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Maestro is the one where they gave the actor a fake nose significantly bigger than the actual guy's actual nose, right?
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Gripweed posted:Maestro is the one where they gave the actor a fake nose significantly bigger than the actual guy's actual nose, right? No, but a lot of people on twitter sure convinced themselves of that. It's actually a very boring film with outstanding makeup
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Maestro was probably my biggest disappointment of last year. It looks and sounds like a million bucks, and Carey Mulligan is really putting in the work, but in terms of a biopic it's almost aggressively unhelpful. Some of Bernstein's biggest/most noteworthy achievements are literally just sidelined to a single line of dialogue in the middle of the movie in order to fit in a few dozen more 'you know, I think he's a lovely husband' scenes. Right this is how I felt. It’s like they really wanted to avoid the obvious type of biopic and have something like the Bohemian Rhapsody make a song scene, so instead it’s comments here and there. But it really follows the same pattern as music biopics anyways with meet a lady, she backs his dream, marital problems, drug problems, then he has some big success.
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Gaius Marius posted:The Irishman does that, basically MacArthur in The Battle of Lake Chongqing is legendary.
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Post Mortem: No one Dies in Skarnes has a weird b-story, where the vampire's brother is going to lose his house and business as a mortician, and he has to cough up thirty thousand kroner to get a defferal on his payments. I looked it up and that's like two grand USD. Weirdly low stakes. He does organised crime about it
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Steve Yun posted:Or how Hot Fuzz did it for Timothy Dalton Need to rewatch this. Man this is such a dumb good gag.
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I have prosopagnosia* and really didn't recognize the best James Bond. *It's bad. If I'm giving away anything you can put on a fake mustache or even just a hat and come straight round again like that gag in movies and shows. Patients think I'm a tremendous pompous a-hole until I explain the situation.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Maestro was probably my biggest disappointment of last year. It looks and sounds like a million bucks, and Carey Mulligan is really putting in the work, but in terms of a biopic it's almost aggressively unhelpful. Some of Bernstein's biggest/most noteworthy achievements are literally just sidelined to a single line of dialogue in the middle of the movie in order to fit in a few dozen more 'you know, I think he's a lovely husband' scenes. Oof. That’s a very accurate description. Mulligan is terrific, agreed. Bright Bart posted:I have prosopagnosia* and really didn't recognize the best James Bond. So why do we think you’re a tremendous pompous a-hole? (Only kidding, I think you’re great!)
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Jan 6, 2024 10:59
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therattle posted:So why do we think you’re a tremendous pompous a-hole? Well thank you! But I have gotten things wrong here in this thread for the same reason. Like just right now I thought Mulligan was the little girl in Atonement. Which, what a story. I'm not breaking any new ground but it's worth the reminder that it's not a story about some foggey rich people a century ago but a story about the consequences of one's behaviour at an age where you still think & act like a small child half the time and have zero life experience but most would find you old enough to know better and it'd be hard to forgive yourself (since you still recognize that younger you as basically the same person as you now unlike maybe how you'd treat someone just 3 or 4 years younger as a different proto-you) even if the end result wasn't as bad as it was. I expect we all have bad dreams about this kind of thing. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Jan 6, 2024 11:22
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My second movie of the year was The Green Knight. Jeeze, what a picture. Terribly beautiful. Entrancing. I want more like it.
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Jan 6, 2024 11:52
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Kazzah posted:My second movie of the year was The Green Knight. Jeeze, what a picture. Terribly beautiful. Entrancing. I want more like it. Hell yeah, that movie is brilliant. I want more like it too. My only complaint is that if feels a little too “clean”. I could use a touch more medieval roughness. It’s the kind of thing that a bit of film grain could help with.
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Green Knight has the same moral insight as Clockwork Orange Cut off the carrot of a reward for good behavior at the end of the source material Doing right should not be motivated by reward
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Hearing people talk about Wonka sounds identical to listening to people talk about Skibidi Toilet Lore
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God damned that's a quick no. Gotta respect it. https://twitter.com/maxfolkmax/status/1736201014724718985?s=20
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Bright Bart posted:Well thank you! But I have gotten things wrong here in this thread for the same reason.
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The day the clown cried is gunna be scenes this year
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Ugh, I hated Atonement. I thought it was incredibly manipulative
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null_pointer posted:I just remembered how whole thing started: I was talking with my brother in law, and he mentioned someone he worked with who was "like Joe Pesci from Casino was walking around wearing the skin of 'Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark' to try and fool everyone." Like, push them the wrong way and you'll have a ballpoint pen through your neck ... Kevin Spacey. Not any particular character he plays, the actual Kevin Spacey.
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Hollismason posted:Yeah there's a lot of just animal abuse in Hong Kong films from the 80s especially cat 3 films In fact CAT 3 seems to promise it.
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therattle posted:Ugh, I hated Atonement. I thought it was incredibly manipulative
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I was talking about movies with my British friend and I mentioned The Day After and he told me about the British answer to it, THREADS, and how much more bleak and depressing it was. He lent me his copy and I watched it today and he was absolutely right.  I wasn’t expecting the E.T. cameo.
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I think I'm the only person on earth who thought Threads laid it on way too thick. Ten years after the war and everybody's still living on piles of bricks. They've managed to survive for a full decade but never bothered to tidy up. And the only schooling is watching a VHS tape about skeletons. I get it, nuclear war would be bad, but that's just being silly.
