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Punkin Spunkin posted:It's like the ending of Taxi Driver or something. What suddenly changed?? Is she dead? For everyone else she was just gone for like 15 minutes and said she like, fell or something. lol. Man gently caress this awful movie. Waffleman_ posted:It's a vague gesture towards a character arc without having to do the arc. Like how the Super Mario Bros movie 2023 feels like Mario has an arc but ??? Have to admit, I kind of dug the boldness of having him 9/11-ing downtown Brooklyn.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:lol. Man gently caress this awful movie. Good for him that he did though cuz they're gonna make a lot of money starting the Opium Wars together.
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May 12, 2024 20:26
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SCheeseman posted:Do those 80s specials count? Some of those were pretty cool. Halloween and Christmas should be required holiday watching like Charlie Brown and etc.. I dunno, maybe I'm just too old and nostalgia bound, but Garfield was the most important cartoon to me growing up, rivaled only by Pinky and the Brain. As such, every iteration of it after has been "unworthy" to me. Bill Murray obviously beats Chris Pratt but none can ever compete with Lorenzo Music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYTQAfyfxPU John's VA was also incredible. And the writing was fantastic. And basically I still love absolutely everything about Garfield & Friends 30 years later.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I also liked that once exiting Wonderland she walks back to the wedding where everyone lines up so she can give then a quippy line (all shot in the most monotonous way). Like all of the societal cultural and misogynistic pressure suddenly melts away. "Sister. I know you want me to get married but I don't think that's right for me." "Ok." "Mother, I'm going to start deciding what to do with my life myself now." "Alright." I forgot about that dance she tries to replicate at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWlCSBhAlV0
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May 12, 2024 21:04
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Part of me hates to be this guy, but here I am anyway: the Alice in Wonderland film is set in 1868. The British East India Company was founded in 1600, and the Opium Wars were 1839-42 and 1856-60. Alice might be about to be responsible for a bunch of bad stuff, but not those.
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May 12, 2024 21:23
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Rascar Capac posted:Part of me hates to be this guy, but here I am anyway: the Alice in Wonderland film is set in 1868. The British East India Company was founded in 1600, and the Opium Wars were 1839-42 and 1856-60. What, surely Britain didn't do anything horrible in Asia or Africa after 1868? Wait, I'm being handed a note, oh dear god.
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May 12, 2024 21:28
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Rascar Capac posted:Part of me hates to be this guy, but here I am anyway: the Alice in Wonderland film is set in 1868. The British East India Company was founded in 1600, and the Opium Wars were 1839-42 and 1856-60. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CegF4Pmbu2w She explicitly says they're going to be the first to trade with China. Maybe Burton just didn't think this through properly.
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May 12, 2024 21:31
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What? Tim Burton, phone it in a little? No.
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May 12, 2024 21:38
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Rascar Capac posted:Part of me hates to be this guy, but here I am anyway: the Alice in Wonderland film is set in 1868. The British East India Company was founded in 1600, and the Opium Wars were 1839-42 and 1856-60.
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SimonChris posted:I forgot about that dance she tries to replicate at the end: Fuuuuuck this movie. Watched Lucy, which is the most aggressively stupid film I've seen this year – starts with the premise of "What if we could access 100% of our brains", and immediately jumps from Scarlett Jo can learn things fast to she can control radios and talk to dogs. and that's at ~20%! At 100% she becomes a usb stick. They got Morgan Freeman for the movie too, so you have him selling just awful scientific babble about brainpower throughout the thing. That all said, kind of enjoyed the watch, as it was entertaining seeing what on earth her next power would be, or what garbage would come out of Freeman's character.
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May 12, 2024 22:45
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I deeply regret seeing the Very Okay and Very American comedy Babes and beg upwardly mobile millennials from New York to stop telling tired rear end quirky stories about themselves.
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May 12, 2024 23:11
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I deeply regret seeing the Very Okay and Very American comedy Babes and beg upwardly mobile millennials from New York to stop telling tired rear end quirky stories about themselves. We hit the maximum number of stories set in New York humanity needs years ago.
