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teen witch posted:I keep forgetting we have a lesser Pluto TV here and I should be watching it more on the occasion there’s a dece film We saw an insane one the other day called Godsend Has anyone ever bought DeNiro as a doctor?
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hallo spacedog posted:We saw an insane one the other day called Godsend I saw that movie in the theater, man. All i remember is "What we did. What weeeeeeeeee did."
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May 18, 2024 22:14
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A lot of people seem to judge a movies quality on things like a lack of plot holes, artistic merit, and the acting. My main criteria is simply how enjoyable a movie is to watch. Johnny Mnemonic never gets enough love. Keanu doing a dry run for the matrix, a talking dolphin, it has everything. I was also surprised that Face/Off scores fairly highly on IMDB (7.3). An enjoyable film that people seem to love to hate on.
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May 18, 2024 22:51
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Doug Sisk posted:A lot of people seem to judge a movies quality on things like a lack of plot holes, artistic merit, and the acting. My main criteria is simply how enjoyable a movie is to watch. Face/Off is loving transcendent. Assigning it a numerical score is just preposterous.
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Face/Off is loving transcendent. Assigning it a numerical score is just preposterous. It is brilliant. I don't really understand why Nicolas Cage is looked down on as an actor either. I can't say I've seen every film he has been in, but I haven't seen a bad one from him!
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May 18, 2024 23:54
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Face/Off is loving transcendent. Assigning it a numerical score is just preposterous.
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Doug Sisk posted:Johnny Mnemonic never gets enough love. Keanu doing a dry run for the matrix, a talking dolphin, it has everything. Don't think it's too long before we start getting late 80's early 90's retro futurism stuff. I mean a lot of that stuff was set around now or only a little later. Ah, man I miss some of the more fun early 90's weird as hell future stuff like Tank Girl. Most of our future movies stuff now days seem way too serious. More talking dolphins drat it!!!
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May 19, 2024 00:14
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Jason Statham telling his boss to put him in the face-off machine so he can just fix everything is evidence of it transcending all, even self. "Do you have change? It only takes quarters." "I gotta pay for it?" "No! Because it doesn't exist!"
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May 19, 2024 01:47
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Doug Sisk posted:My main criteria is simply how enjoyable a movie is to watch. Sure, there's plenty of objectively bad movies that are fun times. Equilibrium is straight up idiot garbage made by morons but I've seen it at least a dozen times and have a blast every time. But there are also utterly fantastic movies that aren't enjoyable at all. I literally had a panic attack after watching Uncut Gems. I felt like I was going to die for the entire runtime but what an incredible movie. An absolute masterclass in filmmaking that I never want to watch again. Also, who's making GBS threads on Face/Off? That movie slays. I have one that's a bit different. I think Locke is great. It reviewed well but I've seen so many people dunking on it for being "Tom Hardy talks on the phone for an hour and a half". I mean, it is that, but its also a great character study of a dude imploding his life and dragging his family and coworkers down with him so he can do what he has convinced himself is the honorable thing. But because its a movie that's just dialogue and takes place entirely in a car a ton of people hate it. I happen to be partial to single actor, single location films though. I also liked the Ryan Reynolds movie Buried, so there's that.
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Some day I'll watch my Dinner with Andre. Some day...
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Elissimpark posted:Some day I'll watch my Dinner with Andre. Some day... How you going to play with your My Dinner with Andre action figure set without watching it?
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PuttyKnife posted:How you going to play with your My Dinner with Andre action figure set without watching it? You know, thinking about it, there are potentially at least three Wallace Shawn based or related action figures available...
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Elissimpark posted:You know, thinking about it, there are potentially at least three Wallace Shawn based or related action figures available... Yeah, from the southland tales line of figures
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Elissimpark posted:You know, thinking about it, there are potentially at least three Wallace Shawn based or related action figures available... We’re always stuck waiting for guffman
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Andre Gregory was the warden in Demolition Man, there's a chance you could complete the set.
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Pneub posted:Andre Gregory was the warden in Demolition Man, there's a chance you could complete the set. Did they do merchandise for The Last Temptation of Christ?
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Elissimpark posted:Did they do merchandise for The Last Temptation of Christ? I can't remember the exact quote, but it was something like "you could have assembled three crosses from all the relics of Christ's cross on the market in medieval Europe". Can't get better merch than that!
