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08-13-2017 , 11:37 AM
dunkirk

I like nolan, I like war movies and I love hans zimmer music (music from inception and interstellar is really fun to play on piano) but dunkirk was a massive dissapointment. Just so.. boring.
08-13-2017 , 01:41 PM
TCM is showing the classic comedy Ball of Fire this afternoon, must see movie-tv. The great Barbara Stanwyck is a gangster moll hiding out with a bunch of naive yet goodhearted egghead professors including Gary Cooper. Wacky hijinks abound. Directed by Howard Hawks.
08-13-2017 , 02:36 PM
Watched The Odd Couple (1968) again for the first time since the late 1970s.

I was curious to see how well it had worn, and found it great fun. My wife, who had never seen it, also thought it was very funny, with great central performances by Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau based on a cracking Neil Simon play typical of his output around that time.

Anyone who hasn't seen it, simply should.
08-13-2017 , 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Watched The Odd Couple (1968) again for the first time since the late 1970s.
One of my all-time favorites from Neil Simon. (Along with The Goodbye Girl, which would have made my list for favorite movie of 1977 if not for Annie Hall). I saw the Broadway revival 11-12 years ago starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick (with Brad Garrett as Murray the Cop). Not bad, but no comparison to the classic movie pairing of Matthau and Lemon.
08-13-2017 , 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by kioshk
TCM is showing the classic comedy Ball of Fire this afternoon, must see movie-tv. The great Barbara Stanwyck is a gangster moll hiding out with a bunch of naive yet goodhearted egghead professors including Gary Cooper. Wacky hijinks abound. Directed by Howard Hawks.
Great stanwick cooper film... I was home bored also
08-13-2017 , 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Phat Mack
Dunkirk

Where to take a crap: The age old question.

Music: Not that bad.
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Originally Posted by Eltin
dunkirk

I like nolan, I like war movies and I love hans zimmer music (music from inception and interstellar is really fun to play on piano) but dunkirk was a massive dissapointment. Just so.. boring.
I actually really like the soundtrack... specially #4: Supermarine, it's an amazing piece.

08-13-2017 , 04:42 PM
Thinly veiled "I have nice valve amps" brag.
08-13-2017 , 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by MSchu18
I actually really like the soundtrack... specially #4: Supermarine, it's an amazing piece.

Liked the music, but not sure which piece was which.

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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Thinly veiled "I have nice valve amps" brag.
Either that or he's my age or into hollow-state design.

Are those homebrews? Twins, one for each channel? Not sure what I'm looking at.
08-13-2017 , 05:30 PM
I have no idea what what in the world you are talking about!




What's the consensus about Tarantino directing a James Bond film?
08-13-2017 , 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by MSchu18
I have no idea what what in the world you are talking about!


Smooch

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What's the consensus about Tarantino directing a James Bond film?
It'll be polarized. Either the very best or the very worst, or I'll think it's the best and later come to think it's the worst or I'll think it's the worst and later come to think it's the best. Something like that. Polarized.
08-13-2017 , 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by MSchu18
I have no idea what what in the world you are talking about!




What's the consensus about Tarantino directing a James Bond film?
If Quentin does typical Quentin, it would be awful.

But if he stays faithful to the typical Bond motif, I think it would be ok.

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08-14-2017 , 01:57 AM
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Originally Posted by MSchu18
What's the consensus about Tarantino directing a James Bond film?
No.

However, I googled this to see if it was a thing - apparently it's something Tim Roth suggested, and I think he would make a great villain.
08-14-2017 , 05:19 PM
Tarantino as a Bond director sounds laughable.
08-14-2017 , 06:13 PM
Should work about as well as Guy Ritchie and King Arthur.
08-15-2017 , 03:08 AM
The Tarantino who directed the bar scene between Fassbender and the Nazi in Inglorious Basterds could make a good Bond movie.
08-15-2017 , 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Rooksx
The Tarantino who directed the bar scene between Fassbender and the Nazi in Inglorious Basterds could make a good Bond movie.


