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Post by dboonsghost on Aug 30, 2015 14:17:39 GMT -5
If Mel Gibson had starred in Mad Max: Fury Road, would he have been trying to give the women back to the rapists?
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Aug 30, 2015 14:52:15 GMT -5
The more I think about Mean Streets, the more I admire its cinéma vérité aesthetic. I should rewatch it soon.
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 30, 2015 16:05:45 GMT -5
The more I think about Mean Streets, the more I admire its cinéma vérité aesthetic. I should rewatch it soon. *smug grin* |
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Post by dboonsghost on Aug 30, 2015 17:20:14 GMT -5
The more I think about Mean Streets, the more I admire its cinéma vérité aesthetic. I should rewatch it soon. Yo, have you watched fucking Frederick Wiseman's fucking movies? You'd fucking love them. I would start with fucking High School and Hospital. |
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Aug 30, 2015 17:41:37 GMT -5
The more I think about Mean Streets, the more I admire its cinéma vérité aesthetic. I should rewatch it soon. *smug grin* I wouldn't have expected anything else. |
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Post by NerdInTheBasement on Aug 31, 2015 8:58:53 GMT -5
Why can't Spike Jonze make more movies?
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Post by Jimmy James on Apr 11, 2017 10:35:03 GMT -5
I was talking about one of my favorite lines in Lawrence of Arabia the other day- there's a bit near the beginning where Lawrence is pinching out a candle with his fingers. One of the other officers tries and says, "That hurt. What's the trick?" Lawrence replies, "Of course it hurts. The trick is not minding that it hurts." The next day it struck me that this is scene is placed at the same point in the narrative as Paul Atriedes being tested with the Box in Dune, which is the same concept, i.e. can you make yourself not mind that it hurts? The broad strokes of both stories are the same, but this seemed like an interesting small and specific overlap between the two.
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Post by repulsionist on Apr 11, 2017 12:39:37 GMT -5
I found it funny that Sing (2016) clipped all its renditions of recent and past pop songs because of licensing fees.
Also hilarious inna sad kinda way that lets you know you're being played [from another recently watched film, Suicide Squad (2016)] was Harley Quinn singing a malaprop jingle from Hollywood Shuffle: "Batsi, Batsi, Batsi".
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Post by LazBro on Apr 11, 2017 12:54:41 GMT -5
I found it funny that Sing (2016) clipped all its renditions of recent and past pop songs because of licensing fees. I didn't realize that was the reason. I did get frustrated with Sing, which, for a movie about music, didn't feel like it had much music in it. Again, they kept cutting it off. |
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Post by Trurl on Apr 11, 2017 18:00:33 GMT -5
Just read a tweet from Taika Waititi that said part of his pitch for "Thor: Ragnarok" was "Withnail & I in space"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 18:17:40 GMT -5
I found it funny that Sing (2016) clipped all its renditions of recent and past pop songs because of licensing fees. I didn't realize that was the reason. I did get frustrated with Sing, which, for a movie about music, didn't feel like it had much music in it. Again, they kept cutting it off. Wait, so in Sing all those pop songs featured in the promotion were not actually sung? |
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 11, 2017 18:56:30 GMT -5
I didn't realize that was the reason. I did get frustrated with Sing, which, for a movie about music, didn't feel like it had much music in it. Again, they kept cutting it off. Wait, so in Sing all those pop songs featured in the promotion were not actually sung? They're sung for like 30 seconds tops. There were like maybe three songs that got sung nearly in full during the "Let's put on one last big show and save the theater!" climax, but they might have all been songs composed specifically for the movie. I don't really know though since all the other songs were circa 2014 pop songs from America (a genre of music I am woefully ill-versed in) so the songs at the end could also have been Jason Derulo (Feat. Pitbull) bangers too for all I know. |
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Post by ganews on Apr 11, 2017 22:14:11 GMT -5
Maybe if Ripley had stopped after torching the eggs and shooting up the drones in <i>Aliens</i>, not taking the time to separate the alien queen from her egg sac via machine gun and instead just relying on the nuke, the queen wouldn't have tagged along and killed Bishop.
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Post by Post-Lupin on Apr 13, 2017 3:54:31 GMT -5
The Cable casting reminds me: Josh Brolin's greatest film role to date is as the armpit fetishist in Flirting With Disaster.
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Post by Ben Grimm on May 26, 2017 10:46:30 GMT -5
We picked up our Wonder Woman tickets today. Seeing our usual Sunday morning show. I'm looking forward to it; advance word is pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2017 19:10:14 GMT -5
Did anyone else see Dylan Dog? Valerian coming out soon has got me thinking about the non american comic book adaptations, Dredd, Dylan Dog, Showpiecer, Tintin. I really hope Valerian is good and doesn't bomb, out of those only tintin made any money  |
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Post by Powerthirteen on May 26, 2017 19:56:21 GMT -5
My toddler is loving Zootopia. I, however, am weirded out by the reckless disregard the cops in this movie have for the rules about when they're allowed to enter and search private premises. You need a warrant or probable cause, you proto-fascist bunny!
