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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:La Commune. Still need to see this one, once I block out the month or however goddamn long it takes to watch it. I've actually never seen any of Watkins' overtly political poo poo, only Edvard Munch.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:32 |
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Rome, Open City.Vargo posted:I was about to probate you for talking like a goddamn moron yet again but then I said this out loud and now I can't stop saying it out loud, so you win this round. I'm worming my way into your heart.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:33 |
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Maybe slightly left-field contender: Andrei Rublev, which is also maybe my pick for best religious film.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:35 |
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Excluding documentaries makes it way harder.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:42 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Excluding documentaries makes it way harder. Really? For me it makes it way easier. Documentaries present me with way too many options that are impossible to pick between, and also way too much important poo poo I haven't seen.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:44 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Maybe slightly left-field contender: Andrei Rublev, which is also maybe my pick for best religious film. More like Andgay Nublev. Diary of a Country Priest.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:49 |
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For me it's honestly pretty hard to beat Dr Strangelove.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:57 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Really? For me it makes it way easier. Documentaries present me with way too many options that are impossible to pick between, and also way too much important poo poo I haven't seen. That's true, there's at least a half dozen documentaries that spring to mind immediately - Wattstax, Harlan County U.S.A., Act of Killing, Year of The Pig, Harvest of Shame, Death of Yugoslavia, you could pretty much go on for a long time and not even get to naming the most well known ones like The Smartest Guys In The Room.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 03:57 |
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therattle posted:I just got back from Monty Python live and it was jolly good fun. I'm so happy that you guys actually say "jolly good".
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 04:26 |
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The American alternative would be yeeeeehaaa I just got back from seeing Jeff Foxworthy at the local mall and he has got me giddy as a pig on a spit, I tells ya.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 04:52 |
Why do documentaries about creepy things always kid-glove the hell out of their subjects? I watched this NatGeo documentary on Russian brides last night because I wanted to cringe, and even though all of the dudes it depicts are giant loving goonlords who do their best to dig their own graves, it only pays the barest of lip service to how hosed up the whole thing is and otherwise treats it as ~the cutest thing ever, gigglesquee!~. Like, there's about 5 minutes of talking about how the reason why people do this is because they're huge misogynists who want a submissive wife they can abuse/murder, and 45 of "oh look at this guy and his imported third-world wife! Aren't they adorable even though he's a massive goonlord and she looks like she would chew her leg off to get away from him if she had to?" From what I hear every brony documentary that's been made is also pretty much the same: all "oh it's so cool that they're redefining masculinity!" no "oh my god they made loving pony fleshlights " even though the latter is way more representative of the Brony Experience.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 04:54 |
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Why do documentaries about creepy things always kid-glove the hell out of their subjects? It sounds like you're just watching lovely documentaries.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:02 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:The American alternative would be yeeeeehaaa I just got back from seeing Jeff Foxworthy at the local mall and he has got me giddy as a pig on a spit, I tells ya. That's very offensive. We say "I'm lovin it".
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:05 |
I'm just wondering what the hell would possess someone to make a documentary about something that is 99% bad, and focus on the tiny little sliver of it that's good instead of the vast majority of it that's bad.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:05 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:The American alternative would be yeeeeehaaa I just got back from seeing Jeff Foxworthy at the local mall and he has got me giddy as a pig on a spit, I tells ya. Giddy as a pig in poo poo
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:15 |
America has a long and proud tradition of minced oaths, gosh darn it.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:19 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Maybe slightly left-field contender: Andrei Rublev, which is also maybe my pick for best religious film. Religious films bore the poo poo outta of me, and only half of Andrei Rublev bored the poo poo outta me, so it's got my vote.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:29 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I've become intrigued by this idea and I'm trying to think of the last good movie we've had like it. I kinda feel like Splice tried for it but went too contemporary-quirky instead of contemporary-mundane and also it wasn't a very good movie. It doesn't quite fit, but Upstream Color comes close. Although that one's really, really hard to classify. But amazing. Everyone should see Upstream Color.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:35 |
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SALT CURES HAM posted:America has a long and proud tradition of minced oaths, gosh darn it. dagnabbit
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 05:44 |
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MisterBibs posted:Slice Of Life: I randomly discovered an old Lucasarts game The Dig on Steam. I have a very vivid memory from my youth of a Lucasarts-heavy demo disc (vivid, I think, because it had TIE Fighter on it), of which The Dig was mentioned heavily as an upcoming, exciting game. This was at a time in my life when I couldn't just ask my parents for a new computer game every five seconds, so I never bought it. Part of me wants to pay the five bucks for it, but part of me thinks that I'll get annoyed with the circa-1995 mechanics and designs. As silly as it is, the wonderment I had about the game as a kid is inexplicably precious to me. If you like otner Lucas Arts adventure game ames and are okay with it not being a straight comedy like Monkey Island, you should definitely get The dig.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:10 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Getting back to Battle of Algiers just because I can't get it out of my head: would it be fair to call it the best political film of all time? Let's say "excluding documentaries" just to keep it fair. I don't think I've seen enough political films (I know all films are political, but gently caress you, we're talking about Battle of Algiers, not some heternormative rom com) to make a good top ten, but I can't imagine Battle of Algiers being left off that list.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:16 |
Skwirl posted:I don't think I've seen enough political films (I know all films are political, but gently caress you, we're talking about Battle of Algiers, not some heternormative rom com) to make a good top ten, but I can't imagine Battle of Algiers being left off that list. All films are political
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:24 |
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SALT CURES HAM posted:All films are political All art is political, but not all politics is artful.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:25 |
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Slice of life: I have complete respect for service animals and people who need them, but people who game the ADA so their loving nuisance rear end yappy dog can come into restaurants are the worst people.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:27 |
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SALT CURES HAM posted:All films are political I just said I knew that, fine the best political film is Raiders of the lost Arc.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:30 |
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Slice of Life: I had my most successful tweet ever today! Second semi-viral tweet in as many days! I don't remember sucking any dicks to have this kind of success, but it happened somehow. I also got caught red-handed pretending to be angry to appease a nonexistent feminist girlfriend. (EDIT: I admit this tweet wasn't my proudest moment, but really?)
