Salt Lake City is a great city.
Salt Lake City is a great city.
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what's the point of an unpopular opinion if you can't attack it?
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
To make opposition work harder at their shade skills.what's the point of an unpopular opinion if you can't attack it?
To make us kinder to each other, dummy.what's the point of an unpopular opinion if you can't attack it?
Point, set, match
It’s his most understated performance, so there’s a good chance you’d like it.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
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The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Dragon Ball Z Abridged is better, MUCH better show than Dragon Ball Z in every conceivable way.
I don't have a big problem with it just being nom'd for BP either, but I don't think it deserved to be the first Superhero movie to recieve such an honor ahead of Spider-Man 2, The Dark Knight, or Logan, and I also think its nomination does indicate how much industry politics (in light of the continued decline in the ceremony's ratings, among other things) still factor into the process, unfortunately.
Michael Haneke is a boring, uninteresting director, and a pompous, pretentious speaker on film.
Lost Highway is David Lynch's best movie.
(With the exception I havent seen a few of his older films.)
Second best, but close enough.
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Well, sure (I disagree on Logan but take your point), but "deserve" and "Oscars" go together like alcohol and steering. My approach is to be happy when something good is nominated, and roll your eyes and say "Oscars" when all the rest happens. Oliver! won the same year that The Producers and 2001 failed to earn BP nominations.
What's your first?
Mulholland Drive, of course, the best film of the 2000s. Lost Highway is like a trial run for that film. []
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It’s been too long since the last time I watched Lost Higheay. I need to change that.
I would never argue against this. Mulholland would be my second. Only reason I give LH edge is it almost makes more sense. Plus I adore the circle that it is and the well balanced creepy factor. It's so damn creepy without quite spilling over to horror.
Also....the tailgating scene.
Titus is one of the best TV comedies ever made (and way ahead of it's time) and is an enormous shame it's been almost forgotten.
which ones haven't you seen?
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
Martin Scorsese's best film in the last 30 years is Hugo.
This one has been boiling inside me, but lately I've grown tired as Martin Scorsese as a director and a lot of his films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, and Wolf on Wall Street have aged poorly in time. Scorsese really does not like women all that much. It's telling that he hasn't made a female-centric movie since 1974. The glorification of toxic male behavior isn't as biting as most people think because even when these characters are at their lowest and most pathetic, they are still labeled as misunderstood or even smarter than the average character given their rouge-like charm. It's a shame, because I still like a lot of his movies and find him a wonderful filmmaker, but while everyone's drooling over the potential The Irishman with the reunion of DeNiro, Pacino, and Pesci, I just do not care and rather see him make another kids movie or pulpy genre film.
Sure why not?
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is the best Indy movie.
Oof.
*bites tongue*
Ha! To which post?
Sure why not?
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STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
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The only thing that saves it from being the worst is Crystal Skull.
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Both of them
I think you made a good argument about Scorsese. I kinda sighed and groaned over "The Irishman," too. One of the things I like about him as a filmmaker is his versatility. I can't think of too many people who could adroitly go from "Cape Fear" to "The Age of Innocence" to "Kundun," for example.
So the last thing I want him to do is another freakin' Italian gangster movie.
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