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thrawn527 posted:The Watcher is such a strange movie to me. It's a movie about a serial killer being hunted by an FBI agent, starring Keanu Reeves and James Spader. And James Spader doesn't play the serial killer?! What the gently caress? Alcohollywood definitely brought it up in their review of it. It probably would have made far more sense if the roles were reversed. Spader is creepy, and Keanu is about as threatening as a golden retriever wearing a party hat. But if they'd done that, the movie wouldn't have been so gloriously awful.
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Their discussion of Keanu as a villain surprised me because they didn't bring up his role as an abusive redneck wife-beater in The Gift, which he was actually OK in.
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Sleeveless posted:Their discussion of Keanu as a villain surprised me because they didn't bring up his role as an abusive redneck wife-beater in The Gift, which he was actually OK in. They didn't bring up The Man of Tai Chi either, which he also directed. I thought it was a pretty solid movie. Most of the fight scenes were really well done
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Yeah, Man of Tai Chi is super underrated. Keanu's direction is solid and his portrayal of the Evil Fight Club Owner / End Boss is just right. The protagonist is a veteran fight choreographer / stunt guy who became best buds with Keanu while shooting the Matrix and it's his only starring role to date, he does a great job too.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:So is Olympus Has Fallen the white house takeover movie people like, or the one they don't like? Olympus Has Fallen is a Die Hard Movie staring a Sylvester Stalone impersonation of Steven Seagal aping John McClane. White House Down is a Leathal Weapon riff of a Die Hard Movie starring John McClane by way of 80s Arnold(with a daughter in danger) and Bad Boys Will Smith playing President Young Murtaugh.
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Gyges posted:Olympus Has Fallen is a Die Hard Movie staring a Sylvester Stalone impersonation of Steven Seagal aping John McClane. If you have to go to the TVTropes well that hard, you barely even have a movie.
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Feb 18, 2016 03:54
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I love the one off characters who become super important in their episodes, but they never come back again(Cloudy, Jeremy). I feel like it's been a long time since one of those.
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Corek posted:If you have to go to the TVTropes well that hard, you barely even have a movie. They are both entertaining in their own way. Also, Olympus Has Fallen teamed up with the Red Dawn remake to insist North Korea is totally a threat guys. No really. Guys?
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I think you mean
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I like the assumption that Chinese audiences are too dumb to realize the villains are basically them, but with the serial numbers filed off.
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Feb 18, 2016 12:39
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I like the assumption that Chinese audiences are too dumb to realize the villains are basically them, but with the serial numbers filed off.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I like the assumption that Chinese audiences are too dumb to realize the villains are basically them, but with the serial numbers filed off. It's not about the audiences so much as it is the Chinese government refusing to allow foreign movies that portray China in anything other than a glowing light to get released in China and miss out on that fat international ticket money. Some movies even go a step further and actively pander to China in hopes of getting released there, like Looper having JGL go to China instead of France and the whole scene about how in the future they're totally the new world leader. Or Iron Man 3 shooting a bunch of extra footage for the Chinese release where Tony Stark goes to China because they have the best doctors in the world and he's totally wowed by how great everything is there.
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Feb 18, 2016 14:02
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Honestly my favorite thing about all this talk of 'pandering' to China in recent years is that it's usually by people Hollywood has pandered to for decades.
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TetsuoTW posted:Honestly my favorite thing about all this talk of 'pandering' to China in recent years is that it's usually by people Hollywood has pandered to for decades. They really really liked Pacific Rim, and that has lead to so many vaguely racist articles trying to figure out why that is.
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It's because Pacific Rim owns. Really enjoyed the mailbag this month, the slow slide into depravity throughout the emails was fantastic. I don't have any cinema horror stories on that level to share but I've got a lot of movie-going left in me! Might write in something for next month.
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I'm still giggling about a bunch of teens having their mass makeout session ruined by Schindler's List. Nothing will top that girl bleeding all over her date in a theater though.
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Feb 18, 2016 15:30
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I forgot how much their Keanu impressions sound like Hank Hill.
