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Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 30
Stop Worshiping False Idols
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Stop Worshiping False Idols

Just the idea that there might be more to life than movies sounds horrible.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 76,370
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By crumbsroom
At what point does a film need to adhere to...

At what point does a film need to adhere to realism, or need to be believed, to retain meaning? Sometimes it's more about the techniques a director uses where we find the core value in a film. Not in...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 3 days ago
Replies: 44
John Ford
Posted By crumbsroom
Top 5 Liberty Valance The Informer ...

Top 5


Liberty Valance
The Informer
The Searchers
Stagecoach

3 Bad Men
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 76,370
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw

I didn't love mother. But I think of it all of the time. I think it's important for some movies to descend into total madness. It makes me sad sometimes that more don't dare to.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 6,415
A scary thing happened on the way to the Movie Forums - Horrorcrammers
Posted By crumbsroom
The thing I found remarkable about Martyrs was...

The thing I found remarkable about Martyrs was that it positions itself as being the inverse of everything humane, peddling cruelty after cruelty, that it infected me to the point that I found...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 76,370
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By crumbsroom
I'll keep my eyes open for it

I'll keep my eyes open for it
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 6 days ago
Replies: 54
95th Oscars: Some Deserved Better
Posted By crumbsroom
And did they provide any evidence that this was...

And did they provide any evidence that this was anything more than the delusions of some conservative victimhood? If not, why are we even entertaining this? Isn't it more likely the omission has to...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 6 days ago
Replies: 54
95th Oscars: Some Deserved Better
Posted By crumbsroom
I have little doubt that if I saw Everything...

I have little doubt that if I saw Everything Everywhere I'd almost certainly hate it. But it winning or losing an Oscar means absolutely nothing about its value as a film. Absolutely nothing.

...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 6 days ago
Replies: 54
95th Oscars: Some Deserved Better
Posted By crumbsroom
Yeah, let's get back to the days where everyone...

Yeah, let's get back to the days where everyone who won anything was white and we didn't have to suspect that there were any color based biases at play.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 52
Great Movies That Were Followed Up By The Absolute Worst Sequels
Posted By crumbsroom
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. ...

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing.



If you ask me what I'd prefer to watch, 6 or the original, I'm always going to go with the original. Or even the second one. Always. Because that is...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 96
What's your favorite John Carpenter Flick?
Posted By crumbsroom
Black Christmas might be as good. Possibly. It's...

Black Christmas might be as good. Possibly. It's at least in the discussion


Halloween II to me seemed like a competent retread of what Carpenter had already done. Not bad, but nothing that...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 96
What's your favorite John Carpenter Flick?
Posted By crumbsroom
And it's important to note, it's still...

And it's important to note, it's still considerably better than most (all?) of the films it birthed.


There is still something to be said about how stripped down this film is in getting to the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 119
Spam my WAR Countdown ballot!...movie recommendations needed
Posted By crumbsroom
Combat Shock (deals with the after effects of...

Combat Shock (deals with the after effects of war...so Tromas equivalent of The Deer Hunter)
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 119
Spam my WAR Countdown ballot!...movie recommendations needed
Posted By crumbsroom
Steel Helmet The Big Red One Fixed Bayonets

Steel Helmet
The Big Red One
Fixed Bayonets
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 96
What's your favorite John Carpenter Flick?
Posted By crumbsroom
No. This isn't what I said. Or have ever said. As...

No. This isn't what I said. Or have ever said. As I stated in my last post, my entire posting history for two decades has been about championing amateur and low budget and genre films for having an...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 96
What's your favorite John Carpenter Flick?
Posted By crumbsroom
If calling the films that Carpenter makes b...

If calling the films that Carpenter makes b movies because it points to some surface similarities between them and helps lead you towards the next genre film you can dismiss as schlock, have fun with...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 96
What's your favorite John Carpenter Flick?
Posted By crumbsroom
I'm not being pedantic about the definition. I'm...

I'm not being pedantic about the definition. I'm offering the two possibilities of the terms usage. You're wrong on both.


None of your defenses of using this term to describe Carpenter stand. I...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 96
What's your favorite John Carpenter Flick?
Posted By crumbsroom
Is Psycho a B movie? Is Jaws? If you just...

Is Psycho a B movie? Is Jaws? If you just consider their premises and remove everything else from consideration, you could maybe make that claim. But it would be a claim that doesn't actually mean...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 2,943
Watching Movies Alone with crumbsroom
Posted By crumbsroom
I obviously love it. I think I watched 120 movies...

I obviously love it. I think I watched 120 movies on it last year, most of which I never heard of before watching, and feel there were probably less than five that I didn't think were at least...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 2,943
Watching Movies Alone with crumbsroom
Posted By crumbsroom
https://i.postimg.cc/9fqypzCg/halley.jpg ...

https://i.postimg.cc/9fqypzCg/halley.jpg


Removes the idea of the zombie from any notion of the apocalypse or brain eating and places it in the context of a simple and ruminative piece about...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 weeks ago
Replies: 55
What is your favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?
Posted By crumbsroom
1) Pumping Iron 2) Predator 3) Commando 4)...

1) Pumping Iron
2) Predator
3) Commando
4) Terminator
5) Total Recall
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 2 weeks ago
Replies: 8
Ranking the Best Picture Nominees
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Ranking the Best Picture Nominees

I have just realized I have only seen one nomination this year. Which has to be an all time low. Especially now that there are ten nominees.


It was Top Gun. Which is a movie that definitely...
Forum: Games and Tabs 2 weeks ago
Replies: 23
The "I'll never hear that song the same way again" Movie Game
Posted By crumbsroom
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 weeks ago
Replies: 6,415
A scary thing happened on the way to the Movie Forums - Horrorcrammers
Posted By crumbsroom
The reason there is little reason to bother...

The reason there is little reason to bother refuting is, according to this kind of criticism, there is no room for discussion. They came to the film, decided it wasn't a film, and by their idiot...
Replies: 8
Thinking about purchasing Criterion Wong Kar-wai Blu-Ray collection
Posted By crumbsroom
If you like having physical copies and have the...

If you like having physical copies and have the money, you can do a lot worse than a Wong Kar-Wai boxset.


So buy it if you want it and can afford it. Criterion is pretty reliable in doing this...

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