You say that as if it's a bad thing. Outside the OT none of it's movies have been remotely necessary. Some other movie would have swept up America in the 70s. George Lucas is a terrible story teller with a vibrant imagination.
Think of all the time you'd save arguing online if Star Wars had never happened
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If we're talking about keeping the movies but the actor is replaced by someone else, I would lose Bale. The number of movies where he really added something substantial is tiny, even though he's been in some of my favorite films. I love TDK and The Prestige, for example.
If the movies themselves cease to exist, then Crowe. He's been in some really good movies, but nothing I couldn't live without. I like Gladiator and LA Confidential a lot, but I'd survive without them.
Pitt and Cruise are indispensable. I'd have to give it some thought, but Pitt might actually be my favorite actor, and Tom Cruise is a cultural phenomenon.
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Who else goes on one of these lists if one of the choices is Keanu to make it a fair foursome?
No such thing. Keanu Reeves just murders the other three with a pencil.
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Terrible choices all around but i think i echo Streisand and Kidman. I could see Roberts instead of Kidman but Brocovich and Miss Congeniality couldn't have been done by other actresses.
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You are much more well-versed on movies than I am, so who would you put in each group to replace Streisand and Kidman that would force you to choose someone other than the actresses you placed in the group?
You know, I may agree with you Atomika, but Streisand is pure joy to watch in Hello Dolly, even though I don't think the movie did well (way before my time). It reeks of old rascist hollywood considering that I don't think there are any people of color except louis armstrong in the whole picture, and they only let him sing part of the song.
I like Julianne Moore as an actress, but other than Hannibal, I can't think of many great movies she has done other than Children of Men.
Nicole Kidman has cold mountain, moulin rouge; she was great in The Others
My knee-jerk reaction was Streisand and Kidman, but now I’m torn on Kidman/Moore. I like them both, but ... ehhh I’m just torn. It’s flip a coin territory.
Terrible choices all around but i think i echo Streisand and Kidman. I could see Roberts instead of Kidman but Brocovich and Miss Congeniality couldn't have been done by other actresses.
Truly, Julia Roberts did an amazing job at playing Sandra Bullock. The resemblance is uncanny.
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You are much more well-versed on movies than I am, so who would you put in each group to replace Streisand and Kidman that would force you to choose someone other than the actresses you placed in the group?
Kathy Bates knocks out Helen Mirren
Salma Hayek knocks out Julianne Moore
Pitt in Burn After Reading and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood negates any possibility of removing him. Probably Christian Bale for me.
Kidman was good in The Killing of A Sacred Deer, which I saw recently and thought was great. I dunno if I'm well versed enough to make a determination on her list, though.
Keanu, if added to any list, would for me provoke such strongly conflicting desires to at once remove him and retain him at all costs that my head might explode. If removed, I would never have to watch Man of Tai Chi ("rarrrrrr"), which would probably add a couple years to my life.
I’d drop Julia Roberts. While she brings something unique to the table, that unique thing doesn’t do all that much for me. There are a bunch of Julia Roberts films I like, but never particularly for her.
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Group 1
Meryl Streep
Helen Mirran
Judy Dench
Barbara Striesand
Group 2
Cate Blanchett
Julianne Moore
Nicole Kidman
Julia Roberts
Streisand for Group 1. Don't care for musicals, and while I'm missing out on Mecha Streisand there's nothing there to make me think twice about it.
Group 2 is easy, it's Roberts. Kidman's got some choice films in Days of Thunder and Far and Away so doesn't go, you take away Paddington I take away your eyes. But Roberts made so many trash rom-coms, and that entire bit in Ocean's 12 was so fucking cringe and I hate that movie so much she gets the axe.
And how many movies did you just accidentally delete mixing them up
Lose Pullman.
Replace all Bill Pullman roles with Bill Paxton.
Net improvement.
Oof, I dunno ... I don’t see Paxton bringing the same energy to The Serpent and the Rainbow, or Spaceballs. I love me some Paxton, and I miss him every time I think of him, but ehhhhh...
That said, yeah, totally lose Pullman in a choice between them.
Meanwhile, I think I prefer playing Movie God when it’s about movies and not individuals. Feels too personal this way, like its mean-spirited even if it isn’t.
Just tell me who I need to remove to get rid of Burn After Reading
If Pitt's not enough I'll keep going
Hated that movie
Burn After Reading is very similar to The Big Lebowski: a bunch of morons who are completely out of their depth get caught up in a wild goose chase that they can't even begin to understand, shenanigans ensue, no one learns anything. Only instead of hardboiled detective stories, they're making fun of political spy thrillers. I thought it was delightful, but I can see being turned off if you aren't on its wavelength. The movie flat out admits that it was all a complete waste of time at the end.
