[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

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SpecialKO

Charlie Dont Surf;278822][quote=bhamv3 said:
it doesn't try to be anything more than what it is.
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I continue to be puzzled as to why this is always a compliment for shitty movies. A shitty movie on accident would be more forgivable than a shitty movie on purpose.[/QUOTE]

I think the statement is not intended to be an excuse for shitty movies, but an expression of belief that the director/producer understood their limitations and stuck to focusing on what they could do well.

I think the reason why the phrase is associated with crappy movies is because, IMHO, it tends to be used for movies where there is an overarching, genre-specific reason to see the film, and as long as that reasoning is fulfilled, how crappy the rest of the film is doesn't really matter (to a point).
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Frankie said:
Say what you want about the Vacation series, Christmas Vacation's greased up saucer on a hill scene is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
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I really like his rant about his boss. It kills me!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjiUrh_aR64&feature=related[/ame]

Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

TeKeo;279007][quote=Charlie Dont Surf;278822][quote=bhamv3 said:
it doesn't try to be anything more than what it is.
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I continue to be puzzled as to why this is always a compliment for shitty movies. A shitty movie on accident would be more forgivable than a shitty movie on purpose.[/QUOTE]

I think the statement is not intended to be an excuse for shitty movies, but an expression of belief that the director/producer understood their limitations and stuck to focusing on what they could do well.

I think the reason why the phrase is associated with crappy movies is because, IMHO, it tends to be used for movies where there is an overarching, genre-specific reason to see the film, and as long as that reasoning is fulfilled, how crappy the rest of the film is doesn't really matter (to a point).[/QUOTE]

Yep, what he said. It's not an excuse, a bad movie with low ambitions does not suddenly become less bad. However, I prefer it when movies don't pretend to be more than what they're capable of being.

I think of it like when I get into the passenger seat of a car, and the driver says to me, "Just to let you know, I'm not a very good driver, so I'll be going pretty slow." Him telling me that doesn't magically make him a better driver, but I appreciate knowing.

In the context of The Ugly Truth, this movie is designed to make teenage girls pay money to go "aww that's so sweet." I realize this, the movie (and its makers) realize this, so we go in with something of an understanding.
 
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Philosopher B.

I got to see large parts of the racist shit-fuck masterpiece Birth of a Nation in film history class. What's almost worst than the barefoot, chicken-eating black maniacs and the wannabe women-rapist mulattoes is the chicken-shit tone of some of the narration screens. They frequently try to weasel the filmmakers out of the responsibility of the shit they were portraying, or worse, authenticate it.

But it pioneered the jump-cut, y'all, so it was cool.

Evil Dead

I gotta say, while I don't think it's quite the unabashed classic that the second two movies are in my mind, there were still enough awesome bits and glimpses of the later brilliance to come that made it more than worthwhile. But goddamn, did it hurt when the pencil went in.
 
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Evil Dead was made without the comedy. I think it's genuinely frightening. And it does it with so few FX, that it's even scarier.
 
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Steven Soderburgin

Birth of a Nation is very, very important in film history for its many innovations in filming, editing, and construction of a scene. It essentially created the basic grammar of narrative film

It's just too bad that it's basically a love letter to the KKK.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

I was going to watch "European Vacation" next when I saw something "newly" released on Instant Watch. A favorite of mine:

Robing Hood: Prince of Thieves
The days when Costner ruled. This film never tires or loses it's luster. The scene with the reveal from Will Scarlet still gives goosebumps.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

TeKeo said:
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas!
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I want to believe he ad-libbed ALOT of those amazing lines he delivers throughout the film. I mean, damn, the comedy in some of them were just epic.
 
Cajungal

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Saw something called Rachel Getting Married in the Redbox and decided to check it out. I thought it was kind of cool. Something about it felt very 90s to me. It could have been the way Anne Hathaway looked. But she did a really good job, as did most of the cast. I loved the long rehearsal dinner scene. The way it was filmed, I felt like I was there. I think the father was my favorite. His emotional and kind of odd performance really caught my eye. It moved a little slowly, and some scenes felt too long, but all in all I pretty much enjoyed it.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Cajungal said:
Saw something called Rachel Getting Married in the Redbox and decided to check it out. I thought it was kind of cool. Something about it felt very 90s to me. It could have been the way Anne Hathaway looked. But she did a really good job, as did most of the cast. I loved the long rehearsal dinner scene. The way it was filmed, I felt like I was there. I think the father was my favorite. His emotional and kind of odd performance really caught my eye. It moved a little slowly, and some scenes felt too long, but all in all I pretty much enjoyed it.
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This is one of my favorite movies of the 00s, an I'm pretty sure Kissinger is gonna bust down the door drunk to talk about how much he loves Jonathan Demme in 5 replies or less
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Man, the scene at the end with her mom gave me goosebumps. Whoever she was, she was good too. (I'm so bad at remembering this stuff... to imdb....)
 
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Steven Soderburgin

Whoa is someone talking about rachel getting married?

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Cajungal said:
Saw something called Rachel Getting Married in the Redbox and decided to check it out. I thought it was kind of cool. Something about it felt very 90s to me. It could have been the way Anne Hathaway looked. But she did a really good job, as did most of the cast. I loved the long rehearsal dinner scene. The way it was filmed, I felt like I was there. I think the father was my favorite. His emotional and kind of odd performance really caught my eye. It moved a little slowly, and some scenes felt too long, but all in all I pretty much enjoyed it.
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Hey, yeah, that was my favorite movie of last year, and it's really really good. Anne Hathaway is great, Rose Marie DeWitt is fantastic, and Bill Irwin (the father) is so so wonderful. The way it's shot and staged really does put you right in there. One of the most enduring images of the whole year for me was the cake-cutting scene. Love this movie. I love the texture and feel of everything. It's so rich, and even though there are some scenes of melodrama, every moment is infused with such humanity.

