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Shard posted:I didn't like Cable guy as a kid and I haven't watched it again. I might have to try it again to see how it hits now. Mostly the same, though Jim Carrey singing Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" is something I revisit every couple of years.
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Cabin Boy. How the gently caress does it only get 42% audience on RT? My aunt and cousins walked out of it in the 90s. It is hilarious and perfect. I'm guessing it has other goon fans, but normal people do not seem to like it as much as I do. I liked Cable Guy. Probably due to watch it again. And MST introduced me to Time Chasers. I ran across the unMSTed version of it on DVD and snapped it up right away. It's so drat earnest. Love me some Time Chasers.
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Mar 23, 2024 20:43
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I liked Cabin Boy at the time and always wonder why Chris Elliot kinda just disappeared after that - or at least it felt like that. I haven't seen it since then so maybe I should rewatch and see if it holds up. I also saw Cable Guy in the theater and didn't like it as much but on later watches I now enjoy it.
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HungryMedusa posted:And MST introduced me to Time Chasers. I ran across the unMSTed version of it on DVD and snapped it up right away. It's so drat earnest. Love me some Time Chasers. I've never seen the unMSTed version, but it's hard not to love the time machine that runs on old-school floppies
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HungryMedusa posted:Cabin Boy. How the gently caress does it only get 42% audience on RT? My aunt and cousins walked out of it in the 90s. It is hilarious and perfect. I'm guessing it has other goon fans, but normal people do not seem to like it as much as I do. I'm not sure it's "perfect", but I am constantly thinking of the line "You're one of those.... fancy lads, aren't ya!"
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I'm either surprised or comforted that Shock Treatment has not been mentioned. "Sequel" to Rocky Horror Picture Show, I find this movie to be an exquisite romp exploring the complete blurring of lines between perception and reality. Musical score is wonderful, and Jessica Harper (Janet) has one helluva voice. It's one of my absolute favourite flicks, yet anyone I have ever shared it with has summarized their experience as "the worst thing I have ever endured, I hate you forever". Favourite music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcKwQMYzVCo&t=1s Original trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGoUwRkT56k&t=1s Fan made trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-GOoG1cos Full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE0zN5c4XA8&t=1s
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Mosnar posted:I'm either surprised or comforted that Shock Treatment has not been mentioned. "Sequel" to Rocky Horror Picture Show, I find this movie to be an exquisite romp exploring the complete blurring of lines between perception and reality. Musical score is wonderful, and Jessica Harper (Janet) has one helluva voice. It's one of my absolute favourite flicks, yet anyone I have ever shared it with has summarized their experience as "the worst thing I have ever endured, I hate you forever". I love Shock Treatment while I cannot stand Rocky Horror whatsoever. I often think about an alarm clock being referred to as a "micro digital awaker" from Bitchin' in the Kitchen. While we are on the subject of musicals - also add Repo: The Genetic Opera, The Devil's Carnival and Alleluia to the list of movies I love but people I know hate. They probably have a cult following for sure but everyone I know does not like them or has never even heard of them but I know they wouldn't like their brand of musical nonsense. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 19:34 on Mar 24, 2024 |
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The other day I was thinking about movies we used to leave on at parties so we’d have weird visuals here at there. The movie we used a lot (because it is a lot) was Sars Wars. If you haven’t seen it, please correct this error in your life: https://youtu.be/3fPtZODMWUQ?si=gu81xX5XhQdIUpl4
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Mosnar posted:I'm either surprised or comforted that Shock Treatment has not been mentioned.
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Unperson_47 posted:I liked Cabin Boy at the time and always wonder why Chris Elliot kinda just disappeared after that - or at least it felt like that. I haven't seen it since then so maybe I should rewatch and see if it holds up. I thought Elliott had a decent career in the B- or C-list. He was in There's Something About Mary. Cabin Boy was a bizarre one. Watched it with the gang at the cottage once, when we got rained out. It might have in part been the drugs, but it felt like a fever dream. Always fun to see that absolute unit Brion James in comedies.
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I never gave Shock Treatment a chance because I always heard it was like Rocky Horror but bad. I don't know why, but Rocky Horror is twice as good when it's good but twice as bad when it's bad.
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I thought The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a pretty decent adaption of the book but a lot of nerds I know hated it. The casting was pretty spot on, the production design was good and the changes they made to the narrative were necessary imo. The fact that Adams died just before production began predisposed some people to think of it as especially adulterated, but I was okay with it being Hitchhiker's Guide: The Movie in the same vein as, like, Street Fighter: The Movie.
