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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What's a movie that you saw, enjoyed a lot, thought was good, but never ever ever want to see again? United 93
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Gripweed posted:I don't understand why they're releasing a movie about Robbie Williams in America, a country where not a single human being has ever heard of Robbie Williams. One of the best things about American pop culture is we never gave Robbie Williams the time of day.
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Jan 8, 2025 00:00
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Harminoff posted:New Dark Knight movie coming! I think people accidently clicking on that while looking for the Nolan/Bale/Ledger film on a streaming site are going to figure it out pretty quick.
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Jan 8, 2025 00:10
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Wolfsheim posted:you'd think so but if you google search for 'the green knight streaming' the first thing to come up will be this: I guess, but people looking to stream The Green Knight probably haven't seen it before, where I think most people have already seen The Dark Knight and will get puzzled pretty quickly about there not being anyone in clown masks at the beginning.
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Meaty Ore posted:Breathless I genuinely feel bad for you.
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CPL593H posted:I wonder how long it will be before Armie Hammer shows up in those terrible movies by and for Christian conservatives which are just a rogues gallery of nobodies and has-beens. Shocked it hasn't happened already tbh.
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Jan 8, 2025 06:42
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Wolfsheim posted:i heard the napoleon movie was also bad but i didn't see it I don't think an Englishman is capable of making a truthful film about Napoleon, and in terms of truthfulness I don't mean historical accuracy, but a deeper cinematic truth.
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Jan 8, 2025 21:03
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Schwarzwald posted:You are technically correct on all those particular details but you really could not have picked a worse example. Yeah, Moorecock would be the guy to pick for that, plus it's a fun name to say. "I'm going to the bookstore to get some Moorecock."
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Jan 10, 2025 03:06
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CPL593H posted:Hey never mind that poo poo. Anita Bryant finally dropped dead! For a second I mixed her up with Anita Hill and was very confused by your tone, but once I realized d my mistake https://youtu.be/kPIdRJlzERo?si=5L3ns-8E1wrhaf8C Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jan 11, 2025 |
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Jan 11, 2025 01:52
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feedmyleg posted:I thought everyone liked Hail Caesar. Just that nobody loved it. That's my opinion on it.
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Jan 11, 2025 21:01
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Hail Caesar! is minor Coens but it's still really funny. It's definitely better than Ladykillers or Intorable Cruelty.
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Jan 11, 2025 22:50
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regulargonzalez posted:What director comes closest to a perfect 50/50 ratio of hits and misses (with a decent number of movies, ofc). Ridley Scott comes to mind but there's gotta be others in that ballpark. John McTiernan?
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Jan 12, 2025 00:24
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feedmyleg posted:Since I think a ton of directors fit into this category, I think the more interesting twist on this is who has a 50/50 ratio with the largest gulf in quality between the good and bad? Meaning they've only created either absolute bangers, or total trash. Harmony Korine?
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Jan 12, 2025 01:31
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I mean, if you're into Norse poo poo Ahmad ibn Fadlan is the first person that has a written account of how they lived. So a scholar into that stuff has definitely read the miniscule amount of writing that survived.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:the wild thing about The Ladykillers is despite being complete rear end and the Coen Bros’ second-worst movie (I do not get Intolerable Cruelty apologists, absolutely atrocious picture), it has Tom Hanks’ best performance. Lady Killers can't be Tom Hanks best performance. Edit: I do think Tom Hanks should have taken more villain roles, because he is good at it. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Jan 12, 2025 |
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regulargonzalez posted:Disappointed in all of you that The Conversation was not the first and best answer. The first post quoting the same post as you mentioned The Conversation, I didn't have anything to add because all the classic paranoid films were already mentioned. Maybe Running Scared with Paul Walker (which also works as a stealth sequel to the very first Fast and Furious film, if you ignore the existence of all of the actual Fast and Furious sequels).
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Jan 14, 2025 01:48
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Enderzero posted:Death Star gets way up there just from the contractors who died. Once you add in the rest, oooh boyyy That was only on the second death star, which didn't actually blow up any planets, and it would be the Lando Calrissian who killed those contractors, not the Death Star. (Also, Calrissian is somehow in my web browser's dictionary, but Lando isn't)
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Jay Rust posted:the heroes should also be ranked by bodycount Then it'd probably be Ender from Ender's Game, right?
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CelticPredator posted:its james bond. Shaft, Sweet Sweetback, Dolemite?
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Gaius Marius posted:Alonzo - Denzel finally taking a heel turn, and it being this good is incredible. Why Fuqua never managed a film this good again is a mystery for the ages. Honestly my favorite part of the film isn't Denzel by himself, it's watching Hawke desperately trying to keep up with him in the acting race the same way his character needs to keep up with Alonzo. What are other movies with actors that traditionally play the protagonist turning in excellent performances as the villain?