Jonathan Demme owns. He was robbed in the best directing category.

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Oh yeah and the mom is played by Debra Winger
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

I seriously nominate Kissi as funniest sig on the boards.

I read it outloud to myself at least 3 times a day and laugh hard everytime. :rofl:
 
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Steven Soderburgin

I wish I could take credit for it, but my older brother posted that over on Forumopolis. I think in the G.I Joe thread? I don't remember whether it was that or the Transformers 2 thread, but yeah. It's hilarious, and I can't look at it without laughing.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Ya know I thought they did something weird with her face on the DVD cover. Her eyes looked huge. At first I thought it was about a girl with some kind of physical deformity.. then I read the synopsis.
 
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chakz

Dave;278773][quote=Charlie Dont Surf;278730][quote=Dave;278693][quote=Charlie Dont Surf;278129][quote=Dave said:
I saw Up Friday night. Awesome and touching movie.
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huh. I would have thought you'd hate it since balloons can't lift a house into the sky.[/quote]

The balloons are whimsical whereas Wall-E was not. It's pretty much common knowledge that you can't do that with balloons so there was no belief to have to suspend to get into the movie. UP relies on the story and humanistic elements to make it compelling. Wall-E tried to make the emotions of the robots themselves the underpinnings of the story, which was ludicrous.[/quote]

Dave. I think you're cool. And you're a pretty great poster. But this makes no sense whatsoever. Read it to yourself.[/QUOTE]

It made sense in my mind.

Okay, let's try this again.

Up - Story about a little old man trying to keep a promise to his wife about going to a mystical land in South America. Plot uses a whimsical house-lifted-by-balloons to accomplish this. The story is HUMAN driven and about an emotional journey for the guy and the young boy whose homelife is less than stellar.

Wall-E - Story about robots falling in love and trying to save the last plant from Earth. Story is ROBOT driven and tries to impart such things as panting, emotions, exertion, etc. These elements are alien to robotics.

Maybe that clarifies, but the driving forces of the movies are very different.[/QUOTE]

....You hate wall-e because in real life robots don't have feelings?

I guess you weren't a short circuit fan growing up, huh?

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mr_thehun said:
The spirit

what a painful movie to watch. The action was like a grown up version of bugs bunny.
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Maaaaan that movie bummed me out. I'm a huge eisner fan so I was hoping for something a little bit more...eisner-esque. You know a story so brutal you don't no whether to laugh, cry, or get really really pissed. What was with the super powers? The spirit don't need no freakin' super powers. I enjoyed Samuel L. Jackson though.
 
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Philosopher B.

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Ugh. I kind of felt dirty watching this. I mean, it had some potential: the cast was good, and the cinematography took advantage of the locations nicely. The violence was too over-the-top and gratuitous for my taste, though. Instead of people being picked off slowly and suspensefully, one is treated to a
disgusting orgy of carnage as most of the main characters who die are burnt alive, raped, suckled, and blown away in one long scene.

I dunno, it just didn't feel like good movie-making to me ... more like an excuse for showing inbred mutant rapists biting birds' heads off.

Plus there's the whole dumb-shit-people-do-in-horror-movies business. I mean,
how easy would it have been for Bobby to shoot the mutant standing about ten feet away from him eating off his mother's corpse? Instead, he runs like a retard, shooting randomly behind, and then finishes off the mutant in a rather convoluted manner by way of exploding trailer. Then there's all the stupid shit the weasely 'Democrat' guy did ... like not batting that mutant in the rocker in the back of the head when he had the chance, plus putting his gun down next to the rapist mutant's corpse.

I totally rooted for the dog, though.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

I guess it goes without saying that Hills Have Eyes is one of first films I plan on buying for BLU-RAY? That and Last House on the Left.

Not because they're "Phenomenal" films, but because they show a carnal side of slasher films that don't hold back, without having to be gore-porn Saw/Hostel/Touristas style.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Do you mean the original Last House on the Left? Or the remake? Cause I saw the remake, and it didn't impress me that much. Not that scary, not that gruesome, not that disturbing. Just sort of "meh" from beginning to end.

And I'm speaking as a person who usually hates scary movies.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

The remake.

Did you watch the Director's Cut version bhamv? It was a pretty big difference as a whole than the theatre release.

I alread own the original, there is no BLU-RAY version.
 
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Steven Soderburgin

The thing I love about Last House on the Left (both versions) is that it's a retelling of an old Swedish ballad that was made into a great film by Ingmar Bergman called The Virgin Spring. The difference is that Last House on the Left leaves off the end where the father who exacted his revenge questions whether what he did was right and seeks to repent by building a church.
 
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Steven Soderburgin

I have no idea if you're being patronizing or you are genuinely interested in what I had to say, so I'll assume the latter and feel good about sharing that little bit of trivia. :)
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I saw the theater version. I didn't even know there's a Director's Cut. Nor did I know the story's from Sweden.
 
Enresshou

Enresshou

Just watched "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" with the girlfriend (second time for me, first time she's seen it). I forgot how good that movie was.

Also, over the past few days, I've re-watched "Kung Fu Hustle" and "The Iron Giant" with her (she hasn't seen a LOT of movies...I'm rectifying this), and we both saw "Unleashed" with Jet Li for the first time.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Adventureland. Big fat meh. Didn't have much of a point to me. It took me about 4 hrs to get through it. I would pause it when bored and do something else and then come back and finish. I thought the story was going somewhere, but it was just a story about a dude losing his virginity, and Ryan Renolds was a douche. Epic film making right there.
 
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