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Hahaha yes I knew I would be the only one to vote 2.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 01:06 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:02 |
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I've only ever seen II through V. I loving love Rocky IV.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 01:54 |
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My roommate likes watching ted talks in the living room on 1.5 speed so everyone sounds like chipmunk people. He's a nice guy, but I think I might destroy him.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 14:37 |
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Baron von Eevl posted:My previous roommate had a habit of falling asleep in the living room while masturbating to How It's Made. Okay, fine, I'll stop complaining.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 14:50 |
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Soundtrack To Mary posted:Ugh! We suck. Just wanted to chime in to say that I visited Moab last year and the canyon I stayed in the first night was the most beautiful place I've ever been, and I lived in Hawaii for a year. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:If that's his last one, that's a hell of a movie to go out on. What is this from?
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 19:34 |
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Frankly, the Elephant Man might be my favorite movie of his.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 20:33 |
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I really wish David Lynch did more for me. The Elephant Man is great. Mullholland Drive and Blue Velvet are very good. I fell asleep both times I tried to watch Inland Empire. I've always preferred Cronenberg in the battle of the weird Davids.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 22:40 |
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FishBulb posted:Honestly if it wasn't for Twin Peaks I wouldn't even care about Lynch. Yeah I should probably watch that but... TV shows are long, man, and the few random episodes I saw really didn't do it for me. I really need to rewatch Eraserhead. I saw it at a young enough age to gently caress me up but not an old enough age to remember most of it. For some reason I feel like if anything's gonna win me over it'll be that one.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:04 |
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Summer of Sam is weird as gently caress but I really like it. I can't think of any other serial killer movies that just focus entirely on random civilians that don't even really intersect with the serial killer plot in any meaningful way.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:19 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:BOB is my favorite TV villain ever, including Marlo Stanfield, George Hearst and whoever else. Bobby Cannavale in Boardwalk Empire (I forget his character's name)
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:33 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Gyp Rosetti. I really wanna go back and rewatch that whole season just for his character.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:37 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The season is much stronger because it focuses on him. The fourth season is all over the place. I appreciate its scope, but once again I always think whenever Boardwalk Empire goes for scope it seems like it's flailing its arms around saying "hey, look, this show's still on the air!" Yeah in retrospect 3 might be the best season so far, although for me the high points of 2 are higher and 4 feels the most well-balanced. I love the way Buscemi plays their scenes together too, like he's just perpetually flabbergasted at how increasingly angry Rosetti gets for no reason.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2014 23:44 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:In a lot of ways the whole show is worth it to see various actors pulling faces. Shea Wigham, Michael Shannon and Michael Stuhlbarg have raised it to an artform. The face Stuhlbarg pulls when Rosetti calls him a "smug kike midget, creeping around like a dentist with the ether" slays me every drat time.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 00:15 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'll never forget this but there's a good moment at the end of the second season where he's taking a phone call from Nicky and he hangs up the phone and there's a really weird pause where he feels triumphant. I don't know if it's the makeup or what but he looks like a drat ventriloquist's puppet. Its so creepy. A ventriloquist's puppet is exactly what he looks like. It's gotten even more pronounced as the show's gone on, and it made the bits where he tried to act all warm-and-fuzzy in season 4 extra creepy.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 00:29 |
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penismightier posted:I think the trouble with both of these is that while they're both valid problems to have with a movie, everyone (myself included) has a tendency for some reason to stop with those phrases and not go into the why/how of them. It's the same thing with "manipulative" really. Manipulative can be a positive or a negative, but it's a valid word when used right and with proper context, I don't think shunning the word from all criticism is a valid solution.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 15:51 |
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The only empty critical language that bugs me is when someone drops "all art is political" all on its lonesome as if it's a statement with any intrinsic value.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 18:06 |
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Literally The Worst posted:"Style over substance" with nothing else to back it up is up there too. Eeehhhh.... I mean, with nothing else to back it up, then sure I guess. But at least that's one of those things like "pretentious" where it actually has a real meaning even if 90% of the people that use it are doing it wrong.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 18:22 |
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penismightier posted:I think it's bullshit because being visually stimulating is a fine enough goal for a movie. I mean it is and it isn't, as they say. Like, "stimulating" is pretty broad. If a movie is just rapid fire stimulus, then yeah, I'd like a bit more out of that movie. But then I don't like Michael Bay or Spring Breakers so maybe I'm playing to the wrong crowd. It all depends what you want out of a movie is I guess what I'm saying. If you just want something that engages you on a visual, aesthetic level, then that's fine. But if you want a good story well-told, I think that's fine too. And once again, It's not always a negative thing. Redline is style over substance and it owns. Saw is style over substance and it blows.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 18:32 |
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penismightier posted:I think film writers tend to get bullshitty about it, though. Oh without a doubt. Probably moreso even than any other art critics. And that's not to say substance over style isn't a thing too (insert your favorite boring documentary here, The Central Park Five is the first that came to mind).
