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i get it, heterosexuality is part of human existence, but so is making GBS threads you have to be depict this poo poo sparingly
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platzapS posted:network is fantastic what
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actually any implication of sex of any kind in movies should be met with the death penalty
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For favourite movies, I go back to VHS tapes that were lying around our farm. Watching Terminator and Naked Gun over and over taught me all the life lessons I needed to make me into the man I am today. The Big Lebowski is now my favourite. I don’t care that people have run the film into the ground, it is pretty much perfect.
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the sex scene in network is just dunaway getting horned up about rating shares
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A Russian troll farm posted:actually any implication of sex of any kind in movies should be met with the death penalty nobody in Hollywood should be allowed to have sex. they clearly can't be trusted with it
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it's a metaphor for how awesome loving is
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Cobra is one of the most fascists movies of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_cS_kmSiRY
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indigi posted:I tried to watch Vast of Night and the dialogue was so lovely and repetitive and the acting so poor I gave up within about 12 minutes the only thing good about it was the cinematography
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MonsieurChoc posted:Cobra is one of the most fascists movies of all time. Ax Cult 4 Life
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MonsieurChoc posted:Cobra is one of the most fascists movies of all time. I have a dvd with Tango & Cash on one side and Cobra on the other it's loving sweet
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The Voice of Labor posted:there, there's the word I couldn't remember I saw the sons of great bear and it was really good probably because the writer was such a stickler for historical accuracy they walked off the production because the wrong saddle was being used
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Xaris posted:Thanks for these. Gunna check them out. Also never saw Soylent Green even though I'm very much aware of the plot/meme. It's kinda crazy how much anti-corp/capitalism movies were in the 70s and 80s. Like for gently caress sake, even National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is all about some workers being shafted out of their christmas bonus and even the cops going 'hey man thats hosed up' and now "jelly of the month" is about the most you can even look forward to, if anything lmao. Some great recommendations summarized here, thank you.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Cobra is one of the most fascists movies of all time. A perfect capture of the 80's zeitgeist.
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How does Dark City hold up? I remember liking it a bunch but I'm afraid I missed some subtext where the men in coats are secretly Jews or something.
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I watched War On Everything the other night, it's not great but it's pretty funny in a very bleak way. It's a buddy cop movie with Alexander Skarsgard (tied for second best Skarsgard with Peter Skarsgard) and Michael Pena. They're corrupt as poo poo but unlike most buddy cop movies, they're both reasonably smart and Pena's character is a rather well-read intellectual of a sort. It's definitely nihilistic enough for Deathcrew. The dialog is well-written but I didn't like the ending. Skarsgard rankings, for anyone keeping score: 1. Stellen Skarsgard 2(t). Peter Skarsgard (no relation) 2(t). Alexander Skarsgard 4. Gustaf Skarsgard 5(t). Sam Skarsgard - never seen any of his movies nor even heard of him before 5(t). Valter Skarsgard - never seen any of his movies nor even heard of him before 7. Armie Hammer (no relation) 8. Bill Skarsgaard
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The most c spam movie is The Last Jedi
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also saw the srebrenica massacre movie but i didn't think it was particularly good.
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 No Man's Land (2001) is set in the Bosnia-Herzegovina War, when during artillery fire 2 foes end up taking cover in the same pit in no-man's land, and one of them ends up standing on a landmine. Obviously, the other guy can't shoot him because he's not suicidal so they end up in an uncomfortable detente, but poo poo goes from bad to worse to category 5 poo poo hurricane. Then the UN shows up to help. Do not watch if you're clinically depressed, otherwise it's quite good. Possibly the bleakest war movie I've ever seen, the other nominee being:  Stalingrad (1993) is about the Siege of Stalingrad and subsequent retreat through the merciless Russian winter, as experienced by a pack of misfit German infantrymen. I don't think there's anything else to say beyond that other than it's very well done. Do not watch if you're clinically depressed.
