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‘The Shawshank Redemption’ at 20: How it went from bomb to beloved http://bit.ly/XXDdIg

Interesting read. I either never realized or completely forgot that it was a relative flop at the box office. I've thought of it as a great movie ever since I saw it.
 
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I know I only post in this thread sporadically, but I've been busy lately and I've also been watching A LOT of movies in my free time.

Stoker
The movie was kinda.. disappointing. It just really left something to be desired. I was assuming they would use her "gift" to some further extent during the movie but in reality it was just an excuse to have some interesting sound effects and cap off the movie.

Neighbors
A lot funnier than I expected. I'd recommend it to anyone looking to watch a solid comedy. The breast milk scene and puns that followed :rofl:

Little Rascals
:lol: First time ever seeing this. My girlfriend had mentioned it being one of her favorite movies and I told her I never saw it so we watched it. Really good movie.

A History of Violence
I actually saw it with my mom when it first came out and I remember being unimpressed back then and I still was yesterday. The plot of the movie had potential but the poor dialogue and lack of story ruined it.

Hunger Games
Another :rolleyes movie for me. My girlfriend had mentioned she wanted to go see the new one when the trailer or whatever came out the other day. And she said we should watch the other ones so I could get caught up, I watched the first one and it starts off okay but it gets sooooo.. movie by the end. I'm just like "Sure. It's cool if you have nothing else to watch."

Trance
REALLY impressed with the movie. Wasn't really expecting a whole lot going into it. but :wow: I was impressed. The ending was really great.

Punch Drunk Love
I thought it was good. A lot weirder than I expected, but it was good. Some pretty funny parts. I hadn't realized PT Anderson directed it until I looked it up afterwards (which also made me check out Magnolia). I really like his style of direction and the characters in his films.

Magnolia
:wow: :pimp: AMAZING movie. Just incredible characters. I absolutely LOVED the ending.

Hunger
The movie was interesting. I don't know anything about the actual event but I like Steve McQueen's other two films so I figured I check it out. It was good. Fassbender was solid. The stuff those guys were doing was just :x especially the end. I really love the way McQueen shoots his films for some reason. They're extremely aesthetically pleasing.

I've been watching probably two to three movies a day for the past week or so, so I'm missing a lot, but that's just what I remember at this moment. I feel like I'm running out of movies to watch again. Lol. I've been googling "Top movies of (Year)" lists trying to find some gems I may have missed.
 
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stoker was a weird movie. Creepy as hell uncle and they were hinting at possible incest the whole movie.

trance had a good twist. Fell in love with Rosario all over again. Full frontal FTW.
 
[COLOR=#red]'Pulp Fiction': 20 fun facts as the film turns 20[/COLOR]
By Lisa Respers France, CNN
updated 12:11 PM EDT, Tue September 23, 2014

(CNN) -- Quoting Ezekiel 25:17 from "Pulp Fiction" will likely get you laughed out of Sunday school class.


That's because the Bible verse, as recited by Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, doesn't actually exist.

In the film, Winnfield speaks these words to people before he kills them: "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."

The actual Bible verse says, "I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I take vengeance on them.'"

Scripture isn't the only thing writer-director Quentin Tarantino took creative liberties with for the film that premiered September 23, 1994. In honor of "Pulp Fiction's" 20th anniversary, here are 20 fun facts about the movie that still reigns as one of the greats:

1. Vinnie Vega's trips to the bathroom
Potty breaks are bad news in this film. Whenever John Travolta's character, Vinnie Vega, takes a powder, tragedy occurs. During his three bathroom breaks, Mia Wallace (played by Uma Thurman) overdoses, the restaurant where he and Jules are dining is held up, and Bruce Willis' Butch Coolidge gets the drop on him.

2. F'ed up
The F-word is used 265 times in the movie. Go ahead and count it.

3. The notebook
Fueled by the money he had made from his film "Reservoir Dogs" and the deal he had for "Pulp Fiction," Tarantino took off to Amsterdam to write the latter. According to Vanity Fair, "He bought school notebooks and declared about one of them, like a modern-day Hemingway, 'This is the notebook in which I am going to write Pulp Fiction.' "

He ended up filling several notebooks.

