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Santi XcX
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Moonlight is one of my fav pics from the ‘10s, but i have to admit a large part of that is the setting is technically my hometown area. so many of places and streets in setting in Moonlight I recognize immediately bc i’ve seen them in person.
do any of you guys have that? experienced a movie that takes place in your hometown so you have a special attachment to it?
do any of you guys have that? experienced a movie that takes place in your hometown so you have a special attachment to it?
MattS
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Same here on Moonlight - always so fun to see them driving past areas I spent formative years of my life in
ayayrawn
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The only movie that comes to mind that takes place (not filmed in) Louisville is Return of the Living Dead and we get nuked at the end lol
Bennnnn
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Yes! I haven't found anyone else around that is aware of it, but I've been anticipating it for a while. I rented it digitally when it came out and really enjoyed it. I am still reading the manga it is based on. I will say, the manga is a much more complete, long story. But the film does a good job distilling a portion of it. Great soundtrack/score too.
Bull Shannon
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The Arizona in Raising Arizona barely resembles the Arizona I grew up in (both in the sense that the dusty, remote areas it takes place in are now developed into suburbs; as well as in the odd number of southern accents (truly, I hear more southern style accents in rural Oregon than Arizona)), but golly does it make me homesick.
LeSamourai
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I love how purposefully inaccurate Raising Arizona is. I laugh out loud every time when "suburban Tempe" is a trailer park. (I spent my high school years in Tucson.)
The Denmarkian Wonder
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I think the second one is pretty close to GoldenEye (from what i remember) but it quickly goes downhill after that. A shame because Brosnan is probably my second favorite Bond after Connery.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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First rewatch in years. Since then i've learnt about the reason it was made. Wayne/Hawks hated High Noon with Wayne calling it un-American among other things and Hawks hating the writer who was a former communist jew (he was still jew lol). They decided to make Rio Bravo in response to High Noon and it's so obvious now. So many things are the opposite of High Noon haha
ayayrawn
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Wayne and Hawks were full of shit, but this is a fun movie.
EvanBenner
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You won't be disappointed!
Absolutely! I've spent nearly a third of my life in Chicago now, so it's fun recognizing local sets even in old movies. I loosely follow ongoing filming updates too (though most of them are network TV-related though which is outside my purview).
Public Enemies filmed in Madison while I was there, so we got to watch filming from afar. (Only finally saw the film recently.)
EvanBenner
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ayayrawn
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Thought an hour in, sweet Christ how can this get any worseSame! Leaving Mubi at the end of the month.
Impressive movie. Crushing story.
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gaporter
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While personally I don't believe the worth of a movie should be measured by how much it makes, Furiosa's performance at the box office doesn't spell good things for the prospects of Miller returning for another Mad Max installment. I'm thinking the marketing may have done a disservice to this movie, as a lot of the trailers and ads made it seem like it would be another high-octane nonstop thrill ride like Fury Road, when in reality it's a slower, more contemplative character study. I thought it was great to see Miller explore even more of the world he's created with this franchise, but I think a lot of audiences might come away disappointed it doesn't provide that shot of adrenaline that Fury Road did (even though, in my opinion, there's some action scenes in this that rival the finest of that movie).
It's also been extremely disheartening to see the two most common reactions to it underperforming have been "who asked for this?" and "I'll just wait for it to come to streaming." I'm not the type of person that likes to go around complaining about and looking down on the "general audience" - it usually feels really elitist and snobby to me - but I look at comments like this and can't help but feel like we've really lost the plot at some point.
It's also been extremely disheartening to see the two most common reactions to it underperforming have been "who asked for this?" and "I'll just wait for it to come to streaming." I'm not the type of person that likes to go around complaining about and looking down on the "general audience" - it usually feels really elitist and snobby to me - but I look at comments like this and can't help but feel like we've really lost the plot at some point.
mdmost
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I think we're witnessing the beginning of the end of the modern movie going experience. People say they want practical effects, stunts, and less CGI yet they won't support movies like Furiosa and The Fall Guy that give you exactly that. Yes, I understand both had CGI but they also tried to give people old time movie thrills with the assistance of CGI versus straight up green screen shitfests. I think it's hard to pinpoint exactly what's wrong. We just came off two summers of Top Gun Maverick and Barbie/Oppenheimer blowing out the box office. People went to event movies. Yeah, it's expensive to go to a movie. Yeah you can just wait until it comes out on streaming in less than 60 days. But at some point, we're just going to get CGI and AI shitfests on streaming services because it is no longer feasible to make movies for the theaters.