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if the movie being there was more like the book being there, it would be cspam as all hell. it's weird becuase there isn't a ton of difference between the two. significant differences however are that economic collapse is central to the book and chance's "advice" to the president, slowed down and looked at, is an appeal to austerity. also a dude busts his nut by rubbing his dick against chance's shoe. jerzy kosiński also wrote a nonfiction book about everyday life in late 50s russia called the future is ours commrade which is a really good unbiased look about what worked and what didn't in soviet communism
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psycho goreman was cool. like power rangers meets early raimi
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subthread, war movies: the reason you can't make a truthful movie about the srebrenica massacre is because if you depicted even 1/10th of what happened accurately, no distributor would buy it, no cinema would show it, and you might be arrested for god knows what. so as with movies about the holocaust, in an attempt to translate the carnage to cinema you are in effect forced to lie and present a sanctified vision of reality. the only movies i've seen that approach the actual horror of war are pretty village pretty flame, apocalypse now, come and see and beasts of no nation. come and see is the unadulterated masterpiece of these four and it is no coincidence that it was made in the soviet union. 30 million dead has a tendency to make you see the world as it really is.
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i'm bumping this thread because i want to do a review of Used Cars (1980) and I keep forgetting to so i need this on the front page until i get my poo poo together and become a winner
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socialist realism in film seems cool, but i know little about it. Ok, that's my contribution
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Taintrunner posted:What are the most Taintrunning films of all time? 
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Atrocious Joe posted:someone buy Alex Cox an account smh cspam needs to watch Repo man
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Taintrunner posted:Did everyone seriously miss the part of the OP where Not-Bernie genocides Iraq and then concedes the election to Donald Trump holy gently caress lmao i just want to say this post is incredibly cucked lol. whiny bitch
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SMG doesn't like Pacific Rim because Pacific Rim scares him. It is out and out, a film that utterly denies the relevancy of his existence - it outright says that the Philosopher, the man who stays up late at night wrapped in metaphor and ethereal wonder, typing out long form forum posts on the Internet; he does not matter. It says that humanity survives upon the backs of those that do - from the opening shots referencing Rosie the Riveter to the utter demolishing of the wall by the Kaiju, that inaction is the Sword of Damocles that dangles above humanity's head. **HEAVY SPOILER WARNING** There is a very important reason the monsters of Pacific Rim lack personality - from their organic construction being built as soulless objects who do nothing but destroy massive population centers to their inability to know fear - they have more in common with natural disasters. Pacific Rim brings in the reality of tsunamis, tornados, and the like, by not characterizing them - they simply are, and they keep coming, and they keep getting stronger, faster, and more innovative. To treat them as something else would not only betray the ideal of the film, but also spit in the face of those who have suffered through the natural disasters the film ties itself to, by dressing them up in artistic rendition. It is a direct foreshadowing of their origin that comes later in the film. The characters of the film in multiple ways look down upon those who do not do, those who seek inaction, that very ideal that makes people like SuperMechaGodzilla tremble in his socks at night. From our dashing, handsome young male lead Raleigh who is seen as cold, and lifeless outside of a Jaeger to being full of energy and life when he is in the Drift - the film opens with him losing his brother, his best friend to the Kaiju right before his eyes. In shock, in desperation for his own life, he manages to kill off the beast, before finally collapsing. His washing up upon the beach, exhausted, broken, he collapses at the mere sight of a sad, old, and worse yet inactive man with his son, teaching him how to look for junk on the beach instead of a skill or a trade to help fend off the Kaiju menace. The combined horror of this and his brother's death drives him to hide, hiding in the construction of a wall, only to see another demolished before his very eyes. It takes only a few words from his old commanding officer, the wise Pentecost to bring him back into the fold. Raleigh's first encounter on the Shatterdome is the young Mako, and the relationship between Pentecost and Mako is yet another shining damnation of individuals like SuperMechaGodzilla. Her