One idea I have for a second viewing is to pay VERY CLOSE attention to everything he says, hell even that one early line about knowing the protagonist's drink makes so much sense after seeing the whole thing
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Am I crazy for thinking Jingle All the Way has actually aged well?
It's cheesy as fuck but anytime Arnold plays REGULAR DUDE WITH A REGULAR JOB I'm just in stitches for some reason.
Plus one of Phil Hartman's last performances (as Ned Flanders basically).
Oh and Jake Lloyd just prior to making the worst work decision of his entire life, lol.
LurchingBeast
King of Tool Development
His reaction to the the unmasking of the guy in the vault makes more sense too. He already had a vague idea of what they would encounter along the way, so he tells the Protagonist not to unmask his reverse self. Also, the red string on Neil's backpack is also on the back of the reverse assassin in the opening theater scene, implying it was Neil who saves the Protagonist.
LurchingBeast
King of Tool Development
Jake Lloyd is schizophrenic. I think it’s sad what happened to him but I don’t think Hollywood drummed him out so much as genetics. We looked it up after the movie.Am I crazy for thinking Jingle All the Way has actually aged well?
It's cheesy as fuck but anytime Arnold plays REGULAR DUDE WITH A REGULAR JOB I'm just in stitches for some reason.
Plus one of Phil Hartman's last performances (as Ned Flanders basically).
Oh and Jake Lloyd just prior to making the worst work decision of his entire life, lol.
Honestly, I could watch Phil Hartman all day. I love Houseguest, I love Jingle All the Way, I love Bill Clinton Jogs to McDonalds. I have never seen News Radio and it’s on my old TV to watch list.
As for Jingle All The Way my only real complaint is it recycled a weird number of jokes from True Lies.
LurchingBeast
King of Tool Development
Distributors dictate how many virtual screenings these services can allow. A lot of the film festivals that went virtual this year did the same thing, including Chicago International FF. These runs that Lincoln Center are doing count as 'early screenings', as select theaters would sometimes have before the release date. Fat chance for someone in Austin to see a FilmLinc early screening of anything before the pandemic. Minari and Nomadland have an actual release date and will eventually be streaming for everyone.
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Watched Minari with my wife tonight courtesy of the New York City virtual film scene. We both loved it. Very strong performances from all the adult leads and a lot funnier than we thought it would be. The grandma just kills. Based on the trailer they made it out do be a whole lot “fish out of water” than it actually was to me. The drama is a lot more internal than external. Saying any more would ruin it. Would recommend. Watch it.
Distributors dictate how many virtual screenings these services can allow. A lot of the film festivals that went virtual this year did the same thing, including Chicago International FF. These runs that Lincoln Center are doing count as 'early screenings', as select theaters would sometimes have before the release date. Fat chance for someone in Austin to see a FilmLinc early screening of anything before the pandemic. Minari and Nomadland have an actual release date and will eventually be streaming for everyone.
Steven Yuen I love you.
Watermark had my name on it until I cast it to my TV. Maybe don’t steal that.
Hey New York City plz send more good movies plz.
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I am watching Cameron Crowe movies that I haven't seen right now. So Friday night I watched:
Say Anything..., which I am a little embarrassed to have not seen before, given that the band Say Anything released one of my all time favorite albums. Anyway, I loved this and can see why people have such a strong connection to it. Ann Paul Veal's mom is in it (ya gotta lock that down), and Frasier Crane's dad. Cusack is lovable. Jeremy Piven is a belligerent idiot.
Singles I didn't like quite as much but sort of enjoyed it for the most part and was entertained by all the fun cameos and interesting people in bit parts. Eddie Vedder, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden. Paul Giamatti, Prezbo from The Wire, Tim Burton. Lots of white people bullshit going on, and some very old and hilarious technology.
Elizabethtown is a stupid movie and Kirsten Dunst annoyed the shit out of me.
