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I just watched Glitch in the Matrix and that was probably the worst documentary of all time
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 05:56 |
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Have you seen Room 237, and if so, how did you feel about it?
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 08:25 |
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Empress Brosephine posted:I just watched Glitch in the Matrix and that was probably the worst documentary of all time Are you sure it's worse than Hillary's America
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 10:12 |
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Watching Electric Boogaloo right now, a documentary about Cannon Group, and basically every film that's being shown off looks absolutely ridiculous and/or insane and now I kinda want to try and watch a lot of these films
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 10:36 |
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I didn't see Room 237 nor Hilary's America.y problems with Glitch in the Matrix is that it was extremely disconnected and I was constantly thinking "why do I care what this nobody Reddit nerd thinks" which I heard was a common issue with room 237? Also the fact that it says Minecraft is proof of simulation theory was a big lol
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 14:29 |
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Room 237 is a good documentary about smug idiots but a bad documentary about The Shining
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 14:58 |
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I've not seen it, I've always wanted to, but for anyone curious King himself wasn't very impressed (from a rolling stone interview). Did you see that new documentary “Room 237” about obsessive fans of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining? Yeah. Well, let me put it this way – I watched about half of it and got sort of impatient with it and turned it off. Why? These guys were reaching. I’ve never had much patience for academic bullshit. It’s like Dylan says, “You give people a lot of knives and forks, they’ve gotta cut something.” And that was what was going on in that movie.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 15:07 |
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Karloff posted:I've not seen it, I've always wanted to, but for anyone curious King himself wasn't very impressed (from a rolling stone interview). "These obsessive weirdos seem a little too focused and strange."
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 15:17 |
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CPL593H posted:Analog cable ruled because you could just buy a bootleg cable box for 50 bucks from some sketchy weirdo and it unlocked everything including pay-per-view. 90% of the movies I saw as a kid we’re on VHS tapes recorded off of free PPV from an illegal cable box, it was great and I miss it.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 15:40 |
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Escobarbarian posted:Room 237 is a good documentary about smug idiots but a bad documentary about The Shining It’s not even a good documentary about the idiots, because they don’t bother to analyze the film in a legitimate way as a contrast - or to explain where these dumb ideas are coming from/why they’re wrong. The thesis ends up being this ‘creepy’ implication that maybe there is no reality??? The Nightmare has the same issue where it’s literally a full movie of random idiots telling you about a dream they had, with no particular insight into the subject. The focus seems to be on creating the ‘creepy’ implication that shadow people are real??? They’re just making lovely creepypastas, minus the part where Sonic The Hedgehog kills you at the end, and calling them documentaries.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 16:59 |
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Worst documentary I've ever seen was What the Bleep do we know? But that one was at least funny because there's a framing fictional narrative with Marlee Matlin that tries to hide the fact that she's deaf and the people I was watching it with got very upset that I "spoiled" it by immediately exclaiming "oh, it's that deaf actress, I love her" when she first appeared. She's like the most recognizable deaf person in America. She won an Oscar, she was on West Wing and Dancing with the Stars.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 17:40 |
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drrockso20 posted:Watching Electric Boogaloo right now, a documentary about Cannon Group, and basically every film that's being shown off looks absolutely ridiculous and/or insane and now I kinda want to try and watch a lot of these films If you haven't, please watch Lifeforce. I haven't seen a lot of Cannon films, but if you want something completely off the wall that somehow holds together, Lifeforce is what you want. SuperMechagodzilla posted:The Nightmare has the same issue where it’s literally a full movie of random idiots telling you about a dream they had, with no particular insight into the subject. The focus seems to be on creating the ‘creepy’ implication that shadow people are real??? The Nightmare even opens with "this movie might give YOUUUUUU night terrors!"
