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Post by Woody Alien on Aug 29, 2020 10:20:19 GMT -5
I've been strangely nostalgic for old Pixar movies lately. Recently rewatched Toy Stories 1 and 2, A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, and watched the excellent Ratatouille for the first time. I watched Ratatouille in the theater shortly after it came out, it was quite good and it's interesting to see things from the perspective of both the artist and the critic. I have still several Pixar movies to see, namely Coco, Toy Story 4 and some of the older ones I missed. Also I was curious about The Good Dinosaur, but almost everyone says it's bad so I don't know if I will bother to see it. Also from what I know about Onward it seems kinda crap too. The upcoming Soul seems like a return to form though!
As for my latest movie, I saw the old The 'burbs with Tom Hanks (when he still was a comedy actor) and Carrie Fisher. A dark comedy where a bunch of typical American suburbanites investigates their weird foreign neighbors, believing they killed a missing old man. I read that it had a negative reception but I enjoyed it for what it is, also I usually like Joe Dante's output. A bit of slapstick with some bizarre moments and a small hint of social commentary, they sure don't make films like that anymore.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Aug 29, 2020 15:52:51 GMT -5
I still have to see most post-Ratatouille Pixar movies. There's just something about old Pixar that appeals to me more. Might be partially nostalgia. But I also like it more if they focus on non-human characters. Though The Incredibles was the first movie to break that trend, and that's their best movie. Onward was pretty well recieved so I might catch that in the theatres if I feel like it.
And funnily enough, I watched the 'Burbs very recently as well. It's definitely a kind of movie they don't make anymore. It's got that weird 80's/early 90's tone where it's kind of a family movie, but not entirely...or something. It was pretty fun.
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Post by windfisch on Aug 29, 2020 16:43:53 GMT -5
Well so far I still have to see a truly "bad" Pixar movie. Even the lesser ones tend to be pretty decent and fairly watchable, here's how I feel about the ones I've watched:
Great Pixar: A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Inside Out Good Pixar: Toy Story, Toy Story 3, Brave, Up, Coco
Okay Pixar: Cars, Cars 2, Monsters University, The Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4, Finding Dory, The Good Dinosaur, Onward
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Post by kaoru on Aug 29, 2020 16:51:59 GMT -5
Back when I watched through all Pixar movies, Brave was the newest. Back then I came to the conclusion that Pixar and Disney were kind of on an oposing relationship. When Disney animation was mediocre at best, Pixar was doing one great movie after another. When Disney animation got back to getting good, Pixar went into a slump xD
Since then I only watched three more of their movies: Monsters University (meh), Inside Out (good) and Coco (great).
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Post by windfisch on Aug 29, 2020 17:48:30 GMT -5
The Minion
Featuring Dolph Lundgren as a Templar-priest having a fistfight with a demon-possesed foe, while wearing radiation suits. There's just so much wrong about this movie that I cannot help but like it.
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Post by Woody Alien on Sept 9, 2020 12:41:24 GMT -5
Back when I watched through all Pixar movies, Brave was the newest. Back then I came to the conclusion that Pixar and Disney were kind of on an oposing relationship. When Disney animation was mediocre at best, Pixar was doing one great movie after another. When Disney animation got back to getting good, Pixar went into a slump xD Same thing I was thinking honestly.
Since I want to see bizarre 80s/90s fantasy comedies, I watched yesterday Coneheads. It seems that everyone hated that movie back in the day, but watching it now it's not so bad, at least it's funny, weird and it works as a satire on the USA and its treatment of illegal aliens, maybe even more now than in the 90s. Plus it has the final part set on the Coneheads' planet which is really cheesy in that old-style sci-fi way, complete with stop-motion Star Wars-esque giant monster. I don't know if it was considered badly because of its relationship with Saturday Night Live, here SNL is basically unknown (they tried to make an Italian version but it flopped miserably) so I could judge the film for what it is and it's a goofy, enjoyable sci-fi comedy which never takes itself too seriously. Then again how many SNL movies have been considered "good"? Maybe just The Blues Brothers and possibly Wayne's World. I remember seeing somehow on an Italian pay-TV channel while on vacation the obscure The Ladies Man and it was quite crappy.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Oct 5, 2020 1:01:25 GMT -5
Coneheads is one of those movies i rewatch regularly.
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Post by dsparil on Oct 5, 2020 5:18:32 GMT -5
Then again how many SNL movies have been considered "good"?
Original movies written or starring current cast members (and usually produced by Lorne Michaels) tend to be better, but they're not necessarily thought of as SNL movies e.g. Mean Girls. It's really just the movies based directly on sketches that tend to be bad. Unsurprisingly, Michaels's production company has had better luck with TV shows.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Oct 5, 2020 7:06:52 GMT -5
MacGruber was good, I thought, but I found Wayne's World completely unwatchable in the year of our lord 2020. But then, comedy tends not to age too well oftentimes.
