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morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming
I hope they have some kind of script, the idea of manually screencapping thousands of images from Hotel For Dogs is horrifying

Movie chat: I am surprised by how much I liked Spring Breakers

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GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Allyn posted:

This was a couple pages back but http://movie-screencaps.com/ is the one I used once. Certainly has billions, like 80 pages of 100 images per page for Tree of Life

Holy poo poo there is screenshot for actually every frame.

Kull the Conqueror
Apr 8, 2006

Take me to the green valley,
lay the sod o'er me,
I'm a young cowboy,
I know I've done wrong

morestuff posted:

Movie chat: I am surprised by how much I liked Spring Breakers

What, you thought we were being ironic or something?

Discount Viscount
Jul 9, 2010

FIND THE FISH!

Allyn posted:

This was a couple pages back but http://movie-screencaps.com/ is the one I used once. Certainly has billions, like 80 pages of 100 images per page for Tree of Life



:mediocre:

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours
I will be extremely surprised if I see anything this year I liked more than Sicario.

Kull the Conqueror
Apr 8, 2006

Take me to the green valley,
lay the sod o'er me,
I'm a young cowboy,
I know I've done wrong

Allyn posted:

This was a couple pages back but http://movie-screencaps.com/ is the one I used once. Certainly has billions, like 80 pages of 100 images per page for Tree of Life

Good god, Tron is so beeauuuutiful

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009
Black Mass is getting some great reviews, count me surprised. I still can't get over Depp's weird make-up, but maybe making the character look like the cryptkeeper is the whole point.

Kull the Conqueror posted:

Good god, Tron is so beeauuuutiful



That looks straight out of Alladin.

Anonymous Robot
Jun 1, 2007

Lost his leg in Robo War I
My sister met a black friend at school that she describes as "not addicted to crack" and "well-spoken".

Jenny Angel
Oct 24, 2010

Out of Control
Hard to Regulate
Anything Goes!
Lipstick Apathy

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Jenny, did you make it to Sicario last night?

Nah, like I said earlier I'm in Boston right now, which doesn't seem to be showing it yet. But I'm back Sunday night, so ASAP this coming week.

EDIT: I Saw Black Mass instead, which was a fuckin clownshow

GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

I will be extremely surprised if I see anything this year I liked more than Sicario.

I wish I lived in the city.

DrVenkman
Dec 28, 2005

I think he can hear you, Ray.
Despite being a really big King fan, I only read CARRIE for the first time today: What a remarkably sad book that is.

Samuel Clemens
Oct 4, 2013

I think we should call the Avengers.

The ironic thing about these young conservatives is that many of them become liberals once they grow up. It's almost as if the political opinions someone holds as a teenager aren't very well thought out.

Jenny Angel posted:

EDIT: I Saw Black Mass instead, which was a fuckin clownshow

In a good or bad way?

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Jenny Angel posted:

Nah, like I said earlier I'm in Boston right now, which doesn't seem to be showing it yet. But I'm back Sunday night, so ASAP this coming week.

EDIT: I Saw Black Mass instead, which was a fuckin clownshow

One of these days we gotta catch something. But yeah, Sicario. gently caress everything else I saw this year that was actually released in 2015.

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Samuel Clemens posted:

The ironic thing about these young conservatives is that many of them become liberals once they grow up. It's almost as if the political opinions someone holds as a teenager aren't very well thought out.

I watched Bill O'Reilly regularly as a teen. A lot of times kids just amplify their parents' views.

Jenny Angel
Oct 24, 2010

Out of Control
Hard to Regulate
Anything Goes!
Lipstick Apathy

Samuel Clemens posted:

In a good or bad way?

Uh if you're looking for a film that checks of basic markers of competence like it's on a mission from God, then it'll be your poo poo. But the whole thing just felt so lazily considered, like there was little unifying ethos behind the production beyond "Let's see if we can't get Johnny a Best Actor" nod. The closest thing I can work out to a driving theme is that of self-denial and cognitive dissonance, but it's applied so sporadically and inconclusively that you just end up instead with the same two scenes played out over and over:

1) Whitey kills someone in a really drawn-out way, typically after making the victim think he won't kill them
2) Miserable white men in suits yell at each other

MacheteZombie
Feb 4, 2007
Yo dickeye you're west ham boys are killing manshitty the 300 million pound team.

axelblaze
Oct 18, 2006

Congratulations The One Concern!!!

