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FilthyImp posted:I feel like we're a few weeks to going back to the old Hollywood model where Disney just straight owns AMC and Paramount picks up Regal or something. I've said it before, I'd be okay with this if A24 got to own its own personal chain and one was located near me.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I've said it before, I'd be okay with this if A24 got to own its own personal chain and one was located near me.
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Jul 19, 2020 03:20
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So this morning I went down to walmart, and in the 50 cent bargain bin was a movie I'd heard a lot about but never seen: Apocalypse Now. Got home and put it in. I think that is the single most exhausting movie I've ever seen.
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Cythereal posted:So this morning I went down to walmart, and in the 50 cent bargain bin was a movie I'd heard a lot about but never seen: Apocalypse Now. Got home and put it in. I think that is the single most exhausting movie I've ever seen. Dont worry, theres a 5 hour long cut of the film that will take that exhaustion to a new level
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Was it the Redux version (3 1/2 hours)? e;f,b because I didn’t refresh the tab
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Some immediate reactions: My first and foremost gut reaction: that nighttime scene at the American-held bridge under attack is one of the most surreal things I've ever seen. Kilgore was low-key one of the more haunting things about the movie for me, I think. More horrifying than Kurtz, in my book. People in the movie at least acknowledge that Kurtz is a lunatic. No one seems concerned about Kilgore. Kurtz... bored me, honestly. He just didn't have the presence he was built up to have, for me.
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Jul 19, 2020 16:53
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That seems fair. He was authentically phoning it in and all. I think people realising the Vietnam war wasn't all sunshine and roses was already radical at the time.
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FilthyImp posted:drat. A24 pairing up with Landmark Theatres and just having one or two screens always play one of their films would be choice. Landmark is already owned by the same people who own Magnolia.
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Cythereal posted:Some immediate reactions: If you can find it (no idea if it's streaming anywhere or not) you should watch Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the documentary about Apocalypse Now's filming.
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Chairman Capone posted:If you can find it (no idea if it's streaming anywhere or not) you should watch Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the documentary about Apocalypse Now's filming. Seeing that really explains Brando's performance. That they managed to get anything out of that mess is incredible.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That seems fair. He was authentically phoning it in and all. I think people realising the Vietnam war wasn't all sunshine and roses was already radical at the time. Was Apocalypse Now the laziest Brando's ever been? I know he refused to learn his lines and was filmed in shadow to hide how fat he'd become. I believe Island of Dr Moreau is a close contender.
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davidspackage posted:Was Apocalypse Now the laziest Brando's ever been? I know he refused to learn his lines and was filmed in shadow to hide how fat he'd become. I believe Island of Dr Moreau is a close contender. It has nothing on The Score. That's the one where he refused to put on pants for a wide shot and kept saying that he wouldn't be directed by "fuckin' Miss Piggy" so Oz had to give notes to De Niro and have him casually mention them to Brando like they were his idea.
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Cythereal posted:Some immediate reactions: I rewatched Apocalypse Now recently, and it was quite different in tone to my memories. The things that I remembered were the quotable lines ("Charlie don't surf") and moments of action. But on rewatch it was so different, like a hallucination or slowly going crazy. Even the French plantation had that feel - everyone here is deluded and Willard can only silently observe.
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I think thats why the film works, it never feels totally real and becomes more unreal as it goes. Kilgore is great because the comedy eases you in and the the comedy vanishes and all you are left is the grimness.
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davidspackage posted:Was Apocalypse Now the laziest Brando's ever been? I know he refused to learn his lines and was filmed in shadow to hide how fat he'd become. I believe Island of Dr Moreau is a close contender. Probably, but Coppola managed to make that perfomance iconic, while Dr Moreau was actively sabotaged by Brando's antics
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Barudak posted:I think thats why the film works, it never feels totally real and becomes more unreal as it goes. Kilgore is great because the comedy eases you in and the the comedy vanishes and all you are left is the grimness. Kilgore never felt like comedy to me. I picked up immediately that he was crazy, completely detached from the reality of killing in favor of being obsessed with surfing. The whole movie was a slow, unnerving descent into madness. Which is why I think Kurtz being such a weak part of the film really hurt it. For the epicenter of the madness, he was just a quiet guy with no presence or gravitas, he didn't even feel crazy or unnerving to me. The final shot of Willard, half naked and covered in blood, staring out at the crowd as they kneeled before him had more power in three seconds than Kurtz's entire part in the film.
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Jul 20, 2020 12:27
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nonathlon posted:I rewatched Apocalypse Now recently, and it was quite different in tone to my memories. The things that I remembered were the quotable lines ("Charlie don't surf") and moments of action. But on rewatch it was so different, like a hallucination or slowly going crazy. Even the French plantation had that feel - everyone here is deluded and Willard can only silently observe.
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Jul 20, 2020 13:15
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never liked any iteration of the Heart of Darkness story. Painting native ppls as just a canvass for the white hero's emotional state always gave me a bad taste.
