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Punkin Spunkin posted:If Jobs is a good Sorkin thing I'd be interested cuz it'd be the only good Sorkin related thing I ever encountered I hate everything else he's done, but I'll always go to the mat for Sport's Night. It's clearly dated, because that's how time works, but the Sorkinisms are much, much more muted so it comes off as just quirky instead of obnoxious.
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algebra testes posted:Trainspotting loving rules my god. The book is good too fyi. Just don’t be like my dumb rear end reading an entire book in phonetic Edinburgh-dialect, figuring out everything via context clues… and then finding the glossary in the back right behind the last page. It’s been 20 years and I’m still absolutely livid with how dumb I am.
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Jan 25, 2023 03:43
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Have they released the full bracket anywhere? I quick skim of the website, twitter and reddit didn't find anything, but I'm famously blond and dumb.
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Feb 22, 2023 19:28
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Coheed and Camembert posted:I would love a Leone series. So much context, and would lay the necessary groundwork for an eventual Clint Eastwood series. On the one hand, I would loving love a Peter Weir series. (A Weiries, if you will.) However this is also one of the few times we have a shot at getting a director whose works aren't all primarily in English.
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Feb 23, 2023 17:41
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So we're gonna vote as a block just for Lars von Trier, right? Not because we want to, but just to make them have to spend multiple hours of their lives talking about Manderley and Dogville.
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Feb 26, 2023 23:19
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checkplease posted:Sadly Lars is up against Kon who is one of my favorites. I like Jackson and Del toro, just they feel like example blank check directors as they had big Hollywood films and got to make their passion projects. So I would assume they would be covered naturally though its been like 7 years now. O god, I wouldn't want to actually listen to a couple hours of them talking about super hosed up sex and racism stuff. Even in the space of a joke I wasn't meaning to imply that. In terms of serious voting strategy, I'm campaigning hard for the intersection between "film-makers who never worked in English" and "film-makers who they're unlikely to ever consider again". Like I loving love Bong Joon-Ho, been a fan since The Host, but they've made noises in the past about covering him so he's gonna lose my vote if it comes to it.
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Feb 26, 2023 23:59
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Sam Sanskrit posted:Yeah, this is true for me as well but also I loving love Abbas Kiarostami and just wanna hear smart people talk about him and honestly that is kind of weirdly hard to find. Hey, I'd vote for that. It's not gonna be my top vote, but that has nothing to do with film quality and everything to do with his filmography being very long and about half documentaries.
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Feb 27, 2023 00:35
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Drunkboxer posted:You’re not wrong I guess but I want to hear them talk about goop so I want him to win I think Cronenberg could be a good series, but making it the international pick would be pretty messed up. The entire globe and all the worlds cultures are available, if they go with another older white dude but this time from the other big mostly English-speaking country in North America... it's just not cool. Now if you wanted to make them do an entire separate parallel podcast but they only cover horror movies, that I'll get behind.
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Feb 27, 2023 17:34
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Drunkboxer posted:They should do Lucio Fulci’s entire filmography Yes. And Ben has a squishy-gross sound effects for whenever they talk about eyes.
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Mar 1, 2023 19:34
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Well so much for Weir getting knocked out early, I guess.
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Mar 4, 2023 17:48
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I'm actually still a little annoyed about how their Evil Dead II episode barely talked about Evil Dead II. It was a good episode and I love Hodgman*, but I got it instead of actually talking about one of my favorite movies. *I own multiple of his books. One of them is signed for gently caress's sake.
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Mar 10, 2023 20:13
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I'm the weirdo who'll say he doesn't really like it. ...while admitting that it's perfectly executed and all of my critiques are based on personal preference. (It falls into a weird gap in between my tastes so it doesn't satisfy me very much, even if I fully acknowledge that it's very well crafted.)
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Mar 24, 2023 20:36
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Both have the same problem for me where they want all the introspection and thoughtfulness of some of the harder sci-fis but they chose to wrap it in very soft sci-fi packaging. So you’re asking me to pay a lot of attention to some parts of your premise, but if I apply that to other parts the gossamer-thin science falls apart. Instead of being like a chocolate covered pretzel it winds up being more like a hershey’s kiss filled with cheez whiz : I think they’d both be much stronger if the parts weren’t at war with each other. (For the record, soft sci-fi is cool and good. It’s just not working here is my contention.)
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Mar 24, 2023 21:42
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Fair, and hence why I’m being careful to say it’s a me thing and not some kind of artistic universal. Even if it’s just The Core in space.
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Drunkboxer posted:It’s crazy how badly the england bit has effected David. He cringes like an old shelter dog He does it on other podcasts too, where he should nominally be "safe". It's a very weird mix of sad/funny/insane.
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Mar 27, 2023 17:24
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I just want to hear Ben talk about Hellboy for 4 hours.
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Mar 29, 2023 17:39
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Pops Mgee posted:That too. Hellboy 2 is full of dang rear end freaks Devil's Backbone is the rare film that's both wet and dry.
