MOVIE COMMENT CATCH-ALL THREAD

[John Austin]

Unfortunately I didn't have that pleasure, but my nephew loved it and now wants to watch Monsters, Inc for some reason

 

Because of good taste?

I was just figuring he'd want to watch the other Toy Story movies first.

[Niners Fan in CT]

I'd pay a large sum to watch Seagal break net nerd arms.

[piranesi]

I'd pay a large sum to watch Seagal break net nerd arms.

 

They are the only group of people left that are sedentary enough to perhaps not be able to out-maneuver him...unless their computer desk chair has little wheels on it.  Then it's gonna be a race!

[Cobra Commander]

before tonight, I was unaware of a BounceTV affiliate in my area. I realized this network existed when I saw they were running Dolemite and Human Tornado back to back starting at 1am.

 

Tomorrow night they're running Blankman and Brian's Song back to back in the middle of the night for an attempt at the biggest transition between two aired movies ever.

[HumanChessgame]

before tonight, I was unaware of a BounceTV affiliate in my area. I realized this network existed when I saw they were running Dolemite and Human Tornado back to back starting at 1am.

 

Tomorrow night they're running Blankman and Brian's Song back to back in the middle of the night for an attempt at the biggest transition between two aired movies ever.

 

I don't have cable but I get this channel (only on the tv in the living room but not the bedroom for some reason) and the selection of movies they play is WCW Worldwide in its randomness.  They play some decent stuff though, or at least movies that I like enough to want to watch in the middle of the night.

[Brian Fowler]

I have watched a debatably unhealthy amount of kaiju films of late.  In the last like two weeks, I have watched Gojira, Godzilla Raids Again, Rodan (bastardized American cut), King Kong vs. Godzilla (bastardized American Cut) Gamera: Super Monster (I have no clue if the American cut is all that bastardized, but good lord is that terrible), Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, and Invasion of Astro Monster. 

 

KAIJUFEST 2013 is fully underway here.  Christmas?  Fuck that, GODZILLAMAS!

[Cobra Commander]

 

before tonight, I was unaware of a BounceTV affiliate in my area. I realized this network existed when I saw they were running Dolemite and Human Tornado back to back starting at 1am.

 

Tomorrow night they're running Blankman and Brian's Song back to back in the middle of the night for an attempt at the biggest transition between two aired movies ever.

 

I don't have cable but I get this channel (only on the tv in the living room but not the bedroom for some reason) and the selection of movies they play is WCW Worldwide in its randomness.  They play some decent stuff though, or at least movies that I like enough to want to watch in the middle of the night.

 

Saturday nights are kinda under-appreciated for the amount of random movies airing on network affiliates. I noticed that after realizing the CBS station was showing Wagons East from 2:30am to 4:30am.

[Victator]

The Princess Bride and Monster's Inc cover a multitude of sins.

Oh..... I'M ON TV!!!!!

[Bustronaut]

I have watched a debatably unhealthy amount of kaiju films of late.  In the last like two weeks, I have watched Gojira, Godzilla Raids Again, Rodan (bastardized American cut), King Kong vs. Godzilla (bastardized American Cut) Gamera: Super Monster (I have no clue if the American cut is all that bastardized, but good lord is that terrible), Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, and Invasion of Astro Monster. 

 

KAIJUFEST 2013 is fully underway here.  Christmas?  Fuck that, GODZILLAMAS!

 

Tony Isabella* "runs" the First Church of Godzilla on his facebook wall

 

*Comic book writer, creator of Black Lightning

[muhammedboehm]

Think this goes here if not sorry: Is there a scene in Hook where a 'drunk' Tinker Bell tells Peter Pan off for doing the one thing he said he'd never do and grew up?

[Bustronaut]

Yes.  Mainly she's more upset they never got together

[muhammedboehm]

Yes. Mainly she's more upset they never got together

Any idea when about in the movie that is/scene before after know it's random but I can find a ton of other clips but not that one

[Bustronaut]

It's toward the end, post food fight, I think.  Makes Robin Williams reclaim his "Pan" ness

[piranesi]

before tonight, I was unaware of a BounceTV affiliate in my area. I realized this network existed when I saw they were running Dolemite and Human Tornado back to back starting at 1am.

