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happyhippy posted:Most biopics of a famous person. If you haven’t, check out Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. It is very much not a typical biopic and Mishima as a character is fascinating.
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I like the ones that lean into them being a lovely person. Elvis got said to be basically a superhero movie with Elvis (which is fitting for its own reasons) but Napoleon totally should be a supervillain movie. And I don't just mean the usual demonisation. More like Scarface with muskets.
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I mean you're getting your wish with the Ridley film, up to the same braindead "maybe they did all this because they were bad in bed" message Scarface had, unfortunately Scott has a fiftieth of the skill De Palma has and making up poo poo to make fun of one of the most studied figures in history just makes you look like a big mad anglo instead of someone exploring the human condition in exceptional circumstances. I was reading the letterboxed comments about the film and one actually nailed it. The film needed PTA, someone who can balance the courageous, charismatic, and the genius with the vanity, anger, and foibles.
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Nov 18, 2023 04:20
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Making up poo poo is what every historical film does
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Gaius Marius posted:I mean you're getting your wish with the Ridley film, up to the same braindead "maybe they did all this because they were bad in bed" message Scarface had, unfortunately Scott has a fiftieth of the skill De Palma has and making up poo poo to make fun of one of the most studied figures in history just makes you look like a big mad anglo instead of someone exploring the human condition in exceptional circumstances. Get a life - Ridley Scott
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That said I am so tired of when even otherwise fun historical stuff boils down motivations and personalities to 'Because they were totally bad in bed/had a small dick/were molested' usually with no historical evidence either way at best. Lookin' at you, Sandman.
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Nov 18, 2023 05:45
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So how big was Napoleon's bonaparte
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DangerDongs posted:Lamb. Pig
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Put me down for most biopics. Especially ones that are about super privileged people. It's like bitsh, you own more wealth than the combined wealth of hundreds of generations of most families and we're supposed to feel sorry for you because you have trouble speaking or feel sad about some life event or are hounded by reporters? gently caress off. It also doesn't help that just about every biopic just... ends. They overcome their problem then it fades to black with text telling you what happened after. Just... pointless. Rarely are they interesting.
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Nov 18, 2023 19:04
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Gaius Marius posted:I mean you're getting your wish with the Ridley film, up to the same braindead "maybe they did all this because they were bad in bed" message Scarface had, unfortunately Scott has a fiftieth of the skill De Palma has and making up poo poo to make fun of one of the most studied figures in history just makes you look like a big mad anglo instead of someone exploring the human condition in exceptional circumstances.
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Napoleon has been dead for like, probably a long time now. For me personally I'm not angry at him any more.
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Does The Last Duel count as a biopic?
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Nov 19, 2023 04:08
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Joker - I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie pretend so hard to be "cinema". The comparisons to The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver are obvious but the writing is also film school level. "I thought my life was a tragedy, but it turns out it's a comedy." And why the Garry Glitter song? What does it symbolize other than "check it out. We put a pedo's hit song in the film"?
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My girlfriend asked me to watch this movie called Coyaniskatsi and I feel like she owes me an hour and a half of my life back. The plot was so pointless. They NEVER explained how the protagonist got from one scene to another. Most of the time the directing was so bad you couldn’t even tell where he was. It could make for a nice screensaver I guess but by the end of the movie none of the characters had changed or learned anything and none of its problems had been solved. Waste of time.
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Hakkesshu posted:Rise of Skywalker is up there. Just the most pointless lazy drivel ever conceived at that kind of scale. Honestly, I appreciated how poo poo ROS was. It was clearly a hack job to try and appeal to the angry nerds who were salty over Last Jedi and it’s rejection of all the mystery box plot lines Abrams set up but it was upfront with it being a pile of poo poo. Amsterdam, on the other hand, had me getting angrier every passing minute. I don’t know exactly when my anger boiled over from infuriated to flabbergasted but I walked out of the theater shell shocked that they had wasted Bale and DeNiro on such a banal, saccharine, garbage movie. It’s doubly sad because apparently Bale has wanted to play the doctor in the movie for a long time. Just a disgusting waste of everyone in the movie’s talent.
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Nov 19, 2023 07:42
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Swift getting car'd is hilarious though
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I don't watch Marvel movies but I'm sure it'd be those, unfortunately I have seen plenty of Wes Anderson movies so its unquestionably those.
