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Peterpuff 05.27.2020 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by NYCgaf16
now i will watch breadcrumb trail, that documentary about slint


Speaking of docs, that is a damn enjoyable watch, too. Still blows my mind how young they are in so much of that footage.

And on that note, loudQUIETloud is a great insight to Pixies zaniness too, left off of earlier lists.

Antagon 05.27.2020 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by EVOLghost
You know what's nuts......atsonicpark is still the leading poster in this thread....



Dude was a quite insightful. His songs of praise probably got me into Takeshi Kitano movies.

demonrail666 05.27.2020 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
caught “senna” the other day

 


was pretty great.


I've always wanted to enjoy that more than I do. I think the problem is I'm a total Senna fanboy who would've probably been happier with 2 hours of various talking heads simply talking about how great he was. There's so much mythology built up around him, which his cult fandom essentially feeds off, that I actually didn't like seeing any of it chipped away in order to present a more balanced, and certainly truer account.

!@#$%! 05.27.2020 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I've always wanted to enjoy that more than I do. I think the problem is I'm a total Senna fanboy who would've probably been happier with 2 hours of various talking heads simply talking about how great he was. There's so much mythology built up around him, which his cult fandom essentially feeds off, that I actually didn't like seeing any of it chipped away in order to present a more balanced, and certainly truer account.

oh, i never was, or knew much about him tbh, so for me this was a window into a piece of sports history. to me it looked like a total hagiography, with prost as the villain. a less pure image emerges from senna’s wikipedia page, like the 15 year old fiance when he was 25? the movie skips a lot of girlfriends hahahahaha. anyway in the movie i saw him definitely as the good guy. and his ongoing duel with prost was reminiscent of borg/mcenroe.

EVOLghost 05.28.2020 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Antagon
Dude was a quite insightful. His songs of praise probably got me into Takeshi Kitano movies.


Found a DVD of his in my drawer, so I put Can’t or Won’t Not on YouTube. That was really nice.

And funnily enough....I just recently watched Hana-Bi recently too. Immediately thought of him when I put it on.

_tunic_ 05.28.2020 05:25 PM

 

Not the best Hitchcock movie but definitely a good one

 

I really liked this one. Great acting by Viggo as well as most of the kids especially the one wearing the gas mask

!@#$%! 05.30.2020 06:14 PM

^^ i liked captain fantastic tons too

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anyway

the coen bros “hail, caesar!” was great and hilarious

 


shot by roger deakins and everything in it is really great and smart and tons of fun

Dr. Eugene Felikson 05.30.2020 06:53 PM

I mostly just watch old westerns now

Hammer horror too

!@#$%! 06.02.2020 08:52 PM

dark star (john carpenter, 1974)

 


this was a fucking revelation. truckers in space 5 years before alien! and “alien“ before “alien”! except hilarious satire instead of horror. borrows a bit from pkd too. dan o’bannon! who knew??? and john carpenter right out of film school (i think this was a student project that grew into a feature?’

highly recommended to everyone. wow! blew my mind. and i laughed so hard.

LifeDistortion 06.03.2020 10:41 PM

Been watching a lot of stuff on HBO Max. I watched Man Bites Dog a couple nights ago and The Lego Movie last night.

HenryHill51 06.17.2020 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
THE DAY TRIPPERS (greg mottola, 1996)

 


great little movie i hadn’t ever heard of but found it on criterion today and blam!

i wasn’t fully aware of greg mottola either, although he was the director of superbad and had a hand in arrested development and other good tv shows.

this was good and funny and a great cast, well beyond the confines of this poster which only features the back seat and is missing the driver, the copilot (lol), and a bunch of other people. just finished a very enjoyable afternoon with it.

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i am however superdisappointed that criterion took peter greenaway’s “the draughtsman’s contract” offline before i had the chance to see it :(



One of my favorite films of the 90's. Saw it alone in a grimy art house theater upon release. It still holds up today as anarchic/incisive comedy.

NYCgaf16 06.18.2020 07:58 AM

 


a doc about CBGB's

i hate one thing about this movie, there was nothing about sonic youth and no-wave scene!

