Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Horror is the feeder bar for the entertainment industry...
Mainline that adrenaline far more efficiently than nearly any other mainstream segment.
Can’t remember how it goes, but there’s a saying about how horror is the easiest genre to film and comedies are the most difficult.
Can’t remember how it goes, but there’s a saying about how horror is the easiest genre to film and comedies are the most difficult.
One thing I can say about this is that I'm more likely to watch bad horror movies (and most genres, for that matter) than bad comedies. Even if I only like them ironically, there's some level of enjoyment to be found, but when a comedies aren't funny, there are few, if any, redeeming qualities to them. I can also understand how some things could be funny in theory but not translate well to the screen.
She agreed. To see a couple hours of Marclay's The Clock at MOMA with me.
Or maybe she was simply humoring me.
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Always like watching the credits. Sometimes there's something kinda interesting or fun in there.
When I turned on the TV last night, Stripes was just ending. Noticed that Bill Pullman was credited in a group of people under "Soldiers."
Must've been one of his early roles.
Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Really good movie about homeless kids in L.A. that flew way under the radar. Quite an ensemble too: Dermot Mulroney, Sean Astin, Lara Flynn Boyle, Will Smith, Kyle MacLachlan, David Arquette and many other familiar faces.
I love The Basketball Diaries, but this scene goes to show how movies based on true stories don't come close. The junky that Leonardo DiCaprio is sitting with is the real Jim Carroll—the person Leo's playing.
They don't seem to make funny movies anymore. However, I did watch the Weird Al movie the other day and it was hilarious.
They don't seem to make funny movies anymore. However, I did watch the Weird Al movie the other day and it was hilarious.
I've never seen UHF. Should really get around to that. All I know is that Weird Al wanted to cover of "Live and Let Die" and call it "Chicken Pot Pie" but McCartney didn't give him the green light.
I love how Ned and Lucky's chants are at least somewhat intelligible, and Dusty's is incoherent mumbling. RIP Invisible Swordsman.
I've never seen UHF. Should really get around to that. All I know is that Weird Al wanted to cover of "Live and Let Die" and call it "Chicken Pot Pie" but McCartney didn't give him the green light.
Only because he is vegetarian and didn't want to glorify eating chicken. Extra funny is that Al is also vegetarian. Tofu Pot Pie just didn't have the same ring to it though.
Speaking of the lulz, just released this past week in 4k.
I didn't laugh as hard as I used to when I was younger, but it was awesome to see Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder in all their young glory.
surprisingly, it didn't have the typical cultural shock warnings in most all of the current generation releases of old films.
It saddens me that Blazing Saddles probably couldn't be made today because of "cultural sensitivity", even though the black guy was the hero and the racists are mocked as idiots.
Richard Pryor’s greatest role that wasn’t.
If you haven’t seen the Gene Wilder doc on Netflix it’s really good.
You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today because the actors reading the script would say, “Hey, this is Blazing Saddles!”
I've never seen UHF. Should really get around to that. All I know is that Weird Al wanted to cover of "Live and Let Die" and call it "Chicken Pot Pie" but McCartney didn't give him the green light.
I didn't watch UHF. There's a "biopic" with Daniel Radcliffe made a few years ago. It was very good.
Gladiator II last night.
It was good enough. But a movie is flawed for me if I can very quickly identify what I don't like about it, even if it's not a bad film. Maybe I am romanticizing the original too much but I thought Mescal was a touch too young and not very believable in his role in comparison to Crowe. Crowe was about 8 years older playing Maximus and I thought it really showed, the maturity and a bit more of a weathered adult look added to that role far beyond what Mescal brought to Lucius. I didn't realize how old Pedro Pascal was until after the movie but while watching I thought he could have been cast as the lead instead.
Without stepping too far into spoiler territory, a couple of the fight scenes were obviously pretty silly. That'd be my only major gripe with how it was made.
Denzel was fine, not sure if he is worthy of any awards.
3/5 feels like a perfect rating.
The Artifice Girl
This is an AMAZING Turing test AI film that plays out like a stage play in three parts.
The movie basically takes place in three rooms and if talking and dialog is not important to you, you should probably just go see Gladiator 2 or Wicked.
I think this gives Ex Machina a run for it's money and maybe more important.
An amazing low budget independent film.
Saw Kevin Smith's latest movie "The 4:30 Movie" and was kinda disappointed.
It just didn't have much Kevin Smithyness to it, if that makes sense.No raunchy humor that you expect from him.
Wonder why it was rated R, can't even remember a F bomb.
Its a sweet story, just something you watch to pass the time, maybe feel a little melancholy if you grew up in that time.
Best part was the "in credits" scene at the end.
Won't be a rewatch, just like Clerks 3, but for totally different reasons.
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Has anyone seen Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some? If you like Dazed and Confused, there's a good chance you'll like this one too. Instead of taking place on the last day of school in 1976, it's set during the first weekend at college in 1980. Like Dazed and Confused, there's isn't much of a plot. It's mostly about the characters in that place and time. It's not as good but still worth a watch.
Manhattan (1979)
tl;dt
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Seinfeld Beta*
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With the cast portraying mundane and pedestrian existences, delineating activities of no interest to anyone anywhere, sketching the lives of people we care nothing about as they pursue activities of no consequence to themselves, of no consequence to their immediate surroundings, and of no consequence to the world at large; conducting celebrations of self-hood in the vain hope that there is something to celebrate – as they perform these series of solipsistic dances, simultaneously but not interactively, performing them for a group of friends and comrades specifically selected to feign interest; self-selected in fact to supply mutual support for the terminally irrelevant, the entire purpose of the movie, intentionally or unintentionally, is to provide a virtual train-wreck for those members of the audience who can’t turn their eyes away, can’t modestly avert their glances from the shame and humiliation of those discovering that they are the only ones laughing at their own jokes, this self-same audience casting about for relief, searching, perhaps in vain, for deliverance, hoping to be rescued, but at the same time knowing that there is no hope, that there will be no rescue, no deliverance, no last-minute appearance of the cavalry from over the hill, when, lo and behold, they notice two things that have been there all along, two things there for the audience in their time of need: the cinematography and the sound track!
Go watch a Wong Kar Wai/Chris Doyle flick.
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*How big is the pedophilic market, anyway? Sure, you can **** a high school girl, and you can **** a high school girl while ruining her life, but what is the point of ruining her life after you have stopped ****ing her? Is it to show how pathetic you are when it’s been demonstrated a dozen times over? When your moral negligibility is beyond refutation? And why not let her escape, why throw her away to London, perhaps a bigger cesspool than Manhattan? The Humanity!