Say Anything..., which I am a little embarrassed to have not seen before, given that the band Say Anything released one of my all time favorite albums. Anyway, I loved this and can see why people have such a strong connection to it. Ann Paul Veal's mom is in it (ya gotta lock that down), and Frasier Crane's dad. Cusack is lovable. Jeremy Piven is a belligerent idiot.
Singles I didn't like quite as much but sort of enjoyed it for the most part and was entertained by all the fun cameos and interesting people in bit parts. Eddie Vedder, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden. Paul Giamatti, Prezbo from The Wire, Tim Burton. Lots of white people bullshit going on, and some very old and hilarious technology.
Elizabethtown is a stupid movie and Kirsten Dunst annoyed the shit out of me.
LurchingBeast
King of Tool Development
I made my wife watch it the other weekend. She was on her phone most of the time, but she did chuckle a few times at the end (I guess we have different senses of humor, either that or she hates when I make her watch movies). I probably hadn't seen it in 20-25 years, but it was still quite enjoyable. When I make her watch Terminator 2, she can't be on her damn phone. That one is too important.
Holy FUCK this trailer lmao
Mario Lopez Is Colonel Sanders in 'A Recipe for Seduction'
KFC's mini-movie spoof will debut Sunday on Lifetime.www.adweek.com
Wife and I got drunk and hate-watched a Lifetime-ish movie about a ghost that comes back and falls in love with a realtor who has no time for love (The Spirit of Christmas). The plot made no fucking sense and the acting was very very bad. It was enormously entertaining. We tried watching some other Lifetime movie this weekend and it was boring as shit. Cheesy, sure, but I left at the end to do dishes.
Bad movies are really hard to do right. There's a basic lack of self awareness that is critical. This KFC movie seems to be more Sharknado than The Room. I might still be worthwhile. I think I'm done with Lifetime Christmas movies unless I can find one was atrocious as "Spirit."
I think I am in the wrong frame to be watching it. Tons of anxiety right now between holidays, work and normal COVID baseline anxiety,
Wrong thread but H/T to LurchingBeast for bringing up Dinosaurs back in September though. I’ll probably do a thorough write up when I finish in the Streaming thread. Been wishing I had given it a good rewatch in college as it seems so many things that fit 1992 fit 2002 fit now. Fuck.
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I snuck a Cinnabon into the theater. That and the end montage were definitely the highlights of the film.
A year without Marvel movies left a pop culture void
There were no Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and no excitement this year.
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strong butthole 💪
Heads up... Possessor is $4.99 on Vudu for purchase right now. I know couple of you were talking about it recently. I went ahead and picked it up.
www.vudu.com
Seems to include the theatrical version as well.
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www.vudu.com
Seems to include the theatrical version as well.
LurchingBeast
King of Tool Development
Saw a bunch of things...
Minari - I need to watch this again as I wasn't in the right headspace for it. A Korean family buys a farm in rural Arkansas looking for a new start but finds the broken promises of the American Dream. Even with some heavier subject matter, it's hard to escape how charming Minari is. All of the acting is stellar, including the always underrated Steven Yeun, but the star is Youn Yuh-jung who plays the foul mouthed, gambling, and all around inappropriate grandmother. Will revisit when it is widely available.
Sound of Metal (7.5/10) - What I thought was just the story of a heavy metal drummer losing his hearing turns out to be one of the more interesting depictions of addiction and co-dependence committed to screen in some time. Riz Ahmed is getting a lot of deserved buzz for his lead role and I wouldn't be surprised if he scored a Best Actor nomination. Some touching supporting performances from the deaf actors in the cast as well. Sound of Metal shows how far a magnetic lead actor and stunning sound design can take a film that on paper doesn't seem to have wide appeal.
Ammonite (5/10), or, Portrait of a Lady Who is just a Bit Warm. Kate Winslet is a famous, yet odd, palaeontogist toiling away in a very well shot small town on the harsh English coast when her life is upended by a rich tourist and his wife (Saoirse Ronan). The queer story of longing reeked of Oscar bait but it measures up so poorly to a similar movie from just last year in Portrait of a Lady on Fire that I don't think it will even see consideration. Winslet and Ronan are such accomplished actors that their lack of chemistry was surprising.
