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regulargonzalez posted:Has any director had a decade that rivals Coppola's 1970s? 5 films that are 4 S tier and one A tier (I suppose 3 and 2 if you're an especially harsh critic). Otherworldly and I can't think of another decade of that caliber from anyone. Antonioni's Sixties. L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Red Desert, Blow Up. And ending with Zabriskie Point in 1970
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Dan Wallin died at the age of 97. His long career began with uncredited work on Spartacus and he basically retired after Star Trek: Into Darkness. He worked on so many movies it's hard to even sum up the most prominent, though the obvious best was Hot Potato (1976).
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Apr 11, 2024 18:59
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regulargonzalez posted:Has any director had a decade that rivals Coppola's 1970s? 5 films that are 4 S tier and one A tier (I suppose 3 and 2 if you're an especially harsh critic). Otherworldly and I can't think of another decade of that caliber from anyone. i might take the Coen Bros' '90s over Coppola's '70s (Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski)
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Apr 11, 2024 19:01
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drat that's a good one. If we stretch to 11 years, Wong Kar Wei 94-2004: Chungking Express (Ashes of Time) Fallen Angels Happy Together In the Mood for Love 2046 Even dropping 2046 (which I think I like more than most) that's pretty strong
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Apr 11, 2024 19:10
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regulargonzalez posted:Kubrick's 60s are a contender with Spartacus, Lolita, Dr Strangelove, and 2001. For me that's A, B, S, S+. Coppola still wins overall though. Going by decade Hitchcock released 11 movies in the 50's including Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window (those last two in the same year), Vertigo and North by Northwest. If you go by 10 year stretch you unfortunately lose Strangers on a Train but gain Psycho and The Birds.
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Apr 11, 2024 19:13
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E: ^ holy poo poo Wait, I forgot about Werner Herzog. His 70s output: Even Dwarfs Started Small Aguirre The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Heart of Glass Stroszek Nosferatu Woyzeck Holy poo poo. E2: Holy poo poo, Ingmar Bergman. His 60s are strong but if we do 57-66, we get The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries The Magician The Virgin Spring Through a Glass Darkly Winter Light The Silence Persona along with other movies with limited release or mixed reception regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Apr 11, 2024 19:13
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and that's not even counting herzog's documentaries!
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regulargonzalez posted:Kubrick's 60s are a contender with Spartacus, Lolita, Dr Strangelove, and 2001. For me that's A, B, S, S+. Coppola still wins overall though. What are S and S+ in this context?
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Apr 11, 2024 19:28
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In video games, an "S" is even better than an "A." It's a Japanese convention.
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regulargonzalez posted:Has any director had a decade that rivals Coppola's 1970s? 5 films that are 4 S tier and one A tier (I suppose 3 and 2 if you're an especially harsh critic). Otherworldly and I can't think of another decade of that caliber from anyone. Leaving out ones already mentioned, Kurosawa 54-63 is pretty untouchable, Polanski from 65-74 (i guess fearless vampire killers is pretty mid), Friedkin's 70s (with the caveat that i haven't seen the brinks job), Cronenberg 79-88, Verhoeven from Robocop to Starship Troopers (technically 11 years)... good, consistent, and prolific are a pretty rare alignment unsurprisingly
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Apr 11, 2024 21:51
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John Carpenter from 79 to 89 is just nonstop bangers
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Apr 11, 2024 22:18
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I'm rewatching the Outrage Trilogy. I really like these movies. If the Like a Dragon series makes the Yakuza seem in any way positive, this movie does the exact opposite. Everyone in the organization is crazy and bonds of brotherhood mean nothing if your death means someone else will get a little bit more money.
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lol oj died
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the Juice is loose from the mortal coil.
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drat, I thought The Second Civil War had a wild cast with just Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones, Denis Leary, Dan Hedaya, and Ron Perlman, and then Robert Picardo shows up!
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Oh poo poo, Dick Miller!
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Roger Corman?!
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For "best director decades" another one to consider is Rainer Werner Fassbinder. From 1970-80 (or 1971-80 if you want to keep it to 10 years) he had (among many others...) Beware of a Holy Whore, The Merchant of Four Seasons, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Martha, Fox and His Friends, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, I Only Want You to Love Me, The Stationmaster's Wife, Germany in Autumn, Despair, In a Year of 13 Moons, The Marriage of Maria Braun, and The Third Generation. Plus a couple of excellent miniseries.
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If anyone has been wondering, stories of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
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Hey welcome back!
