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It was, but I'll be damned if that tongue stud scene didn't make me cover my eyes. Pretty great scene, really.
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Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)
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It was, but I'll be damned if that tongue stud scene didn't make me cover my eyes. Pretty great scene, really.
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Been watching a lot of End of the World/ Survival films that i never seen before.
Here Alone - Pretty decent survival film but got stupid at the end
Into the Forest - Good acting but the girls were really dumb. The ending will make slap yourself, these two are really dumb bitches.
Flu - Korean pandemic film, the beginning is similar to what's happening here. Then it goes to extreme. The main guy does everything to impress a girl he likes, so dumb.
Eden - Lord of the Flies but w/ soccer players. Too many dumb characters, too many frustrating scenes.
I got a couple more to see...
These Final Hours, Take Shelter, & Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.
Here Alone - Pretty decent survival film but got stupid at the end
Into the Forest - Good acting but the girls were really dumb. The ending will make slap yourself, these two are really dumb bitches.
Flu - Korean pandemic film, the beginning is similar to what's happening here. Then it goes to extreme. The main guy does everything to impress a girl he likes, so dumb.
Eden - Lord of the Flies but w/ soccer players. Too many dumb characters, too many frustrating scenes.
I got a couple more to see...
These Final Hours, Take Shelter, & Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.
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Are you off work at the moment?
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I got it! They were inspired by the hall of mirrors in Versailles
Great video, makes a lot more sense now.
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He's just cutting back. Down to 75 hours a week instead of 95.
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The Platform - sometimes Netflix gets a movie that's far better than their usual, and I'd consider this to be one such case. Very unique Spanish thriller (sort of? sort of horror, sort of prison movie, hard to pin a label on it) where inmates in a prison live two to a floor, directly above the floor below, and there's a hole in the middle of the room where a platform with food gets lowered every day. Being on a high floor = good, lower, not so much. I hate to say any more about it for fear of spoiling it. Strongly reminiscent of Snowpiercer in particular, and also Cube. Strongly recommended unless you absolutely hate the genre. Oh, and there's a surprising amount of blood and gore, so that may turn some people away.
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The Hunt - lovely
It's an 8
The Way Back - weepy
It's a 7
Ready or Not - solid
It's a 7
It's an 8
The Way Back - weepy
It's a 7
Ready or Not - solid
It's a 7
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Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip - all right, so it's a made-for-TV, 45-minute 'movie'. It's funny how this show has slipped out of pop culture despite how great it was at the time, while garbage like Teen Titans is still popular 17 years later. Anyways I haven't seen this since 2000 so it was a treat to watch it again. It opens with a scene that implies Dexter's parents are fucking (only legs up in the air is visible, and for a second Dexter's mom is moaning! Crazy) and it just keeps being great throughout. Very neat ideas throughout (and now I realize there were hints of Samurai Jack with the futuristic settings, Mandark being ruler of the world like Aku, Action Dexter is like Jack except he has a giant wrench and not a sword, etc. which would be Tartakovsky's next project). The torture scene where wimpy Dexter is getting whipped by Mandark was also surprisingly cruel, with his screams and facial expressions.
This show is just one of those things that was a big part of my childhood (I remember talking to my friends during recess about last night's episode back in 4th grade) that just became forgotten until recently. I've included a youtube link for the whole movie if anyone is bored and wants to waste 45 minutes (uploaded nearly 2.5 years ago and only a little over 1,000 views, this show really fell out of public consciousness):
This show is just one of those things that was a big part of my childhood (I remember talking to my friends during recess about last night's episode back in 4th grade) that just became forgotten until recently. I've included a youtube link for the whole movie if anyone is bored and wants to waste 45 minutes (uploaded nearly 2.5 years ago and only a little over 1,000 views, this show really fell out of public consciousness):
Spoiler:
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Patton (1970)
"Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book!".
The General with a larger-than-life persona. Great biographical war film.
"Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book!".
The General with a larger-than-life persona. Great biographical war film.
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^Patton is indeed great.
On topic:
Personal Shopper
A woman is working as a, durr, personal shopper for a bored super model; she's also a psychic who is obsessed with contacting her dead brother. Style- and tonewise very similar to Assayas' other work, the main problem being the lack of direction, and being unable to tie togeher the different themes of the plot.
2½/5
On topic:
Personal Shopper
A woman is working as a, durr, personal shopper for a bored super model; she's also a psychic who is obsessed with contacting her dead brother. Style- and tonewise very similar to Assayas' other work, the main problem being the lack of direction, and being unable to tie togeher the different themes of the plot.
