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I'm pretty sure "Bat Guano" was an allusion to the phrase "bat poo poo crazy".
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Hughlander posted:King Kong - All for the love of a gril It was barbecue killed the beast.
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Hughlander posted:One thing I really liked on Dr. Strangelove is every character name is some sort of sexual reference / innuendo. Just to really drive home the masculine/sex = war message. Even better, I believe his full name is Muffy Merkin. E: Just checked, it's Merkin Muffley 
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Men in Tights is good and funny. Dave Chappelle doesn't have a better film role (maybe Blue Streak or Half Baked come close, but still). Naked Gun is fantastic, and I have a soft spot for Wrongfully Accused because the Fugitive is so good. My favourite scene from WA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJHXDgIq9w When I first saw it as a kid I think I injured something from laughing so hard. Watching it now, it's still very good and Leslie Neilson is a (Canadian) national treasure who should be on one of our bills (get rid of one of the more racist Prime Ministers maybe)
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Pook Good Mook posted:George C Scott was a weird dude. Have you ever seen Hardcore? Probably shouldn't discuss that movie in this thread because there is NOTHING subtle about that movie.
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Krispy Kareem posted:So many films don't hold up. Even Blazing Saddles suffers because the N word stopped being hilarious around 1987. I beg to differ, in the right context. "THE NEW SHERRIFF IS A N-*bongggg*" for instance.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I beg to differ, in the right context. "THE NEW SHERRIFF IS A N-*bongggg*" for instance. "The sheriff is near!"
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Isn't anyone going to help that poor man!?
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Lili Von Schtupt is probably one of my favourite characters. "I've been viz THOUSANDS of men! Again and again! They all sing the same tune. They start with Byron and Shelley, then Jump on my belly and BUST my BALLOONS!"
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Shut up you Teutonic Twat! How anyone can say Blazing Saddles doesn't hold up clearly hasn't watched it in a while. And Spaceballs can be forgiven all of its failed jokes for it's Alien parody.
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Mandrake is an aphrodisiac? I thought it just killed people.
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Samovar posted:Mandrake is an aphrodisiac? I thought it just killed people. I mostly remember it from a gross Heavy Metal comic and uh Pan's Labyrinth. The mythological one comes from the last jizz of a hanged man iirc.
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syscall girl posted:I mostly remember it from a gross Heavy Metal comic and uh Pan's Labyrinth. The mythological one comes from the last jizz of a hanged man iirc. That is pretty metal though
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Schneider Inside Her posted:That is pretty metal though It was a good comic
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Krispy Kareem posted:So many films don't hold up. Even Blazing Saddles suffers because the N word stopped being hilarious around 1987. Blazing Saddles is about the absurdity of racism though? That's why the main character is basically the only one who's not an idiot.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Blazing Saddles is about the absurdity of racism though? That's why the main character is basically the only one who's not an idiot. Yes, but racism was pretty prevalent in 1970's cinema. I'm sure that's just a reflection on 1970's America, but it's still pretty jarring to watch now. Blazing Saddles may or may not have been trying to flip that word on its head, but it wasn't like a lot of movies weren't using it unironically.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Spaceballs can be forgiven all of its failed jokes for it's Alien parody.
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I was dubious about Blazing Saddles being in the subtle movie thread until I remembered this movie.
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Pilchenstein posted:That and the "when will then be now?" scene. Sir, the radar appears to be jammed! Raspberry!!!
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MariusLecter posted:Sir, the radar appears to be jammed! "That's not all he's lost."
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"Wr captured their stunt doubles!" gets a Sensible Chuckle.
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Spaceballs da Flamethrowa!
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I really like the theology in the Daniel Radcliffe movie Horns:The titular curse is a explicitly a punishment for raging against God's will and trashing his late girlfriends shrine while very drunk, but also gives him the tools that he needs to finally get closure and get some good old fashioned Old-Testament style Justice. That plus him being allowed in heaven despite succumbing completely to his Devil side so that he can be with his girlfriend forever speaks to the idea that God in this movie is straddling the line between Vengeful and Merciful - it does a really good job with the old idea that He works in "mysterious ways", and makes him being vengeful and kind simultaneously easier to swallow - it's like He's saying "Look, you really shouldn't have done that, but you have a really genuine beef and it was a lovely situation, so i'll throw you a bone mate!"
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Goodfellas is on TV. I never noticed that in the scene where they introduce Maury (the neurotic guy who owns the toupee store) it's a commercial for his toupees. In the commercial he's saying how his toupees stay on even when wet and he jumps in a pool. There's a quick cut (in the commercial) from the splash to him standing in the shallow end, his body is wet but the toupee is 100% dry (because they clearly just put on a dry toupee during the cut). It's a brilliant little bit of character development, especially because the movie makes some efforts to show that aside from hanging out with bad people, the viewer might think that Maury is a "good person."
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Weird! I just now watched it on Netflix with my brother! Anyway I've seen it like 20+ times and only today did I realize that when they're all coked up and "getting started on dinner early", it's fuckin 9am Not that subtle though, I guess I'm just a bit slow
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Powaqoatse posted:Anyway I've seen it like 20+ times and only today did I realize that when they're all coked up and "getting started on dinner early", it's fuckin 9am That's just how Italians cook.
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WampaLord posted:That's just how Italians cook. Yea, if your red sauce doesn't cook for at least 8 hours it's poo poo.
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syscall girl posted:I mostly remember it from a gross Heavy Metal comic and uh Pan's Labyrinth. The mythological one comes from the last jizz of a hanged man iirc. loving hell. David Carradine's house must be overgrown.