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there's a case to be made for fincher's run from 1997 to 2007 The Game (1997) Fight Club (1999) Panic Room (2002) Zodiac (2007) panic room isn't fantastic but it's an interesting take on the home invasion genre, but that's the only ~B tier movie in a string of A to S tier movies including one of the most popular movies ever made. also absolutely gently caress me looking at this timeline makes me feel old bc i still consider zodiac a "newer" movie but it's nearly 20 years old at this point. anyway out of fincher's whole filmography, this is imho his strongest decade. you might say 95 to 05 is stronger bc it includes Seven but it excludes Zodiac which i think is a real strong point, but i could go either way.
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Is Herzog's Woyzeck the one in the train yard I saw at university?
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ShoogaSlim posted:there's a case to be made for fincher's run from 1997 to 2007 where's Alien3 tho
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:where's Alien3 tho In the garbage.
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Gripweed posted:In the garbage. not a David Fincher fan i see
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:not a David Fincher fan i see no I just hate Alien 3
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The Second Civil War is pretty bad despite the insane cast. A rare miss from Joe Dante. It’s nowhere near madcap and/or cynical enough, and ends on a wet fart “oh boy we almost had a second civil war there, good thing cooler heads prevailed and America will persevere!” ending.
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Gripweed posted:no I just hate Alien 3 right that’s what i said
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Something really evocative still about that "wooden spaceship" pitch, Xenomorph aboard an ark of penitent prisoners, god drat that rules. They don't do "back to basics" like that anymore.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Something really evocative still about that "wooden spaceship" pitch, Xenomorph aboard an ark of penitent prisoners, god drat that rules. They don't do "back to basics" like that anymore. The joke mighta been made but they literally just made a movie about Dracula on the boat. That comes up so much because there's a whole sequence in the original novel that's pretty much Alien but with Dracula and way before Alien, and in journal form since that's the whole thing of the novel. Come to think of it, I'm surprised there isn't more prototypical horror fiction in that form, since a ship's log, where every notable event is meant to be recorded, would lend itself naturally to epistolary horror.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The joke mighta been made but they literally just made a movie about Dracula on the boat. That comes up so much because there's a whole sequence in the original novel that's pretty much Alien but with Dracula and way before Alien, and in journal form since that's the whole thing of the novel. Yeah, there was also an episode of Steven Moffat's Dracula that did the exact same thing, maybe a year or two before that. Ghost Leviathan posted:Come to think of it, I'm surprised there isn't more prototypical horror fiction in that form, since a ship's log, where every notable event is meant to be recorded, would lend itself naturally to epistolary horror. Far far too many games just do this.
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Indeed they do, I mean more like actual 19th century stuff. To be fair I'm probably missing a lot. Moby-Dick I suppose counts as one example of ship-based horror just about the people aboard losing their minds.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Is Herzog's Woyzeck the one in the train yard I saw at university? I don’t know if any of us were at university with you to confirm or deny.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Indeed they do, I mean more like actual 19th century stuff. To be fair I'm probably missing a lot. Moby-Dick I suppose counts as one example of ship-based horror just about the people aboard losing their minds. Like, books from the 19th century specifically, or things set in the past? Do they have to be set on ships? Because Piranesi does something like this with a giant horror parallel universe thing, and it's worth a read if you haven't checked it out. But the only way it fits with what you're talking about is as horror epistolographia. Open Source Idiom fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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I guess Flowers for Algernon would fit as well
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ShoogaSlim posted:there's a case to be made for fincher's run from 1997 to 2007 Panic Room rips, it’s the exact kind of thriller that doesn’t get made much anymore. Plus, Dwight Yoakam is loving terrifying.
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i watched a movie today
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Saw Hundreds of Beavers tonight. Good god, it's incredible. Live action cartoon in the vein of Looney Tunes. But it's got the smartest and densest callbacks I've seen in a comedy since Hot Fuzz. saw the Philly premiere last night. Absolutely incredible experience with a crowd; I still probably would have made it slightly shorter, but the pacing and overall gag hit-to-miss ratio are remarkably strong given a running time that seems unsustainable on paper. the animal costumes never stop being a delight to look at. also, to clarify the streaming part, I don't think it's coming to any subscription streaming service yet, just to VOD for rental/purchase
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Did your theater also do a standing ovation for the title card when it dropped? Still floored at the patience and payoff of that, god drat. Agree there's a section before-the-finale that the movie seems to be spinning in it's gag wheel a bit, but it escalates in such a great way during that. Not sure if anyone's done slapstick this well since Jackie Chan. Was happy to hear they're already at work on their next project, which will be choreographed by the person who did the bar-room brawl scene and, speaking of Jackie Chan, will be a kung-fu homage.
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I wonder how a farrelly bros marathon would go
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