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Hardcordion posted:I thought The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a pretty decent adaption of the book but a lot of nerds I know hated it. The casting was pretty spot on, the production design was good and the changes they made to the narrative were necessary imo. The fact that Adams died just before production began predisposed some people to think of it as especially adulterated, but I was okay with it being Hitchhiker's Guide: The Movie in the same vein as, like, Street Fighter: The Movie. Which one? The timing seems like the BBC adaptation but just wanted to make sure.
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PuttyKnife posted:Which one? The timing seems like the BBC adaptation but just wanted to make sure. Oh no, the 2005 one. Adams died in 2001 and the only BBC production I know is the 80s series.
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Hardcordion posted:Oh no, the 2005 one. Adams died in 2001 and the only BBC production I know is the 80s series. Good lord. Was the Martin Freeman one that long ago? gently caress I’m old.
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It was fine, the main problem is that a movie can't possibly capture the real magic: being 13 and reading the book for the very first time.
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I thought Sam Rockwell was really good as Zaphod Beeblebrox, but he's good in everything. He brings this unexplainable groovy energy to every role he inhabits.
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Pham Nuwen posted:It was fine, the main problem is that a movie can't possibly capture the real magic: being 13 and reading the book for the very first time. Also a huge amount of the charm of HHGTTG is in the dialog, which should be obvious when you realize the novels are based on radio scripts. A movie really is the worst possible format for a HHGTTG adaptation because the dialog has to be paired back to the minimum. One of the most obvious examples is the beginning, where instead of a long verbal sparring match between Arthur and the construction foreman that Ford breaks up with some clever negotiation (the 80s TV series did the best version because Ford convinces the foreman to take Arthur's place in the mud in front of his own bulldozer) he just shows up and distracts them with a shopping cart full of beer. This is a cheap but kinda of amusing gag on its own, even if it feels a bit too much like a early 90s beer commercial, but it doesn't really work in the framework of the story I don't think. IIRC the film was produced using a fairly early draft script because it was the last one Douglas Adams had worked on before his death. Had he lived he might've tightened it up a bit. Visually and casting-wise (except you, Martin Freeman) it was quite good.
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I really like 2005 HHGttG, but am compelled to point out that Zooey Deschenel was a terrible casting choice who dragged down the rest of the immensely talented cast in every scene she shared with them.
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I liked the way they did Zaphod's second head, I thought that was a good take on it and probably the least-silly way to give someone a second head (except maybe for Kuato in the 1990 Total Recall except I don't think conjoined-mutant-twin is the right way to go with Zaphod)
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I don't even know if it was a good movie or not, it was just a thrill to see my old friends from childhood back up there on the big screen, didn't matter who was playing them.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:the 80s TV series did the best version because Ford convinces the foreman to take Arthur's place in the mud in front of his own bulldozer
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I refuse to believe that Swordfish is a hated movie. Come on, John Travolta giving supervillain speeches every 10 minutes, Paul Oakenfold all over the soundtrack (one song sampled Grease!), Halle Berry? It's great. Also, nobody hates Buckaroo Banzai.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I refuse to believe that Swordfish is a hated movie. Come on, John Travolta giving supervillain speeches every 10 minutes, Paul Oakenfold all over the soundtrack (one song sampled Grease!), Halle Berry? It's great.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Also, nobody hates Buckaroo Banzai.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I refuse to believe that Swordfish is a hated movie. Come on, John Travolta giving supervillain speeches every 10 minutes, Paul Oakenfold all over the soundtrack (one song sampled Grease!), Halle Berry? It's great. I could understand someone who doesn't _get_ Buckaroo Banzai, because there's a lot to get. The first time I watched it I missed the first 10 minutes and assumed that it contained some important explanatory material. Nope. Which is what makes Buckaroo Banzai great, the way it sticks to its own crazy universe without winking.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I refuse to believe that Swordfish is a hated movie. Come on, John Travolta giving supervillain speeches every 10 minutes, Paul Oakenfold all over the soundtrack (one song sampled Grease!), Halle Berry? It's great. nonathlon posted:I could understand someone who doesn't _get_ Buckaroo Banzai, because there's a lot to get. The first time I watched it I missed the first 10 minutes and assumed that it contained some important explanatory material. Nope. Which is what makes Buckaroo Banzai great, the way it sticks to its own crazy universe without winking.
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Swordfish's marketing survived entirely on news that Halle Berry had a topless scene, I refuse to believe otherwise. But yeah, I absolutely love it. The blowjob hacking scene, the other scene where Jackman is building the 'worm' and cackling at his own computer abilities, the TVR Tuscan with the pearlescent paintjob, the Matrix-style camera move around the hostage explosion, Oakenfold's soundtrack... The plot makes no sense, is Travolta a Mossad agent or what? What is even his angle, to sow chaos?
