General Movie Thread

Beer & Queso
1849

Maybe you had to be there at the time to fully appreciate it.

1850

I think that’s it. I saw it for the first and only time a decade or so too late and was mystified by all the hubbub. Although the slo-mo river shootout stays with me for sheer chutzpah.

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1851

The river shootout just highlighted to me the wildly variable skills of the characters who were able to shoot the balls off a gnat at 30 paces but then - when necessary for the scene - turn into stormtroopers.

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1852

If you’re not a fan of Big Trouble in Little China, you’re wrong.

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1853

That’s why I said almost.

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1854

The Hollywood trope of the ultra precise marksman was run into the ground 80 years ago.

Yet it persists.

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1855

Even more far fetched is the good guys’ ability to avoid bullets being shot at them. But I can blame it all on Westerns. John Wick, John McClane, hell, even James Bond seem to have some bullet repelling force field around them. But it’s just the movies.

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1856

Snake Plissken would like a word, and for you to also forget about his escapades in LA in the mid 90’s.

I saw Tombstone in the theaters when it premiered. I enjoyed it well enough and loved the fact that the film was shot in Southern Arizona. Historically accurate, though, it wasn’t.

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1857

Who can forget the cinematic masterpiece Overboard with Goldie Hawn?

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1858

Used Cars is a classic and he was great in it. He was pretty good as Herb Brooks in Miracle. Also who doesn’t like John Carpenter’s The Thing?

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1859

Used Cars was hilarious…for the time. I might need to re-watch.

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1860

Now what the hell is this…is this a 1977 Mercedes 450 SL for $24,000? That’s TOOO FUCKINNN HIGH!

Yessir…we blew the shit out of that overpriced motherfucker, just like we blow the shit out of AALLLL high prices

1861

Kurt Russell was a hell of a ballplayer. He topped out at AA, I believe with El Paso in the Texas league. He was a high OBP-little pop second baseman.

1862

Except for “the thing”, “escape from new york,” “big trouble in little china,” and “hateful 8”.

Speaking of westerns…you might enjoy his performance in bone tomahawk. Not a lot of horror films in the western genre, this one brings it.

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1863

Bone Tomahawk brings it…eventually. It takes for fucking ever to get there though and, when it does, the payoff is over so quickly you wonder why you bothered.

1864

I bother because it looks like a basic retro western with a basic retro plot and then goes completely off the rails.

Speaking of westerns…my favorite western is an aussie period piece set in Australia…“the proposition” incredible cast…screenplay and score by nick cave. If you have not seen it, you’re welcome.

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1865

Australian cinema does come out with some real cult classics from time to time. Obviously Mad Max is the poster child, but weird shit like “Picnic a Hanging Rock” and “Walkabout” come to mind (and probably date me horribly).

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1866

There’s an end of the world movie called “These Final Hours” that’s quite good.

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1867

Rabbit-Proof Fence is a must see. Great Australian film.

1868

Also, Where the Green Ants Dream. Very good. Werner Herzog isn’t an Aussie but everything else about the movie is.