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NikkolasKing posted:I've heard all the new MI movies praised a lot, but I dunno. Neither the original nor GP did much for me at all. When my wife and I went through them all this past year, this is how we ranked them:  I would say that the newest one in the series, Dead Reckoning, is a solid 4/5. I really enjoyed it, but not nearly to the highs of the prior films. Also I agree with others, if you are going to watch Tom Cruise films, you need to watch Interview with a Vampire. Mordiceius fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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The Peccadillo posted:Think It was the first major motion picture shot on digital 28 Days Later has it beat by years. therattle posted:I just listened to an interview with him to check and he isn't super fluent and articulate but there is some substance and thought to what he is saying. He's no Paul Giamatti or PSH (where they are/were clearly highly intelligent men) but I don't think he's a fool. It's a meme that he's illiterate, which I think started as a fan theory that his character in Burn After Reading was illiterate and that spread to "Brad's such a method actor he actually couldn't read when he shot Burn After Reading."
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I assume Alan Cumming is all classically shakespeare trained and stuff and that's great but i can't look at him without thinking of his extremely grating role as "i'm invincible!" guy in Goldeneye I don’t know if I’ll ever see him as anything but Flippity Floop or whatever from Spy Kids Punkin Spunkin posted:my childhood (see also Titus, uh
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Titus the movie by Julie Taymor? Rules. Titus the TV show by Christopher Titus? Also rules.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I don’t know if I’ll ever see him as anything but Flippity Floop or whatever from Spy Kids  my dad snuck me into The Brown Bunny when I was like 16 (tbf we had no idea what it was gonna be, the poster just said like "THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILM IN AMERICA"). Watching Visitor Q and Irrerversible with my parents have to be the most uncomfortable film experiences of all time.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I was exposed to a lot of age inappropriate "artistic intellectual film" pretty quickly tbh uhhhhhh
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I cannot in good faith say the best George C Scott performance was Dr Strangelove. There's just so much shouting goodness to be had in his career. It's gotta be Exorcist III for me but there's a lot of runners up. Famously Kubrick tricked him into giving that performance. He didn't want to go that broad but Kubrick said he do it just for rehearsal and that the shouting parts wouldn't make it into the movie.
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Alhazred posted:Famously Kubrick tricked him into giving that performance. He didn't want to go that broad but Kubrick said he do it just for rehearsal and that the shouting parts wouldn't make it into the movie. the part where he trips and tumbles and just keeps going is so good
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I was exposed to a lot of age inappropriate "artistic intellectual film" pretty quickly tbh
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Coaaab posted:seeking out aggressively transgressive material on your own as a teenager seems normal but having your parents do it for you just comes off as strange to me not everyone's parents are super protective/consider teenagers children
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It was a bit of both, stuff like Visitor Q and Irreversible were just vaguely transgressive things I sought out as a tween/teen where I didn't really know what the experience was gonna be and my parents were just opened minded enough to be like "hmm you got some 'high art' films let's watch em together". My dad's favorite directors are Pasolini and Gaspar Noe though
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I should rewatch Edge of Tomorrow/Live Die Repeat/All You Need Is Kill sometime, that's also a pretty good Tom
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My mom can't handle any form of violence in movies or TV. She'll hold her hands over her eyes for even a mild fight scene and if the baddies are hurting the good guy she'll loudly call them "bastards" for doing so. However she let me watch whatever I wanted from an early age, when I started actively seeking that sort of thing out, as long as I aware that it was all make-belief. My favorite movies when I was 8 or 9 were Spawn and The Long Kiss Goodnight. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Feb 8, 2024 |
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Lol,just imagining your mum watching The Raid and screaming "STOP IT YOU BASTARDS!!" the entire runtime
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therattle posted:I just listened to an interview with him to check and he isn't super fluent and articulate but there is some substance and thought to what he is saying. He's no Paul Giamatti or PSH (where they are/were clearly highly intelligent men) but I don't think he's a fool. poo poo now I gotta explain its a joke from other CineD threads.
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Collateral was a mix of film and digital. I haven’t seen it in forever but I vaguely recall the picture quality being terrible sometimes and it was really jarring when they swapped
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Even his bad movies Cruise has almost never turned in a bad performance. Valkyrie is one of the only times where he personally is really falling flat but I do think he was attempting something different (this stoic, staid performance that just doesn't work). The Mummy also just a big mess all around. In Lions for Lambs, Cruise and Streep's scenes are the best parts of the movie bar none. Rock of Ages is dumb as poo poo but he absolutely kills it in his scenes.
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DeimosRising posted:not everyone's parents are super protective/consider teenagers children
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I haven't dared rewatch it lest I ruin the memory, but I remember being surprisingly captivated by Legends of the Fall when I randomly caught it on TV a decade or two ago. How much that was because of or in spite of Brad Pitts acting abilities at the time I couldn't say, but I certainly enjoyed it.
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Mordiceius posted:Also I agree with others, if you are going to watch Tom Cruise films, you need to watch Interview with a Vampire. Oh I've seen it and I love it. Cruise was so good. The entire main trio of him, Pitt, and Dunst were perfect.