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Feb 18, 2016 15:41
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We Hate Movies slowly turns into an advice podcast over 20 years, in 2036 it's just called "WHM", the letters don't stand for anything, movies are never mentioned, every episode is reader mail.
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cheerfullydrab posted:We Hate Movies slowly turns into an advice podcast over 20 years, in 2036 it's just called "WHM", the letters don't stand for anything, movies are never mentioned, every episode is reader mail. We Have Mailbag
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Calaveron posted:We Have Mailbag Dear WHM: What do the letters in your name stand for? Well, that's a funny story. You see, the first 1100 episodes of this show were actually comedic reviews of bad movies! Of course, that was back when we all still had only organic, human organs and New York City wasn't called "Robo New York 2032".
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cheerfullydrab posted:We Hate Movies slowly turns into an advice podcast over 20 years, in 2036 it's just called "WHM", the letters don't stand for anything, movies are never mentioned, every episode is reader mail. My Critic, My Critic and Me
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That podcast is so terrible. I have no idea why it's popular.
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Yeah, and I can never tell the hosts apart.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Yeah, and I can never tell the hosts apart. I like Mr Smith but not Mr Smith or Mr Smith, and Mr Smith hardly even shows up anymore.
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"Jesus Christ is a vicious night spirit"- Eric Szyszka Also my dad snuck me into The Brown Bunny and I once watched Irreversible and also Visitor Q with my parents so I think I might be able to beat that cosmic exception My dad's a huge intellectual film snob and both my parents were the intelligentsia types so yeahhhhh. I've seen some weird rear end movies with my parents Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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"Let's dispel with this fiction that Jeff Dunham doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing."
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What's with the WKUK hate in this month's mailbag? Is there some sort of Private Cabin/Whitest Kids beef I'm unaware of? I only ask because I've literally never met anyone who was aware of them that wasn't a fan, but I'm willing to believe there's people who aren't into their stuff. Is that a thing?
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bango skank posted:What's with the WKUK hate in this month's mailbag? Is there some sort of Private Cabin/Whitest Kids beef I'm unaware of? I only ask because I've literally never met anyone who was aware of them that wasn't a fan, but I'm willing to believe there's people who aren't into their stuff. Is that a thing? I've found everything I've seen from them painfully unfunny, so, yes, we exist.
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They have a fistful of good sketches but they're all from the beginnings of the show and that thing ran way more seasons than you remember.
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Sketch group grudges sounds like something Chrisropher Guest would make a movie about. Also every sketch show makes a ton of garbage for every good one, if you judge them by their highs WKUK is amazing just for the John Wilkes Booth sketch.
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Yep, way more misses then hits, though some of their hits are top notch.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:"Jesus Christ is a vicious night spirit"- Eric Szyszka You really need to write in, they're gonna poo poo themselves at that
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TheFallenEvincar posted:"Jesus Christ is a vicious night spirit"- Eric Szyszka LORD OF BUTT posted:You really need to write in, they're gonna poo poo themselves at that Yes, do this, please.
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My mom let me watch both Pink Flamingos and Crash before I was 10, because she thought they were hilariously hosed up and she was an unfit parent. My dad didn't give a gently caress either so he would watch slasher films with me when I was little. Although that all isn't fun mailbag material as it is exhibit A, in some kind of future psych evaluation.
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Just noticed that the new FYAD forum title is 'Please don't sing Dragula'. Dunno if it's a coincidence but I've had the WHM guys singing that stuck in my head since the Watcher ep. Not the whole song, just the bit they sing. It's annoying.
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LIVING DEAD GIRL
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LORD OF BUTT posted:You really need to write in, they're gonna poo poo themselves at that thrawn527 posted:Yes, do this, please. I'm sure they'll get a kick out of me silently eating breakfast cereal in my parents' living room on a Saturday morning while we all awkwardly distressingly endured Monica Bellucci being horribly raped for like ten minutes but for my money there's no movie more awkward to watch with your parents than loving Visitor Q.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:How do you do that again? Shoot an email at weallhatemovies@gmail.com ?? As far as I know, yeah.
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