Besides Star Wars at EOY, anyone else excited for The Martian?
07-01-2015 09:08 PM
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Besides Star Wars at EOY, anyone else excited for The Martian? | |
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07-05-2015 08:08 PM
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I want to be excited, but most "space travel" sci-fi movies tend to get some of the simplest things wrong that it'll be annoying. | |
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07-09-2015 06:50 PM
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An Honest Liar on Netflix. Incredible documentary about James Randi, a father of modern skepticism. So many worthwhile lessons to learn from this man and his experiences. From emulating and out-doing Houdini, to unmasking charlatans mind-bending spoons and faith-healing cancer, to fooling scientists into believing in psychic forces, to the people who go insane in the face of overwhelming evidence and automatically revert to whatever prior belief they held dear, to spoon-benders and faith-healers still managing to bilk rubes - the central tenet is that you can be deceived, no exceptions. | |
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07-09-2015 07:20 PM
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i wanna watch that. always liked randis the mandis. |
07-10-2015 12:01 AM
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An Honest Liar looks like it would be interesting. Depressing, but interesting. |
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12-19-2015 07:29 AM
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Bumping this, as it's the right place to put it, but I recommend both Best of Enemies and The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. | |
Last edited by a500lbgorilla; 12-19-2015 at 07:50 AM. Reason: word choice | |
12-28-2015 07:52 PM
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Star Wars was pretty cool. Definitely a kids movie, though it still had 4 or 5 "that's cool" moments and none of them were Star Wars nostalgic. | |
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12-29-2015 11:38 AM
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Oh I fucking love James Randi! | |
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12-29-2015 12:03 PM
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If you are anywhere close to a theater playing Hateful Eight in 70mm Panavision, pay the extra money and make the trip. | |
12-29-2015 12:18 PM
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I fell asleep to that documentary a few days back. I still recommend it. It really is unbelievable how he learned from watching the Master Houdini, then eventually went on to trick the world into learning how easily they can be fooled. | |
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12-30-2015 12:57 PM
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It gets a little awkward towards the end, but yeah, worth watching. I didn't even know annything about the fake fake psychics. That just shows the level of commitment of that man. I'll definitely recommend it to people who need to see the light of Randi. Sucks that it's not on Amazon Prime. I don't have Netflix. I rented it on Vimeo which wasn't a great experience. Had to refresh the page a couple of times to keep it playing. | |
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04-07-2016 09:53 PM
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OMG FOREST WHITAKER. TAKE MY MONEY DISNEY, TAKE IT NOW. | |
04-07-2016 11:23 PM
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I saw 10 Cloverfield Lane. | |
04-07-2016 11:28 PM
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04-08-2016 12:13 AM
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John Goodman is easily (easily!) the most underrated actor alive. He's Philip Seymour Hoffman level talent yet continually relegated to supporting and obscure roles. That's what being fat in Hollywood will do to you. |
04-08-2016 12:22 AM
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Leo's Revenant win (he won right?) is just another stone in the building that is the ridiculousness of the Oscars. It wasn't his best performance and frankly I don't think what the role called for showcased great acting. Constant pain and destitution is probably one of the easier things to fake. |
04-08-2016 12:51 AM
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Damn it, wufwugy, I agreed with every single thing you said in these last two tangential stream of consciousness posts, all the way up until the egregious Saving Private Ryan hyperbole. It's a good movie, but com'on, man. | |
04-08-2016 01:59 PM
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LOL |
04-08-2016 03:04 PM
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04-11-2016 04:28 AM
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What We Do In The Shadows is one of the better movies I've seen in a while. | |
Last edited by oskar; 04-11-2016 at 04:31 AM.
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04-11-2016 02:13 PM
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What We Do In The Shadows With Ur Mom is better. |
04-12-2016 09:20 PM
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04-13-2016 07:58 AM
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At least my mom is in the movies. | |
Last edited by oskar; 04-13-2016 at 08:08 AM.
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07-13-2016 09:53 AM
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At the 2014 Oscars 20 Feet of Stardom won best documentary over The Act of Killing, so even though I haven't seen it I must recommend 20 Feet of Stardom as likely the most impactful documentary you can watch. One that exposes our collective responsibility in both participating and ignoring one of the... sing and dancing... that provoked reactions from both chinese and indonesian... stage and light and fame and bleed, bleed, bleed, bleed. | |
Last edited by oskar; 07-13-2016 at 11:24 AM.
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08-11-2016 11:27 PM
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It Follows is a really neat little horror movie. It doesn't get pretentious, it's confident enough not to try to ridicule its dumb premise, and it makes filmmaking look effortless. I cannot recommend this enough. This is one of the movies that makes me want to shoot a movie. It's just masterfully executed on a very tight budget. | |
Last edited by oskar; 08-11-2016 at 11:30 PM.
