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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > CD Genchat 2025: Part 6: The Final Chapter
 
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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CPL593H posted:

Brokeback Mountain is a film about gay men written by a woman based on a short story by a woman.


Brokeback Mountain is yaoi.

And she regrets writing it because she's tired of people sending her "fixed" endings

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

What's a movie that you saw, enjoyed a lot, thought was good, but never ever ever want to see again?

Grave of the Fireflies. It's a meaningful film that really illustrates what war can do to a family. Great animation. I also know I'd fall apart since I was significantly less traumatized by grief on the whole when I first saw it than I am now. And I bawled by the end of 1st one.

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Jan 4, 2025

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Maxwell Lord posted:

Pluto TV also just put up Twin Peaks

Like as one of its channels or just the film?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CPL593H posted:

Yes, that's why I want to see it.

That episode is great and that particular sketch is one of my favorites. Not just from Mr. Show but in general. I was super bummed out when I heard he was a super-chud. I had a conversation about him with someone that has firsthand knowledge and even back in the Mr. Show days he was always something of an odd man out. His sense of humor was very 1940s. Then at some point in the early days of Vice he fell in with Gavin McInnes and it snowballed from there.
I remember Dave Anthony briefly discussing it after Jay was arrested and he was really bummed, said Jay's political leanings were a open secret of sorts but people looked the other way because he wasn't overbearing about it and Jay was still putting in good work.

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CPL593H posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PMnJ_Luk_o

Was there any kid who grew up in the 90s who didn't think they were going to get abducted by aliens?

My fear was abduction, watched too much unsolved mysteries. But the kidnapping type.

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CPL593H posted:

It didn't help that Unsolved Mysteries had the spookiest theme music of all time.

Oh yeah. My specific fear was turning on the light to my bedroom and some drifter would surprise me and bad poo poo would happen, the whole process of very tentatively turning on my light, that theme was in my head. It didn't help I was a young kid during a period where every grocery store had missing kid posters.

Baron von Eevl posted:

Watching old unsolved mysteries now is sad because nearly all of the mysteries (except for the obligatory supernatural ones) have since been solved so each segment ends in "UPDATE she killed herself at a motel in Arkansas."

Except the one where Henry Rollins' best friend was murdered by two guys they caught breaking into his house on the way back from 7-11. The cops then proceeded to make fun of Hank in the most homophobic way possible while getting his statement. He's talked about it in spoken word shows and I'm almost angrier at the cops then I am at the killer.

lovely edit: I've decided I am angrier at them, because hypothetically cops are supposed to be held to a higher moral standard and they chose to victimize a man grieving his friend.

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Feb 11, 2025

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

ruddiger posted:

Above The Law, Out For Justice, Under Siege

Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Time Cop

Which one has "I'm gonna take you to the bank....the blood bank"?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 Any of you seen the United Ststes vs Billie Holliday? How is it?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 Speculation I heard is a carbon monoxide leak

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 Well now they're saying no signs of gas leak

https://consequence.net/2025/02/gen...jyi_yWzmAH3glBA

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CatstropheWaitress posted:

Watched Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. Wow wow wow wow.

It's impossible to recommend - you see Bob nail his dick into a piece of wood. But that scene is preceded by his parents musing on why he's a masochist - the father theorizing it's because he's sticking his finger to a god that gave him a broken body. That he's proving how strong he is by proving what he can endure, and that he's proud of him.

Bob Flanagan was born with cystic fibrosis and managed to outlive his prognosis by quite a bit. The documentary is intercut with his performances, from an S&M club to playing a song around a campfire. He's wonderfully charismatic, witty and sardonic as he talks about his death sentence.

Much of the movie is also his performances which are S&M bits you would expect them to cut away from. Nope! You will see his dick. So much of it. And terrible things done to it. ...yet they're done with obvious love by his partner, Sheree. Their love for each other is obvious and really beautiful, even while she's doing vile things to him (with consent!). Ending is profound and much more explicit than documentaries usually go. He does not make it.