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Cythereal posted:So this morning I went down to walmart, and in the 50 cent bargain bin was a movie I'd heard a lot about but never seen: Apocalypse Now. Got home and put it in. I think that is the single most exhausting movie I've ever seen. What went on behind the scenes was also exhausting as well.
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I wonder if somewhere out there is a script that made Apocalypse Now the origin story for Chop Top from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:What went on behind the scenes was also exhausting as well.
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Cythereal posted:Kilgore never felt like comedy to me. I picked up immediately that he was crazy, completely detached from the reality of killing in favor of being obsessed with surfing. The whole movie was a slow, unnerving descent into madness. I disagree none at all with Kurtz. When I finally saw the film for the first time after years of cultural osmosis it felt like by far the weakest aspect of the movie. The film still works, but you're right the intensity is coming from everything but Kurtz. As for Kilgore he is so detached from the killing its farcical, like you somehow believe he cannot die because he is so certain of his obsessions and so blase about the killing. As death tightens on the characters as the film progresses you become very aware of that lie. Its been a long time since I watched it but my memory was thinking of Kilgore as less the soldiers fighting but the people with "vietnam era veteran" hats envisage themselves to have been if they got sent.
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Tenet is now TBA https://twitter.com/loudmouthjulia/status/1285251274355736577?s=21
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Jul 20, 2020 17:37
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Good, gently caress you Nolan.
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nonathlon posted:I rewatched Apocalypse Now recently, and it was quite different in tone to my memories. The things that I remembered were the quotable lines ("Charlie don't surf") and moments of action. But on rewatch it was so different, like a hallucination or slowly going crazy. Even the French plantation had that feel - everyone here is deluded and Willard can only silently observe. The plantation scene really kills the pacing of the redux/final cut movie but I think it thematically works if you view the French as ghosts.
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Cats & Dogs 3! It's real!quote:It's up to Roger the Dog (#MaxGreenfield) and Gwen the Cat (#MelissaRauch) to thwart the im-paws-ibly diabolical scheme of an evil parrot (#GeorgeLopez) determined to restart the war between cats and dogs! Hashtags in the youtube description are also real! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct5mQYE3Xk4
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It just made me think of the song “It’s raining men” and made me think Cats and Dogs 3: It’s Raining Men should be an absurdist disaster movie where they have to set aside their differences to weather the rain of men
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aware of dog posted:Tenet is now TBA Regal has been sticking to a 7/31 planned reopening date, this will probably push that back.
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Cythereal posted:So this morning I went down to walmart, and in the 50 cent bargain bin was a movie I'd heard a lot about but never seen: Apocalypse Now. Got home and put it in. I think that is the single most exhausting movie I've ever seen. I never understood that thought about Apocalypse Now being an exhausting movie... ...until I watched it in the theater. I saw the (then-new) restoration of the theatrical cut when it played at the Castro in San Francisco and holy poo poo, now I understand why. It's just bombarding you with fever dream imagery and a wall of sound from every direction.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Cats & Dogs 3! It's real! So after all this time the cats and dogs are teaming up against birds?
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davidspackage posted:Was Apocalypse Now the laziest Brando's ever been? I know he refused to learn his lines and was filmed in shadow to hide how fat he'd become. I believe Island of Dr Moreau is a close contender. For Superman he learned zero lines; everything he says in that movie was hidden somewhere on the set for him to read, including on the baby's diaper. Brando had a weird thing where, when he would show up on set, he'd begin to suggest weird or dumb things to put into the movie and his performance, and if a director went "uh huh, sounds great, we'll try that!" he decided that guy was a doormat and would literally turn the rest of time he was on set turning the director into a shell of a man. If the guy told him "go gently caress yourself, Marlon, hit this mark, do the lines, deal with it" he'd actually do the (minimum amount of) work required of him.
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davidspackage posted:Was Apocalypse Now the laziest Brando's ever been? I know he refused to learn his lines and was filmed in shadow to hide how fat he'd become. I believe Island of Dr Moreau is a close contender. It could have been a contender!
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Ror posted:It has nothing on The Score. That's the one where he refused to put on pants for a wide shot and kept saying that he wouldn't be directed by "fuckin' Miss Piggy" so Oz had to give notes to De Niro and have him casually mention them to Brando like they were his idea. Oz and Bobby also had to deal with Edward Norton on that one. It's amazing the movie turned out enjoyable.
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Presumably Edward Norton at least let Frank Oz be in the room to direct. I don't remember him and Brando having a scene together, though maybe I'm forgetting something.
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I think all three of them have one or two scenes together, but I don't think there are any with just Brando and Norton. I need to watch that again, I remember it being a really good little film that takes it's time and the twists and turns actually make sense.
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I was just wondering whatever happened to George Lopez.
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im surprised they dont dump New Mutants on streaming, now is the best time since "We don't need no education" in gregorian choir can be the "Schoooools out....forever!" of 2020 since they are all death traps now
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Honestly I would pay the $30 or however much they're charging for new release movies on streaming just out of pity for the poor movie. It's been through so much.
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