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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Feb 18, 2020 10:41:50 GMT -5
Now you guys are just trying to piss me off. is so dumb. Just don't go in the water, dumbass! Jaws may or may not be dumb, but it certainly traumatized the shit out of a 14-year-old girl on her first date! I lived in a 2-story house at the time and I was afraid to go down the stairs at night because it would be able to see my legs before I saw it. I don't know why sharks would be hanging around the living room in a suburban house in southern Maryland, but it was there! |
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 19, 2020 4:36:16 GMT -5
The Real Miyagi (2015) - Pretty straight forward little documentary about one of main dudes to popularize karate in the United States, Fumio “Garbage Mouth” Demura and how he got Bruce Lee to use nunchucks and also was buddies with Pat Morita. Nothing particularly innovative in terms of the presentation though starting things off with Steven Seagal talking up Demura by talking about how a lot of martial artists bullshit about who they know or have trained under with absolutely zero self-awareness was a pretty bold choice. Karate!!!
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 19, 2020 10:06:05 GMT -5
Is Us really a fuck-the-rich film? Also, I'm disappointed you didn't pedantically point out that none of the films listed above (including Us) came out in this year 2020 C.E. (or 22 W., for that matter) I'm inclined to agree with oppyu's interpretation. To what you said in response to her, I agree that the central family in Us isn't rich rich in the style of your usual "fuck the rich" movie (they're obviously nowhere near as wealthy as the rich family in Parasite). But they still...own?...a very nice beach house in addition to their regular home, and they clearly aspire to be wealthier than they are. The dad, for instance is jealous of the Heidecker-Mosses, their nice boat, and their greater ease with living the lives of (fairly) wealthy shitheads. But perhaps it's not so much a Fuck the rich" movie so much as it is a movie centered on class. Because I guess rather than the central message being "fuck rich people", it's a critique of individualized striving to move up the social ladder, as we see with Lupita Nyong'o's character abandoning the society of the tethered to join the surface world and ultimately becoming a well-off surface-world-person , representing a individualistic worldview which focuses on a supposedly meritocratic system by which talented or smart (but really mostly just very very lucky) people are able to rise from working class to middle class or middle class to upper class but which still leave most poor people poor, instead of valuing movements based on class solidarity which would improve the lives of all working class people. Although putting it that way kind of makes it seem like it's just a didactic message film, which I don't think is the case. You're right though, I definitely should have pointed out to Matt that none of those movies were released in the year 2020 C.E. Matt, why did you lie? |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 19, 2020 10:07:25 GMT -5
Is Us really a fuck-the-rich film? Also, I'm disappointed you didn't pedantically point out that none of the films listed above (including Us) came out in this year 2020 C.E. (or 22 W., for that matter) When do we mark new years of the Willenium in the Roman calendar? Is it from the November 16, 1999 release date of Willenium, or the September 9 release date of the single "Will 2K", which has the pleasing aspect of starting the Willenium on 9/9/99? I'm assuming also we're using Oscar rules, where the film must be screened in a commercial theater instead of counting the Cannes /TIFF festival release dates for Parasite and Knives Out, respectively, which both fall in the previous year of the Willenium by either reckoning. Then we can count Knives Out in this year of the Willenium by either reckoning, but need a definitive reckoning of Annum Gulielmus for the October 11* release of Parasite.
*Theatrical release in South Korea and Australia were earlier, but I'm going by North American (specifically West Philadelphia) dates.
