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  1. Posted

    16 hours ago, WatchOutForSnakes said:

    I'm saving my reaction for Monday, but I have to say I had never seen an Elvis movie before, and I was pleasantly surprised by how charming he was.  Then I watched a 1985 Barbara Walters interview with Priscilla Presley, and I had a few second thoughts about recommending. But he's long gone, and this was an ....interesting watch.

    I don't know if anyone listens to the Punch Up The Jam podcast but Elvis is featured pretty heavily in their song this week. This comes up in their discussion.

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  2. Posted

    32 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    Yes, but the store didn’t murder anyone. The reaction should fit the offense. Physical violence with physical violence. A boycott would have been a more appropriate response to Sal’s transgression.

    The solution, according to the movie, isn’t MLK or Malcolm, but MLK and Malcolm.

    I guess when you see your best friend murdered in front of you, especially by someone who will get away with it based on precedent, you don't necessarily respond rationally. What was anyone to do? Murder the police officer in retaliation? Even attacking the officer is a pretty high possibility of getting himself killed.

    But the reality is, yes, the pizzeria didn't kill Radio. If you're Mookie at that point, you've seen your boss and his racist ass son, respond to your friend by destroying his radio which is the thing he treasures so much it's his literal name. You've seen him yell racist shit at your friends while he did this. Is Mookie going to have a job tomorrow? Can he show up there and work after this (either by his own choice or Sal's)? I can't say Mookie did the right thing by destroying a pizzeria in response to police violence against people of color but I also can't say he did the wrong thing. As Amy and Paul pointed out, destroying the pizzeria may have (inadvertently) redirected the violence against people. I get it his reaction even if, in retrospect, it seems like there were alternatives.

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  3. Posted

    I have more to say but work is busy. Regardless, I'm surprised neither brought up that Radio's speech about his rings is heavily inspired by Night Of The Hunter whe Robert Mitchum has LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles.

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  5. Posted

    5 hours ago, AlmostAGhost said:

    oh boy I can't wait to hear the ep and what you guys think about Bringing Up Baby. I watched it last summer not realizing it was on the AFI list, and I'm still a bit surprised by that -- not in a bad way, I do like it a lot. In my Letterboxd review, I called it "the most nutballs movie of all time" or something like that. Curious what I'll think re-watching it through an Unspooled lens.

    I'm going to have a very unpopular opinion on Bringing Up Baby that I recognize is potentially crazy.

  6. Posted

    3 hours ago, AlmostAGhost said:

    Has anyone seen Toy Story 4 yet? I prob will go see it this week, maybe tomorrow. What are your non-spoilery impressions?

    It's great and I know people are worried about this being some unnecessary cash grab when it was announced. It definitely isn't but explaining why is spoilers adjacent.

    2 hours ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    I have to say that I don't get the enthusiasm for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? as an AFI list candidate. It's an enjoyable movie and all, but I've never considered it anything close to an all-time great. I'd pick Toy Story over that every day and twice on Sunday.

    I think Roger Rabbit is a damn fine movie and would easily include it in the top 100 American movies. Id certainly consider it over Toy Story and maybe all the Toy Story movies. 

  9. Posted

    2 minutes ago, PollyDarton said:

    They explain this that is close to the name of one of his favorite teachers? First McConaughey says this and then the news broadcasts quotes a teacher with a name that is a riff on Baker Dill.

    But that's in the game. Maybe the kid coded this into the game to cover his tracks?????

    Or that's the reason and the anagram is just for us watching the movie. If that's the case, I'm really over people having anagram names in movies.

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  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, AlmostAGhost said:

    Just about to start the episode, but in case nobody mentioned

    BAKER DILL = BAD KILLER

    This is great but it makes me wonder about the nature of the game.

    Did the kid always mean for Matthew McConaughey to kill his step dad in the game? Because it seems like the game started as just hanging with his dad and fishing. If the rules changed to kill his step dad, having an anagram name for Bad Killer makes no sense. That would mean the anagram is just for the audience and it's a complete coincidence on the part of the kid.

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  11. Posted

    29 minutes ago, Elektra Boogaloo said:

    Wow I can't believe I have been calling John "Paul" all this time and no one corrected me.

    I sort of thought when the son showed up in the video game that it meant he was also dead? (I wasn't sure if he had killed himself or perhaps had been killed for his crimes?) I'll admit to checking out towards the end.

    Mostly my take away from this is that maybe I should take a vacation to Florida. And then I googled if it was filmed in Florida and it was not. It was filmed in Mauritius, and I was like, Oh I should go there. But it's kind of far and then I ended up looking in the Caribbean. Long story short, I went to Antigua in May.

    When the son showed up in game, I assumed it was supposed to be a young version of Matthew McConaughey. But I found that I kept over complicating the plot. I thought being the video game was a mild twist (because it seemed kind of obvious and was revealed so early). So, I kept expecting the movie to get crazier. Then it kind of didn't and all my theorizing was for naught.

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  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, Cameron H. said:

    Yes, but are we rewarding the work that launches the career or the pinnacle of their endeavors? I agree with your Beatles analogy, but to my point, it would be like saying the best song The Beatles ever wrote was “Love Me Do” when we all know it was “Honey Pie.” 😜

    I’m glad TS gave Pixar a future, but Im not willing to say it’s the best or most representative because of that.

    Honey Pie isn't even the best honey pie song on that album...the AFI should recognize Wild Honey Pie instead

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  14. Posted

    7 minutes ago, WatchOutForSnakes said:

    TBH, Jedi is my favorite. But it is also the first movie I ever saw in a theater. (yes, I'm dating myself on that). I remember looooooooving the Ewoks as a girl. In fact, I think The Ewok Adventure should be covered by HDTGM. 

