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Dissapointed Owl posted:The ambulance guys. They say, "What the gently caress happened here?" If that's his last one, that's a hell of a movie to go out on.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 19:25 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:20 |
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morestuff posted:Inland Empire. INLAND EMPIRE
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 19:53 |
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morestuff posted:Has he talked about retiring? He just can't get poo poo funded.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 20:13 |
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ChickenMedium posted:All the Rocky chat made me rewatch Rocky IV. It is the platonic ideal of "cheap cash-in." I had somehow completely forgotten that it is 10 minutes of plot and 80 minutes of montage. But Rocky wins the Cold War by absorbing approximately 300 haymakers to the face and then managing to throw about 100 of his own in the 16th round, so it still rules. Is Rocky IV even 90 minutes? It can't be.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 20:58 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Summer of Sam is weird as gently caress but I really like it. I can't think of any other serial killer movies that just focus entirely on random civilians that don't even really intersect with the serial killer plot in any meaningful way. More serial killer movies should be like this, IMO. Dissapointed Owl posted:I did not like this at all. And I am so in their court on this specific matter, but this is just weak. Pointless. Who is it trying to convince here? If you want religious people and the like to understand your position, understand the ramifications, understand why women should have the right of their own bodies, you can't blatantly put them on your screen as talking heads and do everything short of flashing "THESE ARE THE BAD GUYS AND WRONG" in the frame. It's Exhibit A in why you can't just turn your argument with someone into a film lecture. It's funny how these kinds of movies fail in different ways, too, that libertarian goldbug CGI poser movie is basically just trying to do urban fantasy (car chases, sassy alt-chick sidekick) and it may be even worse and more boring.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:26 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Also, this is a classic clip by now. Y-yes mastuh! I will obey!
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:27 |
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BOB is my favorite TV villain ever, including Marlo Stanfield, George Hearst and whoever else.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:30 |
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Even though the low point of the whole series is that drat James and an older woman subplot, I love James. It's such a weird character to be so hateable, he's just a big softie clueless hunk.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:31 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Bobby Cannavale in Boardwalk Empire (I forget his character's name) Gyp Rosetti. "Tell me about this 'spaghetti and meatballs'."
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:35 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I have not heard of this, but I had trouble getting through Rain Without Thunder so I really don't think I could stomach this kind of lecture filmmaking if I also utterly disagreed with the ideology. It's called SIlver Circle. It took me like six hours to watch because it's so goddamn boring.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:36 |
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CelticPredator posted:Isn't that the really bad PS2 quality animated movie? Yes. It is a lot worse than I was expecting. I was hoping that the fact it was CG freed them up to make a much crazier film, but it's like a really long and lovely episode of Dark Angel or something. Uncle Boogeyman posted:I really wanna go back and rewatch that whole season just for his character. The season is much stronger because it focuses on him. The fourth season is all over the place. I appreciate its scope, but once again I always think whenever Boardwalk Empire goes for scope it seems like it's flailing its arms around saying "hey, look, this show's still on the air!" HUNDU THE BEAST GOD fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Apr 13, 2014 |
# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:38 |
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Sean Young, iffy? She's always super solid in whatever I see her in.Uncle Boogeyman posted:Yeah in retrospect 3 might be the best season so far, although for me the high points of 2 are higher and 4 feels the most well-balanced. In a lot of ways the whole show is worth it to see various actors pulling faces. Shea Wigham, Michael Shannon and Michael Stuhlbarg have raised it to an artform.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:57 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:
Its his perfect hair and he's always got that puss on. I honestly don't know if he's a bad actor or not, but I imagine him growing up and turning into Ben from Blue Velvet. Uncle Boogeyman posted:The face Stuhlbarg pulls when Rosetti calls him a "smug kike midget, creeping around like a dentist with the ether" slays me every drat time. I'll never forget this but there's a good moment at the end of the second season where he's taking a phone call from Nucky and he hangs up the phone and there's a really weird pause where he feels triumphant. I don't know if it's the makeup or what but he looks like a drat ventriloquist's puppet. Its so creepy. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Apr 14, 2014 |
# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 00:23 |
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It's okay to be glib if you can back it up.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 15:14 |
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One thing I will never retract the use of "manipulative" for is soundtracks, because so many movies use dumb, obvious swells to heighten stuff best left up to the viewer. A laugh track is manipulative in an incredibly weird way, not only does it tell you you're supposed to be laughing, but it makes you laugh at stuff that isn't necessarily funny. It's weird, nervous laughter that laughs for you so you don't have to do anything at all.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 15:48 |
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TrixRabbi posted:I suppose it's a fair point about laugh tracks, but it still goes back to arguing when its done poorly. What is the ambient soundtrack in Eraserhead doing? It's telling you to feel frightened. Right, but part of what makes Eraserhead's soundtrack so good is that what it is doing is ambiguous - there are certainly frightening moments and it's a film soaked in dread, but the the soundtrack is not necessarily demanding that you be frightened. It's an uneasy soundscape for a deeply uneasy film. That's the difference to me, it's not cheap and cloying, but the Star Wars example is also good because it definitely is compelling a sense of adventure. The villain has a theme, the romantic moments have swells and so on, but it's not a substitute for the action.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 16:03 |
