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Il Palazzo

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Re: The Movie Discussion Thread!
« Reply #1410 on: January 05, 2024, 05:39:54 pm »

The Running Man. I've just rewatched it, having seen it as a kid previously. I did remember it as shallow entertainment, but not this much. The plot is the barest of bones, there's maybe two actors that don't butcher their lines, the one-liners are cringe and overabundant, and half the screen time is taken up by the camera lusting after every piece of flesh it can glue itself to.
It's like some studio exec saw Rollerball and said: 'Let's make a porn parody of this, only with more carnage and violence. But cut all the sex and gore so that it's pg-13.'
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« Reply #1411 on: January 06, 2024, 04:06:48 am »

The Running Man. I've just rewatched it, having seen it as a kid previously. I did remember it as shallow entertainment, but not this much. The plot is the barest of bones, there's maybe two actors that don't butcher their lines, the one-liners are cringe and overabundant, and half the screen time is taken up by the camera lusting after every piece of flesh it can glue itself to.
It's like some studio exec saw Rollerball and said: 'Let's make a porn parody of this, only with more carnage and violence. But cut all the sex and gore so that it's pg-13.'

Sounds like the 80s alright.

I was subjected to "Empire of the Dark" as part of a three movie Exorcism theme. It's an early 90s vanity project (so writer, directory, lead all one person) about trying to stop the rebirth of Satan more or less. Pretty comically bad, more robed cultists in rubber masks than you can shake a stick at, and some really chuckle worthy acting from the star. I can't say it was good but it had a visual style and some of it actually looks pretty good.

As an addendum, I've seen the Pope's Exorcist twice now and I honestly have to recommend. It's half adventure, half constantly escalating stakes, all vaguely cheesy. The 3rd act just goes up like a rocket ship, it's kind of incredible what someone was thinking with this. Strikingly high budget visuals for what ends up feeling like a sci-fi movie. And Russel Crowe playing a fluffy Italian priest is just....pretty magical. Whatever else was going on in the movie, he was having fun with it.
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Re: The Movie Discussion Thread!
« Reply #1412 on: January 06, 2024, 06:22:05 pm »

The Mothman Prophecies

How on earth did that movie get made with that cast?

EDIT since I made the last post:

Hahaha watching Elysium for the first time... I love that that they are using Intel x86 assembly language in the hacking scene... hahahaha... because that will be what we're using in 2154... hahahaha (PS this comment may be slightly ethanol-infused).
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« Reply #1413 on: January 14, 2024, 11:48:53 am »

Watched The Maltese Falcon this morning. A solid movie, and a classic for a reason, but Sam Spade veers from being a grade-A idiot to a Sherlock Holmes superdetective between scenes, which is distracting.
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Re: The Movie Discussion Thread!
« Reply #1414 on: January 14, 2024, 03:03:49 pm »

So the guy behind Dogtooth and Lobster made a, uh, comedy(?) called Poor Things. I've only seen the trailer, but I think I'm gonna dig it something fierce.
I can't really tell what it's all about other than it looks like some ungodly steampunk/frankensteinian/feminist fever dream.
Anyone gets to see it before I get the chance, do leave a review.
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Re: The Movie Discussion Thread!
« Reply #1415 on: March 13, 2024, 08:42:59 pm »

I went to see Dune: Part Two and it completely redeemed the David Lynch film in my eyes. Hopefully Lynch himself will get over himself and return to the project to give us a proper director's cut at some point before he dies.
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