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Post by munkivelli on May 23, 2020 10:56:31 GMT -6
We watched this last night too. What is it with Netflix movies having the most annoying characters I’ve ever seen? Is it awful writing? Kumail was intolerable! I get that’s the point but man he sucked to listen to for 90 minutes. A HUGE step up from Wrong Missy tho. the crazy thing is the lovebirds was supposed to premiere at sxsw and be a movie in theaters. it was pretty much the first movie to just go to streaming because of covid tho. Netflix also bought Bad Trip, the Eric Andre/Tiffany Haddish Jackass-style movie, from its distributor, which was also supposed to premiere at sxsw and play theatrically afterwards. Not sure when Netflix is dropping it though. Odd thing about that one is that it leaked a while back when Amazon accidentally put it up to rent for a few hours. The Netflix sale happened after the leak.
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Post by krentist on May 23, 2020 11:13:51 GMT -6
About as good of a threefer as one could ask for last night to get the taste of Kundun out of my mouth
What We Do in the Shadows
Shane
The Killer
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Post by rango420 on May 23, 2020 11:18:03 GMT -6
I might join in on the scorsezzzz
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Post by rango420 on May 23, 2020 11:39:49 GMT -6
Actually fuck it im starting Friedkin
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Post by rango420 on May 23, 2020 11:42:28 GMT -6
Starts off with Sonny and Cher real Saturday vibes
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Post by irvred on May 23, 2020 12:03:17 GMT -6
Sorcerer fucks.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2020 12:05:13 GMT -6
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Post by rango420 on May 23, 2020 12:14:55 GMT -6
might be a lil off because I have not been keeping track but so far
1. Robocop 2. Punch Drunk Love 3. Spring Breakers 4.Starship Trioopers 5. Thief 6. Jackass 3 7. The Shining 8. Billy Madison 9. Videodrome 10.Defending Your Life 11. The Brood 12.Heat 13. Dead Ringers 14. Total Recall 15. Dirty Work 16.Broadcast News 17. Turkish Fruit 18. The Wedding Singer 19. Map to the Stars 20. The Fly 21 Cosmopolis 22. Showgirls 23.Collateral 24.Terms of Endearment 25. Christine 26.Elle 27.Manhunter 28. Naked Lunch 29. Crash (90s) 30. Carrie (1976) 31.The Insider 32.Maimi Vice 33.Black Book 34. The Waterboy 35.Ali 36. Eastern Promises 37. A History Of Violence 38..Rabid 39. Shivers 40.Basic Instinct 41. Spider 42.Sleepwalkers 43. Stand By Me 44. The Other Guys 45. Business Is Business 46. The Running Man 47. M Butterfly 48. The Dead Zone 49.Public Enemies 50.Last of the Mohicans 51. Soldier of Orange 52. Little Nicky 53.Happy Gilmore 54. Spetters 55. Keetja Tippel 56. ExistenZ 57.Misery 58. Maximum Overdrive 59.Bad Education 60. Scanners 61. Creepshow 62. A Dangerous Method 63. Fast Company 64. Flesh + Blood 65. The 4th Man 66.Shawshank Redemption 67. Tammy and The T-Rex (Gore Cut) 68. Big Daddy 69. Airheads 70.The Keep 71.Hollow Man 72.Ingrid Goes West 73.Dolores Claiborne 74. Pet Cemetery (1989) 75. Silver Bullet 76. Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic) 77. The Mighty Ducks 78. Insidious 3 79.The Night Flier 80. Mr Deeds 81. Cujo 82.The Mangler 83. Crimes of the Future 84.Jericho Mile 85.The Longest Yard 86. Parent Trap (90s) 87 First Dates 88.Spanglish 89. Cats Eyes 90.Thinner 91. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) 92. Villains (2019) 93. Mixed Nuts 94.Click 95. Greener Grass 96.Dark Half 97. Eight Crazy Nights 98. Children of the Corn 99. Tales From The Darkside 100. Firestarter 101. Creepshow 2 102.The Animal 103. Graveyard Shift 104.Needful Things 105. Bulletproof 106. The Hot Chick 107: Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 108: Anger Management 109: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
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Post by rango420 on May 23, 2020 12:57:20 GMT -6
already see that list is missing coneheads. who knows what else. smh
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Post by irvred on May 23, 2020 13:03:06 GMT -6
Haven’t seen Bringing Out the Dead before so I’m looking forward to tonight, but looking at my calendar the next stretch is Gangs of New York>Aviator>Departed>Shutter Island>Hugo.... Kundun aside this might be the roughest week. At least Wolf is Friday.
