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    Those are all popular opinions. Get with the program.
    Right-o! How's this?

    Tilda Swinton is a mediocre actress who hides behind superficial character work (elaborate costumes, make-up, prosthetics).

    She's the new Johnny Depp.

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    So basically Match-cut in general? Or the Corrie? Oh yey.
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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    Right-o! How's this?

    Tilda Swinton is a mediocre actress who hides behind superficial character work (elaborate costumes, make-up, prosthetics).

    She's the new Johnny Depp.
    Interesting! Care to elaborate on her filmography?

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    So my Hot Rod claim was not all that unpopular after all. So let's go with:

    1. Batman Returns > Batman > The Dark Knight Rises > The Dark Knight > Batman Forever > Batman Begins > Batman and Robin

    2. The Emperor's New Groove > Hercules > Beauty and the Beast > The Little Mermaid > The Lion King

    3. This is the End > every Marvel movie ever made
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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
    1. Batman Returns > Batman > The Dark Knight Rises
    Only question here, when was last time you watched these? Only ask because my opinion on them has changed violently with rewatches.

    [/B] 2. The Emperor's New Groove > Hercules >
    I know I like these two movies way more than other listed so.....

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    Only question here, when was last time you watched these? Only ask because my opinion on them has changed violently with rewatches.
    Batman Returns is the most recent rewatch of all of those and it rose in my estimation. I've only seen The Dark Knight Rises/Batman Forever/Batman & Robin once. Both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight dropped on second viewing. There won't be more.
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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    Interesting! Care to elaborate on her filmography?
    Look at any of the mainstream stuff she does. She almost never appears as a straight-up, workaday 58 year old woman. Instead, it's Tilda playing a kung-fu master, complete with bald cap; Tilda masquerading as an old man; Tilda as dystopic bureaucrat, sporting buck teeth and coke-bottle glasses; Tilda in a dual role as psychotic CEO and her sister. When she gets attached to a project, I try to imagine what sort of "look-at-me" kooky bullshit she'll get up to.

    The only time I've seen her an authentic human being is in "I am Love" and "We Need to Talk about Kevin." Mostly she's being playing human cartoons.

    Just like Depp.

    And also like him, I'm starting to wonder if she can act.

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    Maroon 5 dropped the ball this Super Bowl when they didn't sing I'm a Goofy Goober​.

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    Quote Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

    1. Batman Returns > Batman > The Dark Knight Rises > The Dark Knight > Batman Forever > Batman Begins > [B]Batman and Robin
    This isn't that unpopular of an opinion. letterboxd in particular seems to love Batman Returns, esp. now that its been canonized as an idiosyncratic Christmas movie ala Die Hard.
    Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:

    Top Gun: Maverick - 8
    Top Gun - 7
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
    Crimes of the Future - 8
    Videodrome - 9
    Valley Girl - 8
    Summer of '42 - 7
    In the Line of Fire - 8
    Passenger 57 - 7
    Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6



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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    Right-o! How's this?

    Tilda Swinton is a mediocre actress who hides behind superficial character work (elaborate costumes, make-up, prosthetics).

    She's the new Johnny Depp.
    Check her out in A Bigger Splash, which I think is her best performance. No prosthetics, and has to do most of her performance without a full voice.

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    I think Jim Varney was a hell of an actor who could've done more varied work, and the best of the Ernest movies contain a delightful bargain-basement surreal ambition.

    I will never resolve my feelings toward Kubrick's The Shining, which is an immaculately crafted suspense film, a disappointing adaptation of the novel that guts Wendy's character, and less likable as an artistic exercise now that I know how Kubrick basically terrorized his cast, especially Duvall, to get what he wanted. I can respect it distantly but find it exhausting to think about.
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    Quote Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
    I think Jim Varney was a hell of an actor who could've done more varied work, and the best of the Ernest movies contain a delightful bargain-basement surreal ambition.
    Can you expound on this? My knowledge of Varney begins and ends with soda commercials.

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    Quote Quoting Philip J. Fry (view post)
    Maroon 5 dropped the ball this Super Bowl when they didn't sing I'm a Goofy Goober​.
    Well, yeah.

    Batman Returns is ok. I don't get the love for it, at all.
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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    And also like him, I'm starting to wonder if she can act.
    Valid points.

    My first thought of her is always The Beach.

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    Tilda Swinton was very good in Michael Clayton without being super extravagant.

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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    Can you expound on this? My knowledge of Varney begins and ends with soda commercials.
    I grew up watching Varney in Ernest movies, so note biases accordingly, but he could successfully jump in and out of "characters" in his films. He also could project a childlike innocence / wounded quality at the drop of a hat, to the point where I never think it weird, even as an adult, that teens and kids will hang out with a grown-ass janitor for long stretches of time, which is a hard balance to achieve. In Ernest Goes to Jail, he pulls double-duty, playing his traditional goofy self while playing a murderous criminal who's a foil to the universe and constantly pointing out how stupid the lead Ernest character is, and the alter-ego plausible in its own context. I'm not saying he was the next Olivier, but he could hit notes that other actors couldn't hit and could've put those notes to some different kinds of "music" if he wanted to. But maybe he was happy to make what he was making.

    Also, in Goes to Jail and Scared Stupid, the filmmakers, within their limited means, made some interesting style choices, with Goes to Jail dressing up its jail in a bizarre neon-noir garish color scheme filmed at Dutch angles... whenever Ernest was in jail. And Scared Stupid managed some interesting shadow/light in its most "suspenseful" moments. (Skip to 2:15 for the troll backlit, the film making good use of depth of frame.)


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    I loved those movies so much. I think Scared Stupid actually scared me.

    And my favorite part of Goes to Jail was the escape scene.
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    I saw Scared Stupid in the theater, it definitely scared the shit out of me.

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    Quote Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
    I grew up watching Varney in Ernest movies, so note biases accordingly, but he could successfully jump in and out of "characters" in his films.
    Not gonna lie. This is a kooky opinion. But I liked how you backed it up with lots of detail. It made for a good read.

    PS: I know you have a horror blog & maybe "Ernest Goes to Jail" wouldn't fit there, but I hope you post these mini-essays somewhere on the broader indie web.

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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    Not gonna lie. This is a kooky opinion.
    Match Cut.

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    Match Cut.
    Heh!

    (I wonder how long before Skitch uses this thread as an excuse to start ranting about "E.T."? )

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    I have to revist the Ernest movies, but I recall liking most of them. The troll in Scared Stupid was really freaky.
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    The Golden Child is my favorite Eddie Murphy movie. He is hilarious in that one, and I love how goofy the whole movie is. Charles Dance turns into a demon for crying out loud.
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    2001: A Space Odyssey is boring.

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