Last Action Hero is still good, but I think the fact that we pretty much stopped making the kind of action movies that it's satirizing kind of makes it have less oomph to it. The action scenes are still a lot of fun and Charles Dance is delivering a masterclass of acting as Benedict in this.
When I was watching a lot of Hulu with ads that's generally how it was, yeah
It feels like they have only like three or four commercials at any given time on the service, so you just see the same one over and over and over again
I was watching the USMNT-mexico game on Paramount+ the other day and during the commercial break they just had a screen that said "commercial break.". Literally the one time you could be selling ads and you can't be arsed to scrounge one up.
Titans of industry running these services I tell you
Sporting events always do this, presumably because of the live nature of the broadcast: those ad breaks are the telvision ad breaks, the stream is really just a simulcast but the tv broadcast takes precedence in this regard because of different ads for different markets, etc.
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I kinda wish I could watch Road House as a dumb action movie but McGregor is just such a truly horrible human that I can't do something that would support him.
Quite frankly I'm still disappointed in Gyllenhaal for working with him.
Last Action Hero is still good, but I think the fact that we pretty much stopped making the kind of action movies that it's satirizing kind of makes it have less oomph to it. The action scenes are still a lot of fun and Charles Dance is delivering a masterclass of acting as Benedict in this.
On the Blank Check ep about that flick, someone (I think Paul Scheer?) called it the "Rules of the Game of an era of action films," and the comparison blew me away.
Last Action Hero is still good, but I think the fact that we pretty much stopped making the kind of action movies that it's satirizing kind of makes it have less oomph to it. The action scenes are still a lot of fun and Charles Dance is delivering a masterclass of acting as Benedict in this.
Been trying to expand my horizons in the broad world of genre. Last year I really hunkered down and got into some horror blind spots and this year it's the western. I had seen the Coen's True Grit and not much else. Now I've seen most of the Sartana series, Django, I'm currently making my way through the Dollars trilogy and I have some old american westerns on deck.
All this to say it led me to revisit a movie I've been dreading to rewatch after really loving it in theatres which is Rango. Main actor notwithstanding it holds up pretty okay. It plays the lazy jokes of their native character looking like he's communing or tracking but actually he's just doing something else. Of course he does track and commune and speak in folklore. It's a fun Chinatown knockoff and has just some of the most beautiful designs. This and Tintin are for sure the interesting experiments of live action directors dipping their toes into animation
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Also, I will defend Last Action Hero until I’m dead. D-E-D. Dead
despite your many, many criminal movie opinions, I don't think anyone here is gonna argue with this particular take, and if they are I don't wanna hear it
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I'm going to limit it to a tight five but, here ya go:
-- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
-- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
-- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
-- Tombstone (1993)
-- The Quick and the Dead (1995)
I'm going to limit it to a tight five but, here ya go:
-- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
-- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
-- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
-- Tombstone (1993)
-- The Quick and the Dead (1995)
I have seen Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
I have seen a lot of the subversion of the genre before seeing the originals
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Tombstone rules.
I watched a film called Surrounded recently which was a Western but felt different to most Westerns I've seen. It does star that Latisha Whoever from Black Panther, and I know a lot of people don't like her now, but I thought it was a decent film.
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I think Stagecoach is worth a look, as one of the big classics of the genre that predates everything else you've mentioned
This talk of Westerns and how the girl in the Road House remake talks about Dalton's story being like a Western realky make it clear how the original Road House is a classic Western style story of a sheriff coming in and cleaning up the town and winning over the locals then fighting the villains.
Last Action Hero is still good, but I think the fact that we pretty much stopped making the kind of action movies that it's satirizing kind of makes it have less oomph to it. The action scenes are still a lot of fun and Charles Dance is delivering a masterclass of acting as Benedict in this.
And it has my favorite Arnie line reading of all time:
Last Action Hero is still good, but I think the fact that we pretty much stopped making the kind of action movies that it's satirizing kind of makes it have less oomph to it. The action scenes are still a lot of fun and Charles Dance is delivering a masterclass of acting as Benedict in this.
And it has my favorite Arnie line reading of all time:
“Is this movie just gunna shit talk Texans the whole way through?”
“Yup”
“Right on”
I've been thinking about it and Matt Damon's deep and sustained willingness to be the butt of a joke has probably been a big part of his lasting success, huh
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“Is this movie just gunna shit talk Texans the whole way through?”
