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Finally caught up on genchat after being too busy to post for most of break. Last movie of 2016: Rogue One (Hate Ball is right, there are only two or three actual characters, everyone else is damp Wonderbread being pushed along) First movie of 2017: a rewatch of The Big Lebowski. Still loving great, it's so much fun that I always ignore how well-crafted and layered it is. Chapo Trap House rules still, and I'm excited for Boogey's new podcast episode.
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Jan 3, 2017 19:16
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What film presents y'all get for Christmas? My dad got my Better Call Saul season 2, my older sister got me The Godfather trilogy, and I bought myself bargain bin copies of The Wolf of Wall Street, It's a Wonderful Life, and motherfucking Dredd. My girlfriend, meanwhile got me a little Slowpoke plush that I'm totally bringing to work and setting next to my Hedorah and Freddy Krueger 
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Jan 3, 2017 20:31
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Hat Thoughts posted:Yeah but the thing I was saying earlier is that what you're asking for exactly already exists exactly. I don't understand why it being unofficial/not available for "purchase" somehow makes it less valid when you can still get it super easy. It's just kind of loving insane that the only way to get an original, superior copy of one of the most important films in American cinematic history is to pirate it. The George Lucas edits are noticeably inferior to the original cut of a film that drastically changed American cinema, but the only way you can obtain the superior, original cut is through illegal means. To me, that's loving bonkers.
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Jan 4, 2017 02:49
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Lmao, the death Star dogfight sequence of the theatrical cut looks like loving garbage compared to the SE cut among other things I can't see this post because a big PS1-cutscene rear end dinosaur is in front of it. Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Lmao, the death Star dogfight sequence of the theatrical cut looks like loving garbage compared to the SE cut among other things Also here's the same post again so readers can get dialogue they already heard but with you as a giant slug this time. Also there's a really lovely effect to make me jump in the air.
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Jan 4, 2017 04:27
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Grendels Dad posted:I don't know why people keep bringing up the dinosaur rear end when there is even worse poo poo happening in that scene. Like, at least the dinosaur moves kinda quickly, there is a robot leisurely crossing in front of the screen and obstructing the view right after dinosaur rear end. It's not even a good effect, it looks like someone filmed their TV showing Star Wars and then made their favorite toy walk past the screen. Because the dinosaur rear end covers the entire frame. It's mind-boggling that Lucas thought that was good blocking.
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Jan 4, 2017 14:48
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https://twitter.com/thehorrormaster/status/816486706186596352
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Jan 4, 2017 14:53
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Skwirl posted:The de-specialized editions have been available for awhile, not sure if what you're talking about is different or not. He's talking about a group that got ahold of a 35mm copy of A New Hope and restored it, and yes it's finished.
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Jan 4, 2017 18:11
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Skwirl posted:Rambo 3 This is really the best possible answer. Green Room would be another good choice, though.
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Jan 4, 2017 20:29
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VROOM VROOM posted:Yeah lol Goofus dedicates his movie to the brace fighters of the Taliban. Gallant dedicates his movie to the people of Afghanistan.
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Jan 4, 2017 21:41
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Season 4 of the Wire is real good, but I think I like season 2's laser focus on narrowing down both sides of a single crime thing, and how the criminal and legal elements build towards each other. I just finished episode 2 of season 5 and WHAT THE gently caress IS GOING ON WITH JIMMY, IS HE REALLY STAGING A HOMICIDE SCENE HOLY poo poo. I'm kinda disappointed there are only 8 episodes left, I'm really loving it.
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Jan 5, 2017 04:40
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It really should have been a Vine of Hillary saying "iPhone. Apple Watch. MacBook Pro."CelticPredator posted:What the hell is wrong with Asa Butterfield in the Miss Peregrines. Knowing the director and the year it's made, this could easily be a case of poor direction.
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Jan 5, 2017 15:02
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My greatest contribution to the forums was getting quoted in the New York Times 
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Jan 5, 2017 18:04
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YouTube of the day to celebrate Dan Nainan constantly getting owned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGzkQAIHTTY
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Jan 5, 2017 19:39
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Gorman Thomas posted:lets see... film cold opens to a rape in progress, same rape gets replayed twice more in detail, cgi scene of a rape, cgi scene of a character getting raped, handjob scene, masturbation scene, someone jerked off on my bed, 2nd base success, attempted rape, rape/kink scene?!?!, another attempted rape. Reading this and hearing about how Verhoeven handled That Scene from Basic Instinct in the past month has kinda changed how I view Verhoeven. Jesus.
