Did Aaron Sorkin and Quentin Tarantino ghost write Con Air? Chessmate
Wait. What? You are saying they wrote the other two? How the fuck did I not know this?
That is amazing. That has to be the most talented writing team in movie history.
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Face / Off was already the seminal action movie of my childhood / teenage years. Then I played poker a few time with Nick Cassavetes in Oklahoma at a local casino and itās now in pantheon status.
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I have many friends who worked on Point Break. One of them still has several of the parachutes and props used in the film.
Patrick Swayze and his brother both learned to skydive and got their licenses. BSBD, Patrick, you were a real one.
BSBD = Blue Skies, Black death. What we say instead of RIP
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Best flex in UP history!
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One of the guys on The Flop House recommended Brotherhood of the Wolf so I gave it a go and oh man this movie rips. It is a French gothic horror/romance monster movie about a beast killing villagers in pre-revolutionary France. It is very horny and it has martial arts and some of the cheesiest 2000ās-era CGI Iāve ever seen and itās also a clever whodunnit murder mystery. Also a lot of very problematic Native American mystical bullshit tropes. Basically something for everyone in this movie itās great.
Also, I re-watched Carnival of Souls. Man, what a classic. This dude was like hey this abandoned entertainment pavillion sure is spooky, what if we make an entire movie based on that. And it became one of the greatest indie horror films of all time.
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Watching Funny People for the first time. On Rogens first stand up he dors a hoke about Sandlers character being depressed, and makes a joke about Robin Williams coming on stage and slitting his wrists. Robin killed himself 5 years after the movie came out. My wife had a theory thia indicates that people in the industry, specifically Apatow knew he was depressed. Thoughts?
I havenāt seen any Paddington movie, and I donāt have high hopes, but the
1. Face Off. 2. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. 3. Paddington 2 joke was done so well that itās an inevitable consequence of having seen Unbearable Weight. I am at peace with the idea that P2 is actually terrible. It might actually make the joke funnier.
Paddington 1 and 2 are legit fun family films.
Re : face/off, i only learned recently that the amazing scene where Cage goes āI want to take his faceā¦offā several times was improvised, what a legend
https://twitter.com/inversedotcom/status/1541475036858646528?t=1qHl0ejYCtYy3haYNw_YFQ&s=19
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Awesome. I love learning about improvised iconic scenes.
Brotherhood of the wolf starring the asian Chairman from Iron Chef as a native. Lol
Itās not great in terms of Native American representation. Still a highly entertaining movie imo.
I couldnāt find it online but from seeing it as a teenage boy I mostly remember that it had a pretty great/funny transition where Monica Belluciās breast fades into a snowy hill
And speaking of funny cuts the one below from JP2 is hilarious (apologies if itās been already posted)
https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1535348923505618944?t=fyL4Dv41CzerN--4CpGMUg&s=19
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I donāt think I would recommend this to most people, but I had fun with Body Bags, a pilot for a proposed Showtime TV series that never got greenlit but instead got turned into a direct-to-DVD movie. Itās a horror anthology directed by John Carpenter and based on the old Cryptkeeper horror serials with all of the cheesy campy stupid fun of those classic Tales From the Crypt shows.
Haha, yeah this movie is so rowdy. Itās a monster movie that completely gaslights you into questioning if there even is a monster. And then it goes on an Agatha Christie tip. It has some incredible tits, too.
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I still canāt get over how great Carnival of Souls is. Itās like if David Lynch and Antonioni and Rod Serling all fucked and had a baby together. This one dude made the definitive arthouse horror movie for $33,000 and never made another movie after that.
+1 to body bags. Fun little movie. John Carpenter having a blast in it, too.
Random question for everyone. What are the top 10 movies in the IMDB top 250 that you havenāt seen?
My list:
5) 12 Angry Men
7) LOTR 3
10) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
17) Goodfellas
18) One Flew Over the Cuckooās Nest
21) Itās a Wonderful Life
23) City of God
25) Life Is Beautiful
27) Interstellar
30) Back to the Future
I assume most others will go far deeper into the list.
Holy shit see 5 immediately.
I believe its the only movie on my list I consider perfect.