Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)
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Would be played by Margot Robbie and she can only sign with her feet.
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I've always loved Dennis Hoppers performances, even though the more I learn about him he seemed like a pretty terrible person off the stage. I still want to watch The Last Movie and American Dreamer one of these days.
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Dennis Hopper doesn't play him, he's a comic book villain.
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Anne Frank stopped writing her diary because she was never Anne Frank but Bilochka Evelynava, a Russian assassin that got her orders to go find Hitler's bunker so there was no need to write further entries.
Come on, Quentin. You can do it!
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don't tease stinky like that, Taiso.
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Groundhog Day
Bill Murray wants to sleep with his new coworker and by a stroke of luck he gets to repeat his day hundreds of times so he can learn how to manipulate the girl until she finally does have sex with him. The consummation breaks the cycle and he is happy.
Mildly entertaining. Some interesting editing tricks, especially for the time period. I liked the groundhog.
Bill Murray wants to sleep with his new coworker and by a stroke of luck he gets to repeat his day hundreds of times so he can learn how to manipulate the girl until she finally does have sex with him. The consummation breaks the cycle and he is happy.
Mildly entertaining. Some interesting editing tricks, especially for the time period. I liked the groundhog.
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10 To Midnight - 1983 thriller starring Charles Bronson as a cop on the trail of a serial killer who likes killing women while in the buff. And that is about the most original aspect of this rather dull film, that he can only get his jollys off stabbing women when he's butt naked. I mean, all credit to the DP for managing to shoot the entire film without exposing the dude's junk.
Bronson is alright, the immediate supporting cast are ok, but Wilford Brimley and Geoffrey Lewis are wasted, and the film looks like something from the late 70s rather than the mid-80s.
It's not a bad film, and the killer is a proper weirdo who you'll be quite glad to see blown away, but it's not great either. Average.
Bronson is alright, the immediate supporting cast are ok, but Wilford Brimley and Geoffrey Lewis are wasted, and the film looks like something from the late 70s rather than the mid-80s.
It's not a bad film, and the killer is a proper weirdo who you'll be quite glad to see blown away, but it's not great either. Average.
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Man every time I go buy a bluray for an "obscure" movie I find a full 1080p rip of it on youtube shortly after. God is trying to tell me something here, and it's probably along the lines of "lol, goob".
I want to watch Skip Tracer but since I bought the damn thing I'll actually wait for it to arrive out of spite. lol
I want to watch Skip Tracer but since I bought the damn thing I'll actually wait for it to arrive out of spite. lol
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I remembered that they're all on Paramount + and re-watched all four of the Jackass movies.
Anyway, they're interesting to me in how they progress and kinda reflect their time period/the show itself/concept in general as someone who grew up with it.
1 is just a longer version of the show without bleeping the swearing. Still oddly enjoyable.
2 is really, really leaning into too much nasty shit, lot of bodily functions, male nudity (becomes standard, basically), pushing the limits as much as possible for the time. Bad.
3D is not good either. Obviously a ton of it is made for 3D so that hamstrings plenty of the segments, and then there's still plenty of dicks. Boring, as far as Jackass goes. It is kind of notable for being the last one with Margera and Dunn in it though, for, yeah, very different reasons.
Forever is fun and, I dunno, good? It gets the sweet spot, IMO, of bad taste, more enjoyable cast (how in TF did they ever get Rachel Wolfson to do this and the other newbies are fun as well and play off the old cast nicely), crazy but not disgusting stunts, and then still plenty of Pontius and Steve-O and Johnny being mostly the same after 20 years. Johnny nearly being killed by the bull is quite a way to end the whole thing.
Anyway, it's an oddly fun time as someone who, like I mentioned, grew up alongside these things, memory lane I suppose but also still entertaining in its own right.
Anyway, they're interesting to me in how they progress and kinda reflect their time period/the show itself/concept in general as someone who grew up with it.
1 is just a longer version of the show without bleeping the swearing. Still oddly enjoyable.
2 is really, really leaning into too much nasty shit, lot of bodily functions, male nudity (becomes standard, basically), pushing the limits as much as possible for the time. Bad.
3D is not good either. Obviously a ton of it is made for 3D so that hamstrings plenty of the segments, and then there's still plenty of dicks. Boring, as far as Jackass goes. It is kind of notable for being the last one with Margera and Dunn in it though, for, yeah, very different reasons.
