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The Vosgian Beast posted:I just saw Total Recall for the first time, and it's a movie I totally should have watched earlier. My question is is there a legitimate case to make about it all being real? Because from what I saw, Quaid suffering a schizoid delusion based on having the memories implanted into him seems like the most probable theory. At one point that excitable guy has a bead of sweat drop down his face. Why would a hologram/implanted character be so nervous?
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Zogo posted:At one point that excitable guy has a bead of sweat drop down his face. Why would a hologram/implanted character be so nervous? Because Quaid expects him to be, and if it's taking place in Quaid's head, well...there you go. Perfectly reasonable explanation that doesn't necessarily mean that he's in the real world. That same guy literally tells you the plot of the rest of the movie, so...there you go. Maybe it's just coincidence. Maybe. Of course if the guy is one of Cohaegen's stooges, he knows about Quaid's former life as Howser and could be accurately predicting what would happen... quote:One minute, you're the savior of the rebel cause; next thing you know, you'll be Cohaagen's bosom buddy. You'll even have fantasies about alien civilizations - as you requested - but in the end, back on Earth, you'll be lobotomized! Total Recall is super great because it really does have 3 different, almost equally valid interpretations and it owns. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Nov 5, 2015 |
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Snak posted:There's literally no evidence to prove that it's either way. When he's in the Rekall office one of the monitors shows the Mars reactor from the end of the movie.
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Sleeveless posted:When he's in the Rekall office one of the monitors shows the Mars reactor from the end of the movie. I thought it was concept art that looked like it, but wasn't actually a shot from the movie?
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Because Quaid expects him to be, and if it's taking place in Quaid's head, well...there you go. Perfectly reasonable explanation that doesn't necessarily mean that he's in the real world. I recall this coming up a few years back in this thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2871728&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=131#post394146869
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I just saw Total Recall for the first time, and it's a movie I totally should have watched earlier. My question is is there a legitimate case to make about it all being real? Because from what I saw, Quaid suffering a schizoid delusion based on having the memories implanted into him seems like the most probable theory. I love that someone is asking that because me and friend had a full on fight when we were kids over this subject. Mainly because he said it was all a dream and I argued it could be either way that's the while point. (Worse thing is I do think it's all a fantasy.)
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Zogo posted:I recall this coming up a few years back in this thread: So what did happen with the release of Ride With the Devil?
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cheerfullydrab posted:So what did happen with the release of Ride With the Devil?  Wasn't it released by Criterion?
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What's up with that scene in Suspiria where she first meets everyone in the dance school and they're all money hungry as hell?
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Hat Thoughts posted:What's up with that scene in Suspiria where she first meets everyone in the dance school and they're all money hungry as hell? Suspria isn't exactly a straightforward class narrative, but at least part of what's wrong with the corrupting and consuming witch cult that runs a ballet school is that they're the rotting remnants of feudal aristocracy lingering into an ugly stage of capitalism. They're a bunch of catty, aspirational bitches, and what they aspire to is becoming inner circle witches/rich people. The lead and her one friend just really like to dance. Plus that's a real standard of the boarding school sub genre, although Suspiria kind of forgets it was setting up that kind of teen drama stuff because the plot is so tenuously woven.
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It shows us that they are all assholes and deserving of death.
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DeimosRising posted:Suspria isn't exactly a straightforward class narrative, but at least part of what's wrong with the corrupting and consuming witch cult that runs a ballet school is that they're the rotting remnants of feudal aristocracy lingering into an ugly stage of capitalism. They're a bunch of catty, aspirational bitches, and what they aspire to is becoming inner circle witches/rich people. The lead and her one friend just really like to dance. Plus that's a real standard of the boarding school sub genre, although Suspiria kind of forgets it was setting up that kind of teen drama stuff because the plot is so tenuously woven. Huh cool stuff/makes sense/thanks FreudianSlippers posted:It shows us that they are all assholes and deserving of death. The maggot ceiling thing seems bad enough by itself Hat Thoughts fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Nov 12, 2015 |
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This has been bugging me for ages- what's the name of that technique you see TV directors use to show two people talking, where you repeatedly loop between closeup of speaker A, closeup of speaker B, wide shot to establish both people in context, repeat?
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Omi no Kami posted:This has been bugging me for ages- what's the name of that technique you see TV directors use to show two people talking, where you repeatedly loop between closeup of speaker A, closeup of speaker B, wide shot to establish both people in context, repeat?
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SubG posted:Shot/reverse shot. That's the one!! Thank you, that was really bugging me.
