The Official Movie Thread
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Bloopy
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I watched that the other day as it stood out when I happened to look up what's on that OceanicOddities YouTube channel! Super low budget and filmed in my birth town of Wellington, very amusing.
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There must have been some stiff competition in 2006 for that not to win an Oscar
Bloopy
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Also see Mega Time Squad (2018) to see how the quality of Kiwi time travel movies has endured more recently. The main actor puts on a voice that makes him a dead ringer for a friend's brother, including the part about living in a garage, hahaha:
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I usually don't mind New Zealand movies. I watched Snakeskin off that OO YT site and that was pretty good despite what must have been a fairly low budget. Deathgasm was stupidly fun and Black Sheep was fun too. But Element 16 wasn't good even if you excuse the low budget.
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That new movie set in NZ Forgive Us All was pretty good. I think the director is an Aussie sheila living over there too.
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Event 16 was good in a charming way. Especially the random dialogue, such as the woman asking her cat if it pissed on the bed again over a smooth jazz soundtrack. Or the dude who's basically bald saying "stay out of my hair".
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Yeah, nah, didn't get that.
It's got Richard Roxburgh and Cal Mulvey in it. I'll give that a go.
Vegard Pompey
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Vegard Pompey
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no other choice was insane. that scene might be the the best of the decade, or at least the best that doesn't involve an overhead perspective and dragon's breath ammunition. felt like my brain was breaking.
wish I could've seen it in theatres. would've gone to see it at a festival this weekend but you apparently need the full festival pass and it's $35, so I snagged a high-quality screener online.
wish I could've seen it in theatres. would've gone to see it at a festival this weekend but you apparently need the full festival pass and it's $35, so I snagged a high-quality screener online.
Bloopy
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I got carried away with seeing some very old movies lately. I watched all of Alfred Hitchcock's surviving silent feature films and had a better time than expected. I'd only seen The Lodger and Downhill before and stopped, as the latter is terribly dreary with support characters amounting to frayed plot ends.
The Farmer's Wife was my fav. The comedy is alright, but the parallels you can draw with dating in today's world make it hilarious. The guy is an asshole as soon as he doesn't get what he wants. Two women are depicted as neurotic in a very dated way, but another practically laughs him out of her house.
Champagne is a bit patchy but the twist is good. The main character amusingly ditches her father's plane mid-Atlantic to catch a ship. The scene where she drunkenly mixes cocktails and tries on different dresses is great.
The Pleasure Garden is good for his first hit out. Like a lot of his films it climaxes with violence. It's a bit odd how it starts out with one character as central but then shifts to the other partway in. Though perhaps the real star who was there all along is the dog named Cuddles. Very cool as I grew up with a cat named Cuddles.
Easy Virtue is basically just about a woman who's divorced twice (The shock! The horror!). Amusing to see something so utterly of its time.
Thank fuck talkies came along because the expressive acting in The Manxman is ludicrously over the top. I found The Ring to be quite a slog as well, though some of the boxing scenes are good. The silent version of Blackmail has a few good elements that were discarded when they reshot scenes for the sound version.
The Farmer's Wife was my fav. The comedy is alright, but the parallels you can draw with dating in today's world make it hilarious. The guy is an asshole as soon as he doesn't get what he wants. Two women are depicted as neurotic in a very dated way, but another practically laughs him out of her house.
Champagne is a bit patchy but the twist is good. The main character amusingly ditches her father's plane mid-Atlantic to catch a ship. The scene where she drunkenly mixes cocktails and tries on different dresses is great.
The Pleasure Garden is good for his first hit out. Like a lot of his films it climaxes with violence. It's a bit odd how it starts out with one character as central but then shifts to the other partway in. Though perhaps the real star who was there all along is the dog named Cuddles. Very cool as I grew up with a cat named Cuddles.
Easy Virtue is basically just about a woman who's divorced twice (The shock! The horror!). Amusing to see something so utterly of its time.
Thank fuck talkies came along because the expressive acting in The Manxman is ludicrously over the top. I found The Ring to be quite a slog as well, though some of the boxing scenes are good. The silent version of Blackmail has a few good elements that were discarded when they reshot scenes for the sound version.
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Damn another legend is gone! RIP Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, one of the greatest big screen bad guy actors ever.
