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kalel posted:watched north by northwest in the theatre Hitchcock was an extremely funny dude and even when he was making high art he never let that get in the way of making sure the audience was entertained.
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Space Kablooey posted:14 pages in 5 days is rookie numbers for this thread This year started with a comparative whimper (Half in the Bag: Derivative Holiday Horrors) compared to the tour-de-force that was last year's Nukie spectacular.
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I only ever saw Wayne's World in the theater (and maybe on the first release VHS), so I had no idea that there was a version where he didn't play Stairway. Yeah, it just goes to show that this kind of fuckery has been happening to movies for as long as they have been around. I'd be more inclined to side with Led Zeppelin to get their money from the studio if something like 60% of their entire catalogue wasn't built on riffs they stole from blues musicians. (Like, if loving Led Zeppelin had to pay a 6 figure royalty for the rights every time they managed to play 7 consecutive notes from another musician, they'd be the poorest band on the planet.)
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Content, fuckos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxCz-SAmpDA
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Origami Dali posted:finally watched dial of destiny and the mutt reveal was the best scene It’s crazy because while that plot thread was so stupid, the actual scene with that revelation features the best acting Harrison Ford has done in the last 30 years. He played the heartbreak so perfectly that he probably would have gotten an Oscar nomination of the rest of the film wasn’t…what it turned out to be.
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Jan 22, 2024 00:04
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1glitch0 posted:He also married into the loving Vanderbilt family so he probably lost the urge to work really hard. I'm glad Chris Hardwick managed to fully secure the bag so he could stop his mercenary attempts to ride nerd culture to fame and riches. Of all the C-listers in the 2010s who tried to build a career off of saying "I'm a nerd just like you!", he was by far the most transparently fake.
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Jan 22, 2024 16:53
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Sir Lemming posted:Strange 2 was kind of fun in the sense of just watching Sam Raimi screw around with a big budget for 2 hours. Not a particularly good movie other than that though. Evil Dead 2 : Drag Me to Hell :: Raimi's Spiderman : Dr Strange 2.
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Jan 22, 2024 17:42
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N. Senada posted:American Fiction is a good movie. Made me laugh, very enjoyable. I feel like Orion & MGM are really loving up the movie's awards campaign, because it has been seriously underperforming in all the precursors despite the buzz out of TIFF being that it was a shoe-in for Best Picture. I hope that it still manages to get nominated for Best Picture, because that will probably double (or triple) the number of people who go out to see it. But I'm afraid we'll just end up with Cord Jefferson getting a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination.
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Jan 22, 2024 22:51
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kalel posted:well except for this. kermode's good. he doesn't make youtube faces Kermode has the advantage of having spent a career as a radio & print guy. Pulling a face was never in his wheelhouse. Also, Kermode's hairline in 2024 is a stark reminder that none of us are beyond mortality.
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Jan 22, 2024 23:14
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kalel posted:We haven't had this good a best picture list in literally 8 years It's a pretty solid list. Also, I'm super-irked that American Fiction is probably gonna lose to Oppenheimer in every single category where it is nominated. (RDJ is gonna get a "thanks for the great career and for making us all so much loving money" Oscar, even though Sterling K Brown really deserves it.) Some people I know are also pretty upset that Gerwig didn't get a Best Director nomination. I'm just going to assume that they haven't seen many movies this year. Not that Glazer deserves his nomination (or that The Zone of Interest deserves any nominations at all), but even if that could be swapped out there are a ton of other movies that deserve a Best Director nomination before Gerwig deserves it for Barbie. (Todd Haynes for May December, Celine Song for Past Lives, Cord Jefferson for American Fiction, etc etc etc)
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Jan 23, 2024 17:25
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WoodrowSkillson posted:I will never understand how someone can direct a movie that is considered as one of The Best Movies, but is not one of the Best Directors lol There are 10 Best Picture spots. There are 5 Best Director spots. (Also, auteur theory is bs and we don't have to act like the French and pretend that directors are the be-all, end-all in the creation of a film. It's an intensely and inherently collaborative artform.)
