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Postby nocera » Sat Jan 08, 2022 5:15 pm

Reno 911: The Hunt for QAnon is bad. It’s very bad.

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Postby NTP66 » Sat Jan 08, 2022 5:26 pm

That’s what I read. Already deleted it from TiVo.

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Postby tifosi77 » Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:14 pm

We went to the Academy Museum today, and it was pretty great. It's literally at the other of the block I lived on for 6 or 7 years, so it was also a return to my old 'hood. The exhibits are a little thin, but what they do have is excellent. There's a film about sound design that's narrated by Ben Burtt (they break down the opening temple escape from Raiders). I bought us a season pass with unlimited admissions for a year, and I think I'll go back at least once and spend the whole time ogling the Carlo Rambaldi xenomorph skull from Alien.

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Postby NTP66 » Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:18 pm

Ghostbusters Afterlife was okay. Expected better based on some of the comments here.

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Postby dodint » Sat Jan 08, 2022 9:49 pm

We went to the Academy Museum today, and it was pretty great. It's literally at the other of the block I lived on for 6 or 7 years, so it was also a return to my old 'hood. The exhibits are a little thin, but what they do have is excellent. There's a film about sound design that's narrated by Ben Burtt (they break down the opening temple escape from Raiders). I bought us a season pass with unlimited admissions for a year, and I think I'll go back at least once and spend the whole time ogling the Carlo Rambaldi xenomorph skull from Alien.
Saw that on FB, looked really fun.

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Postby nocera » Sun Jan 09, 2022 12:54 pm



I feel bad for Pixar but happy for me.

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Postby count2infinity » Mon Jan 10, 2022 2:39 pm

My kid is home sick again today. She gets to watch movies when she’s sick… generally no questions asked. Today she’s going for the Bruno hat trick:

Encanto
Luca
Cinderella

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Postby dodint » Mon Jan 10, 2022 3:07 pm

The Big Hit is so underrated.

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Postby tifosi77 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 3:13 pm

Some of the highlights from our trip to the Academy Museum.
Mrs Tif has never seen Citizen Kane, and recently said she'd like for us to watch. This is literally the first exhibit we saw, and I was like "Um... spoiler alert." It's funny to me because it is simultaneously the most famous McGuffin in movie history, and also probably the biggest plot hole in movie history.
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Bruce Lee's wardrobe from Enter The Dragon
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Red carpet dress worn by super boss Rita Moreno
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Vlad Tepes wardrobe from Bram Stoker's Dracula (they also have Eiko Ishioka's Oscar for Best Wardrobe on display)
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Phone booth from OG Blade Runner
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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius
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Armature used to animate the CG dinos in Jurassic Park in 1993
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Some wildly different interpretations of meeting space creatures
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SHARK! Re-cast by Greg Nicotero using original molds. 26' long and weighs around 1,300 pounds.
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This is my old block, photographed from the observation deck of the museum. if this museum existed when I lived there I would go every other day.
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Postby dodint » Mon Jan 10, 2022 3:20 pm

re: Rosebud.

The Butler.

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Postby eddy » Mon Jan 10, 2022 4:16 pm

Awesome stuff

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:22 pm

Great pics tif

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Postby tifosi77 » Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:24 pm

The problem with the Butler theory is that he doesn't reveal he was in the room with Kane until after almost 2 hours of movie have elapsed; another character revealed Kane's final word to the movie world and set the story in motion. It's either a plot hole or bad writing and directing.

Either way, it's just about the only flaw in the film.

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Postby eddy » Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:26 pm

Speaking of movies with very few flaws, I watched Howard the Duck. Holy ****, that is one weird and horny flick. No idea how that got made. Also not sure how it got put out on 4k, but that is a very nice looking disc.

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:22 pm

just watched Lethal Weapon for the first time in like 20 years. How come there’s so much hoopla about Die Hard being a man xmas movie and not Lethal Weapon? LW is almost overtly a Christmas movie

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Postby dodint » Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:32 pm

*sigh*

The Die Hard trope is only about 10 years old. It's just a thing to make slow people feel clever.

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Postby nocera » Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:44 pm

tif, that’s your cue.

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Postby dodint » Mon Jan 10, 2022 9:57 pm

I admire his tenacity. Extending the position to go so far as to say White Christmas is not a Christmas movie is stunning. I will readily admit he has been living rent free in my head since unloading that one.

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Postby MalkinIsMyHomeboy » Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:04 pm

*sigh*

The Die Hard trope is only about 10 years old. It's just a thing to make slow people feel clever.
I know and I get the joke but it’s weird to me that Die Hard is the chosen action film and not Lethal Weapon as LW seems to have a lot more Xmas elements in it

maybe it’s because Die Hard is a much more popular (Die Hard has 844k reviews on imdb, LW has 250k)

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Postby Dickie Dunn » Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:07 pm

Tick, Tick… Boom! was fantastic and Andrew Garfield absolutely killed it.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:04 pm

just watched Lethal Weapon for the first time in like 20 years. How come there’s so much hoopla about Die Hard being a man xmas movie and not Lethal Weapon? LW is almost overtly a Christmas movie
*dramatically pushes chair back and rises up*

The plot of Die Hard is reliant upon it being a holiday party; you satisfy all the requirements for all the characters converging at that same point in time without the need for additional exposition. Its plot is more dependent on it taking place at Christmas than is It's A Wonderful Life.

The events in the plot of Lethal Weapon are not reliant on them happening at any particular time of year. Setting it at Christmas is nothing more than set dec. I've read a theory that it qualifies because of the themes of family and whatnot, but I find that vague and unconvincing.

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Postby eddy » Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:28 pm

Maybe because Shane black wrote it and just about all of his stuff is around Christmas time.

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