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Remember in the Transformer film when the 20-year old guy justified dating a 17-year old by taking out a laminated card that stated the Texas law that allowed him to do it? That was effed up.
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BIG NEWS: The new 4K release of PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES contains the legendary 75 minutes of deleted scenes that have been whispered about for decades. Finally, witness John Candy smoke and eat a hot dog at the same time.
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FUN FACT: The series is confusingly called CASE CLOSED in English because they thought Conan would sue.
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I wish you could take a film executive aside, show them this scene and make them understand that if this was done all with CGI, it wouldn't even make an audience blink... but because it's all done practically... It feels exciting, alive and present.
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I love it when a no-budget movie hits me with a shot out of nowhere that makes me go "Whoa."
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FUN FACT: Maclunkey was the name of Greedo's five-day-old daughter. Greedo yelled out her name as the laser blast tore through his heart because he suddenly realized he'd never see her smile, never see her laugh, never see her live a beautiful life, for his was now gone forever.
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I am very excited for the feature-length THE ROOM remake (Shot mostly on greenscreen) in which the Tommy Wiseau role is taken over by Bob Odenkirk - and it's not played as a joke.
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Hideaki Anno has seemingly made one of my dream movies with SHIN KAMEN RIDER.
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We need to talk about Brendan Fraser's jaw-dropping performance as the villain in a Bollywood movie:
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I’ve seen almost 400 kung-fu and wuxia movies over the past three years, so when I say I’ve never seen a fight like this before, it’s not hyperbole
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Absolute bananas that Disney pulled the asshole move of copyrighting the monkey with cymbals (for TOY STORY 3), so no one else can use it, which is why Oz Perkin's The Monkey movie has a monkey with a drum. (learned on The King Cast)
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ALMOST INVISIBLE (2010) is the most nightmarish film you can watch on Tubi this Halloween season.
I have not edited this at all.
Imagine witnessing this brain-sizzling editing/writing/acting style for 95 agonizing minutes.
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In 2018, my friend Peter showed us the Japanese VHS of MAC & ME that for years he swore featured the kid getting blown away. None of us believed him. WE WERE WRONG.
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Imagine working on a film for 29 years, and then they dump it as a free DVD in a cereal box:
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It's wild about learning in the JOHN WICK 4 special features that 1) Everything cool about Donnie's character was brought to the table by him and 2) Donnie improvises his action scene on the day, and Keanu was like, "Fuck! I guess we're going to follow his lead."
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It boggles my mind how faithful TANK GIRL is to the impossible-to-adapt comic book. And it had a budget of $25 million dollars. And it came out in 1995.
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SHOCKING CAUGHT ON VIDEO TRUTH: Liam Neeson Admits What Gets Him to Take a Film Role.
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I'm just as shocked as Jake Lloyd every time I hear the homophobic slur in JINGLE ALL THE WAY.
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The Japanese SHIN ULTRAMAN Blu-ray has a lengthy special feature in which all the fights from the film are made to look like they were shot in the 1960s—and there are a bunch of new comedy fights, too!
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I don't understand why I find the ending of MARMADUKE so funny - a bunch of CGI dogs pathetically dancing to What I Like About You never fails to put a giant smile on my face.
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Is the "I LOVED YOU IN WALL STREET!" gag in HOT SHOTS PART DEUX one of the best jokes of all time? Yes.
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From an action filmmaking perspective, it is mind-boggling that Chad Stahelski uses almost zero close-ups in JOHN WICK 4. For most of the movie, the action is framed in two ways:: Full Body and Cowboy Shot (waist to head) that the editor cuts between. YOU NEVER SEE THAT IN MOVIES
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I wish companies would appropriately credit action coordinators on films. For example, if I knew that Yuji Shimomurahad had done the new CITY HUNTER, I would have watched it instantly, but I only learned he worked on it because I follow him on Twitter. He is not listed on IMDB.
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Someone needs to find a word to describe the type of humour found in I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE: You chuckle, maybe even laugh while watching it, but then a week later, you'll remember a gag and keel over in laughing hysterics as tears stream down your face.
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How have we lived in a world where John Candy didn't spend minutes talking about how PSYCHO ruined the shower curtain industry?
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In the 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS EVE (2022), Kelsey Grammer is killed by Santa every day as punishment for his sins.
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The world was robbed of Jim Varney (Ernest himself) doing serious roles. The man was a trained Shakespearean actor!
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It's illegal to make a movie in Vancouver and not cast Lochlyn Munro in it. The man has 270 credits, and he will goddamn make sure it's 400 by the end of 2025. He can do the cheapest DTV action schlock and then have a recurring role in RIVERDALE.
