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Post by rainbowsherbert on Jun 6, 2016 23:51:40 GMT -5
My favorite segment from a horror anthology is "The Raft" from Creepshow 2.
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Post by starforge on Jun 8, 2016 2:29:05 GMT -5
I still enjoy Disney's Dinosaur. Lovely visuals, and I had a rather large crush on the main character when I was younger.
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Jun 8, 2016 11:26:50 GMT -5
Me too! Unless we are 5 years old and ranking tie-in action figures in which case it's 6,5,4. Jedi, hands down, had the best action figures back in the day. Maybe it's because I was older than 5 when ROTJ came out, but I gotta disagree on the action figures. It was bloated with what we used to call "Two-second Guys" because that's how long they were on-screen - you know, Weequay, Ree-Yees, Klaatu, Barada, Nikto, Squid Head, Prune Face, all those random Ewoks whose names I can't remember and I'm not going to look up because fuck Ewoks. Back in the early 90s, I bought every single SW action figure I could find at garage sales and flea markets. Last time I went to visit my parents, I dug through all of them. There was an entire grocery bag full of nothing but Rancor Keepers and that stupid striped Ewok. Those guys were completely useless, even in 1983. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jun 8, 2016 12:47:03 GMT -5
Me too! Unless we are 5 years old and ranking tie-in action figures in which case it's 6,5,4. Jedi, hands down, had the best action figures back in the day. Maybe it's because I was older than 5 when ROTJ came out, but I gotta disagree on the action figures. It was bloated with what we used to call "Two-second Guys" because that's how long they were on-screen - you know, Weequay, Ree-Yees, Klaatu, Barada, Nikto, Squid Head, Prune Face, all those random Ewoks whose names I can't remember and I'm not going to look up because fuck Ewoks. Back in the early 90s, I bought every single SW action figure I could find at garage sales and flea markets. Last time I went to visit my parents, I dug through all of them. There was an entire grocery bag full of nothing but Rancor Keepers and that stupid striped Ewok. Those guys were completely useless, even in 1983. The character choices may not have been as good, but the quality of the figures, was much, much better. I love my original Star Wars figures too, but the sculpting was all kinds of terrible on most of them. For ROTJ, they put real effort into them. |
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Post by Buon Funerale Amigos on Jun 8, 2016 14:00:12 GMT -5
The character choices may not have been as good, but the quality of the figures, was much, much better. I love my original Star Wars figures too, but the sculpting was all kinds of terrible on most of them. For ROTJ, they put real effort into them. That is true. The 12-back Luke and Han are horrific hydrocephaloids. |
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Post by starforge on Jun 9, 2016 0:14:09 GMT -5
Me too! Unless we are 5 years old and ranking tie-in action figures in which case it's 6,5,4. Jedi, hands down, had the best action figures back in the day. Maybe it's because I was older than 5 when ROTJ came out, but I gotta disagree on the action figures. It was bloated with what we used to call "Two-second Guys" because that's how long they were on-screen - you know, Weequay, Ree-Yees, Klaatu, Barada, Nikto, Squid Head, Prune Face, all those random Ewoks whose names I can't remember and I'm not going to look up because fuck Ewoks. Back in the early 90s, I bought every single SW action figure I could find at garage sales and flea markets. Last time I went to visit my parents, I dug through all of them. There was an entire grocery bag full of nothing but Rancor Keepers and that stupid striped Ewok. Those guys were completely useless, even in 1983. I loved Ree-Yees! Gran used to scare me in the Jedi Knight games. I didn't have that many aliens in my collection, but that's probably because I collected only between 1998 and 2003. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jun 9, 2016 18:08:50 GMT -5
One that came up at TOC: I prefer Star Trek 5 to 4.
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Jun 9, 2016 21:01:54 GMT -5
One that came up at TOC: I prefer Star Trek 5 to 4. And a double dumbass on you! |
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Post by clytie on Jun 9, 2016 21:59:12 GMT -5
Benedict Cumberbatch made a good KHAN!
