Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I don't remember the last 4k disc I bought, and I've sold almost all that I did. But it sounds like I'm going to have to by Mulholland Dr - Criterion for at least one viewing and the supplemental material.
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
The Cable Guy is ####### beautiful.
movie breaks my heart. i was a fan of Jim Carrey in movies but not a fan of Jim Carrey movies. then Dumb & Dumber got close to what i wanted from him and then Cable Guy delivered, slathering those Jimmy talents atop the cone of what ridiculous, secret-squirrel ####chops we all are. loved it, thought the next step in the progression would make him a comedy god. but nobody else did, at least not those who'd liked Ace & Mask, so he lost his courage and started chasing Oscars. i can barely watch Cable Guy anymore, cuz it being so good makes me so sad
Don Quixote
Footballguy
I may have to look at that one next time there is a 50% off sale. I bought The Red Shoes last month as my first Criterion 4K UHD purchase, and that one was pretty stunning visually. I can only assume Mulholland Dr up to similar standard.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I was hooked from the get-go, and I think this is one that my friends and I equally loved and quoted way more than this other hits. Last night just confirmed my loved from the start - "Maybe I shouldn't have come at all.... Jerk Off!" cracks my ### up every time. Broderick was the perfect guy to pair with him too.
I will have to think about it more, but gut reaction is it's my favorite comedy of the 90s.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
good straightpersons are gold. folks acting bonzo aint funny enough. some of SNL's greatest characters, from Roseanne Rosanndanna to Stefon to Cicely Strong's amazing Jeanine Pirro worked because they had the right people there catching/reflecting the damage
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I don't mean this to be a shot at anyone, especially since comedy is so subjective but...
I've never seen Cable Guy and except for a few things in Liar, Liar...I've never found Carrey all that funny. In fact I think he's kind of lame.
I've never seen Cable Guy and except for a few things in Liar, Liar...I've never found Carrey all that funny. In fact I think he's kind of lame.
whoknew
Footballguy
Not movies, but Fire Marshall Bill and Vera De Milo (had to look up the name) were very funny characters.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
well, KP has proven over&over that he has no sense of humor. and i have flashbacks. you may well be right...
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
jamny
Footballguy
Jim Carrey is one of those rare individuals that make me smile just by looking at him. His Letterman interviews are gold. You can see the wheels turning just by looking in his eyes. One of the most naturally gifted funnymen I've ever seen. I don't think I've ever laughed as hard as the first time I saw Ace Ventura.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
wikkidpissah said:
thanks for this - I had only seen one of these before ...I love Jim Carrey - and think he's brilliant.
I get that some people don't take to the over-the-top stuff, but I like most all of his stuff
I have never been a fan of slapstick (never liked the 3 Stooges - even as a kid ...always felt bad about the people getting smacked around or bad things happening to them, guess it just hit my empathy button)
Carrey is an undeniable talent ...and funny as hell.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Last night was a Carrey double feature as I also watched The Truman Show. I had so many dumb questions running through my head the whole time like: do these people attend school twice? and where does Truman go for medical care if the entire hospital is actors?
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I was going to to a Weir double feature with Dead Poets last night, but saw that Cable Guy was on Prime again and couldn't pass that up.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I have to credit Wikkid a lot for my Weir knowledge/awareness but I put Peter Weir up against almost any film maker working from '75-'03 and he was at the head of the Aussie/New Z movement which ended up being pretty big with Peter Jackson, Jane Campion, Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce, etc. He should get an honorary Oscar this year. Few are still alive and more deserving of acknowledgment.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Me?
I've seen the vast majority of what I have been posting about. been on a 90s run this month, and very few have been new to me. Mostly touching base with ones I hadn't seen for decades.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I have to credit Wikkid a lot for my Weir knowledge/awareness but I put Peter Weir up against almost any film maker working from '75-'03 and he was at the head of the Aussie/New Z movement which ended up being pretty big with Peter Jackson, Jane Campion, Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce, etc. He should get an honorary Oscar this year. Few are still alive and more deserving of acknowledgment.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I haven't seen his mid-80s movies Mosquito Coast and Witness. He a stronger film career than I had initially thought before looking just now.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
That the one with Soundgarden? IF I have seen one full episode of SNL, that would be the one. I remember dying watching his lifeguard at the blow-up pool bit.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
My off the cuff rankings of his must see movies:
1. Truman Show
2,. The Year of Living Dangerously
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
4. Witness
5. The Last Wave
6. Master and Commander
7. Dead Poet Society
8. Gallipoli
Ilov80s
Footballguy
He was so funny, that is burned into my head. I couldn't have been more excited for that episode.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Clearing the palate between Shakespeare films, HBO+ has Breaker Morant as part of their TCM shard. I had never seen it before. I'm not really a huge fan of the military courtroom drama sub genre. This is a really good film. Given that it's a period piece, it also aged well, it seems of its time rather than a movie that was produced in 1980. I don't know that I'd have made the same choice Morant did at the end, but that's probably part of what makes the story compelling.