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Drunken Baker posted:loving hell. David Carradine's house must be overgrown. Last It's just some hotel in Thailand where the housekeeping staff keep drawing straws to see who will go and pull up the latest screaming root vegetable e: wait this could start a language dispute about harvard commas or something though last jizz of a hanged man could mean he jizzed multiple times while hanging himself multiple times and only the last one roots, or that it's the ffffff
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Tumble posted:Yea, if your red sauce doesn't cook for at least 8 hours it's poo poo. Goddamn. I usually don't bother with more than an hour at the most Also their dinner is at like 10:30 pm so that's a p deece 13 hour sauce
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Krispy Kareem posted:Considering how many real takes Kubrick made his actors perform, I kind of doubt he put too many "practice takes" in the movie. Maybe he wasn't as anal back then. Famously in the Shining, he would have Nicholson do a "joke take" of him being overly, jovially creepy instead of just murderous. Then they would do many takes of the serious stuff until Kubrick was satisfied, dozens of takes later, then he used the joke takes because he liked them most. Either he manipulates actors to get one good take then grinds them to dust via exhaustion, or he just really didn't get the non-joke-take he was looking for. Either way, Kubrick had a history of it
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Pook Good Mook posted:Goodfellas is on TV. I never noticed that in the scene where they introduce Maury (the neurotic guy who owns the toupee store) it's a commercial for his toupees. In the commercial he's saying how his toupees stay on even when wet and he jumps in a pool. There's a quick cut (in the commercial) from the splash to him standing in the shallow end, his body is wet but the toupee is 100% dry (because they clearly just put on a dry toupee during the cut). Also, his toupee slips off instantly once Robert De Niro starts grabbing him, further showing that his commercial is full of poo poo. (I think everyone noticed this one though)
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Talking in the IIMM thread reminded me of something that was in Wonder Woman that I liked. The sniper says it's easier to shoot someone if you can't see their face. Then when he needs to countersnipe, he can't shoot because he sees the man's face.. So far so obvious, though I was almost impressed that someone in the movie didn't point this out out-loud. Later in the third act, he is shooting people left and right at close range but having no difficulties. This is at least in part because all the bad guys are wearing gas masks to protect them from the super alchemy death gas. Again, "subtle" really only in the context of comic book movie. More like the movie version of the "little things in games" kind of thing.
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We were discussing the Nic Cage National Treasure movies in CD and it turns out there's a bunch of subtle moments in those filmsquote:The guy who gets his car stolen by Ed Harris in London is the same guy who got his car stolen by Sean Connery in The Rock, another of Jerry Bruckheimer's movies which also starred Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris. Also all the main characters are named after founding fathers, the bad guys are named after British generals from the Revolutionary War, when the bad guys are making their plans they're in the Watergate hotel, etc etc..
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marshmallow creep posted:Talking in the IIMM thread reminded me of something that was in Wonder Woman that I liked. The sniper says it's easier to shoot someone if you can't see their face. Then when he needs to countersnipe, he can't shoot because he sees the man's face.. So far so obvious, though I was almost impressed that someone in the movie didn't point this out out-loud. Later in the third act, he is shooting people left and right at close range but having no difficulties. This is at least in part because all the bad guys are wearing gas masks to protect them from the super alchemy death gas. Yea, that was really great to show Diana's idea of good and evil. She has no problem getting right up in their faces and wrecking the Germans cause they're "corrupted" by Ares. It's okay. Sniper Scot on the other hand...
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MariusLecter posted:Yea, that was really great to show Diana's idea of good and evil. She has no problem getting right up in their faces and wrecking the Germans cause they're "corrupted" by Ares. It's okay. That said, I'm pretty sure Diana doesn't actually use her sword until after the village gets bombed. Until then she seems mostly content with hitting dudes until they get out of her way and smacking them with her shield. Like, she understands that this is a war and these guys need to be stopped but she's at least trying to be nonlethal. Until she gets mad, anyway.
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Polaron posted:That said, I'm pretty sure Diana doesn't actually use her sword until after the village gets bombed. Until then she seems mostly content with hitting dudes until they get out of her way and smacking them with her shield. Like, she understands that this is a war and these guys need to be stopped but she's at least trying to be nonlethal. Until she gets mad, anyway. I quite liked that her main combat strategy in the early stages was almost exclusively anti-weapon stuff- breaking guns and destroying machine gun emplacements, loving up dudes' footing and the like.
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An old one - I think my favourite character in Mary Poppins, in retrospect, may be Mrs Banks, because her suffragette movements are understated, and treated kind of like a joke certainly, but her effectiveness is shown. She knows how to play a situation. During Step In Time, for everyone else the Chimney Sweep Chorus just happens to them - the maid and Mr Banks both accidentally seed a verse without realising it then get stuck in the dance trying to escape - Mrs Banks sees this and intentionally seeds the next verse. You can see a devious little grin as she recognises the situation and makes brief use of it by setting the phrase for the next verse: VOTES FOR WOMEN! Votes for Women step in time... She also leads the dance for that verse as well if i remember correctly. She's actually kind of badass. I kind of want to see one of her suffragette meetings to see how effective she really is at rallying her girls. 
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BioEnchanted posted:An old one - I think my favourite character in Mary Poppins, in retrospect, may be Mrs Banks, because her suffragette movements are understated, and treated kind of like a joke certainly, but her effectiveness is shown. She knows how to play a situation. During Step In Time, for everyone else the Chimney Sweep Chorus just happens to them - the maid and Mr Banks both accidentally seed a verse without realising it then get stuck in the dance trying to escape - Mrs Banks sees this and intentionally seeds the next verse. You can see a devious little grin as she recognises the situation and makes brief use of it by setting the phrase for the next verse: VOTES FOR WOMEN! I have two young daughters and as such have watched Mary Poppins about 20 times in the past year and I've never noticed this. Nice one.
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