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Sexy Beast Ben Kingsley is really good at playing the worst rear end in a top hat here. It was a bit tough just watching everyone have to deal with him for like 45 mins. You get why no one at all really cares for him. But then later you get a neat heist. Glazers direction is fantastic, but I found his other films more interesting so far.
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checkplease posted:Sexy Beast Ben Kingsley is really good at playing the worst rear end in a top hat here. It was a bit tough just watching everyone have to deal with him for like 45 mins. You get why no one at all really cares for him. But then later you get a neat heist. Glazers direction is fantastic, but I found his other films more interesting so far. I kind of felt like the thing to do was sell all your poo poo and move to NZ but I guess his way worked out ok in the end distortion park fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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what an entrance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opRF9GIqHD0
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NIGHT AND THE CITY - One of the very best noirs I've seen. Sweaty, desperate, backstabbing characters who show real vulnerability on occasion. Incredible black and white photography. A surprisingly intense shirtless brawl in a wrestling ring after hours. Might be better than Rififi, also directed by Dassin.
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Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves - Don't know what I was expecting going in (prob not a lot given the track record of D&D movies), but it was honestly pretty wholesome and enjoyable. The humor in this worked for me where it usually doesn't in so many Marvel quippy type movies. It's like the filmmakers took the typical Marvel/Whedon poo poo and filtered out all the stuff that makes me hate that stuff and just made a solid non crude fantasy comedy. Pine and everyone is great even what's her name....the Avatar/Resident evil/fast and furious girl. She's really pretty decent when her movies aren't poo poo. I respect this movie. It's funny. It's well acted. It's sincere. You can prob watch it with your grandma. 9.5/10.
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a nearly perfect score for a movie and you can't be bothered to google the name of the main actress (it's michelle rodriguez)? and your user image is from one of the movies she's in lol jesus.
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Go notify her sag rep about it I guess
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It really is a wonderful movie. Janklee to us all.
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color out of space absolute drek. production value and script/acting make it feel like something out of the goosebumps or are you afraid of the dark tv shows. the ending looks kind of interesting but slogging through all the nonsense for an hour and a half before it felt like mild torture. like you're waiting to board a plane but it's been delayed and nobody's updated the flight info so you're just standing around wondering what to do with yourself. nic cage acting zany and crazy in these genre flicks is so loving embarrassing to watch and frustrating. i genuinely have a hard time understanding why anyone thinks it's cool or fun or interesting. GOD i'm so pissed i watched this lol
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ShoogaSlim posted:color out of space I heard a lot of good things about this but didn't fall for it because richard stanley fans already tricked me into watching hardware
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Your name. (2016) was fantastic. A different take on body swap, beautifully animated and they managed to pull off what they wanted to do brilliantly. I don't wanna spoil it so that's all I'll say, 9/10.
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Babylon: it's been a year or so since I saw this and it still rules. There's a lot of big filmmaking here with giant sweeping camera moves and elaborate scenes, but it's also not afraid to get small and just hold the camera occasionally too (Jack Conrad death, some Manny and Nellie). The whole movie is fairly episodic with various set pieces connected by some transitional montages and a rise/fall plot. Basically you gotta like the big set pieces like I do. The opening party, the making silent movies, making a sound film, rich party, and creepy Tobey/ horror party are all great stuff. I noticed more parallels this time between the first 30 minutes and final 30 minutes. The underground LA party is like the opening party just with all the glamour removed. "He will do anything for money!" Tobey Maguire shouts as a man eats a live rat. There's similar music but weirder, less erotic sex, and a crocodile instead of an elephant. Then Manny and Nellie share a final scene together near the end where instead of their dream as famous film people, they now just want to get married and raise a family far away from Hollywood. But of course this is Nellie's final performance and gift to Manny. Also final montage is still awesome.
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Perfect Days Wim Wenders Consider that the only difference between Hirayama and Neil McCauley is that one got to experience the American prison complex at a young age. Regardless this is easily one of the best movies of last year and you're a fool if you have the chance to see it and choose not to
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Looker (1981) - 45 years before deepfakes were A Thing, Looker posited the existence of perfect computer generated actors and the lengths that a corporation would go to to advance that technology. Unfortunately the movie itself is terribly boring and laughably confusing. Why is the company trying to frame the surgeon who's making these women "perfect" before killing them off? Why is there a subplot about a light gun that causes the victim to go into a trance, and why does it seemingly make the wielder invisible, sorta? Why did the film makers waste Albert Finney so completely to the point of having the last 40 minutes of the movie be him silently walking around in a security guard uniform and hiding behind counters on kitchen TV sets? I'm pretty sure this movie was made just because the Michael Crichton wanted to get Susan Dey naked.
