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Post by krentist on Apr 11, 2020 8:58:06 GMT -6
Paul Verhoeven
1. RoboCop 2. Turkish Delight 3. Elle 4. Business is Business 5 Spetters- I probably liked this more than Rango did. I thought there was something refreshingly honest about a bunch of boys that age being genuine shitheads and not like... semi arrogant boys who make their conservative parents mad but are generally unproblematic. The big race scene like a half hour in is awesome. 6. Soldier of Orange - I've thought more about this than Katie Tippel since my first viewing so probably bumping it up. If this came out today I'd probably say something like "I can't believe a war movie was actually good and had ideas" 7. Katie Tippel 8. The Fourth Man -- This was good I thought but not great. As Rango said the rip on YouTube is ass. I thought some of the themes were a little half - baked but it moves along well enough.
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Post by dij22 on Apr 11, 2020 11:50:03 GMT -6
Watched Hustlers last night. It was fun and mostly fine. Paced in such a weird way where the successes were super repetitive and the comeuppance seemed abrupt and pointless.
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Post by zircona1 on Apr 11, 2020 13:00:55 GMT -6
Office Space is still pretty funny, though on TV they had to edit out all the 'fucks', which made those Geto Boys songs sound weird.
"Die (backwards vocals) die (backwards vocals) still"
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Post by krentist on Apr 11, 2020 13:51:30 GMT -6
I watched the first half hour of Femme Fatale last night and it was absolutely sick. Just wholly preposterous but insanely sick. This never really gets better than the first half hour. It's pretty tightly plotted and de Palma shoots the shit out of it. I'm willing to chalk up its (many, progressively more insane) contrivances to being willful winks at the history of the thriller genre but good lord lol. Pretty flat performances and stilted dialogue but the "good" about it is very very good. On Cinemax which is offering a month free rn.
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Post by ultravisitor on Apr 11, 2020 18:49:46 GMT -6
I just watched The Lovely Bones. That was a very weird movie.
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Post by Pale Hose on Apr 11, 2020 18:51:56 GMT -6
I remember renting that on Netflix when Netflix still sent you DVDs in the mail. I think I liked it? I also remember it being pretty messed up.
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Post by dij22 on Apr 11, 2020 20:57:23 GMT -6
The Way Back was so good. Just an elite B+ movie.
Yeah it was kinda formulaic and emotionally manipulative, but Affleck was great and carried everything on his shoulders.
Much worse ways to spend $19.99 on Amazon
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Post by Tweet on Apr 11, 2020 21:01:27 GMT -6
I watched Shut Up and Play the Hits for the first time tonight which was a trip down some sort of memory lane
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Post by rango420 on Apr 11, 2020 21:03:45 GMT -6
Did u see me
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Post by Tweet on Apr 11, 2020 21:19:04 GMT -6
Saw at least one boarder, not you, at least I don’t think, I was lookin at James Murphy shaving
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Post by rango420 on Apr 11, 2020 21:23:17 GMT -6
there are multiple long close ups of me and im very sweaty its uncomfortable!
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Post by Tweet on Apr 11, 2020 21:39:27 GMT -6
Usually you gotta say something when you cameo in something. Here I was just watching it cause it’s leaving Hulu soon
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Post by Kamera on Apr 12, 2020 0:30:19 GMT -6
Usually you gotta say something when you cameo in something. Here I was just watching it cause it’s leaving Hulu soon It's on Prime Video if you have that
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Post by zircona1 on Apr 12, 2020 9:55:21 GMT -6
Girlfriend and I watched Inglorious Basterds last night. She had never seen it. I still think it's up there with Tarantino's best.
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Post by Kamera on Apr 12, 2020 11:08:27 GMT -6
![](https://store.matadorrecords.com/media/catalog/product/cache/4/image/500x/85e4522595efc69f496374d01ef2bf13/o/l/ole-1087_darkside_-_psychic_live.jpg) This is really good.
