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Miss Grace Jones

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

The Black Dahlia film is indeed very boring, and I am also not a fan of gore, with the exception of some good comedy, which I classify Hellbound as. A way, way less gruesome example of comedy would be Tremors. Much more gruesome examples of satirical comedy would be Verhoven's Robocop and Total Recall. Middle ground is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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Jimbo_G

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

And now for something completely different...

I enjoyed Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. recently, which my local cinema was showing, accompanied by a real human piano player. It's also available on YouTube.

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

And now for something completely different...

I enjoyed Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. recently, which my local cinema was showing, accompanied by a real human piano player. It's also available on YouTube.

Keaton broke his neck doing the water tower stunt for that film - https://firstcuriosity.com/entertainmen … -jr-stunt/

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Miss Grace Jones

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

^ The house falling on him with the window lined up just right should have killed him.

Can recommend Harold Lloyd as a soul mate to that insanity. Blew part of his hand off in one scene, had to hide it with a prosthetic glove for the rest of his career...

Safety Last! (1923)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEcTjhUN_7U
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Lloyd

Which is echoed in Blade Runner, where Deckard climbs the exterior of The Bradbury. The difference between plagiarism and genius is hiding your sources. Or, as Pablo Picasso said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

Or something to that effect...
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/

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Jimbo_G

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

I went to see the Odyssey at the cinema, the first time I've been in a nearly-full cinema for a long time. It's not the film of the century or anything, but I enjoyed every minute. Agamemnon's battle outfit is the perfect mix of awesome and very silly.

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

Been binging a bit lately, catching up with the stuff I’ve missed over the last half decade or so. Watched both the Sisu films (very good), The Covenant (decent), Primitive War (fun b-movie), They Cloned Tyrone (good), Dust Bunny (meh), The Gray Man (does this Gosling chap even have facial muscles?) and the last two Mission Impossible chapters (not enough Benji). Yeah, basically the easy to digest kind. I’m too old for the deep stuff these days.

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

Sisu - both I though were great.  The reast - I haven't seen.

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

(does this Gosling chap even have facial muscles?)

Anne Hathaway: laughs without forehead crinkling
Emily Blunt: sighs with no facial movement

Maybe it's a generational thing?

Nicole Kidman: grins eerily, almost maniacly, then laughs without moving her face Hahahaha, no!

Made it about twenty minutes into the very successful "Project Hail Mary" and noped out. No facial movement was the least of my problems with it. No cute droids was a bigger one.

I didn't make it even close to the introduction of this guy...

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com … 0a4f0a67a3

Walmart rancor.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com … de568cbe47

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Re: BunsenLabs film thread

I just put on "Grand Prix" (1966, dir. John Frankenheimer) for the first time. It's the gold standard of F1 racing films, and has a score by Maurice Jarre. I haven't scene any cinematography yet, there's an extended Overture at the beginning with a very 60's, very episodic orchestral soundtrack.

-edit- Update: The cinematography and sound design are both superb, of course.

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