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Colonel Whitey posted:Let’s loving go A lot of it is just following their Letterboxd accounts and figuring out out from that.
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Who cares about main feed, we’re going to get Ben talking Spawn on patreon!
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Pops Mgee posted:Who cares about main feed, we’re going to get Ben talking Spawn on patreon! He's gonna love that loving cape. I love that loving cape.
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Apr 1, 2025 19:37
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Clueless would easily be in the top 3 films they've covered on the pod if not the best.
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thrawn527 posted:He's gonna love that loving cape. I love that loving cape. One of his powers is CHAINS!
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Apr 1, 2025 19:44
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Spawn is the most loving Ben comic book character imaginable. Despite not really being significantly wet or dry, but I think Ben’s moved beyond that.
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Apr 1, 2025 19:54
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I’d listen to an episode on Vamps lol.
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Colonel Whitey posted:Spawn is the most loving Ben comic book character imaginable. Despite not really being significantly wet or dry, but I think Ben’s moved beyond that. He gets buried for years and dug back up! He's the jeans of superheroes.
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Gaius Marius posted:Clueless would easily be in the top 3 films they've covered on the pod if not the best. Ok I love Clueless but come on
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Srice posted:A lot of it is just following their Letterboxd accounts and figuring out out from that. Yeah each director usually has a film that you would only rewatch for a series. For example for Fincher it was Benjamin Button, and for Spielberg it was 1941, you see David watch those and then see he also watched a bunch of others and it is clear. The other trick is the "a film we will never discuss" which normally means they are doing it next. Which happens in the Always episode, and happened with Se7en and I want to say Hunt for Red October.
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Srice posted:A lot of it is just following their Letterboxd accounts and figuring out out from that. They also mentioned fast times and then immediately said “but we will never talk about that”
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I still do not like Hook. There are glimpses of a great movie. The score is good. The production design is flawless. Hoffman, Hoskins, and Smith are pros. Julia Roberts does her best with an absolute shitshow schizophrenic of a character. It either needs fewer ideas or another thirty minutes to let any moment at all have any breathing room, but I can't imagine sitting through three hours of this. Two and a half was bad enough.
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poly and open-minded posted:They also mentioned fast times and then immediately said “but we will never talk about that” And look who's talking.
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Inkspot posted:I still do not like Hook. There are glimpses of a great movie. The score is good. The production design is flawless. Hoffman, Hoskins, and Smith are pros. Julia Roberts does her best with an absolute shitshow schizophrenic of a character. I know I watched it as a kid since I vaguely remembered some of the scenes, but it never left much of an impression on me. Revisiting it as an adult I was mostly baffled. The skateboarding kids in particular felt like it was trying to be cool in a way that didn't read as genuine - like how in a lot of late 80s/early 90s stuff it was popular to have the "cool kids" be skateboarders. Comes off like chasing after coolness in a way that isn't present in any other Spielberg I've seen.
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Inkspot posted:I still do not like Hook. There are glimpses of a great movie. The score is good. The production design is flawless. Hoffman, Hoskins, and Smith are pros. Julia Roberts does her best with an absolute shitshow schizophrenic of a character. Yeah, there's a good movie in there somewhere, it's just way too long. You could easily cut at least 30-45 minutes off that movie. I can think of several scenes off the top of my head that could be cut without losing a god drat thing. Get that thing under 2 hours and you could have a good time.
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Apr 3, 2025 14:24
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Make the Hook fan cut!
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Apr 3, 2025 14:28
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Hook was on repeat in my household in the 90s so I really loved it. It was actually a surprise when I got older and learned it was generally disliked. I haven’t seen it in 20 years because I’m sure if I watched it now I would understand the complaints, and I like to keep the good memories intact.
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Apr 3, 2025 14:42
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You need a really high tolerance for Robin Williams to enjoy Hook
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There's some parts of Hook that I like. But I find Rufio such a loving annoying character it just completely ruins the movie, making it unwatchable.
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MokBa posted:Hook was on repeat in my household in the 90s so I really loved it. It was actually a surprise when I got older and learned it was generally disliked. I haven’t seen it in 20 years because I’m sure if I watched it now I would understand the complaints, and I like to keep the good memories intact. This is a good idea, because I was the same. I loved it as a kid, watched it as an adult, and at some point thought, "Jesus, how is this movie still going? Get to the climax already!" I think it was around when Tinker Bell turned into a full grown human for like 2 minutes.
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Hook was a movie that I only barely kinda liked as a kid, in the sense that it was "fine" while playing with matchbox cars. Can't really imagine going back as an adult.
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Speaking of annoying characters, I just watched Always and wow Dreyfuss and Hunter are two of the most irritating characters ever put to film. I’m glad his dumb rear end exploded in that plane. This movie even managed to make John Goodman irritating, a truly incredible feat.
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Yeah thinking Always might be a skip for me currently.
