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Sisters: This was Brian De Palma's first attempt to borrow/rip off/pay homage to Pyscho. The next attempt, Dressed to Kill, was better. It's got some interesting ideas and the soundtrack is amazing (it's by Bernard Herrman, who did most of Hitchcock's films), but it's way too campy and looks noticeably low budget at points. Margot Kidder's French-Canadian accent isn't hideous, but it's mediocre enough to make you wonder why they didn't just let her keep her own one. The ending is ridiculous, too. It's good to watch simply so you spot the references to other movies though.

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Does anyone remember the brief stream of "psycho-sexual thrillers" from the early-mid 90s?  BASIC INSTINCT, SEA OF LOVE, SLIVER,  BODY OF EVIDENCE, etc.?

 

I ask just because I'm watching one of the most on-the-nose of them all.  David Caruso's big (failed) "breakout" role in JADE.

 

And I only bring that up because of a funny line, when he show the governor of California some incriminating pictures and the guy says:

 

"If my name comes up in this, David [of course Caruso is named David], you'd better get the fuck out of California.  You'll have as much of a future here as Jerry Brown!"

 

That, of course, would be current governor of California, Jerry Brown.

 

Man, does this movie have all the tropes, including a female lead who is a psychologist that researches criminal rage and gives a totally relevant lecture about it while the camera swoops around all gothically.  What a weird era.  It was all supposed to be so dark and "adult" and "mature" and looking back on it, it's pretty teenaged shit.

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I tried watching Jade when it came on Sundance or IFC like two or three weeks ago and lasted about 30 minutes.  I wanted to see why people disliked it so much and got my answer pretty quickly.

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I think WORLD WAR Z might be the quintessential "just a bunch of shit happening" movie. There are THREE credited writers on the screenplay, and apparently none of them bothered to actually write a story. It doesn't even have a beginning of a story. Brad Pitt is running from shit within 5 minutes of the opening credits.

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Does anyone remember the brief stream of "psycho-sexual thrillers" from the early-mid 90s?  BASIC INSTINCT, SEA OF LOVE, SLIVER,  BODY OF EVIDENCE, etc.?

 

I ask just because I'm watching one of the most on-the-nose of them all.  David Caruso's big (failed) "breakout" role in JADE.

 

And I only bring that up because of a funny line, when he show the governor of California some incriminating pictures and the guy says:

 

"If my name comes up in this, David [of course Caruso is named David], you'd better get the fuck out of California.  You'll have as much of a future here as Jerry Brown!"

 

That, of course, would be current governor of California, Jerry Brown.

 

Man, does this movie have all the tropes, including a female lead who is a psychologist that researches criminal rage and gives a totally relevant lecture about it while the camera swoops around all gothically.  What a weird era.  It was all supposed to be so dark and "adult" and "mature" and looking back on it, it's pretty teenaged shit.

 

There's also Color of Night which was basically a porno featuring Bruce Willis.  It had a decent twist in the end from what I recall.  The plot, not Bruce Willis' Willis.

 

I think WORLD WAR Z might be the quintessential "just a bunch of shit happening" movie. There are THREE credited writers on the screenplay, and apparently none of them bothered to actually write a story. It doesn't even have a beginning of a story. Brad Pitt is running from shit within 5 minutes of the opening credits.

 

I watched this last night fully expecting to hate it and...it wasn't terrible.  Your assessment is pretty accurate and I think I'd of liked it more if they would have just called it something else as it had nothing whatsoever to do with the source material.

 

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I think WORLD WAR Z might be the quintessential "just a bunch of shit happening" movie. There are THREE credited writers on the screenplay, and apparently none of them bothered to actually write a story. It doesn't even have a beginning of a story. Brad Pitt is running from shit within 5 minutes of the opening credits.

 

I watched this last night fully expecting to hate it and...it wasn't terrible.  Your assessment is pretty accurate and I think I'd of liked it more if they would have just called it something else as it had nothing whatsoever to do with the source material.

 

 

 

I think what bugged me the most were the sneaking around scenes where the Zombies needed to hear you to react...so when they would be, like, crawling past a door and the Zombies were just wandering in little random patterns, and they had to "time it right" for when the zombie wasn't looking...

 

...that is literally how video games are programmed.  How many "sneak around" levels work like that?  Complete with "wait until the NPC is looking the other way and then sneak past the doorway...wait...no time it...wait for his head to move....riiiiiight nOW!"

 

I get that video game imagery and structure is infecting everything. But that was like gameplay footage.  Why would I want to watch that when I could pop in, like ANY GAME and play it?

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Man, The Trip is so good.  Like astoundingly good.  I've watched it a few times, but felt like giving it another go tonight and it was the first time I watched in on DVD.  I think the movie is buoyed by the fact that, while it is just two genuinely funny guys traveling around trying to out-funny each other, they hired a genuine movie director to film the whole thing so everything looks just GORGEOUS.  I cannot tell you how excited I am for 'The Trip to Italy'.

 

I am all about the Steve Coogan lately: 'I'm Alan Partridge', his book (Brilliant titled 'I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan'), his films (Man, I will go to the wall for 'Hamlet 2' even though people think it's awful, I think it's just genuinely silly and fun, it was mis-trailered as "From one of the writers of South Park: The most outrageously offensive movie of the year" when the movie just wanted to be silly), just everything.  A genuinely underappreciated talent.