Is he Canada's Eric Roberts?
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What if there was a radically different version of Albert Pyun's CAPTAIN AMERICA that has never been released? One with a daring structure, a rad synth score, and a downbeat tone that feels like Alan Moore style revionism.
It exists, and I saw it: letterboxd.com/justindecloux…
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I wonder how Albert Pyun's career would have progressed if his original version of CAPTAIN AMERICA had been released. Would it have been mocked for its earnestness? The odd structure? Would the deeply emotional ending be a famous "Hahaha! What was he thinking???
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Whose baby did Fat Bastard eat? My wife thinks it was his own, which made me sad.
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The big rolling ball in FAST X was mostly real!!!???? But they did so much CGI around it that it looked fake.
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In SHIN ULTRAMAN, actor Bin Furuya, the original suit performer from the 1966 series, did mocap for the movie.
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You know the faux one-take action sequences in THE VILLAINESS? That director made a 139-minute film that is just one fake long take-action scene called CARTER that's on Netflix now: an absurd fever dream of violence and impossible camera work that you'll hate or be fascinated by.
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If you want an example of the tonal change in Albert Pyun's original cut of CAPTAIN AMERICA (1990).
LEFT: The final shot from the theatrical version of CAPTAIN AMERICA.
RIGHT: The final shot from Albert Pyun's Original Cut of CAPTAIN AMERICA.
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I can't stop laughing at this shot of Steven Seagal standing up in UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY and shambling forward like Frankenstein's Monster.
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THE PEOPLE'S JOKER has played once at TIFF and has been forced to be pulled and have the rest of the screenings cancelled. People should talk about this because the man doesn't want you to see it.
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GAMERA: SUPER MONSTER features one of cinema's greatest dramatic finales. PLEASE NOTE: This is how it is in the film. I have not changed anything.
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Watching a children's giant monster movie when suddenly... HOLY SHIT! I did not expect it to go that hard.
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Robert Rodriguez consciously removed the CGI smoothing effects on the skeletons when he made SPY KIDS 2 to make it look more like stop motion.
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I am always impressed by the incredibly complex things Keanu Reeves can pull off in the JOHN WICK movies that just zoom by in the blink of an eye.
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The day Tim Burton's soul left his body was the day he decided, "You know what, let's go with CGI instead of stop motion for the Mars Attacks aliens."
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There's a new film out this week called STUNTMAN, about a grizzled Hong Kong stunt coordinator, brought out of retirement for one last film, and I want to talk to you about the guy that plays that grizzled stuntman: actual legendary action choreographer Stephen Tung Wai.
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It's depressing how much grandiose spectacle is overrated in cinema. Audiences truly don't care! There's a reason that a climax that has a dozen real cars rushing down the road feels more exciting than a million CGI armies clashing together.
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If there's one thing gay hardcore films are missing these days, it's super catchy musical numbers:
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While on a shoot, I noticed my pal Alex miming a bunch of fight moves in between takes, and when I asked what it was from, he admitted that he knew the choreography from the climax of Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY by heart!
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CGI RHINO HORN ON A CGI TRAIN: *yawn*
BIG RUBBER RHINO HORN ON A REAL TRAIN: *YEAAAAAAA*
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Christopher Lambert loved Albert Pyun - and he sums up why Albert was so special in less than a minute.
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Feeling down, may spend all day posting videos from Spider-Man 2 - look at that amazing dummy fall!
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Today, I learned there's an Aerosmith video featuring a giant mech with breasts.
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In SUPER MARIO BROS: THE INDUSTRIAL CUT, my pal Pierce painstakingly removed all of Alan Silvestri's score and replaced it with industrial music that fits the tone of the movie's visuals. It's an amazing example of how music can change the entire feel of an experience:
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BEST THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN IN A MOVIE:
1. A painting looks normal, but then something funny happens, and the painting now has raised eyebrows and a shocked expression.
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It's hilarious to me that, supposedly, Netflix asked Writer/Director Timo Tjahjanto (THE NIGHT COMES TO US) if he could make a more "family-friendly action comedy," and this is what he delivered:
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The first adaptation of RING (1995) is a full-on Sam Raimi riff. This is from the opening sequence where a lady dies seven days after watching the tape:
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Holy moly, BLACK STORM (2024) has an all-timer elevator fight. And it looks like it was shot on a real elevator that was slowly moving?!
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It's on the 4K Blu-ray released by Paramount Pictures, and the deleted footage is included as one big 75-minute chunk on the Blu-ray:
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