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BIL wrote:All I really remember about Jane's Punisher is his entire extended family getting wiped out, which I thought was bit extreme
Ya think? They came in an mowed down all the grannies. It was so over-the-top that it came across as comical. Also the weird guitar-playing hitman played by Mark Collie leant some of that, but I actually really liked that guy; he was kind of lynchian when he rolls into the diner and sings Jane a song. And there was an actual Lynch connection in Travolta's wife, played by Laura Herring of Mulholland Drive (just two years prior).

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in a rather astonishing prop/dummy cockup, poor Kevin Nash getting stabbed with a balisong.
oof. Didn't know about that. I did stop and wonder when I saw him take the knife and smile. There was something a little, I don't know, off about it. I wonder where they took the cut and resumed? Presumably they cut it at that point and everything from when he pulls it out of his chest is days or weeks later.
BIL wrote:Recently-declassified footage of Thomas Jane (r) training with TOUGH and COOL U.S. MARINES Image :
lmao. What is that from? It looks like a Hall and Oates video

I came across this other oddity of Jane; his first feature was apparently a Bollywood flick where he plays the foreign love interest.
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vol.2 wrote:lmao. What is that from? It looks like a Hall and Oates video
Hall and Oates could only dream of ever being that popular.
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The Draughtman's Contract [1982]

Bizarre little number from the other side of the pond, about a Draughtsman that's hired to draw sketches of a rich family's estate while the husband is away. Some hijinx ensue, with a handful of laughs thrown in. Definitely not for everyone, but I did chuckle quite a few times. What stuck out was that every shot seemed to be framed like a painting. The few that were not still, were on a dolly that would pan right, then left, then right, then left. Use of color and light was exceptional. Interesting, yet hard to recommend.
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GaijinPunch wrote:The Draughtman's Contract [1982]
That sounds conspicuously like my kinda jam! :o Revisiting the consistently painterly Sopranos, and following up with BCS, El Camino, and a Breaking Bad revisit, I was constantly hitting the screencap button to admire them frames. Big fan of the Sidescrolling Action dolly pan, too.
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BIL wrote:Recently-declassified footage of Thomas Jane (r) training with TOUGH and COOL U.S. MARINES Image :
lmao. What is that from? It looks like a Hall and Oates video
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(I don't think it was Jane in that video, although it would only improve his standing in my eyes if it was :lol:

he would've probably learned how to vet a prop knife, if it really was him :shock:)
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Peter Greenaway is one of my favorites. I like Draughtsman, but I feel it's kind of weak to his best movies. He was originally a painter, so his cinematography and sets are always crazy and, imagine that, look like a painting! My favorite, his most popular, and probably his most 'accessible' is The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Stars Helen Mirren, dishing out the goods. He works with color a lot in this one, based on the mood. But by god, I swear the most prime Mirren tittays are in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah. Both directors are favorites, mainly because they have the similar style of filling the lens with extravagance.

Kind of weird of me, but I purposely spread out everything of directors and authors I love for max enjoyment/recolleciton/something to look forward to, so there's still a couple of big Greenaway movies I haven't seen (namely The Baby of Macon and Belly of an Architect), but if I were to recommend a few more 'must-see's', then Drowning by Numbers and Prospero's Books would be the two. Drowning is particularly good at his 'painting' framework, as there's a list of numbers hidden through each painstakingly crafted set.
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Watched SkyFall and No Time to Die.

More like TearsFall and Time to Cry. Why have they hurt me...
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BIL wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:The Draughtman's Contract [1982]
That sounds conspicuously like my kinda jam! :o Revisiting the consistently painterly Sopranos, and following up with BCS, El Camino, and a Breaking Bad revisit, I was constantly hitting the screencap button to admire them frames. Big fan of the Sidescrolling Action dolly pan, too.
Similar! I finished the night w/ a Soprano's episode. Up to 5.4 or so now.
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XoPachi wrote:Watched SkyFall and No Time to Die.

More like TearsFall and Time to Cry. Why have they hurt me...
Especially the latter…
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Tetris was pretty good! I got Big Short vibes watching it. Very satisfying end as well.
xxx1993 wrote:Especially the latter…
Pain...
To be honest, I was actually kind of surprised with the end.
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XoPachi wrote:Tetris was pretty good! I got Big Short vibes watching it. Very satisfying end as well.
xxx1993 wrote:Especially the latter…
Pain...
To be honest, I was actually kind of surprised with the end.
I too was stunned. Especially since they used Louis Armstrong's "We Have All the Time in the World" over the end credits.
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Check out this short film if you're into stop motion animation and/ or samurai fights involving chainsaws, among else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpefYPLH67A

You can give the production team money via Kickstarter. I gave them 1500 yen!
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^ You bring around some really cool stuff! Will have to give it a look tonight. :cool:

Half-rewatched Rocky IV while doing other things, and was more taken than I'd recalled with one scene; Apollo's infamously gauche ring entrance, specifically its framing of a deer-in-headlights Drago. I actually felt sorry for the film's Goliath; suddenly just a man swearing himself to brutal contest, ambushed by prancing panto-fuckery. Supposedly Lundgren wasn't told just how OTT it would be, to aid the effect; not sure if that's apocrypha, ala Alien's chestburster scene, but I could imagine the truth being similarly halfway there (Scott's actors knew the script; it was the explosive violence that visibly startled them).

I don't know if that was the intent, but maybe it's a more humane film than people let on? :lol: Turned out this was Sly's director's cut, which he'd intended to do just that. I liked it! Like all good tragedy, I never found Creed's death nearly as upsetting as the obliviousness he approached it with. Death looms close over all combat sport, it's not to be trifled with.