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:32 |
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CloseFriend posted:I also got caught red-handed pretending to be angry to appease a nonexistent feminist girlfriend. (EDIT: I admit this tweet wasn't my proudest moment, but really?) Wow, a dumber version of Twitchy. Well, Twitchy did sell for 7 figures and I'm trying really hard to not make a Senor Speilbergo joke and just failed.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:37 |
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The Battle of Algiers is probably my favorite explicitly political film, but defining what constitutes one is more difficult than rating them. Where can I find a jacket like this one Iko Uwais rocks in The Raid 2? That isn't obscenely priced, natch. Is there a particular term for that kind of jacket?
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:49 |
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CloseFriend posted:Slice of Life: I had my most successful tweet ever today! Second semi-viral tweet in as many days! I don't remember sucking any dicks to have this kind of success, but it happened somehow. I had a revelation about a small bit of reverse sexism when I read about the Mary Barra interview, because I realized I took it for granted that male CEOs were poo poo dads.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 07:49 |
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Skwirl posted:I just said I knew that, fine the best political film is Raiders of the lost Arc. The film that shows us what would've happened if the Nazis discovered the bomb.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 08:19 |
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Horror that takes place in locales staffed and observed by upper middle class people in smart clothes. Clinical detachment, philosophical introspection externalized as New Age mad science. Martyrs.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 09:51 |
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Skwirl posted:reverse sexism We already have a word for this. The word is "sexism".
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 11:30 |
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CPL593H posted:We already have a word for this. The word is "sexism". I actually got to have this argument at work a few weeks ago, only about racism. I claimed (correctly, goddammit) that "reverse racism" is completely fictional, a term made up by white people so they can feel offended about things too. This argument came up when I mentioned an argument I had with my roommate earlier that day about Do The Right Thing, which he didn't like because he thought the movie went against it's own message because the black kids were just as racist/bad as the white people.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 11:39 |
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Yoshifan823 posted:I actually got to have this argument at work a few weeks ago, only about racism. I claimed (correctly, goddammit) that "reverse racism" is completely fictional, a term made up by white people so they can feel offended about things too. Wait, what did he think the message was?
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 11:45 |
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I Before E posted:Wait, what did he think the message was? "Racism is bad," I guess. He was annoyed because the way he saw it, the black kids were just as bad because they were insulting the pizza guy for being white, and goading him into being racist or whatever.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 12:27 |
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SALT CURES HAM posted:All films are political Well, except Transformers.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 12:29 |
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Why do documentaries about creepy things always kid-glove the hell out of their subjects? I watched this NatGeo documentary on Russian brides last night because I wanted to cringe, and even though all of the dudes it depicts are giant loving goonlords who do their best to dig their own graves, it only pays the barest of lip service to how hosed up the whole thing is and otherwise treats it as ~the cutest thing ever, gigglesquee!~. You're watching a NatGeo documentary, of course they're not going to go all-in on how creepy these people are, because they're initially broadcasting on some NatGeo channel. You can't show the extreme misogyny behind imported wives without disturbing a large portion of the audience, who only want to see an entertaining piece of information on the subject. The audience wants to be a little grossed-out because that's where the interest is, but they don't want to watch something too soul-crushing, in which case they'll simply turn it off.
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# ? Jul 2, 2014 12:41 |
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The best political movie is Gabriel Over the White House, a right wing fantasy made at the start of the Depression that posited how amazing the United States would be if the angel Gabriel took over the President's body and turned the country into a military dictatorship. It is completely sincere and totally bonkers.
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Sheldrake posted:The best political movie is Gabriel Over the White House, a right wing fantasy made at the start of the Depression that posited how amazing the United States would be if the angel Gabriel took over the President's body and turned the country into a military dictatorship. It is completely sincere and totally bonkers. This sounds doooooooooope edit: please tell me it stars a young Ronald Reagan
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