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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 14, 2021 16:54:51 GMT -5
This should be the canonical version of A New Hope.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Sept 14, 2021 17:49:49 GMT -5
This should be the canonical version of A New Hope. All I can see is blank space under your text (something about my browser can't show tweets or whatever it is). I don't disagree.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 14, 2021 18:07:50 GMT -5
This should be the canonical version of A New Hope. All I can see is blank space under your text (something about my browser can't show tweets or whatever it is). I don't disagree. Oh, weird, it's working for me, and I actually linked an image rather than the tweet it came from. Maybe the tweet itself will work for you?
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 15, 2021 1:22:39 GMT -5
wrt stuff not showing up I only find it’s reliable on mobile—ublock + whatever Firefox stuff can make stuff actually coming through touch-and-go—the thing to do is quote and go to the bbc code to find the link
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Post by pantsgoblin on Nov 30, 2021 2:50:11 GMT -5
I've always been ambivalent about Paul Thomas Anderson and, if Licorice Pizza is as messy as it sounds, I'll probably give it a pass. PTA's a master with the camera and an excellent director of actors (can't get much more majestic performances than Magnolia's scenes between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jason Robards), but I often find his writing simplistic and obvious. One of my favorites of his is Inherent Vice because at least he's working from someone else's story (though that didn't help me with There Will Be Blood).
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Post by ganews on Dec 8, 2021 16:39:28 GMT -5
I suppose I haven't seen it in 15 years or more, but I didn't think Patch Adams was a bad movie, at least not the awful thing the internet seems to think it is.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Dec 8, 2021 19:25:20 GMT -5
I suppose I haven't seen it in 15 years or more, but I didn't think Patch Adams was a bad movie, at least not the awful thing the internet seems to think it is. I know this is the Unpopular thread, but it's pretty fucking bad, ganews. Sometimes the internet is right.
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Post by Angry Raisins on Dec 11, 2021 9:30:57 GMT -5
There's nothing wrong with thinking Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but a large fraction of people who like to say "Die Hard is a Christmas movie!" are doing so because they (wrongly, annoyingly) think it makes them sound interestingly contrarian.
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Post by songstarliner on Dec 14, 2021 22:02:39 GMT -5
Sigh. I really, truly loved every minute of Get Back, most likely because I'm old, and I wore out all my dad's Beatles records by the time I was 12. Love those lads: what a fascinating dynamic.
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Post by ganews on Dec 22, 2021 14:36:32 GMT -5
I don't care in the slightest if it is filmed on location. Vancouver or whatever can represent every city in the U.S. and Europe, it's fine.
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Dec 22, 2021 15:59:32 GMT -5
I don't care in the slightest if it is filmed on location. Vancouver or whatever can represent every city in the U.S. and Europe, it's fine. I am firmly in favor of filming in whichever city I am not in, mostly because filming has caused some incredibly frustrating commutes for me in the past. I still haven't watched Die Hard 4 because of how badly the production fucked me on the bus routes, and this was before smartphones were really a thing. I'd probably be waiting for the bus now if some nice older ladies hadn't informed me of the change in schedule/route and walked me to where the temporary pick-up was. It still took me four hours to get home, and I was late to work.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 22, 2021 17:09:25 GMT -5
There's nothing wrong with thinking Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but a large fraction of people who like to say "Die Hard is a Christmas movie!" are doing so because they (wrongly, annoyingly) think it makes them sound interestingly contrarian. I think this is the wrong take tbh. It isn't "contrarian" to say that Die Hard is a Christmas film - I mean, it literally, famously, is a Christmas movie, to the point where Wikipedia explicitly lists it as a consensus best-ever Christmas movie in the page summary.
What's annoying about listing Die Hard as your favorite Christmas movie is that doing so constitutes an act of hostility towards the *idea* of Christmas movies and the sentimentality but also the earnestness inherent to the genre. All the really great Christmas films - It's a Wonderful Life, The Apartment, whichever you think is the best Christmas Carol, Elf, Tokyo Godfathers - disparate as they are in terms of tone and genre, all have heart to them. Not to say Die Hard is a heartless film, but it's a bit of a cynical pick to say that the best Christmas film ever is about Bruce Willis shooting people.
