moved on from his brand of poo poo. You should mean offense.
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Obsoletely Fabulous posted:I was really sick for a week when I was in high school, don’t remember what I had, but I was out of school and ran a fever for like 5 days. I was in and out of consciousness for most of those days but I know that movie was playing quite a few times during it. I cannot remember the plot at all and all I can remember at this point is random bits and pieces like weird monster things eating the world and I honestly don’t know if it was a fever dream or the actual movie. This is me but for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and breaking my nose I've tried to watch it since, but for some reason a good portion of the plot still refuses to stick in my brain and I tend to fall asleep around the same place every time also it's just not a good movie
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Iron Crowned posted:I think everyone has fond memories of spending an entire summer licking one of those jawbreakers I remember having one that was a tie in with the first Jurassic Park movie. It had fun T-Rex facts like "Even a T-Rex couldn't bite through a jawbreaker this big!"
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I like the crappy cgi in The Langoliers. They look completely wrong and don't blend in with the actual shots at all. Which seems fitting
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the_steve posted:I remember having one that was a tie in with the first Jurassic Park movie. It had fun T-Rex facts like "Even a T-Rex couldn't bite through a jawbreaker this big!" A T-Rex had a bite force of over six tons I find this candy's claims highly dubious!
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Push El Burrito posted:A T-Rex had a bite force of over six tons I find this candy's claims highly dubious! It's because jawbreakers weren't invented yet
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could god create a jawbreaker so big even he couldnt bite it
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ReidRansom posted:Nah Scorcese is way overrated, has made far more bad films than good, and is a bitter old rear end in a top hat jealous that people have moved on from his brand of poo poo. You should mean offense. Martin Scorsese makes good movies and what he said about Disney movies was also good.
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Flying Zamboni posted:Martin Scorsese makes good movies and what he said about Disney movies was also good. Also by all accounts he's a really nice guy who puts in a ton of effort to uplift filmmakers without the resources of megaconglomerates.
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Apr 20, 2021 01:11
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Do we really need to start the film hipster argument. We know where it goes
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Cape Fear is pretty lame though. To a lesser extent so is Shutter Island. Dude is not great at thrillers.
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I could not care less about Scorsese's opinions on Marvel movies but he puts in a lot of effort in trying to preserve a lot of films and for that he deserves praise
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ReidRansom posted:Nah Scorcese is way overrated, has made far more bad films than good, and is a bitter old rear end in a top hat jealous that people have moved on from his brand of poo poo. You should mean offense. lmao
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Y'all are making me want to re-watch the Gregory Peck version and see how that one holds up.
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The movie is called “cape FEAR” I mean try to have at least heard of the word subtle Marty
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El Fideo posted:Y'all are making me want to re-watch the Gregory Peck version and see how that one holds up. It is also pretty great.
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Scorcese has made good movies but he can be pretty inconsistent. Like the gimmick of The Irishman was a huge waste of time and money because it was just completely not believable and didn't actually add anything to the story.
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oldpainless posted:The movie is called “cape FEAR” I mean try to have at least heard of the word subtle Marty https://www.capefear-nc.com/
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Dude made Goodfellas. I don’t care if he never made another movie, or if he made one other movie and it was Juwanna Man, he’d still be a great filmmaker.
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He also led the World Cinema Project which got a lot of brilliant film from Africa/India/Korea/etc. more attention and he generally has helped prove just how much influence world cinema has had on the medium in the western sphere. Increasingly this thread has the most wack rear end opinions on film.
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muscles like this! posted:Scorcese has made good movies but he can be pretty inconsistent. Like the gimmick of The Irishman was a huge waste of time and money because it was just completely not believable and didn't actually add anything to the story. With the magic of computers we can turn an 80 year-old Robert de Niro into a 20 year old who looks 40 and moves like he's 80!
