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It actually involves a commercial pilot and a convicted criminal trying to help the passengers of a plane escape from a hostile island in the Philippines overrun by anti-government guerrilla commandos on New Year’s Eve.
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Three Colors: Red (1994)

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The whole trilogy is good, but Red is the one I keep coming back to.

Blue for Liberty, White for Equality, and Red for Fraternity.

Just a fantastic film.
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Yesterday, I saw Jung_E, a South Korean action sci-fi on Netflix.
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Finally saw Shotgun Wedding on Prime Video!
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Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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Ah, I'd forgotten this thing exists.

Sometimes people get so angry, that they don't understand anger isn't fun unless the person reading agrees with you and are angry, too. You gotta put rewards in your stuff to keep people reading. That's why everything's jam packed with violence and boobies.

I was kinda expecting an argument along the lines of "star wars is made for seven year olds and these movies were only 35% worse than the others! George just made it all up as he went along!" or something. With how the google recommendation algorithm is pretty good at creating echo chambers.
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Oho! Thank u Bryan lmao, I enjoy FANZ V FANZ re GEORGE greatly Image

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EDIT: Bryan this is some prime autism (■`w´■) I always find Luke and Vader's respective added screams in Empire and Jedi useful acid tests, so I interrupt my "KAITETSU YANCHAMARU" session to check!

"Luke scream @ he paternity, so y would he not scream when he fall?!?!" Later on: "Vader scream @ Padme dead, so why he not scream @ Palpy almost kill Luke?!?!"

The impulse is to say something along the lines of "Well, Luke is momentarily overwhelmed by existential horror at the reveal, while he's grimly defiant and in control of his own fate as he rejects Vader's hand, having recovered from the intitial shock. The contrast between the two moments is heightened by Hamill's respectively histrionic and stoical" - but then you realise you're talking to someone with the emotional age of nine or so, and just nod politely, while wondering how the fuck you got into this conversation. (IRL: you've got problems - a family gathering, perhaps? Online: you clicked one of Bryan's links! Again!)

Similar for "Well, the act of defying Palpatine is in itself quite-" You just know the retort will be "YE, BUT U CANT SEE HE FACE!!! HOW U KNO VADER NOT WANT LUKE 2 DIE?!?! ALSO, IN EPISODE III, HE SAY "NOOO," SO ITS IMPORTANT 2 TIE BACK 2-" "(But isn't the act itself suffici-) No, you're right Timmy, it is true that he says "Noo" in both scenes. Makes sense!"

Good shit :cool:
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I'm so happy I nabbed the limited 2006 DVD release that had both the (at the time current) special edition disk, and the laserdisk scan of the theatrical cut on a separate disk.

Would've been nice to have the cleaned up THX print without the faint halos around tie fighters, but at least it doesn't make me cringe.

Of course they had to give them the ugliest cover art imaginable. I used the special edition DVDs as coasters.
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To Live and Die in LA [1985]

Figured I would mark off another Friedkin entry on my to watch list. What's special about this one? It's not available to stream in the US - anywhere. Under the More Like This section on IMDB, it shows me Sorcerer, Thief, Manhunter, Cruising, The French Connection, and Blow Out among others. That seems like a good aggregation. Very 80's crime story, with an officer (William Petersen) not afraid to bend or even break the rules to get his man - in this case, Willem Defoe. Some good action (including head shots), as well as a chase that didn't become infamous a la The French Connection but still noteworthy. Wang Chung was handled both the scoring and the title song, and unsurprisingly a couple of their other tracks made it into the background of a few scenes.
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Haha, I've only listened to like 10 minutes before I couldn't take any more. I'm shocked you dug into the trash bin. >_<

The Luke scream is indeed really dumb. It transforms a moment of grim suicide and misery into one of comedic relief. Tone and vibes are everything; you'll always hear me bitch about them whenever like an anime adaptation of something (Goblin Slayer, To Be A Power In The Shadows) gets them all wrong. You can actually change a hella lot about something (the Invincible adaptation, the Final Fantasy 7 Remake), but as long as the vibes and characters are right, people will be cool with it.

... I think my life'll be complete if I can trick someone into getting into webnovels, some day...


Oh, and for some reason Roger Rabbit came up recently. Which led me to finding this pitch movie made by a Space Jam chum that failed to get greenlit. While I hate it, I still love these kinds of things. The neverborn. Maybe it's appealing for being like secret knowledge no one else knows about. Or just how different things could have gone.

What movie would have been Star Wars, if Star Wars didn't exist?
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I think it's kind of cool, how it's a bit like rom hacks and Dungeons and Dragons game books. Where the fans are like, "fuck it, we'll do it ourselves".

