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Aces High posted:It was on one of those cable channels a couple months ago, I watched it with my dad. The only thing that stuck with me was how committed every person was, no matter how pointless their role seemed, and that it seemed so real. Yeah, it's a really weird vibe. For a movie where Robin Williams plays a literal cartoon character it's very earnest and low-key. It feels more like performance art than a movie. Asterite34 posted:Who had it worse, Raul Julia in Street Fighter or Orson Welles in Transformers: The Movie? Orson Welles 100%. Raul Julia was doing it for his grandkids and had as much fun with it as a dying man could. the holy poopacy has a new favorite as of 15:49 on May 30, 2023 |
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Popeye had some utterly amazing sets, the first time I recall a comic strip/book movie leaning into set decoration to reinforce the oddity and artificiality of the setting. Might have only next followed by Batman. You can still visit the set in Malta: https://popeyemalta.com
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DOOM the movie did nothing wrong. e: motherfucker!
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The Popeye movie rules.
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the holy poopacy posted:Orson Welles 100%. Raul Julia was doing it for his grandkids and had as much fun with it as a dying man could. There's also quotes out there from when Welles agreed to the job and the famous one from right after he finished it. He took it because he believed there was huge potential for animation as an art form and wanted to be a part of it. Then he got the script and recorded his lines.
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May 30, 2023 16:31
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we're all forgetting Michael Caine and Jaws the Revenge
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mllaneza posted:A friend and I watched season 1 of I Love Lucy about a decade ago. As of then it held up pretty drat well. Sitcoms have been what they have been because of that show. Also fun fact, Lucille Ball helped get season one of Star Trek produced. Her providing sound stage space at DesiLu Studios was instrumental in making that happen. More than that, Star Trek was a Desilu production. After the second pilot was picked up, the board of directors balked at having too many expensive shows and voted to cancel it, but Ball vetoed them. After the first season Desilu was sold to Gulf and Western, who also owned Paramount, and now you know the rest of the story. (Desilu also owned a lot of assets from the defunct RKO, where Ball had originally worked as a chorus girl.)
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May 30, 2023 16:40
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Lucille Ball was such a comic genius. But wow I Love Lucy ages in weird ways. If you remove the slapstick, every episode is Lucy just trying to be independent and do things her own way, thwarted because she's a woman in the 50s.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:There's also quotes out there from when Welles agreed to the job and the famous one from right after he finished it. Hah, I knew of his infamous statements after he did it but never heard that he had actually been looking forward to it at first, I just always assumed it was a matter of the studio throwing enough money at him.
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credburn posted:Lucille Ball was such a comic genius. My understanding is that even if Lucy was thwarted she pushed the boundaries plenty enough to be a win for women’s independence (and other things like sharing a bed with your husband).
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credburn posted:Lucille Ball was such a comic genius. That aspect at least aged better than the roofie episode
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the holy poopacy posted:Hah, I knew of his infamous statements after he did it but never heard that he had actually been looking forward to it at first, I just always assumed it was a matter of the studio throwing enough money at him. It kind of reminds me of Haley Joel Osment when he talks about his role in Kingdom Hearts 2 and he says something like when he walked into the room and saw the director with a huge corkboard trying to figure out the confusing plot, that was when he realised that videogames were truly art.
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Lucille Ball was a treasure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvN3_qCgulk
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I like the one where Lucy is trying to do a commercial and gets I think maybe drunk off the drink? I'm not sure because I don't remember it being an alcohol but she got hosed up.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I like the one where Lucy is trying to do a commercial and gets I think maybe drunk off the drink? I'm not sure because I don't remember it being an alcohol but she got hosed up. It was a 'health elixir' which were usually just drugs and/or alcohol back in the day anyway
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Toshimo posted:Lucille Ball was a treasure. lol sure make Arnold's character Italian good plan
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I like the one where Lucy is trying to do a commercial and gets I think maybe drunk off the drink? I'm not sure because I don't remember it being an alcohol but she got hosed up. Also happened to Orson Welles for real.
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On Star Trek: DS9 the Cardassian drink, Kanar?, was just corn syrup. It hosed up at least one of the actors I think?
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also happened to Orson Welles for real. He was stone sober when he said he’d go down on that audio booth guy, though.
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Asterite34 posted:That aspect at least aged better than the roofie episode you talking about the one where lucy thinks ricky is planning on killing her and getting remarried? hallo spacedog posted:It was a 'health elixir' which were usually just drugs and/or alcohol back in the day anyway it was made up of 28% alcohol lol
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Desert Bus posted:On Star Trek: DS9 the Cardassian drink, Kanar?, was just corn syrup. It hosed up at least one of the actors I think? on gilmore girls, alexis bledel got health issues from all the diet coke she drank in place of the coffee her character was addicted to
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I think what aged best from the Popeye movie was Paul Thomas Anderson reusing the best song in it (IMO) as a recurring motif for Punch-Drunk Love The Popeye OST itself was done by Harry Nilsson too, which if I'm being honest is the only reason I checked it out lol. I don't think it's a great example of his work though besides that one track
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For some stupid reason, I remember basically nothing about the Popeye movie except Olive Oyl singing her first song: "He may noooooot be a lot..." "That's true." "But he's LAAARGE. And he's MINE." "She can have him."
