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Baron von Eevl posted:The boring answer is Empire, both because it's the answer to nearly every "name a movie without x" challenges and because it's incredibly boring. Just cause Andy Warhol called it a movie doesn’t mean it really is a movie.
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YggdrasilTM posted:Sure. So is dealing with death. Must every art that is honest to humanity had a death? This I why Tampopo is the greatest movie. It has all of these human experiences and more.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Listening to the Icelandic presidential debates. Thankfully there's only 12 candidates out of the 62 who tried to run but 50 couldn't get enough signatures. At least 8 were very stupid people who were trying to sign as supporters of other candidates but accidentally ran for president). Only three or four have any chance of winning. Didn't the crown prince of Denmark marry a woman from Tasmania?
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They've been allowed to marry outside the family for a generation or two now.
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Gripweed posted:Just cause Andy Warhol called it a movie doesn’t mean it really is a movie. Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, now there’s a movie
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FreudianSlippers posted:They've been allowed to marry outside the family for a generation or two now. Yes, but what about the Danish royals?
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FreudianSlippers posted:As he said. No labour. see also: Clerks
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Azhais posted:see also: Clerks Dante works, and there's eating, and sex. Jay and Silent Bob are on a constant hustle. Edit: Like seriously, what the gently caress, tell me you've never worked retail without telling me you've never worked retail if you think there's no labor involved in Clerks. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 04:03 on May 4, 2024 |
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YggdrasilTM posted:Sure. So is dealing with death. Must every art that is honest to humanity had a death? You started with a fair point but this is where you lost me dawg
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Gripweed posted:Just cause Andy Warhol called it a movie doesn’t mean it really is a movie. I mean it's images in temporal sequence, that's a movie right?
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It's not even that I think every movie needs to deal with sex, I just don't like that a very key component of human existence is being left out of cinema more and more.
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You could have a movie about sex without a sex scene. Like Last Vegas
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*starts to write that movies can feature sex without being sexy but then Gaspar Noe starts breathing down my neck*
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Just watched Old. Mark me down as a permanent member of the Shyamalan fan club. It truly baffles me why people think of him as a bad director. I've seen almost all his movies now, and the only ones that I'd count as truly "bad" are the ones where he's had the most studio interference (TLA and After Earth). Outside of that, I'd place him in the same category as Wes Anderson - people boil them down to off-kilter dialogue and zany directing so heavily that there's rarely discussion of the intense empathy and craft involved in the narratives. Difference is, Anderson's aesthetic is easy to latch onto while Shyamalan's is less obvious and intentionally offputting. Old is probably the strongest argument for this; people get so hung up on the zany premise and stilted dialogue of the first act, so there's relatively little discussion of the real meat of the film. (I personally could gush about how he manages to do things like the bone-breaking scene without it being mocking.)
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Gripweed posted:I’m trying to think of a movie featuring no scenes of anyone eating or laboring and nothing springs to mind.
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TychoCelchuuu posted:Maybe Leviathan (2012) or Minding the Gap (2018)? Leviathan is literally all about people working an incredibly grueling job (unless that’s the joke)
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Leviathan is literally all about people working an incredibly grueling job (unless that’s the joke)
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TychoCelchuuu posted:But do you see the people? Yes, very frequently. There’s like a three minute unbroken take of one of them passing out in the break room.
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Air Skwirl posted:It's not even that I think every movie needs to deal with sex, I just don't like that a very key component of human existence is being left out of cinema more and more. "Left out of cinema" by only appearing in 50% of movies. I don't really care, but it seems to me like what's been cut is the sort of incidental sex scene or nudity that they'd throw into a movie that isn't really about that. Things like the random topless lady running out of a bathroom in die hard.
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Baron von Eevl posted:"Left out of cinema" by only appearing in 50% of movies. One of the themes of die hard was corporate excess. The lady was topless and doing cocaine with another employee during a holiday party. Not totally incidental.
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You know some pervy rear end studio head (likely Joel silver lol) wanted some tits so he demanded it.
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I feel like making the caveat “eating or performing labor” makes the category overly broad, like if you asked for a movie that “didn’t have anyone in a car or wearing clothes” the former is probably extremely easy (like any period piece) while the latter is insane mode
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Like Mitch Hedberg, all "Have you ever tried sugar ... or PCP?"
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Gripweed posted:I’m trying to think of a movie featuring no scenes of anyone eating or laboring and nothing springs to mind. Circle?
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Gripweed posted:I’m trying to think of a movie featuring no scenes of anyone eating or laboring and nothing springs to mind. Cube
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david_a posted:Cube But characters do discuss their work frequently.
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I actually watched Cube this morning and the Cube remake just now. Cube holds up! The remake is terrible.
