I've said it before, but bob ueker is just having so much goddamn fun in that movie
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Major League was a mainstay in the family VCR as a child. I still get goosebumps during the final out and that final call, even as a lifelong Cubs fan, still puts the hugest smile on my face.
Goddammit, I miss sports comedies. Why did they ever stop making sports comedies?
Aliens, true lies, robocop 2, ghostbusters 1 and 2, the extended editions of lord of the rings and the hobbit, I just like having that world on in the background
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
In that same vein I liked Stick It and that one movie where Tommy Lee Jones commands a cheer squad but I have not seen either since release so maybe they suck I don't know.
Ok in my searching for Tommy Lee Jones content I found a YouTube video titled "two hipsters interview Tommy Lee Jones" and that's gonna be my celebratory watch for making it through the night later.
I need to injest TLJ not abiding anyone's bafoonery.
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
Logan Lucky can confirm. Still good as hell
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We also watched Elvira Mistress of Darkness tonight. Which we haven’t seen but my partner has met Elvira and that was the what sealed the deal over Twilight
gus i am so mad at you for having not seen the elvira movie until today
15 minutes in i said "they are gunna say gazoombas in this movie" and immediately afterwards they said gazoombas in that movie
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
My best friend is joining me for dinner & a movie tonight.
He requested a horror movie.
And through dialogue I discovered that he has never seen, and has virtually no knowledge of Peter Jackson's The Frighteners.
So, obviously, we're watching that tonight.
I am very excited as I haven't seen it in at least 15 years (if not longer).
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Lost CanuckWorld's Greatest Escape ArtistDoctor Vundabar's Murder MachineRegistered Userregular
I just rewatched that movie on Halloween.
There are a lot of fun performances, but none beat out Jeffrey "My body is a roadmap of pain" Combs in my esteem.
I rewatched The Frighteners recently. It's fun and it's got a nice Sam Raimi energy but it's also.......dumber than I remembered.
Like, take the ghostbusting scam. It's a fun idea - a guy who uses real ghosts for a scam ghostbusting business. But this time around I found myself wondering: what exactly do Frank's ghost associates get out of the scamming? Frank does it for money, but the ghosts don't have any use for the money. And the ghosts don't seem to be sadists who get off on scaring people. Frank absolutely doesn't do anything to inspire their loyalty - he treats the ghosts like garbage. And the ghosts know for a fact that they live in a universe where hell exists, so you'd think they would not want to tempt fate with bad behavior. ...It would be easy enough for the filmmakers to give them some kinda motivation - some sort of leverage that Frank has over them, or something the ghosts get out of the scams, but they apparently didn't want to bother.
The film on the whole just feels weirdly unconcerned with its characters and their motivations. Take the relationship between Patricia and her mother.
Patricia lives with her overbearing mother and they have a very acrimonious relationship. We eventually learn that Patricia, like her boyfriend, is a cartoonishly evil mass murdering sociopath, and we eventually see her kill her mother. Which made me wonder, well, why didn't she kill her sooner? It's something Patricia seems very eager to do. There isn't even a hint that she's conflicted about the killing or that she has even a sliver of affection for her mother. Her and her boyfriend's motivation is literally 'kill as many people as possible'. So, like, why did she live with her mother for decades?
...I also could never get a handle on what the heck Jeffrey Combs's character's deal was.
But here's my least favorite thing about the movie: it seems to reveal that
Frank killed his wife in a car crash - which made me go 'ah, finally, some emotional depth!' but then the movie takes backsies and goes 'nope, never mind, the wife was killed by the two dimensional bad guys'.
Which made me sigh and think, ah, yet another movie that wants to have a redemption arc but is too timid to have their main character do anything too bad.
In spite of all that though yeah it's fun seeing Michael J Fox run around with ghosts and stuff. It's not great but it's solid (or should I say translucent!!). I give it a C. (C for Crypt!!)
I'm guessing since Frank is the only one who can actually see and talk with the ghosts, they hang around with him because they have nothing better to do and it's nice to interact with the living on a person-to-person basis.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I'm guessing since Frank is the only one who can actually see and talk with the ghosts, they hang around with him because they have nothing better to do and it's nice to interact with the living on a person-to-person basis.
