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Post by LazBro on Aug 4, 2016 13:51:07 GMT -5
Also, they killed the best character, so that's another deficit.It's a movie, maybe Colin Firth got better. The rumor mill got going when Colin Firth and the guy who plays Eggsy took an Instagram selfie on the set of Kingsman 2. I'm guess they were filming a flashback, but you're right, if the first movie conveys nothing else, it's that anything can happen.
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Post by Baron von Costume on Aug 4, 2016 13:55:08 GMT -5
Seen Kingsman for the third time this weekend. Still love it. And I still can't fathom how "If you free me I'll give you more than just a kiss." translates necessarily to anal sex. Censored versions are no fun ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by Gamblin' Telly on Aug 4, 2016 15:10:24 GMT -5
Also, they killed the best character, so that's another deficit.It's a movie, maybe Colin Firth got better. The rumor mill got going when Colin Firth and the guy who plays Eggsy took an Instagram selfie on the set of Kingsman 2. I'm guess they were filming a flashback, but you're right, if the first movie conveys nothing else, it's that anything can happen. Twin brother, clone, metal plate in head, the possibilities are endless!
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Aug 7, 2016 12:44:14 GMT -5
Going off of rimjobflashmob ’s comment about group viewings in the “Last Movie Watched Thread,” I actually really like (or liked when I was younger—I haven’t seen it in years) Rocky Horror—that’s probably a consequence of having never gone to a midnight theater showing. It's a perfectly entertaining movie by itself, I just hated it for a while after my first viewing was at a midnight screening. That, I can't recommend.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Aug 7, 2016 15:13:11 GMT -5
Seen Kingsman for the third time this weekend. Still love it. And I still can't fathom how "If you free me I'll give you more than just a kiss." translates necessarily to anal sex. Did you see the English version? Maybe it loses something in translation, because the implication is very clear. I agree that it isn't enough to ruin what was otherwise a very fun movie.
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Post by Gamblin' Telly on Aug 8, 2016 2:45:06 GMT -5
Seen Kingsman for the third time this weekend. Still love it. And I still can't fathom how "If you free me I'll give you more than just a kiss." translates necessarily to anal sex. Did you see the English version? Maybe it loses something in translation, because the implication is very clear. I agree that it isn't enough to ruin what was otherwise a very fun movie. yup, saw the non-theatrical cut, see a few posts above.
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Post by ganews on Aug 16, 2016 22:59:05 GMT -5
Spaceballs and History of the World Part I both have lots of great gags but on the whole aren't very good movies.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 17, 2016 8:19:49 GMT -5
Spaceballs and History of the World Part I both have lots of great gags but on the whole aren't very good movies. Is that all that unpopular, really? Brooks made three of the best comedies of all time ( The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein), but none of his other movies even come close to those three.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Aug 17, 2016 14:41:35 GMT -5
Spaceballs and History of the World Part I both have lots of great gags but on the whole aren't very good movies. Is that all that unpopular, really? Brooks made three of the best comedies of all time ( The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein), but none of his other movies even come close to those three. And arguably, only one or two of the other movies he made ( Silent Movie, perhaps The Twelve Chairs) are even good. I don't know why I'm frustrated by that - three all-time classics (and two of my personal top 10 favorite movies) should be enough for anybody's career! But...still...I'm a little frustrated by that.
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Post by ganews on Aug 17, 2016 15:06:25 GMT -5
three all-time classics (and two of my personal top 10 favorite movies) should be enough for anybody's career! The Producers and Young Frankenstein? I think Blazing Saddles is only 75% great.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Aug 17, 2016 15:42:26 GMT -5
three all-time classics (and two of my personal top 10 favorite movies) should be enough for anybody's career! The Producers and Young Frankenstein? I think Blazing Saddles is only 75% great.Those are my top two faves, yeah. I love Saddles, but think Producers is the funniest and Frankenstein is the overall best movie.
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Post by Paleu on Aug 18, 2016 0:24:18 GMT -5
I think Brooks' version of To Be Or Not To Be is much funnier than the original. Not better, per se, but funnier.
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Post by LazBro on Aug 18, 2016 8:52:46 GMT -5
This is all ridiculous.
Robin Hood: Men in Tights is the quintessential Mel Brooks film. Obviously.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Aug 18, 2016 10:46:29 GMT -5
You know, I finally saw The Producers last year and it was funny, but I still think Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are funnier and better.
And because I'm 12, Men in Tights cracks me up every time I see it, even though it's not good.
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Post by ganews on Aug 18, 2016 11:17:46 GMT -5
You know, I finally saw The Producers last year and it was funny, but I still think Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are funnier and better. And because I'm 12, Men in Tights cracks me up every time I see it, even though it's not good. Booo, Men In Tights is great! And it doesn't have to reply on a meta freak-out ending. Now, Dracula: Dead and Loving It is not so good, but I crack up.
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Post by Post-Lupin on Aug 18, 2016 11:33:28 GMT -5
You know, I finally saw The Producers last year and it was funny, but I still think Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are funnier and better. And because I'm 12, Men in Tights cracks me up every time I see it, even though it's not good. Booo, Men In Tights is great! And it doesn't have to reply on a meta freak-out ending. Now, Dracula: Dead and Loving It is not so good, but I crack up. Life Stinks does.
