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Started by SmallBlueThing, 04 February, 2011, 12:40:44 PM

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milstar

Freddy Got Fingered

Or better say - milstar got fingered - up to the end. I suppose everyone can make a movie today with just a decent amount of buck. Braindead, idiotic Tom Green in his braindead, idiotic movie, with braindead, idiotic humor, that not even is saved by the presence of Rip Torn. And as of lately I saw a significant amount of movies that were in the best case - mediocre, I'll take an unspecified break from the cinema. Sod off, Tom Green!
Reyt, you lot. Shut up, belt up, 'n if ye can't see t' bloody exit, ye must be bloody blind.

Hawkmumbler

"Daddy would you like some sausages?"

Link Prime

Quote from: repoman on 20 June, 2021, 01:44:58 PM
Spiral

Set in the Saw universe.  It's not one of the better ones (1, 4 or 6) but that's no surprise as it was directed by the guy that made 2, 3 and 5. 

But it's not terrible and it's reasonably short.  I didn't mind it.

Even though I've self-spoiled 50% of it, going to see it tonight in Dublin.
It will be the first film I've seen in the flicks since March 1st 2020 - unbelievable.


von Boom


wedgeski

Godzilla King of Monsters.

Don't. It boggles the mind how offal like this gets budgeted in the region of $170m dollars.

pictsy

Naked Gun

I chuckled in places.  The baseball stuff went on too long as I don't give a shit about sport in general or baseball in particular.  I realise I only understand baseball through jokes made about it in american media.  Anyway, I was expecting it to be a bit of a let down, but it turned out to be fine.  If it wasn't for the baseball nonsense and the very unfortunate equivalence of the Palestinian struggle to Idi Amin at the beginning it would have been entertaining throughout.  I may watch the sequel again at some point in the future.

Tiplodocus

"Hey, it's Enrique Palazzo". All movies should list the one line actors this way in the credits.
Be excellent to each other. And party on!

pictsy

Naked Gun 2½

This one didn't do anything for me.  Despite the staggering relevance of the plot, it just wasn't all that fun.  I cringed more than I laughed.  That doesn't say much because I didn't laugh.  I was curious if the film could beat the law of diminishing returns, but I don't think it did.  Not for me anyway.  Still, it's watchable, I guess.

Funt Solo

I'm probably not a good gauge because the Laurel and Hardy joke from Blazing Saddles makes me laugh just by thinking about it - laughing now. But, no laughs at all from Naked Gun 2½? Cheese. Harsh.

I grabbed a random clip off The YouTube, and got two laughs in the first six seconds: "Looks like the cows have come home to roost", then slapping the sniper and making him fire.

Ah well - not for everyone, I guess.
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Tiplodocus

THE PRODUCERS popped up on council telly the other night and it had only just begun so I thought, I'll watch ten minutes of this because I can't remember seeing it in more than thirty years.

Needless to say I ended up watching the whole thing and still can't stop humming "Springtime for Hitler".

It's a remarkably slight movie, a few dated attitudes (but doesn't fare too badly considering) and I'm sure would have been instantly forgotten but for two utterly fantastic turns from Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel. They bounce off each other really well - surely some of it improvised.

I know there's a more modern version (is it a musical) and i have it in my head that it's Matthew  Broderick and Natha Lane). I can imagine Lane is superb but I'm too frightened to watch it and find out.
Be excellent to each other. And party on!

Funt Solo

I've watched some stage versions of The Producers, which have always been entertaining, but Gene Wilder's performance in the movie is simply irreplaceable.

My blue blanket.
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CalHab

Quote from: Tiplodocus on 27 June, 2021, 11:30:28 PM
I know there's a more modern version (is it a musical) and i have it in my head that it's Matthew  Broderick and Natha Lane). I can imagine Lane is superb but I'm too frightened to watch it and find out.

It's not good. For some reason they do "stage" performances, which just look and sound ridiculous on film.

pictsy

Summer of '84

It has a decent premise.  A coming of age film were the kids spy on a suspected serial killer.  It just doesn't come together in a coherent manner.  It leaves dangling threads all over the place and makes a drastic tonal shift right at the end of the film.  Much of it was predictable, including the tonal shift.  The characters were cut outs and their development is stifled.  Really mediocre.

milstar

Cop

I love James Woods in this police thriller from the late 1980s. His intensely obsessive portrayals that are borderline psychopathic, which he channels into The Specialist or Videodrome, are nothing short of a treat. I also love that he plays a cop on edge, insubordinate, who is willing to break a handful of rules to exact justice; but is also sly, amoral, and sardonic. And whose idea of ideal bedtime stories for his young daughter is telling her all in realistic detail about his cases. Arguably, on the surface, Cop looks like a typical cop film. A demented serial killer (who brutally dispatches women and one male prostitute), sleazy, shady characters, ominous eerie, score, realistic scenery, but what cop film has a brutal ending, no-holds-barred ending like this? Spoiler link! - [spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgCL__BBD6c[/spoiler]

The movie occasionally slows down, and some scenes add nothing to the film or advance the plot and are better left on the cutting room floor or trimmed down.
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milstar

U-571

Blatant historical inaccuracies aside, this turned to be quite gripping submarine thriller. And Matthew McConaughey, in one of his earlier roles, is excellent lead. This was quite a treat. One thing that always skips me, is where the hell is Bon Jovi? I watched this film numerous times, but could never identify him.
Reyt, you lot. Shut up, belt up, 'n if ye can't see t' bloody exit, ye must be bloody blind.