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DrBouvenstein posted:and a nerdy, bookish FBI agent who probably drives a Ford Taurus) He drives a Volvo. A beige one. Also car phones have been a thing since the 40’s. Additionally, Mason’s supposed to be literally James Bond, so is competent in whatever the script demands.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2020 14:38 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 01:31 |
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James Woods posted:Where else are you going to see Bond team up with Osama Bin Laden? Just here. Oh, and in actual real life.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2020 10:50 |
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It might be obscure now, but I can assure you it was one of the most popular cocktails of the 80’s (not to take away from the attention to detail).
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# ¿ Sep 12, 2020 23:12 |
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James Woods posted:I'm aware of that and that's why I said somewhat. It's former popularity is why every old bar has a decade's old bottle collecting dust in an awkward place. That said I've made maybe one in the last 20 years. Ha, I have a bottle on my booze rack, and the cap has been hacked up, because the sugar basically seals the lid on after a while. It’s great dropped into a gin rickey.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2020 08:12 |
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Android Apocalypse posted:dreaming about getting fellatio from a beautiful ghost lady instead of Slimer, who could easily swallow your dick & balls simultaneously & tongue you to an intense ectoplasmic orgasm. Probably a bad plan, that’s not a mouthful of hotdogs at the end of the movie.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2020 17:13 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:So that nice man had a hot dog cart full of severed penises? New York in ‘84 was a land of contrasts.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2020 18:39 |
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James Woods posted:One interesting thing about Heat is that Mann directed Al Pacino to play Hanna as a raving coke head bit didn't explicitly show out on screen. "Cuz she's got a GREAT rear end!! And you got your head all up in it!" This is unsurprising if you know that the Hanna character was first played by Tom Sizemore in the TV miniseries L.A. Takedown which came out a few years before the feature film. It was also written and directed by Mann and essentially fleshes out the events of the film over one season of television. Definitely worth a watch if you can track it down. Strangely enough Sizemore's performance as Hanna is way more subdued than Pacino which is odd if you know anything about his personal life. There must be two LA Takedowns by Mann, because Sizemore isn’t Hanna in the one I saw. The only actor in both is Xander Berkley, who’s Waingro in LA Takedown, and Ralph in Heat.
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2020 21:38 |
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It’s really not good. I like it because I really dig the background scenery and light in 80’s LA film and tv, and love Heat. It also has value as an aid to illustrate how a great cast can elevate a pedestrian film to greatness. Watch the two coffee shop scenes side by side, the dialogue is almost identical: the ‘89 is risible by comparison.
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2020 21:56 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:So instead of "yippee ki yay motherfucker" it'd have been old fat Sinatra saying, "we're doing it....my way." “Regrets, I’ve had a few: what’s one more?”
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 18:33 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Weird, I thought Takagi was visibly annoyed at Ellis obviously snorting. I'll have to rewatch it. As for knowing beforehand, in general, no idea. Ellis might've actually been some crazy good employee, which would justify his ego during This is correct, I don’t need a rewatch to remember his moué of disgust.
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# ¿ Jan 4, 2021 19:46 |
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World War Mammories posted:if science hasn't yet performed a comprehensive comparative survey of twin genitalia then what's the loving point Probably Nazis did, making that a very apt username post combo.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2021 00:26 |
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What are you doing step twinnnnnn
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2021 13:22 |
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It isn’t a standing wave?
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 10:42 |
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Lol he was in a Marylin Manson video, so it’s that.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2021 14:49 |
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RCarr posted:It goes from an amazing sci-fi drama to a B-movie slasher flick. Not quite as movie-ruining as The Fifth Element’s transition from ‘magical space opera’ to ‘Chris Tucker screaming ‘OH MY GODDDDD’ for twenty minutes’, but in the same ball-park.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2021 08:38 |
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Flint_Paper posted:"Wife finds a lay" - the tag line of the cuckold porn Jurassic Park spinoff Wife finds a UH UH UH UHHHUHUH UH YEAH way.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2021 12:31 |
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oldpainless posted:Bullshit you loving liar Maybe $40 million is more than $1 billion in his country?
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2021 17:47 |
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BrigadierSensible posted:And also did the score for a weird little gangster film called Bugsy Malone starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster where all the characters are 13 year olds, and instead of guns they have custard pies. Paramount essentially buried it for the US market, it’s exceptionally well known in my age group in the UK. It’s great fun.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2021 08:31 |
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Mescal posted:I feel like bull testicles are one of those things where if the butcher sells them for ten cents they rot, but if they sell them at ten dollars they couldn't keep them in stock. “Sometimes señor, the bull, he does not win”.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2021 08:31 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:I forgot exactly where it was in the movie but in Apocalypse Now Col Kurtz wrote a paper on the Howling Wilderness campaign in the Philippines which is one of those things that in hindsight might have been a red flag It’s probably on screen during the voiceover about his earlier service history? I’ve seen this film a lot and it’s not in the dialogue that I recall. Also it’s so subtle that not only have I never noticed it in the film, I’d never even heard of the action. It made interesting reading, thanks.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2021 08:04 |
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“They tell me it can turn on a dime. Whatever that is.”