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 18:00 |
Lifeforce is an all timer.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 18:27 |
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Always be watching The Apple.Escobarbarian posted:Room 237 is a good documentary about smug idiots but a bad documentary about The Shining
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 19:33 |
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Lifeforce is like if they took Alien and Dracula mashed them together and turned the horny dial up to 11. It's wild.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 19:33 |
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My fave Cannon movies so far are probably Bloodsport and Ninja III: The Domination. Very fun, very wild.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 19:45 |
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Skwirl posted:Worst documentary I've ever seen was What the Bleep do we know? Haven’t seen this one but knowing it’s bad makes it even funnier that the director got easily hoodwinked into the cult from The Vow
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 19:47 |
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My favorite review of Lifeforce is something along the lines of “the most batshit insane naked space vampire zombies from Halley’s Comet running amok in an end-of-the-world London movie that has ever been made” and that couldn’t be more accurate.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 19:50 |
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It’s not even a good documentary about the idiots, because they don’t bother to analyze the film in a legitimate way as a contrast - or to explain where these dumb ideas are coming from/why they’re wrong. The thesis ends up being this ‘creepy’ implication that maybe there is no reality??? All that stuff is good.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 20:04 |
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Empress Brosephine posted:I just watched Glitch in the Matrix and that was probably the worst documentary of all time Have you see "What the Bleep do we know?"
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 20:11 |
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Guy A. Person posted:Haven’t seen this one but knowing it’s bad makes it even funnier that the director got easily hoodwinked into the cult from The Vow I mean, he was hoodwinked by a cult to make What The Bleep, so that's not surprising. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramtha%27s_School_of_Enlightenment
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 20:24 |
I watched a couple of documentaries that I got in a humble bundle, funded by devolver, and they were all miserable to a level you can't even imagine. If you've ever tried to sit through that Mega Man fan film from some time back, that's the kind of energy I'm talking about, but for a documentary.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 22:04 |
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Skwirl posted:Worst documentary I've ever seen was What the Bleep do we know? The worst documentary I've ever seen is Plandemic. I heard all about this movie so misleading and dangerous Youtube was wiping it from their site, and I was all set for some compellingly conveyed bullshit like Loose Change or Ancient Aliens, but it was just some Australian chick saying random unconnected thing over stock reaction images. Terrible. The quality of cranks took a loving nosedive when Trump entered office.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 23:33 |
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drrockso20 posted:Watching Electric Boogaloo right now, a documentary about Cannon Group, and basically every film that's being shown off looks absolutely ridiculous and/or insane and now I kinda want to try and watch a lot of these films The aforementioned Lifeforce is the big one, because it's an actual good movie made by a really good director but some other choice movies are Ninja III, The Last American Virgin, Tough Guys Don’t Dance, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and of course, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. Avenging Force is good fun too, and shockingly leftist for everything else that came out of the studio.
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# ? Feb 7, 2021 23:59 |
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Tune in here if you want to see some edited superbowl commercials, then the Abbadook and then an edit of Hackers https://twitch.tv/racerxtrash
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 00:21 |
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I continue to wonder why people go apeshit for Lifeforce. There are a few cool scenes and some great practical effects, the problem is that's like 10-20% of the movie. The rest is a bunch of boring middle aged men jabbering about nothing while you desperately hope to see any of that cool poo poo again. The best part of the movie is when they're in the alien spaceship and that's in the first five minutes. I was prepared for the exact kind of wild ride everyone is describing but I just spent two hours being bored and disappointed.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 01:20 |
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CPL, what do you think about the Quatermass movies?
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 01:39 |
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I don't know, Room 237 had me kind of convinced that the Shining is about the genocide of the American Indian. But not the Moon Landing.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 03:06 |
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feedmyleg posted:CPL, what do you think about the Quatermass movies? I've never seen them but I can guess why you've mentioned them. I haven't seen much b-horror and sci-fi of the 40s-60s because so many of those movies are just 70-90% filler. For me the absolute worst thing a movie can be is boring. I think a lot of the reason people here love the movie Lifeforce is because they're carrying on the traditions of Roger Ebert.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 03:44 |
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Every Friday is movie night in our household, we rotate who gets to choose the movie and this week it was my turn. Youngest is close to 6, which is only a little bit younger than when my step-aunt traumatized me with Robocop, and has a pretty solid head on her shoulders so I figured they could handle a wee bit of blood and gore. I opted for Watership Down. They mostly shrugged off the bunny-carnage, but I was disappointed that I was the only one blubbering incoherently at the end. What a beautiful got-dang film!
