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53 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
Speaking of Tarantino films, there’s a deleted scene in Reservoir Dogs where White and Pink are trying to find medical attention for Orange. Their idea is to contact a nurse one of them knows, Bonnie. One of them even calls it “this Bonnie situation.” I guess this was long before Bonnie got out of that life and no longer wanted “gangsters at her house doing gangster things.”
She’s also in an early screenplay draft of Kill Bill. There’s an excised chapter where Go Go Yubari has a sister who almost kills The Bride, and Bonnie nurses her back to health.
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I just didn’t see Bueller at the right time. By the time I got to it I’d seen Broderick as a sardonic weiner in so many things that I couldn’t imagine him being that slick or charismatic. Also, I’m usually fine with separating art from artist, but this a film where Jeffrey Jones stalks teenagers and Broderick is featured prominently behind the wheel of a car.
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So far, this rules. Wish Alfred didn’t look like Jon Polito though.
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I always found those straight-to-dvd serial killer bio-sploitation movies really tacky and unpleasant. Besides, that dude has no chance of being as good as Cameron Britton as Kemper in Mindhunter.
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2 hours ago, Mister TV said:
I didn't realize New Jersey had legal weed, kind of surprised by that since they have such arcane laws when it comes to alcohol sales.
They overhauled a lot of the liquor laws at the beginning of the year to make it more business-friendly. Apparently they’d been about the same since prohibition was repealed.
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He posted an image of a prop from the new one that’s a parody of the Necronomicon, so before the dispensary plot came out I was hoping it’d be Jay and Bob in a horror movie. I know they aren’t going to get an A-list franchise, but maybe Jay and Silent Bob Make a Wrong Turn or Jay and Silent Bob and Victor Crowley.
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Kevin bought the theater in his hometown that he went to growing up. It’s mostly the same as it looked in the 80s, so the location makes for an inexpensive period piece. It plays new movies but also functions as a repertory house, kind of like a janky east coast New Beverly.
I saw him host a Jaws marathon there last month. 80 souls went into that screening in early afternoon, only 20 came out near midnight. Shitty sequel fatigue took the rest.
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The tone of Deadpool is such a delicate balancing act. How much are we supposed to care about the emotional stuff if we’re constantly being reminded we’re watching a dumb superhero movie? I think making the story about saving all of the significant characters from the first two movies while sidelining them the entire time made all of that worse.
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I didn’t hate it, or even dislike it, but it left me cold.
If anything, I thought it proved all the window dressing in the world can’t conceal the stilted nature of the current MCU movies. The Scorsese theme park ride analogy has never felt more appropriate; I had a fine time, but the movie was already leaving my brain as I was exiting the theater.
I laughed a lot at the first two movies, but this one mostly just got some knowing chuckles out of me. I think the emotional stuff from Deadpool (which is handled quite well in the other movies) is overwrought here, desperate to give us an emotional button.
I think maybe the funniest part to me was
Spoilerwhen the movie stops dead for a moment because of how horny B-15 is for Peter.
Plus, the throwaway Blade Trinity joke.
The previz on this one also seemed very lazy, and that’s not something I typically get hung up on. This came off like they sent a team on a vacation to the most attractive tax credit state and had them pick through old files on their hard drives.
All that notwithstanding
SpoilerWesley Snipes on a motherfucking movie theater screen.
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1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:
...hasn't he always been post-cinema, whatever that is?
He called Aggro Dr1ft post-cinema, so I’m just referring to his narrow definition, which seems to be movies that play like Twitch streams.
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RDJ Doom should have this exact accent.
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I could've used one more Floridian existential nightmare comedy from him before he started this post-cinema phase.
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I have a feeling Phillips is going to follow through with his intention for the first one to
Spoilerkill Bruce. Like, tween Bruce tries to get justice/vengeance in some way and Arthur totally wrecks him.
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This is just purely based on vibes and not on the ages of the actors or even characters, but The Big Chill feels like it’s thoroughly a Boomer movie and anything Brat Pack or Hughes feels like it’s bridging the Boomer/Gen X divide.
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50 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
With the "Hail Satan" and everything? I missed out on this one, it seemed like a real good time from the trailers. Let me ask this, is it anywhere near What We Do In The Shadows quality?
He even does the devil’s horns gesture.
There’s definitely some Shadows in its DNA, but it’s way more of a gory action comedy than a vampire parody so they’re not really comparable.I think its biggest weakness (besides some of the casting) is it can’t decide if it’s a comedy about Dracula running a toxic workplace or if its John Wick with Monsters, and since it can’t commit to one idea both aspects don’t totally click. But (and I can’t stress this enough) if one of your issues with the Wick fight scenes is that not enough human bodies explode, then this is the movie for you.
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I watched Renfield last night. It was fun; the biggest issue is that Awkafina is miscast, although she does an admirable job. Nicolas Hoult mostly makes their scenes together work.
Cage is wonderful. He could’ve easily gone funnier or more menacing, but he deftly calibrated his performance to the material.
I watched it yesterday and I’m still thinking about how Cage’s final line of dialogue is exactly the same as in Longlegs.
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I’m picturing Pete Seeger putting on the Iron Monger suit to cut the power during Dylan’s electric set at Newport.
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As a Dylan fanatic, I think that looks fine. I know that’s the most commercial version of his story they can sell to a wide audience, but it’s the least interesting portion of his career to me. If you’re curious about the early days up to the motorcycle crash/retreat from the public, Scorsese’s No Direction Home doc is perfect. Like Log said, they’ll never do a better narrative feature about him than I’m Not There.
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One thing to think about is what kind of insurance payments you want to be making on top of the car payments. Dealerships typically require full coverage to lease or for an extended warranty, so if you’re looking to save money by just getting liability those options would be out.
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Imagining a screening where someone is kicked out for shouting that the movie is a ripoff of The Batman.
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They had it at one of my local AMCs. I didn’t even realize that was the version I was seeing until I was handed the program booklet at the box office. It’s the suburbs, not a major market, so I don’t know how it ended up there or how many prints were circulating the country.
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I was talking with the people I saw Longlegs with about a follow-up, and the obvious answer to me is
Spoilera Pearl-style prequel where he’s in early 70s NYC leading a glam rock band, and he loses his soul while trying to make them the next New York Dolls.
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I haven’t revisited The Fall in a long time, but it’s gorgeous and the framing device of the story is brilliant. It’s almost a certainty that there will never be a movie that shoots in that many real exotic locations ever again, even outside of a studio system, so it is something special.
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Longlegs is a well-crafted love letter to 90s thrillers. Of the period pieces made about the decade so far, it‘s the most personally evocative to me of how the 90s felt.
Cage lives up to the William Castle-esque promotion around his performance, but Maika Monroe is undeniably the standout. It’s a very specific performance that’s incredibly endearing.The screenplay needed some tinkering; it reminded me of Peele’s Us in the sense that it simultaneously provides too much exposition about what’s happening while not actually giving us enough information. It should’ve either been a bit more grounded or gone full Lynchian nightmare.
Certainly worth a watch for the performances and the atmosphere, and it’s a blast in a packed theater.
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2024 General RIP Thread
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