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2021 13:15 |
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Hmm, Starsky has a thing about ice rinks? There’s one in The Running Man too.
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# ¿ Oct 3, 2021 08:33 |
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Mescal posted:I... that's the only way to read the title straight. It’s a time honoured tradition in this thread, occasionally people think a thing was subtle but in fact it was just a thing they didn’t understand until later.
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# ¿ Oct 4, 2021 08:19 |
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Literally Rumble In The Bronx?
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2021 19:07 |
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Android Apocalypse posted:Reminiscence feels like a Nolan flick because it was made by the same people that did the TV show Westworld (Lisa Joy and Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathan). Westworld S1 is a flawless masterpiece, S2 is incredibly bland with one standout episode, and S3 is beneath contempt. Where on this scale is Reminiscence?
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2021 17:27 |
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christmas boots posted:You're probably referring to the Ghost Nation episode, but I like the one with the Delos copies too. I also liked that one, but if you removed the Ghost Nation episode it wouldn’t save the series for me.
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# ¿ Dec 12, 2021 09:38 |
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Season 1 is one of the best things made for television, but you’ll have unanswered questions that the following seasons aren’t interested in answering.
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# ¿ Dec 13, 2021 10:03 |
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That Italian Guy posted:In the Sam Raimi movies, Spiderman is from a working class family and his enemies are heads of giant corporations; they are also using cutting edge tech while Spidey is "all natural". All his adventures are set in or around his neighbourhood. Reminding me that I watched Ghostbusters (1984) the other day and the EPA is the secondary villain interfering with the chutzpah and go-get-‘em attitude of a bunch of plucky small businessmen who need to store unregulated waste and nuclear technology in the centre of Manhattan.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2021 17:05 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The IDW comics do some fun stuff with the Ghostbusters exploring the ramifications of their business a bit. In the aftermath of the movies (and possibly the game) the Ghostbusters basically get nationalised as a public service... and Walter Peck is their boss. Once again my policy of ignoring the extended universe of every property I find fun pays dividends.
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2021 19:21 |
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You’re more forgiving than I am, I’d say there’s way more bad adaptations of his work than good.
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2022 20:49 |
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scary ghost dog posted:sure, but they all have great stories, so only Be Cool is truly awful, because it is bad in every way including the story I found it worked pretty well as a book, the movie is utterly graceless though, in addition to being possibly the worst-cast film in history. Everyone in it is awful.
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2022 21:11 |
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Silly Newbie posted:It's always been amazing how many concepts Gibson accurately predicted entirely by accident or luck. He still regularly smites his forehead in interviews for not predicting mobile phones though.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2022 15:19 |
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Isn’t McMurphy a statutory rapist, or am I imagining it.
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# ¿ May 26, 2022 14:08 |
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bucketybuck posted:The problem with "The Worlds End" is that Simon Peggs character is such an absolute oval office from start to finish that it drags the entire film down. My thoughts exactly, with the qualifier that I’m the same age as the characters in the film, and have met far too many people exactly like the entire cast and they’re just as annoying or boring in real life. What kind of pathetic arsehole thinks the best night of his life was a pub crawl at age 19? How vacuous are the lives of his friends that they fall in with his bullshit? No amount of cute references or clever in-jokes made spending time with the characters fun for me.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2022 18:26 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:....what It’s a line from the movie.
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2022 23:03 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:....what quote:Detective Hal Vukovich: [in a room inside the police station] That guy Silberman cracks me up. Last week, he had this guy in here that burned his Afghan. He screwed it first and then he set it on fire...
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# ¿ Nov 19, 2022 23:10 |
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bitterandtwisted posted:You just triggered an ancient memory of that number being recited as a musical jingle on some show, possibly "Live and Kicking" The Multicoloured Swap Shop used to have the phrase ‘That’s 01 if you’re outside London’, and my Midlands number had only 6 digits.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2022 14:50 |
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Eh pretty good, but he’s no Matthew Broderick.
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# ¿ Nov 27, 2022 23:56 |
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N. Senada posted:The ending always felt like a saccharine cop out Agreed, it really did come out of nowhere.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2022 09:38 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 01:31 |
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Gaius Marius posted:Speckled Band was fine, Red Headed League was some bullshit. Made even more egregious by him reusing the exact same premise for The Three Garridebs (unusual feature of a person who rarely leaves their home/place of work used to lure them away from said place for nefarious purposes).
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