    I watched Ewok Adventure every day for a month because it's the only Star Wars movie we had on VHS.

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  15. Posted

    2 hours ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    I don't. I like that the original is a true standalone movie, and to me some of the cheesier moments are charming.

    I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE ELSE!!!!!!!

    I prefer Star Wars to Empire. I like the world and world building more. Empire is better filmed and looks amazing. I love Yoda. But I also find the Millennium Falcon is a monster asteroid section kind of unnecessary.

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  16. Posted

    38 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    I agree with you, although I wouldn’t say Toy Story leaves me completely cold. I do, however, prefer both TS2 and TS3.

    I’m really struggling with whether it belongs on the list or not. I feel like it’s part of the whole “first one” problem. That being said, I ranked it higher than I would have thought on my personal list. Essentially, I kept asking myself “Given the choice between these two movies, which movie would I rather re-watch?” and went through my list until I reached a movie I’d rather re-watch than Toy Story.

    That being said, all that really proves is that it’s a more enjoyable movie to watch not that it’s better movie. I don’t have a problem with Pixar being represented, I just feel like Toy Story isn’t even the best of its own series, let alone their entire catalogue.

    "Leaves me cold" is harsh. I guess I just don't see anything in it that I actively enjoy? It's fine but meh. I've seen it twice and I can't imagine choosing to watch it again unless someone else really wanted to.

    I do agree with you on the being first. I do think the movie is good and it's obviously beloved. So, it might "deserve" to be on the list even though I think the latter two are much more enjoyable.

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  17. Posted

    I'm going to make a controversial statement and say I don't really like Toy Story. I can see the quality of the movie and appreciate it as a technological step forward but I've seen it twice without any emotional attachment to anything.

    I like Toy Story 2. I love Toy Story 3 and very openly wept in the theater when I saw it. Toy Story 3 leaves me cold. 

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  19. Posted

    On 6/15/2019 at 10:48 PM, ol' eddy wrecks said:

    I think intent has reasonably strong bearing.  Like how "scared" might be limiting, intent to "scare" might also be limiting.  Allowing in the disturb, unsettle, (I guess we could also include 'disgust' and 'wince in pain' for body horror - both cerebral and non-cerebral) also gets us closer.  But I think there's also some other goals that filmmakers are going for with a lot of horror movies that is in some weird area.  Lots of franchise sequels fall into this category.  I think it's the blood/kills that makes one wince - which is the reaction I think someone said was in their criteria, is really what those movies are going for.

    Granted, I take a fairly expanded definition of horror, and also fine saying a film has horror elements.  And talking how much of a horror film is it, while still classifying it as a horror film.

    I think David Lynch gets name-checked a lot on the, "horror elements" in movies that are not necessarily horror movies.

    I think a more interesting one to consider was Silence of the Lambs.  I think the scenes where Clarisse goes down to talk to Lector, when examined would qualify as a horror movie.  After a bit though, you get the sense she's playing with psychological fire which is a type of danger, she is not in physical danger from Lector, which is probably why it's difficult to cleanly define it as a horror film.  And the physical danger, from Buffalo Bill, is undermined since Lector seems like the more supernatural presence.  Making the craziness of his basement less horrifying.

    This might be apocraphyl, but I recall reading Tobe Hooper thought The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was hilarious and didn't get why people were so terrified by it - and I think that was why he did what he could to make TCM 2 so over the top, it would be more clearly ridiculous.  I don't know if he thought that way about all of TCM or just the end or what, because the first couple of kills in that movie were disturbing to me in a way that I didn't really see in other slashers that would follow in the 80s.

    I think Tobe Hooper thinking Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a comedy has to be an anomaly of intent more than anything. I'd believe he thought that because I've read he thought he could get a PG rating for it which also seems insane to me.

    I'd be curious to hear of other filmmakers who completely missed the missed the genre they intended (outside of gross incompetence resulting in an unintentional comedy).

  20. Posted

    58 minutes ago, tomspanks said:

    Ahem, as a casual watcher of other dance movies and a season or 2 of Dancing with the Stars, yes, it is normal for multiple couples to dance simultaneously on the dance floor, especially in the early heats.  The couples can be judged against other and the way a couple navigates around other couples can also be judged.  

     

    1 hour ago, WatchOutForSnakes said:

    Most ballroom dancing I've seen is like other creative/sport competitions like figure skating where the dancers go out one by one and receive a score from the judges. This felt more like the high school dance-off a la Grease. 

    That said, I think this movie was perfection! I don't see why anyone would have any nits to pick ;) 

    I'm getting conflicting information here. Can you two do a dance battle so I know whom to side with?

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  21. Posted

    I have a question about dance contests because the world of dance seemed weird to me.

    Would dancers in this kind of contest all be dancing simultaneously? Since everything is choreographed, it seems like that dancers would either be altering their routine on the fly or just bumping into each other constantly.

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  22. Posted

    8 minutes ago, AlmostAGhost said:

    Yea didn't he say that exactly in the beginning? When Vanessa was doing some steps without music and he was just utterly baffled. 

    Yeah. I think he literally asked what she was doing. How can you dance without music? It's like, dude are you for real? In his entire life, he'd never seen someone practice a dance routine?

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  23. Posted

    1 hour ago, Cameron H. said:

    I also thought it was a weird choice to pair Rafael with Jane Krakowski’s character. It’s a movie! Why not have your leads together? It’s a weird “I dance, and you dance, but I’m going to dance with that person and you’re going to dance with that person.”

    I thought the movie was going to be about blending her rigid training with his free-flowing style and that’s how you win. But...no. Not really.

    Yeah. Most dance movies I've seen are feeling the music vs. strict technical dancing or street vs. ballet. So, that seemed like what this movie was going to do. But no. Also, Rafael seemed to not understand choreography was a thing?

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