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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. This part of the point of the ape thing.
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I saw the other day a HORROR IN THE HIGH DESERT 4 is coming out. We're finally in that era.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Robert E Howard committed suicide the day after his mother died. If he didn't learn to write he would have been Ed Gein.
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Bobby E. Howard is a particularly egregious example. I'm partial to my mom too, but come on dude.
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CPL593H posted:How many have there been since Paul Walker died? Three.
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Mister Speaker posted:Finishing up my David Ayer marathon. Fury is still so loving brutal. I always forget that's one of his, but since someone ITT reminded me I won't, and the dialogue is painfully obviously Ayer as well - there's a specific kind of juvenile vulgarity that seems to be his hallmark. Line I'll always remember is Michael Peña talking about the Falais Pocket and describing it as "we hosed em up."
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George Noory's a piece of garbage, and that's in comparison to Art Bell, who immediately replaced his dead wife with an 18 year old.
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Feb 5, 2025 20:33
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Same but PRISONERS
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therattle posted:Quite a fun article on watching awful films I would love to see one of these where someone isn't doing the Angry Youtube Reviewer schtick of having a really great time but trying to come up with increasingly absurd hyperbole to describe regular bad movies for a change of pace. A truly bad movie will make you hate movies and not want to watch them for a while.
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CPL593H posted:So you didn't see the episode where the kid got stuck in the escalator? What like, caught in the gears?
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I AM GRANDO posted:I love that weird-rear end vhs of Ghostbusters that’s cropped to 4:3 but it periodically pans back and forth to get whoever’s speaking into frame. I think this and BTTF are the two movies I remember most fondly as pan & scan.
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Feb 11, 2025 19:03
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CPL593H posted:He got stuck in the pointy teeth at the bottom of the stairs. quote:I saw Ghostbusters 2 on TV a lot as a kid so for a long time I thought that awkward panning was how it was supposed to look. I don't recall seeing a lot of other pan and scan tapes or broadcasts though I'm sure I did. It's just really prominent in that movie. A lot of movies on tape were just presented open matte instead of of pan and scan.
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Gaius Marius posted:Are we sure Lumet is a good director? I'm going back through my recollections of his filmography and coming to some hard truths, mainly that I don't think I've seen a film of his that I didn't spend most of in a state of boredom. I'm quite sure.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:underrated Lumet: The Hill. also an underrated Connery. MAKING MOVIES, presumably? Great book.
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Gaius Marius posted:Who the hell is watching all these ai fake trailers? And why does YouTube think I want to watch them. There's a significant amount of Youtube views that come from autoplayed videos and that's one of the major reasons for tailoring the algorithm a specific way.
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Feb 17, 2025 15:45
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Schwarzwald posted:With the caveat that this is all black box poo poo, a common assumption among youtube producers right now is that the reason youtube's algorithm rewards very short and very long (3 hour +) videos is because these benefit the most from the autoplayer. Like you say, it's totally opaque but Cocomelon alone should be proof enough. It's also why you basically have to be in a bespoke partnership with Youtube to make money off anything tagged for kids.
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Feb 17, 2025 20:16
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Rascar Capac posted:Similarly, the accents in The Death of Stalin aren't random but are trying to communicate something. Russians are played by actors with middle/upper-class English accents. Georgians are cockneys. Buscemi's American accent marks that Khrushchev grew up in Ukraine. This is the "HBO/Film 4" method.
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Gripweed posted:I don't get "bloated" at all. It's big, sure, but it's tight. Oh yeah, bro?
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Coaaab posted:man, woody allen's reputation as a filmmaker really swiftly fell off the cliff in recent years and his critical support dried the hell up. like compare him to polanski, where there, a number of people are still willing to defend him as an artist, though mostly for his 60s/70s work I feel like Allen's early stuff is still pretty highly regarded same as Polanski. Do you mean something in particular?
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josh04 posted:I've written a piece about "35mm scans" and my general discontent with them, for anyone interested. This is really great, thank you Joshua.
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Jay Rust posted:is Jesse Plemons a character actor? Absolutely. The only thing he's ever "starred" in is FARGO S2 and that's how it should be.
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Mar 18, 2025 17:45
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If Aster hadn't hit it big, it would just be another Adult Swim classic like TOO MANY COOKS or UNEDITED FOOTAGE OF A BEAR.
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Gripweed posted:Deuandra T. Brown has a new movie coming out This feels very Quebecois.
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CPL593H posted:If you want to be very angry read up on The Judge Rotenberg center. People have been trying to get that place shut down for decades. I know someone who worked at a legitimate clinic and she said the few times they had for JRC staff come to her place they pretty much had to be deprogrammed. One dude got fired because he was going to punch a child in the face. A lot of the same unethical, eugenicist human experimentation as the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal.
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Mar 24, 2025 16:08
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CPL593H posted:This has none of the charm or kitsch that makes the AMC ad so dear to gays everywhere. The key to it other than the chintzy pantsuit is Kidman floating between accents.
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Mar 25, 2025 17:52
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dr_rat posted:Yeah so it's always fun to show someone likes 60's musics something like the top 100 billboard from 1969. Bad year to pick, honestly, HAIR is a fantastic musical - nice mix of pop hits. I would have gone with the mid 50's pre-Motown for some real doldrums.
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There should be an technical Oscar for best extra.
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ruddiger posted:Right before the end credits of Warfare, Garland shows a bunch of clips and slides of the actual soldiers who either participated in the film or who declined and requested their faces be blurred, I'm sure it was meant to come off like the ending of Band of Brothers or something, but to me it felt more like the ending of Night of the Living Dead where you just get stills of a bunch of rednecks throwing bodies in the fire. Chilling stuff.
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Air Skwirl posted:Yeah, I kinda wish they'd used the same director to adapt other Smiley books. Instead he made, uh...THE SNOWMAN.
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Air Skwirl posted:That one got cut to pieces in the editing room, didn't it? poo poo you can't fully blame the director for? He was in hell on that one for like six years. I'm not blaming him, it's just a fascinating story.
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There's something that Soderbergh gets about what makes a woman sexy and I haven't quite put my finger on it. Obviously he likes "type A" or whatever but it's not just that.
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Apr 15, 2025 15:22
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Air Skwirl posted:I watched one of those Vanity Fair videos where actors talk about their old roles and apparently the original director dropped the project when Clooney was cast because he'd wanted a big star for the movie and at the time Clooney was just a tv actor. Man, that takes me back, so much of the commentary around Clooney was that he looked like a soap actor.
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It was one of the last big movies in theaters before COVID restrictions, very surreal thing to go and see for yourself.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I sat through Dracula 3D to meet Argento. I would GLADLY sit thru DRACULA 3D to meet Argento and get his thoughts on it.
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Apr 16, 2025 15:17
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I think a big issue with the CATS theatrical is that people thought for some reason that because it played 40 years on Broadway it wasn't weird as hell. It would be like if there was a 300 million STARLIGHT EXPRESS movie. That, too, would not come off as normal.
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I knew all about the adventures of Skimbleshanks and Grizzabella so I went into it with an open heart and enjoyed it thoroughly.
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No argument here, unforgettable experience. That's why we go to the movies baby!
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