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#351 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR or NIN? » 219 weeks ago
Terminator 2 still had an 80s feel to it so the NIN song would not have worked at all, imo.
#352 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 219 weeks ago
Taken - I finally got around to watching this. Cookie cutter action revenge flick and I have difficulty buying Neeson as a bad ass CIA agent.
This isn't the problem. It's the fact that Neeson is basically wasting his talent doing basically the same damn role for the last 10-15 years. Yeah, it's an easy paycheck. But man he's been the butt line of jokes. Maybe this should have bombed so he would taken more interesting roles.
I think he would have been really interesting in Wall Street and Platoon. He lobbied really hard for those films.
Cruise would have played the Sheen role ? Yeah, I could see him doing some good things there.
Target (1985) Gene Hackman film. I'd seen it years ago on tv somewhere. It's half a good movie. It seems to want it both ways in terms of being a gritty spy film/man on the run and a male bonding film w/mismatched partners (in this case father and son). The parts with Matt Dillion do not work at all. He comes off as whiny and idiotic. The Hackman parts where he's running all over Europe and finding information and pining about the days of the past are the best parts. Either they should have recast the role of Dillion or just changed the plot. Because this film isn't really gritty enough.
Inferno . Argento 1980 film. This one is more interesting than Suspiria which hits you more on a sensory level. Inferno is one of those spooky gothic infleunced stories about magic, and witches and all that other fun stuff. The kills are more interesting and the soundtrack is pretty good from Keith Emerson, especially one part near the end. I think Tenebrae or Opera may be better than this one but this is prime Argento.
#353 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 219 weeks ago
I watched The Blob (1988) while I was making dinner. It wasn't bad....FX hold up, decent cast. I was surprised by the little brother's friend getting killed...I had forgot about that. Pretty risque for its time.
Funny how they set it up for a sequel. This was the 80s...when it's assumed that every horror movie will have sequels. Not sure what happened there. Bad timing I suppose...the horror genre entered the dark ages as we headed into the 90s....didn't pick up steam again until the late 90s.
I remember The Blob (88 version) seemed to be on a lot on either TBS, USA or TNT during the 90s. I always passed on watching it. Anyway a couple of years ago I finally watch it. And you know what ? It's a fucking fun film. It's not somethng "deep" but you know what who cares? I had fun watching it and wondering why the hell didn't I watch this sooner. I think Kevin Dillion was the main star. I think Keith David might have been in it, going off memory here. I remember the ending being kind of bonkers and a lot of chaos and explosions.
I'm not an expert on it but it seemed horror in the early 90s hit a creative dry spell and most of the ideas/movies were of the DTV variety.
Knife + Heart--horror/slasher/giallo homage starring one of Johnny Depp's exes (not Amber Heard!). In French. Stars Vannessa Paradis (Depp had 2-3 kids with her) and this is really creative. Lot of rain soaked scenes. It's set in the 70s and I think it pulls off that aspect pretty well. Also deals with obsession and lost love so it's not just a slash and blood soaked affair. There's a"queer" element to the plot as the main character is a gay porn producer. But you get used to that and it's not a big deal. Kinda like Blow Out in that it deals with film making. It was released in 2018. So for me it's a relatively "new" film.
#354 Re: Guns N' Roses » No new single this year? » 219 weeks ago
TB allowing a small group of people to pretend being an official account and removing literally thousands of videos of GNR over the past 15 years is literally the stupidest thing that has ever been sanctioned by a band's management team.
It was the first sign that they were too clueless to even manage a lemonade stand...much less a rock band.
It pisses off fans uploading the material, fans who want to watch it, and it destroys free promotion.
If any of them complained about how little traction both Absurd and Hard School got on YouTube and social media platforms...I hope someone had the balls to tell them they only had themselves to blame.
You can't shit on people wanting to see GNR on these platforms and then expect them to fall in line in droves when you deem them worthy of it.
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I'm not even talking about hardcore fan interest in this stuff. We know the story and the idiotic reasons this shit was happening. I'm talking about everyone else...from hardcore fans who never used forums and casual fans.
Yup. And when you add that thye barely releases live stuff itself (talking about live concert footage/performances) it makes it all the ever more laughable. The hardcore fans were the ones providing footage for the casuals. And naturally they just had to go ruin that.
#355 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 219 weeks ago
Punchline - Hanks and Field comedy where they're stand up comedians.
I watched this once EONS ago, must have been very early 90s or late 80s. I didn't find it memorable then either.
Barcelona; 1994 film w/pre breakout Mira Sorvino. I enjoyed this a lot more this time around, probably because I'm more familar with the director tendencies now. I love the shots of 90s Barcelona too (film is set in the 80s but whatever).
The Villaness Korean action film rip off of Nikita/Point of No Return. Watch it for the first ten 10 mins where it sort of resembles a video game. Goes downhill from there for me. The plot elements are familiar especially if you've seen one of the earlier two films. Tedious to get through as I kept on dozing off
Il Mare: Korean film w/an Italian name. This was frustrating to watch. It's well shot and has a nice kind of "Sleepless in Seattle" vibe. But there's a sci fi element that isn't used to it's fullest potential. Instead it goes full romance and I found it dull especially in the second half as I kept on waiting for something interesting to happen. The ending is predictable as hell too.
