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Movies: Talk About What You've Seen Lately--Part 3 Movies: Talk About What You've Seen Lately--Part 3

02-19-2017 , 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
Charlie Wilson was a sleazy huckster!
My point is, he was both a sleazy huckster and a formidable Congressman. Hanks can play both perfectly.
02-19-2017 , 11:49 PM
Hanks as a Hitman...
02-20-2017 , 12:13 AM
Surprised so many of you guys liked Hanks in that role, for me it was distracting, just didn't buy it. It probably didn't help that I read the book and had a really specific idea of Wilson before seeing the movie, and Hanks just wasn't that at all.
02-20-2017 , 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by riverboatking
I loved wall-E haven't seen how to train your dragon and maybe I need to give up another chance cuz I think I'm the only person alive who didn't like it.
Make sure to see Kimi no Na wa when it finally makes its theatrical release here in the States, hopefully sometime in April.

Its the only animated movie to out gross spirited away in Japan.
02-20-2017 , 04:23 AM
Denial

Don't know how much attention David Irving's defamation suit against Deborah Lipstadt for calling him a Holocaust denier got in the US, but it received a lot of media coverage in the UK at the time. The screwed-up British libel laws meant that Lipstadt's legal team essentially had to prove that the Holocaust happened.

Most legal dramas turn on these moments of high drama, like a witness's stunning revelation on the stand, or the grandstanding speech that sways the jury. There's an element of that to Denial, but what I really liked was that it focused on the process of preparing and strategising a case. The movie effectively dramatises the work lawyers do outside of court in a way that seems a lot more down to earth and realistic than is typical in film. It's a somewhat similar approach to the John Travolta movie "A Civil Action".
02-20-2017 , 04:27 AM
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Originally Posted by riverboatking
and Baltimore,

that was exactly what I was looking for in my post.
animated films like waking life that aren't fantastical and like the normal Disney animated films.

I wasn't asking for a list of pixar films.
Ah k, then Heavy Metal probably isn't what you want, almost all fantasy-world stories IIRC. Fritz the Cat might almost be NYC slice-of-life except he's a cat, but still probably not what you want.

Wait but is this what you mean? Heavy Metal stories take place in fantasy settings but are definitely not for children, not Disney/Pixary. I think part of the idea behind it was animated story versions of 1970's heavy metal album covers.
02-20-2017 , 05:12 AM
ya I'm just looking for films like a scanner darkly or spirited away etc just cool adult animated films.

doesn't have to fit some super specific criteria.
02-20-2017 , 05:53 AM
Triplets of Belleville
Animal Farm
Most of studio Gibli


Beavis and Butthead Do America...
02-20-2017 , 05:56 AM
There was also a cool short animated movie that was a prequel or maybe direct sequel to Pitch Black.

Some nice Riddick action.
02-20-2017 , 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by diebitter
Triplets of Belleville
Animal Farm
Most of studio Gibli


Beavis and Butthead Do America...

ya beavis n butthead and south park bigger longer uncut are both ****ing awesome.
02-20-2017 , 07:59 AM
Haven't seen Triplets of Belleville for a while but really liked it. It is certainly ... unusual.
02-20-2017 , 10:38 AM
I'd rank the first Toy Story #1, IMO it is the best Pixar film story-wise and it changed the face of animated movies. Hilarious, touching, suspenseful. Had something for everyone regardless of age/gender.

Opening sequence of Up is fantastic and is probably the saddest sequence I've seen in an animated film. Rest of the movie is pretty good but not quite on par with the opening sequence.
02-20-2017 , 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by riverboatking
ya I'm just looking for films like a scanner darkly or spirited away etc just cool adult animated films.

doesn't have to fit some super specific criteria.
Lots of anime ones fit the bill here. Akira and Ghost in the Shell being the two most famous I can think of.
02-20-2017 , 12:01 PM
Wolf Children is an excellent Studio Ghibli film that's not made by Studio Ghibli. About a mother and her two kids whose father was a werewolf (a nice one, not a rabid man-eating one, meaning the kids are also werewolves. Quite a moving movie about the difficulty of being a single mother, growing up, and coming to terms with conflicting identities.


