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I really wish that Sputnik Monroe movie had gotten made.
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Before Fred Phelps was disbarred for being a psycho, his work in civil rights law helped dismantle Jim Crow and integrate schools in Kansas. He was apparently a virulent bigot even then and just did it for the money, but depending on what you think of Vince’s philanthropy there’s an argument that Phelps has done more tangible good than Vince ever has, even though both are tremendous pieces of shit.
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They definitely needed to redistribute one of the multiple Phoebe subplots to Trevor.
Phoebe:
SpoilerLeft out from the team because of her age.
Confused about whether the ghost trap is ethical.
Crush on a ghost.
Tension with mom and stepdad.
Trevor
SpoilerWants to drive the Ecto 1.
Can’t catch Slimer.
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6 minutes ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:
It's like blaming the match for setting the fire and not the gas-soaked pile of kindling that's been there for a year or so and you never got around to cleaning up.
When Tony signed him, he knew This Fire Burns.
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10 hours ago, Andrew POE! said:
I'm going to go see Frozen Empire tomorrow despite having missed Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Would I need to have seen Afterlife for Frozen Empire to make any sense?
I would at least read a Wikipedia plot summary just because Afterlife introduces a lot of new characters that carry over into Frozen Empire.
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I liked Frozen Empire. My biggest issue was it felt a bit unfocused since it’s practically an Altmanesque large ensemble piece. On the other hand, I wasn’t crazy about spending the entire film with the sitcom family dynamic set up early on, so I’m glad they opened the world up. It felt like the script needed another pass, but the last act is a hoot.
Cool creature design, fun support from Nanjiami, Oswalt, and the legacy actors, plus it’s a tent pole movie clocking in at a merciful two hours.
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I’m picturing this
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Tenebrae and Opera are my favorites. The theme song to Tenebrae goes so hard.
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He played John Goodman’s father in a few episodes of Righteous Gemstones, and when he first popped up I felt like I’d seen a ghost.
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I always think of Out of the Blue as the American analog to Christiane F. They’re both very heavy adolescent dramas, but they also explore youth culture from the era in groundbreaking ways. With Out of the Blue, it feels like one of the last moments where Hopper felt truly dangerous as a performer before he started embracing his counterculture cred for nostalgia or playing straightforward creeps and villains.
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It’s annoying when celebrities peddle bullshit to excuse doing paycheck movies, but Murray’s, “I thought it was written by one of the Coen brothers” for Garfield is way better than the typical, “I did it for my kids.”
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I’m higher on Valley Girl than almost any of the movies mentioned so far. Years and years ago I got to go to a screening of it at Lincoln Center that had a Q&A with director Martha Coolidge and the Valley Girl herself, Deborah Foreman, hosted by Kevin Smith.
It’s fascinating how fully formed Nic Cage already was as a performer; he brings his whole dog and pony show to a teen romantic comedy and elevates it with new wave bizarreness. It’s also really fun to see a young Michael Bowen as a preppy douche and a scorching hot E.G. Daily. Plus, Frederic Forrest and Colleen Camp are one of the first examples of hippie burnout parents in 80s media, almost a prototype for the parents on Family Ties.
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22 minutes ago, Matt D said:
Is Election a thing?
You betzler!
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It basically goes American Grafitti
->Fast Times->Clueless->Mean Girls as the generation-defining high school movies (maybe with some room for a Hughes film in there somewhere) but I think after that youth culture became too atomized for there to be a clear successor. Is there any high school movie from the past decade with that kind of reach?-
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That’s going to be a huge date night movie for couples who inhale keyboard cleaner together.
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I don’t know if it’s legal to call a movie a contemporary western if it doesn’t have Tommy Lee Jones or Jeff Bridges among the cast.
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Thinking of taglines is almost certainly more fun than watching that.
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1 hour ago, zendragon said:
Some industrial metal group needs to do a cover of this song
Lest we not forget the Zoolander soundtrack.
SpoilerAlso the part in Body Double that turns into a Relax music video is great.
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You can’t spell apartment without Apter, so I’m convinced.
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When I hear Aja’s Jungle Emperor theme I feel like I could kick a door down.
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Owen was kind of the perfect middle ground; he was a family man whose only road vice was deviously elaborate pranks. No prankster who also parties hard on the road is going to have the discipline or energy to fill their boss’s office with livestock.
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21 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:
Not the first murder involving a former Wrestler in the last month
One of the tragic things about this is the guy he killed was featured on Dateline because he did twenty years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit after he was coerced into confessing. He was freed and eventually exonerated because the mother of the victim of all people didn’t believe he was guilty and fought for years to help him, and he got something like $11 million dollars from his home state in a settlement. He only spent a handful of years of his adult life free before he was murdered.
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Off the top of my head, that was 2009 because I remember them doing that when Ledger won supporting for The Dark Knight. That was a long ceremony.
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At some point I watched and enjoyed Minnie and Moskowitz. I was going to go on a Cassavettes kick after that, but I started with Husbands, and it was so interminably dull and self indulgent that I gave up.
2024 MOVIES DISCUSSION THREAD
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As far as later Wilder, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes has always been one of my favorite Holmes adaptations.