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Going from DVD to Blu the movies that most impressed me were a lot older. Kiss Me Deadly and Breathless really stood out.
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Gaius Marius posted:Bought a 4K tv. HEAT or Dune as first watch Erase my previous suggestion, do the Spider-Verse movies
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I know I always think "stop posting and just watch the loving movie" when someone does this, but The Beekeeper is so stupid in the best way 20 minutes in.
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Air Skwirl posted:I know I always think "stop posting and just watch the loving movie" when someone does this, but The Beekeeper is so stupid in the best way 20 minutes in. Beekeeper/Green Hornet crossover when
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I did a Heat/Thief double billing with some friends.
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Okay, the ending of Beekeeper makes no sense at all. Still love the movie, but what the gently caress?
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Gaius Marius posted:I did a Heat/Thief double billing with some friends. Hard to find a better way to spend 5 or so hours.
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Pirate Jet posted:Heat. I mean if the filmmakers or anyone else who saw it denied it that'd be a pretty good falsification. Assuming there's no NDA as to "what happens in the movie", though that's entirely possible.
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Azhais posted:I break in all new TVs with The Fifth Element You have to be careful when breaking in a new TV. Playing something with too many fast m-moving images or very bright colours can damage the delicate pixels. One needs to start with something slower or more sombre. Most relationship dramas do it but I take no risks and always use Jeanne Delmain
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You should watch the Andy Warhol film Empire. That way, some flashy film does not distract you from your new TV.
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therattle posted:You have to be careful when breaking in a new TV. Playing something with too many fast m-moving images or very bright colours can damage the delicate pixels. One needs to start with something slower or more sombre. Most relationship dramas do it but I take no risks and always use Jeanne Delmain I recommend Captain America 3: Civil War.
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Peggotty posted:You should watch the Andy Warhol film Empire. That way, some flashy film does not distract you from your new TV. All TVs I've owned have the Empire state building burned into them
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So I love the game Red Dead Redemption 2. Like, a lot. I've never been a big Western fan, though. In a way, I feel like some of what draws me to RDR2 is kinda what drew me to Pirates of the Caribbean, even when I was too young to really understand it. It's not like I love cowboys and pirates, it's more that feeling of...loss. Of an old world fading away or being destroyed, and our heroes are relics of a bygone age fighting against it all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt2VA_hf3jg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zIWGJgwLpA I say all this, but I have been thinking I'd try to get into some Westerns. Just curious if any of you would suggest any with this same "feeling." Or not. Maybe Westerns with entirely different feelings. I'm thinking I'll get this John Wayne/John Ford collection.
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I think almost every western after Blazing Saddles was about that in some way
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The Shootist is really good.
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Not a movie but if you're thinking of getting into Westerns, Deadwood is one of the best ever made. Not quite a Clint Eastwood joint, over the three seasons you get to see a prospector city go from camp to community to bonefided city. The topic of "An old world fading away or being destroyed, and our heroes are relics of a bygone age fighting against it all" is among the main themes of it. There's plenty of conflicts amongst the townsfolk, but the big bad is basically "The East" that's constantly threatening to take over the city and a lot of the show is the people figuring out how they can become legitimate without losing their way of life, or life period. Helps that you get the final arc of Wild Bill Hitchcock in the first season, big feeling of people that didn't fit into society making themselves a home only to find society a'comin' to knock on their door.
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NikkolasKing posted:
Unforgiven (1992) Former gunslinger William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is trying and failing to adjust to a new life as a hog farmer when a group of prostitutes hires him to kill a cowboy who disfigured one of them. The Wild Bunch (1969) A gang of ageing outlaws try to adjust to the rapidly changing world of 1913. They go on the run after their One Last Job goes. Pursued by bounty hunters they flee to Mexico where they get embroiled in Pancho Villa's revolution.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Not a movie but if you're thinking of getting into Westerns, Deadwood is one of the best ever made. Not quite a Clint Eastwood joint, over the three seasons you get to see a prospector city go from camp to community to bonefided city. The topic of "An old world fading away or being destroyed, and our heroes are relics of a bygone age fighting against it all" is among the main themes of it. There's plenty of conflicts amongst the townsfolk, but the big bad is basically "The East" that's constantly threatening to take over the city and a lot of the show is the people figuring out how they can become legitimate without losing their way of life, or life period. I have been meaning to watch Deadwood for a while. I've only heard the highest of praises for it, and your summary certainly makes it sound like it's also right up my alley. Thanks for the suggestion.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Unforgiven (1992) You know while doing my own little research I found a book analyzing the "tragic westerns" of Wild Bunch's director. His stuff in general sounds right up my alley, although Wild Bunch appears to be the best. I'll be adding those two to my list. Thank you.