only desire is to fight, to pilot, and this desire is so strong it drives her to insubordination. Yet Pentecost first met her as an inactive weakling to protect, and that first impression damns her in his eyes for eternity, no matter how hard she outperforms, how hard she begs, she's clawing for the chance to prove herself as a doer. Visually this is so directly communicated, from Pentecost standing atop the shoulders of a Jaeger, crowned in a halo, looking down at the dirty, pathetic, crying Mako. It takes a fellow doer's insistence, Raleigh's, to finally convince Pentecost to let her join their ranks. Even though she's not ready, even though she's inexperienced, even though she hasn't done, they take a chance on her. As there are two people in the world, the philosophers and the politicians and those who would give up everything for the sake of laziness, even hiding behind a wall, in order to sit around and ramble. And there are those worshipped as celebrities, those who put their lives on the front line, those who would simply do what is necessary in the face of monstrous destruction. Pacific Rim is a statement of humanity's necessity to constantly improve, to constantly build bigger, and better, and smarter than ever before. The death of the Russian and Chinese Jaegers are simply statements of this fact - they are torn apart because the Kaiju became more monstrous in response to them, while they chose to remain stagnant. Cherno Alpha is a Mark I Jaeger and Crimson Typhoon sticks with a tried and true Thundercloud Formation - the Kaiju adapted and became only more monstrous to break them. Pacific Rim is a love letter to the singularity, a demand for constant and unpredictable technological innovation and for humanity's courage to constantly move forward along a course uncharted. This is what unsettles SuperMechaGodzilla, because what he sees as a call for consumerism, is a call for innovation, to build bigger and stronger. Charlie Day's character, the scientist Newton Geiszler, is a shining example of "hacker culture," of the kind of thinking man society needs - who throws together "junk" to achieve a monumental innovation - the drifting with the Kaiju brain. For this crime he is hunted down and almost eaten alive by the Kaiju, who seek to preserve the status quo, fearful of his disruption to the market of destruction. The Kaiju are essentially the major record companies and Newton is early Napster, the only thing saving him are the hulking mass of other innovators seeking to disrupt their destructive profit model strangling small, starving artists through sharing music across the Internet. SMG is Hermann Gottlieb, a wise mind who is condemned for his shambling and his inaction, who avoids taking the necessary risks. Only as the hour strikes 12, in humanity's darkest hour, does Gottlieb take the risk necessary to innovate a strategy to destroy the Rift and end the Kaiju threat. From shambling and nonsensical to being proud and intellectual, his portrayal in the film is a very direct line of indication. The pilot and main character Raleigh emphasizes being unpredictable, to the dismay of Mako until she learns the absolute necessity of this strategy - hence the scene where she draws the sword, when she cries "for my family," a triumphant declaration of overcoming the monsters that have hurt her. Yet who is Mako's family that she refers to? Her dead parents, long forgotten? Or her adoptive father, Marshall Stacker Pentecost? Proving herself on the same level as Pentecost's favorite pilot, she slays the beast with ease, a declaration that yes, she was capable of defending humanity with the proper application of action. In the final moments of the film, as the wounded Gipsy Danger drifts into the Rift, Raleigh disconnections the unconscious Mako, stating how he doesn't need her help, he only needs to fall, seeks to protect a fellow doer, preserving her for future defenses of humanity. Of course, he does this without knowing of the imminent computer malfunction, and once again, he is called upon to put it all on the line and commit to a dangerous gamble in order to detonate the nuclear reaction and defend humanity. The end of Pacific Rim, the embrace of the two pilots Raleigh and Mako is sadly not a happy ending, but a horrifying one for the world - as they embrace as two of the last handful of people able to put it all on the line in order to defend the human race. **END MAJOR SPOILERS** With global warming, cowardly world leaders, and the corruption of hacker culture with massive "tech startup" corporations such as Yahoo and Skype and Facebook, Pacifc Rim is a cry to band together as individuals and innovate in the face of the monstrous destruction of humanity at massive, seemingly organic corporations. As great minds and innovators get sucked up to the Kaiju hive mind to build idiotic luxuries for the upper middle class like Instagram and Vine, we need to be building the Jaegers of our time - green energy, ways to feed the world, ways to unite and end inter-species conflict. Pacific Rim demands that we unite and build. It damns the men like SuperMechaGodzilla who seek to sit in the corners and shout down those who build, yet rest easy in the status quo.