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 18:39 |
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CPL593H posted:I'm not really disagreeing with you, but it makes me wonder why this is considered cheap in most genres but it's an essential and widely accepted part of horror films. I dunno, horror movies almost get it the worst. Think of how many horror movies you've seen that were loaded with bullshit screeching-string-section musical stings.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 19:47 |
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CPL593H posted:Absolutely true, but there are a lot of great examples too. The most referenced one would that scene in Jaws where Hooper is investigating that boat and a dead body pops out. Spielberg himself has often talked about how the musical que was what made that scene work so well. Oh yeah, I mean, I'm an Italian horror fan so I'm definitely not knocking horror soundtracks on the whole.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 19:56 |
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Tars Tarkas posted:FEARnet is dead, it's the second big site of 2014 that I read that's been shuttered/absorbed. Oh poo poo. Scott Weinberg's one of the two film critics I actually follow.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2014 22:34 |
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I'm still a little unclear on what PAX is, apparently it's arguing about oatmeal and rape. My roommate's there right now, I should ask if thus reflects his experience.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 15:14 |
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CloseFriend posted:I've never been to a con in my life. I really hate crowds and frankly, I don't see much point in paying to get ads shoved in my face for a weekend. I just don't see the appeal. Comic cons can be fun if you're into comics. I'm not really interested in meeting celebrities or seeing movie trailers or that poo poo, but you can meet some neat artists and find some great comics for dirt cheap. The last Boston Comic Con was real fun, I might go again this year.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 15:29 |
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CPL593H posted:I heard that they're stepping up their game a bit this year and having coolers guests. Eric Powell will be among them. The guest list this year is certainly stacked, but whether it's significantly better than last year is a matter of preference. Last year had Mike Mignola, Brian Azzarello, Carl Barks, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, Neal Adams, Mark Bagley, Lee Weeks, Erica Henderson, etc.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 15:45 |
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CPL593H posted:I'm just hyped about Eric Powell. I've been a huge Goon fan since I was in high school. Yeah Powell's dope although I haven't read the Goon in many years. Aragones is easily the guest I find most exciting this year, although I'm kinda over waiting in line to get poo poo signed by people.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 16:04 |
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CPL593H posted:I've never actually done that whole thing before, but I'd really like to meet Powell. Most of the people I met last year were kinda quiet and awkward, except for Carl Barks who shot the poo poo with us for a good long while and Lee Weeks who is straight up one of the nicest people I've ever met. I didn't get to meet Hill and Rodriguez cuz their line was way too long for me to wait in but my friend did and said that both of them were super rad people (which corresponds to basically everything I've heard about Joe Hill, dude seems like a genuinely awesome person).
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 16:13 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Carl Barks seems like a chill guy. Y'know I actually got my Scrooge McDuck names mixed up, it was Don Rosa, the dude behind The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck that I met. Turns out Carl Barks has, uh, been dead for 15 years. But yeah, Rosa was chill as hell. Speaks very candidly about his relationship with Disney.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 16:20 |
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Make your jokes less subtle; employ fart noises more.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 16:38 |
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DNS posted:It seems like ebay has eliminated a lot of the utility in going to a con to dig through the crates looking for that lost issue of Big Numbers or whatever. Yeah but I'm less looking for rare finds and more just looking for good poo poo that's marked down to half price or less. Cons are great for that.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 20:17 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:There should be a mod challenge for Dickeye to only talk about movies for a month. There should be a mod challenge for this entire thread to only talk about movies, period.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 21:09 |
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Tars Tarkas posted:Yes, but not in CineD Hahaha, what a baby.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 21:16 |
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DNS posted:Signed, Badpost McNoselfawareness Don't sign your posts. e:b
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 21:23 |
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Hahaha, wow, holy poo poo. I didn't know I actually made anyone here that angry. Sweet post though, the homophobia and ableism are a nice touch.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 21:39 |
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For some reason the bit that keeps cracking me up is that he called me a yankee.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 21:54 |
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Noxville posted:He's right that UncleBoogeyman is a bad poster though. Don't sign your... oh, wait
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2014 22:25 |
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Aight, so what's my dinner movie for tonight? Do I bust my Elia Kazan cherry with On The Waterfront or my Bresson cherry with A Man Escaped?
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 02:25 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Read On The Waterfront. Aw man, you mean it's got subtitles? A Man Escaped it is.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 02:42 |
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:not all Marvel films are good, but all good films are Marvel.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 13:00 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 14:02 |
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Hbomberguy posted:My goodness, someone with a Disney's Marvel's Avengers character in his avatar doesn't like SMG. I wonder why... What? I love SMG! Why else would I fix his typo? I got his back.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2014 13:10 |