03.06.2013, 10:02 AM | #16661 |
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^ Never heard of it. Any good?
(Although even if it's not, I love John Goodman so much I'll watch it anyway.) |
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03.06.2013, 10:04 AM | #16662 |
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By the way, do most people have TCM in their cable package? Is Turner Classic Movies a US-only company?
If enough people have it, I think it warrants its own thread. Everyday there's something really great on. |
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03.06.2013, 10:34 AM | #16663 |
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Re fave movie cops:
1. Popeye Doyle 2. Bad Lieutenant 3. Bud white - LA Confidential Guilty pleasures: Riggs - Lethal Weapon Axel Foley - Beverly Hills Cop |
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03.06.2013, 11:38 AM | #16664 |
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oh shit yeah your guilty pleasures definitely. i was almost gonna put lethal weapon (the first one, not the rest).
i remember la confidential but i can't recall the cop. swiss cheese mind & what not. |
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03.06.2013, 02:19 PM | #16665 |
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03.06.2013, 02:23 PM | #16666 | |
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yeah, i expected a shit blockbuster and found myself liking it. sure, won't need to watch it again but in all it was cool. |
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03.06.2013, 02:24 PM | #16667 |
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That "The Conversation" poster is cool
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Now that's a sterling recommendation!
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Its based loosely on a book by James Lee Burke, a really good series about Robicheaux... Last night I finished Hobo With A Shotgun. "You have you whole life ahead of you, I'M JUST A HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN". absolutely not for children or sensitive types. |
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03.06.2013, 10:58 PM | #16670 |
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District 9:
The acting was terrible, like fodder for MST3K bad, but the effects and production was fairly decent. I generally despise CGI oriented movies, I'd love to see somebody get some balls and make an old James Cameron puppets/sets/make-up movie rather than a James Cameron 2.0 CGI disaster..
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03.07.2013, 12:51 AM | #16671 |
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on a side note anyone got the dvd of the fanedit called UNDER CONSTRUCTION at all? i got shitloads to trade via snail mail incase you never heard of it before. it basically follows D-FENS around and that's it. the cops don't show up until the end of the movie. i'm sure it's out there on the internet, but can anyone hook me up? and no, it's not on Cinemageddon |
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03.07.2013, 07:24 AM | #16672 | |
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The cop in la confidential is the one played by Russell Crowe. A thug with a badge, effectively. My general rule of thumb is the less I'd condone their actions in real life, the more I'll like them on screen - although the older I get the more I wouldn't mind the idea of a few real life Popeyes patrolling the streets of London. Another obvious candidate for top cop is 'Dirty' Harry Callahan. |
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oh yeah i remember him now vaguely (ha ha). oh let's not forget beat takeshi on "violent cop" |
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03.07.2013, 05:42 PM | #16674 |
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Very good call on Violent Cop
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03.08.2013, 02:23 PM | #16675 | |
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Completely agree. One of Scorsese's most underrated films, IMO. Paul Newman is brilliant. It'd make a great double bill with Hard Eight. |
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03.08.2013, 02:25 PM | #16676 | |
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I have to say I find that film deathly boring. It's all very well done, and all that, but Christ is it slow. |
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i think maybe i'll side with whit sillman re: the discreet charm (ha ha ha). but don't miss simon of the desert! hilarious, as i recall. |
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Like District 9, this is one of those movies where the fantastic production and effects almost make up for the absolute shit acting and casting. However, I will say this movie is better than District 9 because it had (a) less characters in general so less opportunities for bad acting; (b) had less dialogue per character than D9 so again, less opportunities for bad acting; (c) relied more so on scenery, setting, and effects than the actors, and so in this regard was visually brilliant. If you had just shown us a few scenes from this movie without any of the acting, like some of the panorama shots or wide-outs, you might have been fooled into thinking it was made by somebody decent. After all, what would the world do late-nights or boring weekend mid-afternoons without terrible movies on television to watch? What would TV be without these movies? It is synchronicity and a delightful survival of the fittest adaptation. Humans are crazy. Our flowers and mating dances are in actuality such shit movies and television. Our dance of survival is much less mystifying than the birds of paradise, but altogether more epic in scale. I mean, that movie must have cost millions (they're saying $90,000,000) of dollars and employed a thousand people.
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03.09.2013, 04:14 AM | #16680 | |
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I like Bunuel too and agree that he's up there with the greats. I've just never been able to get into Belle De Jour. Back to Colo(u)r of Money, besides Paul Newman's performance, I love the dialogue, which was written by probably my favourite contemporary novelist, Richard Price (The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, Clockers, etc). He's regularly called on by Hollywood to provide gritty, streetwise dialogue and sometimes writes for The Wire and is probably the only screenwriter today that I actively follow. If he's involved, even a crappy movie (say American Gangster) is guaranteed to have a few great lines. Very much a dive bar Billy Wilder. |
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