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[Movies] Watch Edge of Tomorrow. Bitch about it. Repeat.

AstaerethAstaereth In the belly of the beastRegistered User regular
edited February 2015 in Debate and/or Discourse
Two years ago this month I made my last film thread OP, in which I urged everyone to expand their horizons by watching older movies which, thanks to streaming sites and the internet, are more available now than they've ever been. And you responded! By talking a lot about John Wick.

So this time, leave your horizons where they are... but screw the rest, watch only the best. If a movie's not making you happy, if it's not blowing your fucking mind or comforting you like nothing else can, turn that shit off and go find something better. Like the best fight scene ever put on film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RwaptQ_rpU

Or the best musical number in all of cinema:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU

Or the scariest moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atjhOhH-V3E

Or the funniest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0sgTkRSljA

Or the saddest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOoWpTxKJGA

Or the most exciting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-8AP0To4k

Or the most awe-inspiring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33-qOXOWS4

The best beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaj2P-dSi8

and the best ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFkryh6hC-k

and everything in between.

Turn the knobs up to 11 or find another hobby, people. Prequels and thirdquels and remakes and generic superhero movies need not apply. This is cinema, and it is so capable of the extraordinary that you should never accept anything less. Go and do likewise, gentlemen, because this is your movie thread.

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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    Transformers: Age of Extinction was the best movie of 2014.


    What I do, I do for comedy. There was literally nothing else that could be posted after that fantastic OP.

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Transformers: Age of Extinction was the best fourth installment of a franchise based on action figures directed by Michael Bay in 2014

    There, that wasn't so hard.

  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    I'm going to celebrate the shiny new movie thread by continuing a discussion from the old one!

    I am completely cynical about the reasons for hyping Ghostbusters as Wymynbusters, but I think the chosen tack for promotion has dick to do with how they're going to approach the actual filmmaking. Wiig and McCarthy are capable of being awesome, and nobody will know anything about how this is going to play out until we see some finished footage.

    And maybe not even then, since terrible trailers for good movies is a thing.

    I mean, I'm skeptical that a remake of one of the best comedies of all time is going to be as good as the original, but that doesn't mean it has to be bad.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    There are a lot of great long takes out there, but I think this one might take the cake.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2jRxToAjQ
    Before anyone asks: No, there are no camera tricks. The entire film is one continuous take.

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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    You all have some good opinions there, but I'ma disagree with two.

    Best Musical Number:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBpgcZ1zYJs

    Best Ending:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPy88-E2zo

  • ArchangleArchangle Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    I'm going to celebrate the shiny new movie thread by continuing a discussion from the old one!

    I am completely cynical about the reasons for hyping Ghostbusters as Wymynbusters, but I think the chosen tack for promotion has dick to do with how they're going to approach the actual filmmaking. Wiig and McCarthy are capable of being awesome, and nobody will know anything about how this is going to play out until we see some finished footage.

    And maybe not even then, since terrible trailers for good movies is a thing.

    I mean, I'm skeptical that a remake of one of the best comedies of all time is going to be as good as the original, but that doesn't mean it has to be bad.
    You know what? Egon and Spengler were huge STEM geeks in the original flicks. If Ghostbusters 3 can run with a similar "STEM is awesome" theme to Big Hero 6 - with awesomely talented ladies - then I am totally on board.

  • AstaerethAstaereth In the belly of the beastRegistered User regular
    Houn wrote: »
    You all have some good opinions there, but I'ma disagree with two.

    In case anybody was unclear, the point was for people to disagree with me. Hell, for most of those I disagree with me. And if you'll look closely, after a long, fruitless period searching Youtube for the funniest scene ever I gave up and nominated the entirety of His Girl Friday.

    (If Youtube had had the whole thing, I might have gone with the entire end(s) of Clue, though.)

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  • knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    Watched The Drop last night. Gandolfini phones it in but Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace are pretty good. I may be developing a thing for Noomi Rapace.

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  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    Houn wrote: »
    You all have some good opinions there, but I'ma disagree with two.

    Best Musical Number:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBpgcZ1zYJs

    Best Ending:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPy88-E2zo

    I know people have some complaints about Inception but I really, really loved it. There's nothing I would change about it, and the ending was indeed wonderful.

  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    Also fuck yeah to Clue having some of the funniest bits in film. Nearly every time Madeline Kahn has a line in that film it's worthy of laughter.

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Houn wrote: »
    You all have some good opinions there, but I'ma disagree with two.

    Best Musical Number:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBpgcZ1zYJs

    Best Ending:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPy88-E2zo

    I know people have some complaints about Inception but I really, really loved it. There's nothing I would change about it, and the ending was indeed wonderful.

    My only real problem with Inception is the 3rd layer down is a little too bland.

  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    hey someone tell me about Enemy and what it meaaaaaans as a film

  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    I don't watch nearly as many movies as I used to.

    I feel like I always wanted to be a movie buff, though.

    Just so I could drop references like Shawn Spencer in Psych.

    RT800 on
  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
  • Atlas in ChainsAtlas in Chains Registered User regular
    From the last thread, regarding Brendan Fraser
    Preacher wrote:
    Phonetics, people want to have his name spell like it sounds.

    His name doesn't sound like Frazier. It sounds like frays-er. I know this because he did a spot long ago for the Daily Show when it was still Kilborn. In it, he says that if you call him Frazier, he'll kill you.

  • AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    I stopped confusing Fraser with Frasier when some Canadians got mad at me about it.

  • ThirithThirith Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    There are a lot of great long takes out there, but I think this one might take the cake.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE2jRxToAjQ
    Before anyone asks: No, there are no camera tricks. The entire film is one continuous take.
    I'll have to rewatch Russian Ark at some point, but when I saw it way back when it was on at the cinema I hated it with a fury that I rarely feel for any film. I found it aggressively boring, and I'm saying that as someone who considers, say, 2001 and Stalker riveting and engaging throughout. After half an hour I tried to will myself to sleep, but that failed, so I sat there seething. I don't even know why the film had that effect, because boredom isn't something that comes easily to me, and I wonder whether my reaction had that much to do with Russian Ark - but as it is, it's the one film that I've had that kind of viscerally negative reaction to.


    Oh, and I wanted to voice my mandatory complaints about the (otherwise great) OP's terrible US-centricity. Which suffer somewhat from my inability to provide non-US alternatives. Meh. I'll go stand in the corner and read my Jules et Jim Criterion booklet.

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Weird, I heard someone say "funniest clip ever" but they attached the moniker to a clip that wasn't this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE58ZtIpNSo

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    (I will go to the mat with anybody who argues that Steve Martin is not the single greatest physical comedian of all time.)

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  • ThirithThirith Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    And to put my money where my mouth is:

    Best ménage à trois:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEtiba8_gsk

    Best samurai movie:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V4dEWPJKNk

    Best psychosexual mindfuck:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37g9h8cROsM

    Best heartbreak set to music:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObVG9o2xWI

    Best flying Lenin (and both worst and best flying Lenin CGI, the latter by default):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kehu8QBHCCk

    Best Criterion trolling, bar none:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwXwHR3mQ8c

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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    The heavyweight champ of disturbing films I've seen is Un Chien Andalou, and I'm so squeamish about movies now that I'll probably never watch anything that can top it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6VQgaY0_8E

    Okay, Audition is actually probably the most disturbing, but Un Chien Andaliu holds a special place in my eyes.

  • TurksonTurkson Near the mountains of ColoradoRegistered User regular
  • ThirithThirith Registered User regular
    I think I still like the Once Upon a Time in the West climax better. It's just so damn tense.

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    I'm having a hard time thinking of a better one that's for sure.

    From what I've heard Whiplash's climax is incredible. I haven't seen it yet though.

    I like The Good the Bad and the Weird's climax, it's not that great but it is a surprisingly literal climax to the film. I'd post it, but it's fairly average and loses a lot without the rest of the film in front of it. All climaxes do, but the thing that makes it so good IMO relies on plot and expectations that are set up earlier. I wouldn't rank it near the top of any list of climaxes but it worth mentioning.

    The technically best climaxes are the kind that serve as the final argument of the film, summarizing up the film in one scene. Hmm, that might not be right. How about, 'the best are the ones that I like.' Done.

    edit, ok not done. For me there is no best climax, because a climax can be many things. Even an anti-climax is a climax. And I don't feel like I can compare a film that ends with a climax and a film that ends on an anti-climax. I don't think I can even compare OUTW and GBU.

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    And damn I'm all emotional after watching the Once Upon a Time in the West final duel. The Good the Bad and the Ugly duel is my preference, but it dissipates all the tension instantly after it's over. OUTW lets the tension and emotions linger.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    The brilliance of Inception (and The Dark Knight, The Prestige, and Memento before it) will probably sour me on all further Nolan films not on that level.*


    *see: Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Changing the subject, can anyone sell me on Rooney Mara? I've only seen a handful of things she's been in, but I find her exceedingly blank and nondiscript. Her sister, Kate, on the other hand, is pretty great.

    Interestingly, Lucasfilm has tested both of them for the female lead in one of the Star Wars one-off flicks, as well as Tatiana Maslany. I really, really hope they go with Maslany; that girl is fucking brilliant.

  • ThirithThirith Registered User regular
    Huh. I quite liked Rooney in her small part in The Social Network and in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I'm not a fan of the latter, but I thought it was well crafted and enjoyable enough), but I found Kate utterly dull on House of Cards, but then I think the latter is one of the most hollow yet successful pop culture products of the last few years. Perhaps I just need to see Kate in different material.

    Maslany is interesting and very compelling, but I very much hope that the writing in Orphan Black improves or that she'll get better material elsewhere.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Dark Knight Returns, Atomika? Surely you mean Dawn of Justice

  • DeaderinredDeaderinred Registered User regular
    new ghostbusters isn't going to suck because it's full of women, its going to suck because its using the shitty ghostbuster 3 script bill murray kept ripping up so unless they can work that snl magic on it....

    then again this is the internet so of course people will blame teh womens for ruining their busters because the internet is full of stupid morons.

  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Isn't it also a reboot? Why the hell does it need to be a reboot? Just set it in the same universe, but a different location.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    Isn't it also a reboot? Why the hell does it need to be a reboot? Just set it in the same universe, but a different location.

    That's my primary point of contention with it. Ghostbusters 2 laid the groundwork (and was built on by the cartoons) that supernatural activity waxes and wanes, and there are dry periods. It would be super simple to say there was a twenty year long dry period. You don't even need to show any of the OG Busters, maybe mention "I based this on the Spengler-Stanz Wibbly Wobbly Theory".

  • reVersereVerse Attack and Dethrone God Registered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    Isn't it also a reboot? Why the hell does it need to be a reboot? Just set it in the same universe, but a different location.

    That's my primary point of contention with it. Ghostbusters 2 laid the groundwork (and was built on by the cartoons) that supernatural activity waxes and wanes, and there are dry periods. It would be super simple to say there was a twenty year long dry period. You don't even need to show any of the OG Busters, maybe mention "I based this on the Spengler-Stanz Wibbly Wobbly Theory".

    But why bother do that when it's just as easy, if not easier, to just have a new set-up from the ground up.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    reVerse wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    Isn't it also a reboot? Why the hell does it need to be a reboot? Just set it in the same universe, but a different location.

    That's my primary point of contention with it. Ghostbusters 2 laid the groundwork (and was built on by the cartoons) that supernatural activity waxes and wanes, and there are dry periods. It would be super simple to say there was a twenty year long dry period. You don't even need to show any of the OG Busters, maybe mention "I based this on the Spengler-Stanz Wibbly Wobbly Theory".

    But why bother do that when it's just as easy, if not easier, to just have a new set-up from the ground up.

    Will it be a new set up though? This isn't universal, but the temptation to cover old scenes, setpieces and jokes from the original is methinks greater in a reboot than a sequel.

  • PLAPLA The process.Registered User regular
    Hot Fuzz still best movie fyi hth.

  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    I think both Maras are overrated, but Rooney has more talent from what I've seen of stuff they've been in. Kate Mara was straight up terrible in Ironclad.

  • WashWash Sweet Christmas Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    Changing the subject, can anyone sell me on Rooney Mara? I've only seen a handful of things she's been in, but I find her exceedingly blank and nondiscript. Her sister, Kate, on the other hand, is pretty great.

    Interestingly, Lucasfilm has tested both of them for the female lead in one of the Star Wars one-off flicks, as well as Tatiana Maslany. I really, really hope they go with Maslany; that girl is fucking brilliant.

    Maslany doesn't receive a fraction of the recognition she deserves for her work on Orphan Black. Considering what she's asked to do on that show and how she manages to do it so well, it's p. bullshit.

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  • ThirithThirith Registered User regular
    In all respects that matter, I don't think that reboot vs. sequel is altogether relevant to the quality of the end result. You can have a creative, funny reboot or sequel as much as you can have a creatively bankrupt, utterly derivative, dead-in-the-water reboot or sequel. It's not whether the film is the one or the other that will determine the quality of the script or the performances, as far as I'm concerned.

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  • RchanenRchanen Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    (I will go to the mat with anybody who argues that Steve Martin is not the single greatest physical comedian of all time.)

    Oh its on now bitch. Its on now.

    Woody Allen. In particular Love and Death. Also Harpo. Just fucking Harpo.

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