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    I probably prefer Pulp to Blur, but it's close and don't want to deny Blur their place. Their last album (The Magic Whip) was great, as is 13. Albarn's other projects go up and down for me, but yea they're always super interesting and worth checking out.

    And yea, Oasis is derivative and boring and I'm not a fan, though I've grown to somewhat appreciate Noel -- mainly for playing on the studio recording of "Free Love Freeway" haha.

    I tried to watch this week's movie, but the version on Youtube was of such low quality, I couldn't stick with it very far. :( The song I heard was pretty bad.

     

     

     

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    Both those points go to what I was saying in the other thread. It's like they just had to make him abused, had to make him a failed comic. And screw it if it doesn't make sense or quite fit. And those choices just aren't very creative or shocking or even arguably appropriate in turning a person evil.

    I really wish they had made this gritty, real movie, but he still somehow fell into a giant vat of acid and came out insane.

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    15 minutes ago, grudlian. said:

    The idea of him being a failed stand up comedian who finally breaks comes from a graphic novel The Killing Joke. I don't think it was ever his officially canon origin but its certainly the most popular origin for the last 30 years. 

    That makes sense then about where it came from. But it just doesn't seem all that shocking or surprising anymore to me.

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    I liked the movie pretty well, some of it is quite amazing, but my main complaints are superficial. First, we don't need the Joker's background filled in. He's better as pure chaos, I don't want the logic on how he got there. It's scarier and much more villainous without it.

    Second, that backstory seems fairly obvious, no? A loner who lost his job and been abused and struggling comic? These aren't very creative choices. Why not like make him like a successful sitcom actor who somehow flips out? Or what if he was the Robert DeNiro tv show host instead? The Joker is a wild character and his backstory, if needed, should be insane too.

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    21 minutes ago, BP212 said:

    Almost 3 weeks since the last list of upcoming. Any idea what's after the Godfathers?

    Haven't seen anything yet. Since it's still two weeks of Godfathers, maybe they haven't gone ahead of that yet.

    Amy's in Spain I think according to her instagram. Maybe when she gets back.

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    18 minutes ago, ol' eddy wrecks said:

    Writing what you know always pulls some part from your life.  If we considered that auto-bio-graphical (Amy wants those hyphens after "bio"!), a lot of weird movies would be considered autobiographical.

    I know the podcast seems (at least to me) to like to talk a lot about the story behind the making of the movie, but for evaluating the movies, I tend to focus more on the movies themselves. (Admittedly, with certain movies, it's doesn't entirely make sense to discount things such as authorial intent, what other movies were doing at the time, or cultural events the movie might be responding to - since all of those things seem to matter when watching a movie and you can't watch something in a complete vacuum.  So take my statement with some grain of salt).

    Yea I'm not really explaining what I mean. Let me think about it some more. I'm not anti biography, that wasn't my intent, but yea, for some reason for this movie, it bugged me to learn all this. I guess just sort of went from 'let me explore the '50s' to 'here's my life' and the latter comes off as arrogant to me. I dunno.

    This is the first time I've come from the pod being like 'I think I like this less than I thought I did' though, so I'm a little baffled right now haha.

    But I also mostly agree, I don't love using the creator's personal life as a basis of criticism either. I try to stick to what's on the screen/script. But sometimes it is maybe unavoidable.

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    19 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    Same. I watched AG because it was relatively short, but The Godfathers are a bit long. Maybe I’ll rewatch them next month.

    Same, but I take horror breaks for Unspooled and HDGTM (and if I feel like going to a theatre).

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    59 minutes ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    On the other hand, plenty of writers try to tell their own personal stories and the result is completely terrible. It still requires a storytelling shape and a reason for being.

    Yea sure, but their discussion made me take it as almost pure biography more than story. I don't know if that's true. Maybe it doesn't matter.

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    12 minutes ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    To me it always felt more elegiac than purely celebratory

    This was my take too. For a mainstreamy, George Lucas movie, I was quite surprised by its artfulness. I would have absolutely preferred a more open-ended ambiguous ending though.

    Still, Paul & Amy are making me rethink the film. I hadn't seen it before, and was expecting nostalgia porn when I turned it on. I was impressed in how it avoided that to me, and I quite enjoyed it a lot. Now I'm not so sure -- knowing that it is just Lucas' personal stories, I dunno. It's losing some of what I took as creativity and story-telling. 

    I haven't finished the episode yet, I should probably do that before going further, but I'm truly not sure what level I think the movie is at anymore.

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    1 hour ago, ol' eddy wrecks said:

    What are the other nine?

    Oh I dunno, that was mostly just a way to express how much I like it haha.

    Let me think though

    I won't include AFI movies because I'm still processing or reprocessing those with Unspooled but a few would be certainly be here (prob. 2001, Lord of the Rings, Do The Right Thing, Double Indemnity, Vertigo).

    Also just one per director or else this could easily be all Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson movies. Also including foreign stuff. Something like this (not in order).

    Rushmore
    Inside Llewyn Davis
    Bicycle Thieves
    M
    Killer Of Sheep
    Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    This Is Spinal Tap
    Top Secret!
     

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    46 minutes ago, tomspanks said:

    Coincidence that one of the producers had the same last name as the lead actress? 🙊

    Anyway, the actress is now some kind of herpetologist or snake enthusiast on Instagram. Cool pics though.

    If you look on wikipedia, all the actors are like related to each other:

     

    Lucas Grabeel as Dylan Knight

    Drew Seeley as Trey Sylvania

    Adrian Slade as Sara Lane

    Amy Paffrath (Drew Seeley's wife[3]) as Luna Dark

    Sally Slade (Adrian Slade's sister) as Sally Sucker

    Katie Seeley (Drew Seeley's sister) as Lydia Bloodworth

    Mike Slade (Adrian Slade's father) as Dr. Payne

    Autumn Grabeel (Lucas Grabeel's sister) as Penny Plasma

    Emily Morris (Lucas Gabreel's girlfriend) as Desiree Damned

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    I do think the scene on the boat where Mr. Shell Oil lies about his ability to get aroused in order to get Sugar to make out with him to be shady and inappropriate. And all the groping and lies in the form of 'romance'. That's the stuff that sort of dated this film out for me. I couldn't quite get it up on that ultimate pedestal.

    But I'm not trying to argue any views down though; generally my take is similar to Paul's. It's a fine movie, but there's so much better.

    But I'll add, I loved this episode itself. Learning the history of Monroe and most importantly, tying it to her work, was great. If Unspooled ends, Amy should do more of that. I'd be happy to have Amy guide us through an actor or director's filmography, mixing in their bios and putting everything in context from a modern perspective.

     

    (I haven't listened to Lovage in years, gonna dig that out! I love Dan the Automator.)

     

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