I'm now imagining Morgan Freeman in the Robert Redford role in Winter Soldier.
I'd link Dreamcatcher, but that might cause people to harm themselves by watching it.
I think his Dreamcatcher role was a little too brusque, it would be interesting to see Freeman play a character being threatening/dangerous in a much more non-physical and subtle fashion (which Redford's Winter Soldier at least tries to get at). The kind of guy that makes you fear him by slight insinuation or tone of voice, ofc I can't come up with any examples just now though.
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but didn't he do that in Lucky Number Slevin?
Well he played an aging gangster, but yes he was a dick in the movie. He was also the bad guy in Wanted and Dream Catcher, though most people hated wanted (I enjoyed it) and dream catcher was trash.
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I'm now imagining Morgan Freeman in the Robert Redford role in Winter Soldier.
I'd link Dreamcatcher, but that might cause people to harm themselves by watching it.
I think his Dreamcatcher role was a little too brusque, it would be interesting to see Freeman play a character being threatening/dangerous in a much more non-physical and subtle fashion (which Redford's Winter Soldier at least tries to get at). The kind of guy that makes you fear him by slight insinuation or tone of voice, ofc I can't come up with any examples just now though.
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but didn't he do that in Lucky Number Slevin?
I've scrubbed everything about LNS from memory and am all the happier for it.
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Lucky Number Slevin was aces, I ain't gonna hear no bad words about it. It was a throw-away film, but it was a really fun throw-away film.
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It was also one of the few times Willis was in a wig that didn't look awful (well at least not look awful on purpose like his hair piece in Death Becomes Her looked).
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Also not every crime film with an ensemble cast is tarantino, god ensemble crime films were a thing before pulp fiction, they continue to be a thing after it.
Slevin if anything was more Mametesque with the rapid fire dialogue and people talking past what they were really talking about.
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I pre-ordered a special Godzilla figure back in March, before the movie was released, and I finally got it yesterday. This thing is huge, and better yet it has a insane number of joints (the tail alone is made-up of thirteen sections!). Just thought I'd share a pic of this foot tall, two-foot long behemoth alongside my other Big G figures.
Also! Friends of mine hated The Innkeepers but loved Paranormal Activity even though structurally they're the same fucking film and The Innkeepers doesn't have a turbo-douche sticking his dick on a Ouija board every few minutes.
The Innkeepers is an excellent, intelligent movie for the first half or so, and then it gets super boring and underwritten. Paranormal Activity is super dumb but it works like gangbusters for all that. I can definitely see liking it more, although both are hugely flawed.
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Holy shit, Movie Bob liked Expendables 3. And he hated the first two in exactly the same ways that I did, so maybe I should check it out.
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Also! Friends of mine hated The Innkeepers but loved Paranormal Activity even though structurally they're the same fucking film and The Innkeepers doesn't have a turbo-douche sticking his dick on a Ouija board every few minutes.
The Innkeepers is an excellent, intelligent movie for the first half or so, and then it gets super boring and underwritten. Paranormal Activity is super dumb but it works like gangbusters for all that. I can definitely see liking it more, although both are hugely flawed.
PA gets major props for at least addressing the "if your house is haunted, why not just fucking leave, you stupid box of hair?" issue in a reasonable manner.
I still haven't seen the sequels. Should I fix this?
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Also! Friends of mine hated The Innkeepers but loved Paranormal Activity even though structurally they're the same fucking film and The Innkeepers doesn't have a turbo-douche sticking his dick on a Ouija board every few minutes.
The Innkeepers is an excellent, intelligent movie for the first half or so, and then it gets super boring and underwritten. Paranormal Activity is super dumb but it works like gangbusters for all that. I can definitely see liking it more, although both are hugely flawed.
PA gets major props for at least addressing the "if your house is haunted, why not just fucking leave, you stupid box of hair?" issue in a reasonable manner.
I still haven't seen the sequels. Should I fix this?
I think 3 is the best. It's a prequel and has some cool stuff they do with the camera angles to increase tension.
That plot synopsis is nuts. I'd watch an adaptation, but it would never get made. Hollywood ain't touching re-interpretations of the Christian creation myth; middle America would flip their shit.
That plot synopsis is nuts. I'd watch an adaptation, but it would never get made. Hollywood ain't touching re-interpretations of the Christian creation myth; middle America would flip their shit.
