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FBG Movie Club: We're Getting the Band Back Together: Metallica vs Nina Simone Movie Docs (3 Viewers)
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identikit
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
My browser didn't know what to do either so it went with: Error establishing a database connectionI wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at this, so I went with "thinking."
I love all 3 but it's not that kind of vote.
rockaction
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
The kind where people who ask questions don't get a say. OK?
Actually, I will add a poll in the near future where I tell you the theme (not the movies) and we vote. I want to wait until it's a bit closer so I am confident the movies I have in mind are still streaming.
rockaction
Footballguy
I'm holding out regardless. They devalued my position in the CBA and I want what's coming to me, vote count or no vote count.
Man of Constant Sorrow
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rockaction
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Vote for the November Movie Theme
Option 1: Noirvember
Option 2: Hitchcockian
Option 3: The Deep State
Reply to this post with your vote and I will keep tabs (note must have at least 7 votes for it to be official). Last day to vote is Election Day Tuesday, November 4th
Option 1: Noirvember
Option 2: Hitchcockian
Option 3: The Deep State
Reply to this post with your vote and I will keep tabs (note must have at least 7 votes for it to be official). Last day to vote is Election Day Tuesday, November 4th
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The Man With No Name
Footballguy
Love Noir and Hitchcock(ian) films, but I'll go with
1. Noirvember
1. Noirvember
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Mice. They’re all for ya as long as you’re in the chips. I never seen a dame yet that’s still around when you hit the skids.
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I walked. For how long I don't know; I didn't have a watch. They don't put that kind of time in watches anyway....
bigbottom
Footballguy
My dad had this movie on VHS when I was a kid. I don’t think I ever watched the whole movie. Just the first five minutes. About 100 times.
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bigbottom
Footballguy
I loved Let the Right One In. I thought pretty much everything about it was brilliant.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Did you just watch it, or you talking in general?
Surprised there hasn't been more chatter about Let the Right One In around here. I guess it is the harder one to track down though. I was going to do a rewatch this weekend so its fresh in my mind.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Noirvember.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
How could I have known that murder could sometimes smell like honeysuckle?
Hey, you know somethin'? You ought to be doin' radio commercials - how to talk a lot and say nothin'.
identikit
Footballguy
bigbottom
Footballguy
Sorry, I didn’t just watch it, which I know is the point of this thread. I’ve seen it twice previously though. There is just so much I like about it though. The acting performances. The mood. The cinematography. The story. The weirdness.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
The point of this thread is to talk about movies. Doesn't matter if you just rewatched it, I was just asking out of curiosity.
Eephus
Footballguy
Speaking of which, I finally finished watching De Palma's latest movie Domino on Netflix. It's a low budget cop vs. terrorists affair set in Copenhagen, Brussels and Almeria. The best known star is Guy Pearce playing a CIA bad guy. To be fair to De Palma, I don't think Hitchcock could have made a good movie from this script but he probably would have kept things moving along quicker to hide the plot holes.
It looks like De Palma saved his budget for three big signature set pieces. The rooftop chase at the start of the movie is the best by far. The first person perspective of a mass shooting on a film festival red carpet is creepy even if you take it as an industry inside joke. The climax where the good guys foil (SPOILER) a terror attack on a Spanish bullring is like a parody of a De Palma film. It has everything you came for: overhead camera angles, slow motion, long wordless passages with swelling strings and Bolero rhythms, more slow motion, binocular shots, intercutting. It's completely ridiculous but it has a strange magnificence to it.
One of the best things about it is the score is from longtime De Palma collaborator Pino Donaggio who has provided music for eight De Palma films dating back to Carrie.
Two stars
It looks like De Palma saved his budget for three big signature set pieces. The rooftop chase at the start of the movie is the best by far. The first person perspective of a mass shooting on a film festival red carpet is creepy even if you take it as an industry inside joke. The climax where the good guys foil (SPOILER) a terror attack on a Spanish bullring is like a parody of a De Palma film. It has everything you came for: overhead camera angles, slow motion, long wordless passages with swelling strings and Bolero rhythms, more slow motion, binocular shots, intercutting. It's completely ridiculous but it has a strange magnificence to it.
