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Franchescanado posted:I agree, they are pretty meta, but this time they're meta with their own material instead of an outside source/genre. Consider how Burn After Reading handles those same subversions: It's incredibly re-watchable; lot's of tiny little throwaway jokes that are still in line for their characters. One of my favorite joke in the movie is Tilda Swinton is one of the coldest, bitchiest shrews of a woman in recent history - and she's a loving pediatrician! Of all the medical careers she could have chosen, she chose one of the most demanding as far as having a pleasant, warm demeanor goes. And even that isn't just a random gag for the sake of it - she's married to a spoiled, drunk, unimportant man, so no wonder she's always pissed off.
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Green Room is quite a bit heavier than The Guest.
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My issue with the movie version of The Mist's ending is that the books ending was far superior and really didn't need changing. In the book, they just drive on not knowing if they're actually going to make it to Hartford, or even if they do, that there will still be people there. It's also perfectly ambiguous as to if the mist has spread further than New England, or even taken over the whole world. The movie fucks that all up by killing the kid and then having the military roll in. So now you know the event was just localized and that everything is going to be alright. Like, it's shocking that the kid dies by his own fathers hand, but the stakes were a hell of a lot higher than that when it was potentially apocalyptic event that was occurring like in the book. When the military rolls by in tanks and stuff, that's basically a happy ending compared to the book - the only thing that makes it somewhat unhappy is that kid died, but again, there were just monsters the size of buildings tearing people apart so in the grand scheme of things it's still not too bad an outcome for the world. The movie should have ended with the zoom-out where it shows the skyscraper-sized monster utterly dwarfing the SUV. Stephen King says he wished he thought of the movie ending, but Stephen King can't write a good ending to his stories to save his own life, so I think that proves quite objectively that the book ending is the better one. Tumble fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jan 29, 2017 |
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I'm about 20 minutes into the first episode of Chappelles new stand-up specials on Netflix and it's good. I'll be honest; I was a little worried that he'd lost his edge because I'd seen a very rambly Dave up on stage in Oakland a few years back but rest assured he's just great so far, he's really enjoying himself on stage, he's got great jokes. Welcome Back to primetime Dave!
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Schindler's List is up on Netflix. I'd watched it in a few different classes for different reasons but I'd never sat down to actually watch for the sake of watching it. I don't think Spielberg has made a better movie; it's a beautifully done movie and you can feel the reverence for the subject matter in every single scene and frame.
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I like a lot of Spielberg's films but I think the criticism that a lot of his stuff is easily digestible rather than more nuanced holds some water.
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No, but he is consistently good. He's also much more than just a director, he's been a major force in pushing the film industry forward. And Schindler's List is an amazing film so to get back to my point, everybody should choose a rainy evening to really settle in and watch it. "Ist das Bach?" "Nein. Nein, Mozart." "Mozart?" "Ja." Tumble fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Apr 4, 2017 |
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It's also kinda stupid to try and choose "The Best" when it comes to movies, music, photography, food, architecture, or basically anything else where you can see that somebody is a master of their craft to the point where it's your own subjective opinion rather than their technical excellence that let's you like or dislike the output. "Does Spielberg deserve to be listed among 'The Greats?'" is a much more fruitful debate, and I'd say that Schindler's List alone makes that answer an inarguable yes. Tumble fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Apr 4, 2017 |
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"The Departed" is up on Netflix. It's a pretty obscure movie, probably a lot of you haven't seen it yet but it's good movie.
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Alterian posted:The Netflix Fyre Festival documentary is pretty entertaining. I also noticed several Nine Inch Nails songs as background music. The Hulu one is a lot better, in my opinion.
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