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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2020 0:51:29 GMT -6
well now im just terribly upset.
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Post by rango420 on Nov 17, 2020 1:03:02 GMT -6
to bridge the next few weeks between now and holiday movie season, i will be chronologically watching and ranking 10 films starring dennis quaid i will decide on the movies later if anyone wants to join the QuaidQuest™ QUAIDQUEST™ 2020ten films starring denny q
2. Innerspace (1987) A test pilot is miniaturized in a secret experiment, and accidentally injected into a hapless store clerk. 6. The Parent Trap (1998) Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, later discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.
Innerspace is one of the best first watches I've had all quarantine. Immediately became a new favorite. I also watched parent trap and it is good.
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Post by Kamera on Nov 17, 2020 8:49:01 GMT -6
Frequency is actually a decent Quaid film.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 17, 2020 8:52:11 GMT -6
starring: dennis quaid This is one of those movies that sort of constantly trips over itself trying to explain things or advance the plot, but the fun parts are so fun it almost doesn't matter. Per the title, it plays a lot with the idea of dreams / nightmares, and was released the same year as A Nightmare on Elm Street. I think this movie does just about everything with dreams better than A Nightmare on Elm Street, save for maybe the latter's in-school nightmare. The scenes in Dreamscape are disorienting and resemble much more of a wild, inexplicable senseless nightmare. With that being said, it does clunk along. Distracting effects at times in case you ever forget this is 1984. Dennis Quaid is great in it (obviously) - pretty good comedic timing and he sorta keeps this afloat...something I was expecting Max von Sydow to do instead. Dreamscape came out one week after the first PG-13 film was released to theaters (Red Dawn), making it the second ever. score: 3/5 q-factor: 4/5 quaid-queue: Innerspace!
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 17, 2020 8:55:33 GMT -6
QUAIDQUEST™ 2020ten films starring denny q
2. Innerspace (1987) A test pilot is miniaturized in a secret experiment, and accidentally injected into a hapless store clerk. 6. The Parent Trap (1998) Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, later discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.
Innerspace is one of the best first watches I've had all quarantine. Immediately became a new favorite. I also watched parent trap and it is good. Parent Trap is the only one I've ever seen. This mini-project was spurred by my sister buying a "Parker Knoll Vineyard" sweatshirt.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2020 9:01:42 GMT -6
When are we starting the Randy Quaid marathon?
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 17, 2020 9:03:35 GMT -6
When are we starting the Randy Quaid marathon? in the interim between christmas and valentines day
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 17, 2020 9:04:46 GMT -6
and if anyone actually wants to be in on this i'll reactivate the box but i didn't think it merited advertisement
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Post by andrewvb on Nov 17, 2020 18:15:10 GMT -6
watched this great doc on karen dalton through the doc nyc virtual film festival. highly encourage it for any other fans, available through this thursday. julia holter does the score and angel olsen does the readings from karen's journal that are included.
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Post by cosmo on Nov 17, 2020 18:48:19 GMT -6
We saw this a couple of days ago. It was not as good as the Happy Death Day movies, but it was acceptable.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 17, 2020 19:28:11 GMT -6
Full review coming very soon but y’all should watch Innerspace tn
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2020 23:45:36 GMT -6
oh hey i finally watched Coherence. fucking wiiiild
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Post by thisismyname on Nov 17, 2020 23:46:00 GMT -6
watched this great doc on karen dalton through the doc nyc virtual film festival. highly encourage it for any other fans, available through this thursday. julia holter does the score and angel olsen does the readings from karen's journal that are included. This was killer
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2020 7:48:22 GMT -6
starring: dennis quaid rango420 is right, this is really good. DQ rocks in it but honestly Martin Short steals the show as always. Will I come across a Quaid character with a better name than Tuck Pendleton? Probably not. There's a scene in this where a recurring nightmare of Short's plays out in real life, down to exact lines of dialogue - that shit creeps me out! I'm not sure you could write a better comedic role for Martin Short than "someone else is stuck inside your body," but to the film's credit, it doesn't lean into any cheap physical humor too often. I was so into this for the whole run-time, which felt awesome, and I was really excited to be having this much fun watching Dennis Quaid movies. But the way I felt about this paled in comparison to what I watched next. score: 4.5/5 q-factor: 4.5/5 co-starring: dennis quaid Holy shit. First off, who gives a shit that Dennis Quaid is in this. Let's get that out of the way. This is one of my favorite movies I've seen for the first time this year. It might be my favorite. Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine are quite literally perfect (pope catholic, water wet, more at 11). You know performances are that good when instead of merely captivating you and completely drawing you into the film, they make you consider your own life, actions, relationships. I can't get over how much I really loved this. Thought it would be more in the over-the-top style of Death Becomes Her, but that's probably just a subconscious Streep connection. I'm glad it wasn't. Laugh out loud funny and also extremely sad. Can't recommend this enough. score: 5/5 q-factor: 1/5 quaid-queue: Wilder Napalm!Ranking:
1. Postcards From the Edge 2. Innerspace 3. Dreamscape
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Post by jazzpolice on Nov 18, 2020 8:30:22 GMT -6
2 down, 1 to go. I don't think Dennis Quaid was in this one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2020 8:41:29 GMT -6
Are you sure, though? Sometimes he just lingers in the background.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2020 8:45:42 GMT -6
You can never really be sure.
