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Triarii posted:I was baffled by the choice to cast Craig in that role but I thought it ended up working really well. Him having such a blatantly incorrect accent added a fun note of absurdity that you wouldn't get with plain old Billy Bob Thornton or whoever. Finished the movie and liked it a lot but really disagree RCarr posted:You’re not alone. He was by far the worst part of the movie.
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My IIMM with Knives Out is what the hell kind of a nickname is Ransom?
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Jul 12, 2020 06:35
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I honestly can't fathom casting an actor with a realistic accent for that role.
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Jul 12, 2020 06:46
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Henchman of Santa posted:My IIMM with Knives Out is what the hell kind of a nickname is Ransom? I don't think that was a nickname that was an actual name. I worked with a kid back in college and that was his name
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Jul 12, 2020 06:49
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Henchman of Santa posted:My IIMM with Knives Out is what the hell kind of a nickname is Ransom? It's not a nickname. It's his middle name. I mean, that obviously raises the question "what the hell kind of a middle name is Ransom?" and to that I have no response.
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Jul 12, 2020 06:50
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Boat is correct. Craig did as well as he could and he is a good actor but that was very much the wrong role.
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I was watching City of Embers, and buy does that movie which is Fallout: Escape from the Vault really misses the point. The movie should have been the ESCAPE from the city, not 90% IN the city. The whole movie seems to be missing it's own point. Also, in the current global catastrophe, it's very on point that this is all the adults fault, our children will be the ones to rescue us, but it's all going to be very depressing. Not a happy uplifting movie to watch these days.
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Jul 12, 2020 08:56
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fartknocker posted:The only things I remember about that movie were John Boyega have like 2 minutes of screen time and Tom Hanks dropping the f-bomb at the end getting a bigger reaction than almost anything else that was actually part of the plot. Which F-bomb?
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Jul 12, 2020 12:09
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Carthag Tuek posted:rod kimble raises fifty grand to give frank a new heart, but who raises the money to give rod a new skeleton? There are no flaws in Hot Rod Also, there is no tool... in this pool
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Jul 12, 2020 12:33
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Like, often the worst thing a comedy can do is try to cram a bunch of serious drama/action into the third act of an otherwise very silly movie. Examples: Wedding Crashers, Old School, The Other Guys, knocked Up, and so on. It's not impossible to pull off, but it's rare to do so. Apatow sure as hell can't. I never saw The Hangover, but I'm gonna go ahead and assume it does it too. Hot Rod tanked critically and at the box office, but it's one of my favorite comedies of all time. And it never forgets that it's a comedy first, either. Any emotional swells are punctuated with jokes or intentionally cut off. Eclipse12 has a new favorite as of 12:49 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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Jul 12, 2020 12:44
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Which F-bomb? Phone posting, but it’s at like 3:25 of this video https://youtu.be/CDj_sgTnm-U
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Eclipse12 posted:Like, often the worst thing a comedy can do is try to cram a bunch of serious drama/action into the third act of an otherwise very silly movie. Examples: Wedding Crashers, Old School, The Other Guys, knocked Up, and so on. It's not impossible to pull off, but it's rare to do so. Apatow sure as hell can't. This is something that started with comedies in the mid to late eighties. poo poo, the third act of Three Men and a Baby has Tom Selleck burying a drug smuggler alive at a construction site after a whole heroin trafficking subplot.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:This is something that started with comedies in the mid to late eighties. poo poo, the third act of Three Men and a Baby has Tom Selleck burying a drug smuggler alive at a construction site after a whole heroin trafficking subplot. Was gonna say, it's almost omnipresent, especially in children's movies and usually with very insufficient build up. I think it's the idea that no matter the content or tone of the movie, it always has to end in a feel-good 'win' of some kind. You don't see it as much in comedic TV, which can get away with a farce collapsing or an anticlimax.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The Circle Watched it a couple of months back and it was absolutely terrible, it has zero redeeming qualities.