The New Years Day of the Willennium calendar is on "November 16th" by the reckoning of the vulgar old Gregorian calendar. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 19, 2020 10:12:28 GMT -5
Off today so I spent most of my daylight hours at the movies. I saw 1917 in the morning and Parasite after lunch. They were both fairly entertaining, inasmuch as movies containing rotting corpses and stabbings can be entertaining - which is to say, very much so if you've grown up watching such things. 1917 was okay but doesn't really show me much of anything I hadn't seen before in film. It's obviously impossible that a film of this length with this many actors and scenes could have been filmed in one shot, so I deliberately avoided trying to identify at which points Sam Mendes hid the cuts in, but I still ended up noticing a few. As for Parasite, I could write a class analysis but I feel like I'd just be stating the glaringly obvious. The whole thing was very Those Who Walk Away From Omelas, although in that story at least it held out hope for another way of life beyond the one constructed around material inequality. The bulk of Korean language films I've seen are more like City of Violence or My Wife is a Gangster so I guess it was interesting how the audience for this one was mostly white, and clearly not the hipster type. I wonder if the Best Picture win put butts in seats as well, since the 12:50 showing I went to was fairly full for a movie that's been out for months. Anyway, I've now seen two more Best Picture Oscar nominees than I normally do in a given year. I mean isn't it kind of implicit that the hope for another way of life beyond one constructed around material inequality lies in not fucking over other members of the working class instead of having aspirations of purchasing mansions? Also isn't it glaringly obvious where at least two of the cuts were in 1917? |
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 19, 2020 23:21:14 GMT -5
Off today so I spent most of my daylight hours at the movies. I saw 1917 in the morning and Parasite after lunch. They were both fairly entertaining, inasmuch as movies containing rotting corpses and stabbings can be entertaining - which is to say, very much so if you've grown up watching such things. 1917 was okay but doesn't really show me much of anything I hadn't seen before in film. It's obviously impossible that a film of this length with this many actors and scenes could have been filmed in one shot, so I deliberately avoided trying to identify at which points Sam Mendes hid the cuts in, but I still ended up noticing a few. As for Parasite, I could write a class analysis but I feel like I'd just be stating the glaringly obvious. The whole thing was very Those Who Walk Away From Omelas, although in that story at least it held out hope for another way of life beyond the one constructed around material inequality. The bulk of Korean language films I've seen are more like City of Violence or My Wife is a Gangster so I guess it was interesting how the audience for this one was mostly white, and clearly not the hipster type. I wonder if the Best Picture win put butts in seats as well, since the 12:50 showing I went to was fairly full for a movie that's been out for months. Anyway, I've now seen two more Best Picture Oscar nominees than I normally do in a given year. Could you let me know how profane the English subtitles made Parasite in the theater? I saw it again on a plane the other day and was shocked at how bowlderized the subtitles were: “That motherfucker” in Korean becoming “that idiot” in English and things of that ilk. |
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Post by sarapen on Feb 20, 2020 7:16:24 GMT -5
Could you let me know how profane the English subtitles made Parasite in the theater? I saw it again on a plane the other day and was shocked at how bowlderized the subtitles were: “That motherfucker” in Korean becoming “that idiot” in English and things of that ilk. There were f-bombs galore. There may have been a "motherfucker" but I can't remember specifically. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 20, 2020 7:43:30 GMT -5
Could you let me know how profane the English subtitles made Parasite in the theater? I saw it again on a plane the other day and was shocked at how bowlderized the subtitles were: “That motherfucker” in Korean becoming “that idiot” in English and things of that ilk. There were f-bombs galore. There may have been a "motherfucker" but I can't remember specifically. Guess it was just “edited for content” because of an airplane which makes the decision to leave the furious fingerbanging scene intact all the more perplexing. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 22, 2020 9:09:07 GMT -5
Movies I watched on airplanes while returning home from a foreign land:
Legendary Weapons of China (1982) - Voodoo dolls. A fight in a old-timey bathroom. Kung fu wizards. Ninja stars. Monks crushing dudes fingers with their back muscles. Crossdressing kung fu girls. So many fireworks. Another Shaw Bros. classic!
Dragon Quest: Your Story (2019) - As a child Dragon Quest (née Warrior) was my jam. My dad and younger brother and I would play those games together and I have fond memories of going on a rather lengthy quest to find a copy of Dragon Warrior III to buy. And so I decided to watch this movie even though it’s Japanamation.
