livinsmall
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I Am Trying To Break Your Heart.
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Hemotep
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I'm really excited for this. The animation style works really well imo.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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The Dark Knight Trilogy
TenderLovingKiller®
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Farris Bueller’s Day Off and Blues Brothers for sure. Maybe The Untouchables or Road To Perdition for Chicago mob ties. Eight Man Out for some baseball. And there is always High Fidelity, this is a Record forum after all.
TenderLovingKiller®
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A big scene in The Fugitive takes place during the Chicago St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Both Wayne’s World films are a bit Chicago-y.
The climax of Tommy Boy takes place in Chicago too.
The climax of Tommy Boy takes place in Chicago too.
Delta Don
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Is the musical Chicago too on the nose ?
Bohnjaggs
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Not a movie but the opening credits of Married With Children feature a lot of Chicago landmarks (most notably the big fountain).
Melt Face Molly Drop
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Kids hate black and white
EvanBenner
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Child's Play, The Flatliners, The Relic, Candyman, Alligator...
I'm clearly not the best person for this kind of advice.
mdmost
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Ha. Older one has watched Child's Play and Candyman with me so I'm not exactly Father of the Year material.
EvanBenner
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On a more serious note, High Fidelity.
Drinking Buddies is a dramatization of the interpersonal story behind the founders of one of our main craft brewers (Revolution). Pretty sure Joe Swanberg does a lot of Chicago-based stuff. DB's not very eventful though.
Saint Frances is Chicago though it feels more on the outskirts (Evanston). Very cute movie, but deals heavily with abortion/parenthood.
Public Enemies (haven't seen yet, and some was filmed in Wisconsin, but fits alongside The Untouchables for Chicago's history of organized crime.) Basically anything Capone/Dillinger.
Escape Room is wild. Chicago is more of a bookend setting since it all takes place inside the confines of a tower, but super entertaining. The sequel, not so much.
Inside Llewyn Davis has a good Chicago plot line, though it's primarily a NYC movie. Wish I knew more Chicago Blues/music films off the top of my head, but Blues Brothers is a no-brainer, as you've said.
Speaking of Chicago history, I've been meaning to see Judas and the Black Messiah.
Source Code is a fun "Chicago" thriller though it all takes place on an inbound Metra train haha.
Thief was pretty good too, and very Chicago in its settings.
Anyways, I love my dang chosen city and get giddy whenever it pops up as a real movie setting. Apologies for rambling.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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Now that uploading is functional again, i thought i'd post what i've watched while it was down. I still took a pic in case it was working. Didn't expect it to be this long lol
Part I
The ending really broke me
Part I
The ending really broke me
The Denmarkian Wonder
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Part II
My second favorite musical. Beauty And The Beast (animated) is my favorite.
Jeez, this was terrible haha
My second favorite musical. Beauty And The Beast (animated) is my favorite.
Jeez, this was terrible haha
The Denmarkian Wonder
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Part III
From the fire pit to the goodbye, I'm
This should have been a direct-to-DVD release instead. It's so bad.
WTF ending lol
Just saw it tonight.
The end
From the fire pit to the goodbye, I'm
This should have been a direct-to-DVD release instead. It's so bad.
WTF ending lol
Just saw it tonight.
The end
The Denmarkian Wonder
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The stuff my brother and i watched when i was little. Child's Play, Maniac Cop, Critters, Conan The Barbarian, Candyman, Friday The 13th, IT, Predator ect.
Oddly enough, aside from Child's Play, the only things that scared me was the goblins in Labyrinth, Meg Mucklebones from Legend and for some reason the trolls from Fraggle Rock.
Adventures in Babysitting for the kids. Their parents go out for the night in Chicago and the kids end up there as well with the babysitter. I loved it as a kid. I’m sure it’s dated though!
Edit: I obviously didn’t read for comprehension!
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livinsmall
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"Reality" on Max (formerly HBO Max, formerly HBO Go, formerly HBO, formerly Home Box Office, formerly i want to say Blockbuster?) is quite good. An intense, unnerving film and also short, which a busy parent appreciates. Highly recommended.
Bennnnn
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Saw Across The Spider-Verse yesterday. I really liked the first one and felt like this one would at the very least live up to it. But I think it just surpasses it a bit. So much fun, so many incredible bits of animation styles, and just jam packed visuals to look at. It’s a story that is fairly simple on the surface but effective at what it’s trying to do. The only issue I have is this is apparently a part one, so it ends with a major cliffhanger. The cliffhanger definitely works, but it also makes the movie feel just a little incomplete as a whole story. That said, this is maybe the best animated film I’ve seen in years. I saw it in IMAX and just had a ton of fun letting all the visuals fly out at me. If there are going to be more regurgitated, boring, comic book movies, give ‘em a bit more life by at least making them animated. Cause these two films prove it’s a perfect medium. I don’t watch all the other ones. But for the Spider-Verse I’m all in.