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GazChap posted:My irrational irritating movie moment is that this movie exists. The first 20 minutes with all the weird corporate-mandated happiness exercises is kinda fun, in a mid-tier Black Mirror kind of way. Also the line "when I'm not being watched? I steal kayaks" That's about all I've got. It's also kind of annoying that I keep getting it confused with Circle, which is one of the better entries in my favourite genre of "people trapped in a weird room for unknown reasons" - Cube, The Interview, The Human Race, Exam
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Eclipse12 posted:Like, often the worst thing a comedy can do is try to cram a bunch of serious drama/action into the third act of an otherwise very silly movie. Examples: Wedding Crashers, Old School, The Other Guys, knocked Up, and so on. It's not impossible to pull off, but it's rare to do so. The Good Morning Vietnam effect. After that movie came out, suddenly every light comedy for 20 years thought you needed third act tragedy and angst and it. loving. sucked. Pope Corky the IX posted:This is something that started with comedies in the mid to late eighties. poo poo, the third act of Three Men and a Baby has Tom Selleck burying a drug smuggler alive at a construction site after a whole heroin trafficking subplot. Both movies came out the same year. Also - Tom Selleck loving what? I'm going to have to rewatch that movie now, because 
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Irrationally Irritating Knives out moment: You could never accidentally give 100 mg of morphine thinking you were drawing up 100mg of Toradol. The dose concentrations are super different. Toradol is usually 15-30 mg/mL and Morphine is 2-4 mg/mL. So even if you had the low concentration Toradol and the highest concentration morphine, you'd draw up 7mL and give a dose of 28mg morphine, which is a pretty standard dose. There's higher concentration morphine but that's all prefilled syringe type stuff, not vials like in the movie. Of course, she gave the right meds anyway so it's not something that bothered me too much but I feel like it's something they could have had the detective point out at the end
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Jul 12, 2020 14:41
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The Interview was so good until the magical healing meat bullet bit at the end. The best thing Cube did was not show anything outside the cube, because explanations are always terrible. It's why all the Cube sequels and prequels are terrible. Bonus IIMM, which isn't bad per se, but rather irritates me in a "can't stop thinking about it" way: What's the deal with the person in the very first scene? Later in the film it's a big deal when the characters figure out that every one of them has a specific skill the group needs to survive. What skill is the group missing that ol' slice-n-dice would have brought to the table?
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I did a course on cyberpunk at uni and we had to read The Circle novel as a sort of modern parallel. If the 80s vision of the near future was cyberpunk, what could be a similar example from the 2010s kind of thing. We all agreed it was loving terrible. I suggested they used something not terrible like Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl in the future.
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Taeke posted:I suggested they used something not terrible like Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl in the future. This was a really excellent book that you just reminded me to reread, thanks.
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rydiafan posted:The Interview was so good until the magical healing meat bullet bit at the end. Oh yeah, they almost all have pretty terrible endings. The Interview comes closest to sticking the landing though.
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Jul 12, 2020 15:43
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3-headed shark attack isn't on Prime. 2, 5 and 6 headed are but not three and i'm absolutely not paying for that movie
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Len posted:3-headed shark attack isn't on Prime. 2, 5 and 6 headed are but not three and i'm absolutely not paying for that movie I bet it's just because of the star appeal of being the only one with danny trejo in it. I'd pay the 4 dollars to rent it if it were me and I hadn't already seen it a couple times, but then again I paid 8 dollars to own velocipastor (right before they added it to prime), so my financial decisions may not be the wisest. Still want to know why they skipped over 4 heads like that though. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 17:23 on Jul 12, 2020 |
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rydiafan posted:Bonus IIMM, which isn't bad per se, but rather irritates me in a "can't stop thinking about it" way: What's the deal with the person in the very first scene? Later in the film it's a big deal when the characters figure out that every one of them has a specific skill the group needs to survive. What skill is the group missing that ol' slice-n-dice would have brought to the table? Weren't they an actual escape artist who knew about chewing on buttons to relieve thirst and throwing your shoe into a room to set off traps? I always thought he was going to be their leader, but he just hosed off right away and got himself killed.
