SkunkDuster posted:

There was some thread about bad actors or something and somebody mentioned that they felt that Sharon Stone completely ruined Casino. I don't think it was a problem with her acting, but in the character and whole subplot. It seems to me the whole love story could be completely removed and trim an hour of useless crap to cut the movie down from three hours to a more accessible two hour experience.

Did Ginger (Stone) have any bearing at all on the main plot of the movie? I've watched it several times and I don't see how it would have ended any different if Stone's character never existed.

Barometer posted:

He's "fixing" his broken nose by resetting it. Tough guy style.

feedmyleg posted:

What, exactly, in Total Recall was meant to make me think that it was real? Just the 2 or 3 weird looks that his wife/co-worker/Rekall salesman give before he goes under? Because it seems pretty definitive to me that it wasn't. Especially the fact that he saw Melina on the screen in the doctor's office before he went under, saw photos of the reactor, the doctor's comment of "blue sky on mars? that's a new one," the spelling out of the plot by Edgemar, etc - just too much evidence stacked on the side of it being his Rekall vacation/vacation gone wrong. People seem to talk about it like it's ambiguous, but it really doesn't seem like that to me. Which is a shame, because I think it would be a better film it it as.

Zogo posted:

The one guy was sweating. He wouldn't have been nervous if he was imaginary.
It's been a while but that was the one thing I recall.

feedmyleg posted:

Those make a certain amount of sense, but I think that the "I haven't implanted it yet" could definitely be part of the simulation to further make him think that it's real (hell, from his point of view that's what would convince me the most, so it would naturally be part of the simulation). Good point with the dreams about Melina before he went in, but I think the Edgemar sweating situation could be another thing that's put into the simulation to further convince Quaid it's all real as the simulation nears its end.

It's not like there's a real answer here, I was just wondering if I missed something.

feedmyleg posted:

I believe Verhoeven mentions the possibility explicitly in the Making Of.

I think if they just hadn't shown the actual photograph of Melina as his ideal woman in Rekall I'd find it a lot easier to swallow.

But then again I can't wave away his dream at the beginning, so it can't be definitive either way.

feedmyleg posted:

I think that after re-watching it this time I've come away with an opinion that not a lot of people have. I don't think it's real, I don't think it's Quaid having a bad reaction to the implants, and I don't think he gets lobotomized at the end. I think the entire thing is the vacation, exactly how Rekall wanted it. I think the white screen at the end is him waking up from a successful vacation - or rather, his secret agent character is having a lobotomy, turning him back into the original Quaid. Him having to question the reality of it at the end with Edgemar could have been him getting used to the idea of the simulation again before he wakes up. Keep in mind that the movie ends right after "blue skies" comes true - which is pretty much the only thing we know about what Quaid's vacation is going to contain.

Certainly this could be argued to death but this explanation makes as much or more sense to me than any of the other options I've heard.


True, as she is a 3D model before that. He could be filling the reality of his simulation with the woman from his dreams.

MisterBibs posted:

I fear this will be seen as a "lawl im drunk kk" post, but despite my current intoxication, I feel I am required to ask:

At the bar I was just at, Point Break was playing. Because of the aforementioned intoxication, combined with the lack of sound... is it normally as confusing-to-follow as it appeared to me? Because it didnt make a lot of sense to me, and felt like I was watching three movies (Keanu as a surfer, Keanu as a police officer, Keanu as a criminal).

I'm going to be very, very embarrassed if it turns out it was multiple movies.

Zogo posted:

Then bring back a live pig temporarily fused with the T-800?

The Cameo posted:

I still remember being called a misogynist for noting that this particular scene is a bit of a jump for her character, who for the entire movie predicates every word and action she makes on the potential harm or protection it can give to her child. It's not that I don't see the grander scheme in her head - kill Dyson > stop Cyberdyne from creating Skynet > change the future so John never has to fight - but for someone who was breaking out of an asylum (after essentially debasing herself and the reality she knows is coming to pass didn't work) just so she can see, be with, and protect her son, her taking off on her own just strikes me as incongruous with what Cameron had written her as.

scary ghost dog posted:

Time isn't a loop, when you send someone back into the past they don't go to your past, they go to a new past that now has them in it. You can't change the present, just someone else's future.

-The Terminator Show

morestuff posted:

This is a consistent problem with the franchise. Have Barbara Broccoli call me when the movies are slower-paced and give painstaking background on everything James Bond does.