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Wheeee posted:the Jaegers of our time - green energy, lol
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Wheeee posted:SMG doesn't like Pacific Rim because Pacific Rim scares him. It is out and out, a film that utterly denies the relevancy of his existence - it outright says that the Philosopher, the man who stays up late at night wrapped in metaphor and ethereal wonder, typing out long form forum posts on the Internet; he does not matter. same
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mobile suit gundam chars counter-attack is a great movie imho
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Stairmaster posted:mobile suit gundam chars counter-attack is a great movie imho It is. Here's Mamoru Oshii and Hideaki Anno talking about it: https://tominostuff.tumblr.com/post...sYeMRex8C8scuVU Oshii posted:(Kazunori) Itou-kun apparently stopped watching 5 minutes in. When he heard the first “heavenly punishment” line, he couldn’t follow along anymore and stopped (laughs). Since he used to be at Sunrise, he probably sees more.
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MoaM posted:socialist realism in film seems cool, but i know little about it. All I know about it is that Ken Loach films are impossibly boring
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Used Cars 1980 A Dudes Rock Film.  https://i.imgur.com/vEsLmg4.mp4 Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Used Cars stars Kurt Russell as Rudy Russo, a likeable shifty used car salesman who possesses that uniquely American devious low cunning you see in all of our iconic con men, junkies and politicians. Russo's number one ambition is to scrape together enough dough to pay off the local party machine so he can become a state level politician and "tell people what they want to hear" and get in on "the graft" https://i.imgur.com/8eg4uci.mp4 The dealership, called NEW DEAL, where Russo works is owned by a kind hearted aloof codger Luke Fuchs whose big worry is that the new highway they are putting in will force him to sell the lot. Across the street, Luke's brother Roy runs a competing dealership, extra slick, gaudy in that tacky local notable kind of way. Roy finds out that the highway is, in fact, going to go through his lot and so he is desperate to inherit his brother's lot and life insurance money so he can stay afloat. https://i.imgur.com/xDRWD7J.mp4 To that end, Roy hires a local demolition derby driver to drive Luke to death by aggravating his heart condition, https://i.imgur.com/aLdDCv5.mp4 which he does. Luke stumbles into the office and collapses. https://i.imgur.com/YUOl2Sx.mp4 Rudy discovers that Luke is dying and seeing his prospects for his entry into dirty politics fading, he colludes with his buddies Jeff and Jim to hide the body and concocts a weekend at bernie's style scheme (minus the body puppetry) to prevent Roy from collecting on the lot until Rudy can net his 10 thousand bucks. Will Rudy be able to keep up the charade until he earns enough to become a bastard? Watch to find out!
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enemy at the gates. you see rachel weisz’s butt
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Bored Online posted:enemy at the gates. you see rachel weisz’s butt praxis
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Xaris posted:praxis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGnAIgzUTY
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indigi posted:I tried to watch Vast of Night and the dialogue was so lovely and repetitive and the acting so poor I gave up within about 12 minutes Filthy Hans posted:the only thing good about it was the cinematography Xaris posted:I enjoyed it but it was nothing amazing. Kinda a fun throwback to 195-60s sci-fi flicks and not a bad way to kill an hr and ah alf gh0stpinballa posted:*sniffs* the UFO at the end represents a rorschach test for the viewer. the reactionary mind sees grief and loss, the true seeker knows the UFO here represents Hope, and the moment of transcendence. the warm C major resonating on the soundtrack at the exact moment the mother ship appears above the protagonists is our cue; we need not be afraid, but we must dare to Hope. The aliens obviously represent Capitalism; insinuating itself into people’s minds at the most basic level while simultaneously controlling things at the maximal level. It makes us both concerned with things like losing weight while also making us overeat. The warm C major represents Advertising and its function in lulling the population into accepting Capitalist hegemony. The “Hope” of this C major is the “hope” of Obama; an absolute betrayal of all those who had faith. All that’s left is a recording in a pile of ash.
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