On the side, I couldn't help thinking, throughout the film, that though there was the tragedy front and center which was the focus of attention, there's an unspoken tragedy going on under the surface. While all we're really caring about in the main thrust of the film is the resolution of the conflicts between the Australian, British and German concerns, all of it exists on top of a black indigenous subclass population which is hardly represented in the film and has no say in the determination of what goes on in their world at this time. I wonder if this film were made today, would someone have tried to work some of that angle into it?
Don't let this last musing of mine affect your enjoyment or appreciation of the film - it's worth watching.
On the side, I couldn't help thinking, throughout the film, that though there was the tragedy front and center which was the focus of attention, there's an unspoken tragedy going on under the surface. While all we're really caring about in the main thrust of the film is the resolution of the conflicts between the Australian, British and German concerns, all of it exists on top of a black indigenous subclass population which is hardly represented in the film and has no say in the determination of what goes on in their world at this time. I wonder if this film were made today, would someone have tried to work some of that angle into it?
Don't let this last musing of mine affect your enjoyment or appreciation of the film - it's worth watching.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
That is awesome you liked it. I did as well. It was totally new to me but one of the FBGs in the COVID summer movie draft took it for court room. I sought it out after that. I really liked it. How would you rank it among court room movies? Are there others from that genre you really like or dislike?
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
my ol' drinking/poker buddy, the late Bill Kelley, wrote the (Oscar-winning) script for Witness. Bill was amazed by three things - poker skill, the human hunger to capture God & Peter Weir. we talked a great deal about writing for the screen (he wrote a thousand Gunsmokes/Kung Fus/ etcs) and he would steamily marvel that, while some directors got a lot, some directors got precious little of what he was going for in a script, Weir - without all that much consult - put what Bill "saw" as he was writing Witness onto the screen as tho he'd drawn it out of his skull with a straw.
because of that, i recommended Weir to my director cousin when he got to helm Memoirs of a Geisha, when all he'd done was musicals. he arranged dinner with him during the next awards season, and went from nothing but doubts about the visual logic of the piece to no worries at all in the course of one lonely meal. just an extraordinary sense of place, and taking one to places they havent been is what flikkashows do best
ETA: look at Master & Commander (if, unlike me, you can get this out of your head), too. care for it or not, hella movie-making
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
One of my hardest laughs was in Part 2 with the damn rhino.jamny said:
I like the point about seeing the wheels too - he reminds of Robin Williams in that regard.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
I haven't seen a ton of court room dramas as it's not really up my alley. This is right up there, and I like at as a movie, not just as a courtroom drama. Others in the courtroom domain I liked are A Time To Kill, My Cousin Vinnie (it counts, right?), and Philadelphia. There are some I think I should see that I haven't, like 12 Angry Men, To Kill A Mockingbird, that I have a hunch I would like as well. Maybe And Justice For All?
Ilov80s
Footballguy
I never get old of these stories. If I had the skill and ambition to attempt to become a film maker in any sense, Weir is the guy I would study the most. You put it well for how he was able to take an idea and put it to light and sound so seamlessly.
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
El Floppo
Footballguy
so good... every one of them. I might move them around a bit (I loved Master and Commander and Last Wave... more than you, apparently), but can't argue with any of them. I'd include both Fearless and The Way Back- both underrated films of his- somewhere towards the bottom. I wasn't a fan of Mosquito Coast and never saw The Cars that ate Paris (always wanted to). has anybody seen that one?
Ilov80s
Footballguy
No doubt the order is tough but always cool to see another Weir fan. I really like all of those 8 movies I posted so rankings are rough. I haven't seen The Cars that Ate Paris but I would love to know where to see it!
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
i must also recommend his last film The Way Back. A bit of a slog because it's about human endurance, but it came out after i had become fascinated with the "back of the world" as i came to call it - the north and western slopes of the lesser Himalayas. i'd been toying with a story about a cop who overcomes PTSD with high-altitude hiking and the Pamir Mountains became fascinating to me and i imagined my character being taken in by a tribe of mountain people who'd even kicked the Taliban's ### up in those unpronounceable -Stan countries. sure enough, Weir "captured" that area like i'd been trying to. i dont know if it would translate to citizens, but it is quite a thing.
ETA: i saw "Cars..........." on TCM a few yrs ago. more of a curiosity than a movie, but kinda cool
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BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
The Way Back is epic
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Tonight is As Good As It Gets. 
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Whst are the odds that Melvin's books are terrible POS?
jamny
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
This is one we will not agree on. More than the Cuba Gooding tie, I kept thinking about Jerry Maguire during the movie.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
I've seen all of them and that's why he's one of my favorite directors.
2, 4, 7 and 8 would be my favorites.