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 27, 2017 0:56:47 GMT -5
My toddler is loving Zootopia. I, however, am weirded out by the reckless disregard the cops in this movie have for the rules about when they're allowed to enter and search private premises. You need a warrant or probable cause, you proto-fascist bunny! I was also weirded out by how blatantly hacky the interminable Brando-from- The-Godfather scene was. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on May 27, 2017 0:58:15 GMT -5
Why were there so few penalties called in Space Jam? And why didn't they get voice actors who sounded like the Loony Tunes characters?
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Post by Powerthirteen on May 27, 2017 10:16:45 GMT -5
My toddler is loving Zootopia. I, however, am weirded out by the reckless disregard the cops in this movie have for the rules about when they're allowed to enter and search private premises. You need a warrant or probable cause, you proto-fascist bunny! I was also weirded out by how blatantly hacky the interminable Brando-from- The-Godfather scene was. On the other hand I did appreciate that the two sheep making drugs in the buried subway car are called Walt and Jesse in passing. |
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on May 27, 2017 13:17:49 GMT -5
Can you add Filmstruck to your Amazon Prime account in the same manner that you can add Showtime, i.e. it will show up just as more content you can access and you don’t have to do any sort of supplementary app installation or such?
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Jun 11, 2017 20:25:27 GMT -5
Apparently, there was a live-action Marsupilami movie. Huh.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2017 22:09:06 GMT -5
They remade Jacob's Ladder...... even though it has a good cast, the director hasn't made one good movie and his most notable was one of those shitty romance thrillers, the perfect guy. This is going to suck.
First thing, Jacob's Ladder doesn't need to be remade. It still holds up and is already a period piece, so being dated is part of the point. Second, Jacob's Ladder is such an emotionally complex film that pulls off everything it wants to do spectacularly that trying to redo it is already an uphill battle. Third, it did well enough that it isn't some movie that just needs a second shot or a different approach, but it also isn't some huge hit that has name recognition and will have people really all that curious about it.
This is just a totally stupid ass idea that is destined fail, probably one of the worst choices for a remake I can imagine.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jun 26, 2017 21:10:27 GMT -5
Um you guys, can Bail Organa still be alive? I just realized that in Rogue One, he left ...wherever telling Mon Mothma he had to get back to Alderaan, but I feel like he didn't have time to get there before it was blown up. He could very easily have contacted Leia to discuss The Obi-wan Issue without going to Alderaan.
Man I could fan- wank this all day.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2017 22:26:11 GMT -5
Um you guys, can Bail Organa still be alive? I just realized that in Rogue One, he left ...wherever telling Mon Mothma he had to get back to Alderaan, but I feel like he didn't have time to get there before it was blown up. He could very easily have contacted Leia to discuss The Obi-wan Issue without going to Alderaan. Man I could fan- wank this all day. Just like the question, "will the Han Solo movie be good?". The answer is nope. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jun 27, 2017 11:40:54 GMT -5
Um you guys, can Bail Organa still be alive? I just realized that in Rogue One, he left ...wherever telling Mon Mothma he had to get back to Alderaan, but I feel like he didn't have time to get there before it was blown up. He could very easily have contacted Leia to discuss The Obi-wan Issue without going to Alderaan. Man I could fan- wank this all day. It's the sort of thing where if the only two movies that had come out were Rogue One and Star Wars, it would probably be possible, but there's absolutely nothing in the movies that indicates that it's even a possibility. |
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jun 27, 2017 15:07:11 GMT -5
Um you guys, can Bail Organa still be alive? I just realized that in Rogue One, he left ...wherever telling Mon Mothma he had to get back to Alderaan, but I feel like he didn't have time to get there before it was blown up. He could very easily have contacted Leia to discuss The Obi-wan Issue without going to Alderaan. Man I could fan- wank this all day. It's the sort of thing where if the only two movies that had come out were Rogue One and Star Wars, it would probably be possible, but there's absolutely nothing in the movies that indicates that it's even a possibility. I've got one word for you: AMNESIA or less soap opera-y: Prisoner of War |
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Jun 28, 2017 4:48:51 GMT -5
Still not sure why releasing a Star Wars movie each year is supposed to be a good idea.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jun 28, 2017 7:58:21 GMT -5
Still not sure why releasing a Star Wars movie each year is supposed to be a good idea. |
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Jun 28, 2017 9:59:50 GMT -5
Still not sure why releasing a Star Wars movie each year is supposed to be a good idea. Sure, but the reason TFA made a shitload of money is that it was the first proper Star Wars movie since 2005. |
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