“Yup”
“Right on”
I've been thinking about it and Matt Damon's deep and sustained willingness to be the butt of a joke has probably been a big part of his lasting success, huh
it hadn't occurred to me but it has happened a lot
Last Action Hero is still good, but I think the fact that we pretty much stopped making the kind of action movies that it's satirizing kind of makes it have less oomph to it. The action scenes are still a lot of fun and Charles Dance is delivering a masterclass of acting as Benedict in this.
And it has my favorite Arnie line reading of all time:
Oh wow he really makes sure you hear every single syllable huh
The practical car stunt and explosion happening in the background is what sets it apart, it's just Tuesday for Jack Slater.
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It's probably telling that when I saw that super bowl commercial I was genuinely surprised that Ben Affleck was there making fun of himself, but when Damon showed up I immediately thought "well of course, that makes sense."
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Open Range has my favorite "showdown at high noon" of any western.
Costners character confronts the evil hired killer (Kim Coates, fantastic as always, and a few others in the street. He asks him if he's the one that shot his friend. Coates says yeah, and I shot your dog too. So Costner just shoots him directly in the face. Boom done.
“Is this movie just gunna shit talk Texans the whole way through?”
“Yup”
“Right on”
I've been thinking about it and Matt Damon's deep and sustained willingness to be the butt of a joke has probably been a big part of his lasting success, huh
it hadn't occurred to me but it has happened a lot
Off the top of my head, he's also very good playing the fool in The Informant!
It's probably telling that when I saw that super bowl commercial I was genuinely surprised that Ben Affleck was there making fun of himself, but when Damon showed up I immediately thought "well of course, that makes sense."
Ben Affleck has always had a good sense of humor about himself, but Matt Damon is more willing to play a character who is a fool. In interviews and in Kevin Smith movies he is always making fun of his self-image. But he doesn't take movie roles that portray it.
Gonna throw my hat in with some Western TV series rather than movies since most of my recs for that department are already lodged, with the exception of not strictly a Western but close enough inclusion Mask of Zorro.
Otherwise, if you have the time, watch Deadwood for frontier town politics and skulduggery, and Hell on Wheels for life working on the railroad (And reconstruction politics)
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Sporting events always do this, presumably because of the live nature of the broadcast: those ad breaks are the telvision ad breaks, the stream is really just a simulcast but the tv broadcast takes precedence in this regard because of different ads for different markets, etc.
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Quite frankly I'm still disappointed in Gyllenhaal for working with him.
On the Blank Check ep about that flick, someone (I think Paul Scheer?) called it the "Rules of the Game of an era of action films," and the comparison blew me away.
That smile at the end.
The quality drop going to Wrong Turn 2 is astronomical though.
All this to say it led me to revisit a movie I've been dreading to rewatch after really loving it in theatres which is Rango. Main actor notwithstanding it holds up pretty okay. It plays the lazy jokes of their native character looking like he's communing or tracking but actually he's just doing something else. Of course he does track and commune and speak in folklore. It's a fun Chinatown knockoff and has just some of the most beautiful designs. This and Tintin are for sure the interesting experiments of live action directors dipping their toes into animation
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despite your many, many criminal movie opinions, I don't think anyone here is gonna argue with this particular take, and if they are I don't wanna hear it
I'm going to limit it to a tight five but, here ya go:
-- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
-- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
-- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
-- Tombstone (1993)
-- The Quick and the Dead (1995)
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I have seen Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
I have seen a lot of the subversion of the genre before seeing the originals
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I watched a film called Surrounded recently which was a Western but felt different to most Westerns I've seen. It does star that Latisha Whoever from Black Panther, and I know a lot of people don't like her now, but I thought it was a decent film.
Almost certainly the only Western I saw in a theater.
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“Is this movie just gunna shit talk Texans the whole way through?”
“Yup”
“Right on”
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And it has my favorite Arnie line reading of all time:
(1:02 in this clip)
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Oh wow he really makes sure you hear every single syllable huh
I've been thinking about it and Matt Damon's deep and sustained willingness to be the butt of a joke has probably been a big part of his lasting success, huh
it hadn't occurred to me but it has happened a lot
The practical car stunt and explosion happening in the background is what sets it apart, it's just Tuesday for Jack Slater.
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Off the top of my head, he's also very good playing the fool in The Informant!
Ben Affleck has always had a good sense of humor about himself, but Matt Damon is more willing to play a character who is a fool. In interviews and in Kevin Smith movies he is always making fun of his self-image. But he doesn't take movie roles that portray it.
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Otherwise, if you have the time, watch Deadwood for frontier town politics and skulduggery, and Hell on Wheels for life working on the railroad (And reconstruction politics)