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Rewatched Thir13en Ghosts last night. It was pretty nostalgic but yeesh, it is absolutely a BAD movie. Capitalizing on the pseudo-scifi-horror of movies like Virus or Event Horizon was inevitable, and some of the deaths are straight gnarly (I forgot about the ghost hunter woman getting crushed in between two walls) but it's chock full of the worst ADR I've ever heard, Matthew 'loving' Lillard is god-awful in it (you can sort of tell his lines were hammed up in direction and probably against his will) and the whole aesthetic reeks of the kind of edgy dark angst that like, it's hard to explain... it's like a KoRn fan's platonic ideal of a horror movie.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:
My wife and I love this movie - one of the first things we watched together back in like 2004. And what we loved about it was the b-movie acting and the reveal at the end that what you saw the whole movie wasn't actually what was happening. So then we watch it again and again and are like ok she's eating chicken right there but then we get a flash of her eating an owl - she's probably actually eating an owl.
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Mister Speaker posted:
My dad stand in was Chief Brody in Jaws. My dad had the same frame, same tanned skin tone, same glasses, worked in the coast guard and one of my first memories is watching Jaws with him.
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Pneub posted:Andre Gregory was the warden in Demolition Man, there's a chance you could complete the set. poo poo, sold out. Gonna have to keep an eye out for another one. https://www.ebay.com.my/itm/184506614474
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Mister Speaker posted:it's like a KoRn fan's platonic ideal of a horror movie. I've been wanting to see it again for a while but now I yearn
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Zabriskie point. I mostly bought it because Pink Floyd did a bunch of songs (but not all) on the soundtrack. I watched it once or twice and wasn't *that* thrilled with it, but it's grown on me. It's this 1970s foreign (I think) art film type poo poo. So it's pretty weird that, but uhhhh I guess I like it. Also La Vallee. Another foreign 70s art film that Pink Floyd did the soundtrack too (their album Obscured By Clouds) another one I like but is probably not particularly popular. Still have yet to see the movie More. PF did the soundtrack to that one too. Gotta find it on Amazon or some poo poo.
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I can't stand The Wall, but The Wall: The Motion Picture is still kinda interesting for some reason.
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Yeah , I like some of the movie versions of the songs better than the album versions from The Wall
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wesleywillis posted:Zabriskie point. I've been interested in this since I saw a video talking about how Nolan loved that movie and used the ending as inspiration for the scene in Inception where everything is exploding around Dicaprio and Page. I've read that its really slow though
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Mister Speaker posted:Rewatched Thir13en Ghosts last night. It was pretty nostalgic but yeesh, it is absolutely a BAD movie. Capitalizing on the pseudo-scifi-horror of movies like Virus or Event Horizon was inevitable, and some of the deaths are straight gnarly (I forgot about the ghost hunter woman getting crushed in between two walls) but it's chock full of the worst ADR I've ever heard, Matthew 'loving' Lillard is god-awful in it (you can sort of tell his lines were hammed up in direction and probably against his will) and the whole aesthetic reeks of the kind of edgy dark angst that like, it's hard to explain... it's like a KoRn fan's platonic ideal of a horror movie.
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wesleywillis posted:Zabriskie point. Zabriskie Point is an interesting failure, it's Michelangelo Antonioni's attempt at more fully breaking into the American market after the success of Blow-Up. The problem is that while in Blow-Up, he's asking questions about the nature of image and reality in a movie that gets in, gets out, spends its two hours wisely letting you ponder those questions, in Zabriskie, any theme he might be trying to put across is completely bogged down by dodgy gestures at "radical" hippie politics and completely hollow acting from the movie's amateur leads. A better bet is to just watch the music video for "Today" by the Smashing Pumpkins, which is a four-minute condensation of the broad strokes of Antonioni's two-hour mess. ZP does have some fantastic cinematography, however. Looks fantastic, bored me to tears. I could have sworn More made it into the Criterion Collection, but it apparently did not - it's on their streaming service, however. Also if you have eight billion dollars at your disposal (or feel like pirating it), there's a full copy on disc in the complete box set of Floyd's "Early Years" compilations. I will refrain from complaining at length about how I didn't think that box set could gently caress up Live at Pompeii even worse than the 90s "director's cut" but holy poo poo they did. One of the most fascinating failures I've seen (and I believe I've got a DVD copy of kicking around here somewhere) is a late-seventies zero-budget rush job attempting to cash in on the custom van and CB radio crazes of the day: Supervan. For a movie where