So if you want a frame perfect version of the original movies, a super dedicated mofo got the film and made just that. So you can just slap that onto a disc, print out a slip of your favorite laser disc art (or hell, your favorite fan art), stick it on the shelf and never have to think about Star Wars again.
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Don't feel bad! 3; I just played it in the BG while analysing the same 60sec stretch of game for three hours in a psychotic Cheetos n' Horlicks frenzy :3
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Regarding To Live and Die in LA: It's been a while, but does it show Petersen's Peter in all it's full boner glory? I didn't remember it, but a friend told me that a few years ago. I don't know how I missed a raging boner, one of the missing links in all of cinema. Sans dirty cinema, natch.
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drauch wrote:Regarding To Live and Die in LA: It's been a while, but does it show Petersen's Peter in all it's full boner glory? I didn't remember it, but a friend told me that a few years ago. I don't know how I missed a raging boner, one of the missing links in all of cinema. Sans dirty cinema, natch.
Partial glory and surprisingly, no raging boner. It's definitely there though somewhat in the shadows and the silhouette of an 80's piece of ass. Pretty progressive for the time, I'd say.
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Watched another one today: Lupin III vs. Cat's Eye.
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The last 4 movies I've watched are:
Chinatown Kid (International Cut) which needed more backstory on the gangs in Chinatown and their connection to Hong Kong and also was most unlike many other Shaw Brothers movies but still had some pretty good action.
Executioners from Shaolin starts off as a revenge story for the burning of a Shaolin Temple, but then changes tone so much during the movie that by the time the revenge plot comes back, you forget entirely what the heck is even supposed to have happened. Tons of comedy and family story that just doesn't fit with what the movie sets up, though that action is top notch.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is quite the inspiring movie with a lot of pretty landscape shots and some funny moments.
Guilty of Romance is one of those movies where all I can say is what a wild ride this is. Never expected that twist ending, and certainly didn't expect as much violence in it as there was.
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Minions: The Rise of Gru : *1/2

They ran this series into the ground at least three movies ago, but somehow it keeps going. Manages the rare feat of making a 90 minute movie seem too long.
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Barry Lyndon 9/10

Went to see this last Wednesday at the local theater playing it in a revival series.

Beautifully shot movie. If Clockwork Orange wasn't enough evidence that Kubrick was a master of photography, Barry Lyndon is undeniable proof; with it's British Landscape paintings zooming into Renaissance portraits, and the whole thing shot in natural light to boot. I saw it many years ago, but I wasn't aware that he used absolutely no lighting in the film that time around. This time I was more aware of the lighting, and it was a lot of fun looking for deliberateness in the framing, and choice of daytime that each shot was taken; there are some really wonderful shots taken in the second half of the film where large beams of light pour through windows and illuminate things in an very specific way.

The story is pretty amazing, and the direction is stellar. I don't think Ryan O'neal is particularly good actor actually, but Kubrick knows what he's doing so well that it doesn't matter. He uses O'neal in a perfectly fitting way for his personality and his role in the film and it just doesn't matter that he isn't stealing the show. In fact, it's kind of better that he doesn't. because it gives the rest of the story more room to develop.

One of the most exciting 3 hour and 20 min films I've ever seen, and not a moment of it was too much.
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The Terminator

I tried to stop and think of when the last time I watched this, and it was indeed been a while. Forgotten what a feat this was. Looking back, my only notes to Cameron circa 1984 would be to cut Sarah Conner talking into the tape recorder in the epilogue. A bit heavy handed and doesn't seem to speak to what we saw she was capable of in the climax, nor what we know she'll become. Anywho, whatever. Was a delight to see so many familiar faces, including Bill Paxton. After this, Aliens and Tombstone, it's a shame we didn't see Michael Biehn do more prominent roles.
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The 2008 Speed Racer movie is superior to 300 in every way, especially the style-over-substance aesthetic.

300 is just a bunch of slo-mo and color filters. Speed Racer on the other hand, is constantly surreal, imaginative, and gorgeous:

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Ronin

Solid heist flick. Went with a younger friend to a showing at a local indie theater. Better than I had remembered, probably b/c I had watched it on VHS on my shitty TV when I was still dirt poor in Japan. Also forgot how violent this one was. Yikes. Shootouts and explosions galore.
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Just saw Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania!
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Black Warrant was a pretty disappointing direct-to-video flick.
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Quantmania 6.5/10

I loved the first Ant Man movie. It's my second favorite MCU film after GOTG 1. The second one I didn't care for as much, but I still found it entertaining, and I liked the cast.

