Jack Does Jihad posted:

What was the first samurai movie that popularized or featured the stereotypical duel in which two samurai run past each other and seemingly miss each other as they strike, then they stand still and one falls over?

Jack Does Jihad posted:

There's no scene like that in Seven Samurai.

itrorev posted:

I was watching yet another Rocky marathon on Spike, and something came to my mind...

I never quite understood exactly how Paulie squandered Rocky's money, which ended up sending him back to the ghetto. Can someone enlighten me on this?

Rake Arms posted:

As seen in "In Bruges," where Colin Farrel blinds a man in one eye by firing a blank at close range.

Yannick_B posted:

He's a Time Lord.

LtKenFrankenstein posted:

Yeah, well,


The old man thought he was pretty '80s, Dick.

Point taken, though. Those two should've done a buddy pic together.

Also, both of them get murdered in cold blood shortly after doing a bunch of cocaine. Truly men of their time.

Wild T posted:

Any time a discussion starts with the Star Wars stuff it turns from gayer to gayest.

To contribute: What is the deal with prop firearms? Whenever I watch guys in a movie point semiautomatic weapons at each other and fire I wonder this. If there's no round to maintain a seal in the barrel, usually you will need a BFA or end up with the world's most awkward bolt action.

I've heard of prop guns that use propane for a muzzle flash; is it as simple as "plugged barrel, blank rounds in the magazine, pyro setup hidden in the muzzle"?

Zogo posted:

I didn't know about that earlier movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q__vuyH1JEI scene by scene comparison is pretty funny.

BobKnob posted:

Where did all the American Football pads come from in the Mad Max movies come from? This is important.

Spermando posted:

Subtitles don't say exactly what the original text says. A guy who's famous in the AV translation field in my country wrote an article on this. He estimated that up to 40% of the words had to be cut to keep the subtitles short and readable: swear words, nicknames, adjectives... Basically all the words that give character to the plot.
The original performance may not be as transparent as you're making it out to be. A man from Texas doesn't sound like a man from Tokyo when he's trying to be sarcastic or flirty. If I'm not familiar with the way the Japanese speak, I'm probably missing a lot of little details in their tone that could be easily conveyed in a competent dub.

cheerfullydrab posted:

What's up with so many American movies set in foreign countries or the past having everyone speak in a British accent?

IMDB posted:

An accident during filming killed stuntwoman Janet Wilder and injured her husband, stuntman Scott Wilder, and his father, stuntman Glenn R. Wilder. A boat was supposed to go over a ramp, fly over a mangrove hedge, land between two other boats, and stop in the water. Instead the boat slid off the side of the ramp, flipped over, and landed in a crowd of crew and extras.

SeenUnnoticed posted:

Does the old black guy in No Country for Old Men that gives Llewelyn a ride to Del Rio get killed by Anton? It seems like it was implied, I'm just not one hundred percent on it.

wyoming posted:

It's the scene right before they meet Laurence Fishburne, they try setting a trap with Topher as bait, only that thing shows up instead.

marktheando posted:

Wait... Cobra was set in the future?


Those guys were the best. I wish I could find a group I could join and clang axes together.

Cymbal Monkey posted:

A while back I saw Casa Blanka. and in addition to not seeing why anyone still cares about this film, I was intrigued by that famous line "Here's lookin' at you, kid."

What the gently caress is this line supposed to even mean? I cannot for the life of me parse these words into meaning. Also, why is a line that is such a train wreck of English so incredibly famous? Is it by the same reasoning that lead to halo is a pretty cool guy still existing on the internet?

Mechafunkzilla posted:

A fuzzy bootleg, viewed at midnight during a sleepover in 7th grade.

effectual posted:

I remember seeing a movie around 2000 or so where a guy was shot in the kneecap and it blew apart and he fell to the ground, what movie was it? Also, is that the most painful thing you can do to someone? In Django he mentioned at the end that the house "negro" hadn't mentioned it as punishment.

SubG posted:

`Revisionism' in general refers to any work that nominally participates in a genre or movement which is popular enough to have an institutionalised aesthetic (in terms of presentation or in content), but which rejects or re-interprets that aesthetic enough to have its own recognisable sensibilities.

In Westerns this is, as others have commented, generally a reaction to the studio-era Western, exemplified by the mid-career John Ford. It's easy to think of a lot of the obvious elements---moral simplicity, patriotic nationalism, belief in the inherent strength and righteousness of communities, and so on---but there are also all the archetypes (team-player maverick, eastern intellectual, drunken doctor, whore with a heart of gold, and so on), the hallmarks of setting (canonically the Monument Valley, but more generally a wilderness that is tough, but also full of opportunity), and the framing of action (e.g. violence being a thing which is generally to be deplored but can be employed by hard-handed righteous men to expunge villainy from the community with almost surgical cleanliness).

effectual posted:

I was referring to the scene right before that, when Wayne is runnin after the girl and you think he might shoot her like he swore to earlier, and the boy will have to shoot Wayne to save the girl, but then Wayne doesn't shoot her because (?) forced hollywood happy ending.

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

What are some earlier instances of the plot in which the protagonist stages fights with someone who is ostensibly a villain for financial gain and shares the spoils with his or her accomplice? I know there are more of these but for some reason, the only ones that are coming to mind are Dragonheart and Shark Tale. I guess The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly could count but it's a little different. I feel like there are some really obvious ones I'm missing.

regulargonzalez posted:

What happened to Francis Ford Coppola? That is, in the 70s he made four movies that would be in any top 100 list, and was the screenwriter for another (Patton) that might not be quite of that caliber but is generally very well regarded. I'd put his body of work in that decade up with any director's best ten year span, and he looked well on his way to be considered one of the top 2 or 3 directors of all time. Since then, he's had maybe 2-3 decent, entertaining but ultimately slight movies and a whole bunch of duds. I mean, if not for the '70s, he'd be considered a mediocre ham-n-egger along the lines of Paul W. S. Anderson or, I don't know, Jon Turteltaub -- decently competent, forgettable, and largely anonymous.

Was it just luck in the 70s? I just don't get how he seemingly lost his talent for directing or recognizing a good story vs a bad one.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Well, that is a reference to Twin Peaks.

Samuel Clemens posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V421bF698sA

xcore posted:

Why is it that, no matter how I watch a movie at home, whether it be downloaded from the internet, ripped from a DVD or played straight off the disc, that my sound levels are completely hosed.

I always have to crank the movie for dialogue, but as soon as the car chase starts, a fight breaks out or the score kicks in my ear drums nearly explode? I find myself with remote in hand constantly raising and lowering the volume.

I know the initial answer is, "set your speakers up properly!" but it happens if I watch in 5.1, use headphones, or just watch something from computer with lovely PC surround speakers.

Is it something to do with the way movies are transferred to DVD/Blu Ray? Is all the gear I own terribly calibrated? Do I just have really lovely hearing?

Everblight posted: