Let's All Go to the Movies

LurchingBeast said:


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Looking at the date apparently this person was comparing 'Dogma' to 'The Last Temptation of Christ', lol.
 
seedavid said:
So I was having a conversation yesterday with a friend about Kohl’s relocating their Amazon returns to the back of the store to increase foot traffic and impulse shopping. This reminded me of a scene from a movie that I cannot place and it is driving me fucking batty. I tried Googling the scene, but I must be getting something wrong because all it is getting me are results that will surely fuck up all my embedded ads as now my cookies indicate I am a working mom. If anyone else remembers this scene and can place the actress or the movie, please help. I am losing it. I thought it would come to me last night when I stopped thinking about it and I got jack shit. I want to say this is a movie from the 90s I have seen on tv a billion times but I am clearly an unreliable narrator here. I can hear the actress’s voice clear as a bell talking about her little boy but I cannot see her face.
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OceanOfMead said:
The gist of the scene is there is a woman talking about coming to the mall (or is it a department store?) with her little boy and always needing to visit the toy store and how the placement of the store makes shopping stressful, but if they could move the store to get the toy shopping out of the way so the kid is happy and both are relaxed while the rest of the shopping is completed, they will make more sales than having the toy store at the back.

There is a chance I have flipped her argument backwards in my head but the more I thought about it, relaxed happy shoppers in a fictional movie is pretty equitable to people who are now annoyed with Kohls for making them spend extra time in a store they don’t need to for what was supposed to be a convenience drop off during a pandemic. Anyway, does anyone remember or have any ideas what in the fuck movie this is or am I having some Shazaam mindfuck moment and this does not exist at all?
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Last known original mold of Bruce the Shark, restored as a personal project by Greg Nicotero of KNB, installed in Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

This thing was apparently just sitting in a Hollywood junkyard for years outside in the elements before it was purchased by Nicotero....

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Watched a couple oddities recently that I mostly dug.

The Nest (7/10) is a family drama that moves like a horror movie. Jude Law is a hotshot stock trader and Carrie Coon plays his wife, trying to keep the family together after another rough move to an old mansion in a foreign land. Coon is fantastic in everything and that's no different here, while Law plays a smarmy twat alarmingly well. There is a foreboding dread throughout completely manufactured by the clever set design and how its shot. The Nest comes across as deeply personal to the writer/director while still capturing the facades people will build to make it look like things are better than they really are.


The Wanting Mare (7.5/10) is an extremely low budget "fantasy epic" that remains grounded in a story of longing, as a line of women pass down the same mysterious dream through generations. Imagine Wuthering Heights by way of... I don't even know, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet? Children of Men? It's fairly unclassifiable. It's mindblowing what director Nicholas Bateman did with some IndieGoGo money, a storage warehouse, and some green screens. The matte painting backgrounds are gorgeous, the visual effects are amazing, really bringing this world to life. The story is a curious one if the director really wants to set up a series of movies set in this place. It's not action packed and I don't see this ever reaching wide audience approval. Still, it is immersive and incredibly interesting if you allow the movie to take you there.

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LurchingBeast said:
Watched a couple oddities recently that I mostly dug.

The Nest (7/10) is a family drama that moves like a horror movie. Jude Law is a hotshot stock trader and Carrie Coon plays his wife, trying to keep the family together after another rough move to an old mansion in a foreign land. Coon is fantastic in everything and that's no different here, while Law plays a smarmy twat alarmingly well. There is a foreboding dread throughout completely manufactured by the clever set design and how its shot. The Nest comes across as deeply personal to the writer/director while still capturing the facades people will build to make it look like things are better than they really are.