2½/5
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Finally got around to watching the Rise of Skywalker...
It's another mess, not nearly as much a shit-show as the second one, but it's not great. Too much mixed up shit going on; at times the dialog is a hot mess, weird and useless new characters all over the place, useless and ill written comedy, dumb side plots. It's a try-hard film...but in the end it seems like someone fell on a massive sheet of ice and then is stuck in a never ending loop of trying to get back up, falling, trying again, slipping again...over and over.
What's amazing to me is that with the near unlimited funds/resources Disney has...the entire VII-IX product is a massive and super expensive jumbled up shit-show.
It's another mess, not nearly as much a shit-show as the second one, but it's not great. Too much mixed up shit going on; at times the dialog is a hot mess, weird and useless new characters all over the place, useless and ill written comedy, dumb side plots. It's a try-hard film...but in the end it seems like someone fell on a massive sheet of ice and then is stuck in a never ending loop of trying to get back up, falling, trying again, slipping again...over and over.
What's amazing to me is that with the near unlimited funds/resources Disney has...the entire VII-IX product is a massive and super expensive jumbled up shit-show.
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So I got some Blu Rays from HK and one of them was FULL CONTACT starring Chow Yun Fat, directed by the late, great Ringo Lam....
OMFG...it has to be one of THE BEST HK films that I've ever seen. It's a MEAN movie with so much visual panache that it earns my highest recommendation. If you haven't seen it, go see it right away. Damn good movie!!!!
OMFG...it has to be one of THE BEST HK films that I've ever seen. It's a MEAN movie with so much visual panache that it earns my highest recommendation. If you haven't seen it, go see it right away. Damn good movie!!!!
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John Carter - Recommended for people on this site.
This took me by surprise. I'd turned this off some time ago during the opening sequence where we're introduced to the planet, villain (Vader minus intelligence), weapon (Death Star Laser), puppeteers (race of Emperors), and villain's newly-newly obtained weapon (lightsaber) given by the puppeteer. I watched the movie where I'd left off some time ago, and from here it grabbed me. The next 30 minutes have a blend of action, adventure, comedy and sex appeal ("This is a Disney Movie?") that reminds me more of what an audience from the 80's might have been promised and delivered.
In terms of that blend of feel, a decent analogy might be Dreamwork's The Road to El Dorado or even Disney's own Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Perhaps if this, too, were animated it would have found the box office success Disney banked on. Ironically, John Carter is the only live action movie director Andrew Stanton (pick-a-Pixar-flick) has directed to this day.
+Classic hero stuff, not modern comic book hero stuff. If you want something to fill that sci-fantasy action hole in your heart, give this a whirl. This was more like Indiana Jones gets transported into. . . Krull? Dune?
-The grander story is a little unclear. I don't understand the what the point of the villain's new-new handheld weapon was, and I'm not sure the villain knew either since he even says, "What's the point of this thing if I can't use it?" when he tries once and the puppeteer doesn't allow him. It wasn't clear why the puppeteers even needed to play these "games" with people or had such trouble in doing so now. If they desired a certain outcome, and have the ability to a) teleport and b) change appearance then it seems none of the issues intervening in their game should ever appear.
=The good minus the bad, it just sort of works.
Edit: Just about all the information in the opening sequence seems like it would be have been better unseen/unheard until those moments were revealed in the story - even things inconsequential to the story like the design of the (castle thing?)
This took me by surprise. I'd turned this off some time ago during the opening sequence where we're introduced to the planet, villain (Vader minus intelligence), weapon (Death Star Laser), puppeteers (race of Emperors), and villain's newly-newly obtained weapon (lightsaber) given by the puppeteer. I watched the movie where I'd left off some time ago, and from here it grabbed me. The next 30 minutes have a blend of action, adventure, comedy and sex appeal ("This is a Disney Movie?") that reminds me more of what an audience from the 80's might have been promised and delivered.
In terms of that blend of feel, a decent analogy might be Dreamwork's The Road to El Dorado or even Disney's own Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Perhaps if this, too, were animated it would have found the box office success Disney banked on. Ironically, John Carter is the only live action movie director Andrew Stanton (pick-a-Pixar-flick) has directed to this day.
+Classic hero stuff, not modern comic book hero stuff. If you want something to fill that sci-fantasy action hole in your heart, give this a whirl. This was more like Indiana Jones gets transported into. . . Krull? Dune?