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Post by alady on Nov 18, 2020 8:46:15 GMT -6
If you enjoyed Postcards, you should read the book too. Really good.
Man I loved Innerspace as a kid. For some reason the soundtrack really did it for me too.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2020 8:49:19 GMT -6
If you enjoyed Postcards, you should read the book too. Really good. Man I loved Innerspace as a kid. For some reason the soundtrack really did it for me too. Yeah I will 100% read the book. It honestly really tugged at my heart every time I thought about Carrie.
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Post by alady on Nov 18, 2020 8:58:50 GMT -6
One of the few instances where I don't know if I like the book or adaptation better.
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Post by alady on Nov 18, 2020 12:25:25 GMT -6
Watched Romancing the Stone last night and can confirm that it holds up (despite the Latin American stereotypes that were pretty cringey even back then).
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Post by thebosma on Nov 18, 2020 13:08:47 GMT -6
I remember when I was a kid, we flew to visit my grandparents and I happened to get seated next to a stranger. He ended up being extremely talkative which I would find obnoxious now but thought was rad as a kid (I was maybe 12). We were talking about movies and I said I liked the Indiana Jones series and he replied “Oh yeah! Romancing the Stone! It’s the best one”. Spent the rest of the flight trying to explain that wasn’t an Indiana Jones movie and he did not believe me. Still never seen it
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Post by neader on Nov 18, 2020 13:11:51 GMT -6
I remember when I was a kid, we flew to visit my grandparents and I happened to get seated next to a stranger. He ended up being extremely talkative which I would find obnoxious now but thought was rad as a kid (I was maybe 12). We were talking about movies and I said I liked the Indiana Jones series and he replied “Oh yeah! Romancing the Stone! It’s the best one”. Spent the rest of the flight trying to explain that wasn’t an Indiana Jones movie and he did not believe me. Still never seen it Surprised he didn't push you into the floor.
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Post by teekoh on Nov 18, 2020 13:15:32 GMT -6
Loved Romancing the Stone as a kid, also Jewel of the Nile. Can't imagine that one holds up particularly well.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2020 13:22:04 GMT -6
Watched Romancing the Stone last night and can confirm that it holds up (despite the Latin American stereotypes that were pretty cringey even back then). Do you like The War of the Roses?
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Post by alady on Nov 18, 2020 14:25:41 GMT -6
I don't think I've seen it.
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Post by zircona1 on Nov 18, 2020 14:37:27 GMT -6
I've seen parts of The War of the Roses, I remember it being darkly funny.
"Now I'm gonna go piss on the fish."
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 18, 2020 15:34:06 GMT -6
Yeah I haven't seen it since I was much younger, they used to air it on Comedy Central all the time in like the early 00s, but I remember it being "a hoot"
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Post by Kamera on Nov 18, 2020 18:20:41 GMT -6
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Nov 19, 2020 7:49:36 GMT -6
starring: dennis quaid seriously, that's him in the middle. When a movie is this absurd, you just have to put the blinders on and let it wash over you. DQ and his brother can start fires with their minds - don't worry, writer Vince Gilligan sneaks in a "C'mon, you read Firestarter!" pretty early on - and a traveling carnival brings the two brothers back together again, where they argue over Debra Winger. Wilder Napalm has an extremely early-'90s feel to it, it distinctly reminds me of like something you'd come across on WGN on a Saturday at 2PM. When Quaid appeared as a clown I had no idea where this was going to go, but by the end I was wishing he spent more time in the makeup. This movie is at its best when its at its craziest, so the more it treads into lighter romantic comedy territory, the less it interests me. Only other thing you need to know about this: the fire department doubles as a barbershop quartet that sings while they put out the fires. score: 3/5 q-factor: 3/5 starring: dennis quaid this sucked. looks like a 100-minute PS2 cut-scene. score: 1.5/5 for sean connery voicing the dragon (rip) q-factor: 0/5 for adding nothing to this Ranking:1. Postcards From the Edge (1990) 2. Innerspace (1987) 3. Wilder Napalm (1993) 4. Dreamscape (1984) 5. DragonHeart (1996) quaid queue: The Parent Trap!
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