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Old 03.06.2013, 10:02 AM   #16661
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^ Never heard of it. Any good?

(Although even if it's not, I love John Goodman so much I'll watch it anyway.)
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Old 03.06.2013, 10:04 AM   #16662
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By the way, do most people have TCM in their cable package? Is Turner Classic Movies a US-only company?

If enough people have it, I think it warrants its own thread. Everyday there's something really great on.
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Old 03.06.2013, 10:34 AM   #16663
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Re fave movie cops:

1. Popeye Doyle
2. Bad Lieutenant
3. Bud white - LA Confidential

Guilty pleasures:

Riggs - Lethal Weapon
Axel Foley - Beverly Hills Cop
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Old 03.06.2013, 11:38 AM   #16664
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oh shit yeah your guilty pleasures definitely. i was almost gonna put lethal weapon (the first one, not the rest).

i remember la confidential but i can't recall the cop. swiss cheese mind & what not.
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Old 03.06.2013, 02:19 PM   #16665
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Old 03.06.2013, 02:23 PM   #16666
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it was ok, not really what i expected to be honest!
i wouldn't go out of my way to see it again or anything,
some beautiful scenery though.


yeah, i expected a shit blockbuster and found myself liking it. sure, won't need to watch it again but in all it was cool.
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Old 03.06.2013, 02:24 PM   #16667
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Old 03.06.2013, 03:05 PM   #16668
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I love Goodman as well!

Even though his roll is small, it's he and Tommy Lee in Louisiana, so it can't help but be good : ) The movie is a little odd and I was surprised I had not heard anything about it with such big names and it being released in 2009. Kelly Macdonald who appeared in, No Country For Old Men with Tommy Lee is also in this movie. It mostly takes place South of I-10, so lots of great scenery of swamps and what not......speaking of, I will be in New Orleans next week.

Our cable package has TCM and I do watch it from time to time. When I go to bed in the mornings, if an old black and white is on, I set the sleep timer for 30 minutes and TCM sends me off to NeverNever Land.

Now that's a sterling recommendation!
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Old 03.06.2013, 05:11 PM   #16669
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I love Goodman as well!

Even though his roll is small, it's he and Tommy Lee in Louisiana, so it can't help but be good : ) The movie is a little odd and I was surprised I had not heard anything about it with such big names and it being released in 2009. Kelly Macdonald who appeared in, No Country For Old Men with Tommy Lee is also in this movie. It mostly takes place South of I-10, so lots of great scenery of swamps and what not......speaking of, I will be in New Orleans next week.

Its based loosely on a book by James Lee Burke, a really good series about Robicheaux...

Last night I finished Hobo With A Shotgun. "You have you whole life ahead of you, I'M JUST A HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN". absolutely not for children or sensitive types.
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Old 03.06.2013, 10:58 PM   #16670
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District 9:

The acting was terrible, like fodder for MST3K bad, but the effects and production was fairly decent. I generally despise CGI oriented movies, I'd love to see somebody get some balls and make an old James Cameron puppets/sets/make-up movie rather than a James Cameron 2.0 CGI disaster..
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Old 03.07.2013, 12:51 AM   #16671
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on a side note
anyone got the dvd of the fanedit called UNDER CONSTRUCTION at all?
i got shitloads to trade via snail mail


incase you never heard of it before. it basically follows D-FENS around and that's it.
the cops don't show up until the end of the movie.


i'm sure it's out there on the internet, but can anyone hook me up?
and no, it's not on Cinemageddon
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Old 03.07.2013, 07:24 AM   #16672
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oh shit yeah your guilty pleasures definitely. i was almost gonna put lethal weapon (the first one, not the rest).

i remember la confidential but i can't recall the cop. swiss cheese mind & what not.

The cop in la confidential is the one played by Russell Crowe. A thug with a badge, effectively. My general rule of thumb is the less I'd condone their actions in real life, the more I'll like them on screen - although the older I get the more I wouldn't mind the idea of a few real life Popeyes patrolling the streets of London.

Another obvious candidate for top cop is 'Dirty' Harry Callahan.
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Old 03.07.2013, 11:11 AM   #16673
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The cop in la confidential is the one played by Russell Crowe. A thug with a badge, effectively. My general rule of thumb is the less I'd condone their actions in real life, the more I'll like them on screen - although the older I get the more I wouldn't mind the idea of a few real life Popeyes patrolling the streets of London.

Another obvious candidate for top cop is 'Dirty' Harry Callahan.


oh yeah i remember him now vaguely (ha ha).

oh let's not forget beat takeshi on "violent cop"

 
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Old 03.07.2013, 05:42 PM   #16674
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Very good call on Violent Cop
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Love Scorsese's lyricism and passion here. Paul Newman is surprisingly good in this film as well. Glad I checked it out, as I feel it's easily one of Scorsese's best efforts.

Completely agree. One of Scorsese's most underrated films, IMO. Paul Newman is brilliant. It'd make a great double bill with Hard Eight.
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What a brilliant job Bunuel does at combining reality and dream intricately together. They both go hand in hand in this film, to the point where you never know for sure about whether it's Belle De Jour's dream, her fantasy, her husband's dream, or if what's happening is reality itself. It calls for another watch, but it was pretty inspiring. Catherine Deneuve is wonderfully complex in this.

I have to say I find that film deathly boring. It's all very well done, and all that, but Christ is it slow.
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I can understand that. I wouldn't say Bunuel is for everyone, but he's up there (in my opinion) as one of the best directors of all time. L’Age d’or, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Viridiana are some of my favorites.

i think maybe i'll side with whit sillman re: the discreet charm (ha ha ha).

but don't miss simon of the desert! hilarious, as i recall.
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Like District 9, this is one of those movies where the fantastic production and effects almost make up for the absolute shit acting and casting. However, I will say this movie is better than District 9 because it had (a) less characters in general so less opportunities for bad acting; (b) had less dialogue per character than D9 so again, less opportunities for bad acting; (c) relied more so on scenery, setting, and effects than the actors, and so in this regard was visually brilliant. If you had just shown us a few scenes from this movie without any of the acting, like some of the panorama shots or wide-outs, you might have been fooled into thinking it was made by somebody decent. After all, what would the world do late-nights or boring weekend mid-afternoons without terrible movies on television to watch? What would TV be without these movies? It is synchronicity and a delightful survival of the fittest adaptation. Humans are crazy. Our flowers and mating dances are in actuality such shit movies and television. Our dance of survival is much less mystifying than the birds of paradise, but altogether more epic in scale. I mean, that movie must have cost millions (they're saying $90,000,000) of dollars and employed a thousand people.
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I can understand that. I wouldn't say Bunuel is for everyone, but he's up there (in my opinion) as one of the best directors of all time. L’Age d’or, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Viridiana are some of my favorites.

I like Bunuel too and agree that he's up there with the greats. I've just never been able to get into Belle De Jour.

Back to Colo(u)r of Money, besides Paul Newman's performance, I love the dialogue, which was written by probably my favourite contemporary novelist, Richard Price (The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, Clockers, etc). He's regularly called on by Hollywood to provide gritty, streetwise dialogue and sometimes writes for The Wire and is probably the only screenwriter today that I actively follow. If he's involved, even a crappy movie (say American Gangster) is guaranteed to have a few great lines. Very much a dive bar Billy Wilder.

 
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