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I just saw the first Godfather for the first time, and it was very good. What I don't understand: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO AL PACINO? He's totally subdued and fantastic, never once bellowing and bugging his eyes out. Is it just age? I remember even by Dog Day Afternoon he had gone completely insane and "Pacino-y"
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Crazy Mike posted:What's the name of the bonus scene that some movies have after the credits? Is there a website that has these in a non spoiler fashion so I know to expect one when I get to the theaters?
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Apr 24, 2009 13:22
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Mean Bean Machine posted:At first I thought it was just a way to convey some excitement, and that the best way the director thought to do it (with the more limited means back then) was to put that part in fast-motion. Then I realized how dumb that was, since this is loving Hitchcock we're talking about, and if he did it, he must have had a good reason for it. People always say of the great directors, "Everything they did was on purpose, nothing was accidental, everything has a reason." But it's my experience that all the workaday guys - all the ones making genre movies like Food Porn and rom-coms and gross-out comedies - they all have reasons for what they do, and are solid, effective directors. So many times in a commentary on a DVD the director says "this extra was super-funny, so we put him up front" or "the actor just said it this way and we went with it." It just seems so arbitrary who is "a genius" in filmmaking.
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Jan 26, 2011 18:57
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So I just saw Robocop 3 and I was wondering - the bad guy hitman is a mute, never has a line in the movie. What is the SAG policy on people with major roles in films who still never speak (for instance, playing the lead in The Miracle Worker)? I know that "one line = SAG card", but what if they don't have a line, but are clearly above-the-line talent?
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Feb 11, 2011 19:35
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penismightier posted:What kind of lenses are they using to get this sort of flare? I know after effects didn't exist back then, but it's what they'd use now
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Feb 22, 2011 21:09
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What happened to shorts? Seems only a few animated features do them anymore. I can't imagine why DreamWorks wouldn't want to do, say, an 8-minute Skrat short and put it in front of their other features for a few months, with a giant "ICE AGE 12 - October 12th!" at the end of it. Really I just want more Bugs cartoons.
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Jul 2, 2013 20:13
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sector_corrector posted:I'm doing a movie league with my friends which is based on pure domestic gross. We're doing a season that covers September through March. I think Mockingjay and The Hobbit are going to be the first two picks, with Interstellar at number 3. I have pick number 4.
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Aug 25, 2014 17:07
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xcore posted:At the list of looking like a complete idiot: The Director decides how he wants the movie to look (this scene should be 'cool', this scene should be a neat overhead thing) The DP figures out how the gently caress to do that. DP and Cinematographer are just two different names for the same thing.
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Aug 29, 2014 18:35
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:The only two movies released this century worth watching are Spring Breakers and Prometheus. effectual posted:Prometheus owns though.least 4 is fun. 
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Oct 27, 2014 17:41
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:So yeah, what else would go on this list?
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Oct 30, 2014 20:12
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If someone was appearing in The Interview as their first speaking role, would they lose their SAG card since it isn't coming out anymore? Also, past-quoting since I never got an answer: Everblight posted:What happened to shorts? Seems only a few animated features do them anymore. Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Dec 18, 2014 |
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Dec 18, 2014 21:48
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CzarChasm posted:My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done. He's also the only bounty hunter smart enough to know about the sneaky trick Han pulled by stapling the Falcon to the back of an ISD and releasing with the trash. So he demonstrates his skills pretty quickly.
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Jan 8, 2015 00:09
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FreshFeesh posted:The entirety of Weezer's Undone (the Sweater Song) music video was filmed this way, actually. Conversely, all of Little Shop of Horror's songs with the plant (other than "Grow for Me," I guess) were shot at between 1/2 and 1/4 speed, so the animation team could manipulate Audrey II's mouth competently, since it would be impossible in real-time. Rick Moranis was a trooper learning to sing to a puppet at half-speed.
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Jan 13, 2015 20:05
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Glory, you knobs
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Mar 12, 2015 18:00
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Baron von Eevl posted:Deep Rising ends on a beach. But wait! What's that sound?! Oh no, here we go again! "Now what?" is the best catchphrase and Deep Rising is my guilty pleasure, the movie that proved Stephen Sommers was ready to make the awesome Mummy movies as comedy-action. The essential problems with Deep Rising are as follows:
 It had a plucky sidekick, cool monster effects, badass quip-spouting hero, and Wes-Goddamned-Studi being (much like in Street Fighter: The Movie) much better than the material given to him. So love Deep Rising.
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Mar 13, 2015 18:21
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Steve Yun posted:2001: A Space Odyssey is sitting at 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. This has to be bullshit.
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May 19, 2015 19:48
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Do people really think the subway chase sequence in The French Connection is good? Or is it just hype and people who saw it in 1971 and haven't re-watched it plus its own mythos? Because I just watched the whole movie, and it is bland as heck. Is it just because there weren't chase sequences before TFC? I find that hard to believe, when Bond and Bullitt were both in full swing (to say nothing of all the westerns with horse/stagecoach chases)
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May 27, 2015 19:32
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I really love it, I don't know how to refute this though, really. Taken in the context of Doyle trying to crack down on drugs (impossible to view without taking in the War on
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May 27, 2015 21:30
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Eggnogium posted:On my phone so can't find a source but I've read that several of the crashes in the final cut actually were unintentional. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Well, wouldn't you say the ending does? And lol gently caress THAT STUPID ENDING. -Popeye runs around a corner out of the scene -Single gunshot -Animal House-level codas for each character -MUSIC AND SCORE BY DON ELLIS 
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May 27, 2015 21:51
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Kull the Conqueror posted:...yes. OK, congratulations you made a nihilistic film where everyone's terrible always. Oscars for everyone, I guess? Like, The Godfather presents Michael as the good guy at the beginning and Vito as the bad guy, and then slowly shows the transition and you learn that things are not Schwartzenegger black-and-white hero vs. mooks, cool, I'm with it. But this is just bleak and awful and then abrupt and pointless. Lars von Trier would be proud. Exorcist had a similar stupid, abrupt ending so I guess  only with William Friedkin's face?
