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I remember the headlines about Beast where Idris Elba fights the monster lion recasting his daughter because she didn't "have the right chemistry" for the role of his daughter, and I think they probably meant she didn't have the right chemistry with the sister, because these two are both great on their own and got perfect sibling chemistry, perfect casting in the end Also pretty good! Just watched Black Devil before it and it's the same idea, a powerful animal with a ruthless supernatural sense of vengeance. Black Devil was pretty bad but Beast was great At one point Idras Elba is hiding in a tree from Beast who is circling around the base. a black mamba slithers up his arm, and at the exact moment it strikes for his face, he deftly snatches it out of the air, Hard Target style, and drops it on Beast. He is a doctor from New York I gotta listen to the animal attack podcast Tooth and Claw episode(s?) about the Tsavo Man-Eaters where two male lions massacred a railway project The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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Non-musical with a killer music segment? The Addams Family. Mamushka!
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The Peccadillo posted:I remember the headlines about Beast where Idris Elba fights the monster lion recasting his daughter because she didn't "have the right chemistry" for the role of his daughter, and I think they probably meant she didn't have the right chemistry with the sister, because these two are both great on their own and got perfect sibling chemistry, perfect casting in the end The Tsavo man eaters were depicted in The Ghost and the Darkness with Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, a film which has some really good cinematography, a fantastic score but dont want to rewatch since I last saw it in the nineties because Im pretty sure its racist af.
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Majkol posted:The Tsavo man eaters were depicted in The Ghost and the Darkness with Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, a film which has some really good cinematography, a fantastic score but dont want to rewatch since I last saw it in the nineties because Im pretty sure its racist af. It’s insanely campy; not at all what I expected from vaguely knowing about the film when it came out.
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david_a posted:It’s insanely campy; not at all what I expected from vaguely knowing about the film when it came out. Same, it's very melodramatic and there are about a thousand oner's, everyone puts in an amazing performance and it's gruesome Creature feature for the ages E: misread; I thought we were talking about Beast still. Not allowed to get mad at me because of broken bones and pain pills The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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I was expecting Half a Loaf of Kung Fu to be silly, but it's really very silly. There's a scene early on where Jacky Chan is getting roughed up by some ruffians, but then he notices a spinach plant on the ground, eats it, Popeye music starts playing and he gets super strong and easily defeats the ruffians. Very Epic Movie. Eventually a plot does form, and the final fight in a field lasts for like 20 minutes and is just absolutely jam packed with kung fu gags. Extremely good stuff. There's a bit where he's trying to learn new moves by reading pages from a kung fu manual that are blowing around, and he reads one page upside down so he does the move upside down. What more could you want?
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therattle posted:Yep. I had very high expectations too, which was a problem, but there were still lines and scenes that hit like a loving hammer. I will say if I was only listening to the movie and not scrutinizing the pictures in front of me I'd have been floored. Haunting.
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saw Under the Cherry Moon last night on a 35mm double feature with Purple Rain. it's good! i dunno what people were complaining about.
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ruddiger posted:Was there a thread for Aranofsky’s the Whale? I wanted to compare Mickey Rourke crushing jabronies in The Wrestler to Brendan Fraser crushing meatball subs in the Whale. The Whale made me want to beat the poo poo out of Aronofksy. Just a terrible and honestly kind of reprehensible movie.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The Whale made me want to beat the poo poo out of Aronofksy. Just a terrible and honestly kind of reprehensible movie. I’ve not seen it. Go on
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The Whale made me want to beat the poo poo out of Aronofksy. Just a terrible and honestly kind of reprehensible movie. I’ve spent my whole life defending Aronofsky and The Whale was the movie that single-handedly made me 180 and say “never mind, the haters are right.”
