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Saturday Evening Movie Thread 01-25-2020 [Hosted By: Moviegique]
Weathering With You
We memed ourselves, as the kids these days say, by going out to see this at the "special premiere" showing, because we didn't realize it was going to get a wide opening the next week. For a Japanese anime like Weathering With You (Makoto Shinkai's follow-up to his smash hit Your Name, based on his novel) "special premiere" means you're in a theater packed to the gills with weeaboos who are going to cheer inexplicably at some things and weep loudly at the emotional parts.
Like this but with pasty, pudgy Americans.
Oy. If you'll recall, Your Name was a movie that struck me as so odd because it had these crazy good reviews, and as you're sitting down to watch it, it basically starts up in full, standard Japanese-highschool-sitcom-anime mode, complete with a theme song that would not be out of place on Crunchyroll. And the first two-thirds of the movie is just a very good, light-magical-realism romantic comedy about a teen boy and girl, strangers, a hundred miles apart, who switch bodies at random. And then it just ups the stakes to an existential level, cranking up the romance to a capital-R Romance, with lovers whose destinies entwine those of thousands of other people—people who may, in fact, just die if the two of them don't figure out what to do. Quite a surprise, well done, and dramatically increasing expectations for Weathering With You.
High expectations.
In this story, we again have high-school protagonists: Morishima is a runaway trying to get by in rainy Tokyo without any kind of credentials, something which is apparently nigh-impossible. He meets a cheesy tabloid publisher who "saves his life", then mooches off of him but gives him his business card. Later, he's roaming the streets of Tokyo with no money, crashing in a MacDonald's where a kind girl gives him a Big Mac. Not long after, he rescues that same girl, Amano, from a Very Bad Situation. But their paths cross most significantly when Morishima is trying to "research" Sunshine Girls: these are legendary maidens who have the ability to make the sun come out simply by praying. Of course, his publisher doesn't care if it's true or not, he's just generating clickbait, but it turns out that Amano is, in fact, a genuine Sunshine Girl. Tired of the pittance he's being paid, Mori convinces Amano to go into business selling her power. Classic magical realism, but there's a catch: Every time she prays for sun, she gets it—but the subsequent weather gets a little worse. And it hasn't stopped raining in a month. (It's August.) And every time she prays for the sun, she becomes a little more less-of-the-earth and more-of-the-clouds. Traditionally, the sun maiden is sacrificed for good weather, and Mori and Amano struggle with keeping her alive vs. Endless Rain.
If nothing else, this movie is a source of high quality desktop wallpapers.
And the thing about Shinkai is, he's not afraid to massively change the world in his little magical RomCom, as we learned in Your Name. So it all turns out different than you'd probably expect going in. Subverting expectations, even. (Everyone seems to forget the second half of successfully subverting expectations: not sucking.) Beyond the narrative, there was something else about this movie that really subverted expectations: It's a movie about weird weather that doesn't once mention Anthropogenic Global Warning. Weirder than that, it actually takes a stance that can only be described as "settle down about AGW, already". See, everyone's freaking out about the weather. But when Mori and Amano go to the wise, old knows-about-sun-maidens sage they get a lecture on how short human experience is and how long the time-span of the earth is. Oh, you don't ever remember it raining this long? Well, you're 20 years old on a billions-year-old planet, so maybe dial back the hysteria. Back when they called the city Edo, Tokyo was actually a harbor. Apart from being a good message when it comes to climate ("settle down"), it places Amano and Mori's choices against a larger, yet still intimate backdrop. One of the problems with the blockbuster movies these days is that they always gotta save the universe, and you end up not really caring about the characters doing it. Much like Your Name, though, Shinkai presents the couple with an immediate peril, and direct, dire consequences of making the wrong choice. Anyway, it's a fine use of magical realism: Make a point that's true about human beings, both in large groups down to pairs, by making the metaphorical actual. My kind of thing. The Boy and The Boy's Girl also liked it, as did the roomful of sniffly weeaboos. If you can hack the Japanese cartoon scene, it's worth a watch (subbed or dubbed).
See it with your Sunshine Girl.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:03 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 08:03 PM (ZCEU2)
Saw 1917 Sunday, liked it well worth seeing but won't make my top 10 war movie list.
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 08:04 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at January 25, 2020 08:04 PM (VNfwt)
I like Goku.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 08:05 PM (mkI/3)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 25, 2020 08:06 PM (57fJu)
OK....
Here is the deal: Give us back the $150B and we will give you Obama.....
Posted by: James "Buster" Hymannd at January 25, 2020 08:07 PM (qM84C)
anybody ever seen "Abilene Town" starring Randolph Scott?
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 08:07 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Cheribebe at January 25, 2020 08:08 PM (a4qVe)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:09 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:09 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 08:09 PM (mGj+b)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:03 PM (CcUfv)
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Can't. Wait.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:10 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Drink Like Alex de Large at January 25, 2020 08:10 PM (57fJu)
I wanted to like the genre, but it didn't work for me. I do love the skill of the animators. It is the oddness of the stories that turn me off.
Posted by: squeakywheel at January 25, 2020 08:10 PM (nR0S2)
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:11 PM (aS1PU)
The Boy has already seen it and said it's a more conventional horror movie than "Mandy" but solid. Good atmosphere, nice HPL easter eggs.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:11 PM (CcUfv)
It was listed as “one star”, but that’s an outrage! It was three at least. It’s the kind of wild, violent flick that Tarantino would love. Lots of drinkin’ and brawlin’ and wild chases through some splendid Mexican locations, plus a score by Lalo Schifrin. Cinematic gold!
The second film was “Farewell My Lovely”, with Mitchum as Phillip Marlowe, the roll he was born to play. The story was meh but the actors, photography, and setting were top notch. If it wasn’t a 70’s color movie it would have been straight outta classic noir.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:11 PM (Dc2NZ)
Yes, I would say so. More...the other Ghiblli guy...Takahata...but very similar in tone to both.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:13 PM (CcUfv)
I don't know whether or not I would like it.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 25, 2020 08:14 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 08:07 PM (iTXRQ)
Same here. No offense. In grew up with Bambi and Cinderella. I find myself open less to new art the older I get.
Posted by: NOT THAT GUY at January 25, 2020 08:14 PM (QrvWz)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 25, 2020 08:14 PM (PHotS)
I'd have to say that the original Rocky was worth the money, and Rocky IV was too. The other movies were a bit meh, but good for the nostalgia effect.
Posted by: squeakywheel at January 25, 2020 08:15 PM (nR0S2)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:15 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: freaked at January 25, 2020 08:16 PM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 25, 2020 08:16 PM (ufFY8)
Can't bring myself to watch FML because of the color and era. But since The Long Goodbye was so good, I may give it a shot.
Early Frank Langella? I'm in.
I have a fondness for Buono. I liked him as The Devil in "The Evil".
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:17 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:17 PM (Dc2NZ)
Yes, I would say so. More...the other Ghiblli guy...Takahata...but very similar in tone to both.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:13 PM (CcUfv)
Cool. The "oddness" of the stories and the quality animation are what I like about the Japanese anime movies. I don't think of Miyazaki as anime since I associate the word anime with cheesy stories and slapdash animation.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:17 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: NOT THAT GUY at January 25, 2020 08:17 PM (QrvWz)
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 08:07 PM (iTXRQ)
I'd Do It for Randolph Scott.
Posted by: Harriett Johnson at January 25, 2020 08:17 PM (2N7oZ)
I learned that "caught you looking at my boobs" works in many cultures as a way to embarrass teen age boys
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 08:18 PM (1oLRD)
President Trump will be making the exact same speech as Rocky in Rocky IV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRBak_2X3Do
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 08:18 PM (mkI/3)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 25, 2020 08:18 PM (PHotS)
A lot of people don't realize how deep of a genre that feature film animation is...