Yeah, I think its a simple matter of Frank offering them a real, personable engagement.
He's a vehicle for some sense of the real world they had when they were alive.
For whatever reason, they didn't pass on to Heaven and/or didn't think it was an option, and they're looking at a hundred years or more (considering the Judge) of further existence, as they fade into decrepitude. That is a lot of time to fill, especially since they probably don't sleep. Nor do they seem to be capable of interacting with the living world without great effort, so they're mostly stuck as passive observers.
In their place, if I found someone who could see and hear and would talk to me... unless they were a total ass, I'd probably stick to them like ectoplasm.
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I watched all of Clue last night during my no sleep at all.
I've said it before, but bob ueker is just having so much goddamn fun in that movie
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Dynamite drop in, Monty. That broadcasting school has really paid off!
I’m assuming this is from a sequel because it’s not in the original movie.
Yeah it was, I've seen the sequel somehow more than the original.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Ready or Not was a very fun movie that I enjoyed very much how it concluded.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
Within the first twenty minutes of The Frighteners I turned to my best friend and said, "Now I know you're seeing a lot of loud performances but the loudest performance hasn't even showed up yet."
And then a bit later it finally arrived.
"This is Jeffrey Combs and he is the loudest performance you will see in this movie."
By the end of the movie my best friend remarked, "I don't know who this guy is but he's doing some real next level stuff in this role."
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Within the first twenty minutes of The Frighteners I turned to my best friend and said, "Now I know you're seeing a lot of loud performances but the loudest performance hasn't even showed up yet."
And then a bit later it finally arrived.
"This is Jeffrey Combs and he is the loudest performance you will see in this movie."
By the end of the movie my best friend remarked, "I don't know who this guy is but he's doing some real next level stuff in this role."
Sounds like that friend needs to see Re-Animator.
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Post game brought to you....Christ I can’t find it. THE HELL WITH IT!
"Nice catch, don't ever fuckin' do it again"
Major League was a mainstay in the family VCR as a child. I still get goosebumps during the final out and that final call, even as a lifelong Cubs fan, still puts the hugest smile on my face.
Goddammit, I miss sports comedies. Why did they ever stop making sports comedies?
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fuck yeah I do
remember when indy said "nazis. I hate these guys!" and everyone clapped and cheered?
I need to injest TLJ not abiding anyone's bafoonery.
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I keep thinking about a movie to watch, but I'm not sure I can stomach anything with conflict or stakes right now.
Lord of the Rings is my hangover day movie
Dynamite drop in, Monty. That broadcasting school has really paid off!
I’m assuming this is from a sequel because it’s not in the original movie.
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15 minutes in i said "they are gunna say gazoombas in this movie" and immediately afterwards they said gazoombas in that movie
He requested a horror movie.
And through dialogue I discovered that he has never seen, and has virtually no knowledge of Peter Jackson's The Frighteners.
So, obviously, we're watching that tonight.
I am very excited as I haven't seen it in at least 15 years (if not longer).
There are a lot of fun performances, but none beat out Jeffrey "My body is a roadmap of pain" Combs in my esteem.
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Yeah, I think its a simple matter of Frank offering them a real, personable engagement.
He's a vehicle for some sense of the real world they had when they were alive.
In their place, if I found someone who could see and hear and would talk to me... unless they were a total ass, I'd probably stick to them like ectoplasm.
Still a good movie.
What a gorgeous, wonderful, charming, exact movie that I needed today.
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We watched Hunt for the Wilderpeople and then about half of A Knights Tale.
Yeah it was, I've seen the sequel somehow more than the original.
And then a bit later it finally arrived.
"This is Jeffrey Combs and he is the loudest performance you will see in this movie."
By the end of the movie my best friend remarked, "I don't know who this guy is but he's doing some real next level stuff in this role."
Sounds like that friend needs to see Re-Animator.
"What would the note say, Dan? Cat dead: Details later?"
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