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K. Waste posted:I was watching a documentary hosted by Melvin Van Peebles called Classified X, and it briefly goes into the phenomenon of Hollywood films that attempted to deal with race and miscegenation. This sort of melodrama -- in which a white person was cast in the role of a 'yellow' Negro (a Black man or woman who could pass for white) -- was actually fairly common. Some other examples include: Weird to disdain it as a "phenomenon" and merely an "attempt" - both versions of Imitation of Life and Pinky are among the best and most progressive of American films. This subgenre goes back at least to Nella Larsen's seminal novel Passing, which I can't believe was never directly adapted.
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Oh man, I adore Watermelon Man. That one and The Spook Who Sat By the Door are probably my two favorites of that revolutionary black film movement. Read Van Peeble's Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death, if you haven't. That's a stunner.
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Jun 11, 2014 06:59
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Cacator posted:Chuck Norris is the reason why there wasn't any cursing in the second movie (but graphic bloody violence is perfectly fine) so gently caress him. Plus he made the shittiest garbage pile movies in all their primes. I loving DARE you people to watch Invasion U.S.A. again.
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Jun 19, 2014 02:00
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I've been waiting days to post this: 
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Jun 26, 2014 04:43
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Alien 3 is a dad who's not very good at catch but goes out and throws with you sometimes, even if it's mostly you chasing the ball as it rolls down the alley. Alien 4 is a snide dad in a ponytail who the neighborhood moms won't let their kids carpool with.
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Jul 6, 2014 21:56
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Hahahaha holy gently caress that looks awful.
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Jul 8, 2014 19:39
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Any of y'all pining for an actually good movie about Ancient Egypt should check out Faraon. Also whitewashed but since it's Poland in the '60s you gotta figure they didn't have too deep a bench. Amazing visuals, never shies away from the weirdness of that culture, down to totally inscrutable hair. Here's a pretty bad trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lPTkkpiTw
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Jul 9, 2014 04:34
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:As someone with a love of all things Ancient Egypt in film, I need this in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDUgigISy98 Has english subs if you watch on youtube.
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Jul 9, 2014 04:48
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That's one of the worst taglines I've ever seen.
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Jul 23, 2014 21:08
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I love how there's not greater guarantee that a movie's derivative as hell than if it claims to be an "untold" story.
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Aug 31, 2014 19:23
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It would own though if Dracula Untold turned out to be a meticulously accurate biopic of Prince Vlad III.
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Aug 31, 2014 19:46
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TheJoker138 posted:Dark comedies are still comedies, and Observe and Report was 100% a dark comedy. No way, man, this is clearly some Ingmar Bergman dirge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0I6TlPSH20
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Sep 2, 2014 00:51
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Young Freud posted:I would be interested in how they would do that. Use a framing device like have Robert Osborne or other film critic introduce the film and go into Hitler the author/filmmaker at the end or just have the film go straight to the credits reading "Lord Of The Swastika" and have the entire film played straight and tack on an addendum fake "making of" at the end? Nah, you gotta do a retrospective documentary weaving in scenes from the film with recollections about how "inspiring" it was to make.
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Sep 2, 2014 02:40
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Doctor Bishop posted:Make it a mockumentary in the style of Jodorowsky's Dune about Lord of the Swastika being the greatest, most ambitious sci-fi film never made. Done and done. Nailed it.
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Sep 2, 2014 02:47
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Christoph Waltz.
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Sep 2, 2014 02:58
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Mantis42 posted:Well I'm sorry but its really legible and reads as 'Down'. I know Goons like to make typography jokes but sometimes you reach too far. Do you seriously not see why that word, which has four letters of which none of them scan immediately as upside down, is a bad choice for that style?
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Jan 6, 2015 22:57
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Movie's got rad saucers:
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Jan 9, 2015 06:25
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Geekboy posted:I watched this movie randomly in the middle of the night as a teenager and it felt a bit like a fever dream until I saw it again in my 30's ... though let's be honest, it still kind of felt that way. Adam West and a monkey sidekick, what more could anyone want?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'm not gonna like, that 2001 poster looks stupid as poo poo. Way too busy for the simple idea it's trying to convey. The way complicated "I just got Illustrator!" imace trace look really, really fights the intentionally stripped-down minimalism of the set and the movie.
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