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it's interview with THE vampire
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Jay Rust posted:it's interview with THE vampire Dracula?
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THE interview FOR a vampire.
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Cruise may be a loving weirdo, but I also have massive respect for him for his angry Covid rant. But I'm also sensitive to that because I spent a couple years working as covid compliance on sets and there are certain groups that are just loving terrible with following the rules and guidelines. So his rant ended up being very cathartic to me.
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Mordiceius posted:Cruise may be a loving weirdo, but I also have massive respect for him for his angry Covid rant. But I'm also sensitive to that because I spent a couple years working as covid compliance on sets and there are certain groups that are just loving terrible with following the rules and guidelines. So his rant ended up being very cathartic to me. What about his "let's pretend COVID isn't a thing and go out to the movies again, let's all go see TENET!" commercial?
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Mordiceius posted:Cruise may be a loving weirdo, but I also have massive respect for him for his angry Covid rant. But I'm also sensitive to that because I spent a couple years working as covid compliance on sets and there are certain groups that are just loving terrible with following the rules and guidelines. So his rant ended up being very cathartic to me. I’m less enthusiastic about this because it was almost certainly a controlled leak by either Paramount or the CoS.
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I love movies. I also like not risking my health while COVID is still around, so I wear an N95 and glasses to the theater.
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NikkolasKing posted:So Tom Cruise is possibly my favorite living, big time actor. Not the best actor ever but I've never been disappointed by a performance from him, even if he's in a meh movie. I don't have anything to add to Cruisechat but I just got really nostalgic here because like 15 years ago I underwent a similar challenge on this here forums to watch every single Nicolas Cage movie, and even though I failed, the resulting writing I did about it literally changed my life and set forth a long series of events, including moving across the country, taking a new job, and essentially building my life as it is now. Godspeed to you. Did you all know that Netflix has a new Dreamworks childrens movie out called Orion and the Dark starring Paul Walter Houser and written by... Charlie Kaufman?  I do not know what kind of child this appeals to but I sure liked it. It's rare to see children's media that respects the child and isn't afraid to get a little heavy or use unusual storytelling techniques. Our protagonist is definitely a kid written by Kaufman: deeply neurotic and anxious, maybe even a little unlikable because of the extremity of those qualities. And that's okay, because sometimes kids are neurotic little shits! The world is scary to kids! The character designs are fun and interesting, the closest compaison might be like a muppety take on Pixar's Inside Out. In fact the whole movie is like a more experimental, interesting Inside Out. Pixar wishes they had the balls to introduce kids to the concepts of Baudrillard. It is a weird little collaboration, I might compare it to Peanuts in that it's filled with children expressing adult angst - which also means it gets a little cutsie as Kaufman uses kids as his hopeful mouthpiece. But overall I think it's a good movie and you should look at it just because it's weird that it exists?
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MacheteZombie posted:poo poo now I gotta explain its a joke from other CineD threads. Explain it! That always makes jokes funnier.
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FreudianSlippers posted:My mom can't handle any form of violence in movies or TV. She'll hold her hands over her eyes for even a mild fight scene and if the baddies are hurting the good guy she'll loudly call them "bastards" for doing so. However she let me watch whatever I wanted from an early age, when I started actively seeking that sort of thing out, as long as I aware that it was all make-belief. When I was 8 years old I bought a copy of Predator 2 on VHS from Best Buy. When my mom found out she made me return it and yelled at the clerk for selling an 8 year old a copy of Predator 2.
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My favorite was the local video store that didn't care about kids renting "unrated" cuts. I probably should not have been able to rent Requiem for a Dream when I was 13.
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Coaaab posted:pondering "who had their career-best performance in a kubrick film" and can only think of arguables like george c. scott, peter sellers, malcolm mcdowell. never seen anything else douglas rain did, but that may be the winner by default Timothy Carey.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Timothy Carey. Heard he got a case of main character syndrome during Paths which is why him and Kubrick never worked together again. It's too bad, the scene with him and the black guard is pretty heart rending for a gangster flick
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i haven't seen him in enough to say that Woody Strode gave his best performance in Spartacus but man does he do a lot with a little
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Timothy Carey.
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Vargo posted:I don't have anything to add to Cruisechat but I just got really nostalgic here because like 15 years ago I underwent a similar challenge on this here forums to watch every single Nicolas Cage movie, and even though I failed, the resulting writing I did about it literally changed my life and set forth a long series of events, including moving across the country, taking a new job, and essentially building my life as it is now. Godspeed to you. I wrote this off when I saw the trailer as just another bullshit cartoon but Kaufman wrote it you're tellin' me? Might gonna hafta watch it
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Speaking of weird things to see as kids my girlfriend's grandmother took us to see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t42jhT-s1s It would be kinda cool and hot to go as teens but a lady in her mid seventies took us and it was weird
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Coaaab posted:I ought to watch the world's greatest sinner to be sure Easily one of the greatest films ever made.
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