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[Movies]: Watch the Final Cut version. Paddington still better.
TexiKen
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'Member the 80's?
Movies think they're kewl now, but they were kewler in the 80's:
So let's talk about how 80's movies will always be better than anything else ever made!
Movies think they're kewl now, but they were kewler in the 80's:
So let's talk about how 80's movies will always be better than anything else ever made!
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Alas it is not.
Morbidly curious about The Lure. Had no idea it was part musical.
Personal Shopper is a kinda half expected pick, especially after The Clouds of Sils Maria got picked up. Personal Shopper was fun seeing knowing nothing about it, a minor delight of "where is this going exactly", but the sum of its parts don't amount to much. I would rather Criterion looked further back if they're going to keep releasing Assayas films. Stuff like Cold Water and Irma Vep deserve to be better known, as they're much better than his recent output.
I've been interested in The Lure. One of those ones I know I'll get around to eventually, but I kinda want to forget about it until I do, if that makes any sense.
Wonder if they'll ever get Lost Highway.
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This is important to know because almost none of the Ghibli films released by Disney had proper Japanese subtitles. They just substituted the English script, which, depending on the film, could change entire scenes or characters.
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If you really wanna blow their mind, show them the original screened ending.
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1. Apocalypse Now
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Born on the Fourth of July
4. The Deer Hunter
5. Flags of Our Fathers/Letters From Iwo Jima
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If my dad (Air Force mechanic end of Vietnam) is any indication, then sure these are good but really the Hot Shots films captured his wacky adventures best.
First Blood is a pretty good movie about the trauma war inflicts and how people who are separated from it fail to understand it. The rest of the Rambo films are bro porn.
Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket are all solid choices. Any war movie whose message isn't "fuck you, war is stupid," isn't something I'm usually interested in.
Indeed, every time Rambo cuts loose (early on with the pirates, and during the climax), the reaction he gets from the missionaries (and even the mercenaries during the second one) isn't one of hero worship, it's terror. So much so, that the missionaries quickly disembark and travel on foot after the pirate incident and Julie Benz can't even look at him after the fighting is over.
It's hard to say it's there not there to entertain when he turns some poor sap into ground beef with a jeep-mounted Ma Deuce.
The movie was schizophrenic with its depictions of violence to the point where it came off as sadistic.
I mean, I was fucking hootin it up in the theater (I was in my AIT school for the Army at the time, fresh outta boot), but yeah I didn't get any message about it being anti-war.
What's funny is he's kinda on to something.
We did a lot of absurd shit for laughs.
I didn't think it was so much anti-war as it was "horrible shit happens, here's a reminder"
There is a line in The Big Red One about how to flush out a sniper, that is just full on, "this is the dumbest shit ever, and they thought it up at West Point". BR1 is probably my favorite war movie, but I don't really go for war movies. I like my ultra violence more on the fiction side of things.
/edit: Found it.
I was going to say I don't like war films, but giving it more thought I actually like a lot of movies that discuss or take place during wars? Like I adore The Best Years of Our Lives and Grand Illusion, but although those films are about soldiers, they don't feature any combat. It's just straight-up humanism and it's gorgeous. I guess 'war film' usually means "hey we're watching soldiers kill each other", yeah?
I don't think it's really schizophrenic from what I remember. It's never trying to say "violence is bad". It seemed to be trying to say "violence is nasty and brutal and horrible, but also necessary".
The missionaries are appalled by the violence he inflicts but at the end of the day they need him and the horrors he unleashes.
Maybe also add A Bridge Too Far, which is about the failure of Operation Market Garden, which was an attempt to sieze bridges to then outflank the Germans and potentially end the war quicker.
Predator rules with this, as always.
Stalingrad for another movie that hits many of the same notes (apart from the undersea claustrophobia)
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Surprised it's not been mentioned yet, actually.
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While what he does is truly magnificent, my view sours on him when he thinks he should get all the glory and ignores the contribution of the CGI artists. Without them he's just another actor in prosthetics and/or make up.
edit: I haven't seen brilliant acting chameleons like Gary Oldman throwing his make up artists under the bus for his work, unlike Serkis.
2 things:
1. I don't know anything about Serkis ignoring the contribution of CGI artist. Not saying you're making it up, just I've never seen it. Can you give an example?
2. There's a good discussion to be had about who deserves what when making a character. Just on the physical actor you have makeup and costume artists. Then you have lighting and set and what have you. Where do you draw the line on what makes a performance Oscar worthy?
I'll probably wind up getting 4 of those 6.
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Didn't like Personal Shopper and haven't seen/heard enough about The Lure to make a decision.
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There are a few articles and interviews you can find where he refers to the sole contributor to performances and refers to the animating of mo-cap work as 'digital makeup' which is pretty disingenuous.
He's evidently a blast to work with and an utterly charming person, he's just... that way.
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The barrier to Serkis getting Oscar recognition is that, whatever you think of mocap (and voice acting and so on), it's still different than regular acting. And there aren't enough mocap performances out there to justify a second category. I think it's likely he'll get some kind of special recognition oscar at some point, but Best Actor Andy Serkis seems pretty unlikely.
Like I get that the WWII was the big one, but I don't like the non-stop worship they get compared to other veterans. And SPR was kind sort of Ground Zero off that.
Band of Brothers however was great.
To be fair to him, his name is essentially synonymous with "mo-cap acting is real acting" at this point and the "Special Oscar for people we didn't give one to already" is basically just the formality. He totally deserves one of those though.