Morgan Freeman was a villain in China Syndrome? That movie about a fictional version of the three mile island nuclear accident. At least, I think he was, I can't remember anything about that film.
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That plot synopsis is nuts. I'd watch an adaptation, but it would never get made. Hollywood ain't touching re-interpretations of the Christian creation myth; middle America would flip their shit.
As an aside, fuck middle America.
Noah says hi.
(Not Creation exactly, admittedly, but it was still a reinterpretation of stuff in Genesis. Middle America did, indeed, flip its shit.)
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The first two minutes of the new Half In the Bag are a very good response to what happens when you disagree with something everyone else says is a masterpiece how could you be a fool for thinking otherwise.
I do think the Blade Runner scene in question skirts rapeyness. Deckard definitely forces his will on Rachael. She's confused, scared, and yes, she does give in, but I do think we're either meant to feel ambivalent about Deckard in the scene or it's directed badly. It does fit in with the film noir mood of the film - few noir heroes are clearcut heroes and treat women as equals - but I don't think it's a scene that should be watched as straight romance, which is what the music suggests.
Without condoning or condemning them, I think one reason you get quasi-rapey scenes like the one in Blade Runner, or the one in Brokeback Mountain, is that drama is conflict. "I really want to kiss you!" "I really want to kiss you too!" isn't very dramatic.
Would you folks be willing to throw out suggestions, basing them off of the grudge, the ring and insidious? That kind of creepy but not slasher horror movie.
Those are some of my absolute favorites. And the sequels to every one failed to live up.
Well, since you all seem to talk about Chronicle so much I finally rented it. And it was pretty good, even if I'm not a fan of the "found footage" schtick. Plus, being a Seattleite, a lot of it was that much more fun to watch.
Like that Metro bus getting thrown into that building, because Fuck Metro.
Would you folks be willing to throw out suggestions, basing them off of the grudge, the ring and insidious? That kind of creepy but not slasher horror movie.
Those are some of my absolute favorites. And the sequels to every one failed to live up.
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People who aren't me liked The Conjuring
I thought Sinister was the creepiest of the three, since I genuinely got that "NOPE NOT GOOD THAT'S BAD" feeling from the film reels which I don't get from much else other than creepy internet photos and the like. That said, its plot is ultimately silly and I still joke with my girlfriend to this day about Hawke's rules-lawyering in explaining the situation to his exasperated wife.
Hawke is asked directly if he has moved their family "next door" to a house where another family was murdered. He safely responds "no" because he has, in fact, moved his family into a murder house.
Oculus had an interesting take on things but ultimately I feel like it didn't do as much with the premise as it could. It also bugged me that a character established that they understood the hard limits of what the mirror could do, and yet didn't plan with those limits in mind.
If you know that the mirror can only affect people within a relatively small range, why not have someone observe the proceedings remotely?
If anyone liked The Innkeepers, make sure to check out the director's previous The House of the Devil. Honestly, I enjoyed it's classic horror story much more than the former's weird take on quarter-life ennui.
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My issue with both horror and slashers is that I don't like gore. So I have to do too much research before watching things
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Finally watched The Raid 2. Nowhere near as good as the first, it was just a collection of pretty good action scenes framed by a shitty video game plot with equally uninteresting writing.
Finally watched The Raid 2. Nowhere near as good as the first, it was just a collection of pretty good action scenes framed by a shitty video game plot with equally uninteresting writing.
Finally watched The Raid 2. Nowhere near as good as the first, it was just a collection of pretty good action scenes framed by a shitty video game plot with equally uninteresting writing.
This is how I felt about the first one.
I found the plot of the second one actually needed dumbing down. It was trying too much to be the Infernal Affairs/The Departed level of crime drama mixed in with all the OTT action set pieces and really you can't have both with something suffering. In particular you had at one point something like 9 plot points all running at once with more and more new characters being introduced at random.
I keep thinking if the plot was kept more streamlined to something like Enter The Dragon it would work so much better as I found the action set pieces were slicker, better shot, far more brutal and more entertaining.
Finally watched The Raid 2. Nowhere near as good as the first, it was just a collection of pretty good action scenes framed by a shitty video game plot with equally uninteresting writing.
This is how I felt about the first one.