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Gaius Marius posted:Tom Cruise in Collateral is a huge one. Robin Williams in One Hour Photo and Insomnia are a little more divisive Oh yeah, Tom Cruise in Collateral is a good call. I haven't seen One Hour Photo but Williams was good in Insomnia, the movie overall isn't that great. I wouldn't call it casting against type, but any list of villains I made would absolutely include Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet, just absolutely terrifying.
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CPL593H posted:Did anybody mention Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler? That's probably also his best performance. But man is he a creepy disgusting weirdo in that one. Yeah, but he also plays a creep in Donnie Darko and a villain in Spider-Man 2 (the third Spider-Man 2), and movies where he's straight up the hero are not the best movies on his resume in general. He's got the Brad Pitt problem of being a really good character actor but he's so damned handsome people want him to be the leading man. Like he should be mostly doing roles a younger John Malkovich would get, but he doesn't look weird enough. Speaking of Brad Pitt, he was a pretty good baddie in Kalifornia (which is not a great movie, but has a young Pitt and a young David Duchovny so worth a watch just for that novelty) and Fight Club (although half the fans of that film would argue that Brad Pitt isn't a villain in that).
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Ghost Leviathan posted:
Bateman wasn't inherited wealth, I mean, he came from some sort of wealth, but he wasn't the scion of a billionaire.
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Jan 16, 2025 10:05
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Ghost Leviathan posted:He's an alienated freak with a do-nothing job and nothing resembling consequences for his actions, there's no way he's not a failson. He would have had a better business card if he had significant inherited wealth.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Met him once extremely briefly when he was in Iceland giving a lecture on meditation. I've been wondering about Transcending Meditation, because it sounds like cult bullshit, but if it makes me think like David Lynch, might be worth it.
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Carpet posted:Rewatched Mulholland Drive tonight. I've shamefully never seen Twin Peaks though, so I'm looking at getting the box set to rectify that, looks like I would still need to buy Fire Walk With Me separately though. Firewalk with me is technically a prequel, but should be watched after the first two seasons of Twin Peaks.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:
I'm at work, so I'll watch it on my phone like he intended
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Failed Imagineer posted:Saving yourself for Monica Bellucci, I respect it Isabella Rossallini.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I don't know if they had ever planned that, I think they adapted the entire book. It was announced shortly after the series finished that they weren't doing another season.
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PriorMarcus posted:Really? I remember early screenings from last year getting really bad reviews? It's got a 92% on rotten tomatoes, only 25 reviews so I'm guessing the sample is self selective towards writers pre-disposed to liking it, but that's an impressive git to miss ratio anyways.
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CPL593H posted:At this point I think Peter Dinklage is a bigger name than either of them. Not that they're bad actors. I like them both but they're kinda b-list now. I just think it's funny that someone of Peter Dinklage's profile in film and television is the star of something like this and I'm sure plenty of other people will as well. Yeah, the last two things I saw Bacon in were as the villain in the Netflix Beverley Hills Cop movie and playing himself in the GotG Christmas special. He looked like he was having a ton of fun in both of those, but it's not exactly Footloose. Elijah Wood has done mostly weird indie things since Lord of the Rings
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Gripweed posted:What has Dinklage done of note since Game of Thrones? He's been in an Avengers movie, a Transformers movie, a Hunger Games prequel and Wicked, dude is getting paid.
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Carpet posted:If the Academy was really keen on honouring a "woke" film then I Saw The TV Glow was right there, and better in all the categories it could have been nominated in. It's a movie that's deeply racist while perceived as being anti-racist, which is going to give it the edge. Add in a cis actor playing a trans character, ooh boy the academy is going to eat it up.
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Grendels Dad posted:I know chat has moved on from Emilia Perez and I haven't seen the movie, but it feels noteworthy that it is probably the last hail mary of movies dealing with those themes, what with the political and cultural climate being what it is. It's a shame that it apparently sucks, but it might be the last "woke" movie winning anything any time soon. Green Book won in 2018, the first academy award winner released after Trump had been inaugurated. Next year was Parasite and the year after was Nomadland, if anything it's going to be nothing but "woke" movies for the next four years.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:are we saying that Amazon Presents: Nomadland is "woke" now? It was poor white misery porn, wasn't it? I never actually saw it.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:my understanding is it's a feature length version of the Western Union commercial that Harry and Lloyd cry at in Dumb & Dumber, but with Amazon instead of Western Union Ohh, well then it's gonna be 50/50 "woke" that isn't woke and that. Looking forward to that heart-wrenching film about how important H1B visas are to America.
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CPL593H posted:
They technically won 2 world wars but their main rewards were losing all their colonies and a poo poo ton of dead kids.
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So I haven't seen Wicked, either the play or movie, but it didn't get nominated for Best Original Song? Did they not write a new song for the movie?
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