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For some reason I thought the bad guy CEO was Stephen Fry but it was a completely different dude. His speech blasting the history of racing when Speed turned him down was wild as gently caress acting. That guy should be on more big roles!
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He had a pretty good role in V for Vendetta as well as the blowhard TV personality. Not to be confused with Stephen Fry who also played a blowhard TV personality in the same movie.
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Plutonis posted:For some reason I thought the bad guy CEO was Stephen Fry but it was a completely different dude. His speech blasting the history of racing when Speed turned him down was wild as gently caress acting. That guy should be on more big roles!
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He also played Javert in the first London cast of Les Mis
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I liked a lot about Speed Racer, from the Racer family dynamic (abetted by strong performances from Sarandon and Goodman) to the racing visual effects to the music. The CGI shows its age and Chim Chim/Spritle were a little much, though. Roger Allam was perfect as Royalton. Hirsch as the titular role was kinda eh, but I did like his line "Get that weak poo poo off my track." Ricci was good too. The racing action was frenetic but I never felt lost in it. Quite an enjoyable film, coming from someone who's never seen or read the source material The "nonjas" line was brilliant
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Martman posted:He was great as Robert Maxwell in the Tetris movie, he's excellent at playing over the top slimey evil dudes He's basically playing Robert Maxwell in this movie so that makes sense. I haven't seen Speed Racer since it was in theaters and I am no longer a fan of the special effects in this. The races being super cartoony works well, but all the shots of people just being in a room are super flat. It's super obvious that every set in the movie doesn't actually exist. Still even with everything being on a green screen everyone put in a really strong performance and all the action scenes are a lot of fun. 3/5
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Crank High Voltage, i've seen Crank so I'm familiar with the lore but still appreciated all the flashbacks to remind us of what happened in the first one. this is incredible filmmaking, Michael Bay wishes he could have a camera so disconnected from physics and linear time. the running scenes are amazing, i couldn't say if Chev was supposed to be runnning 5 miles or 50 feet btu he sure was running. lots of great gags and lots of terrible ones, i was partial to the guy getting therapy and the kaiju fight. its kind of an incredible feat that they managed to make a 90-minute movie with maybe half a second of downtime in the entire thing. a lot of the scenes were just awful but you can't say Taylor and Neveldine weren't trying as hard as possible. i couldn't help but enjoy how enthusiastic the film feels, clearly made by people who first and foremost love film and set out to prove you can make something wild with a relatively small budget
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Jenny Agutter posted:Speed racer, first time I’ve seen it. Maybe I’m getting old but a lot of the racing was completely incomprehensible , the tracks distorting weirdly, cars jumping all over and bouncing off each other like beyblades, it was too much to keep track of. The ending of the big final race was hilariously overindulgent, like you could just watch that five minutes and get the entire plot of the movie. And a lot of the kid/monkey humor might have been sincere but was still just eye rolling dumb. That all being said there’s a lot of good in the film. The set and production design is outstanding, good performances from all of the leads, some really bizarre and memorable lines. And there are some really beautiful shots, like the one with the truck posted upthread. Kudos to the cast and set decorators but enough scenes look like poo poo (basically anything in the bad guy’s skyscraper) that I’m going to call this a bad movie on balance. Glad movie club got me to finally watch it Jenny Agutter posted:Crank High Voltage, i've seen Crank so I'm familiar with the lore but still appreciated all the flashbacks to remind us of what happened in the first one. this is incredible filmmaking, Michael Bay wishes he could have a camera so disconnected from physics and linear time. the running scenes are amazing, i couldn't say if Chev was supposed to be runnning 5 miles or 50 feet btu he sure was running. lots of great gags and lots of terrible ones, i was partial to the guy getting therapy and the kaiju fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHS5vpnOMM
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u mad?
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Fucker posted:u mad? yeah, i'm thinkin i'm mad!
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Fungah! posted:yeah, i'm thinkin i'm mad! 
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Herculon is a fan of the strong, silent type. High Noon dir. by Fred Zinnemann  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9CR_tib0CA quote:A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train. This film will expire on October 9th. It can be freely watched on archive.org, vimeo, a bunch of places.
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John Wayne called it the most unAmerican movie ever made. Hope you enjoy it more than he did.