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And they made pre-war British life look pretty unpleasant to start with. Everybody was mean and tired before the bombs even dropped.
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Gripweed posted:I think I'm the only person on earth who thought Threads laid it on way too thick. Ten years after the war and everybody's still living on piles of bricks. They've managed to survive for a full decade but never bothered to tidy up. And the only schooling is watching a VHS tape about skeletons. I gathered that the steep pivot to fascism kept back any attempts at rebuilding.
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Gripweed posted:And they made pre-war British life look pretty unpleasant to start with. Everybody was mean and tired before the bombs even dropped. That's just Britain, yes.
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I liked the Machine. It's a pretty bad comedian's vanity project but it understands the main character is a venal loving idiot making a movie about his viral stand up bit, and makes fun of him, and Bert Kreischer is a pretty funny actor It's also gorgeous and made well for some reason The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Jan 7, 2024 06:35
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So much bird poo poo in The Boy and the Heron. I love that you *know* there were debates between the animators about whether to include it, and I'm so happy that everytime someone gets swamped by hundreds of birds they're left covered in unremarked upon poo poo. It's such a small, but hilariously unique touch.
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My secret shame is that I don't find butts, buttholes, farting, or feces funny at all. It's not because I find them gross. My job has me with a finger up tushies all the time, often feeling stool with only a thin glove in between. Maybe that's why it's not not a laughfest? But I have to pretend when I'm around others or they'll think I'm a prude. e: I am utterly in love with hearing angry/frustrated women telling people to suck their dicks and find it both much funnier and cuter than even other people who chuckle do. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Jan 7, 2024 10:43
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Are you an autistic proctologigist?
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Bright Bart posted:My secret shame is that I don't find butts, buttholes, farting, or feces funny at all. Genuinely feel bad for you. Finding butts funny connected all of us going back to ancient Sumer and beyond. I'm reading a book right now called Butts
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The Peccadillo posted:Are you an autistic proctologigist? Proctologist? No. But that's not the only kind of doctor that sticks fingers in butts all the time. Pretty much anybody but a psychiatrist, dermatologist, ophthalmologist and the like will have to and even trainees in those specialties will end up doing it occasionally on in-patient wards. Autistic? People close to me have recommended I get tested (specifically for Asperger's when that was a distinct diagnosis) but the joke is on them: I have, several times, since I was in elementary school. And the result is that I have papers to show I'm not which I can bring out when the topic comes up (which I admit is an extremely suspicious thing to do). e: To write something that fits the thread, people make fun of the concept of Thing: The Novelization of the Thing Movie Based on The Novel Thing By Author but are there real examples? The closest I think I've seen are special editions of the original novel that change the names of characters and maybe cut some chapters to fit the movie, a still from which replaces the cover. Bright Bart fucked around with this message at 11:57 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Jan 7, 2024 11:45
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Bright Bart posted:
Not exactly what you mean but I always laugh when I remember that Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game exists.
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I always find it funny and a bit charming when franchises incorporate references and elements from adaptations, especially poorly received and downright terrible ones, both acknowledging that it's still part of the history and even making use of interesting concepts and ideas from them. For all the comparisons either way, the animated Mario movie clearly takes inspiration from the 1993 one, complete with some clearly specific references to it.
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an egg posted:the book is loving creepy and i hate it, i haven't seen the film I haven’t read it but I find the other Ian McEwan novels I’ve read to be terribly cold. So I’m not surprised. Don’t see it. It’s a horrid, well-made film.
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Bright Bart posted:e: To write something that fits the thread, people make fun of the concept of Thing: The Novelization of the Thing Movie Based on The Novel Thing By Author but are there real examples? The closest I think I've seen are special editions of the original novel that change the names of characters and maybe cut some chapters to fit the movie, a still from which replaces the cover. https://www.amazon.com/Jurassic-Park-Deluxe-Novelization/dp/0525580700
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Bright Bart posted:Proctologist? No. But that's not the only kind of doctor that sticks fingers in butts all the time. Pretty much anybody but a psychiatrist, dermatologist, ophthalmologist and the like will have to Hmmm, I definitely need to have a discussion with my psychiatrist about our boundaries... Bright Bart posted:e: To write something that fits the thread, people make fun of the concept of Thing: The Novelization of the Thing Movie Based on The Novel Thing By Author but are there real examples? The closest I think I've seen are special editions of the original novel that change the names of characters and maybe cut some chapters to fit the movie, a still from which replaces the cover. Both the new Color Purple and Mean Girls are: Movies based on a Musical based on a Movie based on a Book. E: on rereading I see you were asking about a different kinda thing, but I still think it's notably weird
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Failed Imagineer posted:E: on rereading I see you were asking about a different kinda thing, but I still think it's notably weird Those are excellent and I lol'ed
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therattle posted:Ugh, I hated Atonement. I thought it was incredibly manipulative
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The studio tried to get Philip K. Dick to write the novelization of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and he said he already did. They paid someone else to write one instead, then another person wrote 4 sequels to it.
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Bright Bart posted:My secret shame is that I don't find butts, buttholes, farting, or feces funny at all. Same. While there are some exceptions, most scatological or grossout humor completely misses me.
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