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Hugh Jackman, the least likely hacker of all time
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When Swordfish was released I was a teenager. I've never seen it, but the only thing I remember about it is Halle Berry was paid extra if she showed two boobs instead of one, or something goofy like that. edit: I've never seen the topless scene either, now that I think about it. I would look it up, but I can only imagine I would be disappointed. For how much attention it got, I expect some Matrix bullet-dodging level of impressive cinematography.
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credburn posted:When Swordfish was released I was a teenager. I've never seen it, but the only thing I remember about it is Halle Berry was paid extra if she showed two boobs instead of one, or something goofy like that. I vaguely remember her lowering a magazine or something to reveal her boobs, but haven't seen it in forever. I saw it in theaters with a friend whose main motivation was Halle's berries, so the marketing definitely worked.
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I saw Swordfish in a theater with a bunch of guys who worked with me on Boy Scout camp staff. We had our one night off from camp and went into town and just randomly went in to see it. None of us knew about the topless scene and there was a bunch of sudden hooting and hollering from a bunch of 16-18 year olds in the back row.
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Oh wow it came out in 2001. I thought it was much earlier. I would have been 14, and my best buddy and I 100% saw it because of the topless scene.Modal Auxiliary posted:I vaguely remember her lowering a magazine or something to reveal her boobs, but haven't seen it in forever. I saw it in theaters with a friend whose main motivation was Halle's berries, so the marketing definitely worked. Yeah this is exactly it. She's sitting in a deck chair reading a book. Jackman approaches her and she puts the book down and he's all taken aback and trying to avoid looking at them, it's pretty funny. The bus/helicopter escape was honestly pretty cool. EDIT: Rewatching this movie now out of nostalgia. Lmao I forgot that it opens on Travolva literally looking at the camera and saying "You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make poo poo." Obviously suspension of disbelief for a 25-year-old action movie, but that hostage blowing up definitely would have killed like a dozen cops, but we can see a couple of them squirming around afterwards. Hugh Jackman's acting is atrocious in this. And someone in Set Dec had a lot of fun setting up his ex-wife's hungover walk through her porn producer husband's place. Oh hell yeah, I forgot Vinnie Jones was in this. Mister Speaker has a new favorite as of 19:48 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Terrible plot and holes throughout, I think Travolta does a really good job at capturing the role. He's just a delusional sociopathic megalomaniac who somehow has supervillain money and resources. Every most of his lines in the movie are part of some wandering self-important monologue that leave you asking "What the gently caress is he talking about??" if you even pay enough attention to wonder where he's going with it. He's like if Elon Musk was charming and not completely dumb as poo poo. All of his references are to something from pop culture. "Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example..." "Ever hear of Harry Houdini?" "Ever see Sugarland Express?" He's just a rich manchild basing his plans for terrorism and extortion off poo poo he saw in movies. HenryJLittlefinger has a new favorite as of 21:14 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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I didn't watch it but my uncle reminded me that there's a marx brothers gag where they're trying to get into somewhere with a password and harpo (the one who doesn't speak) knows it and instead pulls a whole swordfish out of his pants - because the password is "swordfish". i wondered if the movie was based on that old gag considering all the "password accepted" marketing
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:I didn't watch it but my uncle reminded me that there's a marx brothers gag where they're trying to get into somewhere with a password and harpo (the one who doesn't speak) knows it and instead pulls a whole swordfish out of his pants - because the password is "swordfish". i wondered if the movie was based on that old gag considering all the "password accepted" marketing I kind of assumed it's a reference more to the trope of swordfish as a password that the gag in Horse Feathers started than it is to the actual gag itself. Just going off the kind of lowbrow movie it is. But I guess that's still a roundabout reference to the Marx Brothers either way.
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Titan AE is such a fun and dumb little movie with a pretty decent voice cast. Planet Bob forever.
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I brought my Drake posted:Titan AE is such a fun and dumb little movie with a pretty decent voice cast. Man I love Titan AE. I didn't know if it held up and decided to show my lady the movie because she hadn't really seen much scifi before dating me (I've fixed that somewhat already). We started the movie and were really impressed with the animation, storyline, and even the characters were interesting. By the end of first escape scene we were hooked. I always loved the energy aliens, really neat design for their ships. I want more from theor universe, but I hesitate to ask hollywood as they don't have the best record with old movie sequels right now.
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