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:20 PM (L2ZTs)
I had never seen Once Upon a Time in America until this week. (I looked it up, it's probably because instead of Leone's four hour movie with flashbacks and an intermission it was released in the US as a two and a half hour movie rearranged chronologically. Feh.)
Anyway, of course it turned out to have been pillaged by Tarantino. The cop doused in gasoline in Reservoir Dogs was Treat Williams. The shots from behind the opening of the briefcase were all through Pulp Fiction, although Tarantino added the glow and Leone did eventually show what was in the briefcase.
I love stumbling across these things. Lone Wolf and Cub: Handcart to Hades (Japanese) had a few things purloined for Kill Bill.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:20 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Dog Day Afternoon at January 25, 2020 08:21 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Darth Randall at January 25, 2020 08:21 PM (GcTKN)
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LOL! So who do you think is Gorbachev in this analogy?
Posted by: squeakywheel at January 25, 2020 08:22 PM (nR0S2)
I've heard it's horrible, but a fun time capsule at least.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:22 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:23 PM (Dc2NZ)
Another Netflix original we watched was Rectified. A 4 season story about a young man falsely accused of raping and killing his girlfriend. He served 20 years on death row before some DNA evidence exonerated him.
The story arc is about the original prosecutor forcing the new DA and sheriff to keep investigating until they can send him back to prison. There's a lot of twists and turns and I thought it was a good story. But I was kind of disappointed in the ending because there were a couple of things left in the air.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 08:23 PM (mGj+b)
Not the whole film but I've seen the scene where she takes her shirt off. Very thin, like cocaine skinny.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:24 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 08:24 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:22 PM (L2ZTs)
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I saw it as a kid and was very impressed by Lando Calrissian in a tux.
Oh wait, that's "Lady Sings the Blues". That's actually a good movie.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:24 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:24 PM (L2ZTs)
This movie really sucked, the put in crap that made no sense just for some action sequences.
Like the rockets to Mars are on the other side of the Moon, but we have to cross an area with open warfare in a buggy with no walls and no roof. What are you, total idiots? You knew this would happen, yet you go out anyway?
The only part of it I liked was when it turned out that listening for aliens out by Neptune for 30 years turned up nothing.
Fermi is laughing.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 25, 2020 08:24 PM (PHotS)
Sounds familiar. Maybe ? Don't remember it being either horrible or good. So - not memorable in any way.
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 08:24 PM (zr5Kq)
Ah. Thank you darlin'. I'll look for that.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:25 PM (gd9RK)
Which he sucks at, until in a spike of anger he starts drawing his own story as an assassin, and then his wife finds it and sends it to his boss.
And he has to keep drawing it for respect from his boss, and from his wife, and his daughter . . . and then all his history comes after him again
Hitman
https://youtu.be/cv5SheUHy_k
(turn on the subtitles)
Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 08:26 PM (6rS3m)
Posted by: Hands at January 25, 2020 08:26 PM (786Ro)
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Bander, the glowing briefcase was a nod to "Kiss Me Deadly"
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of
the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:23 PM (Dc2NZ)
This one?
https://tinyurl.com/u4mjtnf
It ain't no big thang.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 25, 2020 08:27 PM (ufFY8)
This movie really sucked
I read a criticism that it was basically Apocalypse Now, set in outer space
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 08:27 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:27 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Hands at January 25, 2020 08:27 PM (786Ro)
Great companion piece to Dr Strangelove.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:28 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Hands at January 25, 2020 08:28 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Eromero at January 25, 2020 08:29 PM (UUkQp)
What helped was getting my kids' recommendations for good shows. They like Full Metal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Kill la Kill, and a few others. I found "The Devil is a Part Timer" and really liked that as a premise.
The thing is "anime"--I've trained the kids to call it Japanimation, like we did in the Speed Racer days--doesn't mean "crappy half-animated nonsense" any more. And it's very, very broad. It's the medium the Japanese use for just about everything: Adventure and comic book stuff, sure, but also romance, cooking, gardening, drama, etc.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:29 PM (CcUfv)
- M*A*S*H
- "10"
- Heaven Can Wait
... I think there's already a miniseries of Catch-22 in the works.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:29 PM (L2ZTs)
MJ was 17 in 1975.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:30 PM (L2ZTs)
Yeah, I can see the parallels. Although Apocalypse Now didn't suck like this did.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 25, 2020 08:30 PM (PHotS)
President Trump will be making the exact same speech as Rocky in Rocky IV
**
LOL! So who do you think is Gorbachev in this analogy?
Posted by: squeakywheel
The Democrats?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 08:31 PM (mkI/3)
MJ was 17 in 1975.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:30 PM (L2ZTs)
Yeah, he was still a black guy back then.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:31 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:32 PM (L2ZTs)
It's still my favorite Miyazaki. When people talk about him it seems that the one they first saw is the one they're in love with. It is a whole new world.
The last one -- I think it was the last one -- which was a straight bio of the guy who developed the Zero was such an odd change of pace.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:32 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: freaked at January 25, 2020 08:32 PM (Tnijr)
It seemed to me his bio could make a pretty good movie. It wouldn't be as uplifting as Ali's, however.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:34 PM (L2ZTs)
**
LOL! So who do you think is Gorbachev in this analogy?
Posted by: squeakywheel
The Democrats?
Ideology is the same, so it would work.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - forgetting to remove my socks. at January 25, 2020 08:34 PM (SchxB)
I liked the "Repo Man" nod to KMD, tho'. Opening scene.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:35 PM (CcUfv)
Just finished watching Tremors 5: Bloodlines... I have to say, as sequels go, 4 and 5 were surprisingly entertaining. 3 wasn't bad, 2 was not particularly good. There's apparently one more to go.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 08:35 PM (CAJOC)
I would personally love to see a biopic of Charles Schulz, and in fact I personally believe it's been discussed in Hollywood, though who knows where it is re development.
And, what's your fave biopic? I think mine is a tie between La Bamba and A Man For All Seasons.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:36 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:09 PM (gd9RK)
Remember? They get canal duty
Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 08:36 PM (6rS3m)
Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 08:36 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 08:35 PM (CAJOC)
I have consciously avoided the sequels since the original was so good. Maybe I'll take a look now. They've been on cable a lot lately.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:37 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 08:37 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:37 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - forgetting to remove my socks. at January 25, 2020 08:37 PM (SchxB)
It seemed to me his bio could make a pretty good movie. It wouldn't be as uplifting as Ali's, however.
How so? What would be your angle? Liston was just a thug who folded when someone stood up to him. He was legit muscle for the mob.
George Foreman was Liston Redux, but then he found God, became a cuddly pitchman, and won back the title when he was about 75 because the heavyweight division was so pathetic at the time.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:38 PM (gd9RK)
Sounds okay. In fact it sounds like something Clint Eastwood could make.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:38 PM (L2ZTs)
I will put Hayao Miyazaki up against any director.
Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 25, 2020 08:38 PM (yefUV)
It was cute, but not quite memorable.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:39 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 08:39 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:03 PM (CcUfv)
Isn't it "Colour out of Space"?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Austere Religious Scholar at January 25, 2020 08:40 PM (fcqDH)
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That entire movie may have been bullshit and particularly so the briefcase ending but that was still a good movie. It was a simpler time.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 08:41 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Eromero at January 25, 2020 08:41 PM (UUkQp)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 25, 2020 08:41 PM (LxTcq)
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 08:41 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: cfo mom at January 25, 2020 08:42 PM (RfzVr)
We could produce an independent film adaptation of I, The Jury. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:42 PM (L2ZTs)
What helped was getting my kids' recommendations for good shows. They like Full Metal Alchemist, Soul Eater, Kill la Kill, and a few others. I found "The Devil is a Part Timer" and really liked that as a premise.
The thing is "anime"--I've trained the kids to call it Japanimation, like we did in the Speed Racer days--doesn't mean "crappy half-animated nonsense" any more. And it's very, very broad. It's the medium the Japanese use for just about everything: Adventure and comic book stuff, sure, but also romance, cooking, gardening, drama, etc.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:29 PM (CcUfv)
I've just dabbled with it in the 90s and 00s, but you can find anime that has plots and situations not too crazy and alien to westerners.
I got all of Nadia, Secret of Blue Waters which starts out as a steampunk, then the characters join up with Cpt Nemo, and then by the end there's a lot of Biblical Allegory. It is kind of YA in tone, and drags a little in the middle.
Noir is pretty dark - a young woman assassin, Mirielle, is contacted by a younger woman with no memory who is better than she is, her only calling card a watch owned by M's parents. They start taking jobs together and soon shadowy groups start acting against them. Lots of crazy action in gun battles with the shadowy bad folk.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 25, 2020 08:43 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 08:35 PM (CAJOC)
I have consciously avoided the sequels since the original was so good. Maybe I'll take a look now. They've been on cable a lot lately.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:37 PM (aS1PU)
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2 didn't make much sense to me, storywise, but it did expand on the lore, otherwise I'd say skip it and go to 3.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 08:43 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 08:44 PM (mGj+b)
against John Demjanjuk accusing him of being Ivan the Terrible at the
Treblinka Nazi death camp
=
He served as a guard at Majdanek and Sobibor. He lied about it. Came to the U.S.
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 08:44 PM (zr5Kq)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2019
I'd say my favorite film was "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:44 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:10 PM (Dc2NZ)
Moviegique, Eris, I run across really odd things in the internet.
Escape from Midwich Valley set to the music of Carpenter Brut is one of them
https://youtu.be/FEV9zjHiICA
Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 08:44 PM (6rS3m)
I hate "biopics."
Why? Because you end up Leonard Dicaprio playing Howard Hughes. And Because you end up with Wahkeen Feenix and whatshername playing Johnny and June Cash.
I know Johnny Cash wasn't perfect, but I thought that movie pissed all over his grave and memory. There was no need for all that dirty laundry -- it was just uncomfortable to watch.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 08:44 PM (mkI/3)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2020 08:44 PM (eujXY)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 25, 2020 08:45 PM (r+sAi)
Ethyl Merman's shoe-shine boy, Lance, who - reputedly - humbled the Cuban Superman and could go all night like a lumberjack...
Posted by: George Sulu at January 25, 2020 08:45 PM (umLu9)
Especially if the subject isn't around to set the record straight.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:45 PM (L2ZTs)
Not a stickler for such things, but even seemed like they either found German Mk IIIs or something similar for tanks - they're not dressed-up T-34s at least, which is sort of the easy/default approach.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 25, 2020 08:45 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 08:45 PM (mkI/3)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 08:46 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at January 25, 2020 08:46 PM (SWvkM)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:46 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:46 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:46 PM (CcUfv)
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Quite possible but, if so, you have to disbelieve the eyewitnesses that place him at Treblinka.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 08:47 PM (+y/Ru)
last movie we went to see was Gran Torino, and i never turn on the vidiot...
as with the other one, i've got nuthin, and most times i don't even know ETF anyone is talking about.
someone wake me up when the food and gub threads show up.
speaking of which, i gotta go get started on dinner.
/scouts out!
Posted by: redc1c4 at January 25, 2020 08:47 PM (K6DB5)
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:47 PM (aS1PU)
Charlie Wilson was still alive when his movie was made. He told Aaron Sorkin I don't care if you show the women and the drugs, just get the important part of the story right.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:47 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:46 PM (L2ZTs)
You haven't seen it? It's a pretty good Moron movie.
"Broke into the wrong damn rec room, didn't you!"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 25, 2020 08:48 PM (0ReGO)
Interestingly, Cash was happy that Joaquin was going to play him because he was a fan of 'Gladiator'.
Posted by: Bert G at January 25, 2020 08:48 PM (OMsf+)
I don't trust Hollywood to do biopics of great Americans. I didn't go see Mr. Rogers. I saw the Disney one and it showed no understanding of the man. Actually, I don't think I trust any biopics these days. The Alan Turing one--had nothing to do with Turing.
But, in retrospect, biopics have always been bad. What did George M. Cohan say about "Yankee Doodle Dandy"? "Great picture, fellas, who's it about?"
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:48 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:48 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 08:47 PM (+y/Ru)
should have been shot dead regardless
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 08:49 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 08:49 PM (zr5Kq)
Although I thought The Founder was pretty good.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:50 PM (L2ZTs)
Anyone here an expert on Johnny Cash?
Is it true that his song "Chicken In Black" was purposely bad to help get him out of a contract?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 08:51 PM (mkI/3)
"Broke into the wrong damn rec room, didn't you!"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 25, 2020 08:48 PM (0ReGO)
I like that scene. It looks like he may have adlibbed it because of Reba's reaction when he says it.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:51 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 08:51 PM (2DOZq)
online. Pretty well done. Much of the dialogue is believable, unlike
so many bad cartoonish movies that abound. Some good topical humor
that's very fitting for the time/people involved.
Not a stickler for such things, but even seemed like they either
found German Mk IIIs or something similar for tanks - they're not
dressed-up T-34s at least, which is sort of the easy/default approach.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 25, 2020 08:45 PM (El6T/)
It's a good movie. Would watch again
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2020 08:51 PM (5v5Zx)
Mister T was pure menace, and the story was a well done riches to rags to redemption tale.
Posted by: eastofsuez at January 25, 2020 08:51 PM (U2zca)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:51 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 08:53 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 08:53 PM (G546f)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 08:54 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 25, 2020 08:54 PM (Vy7tf)
Power (no d) Puff Girls isn't anime. It's done in the minimalistic UP style of '60s cartoons like "Underdog" and the like--because budgets were very tight at CN.
PPG is, in my estimation, brilliant.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:55 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 08:54 PM (G
They needed a killing word.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 08:55 PM (2DOZq)
Mob tactics never fail to surprise or disgust.
The period sets are really good.
Posted by: squeakywheel at January 25, 2020 08:55 PM (nR0S2)
After I saw it, I thought Gary Busey was going to be a real star.
...instead of turning into a punchline.
Posted by: retropox at January 25, 2020 08:55 PM (DEpA/)
Power (no d) Puff Girls isn't anime. It's done in the minimalistic UP style of '60s cartoons like "Underdog" and the like--because budgets were very tight at CN.
PPG is, in my estimation, brilliant.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:55 PM (CcUfv)
Samurai Jack is in that same style and is excellent.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:56 PM (aS1PU)
He was a REAL American and Southern "redneck". The Hollyweirdo lefties hate people such as he.
Posted by: Grannymimi at January 25, 2020 08:56 PM (u5LFV)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:55 PM (CcUfv)
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That's because you're correct.
Brillianter: Samurai Jack.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:57 PM (Dc2NZ)
After the huge commercial success of 'your name' the studio wanted a repeat with all the same themes and beats as that film. Shinkai tried to give the studio what they wanted, but he was still able to create an original story that ultimately subverted his own well-worn expectations, basically threading the needle between commercial demands and his keeping artistic creative control. The film does have its flaws -- the first half is too long and watching two hours of rain scenes starts to drag no matter how awesomely beautiful it all looks -- but it's still a very good film.