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Post by rango420 on Apr 12, 2020 11:09:15 GMT -6
Verhoeven Rankings 1. Turk Fruit 2. Wat Zien Ik 3. Soldaat van Oranje 4. Septters 5. Keetja Tippel 6. De Vierde Man - Was hard to tell if this was a commentary/take on like post Polanski-goofy 70s horror in the Spetters vein or if that's giving it too much credit and it just is a much gayer version of that. This similar to Solder Of Orange would almost certainly be better with a good print one the big screen. Good eastern morning watch tho Dudes (like Jesus) rock ![](https://offscreen.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/Review_109_Photo_2_-_The_Fourth_Man_(1983)_440_440_90.jpg)
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Post by andrewvb on Apr 12, 2020 13:02:57 GMT -6
loved this early bresson. a socialite gets revenge on her ex by making him fall in love with a tramp. tres bien! ![](https://images.fandango.com/r1.0.597/ImageRenderer/1040/650/redesign/areas/movie/moviesubpages/img/noimage_900x900.jpg/155130/images/masterrepository/fandango/155130/les_dames_du_bois_de_boulog.jpg)
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Post by sthubbins on Apr 12, 2020 13:03:35 GMT -6
Watched Everyone Else. Very up my alley and I liked it a lot. Doesn't have as grand a finale as Toni Erdmann but very poignant and well observed throughout.
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Post by rango420 on Apr 12, 2020 13:15:25 GMT -6
1. Punch Drunk Love 2. Spring Breakers 3. Jackass 3 4. The Shining 5. Billy Madison 6. Videodrome 7. The Brood 8. Dead Ringers 9. Dirty Work 10. Turkish Fruit 11. The Wedding Singer 12. Map to the Stars 13. The Fly 14. Cosmopolis 15. Christine 16. Naked Lunch 17. Crash (90s) 18. Carrie (1976) 19. The Waterboy 20. Stand By Me 21. Eastern Promises 22. A History Of Violence 23..Rabid 24. Shivers 25. Spider 26. Little Nicky 27. The Other Guys 28. Business Is Business 29. The Running Man 30. M Butterfly 31. The Dead Zone 32. Soldier of Orange 33.Happy Gilmore 34. Spetters 35. Keetja Tippel 36. ExistenZ 37. Maximum Overdrive 38. Scanners 39. Creepshow 40. A Dangerous Method 41. Fast Company 42. The 4th Man 43. Tammy and The T-Rex (Gore Cut) 44. Big Daddy 45. Airheads 46. Pet Cemetery (1989) 47. Silver Bullet 48. Greener Grass 49: Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) 50. The Mighty Ducks 51. Insidious 3 52. Mr Deeds 53. Cujo 54. Crimes of the Future 55. Cats Eyes 56. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) 57 Villains (2019) 58. Mixed Nuts 59. Children of the Corn 60. Firestarter 61. Creepshow 2 62. The Animal 63. Bulletproof 64: Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 65: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
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Post by krentist on Apr 12, 2020 14:49:29 GMT -6
Paul Verhoeven
1. RoboCop 2. Turkish Delight 3. Elle 4. Business is Business 5 Spetters- 6. Soldier of Orange 7. Katie Tippel 8. The Fourth Man 9. Flesh + Blood - Just all around ruthlessly unsentimental medieval drama. it's definitely not bad and has a lot on its mind but I really didn't care all that much about what was happening by the end so much as I had a grudging appreciation as to how unsparing its depiction of the middle ages is. Legitimately deranged movie.
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Post by dij22 on Apr 12, 2020 15:56:19 GMT -6
I'm jumping on the filmography train. Krentist and rango have three of the greats covered with Verhoeven, Sandler, and Cronenberg. I'm adding Ben Affleck to complete this Mount Rushmore (inspired by my viewing of his performance in The Way Back.
Starting at the beginning with School Ties. I forgot a.) how little Affleck is in this and b.) how great Matt Damon and Brendan Fraser were at that age. Super obvious that both of them would become stars. As a Jewish guy whose entire family is comprised of Jews from Scranton, Brendan Fraser in School Ties is like my Clint Eastwood.
I love how football is pivotal to the film's first half and then completely forgotten and never mentioned again. The inexplicable naked shower fight scene was A+.
RIYL: naked Matt Damon, naked Brendan Fraser, clothed Chris O'Donnell
Affleck Rankings
1.) The Way Back 2.) School Ties
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Post by venom on Apr 12, 2020 16:00:00 GMT -6
Thief - a relative of mine in this movie but somehow I'd never seen it. Idk how to say this but as a real italian he also helped Michael Mann in a ummm... consultative capacity with some of technical aspects of the trade. Anyhow, this movie was really great and it's hard to believe this could be Michael Mann's debut. It kind of reminded me of a proto-Drive but I think it's more psychologically perceptive i saw Drive at a screening when refn did Q&A afterward and i recall him specifically mentioning watching Thief while making it. and then that led me to watching it soon after, which then put me on a michael mann run.
