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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Feb 21, 2019 23:32:36 GMT -5
I brought this up in the Shoutbox earlier today but I'll ask it again here for those that will not venture down to that part of this website: Is the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the last movie where New York City is presented as a crime-infested deathtrap? Period pieces and speculative fiction don't count only movies that are set at roughly the same time that they are released. Maybe, if you exclude crime movies about neighborhoods outside the tourist zone! New Jack City came out in March 1991, so about one year later than the Turtles, but it starts out in 1986. Some of the same people (but not Peebles) were involved in Sugar Hill (1994). And then you still have lots of stuff like Cop Land (1997) and We Own the Night (2007) about the criminal margins, as well as Wall Street crime movies, but none of that is really Taxi Driver. Romance & Cigarettes (2005) is pretty good for general NYC grittiness without too much danger. I was thinking it was kind of odd they stopped making gritty NY films that early, since Iโd always assumed violent crime peaked there in the mid-nineties, but it murders actually peaked there around 1991 (as opposed to my childhood digs in Chicago, where the susyained decline only began in the mid-nineties).
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 24, 2019 2:35:07 GMT -5
Oscars are today!
I officially predicted Green Book for Best Picture. I'm a pessimist at heart. This way when it wins, at least I can say I was right. But, if Roma wins I'll be happy anyway.
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Post by oppy all along on Feb 24, 2019 2:47:14 GMT -5
Fingers crossed for The Favourite, though Roma is my prediction.
Just not Green Book.
Also, I very much want Lady Gaga to win at least one Oscar.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 24, 2019 2:59:13 GMT -5
Fingers crossed for The Favourite, though Roma is my prediction. Just not Green Book. Also, I very much want Lady Gaga to win at least one Oscar. I think Gaga will in Song. I really want to see what she wears!
I really think Green Book is winning. That PGA win.... Ugh. I just spent an hour chasing down the "anonymous Oscar voter" articles. It blows my mind to hear so many voters talk about how much they like Green Book. "It's such a crowd pleaser!" is said over and over. I'm just going to take this as evidence that I'm officially not old yet.
I submitted the most conservative predictions I could muster into the GoldDerby competition. I am hoping to be wrong in several categories.
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Post by oppy all along on Feb 24, 2019 3:11:14 GMT -5
Fingers crossed for The Favourite, though Roma is my prediction. Just not Green Book. Also, I very much want Lady Gaga to win at least one Oscar. I think Gaga will in Song. I really want to see what she wears! I really think Green Book is winning. That PGA win.... Ugh. I just spent an hour chasing down the "anonymous Oscar voter" articles. It blows my mind to hear so many voters talk about how much they like Green Book. "It's such a crowd pleaser!" is said over and over. I'm just going to take this as evidence that I'm officially not old yet. I submitted the most conservative predictions I could muster into the GoldDerby competition. I am hoping to be wrong in several categories.
Iโm on GoldDerby as well! I tried to make my predictions objective and rational and then I put the boosts on Lady Gaga winning Best Actress and Best Song. Iโm not good at playing to win.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 24, 2019 3:19:31 GMT -5
After watching four BP noms in the course of the last ~30 hours, and having seen five of them total, I hope Roma wins BP (of the three I haven't seen, The Favourite is the only one I have any particular interest in seeing: I feel pretty comfortable in my belief that I'd think Roma is better than Green Book or Vice if I'd seen the latter two).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 14:12:07 GMT -5
I hope Green Book wins, because I want everyone to be as miserable as I am.
Also, Alita is doing well both critically and commercially, MORE GOOD ANIME ADAPTATIONS!
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Post by ganews on Feb 24, 2019 16:17:37 GMT -5
because I want everyone to be as miserable as I am. THE INTERNET
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 24, 2019 18:08:57 GMT -5
I think Gaga will in Song. I really want to see what she wears! I really think Green Book is winning. That PGA win.... Ugh. I just spent an hour chasing down the "anonymous Oscar voter" articles. It blows my mind to hear so many voters talk about how much they like Green Book. "It's such a crowd pleaser!" is said over and over. I'm just going to take this as evidence that I'm officially not old yet. I submitted the most conservative predictions I could muster into the GoldDerby competition. I am hoping to be wrong in several categories.
Iโm on GoldDerby as well! I tried to make my predictions objective and rational and then I put the boosts on Lady Gaga winning Best Actress and Best Song. Iโm not good at playing to win.
I don't even remember where I put the boosters. I went so conservative in my predictions that I don't think those boosters would really help. Those only help if you are making a risky prediction that pays off. I purposefully went anti-risky.
I am so hoping to be wrong in several categories. Like, a lot of categories. I hope my predictions are garbage, basically.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 24, 2019 18:11:13 GMT -5
I hope Green Book wins, because I want everyone to be as miserable as I am. Well, according to anonymous Oscar voters, everyone likes Green Book! It's the film we need right now! It's a crowd pleaser!
