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herculon posted:Can't wait to see Chuck's quadruple feature Strap the gently caress in 
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Feb 2, 2024 16:54
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I just got the new 4K release from Arrow in last week, I meant to watch it straight away but was too busy. Now I'm glad I never did lol. Hell yeah, good pick.
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Feb 11, 2024 23:00
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Nostradingus posted:Wow, I didn't know that movie was that long. 😂 😂 lol
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Feb 12, 2024 17:12
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I didn’t rewatch my picks last year, but I rewatch Hell or High Water semi-regularly anyway and it was about time for another. I like this one a lot, I think Fucker is right that it’s missing something I can’t quite put my finger on that keeps it from being truly great, but it’s drat good. The four primary characters all turn in great performances and great line deliveries from a clever script. A lot of scenes and lines have stuck with me since I first saw it, like the t-bone cafe waitress, or Foster’s delivery of the “no. It makes me, CO-MAN-CHEE.” It’s nothing you haven’t seen before in a movie like this, but it’s all done very well. I love how well it captures the atmosphere of rundown small towns in Texas, I love the banter between both pairs of protagonists. I love how memorable even side characters who might only have a few lines are. I can’t quite call it one of my all-time favorites but it’s one I have a ton of fun with every time I watch it and I’m glad most people here enjoyed it.
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Feb 19, 2024 04:24
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Cool, I saw clips and scenes of M in a humanities class I took about art from the Weimar Republic period but never saw the full thing.
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Feb 23, 2024 19:19
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I watched Conan the Barbarian several days ago and kept forgetting to post about it here. I thought I had watched it before but I think I must have only seen the first half or so, I remembered everything through the theft in the tower, but everything after that seemed new to me. I think Pragmatica’s right that it drags in the middle, after he sets off on the journey to find the princess solo but before the series of battles at the end. A couple of action scenes scattered through there would have done a lot. But the first and final acts are so epic and iconic that some pacing issues in the middle don’t drag my opinion of the movie overall down too far. I love the old Conan short stories and this movie does a good job capturing them, set design and costuming are fantastic and exactly what a Conan movie should be. Performances are either genuinely good or objectively kind of bad but in a fun way. It’s interesting how much comedy is in the movie, it’s a very different sort of comedy than the “Let off some steam, Bennett” stuff he’d be known for later but I had always thought Commando was a turning point for him being more comedic in later roles, I didn’t realize that casting directors were looking at this enormous superhuman slab of muscle and thinking about how funny he’d be from day one.
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Feb 26, 2024 00:28
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I just marathoned all the Romero zombie movies recently enough that they’re still fresh in my mind so I might pass this time but it’s a good movie and a good pick, I’m looking forward to the discussion.
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Mar 22, 2024 17:46
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copy posted:block struck back
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Apr 1, 2024 16:10
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Fungah! posted:we dont need no giant robots, we dont need no bishy twinks lmfao
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Apr 23, 2024 18:03
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Sub-Actuality posted:Dirty Duck lmfao
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Apr 24, 2024 05:08
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Apr 29, 2024 15:01
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I guess I'll be the only neutral voice on Dirty Duck. If you pointed a gun at me and asked if I liked it and said you'd shoot if I said anything other than yes or no I'd say no, but it just kind of... slid off my brain for the most part. The visual style could be neat, the whole thing overall was pretty impressive to be done by a small team presumably without much in the way of budget, and every now and then they'd have something genuinely pretty interesting to look at. Mostly around cars for some reason, the pileup of photocopied cars early on, the cars later in the movie that all have really weird and unique designs just for the hell of it, the weird looking cop car turning into a weird looking cop. But none of the humor landed for me--the cop blathering in monotone in a funny voice while firing off his guns absent-mindedly and the used car commercial at the end devolving into the salesman threatening to sic his dogs on you if you don't come down and buy a car were kind of amusing and that was about it. It's clearly aiming to be obscene with all the sex organs and the gay and Mexican stereotypes etc but still somehow feels tame so it's never really funny or shocking. It reminds me of the stuff you'd draw in your notebook as a middle schooler to make your friends laugh, which is remarkably less funny outside of that context. And the story's just the "timid little nervous guy learns to get some confidence and stand up for himself thanks to the intervention of a wacky side character" we've seen a lot, though I did like the little touch of him taking the duck's hat at the very end and finally getting some color in his design. I didn't find myself actively repulsed or annoyed like The Forbidden Zone, but I wasn't engaged enough with it either to like it.
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May 6, 2024 01:32
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mbt posted:N/A
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May 18, 2024 01:36
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I'm on the literal first scene of Duel to the Death and the camerawork alone as it tracks the ninjas is blowing my mind.
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May 20, 2024 02:08
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Duel To The Death: a lot of fun, I was shocked to find that this was the director's debut because he seems to already be an expert, as I noted earlier he does lots of great stuff with the camera, the way it swoops around to keep up with the action adds a liveliness even beyond what the excellent fight choreography itself does. Lots of really good visuals, the masked warrior bathed in green light towards the beginning, the endless black void Ching Wan falls into through the trap door, the giant ninja splitting into several through a few seconds of animation, lots and lots of little moments. The final duel was great, instantly iconic, the rocks and crashing waves were such a good setting setting for it. I also really liked the choice not to actually show a victor, although I am of course rooting for my boy Hashimoto. Loved that little trick he did with his scabbard at the end. Ramming his sword through his foot to keep himself upright was so cool. I was trying to figure out where I saw something similar and about 15 minutes after the movie ended it occurred to me that it was Metal Gear Solid 4 lol I had a lot of fun watching this one, thanks for the pick Prag!
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May 20, 2024 04:49
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