CineD Genchat 2024: I don't know why I watch one of these

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ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

https://twitter.com/f_francavilla/status/1741885864114786786?s=20

# ¿ Jan 2, 2024 07:43

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 20:55

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

If you watched Spaced you get to see the bicyclist�s backstory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sF6Lnxl8ZA

# ¿ Jan 3, 2024 01:29

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

https://twitter.com/MexicansOfLate/status/1742385753005375490?s=20

# ¿ Jan 3, 2024 06:48

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

null_pointer posted:

Silly question, probably the wrong place for it, feel free to kick me out if needed, etc ...

... but name me an actor in a given role whose character moves from goofy to menacing, naturally.

I'm not talking "the psychopath who occasionally tells a joke" like Michael Mando in Far Cry or Ledger's Joker, but someone normally gregarious, who occasionally lets the mask slip.

I don't know why I'm asking, just that i honestly can't think of any and I'm sure as soon as someone posts an answer I'm going to feel dumb as poo poo for not remembering them

Arnie Cunningham in John Carpenter�s Christine

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 03:57

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

We know about Chappelle and Brewer, but how are the other two half baked guys doing? I hope Scarface hasn�t fallen off the deep end.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 22:55

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

I saw the pixies live and Frank had to take a break midset to catch his breath, dude looked like he just ran a marathon.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2024 00:13

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Recently watched Unwelcome (Irish goblin horror) and Birth/Rebirth (maternal reanimator horror) on shudder and both were both bangers.

ruddiger fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Jan 9, 2024

# ¿ Jan 9, 2024 18:24

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

28 Minutes Later, the whole movie is told in real time but in 2 minute chunks with 28 minute time skips.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2024 22:12

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

NieR Occomata posted:

There is a common trend in film discourse, specifically film bro discourse (hello Snyder fans) where the movie is poorly made enough but throws enough random bullshit in there that assholes can collect the ideas they like from the movie they watched because it threw everything but the loving kitchen sink in there and praise the movie that they made up in their head and you end up having to argue against a non-existent glorified fancanon.

Army of the Dead is one of my prime examples of this. By any empirical measurement, that movie is loving terrible, but total dipshits love to go �Ooh but they could be clones! Or it could be a time loop! And and and there�s a zombie society what does that mean?!?!?!� And my constant response ends up having to be �but yeah how is it a better loving movie as a result.� And they can never loving adequately answer the question. It is by far the most irritating form of movie �criticism� I have to deal with, people praising overlong and unfocused and poorly loving made movies because it has this one thing that they liked and it makes an �incredible loving film� basically wholecloth in their heads.

Thought this was about Army of Darkness at first

# ¿ Jan 12, 2024 06:01

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Every time I see someone disparaging Snyder bros, I�m like drat, why are you coming so hard at teagone like that?

# ¿ Jan 12, 2024 22:51

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

I love Michael Shannon popping up in Groundhog Day and absolutely losing his poo poo over Wrestlemania tickets.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2024 00:07

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Someone should go back and rescale Tom Cruise to be Jack Reacher height in those movies.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2024 17:22

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

The Peccadillo posted:

Nothing escapes Reachers swole attention gland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypHMMcuAyR0

So much so that it's kind of a contrivance that he didn't notice the guy had parked in some particular way that meant he must be with the NYPD or something

lmao they made that beef slab recite all that dialogue

# ¿ Jan 19, 2024 08:19

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

An exploitation movie that starts off with inappropriate sexualization? :eek:

# ¿ Jan 20, 2024 02:02

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Gaius Marius posted:

gently caress The Grifters, I coulda watched House of Games, I shoulda. Ruined my night. Don't watch that trash.

The John Cusack movie?

# ¿ Jan 28, 2024 06:13

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Thanks for the reminder that I�m missing absolutely nothing by not listening to that podcast.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2024 20:15

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

The Peccadillo posted:

I read Battle Royale because the movie was so good and boy howdy does it smartly occlude some nasty stuff

Like the baseball player and the twink are just kinda killed off screen. Wild poo poo goes down in the manga

Doubt I could get it up with my guts spilled out

Wait, did you read the novel or the manga? They�re two very different reads.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2024 06:49

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

I regret to inform you that Joannie Pneumatic is not, in fact, a porn parody of Johnny Mnemonic.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2024 09:11

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Gripweed posted:

A efw days ago I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem and liked it a lot. I was jonesing for more turtles, so tonight I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It wasn't very good.

