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You don’t ever have to qualify your comments to me, especially ones like this. I know you well enough to know that you always mean well and commentary, even if contrary, are always well intentioned.
Varsity blues is one of the only movies that never aged and doesn’t appear dated from ‘1999’. It’s also the only movie that wraps comedy and raw emotion amongst a hormonal teenage society perfectly With the pressures of life. I could watch that movie over and over again and never get tired of it. In terms of perfection from a film of that time era, it’s the only movie I would rate with zero flaws.
Well he did bite Kramer's hand once!
Watched Thank You for Smoking (2005) earlier today. Directed by Jason Reitman, the film follows Nick Naylor, played by Aaron Eckhardt, who is a spokesman and vice president of a tobacco lobby. As such, he spends most of his days trying to argue that smoking in fact can't be directly linked to lung diseases, as there's no definitive evidence to suggest it. In one of the best 20 or so seconds of the film we get to meet Erhardt Von Grupten Mund, a genius German chemist who has spent 30 years searching for a link between nicotine and lung cancer without finding any conclusive proof. "The man could disprove gravity", notes Nick.
Great satire, this one. It's been years since I last saw this, and had forgotten much of it. There are really great, yet obscenely "believable", I guess you could say, scenes that showcase how the tobacco lobby just might influence other industries, such as films, by stunts like plotting with studio execs to facilitate finally getting others than "the usual RAVs" (Russians, Arabs and Villains) to smoke on the silver screen.
Nick also has a couple of friends he hangs out with, the firearm lobbyist Bobby Jay, and the acohol lobbyist Polly. The MOD Squad they call themselves, for Merchants Of Death. Great dialogue between the three of them.
Really good movie. Well worth a watch it if you haven't already.
Great satire, this one. It's been years since I last saw this, and had forgotten much of it. There are really great, yet obscenely "believable", I guess you could say, scenes that showcase how the tobacco lobby just might influence other industries, such as films, by stunts like plotting with studio execs to facilitate finally getting others than "the usual RAVs" (Russians, Arabs and Villains) to smoke on the silver screen.
Nick also has a couple of friends he hangs out with, the firearm lobbyist Bobby Jay, and the acohol lobbyist Polly. The MOD Squad they call themselves, for Merchants Of Death. Great dialogue between the three of them.
Really good movie. Well worth a watch it if you haven't already.
Great movie indeed.
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, and it’s a lot like rap and I’ve never cared for “talking“ songs. Give me a snappy tune and lyrics like Let it Go or Happy and I’m good.There are some political aspects, inferred compromise that allowed the continuation of slavery, as in how could a country be created in the name of freedom, continue to have slaves, but I’ll leave that for PRSI.
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Haven’t watched this one in ages. Good for a bit of chilled out evening.
Compared to the animated series, that movie was a complete abomination.
Really? I’ve never watched the animated series so had no expectations to begin with. Lol.
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Haven’t watched this one in ages. Good for a bit of chilled out evening.
Huge fan of M. Night Shyamalan, ‘Signs’ was really good (Its the only movie I actually watched twice in theaters), of course there was a Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, ‘The Village’ was also decent with Joaquin Phoenix.
But then he’s got a few strange ones that just didn’t work for me with ‘Lady in the water’ and ‘After-Earth’ as two examples. ‘The Happening’ with Mark Wahlberg had decent moments, but ultimately failed.
It's just so incredibly good. Groff is terrific, and he's very good in the highly recommended Mindhunter series (he's the lead FBI agent Holden Ford).
Plus one. Pretty stock rom-com. The one twist mostly bothered me, because it meant that the lead guy was a jerk for no reason.
You mentioned it (Count of Monte Christo) and I had to watch it, excellent! 88% at Rotten Tomatoes.
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I've got you covered, mate. Watch Drunk Parents, then you'll think this is wonderful.
The Crow (1994)- 90% RTAS. I have mixed feelings about this movie. It’s a dark B movie about a vengeful spirit brought back to a run down city to execute divine justice, overshadowed by the tragic death of Brandon Lee on set killed by a mis-loaded gun, a squib load, a bullet stuck in the barrel, and then a blank fired. For cost saving, the studio let the arms master go, so the prop crew could finish handling weapons for the remaining scenes. It has been said Lee had a premonition about an untimely death.
It’s been reported to finish the movie, it required 500-600 hours of CGI work to put Lee’s face on a body double.
The movie has a vibe and at times feels profound, but IMO is not a great story from an execution standpoint. A remake appears to be in the works.
It’s been reported to finish the movie, it required 500-600 hours of CGI work to put Lee’s face on a body double.
The movie has a vibe and at times feels profound, but IMO is not a great story from an execution standpoint. A remake appears to be in the works.
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Another "oldie" but goldie from the DVD collection I haven't watched in ages. Horror from the twisted mind of legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike, tonight's feature was Ôdishon (aka. Audition, 1999).
In the beginning of the film Shigeharu Aoyama loses his wife. Seven years pass, and his son thinks his father needs to get back in the game, so to say, and the love starved Shigeharu agrees. How to find a partner, though, in today's (or 1999's, but you get the idea) hectic life? Well, obviously recruiting your film producer friend to stage a faux audition for young, attractive women for a film that doesn't actually exist is one way to meet, and screen eligible women. And that's how Shigeharu meets the beautiful, timid, polite and mysterious Asami.
A different kind of love story, this one. The director's name alone should either pique your interest, or set off alarm bells depending on how you like his other work. This one is not my personal favorite Miike film, but still, in terms of effectiveness the dread and just general uneasiness of the second hour of this movie is pretty hard to match. When things really escalate in the last 20 or so minutes it's tough to watch and at the same time impossible to look away. The actors do a great job in their, at times really tough, roles, and the cinematography has some really nice touches in the second half of the film.
In the beginning of the film Shigeharu Aoyama loses his wife. Seven years pass, and his son thinks his father needs to get back in the game, so to say, and the love starved Shigeharu agrees. How to find a partner, though, in today's (or 1999's, but you get the idea) hectic life? Well, obviously recruiting your film producer friend to stage a faux audition for young, attractive women for a film that doesn't actually exist is one way to meet, and screen eligible women. And that's how Shigeharu meets the beautiful, timid, polite and mysterious Asami.
A different kind of love story, this one. The director's name alone should either pique your interest, or set off alarm bells depending on how you like his other work. This one is not my personal favorite Miike film, but still, in terms of effectiveness the dread and just general uneasiness of the second hour of this movie is pretty hard to match. When things really escalate in the last 20 or so minutes it's tough to watch and at the same time impossible to look away. The actors do a great job in their, at times really tough, roles, and the cinematography has some really nice touches in the second half of the film.