The story is more or less the plot of Dragon Quest V edited from a 40ish hour game down to a feature film which means that early on a lot of stuff is cut which means characters randomly show up that interacted with each other in the past that we, the viewers, did not actually see, but as the film progresses that becomes less of an issue. That being said it definitely makes way more sense if you’ve actually played Dragon Quest V. That is until the film’s climax which comes out of left field.
You see, this movie we’re watching is actually someone playing a VR rerelease of Dragon Quest V that has been infect by a computer virus by some bored program who hates the idea of kidults and wants to ruin their nostalgic good times. Eventually nostalgia triumphs over evil and we learn a very important lesson about how mass media intellectual properties can never die if TRUE FANS still exist. The film neglected to mention those fans who scream about how each and every modern release of the particular franchise they love has “ruined (their) childhood.” Maybe they’re saving that for the sequel.
Stuber (2019) - Hands down one of the greatest movies I have ever seen in my life! This had every single thing I could possibly want out of a movie: a good dog, Big Dave Bautista, clotheslines, shoot outs, explosions, car cases, the dude from The Raid, and oh so much more! Definitely watch this if you want a tight hour and a half of ownage!
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019) - Quentin Tarantino, to me, has always seemed like the movie equivalent of like a cover band or a remix/mash-up artist. There’s some talent involved but ultimately watching his movies just makes me want to see the source material. This movie did nothing really to change that opinion of his work.
As for the film itself, I thought it was entirely too long and I found myself getting bored during long stretches of it. I might have liked this movie better if it was about half as long as it was, but it wasn’t so I didn’t. Everything went on about twice as long as it needed to and nowhere was this more evident than in the final showdown which just kept going and going and going.
Also was Brad Pitt’s dog in this the same dog actor that showed up in the vastly superior film, Stuber?
Abominable (2019) - A trio of Chinese children find a yeti on their roof and help it get back home to Mount Everest. It’s a cute movie with cute characters and a straightforward, simplistic storyline. I will, undoubtedly end up having to watch this a million times with my daughter when it eventually comes on Netflix or basic cable.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 11:01:07 GMT -5
Nudeviking DQ fans are different from other fans, most are still from japan and they love every single release. It is kinda crazy how fervent that particular fanbase is. I think it is the only franchise that could actually even attempt to use that twist for a movie.
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 22, 2020 11:43:35 GMT -5
Nudeviking DQ fans are different from other fans, most are still from japan and they love every single release. It is kinda crazy how fervent that particular fanbase is. I think it is the only franchise that could actually even attempt to use that twist for a movie. Not being in Japan or knowing Japanese, I didn't really know how beloved the games still are among their primary fanbase. I know that release days for new installments were (and maybe still are) treated as something of an unofficial holiday by a lot of the public but didn't know if that sort of reverence was still the case. Then again, unlike a lot of other long running franchises Dragon Quest never really attempted to reinvent the wheel with later installments of the main game series which I think is generally the biggest complaint from fans of other game series (Final Fantasy for example) so it makes sense that someone who liked Dragon Quest III or V or VIII or whatever will probably also enjoy Dragon Quest XI. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 12:21:08 GMT -5
Nudeviking DQ fans are different from other fans, most are still from japan and they love every single release. It is kinda crazy how fervent that particular fanbase is. I think it is the only franchise that could actually even attempt to use that twist for a movie. Not being in Japan or knowing Japanese, I didn't really know how beloved the games still are among their primary fanbase. I know that release days for new installments were (and maybe still are) treated as something of an unofficial holiday by a lot of the public but didn't know if that sort of reverence was still the case. Then again, unlike a lot of other long running franchises Dragon Quest never really attempted to reinvent the wheel with later installments of the main game series which I think is generally the biggest complaint from fans of other game series (Final Fantasy for example) so it makes sense that someone who liked Dragon Quest III or V or VIII or whatever will probably also enjoy Dragon Quest XI. Still going strong in Japan kotaku.com/here-are-the-biggest-selling-games-in-japan-in-2017-1824250532Here were the video game sales for 2017 in japan when XI was released. XI had a version on 3DS and a version on console, they split those sales. 