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Against Everyone’s Better Judgement The [Movie] Thread is Open

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    Tonight I watched David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method.

    Keira Knightley does some high quality, Capital A, acting in that film.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Finally got around to watch tucker and dale vs evil which was all in all a pretty entertaining movie

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    The only real "youtube show on movies" thing I like is Re:View. Especially when they break new info on old classics I didn't know.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited September 2020
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    The only real "youtube show on movies" thing I like is Re:View. Especially when they break new info on old classics I didn't know.

    I've got time for Movies With Mikey, if only because he finds new ways for me to appreciate movies I already like.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    The only real "youtube show on movies" thing I like is Re:View. Especially when they break new info on old classics I didn't know.

    foundflix tends to do a very good job too imo

  • kaceypkaceyp we stayed bright as lightning we sang loud as thunderRegistered User regular
    I watched The Babysitter: Killer Queen last night. I didn't catch any of the actual discussion here except a comment or two implying it was bad. It is bad!

    So:
    First off, making the girl from the first one evil sucked, just all around. And they didn't even...like, bother to attempt even a little depth with it. She was just completely 2-dimensionally evil. I suspected it as soon as she made the comment about Cole being special because he's innocent and was very disappointed to be right.

    On the flip side of that...Bea's redemption felt pretty unearned. I didn't hate it because I'm a sucker for that kind of thing, but the whole Bea/Phoebe connection was super contrived and thrown into the movie with lazy exposition right at the end. The "You changed me" to Cole was a genuinely nice beat but that's about it.

    Speaking of Bea/Phoebe...so...can I make sure I'm understanding this right? Bea's entire plan hinged on Phoebe and Cole having sex? As in, it relied on Phoebe going to the lake, running into Cole and the cult, escaping with Cole, not getting murdered several times over, being alone with Cole long enough to have sex, and then both of them actually wanting to do it?

    Oh and also she swore to always protect Phoebe? So she did that by...sending her straight into a bloodbath where a group of psychopaths will attempt to brutally murder her a whole bunch, on the off chance that she'll bone this dude.
    Do I have all that right?

  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    Finally got around to watch tucker and dale vs evil which was all in all a pretty entertaining movie

    HEY

    WE GOT YER FRIEND

    The fucking wood chipper scene sent me into hysterical laughter the first time I saw it.

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    never die wrote: »
    Finally got around to watch tucker and dale vs evil which was all in all a pretty entertaining movie

    HEY

    WE GOT YER FRIEND

    The fucking wood chipper scene sent me into hysterical laughter the first time I saw it.

    Oh hidy-ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.

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  • Green LanternGreen Lantern Registered User regular
    A pretty good thing they kept tucker and dale a one time thing the whole concept would have gotten pretty old quick i think

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    never die wrote: »
    Finally got around to watch tucker and dale vs evil which was all in all a pretty entertaining movie

    HEY

    WE GOT YER FRIEND

    The fucking wood chipper scene sent me into hysterical laughter the first time I saw it.

    Oh hidy-ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    man, Marge Gunderson used to be one of my favorite characters of all time... she's still cool but it's hard not to see the movie as incidental/partial copaganda

  • SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    man, Marge Gunderson used to be one of my favorite characters of all time... she's still cool but it's hard not to see the movie as incidental/partial copaganda

    She still shoots an unarmed and fleeing suspect in the back.

    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    man, Marge Gunderson used to be one of my favorite characters of all time... she's still cool but it's hard not to see the movie as incidental/partial copaganda

    She still shoots an unarmed and fleeing suspect in the back.

    That she had seen pushing human body parts into a wood chipper.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    man, Marge Gunderson used to be one of my favorite characters of all time... she's still cool but it's hard not to see the movie as incidental/partial copaganda

    She still shoots an unarmed and fleeing suspect in the back.

    That she had seen pushing human body parts into a wood chipper.