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Jul 12, 2020 17:48
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It’s not ultimately a great movie but What Dreams May Come is gorgeous so I guess I’m irrationally irritated that more movies don’t look like What Dreams May Come. The only thing I can think of that aped it was that DLC for The Witcher 3.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Weren't they an actual escape artist who knew about chewing on buttons to relieve thirst and throwing your shoe into a room to set off traps? No, before that guy. The pre-title opening scene is a dude waking up in the cube, exploring a couple rooms, and then dying. None of the other characters ever even meet them. https://youtu.be/YnuRpHkg0H8
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Jul 12, 2020 19:34
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I thought The Other Guys was good personally
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christmas boots posted:I thought The Other Guys was good personally The Other Guys is one of those movies that I'm pretty sure I've seen, but I remember next to nothing that happens in it. I was also getting it confused with The Nice Guys at first, a movie I really didn't like because the main characters were SO GOD-drat STUPID to the point where they let the girl they're protecting get killed because they very stupidly leave her completely alone while they BOTH go investigate an obviously fake lead. I wanted to like that movie, and laughing at idiots can be fun, but the movie was just so frustrating and unpleasant.
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Jul 12, 2020 20:52
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rydiafan posted:No, before that guy. The pre-title opening scene is a dude waking up in the cube, exploring a couple rooms, and then dying. None of the other characters ever even meet them. It goes into what you're told later. Before the Cube's makers put the group of six into it, they put Alderson in alone to make sure that it worked mechanically.
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Eh! Frank posted:
There’s also a TV show from the early 2010’s called The Good Guys, and I can never remember which one is which without looking it up.
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christmas boots posted:I thought The Other Guys was good personally I can quote you about 80% of the script verbatim, but when you watch it as a film, it’s kind of flat. It’s absolutely a movie made for watching clips of on youtube.
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Eh! Frank posted:The Other Guys is one of those movies that I'm pretty sure I've seen, but I remember next to nothing that happens in it. The Nice Guys is extremely good, and most of the things said about it in the above post are actually reasons that it is good. The Other Guys is nowhere near as funny as it needs to be, and it does a peculiar thing where, having established that most action film protagonists are terrible unlikable arseholes, it suggests that our protagonists need to become more like them and that will be a good thing.
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I'M A PEACOCK CHIEF YA GOTTA LET ME FLY! That and Michael Keaton make the movie nothing short of amazing.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:It’s not ultimately a great movie but What Dreams May Come is gorgeous so I guess I’m irrationally irritated that more movies don’t look like What Dreams May Come. The only thing I can think of that aped it was that DLC for The Witcher 3. I personally think it's a fantastic loving movie and probably one of the most emotional of all time to me And it's actually more effective on a rewatch
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The Bloop posted:I personally think it's a fantastic loving movie and probably one of the most emotional of all time to me  Real good movie.
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rydiafan posted:No, before that guy. The pre-title opening scene is a dude waking up in the cube, exploring a couple rooms, and then dying. None of the other characters ever even meet them. Fun fact, that guy is Julian Richings, he played Death on Supernatural, and one of the Kryptonian elders in Man of Steel, as well as a fuckton of other roles. Dude's an amazing character actor.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:I'M A PEACOCK CHIEF YA GOTTA LET ME FLY! The idea of the macho, toxic masculine type becoming a legitimate expert in multiple fields of art just because he wanted to be sure he was bullying them accurately absolutely killed me
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Len posted:3-headed shark attack isn't on Prime. 2, 5 and 6 headed are but not three and i'm absolutely not paying for that movie A true outrage, as it prevents a fellow goon that starred in it to not get royalties. As for The Other Guys my IIMM is the end credits infographics showing how much big corporations get away with screwing over the common person. Such a tone shift compared to the rest of the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBfWz2bSOQ
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It's definitely weird, but I can't hate on a director or whomever trying to educate people about how ridiculous the bailouts were and how crazy CEO pay is. It's only tangentially related to the movie's plot, but people do need to be reminded. I love that movie and the Nice Guys, because they are both based on how lovely the rich and corporations will act and how the average person is powerless (alone) to stop them.
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