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Moonstruck (1987) - I was looking for something cute and low stakes on Tubi. New York Italian-American romcom with 40 year old Cher and like 22 year old Nicolas Cage. They don’t really have chemistry but are undoubtedly the two hottest people in the movie. Olympia Dukakis is great. Nic Cage’s weird over-acting works when he’s a melodramatic broody young man. There’s a lot of wonderful character actors and a lot of stuff about extra-marital affairs. They never comment on the age gap between Cher & Cage (how loving old was his mom when she had him? How is his brother Danny Aiello??) but idk, the absurdity of people seems to be a theme in the film. All hail Cher, long live Cher.
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Oldstench posted:Looker (1981) - 45 years before deepfakes were A Thing, Looker posited the existence of perfect computer generated actors and the lengths that a corporation would go to to advance that technology. Unfortunately the movie itself is terribly boring and laughably confusing. Why is the company trying to frame the surgeon who's making these women "perfect" before killing them off? Why is there a subplot about a light gun that causes the victim to go into a trance, and why does it seemingly make the wielder invisible, sorta? Why did the film makers waste Albert Finney so completely to the point of having the last 40 minutes of the movie be him silently walking around in a security guard uniform and hiding behind counters on kitchen TV sets? I'm pretty sure this movie was made just because the Michael Crichton wanted to get Susan Dey naked. They cut a lot of Coburn's scenes, which did much to answer many of your questions.
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Is Talladega Nights the best of the funny Will Ferrell movies? It's held up so well, and outsod.eof like Stranger Than Fiction or The Other Guys I think it's his best movie.
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Carillon posted:Is Talladega Nights the best of the funny Will Ferrell movies? It's held up so well, and outsod.eof like Stranger Than Fiction or The Other Guys I think it's his best movie. It probably is. Remember loving it, though admittedly I liked the Anchorman stuff too
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Carillon posted:Is Talladega Nights the best of the funny Will Ferrell movies? It's held up so well, and outsod.eof like Stranger Than Fiction or The Other Guys I think it's his best movie. Stepbrothers is still pretty funny!
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure is really not very good. It loses steam fast once Michael Caine and Peter Boyle aren't screaming at each other at the top of their lungs. Sally Field is annoying. Karl Malden and Telly Savalas are both pretty much on autopilot, while Jack Warden and Shirley Jones both make the mistake of trying to give good, nuanced performances. Oh, and Slim Pickens must've been trying to get himself fired because there's no other explanation for how much he overacts every time the camera is anywhere near him.
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Last Action Hero: This has some fun moments like the beginning of the in movie action film and some good jokes (favorite second cousin), but ultimately it's a little disappointing. Arnold is doing a lot but the material just isn't as good as films like T2 and True Lies where he's funnier and a better father figure. The kid just doesn't do much and the movie ends with him completely unchanged by the whole experience. It just kind of feels like they didn't know what to do once they got back to the real world. Charles Dance teases about a movie villain super team to fight but we don't get that. Instead it's just death from the seventh seal who does nothing but maybe kill a random cop. Arnold vs movie villains could have been fun.
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Yeah, I feel like it's a wasted premise. It came about at the perfect moment, cast the perfect star, but ultimately the script just doesn't do much with it which is weird since it seems like the sort of thing Black typically thrives at. It should be playing around with the rules and tropes of an action-movie reality and contrasting it with our grounded reality, having "real" people deal with physics-defying and logic-defying nonsense in increasingly absurd ways. Like Who Framed Riger Rabbit, but with action movie tropes. But itreally loses the thread and barely explores the premise.
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Dune Part 2 : more of the same. But when it's more of a movie that was in my top 3 of the year it came out, that's not a complaint! Great character work, some amazing shots and the sound was less intrusive this time around. An all timer of a sequel
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Night and the City Jules Dassin You swap the intense nearly silent heist from Riffifi with a surprisingly complicated and long wrestling match between a traditional greco roman fighter and a modern clown type, it works better than you'd think. This is a movie where everyone is desperate, greedy, disloyal, and most of all they all think they're more clever than the guy next to them. Nobody comes out of the film unharmed from what really should be just a simple competing wrestling federation, the club boss kills himself, the MC is murdered, the crime boss loses his father, Helen is going to be back on the streets, and Gene Tierney's character is likely traumatized for life seeing what her former lover became and how they ended up. The only flaw of the movie is how odd Tierney's character is, her role as the angelic figure of grace that must offer succor only to be trampled on means she has very little to do in such a grimy noir which makes her appearances at the beginning and end of the film feel purely thematic rather than an organic happening, and of course her backup boyfriend is even worse. WTF was that spaghetti scene even about.
