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knives
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#1276 Post by knives »

Rota, maybe.
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#1277 Post by HarryLong »

Give him a break, he's been burned before
Got too close to the cross while he was igniting it?
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#1278 Post by bamwc2 »

While not reviews, these are some of the best plot synopses that I've ever come across.
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#1279 Post by cdnchris »

Most of those are true, a lot of them are funny, but this one for Sophie's Choice may be my favourite:
Mom loves one of her kids way more than the other one.
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#1280 Post by domino harvey »

KILL BILL: Irresponsible mother wants custody of her child.
Amazing
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#1281 Post by knives »

They did screw up here
DARK KNIGHT RETURNS
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#1282 Post by Antoine Doinel »

THE FIRM: White lawyer learns hard work is irrelevant.
Thumbs up.
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#1283 Post by dx23 »

Senor Cossiboom reminded of a situation I had several weeks ago where I saw a friend at a local bank and she was asking me if there were any jobs available where I work. I told her that we were looking for a Spanish translator since we were seeing a lot Hispanic customers as of late. The clerk working the counter overheard me and said with her southern accent, "Don't know why you are catering to those folks. They should learn to speak English if they want to come here. This is America and they should get wit' the program or go back to their jungle. We sure no need them here".

Great southern hospitality. :roll:
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#1284 Post by dx23 »

ROCKY: White man beats black man.
This is inaccurate. Apollo beat Rocky in the first one. That one should have been:

Negro beats retarded white man.
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#1285 Post by swo17 »

I like this one for The Wizard of Oz that someone mentioned in the comments section:
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
Also:
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Amoral narcissist makes world dance for his amusement.

Juno: Teen fails to get abortion, ruins lives.

Titanic: Crazy old widow disregards lifelong memories of husband, children, and grandchildren in favor of that one time she fucked a bum.
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#1286 Post by Cold Bishop »

dx23 wrote:This is inaccurate. Apollo beat Rocky in the first one. That one should have been:
White man performs poorly compared to black co-worker, receives more credit.
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#1287 Post by swo17 »

Retarded meatman immortalized through inspirational montage sequences?
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#1288 Post by domino harvey »

swo17 wrote:I like this one for The Wizard of Oz that someone mentioned in the comments section:
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
This is actually a meme born from an urban legend. Supposedly that quite excellent description is from an old TV Guide review
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#1289 Post by dx23 »

swo17 wrote:Retarded meatman immortalized through inspirational montage sequences?
That's Rocky III, which could also go as:

White man beats ghetto fool with help of Magical Negro.
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#1290 Post by Magic Hate Ball »

knives wrote:He actually flat out refused to watch Barry Lyndon for the length.
I know this is from a couple pages ago but ARGH.
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#1291 Post by domino harvey »

Criterion wrote: With its giddily complex noir plot and color-drenched widescreen images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard’s early sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies. Yet this chaotic crime thriller and acidly funny critique of consumerism—featuring Anna Karina as the most brightly dressed private investigator in film history, rummaging through an intricate plot for a former lover who might have been assassinated—also points toward the more political cinema that would come to define Godard. Featuring characters with names such as Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara, David Goodis, and Doris Mizoguchi, and appearances by a slapstick Jean-Pierre Léaud and a sweetly singing Marianne Faithfull, this piece of pop art is like a Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave.
Time to fire whichever intern wrote this shit
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#1292 Post by Murdoch »

Hmmm, widescreen images you say? And it's a movie-movie on top of that?

Jeez.
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#1293 Post by knives »

So,by that description, Made in USA is the first good Godard. Guess I'll just throw out my Breathless kevyip. :roll:
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#1294 Post by Antoine Doinel »

I dunno about you guys, but I love movie-movies.
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#1295 Post by domino harvey »

"Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave" is possibly the worst thing I've ever read in my life, and I've been in creative writing workshops
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#1296 Post by gubbelsj »

domino harvey wrote:"Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave" is possibly the worst thing I've ever read in my life, and I've been in creative writing workshops
I've been in creative writing workshops, too, and "Looney Tunes rendition of The Big Sleep gone New Wave" is the second worst thing I've ever read in my life. The worst thing I've ever read in my life was a twenty-five page Christian-Sci Fi extract in the creative writing workshop that involved a character named, without any attempt at irony or humor, the 'Lord of the Dance'.
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#1297 Post by Hopscotch »

I'm not sure it's possible to accurately describe Made in U.S.A. without losing 95% of the potential market. Imagine: "An inscrutable, predictably 'deconstructive' genre movie in which Godard lashes out at his ex-wife again while executing a curiously hollow retread of his previous films -- replete with brow-furrowingly extensive references to mid-60's French politics!"

That's how my memory is currently billing it, though I'll probably revisit the film hoping to be proved wrong when the Criterion disc becomes available. I want to like this movie, but I've failed thus far.
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#1298 Post by Zumpano »

CLOAK AND DAGGER: Spoiled teens discover drugs make them special.
Certainly not the Fritz Lang film. And the Richard Franklin film has kids finding secret spy plans in a video game. Drugs?
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#1299 Post by bamwc2 »

Zumpano wrote:
CLOAK AND DAGGER: Spoiled teens discover drugs make them special.
Certainly not the Fritz Lang film. And the Richard Franklin film has kids finding secret spy plans in a video game. Drugs?
I believe that its in reference to the mid-80's Marvel comic characters. For some reasons he appeared to include some comic book characters (i.e. Green Arrow, Green Lantern, etc.) in there as well.
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#1300 Post by dx23 »

Zumpano wrote:
CLOAK AND DAGGER: Spoiled teens discover drugs make them special.
Certainly not the Fritz Lang film. And the Richard Franklin film has kids finding secret spy plans in a video game. Drugs?
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