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I'm planning on half-watching a whole lot of bullshit this year, in the hopes of finding some weirdo low-budget gems. This is the same thing I do every year.
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I have been watching more anime the past month. It's a mixed bag, to say the least. But when it's good, it's fuckin' great. Someone uploaded this to YouTube recently, big recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbMS17BIrY Just unbelievable style, and so fun. Sort of Yes, Madam in space. Excited for the OG series to finally have a dub this year, since it's too hard watching subs as background viewing.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Hell yeah man, Dirty Pair rocks. Check out Space Adventure Cobra (the series). I guess it is probably subs only tho. Schwarzwald posted:Hell, check out Space Adventure Cobra (the movie). Yeah, I've got 'em and they're amazing. But only the first episode of the series is dubbed which is a bummer, got so excited when I thought it was the whole series. I really wonder how long it is until AI fandubs become a thing. I think it's imminent.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:59
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Yeah. 80s anime is the sweet spot for me because its influences feel so drawn from Western material that I also love. Whenever I try to watch modern anime it just feels like I'm watching anime that was made by anime fans for anime fans inspired solely by other anime. That or its either too drat juvenile or too drat slow and melodramatic. Gimme that tone right in the middle. I also recommend Crusher Joe.
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Jan 3, 2025 04:30
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ynohtna posted:Nice! It's been an age since I binged the Thin Man series and I should probably revisit them because I carry a love for their fun screwball energy. You should watch a few episodes of the TV show. I'm not sure if it's accessible online anywhere since I had to buy some bootleg DVDs a decade ago, but if you can find it, it may be worth your time. The average episode is fun enough, but they also investigate a group of UFO abductees, a killer robot, voodoo dolls, witches, and more.
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Jan 3, 2025 16:59
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Also worth noting that Armie Hammer was cast as Batman in George Miller's aborted Justice League movie, so there's an extra layer to this.
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Jan 8, 2025 00:41
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No, Ballerina coming out this year. I expect it to do about as well as Red Sparrow, the other ballerina-turned-assassin movie starring the it girl of its day.
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Jan 9, 2025 16:04
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I personally love when extensive worldbuilding is all worked out by the filmmakers. And then I want to have zero of it explained on film. I just want it to be used to inform all the weird poo poo that happens and which comes off as having been thought through witout me having to know the details. It's the difference between the Star Wars OT and PT. With the OT, Lucas had clearly worked out a ton of poo poo that just made the world feel lived in and cohesive, but we never had to learn about how anything worked or why. It was all just foundational background. The PT had to let us see all the hard work he'd put in fleshing poo poo out, and it got in the way of narrative. Just look at worldbuilding granddaddy Tolkien. He didn't take a chapter to explain all the poo poo he came up with, he just let a story take place in that world. There wasn't a chapter that stopped and explained Numenor, and he never had an elf sit down and teach Frodo how to write Elvish. He saved that poo poo for the dull appendicies I could skip and maps I could glance at and go "yeah this seems thought through" and his incredibly boring series bible that he never bothered publishing while he was alive. Yes I'm probably forgetting some chapter where Tolkien yammered on and explained too much of something or other, but on the whole he had remarkable restraint
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Jan 10, 2025 02:22
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I thought everyone liked Hail Caesar. Just that nobody loved it.
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Jan 11, 2025 20:58
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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. 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. Tim Burton would be my pick.
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Jan 12, 2025 00:45
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Intolerable Cruelty is fine. If it wasn't a Coen movie we'd probably remember it as a decent screwball comedy, but its hurt by the comparison of its pedigree. It's definitely low-tier Coens, though. It does, however, have two all-timer jokes. Living Without Intestines magazine is a beautiful thing, and the inhaler/gun swap is so perfectly timed.
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Jan 12, 2025 15:59
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Plan 9 from Outer Space is a perfectly fine movie. Samurai Cop is really solid. Not, like, in an ironic way. They're fun movies that were trying to be fun movies. Sure, they're shlock, but nobody involved claimed they were setting out to make anything other than schlock. People just freak out when they see the seams in a production. It's not a bad movie because you spot the fishing line holding up a miniature, or notice a cheap wig. Why is a goofy octopus puppet so less more acceptable than dogshit CGI in the latest forgettable thing Netflix dumps on its service? It's just more fun to talk about enjoyable movies than boring movies, so real bad movies are forgotten and we give a lot of poo poo to movies that really don't deserve it.
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These are the only kind of New Age films I recognize.
