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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Hayden - Jul 30, 2005 8:38:14 pm PDT #6282 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I just saw Marathon Man. Damn! That's a great little thriller there. Never a dull moment, and it has the balls not to explain what the fuck is going on for over half the movie.

One of my college buddies used to drop "Is it safe?" at the funniest times. I thought a bit about your Blood Simple question up-thread and decided that I need to re-watch it.

I am now adding Once Upon a Time in the West to my Netflix queue.

Awesome. Don't expect it to make logical sense and you'll be fine. Each scene is as iconic as Westerns come.

Polter-Cow - Jul 30, 2005 9:00:08 pm PDT #6283 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I thought a bit about your Blood Simple question up-thread and decided that I need to re-watch it.

Thanks. Let me know if you come up with an answer.

sumi - Jul 31, 2005 11:27:44 am PDT #6284 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I went to see Sky High yesterday. It was fun. Also the soundtrack was made-up of covers of '80s songs which was also fun. And there was a character of last name, "Grayson" of whom I will say no more.

Also, both Dave Foley AND Bruce Campbell.

Strega - Jul 31, 2005 1:58:19 pm PDT #6285 of 10002

Oh, I'd missed that. P-C, faking photos just requires patience, especially with b&w. Take a sheet of cardboard and cut holes in it where you want the wounds to be in the photo. Put it over the photographic paper before you expose it to light. When you develop the paper, there will be black spots on the paper: bullet holes. For the blood, same thing, except you expose a larger area for less time to get grey blobs.

Did you listen to the commentary track? It's the best commentary ever.

Polter-Cow - Jul 31, 2005 3:02:51 pm PDT #6286 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

No, I didn't, though I read it was faked, which sounds very amusing.

§ ita § - Jul 31, 2005 6:34:32 pm PDT #6287 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

TiVo showed me the first four minutes of Stealth. I'm pretty sure it's not my movie (props to Foxx for keeping us on our toes?), but I wonder how much effective the first four minutes are as a selling tool.

I think I'd be interested in seeing the first four minutes of more movies before I made my decision.

Jesse - Jul 31, 2005 6:39:12 pm PDT #6288 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I wonder how much effective the first four minutes are as a selling tool.

Maybe a lot of other people saw it, and had the same reaction as you? [link]

Jim - Aug 01, 2005 4:23:32 am PDT #6289 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

They did this with the Dawn of the Dead remke over here they showed the whole precredits bit. Which was the best bit of the movie.

bon bon - Aug 01, 2005 5:51:00 am PDT #6290 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

They did that over here, too. It's the only part I've seen, but it's fabulous.

Calli - Aug 01, 2005 11:29:48 am PDT #6291 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Has anyone here heard of scarecrow.com? [link] They seem to have really some good prices on dvds, but I've never heard of them before.

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