piratepilates posted:

congratulations you two on being new cd mods.

MacheteZombie posted:

Easily the best George C Scott role I've seen.

Gripweed posted:

X-Ray Pecs posted:

The Hollywood Reporter did a profile on Shelley Duvall, it's good: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/f...ing-the-shining

quote:

Unkrich was pleased to find that the Duvall on Dr. Phil was just one part of a bigger picture. Yes, she could be gripped by anxiety attacks or meander into unsettling descriptions of alien-surveillance programs. But she also could converse for long, coherent stretches and conjure up the slightest details about her life and of her career, of which she remains very proud. [...] Her mood ebbed and flowed throughout the day, but, like Unkrich, I found her memory to be sharp and her stories engrossing.

Skwirl posted:

Has Al Franken said anything about Limbaugh's death, this is probably a perfect opportunity for him to relaunch his political career.

Lurdiak posted:

That'd make for a really good movie if it wasn't too sensationalist and did proper research.

Maybe in another 10-15 years tho.

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

Many years ago Liev Schrieber was attached to play Benoit which could've been great at the time

Skwirl posted:

Whatever year Citizen Kane lost.

Coaaab posted:

welles probably thought he deserved to win best picture but it's likely he'd also take umbrage at anyone calling a john ford movie bad

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Hey man, they're just movies.

Grendels Dad posted:

How many people peed in the lava?

Asking for a friend.

X-Ray Pecs posted:

I loving loved Under The Silver Lake, but I have a feeling it's one of those movies where if you're not on its wavelength, it's going to be the most obnoxious two and a half hours of your life.

TrixRabbi posted:

Like even mainstream Chinese audiences found Long Day’s Journey Into Night a confounding art film

I Before E posted:

I'm currently in the middle of a few:

Homunculus, a psychological thriller about a guy who undergoes an illicit trepanation and gains the ability to see what seem to be manifestations of people's self-images

Me And The Devil Blues, a fictionalized retelling of Robert Johnson's life

Blue Period, about a high schooler who finds himself drawn into the world of fine art and dedicates his life to painting

20th Century Boys, about a game some kids made up about stopping the end of the world actually coming true decades later

Hanaotoko, about a kid spending the summer with his irresponsible, baseball obsessed father

I'd recommend all of them.

I Before E posted:

I'm kind of the opposite, I read Pluto first and was so disappointed by it that I didn't really go into much of his other stuff until I gave 20th CB a shot, and I'm loving it.

Roth posted:

This thread talking about how they keep up with all these indie books by well regarded creators and I'm the dumbass still buying and reading Marvel and DC books.

MisterBibs posted:

I guess this could be a PYF thread, but what's an example of a movie you either don't want to see (or less passionately, don't care about one way or another, don't want to spend money on, whatever) that has one scene you just really want to see?

I was inspired to ask because I somehow stumbled onto that Casey Affleck-led movie A Ghost Story, and at some point the main character lives on into the future, because hes a ghost and all, and for some reason I kinda want to see it. I hear the movie otherwise moves at a maple-syrup-on-a-witch's-tit-who-is-sitting-on-a-glacier-for-some-reason pace, and I know I'd just be like "oh, thats it?" over it, but I want to see the loving future.

Of course, because it's Casey Affleck-led movie that hasd a microscopic budget back covered by 8-10 people, it's basically a cheap film on youtube... and even then, I don't want to pay for it. I just want to see the scene.

MisterBibs posted:

I mean, I did say I wasn't going to drop any clink on it anyway, because I'd be dissapointed.. in the very post you quoted.

feedmyleg posted:

There is absolutely nothing you could do to get me to click on that play button.

CPL593H posted:

I will preface this by saying that I have no strong feelings about Zack Snyder one way or the other so this doesn't factor into why I'm asking about this. Anyway, is Justice League worth watching? My interest in it is the Jack Kirby stuff, so I'm talking about the Snyder cut.