The Wanting Mare (7.5/10) is an extremely low budget "fantasy epic" that remains grounded in a story of longing, as a line of women pass down the same mysterious dream through generations. Imagine Wuthering Heights by way of... I don't even know, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet? Children of Men? It's fairly unclassifiable. It's mindblowing what director Nicholas Bateman did with some IndieGoGo money, a storage warehouse, and some green screens. The matte painting backgrounds are gorgeous, the visual effects are amazing, really bringing this world to life. The story is a curious one if the director really wants to set up a series of movies set in this place. It's not action packed and I don't see this ever reaching wide audience approval. Still, it is immersive and incredibly interesting if you allow the movie to take you there.

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Where did you find the Wanting Mare? That sounds interesting but I can’t locate a stream.
 
I decided to have a T. Hanks Giving today and watch a few Tom Hanks movies I hadn't already seen.

Cloud Atlas was long as fuck and was about... slavery? I think? I zoned out like 10 different times during this thing and then came back to and I just don't think I ever really got into it.

Saving Mr. Banks was pretty stupid. The lady that wrote the book on which Mary Poppins is based is a rude, miserable, inflexible, asshole, but Walt Disney was a totally great guy that certainly neeeeever fucked over an artist or did anything shady (HA!). But I liked BJ Novak in his small role.

The Man With One Red Shoe was fun and silly and full disclosure I rewatched the scene in which Carrie Fisher is in her underwear like 4 times and that may have positively impacted my overall opinion of the film but bottom line is I mostly enjoyed this very much.
 
seedavid said:
I decided to have a T. Hanks Giving today and watch a few Tom Hanks movies I hadn't already seen.

Cloud Atlas was long as fuck and was about... slavery? I think? I zoned out like 10 different times during this thing and then came back to and I just don't think I ever really got into it.

Saving Mr. Banks was pretty stupid. The lady that wrote the book on which Mary Poppins is based is a rude, miserable, inflexible, asshole, but Walt Disney was a totally great guy that certainly neeeeever fucked over an artist or did anything shady (HA!). But I liked BJ Novak in his small role.

The Man With One Red Shoe was fun and silly and full disclosure I rewatched the scene in which Carrie Fisher is in her underwear like 4 times and that may have positively impacted my overall opinion of the film but bottom line is I mostly enjoyed this very much.
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Just watch Joe vs the Volcano. That’s his best movie and I love how well shot it is.
 
seedavid said:
I decided to have a T. Hanks Giving today and watch a few Tom Hanks movies I hadn't already seen.

Cloud Atlas was long as fuck and was about... slavery? I think? I zoned out like 10 different times during this thing and then came back to and I just don't think I ever really got into it.

Saving Mr. Banks was pretty stupid. The lady that wrote the book on which Mary Poppins is based is a rude, miserable, inflexible, asshole, but Walt Disney was a totally great guy that certainly neeeeever fucked over an artist or did anything shady (HA!). But I liked BJ Novak in his small role.

The Man With One Red Shoe was fun and silly and full disclosure I rewatched the scene in which Carrie Fisher is in her underwear like 4 times and that may have positively impacted my overall opinion of the film but bottom line is I mostly enjoyed this very much.
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I will go to the grave fighting that The Man with One Red Shoe is the most underrated movie of all time.

For tonight, we are choosing between that hillbilly movie on Netflix or that Santa movie with Mel.
 
TheBandit1 said:
I will go to the grave fighting that The Man with One Red Shoe is the most underrated movie of all time.

For tonight, we are choosing between that hillbilly movie on Netflix or that Santa movie with Mel.
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Santa movie with Kurt?

If it’s that one I enjoyed it last year. Some solid nostalgic Russell things happening in it.
 
A conversation came up the other week regarding consumerism and the long American history of people fighting in stores for limited popular holiday toys from Cabbage Patch Kids to Tickle Me Elmo, which reminded me of the classic film Jingle All the Way. It doesn’t come up on a lot of the classic holiday films lists and it really is rather funny. It has a couple of problematic spots that wouldn’t be put into a movie today but overall holds up. Certainly any worse than a lot of the other 80s and 90s movies and TV I have been watching lately. Besides, I have a soft spot for premium Phil Hartman content.
 
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