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (8/10) might be the oddest movie of the year but I couldn't stop thinking about it the entire next day. The "documentary" chronicles the final 24 hours of a Las Vegas dive bar, far from the lights of the strip. The movie captures so many small truths and universal experiences among the bar's regulars, the viewer would be shocked to learn it's not really a documentary, the bar is actually in New Orleans, and these are all actors. And yet it is the perfect ode to the American dive bar. This very much pushes the envelope for the documentary genre, reckoning with the artifice inherent in a documentary in an interesting way. I'm excited to check out the filmmakers' other work.
Wolfwalkers (7/10) - The best animated movie I've seen so far this year comes from Irish studio Cartoon Saloon. Set during the English occupation of Ireland in the 1600's, it has gorgeous 2-D loose line animation and stunning backgrounds. Shits all over the major studio animated fare from 2020. More complex themes of colonialism, environmentalism, religious fanaticism, and even some queer undertones while remaining a decidedly kids' movie. I know Soul is supposed to be the big animated feature this year but Wolfwalkers sets a pretty high bar.
Minari - I need to watch this again as I wasn't in the right headspace for it. A Korean family buys a farm in rural Arkansas looking for a new start but finds the broken promises of the American Dream. Even with some heavier subject matter, it's hard to escape how charming Minari is. All of the acting is stellar, including the always underrated Steven Yeun, but the star is Youn Yuh-jung who plays the foul mouthed, gambling, and all around inappropriate grandmother. Will revisit when it is widely available.
Sound of Metal (7.5/10) - What I thought was just the story of a heavy metal drummer losing his hearing turns out to be one of the more interesting depictions of addiction and co-dependence committed to screen in some time. Riz Ahmed is getting a lot of deserved buzz for his lead role and I wouldn't be surprised if he scored a Best Actor nomination. Some touching supporting performances from the deaf actors in the cast as well. Sound of Metal shows how far a magnetic lead actor and stunning sound design can take a film that on paper doesn't seem to have wide appeal.
Ammonite (5/10), or, Portrait of a Lady Who is just a Bit Warm. Kate Winslet is a famous, yet odd, palaeontogist toiling away in a very well shot small town on the harsh English coast when her life is upended by a rich tourist and his wife (Saoirse Ronan). The queer story of longing reeked of Oscar bait but it measures up so poorly to a similar movie from just last year in Portrait of a Lady on Fire that I don't think it will even see consideration. Winslet and Ronan are such accomplished actors that their lack of chemistry was surprising.
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (8/10) might be the oddest movie of the year but I couldn't stop thinking about it the entire next day. The "documentary" chronicles the final 24 hours of a Las Vegas dive bar, far from the lights of the strip. The movie captures so many small truths and universal experiences among the bar's regulars, the viewer would be shocked to learn it's not really a documentary, the bar is actually in New Orleans, and these are all actors. And yet it is the perfect ode to the American dive bar. This very much pushes the envelope for the documentary genre, reckoning with the artifice inherent in a documentary in an interesting way. I'm excited to check out the filmmakers' other work.
Wolfwalkers (7/10) - The best animated movie I've seen so far this year comes from Irish studio Cartoon Saloon. Set during the English occupation of Ireland in the 1600's, it has gorgeous 2-D loose line animation and stunning backgrounds. Shits all over the major studio animated fare from 2020. More complex themes of colonialism, environmentalism, religious fanaticism, and even some queer undertones while remaining a decidedly kids' movie. I know Soul is supposed to be the big animated feature this year but Wolfwalkers sets a pretty high bar.
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LurchingBeast
King of Tool Development
Wolfwalkers is on Apple+, btw. Sound of Metal free on Prime.
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I was going to ask where you watch all your movies. Sometimes you mention where, sometimes you don't.