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Post by MMST3K on Dec 23, 2019 13:48:32 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? For me it might be Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Just typing out the title makes me laugh, but the movie sucked and was a missed opportunity just based off of the premise alone. Mortal Kombat Annihilation.Additionally the only thing I hate about that Harold & Kumar movie is the love story.Could have totally eliminated that from the film. |
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Post by I Gave You Power on Dec 23, 2019 13:49:43 GMT -5
Finally got around to The King of Comedy, and not only did Deniro kill that but god damn so did Sandra Bernhard. Delightfully unhinged.
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Post by I Gave You Power on Dec 23, 2019 13:53:03 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? For me it might be Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Just typing out the title makes me laugh, but the movie sucked and was a missed opportunity just based off of the premise alone. Pacific Rim: Uprising The first PR gave us sweet-ass robots fighting even sweeter monsters, but this one had the most sterile, Dollar General knockoff robots imaginable fighting boring monsters. It was straight-up summer blockbuster and monster movie malpractice. |
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Post by variousmaterials on Dec 23, 2019 14:37:40 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? For me it might be Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Just typing out the title makes me laugh, but the movie sucked and was a missed opportunity just based off of the premise alone. Pacific Rim: Uprising The first PR gave us sweet-ass robots fighting even sweeter monsters, but this one had the most sterile, Dollar General knockoff robots imaginable fighting boring monsters. It was straight-up summer blockbuster and monster movie malpractice. Fully agreed. There were barely any robots vs. monsters even, mostly just robots. I was so stoked thinking they understood the pitfall of trying to have "character development" and "relationships" in the first, but instead they double downed and I ended up being bored for 2 hrs. Infuriating. |
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Post by xnate☭hatex on Dec 23, 2019 20:23:13 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? For me it might be Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Just typing out the title makes me laugh, but the movie sucked and was a missed opportunity just based off of the premise alone. Purge. |
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Post by MMST3K on Dec 23, 2019 20:28:53 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? For me it might be Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Just typing out the title makes me laugh, but the movie sucked and was a missed opportunity just based off of the premise alone. This is just my apinion but I didn't enjoy Zodiac, even though I am fascinated by The Zodiac himself.Fine movie it just didn't grab me by the balls like I had hoped until the last quarter where our protagonist is actually in danger. |
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Post by pbcookies on Dec 23, 2019 20:45:20 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? For me it might be Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Just typing out the title makes me laugh, but the movie sucked and was a missed opportunity just based off of the premise alone. This is just my apinion but I didn't enjoy Zodiac, even though I am fascinated by The Zodiac himself.Fine movie it just didn't grab me by the balls like I had hoped until the last quarter where our protagonist is actually in danger. I think this has been gone over in this thread, but Zodiac isn't a violent slasher film, it's a mystery about how you can't trust your own intuitions. I also like Zodiac stuff and I thought the movie hit the bull's eye in terms of not only presenting it with all its messiness and contradictions, but making that the whole point. |
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Post by I Gave You Power on Dec 24, 2019 8:43:02 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? For me it might be Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Just typing out the title makes me laugh, but the movie sucked and was a missed opportunity just based off of the premise alone. Purge. Yeah the first Purge movie was god awful. Election and Anarchy were definitely very solid, though. |
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Post by refill on Dec 24, 2019 19:44:42 GMT -5
I was kind of underwhelmed by Uncut Gems. Same. I guess it's part of the experience knowing how inevitable it all is, but it was a rollercoaster that I wanted to let myself off of. |
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Post by lil stormy on Dec 24, 2019 20:33:42 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? Bad Times at the El Royale. I was really looking forward to this one. Such a great cast, and a great opening setup. But the movie just kind of meandered with dialogue that wen't nowhere and eventually it lost all focus until the train wreck of an ending. If the director didn't try so hard to be Tarantino and just let the movie play out without all the self indulgent bullshit, it could have been a classic. |
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Post by pbcookies on Dec 24, 2019 21:07:53 GMT -5
Question for the thread: what is the most badly-wasted movie premise you can think of? Bad Times at the El Royale. I was really looking forward to this one. Such a great cast, and a great opening setup. But the movie just kind of meandered with dialogue that wen't nowhere and eventually it lost all focus until the train wreck of an ending. If the director didn't try so hard to be Tarantino and just let the movie play out without all the self indulgent bullshit, it could have been a classic. Mostly agree, yeah I'm a sucker for that 60s/noir aesthetic though |
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Post by lil stormy on Dec 24, 2019 21:27:50 GMT -5
