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  • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

    Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
    Movies are entertainment
    But they aren't just entertainment. Or are paintings just pretty pictures?

    The entertainment aspect of movies is how they make money which gets them made. That's important. But it's not the only important thing, it's just the most accessible thing (which, in the long run, is unimportant, unless you want all your art to be a baby's rattle).
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    • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
      Well, I just think he's a bland, talentless, obvious, dreary, sh-tty actor. The Bud Lite of drama.
      I think you're mistaking him for Kevin Costner, but to each their own.

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      • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

        Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
        I think you're mistaking him for Kevin Costner, but to each their own.
        At least Costner was cute once. Hanks has always looked like a slimmer Maytag repairman.

        (Yes, Costner is an even more terrible actor, except Bull Durham where he's just himself and excellent.)
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        • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

          Let me guess...you also aren't a fan of Jimmy Stewart.

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          • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            But they aren't just entertainment. Or are paintings just pretty pictures?

            The entertainment aspect of movies is how they make money which gets them made. That's important. But it's not the only important thing, it's just the most accessible thing (which, in the long run, is unimportant, unless you want all your art to be a baby's rattle).
            How one goes and makes decisions to see a movie is how - at the end of the day - they are entertained.
            Last edited by mookie1995; 07-20-2019, 09:35 PM.
            a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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            • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              At least Costner was cute once. Hanks has always looked like a slimmer Maytag repairman....
              So Ernest bourgenine should never have been casted?!?!
              a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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              • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

                Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                Let me guess...you also aren't a fan of Jimmy Stewart.
                Myself, I adore Jimmy Stewarts work as a drunk Yooper lawyer in Anatomy of a Murder. In It's A Wonderful Life, I always root for the bridge. I honestly haven't really seen much of his other work.
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                • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

                  Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                  Let me guess...you also aren't a fan of Jimmy Stewart.
                  Jimmy Stewart is perfect when used by a director who fits him in as a widget. So, in Mr. Smith and Harvey and Liberty Valance he's ideal.

                  There are zillions of actors who are like that. He's essentially Ahnold, just instead of an emotionless Austrian he's that stumbling aw shucks flyover with the heart of gold.

                  He's got the range of Amed Rosario going to his left, but acting is not what he's hired for. So he's great.

                  He was f-cking awful on Carson, though. Get the cane.
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                  • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

                    I was making fun of Kep, but like Hanks I understand people not caring for his shtick. There's a reason he was made fun of so often.

                    EDIT: Called it! (sort of)
                    Last edited by FadeToBlack&Gold; 07-20-2019, 09:40 PM.

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                    • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

                      Originally posted by aparch View Post
                      Myself, I adore Jimmy Stewarts work as a drunk Yooper lawyer in Anatomy of a Murder.
                      He's wonderful in this but he's not the drunk his partner (who is somebody like Walter Brennan) is.
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                      • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

                        Yes, his partner is the lush. I thought Jimmy liked to imbibe too in the film.
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                          Hanx rules if for no other reason than David S. Pumpkins.
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                          • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

                            Originally posted by state of hockey View Post
                            Hanx rules if for no other reason than David S. Pumpkins.
                            Not even his best SNL role.
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                            • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              Easily the best SNL episode in a decade, and I don't think it's close.

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                              • Re: Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

                                Even Hipsters think Kepler has a bad attitude and should lighten up
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