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Yeah she fuckin rules in Killing Eve
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Yeah, but at least all the effects are practical
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Jan 18, 2025 21:16
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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. The blu-ray says "The Complete First Season" on the front, at least
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Schwarzwald posted:The take away I have from this is that even if AI generated art is obvious to cursory examinations when you know what to look for, few enough people either know what to look for or care to look at it to tell. Yeah, from what I hear based on watching too many VFX people on YouTube, AI tools are already industry-standard. Most people are just either keeping quiet about it, or are ignorant about its use.
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I just looked on the Wikipedia article and it seems like no distributor wants to touch it because it's too violent. Y'know, in a world where the Terrifier films are big hits
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Jan 20, 2025 21:52
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PriorMarcus posted:It's also meant to be a piece of garbage. So it's an expensive, violent, rubbish film. Reviews are largely positive 
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Jan 21, 2025 14:22
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PriorMarcus posted:Really? I remember early screenings from last year getting really bad reviews? From what I remember and see with a cursory glance is that the only particularly negative sentiment is "this is really not going to be for everyone" or "This wasn't for me personally but there's a bunch of people out there who are going to adore it."
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Yeah, he still regularly hosts premieres at a little spot in Brooklyn called Film Noir Cinema. It's pretty shocking to wander into my little local rental shop/micro-cinema waiting for the previous showing to end so I can watch some genre trash, only to have a Lloyd Kaufman wander out followed by a crowd of Troma dorks. It's happened twice and it was a delightful surprise each time. Also, I've written about this here before, but I went to TromaFest about a decade back to see him talk and... woof. He was a delight, but I quickly realized that the crowd of people who go to TromaFest were not my people, and seeing Kaufman have to explain to multiple alt-right audience members during the Q&A that no, he isn't a frothing anti-PC MAGA guy, was real heartbreaking.
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He could be the disgruntled lackey to a giant puppet goblin king
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Does anyone have any insights behind the challenges and costs surrounding alternate/director's cuts? I've just heard so many stories about directors having alternative cuts ready to go, or having the desire to revisit their material. Surely the costs of such a venture are vastly smaller than they were in yesteryear. Is it the costs of doing new scans of film footage / lab time / studio time? Is the cost of lawyers having to work out contract issues and image clearances and royalties and such? Is it just that they don't care because there's not enough of a perceived market? I know VHS and DVD sales drove much of the incentive for alternate cuts and that's largely dried up. Of course something like ZSJL is going to be wildly expensive because it was so effects-heavy and involved so much new needing to be made, but that's clearly on the extreme end of costs. Letting Andrew Dominik release his already-complete Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 4-hour cut, which he's confirmed is complete and releasable, should only involve minimal contract-based costs, right?
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fenix down posted:Yeah, like graventy said - all the speeches are on the official Oscars site except that one. And in fairness it could have been worded more clearly. While I also have little interest in WWII movies, holocaust denial has seen a pretty shocking rise amongst gen z and alpha. It feels like maybe that's a pretty good reason for us to keep 'em coming
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Jan 29, 2025 16:07
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Data Graham posted:In the 90s they marched us all to the theater to watch Schindler's List. As high schoolers we were either a) well aware and past being "informed" by it or b) lovely teenagers who pretended not to be affected by it, but probably everyone would remember the experience today if pressed. I get the sense that a lot of teachers would be fired for this today
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CelticPredator posted:Everything is so smeary and smooth in this movie. It looks cheap like an episode of doctor who or a documentary recreation on PBS. It just doesn’t read as cinema to me even if the shot compositions are. My brain is so confused because it cannot interpret that as anything but a student film, but those are movie stars. I can see that aesthetic working in certain types of movies. Like something that takes place in a cult, or in a dull office full of cubicles with fluorescent lighting, or a backrooms horror thing feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jan 31, 2025 |
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They made a children's mystery cartoon riff about and starring Mike Tyson.
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Yeah, but it's a riff on children's mystery cartoons, and from the clips I saw seemed not to really be having Tyson's inclusion be ironic in nature.