I found the plot of the second one actually needed dumbing down. It was trying too much to be the Infernal Affairs/The Departed level of crime drama mixed in with all the OTT action set pieces and really you can't have both with something suffering. In particular you had at one point something like 9 plot points all running at once with more and more new characters being introduced at random.
I keep thinking if the plot was kept more streamlined to something like Enter The Dragon it would work so much better as I found the action set pieces were slicker, better shot, far more brutal and more entertaining.
The plot was incredibly dumb and all the side plots were just added for more fight scenes.
For example there's no reason at all why they didn't just shoot Koso. Hell, there's no reason why they didn't just use guns in almost every instance of an extended fight sequence. In the first movie the logic behind the fights held up, here it didn't at all. That was one of my biggest problems with it and why I just got kind of bored - it has no reason to exist other than to show off it's budget and fight choreography.
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My issue with both horror and slashers is that I don't like gore. So I have to do too much research before watching things
None of the 4 I mentioned are gorey.
Occulus probably has the most violent things that happen though.
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I just got back from The Congress.
It approaches some interesting ideas but sadly never actually reaches them, it just wanks around endlessly.
A real waste
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Hostel appeared on Netflix so I decided to give it a watch. 26 minutes in and nothing has happened yet, just the three dumb main characters chasing for pussy. What a boring fucking movie. Where's all the horrible controversial violence?
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It's been a long time since I've seen it, but didn't he do that in Lucky Number Slevin?
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Kind of like Street Kings looked one way in the trailers and played out completely different in the actual movie.
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I so wish this trailer had kept the same tone it has for the first minute and just made that the ad campaign.
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Slevin if anything was more Mametesque with the rapid fire dialogue and people talking past what they were really talking about.
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The Innkeepers is an excellent, intelligent movie for the first half or so, and then it gets super boring and underwritten. Paranormal Activity is super dumb but it works like gangbusters for all that. I can definitely see liking it more, although both are hugely flawed.
How about Freeman as Satan in an adaptation of Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell?
PA gets major props for at least addressing the "if your house is haunted, why not just fucking leave, you stupid box of hair?" issue in a reasonable manner.
I still haven't seen the sequels. Should I fix this?
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I think 3 is the best. It's a prequel and has some cool stuff they do with the camera angles to increase tension.
That plot synopsis is nuts. I'd watch an adaptation, but it would never get made. Hollywood ain't touching re-interpretations of the Christian creation myth; middle America would flip their shit.
As an aside, fuck middle America.
Do it on tv instead.
Noah says hi.
(Not Creation exactly, admittedly, but it was still a reinterpretation of stuff in Genesis. Middle America did, indeed, flip its shit.)
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Occulus
Sinister
Mama
People who aren't me liked The Conjuring
Like that Metro bus getting thrown into that building, because Fuck Metro.
I thought Sinister was the creepiest of the three, since I genuinely got that "NOPE NOT GOOD THAT'S BAD" feeling from the film reels which I don't get from much else other than creepy internet photos and the like. That said, its plot is ultimately silly and I still joke with my girlfriend to this day about Hawke's rules-lawyering in explaining the situation to his exasperated wife.
Oculus had an interesting take on things but ultimately I feel like it didn't do as much with the premise as it could. It also bugged me that a character established that they understood the hard limits of what the mirror could do, and yet didn't plan with those limits in mind.
If anyone liked The Innkeepers, make sure to check out the director's previous The House of the Devil. Honestly, I enjoyed it's classic horror story much more than the former's weird take on quarter-life ennui.
This is how I felt about the first one.
I found the plot of the second one actually needed dumbing down. It was trying too much to be the Infernal Affairs/The Departed level of crime drama mixed in with all the OTT action set pieces and really you can't have both with something suffering. In particular you had at one point something like 9 plot points all running at once with more and more new characters being introduced at random.
I keep thinking if the plot was kept more streamlined to something like Enter The Dragon it would work so much better as I found the action set pieces were slicker, better shot, far more brutal and more entertaining.
The plot was incredibly dumb and all the side plots were just added for more fight scenes.
None of the 4 I mentioned are gorey.
Occulus probably has the most violent things that happen though.
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It approaches some interesting ideas but sadly never actually reaches them, it just wanks around endlessly.
A real waste