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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2020 17:28:30 GMT -5
Had my annual viewing of The Warriors and will be watching The Crow tonight and Escape From New York if I stay up late do to a cake.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 16, 2020 16:45:45 GMT -5
Had my annual viewing of The Warriors and will be watching The Crow tonight and Escape From New York if I stay up late do to a cake.
Ah, the Pollyana Trilogy!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2020 19:50:40 GMT -5
Speaking of trilogy, I got this to dive into, the original Swedish films.
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 17, 2020 23:53:24 GMT -5
Had my annual viewing of The Warriors and will be watching The Crow tonight and Escape From New York if I stay up late do to a cake.
Ah, screw it-- Just watch UHF instead. When in doubt, always watch UHF!
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 18, 2020 0:29:05 GMT -5
Speaking of trilogy, I got this to dive into, the original Swedish films.
Yeah, once was enough for me, on those three films. Well done; but that is waaay darker than I like my movies, especially the first one. Kind of felt the same way about the Wallander tv series, which is also based on a Scandinavian mystery series. Must be something about those dark winters. I had to go listen to some ABBA to counter the effect.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2020 11:35:26 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 24, 2020 1:54:06 GMT -5
Well, it seems a bit much; but, there is a little smoke in there. In the strip, Ming was a pure racist Fu Manchu-wannabe Yellow Peril villain, from another planet, complete with actual yellow skin. After a while, they dropped the yellow skin tone and he was pretty much just a baddie and Raymond got rid of the Mandarin robes... The movie does kind of portray both, though Max von Sydow isn't exactly in what I would dub "yellow face, " compared to Werner Oland or Christopher Lee. Then again, I'm a WASP; so, it's not my culture that's being stereotyped. Ming has always been a problem for doing an updated Flash. When DC Comics did a mini-series, in the 80s, they changed his skin tone to an ash grey and gave him a skull tattoo, over one eye... The humans on Mongo all had that same skin tone. It was still arguable if that was an improvement, as you could make the point it suggested an Arab or Mediterranean stereotype. Probably better to go with a color without racial connotations or make it all alien enough to avoid comparison. Still, the recent Tarzan got raked over the coals for Burroughs' history, even though it did a pretty darn good job of addressing the specific attitudes and making Tarzan a more nuanced character, who interacted with African peoples as a brother, not a superior. Sure, actually watching the film isn't as fun as bringing in preconceived ideas and using it to sound morally superior. Why actually apply context when you can make a show of outrage?
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Post by berkley on Dec 24, 2020 2:43:18 GMT -5
Last night, at the local independent cinema, I saw what may turn out to be the last movie I'll ever see at that particular venue as they are closing down for good due to a confluence of circumstances but mostly the Covid-19 pandemic. Anyway, it was a good one - actually, probably a great one: Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder (2003). The story is about some cops hunting a serial killer in a South Korean town or small city, and it works really well just on that level, but there's so much more to it in terms of the characters, the subtext (socio-political, philosophical), the cinematography, the shot-framing (or whatever the right expression is), the direction as a whole - it's a film for people who love films. It's also really funny at times, and in a way that doesn't clash with the extremely dark subject matter and overall tone. One of those movies that you're almost afraid to talk about too much for fear of setting expectations impossibly high. I've found scenes and moments spontaneously replaying themselves in my head since I watched it - which doesn't always happen, even with movies I've enjoyed viewing and rate highly, but when it does, I find it's always a sign I've seen something special.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2020 23:56:10 GMT -5
I need to watch Memories of Murder. I've only seen Mother and Parasite, but they are both favorites. The latter is probably the best movie of this century.
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Post by berkley on Dec 27, 2020 0:34:58 GMT -5
I need to watch Memories of Murder. I've only seen Mother and Parasite, but they are both favorites. The latter is probably the best movie of this century. The only other of Bong's movies I've managed to catch is The Host, a very unusual monster movie (as you'd expect from this director).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2021 18:35:29 GMT -5
Noticed Alien is on HBO Max, and I've never seen it, so I'm giving it a shot.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 2, 2021 19:07:01 GMT -5
There were a gazillion ads on Dailymotion, but I managed to see The Day the Earth Caught Fire yesterday. Wow, what a great little movie, with a subject that's more relevant today than it was in 1961!
The dialogs were excellent throughout. More, more!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2021 12:09:33 GMT -5
I only realised a couple weeks ago that Private Pile in Full Metal Jacket is the guy who plays Kingpin in Netflix Daredevil...
FMJ is like 2 completely different movies in one, not too keen on the second half but still a good movie overall.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 3, 2021 12:27:06 GMT -5
Had my annual viewing of The Warriors and will be watching The Crow tonight and Escape From New York if I stay up late do to a cake.
I thought both The Warriors and The Crow were "alright", they were better at atmosphere and tone rather than story. I've seen bits and pieces of Escape From New York, probably need to change that FMJ is like 2 completely different movies in one, not too keen on the second half but still a good movie overall. A lot of people had problems with the second half, but if you look at it as Joker separating himself from his pre-bootcamp life to the hellscape of Vietnam, it makes a lot more sense narratively Speaking of films, I recently watched both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. I'd seen Pulp Fiction before, so I knew what to expect. I liked them both tonally, but I felt like Reservoir Dogs kind of screwed the pooch (no pun intended) when it came to the ending
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 4, 2021 23:24:31 GMT -5
Had my annual viewing of The Warriors and will be watching The Crow tonight and Escape From New York if I stay up late do to a cake.
I thought both The Warriors and The Crow were "alright", they were better at atmosphere and tone rather than story. I've seen bits and pieces of Escape From New York, probably need to change that FMJ is like 2 completely different movies in one, not too keen on the second half but still a good movie overall. A lot of people had problems with the second half, but if you look at it as Joker separating himself from his pre-bootcamp life to the hellscape of Vietnam, it makes a lot more sense narratively Speaking of films, I recently watched both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. I'd seen Pulp Fiction before, so I knew what to expect. I liked them both tonally, but I felt like Reservoir Dogs kind of screwed the pooch (no pun intended) when it came to the ending The problem, for me, with FMJ, is that Mathew Modine is nowhere near as compelling as Vincent D'Onofrio and R Lee Ermy. The boot camp stuff is riveting, while the Vietnam stuff seems kind of cliched. I like Kubrick; but I do think he has narrative flaws that crop up more in his later films than his earlier work.
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