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TychoCelchuuu posted:The Star Wars episodes are different in a lot of ways from the rest of the episodes. The fun of the Star Wars eps is listening to them quietly go crazy halfway in when they realize what they committed to.
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Jun 13, 2019 17:58
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Catching up on Michael Mann now. They start talking about the plot of Heat exactly one hour and seven minutes into the Heat episode. Also, "And I star in 'The Tick', which hopefully hasn't been cancelled yet" is the "Wouldn't it be weird if Trump was president?" of 2019.  I think I'm going to end up owning the entire Michael mann filmography on Blu-ray (except The Keep) before the end of the series.
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Jun 19, 2019 21:53
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Disco De Soto posted:Oh and the bit with all of Ben’s nicknames got old pretty quick. Thankfully they don’t do it much anymore but they should have stopped earlier. Griffin’s memory is impressive but just stick with the box office game. It’s always great the couple of times they have had a guest on who doesn’t listen to the podcast, hearing them grow increasingly bewildered and angry as the Ben name bit goes on and on.
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Jul 2, 2019 12:13
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The worst thing, the very worst thing, is when you arrive at an answer ahead of Griffin in the Box Office Game and you subsequently start to question everything you've ever done with your life. Miami Vice, for all the complaints, has an extremely, almost ridiculously straightforward plot; Aryan Nation kills undercover FBI agents, FBI tips off Miami Vice to find informant, Vice puts two men undercover inside cartel; as drug runners, White Vice cop gets in too deep with cartel boss's girlfriend, suspicious Cartel Lieutenant double crosses Vice Cops, Vice Cops double-double cross Cartel. You could fit it on a 3x5 card. It's just that Michael Mann MIchael-Mann's all over the place with such fervor that you start trying to construct all these elaborate explanations for why this particular lingering shot of a pair of $50,000 gold watches has significant import that causes everyone to lose the thread. It's great. The first time I saw it, I had the flu and a 101 degree fever. It's the best way to watch the movie.
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Jul 15, 2019 22:56
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The romance is kind of garbage as a romance, but this being a Michael Mann movie it’s main function is to serve as an example of basic human sentiment being an impediment to cold professionalism, and I think on that level it really works. The best thing to do is just sit back and vibe on those scenes, because even if you don’t feel the chemistry between Farrel and Gong Li, you can feel the chemistry of Havana. I wonder if there was supposed to be some Jamie Fox business in that part of the film, and if it’s liss is what makes the romance section drag.
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Jul 16, 2019 15:14
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It's weird how many of his movies I've seen without ever realizing they were by a single director. The only two since Silence I haven't seen are the Truth about Charlie and Ricki and the Flash.
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Sep 27, 2019 04:16
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Gaius Marius posted:Darkman is criminally underrated I really need to rewatch that. I remember it disappointing me as a kid by not being Batman.
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Mar 13, 2022 03:38
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Jack Bandit posted:I love Alexander Paynes The Descendants but I know some people don’t so it probably wouldn’t change the mind of someone who already doesn’t like Clooney. I did not enjoy 90% of that movie, but the Clooney/Lillard scene is just absolutely incredible. Just an amazing use of Clooney and Lillard's star personas and acting abilities.
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Jul 27, 2023 03:46
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Is it weird that, other than Spielberg, this is the director of whose filmography I have seen the largest amount of prior to the podcast? That is a real "TBS Sunday Afternoon" murderers row of movies.
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Dec 23, 2023 19:17
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Xiahou Dun posted:Just to get it out of the way : God’s own truth. Edit: hopefully Ben at least likes it.
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Listening to the podcast; gently caress, no Hosley. No wonder these opinions are poo poo. So real talk: 13th Warrior was the go to movie for my old college Dungeons and Dragons group to throw on whenever someone was late or absent for a game because it was, at the time of its release, the best and most quintessential D&D movie made to that point. It’s about a group of mismatched warriors who go on a quest to kill a bunch of weird monsters, who go in half-cocked and then proceed to gently caress everything up but with a kind of inevitable forward momentum that sees them grind their way through. Its even got your classic D&D character archetypes covered: the deadly comedy relief rogue guy, the moody self-important noble with a dramatic backstory, the guy who insisted on making a character with a setting inappropriate cultural background and bullied the DM until he sighed and said “fine, you can have a I can see why both audiences and movie nerds wouldn’t have been able to make heads or tails of it, but it scratches that very specific goal-oriented action feel that makes a game of D&D fun to play in the moment. Old Kentucky Shark fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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