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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 14, 2024 1:25:14 GMT
The Limey -8/10 Sex, Lies, and Videotape -8/10 Che -6/10 Che 2 -6/10 Traffic -6/10 Contagion -6/10 Side Effects -6/10 Out of Sight -6/10 Behind the Candelabra -6/10 Unsane -6/10 The Informant! -6/10 Logan Lucky -6/10 Ocean's 11 -5/10 Ocean's 12 -5/10 Eric Brokovich -5/10 Full Frontal -2/10Yeah, not sure what he was thinking with that movie. I had to turn it off.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 14, 2024 1:19:21 GMT
The Limey -8/10 Sex, Lies, and Videotape -8/10 Che -6/10 Che 2 -6/10 Traffic -6/10 Contagion -6/10 Side Effects -6/10 Out of Sight -6/10 Behind the Candelabra -6/10 Unsane -6/10 The Informant! -6/10 Logan Lucky -6/10 Ocean's 11 -5/10 Ocean's 12 -5/10 Eric Brokovich -5/10 Full Frontal -2/10
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 14, 2024 1:06:48 GMT
Not really my thing. Iβve come to the conclusion that Soderbergh isnβt for me, though Iβve only seen four of his movies. The color grading is abysmal. It was done for narrative reasons, but it made about 80% of the runtime physically painful to watch. Funny story. In 2000 I went on a date with a girl and we decided to see a movie. She wanted to see Cast Away, but I convinced her to see Traffic instead. I loved the movie and much prefer Traffic to Cast Away. That was our only date and I suspect it is because I made her see Traffic. I cared more about the movie I wanted to see than whether she was interested in seeing it.Β Worth it.Β Yeah, gritty drug cartel/political drama is gonna be an uphill battle in the romance department. I managed to Netflix and chill Gone Girl once. I feel like I deserve an award for that. I'm lukewarm on Traffic. The color grading was considered revolutionary at the time but it is a little OTT in retrospect. On that note, 24 years later and I'm still not sure what Benicio did to win the Oscar. The daughter stuff is also kinda PSA-y, especially when she starts *gasp* fucking black dudes. But it's a decent movie overall.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 21:11:45 GMT
Both are the opposite in terms of what parts I like about them. With Renfield I don't care for the second half and Abigail I don't care for the first half. Both 6.5/10, but I like Abigail more. And The Invitiation (not The Bride, I forgot the freaking title) sucks until the last 30 minutes when you find out it's Dracula movie, which the first hour did a good job keeping a secret (this was a test screening, the marketing after was pretty open about the guy being Dracula).
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 18:08:17 GMT
Dracula on Audible, narrated by Alan Cummings, some other people, and supposedly Tim Curry (haven't heard him yet).
Main difference from the movies is it's told entirely in the form of letters and diary entries, because there's nothing spookier than reading a diary. Thr format really kneecaps it, especially the clunky exposition. My favorite moment so far is a letter from a nurse where she basically goes "PS, your husband is severely mentally ill and seeing demons. Probably be careful."
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 14:11:10 GMT
Never quite clicked with me. Kind of a mid-range revenge flick with a goofy premise, and I don't think I liked the kid character. But Lee was good, and the soundtrack is often considered one of the best. If you like a 90s rock musician/band, chances are one of their songs is in the film.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 13:58:52 GMT
The Invitation (aka Bride of Dracula) Renfield (aka Abusive Relationship Friend of Dracula) Last Voyage of the Demeter (aka Whacky Vacation Cruise of Dracula) Abigail (aka Daughter of Dracula)
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 12:33:09 GMT
Whoβs That Knocking at My Door β 1 Boxcar Bertha β 1 Mean Streets β 2 Alice Doesnβt Live Here Anymore - 1 Taxi Driver β at least 5 New York, New York β 1 Raging Bull β 3 The King of Comedy β 2 After Hours β 1 The Color of Money β 1 The Last Temptation of Christ β 2 Goodfellas β at least 5 Cape Fear β 1 The Age of Innocence β 1 Casino β at least 5 Kundun β 1 Bringing Out the Dead β 1 Gangs of New York β 3-4 The Aviator β 2 The Departed - at least 5 Shutter Island β 1 Hugo β 3 The Wolf of Wall Street β 2 Silence β 1 The Irishman β 1 Killers of the Flower Moon - 1
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 6:21:52 GMT
I'm in the middle of season 1 and digging it. Watching it with someone so can't binge at my usual speed.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 6:16:41 GMT
Itβs interesting to me that this board seems somewhat cool on Fury Road. I just finished it up and that last chase sequence is unreal. I have no idea how Miller shot 90% of it. I can see how the movie essentially being one long chase scene with not a ton of focus on story or characters might not appeal to everybody, but it's done amazingly well. Few movies are as thrilling for as long. I'm still bummed Miller didn't win the Oscar.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 5:51:28 GMT
Just finished season 3. Getting to that point where I'm kind of over this show, even though on paper they keep finding bizarre ways to keep it fresh (Chucky getting cancer and trying to start WW3? Abe Lincoln's ghost?!), it just ends up being kind of a chore. I blame the main trio of kids. I hate Lexie whether she's the evil queen bee, the sassy bff, or "the girl who cries in every episode". And three seasons in and I'm left wondering: does Devon even have a personality? He used to at least have the podcast as his "thing", but now he's just Jake's boyfriend and that's all there is to him. Jake himself is also bland, but you sorta expect the main character to be a blank slate for the audience to imprint themselves onto (and to the actor's credit, he's the best of the three, especially when he got to be Chucky for a bit).