1.7 mil and 1.3 mil units sold respectively. Combined that makes for 3 mil and is almost a full million more sold than Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon combined. I don't know how well the switch version a few years later sold, but it was probably a good bit. Funnily enough, DQ XI is actually the biggest entry in the franchise in the west. Sold more copies in the US in the first month of release than any other entry. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 22, 2020 12:52:08 GMT -5
Not being in Japan or knowing Japanese, I didn't really know how beloved the games still are among their primary fanbase. I know that release days for new installments were (and maybe still are) treated as something of an unofficial holiday by a lot of the public but didn't know if that sort of reverence was still the case. Then again, unlike a lot of other long running franchises Dragon Quest never really attempted to reinvent the wheel with later installments of the main game series which I think is generally the biggest complaint from fans of other game series (Final Fantasy for example) so it makes sense that someone who liked Dragon Quest III or V or VIII or whatever will probably also enjoy Dragon Quest XI. Still going strong in Japan kotaku.com/here-are-the-biggest-selling-games-in-japan-in-2017-1824250532Here were the video game sales for 2017 in japan when XI was released. XI had a version on 3DS and a version on console, they split those sales. 1.7 mil and 1.3 mil units sold respectively. Combined that makes for 3 mil and is almost a full million more sold than Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon combined. I don't know how well the switch version a few years later sold, but it was probably a good bit. Funnily enough, DQ XI is actually the biggest entry in the franchise in the west. Sold more copies in the US in the first month of release than any other entry. This article says that it's 5.5 million copies across all consoles including the Switch and a PC version which also apparently exists which makes it one of the better selling games in the franchise over all. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2020 13:27:26 GMT -5
Still going strong in Japan kotaku.com/here-are-the-biggest-selling-games-in-japan-in-2017-1824250532Here were the video game sales for 2017 in japan when XI was released. XI had a version on 3DS and a version on console, they split those sales. 1.7 mil and 1.3 mil units sold respectively. Combined that makes for 3 mil and is almost a full million more sold than Pokemon Ultra Sun and Moon combined. I don't know how well the switch version a few years later sold, but it was probably a good bit. Funnily enough, DQ XI is actually the biggest entry in the franchise in the west. Sold more copies in the US in the first month of release than any other entry. This article says that it's 5.5 million copies across all consoles including the Switch and a PC version which also apparently exists which makes it one of the better selling games in the franchise over all. Yep, that is recent sales. The article I posted was just about 2017. |
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Post by pairesta on Feb 23, 2020 8:58:19 GMT -5
Movies with my daughter: Groundhog Day: "Oooh!! This is that Superbowl commercial!" "Yeah it's the same people from the commercial." "WHAAT?!" Man I hadn't seen this probably in 20 years. It takes a while to get going. I remember it being more of a "comedy", as in more laugh lines, but it's pretty gentle. Also it finally clicked with me how very long Murray is stuck. Probably, what, a decade or more worth of Groundhog days? My daughter is very guarded about liking these older movies we're trying to educate her on, so she didn't have much to say when it was over. We did show her Edge of Tomorrow first, and that one really runs with the concept, so maybe it's hard to walk it back to this one. Labyrinth: " Who is that?!" "That's David Bowie, sweetie." "This is instantly my favorite character ever." He's basically an Anime Boy come to life, right up my daughter's alley. I'm not going to spend too much time pondering why or, um, what, she responded to about him and just be glad she enjoyed the movie. Splash: Ah, the movie that literally triggered my puberty. I walked into that theater wondering if Man-At-Arms could beat Merman in a fight, I walked out wanting