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Post by Kamera on Jul 23, 2020 16:28:33 GMT -6
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Post by thebosma on Jul 25, 2020 22:38:35 GMT -6
We are going the fuck off on a Saturday night
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 26, 2020 5:37:46 GMT -6
watched Palm Springs on my own last week and thought it was good; watched again last night and enjoyed it even more than the first time.
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Post by andrewvb on Jul 26, 2020 9:03:05 GMT -6
watched Palm Springs on my own last week and thought it was good; watched again last night and enjoyed it even more than the first time. can't wait to hear how much you like it when you have to watch it again tonight, and tomorrow night, and---
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Post by rango420 on Jul 26, 2020 14:29:06 GMT -6
Tier 1: The Burbs Gremlins 2 Rock and Roll High School Innerspace Matinee The Howling
Tier 2: Gremlins Amazon Women on The Moon Piranha Explorers
Tier 3: Small Soldiers Looney Tunes Back In Action Twilight Zone: The Move (if just rating the Dante/Miller shorts would be much higher) The Hole Nightmare Cinema Hollywood Blvd
Tier 7 Trapped Ashes (barely counts I guess Burying the Ex
Next: Scorsez
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Post by irvred on Jul 26, 2020 14:33:42 GMT -6
Nervous to see how rango’s list stacks up to mine
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Post by thebosma on Jul 26, 2020 16:43:57 GMT -6
Altman double feature today
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Post by andrewvb on Jul 26, 2020 18:02:21 GMT -6
snow filter in the final act of mccabe >>>>>
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Post by thebosma on Jul 26, 2020 18:18:21 GMT -6
Having a double whiskey with a raw egg tonight
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Post by nanatod on Jul 26, 2020 19:29:25 GMT -6
don't remember much about mccabe and mrs miller, but I could watch the last 20 minutes of nashville over and over again (and I have done so).
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Post by venom on Jul 28, 2020 8:03:19 GMT -6
first view for Galaxy Quest and thought it was exactly what it's aiming for. Old Guard premise is pretty cool and there's good action scenes, but it dragged a bit and i felt they left so much for sequels.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2020 9:09:15 GMT -6
did JoJo Rabbit for our outdoor movie night friday. it's still great.
hangover double feature saturday was Stay Tuned and Death Becomes Her. had somehow never seen either but Death Becomes Her is insanely good. Stay Tuned less so but still quirky and fun.
am a bad person and picked up a physical copy of Chinatown to show Eric on sunday. still a phenomenal film all other things aside.
we watched Serial Mom last night and it's pretty hilarious for being such a "moderate" John Waters film.
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Post by alady on Jul 28, 2020 9:44:54 GMT -6
Serial Mom is the fuckin jam.
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Post by llamaoftime on Jul 29, 2020 9:02:55 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 9:04:54 GMT -6
yeah they announced that, Hereditary, Ex Machina, and Moonlight on IG this week and i thought it was $60 for the bundle but noooooooope
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Post by thebosma on Jul 29, 2020 9:14:12 GMT -6
Frank Ocean wrote a foreword for Moonlight. I saw it copied somewhere online recently, it’s beautiful. I won’t say never because I spent $50 on a copy of Midsommar but I would probably not spend $60 on a script book that is primarily a conversation piece
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2020 11:10:20 GMT -6
oh hey my director's cut of Midsommar just came in and jesus christ the booklet and case alone are pretty amazing
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Post by thebosma on Jul 29, 2020 11:10:43 GMT -6
I got my out for delivery notice I want to go home NOW
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Post by Timbo on Jul 29, 2020 13:55:59 GMT -6
And we're back
The Man With the Golden Gun - It took me a week to actually finish this movie. It's so dull. Despite stealing the spotlight from Moore, Christopher Lee's Scaramanga is the ultimate cliche with multiple monologues. It's pretty racist too, which I guess was par for the course in the 70s. Lots of silliness that I don't find charming, instead find it idiotic and makes for a very dull watch. This has the infamous car spin scene with JW Pepper returning to represent America (pretty accurately actually). Nothing really about this movie is ultimately satisfying. Convoluted plot didn't help I'm sure, but this is one of the lowest points in the series so far.
I took a break from Bond and watched Twins and Cliffhanger. Afterward I returned to Bond but couldn't in good conscience watch another Moore film without cleansing the palette. So I hopped forward for some familiarity that I could compare.
Goldeneye - The whole reason I "like" Bond films is Goldeneye, and yes because of the game (which I played after watching and am amazed at how poor the controls are compared to modern games). It's interesting how the developers of the game took this film and made a game that surpasses its source material, while still being fairly accurate to the film. I think the film mostly holds up tho. Sean Bean is still great, tho his mania is a little silly here. Famke Janssen is a great Bond villain/girl, and Tina Turner's title song is one of the better songs. And just as Wretched pointed out, Brosnan looked and acted the part well. Still a favorite.
Tomorrow Never Dies - So this one sucks. Unsurprisingly. Boring story, boring villain (tho Jonathan Pryce is always a delight, he doesn't fit that well here), but a few decent set pieces and stunts. Seems to me this one was released at the right time tho, b/c the Goldeneye game was hot property and interest in Bond had gone up, so this made a killing at the box office. Pre-Crouching Tiger Michelle Yeoh is under utilized too, and I'm still confused as to why Teri Hatcher is even in this. Indifferent to the song too. Also has one of my favorite examples of Hollywood not knowing how people actually type thanks to the scene with Pryce writing code with one hand and just pounding keys.