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Post by thebosma on Apr 12, 2020 21:26:20 GMT -6
Watched Punch-Drunk Love for the first time since I was a high schooler and was really blown away by just how good it is.
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Post by irvred on Apr 12, 2020 22:57:35 GMT -6
Punch Drunk Love slaps
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Post by irvred on Apr 12, 2020 23:02:50 GMT -6
Unlike bosma, I have watched a lot of movies that do not slap.
Inside Out Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2 Fast 2 Furious The Fountain Grosse Point Blank Hot Tub Time Machine Fast and Furious 6 Ratatouille Furious 7 Apostle Fast Five You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Love & Mercy Dragonball Z: Resurrection F F8 of the Furious Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw
Empire Records Can’t Hardly Wait Final Destination 5 The Ice Harvest The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 2012
21 & Over The Fast and the Furious Fast and Furious Charlie’s Angels (2019) He’s Just Not That Into You Hitch Torque Final Destination 3 Must Love Dogs Final Destination Guns Akimbo Valentine’s Day Final Destination 2 The Day After Tomorrow The Island In Time Project X The Final Destination
Slaps - Hot Tub Time Machine! This movie is so good. It does everything you want from a movie titled Hot Tub Time Machine and channels John Cusack’s schtick into alt comedy.
Very bad - Guns Akimbo! A real neckbeard jerk-off movie. Really makes you think about Society, man, like, stop looking at a phone for fuck’s sake, bro. Samara Weaving is perfect and deserves to be in actual good movies. I would watch her in anything and have watched her in anything, including Guns Akimbo, unfortunately.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Apr 13, 2020 6:39:59 GMT -6
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/NightmareOnElmStreetBoxSetSide.jpg) I bought this DVD box set at a Circuit City when I was 16. Spent the last couple days going through it once again. A Nightmare on Elm Street is my all-time favorite horror movie. I’ve said it before; I’ll say it as often as I can. I will always gladly tell the story of being allowed to watch TV alone very late one night, and innocently trying to tune into PBS (for viewers like you) where I caught Svengoolie airing this movie. It picked up during the school scenes (“Screw your pass!”) and the hall monitor waving the glove with a nosebleed chilled me down to the bone (with a helpful assist from body-bagged Tina). ANOES continues to terrify and excite me and remind me of how much fun I’ve had with it for decades. It existed in my mind as “the greatest” before I ever had anything to compare it to, but it will also never be dethroned. What other horror movie franchise planted its goriest, most brutal kill right in the first 15 minutes? Tina’s death scene still absolutely SLAYS. Horrifying. Johnny Depp crushes it here as “annoying teen.” I have a crush on Heather Langenkamp. 5/5 Freddy’s Revenge is SO much better than I remembered. I might argue this is Freddy at his most menacing - even though Tina still wins for goriest death, Freddy has more personality here and he’s not clowning around...at all. Some reviews say the lack of Bernstein’s score is a huge detriment, but I think it adds to the experience of this film and helps it stand out. His music is well placed and haunting throughout the original, but in every subsequent chapter it’s sort of hokey and might as well be another punchline. The “dream rules” in this movie are a little different - the music follows suit. There is a 20-minute stretch of this movie (culminating in the pool scene) that is as good as anything from the first film. This one’s gayness is probably its biggest strength. 3/5 Dare I say Dream Warriors is NOT as great as I remembered? This is the shoo-in for second best Elm Street movie, and it still might be, but Freddy starts to lose his edge in a huge way here and it’s not attractive. This cast has better chemistry than any other sequel’s, but it feels more in-line with Part 4 than I’ve recalled. I feel like I see “Welcome to prime time, bitch!” quoted all the time when referencing this movie, but Englund’s delivery of “This is it, Jennifer! Your big break in TV!!” right beforehand makes for the superior moment. The ending of this movie sucks ass. 3/5 At least the franchise knew what was good for itself, and brought back Kincaid for the rowdy, fun Dream Master entry. This was the second Elm Street movie I saw on TV as a kid and the repeating dream scene filled me with dread. Still enjoy when that part comes around. My main gripe with this is how often it shifts main character focus. And just when I think I can’t get enough Kincaid, he gets the glove! Fun catch: in the scene where Alice goes to the movie theater, you can see that John Waters' Hairspray is also playing. 