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BrianC wrote:
soprano1 wrote:The Big Sleep (1946)
Detective noir movie with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Love the smart ass dialogue from these movies.
I enjoyed it quite a bit. I also liked To Have and Have Not and Key Largo (Edward G. Robinson is in this one too).
Sorry for not replying, those seem interesting watches, thank you. I'll watch something different today, 1969's Easy Rider. Or tomorrow.
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Easy Rider (1969)
Fucking great. Jack Nicholson did a wonderful performance here. Hopper and Fonda were, like, cool man. :)
That ending, though, kinda came out of nowhere.
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A different kind of film rant this time.

"Interpretation"

I seem to be totally at odds with fellow film lovers over the following;
EPIC SPOILERS AHEAD


It Follows (2014) - David Robert Mitchell
Aids? Really?!
Basically its Freud meets indie horror; "Our beds are crowded" and a story of redemption from same.


The Babadook (2014) - Jennifer Kent
Basically the malignant spirit of Incest.
How the fuck this one is not obvious can only be put down to the same blatant denial that is constantly hammerd home in the film.
The mother, once she accepts "The Babadook" (an aspect of her dead husband), keeps it "fed" "down in the cellar" until the son is "bigger". I mean, come the fuck on!

Son; "am I ever going to see it?
Mother; "One day . . . when your bigger"

Re-watch the last scene and tell me that I'm wrong.


Catfish (2010) - Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
As far as I can ascertain the term as it pertains to dishonest internet "relationships", originates with this film? If so, it has been misused by the audience.
In the film, Angela is not the Catfish. Yaniv is.
Angela's husband tells a story about "Catfish", which makes clear what is meant by the term within the context of the film.
Yaniv is the Catfish that keeps Angela "moving" within the intolerable confines of the life she has been imprisoned in.
In fact I would go so far as to say that it was Angela's husband that set the whole thing up.
He understood that Angela was not going to survive without a "Catfish" to keep her "moving".
My guess is that Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, realising that they had a hit on there hands, did not give a fuck how the term was being misapplied and just ran with it.
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To Have and Have Not (1944)
A good old wartime movie taking place in Martinique, in the Caribbean. Lauren Bacall had some stupendous camera shots here. That stern, i'll-bite-you-if-you-mess-with-me face is simply great. That little dancing jiggle in the end was cute as hell. :lol:
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soprano1 wrote:Easy Rider (1969)
Fucking great. Jack Nicholson did a wonderful performance here. Hopper and Fonda were, like, cool man. :)
That ending, though, kinda came out of nowhere.
Yes. Great soundtrack also.
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xxx1993 wrote:Feels like Pacific Rim: Uprising is the kind of movie only fans of the first movie (like myself) would enjoy.
OR, maybe you just like shit movies because you don't know any better?

How's that for a concept.
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You think Pacific Rim is shit?
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Skykid wrote:
xxx1993 wrote:Feels like Pacific Rim: Uprising is the kind of movie only fans of the first movie (like myself) would enjoy.
OR, maybe you just like shit movies because you don't know any better?

How's that for a concept.
Definitely not as good as the first movie. Its almost uncanny how like the ID4 part 2 was -
Spoiler
Main character from part one is dead in both movies, silly shit happens like even having a 11 year old building a Jaegor the height of 4 cars stacked on each other. Also comparisons on silly shit like talking to an alien in English, Drifting wtih an alien brain to open the portal). Aliens need the restistance ball, aliens need to get to mount fuji. When its all over a powerless craft crashes into the last alien in both movies. Both movies end with the line "Its now time we take the fight to them" as the camera pans out to space where by using the alien craft they attack the alien hub
Apart from those spoilers, the actors were cheaper, had less impact.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
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Hey, you don't know what happened to Raleigh Beckett. Maybe Raleigh isn't dead after all.
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Key Largo (1948)
Johnny Rocco is the best, see? No one messes with Johnny Rocco! Yes...
Edward G. Robinson was king. I wonder how The Godfather would be with him, instead of Marlon Brando.
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soprano1 wrote:Easy Rider (1969)
Fucking great. Jack Nicholson did a wonderful performance here. Hopper and Fonda were, like, cool man. :)
That ending, though, kinda came out of nowhere.
I watched this for the first time last year too, believe it or not. I think the ending could have gone either way, since the movie was both a rumination on the deforming pressure of pre-60s American values and, at the same time, a critique of the counterculture and where it had ended up (the ineffectual idealism of the commune, the depravity of Billy). I think I would have slightly preferred a quiet ending too, but it's all good anyway.

I highly highly recommend the other New Hollywood/BBS Productions films that followed Easy Rider if you've never seen them, especially Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens. Both have absolutely standout Nicholson performances, probably the best of his career outside Chinatown imo.
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blackoak wrote:the movie was both a rumination on the deforming pressure of pre-60s American values and, at the same time, a critique of the counterculture and where it had ended up (the ineffectual idealism of the commune, the depravity of Billy). I think I would have slightly preferred a quiet ending too, but it's all good anyway.

I highly highly recommend the other New Hollywood/BBS Productions films that followed Easy Rider if you've never seen them, especially Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens. Both have absolutely standout Nicholson performances, probably the best of his career outside Chinatown imo.
That's interesting, thanks. We never felt the impact of a counterculture until the early 80's, due to a almost 40-year-old dictatorship (not counting the previous 5 year military dictatorship and the failed Republic governments that came from the fall of the monarchy in 1910), so seeing and reading about what happened in the US and other democratic countries is important.
I'll see about those suggestions, too.
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Speaking of a good Dennis Hopper vehicle about counterculture, he directed a very good 1980 movie called Out of the Blue, starring a great Linda Manz (who sadly never had much of a career) as a punk-rock teen living with a slut, junkie mother and a drunk, deadbeat father (played by Hopper) in jail. The movie is carried, interestingly, by a Neil Young-infused soundtrack (particularly Hey hey, my my), so that adds a nice melancholy atmosphere to the whole thing.

