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Bright Bart posted:re: The Family Plan You're Next, sort of. Not one of those three categories exactly but the same basic plot beat. The protagonist grew up in a survivalist commune.
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Bright Bart posted:re: The Family Plan Nobody? True Lies?
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Equalizer 1 is good fun but it might have been better if Denzel was just a guy who's just like that.
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Bright Bart posted:re: The Family Plan The Long Kiss Goodnight is pretty sick (and a christmas movie)
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:The Long Kiss Goodnight is pretty sick (and a christmas movie) strongly seconding this one, Long Kiss Goodnight rules
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I love long kiss goodnight. I’m not a huge Geena Davis fan but she kills that movie. Coulda been Furiosa if they were filming in that period
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Grendels Dad posted:I must admit that I'm not up to speed on his current beliefs but vaguely remember that he got way, way worse a few years ago. He was a huge Putin apologist and his son worked with Russian state media in Ukraine up until the invasion. Ironically, John Milius's daughter or granddaughter works at an American right wing media outlet that went all in on excusing the Russian invasion. Funny world.
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Enderzero posted:I’m not a huge Geena Davis fan Alright,
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I watched Jumpin' Jack Flash, I think because it came up during a morning news show reunion of the cast of Taxi. Maybe it's because I was cooking fudge and checking the pot every 10 minutes, and this was literally my first spy movie, so I had more patience than most, but I disagree with the critics and audience who panned it and thought it was a terrific movie.
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Gripweed posted:Alright, I realize that’s a Me problem
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galenanorth posted:I watched Jumpin' Jack Flash, I think because it came up during a morning news show reunion of the cast of Taxi. Maybe it's because I was cooking fudge and checking the pot every 10 minutes, and this was literally my first spy movie, so I had more patience than most, but I disagree with the critics and audience who panned it and thought it was a terrific movie. First spy movie? May I suggest watching Sneakers next
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FreudianSlippers posted:That sounds like Parker from the Richard Stark books who has a strict rule of no loving, and no sex drive if he didn't have the rule, while he's organizing or performing a heist. I always loved that about Parker. He'd be ultra professional with no distractions until the heist is finished and he's several hundred thousand dollars richer, then he just hangs out in a nice hotel drinking and loving hot women until the next book.
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Air Skwirl posted:I always loved that about Parker. He'd be ultra professional with no distractions until the heist is finished and he's several hundred thousand dollars richer, then he just hangs out in a nice hotel drinking and loving hot women until the next book. Yeah it's always fun whenever any of his colleagues who have lives and interests outside of robbery mention any of that and he's all "Yeah sure whatever let's just focus on the crime, thanks."
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why is there not a year-end thread for top 10 movies or whatever like the video games forum does? yes this is a shameless attempt at harvesting movie recommendations, December I play catchup and it would be nice to have everyone make effortposts for me personally to enjoy
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There was aSpiderman movie that was good,I don't remember if the other Spiderman movie that was merely ok was this year or last. Man where has the time gone
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Chadzok posted:why is there not a year-end thread for top 10 movies or whatever like the video games forum does? yes this is a shameless attempt at harvesting movie recommendations, December I play catchup and it would be nice to have everyone make effortposts for me personally to enjoy Because you haven't made it
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Gaius Marius posted:Because you haven't made it
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Chadzok posted:why is there not a year-end thread for top 10 movies or whatever like the video games forum does? yes this is a shameless attempt at harvesting movie recommendations, December I play catchup and it would be nice to have everyone make effortposts for me personally to enjoy my big fat greek wedding 3 is a movie that came out this year
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Air Skwirl posted:I always loved that about Parker. He'd be ultra professional with no distractions until the heist is finished and he's several hundred thousand dollars richer, then he just hangs out in a nice hotel drinking and loving hot women until the next book. It's a pretty fun kind of series gimmick, reminds me of how apparently the old Fafrd and Grey Mouser books had them always start every book broke and usually in debt from partying nonstop since the last book. ed: Also reminds me of Golgo 13, who basically in between meticulously planned assassinations is busy partying and loving, never changing his expression even then. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Dec 17, 2023 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:The Long Kiss Goodnight is pretty sick (and a christmas movie) One of the best Brian Cox lines ever.
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Chadzok posted:why is there not a year-end thread for top 10 movies or whatever like the video games forum does? yes this is a shameless attempt at harvesting movie recommendations, December I play catchup and it would be nice to have everyone make effortposts for me personally to enjoy Honestly I’ve considered making this for the past couple years but always get anxious about it as I’m not exactly a beloved member of this subforum (see: the bizarre amount of animosity Roth has towards me), plus it would be a pain in the rear end tryna figure out the rules with regards to “do you pick movies that have been released in the poster’s country that year or what”. But idk would people be down for it? The Games and TVIV polls are so much fun.