 

 

 

It's a blaxploitation renaissance lately. Epix Drive In has added FRIDAY FOSTER to their rotation. 

 

If you haven't seen that, see it!  Pam Grier is the most charming woman who has ever lived. Plus Yaphet Kotto as a slacker detective.  Scatman Crothers as a sleazy slick preacher.   Eartha Kitt as a fashion magazine mogul:  "I think you'd better get your little derriere down here nowwwwwww.  Frrrrriday, I said Nooooooooowwwwwww!"

 

Also Carl Weathers, just months before ROCKY hit playing a hit man. Jason Bernard as the villain leading an army of white mercenaries in black face.  (yep...that's his plan.)

 

Holy shit, Jim "Thurston Howell III" Backus just showed up.  and Ted "Isaac from THE LOVE BOAT" Lange.

 

Pam Grier manages to play naive and plucky rather than "street tough" so well.  She just bumbles through the movie with a wink and a smile and some of the best outfits I've ever seen.  Also she sleeps with everyone because she is a modern professional woman, thank you very much.  And the scarves!

 

THE SCARVES!!!!!

 

 

DEAR SWEET GOD, THE SCARVES!!!!

 

 

 

Guys, I think this may be the best syndicated comic adaptation of all time.

[MarcosLoura]

Pam Grier hmmmmmmmm

[Curt McGirt]

Scarves? What scarves? ...

 

In a funny coincidence me and my friend sat down through the entire hour of this last night:

 

 

No Dolemite and definitely not enough Pam Grier but still sick. 

[jaedmc]

Speaking of Pam Grier, guess who just rewatched Jackie Brown tonight for the first time since it came out?

 

are you going to guess? It was me. You weren't going to get it anyway.

 

The scene between Pam Grier and Sam Jackson where he's turning the lights off and she turns them on is the best part of the movie. Quentin kind of stuck in his time warp stuff, when it wasn't really necessary early on, and it felt too much like hand holding. But it's a far superior film to Inglorious and Django. DeNiro is kind of an unsung supporting guy... at first he looks like he doesn't know what the fuck he's even doing in this movie, then it becomes clear that he has no idea what he's doing period. There was a look he gave Bridgette Fonda in the clothing store that was ice cold deadly, though. But Pam Grier OWNS with some king sized deliveries and facial expressions. Just point the camera at her and it'll work.

[Brian Fowler]

Speaking of Pam Grier, guess who just rewatched Jackie Brown tonight for the first time since it came out?

 

are you going to guess? It was me. You weren't going to get it anyway.

 

The scene between Pam Grier and Sam Jackson where he's turning the lights off and she turns them on is the best part of the movie. Quentin kind of stuck in his time warp stuff, when it wasn't really necessary early on, and it felt too much like hand holding. But it's a far superior film to Dogs, Fiction, Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious and Django. DeNiro is kind of an unsung supporting guy... at first he looks like he doesn't know what the fuck he's even doing in this movie, then it becomes clear that he has no idea what he's doing period. There was a look he gave Bridgette Fonda in the clothing store that was ice cold deadly, though. But Pam Grier OWNS with some king sized deliveries and facial expressions. Just point the camera at her and it'll work.

 

FTFY

[Elsalvajeloco]

Speaking of Pam Grier, guess who just rewatched Jackie Brown tonight for the first time since it came out?

 

are you going to guess? It was me. You weren't going to get it anyway.

 

The scene between Pam Grier and Sam Jackson where he's turning the lights off and she turns them on is the best part of the movie. Quentin kind of stuck in his time warp stuff, when it wasn't really necessary early on, and it felt too much like hand holding. But it's a far superior film to Inglorious and Django. DeNiro is kind of an unsung supporting guy... at first he looks like he doesn't know what the fuck he's even doing in this movie, then it becomes clear that he has no idea what he's doing period. There was a look he gave Bridgette Fonda in the clothing store that was ice cold deadly, though. But Pam Grier OWNS with some king sized deliveries and facial expressions. Just point the camera at her and it'll work.

