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Hentai-Semitism dijo:
They aren't all exactly like Brazil, but Gilliam does have plenty of trademarks: wide angle shots, extreme closeups of people's faces, Dutch angles, weird costumes, dwarves etc. If you see a random scene from one of his movies and you don't know he's the director, you can usually tell it's him anyway after a few seconds.

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I meant story and pacing cause I know munchausens and time bandits have wild stories. I didn't know fear and loathing was his as well, seems strange that a fantasy comedy guy would do a hunter s thompson movie about gonzo journalism and booze. Brazils story is crap, it's just a guy trapped in a whimsical dystopia who has dreams intersecting with reality on more than one occasion, who cares. This is just 1984 with scifi elements and some comedy and the dream sequences are terrible, which is bad cause they're the main point of the story, such a slog to get through. I remember I quit exactly during the samurai fight, idk if it's first or second but it got so boring that I just switched it off and flipped to something else. The only good part of the movie for me was the deniro character, who was very well written and frankly, amazing for deniros standards cause he can't do comedy or whimsy properly. I don't really mind directorial style when it comes to shots and stuff, unless they're unwatchable they don't really ruin the movie for me.
 
I just remembered I had started watching Brazil years ago, stopped at some point because I wanted to pace myself to properly appreciate this masterpiece, and promised myself to finish watching it soon. It was a time when I thought I had some kind of duty to get into films more seriously and Brazil is considered to be an excellent absurdist dystopia, and it is important to spot the parallels to modern society etc etc.
Soon never came, I broke my own promise to myself and never finished watching it, I had obviously stopped watching it because I was bored and anyways, British cinema makes me depressed even in small doses so why should I bother with it at all at this point.
 
funwithshemales69 dijo:
The plot is shit, the dialogue is shit, the dream sequences really ruin the pacing. Its really bad, one of the few movies which I quit watching cause the dream sequences just played over and over again.
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Thems fighting words, my nigga.

Seriously though, what is shit about the plot?
I think it's a really good satire of bureaucracy and also, it's really funny, at least to me.
Not to mention, and I did talk about this in anothyer thread, it's a movie about a person with a soul in a soulless world, a dreamer in a dystopia where dreams don't exist and can't exist anymore.
The dream sequences show how the protagonist wants to live an exciting life which is not possible in the society he lives in. Everything is filed and accounted for, everything is dull and grey, paperwork rules the world.
The main character is in total opposition to the way the world works.

It's also just a beautiful one of a kind movie that's a genuine work of art.
I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, I'll admit.

I understand it's not for everyone.
 
Beelzebub's Lawyer dijo:
The dream sequences show how the protagonist wants to live an exciting life which is not possible in the society he lives in. Everything is filed and accounted for, everything is dull and grey, paperwork rules the world.
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Tbf if this is the actual read of the movie, which I didn't get, then they should've made it good looking like pink Floyd the wall, use a variety of mediums, animation and transitions to signify that. All I got from the movie is it's 1984 + minority report but with quirky British humor. Since most of the dream sequences were practical effects, they were not that whimsical or expressive as they could've been. Or even that colorful, the world was gray and all but the dreams were also mostly gray environments with smoke and fog. Real waste of using jonathan pryce cause I did like his acting.
 
Roller boys. For some reason, the guy who's a white supremacist is the bad guy. You should sell your race out for mediocre pussy. It tries really hard to make. The white supremacist out to the be the bad guy, but it fails spectacularly. It's also hilarious because it's people with 9 these haircuts.
The Blacklist is actually a pretty decent show. This is not really anything woke in it. It's really just. Pretty decent. I would say crime detective drama.

Hudson & Rex​

Honestly, it's a pretty buy the book number. Detective show, but ultimately it's pretty. Non posed, and it's something that is surprisingly well written. For what it is.


Honestly, every season of Red Dwarf. If you don't know what Red Dwarf is, it's basically if Doctor Who was actually funny. And the. We're actually good.
It's a show that's been canceled more times in Futurama. But most of the cast has good humor about it. If you like Black Hatter, you're gonna like Red Dwarf.


I know it's a cliche, but. Deep Space 9 is still one of the best interpretations of the Star Trek universe.

If you like Warhammer 40K, most of the. Animations are good.

The Postman is a really good post apocalyptic movie. So is a boy and his dog.

And Me Within is a classic, I would say 1980s science fiction. Movie. Probably one of my favorites.
 
drammamean dijo:
Split Second (1992) - Synopsis: In the distant future of 2008, a rogue detective (Rutger Hauer) utilizes unconventional methods to capture an animalistic killer on the flooded streets of a post climate change London. Alastair Duncan co-stars as the Oxford educated new partner tasked with reigning in Harley Stone's unconventional ways. Kim Cattral's talents are fully on display as the estranged love interest.

This movie is what I would call mildly entertaining schlock. It does some interesting things but being low budget ($7 million) pretty much everything is half baked. A flooded city makes for a novel setting and there's some interesting character development but it seems like they might have been torn between a couple of ideas, getting stuck in an awkward no man's land. The movie probably would've been better if they'd just fully committed to one idea.

