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Godholio posted:It is Sphere. I don't blame anyone for not seeing the film...but the book is good. Saw the movie first, read the book on deployment. Book was better. If you're going to watch dusty 90s scifi horror, just watch Event Horizon again.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Eh, I did not like the ending at all, what with it being a second cousin of the awful "my third wish is that none of this had ever happened." Congo the movie rules except for the talking ape parts (like I mean the literal talking). I mean good lord man, how can you not love this scene? Delroy Lindo is fantastic! https://youtu.be/8fbGbPwKbQA poo poo I could probably do a review longer then movie about why I love it. lol
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:
You come into my house, on this, the day my Dog graduates from medical school, and speak such vileness on that Tim Curry classic? Amy Good Gorilla. Congo Good Movie. (I actually love Congo because it's such a fun romp of insanity)
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MazelTovCocktail posted:I mean good lord man, how can you not love this scene? Delroy Lindo is fantastic! Its a great scene but even Delroy Lindo and Tim Curry can't rescue the movie. They completely whiffed my favorite parts of the book (the long, claustrophobic buildup to their arrival in the lost city that was occasionally interrupted by gorilla attacks). Also the monster gorilla costumes looked like poo poo.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Eh, I did not like the ending at all, what with it being a second cousin of the awful "my third wish is that none of this had ever happened." https://youtu.be/8fbGbPwKbQA Ugly, ugly gorrila, go away! Edit: beaten like Richard
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Oct 8, 2021 03:24
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Congo is one the the greatest bad movies of its generation
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Oct 8, 2021 04:35
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Milo and POTUS posted:Congo is one the the greatest bad movies of its generation It's a complete waste of Bruce Campell, is what it is.
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Oct 8, 2021 05:39
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Milo and POTUS posted:Congo is one the the greatest bad movies of its generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgWw43Fcuw
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Milo and POTUS posted:bruce Campbell would never be in a terrible movie! but if he was it would be awesome
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When I was young my dad had Congo on laserdisc and we loved it. It was a great movie then, riding on the cuffs of Jurassic Park it’s animatronics and effects were good, and the comedy was good too. I recently watched it with my wife and kids, like two months ago, and it just really exemplified how different movies are these days. We expect so much more out of movies now, and get arguably a lot more visual and a lot less mental out of them at times. Trying to fit Congo into the current movie meta is just not possible, and it makes it stink to high heaven. But back when it came out? It was good times. It’s weird how much expectations in film have changed.
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Oct 8, 2021 07:08
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I've neither seen nor heard of Congo, but after those clips it's now on my queue for the weekend.
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Cugel the Clever posted:I've neither seen nor heard of Congo, but after those clips it's now on my queue for the weekend. Wait until you see how easy it is to easily decoy MANPADs! 
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hobbesmaster posted:If no other ship is reporting a collision what are the options other than a seamount? id say it depends on how close it is to one of the fake islands the chinese have built in the area. and if it might be another spot they are trying to build one.
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Oct 8, 2021 07:32
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Oh man, I forgot about the ugly gorillas literally exploding when getting shot.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Eh, I did not like the ending at all, what with it being a second cousin of the awful "my third wish is that none of this had ever happened." I agree with all of this. Congo should've been a dark thriller, not...that.
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Oct 8, 2021 07:41
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The eyeball scene hosed me up real bad as a kid.
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Bruce Campbell loved that effect according to the collectors magazine I had at the time!
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Oct 8, 2021 09:04
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Oh what luck, they added Congo to YouTube's free movies last week.
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CainFortea posted:Oh man, I forgot about the ugly gorillas literally exploding when getting shot. Well let's see how well you do vs a laser beam meant for space communications (or drilling i don't remember) with a diamond the size of your fist crammed into it. What do you mean the size of a raw uncut diamond doesn't amplify its destructive power? Have YOU ever killed inbred carnivore guarddog apes? I think not good DAY sir Edit: i do like how in that era of movie making the more delicate and experimental a piece of technology the more you beat the piss out of it the more it will magically do the thing you want it wasnt made to do Stravag fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Stravag posted:
This.. is how we got astronauts to the moon.
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Stravag posted:Edit: i do like how in that era of movie making the more delicate and experimental a piece of technology the more you beat the piss out of it the more it will magically do the thing you want it wasnt made to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkOT3IngMQ
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Wasabi the J posted:The eyeball scene hosed me up real bad as a kid. Same. It’s the only scene I remember after 25ish years.
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Cole I think we're just the same person
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I only remember the hippo attack and xenonorph sentry-gun scene from Congo, that and Tim Curry saying Zinj. I don't even remember Bruce Campbell being in it. I'm still out sick, I think I need to rewatch it today.