!@#$%! 06.18.2020 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by NYCgaf16
 


a doc about CBGB's



oh, it's not a documentary. it's a heavily fictionalized account. :D

demonrail666 06.18.2020 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
dark star (john carpenter, 1974)

 


this was a fucking revelation. truckers in space 5 years before alien! and “alien“ before “alien”! except hilarious satire instead of horror. borrows a bit from pkd too. dan o’bannon! who knew??? and john carpenter right out of film school (i think this was a student project that grew into a feature?’

highly recommended to everyone. wow! blew my mind. and i laughed so hard.


YES!

Carpenter went on to make more polished films but considering the limitations of budget and that it was essentially a student project (at least to begin with) it really can't be faulted. So many memorable scenes. So many quotable lines. And how many SF films have a country song for a theme tune? Love it to bits.

_tunic_ 06.18.2020 10:05 AM

That Dark Star can be watched in full on Youtube btw, thanks for the recommendation. It was cool, especially the super hightech alien, it surely must have cost a fortune in CGI etc :D

This forum has been down so long, that I forgot what movies I watched. This one was nice, especially because the woman really existed:

 

_tunic_ 06.18.2020 01:14 PM

My memory is returning bits by bits. This one was very funny:

 


This is the movie, there's also a TV series that I've not seen (but it's running on BBC). Possibly the first New Zealand movie I've ever seen (?)

Rob Instigator 06.18.2020 04:36 PM

Great movie, great series. Both are deeply bad ass and hilarious

_tunic_ 06.20.2020 10:49 AM

 


Great movie! It's now also available on Netflix, highly recommended! It's a bit of an odd one for Martin Scorsese amongst his oeuvre of mafia films but that doesn't matter at all

LifeDistortion 06.20.2020 11:55 AM

Yesterday I watched Lady Snowblood, really great. Then I watched Uncut Gems which I also enjoyed.

NYCgaf16 06.20.2020 01:50 PM

i recently watched All Tomorrows Parties doc, cool movie. i think i will watch some kind of like anime movie? it's called Akira i think

!@#$%! 06.20.2020 02:11 PM

oh! akira is a classic. enjoy!

Bertrand 06.22.2020 10:59 AM

Samuel Fuller's White Dog, based on the Romain Gary book.
I liked the movie more than the book.


Rock'n'Roll High School too, which was fun from start to finish.
An Allan Arkush movie with the Ramones. Mary Woronov was in it too.

!@#$%! 06.22.2020 04:13 PM

the death of stalin. fucking hilarious!

Severian 06.23.2020 08:32 AM

I’m not sure why I was expecting this to be less than stellar — maybe because it was ignored by awards for the most part — but Knives Out was actually a crackling good film.
Nicely played, paced and developed. A beautiful homage to Agatha Christie. Smart and simple and fun.

 

h8kurdt 06.23.2020 09:52 AM

That was a great watch. I'm not one for whodunnits either. Took me a little bit to get used to Daniel Craig dragging that accent around like a seal's arse, mind.

NYCgaf16 06.23.2020 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian
 

ohhhh yess, great movie, i really liked it

Severian 06.23.2020 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
That was a great watch. I'm not one for whodunnits either. Took me a little bit to get used to Daniel Craig dragging that accent around like a seal's arse, mind.


Yeah, same. I really like Daniel Craig, and that accent was unexpected to say the least. But it kinda grew on me, as did Daniel Craig playing a different kind of heroic character. I really fucking liked this movie and it was just a pleasure to watch.

Stacked cast, too, everyone just nailed it. Michael Shannon being mildly menacing? Easy. Don Johnson being a prick? Yeah! Girl fro Blade Runner being adorable and complicated despite the relative simplicity of the character? Ding ding. And Chris Evans being a Fucking DICK and still totally likable?

Great stuff man. So glad I watched.


OH, Darius from Atlanta too!

tw2113 06.24.2020 08:26 AM

Not sure I've read anything bad about Knives Out, if I'm being honest, though I also haven't sought the feedback out. Just moments in passing online.