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Jan 6, 2017 03:10
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In other news, Ax 'Em is wild, and feels like it came out 12 years before it actually did.
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Jan 6, 2017 03:11
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TrixRabbi posted:Scanners is kind of embarrassingly bad, even among the rest of Cronenberg's weak work. If it was his first or second film I could give it a pass but the dude had already made Shivers, The Brood and was on the cusp of doing Videodrome when he shat it out. Scanners is the second-worst Cronenberg I've seen (Naked Lunch is #1), but even this post seems hyperbolic. It's flawed as hell, but it has enough going for it that it's still good. Love those practical effects and the ambiguity of what Scanners actually are and can do.
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Jan 6, 2017 21:05
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Naked Lunch loving owns dude Just like The Trip and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I can't really dig meandering drug trip movies. Roy Scheider and Peter Weller should make it my favorite Cronenberg, but the whole thing just kinda sits there waiting for itself to happen. feedmyleg posted:But yeah, that ending scene is great. Counterpoint: the last minute or so is easily the worst part of the whole movie, because it's so predictable and such an "OH COME ON" decision. Gorman Thomas posted:what if I told u existenz is better than videodrome Straight motherfucking blasphemy Glamorama26 posted:I can never decide if The Brood, The Fly or Dead Ringers is his masterpiece. It's Videodrome.
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Jan 6, 2017 22:24
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Safety Factor posted:To clarify a little bit, I really like the set design and costume work that went into Nightbreed. I even love the fact it's set in Calgary and what that says about the city. I just think it's a bad movie. I can appreciate that Clive Barker was going for something completely different in Nightbreed, but you're right, it's not very good. Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:The Chapo reading corner on Ross Douthat is just as great as the Ben Shapiro stuff Ross Douthat was the best of the Chapo Reading Series until CALEB. THE 10 KRACKLE COMMANDMENTS
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Jan 7, 2017 03:14
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I'd remake Ghosts of Mars, because it's already a schlocky-but-fun remake of Assault on Precinct 13, but there are just a couple obvious tweaks you could make that could turn it from a dumb B movie into a legit great movie. I'd also remake Gremlins and set it in Silicon Valley. It'd be more focused on the anti-consumerist half of Gremlins that's about how the breakdown of technology affects our world, but instead of Christmas toys and such, it's about our society's focus on apps developed by absolute psychopaths that are sold to us as conveniences. The problem is that this idea already exists, and is real, and is Soylent constantly giving its customers food poisoning.
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Jan 9, 2017 17:53
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Also, the newest Chapo has more from Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance. Nothing quite as good as a kid being paid to get murdered by a cop, but still drat funny. The Chapo Reading Series is maybe the best serial entertainment currently being made.
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Jan 9, 2017 18:47
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weekly font posted:That mask should be more iconic and the fact they pulled off a face flaying in 1960 is incredible. John Carpenter said that Eyes Without A Face was the big influence on Mike Myer's mask. Also, go ahead and watch Face/Off again, I'm sure you'll see a couple of Eyes Without A Face's things in Face/Off. Particularly the face removal and doves in the finale.
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Jan 10, 2017 00:09
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:I ran out of Smugfilm and Frost/Christman. Are there any other good podcasts that ARE NOT bad movie comedy casts? I like Alcohollywood and Nameless Cults, both are goon-run film podcasts.
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Jan 10, 2017 00:11
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:True, but John Woo is also on record as loving Eyes Without a Face so that's probably where he got it from. I didn't know for certain, but it seemed so obvious with the doves flying behind the protagonist and the surgery in Face/Off, it just seemed too close to not be coincidence.
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Jan 10, 2017 01:51
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Budgie Jumping posted:To expound: McElhenney plays a lovely human being who thinks it's ok to wear blackface. Fallon is a lovely human being who thinks it's ok to wear blackface. James Earl Jones does a good blackface.
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Jan 10, 2017 06:35
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Trump piss story seriously reads like one of the more outrageous entries of The F Plus, like the guy who  put maggots from a pizza up his dickhole or the guy who got turned on by his shoeless wife driving a car with a flat tire. Really funny, but absolutely not real.Magic Hate Ball posted:this like a year after that hosed up audio Apparently that was made after Shmorky hid their fiancé's anti-schizophrenia meds. Shmorky's apparently not a good person. wyoming posted:And by being dweebs I mean they accused him of exploiting his children, because he posted on twitter about how pissed off he was because he had to explain sexual predators and how much of a shithead Shmorky was to his daughters. I thought their claims of exploitation were aimed at Lowtax holding a livestream with his daughter where they were joking about Shmorky's possible suicide? HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Ryan is your guy. The same people that think they're resisting Trump are more or less fine with Paul Ryan, who has no particular attributes to recommend him by, and has an absolutely monstrous agenda. Just like liberals admired Ted Cruz for not actually endorsing Trump, when he's a loving horrendous lizard being who was expecting Trump to lose and setting himself up for 2020.
