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58 minutes ago, Monty said:

To me, Scarface is an incredibly overrated film. I've watched it a number of times throughout my life, and I just don't get it. Michelle Pfeiffer was great, but the story itself is just a "meh". 

 

Also, congrats Hollywood for continuing the whitewashing trend that you refuse to put behind you. Johnny Depp as Tonto was embarrassing enough.

i should re-watch it, but I remember always wanting to like it more than i did. i SERIOUSLY apologize for lame-ass organized crime movies, but Scarface always falls short for even me

 

havent seen it in forever though

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3 minutes ago, GLASSJAW said:

i should re-watch it, but I remember always wanting to like it more than i did. i SERIOUSLY apologize for lame-ass organized crime movies, but Scarface always falls short for even me

 

havent seen it in forever though

"Ah dude, it's awesome! Check out my poster!"

 

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10 hours ago, nuckin_futz said:

Scarface Remake Starring Leonardo DiCaprio And Sofia Vergara Announced for 2017

Universal Studios, one of the largest movie studios in Hollywood has announced that 32 years after it’s release, the legendary crime-drama film, Scarface, is getting a remake starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sofia Vergara.

 

 

Plot twist:

 

Sofia Vergara is the maniacal power-driven Cuban immigrant drug kingpin and DiCaprio is the coked out skinny white one.

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On 2017-01-27 at 8:09 AM, Hugor Hill said:

Agreed with all of the above on Scarface. It's iconic based one a few scenes and a few lines. That all.

 

keep-calm-and-say-hello-to-my-little-fri

Can DiCaprio do comedy?  I always laugh during that movie.  Pacino was funny in that role.  

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51 minutes ago, riffraff said:

I would literally do anything Sofia Vergara asked me to do.

While her words may say one thing, her voice is telling me to cut my ears off.

 

And Modern Family is the worst thing ever.

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Moonlight - 9.5/10

Powerful stuff, and pretty damn close to a perfect film. I'm glad I knew barely anything going in other than a vague story about coming to grips with sexual identity in Miami. The poster makes a lot more sense looking at it now. And the music!   Really hope there's a soundtrack for this, I want it all, stat.

 

edit found this on the music http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1377-director-barry-jenkins-on-the-music-that-made-moonlight/

 

Even before that, how did you decide that you wanted an original score rather than simply a soundtrack?

I just always knew that I wanted to have an orchestral score for the film. And it was really beautiful because we didn’t even have to test that theory. Most of the source cues I wrote into the script, but I didn’t write, “Now we have score here.” So it was a really organic process, over the course of post, watching the film with Nick and deciding when and where we were going to have score. And then using those three themes, figuring out how to augment around those.

When we very first started the process, even before Nick sent over his original music, he made a playlist, without me telling him to. It had Southern hip-hop and orchestral chamber music—UGK, 8Ball & MJG, OutKast, but then also Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. Even at that most early stage, I knew I wanted to blend these things. One of the pieces he sent over in that first draft was that Mozart piece that we use in the film to open the scene where the kids are playing football. I always knew that that was what it was going to be. The shape it was going to take, I wasn’t sure of. And that’s when the process got super fun, because we started chopping and screwing the orchestra.

When I first met Nick, I was describing to him what chopped and screwed was, because he hadn’t heard of it. Because how’s a guy from New York who went to Harvard’s gonna know what chopped and screwed music is? But maybe, who knows. I’m not going to judge people who go to Harvard. Or are from New York.

So was he like, “wow”?

I don’t know if it was me or him who said it first, maybe me as a joke, “Yeah, I mean I want to have a score, but you can’t chop and screw score, can you?” And he was like, “Well, why couldn’t you?” And so when he sent over this playlist, I took a couple of the Mozart and Beethoven pieces and put them into Final Cut Pro and slowed them down, like 75 percent, and said, “You know what? This $&!# ain’t too bad.” When Nick heard it he said, “Yeah, it’s kind of weird but it’s not too bad. But I can do it better.” He really, really dug deep. He found ways that we could lower the octave but retain the register. We were really sort of dialing it in throughout the process. We were taking analog instruments and putting them in as well. It was so &^@#ing fun, man. There’s some $&!# that’s not even in the movie because, you know, we got aggressive with it. Some of the bass was just ridiculous, man. It was beyond.

 

 

Joy - 5.5/10

Signature David O Russell style flourishes but his characters & emotions are way past stale. Felt like I could predict the 'good' and 'bad' arcs of the film after ten minutes. And how long am I supposed to spend caring about a mop? Not this long.

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4 hours ago, The Bookie said:

Moonlight - 9.5/10

Powerful stuff, and pretty damn close to a perfect film. I'm glad I knew barely anything going in other than a vague story about coming to grips with sexual identity in Miami. The poster makes a lot more sense looking at it now. And the music!   Really hope there's a soundtrack for this, I want it all, stat.

 

yes, yes, yes. there is no justice in this world to know that the pile of wank La La Land will win all the music awards this year when stuff like this was released elsewhere:

 

 

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8 hours ago, The Bookie said:

Joy - 5.5/10

Signature David O Russell style flourishes but his characters & emotions are way past stale. Felt like I could predict the 'good' and 'bad' arcs of the film after ten minutes. And how long am I supposed to spend caring about a mop? Not this long.

:lol: 

 

I haven't seen it, nor will I. Every time I scroll to it on Netflix, I see an overrated actress starting up at the clouds. Looks really bad.

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39 minutes ago, Down by the River said:

Miss Sloane: 4/10

 

Felt like 2 hours of a Shonda Rhimes tv show.

 

I really wanted to see Trespass Against Us, because I love Brendan Gleason, but it got absolutely torched (e.g., worst movie of the year) in its reviews.

Thanks for the heads up on Miss Sloane. Have a few more films to get through for 2016 (Manchester by the Sea, something else I'm sure). This was there, by now know to leave it be for a while.

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