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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Was there a conversation about soccer movies here? Because the World Cup got me in the mood to watch some, but they all seem to be a) about hooligans, b) coming-of-age girls' stories (which are actually the best of the lot), or c) literal FIFA propaganda. I don't know if there are some other high quality films that I'm missing? Invictus, The Big Green, and The Damned United.
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What ever happened to the dude that was obsessed with the thief and the cobbler?
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Was there a conversation about soccer movies here? Because the World Cup got me in the mood to watch some, but they all seem to be a) about hooligans, b) coming-of-age girls' stories (which are actually the best of the lot), or c) literal FIFA propaganda. I don't know if there are some other high quality films that I'm missing? Goal! and Goal! 2. If you legitimately hate yourself, Goal! 3.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Was there a conversation about soccer movies here? Because the World Cup got me in the mood to watch some, but they all seem to be a) about hooligans, b) coming-of-age girls' stories (which are actually the best of the lot), or c) literal FIFA propaganda. I don't know if there are some other high quality films that I'm missing? Mean Machine which is by far the best version of The Longest Yard.
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Jul 3, 2014 03:01
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axleblaze posted:I really wish Melissa McCarthy would stop being in such lovely movies. She's in the rare position of being an overweight woman who Hollywood thinks can open a movie but she's just in the worst poo poo. I'd like to blame that on Hollywood and the types of roles they write for women like her, but I'm pretty sure she cowrote Tammy with her Husband who also directed the movie, so really this is all on her. I fell the same way, plus I just think she's a fantastic and extremely likable actor in general. I really hope she gets to play a character that isn't "Ha ha, she's a fat slob!". Slate Action posted:So I just watched Virtuosity for the first time. Is any movie quote more quintessentially 1990s than "I'm a fifty terabyte self-evolving neural network double backflip off the high platform. I'm not a swan dive." ? Lawnmower Man.
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Jul 3, 2014 03:02
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Was there a conversation about soccer movies here? Because the World Cup got me in the mood to watch some, but they all seem to be a) about hooligans, b) coming-of-age girls' stories (which are actually the best of the lot), or c) literal FIFA propaganda. I don't know if there are some other high quality films that I'm missing? Historias de Futbol by Andrés Wood. I'm sure any South American country has at least one good football movie.
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Darth Freddy posted:What ever happened to the dude that was obsessed with the thief and the cobbler? If you're referring to Richard Williams, according to the director of the doc about that whole thing, Williams is currently still pretty bitter about the whole thing but he's working on a film right now. It's gonna be pretty simplistic overall (just animated line drawings) but that's also because it's all being done by him (as I said, still pretty bitter).
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Jul 3, 2014 03:10
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I assumed he meant Egbert
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Slate Action posted:So I just watched Virtuosity for the first time. Is any movie quote more quintessentially 1990s than "I'm a fifty terabyte self-evolving neural network double backflip off the high platform. I'm not a swan dive." ? The 1993 movie Ghost in the Machine features a serial killer dying and possessing the internet. He stalks Karen Allen and her family throughout the movie using his internet powers. At one point he kills someone by reversing their microwave so that it heats up the room instead of the inside of the microwave. He does this via the internet somehow. Just watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2HPq-WDnFQ
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Jul 3, 2014 03:31
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Yoshifan823 posted:Invictus, The Big Green, and The Damned United. Invictus is rugby, man.
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DNS posted:Invictus is rugby, man. Sports that aren't American Football all run together.
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Jul 3, 2014 03:46
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Anyone else here get David O'Reilly's Mountain game?
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Jul 3, 2014 03:48
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Rudo y Cursi is worth a watch. You can't beat the chemistry between Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, and it's directed by Alfonso Cuaron's brother, Carlos. Overall, it's mostly forgettable, but it's a decent way to spend a couple of hours if you're in a soccer movie mood.
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CPL593H posted:Lawnmower Man. Same director.
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We know a remote farm in Lincolnshire, where Mrs. Buckley lives. Every July, peas grow there. Do you really mean that?
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Jul 3, 2014 04:14
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That really is a crap line.
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Jul 3, 2014 04:17
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I like that one of the major themes in Last Action Hero is "life is poo poo, movies own"
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I like that one of the major themes in Last Action Hero is "life is poo poo, movies own" A cool movie, and the source of another great 1990s movie line, "here [in real life], the bad guys can win."
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Slate Action posted:A cool movie, and the source of another great 1990s movie line, "here [in real life], the bad guys can win." I completely forgot how dark the real world sections of the movie are. Jack Slater suffers a mild existential crisis, and the scene at the mechanic shop is just cold. "EXCUSE ME. I JUST SHOT A MAN. I DID IT ON PURPOSE." But on the other hand, it's offset by Danny DeVito voicing a womanizing cartoon cat, and an entire plot point based around a fart joke.
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Jul 3, 2014 04:32
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Egbert Souse posted:We know a remote farm in Lincolnshire, where Mrs. Buckley lives. Every July, peas grow there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA They're even better when you're dead!
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Jul 3, 2014 04:34
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Last Action Hero is one of those movies I think only bombed because it had minor presentation problems. There's a lot about it that's great, but audiences just didn't see it.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I completely forgot how dark the real world sections of the movie are. Jack Slater suffers a mild existential crisis, and the scene at the mechanic shop is just cold. "EXCUSE ME. I JUST SHOT A MAN. I DID IT ON PURPOSE." Charles Dance is the loving man.