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I like Burn After Reading a lot, I find it very entertaining, but I can't really fault anyone for bouncing off it. It has the occasional Coen Bros problem of being full of absolute contempt for its characters and giving you nothing and no-one to particularly care about.
The Big Lebowski is better about walking that line, about telling a story full of mooks and goons and simpletons without feeling so viciously misanthropic. Jeff Lebowski is a buffoon, but he is a largely blameless one who tries, in his own way, to do the right thing. Walter is obviously insane, but in a mostly charming way. Many of the incidental characters are eccentric but not presented in a sneering, scornful way, and the movie reserves the most vitriol for the people who actually deserve it - the rich frauds and criminals in the hills.
Like Starship Troopers, Burn After Reading just treats everyone in it like shit. And like Starship Troopers, that doesn't mean it's not funny or incisive, it just means it doesn't really engage my sympathies and as a result my emotional reaction to it is kind of capped.
Tom Cruise is just irreplaceable. If you pick him you lose Risky Business, All the Right Moves and the movie adaption of the Outsiders, and that just in 1983 alone. You lose Rain Man, The Color of Money and Born the Fourth of July and I am still in the 80s for christ sake!
Plus I didn't even mention Top Gun which is hands down the best recruitment ad the US Navy has ever made.
Yeah he gets made fun of because of his running and the meme worthy outakes from his movies, but that is mostly because its taken out of context. In the movie, his performance is so riveting that you are dragged along.
Anybody that picks Cruise hasn't watched enough of his movies.
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Looking at Kidman’s filmography and pulling out Days of Thunder and Far and Away as high points is an astonishing choice. I would be less surprised to see someone peel a banana and then eat the skin.
Just tell me who I need to remove to get rid of Burn After Reading
If Pitt's not enough I'll keep going
Hated that movie
Burn After Reading is very similar to The Big Lebowski: a bunch of morons who are completely out of their depth get caught up in a wild goose chase that they can't even begin to understand, shenanigans ensue, no one learns anything. Only instead of hardboiled detective stories, they're making fun of political spy thrillers. I thought it was delightful, but I can see being turned off if you aren't on its wavelength. The movie flat out admits that it was all a complete waste of time at the end.
They have some of the same ideas but I don't think they feel at all similar. Burn After Reading is very direct about the absurdity of everything that is going on. A completely random event sets off a meaningless chain of violence and death because everyone involved is kind of shitty, except maybe Pitt's character who is just dumb as bricks. The ending conversation is just brilliant for how it sums it all up.
The Big Lebowski feels much more like a man caught up in events he doesn't understand.
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Looking at Kidman’s filmography and pulling out Days of Thunder and Far and Away as high points is an astonishing choice. I would be less surprised to see someone peel a banana and then eat the skin.
I also mentioned Paddington so check and mate. Also should have added Stoker because that's still incredibly underrated.
Kidman has done movies I don't really care for, but unlike Roberts they didn't become ingratiatingly cliched in the genres like Roberts did. The only Roberts movie I'd feel sorry for losing out would be Hook. And you can eat pray love that guarantee.
edit: being a part of Dick The Birthday Boy is the highlight of Julia Roberts' career.
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You say that as if it's a bad thing. Outside the OT none of it's movies have been remotely necessary. Some other movie would have swept up America in the 70s. George Lucas is a terrible story teller with a vibrant imagination.
Losing Star Wars is no big deal.
I’d really rather not think about it.
If the movies themselves cease to exist, then Crowe. He's been in some really good movies, but nothing I couldn't live without. I like Gladiator and LA Confidential a lot, but I'd survive without them.
Pitt and Cruise are indispensable. I'd have to give it some thought, but Pitt might actually be my favorite actor, and Tom Cruise is a cultural phenomenon.
No such thing. Keanu Reeves just murders the other three with a pencil.
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Group 1
Meryl Streep
Helen Mirran
Judy Dench
Barbara Striesand
Group 2
Cate Blanchett
Julianne Moore
Nicole Kidman
Julia Roberts
I literally have no idea who i'd pick from either group. Curious to hear thoughts though
You are much more well-versed on movies than I am, so who would you put in each group to replace Streisand and Kidman that would force you to choose someone other than the actresses you placed in the group?
You know, I may agree with you Atomika, but Streisand is pure joy to watch in Hello Dolly, even though I don't think the movie did well (way before my time). It reeks of old rascist hollywood considering that I don't think there are any people of color except louis armstrong in the whole picture, and they only let him sing part of the song.
