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Post by Doomsday on Apr 25, 2017 17:42:26 GMT -5
Neverending Problem. Netflix doesn't release Split on DVD until mid May. In addition to my film for Justin, I'll watch Monster Trucks if you do.
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Post by Dracula on Apr 25, 2017 17:43:29 GMT -5
I'm not gonna watch something that Dracula masturbated to. I'll watch this one. One of those movies opens with a flash of a close-up of an erect dick and the other is Andrei Rublev. Enjoy.
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Post by Neverending on Apr 25, 2017 17:47:41 GMT -5
I'll watch Monster Trucks if you do. We sat through The BFG. Monster Trucks can't be worse. One of those movies opens with a flash of a close-up of an erect dick and the other is Andrei Rublev. Enjoy. Just a flash? Disappointed.
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Post by Dracula on Apr 25, 2017 18:00:58 GMT -5
I'll watch Monster Trucks if you do. We sat through The BFG. Monster Trucks can't be worse. One of those movies opens with a flash of a close-up of an erect dick and the other is Andrei Rublev. Enjoy. Just a flash? Disappointed. An almost subliminal flash, I'm pretty sure the ending of Fight Club is an homage to it. Hint hint.
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Post by Doomsday on Apr 25, 2017 18:03:28 GMT -5
The precredit johnson one of the few things I remember about Persona.
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Post by Doomsday on Apr 25, 2017 18:03:58 GMT -5
Precredit Johnson is the name of my band btw. Find us on limewire.
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Post by Dracula on Apr 25, 2017 18:39:12 GMT -5
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Apr 25, 2017 19:25:24 GMT -5
So Neverending do I get an actual list or do I just promise to move Split to the top of my Netflix queue when it comes out?
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Post by Jibbs on Apr 25, 2017 19:45:44 GMT -5
I think I'll do 20th Century Women.
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Post by Dracula on Apr 25, 2017 19:47:27 GMT -5
I'll do Passengers
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Post by Neverending on Apr 25, 2017 21:00:43 GMT -5
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Post by Dracula on Apr 25, 2017 21:18:04 GMT -5
Be careful what you wish for...
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Post by Justin on Apr 25, 2017 22:57:38 GMT -5
I'll go with Duck, You Sucker.
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Post by Doomsday on Apr 26, 2017 0:22:09 GMT -5
I'll go with Duck, You Sucker. Nice! And I see what you did there, Neverending.
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Apr 27, 2017 17:45:11 GMT -5
This is your one shot at getting me to watch Split. Are you sure you wanna blow it? And I've seen both The Parent Trap and Paulie, and there's no fucking way I'm watching Yoga Hosers.
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Post by Neverending on Apr 27, 2017 18:09:48 GMT -5
there's no fucking way I'm watching Yoga Hosers. Yoga Hosers or Split. Pick your poison.
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Post by SnoBorderZero on Apr 30, 2017 18:39:15 GMT -5
there's no fucking way I'm watching Yoga Hosers. Yoga Hosers or Split. Pick your poison. Ok, I am putting Split into my queue and the moment it becomes available I will watch it and review it on here.
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Post by Justin on May 1, 2017 23:22:30 GMT -5
Got mine. Watching it tomorrow.
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Post by Justin on May 2, 2017 15:44:07 GMT -5
Thought it was really good. I'm usually not a "Western" guy but this was a solid film. Everything was done well: the pacing, acting, music (Morricone). Strangely, according to Wikipedia it's considered Leone's most overlooked. I don't really see how.
Rating: A-
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Post by Neverending on May 2, 2017 17:59:39 GMT -5
Thought it was really good. I'm usually not a "Western" guy but this was a solid film. Everything was done well: the pacing, acting, music (Morricone). Strangely, according to Wikipedia it's considered Leone's most overlooked. I don't really see how. Rating: A- A Fistful of Dynamite Once Upon a Time in the Revolution Duck, You Sucker Whatever you wanna call it. It's fucking great. It's overlooked because it was considered controversial at the time of release. There's anti-war and then there's anti-patriotism. Leone's argument is that family and self preservation is more important than country. He wasn't alone in that. Francis Coppola, a fellow Italian, put that scene in Godfather II when Sonny is giving Michael shit for joining World War II and the whole theme of that movie was American corruption. Vito, who cared about family and community, prospered while Michael, who only cared about power, didn't.
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Post by Doomsday on May 3, 2017 15:05:21 GMT -5
The Devils
The Devils is about a priest, a nun and a woman who catches the priest's affections. The priest, Fr. Grandier, is a good looking man whom the women of his town obsess over. The nun is the the disfigured head mistress of a strict and isolated order who is also sexually fixated on Fr. Grandier. When she learns that Fr. Grandier has secretly married she instructs another priest that Grandier has possessed her. This results in a mass orgy-like exorcism and a climax that highlights religious fanaticism and the joint ruling class and clergy which dominated Europe.
I just need to come clean and say this was too much for me. I was interested for a while and a lot of it was pretty engaging, primarily Oliver Reed's energetic performance as Fr. Grandier. It also brought up some brief ideas about corruption in the Catholic clergy which is found throughout European history and is really interesting if you delve into it. It became apparent pretty quick though that it wanted to shock which to me quickly eclipsed anything else the movie was trying to say. I'm all for movies that try to walk that fine line but it got to the point where I felt that its primary purpose was to be offensive with its sexual depravity rather than have a message. I know it makes me sound like some Amish minister but the film lost me when naked nuns started dry humping a crucifix. But hey, some people might be into that.
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Post by Doomsday on May 3, 2017 15:06:41 GMT -5
Thought it was really good. I'm usually not a "Western" guy but this was a solid film. Everything was done well: the pacing, acting, music (Morricone). Strangely, according to Wikipedia it's considered Leone's most overlooked. I don't really see how. Rating: A- Glad you dug it, it's criminally underrated and I try to get people turned onto it when I can.
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Post by Jibbs on May 3, 2017 17:55:20 GMT -5
Mine's in the mail, still.
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Post by Jibbs on May 9, 2017 20:56:33 GMT -5
20th Century Women (2016)
This movie is about a 15-year-old boy growing up in 1979 and the women in his life. This includes his complicated mother, played by Annette Benning, his 17-year-old friend (Elle Fanning), and a woman (roommate??) in her 30s (Greta Gerwig). It's a coming-of-age story, but the movie's main strength is the ironic attempt of these women to try and raise him to be a great man without a father. Or rather, we the audience have to ask ourselves and explore if this is ironic at all. And they're all completely different - the movie makes a strong point that this is due to their generation. The mother was born out of the Depression, and much of the drama surrounding her is her lack of communication with her son about topics that are probably considered inappropriate for talk in her time. I say "probably" because she lashes out when her son makes such generalizations about her. There's Greta Gerwig's character (I honestly couldn't figure out her connection with everyone), who tries to invoke feminism on him to make him a more caring and modern man, and there's his younger friend who he loves, but she just wants to be friends.
I'm not usually brought in my "plot-less" movies, but this movie has a very strong script with a few great lines (most of which originally got my attention in the trailer), and great performances especially from Annette Benning, whose character seems to be pulled by all the characters from all sides into their separate worlds. It's even more rare for a movie to have me think of my own life, such as the son's disappointment in a breakthrough conversation with her mother not leading into an era of a closer relationship.
"You get to see him out in the world, as a person. I never will."
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