If anyone ever needed proof that Hollywood is not the liberal industry it is reputed to be, this should be it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2019 18:19:05 GMT -5
I hope Green Book wins, because I want everyone to be as miserable as I am. Well, according to anonymous Oscar voters, everyone likes Green Book! It's the film we need right now! It's a crowd pleaser!
If anyone ever needed proof that Hollywood is not the liberal industry it is reputed to be, this should be it.
I usually look at the anonymous oscar voter ballot articles that pop up around this time, just to see how terrible it really is. I skipped out this time though, just couldn't stomach the hot takes about Green Book and Black Panther that were sure to pop up.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 24, 2019 18:22:27 GMT -5
Well, according to anonymous Oscar voters, everyone likes Green Book! It's the film we need right now! It's a crowd pleaser!
If anyone ever needed proof that Hollywood is not the liberal industry it is reputed to be, this should be it.
I usually look at the anonymous oscar voter ballot articles that pop up around this time, just to see how terrible it really is. I skipped out this time though, just couldn't stomach the hot takes about Green Book and Black Panther that were sure to pop up. Actually, everyone seemed pretty keen on Black Panther, for the most part. I actually bumped it up in my rankings when I made my predictions. I think I had it ranked 3rd or 4th when I formally submitted my predictions.
The takes on Green Book are exactly as bad as you think. Though there were a couple of people who said they had trouble picking between Green Book and Roma which quite blew my mind. Like.... what? How is that a hard choice? WTF?
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 24, 2019 23:45:44 GMT -5
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 25, 2019 0:01:58 GMT -5
There were some true head scratching wins in this ceremony.
Such as, why were Green Book or Bohemian Rhapsody even nominated in several categories they actually won? (Not counting you, Rami. You were fine to be nominated.)
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Post by oppy all along on Feb 25, 2019 0:28:53 GMT -5
I still enjoyed the Oscars, and the whole process of following Oscar movies and getting invested in who wins.
It's like a great sports season where the Patriots win the Super Bowl. Sure, the end sucked, but there were some great games along the way. And Olivia Colman won Best Actress!
Also, the ceremony went so well this year. It would have been so much worse with Kevin Hart tagging in every fifteen minutes with some kind of skit or joke. And it was almost under three hours!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 0:37:38 GMT -5
I still enjoyed the Oscars, and the whole process of following Oscar movies and getting invested in who wins. It's like a great sports season where the Patriots win the Super Bowl. Sure, the end sucked, but there were some great games along the way. And Olivia Colman won Best Actress! Also, the ceremony went so well this year. It would have been so much worse with Kevin Hart tagging in every fifteen minutes with some kind of skit or joke. And it was almost under three hours! the pats winning is a happy ending
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Post by oppy all along on Feb 25, 2019 0:41:27 GMT -5
I still enjoyed the Oscars, and the whole process of following Oscar movies and getting invested in who wins. It's like a great sports season where the Patriots win the Super Bowl. Sure, the end sucked, but there were some great games along the way. And Olivia Colman won Best Actress! Also, the ceremony went so well this year. It would have been so much worse with Kevin Hart tagging in every fifteen minutes with some kind of skit or joke. And it was almost under three hours! the pats winning is a happy ending I don't mean to exaggerate, but you're literally the only person in the world who thinks that.
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 25, 2019 1:19:56 GMT -5
I guess I owe ganews a dollar or a beer or something if we are ever in the same country at the same time over a gentleman's bet on the results of the best animated short category. OSCAR FEVER! WHO HAD IT?!?!?!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 10:18:34 GMT -5
I literally don't care much about any of the other wins, but YEAH, INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE!
That was, again, just such a mind-blowingly good film.
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Post by chalkdevil ๐ on Feb 25, 2019 11:53:18 GMT -5
I literally don't care much about any of the other wins, but YEAH, INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE! That was, again, just such a mind-blowingly good film. The only Oscar winning movies I saw this year were Black Panther and Into the Spider-Verse. I'll get Roma. Everyone stop pressuring me! It's all black and white and foreign. Speaking of Roma, I wonder why Netflix isn't pushing it again on their platform. It seems like they were making such a big deal about being taken seriously by the Academy, but up to, and now after the Oscars, I have to search for the movie on Netflix to find it. It's even on my watch list. Push that shit to the top. Pretend you actually care about the film. More and more I am failing to understand Netflix's business model. Do these movies bring more people to the platform? I mean, the movies don't actually have to get watched right? People just have to not cancel their subscriptions. They just need to seem vital, not actually provide any content people actually watch. I keep thinking that you could start up a pretty successful streaming service for $8 a month with just exclusive reruns of The Office and Friends. There is a large swath of people in their 30s who would pay for that.
