|
Choco1980 posted:Deep Throat was just this mindblowing success, where a porn literally became the #1 movie in America for a minute. There were all kinds of weird porn films to come out of this fad. It didn't last long, but it definitely made an impact. I went through an old stack of newspapers when my grandma died, flipped to the movie section and was amazed to see Deep Throat in the listings. It was weird to see porn advertised so openly in the newspaper, but it was also weird because President Ford was on the front page and it was still being screened. Either that flick had serious legs or they just put it up annually like it was The Sound of Music.
|
#
¿
Nov 16, 2017 13:02
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 21:27 |
|
|
Pick posted:I would actually say Fleischer's Lois Lane is such a great domineering hardass that if Superman didn't save her, physically, time to time they might as well have titled each short "Superpegged" They found co-creator Joe Shuster's private sketchbooks after he died.  You're not far off the mark.
|
|
#
¿
May 27, 2020 05:33
|
|
|
I was kinda bummed when The Last Man On Earth got cancelled, but it's probably for the best given the direction this year has taken.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 19, 2020 04:11
|
|
|
Groovelord Neato posted:It is wild that a movie written by Sylvester Stallone was nominated for 10 Oscars. (I haven't seen Sling Blade in like 20 years and it may very well belong in this thread by this point)
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2020 02:23
|
|
|
Rocky loses in the first one because Apollo Creed is the better boxer and the movie treats this as an undeniable fact. He's a thinly disguised Muhammad Ali. He's just better, that's the point of the entire film. Creed breezes in without having even trained for the fight and still wins. BUT! Rocky knocks him down and goes until the final bell, two things nobody had ever done against Creed. It's "Local Loser Works Hard, Makes Good" not "Local Loser Is Secretly World's Greatest Fighter." The moral of The Tortoise and The Hare isn't supposed to be that turtles are actually faster runners than rabbits. But then there's no Tortoise IV where the Tortoise's violent and emotionally stunted raccoon brother-in-law builds a robot.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 25, 2020 03:46
|
|
|
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ran into this as well. The first 70% of the movie is the most faithfully I've ever seen anything adapted from one medium to another, but there's a clear point where Edgar Wright ran out of comic to pull from and started taking some guesses on his own.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 27, 2020 08:20
|
|
|
Detective No. 27 posted:I have fond memories of the Sex House thread when it was "airing." Over the last few years, I have been getting a lot of mileage out of "To call this place evil would imply a clarity of purpose that I do not wish to attribute to anyone involved."
|
|
#
¿
Jan 20, 2021 06:46
|
|
|
I watched Clone High for the first time today. I had heard about all the controversy over horny Gandhi beforehand, but holy poo poo they made Genghis Khan the mentally retarded kid as a "mongoloid" joke.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2021 04:32
|
|
|
flatluigi posted:hope we get to the point where we can look back and go 'wow there really used to be a lot of cop shows justifying police violence on tv' eventually Also a poo poo ton of police breaking and entering. I always wanted to make a show about a vampire cop who is literally unable to enter a house without probable cause.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 21, 2021 02:19
|
|
|
hawowanlawow posted:the coen brothers are good at making movies with no clear good guy or bad guy or lesson, just a bunch of poo poo that happened “This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.” Supposedly they put that fake disclaimer at the start of Fargo because the script was too outlandish to be believed as a movie plot, but seemed like a stupid enough clusterfuck to have actually occurred in real life.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 21, 2021 19:52
|
|
|
Mister Kingdom posted:From 1970s Saturday mornings: This character is actually still on television today, but they had to redesign the poo poo out her. 
|
|
#
¿
Sep 11, 2021 20:37
|
|
|
Proposed compromise: A world where the CSA repels the Union only to get swallowed up by Mexico afterwards.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 27, 2021 03:28
|
|
|
Ellie Trashcakes posted:The most talented person they ever had in that writers room was Donald Glover. In fairness, Donald Glover is the most talented person in most of the rooms he's been in.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 27, 2021 21:33
|
|
|
Chevy Chase is an rear end in a top hat, but an absolute virtuoso at falling down.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 27, 2021 21:52
|
|
|
Stephen Root was never in Angel, so I'm guessing OP is thinking of Keith Szarabajka.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 17, 2022 02:45
|
|
|
Iggy Pop also played Michelle Trachtenberg's dad on The Adventures of Pete and Pete. The same Michelle Trachtenberg that Joss Whedon was not allowed to be alone in the room with. Six degrees of creeps.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2022 02:01
|
|
|
Splash Attack posted:didn’t night of the living dead end with the black protagonist surviving the events of the movie only to be shot dead at the very end by a posse of white people who mistook him for a zombie? Funny thing is, the character wasn't written as black in the screenplay and the social commentary was just a happy accident. They just hired the black actor because he had the best audition. Edit: Absurd Alhazred posted:Vampire Diaries and True Blood, famous 90s shows. Buffy The Vampire Slayer Interview With the Vampire From Dusk 'Till Dawn Blade And, if you really wanna go there, Dracula: Dead and Loving It All 90's. Nameless Pete has a new favorite as of 03:10 on May 24, 2022 |
|
#
¿
May 24, 2022 02:59
|
|
|
The zombies will be incarcerated in private prisons alongside the general population.