Bad Times at the El Royale. I was really looking forward to this one. Such a great cast, and a great opening setup. But the movie just kind of meandered with dialogue that wen't nowhere and eventually it lost all focus until the train wreck of an ending. If the director didn't try so hard to be Tarantino and just let the movie play out without all the self indulgent bullshit, it could have been a classic. Mostly agree, yeah I'm a sucker for that 60s/noir aesthetic though Same. And it's a rarity, so when i see a trailer for something like that i get excited. By the end of the movie i realized i'd never sit through that again. Speaking of Tarantino / 60s... I LOVED Once Upon A Time in Hollywood by the way. |
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Post by jaredfromsubway on Dec 24, 2019 21:57:17 GMT -5
The Two Popes is basically Green Book minus the corny jokes rooted in racial stereotypes
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Post by pbcookies on Dec 24, 2019 22:07:48 GMT -5
Mostly agree, yeah I'm a sucker for that 60s/noir aesthetic though Same. And it's a rarity, so when i see a trailer for something like that i get excited. By the end of the movie i realized i'd never sit through that again. Speaking of Tarantino / 60s... I LOVED Once Upon A Time in Hollywood by the way. Yeah Once Upon a Time just an incredible cinematic experience, one of my favorites this year |
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Post by pbcookies on Dec 24, 2019 22:08:38 GMT -5
The Two Popes is basically Green Book minus the corny jokes rooted in racial stereotypes So it's about six minutes long then? |
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Post by refill on Dec 24, 2019 22:40:57 GMT -5
The Two Popes is basically Green Book minus the corny jokes rooted in racial stereotypes I'm flying tomorrow and just put it on my tablet to watch. Will I need to use all 8 of my SW drink coupons? |
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Post by jaredfromsubway on Dec 24, 2019 23:05:06 GMT -5
The Two Popes is basically Green Book minus the corny jokes rooted in racial stereotypes I'm flying tomorrow and just put it on my tablet to watch. Will I need to use all 8 of my SW drink coupons? It's not as cringe, so maybe 4 |
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Post by lil stormy on Dec 25, 2019 1:13:05 GMT -5
Watched a great early '70s blaxploitation flick last night called Hammer. One of the better films of the genre. Fred Williamson is great as a dock worker / street fighter turned boxer caught up in the criminal underworld. Plays out more like Hard Times with Charles Bronson meets On the Waterfront than the usual pimps, cops, drugs, crime caper etc you'd expect. Excellent music of course. Great stuff. I never get tired of movies like this.
Also watched another '70s flick called Black Sampson about a bad-ass bar owner (with an actual lion roaming the bar) who carries a big staff looking stick (Walking Tall style) and fights off dealers trying to move in on his neighborhood. Pure entertainment. As fun (and funky) as these films get.
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Post by ryanakafvckyou on Dec 25, 2019 10:24:24 GMT -5
I thought El Royale was great fun.
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Post by pbcookies on Dec 25, 2019 13:58:44 GMT -5
Just started Outrage Coda, nobody can rock that Lloyd Christmas hairstyle like Kitano
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Post by itii on Dec 25, 2019 16:05:37 GMT -5
Almost threw up during the climax of Uncut Gems. The visual metaphor for sweating a game was both hilariously too much and sublime.
But yeah, the inevitable was inevitable and I was prolly the only person who didn't flinch or gasp when it happened.
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Post by pbcookies on Dec 25, 2019 16:53:48 GMT -5
The Best of the Decade:
1. Burning
2. Roma
3. Our Little Sister
4. The Yellow Sea
5. First Reformed
6. The Lobster
7. Moonlight
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Elena
10. Winter's Bone
I don't see every movie that comes out like some of you lucky people, but I saw a fair bit and this is what stuck. I also limited it to one entry per director, because it would have been all Kore-eda and Lee Chang Dong if I didn't. I still need to see Parasite, before anyone yells at me.
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Post by boundforgloryhole on Dec 25, 2019 18:39:44 GMT -5
Finally saw most of there's something about Mary.
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Post by bentenn on Dec 25, 2019 23:27:23 GMT -5
lol
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Post by lilmeatsauce on Dec 26, 2019 0:27:08 GMT -5
Finally saw The Favorite and I loved it.
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Post by ExS on Dec 26, 2019 1:37:03 GMT -5
Finally saw most of there's something about Mary. my mum took me to see this and i asked her "what is he doing?!" out loud in the jerking off scene. everyone in the row laughed at me. top 10 of the decade is pretty fucking difficult. i could try, though. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2019 2:03:01 GMT -5
The Social Network is my favorite of the decade. After that, it's incredibly hard to narrow it down to a top 10 list.
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Post by ExS on Dec 26, 2019 2:07:00 GMT -5
top 10 of the decade:
1. silence
2. before midnight
3. the handmaiden
4. incendies
5. shoplifters
6. a bigger splash
7. nymphomaniac
8. a touch of sin
9. 45 years
10. the skin i live in OR blade runner 2049 OR kaili blues OR first reformed OR...
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Post by pbcookies on Dec 26, 2019 2:27:37 GMT -5
definitely considered Before Midnight, but haven't seen it since it came out and second-guessed myself
other considerations:
-Enemy
-Drive
-The Fighter
all in all pretty happy with my list though
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Post by ExS on Dec 26, 2019 2:32:10 GMT -5
definitely considered Before Midnight, but haven't seen it since it came out and second-guessed myself other considerations: -Enemy -Drive -The Fighter all in all pretty happy with my list though midnight is fantastic, but sunset is in my top 5 of all time. ethan's performance in the last few minutes alone is absolutely sublime. |
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