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therattle posted:I had some real belly-laughs in Munich. The theater started laughing during the sex scene near the end. They also laughed during A History of Violence which pissed me off but in retrospect there is stuff in that that is definitely supposed to be funny.
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checkplease posted:Lincoln is quite funny though. Some solid old man stories from Daniel day Lewis and sick burns from Tommy Lee jones. Lincoln is probably my favorite movie he made since I dunno, Saving Private Ryan
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The CIA foiling the Mossad that one time was funny in Munich
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Punkin Spunkin posted:The CIA foiling the Mossad that one time was funny in Munich I had been meaning to rewatch Munich, but given what's happening now I think it would just fill me with incandescent rage.
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Yeah, like Black Hawk Down it's a film that was rough when it landed and has only aged worse and worse.
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Air Skwirl posted:Lincoln is probably my favorite movie he made since I dunno, Saving Private Ryan It’s grown on me over the years, and now as a dad, I respect its great dad scene where Lincoln’s son wants to join the army to be part of the war. Lincoln doesn’t want this and the son says Lincoln can’t stop him. Lincoln replies that this many a son has probably said these exact words to their dad, now he is the one dad that can actually stop anyone from joining the army. Of course the kid gets his way, but it was a fun point.
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Midnight Pooptrain posted:The theater started laughing during the sex scene near the end. They also laughed during A History of Violence which pissed me off but in retrospect there is stuff in that that is definitely supposed to be funny. Seeing a crowd of younger people laughing at sexy unbuttoned Jeff Goldblum chest during a Jurassic Park revival screening was a bummer.
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Also, as much as I do enjoy the JP film, Spielberg's sentimentalism about the dinos really undercuts any rewatch for me. We can't let any of the dinos be hurt or killed, even as they are trying to eat our heroes. We certainly can't have them blown up with rocket launchers. Lost World even includes a scene explaining the super poison rifle from the book but of course our heroes never, ever use it. I like animals as much as the next guy but even animal lovers will agree you are allowed to shoot the bear if it's about to eat your face or your children. feedmyleg posted:I feel like the first Jurassic Park was the end of his ability to organically integrate humor into his narratives. Everything after that feels forced and jokey, where it feels like he wants to go dark but then tries to use humor to balance it out and it ends up feeling awkward and discordant. The Lost World is full of that, AI is constant whiplash, Minority Report, etc. It feels very constructed and inirganic, where he said "this scene needs a moment of levity" and injected it. I remember really liking his War of the Worlds. How does it hold up in terms of this awful, tension-breaking comedy? NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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War of the worlds humor comes mostly from how annoying his stupid kids are and how inept he is as a dad It mostly works. But goddddddamn are they horrible kids. Love the movie to death though.
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I remember the entire theatre uniting in a "Yeah, right" moment when the son was revealed to still be alive. Actually, that kind of ties in to the "can't hurt the dinosaurs" critique, and it's a big program for Spielberg, how hard it is for him to have any deaths of animals or children, even to the extent of undermining themes or dramatic tension.
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My favorite collective theater "Oh come ON!" was the ending of Inception. Every single person in the audience let out the biggest groan when it cut to black, and then a second later half of us started laugh.
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I saw High Tension opening night in a full theater and when the twist was revealed, one guy did a single loud cackle and now that's what I think of when I think of that movie.
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regulargonzalez posted:I remember the entire theatre uniting in a "Yeah, right" moment when the son was revealed to still be alive. Actually, that kind of ties in to the "can't hurt the dinosaurs" critique, and it's a big program for Spielberg, how hard it is for him to have any deaths of animals or children, even to the extent of undermining themes or dramatic tension. That was the moment that took me out of it in my original viewing. Just this ridiculous run down the hill from the nightmare machines, felt totally unearned.
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I'll never understand it. It's such an awful part of the film. That character also was really unlikable and honestly hard to relate too.
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He’s just a post 9/11 character, wants to run off and fight something he doesn’t understand as he doesnt like feeling helpless. I think that’s fine and he’s a teen so sure. But yeah coming back in the end seems a bit impossible. I get it’s a happy place to end the film after all the death in war of the worlds with literal rivers of bodies. Spielberg can miss on endings at times ( though Jurassic Park ending is perfect).
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I’m watching Smokey and the Bandit. Snowman says that Bandit can’t drive a forklift, but Bandit immediately does a turn that I don’t think someone who had no forklift experience could do. The different way forklifts turn compared to cars is the main thing you need to get used to to operate one. That’s either a goof or evidence that Bandit has a history Snowman isn’t familiar with.
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Smokey and the Forklift Certified Bandit
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Genuine question; does Buford T Justice hold the record for a character saying their own name the most times in a single movie?