Posted by: HuuskerDu at January 25, 2020 08:57 PM (gYAkw)
I thought it was going to be a goof but the fucker could actually play.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 08:57 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 08:57 PM (Dc2NZ)
*fist bump*
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 08:57 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:58 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 08:58 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 08:46 PM (L2ZTs)
You haven't seen it? It's a pretty good Moron movie.
"Broke into the wrong damn rec room, didn't you!"
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 25, 2020 08:48 PM (0ReGO)
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And if, after watching the movie, you thought, "man, I could go for watching Burt Gummer blast the crap out of things with a variety of big guns", then you might just enjoy some of the sequels.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 08:58 PM (CAJOC)
anybody ever seen "Abilene Town" starring Randolph Scott?
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 08:07 PM (iTXRQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6zGolab7AU
Lots of movies on that channel
Posted by: Groundhog at January 25, 2020 08:58 PM (VYwSh)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 25, 2020 08:58 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 08:47 PM (+y/Ru)
I used to rely on eyewitness reports true. Until my convictions started getting overturned like the a spreading wildfire.
Posted by: Average District Attorney at January 25, 2020 08:58 PM (/LQkF)
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Exactly the problem with the Israeli trial court that convicted him and sentenced him to death. (The Israeli Supreme Court later reversed the conviction and released him.) The trial court, in cahoots with the media, didn't try Demjanjuk; they tried the Holocaust and found it guilty.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 08:58 PM (+y/Ru)
Samurai Jack is kind of astounding. 99% action and Tartakovsky manages to cram all the plot and characterization into the remaining 1%.
Hell, he should've directed the new Star Wars.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:00 PM (CcUfv)
PPG is, in my estimation, brilliant.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 08:55 PM (CcUfv
It's been years since I watched that show with her.(She graduated from Clemson 2 years ago.) I do remember a couple of other shows she watched that I believe were anime, though, but being an older person, CRS has set in and I don't recall the titles or what the shows were about.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:00 PM (mGj+b)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:01 PM (2DOZq)
It fit because Kill Bill is basically a comic book movie.
No. 1 Son was twelve when it came out and I took him to Part II for that reason. No one took me to see The Godfather when I was twelve and I thought KB II was the best comic book movie ever made and he deserved to see it.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 09:01 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: DR.WTF
Oh, I really liked Samurai Jack. Pretty good writing. That final season was excellent.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2020 09:02 PM (eujXY)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:02 PM (2DOZq)
I like Regular Show.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 09:02 PM (mkI/3)
We laughed our butts off.
I recommend for everyone.
Posted by: Parker Longbaugh at January 25, 2020 09:03 PM (Pgcou)
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:03 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
So, Boogaloo it is, I guess at January 25, 2020 09:03 PM (CUU+W)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2020 09:04 PM (5v5Zx)
Joking or not, I thought that was darn good movie.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 25, 2020 09:04 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:05 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2020 09:04 PM (5v5Zx)
Clutch F'n Cargo
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 09:06 PM (aS1PU)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Glass
Alita: Battle Angel
Avengers: End Game
John Wick III
Judy
Zombieland II: Double tap
The Lighthouse
The Irishman (I liked/disliked this one, but interesting for Detroit history)
Knives Out
Little Women
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 09:06 PM (Dc2NZ)
I would agree with "Bolt" being underrated. I think it was the first Disney film released under Lasseter's influence.
You think it's surprising when he does the duet with Miley...but then remember he got his big film break-through with "Grease". (And you can really tell it's him singing.)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:06 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2020 09:07 PM (eujXY)
"Spirited Away." It's frickin gorgeous in every respect, and it's one of the rare films I recommend with no reservations at all.
(Reservations being things like "There's a lot of swearing," "the blood and gore are pretty intense" or "[liberal idiot] stars, or directed.")
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 25, 2020 09:07 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 25, 2020 09:07 PM (r+sAi)
I think 2019 stank. We didn't quite break the 100-movie mark, for the first time in 10 years. Though, in fairness, the past few years we maintained our 135-150 level with lots and lots of classics.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:08 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:08 PM (2DOZq)
Cowboy Beebop is one of the greatest TV shows ever, anime or not.
Posted by: Puddleglum at January 25, 2020 08:44 PM (eujXY)
Never bought it but saw quite a bit on TV when it was on and it looked pretty good. Also Ghost in the Shell. Never was regular enough to lock into the overall plot and what everyone's issues were.
Another good one I bought was Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040. Robot Suited girls fighting AI machines going berzerk outside the law. Not very bubblegum, kind of gritty.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 25, 2020 09:08 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2020 09:08 PM (5v5Zx)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 09:09 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 25, 2020 09:10 PM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 25, 2020 0
Same here.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:10 PM (2DOZq)
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The eyewitnesses were eminently impeachable. The one was clearly in the final stages of dementia. He testified that when he had previously testified in Florida, he had taken a train from Europe to Florida and couldn't remember the name of his son who had been murdered in Treblinka. The other issued an official statement shortly after the war that he himself, with his own hand, had killed Ivan the Terrible and yet here be was again, come back to life to stand trial in Israel.
The other main evidentiary problem was that the documentary evidence, allegedly Nazi documents captured by the Soviets, were supplied by the USSR and, apparently, at least some were forgeries. But whether the inculpatory or exculpatory documents were forgeries, who knows? And there was clear bad faith on the part of the American prosecutors.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 09:12 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:12 PM (11H2y)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at January 25, 2020 09:12 PM (/UQ/R)
"Regular Show" pulled of the rarest thing in TV land:
A satisfying ending.
The whole last season was pitch-perfect and the final episode really respectful to the characters' fates.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:13 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 09:13 PM (CAJOC)
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"What kind of fuse is that?"
"Cannon fuse."
"What the hell do you use that for?"
[confused look] "My cannon."
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at January 25, 2020 09:14 PM (j4zcI)
The criminals, three of them serving minimal terms in prison and the other four getting off scott free, keep up their evil lifestyle in drugs and human trafficking. The mother takes it upon herself to take revenge on those guys. She enacts her revenge on each man in different ways.
The story is set in the courtroom after she gets caught with flashbacks. Very interesting story.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:14 PM (mGj+b)
Posted by: Racer X at January 25, 2020 09:14 PM (5v5Zx)
Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:15 PM (11H2y)
I get more satisfaction out of old movies and good serialized t.v./streaming these days. I would love more intelligent spectacle like "Lawrence of Arabia" but we can't have that anymore.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 09:15 PM (Dc2NZ)
"Regular Show" pulled of the rarest thing in TV land:
A satisfying ending.
Yeah, it was nice.
You're right: Writers today don't know how to make a good ending, e.g., The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 09:15 PM (mkI/3)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 09:15 PM (mkI/3)
Favorite anime movies are
Howls Moving Castle
Spirited Away
I like Princess Mononoke less but it was still pretty good.
I gave the Cowboy Bebop DVD set to one of the kids for Christmas a couple of years ago, but I have not watched the whole thing.
Posted by: MMcK at January 25, 2020 09:16 PM (xHxJf)
Posted by: Mike Hammer's parents at January 25, 2020 09:16 PM (sHVgQ)
apparently loosely based on a real scandal ( "Mafia Capitale")
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 09:16 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:17 PM (ZCEU2)
For a while I watched a lot of anime, then I just kind of stopped.
Favorite series - Pretear.
Other faves: Noir, Haibane Renmai, Gilgamesh (except for the terrible ending).
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 25, 2020 09:17 PM (l9m7l)
Another animated classic: Avatar: The Last Airbender.
We've watched all of it multiple times and the episode with Uncle Iroh remembering his fallen son always causes everyone to cry.
Except me. I just get an acute allergy attack.
The sequel series sucked ass. Don't get me started, but the original is amazing.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:18 PM (cfSRQ)
One of the greatest horror/thrillers of all time.
Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:18 PM (11H2y)
Posted by: Soothsayer,
I like Dexter but Hannibal really impressed me - just something so horror/creepy
Posted by: vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 09:18 PM (G546f)
"Regular Show" pulled of the rarest thing in TV land:
A satisfying ending.
Yeah, it was nice.
You're right: Writers today don't know how to make a good ending, e.g., The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 09:15 PM (mkI/3)
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The Good Place is finishing up next week. So far, the build up to the ending has been good, so I'm hopeful it will wrap up well.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 09:18 PM (CAJOC)
Weathering You's dub kept the songs in Japanese, which is a shame in my opinion as the lyrics are very important to understanding/presenting the themes of this film, and suddenly having read to a bunch of fast-moving subtitles while the characters are speaking English might be a bit jarring for casual viewers.
Posted by: HuuskerDu at January 25, 2020 09:18 PM (gYAkw)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKPXJaeoxX0
Posted by: squirrelly dan at January 25, 2020 09:19 PM (NcCWh)
I caught that movie about a month or so ago as I was scrolling through channels and got sucked into it, despite the presence of Melissa McCarthy.
I laughed so hard at the "muppet orgasm" scene, I had to go grab an inhaler to be able to breathe properly again.
And BTW, good evening, 'rons and 'ronettes/
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 25, 2020 09:19 PM (Ki5SV)
Under the Skin was a weird one. But, Johansson boobies!
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 25, 2020 09:20 PM (Vy7tf)
Posted by: MacReady at January 25, 2020 09:21 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:17 PM (ZCEU2)
It's not exactly a Russian made movie ( I think a collaboration) and not a war movie but Deadly Code with John Malkovich is really good.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:21 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:21 PM (11H2y)
I'm hoping it covers the same ground as Joker, but from Bruce's POV.
Cal it, Bruce.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:22 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:22 PM (L2ZTs)
Or he's a foot freak.
Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2020 09:22 PM (l3+k2)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5kljya
Tartakovsy should have directed Star Wars. Lucas has the vision, but is a lazy writer and director. JJ Abrams paints himself into corners, so between the two of them, they can't make the world grow.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 25, 2020 09:22 PM (LxTcq)
Been watching the recent Showtime Twin Peaks.
A lot of folks hated it. I love it. the pacing is weird. often I find myself thinking, yeah, we know, just get on with it.
But then I realize it's intentional. And so I just settle in to be confused and mesmerized. And the Audrey Horne storyline is amazing. Frost and Lynch are working on a whole 'nuther level.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:22 PM (x8Wzq)
I'd bet his last one will be much like Reservoir Dogs, Big, loud, un-PC and super-violent.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:23 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:23 PM (mGj+b)
Posted by: MMcK at January 25, 2020 09:23 PM (xHxJf)
I finally saw Buckaroo Banzai this week.
It took me 30+ years, but I did it. Amazon had it free with prime.
In high school we had a sci-fi club that watched videos Fridays after school. I always missed it when they showed that one.
When my friends would get together to do a movie party, "Oh, we saw that at Sci-Fi Club. Pick something else."
When we used to do the rental thing (before it went extinct) there was always something more pressing. And so on.
But now I've seen it and...it's so painfully 80s. I liked it. Not great, but funny and crazy to think how many future A-listers were in this B movie.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:24 PM (cfSRQ)
Mr Brooks
Liked it much better than Silence of the Lambs and a little better than Red Dragon.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:24 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:25 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:22 PM (L2ZTs)
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They Call Me Bruce
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 09:25 PM (CAJOC)
I believe that Tarantino has stated he only wants to make 10 movies, and OUATIH is #9.
I'd bet his last one will be much like Reservoir Dogs, Big, loud, un-PC and super-violent.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:23 PM (L2ZTs)
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Something about Quentin sets my teeth on edge. Can't pin it down, but I've avoided most of his stuff. I'm told I should watch it, but I'm also told Glocks are excellent firearms and yet I hate them.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:25 PM (cfSRQ)
I believe that Tarantino has stated he only wants to make 10 movies, and OUATIH is #9.
I'd bet his last one will be much like Reservoir Dogs, Big, loud, un-PC and super-violent.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:23 PM (L2ZTs)
I'm hoping he makes that rumored Kill Bill III, with BB vs the black daughter.
Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2020 09:25 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:25 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 25, 2020 09:27 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:17 PM (ZCEU2)
This one is a good story. No English subtitles and the title is all in Russian so I don't know the name.
https://youtu.be/yIhu9wMT5UE
At about 23:07, the guy in charge dismisses his all-female squad and they hit the sauna. Think Starship Troopers shower scene. The scenage is bountiful.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2020 09:27 PM (5v5Zx)
The message of the film was "Don't explore space - stay home and be nice to your woman." Really. Not kidding.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at January 25, 2020 09:28 PM (j4zcI)
"Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei" and "5 Centimeters per Second" were the first things that got my favorable attention.
I'll be curious to see if son shares/recommends this "Weathering With You" flick. Could well be since he did show me "Your Name."
One thing about anime I like is that it is not trapped in PC sexual ideology.
I cannot imagine any Westerner making a movie like "Your Name" without drenching it in gratuitous preachery.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 25, 2020 09:28 PM (M/9m0)
"Regular Show" pulled of the rarest thing in TV land:
A satisfying ending.
Yeah, it was nice.
You're right: Writers today don't know how to make a good ending, e.g., The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 09:15 PM (mkI/3)
Ending? We don't need no stinking ending!
We are expecting to stay on the network until the end of time.
Posted by: NCIS producers at January 25, 2020 09:28 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Eromero
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Excerpt from 'One Lonely Night':
"I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hand. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs in the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I’ve ever been, and happy too. They were Communists, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago…..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer's parents at January 25, 2020 09:28 PM (sHVgQ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2020 09:28 PM (5v5Zx)
But now I've seen it and...it's so painfully 80s. I liked it. Not great, but funny and crazy to think how many future A-listers were in this B movie.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at
It's no "Howard the Duck".
Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 25, 2020 09:29 PM (ilTjN)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:24 PM (cfSRQ)
Yeah, Buckaroo was a dumb movie, but it was very well-made. Look at the sets, the attention to detail. Por ejemplo, the cockpit controls. Mechanical toggles and dials, the panel looking well-worn, like you would expect from a machine run through the wringer multiple times.
I loved the real feel to the movie, because of the attention paid to the setting. Production-wise, top notch.
Far and away better than Ed Wood and his hastily assembled plywood.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:29 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 25, 2020 09:29 PM (LxTcq)
I don't see how you can hate any decent firearm. I can see not favoring it over other options but hate? That's like hating getting laid by a hard 7.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:30 PM (2DOZq)
http://moviegique.com/2014/05/under-the-skin/
It's just a remake of "Not of this Earth" but it's okay, I guess.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:30 PM (CcUfv)
Mr Brooks
Liked it much better than Silence of the Lambs and a little better than Red Dragon.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:24 PM (2DOZq)
It's not really my genre, though I did like Zodiac a lot.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 25, 2020 09:30 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:29 PM (x8Wzq)
Stupid humans!
Posted by: Eros at January 25, 2020 09:30 PM (5v5Zx)
Skip, there was a multi-part Soviet-era TV series "Liberation" (Osvobozhdyeniye), I think it's all on UToob, including with subtitles, I've sample bits, and for the time/context, it wasn't bad. The actor playing Stalin looked/sounded just like him, actually - and other major figures like Zhukov also were cast with actors who did.
