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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 0:34:16 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.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 10, 2024 0:30:46 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.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 9, 2024 19:17:41 GMT
Dementia 13 - 0 You're a Big Boy Now - 0 Finian's Rainbow - 0 The Rain People - 0 The Godfather - 1 The Conversation - 0 The Godfather Part II - 1 Apocalypse Now - 1 One from the Heart - 0 The Outsiders - 0 Rumble Fish - 0 The Cotton Club - 0 Captain EO - 0 Peggy Sue Got Married - 0 Gardens of Stone - 0 Tucker: The Man and His Dream - 0 New York Stories - 0 The Godfather Part III - 1 Bram Stoker's Dracula - 0 Jack - 0 The Rainmaker - 0 Youth Without Youth - 0 Tetro - 0 Twixt - 0 You got a couple of easy FTVs for the horror challenge sitting on the table there.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 9, 2024 17:16:30 GMT
Wasn't it originally going to be called Dracula's Daughter? I'd have actually watched it. Abigail sounds like another generic evil doll movie or something.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 9, 2024 17:15:07 GMT
Is this a joke? Who wants to watch a movie about that sniveling little shit? I'm not really lining up for spinoff prequels about any of the characters, but I resent your tone. Gollum rules.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 9, 2024 14:11:33 GMT
Dementia 13 - 2 You're a Big Boy Now - 0 Finian's Rainbow - 0 The Rain People - 0 The Godfather - 10-15 The Conversation - 2 The Godfather Part II - 10-15 Apocalypse Now - 5 One from the Heart -0 The Outsiders - at least 4 Rumble Fish - 2 The Cotton Club - 0 Captain EO - 0 Peggy Sue Got Married - 1 Gardens of Stone - 0 Tucker: The Man and His Dream - 0 New York Stories - 0 The Godfather Part III - around 5 Bram Stoker's Dracula - 2-3 Jack - 2-3 The Rainmaker - 1 Youth Without Youth - 0 Tetro - 0 Twixt - 0
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 9, 2024 1:00:26 GMT
Crazed Cuban-type Drug Baron - Oscar Nunez Serial Killer - Rupert Grint Action Hero - Andy Serkis main Bond Villain - Tom Hanks Femme Fatale - Awkwafina veteran Detective - Matthew Lillard Defence and/or Prosecution Attorney - Will Poulter corrupt Politician - Anne Hathaway
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 8, 2024 18:38:51 GMT
Apparently he's Iranian but he's very white passing. Especially in this with the 70s white guy sideburns and stuff. Yeah but it is such forced casting if you want authenticity. If that is what you are claiming to sell.
If you compromise an idea because you feel you need to inject diversity of some kind--which is unnecessary because you did have black and latino and asians on tv at the time--it's not like you don't have options to fill that requirement-they could easily make one of the guests black, indian or Mexican or whatever -but to make the host the diversity card by default--you are sacrificing the most important part of it--there's no way that there are no actors who could play the role as well at least (since most tv hosts were not half Iranian!) so it is a kind of token woken.
If this movie was made in the 70s and they used Ricardo Montalban as the host----it may have worked-I could picture him as a host of a show because he had the screen presence for that-but standards were so different then for casting.
I remember this guy in the Dark Knight now after thinking about it but he just doesn't strike me as having the gravitas for it. Some movies are great at doing retro-casting. The Shadow 1994 was very clever at some of the casting--they picked supporting actors like Max Wright and Ethan Phillips who had personas and voices that would have fit perfectly into 1940s radio--even the guy playing the Asian scientist had a Keye Luke kind of quality. I don't think I have seen a movie that was so careful in retro casting to make you think of older acting styles. Not so much for the leads but the people playing cab drivers etc.
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.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 8, 2024 17:33:18 GMT
lol ok I don't even remember that guy.
there goes the verisimilitude.
That guy would not have been hosting a national tv show in 1970s America. Maybe Fernando's Hideaway.
TV was very white bread in those days.
I had this picture in my head of the cell phone guy as a talk show host and even he seemed a little out of sync with the hosts I remember. The closest thing I could think of to that guy was William Conrad in Brotherhood of the Bell.
Apparently he's Iranian but he's very white passing. Especially in this with the 70s white guy sideburns and stuff.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 8, 2024 17:22:25 GMT
It's interesting that both are pretty bad but for opposite reasons. T3 is one of the least imaginative sequels ever made, while Salvation takes a semi stab at doing something new with the franchise but fails in every way. I mean, when Sam Worthington is the best part of your movie, mistakes were made.
Ultimately I'd probably go 3 for being more enjoyable and, well, Terminator-y. I mean, those future war prologues were always the least interesting parts of the Terminator franchise and that's all Salvation is, and they don't even get that right.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 8, 2024 16:49:02 GMT
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 8, 2024 12:37:44 GMT
Still two of the best rides at Universal Studios.
Compared to FFC's Dracula, Branagh's Frankenstein, Verhoeven's Invisible Man and Nichols' Wolfman, I think this is easily the best of the reimaginings of Universal monsters of that era. I even enjoy it more than the original and Hammer versions, which are kind of a bore for me.
I took for granted at the time what a charming and likable protagonist Brenden Fraser was. Though for me, MVP is Kevin J O'Conner. I missed his weasely character in the sequels.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 8, 2024 8:18:00 GMT
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 8, 2024 7:01:57 GMT
It got me into Star Trek so it will always have that going for it. The main trio were pretty well cast (and by trio I suppose I should specify Bones as the third one, despite him being kinda of demoted in these movies for a pretty lady) but I can take or leave the rest of the crew's actors. The altered timeline was a clever way to restart the franchise without outright rebooting it. Didn't have much in the way of scoial commentary but it did make up for it in exploring the psychology of the characters, particularly Spock. Kinda funny that each part of this trilogy inadvertently represents a different aspect of what Trek has to offer (09 is the character piece, Into Darkness is the political allegory, and Beyond is just a fun one-off episode).
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 8, 2024 6:45:41 GMT
I enjoyed it, though not as much as everyone else here. I don't know if you guys have seen Ghostwatch (1992), but it reminded me a lot of that film, though not as creepy or authentic for me personally (that one never stops feeling like a TV broadcast, whereas this kind of took me out of it with a lot of the multiple camera angles, or whenever they did "behind the scenes" which just looked like standard movie footage cut scenes). They kinda buried the leade early here with the psychic rather than play up any ambiguity, and I was a little letdown once it turned into a VFX reel.
Not to sound overly negative, I did like it a lot. Especially the acting. I thought David Dastmalchian was an odd choice for a late night comedian going into it, but he was perfect. I forgot who the skeptic was until the hypnosis scene where he channels Huge Weaving for a second and was reminded of Matrix Bane.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 6, 2024 21:56:08 GMT
I think it's ok.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 6, 2024 18:16:26 GMT
I still haven't seen these in the theaters despite seemingly being rereleased every other week. I'll try to do it this time.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 6, 2024 2:29:30 GMT
For Cinco de mayo I went to Holbox in LA, had a scallop taco, a taco with octopus and ink, and cerviche.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 6, 2024 1:58:50 GMT
Judging by the poster, or the cover above. The hottest guy at school there is anthony michael hall. But I aint seen it. I'm just going by the image there. Hey, leave Nott Dillon alone. Seems like the only things anyone talks about this movie regarding anymore are Long Duck Dong and the quasi date rape. I think it has its moments, though.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on May 6, 2024 1:50:24 GMT
I know it was you, Scarecrow. If I only had a heart, you'd have broken it.
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