Forever is fun and, I dunno, good? It gets the sweet spot, IMO, of bad taste, more enjoyable cast (how in TF did they ever get Rachel Wolfson to do this and the other newbies are fun as well and play off the old cast nicely), crazy but not disgusting stunts, and then still plenty of Pontius and Steve-O and Johnny being mostly the same after 20 years. Johnny nearly being killed by the bull is quite a way to end the whole thing.
Anyway, it's an oddly fun time as someone who, like I mentioned, grew up alongside these things, memory lane I suppose but also still entertaining in its own right.
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Kind of the same here. I don't mind taking a punt occasionally on a film for blu ray /4K, especially if it's less than $20 CAD, but I'd rather see the film first before adding it to the "library".
On that note, glad I saw 10 To Midnight thru Prime. It was worth watching once, but I don't need to watch it again.
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Alamo Drafthouse hit with unfair labor practice after laying off 70 staffers
Alamo Drafthouse hit with unfair labor practice after laying off 70 staffers
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Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters- An excellent feature length documentary on Mike Mignola‘s life and career. Probably one the best of these types of comic artist documentaries I’ve seen. No narration, no cutesy wrap around bullshit, no lame interviews etc. Almost everyone they talk to is great, from Mignola’s family to Guillermo Del Toro and Ron Pearlman to Art Adams and Mike Richardson. Lots of great pictures of his art spanning from his time as an inker at Marvel through the books he did with his wife and daughter. It also covers the struggle to get the first movie made, the subsequent success and how it impacted Mignola personally. As well as the incredibly large extended universe and what it’s like to open your creation up to other interpretations and expansion.
Highly recommended if you’re a fan.
Highly recommended if you’re a fan.
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Alamo Drafthouse hit with unfair labor practice after laying off 70 staffers
Alamo Drafthouse hit with unfair labor practice after laying off 70 staffers
Fucking bummer man. Obviously you knew this shit was coming when they were bought out by venture capital shitbags and then by Sony but the Alamo is the only reason I still go to the movie theater and I'd hate to see it circle the drain.
Casa Bonita, Mi Amor - A kind of bland documentary about the South Park boys buying and renovating the beloved Mexican restaurant/bizarro indoor entertainment attraction Casa Bonita in Denver. The documentary follows the sale, renovation and reopening of the restaurant post-COVID and it does have some amusing moments as they realize what a garbage fire the place is and how their original renovation budget of $6 million dollars ballooned in to $40 million. That said, while it's nice to see a cultural landmark of sorts (and a weird, unique privately-owned business) get saved, very little actually happens and there's no real hook that pulls in the viewer. If you're a South Park fan, you might find it interesting to watch Trey and Matt yuck it up while they get punched in the dick over and over again but I don't know that I'd recommend it to anyone who isn't already invested in the subject matter.
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Next of Kin - run of the mill thriller which can't decide whether it wants to be a TV movie or the real deal. It has a great cast, with Patrick Swayze as a Chicago cop, originally from Kentucky, trying to track down the mobsters who killed his brother (Bill Paxton) who had also moved north. He's later joined by Liam Neeson, the elder brother, who is out for straight up revenge.
The characters are rounded out by Helen Hunt (Swayze's wife), Ben Stiller, Adam Baldwin as the main bad guy, Andreas Katsulas (the one armed man in The Fugitive), and a far too brief appearance by Ted Levine.
While the cast do their roles well, the direction, from John Irvine (Raw Deal, Dogs of War), is a little lacklustre. Action is kept to a bear minimum, a few brief shoot-outs and that's about it. I was kind of expecting a full on revenge flick with Swayze and Neeson kicking ass and blowing away goodfellas, but alas, this is far, far, far from that.
The characters are rounded out by Helen Hunt (Swayze's wife), Ben Stiller, Adam Baldwin as the main bad guy, Andreas Katsulas (the one armed man in The Fugitive), and a far too brief appearance by Ted Levine.
While the cast do their roles well, the direction, from John Irvine (Raw Deal, Dogs of War), is a little lacklustre. Action is kept to a bear minimum, a few brief shoot-outs and that's about it. I was kind of expecting a full on revenge flick with Swayze and Neeson kicking ass and blowing away goodfellas, but alas, this is far, far, far from that.
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Death Wish 2 - first sequel in the Death Wish series which reunited original director Michael Winner with Charles Bronson. This is a straight up thriller, as opposed to DW 3 & 4, which lean more into action (especially 3) - it is a gritty, very dark at times, film, but nevertheless, entertaining throughout.
