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[Movies] Watch Edge of Tomorrow. Bitch about it. Repeat.
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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.
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_rpUOr the best musical number in all of cinema:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnUOr the scariest moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atjhOhH-V3EOr the funniest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0sgTkRSljAOr the saddest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOoWpTxKJGAOr the most exciting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-8AP0To4kOr the most awe-inspiring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33-qOXOWS4The best beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaj2P-dSi8and the best ending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFkryh6hC-kand 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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There, that wasn't so hard.
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Best interview:
Best continuous shot:
Best opening credit scene:
If you don't like it, fuck you.
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.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Best Musical Number:
Best Ending:
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.)
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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.
I feel like I always wanted to be a movie buff, though.
Just so I could drop references like Shawn Spencer in Psych.
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.
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.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Best ménage à trois:
Best samurai movie:
Best psychosexual mindfuck:
Best heartbreak set to music:
Best flying Lenin (and both worst and best flying Lenin CGI, the latter by default):
Best Criterion trolling, bar none:
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Okay, Audition is actually probably the most disturbing, but Un Chien Andaliu holds a special place in my eyes.
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"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
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.
*see: Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises
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 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.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
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.
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.
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.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Oh its on now bitch. Its on now.
Woody Allen. In particular Love and Death. Also Harpo. Just fucking Harpo.