One of the best things about it is the score is from longtime De Palma collaborator Pino Donaggio who has provided music for eight De Palma films dating back to Carrie.
Two stars
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah I need to take the time to rent it this weekend/week. I am excited to watch- just lazy and putting on the horror movies I recorded on TCM or that are on NF/AP.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
You're like a leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another. You can’t help anything you do, even murder.
Keep on riding me and they're gonna be picking iron out of your liver.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Not sure how familiar you are with the Smithereens, but noir was an influence on their material, especially early on. That's probably the best example, but there are others.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I know A Girl Like You and that everyone used to want to blow everything to them.
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Fun fact for ya: that song was their "response" to the burgeoning grunge sound coming from the left coast. Bonus fun fact for ya: this song was in the running for use in Say Anything, but lost out to that Peter Gabriel song. Guess theirs was too on the nose.
Blood and Roses (one of my many personal favorites of theirs) was used in the film Dangerously Close.
Behind the Wall of Sleep was one of the first of their songs that I heard. I was hooked.
They even do pretty kickass covers of other songs, like Time Won't Let Me, which was featured the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Time Cop.
Sorry for going on so much about them, but noir is in their wheelhouse, and they are in mine. That last one is from 2011, 30+ years since they started. FWIW, they still tour despite their lead singer passing away in 2017. Marshall Crenshaw and Robin Wilson of the Gin Blossoms take turns filling in for him, and the group was recently inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, performing arts category.
GOD SAVE THE SMITHEREENS!
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Don Quixote
Footballguy
I still need to watch both. Downloaded the Kanopy app for it though. The Nats’ postseason run has been dominating my TV watching lately..
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Fine tune. Nice reference. And any chance to see Suzanne Vega's eyes is a great way to start one's online day. If i had a gf w eyes like that, she'd never get any sleep cuz i wouldn't let her close em...
For noir citations, let's not forget the master:
Only one i've seen top Chandler was William Faulkner himself, scripting Chandler's The Big Sleep:
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
I could listen to Suzanne Vega sing the phone book, and I think I once got a semi listening to 99.9 f.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Watching Let the Right One In, pretty good so far. It definitely has more heart than one typically finds it a horror film. It's not what I would call scary but I don't think horror movies have to be scary. It is sad more than anything and reminds me a lot of KA's pick last month: The Sweet Hereafter.
Osaurus
Footballguy
For me, it is a brutally honest situation and something has to change for these desperate characters (albeit better and/or for worse). Great film
Ilov80s
Footballguy
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
Watched Carrie last night. I have seen this movie a lot. That includes seeing at the theaters when it was first released. I enjoy it every time. Does a great job of building sympathy and hope all at the same time for Carrie. Effects are minimal and are great. Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie are great together. This may be one of the best adaptations of a King novel in my opinion. It's pretty faithful to the source material.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Man of Constant Sorrow
Footballguy
IDon't forget to watch your scary movies these next 2 days
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Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Watched Carrie the other day. Wasn't sure I was going to survive the first 5 minutes but I powered through it. Also forgot how much I liked Piper Laurie until I saw her again in this.Don't forget to watch your scary movies these next 2 days
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Charlie Steiner
Footballguy
Since this came out in '76, I guess he set the precedent for Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Porky's. I'm just not sure what DePalma was going for. Didn't really work as a juxtaposition against where the rest of the movie was going, and seemed gratuitous even for its era. Seems now more like he did it because he could.
But it does make me wonder why Nancy Allen wasn't more of a star.
Eephus
Footballguy
It's a really entertaining movie that's loaded with surprises.
Anybody have any suggestions for the next Bong Joon Ho films to watch next?