LesterGroans posted:

Basically this. It costs a few bucks to rent a movie anyway. If you feel like you'll use it for at least three movies a month you'll be ahead. The selection, while by no means expansive, is certainly eclectic and if you can't find a new release you want to watch there will almost certainly be an older or more obscure gem.

Kunzelman posted:

I've had two out of the last three blu rays be scratched, and one was unplayable.

SaintFu posted:

The Netflix recommendation engine is usually pretty good.

Riptor posted:

Netflix instant is particularly good for TV shows too, since you never have to go through that rigamarole of "send away for disc 1 of show x, send it back, wait for disc 2, repeat"

MisterBibs posted:

Netflix thingie-boober

Toebone posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanning_(firearms)

Trump posted:

Rake Arms posted:

Did I miss something?

Rake Arms posted:

I like Quantum of Solace, but it is pretty hard to follow on the first viewing. My overall impression of the movie is that there is a good story, it just takes far more scrutiny than it should to understand. I do hope Bond 23 simplifies things a bit, since there's a lot of genuine talent attached and I'd like to see a satisfying conclusion to the new Spectre Quantum storyline.

codyclarke posted:

What are some action movies where the hero isn't physically injured once in the entire movie? Steven Seagal's Fire Down Below is probably the best example of this.

VorpalBunny posted:

Script doctors are usually people who have already proven themselves as screenwriters, and are usually Oscar-winners. It's a "slumming it" job that pays in the millions and usually only lasts a few weeks. Good luck breaking in!

By the way, these script doctors usually only write what the producers/studio tell them to. There's very little actual creative input involved.

VorpalBunny posted:

I had no idea they wrote a book! Thanks for the heads up, that should be a fun read!

I know so many burned out screenwriters, it's not even funny. It's one of the most miserable jobs in Hollywood, on par with PAs (though the compensation for writers is usually better).

regulargonzalez posted:

Not quite sure if this answers your question, but in classical music the term for it is a vocalise (rhymes with peace), most often used as a vocal exercise but also as a stand-alone piece ala http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZIQ2pHaJ1I

GORDON posted:

I noticed it last night in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the scene in Marion's bar in Mongolia. One of the Nazis/henchmen puts a round through a barrel of red liquid, and Marion stops fighting for a moment to have a drink by slurping it directly from the little booze waterfall. Anywhere earlier than that, in 1981?

Spermando posted:

I'm trying to think of any instances of remakes that were a lot more successful than the originals.

LtKenFrankenstein posted:

Didn't the thing bomb at the box office?

Zogo posted:

http://www.amazon.com/Rubberface-Jim-Carrey/dp/B000K7UBT8

Jim Carrey is barely in it.

KillRoy posted:

There was also a mediocre submarine movie, but it has Zach Galifinakus, and we were drunk so wewatched it to the end. Watching the credits, we realized it was written by Darren Arronofsky.

FAT BATMAN posted:

So, me and my dad were talking about Blazing Saddles and why it's one of the funniest god drat movies ever.

The general opinion is that it's brilliant parody of classic Western films that stares directly at the Hollywood film industry and the blatant racism of those times that classic Western films shy away from.

I got to thinking though, are there any films it's more specifically parodying? Or just the genre? Like here's the thing: I asked my dad if he could think of any Western movies where the main protagonist is a sheriff protecting a town from bad guys, and the only one he could think of is Support Your Local Sheriff (which I've never heard of, has anyone here seen it?) which is also a comedy film.

Most classic Westerns focus on an "outsider" as the protagonist, who at most, simply helps the sheriff of a town (Rio Bravo). Bart definitely qualifies as an outsider though. I suppose Blazing Saddles is mostly about poking fun at general Western film conventions, I was just wondering if there's also any references to actual films. You know, like how Airplane! takes most of its plot directly from an old film.

penismightier posted:

And the land grab plot was a staple of 1930s/40s oaters. John Wayne saved women from land grabs a hundred times before he hit it big.

penismightier posted:

Best to look at Once Upon a Time in the West as the cowboy Kill Bill. If it's in that movie, it's probably from somewhere else.

Akuma posted:

So what you're saying here is that you believe in the olden days before fancy gel and fireproof suits they just set people on fire. Yes that makes perfect sense.