It can be a sloppy and unrefined movie, but it couldn't [try to] claim to be part of the early "punk" ethos if it wasn't rough around the edges, ha.
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I'll just leave this here;
Dennis Hopper cant act and the only thing "counter culture" about that bunch of pricks, was the money the counted by "turning out" aforementioned culture.
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Double Indemnity (1944)
Great dialogue and twisted characters, damn! Edward G. Robinson delivered all the way, even being a secondary character. Nice usage of light in some scenes, too.
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Zen wrote:I'll just leave this here;
Dennis Hopper cant act
not a fan of the seminal performances in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 or Super Mario Bros? There's no accounting for taste!
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I generally don't have strong opinions on acting per se, but I only knew Hopper from Waterworld, Blue Velvet, Super Mario... and I was pleasantly surprised to find out he was quite the young auteur. Apparently his follow-up "The Last Movie" was a pretentious disaster, I'm yet to see it though.

Having only secondhand knowledge of the 60s I actually found it hard to evaluate the verisimilitude of Easy Rider with only the stereotypical hippie image in my mind, but reading some of the film criticism (Criterion has a few good pieces) helped give me some more background.
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Tropical malady rewatch
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Amityville Horror (original):
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Zen wrote:I'll just leave this here;
Dennis Hopper cant act and the only thing "counter culture" about that bunch of pricks, was the money the counted by "turning out" aforementioned culture.
Hopper was never a great actor, but that air of drug-addled insanity worked well in certain roles. I think Blue Velvet is probably the best thing he did.

I've seen worse, put it that way.
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There is no doubt that his quirky delivery could entertain;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aarXpSvjFy4
Not a fan of Blue Velvet (1986), or his performance in it but I will concede that's probably to do with my own preferences.
"Hopper's drugs" and how they relate to his position in Hollywood, well, perhaps its best left to the imagination.

He and his cronies, milked the "scene" for all they could get, though. They were fucking frauds. They were to the late 60's, what "Beatniks" were to the already cringey, Beat Generation.
His above mentioned Out of the Blue (1980), is a fine example of Hopper's bullshit.

Within the context of actors of that time, Hopper was basically a groupie.
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Star Wars VIII Last Jedi
mix bag..try to kill the nostalgia in good way maby..donno
it has some great scenes and some shitty stuff too
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Evil Dead 2 (maby its my 50's time lol)
this shit never gets old..Classic
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blackoak wrote:
I highly highly recommend the other New Hollywood/BBS Productions films that followed Easy Rider if you've never seen them, especially Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens. Both have absolutely standout Nicholson performances, probably the best of his career outside Chinatown imo.
I'd add The Last Detail, The Passenger and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to that list. Basically everything he did between Easy Rider and winning his oscar.

The Passenger isn't to everyone's taste, but I love it. Apparently he bought it and for years owned the rights. The DVD has a commentary by Nicholson over the whole thing. I think it's the only times he's ever done something like that.

Watched Annihilation. It was ok. The agro bitch was annoying, I'm so bored of characters like that. It seems very low budget. Skykid's Ghostbusters analogy is right, I even said so to the gf as we were watching. It wants the be a big profound thing, but there is no mystery to it, it's light. Maybe it was the production, but it did seem like a tv show that had been cut into a movie.

I liked most of the cast, the sound was really good. I thought it looked ugly, the mixture of cgi, the colours. Maybe it's supposed to? Owes a debt to a The Last of Us for sure. A bit silly at the end.
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The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Bloody fantastic war movie with an all-star cast. Gregory Peck, in particular, was scary as fuck when he got angry at the explosives guy two hours in. Magnificent presentation, some very cool shots of the beautiful Greek islands, and a nice score. It's a long movie (2 and a half hours), but well worth watching.

Ran (1985)
Not the best Kurosawa movie, but still interesting nevertheless. Hidetora's crazy old man make-up as he gets madder was scary as shit. :lol: His "court jester" was also very funny.
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Thermae Romae
Hiroshi Abe as a bath-house designer in ancient Rome. His designs suck and he loses his job. While at a public bath house, he goes under the water, and gets caught in a current that leads him to modern Japan. He then copies stuff and takes it back and keeps on going between the places, each time with new info and making a name for himself. I doubt the sequel will be as good, but this movie does its job very well. I laughed quite a bit at the things he finds so amazing in modern times. Plus watching the old guys build huts was fun!
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Eran Trece - Spanish language version of Charlie Chan Carries On, a lost movie. Fun murder mystery and it's interesting hearing Chan-isms in Spanish (thankfully, this movie is full of them). The actor playing Charlie Chan also nailed the mannerisms. There was a hilarious mistake where Charlie Chan's wife spoke Japanese instead of Chinese, though.
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Not exactly sure why the theater was showing Ready Player One a couple days early, but whatever. I only saw it because my dad and sister were going to see it and invited me too.

Honestly, it was better than I expected. I'm glad the story went in the direction it did in the end. Also, I can't even count how many references there were.
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Dead Zone:
Rewatch. I like it but i don´t know why the movie is still 18+ rated.
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I KILL GIANTS
great first and second acts
average 3rd..it has its great moments but didnt like the ending
but overall its good
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Stir Crazy (1980)
Oh, this shit was great! Great comedy with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, directed by Sidney Poitier( :shock: ).
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