Anyway, speaking of on-set near-misses, and the upcoming Expendables IV, Lundgren almost killed Stallone here. Or rather, Stallone almost had Lundgren kill him. The great man recounted how overawed he was by the Nordic warrior scholar - particularly intimidated by his nice beefy ass, the glutes being an infamously unforgiving genetic lottery. Actually, I wonder if Sly ever felt a bit outgunned by Carl Weathers, a walking slab of Olympian marble himself. Anyway, Sly told the novice actor to really blast him during fight scenes. BLAOW! Paul's Miracle Deathfist, straight to the sternum! A stay in the ICU with an inflamed heart and rocketing blood pressure, like he'd been in a bad wreck with no seatbelt. Mammals ain't shit, kids!
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ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:Check out this short film if you're into stop motion animation and/ or samurai fights involving chainsaws, among else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpefYPLH67A

You can give the production team money via Kickstarter. I gave them 1500 yen!
Amazing!! Thanks for sharing. Will throw them a few yen later.
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vol.2 wrote:The Punisher (2004) 6.5/10

Thomas Jane rules. I wish this movie had a script that did him justice, but it is what it is. The main redeeming grace of the film is the level of gore they allowed. There were some excellent kill money shots and good fight scenes.

On the flipside, they introduced some stupid "sheriff" dynamic into the Punisher's character where he flips his coat open and invites an olde tyme OK corral duel. It felt all so very "Gredo shot first" if you will. That was weak sauce and I hated it.
A disappointment when I watched the movie is that some killer lines from the trailer got weakened or cut entirely in the theatrical release. "They can't kill me... I'm already dead" became a pissy "They won't kill me!" and walk away. "This is not revenge. It's punishment" got drawn out by asides. In any event, its script is certainly weaker than the comic's.
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How I wish they'd just do a 1:1 Ennisher The Movie. Even now, two decades after it ruined me and my COOLEGE BROS' minds,

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to the point I could google "FUNT" "DAMN!" "STEVIE GET THE GAUGE!" "FUNT FUNT FUNT" to grab that page!
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GaijinPunch wrote:
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:Check out this short film if you're into stop motion animation and/ or samurai fights involving chainsaws, among else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpefYPLH67A

You can give the production team money via Kickstarter. I gave them 1500 yen!
Amazing!! Thanks for sharing. Will throw them a few yen later.
Great! Let' hope it gets picked up by a studio :D
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Just saw Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves! And what a fun movie it was!
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I'm glad to see you improve your posting ITT, x93. :smile: I'm getting old, and little things make me happier than they used to. 3; It's really hard to tell what you thought of a film if you just list its title, but now I know it might be worth checking out! Or, on the off chance you didn't like it, avoiding! :cool:
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Do I really have to make my posts longer? All that really matters is what movie I saw and what I thought of it.
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No not at all, just the title and thumbs up/down is fine! People (like me! ;3) were giving you shit a while back about just posting the title. Remember Shumps Code §57.3! GOOD POSTING IS REQUIRED (`w´メ)
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Anyway, I also saw Murder Mystery 2 on Netflix. Another fun one!
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Somewhat long, but it takes its time to turn the natural absurdities and plot holes of a murder hobo roleplaying game into a pleasant, coherent and well-adjusted culture and lifestyle of widespread magic, danger and violence in the Forgotten Realms.

When an immediately lethal SPOILER attacks a crowded arena, people evacuate quickly and orderly; an undead expansionist tyrant and his fanatical Red Wizards don't make the land of Thay, located around the corner, worthy of preemptive military measures; almost everyone seems to have more magical items than they actually use; guards are stupid because smart people have better jobs.
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John Wick 4 was a good time. It's got a particular action set piece people will be talking about for years.

I'm a big Keanu fan. Yes, his line delivery can be a little awkward, but he has that awkward delivery in real life too. I appreciate his commitment to the craft. So nice to see the actor's face during the action scenes.
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To Far Away Times wrote:John Wick 4 was a good time. It's got a particular action set piece people will be talking about for years.

I'm a big Keanu fan. Yes, his line delivery can be a little awkward, but he has that awkward delivery in real life too. I appreciate his commitment to the craft. So nice to see the actor's face during the action scenes.
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You're talking about the top-down shootout during the climax, right?
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xxx1993 wrote:
To Far Away Times wrote:John Wick 4 was a good time. It's got a particular action set piece people will be talking about for years.

I'm a big Keanu fan. Yes, his line delivery can be a little awkward, but he has that awkward delivery in real life too. I appreciate his commitment to the craft. So nice to see the actor's face during the action scenes.
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You're talking about the top-down shootout during the climax, right?
Yeah.
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To Far Away Times wrote:
xxx1993 wrote:
To Far Away Times wrote:John Wick 4 was a good time. It's got a particular action set piece people will be talking about for years.

I'm a big Keanu fan. Yes, his line delivery can be a little awkward, but he has that awkward delivery in real life too. I appreciate his commitment to the craft. So nice to see the actor's face during the action scenes.
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You're talking about the top-down shootout during the climax, right?
Yeah.
My wife leaned in and said
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isn't that like Hotline Miami?
Best sequence in the entire franchise and Ill die on that hill.
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Personally, I loved the club scene way more, since it felt like a welcome throwback to the first.
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From what I heard, the final shootout in John Wick: Chapter 4 isn't really like Hotline Miami, but another similar shooter: The Hong Kong Massacre.
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cj iwakura wrote:Personally, I loved the club scene way more, since it felt like a welcome throwback to the first.
Haha. Yeah
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93 - I know that game. Yeah that makes more sense.
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In my head, the first film's club scene will forever include VJ Emmie's commentary. :lol: "Here for revenge! Super fighter! What's next?! JESUS!" Image
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