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Basebf555 posted:I watched Short Cuts and realized how much of it P.T. Anderson ripped off for Magnolia. One hundred percent of it? DeimosRising posted:i tend to agree but otoh, the beer hall putsch was also a joke carried out by incompetents and amateurs and look what they went on to accomplish Sure but what's the point of the S.A. when those guys can simply become cops or judges or politicians? It's not like any of them will get in trouble for it. Beer Hall Putsch is ominous because Hitler and a few others actually went to prison. All these people fanning themselves and fainting on TV really do the public a complete disservice when just last month they were making excuses for why ICE still exists or snapping at people who dared to say you should give the police one dollar less.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:One hundred percent of it? Well if I'm being generous to Anderson, which I'm inclined to be because I love his films, I might make the argument that Magnolia is more of a response to Short Cuts rather than just an imitation. I feel like the characters in Magnolia learn more, have more important revelations, and I come away from the movie with more hope than I went into it with. Short Cuts is more of a gut punch. Best example is the "acts of God" that take place at the end of both films, the one in Short Cuts seems to have the opposite purpose as the one in Magnolia. These are all my very initial thoughts on having only seen Short Cuts the one time, so I may feel differently when I watch it again.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:One hundred percent of it? Oh absolutely, like the ultimate line that cannot be crossed is federal property damage but all the actual, real violence before that was fine. The prison thing is a good point - Hitler and pals got to go stew and plan and organize. Which is why America just never lets political prisoners out at all.
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Is Jonathan Pollard free? That dude was the best, he approached an Admiral in the Aus Navy and said "wanna buy secrets" so that dude called the government and was all "America is trying to do a really awkward obvious sting on me to root out leaks please call the CIA and tell them I'm a good boy" but no, that's just Pollard bein' wild for free
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The Peccadillo posted:Is Jonathan Pollard free? That dude was the best, he approached an Admiral in the Aus Navy and said "wanna buy secrets" so that dude called the government and was all "America is trying to do a really awkward obvious sting on me to root out leaks please call the CIA and tell them I'm a good boy" but no, that's just Pollard bein' wild for free  
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Safety Factor posted:I hope this old man's crude scribbles answer your question. 
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Oh this weird SMG rec is on Amazon if you can't watch YouTube on a TV and have amazon, too .It's pretty bananas! Editing to make you wild and more movies should spend half their time meandering Thai canyons The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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DeimosRising posted:Oh absolutely, like the ultimate line that cannot be crossed is federal property damage but all the actual, real violence before that was fine. The prison thing is a good point - Hitler and pals got to go stew and plan and organize. Which is why America just never lets political prisoners out at all. We see how America treats people it deems to actually be threatening, all these geeks combined would not get half the scrutiny of a Leonard Peltier or Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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God drat Bringing Out the Dead is underappreciated as gently caress. I first saw it over 20 years ago when I was a silly high school kid and thought it was kinda meh. Rewatched it last night, and it's incredible.
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Spatulater bro! posted:God drat Bringing Out the Dead is underappreciated as gently caress. I first saw it over 20 years ago when I was a silly high school kid and thought it was kinda meh. Rewatched it last night, and it's incredible.
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Spatulater bro! posted:God drat Bringing Out the Dead is underappreciated as gently caress. I first saw it over 20 years ago when I was a silly high school kid and thought it was kinda meh. Rewatched it last night, and it's incredible. Yeah. It definitely feels as if it were someone’s first script, right? Ambitious but highly constructed, a little too much artifice, a little too slick and clever, lacking a human quality that would come from a touch more naturalism. But it goes in a way that very few pictures dare.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Yeah. It definitely feels as if it were someone’s first script, right? Ambitious but highly constructed, a little too much artifice, a little too slick and clever, lacking a human quality that would come from a touch more naturalism. But it goes in a way that very few pictures dare. That's a great way to describe it. It does almost feel like an amateur film made by a seasoned pro. Like if Cronenberg made Scanners today.
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That's what I get from most of Scorcese's films, honestly- he's got this endless reserve of enthusiasm for the act of making movies that means you'll always get something crazy.