4. The Honda
Tarantino got a lot of use out of the Honda Civic that Butch drives in the film. It's the same car Pam Grier drives in the title role of "Jackie Brown," and appears in a parking lot scene in "Kill Bill: Volume 2."

5. Oops with the coat
At the beginning of the now-infamous overdose scene, Mia is wearing Vinnie's coat. Moments later she goes to light a cigarette and is no longer wearing it. The coat magically appears back on her once the cigarette is lit.

6. Robert Redford could have starred
Ronnie Yeskel, the film's casting director, told Flavorwire that unlike on "Reservoir Dogs," Hollywood agencies "were pitching Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman and Bruce, Bruce Willis -- just the biggest names in the business that you could imagine."
"And we're sitting there in these rooms with all these suits, and they all look alike, and we're like kids in a candy store," Yeskel said. "We couldn't believe they were pitching these people to us."

7. Or Ellen
Ellen DeGeneres tried out for the role of Jody, the pierced face wife of Vinnie's drug dealer, that ultimately went to Rosanna Arquette.

8. Kathy Griffin made it in as did ...
Blink and you may miss her, but comedian Kathy Griffin appears in the scene where bad guy Marsellus Wallace and Butch collide. Griffin has said she used to date Tarantino. Steve Buscemi, who now stars in "Boardwalk Empire," also made a cameo as the Buddy Holly waiter at Jack Rabbit Slim's.

9. Tricky camera work
The scene where Travolta's Vinnie Vega plunges a needle into the chest of Thurman's Mia to revive her from an overdose using adrenaline was filmed with Travolta pulling the needle out of her and then the film was run backward.

10. Jackson was convincing
Producer Richard Gladstein told Vanity Fair that when Jackson did his second audition for his role he showed up with a burger and fries -- key props in one of the film's pivotal scenes. The actor proceeded to consume the meal so menacingly that Gladstein said, "I thought that this guy was going to shoot a gun right through my head."

11. On drugs
One of Tarantino's friends, a recovering heroin addict, advised Travolta on how best to portray a man riding that horse. He told the actor that getting drunk on tequila while relaxing in a hot bath would closely approximate a heroin high without him actually having to do the drug.

12. That bad wallet
The director didn't have to look far for one of the film's most memorable props. Jules' wallet, which had "Bad Mother F****r" written on the front of it, actually belonged to Tarantino.

13. The watch transporter
When Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) tells a young Butch the story about the gold watch that was a family heirloom, he refers to a soldier named Winocki who transported it. Joe Winocki was the name of a character in the 1943 film "Air Force," directed by Howard Hawks, one of Tarantino's personal heroes.

14. "The Wolf"
No one else could have played the man who specialized in messy cleanups: Tarantino reportedly wrote the character of Winston "The Wolf" Wolfe specifically for Harvey Keitel.

15. The same pie
If Fabienne's line, "Any time of day is a good time for pie," sounds familiar, it should. The character of Alabama says the same thing in another Tarantino film, "True Romance."

16. What's in the case?
There have been countless theories about what was in that mysterious briefcase that Jules and Vinnie had to protect -- with everything from gold to Marsellus' soul being suggested. But Tarantino has said in interviews that it's whatever fans choose it to be, though he has also had fun with fans promising a "reveal."

17. Keeping it in the family
Travolta's character, Vinnie Vega, is the brother of Vic Vega, aka Mr. Blonde, from Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs." Michael Madsen played the character in that film.

18. The meaning of the Band-Aid
Marsellus sports a Band-Aid on the back of his neck for a reason: It covers up a scar actor Ving Rhames had.

19. The dance trophy
The audience is led to believe that Vinnie and Mia won the dance contest at the Jack Rabbit Slim's restaurant. But late in the film, when Butch is returning to get his watch, there's a radio bulletin about the trophy having been stolen.

