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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 19:30:54 GMT
April Fool's was last month, Pop. 😬 But yeah, I love the theatrical beginning to end. Redux is bloated. Final Cut, which I saw in the theater, is a decent go between. It was funny after it was over when my brother said "that one guy reminded me of Charlie Sheen". Perhaps the greatest cameo in the history of cinema.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 19:13:22 GMT
When finally arriving at the Kurtz compound, it’s where the film hits a roadblock; it’s as if the movie doesn’t know how to find a satisfying conclusion. Kurtz rambles on and on before Willard hacks him up good. Willard leaves and that’s that. April Fool's was last month, Pop. 😬 But yeah, I love the theatrical beginning to end. Redux is bloated. Final Cut, which I saw in the theater, is a decent go between. It was funny after it was over when my brother said "that one guy reminded me of Charlie Sheen".
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 8:23:13 GMT
I haven't really heard aliens credited for Stonehenge, or at least not as often and vigorously as with the pyramids. Fair enough, I guess. I know Emmerich didn't invent the authorship conspiracy (though I would assume he believes in it for him to direct a whole movie endorsing it), I just find it to be elitist nonsense and Anonymous itself protrays Shakespeare like he's Joey from Friends. Actually, a Michael Bay MLK movie would be the most glorious thing to come out of Hollywood in decades. He should get Anthony Anderson and have him play it just like his Transformers character. "I ate da whole plate! Da whole plate! Also, I have a dream." This is from Roger Ebert's glowing review, which I disagree with. I mean he called it historical and in the next breath he called it profoundly mistaken. That seems like a contradiction to me. The only thing I agree with about this paragraph is that it casts memorable British actors and that Shakespeare was a figure of compelling interest. "You perhaps know little enough about Shakespeare and next to nothing about the other candidates. That's no reason to avoid this marvelous historical film, which I believe to be profoundly mistaken. Because of the ingenious screenplay by John Orloff, precise direction by Roland Emmerich and the casting of memorable British actors, you can walk into the theater as a blank slate, follow and enjoy the story, and leave convinced — if of nothing else — that Shakespeare was a figure of compelling interest."I'm not really sure what he's getting at or how it relates to my opinion of the film, but I do find it humorous to think that after 500 years, the thing that's gonna finally convince someone that the most adapated, famous, and talked about writer of all time is "interesting" is a C tier Roland Emmerich movie where Billy Shakes farts and drinks in the background while some boring royal does all the writing.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 5:54:07 GMT
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 12, 2024 1:46:14 GMT
A mate of mine years ago (pre-Wiki/Google/etc) was convinced that Clint was the son of Stan Laurel. Of course we ribbed him unmercifully. I can see how they could make that mistake with Charles Bronson being the son of Fatty Arbuckle.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 11, 2024 18:47:13 GMT
Honestly the whole show is kinda built on a tired trope. "What if Superman were evil?" has basically become redundant. I couldn't help but notice season 1 was basically Man of Steel if it had been a bit better written and constructed. 2 by comparison just feels kinda aimless. At risk of sounding like a hypocrite because I tend to love violent movies/TV shows, I also found the violence a little grotesque and over the top. Felt like it was just trying to be The Boys in animation. I imagine the comic is similarly gory given it's the same creator as The Walking Dead, but Amazon certainly seems to be carving out a niche. Surprised Rings of Power didn't have Sauron crushing hobbit heads. Then again, that'd make that show less boring at least.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 11, 2024 18:34:55 GMT
Still on this. Fallen behind on books and have been listening to podcasts.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 11, 2024 18:20:25 GMT
I'm binging through Veep on Max.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 11, 2024 5:24:53 GMT
Recently saw Stargate. First Shakespeare was too dumb and poor to write Shakespeare, now the Egyptians were too dumb and brown to build the pyramids. Fuck this idiot. I don't think the racism is as strong as some people think it is for the pyramid stuff, because the same thing comes up with stonehenge. It is always just the pyramids too. Nobody seems to think they weren't smart enough to build all that other stuff. I mean Egypt was a huge empire. I really don't think it would matter what color they were. It is just this while thing about the pyramids specifically that apparently most people's imaginations are letting them down on. Would it be neat if it were aliens (or an ancient mutant), yes, but there is no reason to think it wasn't just humans who did it and we are too stupid to figure out exactly how. As for the Shakespeare stuff, that is a well-known conspiracy theory. Whether the writer of the movie or Emmerich actually buy into it is a different question. I have heard very bad things about his Stonewall movie, which I have yet to watch. Thank goodness Michael Bay hasn't decided to make a movie about MLK or something. I haven't really heard aliens credited for Stonehenge, or at least not as often and vigorously as with the pyramids. Fair enough, I guess. I know Emmerich didn't invent the authorship conspiracy (though I would assume he believes in it for him to direct a whole movie endorsing it), I just find it to be elitist nonsense and Anonymous itself protrays Shakespeare like he's Joey from Friends. Actually, a Michael Bay MLK movie would be the most glorious thing to come out of Hollywood in decades. He should get Anthony Anderson and have him play it just like his Transformers character. "I ate da whole plate! Da whole plate! Also, I have a dream."