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An old movie that I found is still kind of interesting despite having old-fashioned ideas regarding Travellers was "The Man Who Laughs" - it surprised me when I watched it because I expected Gwynplain to be a complete outcast but in the movie he's actually fairly well liked among most of the cast, it's just the nobles who are dicks to him. I liked that it has a total reversal of the usual disfigured person's fate in those old movies, where instead of being chased by an angry mob, the mob is actually on his side, deliberately blocking the police as he fights his way to save his girlfriend. The main thing that didn't age well about that movie though was Gwyn's backstory - his face is disfigured because of a random surgery done by a group of evil gypsies. Yikes. A lot of people criticize his actions, and make him out to be a bad person but I understand where he's coming from - he has really bad self-esteem issues to the extent that he thinks he doesn't deserve his (blind, so she doesn't know about his disfigurement early on) girlfriend and that she deserves someone obviously better than he is. This changes when he meet another woman who CAN see him, but who stands out from his usual audience because she doesn't laugh at him, and she invites him back to her place and he gets kind of excited - his logic is to pursue this because if this woman who CAN see him can love him, then maybe his disfigurement doesn't actually matter and he can stop being ashamed of it. There's a really sweet scene where he finally allows his blind GF to "see" his mouth, and she accepts him to his surprise and delight, and it's a really sweet moment that's very cathartic.
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ReidRansom posted:Nah Scorcese is way overrated, has made far more bad films than good, and is a bitter old rear end in a top hat jealous that people have moved on from his brand of poo poo. You should mean offense. Big mean Martin Scorcese punching down at noted little guy, The Disney Corporation
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El Fideo posted:Y'all are making me want to re-watch the Gregory Peck version and see how that one holds up. it's good imho, mitchum and peck are a v powerful combo
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Rochallor posted:With the magic of computers we can turn an 80 year-old Robert de Niro into a 20 year old who looks 40 and moves like he's 80! Watching old man DeNiro beat up that grocer and try to act like he's young when he kinda wobbles and looks very unsteady kicking is one of cinema's greatest gifts to us.
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Every Scorcese film I've ever seen has been *at least* good. Including Cape Fear. You guys get how like depiction is not endorsement, and even if Lewis' character acts sexual she's still clearly a child unable to make a mature decision, it's not played like a healthy consensual thing.
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mind the walrus posted:Part of the core conceit is that Nick Nolte's lawyer character got DeNiro's rapist character convicted by burying evidence that the 16 year-old girl he raped was promiscuous, which would have earned him a lighter sentence or even acquittal. How has that aged badly? That's a damning indictment of the justice system by a character who understands it. ReidRansom posted:Nah Scorcese is way overrated, has made far more bad films than good, and is a bitter old rear end in a top hat jealous that people have moved on from his brand of poo poo. You should mean offense. ahaha
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How many more bad ones has he made than good ones? I just wanna hear some numbers.
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mind the walrus posted:Part of the core conceit is that Nick Nolte's lawyer character got DeNiro's rapist character convicted by burying evidence that the 16 year-old girl he raped was promiscuous, which would have earned him a lighter sentence or even acquittal. Holy poo poo, Nick Nolte's character was unambiguously a hero
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ReidRansom posted:Nah Scorcese is way overrated, has made far more bad films than good, and is a bitter old rear end in a top hat jealous that people have moved on from his brand of poo poo. You should mean offense. Big Marvel fan, I take it?
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I watched Shutter Island for the first time a couple weeks ago, at the behest of my girlfriend. About halfway through were getting some snacks and she excitedly asked me if I liked it and if I had any theories. I said "It's good, I just hope it's not one of those endings where he's actually crazy and this is all in his head, that would be super lame"
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The Scorcese Marvel comments were a real "aha" moment for me because it made me realize that a) people considered Marvel extruded movie product 57-J high art instead of just dumb fun, which had never even occurred to me might be the case and b) were extremely insecure about this. Super weird. No strong opinions on the man himself, I've seen two of his movies and thought they were pretty good.
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Super Waffle posted:I watched Shutter Island for the first time a couple weeks ago, at the behest of my girlfriend. About halfway through were getting some snacks and she excitedly asked me if I liked it and if I had any theories. I said "It's good, I just hope it's not one of those endings where he's actually crazy and this is all in his head, that would be super lame"
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TheKennedys posted:This is me but for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and breaking my nose Yeah that's basically just how that movie is. It's like it has everything except a script.
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