X-Ray Pecs posted:

Gatts posted:

If you've seen the original Evangelion series, watch the Rebuild Series. It's worth it. I had a slight lump in my throat.

I summon SMG. Have you ever seen Evangelion? Have you seen the rebuilds? Do you even want to? Like, what are your thoughts?

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

The fan consensus on Evangelion is that it’s a very deeply emotional show about depression or something, with cool random nonsense visuals. Those wacky Japanese just threw some Bible imagery in there to seem exotic. It looks Western, but its true meaning is... inscrutable.

Of course, the creators of the show actually understood the Bible fairly well, and their references are very straightforward and literal: “God” represents God, “angels” represent angels, etc. It’s all very much on the surface. But fans reject that, preferring to probe the depths of their own fantasies.

As a result, when the aforementioned Jesus character (who is literally Jesus Christ) tells Shinji “I love you” and then dies for his sins, fan reaction was to ignore the death part and ‘ship them together for Sherlock sex. (Shinji’s specific sin is being a lil’ baby fascist stooge, as it happens.) I’m not against the idea of a pansexual Christ, but this is very much missing the basic point of the show (i.e. fascism is bad).

And I’ve observed the same with, like, Annihilation. You’ll see people calling it a masterpiece of science fiction without being able to follow the story on a rudimentary level. It’s partly due to Garland being a writer who isn’t particularly adept at the visual side of storytelling, but also a fault of people seduced by ‘high art’ signifiers. As with the ‘inscrutable’ Evangelion, fans wonder at the impenetrable depths ‘behind’ the images - when he’s actually just botched a depiction of how genes work. It’s genuinely pretentious.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

In trying to identify and classify a very specific genre of movie. They're dramas. The best I can come up with is a "feel-bad" movie. They're usually gross, upsetting, dark, and unpleasant. I'm thinking Star 80, Happiness, Nightcrawler, and Killer Joe. What else is a "feel-bad" movie?? What else could I call this category?

Halloween Jack posted:

We should bully SMG into watching Hellsing. I wanna hear their take on Dracula exhorting a policewoman to drink his blood and become an Antichrist.

Basebf555 posted:

Recently I was watching a youtube reaction video for Raiders of the Lost Ark and the guy kept saying "OH poo poo THIS IS JUST LIKE UNCHARTED!!" and it was making me nuts. Still finished the whole video though lol

pospysyl posted:

Yo wtf

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1437843997985177600

Escobarbarian posted:

London Film Festival day 1 report: Bergman Island was pretty good, but Red Rocket was loving awesome. Only slightly behind Florida for me. Absolutely hilarious with an incredible main character - think if grown up Dirk Diggler had super Howard Ratner energy, played to perfection by Simon Rex. Sean Baker is so loving good man

Escobarbarian posted:

10 Oct - Last Night in Soho
11 Oct - The French Dispatch, Surprise Film
12 Oct - Titane, The Power of the Dog
14 Oct - The Lost Daughter
15 Oct - Succession 301-2
16 Oct - The Souvenir: Part II, Memoria
17 Oct - The Tragedy of Macbeth

Really happy with the amount of stuff I managed to snag tickets for that I’ve been looking forward to for ages. For the surprise film, hoping for Licorice Pizza but don’t think it’s very likely. Possibly that Tammy Faye film? And hell let’s even throw in a million-to-one chance that it could be DUNE

Coffee And Pie posted:

Kal Penn got engaged to his boyfriend of 11 years, hail gay stan

FreudianSlippers posted:

Escobarbarian posted:

Sweet Smell of Success owns yeah. It’s like, what if Wilder was even more cynical and actually ruthless

Franchescanado posted:

People seriously discussing The Rock as a viable presidential candidate is probably similar to how the president was elected in Idiocracy.

Jenny Agutter posted:

What's the best g rated movie. Don't think we ever reached concensus

feedmyleg posted:

Also Sorkin feels like being canceled on Twitter is equivalent to being put on the Hollywood blacklist in the 50s.