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since, as we've already established, this would be specifically for my enjoyment, my suggestions would be similar to the video games one. Keep the rules simple and bolded at the top of the OP, the games thread is pretty messy this year. minimum 5 movies, up to 10 will be counted. put as many or as few as you want, but some basic criteria like that to be counted toward the overall top list (if that even needs to be a thing?). also have to write something for each one (doesn't have to be a review necessarily, E/N poo poo is great too) the other super important thing is that it be a rainbow sparkle fairyland safe-space with no counter-critiques or any form of commentary on other people's lists other than, essentially, "I like that film, or your list, or that theatre that you mentioned you saw it at". encourage and support ludicrous effortposts with pretty custom GIFs I think the spirit of the thing should be mainly 2023 movies but 2022 movies with later international releases or even DVD/VOD releases in 2023 (we don't have infinite money to see everything in cinema on release date) should be fine. maybe if you're squeaking something in on a technicality you should have to state why you think it counts. I really don't think it matters who starts it, only a tiny fraction of people who would post their lists would even look at/care about usernames. make it and people will post. it'll be great. someone else do it please
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Steve Yun posted:First spy movie? 
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Quick question, at the beginning of Raging Bull, why does the crowd riot and go nuts in that first fight? edit: the movie kind of explains it a few mins later, saying the judges were lame and the crowd knew it. I'll put my phone down for Marty. I'm watching a Scorsese a day at the moment, did Goodfellas and Casino so far, good times. Haven't seen a lot of these since I was a teenager. Heavy Metal fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Dec 17, 2023 |
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Heavy Metal posted:Quick question, at the beginning of Raging Bull, why does the crowd riot and go nuts in that first fight? It looks like Jake had the upper hand when the match was over but I guess Jimmy technically scored better for most of the match. Crowd thinks Jake should’ve won
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Escobarbarian posted:Honestly I’ve considered making this for the past couple years but always get anxious about it as I’m not exactly a beloved member of this subforum (see: the bizarre amount of animosity Roth has towards me), plus it would be a pain in the rear end tryna figure out the rules with regards to “do you pick movies that have been released in the poster’s country that year or what”. But idk would people be down for it? The Games and TVIV polls are so much fun. Chadzok posted:since, as we've already established, this would be specifically for my enjoyment, my suggestions would be similar to the video games one. i was thinking about this recently, too. screw it - https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4049769 MacheteZombie can we get it stickied? also it's just past midnight in california, a timezone where most people around the world are notoriously inactive. great timing on my part but hey whatever.
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ShoogaSlim posted:i was thinking about this recently, too. Thanks! Stickied
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Bright Bart posted:re: The Family Plan Dogville? Haven't actually seen it, not sure if it's good.
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Bright Bart posted:re: The Family Plan Spy Kids is the obvious example
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Watched Dungeons and Dragons. That's a fun adventure! I was actually surprised at how old they let Chris Pine's character be. That's not something you usually see in adventure movies, let alone ones that are the start of a new franchise.
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I don’t know where to post this, but I just watched Mazes and Monsters, the late-70s moral panic movie about Dungeons and Dragons starring teen Tom Hanks. It’s got some lovely ideas about mental illness and was born from the shameless exploitation of a real kid’s suicide, but it’s kind of charming despite itself. The characters are simple but lively, and there’s some good comedy bits between the characters before Tom Hanks goes insane from too much Dungeons and Dragons. Plus I just love seeing on-location footage of New York in that era. All the dorm and library interiors are real places, and it’s neat seeing what those spaces looked like and how people lived. There’s a lot of footage of the interior of the World Trade Center with original carpet and fixtures. I guess I’m not seeing any care put into movie-of-the-week tv trash. Also I think the movie accidentally invented larping.
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Mazes and Monsters is in a bad place because it sounds like some kind of fun Reefer Madness Chick Tract thing but then you watch it and it's just a kina OK TV movie that feels like a very special episode of a sitcom. He doesn't even go crazy from Dungeons and Dragons, he has mental illness and it just gets channeled into being way too into the game. None of the other players are even evil!
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It ends up kind of pro Dungeons and Dragons in that the party uses their knowledge of role-playing and comes together to go on a real-life adventure and save Tom Hanks. If they weren’t into that nerd game, they wouldn’t have had the teamwork and creativity necessary to save him.
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From what I've heard, Rona Jaffe, who wrote the book that was based on, didn't really buy into the panic, she just thought it was a cool idea for a story.
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Maxwell Lord posted:From what I've heard, Rona Jaffe, who wrote the book that was based on, didn't really buy into the panic, she just thought it was a cool idea for a story. On that note I could see Rick, while tied up, explaining to some Machiavellian anti-hero citing The Prince that the book was most quite plausibly written as a satire of the new regime in Florence or on the other hand a sycophantic attempt to get back on its good side, but in any case it's quite doubtful it represents what Niccolo actually believed worked or would be ethical were it to work. But you know, more funny. e: Oops. Clearly though this was this R & M thread. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 12:26 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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Bright Bart posted:On that note I could see Rick, while tied up, explaining to some Machiavellian anti-hero citing The Prince that the book was most quite plausibly written as a satire of the new regime in Florence or on the other hand a sycophantic attempt to get back on its good side, but in any case it's quite doubtful it represents what Niccolo actually believed worked or would be ethical were it to work. I like when he turns into a pickle
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Sigh. That's the very nadir of the show. But to circle back to mobies bia cartoons, the Bob's Burger Movie was nice. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Dec 18, 2023 |
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The Amazon/Warhammer deal has officially been signed and production is now beginning on Warhammer projects
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