the plot barely matters, it ends up having three or four plots all happening at once*, but that's hardly what makes it interesting - what does is that a large portion of the movie's b-roll is cinema verite, the whole thing shot on location at an actual midwest (Missouri, I think) van convention. You are actually watching a PG-rated slice of the drunken, stoned bacchanalia of pre-AIDS van people who built vans to gently caress in. The literal actual Charles Bukowski somehow shows up at a wet-t-shirt contest. The Supervan itself was a George Barris custom job that was almost like a parade float enclosed in glass. Like a popemobile with room to sleep six. More than that if they're loving. * lovable loser tries to win van contest but his van is destroyed when rescuing a woman from sexual assault by some bikers, replaces van with futuristic "solar-powered" ( oh hey, there it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orvPPE6jkq4
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hexwren posted:You are actually watching a PG-rated slice of the drunken, stoned bacchanalia of pre-AIDS van people who built vans to gently caress in. The literal actual Charles Bukowski somehow shows up at a wet-t-shirt contest. The Supervan itself was a George Barris custom job that was almost like a parade float enclosed in glass. Like a popemobile with room to sleep six. More than that if they're loving. Also please note the Supervan Love Theme, where the chorus is built around "I'll always remember you as a milestone in my life" -- even the movie's love theme can't pretend Van Guy and his girlfriend are going to last, but after Girlfriend returns to normie life, she'll always remember that summer she hosed a van guy
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Pneub posted:I can't stand The Wall, but The Wall: The Motion Picture is still kinda interesting for some reason. That movie hosed me up. The scene where Pink is peeling his face off in the limousine stuck with me.
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Mister Speaker posted:That movie hosed me up. The scene where Pink is peeling his face off in the limousine stuck with me. Quite a lot of body horror in that little musical. The shaving of eyebrows, bleeding nipples, those awful hole facemask things, cartoon plant rough sex etc etc
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Pneub posted:I can't stand The Wall, but The Wall: The Motion Picture is still kinda interesting for some reason. I really like when the tigers broke free. I think it might be my favorite floyd song
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Love Pink Floyd because I was raised by boomers. The Wall (movie) is solid but like five min too long, the album is two-three songs too many. It’s a *lot*, and I think that Another Brick in the Wall is sure, catchy and popular, but In The Flesh is so much cooler. Wish You Were Here and some bits of Piper at the Gates of Dawn and More are far better. Antivehicular posted:Also please note the Supervan Love Theme, where the chorus is built around "I'll always remember you as a milestone in my life" -- even the movie's love theme can't pretend Van Guy and his girlfriend are going to last, but after Girlfriend returns to normie life, she'll always remember that summer she hosed a van guy
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I've never really been into Pink Floyd but the song Dogs is really cool.
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Chrpno posted:Quite a lot of body horror in that little musical. The shaving of eyebrows, bleeding nipples, those awful hole facemask things, cartoon plant rough sex etc etc I've seen a lot of disturbing poo poo in movies over the years but I will never watch Bob Geldof shaving his nipples off again.
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exquisite tea posted:I've seen a lot of disturbing poo poo in movies over the years but I will never watch Bob Geldof shaving his nipples off again. Oh, you really want to skip the next Disney star wars movie. They're going all in on Bob Geldof nipple shaving. Apparently they started filming without a complete script and just threw a whole bunch of Bob Geldof nipple shaving scenes in it, as they had no idea how else to get the film to 90 minutes.
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Way ahead of you on that one. 
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Chrpno posted:Quite a lot of body horror in that little musical. The shaving of eyebrows, bleeding nipples, those awful hole facemask things, cartoon plant rough sex etc etc As a kid I saw a clip of those hole-mask kids marching into the meat grinder on loving Sneak Previews with Siskel and Ebert and it hosed me up for WEEKS.
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I watched The Wall a few times in college; the final time I also drank about half a bottle of akvavit while I watched, and I haven't had any inclination to watch it since. I have eventually regained an appreciate for akvavit. Anyway I finally watched Barbarella a couple weeks back. Even if I hadn't gone in knowing it was directed by a Frenchman based on a French comic book, I think I'd have said "goddamn this is a French-rear end movie". It's not a good movie but it reached levels of enjoyably silly. A more conventional film might have put the main villains on-screen before the last 10 minutes, but a more conventional film wouldn't have had a bumbling freedom fighter named Dildano.
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