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Post by Celebith on Dec 25, 2021 1:44:08 GMT -5
There's nothing wrong with thinking Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but a large fraction of people who like to say "Die Hard is a Christmas movie!" are doing so because they (wrongly, annoyingly) think it makes them sound interestingly contrarian. I think this is the wrong take tbh. It isn't "contrarian" to say that Die Hard is a Christmas film - I mean, it literally, famously, is a Christmas movie, to the point where Wikipedia explicitly lists it as a consensus best-ever Christmas movie in the page summary.
What's annoying about listing Die Hard as your favorite Christmas movie is that doing so constitutes an act of hostility towards the *idea* of Christmas movies and the sentimentality but also the earnestness inherent to the genre. All the really great Christmas films - It's a Wonderful Life, The Apartment, whichever you think is the best Christmas Carol, Elf, Tokyo Godfathers - disparate as they are in terms of tone and genre, all have heart to them. Not to say Die Hard is a heartless film, but it's a bit of a cynical pick to say that the best Christmas film ever is about Bruce Willis shooting people.
Shane Black's movies (including Predator) are all better Christmas movies than Die Hard. Especially Lethal Weapon and Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang.
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Post by Prole Hole on Jan 17, 2022 18:24:30 GMT -5
Sigh. I really, truly loved every minute of Get Back, most likely because I'm old, and I wore out all my dad's Beatles records by the time I was 12. Love those lads: what a fascinating dynamic. Couldn't agree more
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jan 18, 2022 21:54:31 GMT -5
Sigh. I really, truly loved every minute of Get Back, most likely because I'm old, and I wore out all my dad's Beatles records by the time I was 12. Love those lads: what a fascinating dynamic. Couldn't agree moreThis seems like a good place for my unpopular opinion: could not care less about a movie/documentary about the Beatles. it isn’t as contrarian as it seems; I find documentaries & biopics about pop culture figures to be varying levels of squicky. (To be honest, though, i don’t really care about the Beatles in general)
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 19, 2022 12:07:38 GMT -5
This seems like a good place for my unpopular opinion: could not care less about a movie/documentary about the Beatles. it isn’t as contrarian as it seems; I find documentaries & biopics about pop culture figures to be varying levels of squicky. (To be honest, though, i don’t really care about the Beatles in general) Nobody cares about The Beatles in general.
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Post by matt on Apr 8, 2022 1:43:39 GMT -5
Thief is Michael Mann's best movie and I will fist fight anybody on this.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 8, 2022 12:10:20 GMT -5
Thief is Michael Mann's best movie and I will fist fight anybody on this. It's not as good as Manhunter, which is the best Hannibal Lecktor movie, along with Brian Cox as a better Lecktor and Will Peterson as a better Will Graham. But Thief is still pretty great, and both of those are loads better than Heat, which is just boring as fuck.
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Post by matt on Apr 8, 2022 15:00:17 GMT -5
Thief is Michael Mann's best movie and I will fist fight anybody on this. It's not as good as Manhunter, which is the best Hannibal Lecktor movie, along with Brian Cox as a better Lecktor and Will Peterson as a better Will Graham. But Thief is still pretty great, and both of those are loads better than Heat, which is just boring as fuck. FIST FIGHT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2022 16:20:14 GMT -5
Thief is Michael Mann's best movie and I will fist fight anybody on this. No offense but I've seen an astonishing number of people recite that exact opinion recently so there must be some sort of Thief revival/reappraisal going on. What do they get out of denying that Heat is Michael Mann's magnum opus?
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Post by matt on Apr 8, 2022 16:43:47 GMT -5
Thief is Michael Mann's best movie and I will fist fight anybody on this. No offense but I've seen an astonishing number of people recite that exact opinion recently so there must be some sort of Thief revival/reappraisal going on. What do they get out of denying that Heat is Michael Mann's magnum opus? The truth. Because Heat is not his best! Though I really don't know what people you are talking about, because Heat has always been loved, and especially with Heat 2(the prequel book for those that don't know)being announced it isn't like people are against it right now. Also, I wouldn't say people liking Thief nowadays is a reappraisal, it has always been one of Mann's well received films. Now, the love that Blackhat and Miami Vice have been getting on the other hand, that's a reappraisal.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 8, 2022 23:04:10 GMT -5
It's not as good as Manhunter, which is the best Hannibal Lecktor movie, along with Brian Cox as a better Lecktor and Will Peterson as a better Will Graham. But Thief is still pretty great, and both of those are loads better than Heat, which is just boring as fuck. FIST FIGHT
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Post by Celebith on Apr 8, 2022 23:05:00 GMT -5
Thief is Michael Mann's best movie and I will fist fight anybody on this. What do they get out of denying that Heat is Michael Mann's magnum opus? The satisfaction of knowing that they are correct.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Apr 10, 2022 13:21:58 GMT -5
The bone -> spaceship cut in 2001 is kind of clunky/ugly (in a movie that otherwise holds up very well visually) and it's basically an uglier version of Anne Coates' original "match cut" in Lawrence of Arabia (which still looks fantastic sixty years later).