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penismightier posted:On the Beach would be one of the great films if it wasn't for such an overbearing score. What's worse is that it already has those great, melancholic sea sounds.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 17:26 |
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Colossus of New York is so good. So good! You know, I often wonder if that was a choice out of necessity, so many lazier and more forgettable B-films (and famously, Night of the Living Dead) use instantly recognizable library music because they couldn't afford to be scored like the studio pictures. It's so much more interesting to just deal with the diegetic sound and get this kinda weird atonal piping here and there.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 17:37 |
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It's such an atmospheric movie.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 17:53 |
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CPL593H posted:I thought that meth was the juggalo currency. No it is and always will be Faygo.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 20:10 |
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Rooney McNibnug posted:That American Juggalo documentary linked on the page isn't too bad: American Juggalo is so good.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 20:26 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:I actually like the one in Jaws with the chum bucket, mainly because I don't think there's any sting or musical cue in that moment at all. Well, his face says it all.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 21:11 |
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Carl Barks seems like a chill guy.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 16:14 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Y'know I actually got my Scrooge McDuck names mixed up, it was Don Rosa, the dude behind The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck that I met. Turns out Carl Barks has, uh, been dead for 15 years.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 16:37 |
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There should be a mod challenge for Dickeye to only talk about movies for a month.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 20:50 |
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Professor Clumsy posted:There should be a mod challenge for Dickeye to kiss CPL593H on the mouth for a month. Who's getting punished there?
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 20:54 |
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Watching Slacker (1991) for the first time. Slacker owns a lot.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 21:07 |
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Vargo posted:Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a movie, and I don't want to listen to Dickeye talk about it for a month. Goddamn, excellent comeback.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 21:19 |
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Gatts posted:Come visit me in Texas. We have this place called Redneck Heaven where the waitresses have southern drawl, made up like trailer trash in skimpy clothing, where on entering one says "Welcome to Redneck Heaven! Y'all sit where yah like, but mah face is taken!" and then as you are eating your gigantic chicken fried chicken covered in white gravy with sides one waitress can come by and tweak your nipples, while another massages your shoulders, and then another for no reason twerks in your face while you're trying to eat. They also have minnow shots (which I will not do because I value life...sorta) where you take a minnow out of a shot glass filled with water, throw it into the shot of alcohol, and then pound it down before it dies so it dies going down your gullet instead of the alcohol. Looks Delightfully Tacky Yet Unrefined.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 02:20 |
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Read On The Waterfront.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 02:37 |
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Sprecherscrow posted:Was that where Ali Davis (who wrote this: http://www.amazon.com/True-Porn-Clerk-Stories-Davis/dp/1448685249 which was originally a series of blog posts) used to work? This takes me back. I must've read these blog posts like thirty times each.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 19:36 |
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poo poo, I'm gonna buy that for my Kindle. Good for her.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 19:45 |
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Today's YTOTD is one of my favorite movies: L.A. Takedown. I honestly like it better than Heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFsPDzSbgts
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 02:38 |
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The name makes it sound like porn.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2014 17:18 |
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At David Lynch's favorite lunch spot.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2014 20:29 |
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LesterGroans posted:June 17, 1994 is one the best things. It's so good. The best. Top five list for best found footage movies ever.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 14:42 |
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Computer Chess was bad though. It's a weirdly polarizing movie for something so low-key.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 18:47 |
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Noxville posted:Q: Why don't you grow up? I'm sure there's a 40 track long punk mixtape that answers that question.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 20:35 |
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Keanu Grieves posted:The fact that it covers hockey, golf and soccer, as well as O.J. was pretty enlightening. I was nine when O.J. hopped in his Trooper, but I don't remember any of the other poo poo that was going on. (Spoilered because, even though that was at the start of the film, it was a pleasant surprise for me.) Yeah, I honestly don't remember a single one of those other things because like everyone else, I was glued to the O.J. poo poo. The way it elides the O.J. story and uses the momentum of these other events to suggest elation, doom, finality, all that stuff is really remarkable and all done without non-diegetic commentary.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 21:11 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:20 |
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Keanu Grieves posted:Did you see Must Read After My Death? I think it's constructed the same way. No but that looks really good. I'm definitely checking this out.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 21:45 |