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Jan 23, 2024 18:11
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dreezy posted:its about time for a showgirls remake. so much fresh new vapid american depravity and cultural bankruptcy to satirize! Showgirls only works as a satire because it wasn't trying to be a satire. It was trying to be an earnest psychodrama and just completely failed because Paul Verhoeven was loving Elizabeth Berkley and that blinded him to the fact that she just couldn't actually act (and that Joe Eszterhas's script was terrible). Trying to remake Showgirls would be like trying to remake Troll 2. There's no way to re-create what made it special.
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Jan 23, 2024 20:35
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Kingo Ligma posted:No Greta and no Margot, looking forward to a whole bunch of 20 year old influencers thinking they're the first people alive to discover the Oscars are bigoted and a bunch of special needs right wing grifters claiming an extraordinarily successful movie was actually a failure because a toy commercial will never get best picture lol No Greta, except for her nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. No Margot, except she's an executive producer and thus that Best Picture nomination is hers. That loving meme that's been going around about the whole thing is so intensely idiotic. Apparently only the white anglo people matter because they're just quietly ignoring that America Ferrera got a Best Supporting Actress nomination. But seriously, not getting nominated for Best Actress is probably a secret blessing for Margot Robbie. Lily Gladstone is the clear frontrunner and it would be an extremely bad look for a bunch of psycho Barbie fans to start trying to poo poo on her/her performance in hopes of getting their blonde pink queen a little gold man.
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Jan 23, 2024 22:40
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Oh poo poo y’all. Patreon Update:“Red Letter Media” posted:Upcoming video…
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The Alamo Drafthouse is almost entirely devoid of the little annoyances you get at other theaters. For example, they don't play ads the whole time from when the auditorium opens until the movie starts (instead they have little customer-made pre-shows playing various things that are specifically relevant to whatever movie you're going to see). Their no talking/texting policy is famously strict, but the real secret sauce that makes the movie-going experience at the drafthouse better than any other theater chain: They don't let in unsupervised minors. It doesn't matter if the movie is rated G, no one under 18 is gonna get in unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian. That means if you are seeing a movie at a drafthouse, you are guaranteed to not have a group of high schoolers in the theater. And since groups of high schoolers tend to account for 90% of all annoying bullshit behavior by patrons at movie theaters, you just don't get that at the drafthouse. That said, the drafthouse is clearing hedging their bets like crazy this year. They always did repertory showings of classic and/or important movies, but typically those were pretty limited or were part of some special program. Now they're building a lot more repertory showings into their main schedule. They realize that there's going to be a major content drought because of last year's strikes, so they're doing something called Alamo Time Capsule to try and convince folks to keep going there even when there are no worthwhile new releases (because hey, wouldn't it be cool to finally see The Talented Mr. Ripley on the big screen!)
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Jan 24, 2024 15:42
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New promotional image is out for the Roadhouse remake: Of course, it's still going straight-to-video on Amazon Prime. I'm guessing they weren't able to fully remove Conor McGregor from the movie so they're just gonna hope downplay his role as much as possible and hope he doesn't sexually assault too many more people before now and the end of March.
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Jan 24, 2024 17:37
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PostNouveau posted:That's a million times more artistry and thought than just handing it off to an airplane hanger full of underpaid VX workers. I mean, they also did that as well. Oppenheimer was filled to the brim with CG, but they did a few shots without it and crowed about those until the cows came home. The whole "no cg" thing is marketing bullshit pretty much every time a major studio movie says it. Canadian Colin made this point with another big 2023 auteur movie: https://x.com/Sgtzima/status/1745986662935449760?s=20
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Spacey doing his absolute best to make sure people keep spreading the rumor that he had all his accusers killed. See folks, meth addition doesn't always look like fallen out teeth and skin scratched raw. Sometimes it looks like people who have completely burned out their brain's ability to have any sense of morality and thinking it's a good idea to build up a public image as some kind of killer.
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moist turtleneck posted:this is pissing me the gently caress off Oh god, it's so much worse than I could have imagined.
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MarcusSA posted:Funny people? Funny Games?