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Sample lines: "Cmon shrooms, chill, you are some silly-cybin!" "So which 'burb have you dorks selected?" "Omg my baby had a baby!" "I WISH I could be normal and experience typical boring bliss." "Are you still thinking of making your basement an Air bnb?" There's ten zingers a minute and about 3 or 4 total made me mildly chuckle. It's like a joke machine gun interrupted by oddly earnest and genuinely sometimes psychotic appeals to dramatic serious emotion.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Fuuuuuck this movie. Buddy if Lucy's the dumbest thing you've ever seen I don't know what to tell ya. Girl accidentally takes experimental super drugs and becomes god. It isn't even the dumbest or worst "what if we could access 100% of our brain" movie that begins with an L that decade. If you want an excuse not to watch it, Luc Besson is reason enough.
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May 13, 2024 00:41
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"A fitting end setting up what's next" sounds like a threat.
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Any opinions on Gladiator vs the directors cut, and also My Sassy Girl (2001) versus the directors cut folks
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May 13, 2024 00:58
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Baron von Eevl posted:Buddy if Lucy's the dumbest thing you've ever seen I don't know what to tell ya. Girl accidentally takes experimental super drugs and becomes god. It isn't even the dumbest or worst "what if we could access 100% of our brain" movie that begins with an L that decade. What's the worse "100% brain" movie? It is for *this year so far. What gives it that distinction over dumb action flicks is that it spends so much of it's dialog selling the pseudo-science to justify her being able to control radio's. Stuart Paul's Heaven & Hell (is loving amazing) also features a super-human protagonist with powers that repeatedly get introduced out of nowhere, but the film didn't spend a quarter of it's time and hire Morgan Freeman to explain it. That the movie spends so long swimming in it's own mythology, which is about intelligence, while lacking any real cleverness or introspection is a feat. I didn't hate it tho! Kind of listening to someone prattle about their personal philosophies and they're so batshit you can't help but listen a bit longer to see how off-the-rails they get. Didn't know who Luc Besson was, but I do have a soft spot for Fifth Element.
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If you don't know about Luc Besson if recommend watching Leon the Professional first, and then looking his history up. Films better that way.
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It seems like they're doing a bit but it's ... that the Garfield movie hosed them? Confusing https://x.com/theatomreview/status/1789744221932384329?t=uKTkjveQheZo_F7QJZm-dg&s=09
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Gaius Marius posted:If you don't know about Luc Besson if recommend watching Leon the Professional first, and then looking his history up. Films better that way.
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May 13, 2024 01:27
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Don't believe for a second that was an unintentional gaffe. A garffield. Also have seen Leon the professional, remember digging it. Did look up Besson, and oh dear.
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May 13, 2024 01:29
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Gaius Marius posted:If you don't know about Luc Besson if recommend watching Leon the Professional first, and then looking his history up. Films better that way. I like a lot of Luc Besson movies but he's probably a terrible person. He's basically the living embodiment of stereotypes about the French.
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I’d always wondered why Heather Graham is so good in Childrens Hospital but so unmemorable in other roles, but I just watched Suitable Flesh and that makes it pretty clear. She needs to play weirdos. Give her a weirdo and she’ll knock it out of the park. But she’s too pretty and blonde, Hollywood kept giving her beautiful blonde woman roles when they should have been giving her character actor roles.
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Gripweed posted:I’d always wondered why Heather Graham is so good in Childrens Hospital but so unmemorable in other roles, but I just watched Suitable Flesh and that makes it pretty clear. She needs to play weirdos. Give her a weirdo and she’ll knock it out of the park. She's in some of my most rewatched scenes from Boogie Nights.
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Air Skwirl posted:I like a lot of Luc Besson movies but he's probably a terrible person. He's basically the living embodiment of stereotypes about the French. They only got an age of consent in like 2015
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Gaius Marius posted:She's in some of my most rewatched scenes from Boogie Nights. Does she play a weirdo in it?
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Gripweed posted:Does she play a weirdo in it? Porn star that wears roller skates constantly. So yeah?
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CatstropheWaitress posted:What's the worse "100% brain" movie? Limitless. Like Gaius said, it's a pretty fun movie but it's got the post O Brother aggressive color grading and it's just less fun or ridiculous than Lucy. The latter at least revels in being insane, she gets brain powers that let her travel back in time and meet the early hominid Lucy.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Limitless. Like Gaius said, it's a pretty fun movie but it's got the post O Brother aggressive color grading and it's just less fun or ridiculous than Lucy. The latter at least revels in being insane, she gets brain powers that let her travel back in time and meet the early hominid Lucy. Lucy was pretty charming. The gently caress were the triads gonna do with a narcotic that turns you into God
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Lucy is one of those one world title movies that I always get confused with other films, in this case Salt.