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Jedit posted:I do - it introduced Kristanna Loken from Terminator 3 and co-starred the much underrated Daniel Bernhardt (best known to most as "the agent from The Matrix who isn't Hugo Weaving"). They did try, but it was a show with a negative budget and there's only so much you can do. Jeffrey Meek also did a good Raiden and the best Shao Kahn. It's the only time Kahn showed some dangerous intelligence instead of just punching really hard. However, in addition to budget, Conquest was also held back by constantly being PG-13 horny and that two of the three leads couldn't fight.
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Mr Interweb posted:you talking about the one where lucy thinks ricky is planning on killing her and getting remarried? Yeah, and to get her to calm down Fred hands Ricky a roofie from his personal "Ethel's nagging me again" stash to slip in her drink when she's not looking The gently caress, Fred 
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I Love Lucy was a product of it's time and REALLY hosed up from a modern perspective. See also: Laverne & Shirley They are good shows that went on to be highly influential but some of is it just ooooof
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Dick Van Dyke show holds up. It's funny and not mean and mostly not fulla weird repressed sex poo poo
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I don't know... did you SEE Mary Tyler Moore in those pants?
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The separate beds adds to the underlying sexual tension in every scene.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:They hired the creators of Max Headroom to direct it, there's no way it wasn't going to end up weird, creative and unique Oh...ohhhhhhh. Suddenly everything makes so much more sense. Not that I didn't already love that movie.
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There's a lot of poo poo that devolves into the "gotta keep women in their place" thing. I was going through Malcolm in the Middle about a year ago, a series which generally holds up quite well, but there's one episode which involves Lois getting in a car accident and maintaining that she looked where she was going, it wasn't her fault. A surveillance tape shows her pulling out in front of a guy and getting hit, and it's a huge blow to her self-confidence. The conclusion of the episode is the reveal of another surveillance tape that shows the guy she got hit by pulled an illegal U-turn into her lane, and the response by this from her family is to immediately destroy the tape because sometimes Lois is too self-righteous for her own good and could stand to be taken down a peg. It's absolutely played as a comedy bit and not horrific gaslighting.
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Desert Bus posted:Dick Van Dyke show holds up. It's funny and not mean and mostly not fulla weird repressed sex poo poo The thing to remember is that the DVD (lol)show was made in the middle of a conservative era in America when a man could own a house and support a family on 40 hours a week with a high school education. Then liberalism crept in and now just look at the state of our country. Just look at it!
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[I've been rewatching Laverne and Shirley lately and the last 3 episodes ended in sexual assault. It gets really weird and dark.
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I didn't see Scream until many years after I saw Scary Movie, so the principal being Squiggy reference was lost on me but still funny. (The principal in Scream was the Fonz)
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Stonehouse Beach posted:Jeffrey Meek also did a good Raiden and the best Shao Kahn. It's the only time Kahn showed some dangerous intelligence instead of just punching really hard. However, in addition to budget, Conquest was also held back by constantly being PG-13 horny and that two of the three leads couldn't fight. Cameron Diaz was supposed to play Sonya Blade in the '95 Mortal Kombat film but had to drop out at the last minute because of an injury and was replaced by Bridgette Wilson who as far as I can tell had no previous martial arts training at all. Everyone else had received several weeks worth of training for their fight scenes before filming started but she had to get trained up on the set, apparently her fight with Kano was the very last thing they filmed so she had extra time to prep for it. It was still pretty gosh darn awful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07KHVWuAw8s Her finishing move is a handstand with the other actor holding her in place and then gently falling over on soft sand On the other hand it was still more than what Kylie Minogue attempted in Street Fighter where her special move was "medium kick".  There was actually a deleted scene where Cammy fights Chun-Li and you really get the sense that Ming-Na Wen was trying her hardest to keep the fighting absolutely minimal while at the same time literally somersaulting around the set and doing the widest spinning kicks possible to try and give some movement and flare to the scenehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGVF-TJbZ4I Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 04:17 on May 31, 2023 |
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Desert Bus posted:On Star Trek: DS9 the Cardassian drink, Kanar?, was just corn syrup. It hosed up at least one of the actors I think? Damar's whole character for much of his screentime was basically being drunk on Kanar constantly and it got his actor pretty wired, yeah. I think they switched to a sugar-free brand at some point. Kanar comes up a few times, according to O'Brien it can be enjoyed by humans but it's very much an acquired taste. Rochallor posted:There's a lot of poo poo that devolves into the "gotta keep women in their place" thing. I was going through Malcolm in the Middle about a year ago, a series which generally holds up quite well, but there's one episode which involves Lois getting in a car accident and maintaining that she looked where she was going, it wasn't her fault. A surveillance tape shows her pulling out in front of a guy and getting hit, and it's a huge blow to her self-confidence. Fair, though that might just come from the mom being the only major female character; kind of the point of the show is the whole family are terrible people- almost entirely thanks to their terrible parents.
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WaywardWoodwose posted:[I've been rewatching Laverne and Shirley lately and the last 3 episodes ended in sexual assault. It gets really weird and dark. Was it by their creepy neighbours? Even watching that show as a little kid, those guys skeeved me out.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Her finishing move is a handstand with the other actor holding her in place and then gently falling over on soft sand It's worse than that - her handstand was quite obviously shot in reverse.
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Jedit posted:It's worse than that - her handstand was quite obviously shot in reverse. Oh poo poo, it just gets worse and worse One thing though, looking back on that clip again I finally recognised the song they're playing over the fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0O1BRtDBPg The soundtrack was definitely the best thing about that movie, the MORTAL KOMBATTTT! theme is an alltime great TEST YOUR MIGHT FIGHT!
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