I'm not one of these people who gets a kick out of bad movies, I will quit part way through a movie once I decide enough is enough, so I wouldn't call this bad; it just isn't good either. If you're bored but don't want to have to pay too much attention, maybe on a lazy Sunday afternoon, give this one a try. I think people who rate it highly probably grew up watching it, everyone else will only be slightly entertained, which is no bad thing.

Rating: 6/10
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There's a Rifftraxed version of it which you might like a little better:

 
Fishnumm dijo:
heat is the best heist movie
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Idk I still really like oceans eleven just cause of childhood nostalgia and the style. A lot of things came together to make a near perfect movie for me. But heat is still up there, I wish they explained the strategies and tactics a bit more cause its too technical. Minor exposition about how the police can trace things, why they're stealing bonds at the beginning, how their tech works, police attack strategy, escape strategy, the jon voight character, how he procures stuff or arranges transport, etc.
 
funwithshemales69 dijo:
Idk I still really like oceans eleven just cause of childhood nostalgia and the style. A lot of things came together to make a near perfect movie for me. But heat is still up there, I wish they explained the strategies and tactics a bit more cause its too technical. Minor exposition about how the police can trace things, why they're stealing bonds at the beginning, how their tech works, police attack strategy, etc.
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i havent seen oceans eleven tbh
 
funwithshemales69 dijo:
Idk I still really like oceans eleven just cause of childhood nostalgia and the style. A lot of things came together to make a near perfect movie for me. But heat is still up there, I wish they explained the strategies and tactics a bit more cause its too technical. Minor exposition about how the police can trace things, why they're stealing bonds at the beginning, how their tech works, police attack strategy, escape strategy, the jon voight character, how he procures stuff or arranges transport, etc.
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Sounds like you'd like "Ronin". It has lots of scenes of people explaining strategies and tactics.

funwithshemales69 dijo:
Amazing movie, imagine those old army shows like band of brothers or guns of the navarone, where bunch of guys fuck shit up, that but for heists. Plus cool music and chemistry. Each character is a distinct specialist, they all have to resolve their idiocies and work together to rob a casino.
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Mission: Impossible the show is basically a good Ocean's Eleven heist film every episode, with a briefing scene at the start where they introduce the specialists and strategize how to pull off the mission (and like Ocean's Eleven, they leave out enough stuff so when it all goes awry you don't know if its actually part of the plan or not). Of course, the tech is all pure 60's but with some weird gadgets from time to time.

The Mission:Impossible films went more the Bond movie travelogue route with lots of shooting and fancy locales, but the show was pure heist film. Oh, and lots of Nazis and smoking.

BubbaRobot887 dijo:
If you can get a hold of it(the dvds are not avalible anyone I foumd one disc at a flee market)watch the Sean Bean series Sharp, it is one of the best series I have ever seen.
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It's also on Youtube. And in 1080p!

Though sadly it looks like the Horatio Hornblower series has been flagged into oblivion.
 
WhiskeyJack dijo:
Sounds like you'd like "Ronin". It has lots of scenes of people explaining strategies and tactics.
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What a fucking coincidence, I was googling it as soon as I saw heat cause they seemed similar. I will watch it some day. I just want stuff explained cause I'm too dumb to get them instantly. There are many facts which are pulled from nowhere which I would like explained, like police response time, maintenance response time when the electricity goes out, how long the camera bug will last, where they get their weapons, stuff like that. I have the same problem when I read military stories, I posted that in another thread but when it's large scale warfare, idk what's happening besides these guys shooting those guys. Why and how they target tanks and do reconaissance I don't know.
WhiskeyJack dijo:
Mission: Impossible the show is basically a good Ocean's Eleven heist film every episode, with a briefing scene at the start where they introduce the specialists and strategize how to pull off the mission (and like Ocean's Eleven, they leave out enough stuff so when it all goes awry you don't know if its actually part of the plan or not). Of course, the tech is all pure 60's but with some weird gadgets from time to time.
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I mainly like 2001 oceans eleven cause of the cast, the crew and the soundtrack. It's very basic when it comes to heisting but I still cry when I see that ending with the fountain and clair de lune playing. You'd never get that chemistry between 12 or so guys anywhere else, maximum has been 6 or 7 in the case of old war movies. Dirty dozen doesn't quite match it cause some of them are completely forgettable like the Donald Sutherland character.

Edit: The chemistry is so good that I can name all the guys off the top of my head. The clooney guy, the pitt guy, Bernie mac, carl reiner, the other jewish guy with the cigar (forgot name), don cheadle tech guy, the Chinese dwarf acrobat, matt damon dunce, casey affleck, his partner and one more guy I don't remember. I haven't watched this movie in a while, couple years.
 
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BubbaRobot887 dijo:
People who say George Lucas can't direct actors have not seen American Graffiti, the whole movie rides on Lucas' ability to direct actors and it is an underrated classic.
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I wouldn't say he can never do it but he absolutely blew at it during the prequels. Both Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen, excellent actors, came across as wooden and lifeless. Maybe it was just the material, but he wasn't able to elicit the kind of performances you'd usually expect of the actors in those movies.

And obviously he did a good job directing the original.

The prequels were badly directed, though. They still stand head and shoulders above Soy Wars, and it's not like I felt cheated leaving the theater, because they were enjoyable enough. The fact that I went to see every one of them actually IN a theater, even having seen the previous ones, speaks for itself.
 
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