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Spatulater bro! posted:That's a great way to describe it. It does almost feel like an amateur film made by a seasoned pro. Like if Cronenberg made Scanners today. I mean, Bringing Out the Dead was directed by Scorsese.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:We see how America treats people it deems to actually be threatening, all these geeks combined would not get half the scrutiny of a Leonard Peltier or Mumia Abu-Jamal. Yankee freaks dropped bombs on that black power group in Chicago and killed a bunch of families, probably not gonna shoot any of these guys kids
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Oh hell yeah The Magic Christian is on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE2zTnOJ94I
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The Peccadillo posted:Yankee freaks dropped bombs on that black power group in Chicago and killed a bunch of families, probably not gonna shoot any of these guys kids Most of the surviving members of MOVE are still in prison to this day, meanwhile shitheads like Tom Metzger die in their homes surrounded by their grandkids.
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Robert Seth Hayes died a few days after being released from prison, during the height of the film Black Panther’s popularity, and these fucks were using his picture in marvel movie collages without even knowing who he was or that he had died. It was beyond infuriating.
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Spatulater bro! posted:God drat Bringing Out the Dead is underappreciated as gently caress. I first saw it over 20 years ago when I was a silly high school kid and thought it was kinda meh. Rewatched it last night, and it's incredible. Thank you for reminding me I bought that movie recently, I remember watching it about the same time as you did and I havent seen it since, all I really remember of it is Cage doing a Cage, it taking place entirely at night (my favorite trope!), and being enraptured by it as I watched. This isnt TVIV, but I've also been whiling away my empty night-shifts by re-watching Oz, it didnt occur to me twenty years ago just how ridiculously insecure Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary was. I remember it being a hard-hitting prison-drama that wasnt afraid to use the word oval office and show wangs and have dudes kissing each other, older me is just enjoying a silly soap opera (with wangs and dudes kissing each other).
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Oh no. I actually like The World is Not Enough
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Watching Bring It On, whatever happened to Kirsten Dunst? I don't remember her being in anything after Spider-Man 3.
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C-Euro posted:Watching Bring It On, whatever happened to Kirsten Dunst? I don't remember her being in anything after Spider-Man 3. Melancholia was 2011? And she was in Hidden Figures a few years ago.
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Probably hit that age where Hollywood discriminately stops casting women between being a young woman and an elderly woman.
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I kinda assumed she just didn't let Harvey Weinstein rape her so she was black listed.
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C-Euro posted:Watching Bring It On, whatever happened to Kirsten Dunst? I don't remember her being in anything after Spider-Man 3. She's pretty brilliant in Marie Antoinette and Fargo season 2. Her performance in Melancholia was fantastic.
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I, Butthole posted:RIP Michael Apted Ah man I really need to rewatch the Up series, especially since I haven’t seen the most recent one yet.
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I haven't seen anything mentioned in these past few posts other than Hidden Figures which would explain it!
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Simiain posted:Thank you for reminding me I bought that movie recently, I remember watching it about the same time as you did and I havent seen it since, all I really remember of it is Cage doing a Cage, it taking place entirely at night (my favorite trope!), and being enraptured by it as I watched. Oz is so goofy. It’s genuinely great at its best, but some of it is mind bogglingly stupid (aging pills) and it’s never boring.
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She has flipped between doing indie movies - usually with Sofia Coppola, surprising no one - and doing whatever midbudget studio pics get made. It’s not exactly fun to be in gigantic blockbuster movies, and she cashed in good on the Spider-Man films so it’s not like she needs the work. She paused her career to have and raise a kid with Jesse Plemons after doing Midnight Special and Hidden Figures, though. That’s why she’s been gone recently.
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Skwirl posted:I kinda assumed she just didn't let Harvey Weinstein rape her so she was black listed. This comment is a bad comment. The whole concept of rape is the lack of consent and you might not have intended this but the language you're using sounds victim blaming.
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I, Butthole posted:RIP Michael Apted I met him a few times. He was a very nice man.
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CPL593H posted:This comment is a bad comment. The whole concept of rape is the lack of consent and you might not have intended this but the language you're using sounds victim blaming. Harvey Weinstein tried to do something with her and she said no and through luck, fate or physical ability was able to make that no stick and her reward for that was she had fewer jobs available to her.
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Need a Pain & Gain style depiction of the karaoke coup. Robert Pattinson as zip tie guy.
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C-Euro posted:Watching Bring It On, whatever happened to Kirsten Dunst? I don't remember her being in anything after Spider-Man 3. She rules in Fargo.
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The Cameo posted:She paused her career to have and raise a kid with Jesse Plemons after doing Midnight Special and Hidden Figures, though. That’s why she’s been gone recently. Didn't know about this, what a cute couple! 
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The movie where who whats now?
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TrixRabbi posted:The movie where who whats now? holy gently caress the plot synopsis on this is a roller coaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Heart_Is_(2000_film)
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