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jun 9, 2016 22:12:15 GMT -5
I may have said this before, but fuck the haters, I like Event Horizon. Watchin' it right now.
Also Drive suuuuuuuuucks. Goddamn I hate that movie.
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Post by heroboy on Jun 10, 2016 10:45:23 GMT -5
I may have said this before, but fuck the haters, I like Event Horizon. Watchin' it right now. Also Drive suuuuuuuuucks. Goddamn I hate that movie. There are people that care enough about Event Horizon to actually hate it?
I thought it was a perfectly decent horror movie in space. The Eye Gouging scene in particular has stuck with me more than any other scene from a horror movie that I can think of.
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Post by Smacks on Jun 10, 2016 10:59:20 GMT -5
I may have said this before, but fuck the haters, I like Event Horizon. Watchin' it right now. It's one of my favorites. When they first play that video tape OMG |
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Post by clytie on Jun 10, 2016 11:21:34 GMT -5
Braveheart is a good movie and Mel Gibson is one of the few guys that can pull off a kilt. 
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 10, 2016 11:22:03 GMT -5
I’ve never seen Event Horizon (and have no particular interest in seeing it), but I have a soft spot for it because the trailer was on our old VHS for Star Trek: First Contact.
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Jun 10, 2016 22:51:54 GMT -5
I may have said this before, but fuck the haters, I like Event Horizon. Watchin' it right now. Also Drive suuuuuuuuucks. Goddamn I hate that movie. There are people that care enough about Event Horizon to actually hate it?
I thought it was a perfectly decent horror movie in space. The Eye Gouging scene in particular has stuck with me more than any other scene from a horror movie that I can think of.
I don't have incredibly high standards for sci-fi horror, because there's just a shitload of things we don't know about space so I'll accept a hell of a lot. So long as it's pretty internally consistent, I'm ok. I'm more likely to judge the horror angle, but that's very subjective anyhow. |
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Post by starforge on Jun 10, 2016 23:44:29 GMT -5
The Goofy Movie is one of the better Disney Renaissance films, and I detest that it's so overlooked.
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 11, 2016 1:03:04 GMT -5
The Goofy Movie is one of the better Disney Renaissance films, and I detest that it's so overlooked. It's overlooked in part because It's not a Disney Renaissance film. A Goofy Movie wasn't produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, but DisneyToon Studios, a now-defunct Australian subsidiary responsible for all of Disney's syndicated cartoon shows at the time, as well as every godawful direct-to-video desecration we'd rather pretend didn't exist. |
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Post by starforge on Jun 11, 2016 1:08:26 GMT -5
The Goofy Movie is one of the better Disney Renaissance films, and I detest that it's so overlooked. It's overlooked in part because It's not a Disney Renaissance film. A Goofy Movie wasn't produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, but DisneyToon Studios, a now-defunct Australian subsidiary responsible for all of Disney's syndicated cartoon shows at the time, as well as every godawful direct-to-video desecration we'd rather pretend didn't exist. Ooh, good point! I tend to forget that, but it makes total sense. I suppose I consider it part of that lineage just because I find it a wonderful Disney film. A relatable father-son narrative where the father doesn't die in the first half-hour? Hell yes. Also, I love the utter cheese of every song. |
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Post by ganews on Jun 12, 2016 13:59:48 GMT -5
Moonrise Kingdom has fine performances all around, but its depiction of budding adolescent sexuality is more creepy than endearing.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jun 14, 2016 13:44:32 GMT -5
Regarding creepiness, that was my main takeway from Her, which I generally found unpleasant. starforge I assume A Goofy Movie is hugely popular with furries; because if it isn't, well, pre-adolescent me thinks they were missing out. |
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Post by starforge on Jun 14, 2016 14:24:21 GMT -5
Regarding creepiness, that was my main takeway from Her, which I generally found unpleasant. starforge I assume A Goofy Movie is hugely popular with furries; because if it isn't, well, pre-adolescent me thinks they were missing out. Actually I'd say no. Roxanne is probably the only bit they'd like, and I think the oldschool Disney folks are either super-old now or have moved on. Also I feel like the "Goof" species that seems to inhabit this film is a little too creepy for most folks. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Jun 14, 2016 15:00:49 GMT -5
Moonrise Kingdom has fine performances all around, but its depiction of budding adolescent sexuality is more creepy than endearing. The CGI flames near the end are cringe-inducingly bad. Wes Anderson:flames::Clint Eastwood:baby |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 14, 2016 15:15:24 GMT -5
More of a short film opinion, but I prefer Disney’s classic shorts to Warner Borthers’. They’re better constructed and have a lot of clever, intricate visual humor as opposed to the more wordplay/reference/paradox oriented WB shorts.