|
|
#
¿
May 25, 2022 06:12
|
|
|
I hope I can one day love a woman as much as Jack Webb hated hippies.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 24, 2022 00:16
|
|
|
ishikabibble posted:Hasn't the bassist been pretty quiet? Pretty common in sound mixing.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 31, 2022 04:45
|
|
|
You have to be REAL confident in your vegan buttercream before you go making a sheet cake of it. "Natalie Portman is 100% my IRL girlfriend" level confidence.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 10, 2023 06:53
|
|
|
If Latinos want better representation onscreen they should release a bio-weapon.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 4, 2023 11:58
|
|
|
Prince Valiant was never worth the extra effort required to read the font.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 18, 2023 00:53
|
|
|
|
|
#
¿
Aug 31, 2023 01:40
|
|
|
Just letting him wink at the camera in the opening credits feels remarkable at this point.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2023 23:23
|
|
|
Jon Heder's character in that film has the exact same name as my grandpa. We grandkids decided to keep that fact hidden from Nana, lest she force herself to see it out of some weird form of devotion.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 6, 2023 22:50
|
|
|
verbal enema posted:Wonder if this is a reference to the terrible terrible Fu Man Chu movie series Nope, unrelated. Wild coincidence.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 16, 2023 19:50
|
|
|
AceOfFlames posted:Back when Cracked was still good, I loved the article where they claimed that the sheer amount of people with technical skills forced to resort to crime in Scooby-Doo (and by extension its dozens of imitators) and enormous number of abandoned locals was "proof" that it was set in a universe where the US had suffered some sort of Great Depression 2.0 Gotham City amusement parks are like Los Angeles and football teams. Town planners feel like a city of their size and prestige ought to have one, so they keep making failed attempts, but the people's interest simply isn't there.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 16, 2023 22:17
|
|
|
AceOfFlames posted:You'd think they'd wise up after the 4th or 5th supervillain lair. Or at least try to capitalize on it. Would the supervillain repair the boarded up ATM? I live by an abandoned bank IRL, so this is important to me.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 16, 2023 22:47
|
|
|
mind the walrus posted:Shrek is a lot like Applebees or whatever US microwave food chain you like least-- there's nothing wrong with you if that's your low-rent treat and there's nothing wrong with you if it isn't, and if you happened to make some great memories at one that's sweet and no one should take that from you... I know a guy who considers Shrek his favorite movie. I also know for a fact that his favorite restaurant is the one physically closest to his house.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 21, 2023 22:34
|
|
|
Beyond did have some fun villains. I liked Inque, the shape-shifting assassin who managed to be a femme fatale despite looking only vaguely humanoid most of the time. Edit: She even seduces people 
Nameless Pete has a new favorite as of 20:42 on Oct 31, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Oct 31, 2023 20:34
|
|
|
Also she wrote true crime books, transitively making Patton a murder expert.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 6, 2023 02:23
|
|
|
They already made a version of Home Alone where he kills the thieves. It's called Die Hard.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2023 18:57
|
|
|
On the other hand, he 100% ripped off the opening of 28 Days Later for The Walking Dead.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 16, 2023 10:00
|
|
|
I have a lot of niggling concerns about whether I'm allowed to use the word niggling.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 7, 2024 20:56
|
|
|
Watching an old Barney Miller episode where the police precinct might get shut down dependent on a decision by the president and Fish remarks "I'm glad I didn't vote for him." Gerald Ford jokes are even funnier when you don't get them immediately because you forgot Gerald Ford was president.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 11, 2024 07:07
|
|
|
Isn't Magneto in a quantum state of being either Romani or Jewish based on the author's sympathies?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 12, 2024 22:09
|
|
|
I sorta feel like the reputational hit from having a Romani villain would be worth it just to remind Americans that they were victims in the holocaust, too.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 12, 2024 22:33
|
|
|
Taeke posted:I wonder if it holds up. I only saw the first episode but wasn't it a plotline within like the first half hour that drinking superhero cum gave you temporary powers ?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 13, 2024 23:01
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 14, 2024 21:27 |
|
|
I ain't fighting Miss Piggy. I got too much to live for.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 3, 2024 21:58
|
|