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Post by Superb Owl ๐ฆ on Feb 26, 2019 17:08:21 GMT -5
man, I'm still not 100% sure whether bringing my Pokemon obsessed son to Detective Pikachu is going to be a good idea
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Post by ganews on Feb 27, 2019 20:51:10 GMT -5
I would like to see a movie co-staring Danny Huston and Dylan Baker as estranged brothers on opposite sides of the law who re-unite after many years. Dylan Baker is a low-level, late-career FBI agent who finds out his big brother Danny Huston, always a schemer in adolescence, is now a major figure in organized crime. Now he must decide whether to help an ongoing investigation into Huston's dealings and inject a career long mired in apathy with some really important work in his last years before retirement - or to look the other way for the sake of family.
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Post by Jimmy James on Feb 27, 2019 21:53:28 GMT -5
I was briefly concerned this morning when I realized that in the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, the titular super-spy Austin "Danger" Powers tries to quell his arousal at Dr. Evil's fem-bots by imagining Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day... but he was frozen in 1967, and unfrozen in 1997, missing Mrs. Thatcher's entire tenure as Prime Minister from 1979-1991. But it turns out Vanessa briefly mentioned the first female PM after Austin was caught up on the moon landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall, so maybe he was able to add her to his cultural lexicon by that point in the film.
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Post by chalkdevil ๐ on Mar 5, 2019 11:01:01 GMT -5
I keep noticing more and more of these overhead drone shots in lower budget movies, usually horror movies. I mean, I get it. The opening helicopter shot from The Shining was iconic. Arial tracking shots still subtly signify higher budget. But drones are pretty cheap now. $1500 bucks and you can get drone with a 4k camera, fly it over your characters as they walk isolated through the woods, or drive down an isolated road through the woods, or just get b-roll of some woods from a high angle. The key though is just to point the camera straight down and be sure the soundtrack has ominous synth tones playing.
Nothing particularly wrong with it, I just keep seeing it. It's the new dutch angle for horror films.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 5, 2019 11:16:00 GMT -5
I keep noticing more and more of these overhead drone shots in lower budget movies, usually horror movies. I mean, I get it. The opening helicopter shot from The Shining was iconic. Arial tracking shots still subtly signify higher budget. But drones are pretty cheap now. $1500 bucks and you can get drone with a 4k camera, fly it over your characters as they walk isolated through the woods, or drive down an isolated road through the woods, or just get b-roll of some woods from a high angle. The key though is just to point the camera straight down and be sure the soundtrack has ominous synth tones playing. Nothing particularly wrong with it, I just keep seeing it. It's the new dutch angle for horror films. I think film directors are just like anyone else; when they get a shiny new toy, they can't stop playing with it.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Mar 6, 2019 10:27:14 GMT -5
One good rule for life is that anyone who unironically uses the hashtag #releasethesnydercut on Twitter can be blocked without a second thought.
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Post by Hachiman on Mar 10, 2019 20:18:16 GMT -5
Getting older is weird. I watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World the other day on TV and... I actually hated it. Here's the thing, I used to love this movie. In fact, I own this movie! Something in my mind switched from relating to the characters to actually hating all of them except maybe Knives. It's still a well made movie, but so much of what was novel in 2010 feels really played out in 2019, which also didn't help. There are plenty of movies I have changed my mind about but I can't think of a bigger swing from love to hate than this one.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Mar 10, 2019 20:41:01 GMT -5
I feel like Iโve been watching this movie all day, which I suppose is apt, since itโs called Endless. I canโt tell if it devolved into an incoherent mess, or if I wasnโt paying close enough attention cause Iโm half asleep. But it started out like one thing, and then went whanging off in a whole different direction that isnโt really cohesive with the beginning.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2019 0:30:29 GMT -5
This is probably the best smash cut in any film (granted, it works better when you've sat through the previous hour of context and build up)
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Post by patbat on Mar 14, 2019 9:05:38 GMT -5
Getting older is weird. I watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World the other day on TV and... I actually hated it. Here's the thing, I used to love this movie. In fact, I own this movie! Something in my mind switched from relating to the characters to actually hating all of them except maybe Knives. It's still a well made movie, but so much of what was novel in 2010 feels really played out in 2019, which also didn't help. There are plenty of movies I have changed my mind about but I can't think of a bigger swing from love to hate than this one. Literally the exact same thing happened to me, except in my case it was triggered by listening to the Jimquisition Spin-Off Doctors episode about it. It's kind of crazy to think about how "Nerdy Nice Guys" were portrayed in movies made before Gamergate and Pepe and how poorly that portrayal has aged, not to mention how poorly this movie's gay representation has aged.
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