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Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 41 minutes ago
Replies: 7
Caught Stealing - Darren Aronofsky pic starring Austin Butler
Posted By crumbsroom
I don't think it necessarily dehumanized...

I don't think it necessarily dehumanized overweight people, even though I could definitely understand the argument, and it would probably be an element of mine. It simply dehumanized people, full...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 10 hours ago
Replies: 3,101
Watching Movies Alone with crumbsroom
Posted By crumbsroom
Probably too late now, but I've seen a few. I've...

Probably too late now, but I've seen a few. I've never really cemented a verdict on how I feel about him, but I think I remember liking The Unbelievable Truth the best of the ones I've watched.

...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 10 hours ago
Replies: 3,101
Watching Movies Alone with crumbsroom
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Watching Movies Alone with crumbsroom

https://i.postimg.cc/wjzB4MXr/cold-case.jpg


With his pith helmet, and shovel, and expensive cigars at the ready if he discovers something really good, documentarian Mads Brugger plays ...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 15 hours ago
Replies: 59
Darth Pazuzu's Movie Collection (a work in progress)
Posted By crumbsroom
That Renown Western collection was probably the...

That Renown Western collection was probably the biggest surprise for me in recent years in how I'd never heard of any of them when I started watching them all, and they were all good to great.
Forum: Upcoming Movies & Sequels 17 hours ago
Forum: General Movie Discussion 17 hours ago
Replies: 32
I don't know how to hate films
Posted By crumbsroom
It should be noted that my experience with...

It should be noted that my experience with experimental literature is fairly limited and has only grazed the surface of the most well known writers doing these kinds of things. And so, with maybe the...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
Replies: 739
The MoFo Top 100 Film Noir Countdown
Posted By crumbsroom
You say this like it's a bad thing. I've also got...

You say this like it's a bad thing. I've also got a lot of 'not seens' on this list, which to me is ideal. I'd probably be at my happiest if I ever came across a best of list where I'd seen none of...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By crumbsroom
Some nights I just want a diversion as well. And...

Some nights I just want a diversion as well. And some nights I don't give a movie a chance, or don't pay attention, or am bored by it. And some movies I just have nothing to say about.


But in...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By crumbsroom
I think we're at the point where this is going...

I think we're at the point where this is going nowhere, but let's focus on these two points





It always boils down to this. When someone is sneering at the notion of "Capital A Art", and...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 9
Good Movies About Stand-Up Comedy?
Posted By crumbsroom
Is that the one with Neil Hamburger? If...

Is that the one with Neil Hamburger?


If so, yes, I've seen it and loved it.

I've liked every Rick Alverson film I've seen so far....but most probably wouldn't.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By crumbsroom
Nothing else to do while I'm sitting on a two...

Nothing else to do while I'm sitting on a two hour bus commute going to work. Or standing around a psychiatric ward hallway not able to do my job because a patient lit himself on fire.


I've got...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By crumbsroom
Is your argument now that movies that are...

Is your argument now that movies that are designed to be blockbusters, and are marketed as blockbusters, sometimes are blockbusters?


If so, I hate to inform you that listing a bunch of movies...
Forum: Movie Reviews 1 day ago
Replies: 851
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By crumbsroom
Noooooo. It is already a film sort of designed to...

Noooooo. It is already a film sort of designed to deeply frustrate expectations, and if you aren't already acclimatized to what Cassavetes does, it would probably be torture.


Minnie and...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By crumbsroom
You say these things as if it is some...

You say these things as if it is some impossibility for any movie to make a profit, let alone even exist, if it doesn't placate the audience's cheapest instincts.


Do I have to detail the last...
Forum: Movie Reviews 3 days ago
Replies: 206
My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!

I was about to add Bellissima to my watchlist, but then it suddenly dawned on me that I watched it about three months ago.


Even now that I've significantly reduced the amount of movies I watch,...
Forum: Movie Questions 3 days ago
Replies: 9
Unanswered:  Which John Candy movie is this?
Posted By crumbsroom
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 32
I don't know how to hate films
Posted By crumbsroom
If I'm defining pure cinema as dealing directly...

If I'm defining pure cinema as dealing directly with the actual medium of film and the manipulation of that material as the primary element that matters, not story or character, then...I guess we...
Forum: Movie Reviews 4 days ago
Replies: 851
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By crumbsroom
See it. Just don't expect any laughs....

See it.


Just don't expect any laughs. It's zero percent funny.
Forum: Movie Reviews 4 days ago
Replies: 851
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By crumbsroom
Does. Not. Compute. Now, I'm not saying...

Does. Not. Compute.


Now, I'm not saying I'd want to have dinner with her, but on screen, when she was firing on all cylinders, she is up there with the best,
Forum: The Television & Music Forum 4 days ago
Replies: 7
Deal or No Deal Island
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: Deal or No Deal Island

How many words and phrases do you think they added Island to the end of before they came up with this winner?


Home Improvement Island

Cake Boss Island

Fantasy Island Island

Don't let...
Forum: Movie Reviews 4 days ago
Replies: 851
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By crumbsroom
Also all good. Particularly Day of the Jackal....

Also all good. Particularly Day of the Jackal. But all good.
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 days ago
Replies: 851
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By crumbsroom
This is acceptable. One is irrelevant and the...

This is acceptable. One is irrelevant and the other one sucks.






Unacceptable!
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 days ago
Replies: 851
The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown
Posted By crumbsroom
Re: The MoFo Top 100 Neo-noir Countdown

Klute is a banger. Must have had it somewhere on my list. Probably pretty high up, if I was being smart.



Gone Baby Gone is the kind of movie that seems genetically designed to not matter to...
Forum: Movie Reviews 5 days ago
Replies: 206
My 2024 Watchlist Obsession!
Posted By crumbsroom
Yes, the Dennis Hopper one.

Yes, the Dennis Hopper one.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By crumbsroom
correct wait...what? Art and movies...

correct


wait...what? Art and movies don't exist as separate entities.


Some are. Some aren't. But less should be, because this is exactly the problem. People use this as an excuse to...