You're addicted to Ivory!!

and...oh my...could you please...
oh my...

Grimey Drawer

Anonymous Robot posted:

My sister met a black friend at school that she describes as "not addicted to crack" and "well-spoken".

Sever

marblize
Sep 6, 2015
it looks like a pretty forgettable gangster flick.

I saw The Visit!

Loved it. Sucks for people who refuse to see it due to some internet video makers who love the hobbit and jurassic world. :sauce:

It's probably a pretty good "on your laptop in a dark room" movie too but seeing it with a small crowd was fun.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

Popular culture has passed you by.

Well she has a black friend, she officially cannot be racist.

Anonymous Robot
Jun 1, 2007

Lost his leg in Robo War I

Grendels Dad posted:

Well she has a black friend, she officially cannot be racist.

Which is good, because her tirades against Chinese people speaking Chinese with one another were beginning to cast her in a poor light.

Kull the Conqueror
Apr 8, 2006

Take me to the green valley,
lay the sod o'er me,
I'm a young cowboy,
I know I've done wrong

marblize posted:

it looks like a pretty forgettable gangster flick.

It looks more forgettable than Blow which is a hell of a feat.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

Popular culture has passed you by.

Anonymous Robot posted:

Which is good, because her tirades against Chinese people speaking Chinese with one another were beginning to cast her in a poor light.

I know how you must feel, ever since I've watched Audition with my girlfriend she has an irrational fear of Asian women that can make conversations very awkward.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours
Was it really necessary to do the whole prosthesis on Johnny Depp like that?

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Jenny Angel posted:

Uh if you're looking for a film that checks of basic markers of competence like it's on a mission from God, then it'll be your poo poo. But the whole thing just felt so lazily considered, like there was little unifying ethos behind the production beyond "Let's see if we can't get Johnny a Best Actor" nod. The closest thing I can work out to a driving theme is that of self-denial and cognitive dissonance, but it's applied so sporadically and inconclusively that you just end up instead with the same two scenes played out over and over:

1) Whitey kills someone in a really drawn-out way, typically after making the victim think he won't kill them
2) Miserable white men in suits yell at each other

Yeah it's kinda disjointed and it ends really abruptly.

FishBulb
Mar 29, 2003

Marge, I'd like to be alone with the sandwich for a moment.

Are you going to eat it?

...yes...

Grendels Dad posted:

I know how you must feel, ever since I've watched Audition with my girlfriend she has an irrational fear of Asian women that can make conversations very awkward.

I used to have a friend like that but instead of an irrational fear it was an irrational boner

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Grendels Dad posted:

I know how you must feel, ever since I've watched Audition with my girlfriend she has an irrational fear of Asian women that can make conversations very awkward.

Show her Single White Female so she'll flip out anytime a friend wants to borrow a sweater.

Jenny Angel
Oct 24, 2010

Out of Control
Hard to Regulate
Anything Goes!
Lipstick Apathy

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Yeah it's kinda disjointed and it ends really abruptly.

Here's a fun game to play re: Black Mass: can you point to a specific scene and say "that's the climax"? If so, is that scene tense or exciting enough to work as an actual climax? My answers below

1) Corey Stoll interviewing a bunch of crooks in an interrogation room I guess
2) No

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

Popular culture has passed you by.

Skwirl posted:

Show her Single White Female so she'll flip out anytime a friend wants to borrow a sweater.

I don't think I can replicate the circumstances that made her freak out at Audition so much, it was lightning in a bottle.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Allyn posted:

This was a couple pages back but http://movie-screencaps.com/ is the one I used once. Certainly has billions, like 80 pages of 100 images per page for Tree of Life

That's exactly what I was thinking of. It's selection of films is, eclectic.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours
I just want to go up to people today and grab them by the lapels to tell them to see Sicario. The Revenant also looks really good.