I like Julianne Moore as an actress, but other than Hannibal, I can't think of many great movies she has done other than Children of Men.
Nicole Kidman has cold mountain, moulin rouge; she was great in The Others
Truly, Julia Roberts did an amazing job at playing Sandra Bullock. The resemblance is uncanny.
Kathy Bates knocks out Helen Mirren
Salma Hayek knocks out Julianne Moore
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I think so
I was thinking about it, I think Michael Keaton at the time could have pulled off the scary intensity needed.
Then kills them in the matrix and then does a sweet guitar riff
Kidman was good in The Killing of A Sacred Deer, which I saw recently and thought was great. I dunno if I'm well versed enough to make a determination on her list, though.
Keanu, if added to any list, would for me provoke such strongly conflicting desires to at once remove him and retain him at all costs that my head might explode. If removed, I would never have to watch Man of Tai Chi ("rarrrrrr"), which would probably add a couple years to my life.
If Pitt's not enough I'll keep going
Hated that movie
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Love that movie but it's not enough to keep him around.
And how many movies did you just accidentally delete mixing them up
First of all, holy goddamn shit what a movie and what a cast
Second of all, if I saw this back in 2009, Paula Patton would have seriously altered the trajectory of my sexual hangups
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Lose Pullman.
Replace all Bill Pullman roles with Bill Paxton.
Net improvement.
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Meryl Streep
Helen Mirran
Judy Dench
Barbara Striesand
Group 2
Cate Blanchett
Julianne Moore
Nicole Kidman
Julia Roberts
Streisand for Group 1. Don't care for musicals, and while I'm missing out on Mecha Streisand there's nothing there to make me think twice about it.
Group 2 is easy, it's Roberts. Kidman's got some choice films in Days of Thunder and Far and Away so doesn't go, you take away Paddington I take away your eyes. But Roberts made so many trash rom-coms, and that entire bit in Ocean's 12 was so fucking cringe and I hate that movie so much she gets the axe.
Oof, I dunno ... I don’t see Paxton bringing the same energy to The Serpent and the Rainbow, or Spaceballs. I love me some Paxton, and I miss him every time I think of him, but ehhhhh...
That said, yeah, totally lose Pullman in a choice between them.
Meanwhile, I think I prefer playing Movie God when it’s about movies and not individuals. Feels too personal this way, like its mean-spirited even if it isn’t.
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Burn After Reading is very similar to The Big Lebowski: a bunch of morons who are completely out of their depth get caught up in a wild goose chase that they can't even begin to understand, shenanigans ensue, no one learns anything. Only instead of hardboiled detective stories, they're making fun of political spy thrillers. I thought it was delightful, but I can see being turned off if you aren't on its wavelength. The movie flat out admits that it was all a complete waste of time at the end.
The Big Lebowski is better about walking that line, about telling a story full of mooks and goons and simpletons without feeling so viciously misanthropic. Jeff Lebowski is a buffoon, but he is a largely blameless one who tries, in his own way, to do the right thing. Walter is obviously insane, but in a mostly charming way. Many of the incidental characters are eccentric but not presented in a sneering, scornful way, and the movie reserves the most vitriol for the people who actually deserve it - the rich frauds and criminals in the hills.
Like Starship Troopers, Burn After Reading just treats everyone in it like shit. And like Starship Troopers, that doesn't mean it's not funny or incisive, it just means it doesn't really engage my sympathies and as a result my emotional reaction to it is kind of capped.
Things aren't so bad, just look at the parking lot Larry... just.... look at it!
Plus I didn't even mention Top Gun which is hands down the best recruitment ad the US Navy has ever made.
Yeah he gets made fun of because of his running and the meme worthy outakes from his movies, but that is mostly because its taken out of context. In the movie, his performance is so riveting that you are dragged along.
Anybody that picks Cruise hasn't watched enough of his movies.
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They have some of the same ideas but I don't think they feel at all similar. Burn After Reading is very direct about the absurdity of everything that is going on. A completely random event sets off a meaningless chain of violence and death because everyone involved is kind of shitty, except maybe Pitt's character who is just dumb as bricks. The ending conversation is just brilliant for how it sums it all up.
The Big Lebowski feels much more like a man caught up in events he doesn't understand.
I also mentioned Paddington so check and mate. Also should have added Stoker because that's still incredibly underrated.
Kidman has done movies I don't really care for, but unlike Roberts they didn't become ingratiatingly cliched in the genres like Roberts did. The only Roberts movie I'd feel sorry for losing out would be Hook. And you can eat pray love that guarantee.
edit: being a part of Dick The Birthday Boy is the highlight of Julia Roberts' career.