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Philippe posted:I rewatched Starship Troopers last night and to nobody's surprise it slaps. How did people not understand that this is satire for so long? Great film, classic  x2
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demolition man. i'd seen it before, but didn't really remember much, and heard it'd predicted a lot of things. well, the police driving around in military vehicles is one (although they're MRAPs and not Humm-Vees). nice touch to name the female lead "huxley". |
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Oct 5, 2025 20:12
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Philippe posted:I rewatched Starship Troopers last night and to nobody's surprise it slaps. How did people not understand that this is satire for so long? I remember seeing this in the theater at release and was absolutely buzzing coming out of the theater with it all. The person I saw it with did not at all clock the satire and that marked the beginning of the end of us hanging out. |
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Oct 5, 2025 21:14
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it was this morning not last night but i watched "shogun assassin" which is one of my all time favorite films. it's not only an incredible example of editing, but the dub is just phenomenal. so perfectly executed to match the shlocky nature of the film. the soundtrack, the special effects, the choreography, just every bit of it oozes a style and charm that is so addicting. i could watch this movie a hundred times
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Oct 5, 2025 23:34
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Bo-Pepper posted:I remember seeing this in the theater at release and was absolutely buzzing coming out of the theater with it all. The person I saw it with did not at all clock the satire and that marked the beginning of the end of us hanging out. perhaps they needed to know more |
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Oct 5, 2025 23:36
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I read the Wikipedia article after watching it to see the contemporary critic reaction, and my eyes rolled all the way out of my skull.quote:Turan's and Empire's reviews, among others, were dismissive of the central cast, describing them as "no name" models that offered only an all-American superficial Aryan stereotype of beauty. Yes, that's the whole idea. |
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Oct 6, 2025 07:14
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Philippe posted:I read the Wikipedia article after watching it to see the contemporary critic reaction, and my eyes rolled all the way out of my skull. lmao that's unreal |
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Oct 6, 2025 07:26
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Dr. Post posted:it was this morning not last night but i watched "shogun assassin" which is one of my all time favorite films. it's not only an incredible example of editing, but the dub is just phenomenal. so perfectly executed to match the shlocky nature of the film. the soundtrack, the special effects, the choreography, just every bit of it oozes a style and charm that is so addicting. i could watch this movie a hundred times i will watch this as soon as i get the chance to
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Oct 6, 2025 07:33
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Dr. Post posted:it was this morning not last night but i watched "shogun assassin" which is one of my all time favorite films. it's not only an incredible example of editing, but the dub is just phenomenal. so perfectly executed to match the shlocky nature of the film. the soundtrack, the special effects, the choreography, just every bit of it oozes a style and charm that is so addicting. i could watch this movie a hundred times be sure to check out the lone wolf and cub series. |
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Oct 6, 2025 10:59
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i keep meaning to, but honestly, to my understanding the soundtrack is way different and so is the dubbing, and those two elements plus the editing down of those movies into one movie is so much the appeal of shogun assassin. but i would like to check out the source material at some point, see the intended story and respect the actors' full work.
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Oct 6, 2025 12:18
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watched deadpool and wolverine last night finally. been putting it off for a year. it was surprisingly clever and fun. it was like an abbot and costello john wick movie
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Oct 6, 2025 15:49
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Dr. Post posted:watched deadpool and wolverine last night finally. been putting it off for a year. it was surprisingly clever and fun. it was like an abbot and costello john wick movie The Chris Pine bit about not being Captain America was pretty good.
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Oct 6, 2025 16:06
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i feel like public sentiment is that i'm supposed to hate those movies and ryan reynolds but i just don't |
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Oct 6, 2025 16:13
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nesamdoom posted:The Chris Pine bit about not being Captain America was pretty good. i have already completely forgotten what this is referring to, unfortunately. a lot of it slid out of my brain, as candy does. Bo-Pepper posted:i feel like public sentiment is that i'm supposed to hate those movies and ryan reynolds but i just don't dentists hate candy
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Oct 6, 2025 16:20
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Dr. Post posted:i have already completely forgotten what this is referring to, unfortunately. a lot of it slid out of my brain, as candy does. please stop inserting candy into your brain |
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Oct 6, 2025 16:29
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No. it's my right as an american to put jolly ranchers where my education was
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Oct 6, 2025 16:30
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at least use mike and ike's for the easy insertion form factor |
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Oct 6, 2025 16:57
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I watched the first one if that's the one literally called lone wolf and cub and that movie is some crazy epicness
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Oct 6, 2025 17:17
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Ran My Bloody Valentine and I hadn't seen it before, it's a great straight-line teen freakout slasher film. Five bags of popcorn, and a little toy miner's hat |
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Oct 7, 2025 05:45
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Cheeky double bill of Blade 1 and 2. They have aged well, overall. |
