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I really liked Nightmare Alley. I'll have to check out the 40s version before it leaves Criterion Channel, but this was really strong.
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Gripweed posted:How can I have bad taste about a movie I haven't seen? It was more your outright dismissal. It's a pretty cool take on the concept and does something completely different from the other two remakes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's pretty subversive in a number of different ways. It kind of has a 1988 Blob vibe but with Abel Ferrara's sleaze all over it. It also has a fun performance from R. Lee Ermey.
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For my first film of 2022, I watched Dont look up, but we have discussed that. For my second film I just finished watching Tarkovsky’s Mirror since I purchased it last year. It was beautiful, but I am not really sure what I just watched.
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Jan 5, 2022 08:01
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CPL593H posted:Drop Dead Diva. If I recall correctly the lady she comes back as is a lawyer but she retained none of that knowledge or something so she was just bumbling her way through trials. I never actually sat through an episode of it but my mom use to watch it. My wife loved that show, so I watched more than I would have liked lol It's incredibly stupid obviously but in retrospect I grudgingly respect it's commitment to the bit. It's not like most lawyer shows aren't ludicrous fantasy anyways, so why not throw soul-mates and bodily possession and angels in there? April Bowbly was the ditzy best friend, it's nice to see her get a much juicier role like Rita Farr on doom patrol. The main guy on Superstore was one of the guardian angels I think
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I really enjoyed No Time to Die. It’s very well made. Top-notch production design etc, as one would expect.
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I’ve only seen Casino Royale and Skyfall, and I really disliked the latter after the first act. Might watch No Time to Die one day, but I’m not especially bothered. I’d rather watch it for being a Cary Fukunaga movie than a Bond movie.
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Escobarbarian posted:I’ve only seen Casino Royale and Skyfall, and I really disliked the latter after the first act. Might watch No Time to Die one day, but I’m not especially bothered. I’d rather watch it for being a Cary Fukunaga movie than a Bond movie. Watch the first ten minutes or so of Quantum of Solace for MAXIMUM EDITING. No movie hence could use any editing, Quantum used it all up.
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Grendels Dad posted:Watch the first ten minutes or so of Quantum of Solace for MAXIMUM EDITING. No movie hence could use any editing, Quantum used it all up. It’s a dreadful film, isn’t it?
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Jan 5, 2022 10:54
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therattle posted:It’s a dreadful film, isn’t it? I still haven't watched it all the way through, common opinion seems to be that the action at the end is solid. What broke me were the non-action scenes still having 50 cuts per minute.
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Jan 5, 2022 10:57
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feedmyleg posted:Like the prefect blend of Moore and Craig and Connery. He's incredibly old, blond and a wanker?
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Jan 5, 2022 11:04
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Hey now, Connery was also very old. I seem to remember the Opera House scene in QoS being good but I haven't seen the movie since it was in theaters.
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I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a first movie of 2022 yet but my first movie of 21 was Wonder Woman 1984 so it can’t get worse.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I really liked Nightmare Alley. I'll have to check out the 40s version before it leaves Criterion Channel, but this was really strong. The original’s pretty good, but starts wearing thin towards the end. It’s the kind of movie where the last 4 or 5 scenes could have been the perfect stopping point but it keeps going.
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CPL593H posted:It was more your outright dismissal. It's a pretty cool take on the concept and does something completely different from the other two remakes of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's pretty subversive in a number of different ways. It kind of has a 1988 Blob vibe but with Abel Ferrara's sleaze all over it. It also has a fun performance from R. Lee Ermey. man I had other poo poo to do last night
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Quantum is solid if you watch it back to back with Casino as a sort of fourth act. On its own it doesn't work nearly as well.
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feedmyleg posted:What the gently caress why wouldn't someone like that it was so good. Like the prefect blend of Moore and Craig and Connery. Genuinely might be my least favorite Bond film. At least Spectre had one (1) good action scene.
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I watched Casino Royale for the first time recently, and it whipped. Great action, great gambling scenes, punchy script, good poo poo.
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The guy who wrote One Cut of the Dead is doing a Kickstarter to produce a trailer for his next project so he can get investors interested. It's an anime series called Ninja Masx about futuristic hiphop ninjas https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninjaryo/ninjamasx-the-birth-of-a-new-ninja-hero
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I watched Casino Royale for the first time recently, and it whipped. Great action, great gambling scenes, punchy script, good poo poo. The Craig and Brosnan Bond series are like weird mirrors. Goldeneye and Casino Royale have the same director and they are both trying to reinvent Bond for a new era, but the Brosnan films get increasingly silly and the Craig films get increasingly dour. I've fallen off getting Idris Elba for Bond, no issue with it being a PoC, or a woman, or a woman PoC, I just think Elba has aged out of the role, get someone young for the next Bond.
