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Obsession that destroys a person: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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I rewatched The Score (2001) last night for first time in probably a decade. There's an underrated heist movie from a bygone era in cinema. Marlon Brando is portly, but surprisingly ambulatory and well-dressed considering what he was up to just a few years before. Norton's whole 'faking being developmentally-disabled' thing is bad, but surprisingly not as cringe as you might expect from a 20-year-old movie. DeNiro gets the classic happy ending with his best girl, and honestly even his life before the events of the film looks pretty dope as it is. He owns a jazz club in Montreal. That's money. It's really cool to see Montreal showcased the way it is in this movie. The city is like its own character. And all of the bit parts like the Francophone security guards, just great. The leadup to and payoff of the big safe being cracked is perfect. "It's just physics." And I totally memory-holed the fact that it was directed by goddamn Frank Oz.
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Mar 21, 2023 06:01
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Timby posted:Obsession that destroys a person: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Bought the Ultra Q steelbox a while back because it was fairly cheap. It just arrived and I only just realized it's Region A and I'm pretty sure my Blu-ray player and my PS4 are both region locked to B. Welcome to physical media, time to buy a region free bluray player
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MacheteZombie posted:Welcome to physical media, time to buy a region free bluray player there's some real good stuff in that Ultra Q set
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wait poo poo I got a better response
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FreudianSlippers posted:Bought the Ultra Q steelbox a while back because it was fairly cheap. It just arrived and I only just realized it's Region A and I'm pretty sure my Blu-ray player and my PS4 are both region locked to B. Ultra QQ
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Mar 21, 2023 16:25
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Who started or popularized the thing where you freeze on a newly introduced character and show their name? I know The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly did it. Are there any clear movies that build on it, like the first to add little snippets of text beside just the name? Or add a narrator with a few flash back scenes before resuming the main film? In writing this, I'm now also thinking of the bit in Forrest Gump where we see all of Lt. Dan's forefathers.
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I finally say Black Hawk Down after my co-worker seemed aghast that I had never seen it before. I remember my reasons for not seeing it was the fact that it was released a few months after 9/11 and I was worried that it would just be an outright propaganda film (I know it was filmed before 9/11 so I feel half right). I will say that it is very good at building tension and making you feel like you are in the middle of a battle. The constant barrage of bullets and the basic story of survival are handled really well. I wouldn't say I cared too much about the characters though and the fact that I kept getting confused about who is who and who died and who didn't and why should I care who died and didn't. They tried to give the characters the most basic personality ever (I think most of the characters can be summed up as "I have never been in a war zone before and I am looking forward to fighting") so again, not really enough for me to care about them*. As bland as the Americans were, they were well fleshed out characters compared to the Somalis who were pretty much treated like freaking zombies with RPG's. Seriously, this felt like watching a zombie movie with hordes of the undead bearing down in overwhelming numbers on the soldiers. There are no Somalis with distinct personalities, names, or anything else. I guess there is the one dude with sunglasses who....wears sunglasses. One Somali who captures a soldier has a small speech but he is the only one that gets to talk. the rest are just there to shoot and get shot. The thing that I think really drives this point home is that every time an American get's shot/killed it is presented in the most realistic, brutal graphic way possible, but when a Somali is killed its a quick gunshot wound. We are shown how these soldiers suffered with barely a thought given to any innocent bystander caught in the crosshairs. On a technical level the film is really excellent. I wouldn't say the movie is a pro-war but it is definitely pro-military, driving home the whole brothers in arms motif with the final speech at the end. In the end though I think the next time I want to see a movie about a group heavily outmatched but nameless murderers I will just watch the Raid. *Side note: reading the wiki and seeing that McGregor's character was changed and renamed because the person he is based on was arrested/sentenced for raping a 6 year old really tarnishes the whole survived a hero thing.