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I Before E posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA That lead me down a rabbit hole of Orsen Welles interviews, which lead me to this http://youtu.be/JK7BNKNZ5Gc GonSmithe posted:Charles Dance is the loving man. http://youtu.be/-3POYx6IeeI
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Jul 3, 2014 04:57
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Flying Zamboni posted:The 1993 movie Ghost in the Machine features a serial killer dying and possessing the internet. He stalks Karen Allen and her family throughout the movie using his internet powers. At one point he kills someone by reversing their microwave so that it heats up the room instead of the inside of the microwave. He does this via the internet somehow. Other than the obvious reason this is funny, it also amuses me that this is a thing in the movie because the turntable in a microwave oven reverses direction on its own between multiple uses. Maarak posted:Same director. So what you're saying is that he's an auteur?
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Jul 3, 2014 06:08
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Green Street Hooligans is a good soccer movie and Charlie Hunnam is good in it.
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Jul 3, 2014 06:52
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Alec Eiffel posted:Green Street Hooligans is a good soccer movie and Charlie Hunnam is good in it. I haven't seen Green Street Hooligans, but when some asks for good soccer films not about soccer hooligans, I'd try and think of a film without hooligan in the title
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I gotta vent about this somewhere and since I live in Eastern Washington, my Facebook feed isn't much of an option… One loving day into this "sincerely-held religious belief" poo poo and already Christian corporations want their excuse to discriminate against LGBT people.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Btdurbs I'm now starting King Kong Escapes wherein King Kong fights Mechanikong. That movie's fun, but I was pretty let down as the premise led me to expect a class warfare/John Henry type of story. CelticPredator posted:Virtuosity owns and is also dope. Magic Hate Ball posted:Anyone else here get David O'Reilly's Mountain game? It's very soothing every time it plays a music cue and reminds you of its existence... and then you find it has a boat on it now.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Was there a conversation about soccer movies here? Because the World Cup got me in the mood to watch some, but they all seem to be a) about hooligans, b) coming-of-age girls' stories (which are actually the best of the lot), or c) literal FIFA propaganda. I don't know if there are some other high quality films that I'm missing? quote:As allied POWs prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape.
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I tapped out before the one hour mark but I will wager that The Counselor does not get better. It's like every time a conversation seems like it might go somewhere really interesting it goes into a random and absolutely plodding direction. I'm going to watch The Sunset Limited instead.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Was there a conversation about soccer movies here? Because the World Cup got me in the mood to watch some, but they all seem to be a) about hooligans, b) coming-of-age girls' stories (which are actually the best of the lot), or c) literal FIFA propaganda. I don't know if there are some other high quality films that I'm missing? Mean Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddauWr_auVw
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Hedenius posted:Victory. Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow and a bunch of football players. Does this one end with a bicycle kick and a bunch of people running through the stadium gates? I caught the ending of soccer film that featured the aforementioned spoiler a looooong time ago on TV, and have occasionally thought about it, but never learned what it was.
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Egbert Souse posted:We know a remote farm in Lincolnshire, where Mrs. Buckley lives. Every July, peas grow there. Impossible! Meaningless! I was literally having a conversation with my wife about that sentence last night before bed. It's grammatically correct, but very ugly. This came up because we were discussing an elephant museum and candy shop with the slogan "Where the candy and homemade fudge is." Also a terrible sentence.
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Well, I've got two days off in a row for the first time in a while and I think I'ma use it to watch Life Is Worth Losing on repeat for 48 hours. It's funny how what's universally agreed to be Carlin's darkest, most depressing special starts with what I take to be one of his most purely joyful bits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkCR-w3AYOE
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Well, I've got two days off in a row for the first time in a while and I think I'ma use it to watch Life Is Worth Losing on repeat for 48 hours. Dude just goes off and plays with words for three and a half minutes and then kvetches about how we're all hosed. It's beautiful.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I like that one of the major themes in Last Action Hero is "life is poo poo, movies own" That's also one of the major themes of CinemaDiscusso.
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"The Bank of England has lost the Pound, plunging the financial world into turmoil this afternoon [...] others link the disaster with the appearance of a strange, sexless child, who was seen wandering around the square mile with an inscrutable grin."
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:"The Bank of England has lost the Pound, plunging the financial world into turmoil this afternoon [...] others link the disaster with the appearance of a strange, sexless child, who was seen wandering around the square mile with an inscrutable grin." Is this the plot of Thick As a Brick Part III?
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Flying Zamboni posted:The 1993 movie Ghost in the Machine features a serial killer dying and possessing the internet. He stalks Karen Allen and her family throughout the movie using his internet powers. At one point he kills someone by reversing their microwave so that it heats up the room instead of the inside of the microwave. He does this via the internet somehow. Oh man, I wanna make a movie night that has bad 80s/90s Cyberspace graphics, but what would you even look for? Other than Lawnmower Man and Hackers what else would fit
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Alan Smithee posted:Oh man, I wanna make a movie night that has bad 80s/90s Cyberspace graphics, but what would you even look for? Other than Lawnmower Man and Hackers what else would fit The Mind's Eye.
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