-The grander story is a little unclear. I don't understand the what the point of the villain's new-new handheld weapon was, and I'm not sure the villain knew either since he even says, "What's the point of this thing if I can't use it?" when he tries once and the puppeteer doesn't allow him. It wasn't clear why the puppeteers even needed to play these "games" with people or had such trouble in doing so now. If they desired a certain outcome, and have the ability to a) teleport and b) change appearance then it seems none of the issues intervening in their game should ever appear.
=The good minus the bad, it just sort of works.
Edit: Just about all the information in the opening sequence seems like it would be have been better unseen/unheard until those moments were revealed in the story - even things inconsequential to the story like the design of the (castle thing?)
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It tried to be too many things to too many people. It was a meh experience.
Star Wars worked in 1979-1983 because it was high production value compared to everything else.
Blade Runner 2049 was more fresh than the last trilogy.
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Been catching up on a lot of old classics with my son, we got onto a bit of a Corey Feldman kick.
The ‘Burbs
The Lost Boys
Gremlins
The Monster Squad
The Goonies
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
The ‘Burbs
The Lost Boys
Gremlins
The Monster Squad
The Goonies
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
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A fine list
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You know John Carter is a character from pulp magazines back in 1912 which formed the basis for a series of novels about 5 years later, right? He is an archetypal character that has been ripped off a billion times by a billion people across all mediums in the past hundred years, from Buck Rogers to Avatar. Just in comic books, DC stole from the character and stories to create Adam Strange in the 1950s and the 1980s series Sword of the Atom, which is even weirder because DC did a straight up John Carter comic as well (as did Marvel). Den by Richard Corben is another big one. But there have been a bunch.
So when you say it feels like classic Indiana Jones-ish adventure, there's a reason for that.
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Yeah, maybe I'm more of a pulp guy than a comic book guy? I'm not sure if I've got that lingo down, but a lot of action/comic book type movies haven't done it for me for a long time - even though those characters have some of the same legacy.
Whatever I remember from the advertisements of John Carter when it was out in theaters, I thought it looked stupid and sounded worse on paper, so I'm going to take my lumps on that impression. Maybe someone will feel the way I did but watch the movie and also enjoy it.
I very much enjoyed this as live action, but I could totally envision it in the Ralph Bakshi/Frank Frazetta style.
Thanks for the name dropping some other stories. Lots of stuff in public domain, so I'm downloading away.
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The first John Carter novel from 1917 (I think) is called A Princess of Mars, and is a lot of fun. The movie was mostly taken from it, although the movie falls short in a lot of ways. If you read it, you'll see how prototypical it is and realize how many bastard sons it has in popular culture.
After the first book, they decline in quality as Burroughs falls back on pretty much the same formula again and again. I get it, as pulp writers were typically getting paid something like a penny a word. Anyway, the later books are still fun, but get kind of familiar.
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Most pulp writers were, as STK said, writing to get paid. Some may have been more imaginative than others in conceiving their trappings but none of these guys were writing what they thought might still have relevance a century later. Its permanence is in its universal adventure principles that appeal cross culture. Adventure, action, exploration and discovery, romance and even lasciviousness and luridness are things that average human beings will enjoy forever.
It had to be something publishers thought might be profitable while at the same time being something that was affordable enough that you broadened your potential consumer base.
Any time you have a setting like Dejah Thoris or the Hyborian Age, that level of world building was, in my experiences, unusual. Most adventure writers of the day had to move on to the next yarn and get paid.
These guys were basically creating product, not art. But the inherent disposability of pulp fiction is precisely what made it timeless, just like most forms of adolescent adventure entertainment.
It had to be something publishers thought might be profitable while at the same time being something that was affordable enough that you broadened your potential consumer base.
Any time you have a setting like Dejah Thoris or the Hyborian Age, that level of world building was, in my experiences, unusual. Most adventure writers of the day had to move on to the next yarn and get paid.
These guys were basically creating product, not art. But the inherent disposability of pulp fiction is precisely what made it timeless, just like most forms of adolescent adventure entertainment.
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Fine fine taste man.
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What's your favorite Feldman performance?
I completely forgot about Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead. Used to watch it like once a week when I was a kid.
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So did I, Christina Applegate in her prime.
Favourite Feldman movie is probably The Lost Boys, I love everything about that movie. Also the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, he did the voice of Donatello. Two films that get the nostalgia pumping through my veins.
Don't forget Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter!
Young Tommy! Never, it’s also my favourite F13th film.