as long as you don't disrespect the jimmy neutron game



classic asmr

Didn't even know it was a thing tbh. Kind of feel mad it stole my thunder. Need more N'SYNC to make it feel right.

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show me the mummy

that little kid that did that jimmy neutron video is still making videos except now he just sounds like creepy internet guy.

I last watced ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOO'S NEST (1975) on VHS :)

Low budget weirdness. An odd combination of blaxploitation, social commentary, sci-fi, horror, and humor. Cross a blaxploitation flick with a John Waters flick and this would likely be the result.

The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan also with Pierce Brosnan. It's a mix of Taken, Patriot Games, and Rambo.

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Is it any good ?

A gritty reboot of Jackie Chan sounds interesting but also possibly cringey af.

Exactly. I'm a fan of Jackie, have been for a long time, but he's not a "serious drama" star, and this movie looks like it's treating itself a bit too seriously..
That's why I'm asking.

Even if the movie is terrible I'm still curious to see him do some more brutal fight scenes than he's probably ever done, even if he is way past his prime. Goofy or not the man could probably still break my spine in five places before I hit the ground.

I watched Blade Runner after an argument with a friend that went something like this:

Friend: You should watch Blade Runner 2049.
Me: Okay, that's cool, but I haven't seen the first one yet.
Friend: Don't bother, you don't need to see it to understand the new one.
Me: Why, did you hate the first one or something?
Her: I couldn't get into it and turned it off. It was really slow and old looking.
Me: Some old movies are amazing, though. Like Back to the Future.
Her: I never even finished Back to the Future. I thought it was just bad costumes and incest.

And then I ended the conversation because I wished to remain friends, then semi-spitefully turned around and watched Blade Runner anyways (you can't tell me not to watch something YOU HAVEN'T SEEN), which was a stunningly-directed film. I mean, I already know I like Ridley Scott, but Blade Runner was next-level beautiful film.

I'm still sour about her trashing Back to the Future. I mean, I definitely lean modern when it comes to my interests in media*, but she trashed both films without even finishing them.

* **** you if you think there's something wrong with preferring to see how people refine and combine techniques to sucking the dicks of the people who invented them. Yeah, Rear Window was inventive and Hitchcock did a LOT with a single room, but the story was slow and the characters were annoying nosy little busybodies. I grew up in a different cultural time period, so there will be times I can't connect to the kinds of characters and stories that were culturally relevant 50 years ago. Doesn't mean my opinion has no value or relevance.

If she doesn't like films with incest and bad costumes then she's missing out on a lot.

Also JUST started Aliens and I just want to say I ****ing hate James Cameron. This has NONE of the feeling of Alien. This is supposed to be as good as the first one? It's so melodramatic and spiritless. **** James Cameron, seriously.

EDIT: His use of fading scene transitions makes me want to vomit.

I'm making my bf watch Dogtooth because he hasn't seen it in exchange for Gummo which I still haven't seen.

I think it's overrated too tbh, but it's still a hella fun action movie, though Cameron did a better job with Terminator 2. Just don't watch Aliens like Alien. At least it did what more sequels should do rather than try to clone the original.

I really hate James Cameron. This is not going well so far. This is not what I wanted after loving Alien and Blade Runner hahahaha.

EDIT: I don't know how he manages to make even giant set pieces look like they're made out of play dough but by god he's done it

EDIT: Honestly this is the worst

Each of the 4 Aliens movies had a very different feel to it. Aliens was the action movie. You might not like it, sure, but the fact that it doesn't have the feeling of Alien is not a bug, it's a feature, so to say.
Personally I love Aliens, or Alien 2 as the movie is called here. One of my favorite movies of all time.

I definitely like the first one a lot better, but I still think Aliens is a good movie in it's own right. The first one is horror, and is remarkably grounded with how convincingly realistic the characters are. Every time I re-watch it, I'm impressed with how timeless it seems, how good it looks, how great the actors are at bringing their characters to life.

The sequel is an over the top action movie with smartass dialogue and explosions. For what it is, I consider it a classic. The only flaw of the movie that matters to me is how it drags a tiny bit in the end, since it has like three major action set pieces in the last 30 minutes. All super hero and action movies do that now, of course.

Just gonna assume that English plural conventions aren't appreciated in Poland?