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TitusGroen posted:Honestly, I appreciated how poo poo ROS was. It was clearly a hack job to try and appeal to the angry nerds who were salty over Last Jedi and it’s rejection of all the mystery box plot lines Abrams set up but it was upfront with it being a pile of poo poo. It's impressive how it managed to piss everyone off, even the full blown Disney Adults and Rey stans couldn't defend it, because there's just nothing there.
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Gaius Marius posted:Swift getting car'd is hilarious though The only silver lining in that particular pile of poo poo.
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I am gonna be mean and say the new indiana jones. there are parts i like but it played it super duper safe and it kinda "neutures" the movie when indie or new girl dont even shoot anyone even the nazis. i hit a point when they were doing a 20 plus min car chase that sucked and i just gave up and wanted to leave. it never added anything and just made me depressed.
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Oppenheimer. Like, it's well acted, I like cillian. I think there's some cool macro photography, the little of it that's there in the 3 hours. But like I just felt  at the end.So when I see some people writing articles on how people in the audience of their theater were crying at the end, I was like 
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That movie you enjoyed? It’s actually the most boring, pointless movie I’ve ever watched.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:That movie you enjoyed? It’s actually the most boring, pointless movie I’ve ever watched.
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When I was a younger goon there was someone on these forums hyping up a movie called Leviathan, a documentary aboard a fishing vessel shot almost entirely with GoPros. What I got as a ninety minute, narration-less episode of Deadliest Catch.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:That movie you enjoyed? It’s actually the most boring, pointless movie I’ve ever watched. This is the correct answer for the entire thread
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SolarFire2 posted:When I was a younger goon there was someone on these forums hyping up a movie called Leviathan, a documentary aboard a fishing vessel shot almost entirely with GoPros. What I got as a ninety minute, narration-less episode of Deadliest Catch. You should have watched the 1989 movie of the same name Much more fun
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Both Leviathan's are good Refine your palette nerds
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Never stacked up to the Hobbes novel
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I'mma just make up some titles because it doesn't make any difference to the thread: -"Rick Flapjack" (1982) -Pool Party Slumber Party (1991) -Wilbert (1987)
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Gaius Marius posted:Never stacked up to the Hobbes novel Without reading it I'm confident they're better
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I'mma just make up some titles because it doesn't make any difference to the thread: Rick Flapjack is a classic
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Bogus Adventure posted:You should have watched the 1989 movie of the same name. "Been through?! Bitch, we still here!" Ernie Hudson didn't get the fame he deserved.
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null_pointer posted:"Been through?! Bitch, we still here!" He’s the best thing in Congo and that movie has Tim Curry, Joe Don Baker, Laura Linney, AND Bruce Campbell
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"No Gimmicks Needed" Steve the Samurai (dir. Ferrara, 2002)
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I am gonna be mean and say the new indiana jones. there are parts i like but it played it super duper safe and it kinda "neutures" the movie when indie or new girl dont even shoot anyone even the nazis. i hit a point when they were doing a 20 plus min car chase that sucked and i just gave up and wanted to leave. it never added anything and just made me depressed. I didn't even watch it. Indy is a family favorite, I watched the original trilogy a dozen times with my grandfather, and nothing I saw of the trailers convinced me that was going to be nothing more than a cash grab. Raiders of the Lost Ark is the best adventure movie of all time. A masterclass in blocking and modern use of noir lighting and shadow. It's sad that they've lost that.
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Was gonna say American Beauty but basically every movie about mildly sad yuppies at any stage in life.
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A Fancy Hat posted:Rubber is 85 minutes long and is runs out of steam about 3 minutes into its runtime. It's a movie that feels like a parody of arthouse movies, but they forgot to actually do anything funny or interesting with that idea. I was literally about to post about this godawful movie, get out of my brain magic man 
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I'mma just make up some titles because it doesn't make any difference to the thread: I will agree with you on Pool Party Slumber Party and Wilbert but "Rick Flapjack" doesn't meet the criteria for this thread because while it's bad it's far too racist and distasteful, even for the early 80's, to be considered truly boring. Tom Hanks is lucky this didn't kill his burgeoning career on the spot.
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When I saw Wilbert, I mistook it for Willard at first. I was about to start screaming a la Sisko:
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