Forgot Naked Gun 33 1/3 ends with some dumb transphobic bullshit.
Trying to think if anything in the entire movie made me laugh…probably not.
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Naked gun 3 is the meanest and worst of the original 3, that transphobic joke really sours what is already a pretty bad time. It makes a joke of Frank being domestic over and over and it’s really dumb.
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getting michael rappaport to play himself but also the most despicable person in the movie is a stroke of genius
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25th hour and bamboozled are great! me and daphny were talking about get on the bus the other night. that’s another good one. this is what im talking about!!!
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i saw get on the bus in theatres with my brother and for like at least two years after whenever we’d ride a bus hed make me get on first so he could go GET ON THE BUS (a spike lee joint) out loud. hed also do it when i was about to take the bus somewhere by myself, which happened basically every day, it happened so much that every time i see a bus i think GET ON THE BUS (a spike lee joint)
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I rly liked get on the bus. Also loved Summer of Sam. It is fucking hilarious, he hates italians so much. I even like his little kickstarter era films like da sweet blood of jesus and red hook summer. Gonna torrent the shit out of highest 2 lowest
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whenever people talk about the tepid “political subtext” of whatever crap new movie i always think there was a time when spike lee was making studio movies and he opened malcolm x with the adhan over the warner bros logo before transitioning to footage of the rodney king beating and three hours later ending the movie with a special guest appearance from nelson mandela quoting malcolm to a classroom full of school children
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Admittedly my opinion of spike lee plummeted pretty sharply with blackkklansman being pro cop liberal slop but his work in the 80s and 90s was mostly great
Last Voyage of the Demeter is a fucking romp. You go in knowing that this whole thing is doomed and that Dracula is gonna drac out on this whole ship of fools. Dracula is suitably monstery instead of being big sexy. It’s not quite the 19th century rendition of Alien I’d expected(killing the dog up front demonstrates this) but it was certainly not what I’d consider a surprizing film even if it has some twists.
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yeah i caught this last night and, idk, i was initially very offput by it. the first hour or w/e in the penthouse is pretty grueling to watch, imo. but when it moves to the streets it felt more like a spike lee (joint). some of the choices were so bewildering, tho! like… the screen wipe with the logo, the cop with “1000” in her calculator, and that fucking score was killing me.
best ears in the business…but the coldest heart
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That’s where it deviated most from the original so that’s an interesting take. I did love the studio scene as a homage to the prison window scene in the original, then they did it again
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Roadhouse. A Hong Kong action film by way of Kansas City. Sleazy. Wholesome. About how a bar owner, a car salesman, a rancher, and an auto parts store manager turn a corrupt businessman into ground beef. All the stars are here. Terry Funk. Bigfoot.
There are a lot of boobs and butts in this film but somehow, somehow it’s tasteful. Somehow they make the nudity fit within the film’s logic.
It’s really great how this film has multiple lives. First as a flop. Then as an ironic classic. And now it’s simply a classic.
Sometimes you just need to see a bunch of dudes beat the shit out of each other. It’s good to see the bad guy get what’s his in the end.
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I always fucking laugh at the scene where one of the waitresses at the double deuce visits swayze with breakfast and like immediately orgasms at the sight of his bare ass. Or ben gazzara menacingly watching him fuck from across the lake in his little rocking chair. And “uses his private helicopter to scare the shit out of horses for no reason” is an all-timer way of showing that someone is a pure villain in every conceivable way
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Having the goons drive around in an Eagle Premier is an inspired choice.
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it makes perfect sense!!! it sort of looks like a classy drug dealer mercedes at a distance and then you look at it up close and realize it is absolutely a two bit midwestern sleazeball shithead car
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Also something very important: They have Bigfoot crush some cars. You can’t have a monster truck in a movie and not have it crush some cars.
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thanks for clarification, was looking at this econobox-esque design and thought ‘hold on, that’s not a ben-’
that’s indeed a strong choice!
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I swear that scene birthed Rolling Vengence in some Canadian brain.
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Was browsing the public access streaming service and noticed The Handmaiden was available for only a couple of more hours so me and @aislesgrises made it our movie night. A good time! Every time there was naked lesbian sex on screen we said “Tax money” to each other.
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Road House has been my favourite film since 2007 when I picked up the DVD on a lark without any knowledge of it
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