really badly for Daryl Hannah to sit on my face. If you did a drinking game for every time she bites her lower lip, you'd be shitting out your own liver by the movie's midpoint. God what a cast. John Candy was a force of nature (we'll just set aside some of the more problematic incidents with his character). Ditto Eugene Levy's seething, sputtering low boil rage throughout. Hanks is so goddamned charming you're willing to overlook what an asshole he is to Madison. It's still pretty great! I was heartbroken when my formerly mermaid obsessed daughter dismissed it with a withering "eh". Star Trek II: "But I don't like Star Trek." My daughter protested as I queued this up. Ever her father's daughter, she's a Star Wars fan through and through. I had to give her a quick rundown of who everyone was and the backstory with Khan. She had trouble understanding that it was a show first, 15 years before the movies started. "Everyone is so old." She grumbled early on. Later though. "Wait. So one of the things this movie is about is growing older and letting go? I kind of like that." At any rate, it's great, Prole is high, I still got choked up at the end, like I do all the dozens of other times of seen it. Even my daughter, completely new to the series, was sad when Spock died. She was fascinated by the concept of Vulcans. "I still like Star Wars more!" Was her review when the movie finished. Ferris Bueller's Day Off: If she's been guarded about the movies we're showing her before, here she completely surrendered to it. I haven't seen her laugh at a movie this much outside of Mystery Science Theater. She loved the Rooney escapades (yeah I didn't tell her about Jeffrey Jones's arrest, or I guess Matthew Broderick either for that matter), and Cameron especially. A lot of Hughes's catalogue is either problematic or hasn't aged well, but I think this is still tops. "That was AMAZING!" She enthused when it was over. It's apparently a film that's been Memed quite a bit in her circle and now she is able to put it all together. |
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Post by nowimnothing on Feb 23, 2020 9:53:04 GMT -5
Movies with my daughter: Groundhog Day: "Oooh!! This is that Superbowl commercial!" "Yeah it's the same people from the commercial." "WHAAT?!" Man I hadn't seen this probably in 20 years. It takes a while to get going. I remember it being more of a "comedy", as in more laugh lines, but it's pretty gentle. Also it finally clicked with me how very long Murray is stuck. Probably, what, a decade or more worth of Groundhog days? My daughter is very guarded about liking these older movies we're trying to educate her on, so she didn't have much to say when it was over. We did show her Edge of Tomorrow first, and that one really runs with the concept, so maybe it's hard to walk it back to this one. Labyrinth: " Who is that?!" "That's David Bowie, sweetie." "This is instantly my favorite character ever." He's basically an Anime Boy come to life, right up my daughter's alley. I'm not going to spend too much time pondering why or, um, what, she responded to about him and just be glad she enjoyed the movie. Splash: Ah, the movie that literally triggered my puberty. I walked into that theater wondering if Man-At-Arms could beat Merman in a fight, I walked out wanting really badly for Daryl Hannah to sit on my face. If you did a drinking game for every time she bites her lower lip, you'd be shitting out your own liver by the movie's midpoint. God what a cast. John Candy was a force of nature (we'll just set aside some of the more problematic incidents with his character). Ditto Eugene Levy's seething, sputtering low boil rage throughout. Hanks is so goddamned charming you're willing to overlook what an asshole he is to Madison. It's still pretty great! I was heartbroken when my formerly mermaid obsessed daughter dismissed it with a withering "eh". Star Trek II: "But I don't like Star Trek." My daughter protested as I queued this up. Ever her father's daughter, she's a Star Wars fan through and through. I had to give her a quick rundown of who everyone was and the backstory with Khan. She had trouble understanding that it was a show first, 15 years before the movies started. "Everyone is so old." She grumbled early on. Later though. "Wait. So one of the things this movie is about is growing older and letting go? I kind of like that." At any rate, it's great, Prole is high, I still got choked up at the end, like I do all the dozens of other times of seen it. Even my daughter, completely new to the series, was sad when Spock died. She was fascinated by the concept of Vulcans. "I still like Star Wars more!" Was her review when the movie finished. Ferris Bueller's Day Off: If she's been guarded about the movies we're showing her before, here she completely surrendered to it. I haven't seen her laugh at a movie this much outside of Mystery Science Theater. She loved the Rooney escapades (yeah I didn't tell her about Jeffrey Jones's arrest, or I guess Matthew Broderick either for that matter), and Cameron especially. A lot of Hughes's catalogue is either problematic or hasn't aged well, but I think this is still tops. "That was AMAZING!" She enthused when it was over. It's apparently a film that's been Memed quite a bit in her circle and now she is able to put it all together. 