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I just watched Bonfire of the Vanities. I had heard about all the crazy poo poo going on behind the scenes, but never got around to actually seeing it until this morning while working. It's perhaps one of the most irritating movies I've ever seen. The performances are way beyond farcical to the point of everyone yelling at one another, which is especially grating because most of the dialogue seems dubbed in post. In fact, a lot of the sound in the party scenes (which is at least a third of the movie) is mixed like a Christopher Nolan film. Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis are both hilariously miscast, Melanie Griffith is awful, and Morgan Freeman is a judge that actually admonishes all the main characters for their poor behavior in a five minute long courtroom scene at the end. And holy poo poo is it loving racist. And anti-Semitic.
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That’s always been my biggest problem with Elf. He bounces back and forth between being a foreigner, a child, and mentally challenged.
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Dec 25, 2021 11:37
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Buttchocks posted:Stand By Me: Good performances from the kids. Do people have nostalgia for the 50's? This looks like hell. If you lived through the late 70s through the 80s you'd be well aware. Grease, Back to the Future, American Graffiti, Happy Days, Peggy Sue Got Married, etc. In fact, most of what later generations perceive the 50s to be like is almost entirely taken from those nostalgic movies and television shows.
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Jan 13, 2022 13:36
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The Night of the Living Dead remake is the only film Tom Savini ever directed and it's pretty by the numbers other than updating some of the characters and the gore effects. The Dawn remake was written by James Gunn and directed by Zack Snyder back in 2004 so it's actually a lot of fun, just be ready for something much more like an action movie. I feel like there are two Day of the Dead 2s and one remake? All of which exist because of the weird rights hell that most of his early Dead films are trapped within. Same reason there are a bunch of "NEW EXTENDED EDITIONS" of Night of the Living Dead that are anything from outtakes to new footage filmed anywhere from the early 90s to five minutes ago.
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Jul 14, 2022 20:05
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John Hughes grew up in the rich suburbs of Chicago and Michigan which is why so many of his "regular kid" characters live in places like the houses in Ferris Bueller or Home Alone.
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Aug 3, 2022 12:19
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Darth TNT posted:...brother and sister are actively malevolent (and I’m pretty sure I’m a better actor than both of them combined) Haha, the sister is played by Scarlett Johansson.
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Dec 26, 2022 15:06
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I have the same complaint about Mean Girls, that it wants to be Heathers but never follows through.
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Dec 28, 2022 14:41
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I think it's already been mentioned but Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is actually really loving good and better than any expectation I had, especially for a DreamWorks movie. And the design of the Big Bad Wolf genuinely terrifying for a kids film.
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Jan 5, 2023 16:43
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To be fair, Quantum of Solace was an absolute mess and a hell of a comedown after Casino Royale.
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Jan 26, 2023 10:27
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Breetai posted:It was utterly joyless and had the worst-shot car chase of any movie I've ever seen. Just an array of lovely cuts with no rhyme or reason That’s because they lost the rights to one of the cars in the chase and had to edit around it.
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Jan 26, 2023 11:11
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Payndz posted:Is there a source on this? The Top Gear magazine on-set article says there were three bad-guy cars in the chase, but all were Alfa 159s, so if they lost the rights to one they'd lose them all. It's something I've seen again and again here on the forums and elsewhere, and at one point someone had a link to an article. I'm not sure of the details beyond that, my apologies.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:37
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Payndz posted:Eric Serra/Goldeneye: opening with the James Bond Theme on kettle drums and vuvuzela? Hell yes. I liked the opening but the rest of his score sounded like someone walking down a long empty tunnel banging on the walls with a metal pipe.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:43
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I think he also sang the song at the end of Fifth Element. Where he can't decide whether he wants to be Peter Gabriel or Phil Collins, splits the difference, and sounds like poo poo.
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Jan 26, 2023 20:37
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They also apparently told Sandra Bullock to go big or get the gently caress off the boat because her whole “Repeat the first word of a sentence over and over again” thing from the first one is barely tolerable.
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Apr 27, 2023 10:26
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I also don't recall any blatant homophobia/transphobia or other unfortunate poo poo unlike a lot of comedies from around the same time. It's still a fun watch.
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May 1, 2023 14:01
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Who are the dead people?
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Jul 24, 2023 16:13
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Lovely
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Jul 26, 2023 15:36
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Check out Towering Inferno where every few minutes someone either gets set on fire or thrown out a window.
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Aug 10, 2023 00:05
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Payndz posted:Was it Earthquake or Towering Inferno that had a whirling animated blood splat come at the camera when an elevator full of people fell to the bottom of the shaft? That scene was in Earthquake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHXxHje_Ezc Pope Corky the IX fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Aug 10, 2023 09:53
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Did the video store mix up the third tape?