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Code Jockey posted:Ran My Bloody Valentine and I hadn't seen it before, it's a great straight-line teen freakout slasher film. Five bags of popcorn, and a little toy miner's hat i try to watch it every valentine's day. fun slasher elevated to great heights by an amazing killer costume and extremely thick rural canadian accents the band is better though
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Had to fly a bunch the last couple of days so I watched a bunch of movies. Here is a summary. Mickey 17: a good, fun movie that explores a few similar themes as the book I just finished reading (The Shroud), so I was already primed to be on board. Just desserts are appropriately served. Death of a Unicorn: a fairly confused father/daughter bonding movie that is held up by the good casting. It was enjoyable. Deaner '89: fuckin deadly movie about The Canadian Experience of a dude growing up in buttfuck nowhere Manitoba in the 80s. I love how they ended it too. It's a fuckin funny flick, eh. Ballerina: a John Wick movie: came for Ana De Armas playing a deadly assassin, stayed for the ridiculous climactic flamethrower battle. |
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Oct 7, 2025 10:48
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Finger Prince posted:Had to fly a bunch the last couple of days so I watched a bunch of movies. Here is a summary. I know u well and u wouldn't be this chipper about so many films unless u just got laid like A LOT 
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a friend recommended dogman to me, so i watched it. it was alright, i guess. |
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macross plus. first-rate animation, at least. |
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watched "pieces" last night. the poster wasn't kidding, it really is exactly what you think it is
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Oct 9, 2025 00:24
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Oct 9, 2025 03:18
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ran Wicker Man (classic) and Wicker Man (nic cage) today, lol what contrast I love them both |
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Oct 9, 2025 03:26
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i saw army of darkness at the theatre it's still fun
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Code Jockey posted:ran Wicker Man (classic) and Wicker Man (nic cage) today, lol what contrast are you me. I started watching the original then and finished it yesterday 
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Oct 12, 2025 22:20
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the man who fell to earth. david bowie is very fitting in the role of an alien - i mean, there's an otherworldly quality about him, isn't there? |
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Oct 12, 2025 22:57
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baka fwocka fwame posted:are you me. I started watching the original then and finished it yesterday I have suspected this for some time . . . |
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Oct 12, 2025 23:16
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saw the theatrical cut of army of darkness for the first time in over a decade and while i knew that the director's cut hosed up the movie by changing lines for some much worse ones i didn't realize how much better the pacing is in the theatrical. the second act just blazes by! still nowhere near as good as evil dead 2 but holds up as its own thing
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The Substance. an interesting take on Severance
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zero dark titty posted:The Substance. an interesting take on Severance digging your new av! I threw on Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire the last two days, easily two of my top 10 and one of them, I can't tell which, is in my top 5 I don't think I can talk about either movie without writing twenty paragraphs with my head up my rear end, instead I will link the Inland Empire wiki, because that movie became much different to me once I read all the context about how it was made The typical warnings about how intense David Lynch movies can be, though I'd say Mulholland Drive is much, much more approachable than how loving weird and intense Inland Empire can be at times. Mulholland Drive is still a very, very dark movie, it's just a little more metaphorical or hinted at e. and i will now actually remember said link |
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Code Jockey posted:digging your new av! Inland Empire is the only one I failed to finish. While I love his films, this one and Mulholland Drive kinda didn't work right on me. Was I supposed to be sober or 
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zero dark titty posted:Inland Empire is the only one I failed to finish. While I love his films, this one and Mulholland Drive kinda didn't work right on me. Was I supposed to be sober or lol I wouldn't stress, Lynch's stuff is pretty polarizing and like I said my head is firmly embedded in my rear end when I gush about my appreciation but like, comparing those two, they're more or less the same story - lynch commenting on how horrible hollywood is to aspiring talent, and the cycles of abuse that take place, the sources of the abuse, etc. Mulholland Drive has any number of interpretations, but I like the one that basically says Betty Elms doesn't exist and the whole front half of the movie is Diane Selwyn fantasizing about her start in hollywood and all her dreams and hopes, and how it all crashed out and went nightmarish and we catch up to her at the point Naomi Watts starts going by that name and looking like a truck hit her. Inland Empire is the same general concepts but it's like way more distilled, and the narrator Nikki Grace is wildly mentally unwell and we're essentially experiencing her spiral from the inside out, and the utterly disjoint and sometimes completely isolated plot points brought up by the movie's series of skits-like presentation kinda lends itself to that too. Also in this case, the movie they're shooting is literally cursed, and I think that could be interpreted any number of ways too - the curse keeps drawing people into it via people trying to be the ones to finish it, also that the mafia funding it know about the curse and don't care, either because they're cursed by it too or just see the profit side and don't give a poo poo who dies At least that's a combo of my takes and wikipedia lol |
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Code Jockey posted:lol I wouldn't stress, Lynch's stuff is pretty polarizing and like I said my head is firmly embedded in my rear end when I gush about my appreciation this all makes sense but yeah. Both films had that feeling that they were made strictly for Hollywood inhabitants. that's pretty niche |
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zero dark titty posted:this all makes sense but yeah. Both films had that feeling that they were made strictly for Hollywood inhabitants. that's pretty niche yeah they are both very different movies than most, lol but you know what else I watched was Candyman, and that's classic Hellraiser is too, if you haven't watched the original Hellraiser lately it's better than you remember |
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