It's amusing to seen a young Larry Fishburne in this, I wonder if he ever fondly talks about it when going over his resume... remembering the fun on set when he and his fellow gang members take turns raping a latino maid
It's amusing to seen a young Larry Fishburne in this, I wonder if he ever fondly talks about it when going over his resume... remembering the fun on set when he and his fellow gang members take turns raping a latino maid
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Mr. Holland's Opus
I watched this for one stupid reason. When I was like 10, my parents were watching it and I noticed the scene where the dead kid calls his dad an asshole in sign language. I thought it was really funny so when my dad told me to get him some coffee I did the asshole sign and he got very mad. I was just trying to be funny. For 25 years, I thought this was some shitty Lifetime movie they were watching, but I told my friend this story and he said it was Mr. Holland's Opus. The movie is corny as fuck. It might as well have been a Lifetime movie. The two redeeming factors are the old age makeup and that Jean Louisa Kelly is an underrated babe.
I watched this for one stupid reason. When I was like 10, my parents were watching it and I noticed the scene where the dead kid calls his dad an asshole in sign language. I thought it was really funny so when my dad told me to get him some coffee I did the asshole sign and he got very mad. I was just trying to be funny. For 25 years, I thought this was some shitty Lifetime movie they were watching, but I told my friend this story and he said it was Mr. Holland's Opus. The movie is corny as fuck. It might as well have been a Lifetime movie. The two redeeming factors are the old age makeup and that Jean Louisa Kelly is an underrated babe.
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Been kind of halfsssedly watching the Final Destination movies, which I seem to do every couple of years. They are huge pieces of shit and they’re also incredibly frustrating. Somehow the first one is still the best, I guess because it’s the one that feels the least contrived. Once that was a hit and the gimmick of Rube Goldbergesque deaths is all people really wanted they had no idea what to do story wise.
Instead of fully learning into the ridiculous setups and tension they kept insisting on cramming in half baked plots and awful characters that the audience is supposed to care about. If the movie is clever and self aware enough you can get away with having your cake and eating it too. Except that these are very, very stupid movies.
The gym scene in part 3 where the guy gets his head crushed by the weight machine is so over the top and cartoonish that it is flat out hilarious. You can’t expect the audience to take anything seriously after that.
Whatever, they’re junk. I just wish they were at least a little better thought out junk.
Instead of fully learning into the ridiculous setups and tension they kept insisting on cramming in half baked plots and awful characters that the audience is supposed to care about. If the movie is clever and self aware enough you can get away with having your cake and eating it too. Except that these are very, very stupid movies.
The gym scene in part 3 where the guy gets his head crushed by the weight machine is so over the top and cartoonish that it is flat out hilarious. You can’t expect the audience to take anything seriously after that.
Whatever, they’re junk. I just wish they were at least a little better thought out junk.
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3 is definitely the most “of its time” in the series. It’s packed with all of the worst shit from that era. The fashion, the mean girls, the super aggressive misogyny and the asshole arrogant jock. It’s very early 00’s Mtv feeling.
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The Tall Man - coulda sworn I'd watched this before, but nope, probably due to the mostly negative reviews that kind of added up to hmm, wtf. Anyway, I hadn't realized before that it's a proper Pascal Laugier movie, i.e. the guy that made Martyrs and Incident in a Ghostland. So I figured I should sit through it good or bad.
And it's... kinda good? It's Laugier adapting an American ghost story to his usual sensibilities, and it is really weird and slow and then it ends up mostly working out, not unlike the others aforementioned (though definitely not as good as either). Worth watching for sure especially if you're a fan of PL, but it may stretch patience for a lot of people.
And it's... kinda good? It's Laugier adapting an American ghost story to his usual sensibilities, and it is really weird and slow and then it ends up mostly working out, not unlike the others aforementioned (though definitely not as good as either). Worth watching for sure especially if you're a fan of PL, but it may stretch patience for a lot of people.
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Tarma are you going backwards from Death Wish 4? I want to see your thoughts on the first movie. It’s what First blood is to Rambo II.
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Lol, that's kind of what I've ended up doing - originally the plan was to get through Cannon's catalog of mid-late 80s action films, so hence why I started with 3&4 - although 4 is more of a proper action thriller than an out and out action film, imo.
I'd like to see the first one, but I think I'll try and fine it on streaming rather taking a punt on a blu ray.
I'd like to see the first one, but I think I'll try and fine it on streaming rather taking a punt on a blu ray.