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There's some missions and characters in both RDR games that are heavily inspired by both those films.
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If you're gonna do westerns then watch the three dollars trilogy and then unforgiven, it's a fun day of movies
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the $3 triology
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With inflation its more like the thirty dollars trilogy
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MacheteZombie posted:Iron Claw was disappointingly mid Yeah but three or four of them get you properly hosed up.
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MacheteZombie posted:Iron Claw was disappointingly mid It made me care about wrestlers. That's a feat
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Waffleman_ posted:Oh, it's 100% getting leaked, which is why I haven't read that summary. Last I heard it was literally deleted off the WB computers and servers. Unless someone pulled a Zack Snyder Heist and stashed a copy on a usb or something, it's gone forever.
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McCloud posted:Last I heard it was literally deleted off the WB computers and servers. Unless someone pulled a Zack Snyder Heist and stashed a copy on a usb or something, it's gone forever. I can't believe no one has a copy of it.
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McCloud posted:Last I heard it was literally deleted off the WB computers and servers. Unless someone pulled a Zack Snyder Heist and stashed a copy on a usb or something, it's gone forever. Yeah, those files get moved around so much between the studios and various post-production houses that I would be loving shocked if it was completely gone everywhere. Maybe whatever servers WB manages directly have deleted it. But there is no way it is gone.
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MacheteZombie posted:Iron Claw was disappointingly mid I think I mostly agree, but it hit a sweet spot in setting for me (wrestling? In the South? In the late 70s and early 80s?!) and had me welling up, so I was satisfied. I find watching wrestling pretty boring, but for some reason I'm an absolute sucker for the culture and "inside baseball".
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Mordiceius posted:Yeah, those files get moved around so much between the studios and various post-production houses that I would be loving shocked if it was completely gone everywhere. Maybe whatever servers WB manages directly have deleted it. But there is no way it is gone. That's certainly optimistic, and hopefully true. It's honestly despicable that they're able to get away with destroying movies like this, so I really do hope we'll get to see it and the other movies they canned some day
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I liked Iron Claw, think it's funny (in a heartbreaking way) they had to tone down the story and remove yet another brother with a tragic end. Preferred it to stuff like Perfect Days and Poor Things but Removing one of the brothers was such a weird choice. Disco Pope posted:I think I mostly agree, but it hit a sweet spot in setting for me (wrestling? In the South? In the late 70s and early 80s?!) and had me welling up, so I was satisfied. It definitely got to me a couple times. I liked it more than I didn't tbh, just was hoping for more
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Mordiceius posted:Yeah, those files get moved around so much between the studios and various post-production houses that I would be loving shocked if it was completely gone everywhere. Maybe whatever servers WB manages directly have deleted it. But there is no way it is gone. Right. Could see a world in which the final.final.mp4 was deleted, but someone involved at a lower level still has bits of it saved. Particularly for a movie that must have had intense amounts of CGI work done given one of the leads is a cartoon. We might not see the final cut, but there's zero chance a work print doesn't surface at some point. It probably hasn't already because no one wants to lose a job over it, but give it 3-5 years and someone will probably risk it. Also People's Joker is coming to theaters. Anyone see it? The creator kind of puts me off (saw a public access show they did where they seemed to be kind of awful to an ex they had on) but it's a great concept and I can get behind messy low budget films.
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I watched One Piece Film Red. Pretty good. The music was surprisingly not bad. The plot was surprisingly downer
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It got me thinking, what is the best song created to be a diegetic song with in the world of a movie? edit: this question only applies to movies because if you included TV then it just becomes what's your favorite Fire Bomber song. Gripweed fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Also People's Joker is coming to theaters. Anyone see it? The creator kind of puts me off (saw a public access show they did where they seemed to be kind of awful to an ex they had on) but it's a great concept and I can get behind messy low budget films. Never heard of it but Bob Odenkirk as the Joker's Goon is some pretty incredible casting, and also Maria Bamford as Lorne Michaels?
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Gripweed posted:It got me thinking, what is the best song created to be a diegetic song with in the world of a movie? Teachers Pet from school of rock
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Gripweed posted:It got me thinking, what is the best song created to be a diegetic song with in the world of a movie? It's not necessarily the best, but I've been a bit obsessed with Leisure Club Music: Source #2 by Ganymede, from the Outland soundtrack. It's music for a strip club near Jupiter, in the Alien universe. Source #2 was later expanded into the track Automatic Collect, Automatic Correct by the band Logic System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwJ61kv7SGk "Ganymede" was actually Michael Boddicker, probably best known as the composer of the Buckaroo Banzai soundtrack.
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