Now that I've got a decent computer I hope to watch the whole thing.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 25, 2020 09:30 PM (El6T/)
Gawd I love that show. The music, the concept, the music, the animation -- absolutely wonderful. And the end title music! So melancholy.
Even the weird episodes are worth watching. But I still hate Ed. Was it a he or a she? I never could tell.
I've been on an old movie binge. "No Time for Sergeants," gentle humor with some really good scenes. "Murder by Death" -- Oh, what a cast! Oh, what a disappointment! Just as when I first saw it with my parents. Two Jerry Lewis releases -- "The Patsy" (skip) and "The Bellboy" (consider). Coming up are "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" (read the book years ago) and "Metropolis" (know nothing about it other than it's a classic).
I don't know whether the library system loves or hates me.
Posted by: Weak Geek at January 25, 2020 09:31 PM (u/nim)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at
I enjoyed Bruce Willis in his Pulp Fiction.
Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 25, 2020 09:31 PM (ilTjN)
I think their intention was to make a cult movie. At least that's what I would claim.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:32 PM (2DOZq)
And, I kid you not, one of the best players at the table? Looked EXACTLY like Joe Stalin. Same hair, face, etc.
I was afraid to beat him at a hand. I didn't want to end up in the gulag.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:32 PM (L2ZTs)
Weathering You not only had zero preaching about man-made climate change, it actually went in the opposite direction. "Hey, weather happens. You can't do anything about it."
Posted by: HuuskerDu at January 25, 2020 09:33 PM (gYAkw)
Skip, there was a multi-part Soviet-era TV series "Liberation"
(Osvobozhdyeniye), I think it's all on UToob, including with subtitles,
I've sample bits, and for the time/context, it wasn't bad. The actor
playing Stalin looked/sounded just like him, actually - and other major
figures like Zhukov also were cast with actors who did.
Now that I've got a decent computer I hope to watch the whole thing.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 25, 2020 09:30 PM (El6T/)
Both the T-34 and the four-part Liberation series are enjoyable to watch. Major propaganda in the Liberation series makes it fun.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2020 09:33 PM (5v5Zx)
Posted by: Grannymimi at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (u5LFV)
Posted by: Caliban at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (QE8X6)
Not my favorite genre but someone mentioned Dexter so it made me think. Surprised how many serial killer movies there are.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (2DOZq)
https://youtu.be/yIhu9wMT5UE
At about 23:07, the guy in charge dismisses his all-female squad and they hit the sauna. Think Starship Troopers shower scene. The scenage is bountiful.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2020 09:27 PM (5v5Zx)
I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (mGj+b)
http://moviegique.com/2019/03/t-34/
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (CcUfv)
Fullmetal Alchemist is an amazing series. Absolute roller coaster ride.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:35 PM (NWiLs)
At about 23:07, the guy in charge dismisses his all-female squad and they hit the sauna. Think Starship Troopers shower scene. The scenage is bountiful.
Posted by: Count de Monet
Nice 'presentation'!
Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 25, 2020 09:35 PM (ilTjN)
Nothing against the guy though. He really is one of the best as a director.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:35 PM (x8Wzq)
PPG is, in my estimation, brilliant.
Posted by: moviegique
Powerpuff Girls is excellent. As is most of the Cartoon Network stuff that Genndy Tartakovsky was involved with. Dexter's Lab, Samurai Jack, ...
There is a PPG anime, though; different from the show everyone here in the USA knows.
"Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z" puts the show into an anime style. The girls are tweenagers rather than kindergarteners, and more "magical girls" than superheros (think "Sailor Moon"). I've never seen it, so that's about all I know.
Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2020 09:36 PM (P1f+c)
If anything Japanese IS explainable. To me, the guy got it right who said the Japanese produce more WTF per capita than anyplace else in the world.
Posted by: William A Befort at January 25, 2020 09:36 PM (hJFOo)
"But Here the Dawn is Quiet" (free translation) - about an area away from the front(s), I think. Need to go listen to the intro narrative again.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 25, 2020 09:36 PM (El6T/)
can see not favoring it over other options but hate? That's like hating
getting laid by a hard 7.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:30 PM (2DOZq)
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You gave it way with the words "decent firearm."
They are indecent. Blocky. Feel like plastic.
I don't like them. Their aesthetic sucks. Will use in extremis, but will not buy.
I also dislike Lugers and 1911s, so I'm an odd duck.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:36 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:37 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (CcUfv)
cool. it the movie dubbed or just the trailer ?
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:37 PM (zr5Kq)
238 Finally saw "John Wick" based on Horde enthusiasm. Saw about 100 people killed in 2 hours. These movies get sillier and sillier.
Posted by: Caliban
Sure, but compared to Arnold's "Commando"? At least Keanu was shooting in the general direction of the people he was killing.
Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (ilTjN)
Posted by: Nobody at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (8zK8n)
Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (d6mdH)
I liked Reservoir Dogs and Inglorious Basterds much better.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (2DOZq)
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The Man With Two Brains is at least partially a serial killer movie
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (CAJOC)
I also dislike Lugers and 1911s, so I'm an odd duck.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:36 PM (cfSRQ)
You're angling to get burned as a heretic...
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at January 25, 2020 09:39 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:39 PM (NWiLs)
There is 1970s movie by that title. Recent one is a remake. They are remaking many Soviet films it seems.
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:39 PM (zr5Kq)
When we saw it, it was just subtitled, but if the trailer is dubbed it probably means there's a dub of the whole movie.
(We actually went out to see the Korean flick "Ashfall" on Christmas Eve day but it hadn't been dubbed...yet...it takes a few weeks for the dubs to happen.)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:39 PM (CcUfv)
Far and away better than Ed Wood and his hastily assembled plywood.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:29 PM (x8Wzq)
Stupid humans!
Posted by: Eros at January 25, 2020 09:30 PM (5v5Zx)
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It's got some good lines! "Wherever you go, there you are." "It's your planet, monkey boy!"
And so on. It's amusing, and very 80s. I love the 80s.
Also love how everyone in the band packs heat and pulls instantly at the sound of a gunshot.
As they should.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:40 PM (cfSRQ)
Nothing against the guy though. He really is one of the best as a director.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:35 PM (x8Wzq)
Not sure where this thread started... or where it's going.
I don't think anything he's done is unwatchable, unless you just don't like violence.
Pulp Fiction had a fairy tale quality about it, or if you will, a pulp fiction quality.
Just saw Once Upon a Time in Hollywood last week. I think it's a great film. Probably his best.
Maybe context helps, but those too young to understand why it was significant... I don't know what to say.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 09:40 PM (hku12)
Posted by: Caliban at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (QE8X6)
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You'll like Kingsmen.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 09:40 PM (sGotD)
Posted by: William A Befort at January 25, 2020 09:36 PM (hJFOo)
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https://twitter.com/mondomascots
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 09:40 PM (Dc2NZ)
Nothing against the guy though. He really is one of the best as a director.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:35 PM (x8Wzq)
Inglorious Basterds could have been called Once Upon a Time in Nazi Germany.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:40 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Caliban
Sure, but compared to Arnold's "Commando"? At least Keanu was shooting in the general direction of the people he was killing.
Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (ilTjN)
LOL
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 09:40 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:41 PM (CcUfv)
We are expecting to stay on the network until the end of time.
Posted by: NCIS producers at January 25, 2020 09:28 PM (sy5kK)
While continuing to spin off other NCIS's in cities that don't even have NCIS outposts in reality!