34 years is the conservative estimate, though Ramis initially pitched 10,000 years in order to correlate with Buddhist doctrine. My kids like Ferris and Labyrinth as well. They have responded well to most of the 80's pantheon including the G range of Goonies, Gremlins and Ghostbusters. My older daughter's favorite movie of all time is Stand By Me, the younger one is really into The Sandlot right now (which I was too old for when it came out.) |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Feb 23, 2020 11:25:37 GMT -5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: If she's been guarded about the movies we're showing her before, here she completely surrendered to it. I haven't seen her laugh at a movie this much outside of Mystery Science Theater. She loved the Rooney escapades (yeah I didn't tell her about Jeffrey Jones's arrest, or I guess Matthew Broderick either for that matter), and Cameron especially. A lot of Hughes's catalogue is either problematic or hasn't aged well, but I think this is still tops. "That was AMAZING!" She enthused when it was over. It's apparently a film that's been Memed quite a bit in her circle and now she is able to put it all together. A couple of years ago we were in Chicago for my brother-in-law's college graduation and we were driving around with my wife's parents, who asked us what we wanted to do in the city. I, naturally, responded with "Oh, I don't know, check out the Willis Tower and the art institute, maybe sneak into a Cubs game, go for a joy ride in a vintage Ferrari, steal a sausage magnate's reservation at a fancy restaurant, sing a little Wayne Newton at a German-American Day parade--you know, the usual Chicago stuff." Their response? Baffled silence. And they responded that way because my Gen X in-laws who came of age in the 1980s had not only never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, they'd never even heard of it. It was surreal. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 23, 2020 13:56:00 GMT -5
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: If she's been guarded about the movies we're showing her before, here she completely surrendered to it. I haven't seen her laugh at a movie this much outside of Mystery Science Theater. She loved the Rooney escapades (yeah I didn't tell her about Jeffrey Jones's arrest, or I guess Matthew Broderick either for that matter), and Cameron especially. A lot of Hughes's catalogue is either problematic or hasn't aged well, but I think this is still tops. "That was AMAZING!" She enthused when it was over. It's apparently a film that's been Memed quite a bit in her circle and now she is able to put it all together. A couple of years ago we were in Chicago for my brother-in-law's college graduation and we were driving around with my wife's parents, who asked us what we wanted to do in the city. I, naturally, responded with "Oh, I don't know, check out the Willis Tower and the art institute, maybe sneak into a Cubs game, go for a joy ride in a vintage Ferrari, steal a sausage magnate's reservation at a fancy restaurant, sing a little Wayne Newton at a German-American Day parade--you know, the usual Chicago stuff." Their response? Baffled silence. And they responded that way because my Gen X in-laws who came of age in the 1980s had not only never seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off, they'd never even heard of it. It was surreal. So you're saying that they're either aliens or spies? |
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Feb 23, 2020 14:23:37 GMT -5
Labyrinth: " Who is that?!" "That's David Bowie, sweetie." "This is instantly my favorite character ever." He's basically an Anime Boy come to life, right up my daughter's alley. I'm not going to spend too much time pondering why or, um, what, she responded to about him and just be glad she enjoyed the movie. Tell her Dr. Crusher from Star Trek did the puppet and dance choreography for the movie...  |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Feb 25, 2020 10:50:34 GMT -5
Took my mom to see Birds of Prey on Sunday. It was my second time seeing the movie and I had just as much fun as the first time.
My Baby Boomer mother's review: "That was wonderful. It was so violent! They all should have died a dozen times over and they didn't because it's a comic-book movie so who gives a shit, it was fun."