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Waffleman_ posted:What? Tim Burton, phone it in a little? No. Burton is a strange one because he made a lot of super popular movies when I grew up, and people still like them to this day, but then came a whole lot of nothing. I've always wondered if "but what have they done lately?" is a good metric to judge anybody by, because surely if someone wrote even one great book or made one great movie, it doesn't matter if everything after was bad. But Burton really does kind of test that idea.
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My friend was listening to that alt j song Matilda and I was like huh, this sounds like it might be a song about the professional? It was and my friend wanted to watch it. We snagged the blu ray at Best Buy, popped it in and threw on the directors cut which I hadn’t seen. That was maybe a decade ago and I’ll never watch it again
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I still think The Professional is great, but Jean Reno was the one who came up with the idea that Leon should be a little slow, and also not reciprocate Matilda's romantic feelings at all. Which means that the original script Besson wrote was just a story about a cool guy with a 12 year old girlfriend.
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Gripweed posted:I still think The Professional is great, but Jean Reno was the one who came up with the idea that Leon should be a little slow, and also not reciprocate Matilda's romantic feelings at all. Which means that the original script Besson wrote was just a story about a cool guy with a 12 year old girlfriend. I haven't seen it but his more recent movie Anna is about secret assassins pretending to be supermodels, which as a concept is such a big Yikes nowadays without even factoring in what a disgusting POS Besson is. It's like making an action movie with a bad-rear end child soldier.
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Grendels Dad posted:I haven't seen it but his more recent movie Anna is about secret assassins pretending to be supermodels, which as a concept is such a big Yikes nowadays without even factoring in what a disgusting POS Besson is. It's like making an action movie with a bad-rear end child soldier. You should! Very good movie. Dude's definetly a pedophile, though
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NikkolasKing posted:Burton is a strange one because he made a lot of super popular movies when I grew up, and people still like them to this day, but then came a whole lot of nothing. I've always wondered if "but what have they done lately?" is a good metric to judge anybody by, because surely if someone wrote even one great book or made one great movie, it doesn't matter if everything after was bad. But Burton really does kind of test that idea. It's extremely difficult to execute at the highest level of cinema for long stretches, only a couple directors like Scorsese have managed to keep going at such high levels into their twilight years. There's a couple things going against it. One is that a young up and comer has a lot more to prove and a lot more time to think of what they want their first or second film to be. Truffaut had 20 some years to figure out what he wanted 400 Blows to be and a year or less for the followup, Shoot the Piano Player. Two is that once you get big it's harder for people to say no to your bad ideas and overindulgent behavior, this is pretty drat true for Burton. Three is that there are massively diminishing returns on style and novelty. When Edward Scissorhands is your first exposure to the Burton style it's fresh and novel compared to everything else at the cinema, when you go and see part 2 of Alice in Wonderland with a Burton free from editors and with stacks for a budget suddenly it seems trite. Hell, you can see it being speedrun, First Reformed is lauded and seen as a massive return to form for Schrader then he goes and makes the sameish movie twice more in Card Counter and Master Gardener and suddenly people are more excited about his Facebook posts and Swiftie allegiance than the next film he makes despite the other two films also being good. As for whether it matter, not really in absolute terms but it does help if you're looking at what's coming up or what you want to watch. I'll be excited to see the next Scorsese joint or Tarantino flick because they're consistently good and manage to reinvent themselves enough to keep their filmography fresh, Zemeckis I wouldn't see unless someone put a gun to my head because despite his past work also being great, he hasn't done anything worth watching in decades.
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Gripweed posted:I still think The Professional is great, but Jean Reno was the one who came up with the idea that Leon should be a little slow, and also not reciprocate Matilda's romantic feelings at all. Which means that the original script Besson wrote was just a story about a cool guy with a 12 year old girlfriend. There's a sex scene in the original script
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Gaius Marius posted:It's extremely difficult to execute at the highest level of cinema for long stretches, only a couple directors like Scorsese have managed to keep going at such high levels into their twilight years. There's also Ridley Scott and Kubrick and Spielberg.
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