#356 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 221 weeks ago
I can't find Lofton's post but I rewatched Single White Female for the first time in decades after seeing that he watched this a while ago. It's weird how time and aging can skew your perspective on a film. I last saw this film in the mid 90s at some point.
Anyway, the first thing I notice while watching this today, the damn apartment complex is a character onto itself. It's mostly shown shrouded in darkness and shadows. There's a slight spooky vibe to it, like dangerous. This isn't one of those haunted house films but this adds to the amibance of the film. Oh, forgot about the creaky old school elevator that probably doesn't exist anymore now days anyway.
It's kinda cool how there's a lot of great scenes that happen in this film that are non verbal. It's adds to the voyeuristic aspect to this film. Oh there are a couple of odes to Vertigo that are pretty good too.
I felt a lot of sympathy for Hedra. Don't get me wrong she's still the "villian" in this thing, but there's more of an anti-hero vibe to her than flat out person I'm supposed to hate because she's a psycho. She's tragic in a sense. Jenifer Jason Leigh did a great job here.
Totally forgot what a creep that Mitch was. Honestly, most of the main male characters in here are pretty awful, except for the gay neighbor. And yeah there's definitely a vibe here, I'm not sure it's feminist but maybe highlighting the differences between male and females. It's hard to explain.
Oh, they stuck the landing on this film as well. Some of these films the ending just kinda sucks compared to the rest of the film, but this one was fine.
#357 Re: The Sunset Strip » Anne Heche dead at 53 » 221 weeks ago
Yeah it's a combination of the Ellen fiasco and mental illness. We know from Steve Martin that she was not opposed to sleeping her way to the top. Watch Bowfinger....Heather Graham's character is based on Heche.
If the Ellen thing doesn't happen and she can somehow continue that momentum, her career turns out differently. Might not be better due to the mental issues....but different.
The sleeping her way to the top is kind of Hollywood hypocrisy at it's best. It's been done before Anne Heche and after Anne Heche. It's like a dirty open secret in Hollywood.
It might be the Ellen thing. After you come out, there's only so many different type of roles you can think. I think if she doesn't do that she probably has a "normal" career where she has a few more top notch roles before moving down the food chain. Anyway you mentioned Moore in another thread, I had to look it up, I'd forgotten some of her 90s bombs. I think she's kind of forgotten now and well more famous for being Bruce Willis' ex wife.
#358 Re: The Sunset Strip » Anne Heche dead at 53 » 221 weeks ago
The entire period from the Ellen thing to the early 2000s to me is just weird. I mean she was in her late 20s/early 30s so it's not like she was hitting the "midlife" roles where you can typecast as supporting characters, usually married ones.
She was in a lot of successful movies + the psycho remake. I'm not arguing she should have been given A list movie roles. But she got dumped into tv/dtv stuff pretty quickly for someone who was in the prime of her career.
Maybe the most logical explaination is the simplest: her mental issues were a big hurdle.
#359 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 221 weeks ago
Resurrection. 1999 Christopher Lambert film. It's HEAVILY infleunced by Se7en. But it works because of the mood (this thing has a ton of darkly lit, in the rain scenes type) and the characters are interesting, most of the plot and Lambert films are a guilty pleasure of mine to watch.
Nice shots of Chicago though.
The Maid . 2020 Thai horror film. The first half is stronger with the supernatural stuff. It loses momentum in the second half and becomes a normal thriller. There's a bloody finish. I think it's probably a solid film. Bonus points for being beautifully filmed.
All American Murder. 90s film w/Christopher Walken. I thought it was going tto be a cheeseball 80s teen comedy. But it straddles the line between teen film and murder/mystery. Walken is hilarious in this and so is the main character. A lot of one liners here in the script and that is the best part of the film. Part of me wonders if the script were written for a different darker film whether or not it would be great. Still I enjoyed watching this and laughing a lot. oh, this has nothing to do with the film but payphones are used a fair amount in this film and those coin operated phones are obsolete now.
#360 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 221 weeks ago
Anything is possible, I just don’t think he’s smart enough or dumb enough to do that. He’s like the Diet Coke of dumb. Not all that good either way.
He could’ve absolutely been reckless with it. Something as big as espionage would require something… I don’t know, bigger? Like they’d have to be certain he did it, and there would have to be arrests, and Garland would definitely have to know about it. It’s just strange. It started off being a Secret Service agent being concerned over improperly stored documents to selling shit to Saudi Arabia. Idk
Reading up on what he was actually charged/alleged with, I would sort of agree that it's probably not the more serious one of selling stuff to foreign government. He got charged with chp 18, 793 which is gathering, losing, or transmitting defense information. 794 is the more serious one about aiding foreign governments and guys like Ames got charged with.
Also, let's just put it this way, I could see him keeping the documents because he was felt he was entitled to them.