Number 3 is a mixed bag. It's kind of a mess as a movie, relying far too heavily on knowledge of other MCU events, and the setup of the previous two Ant Man movies to ever stand up on it's own. That wouldn't be a huge issue if you were marathoning them, but it was distracting to me because I sort of forgot the second movie (it was forgettable), and there was a bunch of new information introduced that didn't have much context to me.

That being said, I think what's actually there is pretty great from moment to moment. I thought the action was exciting, the visuals of the quantum world were beautiful and immersive, and the acting was pretty good from everyone, including Johnathan Majors and Kathryn Newton.

So I guess it could have been a lot worse, and I had fun watching it (which goes a long way for me).

Parting thought is that I can't help comparing the visuals to Way Of The Water, because the quantum realm is kind of trying to be this sort of otherworldly location in it's own universe, which is conceptually similar to the Navi, being it's own imaginary planet. Everything else is obviously a completely different kind of movie, but I appreciate how WOTW used the plot of the movie to develop the world effectively, and I feel like Quantumania kind of missed the boat on that. There are some cool locations, and they used the opportunity of their arrival in the quantum realm as a way to show it's flora and fauna, but they kind of dropped that after a bit and just focused on the action and shots of the established locations about 1/3 of the way through the movie. It leads to a decidedly less epic-feeling experience. The throw-away aesthetics of the film resulted in less investment from me in the plot and outcome of the movie, but I also never felt bored watching it, and I got bored in Avatar 2 from time to time.
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Cocaine Bear 6/10

Ray Liotta was fantastic, and I'm happy that went to see what became his last performance in the theater. Outside of that, it's about what you would expect; with a reasonable amount of on-screen gore. They didn't show absolutely everything, but there are some pretty awesome splatter shots and eviscerations. It was also decently funny. The main plot(s) were not really fleshed out at all, but they tried. I think the main flaw of the movie was that they attempted to develop all of the characters almost equally, and that just didn't really pan out in a 90 min movie

But totally worth a watch. I think if I had to do it again for the first time, I'd sneak a bottle of whiskey into the theater
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GaijinPunch wrote:Ronin

Solid heist flick. Went with a younger friend to a showing at a local indie theater. Better than I had remembered, probably b/c I had watched it on VHS on my shitty TV when I was still dirt poor in Japan. Also forgot how violent this one was. Yikes. Shootouts and explosions galore.
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vol.2 wrote:Quantmania 6.5/10

I loved the first Ant Man movie. It's my second favorite MCU film after GOTG 1. The second one I didn't care for as much, but I still found it entertaining, and I liked the cast.

Number 3 is a mixed bag. It's kind of a mess as a movie, relying far too heavily on knowledge of other MCU events, and the setup of the previous two Ant Man movies to ever stand up on it's own. That wouldn't be a huge issue if you were marathoning them, but it was distracting to me because I sort of forgot the second movie (it was forgettable), and there was a bunch of new information introduced that didn't have much context to me.

That being said, I think what's actually there is pretty great from moment to moment. I thought the action was exciting, the visuals of the quantum world were beautiful and immersive, and the acting was pretty good from everyone, including Johnathan Majors and Kathryn Newton.

So I guess it could have been a lot worse, and I had fun watching it (which goes a long way for me).

Parting thought is that I can't help comparing the visuals to Way Of The Water, because the quantum realm is kind of trying to be this sort of otherworldly location in it's own universe, which is conceptually similar to the Navi, being it's own imaginary planet. Everything else is obviously a completely different kind of movie, but I appreciate how WOTW used the plot of the movie to develop the world effectively, and I feel like Quantumania kind of missed the boat on that. There are some cool locations, and they used the opportunity of their arrival in the quantum realm as a way to show it's flora and fauna, but they kind of dropped that after a bit and just focused on the action and shots of the established locations about 1/3 of the way through the movie. It leads to a decidedly less epic-feeling experience. The throw-away aesthetics of the film resulted in less investment from me in the plot and outcome of the movie, but I also never felt bored watching it, and I got bored in Avatar 2 from time to time.


I am the sort of person who believes this kind of Super Hero movie is for kids. As an adult I didn't feel invested in the story, characters or anything. I could only appreciate the presentation and design choices. 2 hours of eye candy, but not an emotion in sight from me. I didn't care how it ended at all.
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neorichieb1971 wrote: I am the sort of person who believes this kind of Super Hero movie is for kids. As an adult I didn't feel invested in the story, characters or anything. I could only appreciate the presentation and design choices. 2 hours of eye candy, but not an emotion in sight from me. I didn't care how it ended at all.
I guess you could say that. It's for all ages really, but it's what my parent's would call an "adult cartoon." I mean this in the way that it's not explicitly meant for kids, but obviously is produced at a level that will appeal to a younger skewing audience in general. It's just a bit of fluff or whatever, not a serious movie