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Gutcruncher posted:Never seen a trailer or anything for this movie but you have single-handedly convinced me to watch this There was also that British Ikiru remake with Bill Nighy called Living.
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Funny People was so tremendously weird. It was back in 2009, the same year the WTF podcasts started and before the whole world was sick to loving death of comics talking about what their lives are like. It was clearly Apatow trying really hard to make a personal statement and capture the weird dynamics that exist for people trying to make it in comedy. A world where you might know and work with literal multi-millionaire celebrities while you have to have a fast food job to make rent on the 1-bedroom apartment you are sharing with 4 other comics. And where you might end up hitting the fame lottery yourself and becoming a multi-millionaire yourself, completely alienating yourself from all of your friends. For example, there's no way that moments like the Thanksgiving scene weren't based on some real-life poo poo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jjmx8Axp6E But I think it didn't work because it was such a personal story. It was way way way too long. It either needed to focus on the Sandler character realizing and trying to overcome his isolation or it needed to focus on the Seth Rogan character trying to make it.
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priznat posted:I really miss comedies like this where it is just silly poo poo being performed by a talented funny cast. Book smart was my last fav why is it they are all about high school misfits?? lol If Book Smart was a 30 Rock episode, it would be Bottoms.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:34
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priznat posted:Wasn’t there some Tina Fey project in the works or was that just the mean girls revival? I want more 30 rock style stuff. I do, too. But I don't trust the 2024 Tina Fey to be able to bring it to us. As far as I know, other than the Mean Girls musical she's mostly been touring her live comedy show with Amy Poehler and being set up by Lorne Michaels to take over as Executive Producer of SNL when he finally dies.
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Gutcruncher posted:I don’t know about nation wide but I live within walking distance of one and short driving distance of another, and it’s always the way to go. Truly a blessing I think Gripweed is joking about porno theaters. Which do still kinda exist, if you are willing to count the sad simulacra that some adult book stores and bathhouses call their "theater room".
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Jose Oquendo posted:They all have holes in the walls and I have no idea why. Maybe they should stop hiring contractors who do shoddy work. Hey now, those are the video booths. Totally different than the theater rooms. Don't misrepresent pervert culture!
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counterfeitsaint posted:What makes a scenario where black and white would actually be superior? It's just less visual information. What makes a scenario would it be superior to see a film that is edited instead of one that shows a 24-hour live feed of everything that happens to every single character throughout the whole story? It's just less information! (I mean, I get what you are trying to say. But arguing against B&W film because it is "less visual information" is the kind of beep-boop reddit-brained thing that completely misses the point of film as an artistic medium.)
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I don't know how much of it was done to show off "hey, we are in color now!" and how much was done because broadcast TV back then absolutely topped-out at 480p resolution and most viewers were more likely seeing the equivalent of 360p (along with plenty of static and interference). It definitely wasn't because people didn't know how to shoot things in color yet. People had been shooting films in color all over Hollywood for well over a decade before the first color broadcast, and almost all films were in color by the time network shows were starting to shoot in it.
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Lister posted:How can someone have success in film and television over 25 years and never get orthodontic work to straighten out their bottom row of teeth? Orthodontic works takes a lot of time and you will have noticeable braces/invisalign for at least a year. The option that would leave you camera-ready without too much waiting would be veneers, but they can only do so much. If you got famous before 4K TVs were in every home, I could see the desire to avoid all that cost & hassle for something most people won’t have sharp enough images to see.
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PostNouveau posted:[video type="youtube"]kL8Ol0C76dQ[video] I never thought I'd see it, but we officially have Jay confirmed for straight. Talking about Showgirls for nearly 40 minutes and not bringing up "it's from Versayce" or how the dogfood scene at Spago ends with Elizabeth Berkley and Gina Gershon toasting with tortilla chips is the straightest of straight behavior. They also didn't bring up how Verhoeven was dating Elizabeth Berkley at the time, which I guess makes sense as it doesn't reflect very well on him. That said, the comparison to the weird convulsing sex scene in the pool with the scene of the executive being blown to bits by ED-209 was a stroke of genius.