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08-13-2016 11:56 PM
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Everything about Under The Skin is fantastic. | |
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01-21-2017 09:21 PM
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I thought Split was a pretty good movie. It was like 10 Cloverfield lane, but weirder. | |
02-13-2017 11:21 AM
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John Wick Chapter 2 was awesome, I highly recommend. |
02-13-2017 11:30 AM
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Would you recommend it to someone who hated John Wick 1? |
Last edited by BananaStand; 02-13-2017 at 11:34 AM. | |
05-06-2017 01:13 PM
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05-07-2017 01:54 AM
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05-07-2017 01:56 AM
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I'm honestly curious as to anyones attempt at proving me wrong. Find a film where you (and maybe me) think that part one of a film duology or trilogy or whatever is shit, whereas the sequal is amazing. | |
05-07-2017 06:33 AM
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kickass |
05-07-2017 03:38 PM
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I thought X-Men was trash but I've heard Logan is good. Does that count? I can think of a lot of sequels that were at least as good as the first movie: Aliens, Terminator, Batman Returns... erm... Before Sunset. Ok, I can think of 4. There are a decent amount of remakes that are a lot better than the originals. The Thing, The Fly, Dawn of the Dead, The Crazies, The Grudge, The Ring, Desperado. | |
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05-07-2017 03:40 PM
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05-07-2017 03:51 PM
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Me and a friend were going through the IMDB top 100 yesterday and found it insane that Logan is in the top 100. It's nothing more than a decent action flick. |
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05-07-2017 04:04 PM
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That's just it being a new popular movie. Stranger Things was a 9.5 when it came out. The way imdb works the more mainstream and the less disagreeable a movie is, the higher the score will be. Not necessarily a sign of quality. The Neon Demon is a 6.2. The Witch is a 6.8. Truly great movies will never get a good score. If at least half the people don't despise it, it can't really be a good movie. That doesn't translate well to rating systems. | |
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05-08-2017 08:39 AM
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I rented "arrival" with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner recently |
05-08-2017 10:25 AM
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case in point | |
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06-03-2017 08:45 PM
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Watch John Wick now | |
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06-03-2017 08:54 PM
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10-02-2017 03:12 PM
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Fury Road really does work extremely well in B&W. I want to watch it for a third time now, but in B&W and dubbed in russian. There really isn't any need for dialogue in this movie. It sounds like much of the dialogue has already been ADR'd in the english version, so there already is that weird disconnect between the image and the sound that it shouldn't matter what language you watch it in. I honestly think watching it in a language you don't understand with no subtitles would knock this up from a great movie to a phenomenal movie. My first pick would be Mongolian, because you'd go: what happened there? post-apocalypse america, everyone's speaking mongolian? That would be great, but if you can't find the mongolian version, russian should do. | |
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10-02-2017 10:06 PM
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This actually sounds like a fantastic idea. Have you seen Valhalla Rising? It's pretty much a movie where a director had the idea you're pushing: highly stylized ultra violent flick with essentially no dialogue. I think there may be one or two lines total, and IIRC it's got a run time over two hours. Definitely worth checking out. | |
10-02-2017 11:43 PM
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No, but I'll check it out. There's way too much talking in movies these days. One of my favorite movies of the last couple of years is The Neon Demon and it's basically a 2h music video. It's just highly stylized shots and trance music and it's amazing. | |
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10-05-2017 02:15 PM
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Off topic, but that makes me think of this-- kinda the same, but inverse, a music video with a ton of talking(for a music video), but it's so good. Good speakers and loud goes a long way, ldo. | |
10-10-2017 04:31 AM
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Green Room | |
Last edited by oskar; 10-10-2017 at 07:40 AM.
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10-10-2017 11:50 AM
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Watched Rocky 4 last night. |
10-10-2017 01:21 PM
#798
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I know, right. Could have gone fuck yourself instead. | |
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10-10-2017 01:33 PM
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10-10-2017 01:59 PM
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Ok so because I really truly have nothing better to do and I don't tend to reminisce over lost time in the same way you do, let me break this down: | |
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10-10-2017 02:13 PM
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This sentence kinda undermined everything else you said after this. |
10-10-2017 03:39 PM
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Never fool yourself to think you're wasting old man time, | |
10-10-2017 06:17 PM
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I remember watching Rocky 6 at the cinema & at the end people applauded. It was shit. |
10-10-2017 09:48 PM
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Rocky wins the cold war and Paulie has robot sex is exactly why Rocky 4 is good. | |
01-07-2018 12:41 AM
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Bright | |
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01-07-2018 01:11 AM
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I really want to know what "critics" think of when they "review" movies. | |
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01-07-2018 08:36 AM
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The Rocky series is great, but I wouldn't recommend anyone watch just one of them by itself unless it's the very first one. So much of it builds on the previous films. | |
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01-07-2018 03:55 PM
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01-07-2018 04:18 PM
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Can never go wrong with the two greatest action films of all time: |
01-07-2018 04:41 PM
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There are some insanely good movies that are widely regarded as action schlock that I think are amazing. Starship Troopers would be on top of that list. RLM did a great breakdown on that one. Robocop, Total recall ldo. Demolition Man maybe... maybe not that many actually. | |
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01-07-2018 04:47 PM
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Catching up on what Casper Van Dien has been up to lately... | |
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01-07-2018 05:42 PM
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01-07-2018 05:43 PM
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After Aliens and Rambo (2008), my picks for 3 and 4 goateriest actions are |
01-09-2018 02:18 AM
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01-09-2018 02:18 AM
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01-09-2018 02:22 AM
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01-09-2018 12:06 PM
#817
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Kingsman 2 was no good? That's unfortunate because I loved the first one. |
01-09-2018 01:23 PM
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I think Kill Bill is underrated, largely by people who have no understanding of depth. | |
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01-09-2018 02:15 PM
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01-09-2018 02:48 PM
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What fucking dimensional portal did I stumble into where everyone is insane?? |
01-09-2018 02:52 PM
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01-09-2018 03:03 PM
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None. If everyone is insane in your eyes, the chance that you are the insane one instead increases immensely to the point of being 1 | |
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01-09-2018 03:05 PM
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01-09-2018 03:18 PM
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Martin Freeman IMO. He might be one of the only Bonds I would watch. |
01-09-2018 03:22 PM
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