I liked some of the CGI, and I thought they handled the fight scenes decently; there's a certain amount of creativity involved in choreographing a fight between imaginary beings in alternate dimensions and that kind of thing, and I think that it more often than not feels pretty forced and contrived. In this case, I thought the creatures of the quantum realm were imaginative, and they did a decent (not spectacular) job of fleshing that out, and showing how they would behave. I also thought it had a decent sense of humor, and I chuckled more than once

I also didn't get emotionally attached to anyone and I wasn't really invested in a certain outcome
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I just saw Cocaine Bear. It's a little too... stupid? Like, you expect a movie about a bear that gets high off of its mind on coke to be goofy, but like, I kind of sort of wanted nearly the entire cast dead because they really were just too dumb to live as soon as they opened their mouths. :P
It really isn't a terrible movie, but I was left scratching my head instead of laughing an awful lot of the time. It cracks enough jokes that you'll certainly laugh at some of them.
I was also a little disappointed at how it cut away from the violence. C'mon, it's a movie about a bear that's high on coke, that's as good of a promise of bloody ultraviolence as it gets. Sometimes it delivers, but it mostly tries to keep the tone a bit lighter by not showing the details.

It is very much a 6/10 movie. Ain't gonna say I want my money back, but I would have been much happier to catch this on TV.
Still, Ray Liotta did an extremely fantastic job and his character wasn't nearly as dumb as everyone else in the movie, apart from the mother and maybe the boy.
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I should go see that, the director is hilarious. And by hilarious, I mean she blamed STR8 HUWHITE MAYNES for her Charlie's Angels movie flopping over like a big n' meaty yet hopelessly estrogenic and un-vascular willy. 3; And you know what? Fuck it, she's right - I didn't see it! Bwaaahahahaha! You wot, love? I'm gonna go jerk off to your nudes, lmao! Image Keep the change you whiny cunt. Image

Come to think of it, some black chick tried the same recently with her Black Slaver Action/Drama Supreme "Teh Woman King." Said str8 huwhite maynes were to blame. 3; And you know what? Fuck it, she's right - I didn't see it! Bwaaahahahaha! You wot, cuz? I'm gonna go jerk off to your nudes, lmao! Image Keep the change you whiny cunt. Image

Come to think of it, some gay dude tried the same recently with his Bumsex Comedy Extravaganza "Bros." Said str8 huwhite maynes were to blame. 3; And you know what? Fuck it, he's right - I didn't see it! Bwaaahahahaha! You wot, bruv? I'm gonna go jerk off to your nudes, lmao! Image Keep the change you whiny cunt. Image Wait - holy shit now I'm fuckin gay too, here's my gay card, get owned shite film people :O
null1024 wrote:I was also a little disappointed at how it cut away from the violence. C'mon, it's a movie about a bear that's high on coke, that's as good of a promise of bloody ultraviolence as it gets. Sometimes it delivers, but it mostly tries to keep the tone a bit lighter by not showing the details.

It is very much a 6/10 movie. Ain't gonna say I want my money back, but I would have been much happier to catch this on TV.
Still, Ray Liotta did an extremely fantastic job and his character wasn't nearly as dumb as everyone else in the movie, apart from the mother and maybe the boy.
It sounds like you might prefer RED MACHINE (2015), which was renamed from its unsurpassably cool n' br00tal OG title to a bunch of lame things, before settling on the especially dumb INTO TEH GRIZZLY MAZE. (I think they were trying to channel a bit of that Timmy "Grizzly Man" Treadwell press, but he'd have been aghast! at least I assume! maybe he'd think differently now, having gotten skullfucked by a bear IRL! :O)

It starts out overpoweringly cornball, but improbably enough, shapes up for some decent JAWS W/PAWS terror! The bear isn't on drugs, as far as I know, but he's a mean nasty fucker, combining Freddy's ubiquity with Jason's unstoppable brutality! feat Billy Bob Thornton, a pleasure as always. What is it with first-rate actors in b-films about angry bears? Hm. Well anyway I recommend, remember, the opening cornball shite goes away fast! At least IIRC! Image

Oh also, in more sombre tone, Backcountry (2014) No it's not a porno you dirty devils! It's a Canadian-made would-be wilderness survival flick about an urban couple on a doomed romantic getaway. Unfortunately the male lead is a total fucking dingus, the definition of Stupid Horror Protagonist. Where Reynolds and Voight are tragically naive in Deliverance, this guy is just a fucknut. He certainly gets his, in eyebrow-raising detail - a brief frisson of undeniable horror in an otherwise middling movie! AKA: "Blackfoot Trail." What is with Violent Bear movies and all the retitlings?
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