A big problem is the Turtles themselves. They aren't very fun. The blue one has no personality, the purple one is just a cartoon nerd, the red one is angry specifically at his brothers way too much, and the orange one's jokes mainly revolve around how much he wants to gently caress April. These are not the fun teen ninjas I like. The only scene with them that really works is the beatboxing in the elevator part. That's great! But having one scene that works just kinda highlights how all the rest don't.

Also, they really shouldn't have human lips. That's very off putting.

The other major problem is ho generic the whole thing is. The background music is the most generic superhero movie BGM I've ever heard, there's no flair to the camera work, or sets or costumes or lighting or anything, it's all played totally straight. I'm not saying that a movie where everything is totally normal except for the existence of the Turtles couldn't work. But it certainly doesn't work here.

Also, I have no idea why Shredder and the evil CEO are two separate characters. It would have made way more sense if they were one guy.

But on the other hand, the Turtles do do a literal goddamn Jet Stream Attack, so that's pretty cool.

Have you seen the 1990 one?

# ¿ Feb 12, 2024 04:58

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Napoleon (2023, d. Scott)

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 06:37

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Air Skwirl posted:

It is genuinely upsetting to me that you don't know the names of the ninja turtles. I haven't seen the Bay movies and I'll take your word they aren't great, but do they not teach this in school anymore? I'm having flashbacks to being 7 and getting upset at my parents for putting the wrong color bandana on my birthday cake.

What color did she use?

# ¿ Feb 13, 2024 20:45

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Raphael - the red one
Leonardo - the red one
Donatello - the red one
Michaelangelo - the red one

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 03:38

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Leonardo - gets his hand chopped off
Donatello - gets paralyzed and becomes a cyborg
Raphael - gets half his face burned off and joins the foot clan
Michaelangelo - fall in love with a spikey alien

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 04:18

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Just finished Oppenheimer and kinda wish this played over the closing credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzwj3iy88gs

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 07:35

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Is titanic a James Cameron movie or a Leo movie

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 18:14

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Grendels Dad posted:

He's been in Things, I'm sure of it.

Pretty sure that was Joel Edgerton.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2024 00:46

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Follow it up with the Roseanne Barr She-Devil.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2024 00:30

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Right in the bullet hole.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2024 03:49

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Like that twilight zone episode

# ¿ Feb 24, 2024 04:54

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

I didn�t say Abe Lincoln, I said hey Blinkin

# ¿ Feb 26, 2024 22:11

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

No love for Kiss the Girls or the Crush?

# ¿ Feb 28, 2024 00:04

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

His standup was great but were there any good Richard Lewis movies besides Men In Tights? Is Drunks any good?

# ¿ Feb 28, 2024 23:09

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Fanfare?

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 02:13

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

I�ve also seen them referred to as studio cards.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 07:17

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

The old new line cinema logo was an all-timer

# ¿ Mar 1, 2024 00:35

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Forget Criterion Closet, give me more of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpTTrP-srRM

# ¿ Mar 1, 2024 23:59

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

He�s the beekeeper, not the beeslavemaster

# ¿ Mar 4, 2024 22:59

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Theatrical. There�s some disappointing omissions in the directors cut

# ¿ Mar 9, 2024 02:09

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

Heavy Metal posted:

Director's cut! I listened to the commentary by Tony Scott too, it's just a few mins of cool stuff etc. Doesn't have the alternate ending or anything, and there are also plenty of deleted scenes on the disc that are not put back in. Just an unambiguously better director's cut.

Directors cut doesn�t have Sam Jackson discussing his butt eating proclivities which makes it immediately inferior.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2024 08:35

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 20:55

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

So in Dream Scenario, that dream advertising company was totally beta testing their technology on nic cage�s character, right?

# ¿ Mar 18, 2024 08:26

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