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Movies You've Seen Recently III: The Third Chapter

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Dead Man's Shoes: Wow, what a bleak little film it is. It's not perfect, some of the characters are cartoons, and some of the actors are a bit over the top, but Paddy Consadine and Toby Kebbell are both fantastic. Considering it was shot in 3 weeks it is an amazing film.

And no, the shoes are not mine.
 
Paddy is great.

In Bruges. Fucking outstanding film. Farrell is a gifted lad.

And Clemence Poesy is every woman I have ever loved.
 
Watched Swingers for the first time and absolutely loved it. It was so money. These independent films of the 90s had such great fucking dialog.
 
Meliorism said:
The Palm Beach Story and Sullivan's Travels are the only other two I've seen. Feel like swoon and possibly a few others know their Sturges.
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I thought they did, so I was expecting more responses! Since you and Kilgore rec'd three of his first five films anyway and I have every film of his available, I might as well just watch them in order.
 
harSon said:
Watched Swingers for the first time and absolutely loved it. It was so money. These independent films of the 90s had such great fucking dialog.
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They sure do. It's funny: Favreau broke out with Swingers and August scripted the wonderful (so I hear) film Go. Both movies are rather timely, but they've got timeless conflicts within 'em. I've only seen the former, which I ought to rectify.
 
I was impressed with Arbitrage as a whole but Gere really carried that film like a boss (pun may or may not be intended). He plays a fairly awful individual but humanizes him in a way that makes you empathize, and even root for him at times.

Also, Richard Gere looks much better at 63 than I do at 31... the fuck?
 
My first post in this thread!

I recently saw Django, Dredd, Expendables 2, Seven Psychopaths and Hotel Transylvania.

Django: Possibly my favorite QT movie up until the third act. Third act felt forced
Really? I get what quentin was going for, but what happened didn't seem enough to make Schultz lose his cool like he did.Kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

Dredd: What a really fun, gory ride this was! Karl Urban rode that bad ass/cheese line with absolute aplomb. Plenty of great moments. Screw the haters who say it was just like the Raid. I think I preferred the pacing of Dredd.

Expendables 2: Very fun! This was what I was hoping the first film to be. I loved how over the top it was. Willis and Schwarzanegger (him especially) seemed kind of out of place though. As cool as Norris was, I was glad that
He was a glorified cameo

Seven Psychopaths- I greatly enjoyed In Bruges and am a big fan of Martin Mcdonough. Psychopaths was pitch black comedy but actually very funny. Walken was great as always, but the real stars of the show were Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson. Colin Farrel was the straight man, he did ok. His character was better in In Bruges. Highly reccomend this movie though.
The imaginary shootout that Rockwell comes up with is amazing and hilarious

Hotel Transylvania- Cute kids movie. Pretty harmless. It has a few good laughs in it. The animation from Tartovsky is fun to look at. In a way it kind of reminded me of the old Looney Tunes with that big red monster.
 
Pojo_King said:
Dredd: What a really fun, gory ride this was! Karl Urban rode that bad ass/cheese line with absolute aplomb. Plenty of great moments. Screw the haters who say it was just like the Raid. I think I preferred the pacing of Dredd.
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I don't think I've seen anybody say this. Mostly people are just upset Dredd flopped financially. Aside from being R-rated action movies they are very different.
 
t-ramp said:
I don't think I've seen anybody say this. Mostly people are just upset Dredd flopped financially. Aside from being R-rated action movies they are very different.
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Oh it wasn't on here. I've heard it elsewhere though. They do have a similar central plot mechanic though, you can't deny that.
 
Okay so the dude that usually does the best of the year thread said he doesn't want to do it. So whomever wants to put it up can do it. If you need a template to copy just use last years.
 
TheKaeptain said:
Okay so the dude that usually does the best of the year thread said he doesn't want to do it. So whomever wants to put it up can do it. If you need a template to copy just use last years.
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I think the idea of posting a fake voting results thread and having people freak out over it is best
 
strafer said:
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
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Pojo_King said:
Oh it wasn't on here. I've heard it elsewhere though. They do have a similar central plot mechanic though, you can't deny that.
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Yeah, kind of a dumb post, the plot definitely is similar.

I really haven't watched any movies lately. Not for lack of films to watch, just bad time budgeting.
 
