ayatollahcm
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Post by ayatollahcm on Jun 22, 2019 0:51:42 GMT -5
Citizens.
Much like how Papa Roach is the Official Band of the TIF, it has come to my recollection that we as a forum need an official motion picture with which to bind our community together. And so, like the good democratic people we are, I propose that we nominate and campaign for an official TIF film.
How should we nominate? Simple: create a post in this thread. Include the film, the year, the director, and any relevant information. Perhaps a synopsis. Perhaps a clip. Perhaps screenshots. Perhaps an earnest treatise as to why you feel this particular film should be flagship of all cinematic achievements, according to the TIF.
Any reasoning counts. Two pretty people smashing faces and genitals against each other? Hey, that works! A beautiful piece of art depicting the tragic suffering of life? Sure! A comedy with huge dookies and copious drug intake? Why not!
Then we shall battle it out and wage negative campaigns against the lesser films.
One nomination per person, please.
Once I feel we have enough to run a ballot, a separate poll will commence.
All hail the glorious TIF All hail the TIFocracy
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ayatollahcm
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Post by ayatollahcm on Jun 22, 2019 0:56:46 GMT -5
Commando (1985)
Director: Mark L. Lester Studio: 20th Century Fox Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Vernon Wells, David Patrick Kelly, Bill Duke, and Dan Hedaya
Why Commando?
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 22, 2019 7:44:46 GMT -5
The Brave Little Toaster (1987 C.E.)
Director: Jerry Rees
Studio: Hyperion Pictures
Cast: Deanna Oliver, Timothy E. Day, Jon Lovitz, Tim Stack, Thurl Ravenscroft, Wayne Kaatz, Colette Savage, Phil Hartman, Joe Ranft, and Jim Jackman
Why should The Brave Little Toaster win?
The Brave Little Toaster is a vastly underrated movie, produced in a decade largely devoid of quality animation. It's based on a novella by the brilliant science fiction author the late Thomas M. Disch, and as such it's unusual for a children's animated feature in its strange, inspired premise and unusually dark tone. The film is a moving meditation on mortality, with the main characters barely escaping death at every turn in a world where they are made to fear themselves obsolescent. It's also a major influence on the last quarter century of animated films, in that it was a clear inspiration for the first feature film from Pixar, 1995's Toy Story 1, only while the Toy Story franchise is, by its very nature as a series of films about children's toys, a proponent of a capitalist consumer culture that Disney, with its obsessive merchandising, has enthusiastically fueled at the expense of exploited sweatshop workers the world over, The Brave Little Toaster contains an implicit critique of the wastefulness of our economic system and its devaluation of those lives deemed to have no utility in the endless accumulation of capital.
But there's some other good reasons why The Brave Little Toaster is well-suited to be the official movie of the TIF. They are as follows:
1) There's a very good charmingly bad rap song in the film where some 80s appliances talk about how much better they are than the old-timey appliance protagonists. And yet our heroes survive to the end of the movie, and continue being of use despite their supposed obsolescence. In much the same way, we are on an old-timey Internet forum, a supposedly outmoded forum even when this community was founded nearly six years ago, and yet this site continues to exist in spite of social media sites like MySpace, Twitter, and Pinterest that were supposed to wholly supplant old-timey internet forums such as ours.
2) Said very good charmingly bad rap song might not be as good as something by Kendrick Lamar or Daniel Brown or Death Grips or what have you, but then again, I'm willing to bet that none of us could make a rap album as good as good kid, m.A.A.d. city either, so we also have that in common with The Brave Little Toaster re: rap skills.
3) The talking appliances open the film having been abandoned by their owner. In like fashion, DRC, our forum's unelected king and founder, has for the past several years been a largely absentee sovereign ruler of our forum.
4) The appliances frequently argue with one another about various things, much like how on this forum we're frequently arguing with one another about whether leftist politics are better than reformist liberalism or whether BrBa sucks solely because the final episode of a show that ran for five seasons sucked, or what have you. But the appliances are also united in solidarity in their quest to survive the vicissitudes of modern life, much like we're all generally supportive of each other through the ups and downs of our daily lives.
5) Isn't the earnest, cheesy dialogue just really endearing?
6) Anyway, The Brave Little Toaster is much better than most movies, and y'all should vote for it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2019 12:22:06 GMT -5
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Why? Because we are all miserable fucks.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jun 22, 2019 13:01:14 GMT -5
Space Mutiny (1988) Because we put our faith in Blast Hardcheese.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jun 25, 2019 18:19:05 GMT -5
Slacker (1990)
That's it.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jun 27, 2019 12:51:41 GMT -5
Cool Runnings (1993)
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Post by Prole Hole on Jul 2, 2019 10:00:08 GMT -5
Time Bandits (1981)
Because we steal time from work to hang out here, and also because Time Bandits is fucking awesome.
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