Polish translators are a special bunch. They couldn't care less, as it seems. The best example of this is the movie Die Hard, which came out as "Szklana Pułapka", which translates to "The Glass trap". It made some sense in the 1st movie, but only then. This
But that particular can of worms deserves a separate thread. If you want some more idiocy and bizzarro crap, see this: Polish movie posters.
I don't think anyone would guess what the artist was smoking, but I think he should stop. This is the Alien poster as it was promoting the movie. Back then importing actual posters was virtually impossible, banned as "capitalist propaganda", so they came up with.. well, you be the judge ;)
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All of those are amazing. I like how C3PO with the bottomless, black pits for eyes somehow comes across as a Lovecraftian horror.

https://i.imgur.com/iPiZSiy.jpg

They span like 50 years and were made by various artists, so they're rather uneven.. Many acclaimed artists created these, often as a middle finger to the censor. Sometimes not. You can read up on it a bit, if you want.

Wow many of these posters are pretty great, much better than what most of the films depicted deserve.

I saw Rear Window for the first time not that long ago and thought it was great. But I do agree with you about people trashing movies they didn't finish watching.

Don't undersell them, old Polish movie posters are amazing. So many are really unique and creative. I used to have the Sunset Boulevard one as my avatar here.

I saw that in the article and lol'd.

We watched the Mummy last night, just for ****s. This is one of those "it's so bad it's good" films. It's campy and it's cheesy, but it's also self-aware enough to get away with it. E.g., Brendan Fraser's response to literally every situation is to shoot a gun at it. The film doesn't take itself seriously at all. And honestly, the characters and the plot are sound, even if they are silly.

I feel like Hollywood has kind of forgotten how to make action-adventure comedies like the Mummy and Indiana Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean is the last one I can think of, and they're still making them but the franchise has gone on far too long. I guess Guardians of the Galaxy counts too). Hollywood lost its sense of humour and has produces dozens and dozens of flops as a result.

They also forgot how to make horrendously awful and fun disaster action movies. When was the last time any of them reached the heights of Independence Day and Armageddon? And that's a hell of coincidence, as I just watched The Mummy a few days ago. Evie has the best hair. Would marry.

Classic film noir featuring Burt Lancaster in his debut as a movie actor. Hit men, robbery, femme fatale, double-cross, an insurance investigator obsessed with discovering the truth behind a case. Told in a series of interviews and flashbacks, leading up to the final revelation.

Going on a 90s Oscar winner (movie, actor, or actress) binge. Today was Fargo and Philadelphia.

Both such great films. Fargo has actually aged just a tiny bit. Still classic Coen Bros. Anyone who thinks the accents are overblown just needs to watch a couple of episodes of Making a Murderer.

After Jonathan Demme did Silence of the Lambs he caught a lot of criticisim because of the portrayal of the homosexual character in the film (a lot of people didn't know that he was just following Harris' novel). This was the era when AIDS had hit mainstream media, and lots of folks painted it as a "queer" disease associated only with deviants. Buffalo Bill reinforced that predudice.

Demme's response? Philadelphia. The first major Hollywood motion picture to deal directly with AIDs. Years after its release some say that it did more than anything else to humanize the disease and eliminate a lot of the stereotypes. Really beautiful film with some amazing acting, especially by the two leads. Impossible not to tear up during the final scene backed with Neil Young's Philadelphia.

I like both movies, but Philadelphia has aged way, way, way more noticeably than Fargo.

Oh, agreed. I just thought that Fargo would never show signs of it.

Fargo and The Shining are movies that I could throw on any time of the day. What about it do you think is dated? I don't exactly disagree, just curious.

Hard to describe. Not dated in a calendar sense. More-so in a Coen bros sense. They just keep getting better and better. With stuff like Fargo, Raising Arizona, and The Big Lebowski, it's pretty easy to see their fingerprints.

Fast forward to No Country and True Grit. They've refined their work to the point that it's hard to quickly identify them - which I think is a good thing.

I also could watch Fargo once a week for life.

Underselling wasn't the plan, it's just... well, this:
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lol

oh ****, Killing of a Sacred Deer is out.

@Frownland @Exo @anyone who i've seen talking about Yorgos Lanthimos films

you better go see it.

The Hateful Eight.

Tarantino doing what Tarantino does best. Only this time it's a period piece.

Old stalwarts Samuel L. Jackson and Tim Roth are on board along with a bunch of Tarantino first timers (as far as I know)

Tons of overacting by all involved - in classic Tarantino fashion - but the standout for me was Jennifer Jason Leigh.

She doesn't have many lines for the first 3/4ths of the film but each one is priceless. And her facial expressions and reactionary mannerisms are pure gold.

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Is it just me, or did it really feel like Tim Roth was trying to be Christoph Waltz the entire film?