Posted by: Vendette at January 25, 2020 09:41 PM (SL4lK)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 25, 2020 09:41 PM (LxTcq)
Posted by: Nobody at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (8zK8n)
Rookie.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 09:42 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (L2ZTs)
the thing about movies like Inglorious Basterds are the moments, like when the Hunter is talking to the French farmer at the beginning. Powerful. You're drawn in, and you're afraid, but do not realize it just yet.
fucking brilliant.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:42 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (CAJOC)
Into the mud scum queen !
( my favorite line)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:42 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:43 PM (L2ZTs)
I don't like violence.
I was in a limo once with a bunch of guys who had Pulp Fiction (I think) cued up on the onboard DVD player. I had to close my eyes when the ear-slicing scene came on. I just hated it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 25, 2020 09:43 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:38 PM (NWiLs)
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Meh.
I'm not with everyone else. You get used to it. The Walther PPQ is brilliant and anyone who disagrees can go pound sand.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:43 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmot
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Christie design. The sloped armor, too.
Our ordnance guys ignored it, sadly.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at January 25, 2020 09:43 PM (j4zcI)
NOT Pulp Fiction. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:44 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 25, 2020 09:44 PM (H5knJ)
Five minutes into Waltz marching around the room and I'm already sooooo bored.
Dude, you're obviously going to kill everyone. Just do it. Stop talking, just do it.
And then there's, like, six hours more of movie--or felt like it to me.
I just worry in the opening scene of OUTILA, I'm going to think "I've made a terrible mistake."
I could just walk out of course. It wouldn't cost me anything. But I haven't walked out of a movie since I saw Giant on a double-bill with "Rebel without a Cause". I just saw James Dean do this in RwoaC, why would I want to see him do it again? In Texas?
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:44 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 25, 2020 09:44 PM (wIvHX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 09:45 PM (Dc2NZ)
That's Reservoir Dogs
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:45 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 25, 2020 09:31 PM (ilTjN)
Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
Posted by: Butch at January 25, 2020 09:45 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:40 PM (2DOZq)
It started with, "Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France..."
Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2020 09:45 PM (l3+k2)
It is so contrived.
It reminds me of the big deal about Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Anime will be seen as a fad one day. Like Bossa Nova. Or James Ensor, Belgium's famous painter.
Posted by: Minuteman at January 25, 2020 09:45 PM (k5E+a)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:45 PM (mGj+b)
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:46 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: MMcK at January 25, 2020 09:46 PM (xHxJf)
Posted by: Caliban at January 25, 2020 09:34 PM (QE8X6)
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If you want fun gun-bunny fare, try "Underworld."
Yes, vampires vs werewolves, but the cameras linger lovingly over the firearms. Beretta 92s. Walther P99 with titanium finish. Desert Eagle and of course twin Scorpions.
And they miss because they are mag-dumping. All. The. Time.
Good fun.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:46 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 25, 2020 09:46 PM (nfcV2)
"NCIS: Butte Montana"
"NCIS: Winnemucca Nevada"
"NCIS: Brattleboro Vermont"
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:43 PM (L2ZTs)
Wasn't me! I left Butte when I was a baby! I have witnesses!
Although NCIS Butte would be fun as hell. Especially on St. Patrick's Day.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:46 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:46 PM (Pg+x7)
They're anime dontcha know.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 09:47 PM (aS1PU)
Schiff: Two birds land on a branch. They are Pete and Repeat. Pete flies away who is left?
Drive-By Media: Repeat..
Schiff: Two birds land on a branch. They are Pete and Repeat. Pete flies away who is left?
Drive-By Media: Repeat...... On and On and On....
Posted by: James "Buster" Hymannd at January 25, 2020 09:47 PM (qM84C)
i liked the miniature girls in the godzilla movie. does that count?
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:46 PM (Pg+x7)
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The ones singing to Mothra?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:47 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:46 PM (Pg+x7)
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Godzilla vs. Mothra!
Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (sGotD)
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I'm watching Attackers on Prime which is a Russki series about a Colonel trying to whip rookie pilots flying Yak-3 into shape to support Operation Bagration. It's mainly a soap opera in that he thinks his intended was killed but she is really hurt and alive. Meanwhile, he's making time with a ballerina and a nurse. The CGI is, uh, not good and much of the military stuff is pure BS. But I'm going to keep watching it anyway so shut up!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (+y/Ru)
He did the sloped armor too? Wow did not know that. Seems the Russians have been taking credit for that or at least not correcting the record.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (cfSRQ)
NOT Pulp Fiction. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:44 PM (L2ZTs)
Thanks. As I said, I didn't know.
I was never so happy to get out of a limo in my life.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:49 PM (Pg+x7)
Weird.
Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at January 25, 2020 09:49 PM (d6mdH)
Saw a three-legged deer in my front yard earlier tonight.
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Been in contact with anyone who traveled to Wuhan, China recently ??
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:50 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: William A Befort at January 25, 2020 09:36 PM (hJFOo)
Airing now in Japan: "Toilet-bound Hanako-kun", a story about a ghost boy who lives in a toilet in the girls' lavatory at a school and grants wishes.
Posted by: HuuskerDu at January 25, 2020 09:50 PM (gYAkw)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:39 PM (NWiLs)
And Keanu has emerged as a sort of modern day sage.
All three movies are worth seeing. I don't exactly agree the third was the best. I think it turned a "good" guy into a bad guy for plot purposes, and it didn't really fit his character.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 09:50 PM (hku12)
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:52 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 09:52 PM (G546f)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:50 PM (zr5Kq)
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No, the deer legit had three legs. Missing right rear leg. Stood like a tripod and ate the hell out of my shrubs.
Daughter's having a birthday sleepover and everyone was "awwing" about it the poor thing.
And I'm thinking of all that slow-moving meat just sitting outside.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:52 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: HuuskerDu at January 25, 2020 09:50 PM (gYAkw)
Unless you're Japanese, there is no earthly way to tell if this comment is true.
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 09:52 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:53 PM (Pg+x7)
Weird day.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (cfSRQ)
David Lynch would make that a plot point.
THE THREE-LEGGED DEER SPOKE TO ME AS I WAS WATCHING CURT GOWDY'S AMERICAN SPORTMAN. THIS ONE HAD AS A GUEST STAR HALL OF FAMER JIM PALMER. THEY WERE HUNTING CARIBOU IN THE WILDERNESS OUTSIDE OF WHITE HORSE. THE DEER COUGHED, AND I REMEMBERED THAT MY PIZZA ROLLS WERE STILL IN THE TOASTER OVEN, AND I WENT TO CHECK ON THEM...WHEN I GOT BACK THE DEER HAD MOVED ON, AND THERE WAS A COMMERCIAL ABOUT THAT "NOT FRESH FEELING."
I KNEW IT WAS BEDTIME.
ASK ME ABOUT IT LATER.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:53 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: HuuskerDu at January 25, 2020 09:53 PM (gYAkw)
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The Battle of the Boobs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 09:53 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:53 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:54 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 09:54 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:54 PM (Pg+x7)
Weird day.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:48 PM (cfSRQ)
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Climate change strikes again!
Posted by: No One of Consequence at January 25, 2020 09:54 PM (CAJOC)
Posted by: MMcK at January 25, 2020 09:55 PM (xHxJf)
I KNEW IT WAS BEDTIME.
ASK ME ABOUT IT LATER.
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Ow, my ear-balls.
Posted by: 6to4to3 at January 25, 2020 09:55 PM (ilTjN)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:53 PM (zr5Kq)
Cool. One of my favorite KISS songs. Ace wrote that one. Sounded great live.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:55 PM (x8Wzq)
Hellraiser
Event Horizon
Posted by: MMcK at January 25, 2020 09:55 PM (xHxJf)
Zelig
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 09:56 PM (aS1PU)
Five minutes into Waltz marching around the room and I'm already sooooo bored.