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Hey, Sea of Love is great. Cliched and having a horrible ending, but great.

 

I sat through WWZ and didn't throw up or anything but that isn't something I really ever want to watch again, and that's exactly because of the reasons piranesi gave. I want to watch a film, not a fucking video game.

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Caruso is tiny in it.  Like McConaughey tiny.  He's swimming in his suit like the David Byrne.

 

Linda Fiorentino is astounding, though...like leg-wise.

14 year old me felt a certain type of way about Linda Fiorentino.

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Man, The Trip is so good.  Like astoundingly good.  I've watched it a few times, but felt like giving it another go tonight and it was the first time I watched in on DVD.  I think the movie is buoyed by the fact that, while it is just two genuinely funny guys traveling around trying to out-funny each other, they hired a genuine movie director to film the whole thing so everything looks just GORGEOUS.  I cannot tell you how excited I am for 'The Trip to Italy'.

 

I am all about the Steve Coogan lately: 'I'm Alan Partridge', his book (Brilliant titled 'I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan'), his films (Man, I will go to the wall for 'Hamlet 2' even though people think it's awful, I think it's just genuinely silly and fun, it was mis-trailered as "From one of the writers of South Park: The most outrageously offensive movie of the year" when the movie just wanted to be silly), just everything.  A genuinely underappreciated talent.

 

You should try to find the TV miniseries version of The Trip, everything you loved about the movie, and more!  and if you're looking for more Coogan, try SAXONDALE.  Keanu Reeves is the character find of whatever year that came out.

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Caruso is tiny in it.  Like McConaughey tiny.  He's swimming in his suit like the David Byrne.

 

Linda Fiorentino is astounding, though...like leg-wise.

 

Had nothing on Ellen Barkin in Sea of Love, like leg-wise.

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Dont forget Heavens Prisoners, the movie rental shopes had to keep rebuying because people were wearing out tapes for teri hatchers nudecscene.

Cool Surface was much better as far as Teri Hatcher dude scenes go, though.

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Man, The Trip is so good.  Like astoundingly good.  I've watched it a few times, but felt like giving it another go tonight and it was the first time I watched in on DVD.  I think the movie is buoyed by the fact that, while it is just two genuinely funny guys traveling around trying to out-funny each other, they hired a genuine movie director to film the whole thing so everything looks just GORGEOUS.  I cannot tell you how excited I am for 'The Trip to Italy'.

 

I am all about the Steve Coogan lately: 'I'm Alan Partridge', his book (Brilliant titled 'I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan'), his films (Man, I will go to the wall for 'Hamlet 2' even though people think it's awful, I think it's just genuinely silly and fun, it was mis-trailered as "From one of the writers of South Park: The most outrageously offensive movie of the year" when the movie just wanted to be silly), just everything.  A genuinely underappreciated talent.

 

You should try to find the TV miniseries version of The Trip, everything you loved about the movie, and more!  and if you're looking for more Coogan, try SAXONDALE.  Keanu Reeves is the character find of whatever year that came out.

 

I've got 'Saxondale' on deck.

 

 

BTW, this thing is incredible.

 

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Ordered it for my Mom for her birthday, set me back like $90 but I think it's going to be worth it.  Who am I kidding?  Even if everything else is terrible, the $90 price tag is worth it for 'I'm Alan Partridge' and 'Knowing Me Knowing You'.

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Finally got around to catching INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 in netflix.

It's decent enough despite some "off" acting moments, particularly early on, since most of the cast isn't good enough to really sell the goofy story, with how serious this movie takes itself most of the time.

The movie actually picks up nicely when it goes into the other world, and is somehow more convincing there than when we're in the "real" world, the only real goofy things being the villain's mom's typical "scary movie villain" over-acting and

Josh saying "clever boy" when finding his son's tin can phone line like the guy in Jurassic Park saying a similar line before being eaten.

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The movie also got a legit LOL out of me when

The one ghost hunter who had been sedated bursting downstairs yelling "BRING IT ON!" moments after the conflict had already ended.

The cheese factor had me thinking the RiffTrax guys would have a field day with this one, but if you can get past that, it's a decent enough movie.

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Saturdays at the Orchard Park 5 here in Kelowna they have a cheap Saturday matinee of an "older" movie for families. I've taken the girls two of the past three weeks, despite working until 4am and getting maybe 4 hours sleep before having to turn around and get them ready. We've seen The Lorax and Tintin and the girls love it. I need a major nap after to get ready for Saturday night at work...but it's worth it.

 

I was never into the Tintin books/strips as a kid, but the movie was a lot of fun.  Really exciting and humorous.

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http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2014/06/23/gary-oldman-mel-gibson-playboy-interview/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=206567

 

Two points:

 

1) No, Gary. We haven't "all" said those things.

 

2) I do think it is messed up than Gibson's career is practically over, and guys like Polanski, Cosby and Allen still have blossoming careers and are winning awards and whatnot. Not that I think Gibson should be forgiven, but those three are considerably worse.

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Thank God.

 

We need more socially conscious activists like Gary Oldman to take a stand and bring relief to poor fragile downtrodden wealthy wife-beaters and anti-semites.  They've suffered voiceless and in the shadows long enough.

 

If only Maya Angelou hadn't been such a coward, Gary wouldn't have to be the one to lead us forward.

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