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May 27, 2015 22:10
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GimpChimp posted:I don't know what sort of reputation French Connection carried for you before you watched it
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May 27, 2015 22:19
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Are you a dumb person because you sound like a dumb person  at best, especially viewed through the lens of a movie designed to showcase how lovely everyone was. I guess my answer is "retroactive hagiography" so thanks Magic Hate Ball for answering my question.
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May 29, 2015 04:26
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Egbert Souse posted:The French Connection's car chase is great, but decades of movies trying to one up it have diluted the impact. I'd imagine audiences in 1971 were blown away by it since it was like nothing they've seen before.
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May 29, 2015 17:01
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Super Ninja Fish posted:I have a blind sister that wants me to take her to the movies for her birthday. Is there anything good out right now that she might like? She's 24 and likes any good movie that she can follow/understand. I saw that in additional to closed captioning, they also were showing Mad Max at my local theater (a Regal) in something that I am remembering as like a "Describe-surround" where you could get a headset and I guess someone would describe the events on the screen for you? Is that something anyone has tried? How would that even work?
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May 29, 2015 19:14
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lizardman posted:I've never understood who the identity of the fisherman was in I Know What You Did Last Summer. Granted, while I'm pretty sure I've seen the whole movie, I've had to cobble it together from various random watchings on TV, I've never just sat down and watched the whole thing through. IIRC (hint: I do not recall correctly), the guy they hit ended up being the fisherman's son, and he came after the kids as revenge for killing his boy.
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Jun 9, 2015 17:12
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Also fun fact: If you, like me, were on your school's Geography Bee team, the plot of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is hilariously, absurdly extra-bad. I would rather watch Lifeboat as a fluent German speaker.
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Jun 9, 2015 22:07
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lizardman posted:^If you're talking about how Brandy wins a radio contest even though she got the answer to the question wrong - and how it turns out to be a plot point later that "Gasp! Rio De Janero is NOT the capital of Brazil! This whole trip has been a setup from the get-go!" Oh, yes, I remember. IIRC (and again, it's been years, I probably do not recall correctly), they called the girls, with like, "you've randomly been selected. Answer now!" so the whole thing was fake.
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Jun 10, 2015 06:05
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Skwirl posted:For the record I don't think Yahoo Serious was a Nazi apologist, and apologies to him if anyone took that meaning away from my previous post. I'm also not quite clear on how that happened.
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Jun 23, 2015 17:23
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Just for fun, throw in one movie that has no allegorical aspects and just let the students puzzle it out. Suggestion: Josie and the Pussycats
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Sep 8, 2015 21:57
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Snak posted:Well at least you didn't put Paul W.S. Anderson. I unironically love PWS Anderson, and not just for Event Horizon. I think Mortal Kombat is great, way more fun than it has any right to be, and Death Race is an underappreciated member of the new action canon that features so much more talent than anyone could imagine being in a movie titled "Death Race" That he made the Resident Evil movies, which are of widely-varying quality, between all of this is just icing. Oh, and he also made the almost-perfect Soldier with Kurt Russell Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 18:56
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Spiritus Nox posted:I'm sure I've seen it in other works I can't place right this second.
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Sep 24, 2015 17:16
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There are so few roles for Indians and other asians Aziz Ansari had to cast his own parents to play his parents. They aren't even actors, they were just the only brown people over 30 he could find.
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Nov 2, 2015 16:48
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Dr Monkeysee posted:It's amazing The Black Hole even exists. What a weird time for Disney. When I heard they were looking at remaking it, and trying to find a new bad guy, I said out loud "Wait a minute, Max Von Sydow isn't dead, just get him again. He already knows all the lines!" Then I realized it was Max Schnell and felt awful.
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Jan 20, 2016 21:03
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What happened to Brendan Fraser? He was the king of comedy-actioners, anchored by the Mummy trilogy, and he's a fine physical comedian. Then the third Mummy wrapped and it was like, "Welp, no more jobs for you!" and he's been in bit parts in small pics and doing voice work since then.
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Apr 20, 2016 22:11
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Vulpes posted:Yeah, it always confuses me when people ask 'what happened to [person] who made a shitload of money acting and then stopped acting?'. A lot of people don't keep working once they're set for life, actors included. Someone once asked Warren Buffet "How much money is enough?", to which he smiled and replied "Just a little bit more..."
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Apr 21, 2016 01:45
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atrus50 posted:what are some good spy/operative movies? Ive been on a kick of them lately, I really liked the guy richie guy from UNCLE and the first hour of the Good Shepard Sneakers Spy Game 3 days of the condor Day of the Jackal (NOT The Jackal, but do YouTube up Jack Black getting his arm blown off in that)
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Apr 26, 2016 02:53
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Enos Cabell posted:There really hasn't been a bad Mission Impossible movie. The first one kinda makes no sense at the end, but yeah.
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Apr 26, 2016 05:10
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ALFbrot posted:D-Box seats have only one use, and that is going to see Fast and Furious movies I saw one of the Resident Evils in D-Box. They're a gimmick, and if you're gonna partake in a gimmick, no half-measures. Trashy genre sequels all the way.
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May 24, 2016 17:12
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Hockles posted:It may be the MI movies too, but it is definitely all but one of the Die Hard movies.
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Timby posted:I think that's A Good Day to Die Hard. Live Free or Die Hard was the one with Justin Long and Timothy Olyphant. OMG you are100% correct and Die Hard sequels are the worst
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