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pthighs posted:The fact that they can easily leave the chase and come back destroys a lot of the tension that should be inherent in the chase. Yeah. Add in that the entire side-plot was done because the studio wouldn't allow Rian Johnson to put Finn and Poe in the same storyline together (because they were scared by the internet chatter about how they might be gay) and you can see how much of the story was basically a middle finger to Disney. LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Outpost22 posted:We're the new stormtroopers clones? Brainwashed? Who loving knows. Oh no, they were kidnapped children forced into service. So, you know, folks you can feel really good about just gunning down indiscriminately.
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counterfeitsaint posted:Also Leia surviving in such a stupid way in the second movie, only to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the series and then disappear under a blanket. They knew drat well the actress was dead, they could have just let the character die and nothing about the story would change. Another studio decision, apparently. Since Fisher had died shortly after filming, Johnson wanted to come up with a good end for Leia in TLJ but Kathleen Kennedy demanded that they keep Leia alive. But yeah, imagine how much better the "Holdo maneuver" scene would have been if Leia had been the one on the ship, doing the navigation/positioning for the jump directly into all the First Order ships, and there are a million alarms going off (maybe even have Poe or someone say "is she trying to jump into them? That's impossible! There are a thousand navigation controls on the ship and every single one would have to be over-ridden!"), then Leia uses the force, all the alarms stop, and then the coolest scene in the entire movie is also an amazing send-off to a beloved character. EDIT: Looking at this post, I realize how dumb it is to re-litigate plot points and try to improve movies that have come out over half a decade ago. One thing I really appreciated about this Re:View was when Rich was about to launch into a "they should have..." and then stopped himself. Easily the worst trap youtube film critics fall into is the "this is how it should have been done (aka: how I would have done it)". Mike can be really bad about this at times, but at least Rich is starting to come around on the topic. LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Non Compos Mentis posted:kalel is billy crystal? "Kalal, no!" we scream, as he starts preparing the makeup for his famous Sammy David Jr impression.
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I didn't care much about the Oscars, then I discovered the podcast This Had Oscar Buzz, which is kind of like BotW but for Oscar-bait. The hosts are two film critics who have a frighteningly encyclopedic knowledge of film and the mechanics of how Oscar campaigns are run. While they cover films that were Oscar failures, they also talk a lot about the "state of the race" for the current year. When you're able to see the Oscars less as a dumb ceremony and more as the six-to-nine-month long reality-TV-style competition that it actually is, the whole thing becomes a lot more interesting.
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Monkey Fracas posted:Like what was Verhoven trying to do with Showgirls He was trying to continue loving Elizabeth Berkley. (And make an MGM-style musical, and also make as much money as he made the last time he filmed a Joe Eszterhas script.)
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Soapy_Bumslap posted:Like all his films, he was holding up a mirror and saying "Zis is you, America. Zis is what you are like" All his films? What was the mirror he was holding up to America in Basic Instinct? Or Hollow Man? or Total Recall? Because his satires are so amazing, people forget that they only make up a small minority of his filmography.
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Zokari posted:they're trying so hard to make ghostbusters happen I mean, here is the full list from Wikipedia of all Sony/Columbia franchises they still control...
They're not exactly sitting on a deep bench. So they've gotta keep putting the big pro who should have retired a long time ago up to bat. It's not like a 2023 Gidget remake would make any money.
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LanceHunter posted:It's not like a 2023 Gidget remake would make any money. After I typed this post, I did a quick GIS for Gidget, and upon seeing the publicity stills I realized that my statement is 100% wrong. Look at this poo poo:    A modern-day Gidget with, like, Zendaya in the lead role and Jacob Elordi & Timothée Chalamet as the romantic rivals would sell so many loving tickets to the zoomers that Sony Pictures would be able to buy Disney.
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sharknado slashfic posted:I swear they tried a Fantasy Island reboot at some point but I may be thinking of Hawaii Five O They did. It was a Blumhouse horror movie and apparently really terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6O30nJ02PU
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