Rob Instigator 06.24.2020 10:10 AM

Knives Out was super fun and very entertaining.

!@#$%! 06.24.2020 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
That was a great watch. I'm not one for whodunnits either. Took me a little bit to get used to Daniel Craig dragging that accent around like a seal's arse, mind.

i enjoyed the movie too, but man, that accent was probably worse than kevin costner’s in robin hood prince of thieves or keanu’s in dracula. absolutely from nowhere and a massive distraction.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWrnVuT4Is

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=moaW8LRusak

:D :D :D

Bertrand 06.25.2020 04:56 PM

Danger: Diabolik!
If it can't be believed, let's not try to make it believable.
Highly more enjoyable than James Bond movies, visually stunning.

!@#$%! 06.25.2020 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Bertrand
Danger: Diabolik!
If it can't be believed, let's not try to make it believable.
Highly more enjoyable than James Bond movies, visually stunning.

i saw that maybe 10 years ago, and remember very little to nothing about it, except maybe it was pseudo-fantômas, and i liked it a lot?



anyway just saw this for the first time:

 


it was terrible, but good! hahahaha

Severian 06.27.2020 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i enjoyed the movie too, but man, that accent was probably worse than kevin costner’s in robin hood prince of thieves or keanu’s in dracula. absolutely from nowhere and a massive distraction.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWrnVuT4Is

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=moaW8LRusak

:D :D :D


Uhhh, wasn’t the whole thing that Kevin Costner had no accent in Prince of Thieves?

Like literally everyone had a British accent except for him, which I assume is because he simply refused and said “I’m Kevin Costner and it’s 1990, I’m basically god.”

*shrug*

!@#$%! 06.27.2020 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian
Uhhh, wasn’t the whole thing that Kevin Costner had no accent in Prince of Thieves?

Like literally everyone had a British accent except for him, which I assume is because he simply refused and said “I’m Kevin Costner and it’s 1990, I’m basically god.”

*shrug*

he’s not doing a kevin costner’s voice. he’s doing a weird little affectation that comes and goes at random times and it’s HILARIOUS

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btw i tried to watch UNCUT GEMS the other day and after 1/2 hours of not liking absolutely anybody in it i turned it off

!@#$%! 06.27.2020 09:20 PM

tinker tailor soldier spy

 


great movie, but not having ever read a john le carré movie i am glad this was on video where i could pause or rewind and figure out wtf was going on. “karla” “witchcraft” “circus” what??? eventually i sorted it but took a little while.

great fucking story. i mean, of the spy genre.

Severian 06.28.2020 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
he’s not doing a kevin costner’s voice. he’s doing a weird little affectation that comes and goes at random times and it’s HILARIOUS

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btw i tried to watch UNCUT GEMS the other day and after 1/2 hours of not liking absolutely anybody in it i turned it off


Uncut Gems is horrible, you did yourself a kindness

Severian 06.28.2020 07:30 AM

This was very good and haunting.
The director, Bennett Miller, is a real talent. I haven’t seen “Capote” yet, but now I will.
 

!@#$%! 06.28.2020 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian
Uncut Gems is horrible, you did yourself a kindness

yah, imma read the spoilers now cuz we figured he got the arkenstone but blech

demonrail666 06.28.2020 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
tinker tailor soldier spy

 


great movie, but not having ever read a john le carré movie i am glad this was on video where i could pause or rewind and figure out wtf was going on. “karla” “witchcraft” “circus” what??? eventually i sorted it but took a little while.

great fucking story. i mean, of the spy genre.


It is an enjoyable movie. I was really sceptical when I heard they'd cast Gary Oldman as Smiley but he does a fine job in a role that's still pretty much defined by Alec Guinness in the BBC serialisation from the 70s, which I can't recommend highly enough.

 

!@#$%! 06.28.2020 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
a role that's still pretty much defined by Alec Guinness in the BBC serialisation from the 70s, which I can't recommend highly enough.

 


holy shit! where do i find this??

i’m looking now...


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