I was intersted in checking out Blues Brothers, but that movie stars John Belushi and was directed by John Landis, just like the abysmal Animal House, a movie I found so painfully boring that I almost turned it off (something I never do and have only contemplated two or three other times). So that's not going to happen anytime soon.
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Post by dsparil on Oct 5, 2020 14:26:33 GMT -5
I don't really like The Blues Brothers, and it's as much an SNL movie as Christopher Guest's A Mighty Wind which is much better. Guest was a cast member during the weird 10th season and the movie's central folk music group originated from a sketch during his time there. The big difference is the time gap at about 20 years from sketch to movie.
I kinda like Animal House, but it does have more influence than substance. It's basically permanently engrained into US college culture, but Bender's plot in the Mars University episode of Futurama is a good enough substitute.
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Post by lurker on Oct 5, 2020 14:42:07 GMT -5
Still can’t believe Animal House got a network sitcom spinoff.
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 9, 2020 6:16:54 GMT -5
I'm curious about hearing that, here The Blues Brothers has attained cult status, and in minor measure Animal House is quite popular too, so I'm a bit surprised to see how many people dislike it. In any case the sequel, Blues Brothers 2000, is absolute crap and pretty much a clumsily made rehash of the first film with nothing interesting about it (maybe just that random scene with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse). The music is good though.
I don't think Animal House is still so ingrained in popular culture, those kind of hijinks are in part frowned upon nowadays; for example they tried to remake the similar movie Revenge of the Nerds, but they didn't find any college to support it (Misoginy, etc.) so it was just canned in the end.
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Post by lurker on Oct 21, 2020 15:45:59 GMT -5
A trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon...
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Nov 1, 2020 15:14:56 GMT -5
Anyone watch anything spooky this October? I went through some classics myself.
-House/Hausu: Loved it. It's even crazier than I had expected. -Last House of the Left (1972): It's very poorly made (acting, editing, writing, continuity errors), but kind of entertaining anyway. It's one of those that's more influential than good. It's also not really a horror movie despite some disturbing shit happening. -Halloween (1978): Kind of boring, and not that scary or suspenseful. I guess you had to be there or something. It was okay I guess, but it just felt very uneventful -The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): This one I really liked. The killers in this have much more going on than Halloween's and the set design is really great. I like that both this one and Halloween don't really show a lot of gore because that's much more effective and scary. -The Blob (1958): This one's not really a classic, but it's pretty well-known. It has some campy charms, but it's mostly just bad. The plot and the characters are completely nonsensical and 28-year old Steve McQueen is supposed to be a 17-year old. He looks like he's in his 30's. That's a stretch, even for Hollywood standards. -Host: Okay this one's really not a classic since it came out this year, but this year's Halloween's as good a time as any. It's about a seance that takes place over Zoom, and it was made and released during this pandemic. It's got some cheap jumpscares and effects (the movie is best when it doesn't show things too much/clearly), but it has some suspenseful moments when it restrains itself, and it uses the format in a pretty clever way. I think a format like this just works best for me when it comes to scares, The Blair Witch Project is probably my favorite horror movie after all. Needless to say it was the one I found the scariest this year.
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Post by toei on Nov 1, 2020 22:05:01 GMT -5
Anyone watch anything spooky this October? I went through some classics myself. -House/Hausu: Loved it. It's even crazier than I had expected. -The Blob (1958): This one's not really a classic, but it's pretty well-known. It has some campy charms, but it's mostly just bad. The plot and the characters are completely nonsensical and 28-year old Steve McQueen is supposed to be a 17-year old. He looks like he's in his 30's. That's a stretch, even for Hollywood standards. Yeah, House is a masterpiece of creativity. It's great. As for The Blob, well, judging by every old picture I've seen, young people often looked old as fuck in the old days, so 28-year old Steve McQueen probably didn't look 35 at the time, just, like, 28. ...Ok, I can't really justify it. He looks literally twice as old as the character he portrays. To answer your question, though, I guess I technically did, but it's mostly a coincidence, as I never really thought of Halloween this month. I watched just two that could fit this theme: Ghostwatch, a BBC-produced movie from 1992 that pauses as a special program on a haunted house, with real BBC reporters playing themselves. Initially no one takes the situation seriously aside from the vaguely charlatanish "experts" they interview, but eventually things go wrong. Supposedly, some viewers thought it was a real program. Possibly the first faux-documentary horror movie, or at least a pioneer of the genre. Anyway, I thought it was decent, but more interesting for what it was doing than actually scary. Also, I guess Thinner counts? Based on one of the lesser stories Stephen King must have written while drunk and coked out of his mind, it's a pretty bad movie that doesn't seem to know what tone it's going for and doesn't seem to care about it own dumbass story. The part where the New England mafia boss played by Joe Mantegna shows up to wage a one-man war on the curse-throwing gypsies is the only thing that's kind of entertaining, even if the portrayal of said gypsies relies on stereotypes that probably would have seemed like a stretch a hundred years ago, let alone the '90s.
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