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 11, 2024 4:09:29 GMT
Emnerich takes his stuff a bit more seriously which makes him worse in my book. Also, anyone who thinks a noble wrote Shakespeare's plays is automatically an asshole. Recently saw Stargate. First Shakespeare was too dumb and poor to write Shakespeare, now the Egyptians were too dumb and brown to build the pyramids. Fuck this idiot.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 11, 2024 2:49:08 GMT
I'm one of those assholes who bought a Tyler Durden jacket. I also have a Wolverine jacket. Ironically in spite of my penchant for leather jackets, I always preferred the Terminator's punk look over his biker one. I wanted this after watching Drive - Me too. Plus I'm a Scorpio.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 11, 2024 0:29:13 GMT
I'm one of those assholes who bought a Tyler Durden jacket. I also have a Wolverine jacket. Ironically in spite of my penchant for leather jackets, I always preferred the Terminator's punk look over his biker one.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 20:50:08 GMT
The first two were both middling-to-good but I'm kinda over this franchise.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 20:47:21 GMT
You gave it a higher rating than Gordon Gekko. He said greed was good, not nearly perfect. Wall Street: the tragic tale of a courrpt financier who just wants to be a movie critic.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 20:45:33 GMT
Crackers Week? I thought you were gonna say they wwre doing a marathon of Kevin Costner baseball movies on TNT.
Ralph Ineson is ten frirst piece lf interesting F4 news I've heard. Love that guy and his deep voice and Northern accent (see also: The VVitch, Green Knight, and GoT s2).
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 6:42:21 GMT
My main takeaway from this is that the same guy who did Mad Max: Fury Road did Children of a Lesser God.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 6:34:18 GMT
He's extremely typecast at this point and not doing much to combat it, except in Barbarian which used his preconceived persona to AMAZING effect. The first half of Barbarian with his character is one of the better horror movies of the past few years. Too bad that second half happens. I agree that the first half is superior, but I do like the second. Justin Long finding a creepy underground lair and immediately trying to add the square footage to his house sale is comedy gold.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 2:01:11 GMT
As I said, he passes for white to me - I always assumed he was East European or something. Along with me fact that he's been universally praised on this board for his performance, I don't think he was a diversity hire. And if you read my review, I too was skeptical he'd have the "gravitas" or whatever to pull off a talk show host but he sold it to me. Either way, it's a plot point in the movie that he's getting butt-fucked in the ratings by Johnny Carson and he literally has to sacrifice his wife to the devil to be successful. East European so there you go--it's forced in some way. You have to suspend disbelief a little if you are familiar with the host casting of the era.
You can't please everyone but when I heard of this idea--and the host--I just imagined someone more white bread but I didn't picture that cellphone eater Donal Logue lookalike as a believable host for 70s tv either. Even that felt like quirky out of place casting. I am not sure what kind of competition Carson had in those days anyway--I think of Dick Cavett or Mike Douglas etc.
I pay attention to anachronisms--like that horror movie series about the people who go to film a porn film in the late 70s-- porn was not something that anyone and everyone was making in the 1970s.The word was hardly even spoken in public conversation.
And Super 8--with the kids filming a zombie movie. Zombies were not popular subjects for kid filmmakers --they would have done aliens, werewolves or vampires--not Romero zombies since that didn't really get wide attention until well after 1979. Night of the Living Dead wasn't even talked about much until the mid 80s. It's only a movie I know but this is a movie forum.
I just meant in general I thought he might be East European. In the movie, with his hair and style, he didn't really look like anything. Jewish, maybe. And like I said, his actual acting is very believable. Wasn't Deep Throat one of the highest grossing movies of the 70s? It certainly made its mark in pop culture at the time with Watergate and everything. As for X, the horror film I assume you're talking about, that's just a small group of indie filmmakers shooting an amateur porn. *shrug* Any thoughts on the actors who have portrayed Egyptians in anything pre-2015? Or Romans with English accents?
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 1:50:58 GMT
Sunset Blvd -10/10 Witness for the Prosecution -9/10 Stalag 17 -8/10 Double Indemnity -8/10 Some Like It Hot -7/10 The Apartment -7/10 The Seven Year Itch -7/10 Ace in the Hole -7/10
I really need to see more. Fond of everything I've seen so far.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 1:45:04 GMT
I don't think I've ever even been in the same room as a Betamax tape. Fun fact: it is often said VHS won the home video war by putting out more porn. I've been in the same room, as I used to work in a "retro" shop that had some Betamax, together with 80s big box ex-rental VHS, really ancient video games and such. Never owned one Betamax tape myself, though, and never watched one. I pop into Goodwill sometimes, surprised I haven't seen any there.
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