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 25, 2020 15:20:17 GMT -5
Took my mom to see Birds of Prey on Sunday. It was my second time seeing the movie and I had just as much fun as the first time. My Baby Boomer mother's review: "That was wonderful. It was so violent! They all should have died a dozen times over and they didn't because it's a comic-book movie so who gives a shit, it was fun." "They should have died but they didn't because it's not supposed to be realistic, so who gives a shit," is a very good reaction to have to a movie. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Feb 25, 2020 17:22:46 GMT -5
Took my mom to see Birds of Prey on Sunday. It was my second time seeing the movie and I had just as much fun as the first time. My Baby Boomer mother's review: "That was wonderful. It was so violent! They all should have died a dozen times over and they didn't because it's a comic-book movie so who gives a shit, it was fun." Looking forward to the 2035 equivalent of Christopher Nolan's "realistic" take on Harley Quinn. |
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Post by oppy all along on Feb 26, 2020 6:13:58 GMT -5
Emma. (2020): While I loved The Favourite and Little Women (2020), and hated Downton Abbey, Emma. (2020) sits comfortably in the middle as... fine. You know, it's pretty good. I dig 'what if the impetuous and charming female lead who vexes everyone was actually the Worst'.
I don't know if they needed to keep the fact that George is 16 years older than Emma, given they've clearly known each other for a long time and the fact that she's only 21 that makes the dynamic between them real weird. If he's been friends with her since she was a child does that count as him grooming her?
Or maybe they were closer in age this time, and the fact that George's actor was 36 years old was irrelevant.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Feb 26, 2020 9:58:49 GMT -5
Emma. (2020): While I loved The Favourite and Little Women (2020), and hated Downton Abbey, Emma. (2020) sits comfortably in the middle as... fine. You know, it's pretty good. I dig 'what if the impetuous and charming female lead who vexes everyone was actually the Worst'. I don't know if they needed to keep the fact that George is 16 years older than Emma, given they've clearly known each other for a long time and the fact that she's only 21 that makes the dynamic between them real weird. If he's been friends with her since she was a child does that count as him grooming her? Or maybe they were closer in age this time, and the fact that George's actor was 36 years old was irrelevant. They should have kept the ~3-year age difference of Clueless, which was still creepy (in the sense of a college student hanging around with a high school sophomore) but less so. |
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Post by maninthemoonman on Feb 26, 2020 12:22:44 GMT -5
moon-woman and I rewatched State of the Union, a solid Frank Capra political movie with Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn and a young, terrific Angela Lansbury.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Feb 26, 2020 23:36:51 GMT -5
moon-woman and I rewatched State of the Union, a solid Frank Capra political movie with Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn and a young, terrific Angela Lansbury. The one channel I really miss from when I had satellite TV is TCM. I haven't figured out how to get it without a satellite or cable subscription. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 11:37:55 GMT -5
Vertigo
Far and away one of the best looking movies I've ever seen.
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Feb 27, 2020 13:13:21 GMT -5
VertigoFar and away one of the best looking movies I've ever seen. So much GREEN, though! (And, as you might guess from my user name, I am an expert on the judicious application of green.  ) |
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 1, 2020 12:26:05 GMT -5
Mulan (1998) - Mulan has replaced Moana as the movie my daughter watches on a daily basis. It's a decent enough movie I guess and there's an absolute banger of a synth-pop jam in the scene where Mulan cuts off her hair and runs away from home.
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) - Netflix in Korea has the good-ass Disney dub of this so I watched it. It’s still cute but hearing Phil Hartman voicing Kiki’s cat, Jiji, bummed me out more than I thought it would. Also having recently watched that Pig in a Plane movie by the same dudes I’m starting to think that someone involved has a real fetish for bloomers since both those movies featured a bajillion shots of teenage girls in old-timey underwear. Classic Japanamation perv shit...
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Mar 1, 2020 20:35:46 GMT -5
Get Low (2010)
An elderly small town Depression-era recluse with a dark secret plans his own wake. Robert Duvall in the lead role, but mostly overshadowed by Bill Murray playing Bill Murray as a slightly off-the-level funeral director. Perhaps its best moment comes in the final reveal, told simply in effective monologue rather than flashback. Very good low-key film.
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