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Feb 4, 2025 17:41
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He was absolutely a believer. Though that doesn't mean it can't be both. I'm sure there's some subtle line between person and character, but just because he's got a degree of self-awareness involved doesn't mean he couldn't also be a sucker. He's a lot like Ray Palmer, who was one of his primary antecedents and created the modern conception of the conspiracy theory, a guy who lived and breathed that world, but knew that in order to get it accepted by the public it had to have the veneer of scientific and skeptical credibility. Art either believed these things and wanted to surround himself with people who validated his beliefs, or wanted these things to be real so bad that any measured skepticism was just to reluctantly entertain the infinitesimal and boring possibility that maybe the Earth is actually round and chemtrails are just condensation. Either way, he was in on the bullshit. e: It's really hard to not hear Art Bell's exact cadence whenever I've been unlucky enough to see a Joe Rogan clip. Someone who believes, but has just enough shame to know that they shouldn't admit it. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Feb 6, 2025 |
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Wolfsheim posted:Rachel being a super secret ultra special model (instead of just another Nexus 6 that Tyrell was loving around with by giving memories) both cheapens the core conceit that all of the replicants are thinking and feeling people and is the kernel that gives rise to every bad part of 2047: robot birthing, offscreen robo revolution, Jared Leto, etc You seem confused. Nothing in the Director's / Final Cut implies anything different about Rachel's model or capabilities than the Theatrical Cut. And nothing about the differences between the cuts implies that the earlier models are anything but thinking and feeling people. And certainly nothing in 2049 implies that they aren't—the sequel doubles down on the conceit by explicitly calling them bioengineered humans in the opening text, and showing that the only difference between humans and replicants was the societal perception that they didn't have a soul. Wallace was shown to be an inferior designer to Tyrell, and the implication is that the only substantial difference between the Nexus 8 (Sapper, who is clearly a thinking and feeling person) and the Nexus 6 (Roy Batty, who is clearly a thinking and feeling person in all cuts) is that Wallace cut out the 4 year lifespan. Everything else was a smokescreen—K clearly demonstrates that the newer Nexus models can disobey, they are just told that they cannot, and have internalized what they've been told so fully that they believe it. The 4 year lifespan for the N6 model was put in place so that replicants wouldn't form memories—not because they couldn't: quote:Bryant: The designers reckoned after a few years, they might develop their own emotional responses. You know, hate, love, fear, anger, envy. So they built in a failsafe device. The only significant difference between the original film's cuts from a ~lore~ standpoint is that the unicorn is more strongly implied to be a memory than a dream in the FC, and the ending where we see some green in the hills. It's true that 2049 does have some green in the background of the photo where Freysa is holding Ana, but there's nothing in the TC that implies that there was no green anywhere in the world. Your headcanon might have, I guess? You can be mad at 2049 for making it so that Rachel was able to give birth, sure. But there's nothing about the FC or TC that is different in that regard, and there is nothing in either film that implies there is anything different about her other than her ability to give birth. Her memory implants would have had the same effect on Batty or any of the other N6, as stated by Bryant. I have no idea where you're getting the idea that the TC implies that Rachel is an N6 and the DC/FC doesn't, or why you think 2049 implies that the N6 aren't thinking and feeling people because it simply doesn't. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Feb 6, 2025 |
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Y'all are nuts, BR2049 is the best movie of the past decade.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted: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. Closest I've seen lately was this guy watching every pre-2000 Marvel movie. He also did one about watching every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that I thought was mostly fun, but I did still roll my eyes at some of the hyperbole toward the bottom of the list.
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Please, sir, can I have another aspect ration? I'm so hungry for a spot of 2.40:1, sir
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I've always wanted to try to do a pan and scan of a modern film as an editing exercise. Pick something with incredible cinematography and just butcher it.
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therattle posted:Not making a dig at you personally, but I have never liked describing something as being butchered. Butchers are really skilled at cutting up animals; they use sharp knives and they know where to cut. One might say that a well-edited film has been butchered. This is an outrage my 480p Samsara pan and scan edit will be incredibly skillfully done
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I liked it quite a bit, but I went in blind on a Saturday matinee. It's cute and endearing, but it's no Black Dynamite or Danger 5.
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People who accidentally click on them and bail after 10 seconds when they realize what it is. Google doesn't care as long as they can serve you an ad.
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Every movie from Last Crusade on? I don't think it's due to a lack of effort or care or talent, I just think Ford's ability to come off naturalistic diminished after a certain point. People talk about it as if he doesn't care or is sleepwalking or just taking a paycheck, but I think that it's really due to the fact that his acting style got pretty wooden, which often comes off as disengaged. Maybe it was movie stardom, or maybe it was him ageing out of a certain character type, or maybe his style of acting just evolved into something else, or maybe audiences got used to his bag of tricks, or maybe he smoked too much weed, but eventually Ford seemed to settle into a groove of just being Harrison Ford on screen and everything he does just comes off feeling like he's acting and he never sinks into the fabric of the world. e: To me, it's easiest to see when watching Last Crusade in close proximity to Raiders. In Raiders he's Indiana Jones. In Last Crusade, some of the time he's just Harrison Ford. The banter with Ilsa on the dock in Venice is where it feels most clear to me. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Feb 16, 2025 |
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Has your former therapist never heard of depression They may want to read up on that e: What did they say about people who wear shorts
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Why the hell did we get that terrible looking Gremlins cartoon when they could have just animated a bunch of Looney Tunes shorts, but with Gremlins? There's been a big revival of that kind of short over the past few years. A violent deranged Looney Tunes series of shorts would be so fun
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