Again, I can't recommend this, the S&M stuff is brutal, even while they're being downright comical about it. But it's a tremendously beautiful, sad, stomach-turning, and truly candid documentation of a wonderful weirdo.

Will say the trailer on AppleTV(??) has a nice clip from the movie that conveys the guy's charm w/o any of the S&M stuff.

It's nice in an age of Trans panic to have a reminder that people that live vastly different lives than yours have always existed. Having a hard time thinking of a movie that's has filled me with as much equal parts joy and revulsion as this.

Didn't NIN use footage from this in a video or as a sound sample in a song?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Egbert Souse posted:

I loved Mickey 17. Yes, it's a little uneven, but I was laughing all the way through it.

Best comparison I can make is that it was like if Nausicaa were remade by Paul Verhoeven from a script by Don Hertzfeldt. The narration for the first part of the film reminded me a lot of It's Such a Beautiful Day, but the sci-fi existentialism is right out of World of Tomorrow.

Ruffalo was definitely made up to look like Abel Ferrara, right? I couldn't unsee it.

I think it's just him looking like Trump

graventy posted:

It doesn't really touch on it but the whole crux of the movie is two Mickeys existing at the same time and they are very clearly very different people.

He does talk about his partner noticing thst some versions of him were clinger, or just more irritating .

I really liked it. My wife was excited for Tim Key popping up because she loves Taskmaster and British comedy.

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

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According to Milos Forman's autobiography, one studio offered to funding the film "Amadeus" (1984) on the one condition that Forman cast Walter Matthau (a reported Mozart enthusiast) for the role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Forman refused the offer, considering Matthau to be too old for the role, since he was more than 60, and Mozart only lived to be 35.

Tom Hulce only knew how to play the guitar before shooting. Forman said they could cheat it, but it would be good if he learned how to play the piano. Hulce spent six hours a day for six months learning how to play the piano, and every Mozart symphony that was in the film (that really is Hulce playing the piano on his back in one scene).

Though there are dubious historical reports that the real Mozart had an obnoxious laugh, Hulce created the giggle after Forman asked him to come up with "something extreme." "I've never been able to make that sound except in front of a camera," Hulce later said. "When we did the looping nine months later, I couldn't find the laugh. I had to raid the producer's private bar and have a shot of whiskey to jar myself into it."

When shooting the scene in which Salieri is writing down the death mass under Mozart's dictation, Hulce was deliberately skipping lines to confuse F. Murray Abraham, in order to achieve the impression that Salieri wasn't able to fully understand the music being dictated.

"Here's the thing about Murray: he's not just a superb actor, he's a superb acting partner. Actor to actor, there was not a moment he was not with me."

Walter Matthau as Mozart.

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 UHF tanking is a great example of how the American public's taste cannot be trusted

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CPL593H posted:

In fairness it came out opposite Batman.

And a new Indiana Jones movie too, I think

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 I keep seeing trailers for that black bag movie, it's a dead heat between that and the obnoxious conservative party ads for ads I see the most (Canada is probably looking at a federal election this summer).

I kinda get bleh vibes from black bag. Also apparently there's a new Looney Tunes movie with Daffy and Porky?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Detective No. 27 posted:

Ghibli does good dubs. Thanks for reminding me that I had a ticket for Princess Mononoke on Friday.

Unfortunate that Neil "rapist" Gaiman was in charge of writing the English dialog for at least one of them but yeah they're the gold standard

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CelticPredator posted:

Necro babies

Found David Cronenberg's next project

Grendels Dad posted:

It is said that one of Arnold's greatest strengths throughout his career was that he had good sense about whom to work with and which projects to choose. I haven't seen much of Patrick's work but he seems to be doing that, work on interesting but still visible projects. I really need to keep an eye on him; as the second biggest Arnold fan in this thread I feel compelled to.

One of my "projects I wish had been actually made" is Crusades, which was another Verhoeven/Schwarzenegger collaboration. I'll let Arnold explain why it didn't happen

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Empire described the film as “full-on, frank, vintage Verhoeven, with sets already built in Spain and cast ready to roll – including Robert Duvall, Jennifer Connelly, John Turturro, and Christopher McDonald – before it all disappeared into a lick of development hellfire”.