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Mar 29, 2023 17:47
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At this point, I'm pretty dang fine with whoever wins and think it'll be a good miniseries regardless.
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Mar 29, 2023 17:57
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Colonel Whitey posted:Hyped about the Park win. I’m happy with any of the remaining directors but I voted for Wong today since I’ve seen fewer of his films than Bong and the podcast is one of my main ways of filling in blind spots. I think it's gonna be Park Chan Wook vs. Bong Joon Ho tomorrow. And it's hilarious that from across the bracket, the two South Korean directors are the finalists.
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Mar 30, 2023 16:48
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Bong up by 9~~! C'mon, everyone vote for Bong!
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Mar 31, 2023 17:23
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poly and open-minded posted:Griffin apparently hates Oldboy so now I am super happy no matter who wins (please vote Bong) I mean, Griffin is a gentle boy and Oldboy is a lot.
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Mar 31, 2023 23:31
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Por que no los dos?
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Apr 1, 2023 18:24
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I'm blinded by my love of her Candyman, but I also think she's a good guest.
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Apr 12, 2023 16:58
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Drunkboxer posted:I liked her Candyman a lot too and it’s annoying she got immediately sucked into doing some marvel movie Yeah, I don't think Disney is gonna let her do cool interstitial shadow puppets in The Marvels. Because they're dumb like that.
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Apr 12, 2023 17:43
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Colonel Whitey posted:Just caught up with the Moana episode and had a hearty lol when they said nothing would top the Oscars moment when La La Land and Moonlight got mixed up. If only they knew But did consider the coconut.
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Apr 15, 2023 03:39
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David screaming about the timeline fuckery was more interesting than just about anything in the actual movie.
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May 4, 2023 18:15
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poly and open-minded posted:Was glad the Urbaniak ep was so good because I found the first Keaton ep to be kind of a slog. I need to check that out because I love Urbaniak. I just... I like Buster Keaton. I like listening to the boys talk about movies. But for whatever reason I do not give a poo poo about the boys talking about Buster Keaton.
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May 18, 2023 18:36
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If you have the secret to defeating my apathy, I’m all ears. It’s not like it’s a well-reasoned preference.
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May 18, 2023 19:24
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Not to be rude to JJ, but does anyone else feel like the show has become a little less engaging since they started doing the dossiers? God no. I like that they have actual facts instead of half-remembered gossip.
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Jun 21, 2023 21:00
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I’m so glad I wasn’t driving when I heard how Griffin pronounces Takashi Miike’s name.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:He’s great in Michael Clayton Three Kings? Good Night and Good Luck? Syriana? Ides of March? And, y'know, all the stuff he did with the Coens. O Brother Where Art Thou? is a god drat masterpiece.
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Jul 24, 2023 16:55
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Clooney has a good supporting role in Good Night. Moderately thankless, but he does a good enough job I remember it years later after only seeing the movie once.
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Jul 24, 2023 19:34
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Who on earth watches the Oceans movies for the cast. Like they’re fine, but they’re not the main draw. I watch them because movies about confidence heists rule and there are nowhere near enough of them. If you need me, I’ll be rewatching The Sting.
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Jul 27, 2023 02:46
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Gaius Marius posted:Fincher's got a real rubberband of a career. Gets his ticket with the sublime Seven, follows it up with The Game a film that is fun but hardly great, then comes out with Fight Club one of the best films from a year of absolute bangers, down again with Panic Room a perfectly okay film, Then Zodiac a film that got snubbed for zero reason and is perhaps his best film, he swings back with Benjamin Button one of the most awful award chasing piles of poo poo I've ever seen, then finally breaks the pattern with Social Network which is good although I find some of the praise unearned. Then it's pretty smooth sailing for him until Mank which despite the protestations of some insane Mankophiles is a movie that simply does not exist. Just skipping right over Alien3. Lmao.
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Aug 29, 2023 02:32
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You should rewatch it backwards.
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Gaius Marius posted:I love how bad Ebert's taste is. That Into the Wild film is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Everything about that movie (and the book) makes me absolutely furious. I can’t even summarize it into a quip. It’s like the Mr. Burns’ diseases thing but with rage.
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Nov 4, 2023 06:11
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Have they announced the next series yet anywhere? I don’t really follow social media.
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Nov 20, 2023 16:00
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You’re like the Old Faithful of bad opinions.
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Nov 23, 2023 05:42
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Are they really doing McTeirnan? Because I’m a completely unironic defender of The 13th Warrior.
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Gaius Marius posted:I've never been more in agreement with someone on the pod than with David on De Niro's Killers of the Flower Moon performance being one of his best. He’s definitely not getting enough credit because it’s just kind of expected from him at this point. I feel silly praising a Robert De Niro performance in 2024, like I’m gonna have some unique insights, but he was amazing. I also think that people might not have been expecting it to be as funny as it is.
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