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Why is the "Grease" theme song so anachronistic? The movie is a 50s homage, including all the music, except for the 70s, disco-lite theme. Seems such an odd choice.
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Because the film is a campy pastiche and at no point attempts to mask its artifice.
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regulargonzalez posted:Why is the "Grease" theme song so anachronistic? The movie is a 50s homage, including all the music, except for the 70s, disco-lite theme. Seems such an odd choice. They needed an original song to qualify for Oscars. (Though I think "You're the One That I Want" is also new to the movie.) It's also a nice transition- it's a 70s song about the 50s mood, so the whole title sequence is "prepare yourself for some Fifties".
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Grease is merely an inferior version of Hairspray! or Cry-Baby, and Travolta would've torn the loving house down in a John Waters film.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Grease is merely an inferior version of Hairspray! or Cry-Baby, and Travolta would've torn the loving house down in a John Waters film. He's in the Hairspray remake based on the Broadway musical. But I never saw that and heard it was terrible.
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Skwirl posted:He's in the Hairspray remake based on the Broadway musical. But I never saw that and heard it was terrible. He's also in the movie based on the musical based on the movie (but it wasn't direct by Waters).
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Mister Kingdom posted:He's also in the movie based on the musical based on the movie (but it wasn't direct by Waters). That's what I meant.
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Skwirl posted:That's what I meant. In addition to the two versions you've already mentioned, he's also in the recent movie version.
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Nov 22, 2015 01:33
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The Hairspray musical movie is really fun and Travolta is good in it. It's a broad performance but you're following loving Divine, of course you have to make it broad.
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The newer Hairspray was fine.
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Watching King of New York What was the last movie that Christopher Walken actually acted in?
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Country Bears
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Armyman25 posted:Watching King of New York What was the last movie that Christopher Walken actually acted in? Seven Psychopaths was just three years ago. A Late Quartet from the same year looked kinda promising.
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He is great in Seven Psychopaths.
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His video Game Reviews As I'm just Walken here Are exceptional
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:A Late Quartet from the same year looked kinda promising. I wanted to like it because of the cast but it is the stuffiest movie
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I just got around to watching my bluray of Conan: The Barbarian and noticed there are several shots that were not in the VHS or DVD versions of the film. The bluray case doesn't mention it being a directors cut or extended edition. According to wikipedia, the region A bluray is a 131 minute cut that was original for the extended DVD. The region B bluray has a 121 minute cut. Is the ps4 region-free? could I order a European bluray online and just watch that one?
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A couple years ago I was looking for a good blue version of Conan and there are like 4 versions floating around. Some fan site was putting together a master version, forgot to check back if they finished. Things like the color tinting of the day for night shots, etc are changed. I love my director's cut dvd though. Got it as a dual disc with Conan the Destroyer.
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I finally caught Source Code a little earlier this year and noticed that Duncan Jones again used the song "The One and Only" by Chesney Hawkes just like in his previous film MOON (hopefully he puts it in Warcraft somehow). Do any other directors have songs like this that they use in every (or almost every) film?
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Parachute posted:I finally caught Source Code a little earlier this year and noticed that Duncan Jones again used the song "The One and Only" by Chesney Hawkes just like in his previous film MOON (hopefully he puts it in Warcraft somehow). Do any other directors have songs like this that they use in every (or almost every) film? Scorsese put Gimme Shelter in Goodfellas, Departed and Casino, and a bunch of other Rolling Stones songs throughout the rest of his films.
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Snak posted:Is the ps4 region-free? The games aren't region-locked, but the PS4 will enforce regions for DVD and Blu-ray movies. Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:The games aren't region-locked, but the PS4 will enforce regions for DVD and Blu-ray movies. lame. The added scenes are not great and just mess with the pacing.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Grease is merely an inferior version of Hairspray! or Cry-Baby, and Travolta would've torn the loving house down in a John Waters film. Yeah I like Grease plenty but man, Cry-Baby is loving awesome. I still haven't seen Hairspray! or any other Waters films, sadly.
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Criminal Minded posted:Yeah I like Grease plenty but man, Cry-Baby is loving awesome. I still haven't seen Hairspray! or any other Waters films, sadly. You should spend some time with Waters Even his more mainstream stuff is worth staring at imo
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Criminal Minded posted:Yeah I like Grease plenty but man, Cry-Baby is loving awesome. I still haven't seen Hairspray! or any other Waters films, sadly. I was pleasantly surprised by Cry-Baby.
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