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Yeah. I'm sure they get recommendations every day on twitter. So, a handful of people asking for Rockula probably won't get through. I know Paul has talked about people sending DVDs for years to demand Rad. Is that what we have to do?

Yea who are the people in charge of picking movies? I know the 'movie rec' forum is a giant wasteland but maybe can you guys reward us, your faithful forum commenters, and do Rockula? Please? It's PERFECT. I need to hear Jason and June react to this

After seeing this, is there a way to force Paul to do Rockula for the show?

I'll be ready with Rockula whenever. I'll be binging on Prestige Awards Show-type films pretty soon, so I feel like I need something to balance out my viewing to truly appreciate that oeuvre, and what better counter-programming than THIS movie?

remember when this happened? No you don't because you all only think about yourselves! Anyway, it's fine now. I really thought I had done something bad for a second. p.s. There is not a single image on the internet that is under 20k except for possibly on hamsterdance.com. Can we update this forum's image capacity already?

I'm still pissed Jeff Bridges got the Oscar nomination over Ben Foster, who absolutely stole that movie with his performance.

That is an excellent trio of modern Westerns. Hell or High Water has stayed with me in a really profound way. One of my favorites of the last few years of any genre.

“Two Rode Together” isn’t a great movie, but it is an interesting companion/response to the Searchers. The focus is on the difficulty (and perhaps even the impossibility) of re-integration of captives back into white society, so it may satisfy people who feel Natalie Wood’s return is oversimplified. However, it’s an inherently pessimistic and unsatisfying film, anchored by Jimmy Stewart in one of his oft-overlooked unrepentant asshole roles. I think of it as one of Ford’s late “half-woke” films (Sergeant Rutledge, Cheynne Autumn) in which he is earnestly trying to take apart myths of the West from the perspectives of Native Americans and minorities, but he’s hamstrung by the conservatism of the studio system and the biases of the time as well as his own. The saddest example of this is how “Cheyenne Autumn” went from Ford’s original conception of a docu-realist narrative starring non-professional native actors to a bloated 60s Hollywood epic half-focused on white soldiers chasing the Cheyenne and half Sal Mineo and Ricardo Montalban in brownface. Anyway, I agree that The Searchers is good but underwhelming, particulary on first watch. It’s easy to get lost and frustrated in the meandering plot and miss the coherence of the themes and images, or fail to appreciate how easily the film switches from drama into action or suspense (and a little more abruptly in and out of comedy). It helps that since first watching this over a decade ago I’ve seen far more Ford films and become somewhat inoculated to his humor. One of the big problems with lists like the AFI is how they flatten genres and filmographies. It’s a pity that people write off Westerns or Ford or Wayne because this one overhyped classic doesn’t work for them (I did when I first saw this). It also makes films like this and High Noon seem especially unique, when really plenty of Westerns were similarly ambitious and complex. There’s as much complexity regarding different versions of masculinity in Stagecoach as there is in the Searchers (though admittedly, not much complexity with the treatment of Natives). There’s more darkness in Anthony Mann’s The Naked Spur or Boetticher’s Ride Lonesome. For better Ford, I’d highly recommend Fort Apache, which fictionalizes Custer and moves the action of Little Big Horn to Arizona, and is a much earlier, and in my opinion far sharper, take down of how Native Americans were mistreated and how the narrative around that was misshapen.

Absolutely! I watched it all in one go last night and enjoyed it. I bought the Blu-Ray (arriving Sunday) so I could listen to the commentaries and interviews.

John Ford actually made a spiritual sequel about captives "rescued" from Indians who didn't want to return to white civilization, "Two Rode Together". However, it was a failure and he regarded it as one of his worst movies. I would think that Stagecoach is the prototypical western, while The Searchers is an attempt to add some complexity to the genre. I agree that the originally scripted ending would have been significantly better than the one we got, where it's just "surprise, he doesn't kill her".

the stitcher homepage shows me the stupidest shit. i miss santa man

Damn son! That's a good episode!

Fuck joe hartzler and Fuck the doughboys for giving his misappropriated hate filled speech a platform. Creamed chipped BEEF. RIDE OR DIE.

Bosch on the pro version made bang rodgman look like a baby back bitch

So we're all gonna want to watch Jack Frost again? Or just go with Rockula? Haha

Ah shit you're right Cameron. I miscounted again and could've sworn if we started this Monday we would be back on track. We can blame this all on me since I forgot days were a thing during the Christmas break lol.

Really happy about #1, my favorite episode of the year with my favorite new character, MC Sugar Butt. I just wish the clip would have included my favorite moment of the year: Drink your milk, eat your vegetables Wear your silk...eat your legetables

“Art?” Why, yes, I think that’s a perfect way to describe it... And, yeah, I would hold off until we find out what tomorrow brings.

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Comic Sanz comma Horatio.

I think Robocop is deep enough with ideas that were only glossed over in the original that you could make a couple remakes while with their own basic stories. A movie about militarization or weaponizing police forces centered around a Robocop could be interesting. A movie about why Detroit and addressing the poor and the race breakdown would be interesting. But I don't think anyone remaking Robocop would want to make a movie with any depth even though the original is such a smart movie for a gory cyborg movie. I never saw the remake of Black Christmas, but I'm not sure how you'd expand the lore for something that's basically just a campfire tale.

It depends on the movie for the remake for me. Many of the horror remakes for the big series like Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or The Hills Have Eyes have been enjoyable for me as they show reverence to the source films while also adding to the lore, but then you have those blatant crash grabs at lesser known films like My Bloody Valentine, When a Stranger Calls, Black Xmas, and others that either just replaced what made the original good with a gimmick like 3d or just over the top gore for the sake of it, though in a case like Black Xmas, it did try to add onto the the lore of the original to make it a meatier film. Then you have a case where they want to rush to a remake like when they were talking about doing an American Psycho remake less than a decade after the original, or remakes that completely lose the message of the original like Total Recall and Robocop.

I remember hearing about this earlier last year and it kinda makes sense from a logistical standpoint as the original had mediocre reviews and box office, only becoming a cult hit after being the inspiration for a bunch of other things in the horror genre. So to remake a film that had a genre impact, but wasn't a huge hit works for the horror fan in me than something like the countless remakes of big hits or recent hits that studios have been churning out.

Nope. You can have it if you want

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