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Post by heroboy on Aug 18, 2016 11:39:22 GMT -5
You know, I finally saw The Producers last year and it was funny, but I still think Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles are funnier and better. And because I'm 12, Men in Tights cracks me up every time I see it, even though it's not good. Booo, Men In Tights is great! And it doesn't have to reply on a meta freak-out ending. Now, Dracula: Dead and Loving It is not so good, but I crack up. Men in Tights is not great, but has enough funny scenes to make it worthwhile. I guess you could say the same about Spaceballs, but being a Star Wars fan and coming out at just the right age, I consider it a classic to this day.
Dracula: Dead and Loving It, though, I think I laughed once during the whole movie, and that was at a stupid gag of Nielsen sneaking around ineptly.
I guess I would rank Brooks' movies as:
All Time Classic Spaceballs*
Great Young Frankenstein Blazing Saddles Producers
Pretty Good History of the World: Part 1 Silent Movie
Not Very Good Men in Tights Life Stinks
Terrible Dracula Dead and Loving It
Haven't Seen/Can't Remember High Anxiety Twelve Chairs
*Trying to be objective, I would probably slot it in above History and below Producers, in its own category Pretty Great
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Aug 18, 2016 11:51:06 GMT -5
Haven't Seen/Can't Remember High Anxiety Twelve Chairs
*Trying to be objective, I would probably slot it in above History and below Producers, in its own category Pretty Great
High Anxiety is fucking hilarious if you're a Hitchcock fan. If you aren't, it probably isn't.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Aug 18, 2016 12:09:52 GMT -5
Haven't Seen/Can't Remember High Anxiety Twelve Chairs
*Trying to be objective, I would probably slot it in above History and below Producers, in its own category Pretty Great
High Anxiety is fucking hilarious if you're a Hitchcock fan. If you aren't, it probably isn't. I am, but for me it kinda flipped between hilarious parts and slow parts. I think I needed more alcohol.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 18, 2016 12:15:14 GMT -5
I think a common thread for his second-tier (and lower) movies is that they tend to be written better than they were directed or acted. His sense of timing got worse the older he got, and by Men in Tights, there's just weird pauses for enormous laughter that never came, and it makes watching the movie a slightly weird experience.
Ironically, I think the only movies of his that I ever saw in the theater were Spaceballs and Men in Tights.
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Aug 20, 2016 5:45:32 GMT -5
Chasing Amy is a great film and not in a 'good/great for its time' way. How it explores topics ranging from sexual orientation to sexual history to the insecurity in many 'progressive' types was remarkably mature and has aged very well, even if some of the jokes and aesthetics of the film are forever trapped in the 90s.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 21, 2016 18:34:03 GMT -5
What exactly is The Producers?
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 21, 2016 19:16:07 GMT -5
What exactly is The Producers? It rose below vulgarity.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 21, 2016 21:12:36 GMT -5
I think Brooks' version of To Be Or Not To Be is much funnier than the original. Not better, per se, but funnier. I don't care for any Mel Brooks movie I've ever seen.
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Post by ganews on Aug 24, 2016 12:04:51 GMT -5
Dune is still my favorite David Lynch.
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Post by ganews on Aug 26, 2016 20:40:11 GMT -5
I'll call it an unpopular opinion based on the weak IMDB, but "My Fellow Americans" is another one of the funniest movies of the 90s, up there with the Grumpy Old Men. The 1996 politics is severely eye-rolling, but the cast and repartee are unassailable:
James Garner as a Clinton-esque former president. Jack Lemmon as former president Jack Lemmon. John Heard as Quayle-esque VEEP. Dan Aykroyd, Wilford Brimley, Lauren Bacall, James Rebhorn. Bradley Whitford in his first roll featuring the White House! ETA: and holy shit, Michael Peña in his third-ever roll!
"Hail to the chief, he's the chief and he needs hailing. He is the chief, so everybody hail like crazy." "Hail to the chief, if you don't, I'll have to kill you. I am the chief, so you better watch your step, you bastards."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 8:02:56 GMT -5
The 3 minute short about what Thor was doing during civil war is better than the previous 28 hours of the MCU.
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Post by Logoboros on Aug 30, 2016 11:08:29 GMT -5
Not sure how unpopular this opinion is, but I just watched Midnight Special on Blu-ray from Netflix. Found it middling and underwhelming. Went back to the AVC review to see if there was a spoiler space or anything where people were discussing the premise, and was rather shocked not just at the glowing praise of IV's review but also the huge number of "one of the best films of the year"-type comments in the comments section. I just really didn't see what everyone else saw in it.
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Post by Pastafarian on Sept 5, 2016 11:34:01 GMT -5
I'm super excited for suicide squad. I don't know if that is still an unpopular opinion after the two new trailers, but before I went to bmt and there was only the teaser I know people weren't pumped for it. I was actually indifferent to/annoyed by Suicide Squad up until I saw the trailer that played before X-Men: Apocalypse, mostly because I can't stand Jared Leto. Now I'm psyched for the movie. And, was your being psyched justified? I didn't see it so have no opinion one way or another.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Sept 5, 2016 16:53:22 GMT -5
I was actually indifferent to/annoyed by Suicide Squad up until I saw the trailer that played before X-Men: Apocalypse, mostly because I can't stand Jared Leto. Now I'm psyched for the movie. And, was your being psyched justified? I didn't see it so have no opinion one way or another. I never actually got around to seeing the movie, oops. I'll borrow it from the library when it comes out on Blu-Ray, but I wound up at a lot more movies this summer than I normally do, and so I couldn't justify the cost of seeing this one as well.
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