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Gripweed posted:Genuine question; does Buford T Justice hold the record for a character saying their own name the most times in a single movie? Gotta be Groot, right?
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:Gotta be Groot, right? Looking at your username, I'm gonna say Pikachu
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Smokey and the Bandit is really good! They don't make movies with that kind of casual derision of police anymore.
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feedmyleg posted:My favorite collective theater "Oh come ON!" was the ending of Inception. Every single person in the audience let out the biggest groan when it cut to black, and then a second later half of us started laugh. I'm pretty sure that was the entirely intended response. The whole movie is basically a setup for that punchline.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Looking at your username, I'm gonna say Pikachu Malkovich might have this one
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CelticPredator posted:I'll never understand it. It's such an awful part of the film. That character also was really unlikable and honestly hard to relate too. Similarly, I saw Lincoln with my wife, mom, and sister and we were all in agreement that the movie should have ended with the shot of Lincoln leaving for the theater. It's a great shot, everyone knows what happens after that and there's no need to show it, ending the film at that point gives it a certain piquant flavor that is lost with the extra runtime. It even felt like that's how Spielberg wanted to end it but then just couldn't help himself.
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Couldn't help himself is an apt description of the Spielberg's style
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A.I. is another one where Spielberg had a great ending then just kept going.
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I will say the fablemans had a fantastic ending. That’s definitely the bergs best in years
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checkplease posted:He’s just a post 9/11 character, wants to run off and fight something he doesn’t understand as he doesnt like feeling helpless. I think that’s fine and he’s a teen so sure. It's been a while since I last watched it but iirc there's some stuff going on with Tom Cruise's character wanting to think he's the protagonist of reality and part of his bad-dad act is how 'do as I say, not as I do' he is to irritating teen son. So having him have die at the end would risk suggesting that Cruise-dad was right and they all should have stayed safe under his paternal wing or w/e.
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josh04 posted:It's been a while since I last watched it but iirc there's some stuff going on with Tom Cruise's character wanting to think he's the protagonist of reality and part of his bad-dad act is how 'do as I say, not as I do' he is to irritating teen son. So having him have die at the end would risk suggesting that Cruise-dad was right and they all should have stayed safe under his paternal wing or w/e. Yeah, pretty much the gist is taking apart the idea of the white male patriarch as the hero of the story, seeing his family fully reunited without him. It's a pretty good extension of the whole themes of the story- humanity doesn't repel the invaders with a cunning plan or heroic deeds, they're undone by their own ignorance and incompetence despite their technological advantage.
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Only a couple of days left in January, catch the current MOTM while it's hot!
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So happy they brought back the library ghost from the first GB so Ray can finally get her I love it when stories come full circle *fart*
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Yeah, pretty much the gist is taking apart the idea of the white male patriarch as the hero of the story, seeing his family fully reunited without him. It's a pretty good extension of the whole themes of the story- humanity doesn't repel the invaders with a cunning plan or heroic deeds, they're undone by their own ignorance and incompetence despite their technological advantage. That’s a good point. I haven’t watched it in a while either and this post and Josh’s is making me remember all the bad dad stuff (doesn’t remember peanut allergy etc.). I should watch it again. I really like AI on my rewatch last year.
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distortion park posted:Only a couple of days left in January, catch the current MOTM while it's hot! It's real real good folks
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CelticPredator posted:So happy they brought back the library ghost from the first GB so Ray can finally get her Ghostbusters was always bad
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distortion park posted:Only a couple of days left in January, catch the current MOTM while it's hot! Oh just saw it’s 90 mins too. Nice
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MacheteZombie posted:Ghostbusters was always bad the first is perfect
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He’s unironically one of my heroes. I wish he was directing. It would be some insane poo poo
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josh04 posted:It's been a while since I last watched it but iirc there's some stuff going on with Tom Cruise's character wanting to think he's the protagonist of reality and part of his bad-dad act is how 'do as I say, not as I do' he is to irritating teen son. So having him have die at the end would risk suggesting that Cruise-dad was right and they all should have stayed safe under his paternal wing or w/e. Besides that point, who gives a poo poo if the son dies or not? He charges over the hill, obviously fails to accomplish anything, but is luckily one of the few survivors of the charge. He then gives up that notion and immediately heads to Boston, given that he arrives there before the rest of the fam. If he had just died instead, it wouldn't really affect anything. I think the trouble is that people read some kind of moral into it, like "don't be afraid to climb that hill" or something. In actuality, it's just poo poo that happens. In some instances, it's futile to fight back. In others, you can kill an alien by stuffing a grenade up its butthole. The real point is that Cruise Dad is messed up by the conflict in such a way that he is not elated but weirded out to see that his son's not dead.
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