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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is the funniest movie of the early aughts.
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Riot Bimbo posted:Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is the funniest movie of the early aughts. I agree, but did the idea of making a movie with scripted and set up "jokes" totally go out of fashion just before it was released??
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Jan 23, 2022 08:26
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Dewey Cox is uneven but I agree that its one of the funniest movies ever. I love corny music biopics and it hits just about every possible joke and John C Reilly seems like the only person in the world who could make it. HIlarious in a smart/stupid way, but also a very talented singer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lhQCxKx_Y. The that's amore is soooo funny to me.
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Jan 23, 2022 08:52
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"That is a terrible 'That's Amore'! I brought you in here on the advice of these Jewish gentlemen... who usually have good taste." The OST to Walk Hard is even better. If you thought the stuff that made it into the movie was offensive, oh boy just listen to the album.
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Jan 23, 2022 11:11
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Caesar Saladin posted:if tarantino did it, there wouldn't be any more feats of strength, it'd just be feets I mean sure, yeah true, but still would end up being better movies. In spite of, or because of, that is a question everyone watching can only answer for themselves.
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Jan 23, 2022 17:38
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I know the 21/22 Jump Street movies aren’t unpopular and are generally well regarded, but I firmly put both of them in the All Time Greats category of comedy films. Utterly brilliant.
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Jan 23, 2022 18:00
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FoolyCharged posted:The sad thing is how many people didn't Star Wars already did the space-Nazis thing in 1977.
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Jan 23, 2022 18:23
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John C. Reilly is just unbelievably gifted at everything he does and is one of of my favorite actors. Dude can do it all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OToWh3nrWn8 And if we’re talking about him and funniest movies of the ‘00s, Step Brothers is up there (along with Walk Hard). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pNqcZyPd80
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Jan 23, 2022 18:50
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I liked the Total Recall remake. The second half was a complete cliche of sci fi and action movies from the plot structure down to individual shots and feels like watching any other action flick, and it's exactly how an implanted memory would play out. Very true to the idea. Robocop 2 is one hell of a movie too. Say what you want about its social politics but drat if it doesn't know what it wants to do and puts exactly that on the screen without the least bit of compromise.
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Jan 23, 2022 20:48
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:superhero movies are all trash, no exceptions (no i will not watch your favourite one because it's "actually a really good film")
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Jan 23, 2022 21:12
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My Lovely Horse posted:
I can't agree, but I can say that while RoboCop 1 is far superior, the best scene in RoboCop 2 is better than any scene in RoboCop 1.
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Jan 23, 2022 21:13
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Robocop 2 gets the grimy, body horror of being a cyborg down great.
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Jan 23, 2022 23:46
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I like the scene in Robocop 2 where he goes through the 80 directives they gave him and becomes totally unable to do anything. Reminds me of some real-life interactions in a funny way.
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Jan 24, 2022 00:45
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I watched robocop 2 for the first time in a long time and while it's a very different movie from the first one I can't deny that it's almost as entertaining It has this weird, uncanny vibe that they needed to make a gory R rated action movie but they also couldn't deny how much the IP appealed to children, so it almost feels like it's a ridiculously violent kids movie sometimes. There's a scene where robocop and cain fall off a roof and a cartoon whistling noise plays, and as that happened I better understood and appreciated that they knew what they were doing Also I could probably watch an entire series of too-many-directives-robocop loving up in various ways. That whole section of the movie, down to robo's hokey arm pumping, is like a highly produced shitpost and I love it Breetai posted:I can't agree, but I can say that while RoboCop 1 is far superior, the best scene in RoboCop 2 is better than any scene in RoboCop 1. I'm lolling thinking about it now
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Jan 24, 2022 01:15
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pretty soft girl posted:I watched robocop 2 for the first time in a long time and while it's a very different movie from the first one I can't deny that it's almost as entertaining Failed prototype scenes?
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Jan 24, 2022 01:24
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I have this bad opinion that I'm not exactly 100% on, but the gist is, I don't like Oscar bait movies. I mean, that's not really very controversial, but, it's more like, I can tell before I watch a movie, that the ending message / note is going to be "but life...? ...life goes on" So, like, I caved in to my wife and watched The Father the other day. Like, yeah, I guess it's well acted, but I knew everything that was going to be in it and everything it was going to say before it started. I never watched The Wife, but that's exactly the same. It's the same movie. I can't really think of more examples, but it's stuff that someone will suggest as a good film, and it's a really worthy film, and I'll not react well, which they'll take to mean I'm too meatheaded. But honestly, it's the opposite. It's 6 years of theatre studies. "Oh you're doing a film within a film, as a meta commentary? THAT'S NEW". "Oh it's a scathing, subtle drama about a tough subject that doesn't reach any conclusions? OH BOY". It's not that I want explosions, it's that I want, above all else, new ideas. I genuinely PREFER Jupiter Ascending, as a movie, to The Father. I think it's a BETTER movie. And, I appreciate why conventionally it isn't, and all the criticisms levelled at it make sense to me. But it had something NEW in it. Which to me is more impressive.
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Jan 24, 2022 16:22
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Along Came Polly is a good movie. The world should be eternally grateful that a movie exists in which Philip Seymour goddamned Hoffman plays a role clearly written for Jack Black, and delivers lines like "dude, I sharted. That's when you fart and a little poo poo comes out" as if he's playing Willy Loman on Broadway.
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Chrpno posted:I agree, but did the idea of making a movie with scripted and set up "jokes" totally go out of fashion just before it was released?? faster turnaround, lower cost on making a loose story structure and just letting some ppl improv their way through the whole thing, even if that output is decidedly uneven at the best of times and usually loving awful.
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