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I tend to feel Bond should be in his mid 30s to early 40s as it befits the character more. I wouldn’t mind a one or two off movie set of Elba being Bond. I think it’s worth to have.
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Skwirl posted:The Craig and Brosnan Bond series are like weird mirrors. Goldeneye and Casino Royale have the same director and they are both trying to reinvent Bond for a new era, but the Brosnan films get increasingly silly and the Craig films get increasingly dour. Or they could stop. They could just stop making Bond movies.
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They could stop making anime too
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CelticPredator posted:They could stop making anime too Anime is a whole industry putting out dozens of shows and movies a year, with all sorts of different stories and characters that appeal to a wide variety of people. James Bond is one movie series, they've been putting one out every four years for the past 60 years, and they aren't very good. Just give it a rest. Maybe in 20 or 30 years somebody will have a really good idea for a James Bond and they can make a new one then. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Stop making movies. Telling stories around the campfire was better anyway
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That's why I find the black James Bond and lady Doctor Who discussions so uninteresting. When you argue for that, you're giving up. You're admitting that these miserable franchises are inescapable. Dare to imagine a better world, a world where they stop making James Bond and Doctor Who.
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Idris Elba should be the new Ripley. Stick him in every Alien movie.
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I mean, you might have some issues with that based on the fact that he done blowed himself up real good already in that franchise
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A better answer is that Doctor Who and James Bond should be in the public domain and anyone should be able to make one.
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feedmyleg posted:I mean, you might have some issues with that based on the fact that he done blowed himself up real good already in that franchise I dont care. Have Brad Dourif randomly pop in to explain that they cloned him.
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they should not stop making Bond movies but the British actor cloning labs have got to step up their game, they haven't been sending their best lately.
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Gripweed posted:Anime is a whole industry putting out dozens of shows and movies a year, with all sorts of different stories and characters that appeal to a wide variety of people. James Bond is one movie series, they've been putting one out every four years for the past 60 years, and they aren't very good. Just give it a rest. Maybe in 20 or 30 years somebody will have a really good idea for a James Bond and they can make a new one then. They should stop making James Bond and anime
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Gripweed posted:That's why I find the black James Bond and lady Doctor Who discussions so uninteresting. When you argue for that, you're giving up. You're admitting that these miserable franchises are inescapable. Dare to imagine a better world, a world where they stop making James Bond and Doctor Who. And stop making Gundam, and Kamen Rider, and Dragon Ball Z. Those have been going on for too long too.
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Davros1 posted:And stop making Gundam, and Kamen Rider, and Dragon Ball Z. Those have been going on for too long too. They literally did. All three of those franchises have had long stretches with no new content. And it's not a very good comparison because all three of those franchises are significantly better than James Bond and Doctor Who. Compare the anticipation for the next entries. Everyone is very excited for The Witch From Mercury, but everyone is resigned to the fact that there will be another James Bond and simply argues about how old or black he should be. Gripweed fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jan 5, 2022 |
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Just because there hasn't been a good Bond movie in 15 years doesn't mean I'm not excited for the next one.
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I’m just waiting for the moment they stop loving around and make an entirely unironic WWII Bond movie where he kills hitler by kicking him into the maintenance hatch of a sabotaged V2 while the theme plays at maximum volume. You 100% know it’s a thing that’s been pitched to the broccolis at least once a decade since connery.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:The original’s pretty good, but starts wearing thin towards the end. It’s the kind of movie where the last 4 or 5 scenes could have been the perfect stopping point but it keeps going. That's sort of an issue with the new one too, so I wonder if that's down to the source material.
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Gripweed posted:man I had other poo poo to do last night I thought you meant you just don't want to watch the movie in general. Insult retracted!
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CPL593H posted:I thought you meant you just don't want to watch the movie in general. I actually probably won't see it for a while at least because I just watched a Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I read the novel and I liked it, then I saw this movie version at the store and was like, oh yeah I liked that book and people say the movie's good. I like the franchise but at this point it's not one I'd seek out or marathon. So whether or not i watch the Able Ferrari version is going to depend entirely on whether or not I see it at a moment when I'm in the mood.
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In the mood for Body Snatchers.
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Gripweed posted:In the mood for Body Snatchers. I just always put it out there when people mention Invasion of the Body Snatchers because everyone forgets the 93 version exists and it's really good and actually does its own thing while staying true to the concept.
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