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Post by haysoos on Jun 14, 2016 15:30:04 GMT -5
Disney's Robin Hood, with Brian Bedford and Phil Harris is the best animated Disney movie. Period.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jun 14, 2016 16:09:11 GMT -5
More of a short film opinion, but I prefer Disney’s classic shorts to Warner Borthers’. They’re better constructed and have a lot of clever, intricate visual humor as opposed to the more wordplay/reference/paradox oriented WB shorts. D.W. Griffith and Walt Disney were the two American directors Sergei Eisenstein had the greatest respect for. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 15, 2016 0:16:23 GMT -5
Regarding creepiness, that was my main takeway from Her, which I generally found unpleasant. starforge I assume A Goofy Movie is hugely popular with furries; because if it isn't, well, pre-adolescent me thinks they were missing out. Actually I'd say no. Roxanne is probably the only bit they'd like, and I think the oldschool Disney folks are either super-old now or have moved on. Also I feel like the "Goof" species that seems to inhabit this film is a little too creepy for most folks. Speaking of how bizarre the concept of Disney talking animals is, were there any Plutos in this film? Also, the main thing that I remember about The Goofy Movie was that at one point there's a pizza with particularly stringy cheese, which I've always found oddly disgusting. The fact that some of the cheese on the pizza is going to be like 40 degrees colder than the rest of the food that one is eating is not appetizing. It probably isn't fair of me, however, to hate a film I haven't seen since I was a small child on this sole basis. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 15, 2016 0:17:50 GMT -5
More of a short film opinion, but I prefer Disney’s classic shorts to Warner Borthers’. They’re better constructed and have a lot of clever, intricate visual humor as opposed to the more wordplay/reference/paradox oriented WB shorts. Does this include the old timey cartoon Sleepy Hollow and the old timey cartoon Jack and the Beanstalk? |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 15, 2016 0:26:09 GMT -5
Also, while we're on the topic of unconventional favorite Disney movies, I vote that The Brave Little Toaster is the best non-Pixar Disney movie (even though it's only sort of kind of a Disney movie). There is literally no reason that it should exist; it is surreal and creepy and tonally weird and makes no sense at all and has a terrible rap song about the superiority of household appliances of the 1980s, which all somehow makes it all the more amazing.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 15, 2016 0:27:20 GMT -5
More of a short film opinion, but I prefer Disney’s classic shorts to Warner Borthers’. They’re better constructed and have a lot of clever, intricate visual humor as opposed to the more wordplay/reference/paradox oriented WB shorts. D.W. Griffith and Walt Disney were the two American directors Sergei Eisenstein had the greatest respect for. Is that third person also a director? |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 15, 2016 0:56:30 GMT -5
Actually I'd say no. Roxanne is probably the only bit they'd like, and I think the oldschool Disney folks are either super-old now or have moved on. Also I feel like the "Goof" species that seems to inhabit this film is a little too creepy for most folks. Speaking of how bizarre the concept of Disney talking animals is, were there any Plutos in this film? Also, the main thing that I remember about The Goofy Movie was that at one point there's a pizza with particularly stringy cheese, which I've always found oddly disgusting. The fact that some of the cheese on the pizza is going to be like 40 degrees colder than the rest of the food that one is eating is not appetizing. It probably isn't fair of me, however, to hate a film I haven't seen since I was a small child on this sole basis. It didn't bother you that Max's new "cool" friend was Pauly Shore? |
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