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axleblaze posted:Just because Anthony was the one caught being racist doesn't mean Opie isn't racist.
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axleblaze posted:Just because Anthony was the one caught being racist doesn't mean Opie isn't racist. I never thought O&A themselves were funny or likable but they used to have so many funny dudes on that I didn't really care.
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Timeless Appeal posted:It's even shittier when you consider that they did it to get out of their contract since they had already lined up a deal with New York. I was not aware of that. At least that explains they were so they seemed adamant to not apologize for it afterwards.
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Just finished watching Locke. For being an hour and 20 minutes of Tom Hardy driving around and talking on the phone, that was oddly compelling  Tom Hardy really went above and beyond in it.
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DNS posted:I never thought O&A themselves were funny or likable but they used to have so many funny dudes on that I didn't really care.
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Jul 5, 2014 21:11
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But Face Off isn't bad
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I don't know who Jim Norton is but I hate the sound of his voice. And the fact that he's dissing Face/Off just makes it worse.
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Timeless Appeal posted:Jim Norton convincing Patrice O'Neal that Face-Off is a bad movie is one of the funniest thing that I've ever heard. And I don't even like Jim Norton. I love Face/Off and that's pretty drat funny.
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Face/Off loving rules and is a god-tier Nic Cage film. It's one of the best things I've ever seen Travolta in, too.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Face/Off loving rules and is a god-tier Nic Cage film. It's one of the best things I've ever seen Travolta in, too. Pulp fiction has some words for you. Although those two, and I dont know, maybe Grease are about the only good films he's in, (Saturday Night Fever? I haven't seen that one).
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Skwirl posted:Pulp fiction has some words for you. 
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Jul 5, 2014 21:23
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I love Face/Off. But John Travolta rubbing his hand down his loved ones' faces all the time is kinda redic.
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Jul 5, 2014 21:24
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Face/Off is one of those weird good/bad movies that isn't "so bad it's good," but is bad for many of the same reasons that it is good, and vice versa. It's very purely subjective. Certainly though, if you come at it as a fan of Woo's Hong Kong classics, it can be kinda depressing.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Face/Off is one of those weird good/bad movies that isn't "so bad it's good," but is bad for many of the same reasons that it is good, and vice versa. It's very purely subjective. And yet it's the only one of his American movies that wasn't fully neutered. Well, that and Hard Target.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I love Face/Off. But John Travolta rubbing his hand down his loved ones' faces all the time is kinda redic. The face-touching is one of the best things in Face/Off. 
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morestuff posted:And yet it's the only one of his American movies that wasn't fully neutered. Well, that and Hard Target. Yeah, Hard Target on the other hand is very firmly so-bad-it's-good.
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Skwirl posted:Pulp fiction has some words for you. You need to go watch Saturday Night Fever. Carrie too.
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RandallODim posted:You need to go watch Saturday Night Fever. Carrie too. Also Blow Out. Travolta's been in plenty of good movies.
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Man whatever. I love Woo's HK films and Face Off is still good. It's not AS good but it's solid and also dope
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It's been five years or so since I've seen Saturday Night Fever so I'm due for a rewatch, but I'm willing to go out on a limb and say Blow Out is the best thing Travolta ever did. edit: I forgot he's in The Thin Red Line. But like most people in that movie he's only in it for about five minutes.
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TrixRabbi posted:It's been five years or so since I've seen Saturday Night Fever so I'm due for a rewatch, but I'm willing to go out on a limb and say Blow Out is the best thing Travolta ever did. It's almost certainly between those two. I think he's kind of an underrated actor, personally. The lead in Blow Out could've been a total stock role but Travolta really brought his own spin to it. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Face/Off is one of those weird good/bad movies that isn't "so bad it's good," but is bad for many of the same reasons that it is good, and vice versa. It's very purely subjective. Uncle Boogeyman posted:Yeah, Hard Target on the other hand is very firmly so-bad-it's-good. Yeah this is pretty much my take. I enjoyed Face/Off when it came out, and upon rewatching recently I could still see its good qualities even if I found it sort of overelongated (Woo's tendency to stretch everything out played even worse in Mission: Impossible 2 - I'd kill to see his 3 and a half hour cut of that just out of morbid curiosity), but when people enthuse over it I just kinda get depressed. Skwirl posted:Pulp fiction has some words for you. Saturday Night Fever is excellent, and Travolta's great in it. People's image of it is usually way out of whack with what the movie actually is. Get Shorty and A Civil Action ain't so bad either, IIRC.
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I'd really love to see Travolta do something like About Schmidt where he gives up any pretense of coming off as cool and plays to his age and lets himself be vulnerable.
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Saturday Night Fever is a good movie, but it has a really hosed up attitude about rape. I know it was a different time, but still.
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Timby posted:Travolta is loving great in Primary Colors. Primary Colors is such a great weird movie that I'm pretty sure is unique in that I believe the people it's mainly criticizing (true believer type Democrats that project their ideal onto people that will only let them down) loving love it.
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This is the thread where people list a bunch of awesome movies I forgot about. Feal a little stupid not remembering Blow Out and Get Shorty.
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axleblaze posted:Primary Colors is such a great weird movie that I'm pretty sure is unique in that I believe the people it's mainly criticizing … loving love it.
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CloseFriend posted:I think American History X is like that too… unfortunately. God, my roommate during my freshman year of college thought American History X and Boondock Saints were the two greatest movies ever made, and he had one of them on the TV almost every single time I came home from work or a date or whatever. "Yeah, man, the loving curbstomp! That poo poo's awesome!" That was twelve years ago. I wonder if his tastes have changed.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I wonder how Michael holds up. Not well at all. Better than Phenomenon though.
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therattle posted:Nobody's mentioned Battlefield Earth? We had a good streak running too, and then you ruined it.
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therattle posted:Nobody's mentioned Battlefield Earth? We're discussing movies where Travolta is good. Even if you enjoy his performance in that I still don't think anyone in good conscience could call it good.
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axleblaze posted:We're discussing movies where Travolta is good. Even if you enjoy his performance in that I still don't think anyone in good conscience could call it good. Mark my words, in ten years people will look back on that film and proclaim it a masterpiece. Especially when all of its predictions come true.
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therattle posted:Mark my words, in ten years people will look back on that film and proclaim it a masterpiece. In ten seconds, I'm gonna look back on this post and proclaim you a butthead.
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therattle posted:Mark my words, in ten years people will look back on that film and proclaim it a masterpiece. So what I think you're saying is that in ten years the world will be a Scientologist Theocracy where disliking the movie is an executable offense. That is the only scenario in which I can see Battlefield Earth being considered a good movie.
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I've only seen Battlefield Earth once, with RiffTrax, and I could barely get through it even with RiffTrax.
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