The show gets a jolt of energy whenever we cut back to Jennifer Tilly, Fiona Dourif, or Andy, but they're tragically underused. The season ends with Chucky himself not so subtlely begging for a fourth season and Mancini is on record saying he has an idea for it. To be fair, the season ends on a weirdly interesting note so we'll see what happens.
Other random thoughts:
-I don't know who decided Devon Sawa was this franchise's Peter Sellers, but it's quite the choice, especially since, as much as I like Alex Browning, the guy has zero range
-Just realized the secret service guy is Tommy from Shawshank Redemption
-Brad and Fiona together as old and young Charles Lee Ray was a cool moment
-John Waters coming back as the creator of the Good Guy dolls was cool
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 5:05:28 GMT
That's the most agreeable thing I've ever heard you say about Star Wars. I think it's also a good origin for where Luke is at in The Last Jedi, but let's probably not go there. Oh c'mon, I love ANH, R1, ESB, ROTS, & really like ROTJ & AOTC! I'm an 80's child who will be nearly impossible to impress with new Star Wars no matter how hard Disney tries. Just get us off Tatooine & Death Stars please - 2 trilogies of that was fine, not the 3rd one. Well, that's what TLJ did (and the opposite of what R1 did). But yeah, Jakku and Starkiller Base were pretty lame. I suppose the latter makes some kind of sense since it's been 30 years and the tech exists in that universe, so why would they not make a new and more powerful Death Star? It's just regretful that it's the third one in the franchise - I honestly always thought it was a mistake that RotJ recycled the Death Star as well. And especially egregious since it's only been a couple of years since the last one got destroyed.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 3:30:38 GMT
The crickets we're hearing are probably friends of Bruce Campbell.
I did like the last two films on some level, but the franchise isn't the same without Ashley.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 13, 2024 2:27:44 GMT
Snatch. -8/10 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -7/10 Wrath of Man -5/10 Sherlock Holmes -4/10
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 21:35:34 GMT
I don't think anything about Napoleon Dynamite especially screams "2004" which you'd think would make it more timeless, compared to American Pie which I was talking about earlier which has a lot of dated things Zoomers probably can't relate to (watching scrambled porn, the early webcam/internet that Jim uses, etc). Isn't ND set in the early 90s? Plus--there's not a whole lot of things between 2000 and 2020 to date a movie--I was watching the House on Haunted Hill remake and other than the lack of iphones--it doesn't look all that different. A much more noticeable shift is between 1980 and 2000 or 1960 and 1980. Hairstyles, clothes, cars etc.
Napoleon's brother meets a girl on the internet, so probably not. You probably wouldn't see frosted tips now or a man-bun back then, but otherwise it does seem like changes in fashion have slowed down since the new millenium. Any significant fads were very short lived, like the Bieber moptop or Ed Hardy shirts.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 21:08:03 GMT
Comedies are often so flash in the pan, especially ones tied to specific eras which was the case with ND. My Big Fat Greek Wedding The Gods Must Be Crazy I don't think anything about Napoleon Dynamite especially screams "2004" which you'd think would make it more timeless, compared to American Pie which I was talking about earlier which has a lot of dated things Zoomers probably can't relate to (watching scrambled porn, the early webcam/internet that Jim uses, etc).
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 20:01:01 GMT
Frankly, the PT is a much finer Palpatine origin/arc than Anakin/Vader one... except we didn't have posters of the Emperor in our lockers at school. That's the most agreeable thing I've ever heard you say about Star Wars. I think it's also a good origin for where Luke is at in The Last Jedi, but let's probably not go there.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 19:56:43 GMT
The clunkiness of the suit would make a good companion to the RPatz Bat suit, if they were connected.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 19:44:30 GMT
Do you remember on 9/11 when Bush was reading that pet goat book to those school children, then he had to go so they screened a rough cut of Mulholland Drive? That was definitely the second worst thing to happen on that day.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 19:36:48 GMT
Napoleon Dynamite is another. Everyone and their mom had an impression of one or more characters, but the hype backlash pretty effectively buried it by 2010s.
20 years out, I personally still find it a very charming and funny movie. I was living in Idaho at the time so it resonated a lot with me.
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