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 04:33 |
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Lifeforce does have its slow bits but it's usually not too far between the latest bit of apocalyptic weirdness, and the sheer carnage of the climax makes up for it. And part of it is just the contrast between the steely British reserve and the fact that this is a movie about a naked space vampire sucking light energy out of people and turning them into walking husk zombies. Hooper kinda threads the needle on the tone the movie needs, it's played straight in a goofball way if that makes any sense.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 04:38 |
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I saw Lifeforce in 70mm and the sound system was up so loud it nearly blasted my eardrums out, it was awesome
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 04:44 |
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Is there a version of Enter the Dragon in the original Chinese, i.e. not dubbed? The English dubbed version on Netflix is godawful.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 05:50 |
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They should make a sequel to the Ed Helms-led Vacation movie and have someone replace Ed Helms.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 06:33 |
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Is there a version of Enter the Dragon in the original Chinese, i.e. not dubbed? The English dubbed version on Netflix is godawful. It's not dubbed, it's an American co-production from Warner Brothers, co written by an American. All the sound was recorded later, like how they do with Spaghetti Westerns a lot, which is why it seems dubbed, but it was shot from an English language script.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 06:40 |
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Edward Mass posted:They should make a sequel to the Ed Helms-led Vacation movie and have someone replace Ed Helms. Ethan Embry.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 06:41 |
Edward Mass posted:They should make a sequel to the Ed Helms-led Vacation movie and have someone replace Ed Helms. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who even remembers that was made.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 06:45 |
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CPL593H posted:I've never seen them but I can guess why you've mentioned them. I haven't seen much b-horror and sci-fi of the 40s-60s because so many of those movies are just 70-90% filler. For me the absolute worst thing a movie can be is boring. I think a lot of the reason people here love the movie Lifeforce is because they're carrying on the traditions of Roger Ebert. I get it, I do. Boring is the worst. But if you watched the first two Quatermass films, I wonder if you'd be able to gain a greater appreciation for Lifeforce. Not that it's such a complicated film to understand or enjoy, but that over time I've grown to appreciate the somewhat tenuous difference between a boring film (one that gives you nothing to hook into or gain for long periods if its runtime) and a deliberately-paced film (one which uses its slow pace to deliver nuance through atmosphere and living in the characters perspectives). The first two Quatermass movies and Lifeforce are similar to each other in that I think they do the latter spectacularly. But none of them feel like they're wasting my time for no reason other than to kill time like boring find do. A proper 1950s monster movie will waste your time. Lifeforce lets you inhabit a 1950s monster movie for a time and soak it in.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 07:34 |
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feedmyleg posted:I get it, I do. Boring is the worst. But if you watched the first two Quatermass films, I wonder if you'd be able to gain a greater appreciation for Lifeforce. Not that it's such a complicated film to understand or enjoy, but that over time I've grown to appreciate the somewhat tenuous difference between a boring film (one that gives you nothing to hook into or gain for long periods if its runtime) and a deliberately-paced film (one which uses its slow pace to deliver nuance through atmosphere and living in the characters perspectives). The first two Quatermass movies and Lifeforce are similar to each other in that I think they do the latter spectacularly. But none of them feel like they're wasting my time for no reason other than to kill time like boring find do. A proper 1950s monster movie will waste your time. Lifeforce lets you inhabit a 1950s monster movie for a time and soak it in. I like slow burn films, I just don't find Lifeforce to be slow burn at all. It's just filler occasionally punctuated by something that's actually interesting going completely to waste. All the poo poo in that movie that I actually find good just feels like big promises never delivered on and that finale seems like it belongs to a much better film. I don't think there's nothing to like in the film and I understand why people might enjoy it. I just don't get why people hold it in such high regard. In all fairness the way people here talk about it does make me sometimes consider revisiting but I'm still hesitant because I could use that time to watch poo poo I've never seen. The movie sounds better on paper than the actual thing turns out to be but once again to be fair to the movie it got hacked up pretty badly by the studio so that could be where all my issues with it originate from.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 08:11 |
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Maybe it just helps that I love 50s and 60s monster b-movies and Lifeforce feels like the idealized form of those. It's got a lot of the same issues, but they seem better considered and utilized to become something unique and special and out of time.
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