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Black Hawk Down is a really weird movie for a coworker to be aghast at you not seeing in 2023. Like, it was a technically well made but absolutely morally disgusting movie when it came out.
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Madkal posted:*Side note: reading the wiki and seeing that McGregor's character was changed and renamed because the person he is based on was arrested/sentenced for raping a 6 year old really tarnishes the whole survived a hero thing. Fun fact about Black Hawk Down: the Pentagon provided the Black Hawk helicopters to the production, even though their own standards say they’ll only be involved with historical movies if they’re true to the real people and events.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Fun fact about Black Hawk Down: the Pentagon provided the Black Hawk helicopters to the production, even though their own standards say they’ll only be involved with historical movies if they’re true to the real people and events. According to wiki wiki posted:
Got to protect that public image.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Fun fact about Black Hawk Down: the Pentagon provided the Black Hawk helicopters to the production, even though their own standards say they’ll only be involved with historical movies if they’re true to the real people and events. And yet they pulled their support of Independence Day because Devlin and Emmerich wouldn't remove the lines about Area 51 having alien technology.
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https://twitter.com/savbrads/status/1638200607851806725?s=46&t=K6CRMiA33aFQep_ZPx64DQ
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How about this topic of discussion: which would be the worst movie to get a sequel?
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Mar 21, 2023 21:39
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:How about this topic of discussion: which would be the worst movie to get a sequel? Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer That had a sequel tho!
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Godfather Part 2
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:How about this topic of discussion: which would be the worst movie to get a sequel? Titanic
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:How about this topic of discussion: which would be the worst movie to get a sequel? Labyrinth Coraline
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:How about this topic of discussion: which would be the worst movie to get a sequel? Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:How about this topic of discussion: which would be the worst movie to get a sequel? Rushmore
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John Landis 's segment of the Twilight Zone film.
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Hereditary2: Paimon Gets Paid Man
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Groundhog Day is my answer
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Groundhog Day is my answer Palm Springs was pretty well received IIRC.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:How about this topic of discussion: which would be the worst movie to get a sequel? Citizens Kane
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Forrest Gump e: hell, toss in a lot of Hanks Joe vs Another Volcano Cast Away 2 The Green Marathon Azhais fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Mar 21, 2023 22:51
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Azhais posted:Forrest Gump Forrest Gump is based on a novel and the author of that novel did write a sequel. I've read neither, but my understanding is Gump becomes an astronaut at some point.
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Mar 21, 2023 22:59
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In FG2 he becomes president
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Skwirl posted:Forrest Gump is based on a novel and the author of that novel did write a sequel. I've read neither, but my understanding is Gump becomes an astronaut at some point. I’m the sequel, Gump is present at the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Gripweed posted:I’m the sequel, Gump is present at the Oklahoma City bombing. Are you Timothy McVeigh posting from beyond the grave?
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American History X
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Skwirl posted:Are you Timothy McVeigh posting from beyond the grave? That is an absolute fact about the Forest Gump sequel. Edit: here’s another quote:the script for the sequel was submitted on September 10, 2001, a day before the attacks. Gripweed fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Mar 21, 2023 |
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Gripweed posted:That is an absolute fact about the Forest Gump sequel. He's not at Oklahoma City in Gump & Co., but he does fight in the first Gulf War (with Lieutenant Dan, obviously), invent New Coke, bring down the Berlin Wall by punting a football over it, crash the Exxon Valdez and gets involved in the Iran-Contra affair. I am not making one word of that up. I read the book in junior high and it was one of the strangest books I've ever read.
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Timby posted:He's not at Oklahoma City in Gump & Co., but he does fight in the first Gulf War (with Lieutenant Dan, obviously), invent New Coke, bring down the Berlin Wall by punting a football over it, crash the Exxon Valdez and gets involved in the Iran-Contra affair. The book and the script for the sequel are different
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Gripweed posted:That is an absolute fact about the Forest Gump sequel. I was making a joke about your typo.
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