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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #760 on: October 26, 2011, 12:46:41 PM »

Don't worry.  He'll also know more about Batman than any other kid on the playground.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #761 on: November 22, 2011, 09:25:21 AM »

So I just saw True Romance which is a 1993 Tarantino movie and wow it really is

Anyway highly recommended, if only for the Hopper/Walken scene.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #762 on: December 30, 2011, 05:55:29 PM »

The Lupin III car chase in the new movies thread reminded me: Castle of Cagliostro is up for free on YouTube, just in case you've never actually seen it.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #763 on: January 28, 2012, 10:50:45 PM »

The Help is pretty well-acted, but ultimately it suffers from the usual Hollywood Liberal White Guilt syndrome: all these poor colored folk are SO LUCKY to have a photogenic white person come in and rescue them.

...that the photogenic white person is a Pretty Ugly Girl manages to work in ANOTHER irritating Hollywood cliche.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #764 on: January 31, 2012, 07:18:11 AM »

There's a few obvious elements that make The Social Network and Moneyball seem similar. They're adaptations of controversial nonfiction books, each with an Aaron Sorkin writing credit and a traditionally comic actor cast in a serious lead role. The chief difference, I think, is that The Social Network wasn't just of interest to software developers - but Moneyball, I think, is almost certainly of interest only to people who care about baseball.

Disagree -- I wouldn't describe myself as a baseball fan per se (it's probably my favorite sport, but I'm not much of a sports fan), but the movie fascinated the hell out of me because of the math.

Every sport has stats, but no other sport obsesses over them the way baseball does.  Moneyball lovingly embraces that, and as much as anything is about baseball as an exercise in numbercrunching and minmaxing.

There's an XKCD about sports narratives that I've always felt was somewhat dismissive and somewhat unjustified. This is fundamentally because I like baseball; I love going to baseball games, and I love baseball narratives. And if you do not love the complex narrative of a baseball season, or even the fundamental narrative of a single baseball game - this movie holds nothing for you. There are scenes which are blatant, unsubtle appeals to emotion - but they worked on me, because they were deployed through the medium of baseball, and like many Americans, baseball holds a deep-seated primal power over me.

I won't speak for Munroe, but while this movie is certainly about building a narrative, it really does show some serious love for the actual weighted random number generation.  The movie is about the triumph of inquiry over conventional wisdom, and of empiricism over personal biases.  As emotionally manipulative as it is, it paradoxically vilifies people who make emotional decisions instead of rational ones.

Anyhow, it's a fascinating story, and I missed it when it was happening.  (Watched a bit of Diamondbacks that year -- it was the year after they won the World Series -- but didn't pay much attention to anybody else.)

Was disappointed to find that the most interesting character, Jonah Hill's Peter Brand, is an invention (though loosely based on Paul DePodesta).  Makes me wonder what other details were changed for the film -- maybe I'll give the book a read one of these days.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #765 on: February 01, 2012, 07:53:20 PM »

Captain America suffers the same problem as many of the other Marvel movies: once the origin story's all used up, it kinda conks out in the last act.

But the origin story part is pretty great!  Really nice, earnest bit of propaganda.  Where Thor did a better job than any other movie I've ever seen at capturing Jack Kirby's aesthetics, this one did a solid job of capturing his optimism.  1940's Cap doesn't have the foibles of Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, or, hell, 1960's Cap.  He's simple and he's pure -- the best in all of us, against a villain who is similarly uncomplicated.

Still sucks that Kirby's family didn't get any money out of the deal.  Not sure about Simon; his settlement with Marvel was never disclosed.  I don't remember seeing either name in the credits, though maybe I just missed them (Iron Man 2 did a pretty good job of crediting all 4 co-creators).
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #766 on: February 01, 2012, 09:26:04 PM »

Whether you see the story as cynical or not depends on how cynical you are.  I mean, it starts out with an emotionally abused kid who's constantly getting into street fights, commits several federal offenses, and is finally approached by a weird foreigner when he's the most down on his luck who promises to make him better through the use and subsequent peddling of a body-altering chemical.

In another movie the story would have ended with end with Steve face-down and motionless in a pool of water oh wait
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #767 on: March 12, 2012, 09:33:32 AM »

Being Elmo is on Netflix Streaming now.  I found it disappointingly light -- it clocks in at 75 minutes -- but it's a good crash course on Clash's life and career.

He seems like he's really a very nice, wonderful man, and so do the people he works with.  The main takeaway is that he got where he is not just because of his own talents but because when he was a kid, adults nurtured them -- from his parents on up to the Henson Studios.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #768 on: April 25, 2012, 04:27:36 PM »

Funny Games Is an incredibly brutal movie but the story it tells is told amazingly. The climax is the easiest part to hate but a small portion of a great movie.

Also one of those movies best viewed with minimal background information.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #769 on: June 28, 2012, 04:24:57 AM »

So I don't know if I actually like God Bless America more than World's Greatest Dad, but damn if it isn't worth watching.  It's got some problems, especially in turning its characters into mouthpieces for things that it feels like they may or may not actually say and Roxy basically being a manic-pixie-dream-Hit Girl, but it's got moments that are genuinely effective both from a dramatic standpoint and a "fuck yeah that was kinda cathartic to watch them kill that idiot" standpoint.  It's sort of weaves back and forth between satirical drama and black comedy, so if you're hoping for one or the other it might end up being a little disjointed in tone for you.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #770 on: June 28, 2012, 09:38:30 AM »

If any of you guys haven't seen Drive its on netflix instant watch and its a great fucking movie.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #771 on: June 28, 2012, 04:18:42 PM »

fucking goddamn tits yes
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #772 on: August 04, 2012, 08:19:08 AM »

So apparently after the original Mad Max there was a brief period where a bunch of Aussie imitators made terrible copycat films that never escaped the country.

Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) - Trailer
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #773 on: August 06, 2012, 08:10:37 PM »

Ever since I saw they were remaking Total Recall all I wanted to do was see the original again. Watched it tonight and man, like full a third of the spoken dialogue is quotable hilarity.

Honestly the original is one of the best "fun" movies I know.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #774 on: August 06, 2012, 08:13:07 PM »

And then it ends with people's faces exploding on he surface of Mars. Hilarity is the safeword, just say when.

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #775 on: August 06, 2012, 08:24:01 PM »

The best part about (the original) Total Recall is that it is absolutely aware of how corny it is.  It's much better when you feel like you're having a laugh with the movie.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #776 on: August 06, 2012, 08:47:32 PM »

And the first fifteen minutes make for one of the most straight-across adaptations of any Philip K Dick story.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #777 on: August 07, 2012, 06:28:46 AM »

And then it ends with people's faces exploding on he surface of Mars. Hilarity is the safeword, just say when.
Aw man, I haven't seen it yet.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #778 on: August 07, 2012, 06:55:36 AM »

rosebud was the sled
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #779 on: August 07, 2012, 07:58:32 AM »

I haven't actually seen that either
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