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I remember liking Cube and Cube Zero a lot, less so the second one. First one was just the right mix of clever gore and not-over-explaining-the-stupid-thing, and the third did explain more, but in a way that asked more questions and was charming in what it did reveal. Second one felt like too much CGI and the high concept felt kind of masterbatory. Haven't revisited any of em' in two decades though. Can't imagine the remake could improve on the original, where the lo-finess really helped sell it. Watching a 24-hour movie marathon today by Justin Decloux of the Important Cinema podcast. Incredible picks so far, recommend tuning in. Going til 11am EST tomorrow. https://twitch.tv/importantcinemaclub
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I wish you separated food and work because I can think of films that don’t have eating. The problem is you can’t not discuss labor because money is everything. “How does this person afford to live” is an important question.
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https://x.com/WillSloanEsq/status/1786825517208846767 This is a really good prompt, curious if there are more good examples than those offered here?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:https://x.com/WillSloanEsq/status/1786825517208846767 Wasn’t Rio Bravo basically a diss response to High Noon?
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Chef
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Ya'll missed out if you didn't catch a bit of that movie marathon. Watched... a poo poo ton of movies. Standouts:  Cats on Park Avenue: https://letterboxd.com/film/cats-on-park-avenue Japanese film about cats. One rides a skateboard in the first five minutes and it only gets better from there. The amount of live action cat footage in this is insane. A couple girls in a dance troupe decide to do a Cats musical at a theater frequented by five stray cats and their broods. Multiple song and dance numbers, all wonderful, and a batshit finale that had me with my mouth agape.  Colma: The Musical: https://letterboxd.com/film/colma-the-musical/ Low-budget coming of age story of three people growing up in Colma, a suburb of San Francisco. Low budget ($15,000!) and the songs were recorded in a garage, but it works. Music is incredibly of-its-time, Green Day's Dookie is a clear inspiration, but the lyrics and situation are clever and charming as all get out. Writer H. P. Mendoza has gone on to do a bunch of other solid movies, fun seeing where he got his start.  Roberto Carlos em Ritmo de Aventura: https://letterboxd.com/film/roberto-carlos-em-ritmo-de-aventura/ Borderline not a movie, but rather a documentary of what being a superstar musician in Brazil allowed. Think those Beatles/Elvis flicks, but with a razor thin plot that's meta (in a good way!) around bad guys trying to kill Roberto. Get to watch Roberto run around like a Looney Tune running away from machine gun fire into Christ the Redeemer, fly a helicopter WAY TOO CLOSE TO THE GROUND through a downtown, sing a lot of his songs surrounded by a costumed band and babes, and eventually detour into loving space. Ends in a happy go lucky tank battle. Pure delight. Roberto Carlos living the dream.  ]Confessions of a Thug: (On Youtube! Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HOl70nca1c) Another low budget one, this is a "so bad it's good" affair. A rap musical vanity project of the Writer/Director/Star, guy plays a gangster who's trying to make it in the world. I hate to compare "bad" movies anything to the room, but this is the most I've seen a protagonist deal with "everyone has betrayed me, I'm fed up with the warld" since it. Music is good for the most part, and when it's not it's funny as hell. One scene during the hero's fall from grace has him rapping a duet with a spirit of himself that's wearing a fancy hat. Movie rules. Honorable mentions: You Can Succeed, Too: https://letterboxd.com/film/you-can-succeed-too/ Japanese flick from the 60's shot like a MGM musical from decades prior. Zany workplace comedy with wonderful large wide-shot dance set pieces that all slap. Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theater: https://letterboxd.com/film/midnight-ballad-for-ghost-theater/ 2006 South Korean horror comedy (almost entirely the later) that's held up by the choreography and cinematography that does a lot with a little. Young woman gets a job at a haunted theater as she tries to find out what happened to her grandmother who said she would be there. Songs are kind of 'eh', but there's enough style to make up for that. Fantastica: https://letterboxd.com/film/fantastica/ Canadian eco-terrorism musical starring a married Quebec singer-songwriting couple, Lewis Furey and Carole Laure. Lewis is channeling Paul Williams and Leo Sayer hard, but the music here rules. Of these, easily the one I'd listen to the most out of the film itself. One of the many jams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opXEr8rDwEk Also Little Shop of Horrors, and A Goofy Movie, but ya'll know those and know they're great. CatstropheWaitress fucked around with this message at 18:52 on May 5, 2024 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:https://x.com/WillSloanEsq/status/1786825517208846767 Citizen Kane's the big one I can think of.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Wasn’t Rio Bravo basically a diss response to High Noon? Yep, mentioned in there. Quite a few of these I was unaware of.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:https://x.com/WillSloanEsq/status/1786825517208846767 Videodrome was basically Cronenberg's venting about having to deal with TV execs. (e): Oh, and if we're just counting characters, the useless mayor and his yes man sidekick from Godzilla '98 are both named and modelled after Siskel and Ebert. Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 19:09 on May 5, 2024 |
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I can definitely think of more diss characters than diss movies, like the cokehead movie producer in True Romance who’s supposed to be Joel Silver (after Tony Scott fought with him nonstop during the making of The Last Boy Scout)
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Videodrome was basically Cronenberg's venting about having to deal with TV execs. Doesn't VIDEODROME straight up refer to CityTV?
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