That's quite the roll of the dice. Equal chance James Bond says the N word a bunch before the villain sodomizes him.
08-15-2017 , 04:29 PM
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is pretty hit and miss, but when it hits, it's damn funny. Never could understand the appeal of Adam DeVine. He's not funny. Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick are always good...but Sugar Lyn Beard as the sister getting married steals the whole movie...never saw this actress before, but she needs her own movie...so damn funny. The massage scene alone was fantastic.
08-15-2017 , 05:51 PM
Bond and Tarantino are two great tastes that don't taste great together.
08-15-2017 , 06:29 PM
But don't you want a 30 minute dialog on the merits of shaken vs stirred?
08-15-2017 , 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Dominic
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is pretty hit and miss, but when it hits, it's damn funny. Never could understand the appeal of Adam DeVine. He's not funny. Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick are always good...but Sugar Lyn Beard as the sister getting married steals the whole movie...never saw this actress before, but she needs her own movie...so damn funny. The massage scene alone was fantastic.


I watched this on the plane with low expectations and was into it. Poor mans Sarah Marshall.

I think Adam is hilarious in Workaholics, but he sort of plays a worse version of that character here. Still had his moments tho. Zac Efron is a pretty funny dude.
08-15-2017 , 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Snoop Todd
I watched this on the plane with low expectations and was into it. Poor mans Sarah Marshall.

I think Adam is hilarious in Workaholics, but he sort of plays a worse version of that character here. Still had his moments tho. Zac Efron is a pretty funny dude.
Yeah, it wasn't as well-written as FSM, really just a a scattershot joke-after-joke type of movie...but I surprisingly enjoyed it.

There was a throwaway joke near the end that caught me off guard and had me rolling: it was when the four leads were trying to convince the bride and groom to still get married, and that the bride's drug-induced words shouldn't be held-against her. They are all relating the stupid things they did while drunk, and Aubrey Plaza says:

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"I was once so wasted I read the back of a shampoo bottle for 13 hours."

The groom looks quizzical, but the bride nods and says "Rinse and repeat." Plaza nods with her and repeats "rinse and repeat."

I don't know why, but that really tickled me. ****ing hilarious.
08-15-2017 , 08:41 PM
Rules Don't Apply, Warren Beatty, 2016

This kinda came and went last year with very little fanfare, and I don't understand why. It's a marvelous, charming, shaggy-dog fantasy about Howard Hughes and the two young lovers he helps/hurts.

Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich play the young lovers, and Beatty plays a wonderfully dotty Howard Hughes. I can see why Collins is a budding star and Ehrenreich is playing the young Han Solo...both have "it."

It's a throwback kind of movie that is a little all over the place, but that's part of its charm.

It's a shame Beatty hasn't made a whole lot of movies in the last 30 or so years...he's always interesting.
08-16-2017 , 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by MSchu18
Fans of horror... until you've sat thru a movie called 555, you're just a tourist.
There is one from 1988. One from India (doesn't look horror), and one from 2015. Which one?

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Originally Posted by Snoop Todd
Life Itself - 9.5/10

This is a documentary about Robert Ebert's life that also chronicles his death. This is a beautiful movie and the title is apt because this is about much more than Ebert and what he meant to the movies. It is a story of a life well lived and the harsh realities that come at the end.

I am biased because Ebert has always been an important person to me. Simply put, he gets it. In high school, I would often stay up late to watch At the Movies with Siskel because they had so much to say and so much of it made sense to me. Even the way they would disagree with each other would often give way to insight about the movie or maybe life in general.

I've always gravitated towards movies because they helped me understand myself and the world around me. When I was too young to separate the wheat from the chaff I let Ebert be my guide and I can't think of a better person for the job.

This is a difficult movie to watch at parts - it's tough saying goodbye to someone you care about, but this movie is a perfect farewell.
This sounds interesting.
08-16-2017 , 10:07 PM
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Originally Posted by daveT
There is one from 1988. One from India (doesn't look horror), and one from 2015. Which .
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103600/

You've been warned... it's such a rare movie.
I bought the 555 vhs along with some Richard Kern underground videos in the 1980's... I sold the original VHS tape in 2006 on ebay for almost $90
08-17-2017 , 03:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Cranberry Tea
Bond and Tarantino are two great tastes that don't taste great together.
Agree with this, Tarantino should not be let anywhere near a Bond movie.

In related news, Daniel Craig confirms he will play Bond in the next movie.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/16/medi...ert/index.html

      
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