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02-20-2017 , 12:40 PM
I Am Not Your Negro

Cool footage from the 60s: check.

Not as bad as I thought it would be: check.

Doris Day: Not sure what she's doing in there.

Point of view: Unknown.

(Most documentaries are selling something. Nothing wrong with that, it's the art of the sale that makes them interesting. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what this flick was selling.)

But Baldwin came across better than I remembered him at the time.

Check it out.
02-20-2017 , 01:09 PM
For anime, Grave of the Fireflies. Tears your heart out.
02-20-2017 , 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by riverboatking
ya I'm just looking for films like a scanner darkly or spirited away etc just cool adult animated films.

doesn't have to fit some super specific criteria.
May be hard to find, bur there was a recent re-release:

Belladonna of Sadness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belladonna_of_Sadness
02-20-2017 , 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by riverboatking
ya I'm just looking for films like a scanner darkly or spirited away etc just cool adult animated films.

doesn't have to fit some super specific criteria.
Animatrix http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328832/ is a pretty good collection of shorts charting the backstory to The Matrix trilogy.
02-20-2017 , 08:38 PM
So I'm watching Now You Can See Me 2 while grading papers because I was wondering if it could be as bad as the first one.

Holy cow, it's worse. Completely nonsensical. Does anyone read these scripts anymore?

There's a scene in a secure computer room where 4 of our heroes are trying to hide a playing-card size thingamajig from the people searching them, and they fling it about the room at each other, hiding it like a card trick, back and forth, and so on. For almost ten minutes. The filmmakers must think this is their Mission Impossible-break-into-the-CIA scene, I guess.

Well, it's not. It sucks. Just like this movies.
02-20-2017 , 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Dominic
So I'm watching Now You Can See Me 2 while grading papers because I was wondering if it could be as bad as the first one.

Holy cow, it's worse. Completely nonsensical. Does anyone read these scripts anymore?

There's a scene in a secure computer room where 4 of our heroes are trying to hide a playing-card size thingamajig from the people searching them, and they fling it about the room at each other, hiding it like a card trick, back and forth, and so on. For almost ten minutes. The filmmakers must think this is their Mission Impossible-break-into-the-CIA scene, I guess.

Well, it's not. It sucks. Just like this movies.
I hated everything about this movie. The sad thing is, that card flicking scene is far from the worst scene in that movie. Everything about it was infuriating. I hated the first one, but I REALLY hated this one. Why did I watch it? I don't really have a good answer for that to be honest
02-20-2017 , 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by rbenuck4
I hated everything about this movie. The sad thing is, that card flicking scene is far from the worst scene in that movie. Everything about it was infuriating. I hated the first one, but I REALLY hated this one. Why did I watch it? I don't really have a good answer for that to be honest
It literally didn't make a lick of sense
02-21-2017 , 01:07 AM
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Originally Posted by MSchu18
Make sure to see Kimi no Na wa when it finally makes its theatrical release here in the States, hopefully sometime in April.

Its the only animated movie to out gross spirited away in Japan.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/your_name_2016/
02-21-2017 , 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by diebitter
There was also a cool short animated movie that was a prequel or maybe direct sequel to Pitch Black.

Some nice Riddick action.
Ah yea that was by the Aeon Flux guy, Peter Chung. He also did an Animatrix short, Matriculated I think.
02-21-2017 , 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by revots33
Opening sequence of Up is fantastic and is probably the saddest sequence I've seen in an animated film. Rest of the movie is pretty good but not quite on par with the opening sequence.
I was going to post pretty much this. Without the first ten minutes "Up" is an average Pixar movie (not bad, not great, definitely watchable), but that opening is 11/10 and I'm sure what most of the praise is directed at.
02-21-2017 , 04:30 PM
Caught a little of The Prisoner of Zenda on TCM earlier, the 1937 version with Ronald Colman. Those cats really knew how to buckle that swash.

      
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