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Jan 11, 2017 15:14
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glam rock hamhock posted:Listen, if we had to put up with 8+ years of "Obama is a Kenyan Muslim", the least you can give us is "Trump pays to watch Russians pee" I think my favorite part is that he paid them to pee on a bed Obama slept in. That carries it to the next level.
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Jan 11, 2017 16:35
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I haven't seen Suicide Squad so I can't talk about that, but the first good example of song usage that popped into my head is the Freebird finale of The Devil's Rejects.
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Jan 11, 2017 17:07
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:They're almost all just very obvious and on-the-nose choices ("introducing an Australian criminal? Let's use Dirty Deeds by AC/DC!" etc.) poo poo, Scorsese in general is great at using licensed songs. I love the use of Devo's Satisfaction in Casino, that beat really adds a herky-jerky energy to the movie.
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Jan 11, 2017 17:20
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:He got a little carried away with Wolf of Wall Street though. Didn't he even have a Me First and the Gimme Gimmes somewhere in there? That soundtrack is probably one of the few times I'd tell Scorsese to tone it down a bit.
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Jan 11, 2017 17:28
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Oh man, that Everlong cue. I love that song but it really felt like Scorsese just had to have it in his movie, but couldn't really figure out where to put it.
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Jan 11, 2017 17:33
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DrVenkman posted:For much better examples watch GOODFELLAS, or BOOGIE NIGHTS. Failing that try most Tarantino or if you're a TV fan both MAD MEN and THE SOPRANOS used music really well. Tarantino's a great call, especially Pulp Fiction and double especially Jackie Brown. Ever since watching it, hearing that Delphonics makes me choke up a bit.
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Jan 11, 2017 18:11
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therattle posted:Speaking of Coen's, Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Is In in Lebowski is also fantastic. The Dude hitting his car roof in time to Lookin' Out My Backdoor is one of the best bits in that whole movie. The Jesus' introduction with that cover of Hotel California is also choice.
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Jan 11, 2017 22:47
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:You know that film crit hulk is Devin Faraci right This makes that Film Crit Hulk article on sexual assault so much worse. Magic Hate Ball posted:the tedium is the message drat Why go with anything but the original? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uv_WGEHr4I
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Jan 12, 2017 15:05
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Please answer the following question on a scale from "yes" to "hell yes:" should I go see The Running Man in theaters next month?
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Jan 12, 2017 15:57
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CPL593H posted:Why is this even a question. Because I need to know if "yes" or "hell yes" is the proper response to watching The Running Man on the big screen.
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Jan 12, 2017 17:34
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The Blue Album rules, Pinkerton has good music but maybe has the creepiest lyrics I've ever encountered.Timby posted:loving sweater song. PULL THIS THREAD AS I WALK AWAAAAAAAY
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Jan 12, 2017 17:43
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US Troops under a NATO banner are being deployed into Poland and other Eastern European nations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r8lsL0JSA
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Jan 12, 2017 19:48
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Snak posted:I'm not watching some video. Why are we invading Poland? The goddamn bugs whacked us, Snak. Magic Hate Ball posted:Haha I just heard "Buddy Holly" for the first time a couple weeks ago and I've been playing it on repeat. For some reason I thought they were a gimmick band for teenagers because of the "sun is a mass of incandescent gas" song, which is a different band entirely. If you're having words against They Might Be Giants, we're gonna have to take this outside. Magic Hate Ball posted:Apparently they wrote the Malcolm in the Middle song, so congrats to them on scoring my entire middle school life. They scored my high school life, I've listened to Flood countless times.
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Jan 12, 2017 22:49
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Yes. However, I am specifically referring to his many posts on the subject. https://twitter.com/dril/status/650184561045995520
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Jan 13, 2017 15:17
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Do you ever think about how one of your favorite works of art was also a favorite work of art by a killer? It's something that's wormed its way into my head after becoming obsessed with Eric Harris' favorite band, and thinking about how my second-favorite movie of all time was inspiration for the failed assassination of Reagan.
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Jan 13, 2017 15:28
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