20. The Gimp had a wife
"Saturday Night Live" alum Julia Sweeney had a bit role in "Pulp Fiction" as a junkyard owner and The Wolf's breakfast date, Raquel. In real life, she had been married to Stephen Hibbert, who played The Gimp in the film.
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Wow @ both Pulp and Shawshank turning 20 this year. Just on the strength of those two films alone, 1994 was a helluva year for movies
 
This trailer from Vice films looks very interesting. It looks like it will tell a more balanced story about Somali pirates than the hack flick capt phillips. This will have a very limited run in a small number of theaters starting this Friday Sept 26 & available on VOD Oct 28. You can check the listings on the YT page...
 
94 is bigger than that even.

Pulp
Shawshank
Forrest Gump
Lion King
Speed
True Lies
Clear and Present Danger
Ace Ventura
Interview with a Vampire
Leon
Dumb and Dumber
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Reality Bites
Above the Rim
The Crow
Maverick
Wyatt Earp
The Mask
Natural Born Killers
Ed Wood
Stargate
Star Trek Generations
A Low Down Dirty Shame
Legends of the Fall


Basically, 1994 was absurd.

And Jim Carrey, man, he had himself a year.
 
Lucas Black aka Mr. Tokyo Drift is one of the leads in the new NCIS show :lol:

The show was extra generic as expected, but he's pretty good.
 
Carlos Cuaron came up with the term Charrolastas for Y Tu Mama Tambien by asking his niece what they call each other now (back in 2000) in school. She replied "charralastas" because there was a guy in there school who didn't know english but could sing the ending of Shrek. Instead of saying "hey now , you're a rockstar" he said "hey now , charralasta".


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

:rofl: :rofl:
 
Surprised they ended 2 of the csi shows. I thought they'd want 7 of them for every night of the week. I liked the og the best because of Marg Helgenberger.
 
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Master Zik said:
Every NCIS just like every CSI sucks balls.
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Stories, action, and the week by week cases are all terrible... but for some reason I still watch the og one. I guess I like the cast enough to tune in.

The New Orleans one was so corny: Scott Bakula makes gumbo, talks about sausage, interviews dudes in a jazz club, proceeds to finish the episode playing jazz in said club.

It's not like I expected any different but still :lol:
 
Those shows represented why for so long I couldn't mess with CBS.

I'll never get how those two shows make hundreds of millions . I'm just lost on who tunes in to it.

To me it's not the same as Law & Order. Cuz their spinoffs still had quality.

What they did creates crappy derivatives like Numbers, Flashpoint, etc. :x
 
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Ted Danson was awesome in Bored to Death. It's too bad that show got too weird the final season.
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Yep. I really enjoyed the first couple seasons, but the 3rd and final one derailed enough that I wasn't surprised that it didn't come back. I would have given it another shot if it did though. I kind of miss that show, as well as Flight of the Conchords.
 
Finished up season 1 of The Goldbergs.

Pretty good show; will tune in for the season 2 premiere tonight.
 
psk2310 said:
When Rourke came out onto the scene, he had great roles in Rumble Fish, Diner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, The Year Of The Dragon, Angel Heart... People thought he was going to be the next Brando & ish went south...

Edit - Forgot to include 9 1/2 Weeks among the flicks Rourke did at the time.
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Don't forget Barfly:

One of my favorite roles of his was in Buffalo '66. He was in the movie for like 5 minutes in one scene where he doesn't even move, but was still intimidating as hell.
 
I need to vent.

There's 2 things that have pissed me off the most since "being in the industry" as a media member for films.

1. And I'll never get over this, trailers being too long and studios ruining their films by over saturating the market with 7 trailers that looks the same.

2. Ties in with over promoting. Right now - major films that don't even need to be pushed to the moon (no pun intended) are hurting themselves by forcing themselves onto movie watchers. The superhero films etc.

Well that's what is happening right now for Interstellar. We have gotten 6 or 7 posters, over 500 images from the film and like 4 trailers. This is wildly unnecessary. The fact is this, the marketing campaign is over aggressive and if they didn't put out a single poster, image, or trailer it would sell out first night no question because Christopher Nolan's name is on it.

That's your marketing. End of story. Not to mention the most start studded cast of the year in a film.

Yea...pissing me off that outlets are running with 500 images from Interstellar basically showing us the whole film in pictures...enough already. The marketing team needs to just relax.

/rant
 
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