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Did anyone else feel like Brendan Fraser was the shittiest performance in KotFM by a mile? I think the guy is likeable but I'm not sure I'm signed on for the Brendanaissance or w/e
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Dream Scenario is an excellent movie that builds up a lot of really interesting steam and then absolutely shits the bed in the last act. I enjoyed it, and I thought the last five minutes were good, but it feels like someone ran out of steam in the screenwriting process and was like, ehhh, how do we wrap this up cleanly. That said, the jizz/fart is one of the hardest times I've laughed at a movie in months, so A+ for effort.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Did anyone else feel like Brendan Fraser was the shittiest performance in KotFM by a mile? I think the guy is likeable but I'm not sure I'm signed on for the Brendanaissance or w/e He was perfect, his character was a showboating lawyer and that's how he played it.
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Carpet posted:He was perfect, his character was a showboating lawyer and that's how he played it. I wanted more showboating
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Alan Smithee posted:I’ve not seen it. Go on I'm always down for misanthropic misery porn, but besides the fact that it's an incredibly mawkish and overwrought story (Fraser's character's boyfriend killed himself via anorexia due to internalized homophobia, so in reaction he's eating himself to death), a huge amount of it is just the camera slobbering over Brendan Fraser being disabled by his (frankly not very good) fat suit. It's not a nuanced story about addiction or being fat, it just uses those two things as a cudgel for a plot about toxic sacrifice. What's frustrating is that it's kind of an interesting idea - he's basically turning himself into a Christ figure and begging people to openly hate him, and at the end he dies in front of his lovely daughter after manipulating her into a situation that gives him a false sense of closure and martyrdom. But using the same garbage circus-freak media tropes that dehumanize fat people to tell that story sucks rear end, and Fraser's character doesn't break from stereotypes, it embraces them. It's not like we have a plethora of stories about fat people and this is just one extreme one, it's the only story that ever gets told, and it's one that defines how fat people are treated.
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Anatomy of a fall is uhhh not overrated.
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Alan Smithee posted:For me it was the dreamfluencers Yea I really liked Dream Scenario except for that part of the movie which felt hacky as all hell and lacked the sincerity the rest of the movie had. Like what if a bad SNL sketch interrupted what was otherwise a pretty solid movie.
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Majkol posted:Anatomy of a fall is uhhh not overrated. It’s really excellent. Definitely in my top ten, probably top five.
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Ah poo poo Tom Wilkinson just died https://x.com/bbcbreaking/status/1741144954817204478?s=46
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Some day I wish to be wealthy enough to afford a large paper bag of baguettes like his character in Michael Clayton
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Steve Yun posted:Never saw Michael Clayton, recommend? It's a really solid legal thriller of a sort they don't really make much anymore. It's good.
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Steve Yun posted:Never saw Michael Clayton, recommend? I like it very much
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The triumvirate of lion movies is: Best: ghost in the darkness Creature feature: Beast Weird: Roar
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Almost afraid to ask where The Lion King falls there. Family fun No one cares about the lion in the Robin Hood cartoon they're just horny about the foxes
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The Peccadillo posted:The triumvirate of lion movies is: I think you forget Brotherhood of the Wolf but I don’t blame you.
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The Peccadillo posted:The triumvirate of lion movies is: Where does Bwana Devil feature in this
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Steve Yun posted:Never saw Michael Clayton, recommend? It's not the most ambitious movie in the world but it's absolutely perfect for what it is.
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Steve Yun posted:Never saw Michael Clayton, recommend? Yes. It has some great performances and character study. I really loved it.
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Gatts posted:I think you forget Brotherhood of the Wolf but I don’t blame you. Objectively not lions
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Steve Yun posted:Never saw Michael Clayton, recommend? It's alongside Collateral among the best films of all time featuring a character seeing an animal just doing it's own thing and having a moment of existential instrospection that changes the trajectory of their life.
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Adding to the Michael Clayton love.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Also just a really smart thriller. One of Clooney's stronger dramatic performances. I think someone recced to to me as a testament to his actorial skills, which is alright, he's good in it but Tilda is acting circles around him. Probably my favorite part was Wilkinson as Proto-Chuck McGill.
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I'd say Michael Clayton is my favorite "camera focused on the main character as the credits roll" movie, but then I realized I'd rank Call Me By Your Name higher.
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