Letterboxd is no longer in Beta. There are now three different user plans: Regular for free, Pro for $19 (adds unlimited listing (list limits non-applicable to Beta users), a personalized Year in Review, and CSV importing), and Patron for $49 (name recognition, first-come-first-serve on all site upgrades, plus all Pro stuff). They're annual payments, but Beta users get to keep every function they had before the jump.
 
Dragoon En Regalia said:
Letterboxd is no longer in Beta. There are now three different user plans: Regular for free, Pro for $19 (adds unlimited listing (list limits non-applicable to Beta users), a personalized Year in Review, and CSV importing), and Patron for $49 (name recognition, first-come-first-serve on all site upgrades, plus all Pro stuff). They're annual payments, but Beta users get to keep every function they had before the jump.
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lol, like anyone is gonna pay.
 
Yeah, I'm a bit occupied right now myself.

I'll wait and see if I'll pay for more site options. The upgrades look sparse at the moment, and I don't have any of my own money.
 
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What a great documentary. I wasn't expecting it to be funny but then again I didn't know what to expect.

It follows an alcoholic amateur filmmaker who still lives with his parents in Milwaukee, WI.

Some great quotes as well:

I was called to the bathroom at the cemetery to take care of something. I walked in the bathroom, and in the middle toilet right there... somebody didn't shit in the toilet, somebody shat on the toilet. They shat on the wall, they shat on the floor. I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for about 10 to 15 seconds man, I just stared at somebody's shit, man. To be totally honest with you, man, it was a really, really profound moment. Cuz I was thinkin', "I'm 30 years old, and in about 10 seconds I gotta start cleaning up somebody's shit, man."
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Seen Coven after I watched that documentary, He sure has the passion, I dont think he has the skills. From the looks of it he hasnt finished anything else, probably due to funding issues.
 
t-ramp said:
Not sure. Don't have to worry about that for a while, though. There's probably some kind of script you could set up, maybe...

Feel free to make the thread if you want.
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Ok, if it's fine with you.

TheKaeptain, do you know if there's some sort of toolthat could help, or is it a just manual count? I do have lots of free time now, but I'm a bit lazy :P

Of course there's still lots of time to think of that.
 
big ander said:
I thought they did, so I was expecting more responses! Since you and Kilgore rec'd three of his first five films anyway and I have every film of his available, I might as well just watch them in order.
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I've seen nearly everything of his and can say that the only one to skip is the Great Moment. It's a rare straight-laced drama for Sturges, and is simply a bland and badly made movie.

My favorite is probably Christmas In July, which is as funny as it is feel-good.
 
Cosmic Bus said:
I've seen nearly everything of his and can say that the only one to skip is the Great Moment. It's a rare straight-laced drama for Sturges, and is simply a bland and badly made movie.

My favorite is probably Christmas In July, which is as funny as it is feel-good.
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Cool. Will keep that one low on the priorities list then.
 
Mostly pulling from letterboxd:
Alps - **** For the first two thirds of Alps I was asking myself what I think was the correct question: why? Why are these four people doing this? What does playing these roles mean to them? And at some point late in the film it clicked:
it's everything to them.
I don't know that it needed to take that long for that to become apparent. Parts of the film seem connected but nonessential. I dunno.
I'd heard there was a ton of thematic overlap with Dogtooth and while I thought there was some, Alps definitely carves out its own path. Or maybe I've forgotten Dogtooth. Anyway, very unsettling portrayal of how one can become psychotically addicted to performance. Some disorienting and fuzzy images, Papoulia and Labed are excellent, and Lanthimos provides several moments of gut-punch payoff after sequences of quiet and steady unease.
That club turned red alright.
Already feel the film improving in my head as I break it down. Dogtooth only got better over the weeks after I viewed it, so I'm expecting that to happen here.

The Do-Deca-Pentathlon - **1/2 acting's good, kinda hammers the same note over and over though. Everyone's crazy, be true to your psychoses, so on. And the resolution comes too quickly. I think I liked it more than Jeff, Who Lives At Home at least. Much better portrayal of brotherly rivalry. Still has that same awful camera work though.
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What a good solid movie the some good acting
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referral denied. if you really need to post a movie poster instead of the title rehost to imgur or minus or anywhere that works
 
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