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I'll have to be honest, I can't think of too many films where I did make that connection (with an opposite gender lead). I don't know what this says about me, probably nothing good, but in my defense I don't think I connect with a lot of male leads, either. Off the top of my head, I can think of Marjane in Persepolis and Ronna in Go.
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Not really, since the drive of the film is Renton leaving his friends behind. The sequel indicates that he failed. And you can blame Irvine Welsh for that; he wrote the sequel. It was called Porno. I'm far from certain that the sequel will be very good. In fact, I'm pretty certain that it won't be. For one, the source material is not as good. Another is McGregor's penchant for appearing in terrible movies over the last decade or so.
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Not much of a teaser trailer, but:
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Episode 142 - The Phantom: LIVE! (w/ Eliza Skinner, Ed Brubaker)
joel_rosenbaum replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?
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Addressing the discussion at the beginning of the episode, what was the first movie that told a Civil War era story favorably disposed towards the Union? The Lost Cause permeated throughout Hollywood, and still does to a certain extent. Pretty much any early movie set in the Civil War or the period around it featured confederate or ex-confederate heroes. Genuine american heroes, like the abolitionist John Brown, were presented as villains (Sante Fe Trail, 1940). To my memory, the first movie that was unambiguously told in favor of the Union and/or the abolitionist cause was Glory (1989), although someone here can assuredly correct me. Okay, sidetrack over.
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Dream a Little Dream (1989)
joel_rosenbaum replied to DavidBjorkman's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
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Dream a Little Dream (1989)
joel_rosenbaum replied to DavidBjorkman's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
Excellent choice. Marks two shitty movie checkboxes at once: a film featuring the Coreys, and a body switch movie. Does anyone remember how many body switch movies there were in the late eighties? Off the top of my head we had this movie, the George Burns one, the Judge Reinhold/Fred Savage one, and that Kirk Cameron/Dudley Moore one.- 11 replies
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Arguably the greatest Errol Morris documentary, one that humanized Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara while at the same time putting forward a strong but not sanctimonious anti-war message. I think Morris' work deserves consideration for the Canon for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is his technical contribution: the two-way mirror system, called the "interrotron", that induces interview subjects to converse directly with the camera. I recognize that documentaries have never been considered for the Canon, and that may never happen, but Morris would be a great place to start.
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Episode 141 - The Shadow: LIVE! (w/ Pete Davidson)
joel_rosenbaum replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?
I can't believe that no one has mentioned Matt Damon, whose physical transformation for the Bourne movies was almost absurd. Even his face changed quite a bit. It convinced me that steroid use wasn't limited to the provinces of professional sports and weightlifting. -
Roger Waters, although a John Waters version would be ... something. It would make for an interesting indulgence pick as the movie was famously hated by almost everyone involved in creating it. It's also endured better than the movie musicals produced by the Who, or even Yellow Submarine. Setting the Wall/Tommy/Quadrophenia aside, most of those movies would be uncontroversial choices for Canon discussion -- I think the idea of the indulgence pick is that you don't feel said pick is actually worthy of enshrinement. Perhaps you don't, but you'd have a hell of an argument convincing me that Seven Samurai (for example) is both a movie that you like and one that doesn't belong in the Canon.
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Top Gun was marketed and received as a serious action movie in its time. I think that disqualifies it as "campy". The kind of over the top goofiness in the scenes you describe was par for the course around that time, especially in action movies:
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Weighing in late here, but this really was a great episode. Touched on a lot of the same thoughts I had about this movie during the exact same period of time (nineties). I had determined, then, that I would never revisit this movie but my mind is completely changed.
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
joel_rosenbaum replied to IRONicmerMAN's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
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Maybe, maybe not. But it does make me feel old as fuck. I think people forget how many military/aviation themed movies there were in the Reagan years (Iron Eagle, which is all kinds of terrible, came out the same year).
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Other than Walk Hard -- a straight parody of Johnny Cash / Walk the Line -- pretty much every parody here covers an amalgam of movies, musicals, and other pop-culture references. I like the Frankenstein idea, though.
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Recommendations for critics of color?
joel_rosenbaum replied to SiSquires-Kasten's topic in The Canon
Wesley Morris, formerly of the Boston Globe, and currently of the NY Times? I mean, he doesn't write from an explicitly "black" perspective, but he is certainly a black person. -
Episode 141 - The Shadow: LIVE! (w/ Pete Davidson)
joel_rosenbaum replied to JulyDiaz's topic in How Did This Get Made?
I want the knife... please. It's really too bad that you guys didn't do a back-to-back with The Golden Child. -
I was pretty nonplused by Tropic Thunder. I figured a lot of the positive critical reaction was due to the insider-y nature of the jokes. I get that, but that stuff did not resonate with me at all. Apparently Ben Stiller was adamant that the film wasn't just a spoof, but that's how it come across. Nothing wrong with spoofs, but they are (by definition) derivative works.
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When Harry Met Sally vs. Die Hard
joel_rosenbaum replied to GregSaunders's topic in Movie Suggestions
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This is most definitely a "genre-leaning" Canon, which is fine by me. If I wanted a retrospective of highbrow fare, there's countless places to do that. I might not like everything that makes it in (an understatement) but what draws me to this show is the idea of expanding my palate a little bit, and to give me fresh eyes when reviewing movies that I had seen before.
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Verhoeven probably deserves a film in the Canon, right? I would have to think Robocop would make it, but Total Recall is in some ways more enjoyable.
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Storytelling was so damned on the nose, especially with the Paul Giamatti storyline. Happiness was fairly subversive and quite a bit better than Solondz's later stuff, which is basically unwatchable. But it lacks the humanity that made Welcome to the Dollhouse an interesting/enjoyable movie.
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Terry Gilliam Showdown: 12 Monkeys vs Brazil
joel_rosenbaum replied to JimMcGarva's topic in Movie Suggestions
Has Munchausen been reformed yet? I always enjoyed that movie, but I haven't watched it recently. -
Coming To America vs. Trading Places
joel_rosenbaum replied to RossHolzschuh's topic in Movie Suggestions
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I'm going to weigh in with a pretty plain "no" here. I don't have a lot more to add to the argument, but like some others in this thread, I enjoyed Amy's string of arguments against during the middle of the episode. Perhaps the most succinct of these was: