Die Another Day is the second best Brosnan Bond outing.
Quoting Neclord (view post)
Boiler Room > The Wolf of Wall Street
^ Ahahahahahaha. That is some hilarious MST3K worthy nonsense. Brosnan's acting throughout the entire sequence is somewhere between 'slight indigestion' and 'have to take a bad shit'.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
That was my way of saying "hell no". Tomorrow Never Dies is the 2nd best Bronson Bond because a)Wai Lin b) this bike chance and c) they literally drop through the roof of two people having sex before Bond casually drops a "pop the clutch" line.
After watching the Patrick Willems video about music biopics, it came back to my mind that if there could be someone who could be the subject a pretty kickass biopic, it'd be The Gun Club's Jeffrey Lee Pierce. He wrote some great music and innovated the field (specially creating the groundwork for Cowpunk and Alt Country), but unlike many musicians Willems mentions like Ray Charles, Freddie Mercury or Johnny Cash, he didn't have the money, fame or mainstream success they had to offset/redeem his antics (and boy, did he had those) which would already subvert a good chunk of biopics: this wouldn't be a story of success, this could be the hard hitting tragedy of a man who lived hard, made quality music... and drove away multiple friends, lovers and bandmates just to end up with cirrhosis, AIDS and an untimely death, kind of like a compressed season arc of BoJack Horseman. And even some of the music reflects that, beginning with a no holds barren, fast-paced attack in Fire of Love and finishing with the introspective, sad and angry Lucky Jim.
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Anyway, if you could make a music biopic, who would you do and how would you approach it?
I have no ideas myself but I doubt anything can top The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach.Quoting Philip J. Fry (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Never seen it, I'll look it up.Quoting baby doll (view post)
The only thing I remember about The World is Not Enough is the cool Garbage music video.
Then we can resume our discussion on slow cinema, and the value of movies that look and sound like shit.Quoting Philip J. Fry (view post)
People are ignoring this because it's bullshit buddy. I wonder how many folks genuinely feel this hurts the movie or are just blurting this out in an attempt to achieve faux superiority in a "haha I noticed this and you didn't therefore I'm smarter" kinda way?Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Every scene is great in this movie and it maintains its intensity all the way until the end. But worst of all, your, well, attack, seems to imply "deus ex machinas" are inherently wrong. That's rubbish Dukey boy, because Raiders of the Lost Ark doesn't cheat, doesn't betray everything they've built up before the opening of the ark. Its dark powers are in fact suggested very early in the movie, a theme which reoccurs at several intervals, no less by the sinister humming sound which makes even the rats scurry away.
You might have had more of a point if the movie went out of its way to suggest the contents of the ark were skittles, oreo cookies and rainbows, only for the finale to bring entirely unexpected pandemonium.
No, Raiders of the Lost ark is a good example of Deus Ex Machina. Your opinion is objectively wrong.
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IMO what hurts Raiders is the silly ending. How the hell did he know that keeping eyes closed would save them? WHY does it save them? Very weird and convenient.
I'd respond with a serious retort, but your post is so condescending it hurts you and transcends me.Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
At first glance, I thought you were talking about the MC poster, not the movie. Very confused there for a sec.Quoting Skitch (view post)
Did you really just respond with a fancier version of "I'm rubber and you're glue ..." ?Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
That's called monotony.Quoting Morris Schæffer (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Nope, that's not what that's called. Try crescendo.Quoting baby doll (view post)
Admittedly my memories of the film are a bit hazy, not having seen it since 2004, but my impression of the film is that it consists of one spectacular action sequence after another, all of them extremely well executed but yielding progressively diminishing returns over two hours.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
That's definitely not what crescendo means.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
*cough cough*Quoting baby doll (view post)
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What? Crescendo is a term for a particular type of musical composition. I'm just making the association with film.Quoting PURPLE (view post)
"maintains its intensity all the way until the end" describes something that is consistent and not changing. A crescendo starts less intense and peaks at the crescendo - it's not consistent. In film we might call it a "climax". In sex we might call it a "climax". During sex, you can't climax the whole time, otherwise it's not a climax. This is the same with a crescendo - you can't "maintain a crescendo all the way until the end" - it's not a crescendo.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
No. World's Not Enough is.Quoting Neclord (view post)
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