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Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

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Braveheart does not hold up well. The battle scenes look like a school play and the complete BS of the history and facts become more apparent.

Casino was never able to recreate the Goodfellas magic to me.

Reservoir Dogs > Pulp Fiction.
 
unofan said:
Shawshank, Raiders, and Gladiator all hold up well, too.
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I haven't watched Gladiator since it dropped on DVD. I own it. Thought it was great, never rewatched it. I may have to find it on streaming.


Side note, I have the theater poster, double sided, for it safely rolled up. When I was at C2E2 this past spring I saw they were asking $150 for the poster. Online poster stores were selling it for $100+. I still don't know why that poster is so rare.
 
French Rage said:
Braveheart does not hold up well. The battle scenes look like a school play and the complete BS of the history and facts become more apparent.

Casino was never able to recreate the Goodfellas magic to me.

Reservoir Dogs > Pulp Fiction.
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Yeah the internet ruined that film and The Dark Knight Rises because nerds would do closeups of the background fighting and you could see how awful it was. Talk about doing the bare minimum to make it look like something is going on!

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mookie watched Bulworth again today (streaming hbo). Why doesn’t this make cnn or some channel the Sunday night before Election Day?? :-/
 
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My dad asked me to take him to see Napoleon...wow was that bad. I mean...yikes.
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There are a bunch of historian reaction videos to Napolean on YouTube that are funny.

Apparently it is utter twaddle.

Can we finally stop calling Ridley Scott a "genius"? Blade Runner was 41 years ago.

Then again, the nattering nabobs at National Review threw a tirade about it, so it can't be entirely without merit.

I will say, though, if you have never, please see the uncut (5:30) Abel Gance Napolean in a theater once before you die. It's not a movie, it's an act or worship. It's an all-consuming event, like a Latin mass, but it's worth spending a day doing, like a ski trip or a day long hike. Your life will be better for having done it. Just, no movie will genuinely impress you ever again. It's like Wagner. It will not compromise with you, you have to meet it on its turf, and because you haven't ever used those muscles you will be uncomfortable. I won't even call it entirely "enjoyable." Like marriage, or being a dedicated sports fan, or reading a great novel, it's fulfilling, but it's the opposite of fun. Nice is different than good.
 
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I will say the movie is shot well and looks great...but I mean unless you know the story completely this tells you next to nothing. Its 2.5 hours long and tells you less about that period of French History than a 6th grade textbook would. But hey, we get to see him have sex with his bored wife a lot and make hand signals for cannon fire.
 
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I will say the movie is shot well and looks great...but I mean unless you know the story completely this tells you next to nothing. Its 2.5 hours long and tells you less about that period of French History than a 6th grade textbook would. But hey, we get to see him have sex with his bored wife a lot and make hand signals for cannon fire.
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Apparently he squeaks the "I found the crown in the gutter" line the way Michael Keaton squeaked "I'm Batman."

It took Tolstoy 1000 pages to describe one battle (and a few tea parties).
 
Maestro. I found the production to be fabulous but imho they completely undersold the genius and character that Bernstein was. Beyound that it's also depressing to think that the general public will likely never be aware of a modern day Bernstein, in fact I wonder if it's even possible for another like him to ever come around again.
 
I dropped a reference to "dogs and cats living together" on a work skype chat and none of 19 people recognized it. Millenials are terrible.
 
Slap Shot said:
Maestro. I found the production to be fabulous but imho they completely undersold the genius and character that Bernstein was. Beyound that it's also depressing to think that the general public will likely never be aware of a modern day Bernstein, in fact I wonder if it's even possible for another like him to ever come around again.
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Depends on what you mean by the general public.

If you mean the actual median American, no, of course not, they have the artistic and cultural capacity of a not particularly bright racoon. But if you mean the lower reaches of the population that actually can be reached, say, the top third of the population -- and that's 100 million people in the US, hardly an elite -- then I think the movie may reintroduce him to the status he had as a "public cultural figure" when he was active. Somebody like say Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jurgen Habermas, or Richard Posner is now.

Movie are a great way to widely transmit this kind of culture. I had never heard of John Nash before I saw A Beautiful Mind, and now I've read some of his work and been enriched by it. Hollywood is infantilizing garbage 99% of the time... but not 100%.

Think of how many people know Tolkien now, but never would have otherwise, because of Peter As-shat Jackson. He done good, despite his overdetermining limitations.
 
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This is why workplace shootings happen...
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I got written up when I first started this job because somebody in a meeting said "Hey Joe" and without thinking I responded " where you going with that gun in your hand?" And the SPO who reamed me out said "well, I've never heard that song, and anyway it must be a really sick song with that lyric so that just makes it worse."

I forget sometimes that Young World, although extremely pretty, is historically and culturally impoverished. It's like a kid in a bathtub that thinks he's seen all the oceans of the world and is ready to pass judgment on them.
 
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I got written up when I first started this job because somebody in a meeting said "Hey Joe" and without thinking I responded " where you going with that gun in your hand?" And the SPO who reamed me out said "well, I've never heard that song, and anyway it must be a really sick song with that lyric so that just makes it worse."

I forget sometimes that Young World, although extremely pretty, is historically and culturally impoverished. It's like a kid in a bathtub that thinks he's seen all the oceans of the world and is ready to pass judgment on them.
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Yeah, I’ll likely be in trouble in a few short years. I am technically a millennial, but one who’s boomer father did a fantastic job of showing great movies and music from before my time. At times I get the blank stares from people a couple years older than I am.
 
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Yeah, I’ll likely be in trouble in a few short years. I am technically a millennial, but one who’s boomer father did a fantastic job of showing great movies and music from before my time. At times I get the blank stares from people a couple years older than I am.
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I was saved* from the Idiocy of Youth because my hometown had an art cinema I could walk to that let you in free if you were in high school. The hippie who ran it specifically had in mind spreading knowledge of old film to younger people. So by the time I was 17 I had seen pretty much the entire Criterion Collection, in a first class theater, for free.

And getting a handy during Touch of Evil really deepens the experience. Talk about a single shot opening.

* Clearly, I did not escape other idiocies.
 
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