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herculon posted:John Wayne called it the most unAmerican movie ever made. Hope you enjoy it more than he did. It's gotta be good then
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STONE COLD 64 posted:Herculon is a fan of the strong, silent type. herculon posted:John Wayne called it the most unAmerican movie ever made. Hope you enjoy it more than he did. lol hell yeah
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I love westerns but I don’t think I’ve seen one since I rewatched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with my grandpa several months back, looking forward to this
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Crank 2 was bad. The 2000s was a dire decade for action movies and this one really shows it. Nice to see Dwight Yoakam, though.
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i watched speed racer and the editing was the best part.
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apparently for crank 1 statham and the directors claimed that no cg or wires were used for the stunts when promoting the movie which was insanely bold of them to do
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Are y'all requiring a rewatch (probably a good idea anyway) to star or otherwise opine about a flick? this guys off the list
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High Noon was pretty cool. Being a 50s western I was expecting some John Wayne crap but it bucks those stereotypes. Watching Gary Cooper get told to gently caress off by a bunch of cowards was entertaining
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Fungah! posted:this guys off the list well, this list anyway
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Roth posted:One less until I can pick again I will dropkick sc64 if you get a 2nd pick before I get my first ----------------
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MacheteZombie posted:High Noon was pretty cool. Being a 50s western I was expecting some John Wayne crap but it bucks those stereotypes. Watching Gary Cooper get told to gently caress off by a bunch of cowards was entertaining That’s why it’s one of my favorites. It’s almost an exact opposite of a 40s-early 50s western. There’s still a shootout at the end, because it’s still a western after all
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herculon posted:That’s why it’s one of my favorites. It’s almost an exact opposite of a 40s-early 50s western. There’s still a shootout at the end, because it’s still a western after all I also really liked how Grace Kelly's character's arc went, the reveal of her shooting the guy through the window was dope.
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high noon kicks rear end, really great poo poo. its cool that it went close to real time, obvs it's not 1:1 but its close enough that you really feel time slipping away for gary cooper. his wife and anita ramirez were cool too, nd it was sick seeing hhow everyone slowly decides to turn him down. thought for a minute that his deputy would decide to join him but nope, decides to sucker punch him and gets knocked out instead lol. wish we'd gotten to see how evil frank miller was, we get a lot of people saying oooh hes a horrible hardcase but the meanest thng we see him do other than decide to kill gary cooper is take grace kelly hostage. good movie though and a sick shootout. good pick herc ★★★
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STONE COLD 64 posted:well, this list anyway lol
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high noon was a really depressing movie lol ive never seen somebody get kicked in the balls so hard repeatedly and still saddle up probably one of the most misanthropic films ive seen and thats saying something but i like that and i feel that gave the film a bit of an edge compared to its contemporaries, a grown rear end man breaks down in tears you never see that in other westerns but here it fits well with how grim the whole film is, its neat to see the main character not just be some manly man caricature, consider leaving town multiple times as friends and the people he served abandon him to the wolves, and actually show some humanity the film just feels more real than your typical western this is probably how a majority of movies shouldve gone down if they had any gumption to portray it and about the ending a bit i was surprised it was a "happy" one, in that the main character lived if it wasnt for his wife im pretty sure he was in dire straits at the end there with the two vilains pinning him down in that saddle shop i believe i mean poo poo somebody had to compromise their entire religion and traumatic past, the quaker lady picking up a gun and blowing away a dude, for things to work out this movie was hardcore and him tossing his star on the ground and driving away was exactly what those yellow bellied bastards deserved so to sum things up yeah i think another solid film, horribly depressing and any victory earned felt hollow in the face of how low things had gotten for that town, and it wasnt overly cinematic but there were some shots i liked  9/10
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That’s also Lee Van Cleef in his theatrical debut
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herculon posted:That’s also Lee Van Cleef in his theatrical debut he rules
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starbarry clock posted:he rules
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herculon posted:That’s also Lee Van Cleef in his theatrical debut oh poo poo i thought that was him! he fuckin rules
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If yall needed more excuses to watch movies the CineD October challenge thread is up. Tis the spooky season.
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MacheteZombie posted:If yall needed more excuses to watch movies the CineD October challenge thread is up. Tis the spooky season. Bad jokes aside, dude has helped with promoting a lot of SA community,especially the horror commmunity.
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