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Aug 24, 2023 09:16
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Buttchocks posted:Dragnet (1987) - A few chuckles, but overall not very good and not worth most people's time, unless you happen to like unnecessary end-credit tie-in rap songs because this is my new favorite. They were mandatory in the late eighties. Nightmare on Elm Street 4 had the Fat Boys during the end credits and Police Academy 4 opens with a painful seven minute long rap with the sound cop beatboxing.
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Sep 4, 2023 10:50
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Whoomp! The Addams Family! There it is! Whoomp! The Addams Family!
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Sep 4, 2023 12:06
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I saw War of the Worlds in the theater when it first came out and completely forgot I had done so a week later. It was just so underwhelming.
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Sep 11, 2023 06:13
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Michael Keaton is rarely bad at anything though I’m not looking forward to a Beetlejuice sequel.
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Nov 7, 2023 19:40
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The key to those movies is that everybody plays everything completely straight. The moment you let the audience know that you’re in on the joke it’s ruins the tone.
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Dec 10, 2023 17:45
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To this day I still think of Parker Posey saying "White Ath Wally? But you were tho pale!"
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Dec 21, 2023 14:02
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Nope, sixth one is. A rich kid steals a valuable doll from the home of a middle class family where one of the parents was just laid off and they can no longer afford their house, much less Christmas for their children. They are clearly the villains for trying to take their property back in a desperation move and are punished accordingly. Pope Corky the IX fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Dec 27, 2023 00:02
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Jean Reno is supposedly responsible for refusing some of the more hosed up poo poo Luc Besson wanted to do. Apparently Besson was pushing for Matilda to be the aggressor and initiator becase it would make it more acceptable. To him at least. And Besson married Maïwenn Le Besco when she was fifteen and got her pregnant at sixteen. Then he cheated on her with Milla Jovovich during the filming of Fifth Element, quickly divorcing her and marrying Jovovich for eighteen months. And wouldn't you know it, a whole bunch of rape accusations over the last six or seven years. Pope Corky the IX fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Jan 7, 2024 17:42
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Parker Posey automatically adds a star to anything she's in.
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Buttchocks posted:Jackie Brown - Great soundtrack, subtly great set design, I just couldn't get into the story. Maybe I just couldn't see the characters behind the big-name actors. It's too bad it wasn't made in the 70's. That's a shame, sometimes I feel it's Tarantino's best.
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Jan 17, 2024 16:47
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It was also only eight years after 9/11 and firmly in that "Americans going to Europe are going to be kidnapped and sold into slavery" mindset that was prevalent at the the time. And of course it's France, remember Freedom Fries?
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Feb 26, 2024 16:09
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Fighting Elegy posted:Just watched Stuck (2007), directed by Stuart Gordon She has cornrows because in the story the movie is based on the woman was black. I haven’t seen it in a while but I could swear they put bronzer on Suvari as well.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:09
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Stephen Root is incredibly recognizable and still manages to completely disappear into his roles.
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I like Andrew Garfield’s hair.
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It's difficult to decide if it's better than Maniac Cop 2, as the second one had a bigger budget and crazier stunts. You can ignore the third.
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Apr 16, 2024 14:17
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But Maniac Cop has Tom Atkins.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The War Of The Roses - Danny Devito was such an interesting director. There's this fascinating combination of childlike whimsy and obvious Hitchcock techniques in all his films, and it's great to see that particular latter thing used to its fullest effect in this movie. I really wish he still directed; he has such a unique eye. I know this movie was once big enough to become a German colloquialism and I knew this was raved about upon release but it feels like it's become something of a hidden gem. I have some issues with the movie - mostly I feel the wraparound story (while fantastically-acted by Danny) was a bit cheap and lessened the awesome impact of the story's conclusion by dragging on too long - but wow, it's a lovely grim little fable, huh? I have to go back and watch this one again because I remember it being the best of the "dark comedy about a marriage falling apart" films from the eighties.
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Crocobile posted:Lmao you fuckers I rented Happiness (1998) last night out of curiosity and just finished it now. Talk about a dark comedy. Admittedly I realized I was slightly spoiled due to recognizing Dylan Baker from Disclosure and remembering the We Hate Movies episode mentioning his role in this film. But uh I mean there are multiple parts where I laughed or cackled and multiple parts where I grabbed my face and slowly cried, “nooooooooo” or simply “gross.” It's a loving crime that Dylan Baker doesn't get more recognition for that role. The scene with his son where he decides to be completely honest is one of the most brutal things I've ever watched.
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