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Blake

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Now I’m going to have to go find that movie and watch it. I haven’t seen it in years and years. Me and my old never agreed on much, but we both loved that movie.
I don't want to give the story away, but if you look at when they show the movie through the wolve's eyes, you can see that the movie Predator, in my opinion, borrowed the same idea. It's funny how you can see a movie from around the early 80's and it just has that 'look' about them.
 

ghost19

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I don't want to give the story away, but if you look at when they show the movie through the wolve's eyes, you can see that the movie Predator, in my opinion, borrowed the same idea. It's funny how you can see a movie from around the early 80's and it just has that 'look' about them.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen it many times but just not in a long, long time. My dad bought that one on VHS eons ago when those first came out.
 

Tery

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Underworld: Awakening. I think this film has elements of misandry. In all the Underworld films, all the werewolves are men and are portrayed as dirty and violent. In this particular film, all but for one weakish male vampire, all the other males are basically bad(except for the cop as well). I've noticed this trend of making men look weak or bad in movies of late. Especially white males. Hollywood don't do these things for nothing. They've been trying to emaculate men for the last ten years. I'm sick of hearing about 'women's rights', go look at the figures of university participation.
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. But IMO this is not true.
 

Gerald

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I think your right, infrared scopes pick up body-heat, but I don't know how come there was so much light inside the derelict buildings they were hiding in because there was no lights in the buildings. I don't even think there were street lights outside because all the buildings were earmarked for destruction. You can buy night vision stuff for fairly cheap now at electronic stores.

Wolfen always was a huge favourite of me, but haven't seen it in ages. You're right about the infrared. But as I said earlier, in a film you always need a light source to show what's going on, but not every light source has a clear reference point within the story/scenery/set. Sometimes it does, but when there is no apparent light source and it's too dark for the camera to pick up something they still need to light it with other means that don't always make sense in the story.
The most obvious example is a film like Suspiria, which has all sorts of colourful lighting in many scenes, with no clear source.

Lighting 101: A Quick Guide for Lighting Film
 

fljoe0

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Excellent movie. The other characters and the rest of the movie seem to fade to the background. Pacino's acting drives the whole movie.

John Cazale was great in that too. Interesting trivia - John Cazale was only in 5 movies (he died in 1978) but check out the 5 movies he was in:

The Godfather
The Godfather II
Dog Day Afternoon
The Conversation
Deer Hunter

It doesn't get much better than that.
 

Doc Creed

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Doc Creed - We finally finished watching The Ballad of Buster Scruggs last week. Had to watch it over several nights do to our schedule. I'm not sure if that exacerbated the disjointedness or not. There was quite the range between the tales. Most of them had me laughing at least a time or two. Thank you for the recommendation.
I'm glad you liked it. It's one of the best movies I saw last year.
 

Doc Creed

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I dunno… I found The Ballad of Buster Scruggs to be curious in the beginning but went into stupid, and I turned it off once the Meal Ticket segment ended. Perhaps I should watch the rest of the film.
If by stupid you mean absurd then that's about right for the Coen Brothers. I say finish it. The last segment has a cool twist.
 

do1you9love?

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I think my favorite segment is the one with the lady and her brother traveling in the wagon train.
That was really good. My fave was the traveling actors/minstrels.

I think Buster and the James Franco scene were what I typically expect from a Coen Bros film. Meal Ticket bothered me, which was the point, I think. My favorite was probably the last one. So I'm thinking I would rank them 6, 4, 5, 1, 2 and 3 if I must. :)

BTW - this film is nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Original Song "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" :laugh:
 

Neesy

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Kinda free, kinda wow, Charlie. (anyone gets that reference, you are old.)
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....yep, old-so I am....and I have sudden hankering for creamed corn.....
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Creamed corn?
(I think that reference has something to do with dentures) :question_pig:
 

fljoe0

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Ten Benny (1995) Adrien Brody

I found this dvd in a bargain bin a long time ago and just finally got around to watching it. This had to be one of Adrien Brody's first movies. The movie is good and Adrien Brody is exceptional in this. The movie is about a group of 20ish people in a working class neighborhood in New Jersey. It's worth seeing if you can find it.
 

Dana Jean

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This is a brilliant, voyeuristic adaptation of the stage play by Edward Albee. Bleak and biting, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal eat up the oxygen. They are brutal and beautiful in their frailties. The madness of the evening grows increasingly uncomfortable.

Each member nominated for their part, only Taylor and Dennis won. Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress respectively.
 

ghost19

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Finished up Season three of "True Detective" last night. Perfect ending, Stephen Dorff should get some kind of best supporting actor award. He played his part perfectly. I thought it was interesting that Stephen's Dorff's character's name was "Roland West". This season was filmed in my hometown so it was interesting to watch all the familiar landscapes, stores, bars, highways, bridges and some of the police officers cast were guys I used to work with. It was a very good story line from start to finish. I'm very impressed with all three seasons so far and looking forward to the next one.