In general the first ten minutes of the film, iconic as they are, are kind of goofy. I read 2001 (the book) fairly recently, which is mostly inessential except as a companion to the film except in that the Moon-Watcher bits are way more compelling in print, in the sense that Clarke really sells that this proto-human has an inner life and is not just a dude in a monkey suit.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jun 17, 2022 15:25:38 GMT -5
Peter Weir is a filmmaker I always wanted to like more than I do. Yes, the first 45 minutes of Picnic at Hanging Rock is very good but after that the film seemingly forgets to have a story. I remember being bored to tears with The Last Wave and Gallipoli and I barely remember anything about Master and Commander. To date, his last film is 2010's The Way Back, which is based on a memoir by Slawomir Rawicz, a Polish lieutenant whose story was debunked by the BBC in 2006, rendering the movie's ethics somewhat dubious.
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Post by Celebith on Jun 20, 2022 23:54:37 GMT -5
Peter Weir is a filmmaker I always wanted to like more than I do. Yes, the first 45 minutes of Picnic at Hanging Rock is very good but after that the film seemingly forgets to have a story. I remember being bored to tears with The Last Wave and Gallipoli and I barely remember anything about Master and Commander. To date, his last film is 2010's The Way Back, which is based on a memoir by Slawomir Rawicz, a Polish lieutenant whose story was debunked by the BBC in 2006, rendering the movie's ethics somewhat dubious. Mel Gibson is a garbage human, but Year of Living Dangerously is such a lush viewing experience. Linda Hunt deserved her Oscar for playing an Asian man, as sketchy as that sounds, and the soundtrack by Vangelis puts it over the top. There doesn't seem to be a good transfer streaming anywhere, though.
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Post by ganews on Jun 21, 2022 10:51:40 GMT -5
I have never sat through, and am pretty uninterested in, Top Gun or its sequel. It's not even out of anti-jingoism, I just don't care. I've see Hot Shots!, it's great, and that's enough.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jun 22, 2022 20:50:08 GMT -5
Peter Weir is a filmmaker I always wanted to like more than I do. Yes, the first 45 minutes of Picnic at Hanging Rock is very good but after that the film seemingly forgets to have a story. I remember being bored to tears with The Last Wave and Gallipoli and I barely remember anything about Master and Commander. To date, his last film is 2010's The Way Back, which is based on a memoir by Slawomir Rawicz, a Polish lieutenant whose story was debunked by the BBC in 2006, rendering the movie's ethics somewhat dubious. Mel Gibson is a garbage human, but Year of Living Dangerously is such a lush viewing experience. Linda Hunt deserved her Oscar for playing an Asian man, as sketchy as that sounds, and the soundtrack by Vangelis puts it over the top. There doesn't seem to be a good transfer streaming anywhere, though. I actually do like that film, largely because of my interest in that era of history and it vividly depicts living in the tropics.
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Post by Celebith on Jun 22, 2022 21:33:06 GMT -5
Mel Gibson is a garbage human, but Year of Living Dangerously is such a lush viewing experience. Linda Hunt deserved her Oscar for playing an Asian man, as sketchy as that sounds, and the soundtrack by Vangelis puts it over the top. There doesn't seem to be a good transfer streaming anywhere, though. I actually do like that film, largely because of my interest in that era of history and it vividly depicts living in the tropics. It's probably a combination of nostalgia and an inability to rewatch it, but it's one of my favorites. I don't know if I want to live in it, but I don't think I'd mind. Forgotten Armies, and its sequel, Forgotten Wars are great reads if you're interested in the 'fall of the British SE Asia' during WWII, and the governments that rose to power in the aftermath. Each page could be the jumping off point for its own book, and an interest in that era, early covert operations, the doomed defense of Hong Kong and other colonies, and the resistance movements afterwards, probably fueled my desire to join the military more than anything else.
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Post by ganews on Aug 11, 2022 22:41:34 GMT -5
The Aristocats, while certainly not a good movie, is preferable to Disney's Robin Hood. At least the former is an interesting failure.
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