Dude, you're obviously going to kill everyone. Just do it. Stop talking, just do it.
And then there's, like, six hours more of movie--or felt like it to me.
I just worry in the opening scene of OUTILA, I'm going to think "I've made a terrible mistake."
I could just walk out of course. It wouldn't cost me anything. But I haven't walked out of a movie since I saw Giant on a double-bill with "Rebel without a Cause". I just saw James Dean do this in RwoaC, why would I want to see him do it again? In Texas?
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:44 PM (CcUfv)
Except Waitz being an evil nazi basterd isn't quite the point of that scene.
He didn't kill everyone. And in his folly, his hubris, he sealed his own fate.
Once Upon a Time is not the same kind of movie. Not at all. Except for one significant detail, which I'm not going to get into.
Tarantino loved that era of Hollywood, and he loves his characters. And people who tell you the main characters are the main characters... well, again, I'm not going to get into it, but I think that's wrong.
I think in focusing on Pitt and Decrappio, they told the story around the story. To a large extent.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 09:56 PM (hku12)
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Are you saying it has a long shelf life?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 09:56 PM (Dc2NZ)
I look forward to Sparkle throwing a tantrum if Kate attends and Sparkle doesn't get an Oscar invite
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 09:56 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at January 25, 2020 09:56 PM (BsCoj)
Very predictable. I'm sorta surprised by the foreign-language Oscar that also got a best documentary nom.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 09:57 PM (CcUfv)
I look forward to Sparkle throwing a tantrum if Kate attends and Sparkle doesn't get an Oscar invite
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 09:56 PM (G546f)
2/2/2020
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:58 PM (zr5Kq)
Came close with that one Soy Wars movie (Rise of Soywalker? Eh). I did take a really long bathroom break, and eventually returned to my comfy seat, and dozed off.
fucking bullshit movie.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:58 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 09:58 PM (Dc2NZ)
Hellraiser
Event Horizon
Posted by: MMcK at January 25, 2020 09:55 PM (xHxJf)
I've never walked out of a movie. I have walked out of Broadway shows before.
The one I quit even before intermission was Cy Coleman's Welcome to the Club. Lord, that was bad.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 25, 2020 09:58 PM (Ki5SV)
Friend to you and me.
Watch out for that tree!
Watch out for that... Oooh!
tree!
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 25, 2020 09:59 PM (nfcV2)
That is amazingly like Lynch !
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:59 PM (zr5Kq)
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Are you saying it has a long shelf life?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 09:56 PM (Dc2NZ)
Ace Frehley, the actual talented member of the band. But... ace and Ace?
Hmm.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 09:59 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)
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I don't like violence.
I was in a limo once with a bunch of guys who had Pulp Fiction (I think) cued up on the onboard DVD player. I had to close my eyes when the ear-slicing scene came on. I just hated it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 25, 2020 09:43 PM (Ki5SV)
Fair enough. He's never going to make a movie without it, I don't think.
Unless he pulls a David Lynch and does "The Straight Story" type story on us.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:00 PM (hku12)
ONT is nood
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 25, 2020 10:01 PM (mAKSg)
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 10:01 PM (G546f)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 25, 2020 10:01 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: DR.WTF at January 25, 2020 10:01 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 10:01 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 09:25 PM (L2ZTs)
Definitely. William Peterson was great, in my estimation.
Posted by: Grannymimi at January 25, 2020 10:02 PM (u5LFV)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 10:02 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2020 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)
Time for me to go watch a movie, I guess.
Get Out or Us.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:02 PM (hku12)
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 10:02 PM (mGj+b)
Get Out > Us
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 10:03 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 10:03 PM (2DOZq)
When you're threatened by a stranger,
When it looks like you will take a lickin', (Bok, bok, bok)
There is someone waiting,
Who will hurry up and rescue you,
Just Call for Super Chicken! (bok- ack!)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 25, 2020 10:03 PM (nfcV2)
I...might agree with that assessment. But could I name a replacement? Maybe a couple of the Israeli movies... this one?....
But I think it's slim pickin's this year. Jojo Rabbit was fun but Best Picture?
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 10:04 PM (CcUfv)
Get Out > Us
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 10:03 PM (G546f)
That's what everybody says. I kinda know what they're about, both of them, and I might as well watch the first one first. Hoping it doesn't disappoint, since I already know.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:05 PM (hku12)
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:59 PM (zr5Kq)
One reason I like David Lynch is that his name has NEVER come up in that whole #meetooalso BS. Despite a female cast in Twin Peaks that had me in a proto-boner state most of the time. He seems like a straight shooter with a very close relationship with his subconscious. I think Mark Frost is the guy with the pie and ice cream to keep David tethered, so to speak.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 10:05 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 10:06 PM (CcUfv)
Posted by: The Girl from Ipanema at January 25, 2020 10:06 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 10:06 PM (CcUfv)
I don't think Us did
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 10:06 PM (G546f)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 25, 2020 10:01 PM (H5knJ)
I have one of his recent albums. Excellent.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at January 25, 2020 10:06 PM (x8Wzq)
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The Soviets took credit for every idea they stole. If you do an image search of "Christie tank" you'll see the T-34 DNA.
Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at January 25, 2020 10:08 PM (j4zcI)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 10:06 PM (CcUfv)
I have a filter that keeps me from letting real world "themes" from popping into movies, even when the movie makers try their damnedest.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:08 PM (hku12)
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 10:09 PM (L2ZTs)
Freaks
A bit slow to start, feels kinda 10 Cloverfield Laneish
Best if you watch it unspoiled
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 10:09 PM (G546f)
Posted by: Gem at January 25, 2020 10:10 PM (65i3Q)
I admit Tod Browning's original might actually benefit from a remake, in the right hands.
Posted by: qdpsteve at January 25, 2020 10:10 PM (L2ZTs)
With the little girl
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 10:11 PM (G546f)
Posted by: HuuskerDu
Based on a common Japanese urban legend, which has a (female) Hanako haunting a stall in the girl's bathroom at school. Their version of "bloody Mary" in the mirror, I suppose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanako-san
Posted by: mikeski at January 25, 2020 10:14 PM (P1f+c)
Thanks. Just read the wiki entry. Typical American individuality and hardheadedness on everyone's part. Our greatest and most damaging trait if that's possible.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 25, 2020 10:16 PM (2DOZq)
I reviewed that a few times back. Don't have the Ace link but it's here on my site:
http://moviegique.com/2019/10/freaks-2019/
Fun fact: Freaks (2019) made about the same number of dollars that Freaks (1932) did, no adjustment for inflation needed. Both were considered flops.
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 10:17 PM (CcUfv)
Maybe if they had better pacing though
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 10:20 PM (G546f)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 10:26 PM (CcUfv)
They originally filmed that scene with a tube attached to the actor's head to pump "blood." Yeah, they were going to show the slicing.
Apparently it didn't look as good as they hoped. Hence, the concealment.
Sounds to me that if the original scene had been used, you would have leapt out of the limo.
Posted by: Weak Geek at January 25, 2020 10:28 PM (u/nim)
Posted by: Vmom 2020 at January 25, 2020 10:40 PM (G546f)
Posted by: moviegique at January 25, 2020 10:59 PM (CcUfv)
I will definitely give this one a look.
Was just talking about some with another Moron last night, and was reminiscing and recommending we watch a couple I remember loving and hadn't seen in over a decade now...Samurai X: Trust and Samurai X: Betrayal.
Posted by: Seal the deal and let's boogie (nee Oedipus) at January 25, 2020 11:59 PM (N4r5a)
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