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This has convinced me to not bother seeing it unless and until it's super convenient for me. (Meaning if they play it in my main theater in a couple months I'll see it, and if they don't, shrug.)

02-17-2018 , 04:58 AM

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Phat Mack

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Originally Posted by Eeyorefora

You must be part mouse,the cheese factor was pretty much at 11 in that film.

I like Tony Scott's stuff and I like Top Gun. He doesn't hide the fact that he's going over the top. Everybody should see Top Gun once. If Scott could have worked Drexl into the script, it would have been a masterpiece worth several viewings.

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Do have to admit, my gf loved to bone to Berlin after seeing that film.

I confess to doing the same thing with the Sandy Lam version, but only because it reminds me of Maggie Cheung getting off that bus.

02-17-2018 , 09:48 AM

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Does the phantom thread feel like a Paul Thomas Anderson film? For some reason I just can't get motivated to see this movie... probably because of a combination of the accuracy or s and storyline.

02-17-2018 , 09:50 AM

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We need a dedicated film score and soundtrack thread...

02-17-2018 , 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by MSchu18

Does the phantom thread feel like a Paul Thomas Anderson film? For some reason I just can't get motivated to see this movie... probably because of a combination of the accuracy or s and storyline.

What?

Feels similar to There Will Be Blood in the sense that it's a period piece with DDL. It's less puzzling/obscure in terms of exactly what's going on and character motivations than TWBB or The Master (iirc), but it's not on a silver platter for you.

It's beautiful and draws you into this wealthy old British world, not just with landscapes and sets but down to things like food and sound effects and the performances.

It has a sense of humor.

Storyline and PTA and DDL were all fairly unappealing for me (or at best neutral) going in but I still liked it a lot.

02-17-2018 , 10:37 PM

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Spell check is my enemy... it always messes me up.

I'm just not convinced by DDL... there has always been something in his performances that puts me off. It's probably more akin to over-acting than subtly and finesse that does it, but I still understand the allure of the masses to him by his larger than life bombastic approach.

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02-17-2018 , 10:38 PM

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Please tell me someone else is watching for whom the bell tolls on tmc besides me.

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02-18-2018 , 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by MSchu18

I agree with you (in some sense) about DDL, am no stan of his, and was mildly irritated at times with that during the film, but I still liked it.

02-18-2018 , 09:33 AM

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02-18-2018 , 12:16 PM

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Bad guy wants to destroy world. Special effects, bang boom, and the good guy wins.

There I just saw it.

Just got out of the theater. You are quite wrong.

02-18-2018 , 12:47 PM

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Just got out of the theater. You are quite wrong.

The Clovis flowchart to watching movies...

Is there a big "end battle"

Yes: skip movie

End of flow chart.

02-18-2018 , 01:08 PM

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Phantom Thread was really good. Soundtrack was great. Extremely beautiful setting and cinematography and costumes. Need some more time to digest, as it seems this movie gets better with more viewings. I was fully immersed in it's idiosyncratic little world. Alma and Cyril stole the show.

02-18-2018 , 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Clovis8

The Clovis flowchart to watching movies...

Is there a big "end battle"

Yes: skip movie

End of flow chart.

Works for me.

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02-18-2018 , 03:31 PM

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that's just reductive nonsense.

skip star wars, rocky, terminator, matrix, bourne. skip the lord of the rings, skip saving private ryan, skip heat. skip the silence of the lambs, skip jaws, and skip rounders while you're at it.

skip kurosawa, skip tsui hark, skip sergio leone. skip james cameron, skip sam peckinpah, skip john woo, and skip george miller too.

i could go on, but whatever floats your boat.

02-18-2018 , 03:44 PM

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Lol all but a couple of those don't have anything resembling an end battle.

Rounders? I assume you are taking about the HU game. You are being purposely obtuse.

02-18-2018 , 04:54 PM

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every movie i mentioned features a climactic confrontation between the "good guys" and the "bad guys." every one of them except the one in rounders is a physically violent confrontation. regardless, there are literally dozens if not hundreds of terrific movies that end with a physical battle of good guys vs bad guys, if that's the qualifier.

02-18-2018 , 07:16 PM

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yeah... formalism sucks.

BP was a horrible Comic, why would I ever want to go see a derivative movie based upon it.

Up the Page I asked if anyone was watching "For Whom the Bell Tolls"... it has an ending battle scene, but the movie spends nearly 3 hours laying the foundation for Hemingway's characters as they grow and love only to be torn from us in death in the final scene.

02-18-2018 , 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MSchu18

yeah... formalism sucks.

BP was a horrible Comic, why would I ever want to go see a derivative movie based upon it.

True dat, I tried to go into it as a kid cause Black Panther looked cool.

But it was comically bad, no pun intended.

So seeing a live action film based on it doesn't interest me in the slightest.

Sadly, if you say that, your racist now.

02-18-2018 , 08:20 PM

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This is a pretty Lolbad attempt at a troll if you are honestly equating the showdown in TGTBATU to the cgi-fest incomprehensible blur of monsters fighting at the end of every single superhero movie.

02-18-2018 , 11:45 PM

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Yeah yeah we get it. No film made after the year of our Lord 1392 is worth watching.

Now maybe quit crying troll when you make an overly broad statement and get called out on it?

02-18-2018 , 11:58 PM

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Yeah yeah we get it. No film made after the year of our Lord 1392 is worth watching.

Now maybe quit crying troll when you make an overly broad statement and get called out on it?

Lol. Lots of modern movies are great. I didn't bring up TGTBATU. He did.

I am not being broad. There is no such thing as a good movie that ends in a big boss battle. Period.

Superhero films are easily the nut low genre of film.

02-19-2018 , 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Clovis8

Superhero movies are for children. They're not bad. They're just children's movies.

But the bolded has to be wrong. The end of Blazing Saddles is a big battle. War of the Worlds. The Seven Samuri. Probably a bunch of war movies.

02-19-2018 , 12:24 AM

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What about the end of Unforgiven when Eastwood rides into town for a showdown with Little Bill?

02-19-2018 , 12:40 AM

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Jesus people this is not hard to differentiate. The ending of unforgiven and the end of the avengers are not the same thing.

02-19-2018 , 12:47 AM

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Phat Mack

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Battle scenes?
Yikes.

Wild Bunch, yes.
Inherent Vice, no.
Seven Samurai, yes.
My Neighbor Totoro, no.

What about Duck Soup? Does it begin with a battle or end with a battle? All Marx Brothers movies are mayhem -- does mayhem count as a battle?

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