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Post by rango420 on May 23, 2020 13:04:52 GMT -6
Have never seen Aviator and haven't seen gangs of New York in awhile (and do not have fond memories) but Hugo is great, shutter island and departed are a lot of fun, shouldn't be too stressful
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Post by rango420 on May 23, 2020 13:14:55 GMT -6
if you hit the pen twice and make a strong whiskey Diet Coke and open the windows the Sonny and Cher movie is real pleasant if certainly not good. Not sure there are many signs of the Friedkin to come either but there are a lot problematic gags and pleasant songs
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Post by rango420 on May 23, 2020 13:15:15 GMT -6
Friedkin 1. Good Times
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Post by chvrchbarrel on May 23, 2020 13:19:51 GMT -6
I really need to see bringing out the dead as well. Is that streaming anywhere?
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Post by krentist on May 23, 2020 14:15:04 GMT -6
I watched it on I think prime maybe a week or two ago
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Post by krentist on May 23, 2020 14:16:04 GMT -6
Haven’t seen Bringing Out the Dead before so I’m looking forward to tonight, but looking at my calendar the next stretch is Gangs of New York>Aviator>Departed>Shutter Island>Hugo.... Kundun aside this might be the roughest week. At least Wolf is Friday. These movies are Good. Gangs is maybe the weakest? Overall would agree the 00s are his weakest decade tho.
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Post by Pale Hose on May 23, 2020 15:14:16 GMT -6
DDL's performance in Gangs of New York makes the movie worth watching.
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Post by nanatod on May 23, 2020 15:28:45 GMT -6
1. goodfellas 1a. casino 3. aviator 4. the last waltz 5. irishman 6. gangs of ny 7. departed 8. taxi driver, I guess; I saw it a long, long time ago. 9. I don't remember enough of raging bull 10, etc. I remember even less of the age of innocence, mean streets, and alice doesn't live here anymore. 13. wolf of wall street doesn't have enough of the scorsese feel 14. bringing out the dead 15-?. I've seen some other scorsese but don't feel inspired enough to look it up. last. I absolutely hate afterhours.
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Post by neader on May 23, 2020 15:35:42 GMT -6
DDL's performance in Gangs of New York makes the movie worth watching. My thoughts exactly. As a movie on it's own it's whatever but DDL elevates it so much.
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Post by krentist on May 23, 2020 19:05:06 GMT -6
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a little hokey in sets and acting, but well worth the view. and i had no idea that "when the legend becomes fact, print the legend" came from this movie. These are all valid points. I missed the Monument Valley vistas but by the end I was pretty impressed with it. Definitely one of the most thoughful westerns of its era
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Post by sick2b on May 23, 2020 21:17:38 GMT -6
Stunning, powerful, impactful, inspiring, upsetting, heartbreaking and hearwarming
And now free on Youtube
Human (Yann-Arthus Bertrand) movie/documentary
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Post by thebosma on May 23, 2020 22:17:47 GMT -6
I'll need to give this another go sometime but I really did think it was great. Well paced and a super engaging story. Maybe my expectations were low but I thought this was absolutely perfect. Takes a huge tonal shift about halfway through that's totally unexpected and perfectly handled. Surprisingly applicable message for our current time period which is impressive for an 80 year old film. veronica Lake was 8 months pregnant during filming and you absolutely cannot tell. Great rapid fire dialogue in there too. Just really all around why I love watching movies.