    Improper disposal of a body is not a crime punishable by death

    Hell, that shit's typically a misdemeanor

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    I mean she gets a little slack from me being that she was alone without backup, he was a large man, he'd thrown the log at her, and he was running in a partially occupied area and if he'd escaped, could have easily hurt other people. And she didn't know how stable the frozen lake was so it would dangerous for her to pursue, even had she not been 6-7 months pregnant.

    It still feels weird that she takes shots at him, but it's a far cry from a guy minding his own business trying to get his wallet out of his pocket.

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    The copaganda of that scene comes mostly from how it reinforces the "just shoot 'em in the leg!" mindset which works fine in fiction but is stupid and dangerous in real life.

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    edited September 2020
    yesterday i somehow found a way to watch the movie i hate the most this year (i'm thinking of ending things) and the movie i most loved (the invisible man) pretty much back to back.

    my big takeaway on the first is that charlie kauffman should not be allowed to direct anything because he is somehow simultaneously impossibly self-indulgent, yet infuriatingly callow when it comes to pulling the trigger on bringing everything together and making it mean something more. it makes so much sense after the fact that spike jonze and michele gondry, seasoned music viceo directors, were able to shape his big pile of too much everything into workable movies now.

    and that cowardice to make a point dovetailed nicely into the invisible man, which is at its heart a showcase for elisabeth moss to show off just how good of an actor she is, but is also just so fucking confident in itself. it keeps going further and further beyond where you'd expect it to; giving you so much more than you'd ever expect. i even messaged @poorochondriac about this; the mid-point pivot in this film would have been the springboard for the last twenty minutes of a lesser movie.

    and that's not even getting into just how well it played with ptsd, gaslighting, and how a support network can fail you post-crisis.

    i can't stop thinking about it.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I mean she gets a little slack from me being that she was alone without backup, he was a large man, he'd thrown the log at her, and he was running in a partially occupied area and if he'd escaped, could have easily hurt other people. And she didn't know how stable the frozen lake was so it would dangerous for her to pursue, even had she not been 6-7 months pregnant.

    It still feels weird that she takes shots at him, but it's a far cry from a guy minding his own business trying to get his wallet out of his pocket.

    at the risk of derailing things into a very non-movie discussion, shooting a fleeing felon who poses a threat to those around them has basically always been considered legally justified, even if they're not actively attempting to harm the officer. Shooting a suspected murderer to prevent him from fleeing the scene of his latest murder is legally considered to be a worthwhile trade-off to the rights of the murderer, as it also protects the community's right to not get thrown into a woodchipper.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited September 2020
    knitdan wrote: »
    I enjoyed Enola Holmes but i was a little bothered that they never really addressed the central question of the narrative.
    Namely, what exactly was Mom up to?

    They danced around it but they never came out and said

    I don't think they needed to come out and say it, right?
    What with the suffragette bombings and everything? Plus the reform bill that Enola ended up passing?

    I think it was pretty much there on front street.

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Fargo exclusively from Marge's perspective is an interesting thing. She has a relatively nice day while investigating a crime, has an exciting incident with a guy and a wood chipper, arrests him then goes home.

    There's an editing job in there.

  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »
    knitdan wrote: »
    I enjoyed Enola Holmes but i was a little bothered that they never really addressed the central question of the narrative.
    Namely, what exactly was Mom up to?

    They danced around it but they never came out and said

    I don't think they needed to come out and say it, right?
    What with the suffragette bombings and everything? Plus the reform bill that Enola ended up passing?

    I think it was pretty much there on front street.

    Yeah my suspicion is that
    Had the reform bill not passed, the more violent plan that Mom was planning would have gone into motion

  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    Richard E. Grant shows up to fucking work in Hudson Hawk.

    Literally the only thing I have ever read, seen, or heard that makes me want to ever watch that movie. Kudos!

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    Fargo exclusively from Marge's perspective is an interesting thing. She has a relatively nice day while investigating a crime, has an exciting incident with a guy and a wood chipper, arrests him then goes home.