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The Cave (2005) I had rewatched the Descent earlier in the week so when I saw the other cave movie from 2005, The Cave, pop up on Netflix I figured I'd give it a shot. It's got some neat ideas and the monsters are cool, but the characters are two-dimensional and the whole thing doesn't work as a result. The Descent is great though. Just watch that. Mortal Engines (2018) I had vaguely remembered this being a big Peter Jackson project that had flopped, but it turns out he didn't direct it himself. It's difficult to get over the basic premise of predator-cities as they're ridiculous. Other than that, it's kind of boring. Some cool vehicles, but that's about it. None of the characters matter outside of the two mains, the villain, and a cyborg who exits the film too soon. Repo Man (1984) Repo Man rules.
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Safety Factor posted:The Cave (2005) There was actually a third monster-in-a-cave movie in 2005, The Cavern. Apparently it's the worst of the bunch.
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the plains (david easteal, 2022) - like a heady yet gentle mixture of jeanne dielman, my dinner with andre, and the driving scenes from solaris, punctuated with bursts of breathtaking drone footage. i would say it's a distillation of an office drone's daily commute home, but since it goes on for three hours, it's more of a holistic experience of such. it gets at the essence of conversation with a coworker you exchange pleasantries with but not much closer than that, equal parts interesting, tedious, inquisitive, and just shooting the poo poo. i kind of adored it for what it was.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) I thought I had seen this but was actually thinking of Entrapment (also 1999?!). Absolutely loved it, Brosnan is much better in this role than as Bond, Russo is fantastic, having her character hanging around the police offices shouldn't work at all but somehow it does. They don't make them like they used to etc. etc.
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Slaughterhouse Rock (1987) A cheap sort of not great horror flick. It's 85 minutes long and takes about 50 to get to the point. It gets fun once the cast gets to Alcatraz, but it's not really worth it. Has a soundtrack by Devo for some reason. Titane (2021) I went into this knowing about the car baby and nothing else. I've seen Raw so I thought I had a good idea what I was in for. I really didn't. The beginning of the movie was about what I expected, but it really takes a turn once the protagonist goes on the run. Kind of a sweeter film than I expected? Definitely less body horror than I thought there'd be. Still loved it though.
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Extreme Ops (2003): this movie was a running gag with some of my friends back when it came out, and now I've finally seen it I know why. It's an action thriller that makes the unusual decision not to have much action, or thrills, or even a proper protagonist. Everything that the hero of an Arnold, Sly or Bruce movie would have done on their own is spread thinly out between half a dozen mostly interchangeable characters, and even then none of it happens until the last third of a (sub-90 minute) film. The story, such as it is - a film crew shooting a commercial with some EXTREEEEEEME SPORTS people in the Alps unwittingly find the hideout of a wanted Serbian war criminal, so he and his men try to kill them - doesn't kick in until the halfway point either. So before then, it feels like being stuck at the table next to a group of noisy college kids who are trying far too hard to have a great time and to hell with everyone else. Some nice aerial photography of mountains, though, if that's your thing.
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saw civil war last night. it was intense. i liked it more than i thought i would.
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The Godfather Local theater was playing it. My first time watching. Although I had seen many bits and pieces and parodies before, it still felt very fresh and new. Of course it was a fantastic movie, nothing new there, lived up to the hype. Something I thought was funny was how they are portraying drugs as bad and dangerous business, and casinos are the future. I wonder if that was written with 20/20 hindsight at the time. Now corporations have pushed the mob out of both and put the politicians and police in their pockets.
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Salami Surgeon posted:I wonder if that was written with 20/20 hindsight at the time. Now corporations have pushed the mob out of both and put the politicians and police in their pockets. The novel was published in 1969 and Puzo was working on it from the early 60s.
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Salami Surgeon posted:The Godfather Local theater was playing it. My first time watching. Although I had seen many bits and pieces and parodies before, it still felt very fresh and new. Of course it was a fantastic movie, nothing new there, lived up to the hype. Something I thought was funny was how they are portraying drugs as bad and dangerous business, and casinos are the future. I wonder if that was written with 20/20 hindsight at the time. Now corporations have pushed the mob out of both and put the politicians and police in their pockets. perhaps scorsese's best
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DeimosRising posted:perhaps scorsese's best For a long time I guess but There Will Be Blood topped it imo
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DeimosRising posted:perhaps scorsese's best No no, Scorsese did Goodfellas. You're thinking of Sergio Leone.
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Yeah but it felt like he was just remaking his earlier film, The King of New York
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