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I just started listening to the podcast ep on it and I’m flabbergasted that Griffin and Richard like the beginning of this movie. I’m with David on Dreyfuss I think. He’s so completely charmless and insufferable. The plane scenes are really good though
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Colonel Whitey posted:I just started listening to the podcast ep on it and I’m flabbergasted that Griffin and Richard like the beginning of this movie. I’m with David on Dreyfuss I think. He’s so completely charmless and insufferable. The plane scenes are really good though I'm also glad to hear someone else hates Mr. Holland. And I'm not talking the movie, the character Mr. Holland. He sucks.
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Srice posted:The skateboarding kids in particular felt like it was trying to be cool in a way that didn't read as genuine - like how in a lot of late 80s/early 90s stuff it was popular to have the "cool kids" be skateboarders. Comes off like chasing after coolness in a way that isn't present in any other Spielberg I've seen. They're not even really skateboarding! The track has a very defined ridge in the middle, which means whoever jumps on the board with the sail is guaranteed to go wherever the track takes them! I'm a fat old man and I can ride a drat trolley. Zurtilik posted:Make the Hook fan cut! But for real, though. Start with Banning shutting the window and tucking his kids into bed. TITLE CARD. Cut to the dinner with all of the former Lost Boys standing up to acknowledge Wendy. That's an easy 15 minutes of complete garbage excised. morestuff posted:You need a really high tolerance for Robin Williams to enjoy Hook I spent the majority of the movie wondering if it would be better with someone else. Could not for the life of me figure out who that might be. I wanna say... Rick Moranis? But I also just want more Rick Moranis in anything. thrawn527 posted:I'm also glad to hear someone else hates Mr. Holland. And I'm not talking the movie, the character Mr. Holland. He sucks. RIP my never-played Satyr Bard Mr. Hällyn Zopus.
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If you guys think Dreyfuss is annoying in Always you should check out The Goodbye Girl. That’s max annoying Dreyfuss.
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I know Lin gets a lot of poo poo but he is a really fun guest and has good celebrity stories. I bet he has some great burger reports
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David’s Spielberg ranking is so weird to me. I like both AI and Minority Report but having them 1 and 2 is nuts. There’s maybe 15 movies I’d put over those two.
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Most of David's rankings feel pretty wild, but I also much prefer Spielberg in dumb schlock mode. In no particular order... Last Crusade, Raiders, Minority Report, Tintin. Catch Me If You Can, Jaws, and Jurassic Park vying for fifth place.
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I mean I think I generally prefer the schlock too, but my mind reels at not having some combo of Jaws, Jurassic Park, Raiders, and ET as the top 4. My crazy opinion is that I’d put Duel at 5.
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Duel is my number 2 right now, but I'm going back watching post-Schindler's right now so everything after like 1996 is unwatched at the moment. I have never seen any Spielberg post Saving Private Ryan except the Terminal. Maybe I'm the crazy one. My top 5 pre-Schindlers is: 1. Jurassic Park 2. Duel 3. Temple of Doom 4. Last Crusade 5. Jaws I could see Schindler pushing into the 3 or 4 spot though. Zurtilik fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Apr 14, 2025 |
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Wait I haven’t listened to the JP ep yet, did they rank them already? Didn’t wait for Schindler’s List?
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I find Duel top 5 pretty crazy considering all his films with great scripts and scores, but I respect the purity of it. AI number 1 feels like a critic choice, but it pretty high up for me I think. Maybe top 7.
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My dad took the family to Jurassic Park in theaters. I was 5. We entered late (in the first nedry scene) and when the T-rex broke out and started killing people I started crying so much we had to leave and I didn't see the full movie until...2006?
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The guy has made several perfect no notes movies (to borrow a Blank Check phrase), ranking them is really hard for me. But if you put a gun to my head I'd have to go with ET. It's the movie that perfectly combines Spielbergs talents as a filmmaker with him telling a somewhat deeply personal movie.
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GoutPatrol posted:My dad took the family to Jurassic Park in theaters. I was 5. We entered late (in the first nedry scene) and when the T-rex broke out and started killing people I started crying so much we had to leave and I didn't see the full movie until...2006? my family went to schindler's list in theaters when I was 8 I did not cry, but I was disturbed, and like halfway through my stepmom pulled me out of the movie and we waited for my dad and sister to finish it I have still never seen the rest of schindler's list because the first half is burned into my psyche I think maybe seeing the entire thing would have been less scarring, all I got was the horrific misery
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I saw Jurassic in the theater with my parents when I was five, and I loving loved every second of it. Especially the gore. Although I did hold my mom’s hand during the spitter scene “in case she got scared”.
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I watched Jurassic Park at the drive-in during original release. The night time T-rex scene was pretty awesome watching it outdoors in the dark.
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Jose Oquendo posted:I watched Jurassic Park at the drive-in during original release. gently caress that rules.
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