    There's an editing job in there.

    I want a cut of Fargo that's just from Mr. Mohra's perspective, the street-sweeping bartender guy.

    "...so then Mrs. Mohra heard about the homicides down there last week, and she thought I should call it in, so... I called it in. End o' story."

    The end.

  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited September 2020
    I was doing the dishes and zoning out, then had a realization, threw my sponge down and ran over to my girlfriend

    Me: babe! fuck!
    GF: what?!
    Me: instead of the Magic Mike XXL scene you should have done the Country Roads scene from Whisper of the Heart!
    GF: FUCK!

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I think if I had to change the "what is the best scene in a movie?" question to "what is the best scene in television?" my answer is very simple, cut and dry.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EcsBgxXDqc

  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited September 2020
    Sorry, incorrect

    Best scene on television is either Lube Man from Watchmen or the dog stealing the transplant heart on One Tree Hill

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    well, those or the Make Your Own Kind of Music sequence on Lost or when Homer Simpson first saw Football in the Groin

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    Sorry, incorrect

    Best scene on television is either Lube Man from Watchmen or the dog stealing the transplant heart on One Tree Hill

    I'm partial to this one myself...
    https://youtu.be/_O1hM-k3aUY

  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    KalTorak wrote: »
    I thought the opening fight of The One was a pretty cool way to use bullet-time to demonstrate superspeed, and I was disappointed that it never showed up again.

    Back when The One released, my friends and I had discussed to death what a Dragonball Z live action movie should be like. I always thought it would be great to have the fights be at normal speed (obviously fast-paced martial arts), while the real world stuff around them was in slow motion. Then you could cut back and forth with the normal people reacting to crazy shit going on super fast around them. Along comes The One. I was fully convinced that whoever had directed it should be the one to direct DBZ.

    He did.

    Oops.

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Dog stealing the heart is the best thing that has ever been put to film, it is transcendent

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    edited September 2020
    i present this scene from passions as best tv scene

    it's a line delivery i think about a lot

    https://youtu.be/NvSaw5AVyd0

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I just watched that One Tree Hill video again and its power remains undiminished, it's still fucking hysterical

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    @Rorshach Kringle, I'm honestly surprised you aren't nominating this beauty:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y3c-NIHjHc

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    i present this scene from passions as best tv scene

    it's a line delivery i think about a lot

    https://youtu.be/NvSaw5AVyd0

    i love seeing shit like this. stuff that is parodied endlessly in pop culture, but seeing it in earnest

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    @Rorshach Kringle, I'm honestly surprised you aren't nominating this beauty:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y3c-NIHjHc

    it is impossible to choose a single fight from cw dynasty as best

    by the second episode, there is a brawl at a funeral where someone gets hip checked into an open grave

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Did anyone in that class do the scene from that Golden Arm quibi movie?

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    i present this scene from passions as best tv scene

    it's a line delivery i think about a lot

    https://youtu.be/NvSaw5AVyd0

    My god

    Dan Harmon fuckin' wishes

  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    If we open up TV shows, I will always nominate Forrest MacNeil eating 15 pancakes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uloT8V6Skgk

    Which I guess is more of a segment than a scene.

    Whatever, I don't care, sue me.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited September 2020
    The greatest scene (sequence?) in cable television is when Joe Pera hears "Baba O'Reilly" for the first time ever.

    The greatest scene in broadcast television is in NBC's "The Odyssey" starring Armand Assante, when Odysseus shoots through the axes and reveals his identity, and he and his son slaughter all the suitors in a bloody mess.

    "Telemachus... now is the right time for your anger."

    KalTorak on
  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    If we open up TV shows, I will always nominate Forrest MacNeil eating 15 pancakes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uloT8V6Skgk

    Which I guess is more of a segment than a scene.

    Whatever, I don't care, sue me.

    it bugs me that that's not his "producer" "grant" but James Urbaniak

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