So what the Hell happened? Arnie discussed the project and said “it was all written and ready to go but then Paul started going crazy. We had the final meeting with the studio and we were all sitting at this boardroom table. They said, ‘So the budget is $100 million. That’s a lot of money. What kind of guarantees do you have that we will get it for 100 and it won’t go up to 130?'”

“He says, ‘What do you mean, guarantees’?” booms Schwarzenegger, imitating the Dutch firebrand auteur. “There’s no such thing as guarantees! Guarantees don’t happen and if anyone promises you guarantees, they’re lying! We don’t even know that if you want out of the building here you won’t get hit by a truck. There’s no guarantee that we’re going to make it ’til tomorrow! I cannot have control over God – I don’t even believe in God, why am I talking about God? But someone, nature, could just rain for three months and then what do we do? How can I give you a guarantee? This is ludicrous!”

“I kept kicking him under the table and trying to tell him to shut up while we’re ahead,” Arnie adds. “But he just wouldn’t, and that was it. That was the end of that movie. Paul always tried to be honest, but you can be a little bit selective about when to be honest and when to just move on with the project. It was a shame.”

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Mar 30, 2025

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Air Skwirl posted:

https://x.com/MeganBitchell/status/1907907025801224289

Major League (Mrs Dorn loving Rick Vaughn arguably helps the team, and Jake basically stalks and harasses Lynn into cheating on her fiance and getting back together)


High Fidelity (Not only is Rob not given poo poo for loving someone else but neither is his partner really, and it basically helps put them back together)



Unrelated, but anyone heard any advance reviews about Sinners? I thought it looked interesting but also had potential to be lovely also...

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Apr 6, 2025

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Air Skwirl posted:

Are you talking about Lisa Bonet? I don't think it counts as cheating if your girlfriend has moved in with another man before you do it.

I feel like it does if you're actively trying to get her back

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Air Skwirl posted:

Was he a pedo? I thought he was sexually harassing the adult women that worked for his company. Like while impersonating a husband and wife he'd insist the women kiss him in public and share the same hotel bed. Wouldn't be shocked to find out he was also a pedo, I just must have missed that story.

Often with that crowd accusations are confessions. I'm reminded of the cleanflix guy who railed about gratuitous sexual content in films, then turned out to be a pedo.

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CPL593H posted:

Did anyone see Sinners yet? I'm going to see Sinners tonight.

How was it

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

CatstropheWaitress posted:

Ireland has a surprisingly thriving movie scene, perhaps setup to help finance and keep Colm afloat as he is legally required to be in all of them.

Also watched Quiz Lady, a made-for-streaming comedy for Hulu. Maybe it's the state of the world, but these perfectly decent comedies are becoming increasingly attractive. In this case, it's Will Ferrel doing an understated performance as a game show host. Awkwafina and Sandra Oh solid and going for it too. Great stuff with a pug.

Add to that some wonderful little cameos that (Maria Bamford as the losingest contestant, Tony Hale as a hotel clerk dressed up like Benjamin Franklin, loving Paul Reubens in one of his last roles – at the very driving up to an old lady who excitedly gets in his golf cart mistaking him for Alan Cumming... the main characters reassure him "don't worry, she's going to die soon. Intestinal stuff". Gut punch, but nice to see him. Even an 80's "where are they now" montage at the end. Good stuff.

Maybe these are my new Hallmark movies. What they lack in surprise or inspiring set pieces they make up for with the small charms throughout.

I actually quite like Will Ferrell when he does understated instead of crazy manchild.

(I still like Talladega Nights tho)

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 So I just learned about Until the End of the World, and the extremely long cut Criterion put out. How is it? Do people actually raw dog it and watch a nearly 5 hour movie?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 This looks fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzr6pHIZAI0

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 It's not a very good movie, but the Spirit is very much like this.

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
 Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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