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Orpheus wrote:I enjoyed Jackie a lot, even though it's a strange, sort of awkward movie. The score and cinematography were both gorgeous, and it's heartbreaking watching Bobbie Kennedy and John Jr. knowing they're both basically ghosts.
Fascinating. I was wondering about this. I'll check it out soon.
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I watched it with my dad who was 17 when JFK was killed and I could feel him reliving it next to me, along with a lot of the other baby boomer types in the crowd. It made it a lot more intense for sure.
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Orpheus wrote:I watched it with my dad who was 17 when JFK was killed and I could feel him reliving it next to me, along with a lot of the other baby boomer types in the crowd. It made it a lot more intense for sure.
That's so interesting. A good reminder of what film can do.
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Jackie seems especially intense in that way. I've never seen a movie get as up close and personal with the assassination as this one. It's the Zapruder film or Oliver Stone's JFK times 1000.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Whenever it's on TV (and especially if it's a Sunday night and there's nothing else on), I always watch at least a bit of Watchmen.
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Temple of doom

No way would you be allowed make this movie now. Not even a moment of it.
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The Argonaut wrote:Jackie seems especially intense in that way. I've never seen a movie get as up close and personal with the assassination as this one. It's the Zapruder film or Oliver Stone's JFK times 1000.

Portman has to get nominated for this role though. She was powerful in it.
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dimejinky99 wrote:Temple of doom

No way would you be allowed make this movie now. Not even a moment of it.
Which is a shame
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Rangi Guy wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:Temple of doom

No way would you be allowed make this movie now. Not even a moment of it.
Which is a shame

Yeah its why pulp adventure storytelling is dead. The great white adventurer either saving or defeating the "exotic" locals is inherently racist but also ridiculously fun. Indy will only ever fight Nazi's or Ruskies forever.
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The Indiana Jones movies are overrated. Once Gen X dies off, no one will ever understand why they were ever popular.
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Indiana Jones and the rise of the feminazis
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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The Argonaut wrote:The Indiana Jones movies are overrated. Once Gen X dies off, no one will ever understand why they were ever popular.
lol oh argo
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I watched The Birdcage for the first time in forever last night. It came out in '96; I was thinking it was early 90s. I remember my very Southern Baptist being offended by it.
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Jem and the Holograms > The Lobster
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Don't Breathe

This was great.
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Strat wrote:Don't Breathe

This was great.
I enjoyed it quite a bit as well. They made the blind guy truly terrifying.
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Orpheus wrote:
Strat wrote:Don't Breathe

This was great.
I enjoyed it quite a bit as well. They made the blind guy truly terrifying.
Was a really sick "twist" at the end of the film. My god.
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