The World Is Not Enough - Yeah pretty much did all of the Brosnan films. This one's okayish compared to the last. Elektra is a good villain, better than the hokey Renard (both are played well tho). A more personal plot involving M, the debut of John Cleese thus making this the last one with Desmond Llewelyn sadly. Denise Richards is laughable as a scientist but is honestly not the worst acting in the movie, that's actually Brosnan who feels all too comfortable as Bond and phones it in. Also, this is only 4 years removed from Goldeneye and it seems like Brosnan aged a lot in that time. Climax is not really a climax, and the denouement for Elektra isn't very satisfying but overall its watchable. The boat race at the start is meh tho and hasn't aged particularly well.
Die Another Day - This one gets a ton of crap and rightfully so. In it's defense, the opening is still a good build up, it just doesn't pay off in the long run. Over the top and absurd, but not without it's merits. There's a pre-Gone Girl Rosamund Pike, invisibility car, and the most expensive opening sequence coupled with Madonna's overly saturated vocals. You can tell the budget for this was sizable right from the opening CGI bullet and then a solid chase that sets up the film well. Again, it just doesn't deliver. Oh and Halle Berry's here for some reason in an under developed role.
Official Ranking
1. Goldfinger 2. From Russia With Love 3. Goldeneye 4. Thunderball 5. Dr. No 6. Live and Let Die 7. The World Is Not Enough 8. Die Another Day 9. Diamonds Are Forever 10. Tomorrow Never Dies 11. You Only Live Twice 12. The Man With the Golden Gun 13. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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Post by irvred on Jul 29, 2020 14:13:33 GMT -6
Tomorrow Never Dies was the first Bond movie I saw and still a guilty pleasure of mine... I would take it over TWINE or DAD, but that’s a pretty low bar
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Post by venom on Jul 29, 2020 14:56:23 GMT -6
Goldeneye - The whole reason I "like" Bond films is Goldeneye, and yes because of the game (which I played after watching and am amazed at how poor the controls are compared to modern games). It's interesting how the developers of the game took this film and made a game that surpasses its source material, while still being fairly accurate to the film. I think the film mostly holds up tho. Sean Bean is still great, tho his mania is a little silly here. Famke Janssen is a great Bond villain/girl, and Tina Turner's title song is one of the better songs. And just as Wretched pointed out, Brosnan looked and acted the part well. Still a favorite. melmagazine.com/en-us/story/an-oral-history-of-goldeneye-007-on-the-n64 may be a good read about the game, if you haven't read it before.
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Post by Kamera on Jul 29, 2020 19:46:15 GMT -6
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Post by Timbo on Jul 31, 2020 13:53:47 GMT -6
The Spy Who Loved Me - Never got around to this one till now, and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality. It has a decent plot, memorable characters, and Moore isn't nearly as irritating this time around as he was in the Man With the Golden Gun. Stromberg is a better villain, and one that gets heavily parodied these days thanks to his over the top secret lair under the sea, more sharks, and his henchman Jaws. Richard Kiel is a literal beast, and while the gimmick is kinda dumb (metal teeth if you are unaware), his presence still makes the movie better. Its been a minute since I saw Moonraker but I'm pretty sure they sabotage the character in that one that's set up here unfortunately.
It's definitely not perfect though. While there's some pretty good chases (the opening ski one), a ridiculous firefight on the tanker, and practically every one has a car or shuttle that turns into a boat or a submarine, there's some huge problems with the depiction of women. In one scene Bond is literally offered a female slave that he takes graciously, despite her obvious look of dismay. Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" is iconic, and the opening sequence is only a little silly. Overall this is a huge improvement over the last one.
Official Ranking
1. Goldfinger 2. From Russia With Love 3. Goldeneye 4. Thunderball 5. Dr. No 6. Live and Let Die 7. The Spy Who Loved Me 8. The World Is Not Enough 9. Die Another Day 10. Diamonds Are Forever 11. Tomorrow Never Dies 12. You Only Live Twice 13. The Man With the Golden Gun 14. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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Post by Kamera on Jul 31, 2020 18:53:45 GMT -6
Thank you, HBO Max.
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Post by thebosma on Aug 1, 2020 21:48:48 GMT -6
If you're looking to watch some good stuff before it exits the Criterion Channel at the end of this month I would recommend A Separation, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Stop Making Sense, if you somehow haven't seen those 3
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Post by ten15 on Aug 1, 2020 21:49:22 GMT -6
Double Indemnity tonight on TCM. One of my faves, baby.
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Post by thebosma on Aug 1, 2020 21:58:46 GMT -6
Double Indemnity tonight on TCM. One of my faves, babby. At this point we should have a "wilder gang" button next to the like button
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Post by llamaoftime on Aug 2, 2020 19:20:30 GMT -6
I'm obviously very late on this but I finally watched Midsommar. It ruled.
Is the collectors edition Blu-ray that a24 is selling the only way to watch the directors cut?
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Post by andrewvb on Aug 2, 2020 19:25:53 GMT -6
i think it originally came out on itunes so it's probably there at least. i don't think it's on any streaming service.
irt midsommar director's cut
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Post by thebosma on Aug 2, 2020 22:31:23 GMT -6
There's a region 2 blu ray of the director's cut or you can wait for the restock on A24's website, if you really feel the need to own it in physical. Note that the A24 release is bare bones. Just the artwork and the feature. Not sure how I feel about that.
That being said we also watched Midsommar tonight and the director's cut works really well, I was glad with the additional scenes. I think I loved it even more this go around, and the 4K looks stunning. Great film and I am glad I spent $50 on it lol
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