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming
One day Chicago will get included in that "Limited Release" window

Jenny Angel
Oct 24, 2010

Out of Control
Hard to Regulate
Anything Goes!
Lipstick Apathy

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

I just want to go up to people today and grab them by the lapels to tell them to see Sicario.

This is more for 'I wanna hear your perspective' than 'I need convincing', but please explain why in one sentence

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Jenny Angel posted:

This is more for 'I wanna hear your perspective' than 'I need convincing', but please explain why in one sentence

One of the reasons I like Prisoners so much is how it achieves that strange effect of implying a whole world outside of the film.

I'm not talking about backstory or even necessarily three dimensionality, but Villeneuve is amazing at just playing with a lot of different textures in a way that doesn't jar. You not only believe in the utterly preposterous Central Pennsylvania bad boy Detective Loki but also kind of want to read his eight novel Carl Hiassen series or whatever. Novelistic in this sense meaning that you don't just see a world that is mere depiction but leaves distinct impressions. Watching a Villenueve movie gives me the odd feeling of hearing the scene described in my head, something I think P.T. Anderson achieves from time to time. Not that this is the ultimate virtue of film; some might even call that a detriment that it doesn't seem fully and comprehensively visual. But the flipside of that is that it allows him to pare down aggressively and work in this extremely confident style. A lot of times, when I see a great shot in a movie, I often feel that it looks great and ultimately is meant for me to reflect on later if I want to think about the movie, but Villeneuve's confidence is to immediately contextualize it, not so that you are funneled into your interpretation of it but so there is no wasted momentum.

There's a great shot I think a lot of directors would have shied away from. During a trek to a rendezvous, Villeneuve allows the mood to be totally spoiled by deflating the grimness of the combatants to let an absolutely amazing vista dominate the frame almost to remind you that you are always seeing some perspective or another. None of this can be confused for realism. It was a nice reminder of what at times seems like the inappropriate sense of humor Miss Bala has.

Also because I like to indulge this kind of thing: it is a pseudosequel to Zero Dark Thirty. It treats the raid on Osama's House of Horrors as the beginning to talk about what closing the circle means in U.S. foreign policy and how justified ends are not the end of anything by any means.

Jenny Angel
Oct 24, 2010

Out of Control
Hard to Regulate
Anything Goes!
Lipstick Apathy
That's a fantastic post, thank you!

I also wanna confirm that I'm not ignoring your "we should catch something" suggestion from earlier - in fact, I agree - it's just that I have crippling social anxiety is all.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours
You and me both, kid.

Snak
Oct 10, 2005

I myself will carry you to the Gates of Valhalla...
You will ride eternal,
shiny and chrome.
Grimey Drawer
Definitely none of us have that which is why were are on these forums all day.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

Popular culture has passed you by.

Snak posted:

Definitely none of us have that which is why were are on these forums all day.

A forum is by definition and the literal meaning of the word a public place, I'm being social as I type this!

DrVenkman
Dec 28, 2005

I think he can hear you, Ray.
I spent the whole week fretting over my cousins 30th birthday party because I have issues socialising. It's the most fun.

Also, Chris Pine has a great introduction in STRETCH.

wyoming
Jun 7, 2010

Like a television
tuned to a dead channel.

GonSmithe posted:

I'm really happy a 12 year old who wants to vote for Ted Cruz is getting national coverage because of his opinions on the president. We seriously live in a day and age where a 12 year old with a good vocabulary spouting nonsense is getting news coverage.
My favorite part is conservatives hoping to it because the kid is black and saying bad things about Black Lives Matter and gay people, mostly because they'd be demonizing him if he said the opposite.

My third grade class voted in Ross Perot.

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UnknownMercenary
Nov 1, 2011

I LIKE IT
WAY WAY TOO LOUD


HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

I will be extremely surprised if I see anything this year I liked more than Sicario.

The Martian was funny and made me feel really good, but Sicario is definitely sticking with me more. Here's hoping the rain lets up so I can get into the city to catch Beasts of No Nation.

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