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Post by wanny on May 23, 2020 22:33:15 GMT -6
1. goodfellas 1a. casino 3. aviator 4. the last waltz 5. irishman 6. gangs of ny 7. departed 8. taxi driver, I guess; I saw it a long, long time ago. 9. I don't remember enough of raging bull 10, etc. I remember even less of the age of innocence, mean streets, and alice doesn't live here anymore. 13. wolf of wall street doesn't have enough of the scorsese feel 14. bringing out the dead 15-?. I've seen some other scorsese but don't feel inspired enough to look it up. last. I absolutely hate afterhours. Brutal list
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Post by neader on May 23, 2020 22:38:30 GMT -6
Johannes is such an intriguing character.
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Post by irvred on May 24, 2020 10:16:36 GMT -6
Bringing Out the Dead kind of rocked hard. I was a little more drunk than I’ve been for these movies so that helped me ride its fever dream wavelength, but maybe hindered my ‘critical eye’ or whatever. I don’t really care. My roomie thought it was too tonally jarring. Which it is. But still, it was brilliant, and a gross and fun exaggeration of the Taxi Driver/King of Comedy structure. Basically the opposite of Kundun?
Scorsese-Thon
1. The King of Comedy (1982) 2. Mean Streets (1973) 3. Taxi Driver (1976) 4. Casino (1995) 5. Goodfellas (1990) 6. Bringing Out the Dead (1999) 7. Raging Bull (1980) 8. The Age of Innocence (1993) 9. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 10. After Hours (1985) 11. Cape Fear (1991) 12. The Color of Money (1986) 13. Boxcar Bertha (1972) 14. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) 15. Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967) 16. Kundun (1997)
Best The Last Waltz: The Last Waltz (1978) Unavailable: New York, New York (1977)
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Post by krentist on May 24, 2020 12:02:22 GMT -6
Feeling emboldened by taking down OUATITW, TGTBATU, Casino, and Seven Samurai this week to watch another three hour movie tonight.
Will be one of my Blu Rays should I do Barry Lyndon, Kagemusha, or La Dolce Vita
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Post by thebosma on May 24, 2020 12:04:15 GMT -6
La Dolce Vita
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2020 12:26:30 GMT -6
this was really really great. on hulu now. like a south korean reinterpretation of spaghetti westerns mixed with some silly gore moments and Kang-ho Song doing his usual hilarious, cowardly anti-hero bit. definitely a good feature for drinks and popcorn on hot nights when you're trapped home
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Post by dij22 on May 24, 2020 12:45:47 GMT -6
Watched Phantoms and Armageddon yesterday. Pretty great juxtaposition that foreshadows Affleck's mid-career bungled casting decisions.
He's a legit powerhouse when he is able to be funny and charming like in Armageddon. Pretty much a perfect role for him and he knocks it out of the park. I haven't seen it in years and the first 15 minutes are SO weird. A guy verbally abuses his wife and that's supposed to be a laugh riot. A couple blatantly racist scenes. Bruce Willis antagonizing Greenpeace. The acting talent in this movie though is absolutely insane. Everyone just commits and gives an elite performance, which ultimately makes Armageddon the most rewatchable pile of shit ever.
With Phantoms though, it's a pretty inexplicable casting decision. He gets zero comedic lines and basically zero opportunities to display the Affleck Charm. He's like 25 but already a disgraced small town sheriff who shot a child in the FBI? And the only hint of romance is with Rose McGowan's sister who is 10 years older than Affleck, NOT with Rose McGowan who is the same age as Affleck? Liev Schreiber is great though and the movie would have been literally 10 times better if they just switched Affleck and Schreiber's roles. Pretty fun movie though that gets undeserved shit.
Affleck Rankings 1.) Good Will Hunting 2.) Dazed and Confused 3.) Shakespeare in Love 4.) The Way Back 5.) School Ties 6.) Mallrats 7.) Chasing Amy 8.) Going All the Way 9.) Armageddon 10.) Phantoms
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Post by krentist on May 24, 2020 16:42:33 GMT -6
All right. Gonna fix a grappa and watch this shit I guess. I hope it's better than 8 1/2
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