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Speaking of Bruce Campbell, October 15th will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the classic Sam Raimi movie The Evil Dead. Bruce stars as Ash Williams, a kind of hapless everyman thrust into a demonically-tinged nightmare that can only be solved by total dismemberment (as is usually the case.) I figure I'd bring this up now because I figure by the 15th, this thread will have moved on to discussing the new revelations of how Trump sought to overturn the election by releasing genetically modified Brown Recluse Murder Hornets into Congress. Anyhow, the Evil Dead! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6mioAlpJk The first one, which grew out of the 1978 short Within The Woods, had some unique camera tricks and really attempted to be a "serious" horror movie in terms of gore and the overall atmosphere. It also had a, uh, unfortunate love scene involving a horny demonic tree. The sequel, Evil Dead 2, was kind of a sequel-remake to the first Evil Dead movie, and was the first notable time that Raimi and Campbell really found their "splatstick" formula of excessive gore employed in a kind of tongue and cheek way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIJTvEo4N4Q This was followed by Army of Darkness, which completely abandons any pretense of being a horror movie and is instead full of over-the-top dialogue and action scenes to boot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or3okI_mad8 If you've never seen any of these and are looking for a fun little popcorn movie experience, I'd recommend starting with Evil Dead 2 and marathoning straight through to Army of Darkness. xpostin' this and shamelessly plugging the Spooky Season thread.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:The sequel, Evil Dead 2, was kind of a sequel-remake to the first Evil Dead movie, and was the first notable time that Raimi and Campbell really found their "splatstick" formula of excessive gore employed in a kind of tongue and cheek way. An old high school memory - friends and I were watching Evil Dead 2 in my mom's basement. I was told it was a Bruce Campbell movie, so my idiot brain decided that Bruce Campbell was the name of the character coming in to save everyone at the end. My dumbass had to be told that Bruce Campbell is the actor's name and he's playing Ash in the movie. Bubba Ho-Tep is underrated.
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The first one should be watched, but not first. It's one of those "this movie is really bad, let's drink (or get high I guess?) and watch.
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hobbesmaster posted:If no other ship is reporting a collision what are the options other than a seamount? My money is on whale attack like the whaleship Essex. "In the Heart of the Sea" is a good, if grim, book about it. Also, the Ash vs. Evil Dead series is a pretty good successor to the Evil Dead movies, IMO.
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Just read about the essex. Those motherfuckers killed over 300 tortoises. Combine that with the fact that they were whaling, makes 8 survivors too many.
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facialimpediment posted:An old high school memory - friends and I were watching Evil Dead 2 in my mom's basement. I was told it was a Bruce Campbell movie, so my idiot brain decided that Bruce Campbell was the name of the character coming in to save everyone at the end. My dumbass had to be told that Bruce Campbell is the actor's name and he's playing Ash in the movie. The originals are great but the 2013 remake was a weird joyless slog without any Campbell or Raimi charm.
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I'm seeing people dance on Twitter about "Trump is Broke" because some documents released by the House Oversight Committee indicate the D.C. Trump International Hotel experienced a net loss of $70 million while he was president. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/08/politics/trump-hotel-dc/index.html quote:Trump's income from the Trump International Hotel reported in public financial disclosures dating from 2016 to 2020 totaled more than $156 million, the committee said Friday. I mean I'm not a money numbers talker, but it seems like you would want to be showing losses all the time or defer losses from a bad period across the next three. If the hotel was taking-in money hand-over-fist, wouldn't you expect the business to find way of funneling that off to other parts they wouldn't have to pay tax on?
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Speaking of Bruce Campbell, October 15th will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of the classic Sam Raimi movie The Evil Dead. Bruce stars as Ash Williams, a kind of devastatingly handsome and suave everyman Small error I corrected for you there
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Lake of Methane posted:I'm seeing people dance on Twitter about "Trump is Broke" because some documents released by the House Oversight Committee indicate the D.C. Trump International Hotel experienced a net loss of $70 million while he was president. It's also because he got booted from the Forbes 400-richest list that he actually cares about, plus Deutsche Bank's general shadiness involving a loan break given to him regarding that hotel. Don't really think about it too hard, especially when it comes to twitlibs basically saying HAH, GOT HIM NOW. So just giggle that he couldn't even be competent at getting bribed.
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What's great is how much of Evil Dead comes through parts of Raimi's Spiderman 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz-17z44F6g
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Lake of Methane posted:I'm seeing people dance on Twitter about "Trump is Broke" because some documents released by the House Oversight Committee indicate the D.C. Trump International Hotel experienced a net loss of $70 million while he was president. Half of Trump's poo poo before he took office was tax tricks to make it look like a profitable business was losing money so he never actually paid taxes. He literally bragged about it on the campaign trail part of that is loaning yourself money so imaginary debt occurs
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Terrifying Effigies posted:What's great is how much of Evil Dead comes through parts of Raimi's Spiderman 2: Man I haven't seen that movie in a long time, I need to revisit the trilogy before no way home comes out. I remember parts of 3 were better than the whole, if only the studio had left him alone. Never saw either of the ASM movies either, might as well get those out of the way.
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its trivial for businesses to lose money while being wildly profitable, its just that the IRS is too busy chasing people who might have earned $7 more than the maximum for claiming the EITC
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facialimpediment posted:
Truth. Seriously, worth the watch if you've never seen it. Bruce was also in a Jim Carrey movie some 15 years ago but it's a bit role overacting for film sequence shown in the movie, The Majestic. So like, 2 minutes of campy relief while Jim Carrey is being largely sad and confused for 2 hours. Best 2 minutes of the movie.
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