3/5 Dream Child (which can’t figure out if it officially wants to be called “Part 5”) is probably the most interesting sequel concept on paper. You can tell this was super rushed - there’s almost no meat on the bones of this movie. It’s like all vibe. Hardly anyone dies. Freddy’s “IT’S A BOY!” entrance and Lisa Wilcox’s portrayal of the terror of a scary pregnancy earn this movie one full star. 1/5 Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare is a through-and-through chore. I wish there was anything as entertaining as Dream Child had to offer. The notion of people chanting “son of a hundred maaa-niacs!” at anyone makes me laugh out loud - but given how hard this film tries in that regard, maybe that’s the point. I am tempted to give this a firm zero-stars, but I recognize Yaphet Kotto from The Running Man, so this movie gets a half star for making me think of one of the greatest movies of all time. My jaw actually dropped when this ended (and I’ve seen it before!). Oh yeah and he doesn’t even kill anyone with the glove. 0.5/5 The fact that it takes the proper Freddy over AN HOUR to show up in New Nightmare kills it right from the start. I love this concept and a good deal of it is well-executed, but it takes so long to set up that I barely care when it pays off. The ‘80s sheen is something this series also really needed. Mid-‘90s style is definitely not kind to this aesthetic. Megan did accurately spot that the kid in this is the “boys have a penis and girls have a vagina” kid from Kindergarten Cop - worth another half star. Ultimately, good to have Wes back in the saddle, but it’s still a bit of a dud. 2.5/5 1. Short Cuts 2. The King of Comedy 3. Lone Wolf and Cub (2): Baby Cart at the River Styx 4. Rashomon 5. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
6. Lone Wolf and Cub (1): Sword of Vengeance 7. City Lights 8. Poolhall Junkies 9. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 10. The Game 11. Batman 12. Blade Runner 13. The Killing of a Sacred Deer 14. Swallow 15. The Hunt 16. The Wedding Singer
17. Onward 18. Thief 19. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
20. Detour 21. Safety Last! 22. Yojimbo 23. Lady Snowblood 24. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
25. Christine 26. Purple Rain 27. Sisters
28. Friday the 13th (1980) 29. Lone Wolf and Cub (3): Baby Cart to Hades 30. The Seventh Seal 31. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) 32. The Invisible Man 33. Tootsie 34. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
35. Cujo 36. Eyes Without a Face 37. Friday the 13th Part II 38. Wes Craven's New Nightmare
39. Dan in Real Life 40. Sonic the Hedgehog 41. Coffee & Kareem 42. Branded to Kill 43. Serenity 44. Coherence 45. Junior 46. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie 47. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
48. Under the Cherry Moon 49. Terminator: Genisys 50. Alien 3
51. Graffiti Bridge 52. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
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Post by krentist on Apr 13, 2020 10:58:54 GMT -6
Sunday watches
Shame - Uhh Fassbender is great I guess but otherwise this wasn't that interesting to me. Crash for the asexual. Starting to wonder if McQueen is actually good. I'll watch Hunger to make avb happy before deciding The Lady Vanishes - tightly plotted, very funny, and legitimately suspenseful. I could have done without the blaring anglophilia at the end, but otherwise it's great. If they remade this now Muse would play over the end credits. Absolutely worth a stream for those interested in Hitch's pre-Hollywood output. Breathless - love love love. style for days and I love the tragicomic protagonists here. Excited to dive through Godard and grow increasingly pissed off by him as so many have
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 11:02:24 GMT -6
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Brittany-runs-a-marathon-Movie-HD-Poster-and-stills-2.jpg) Expected to enjoy this more. Really abrupt shift from Brittany being kind of an asshole to fixing everything in her life.
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Post by sthubbins on Apr 13, 2020 11:02:33 GMT -6
I agree that Shame is not good
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Post by thebosma on Apr 13, 2020 11:07:16 GMT -6
Shame is good actually
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