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I have never seen I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse. I just saw From Dusk Til Dawn last night. I've never seen The Pianist or North By Northwest, but went out of my way to see Knife in the Water and Frenzy.
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The book is but the movie sure as hell isn't.
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Jun 2, 2010 00:51
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There is nothing essential whatsoever in Godfather III, especially next to two of the greatest films of all time.FitFortDanga posted:I won't recommend since I'm already in the cycle (just put Shrek on hold at the library!) but I would say 7 or 8 of those are overrated to some degree. But they're all worth watching, in any case, although I've never seen La Regle du Jeu.
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Jun 2, 2010 03:00
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Yeah, I gotta say I really intensely disliked Cinema Paradiso and I don't really remember why.
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Jun 2, 2010 21:57
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The sequels (especially Rambo III) are much more amusing and disturbing taking into account the premise of First Blood. Are we to take it that the government got hold of John Rambo, managed to successfully re-indoctrinate him (probably at the hands of the CIA) to the point of erasing his history in exchange for clemency for his crimes? This kinda makes him a one-man Kurtz, the perfect mercenary, an utterly remorseless, autonomous psychopath on a swivel to be pointed at the enemy of the week.
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Jun 4, 2010 21:30
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That bottom 15 list is loving awesome.
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Nov 14, 2013 21:05
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Good take on it, but think about this: is someone who contracts cancer deserving of what they got?
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Feb 21, 2014 15:35
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Chili posted:Of course not, but this is a film and a work of fiction. All I'm saying is that the transformation would have been weightier if it were brought on by a flaw. Right, but that is the "horror" of "body horror". We are all trapped in vessels that can capriciously betray us. I think that's what elevates the film, Seth is not a hubristic mad scientist (he is, a bit, just like the also ridiculously named Stathis Borans is a total rear end in a top hat but heroically intervenes because he wants to save Ronnie's life) but a mortal who is both fascinated and frightened by something happening to him that he has no specific control over. It's much more poignant that he isn't a Victor Frankensteinesque megalomaniac.
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Feb 21, 2014 23:56
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TrixRabbi posted:Yeah, Leon is a good movie, but it's not great and I don't quite get where the obsession comes from. However, it is one of Gary Oldman's best performances. That mystery is real easy to solve.
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Jun 4, 2014 17:28
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Night of the Living Dead is a better movie specifically because they never address Ben's race.
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Jun 9, 2014 16:03
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I thought Shaun of the Dead was one of the most larded, purposeful scripts I'd ever seen until I saw Hot Fuzz. It's Swiss watch comedy. drat near everything is called back, relevant to some minor background gag, is either the set up or the payoff to another joke, etc.
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Aug 18, 2014 14:44
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The two guys Spade regularly disarms are professional criminals, but are hardly tough guys. One's a kid and the other is Peter Lorre.
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Sep 22, 2014 02:39
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Anybody can be tough with a gun in their hand. Spade's repeated dressing down of the kid is making a point about Sam Spade; he's seasoned, unimpressed by "tough guys", knows how to size people up, knows that getting the drop on someone, etc, trumps standing around with a scowl on your face. The kid is even wearing a suit that's too big for him to try and look more impressive. Lorre is a slimy dandy of ambiguous allegiance. He's quite serious about his obsession with the Falcon but isn't really committed to hurting anyone. It's not really a story about Sam Spade being seriously imperiled and I think it comes off well. I think a lot of times people expect a noir hero to be like Mike Hammer, who at times is just a seething, obsessive brawler, but Spade is more like Sherlock Holmes, spending more time rolling cigarettes and pondering over riddles rather than getting into bar brawls.
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Sep 22, 2014 14:12
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Yeah, they allude to that a couple of times and Gutman's near-amusement at that revelation seals it. It's almost like "ah, of course! See you in Tangiers, then..."
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Sep 23, 2014 01:15
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Until 1989 (I believe), South Korea was also ruled by a military dictatorship.
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Oct 11, 2014 07:28
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XenJ posted:Why? give me a example for a movie that is as DC version not better as the normal... Let's start with the obvious one: Apocalypse Now: Redux.
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Oct 11, 2014 18:12
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Yeah, literally everything about Bogie and Grant is pretty dissimilar.
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Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart is actually a better argument for "pretty similar".
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