 

This x1000. Jackie Brown had the right mix of elements and that's why it's the best Tarantino movie (written and/or directed). His recent stuff needs to have fucking citations during the end credits to fully enjoy everything.

 

The scene where Ordell kills Beaumont and then shows Louis the body in the next is possibly the best 1-2 scene combo I've seen. If it's not, it is definitely in the top three. Fuck, three scene combo if you count Ordell trying to get Beaumont to "help" sell the guns to the "KOI-REE-AHNS".

 

Jackie Brown also didn't feel like it was four days long either. I fucking REFUSE to watch four hour television edited Pulp Fiction on Bravo on a Saturday afternoon.

[Brian Fowler]

I mean, I put Jackie Brown #1 on my 90's ballot, so I'm not unbiased here, but it's a stone cold masterpiece.

 

Robert Forster gives the performance of a lifetime, too.

[Reed]

To borrow from Mark Kermode, Jackie Brown is the only Tarantino movie that doesn't feel like his usual fanboy filmmaking.

[Brian Fowler]

To borrow from Mark Kermode, Jackie Brown is the only Tarantino movie that doesn't feel like his usual fanboy filmmaking.

 

I don't know, I mean, it's still clearly got his blaxploitation fanboyism, and some Elmore Leonard fanboyism to it. 

 

But it's more restrained and focused.

 

(This, by the way, isn't me hating the other films.  He's done nothing I don't at least like, and quite a few I love.  But Jackie Brown is on a different level, and I'd love to see him be more low key again at some point in his career.)

[jaedmc]

Forster is such a strange anomaly because he seems so white bread innocent, and yet he works in an industry that should have killed that out of him long ago. So it must be a defense mechanism. And when he really tries to reach out to one of these people, for perhaps the first time in his life, it ends in murder. That moment when he's looking down at Sam Jackson, you know it was over and he and Jackie weren't running off together into the Tequila Sunset. A line was crossed for him, and he had to keep that cosmic balance.

 

The theme of age and growing too old, is good unifier among characters, the line "What the fuck happened to you, man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful!" may be one of the most honest lines in the entire Tarantino's oeuvre.  On the one level it's a beautifully delivered line from Sam Jackson, who discards his machismo for his character's only moment of true reflection and vulnerability. On another it's Tarantino looking back at all of his heroes and icons, manifested by this aging, bumbling Robert Deniro, and he's screaming "What the fuck happened to this industry?" He went from being a rebel-rouser with his Band Apart compatriots, he got successful and tried to become kind of  American Proto French New Wave. Then he realized he was in the machine, and that if he was going to be another gear he was just going to make his pastiche films. 

 

I think it's an maybe the most important film in his filmography because after this moment his influences became less like homages, like the camera angles in Reservoir Dogs, or the references in Pulp Fiction, and more like suits of garish armor. It's his way of dealing with big issues - Holocaust and Slavery, while being able to go "It's just a movie you guys look at all the silliness and blood."

 

That doesn't mean it's my favorite to watch, I'd rather watch Reservoir/Pulp/Kill Bill instead - but it's maybe him at his most vulnerable and it may be the last time for a while. 

[Elsalvajeloco]

I think it's an maybe the most important film in his filmography because after this moment his influences became less like homages, like the camera angles in Reservoir Dogs, or the references in Pulp Fiction, and more like suits of garish armor. It's his way of dealing with big issues - Holocaust and Slavery, while being able to go "It's just a movie you guys look at all the silliness and blood."

 

Also:

 

"I saw Mandingo and Boss N***** growing up and you guys should go wiki that shit when you leave the theater. Seriously."

[Reed]

Is it just me or does Home Alone get even more disturbing every time you watch it?

 

-The emotional abuse towards Kevin at the start, which is genuinely pretty uncomfortable.

-The parents negligently leaving the kid behind.

-The dad, upon finding out that his young son is all by himself, remains hilariously relaxed about the whole thing.

-Kevin turning into such a sociopath by the end, you end up feeling a bit for Marv and Harry (yeah, they were robbers but they weren't actively trying to hurt anyone).

-Child services and the cops letting the parents get off scot-free, probably because they're white, rich and privileged (nothing happens to them in the sequel when the exact same thing happens either.)