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brandoug t1_jef64sw wrote

Reply to comment by Bonzai-Xenith in Margin Call by transformerjay

This post gets me jacked to the tits. --- Kids

Totally agree. Other than the Baum character dealing with his brother's suicide, TBS is pretty light-hearted while showing us such a serious topic. Great fun, but also great education.

Margin Call is great drama from beginning to end and I watch it a couple times a year since the dialogue is just so damn good.

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dbcanuck t1_jef5rdv wrote

Reply to Margin Call by transformerjay

Margin Call could be a live play, its all about the characters and their interactions. The fact they build the drama around a real event and capture the culture of trading and corporate politics so well is the chef's kiss. It strongly resembles a David Mamet screenplay.

The Big Short is flashy, and it too has its moments. It leans into comedy hard, and there's a ton of wasted time and effort in my mind. Steve Carrell's accent wtf was that about? Christain Bale's scenes were too many and too affected, Brad Pitt could have been any actor, and the whole discovery of real estate in florida was tedious.

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VHwrites t1_jef5egy wrote

Reply to comment by Midnight_Oil_ in Hollywood’s Covid Protocols Get Expiration Date; Vaccine Mandate Will End by LordHyperBreath

Thats why studio's started requiring COVID protocols in 2020. But COVID compliance costs are generally higher than delays--so the return to work agreement is actually a Union initiative to preserve those protections.

Generally, Vaccination mandate was wanted by the AMPTP (Studios) while testing and masking and a number of other burdens were exclusively by unions who have drawn out those requests for 2 years after vaccines were available to try and secure more long term gains. Because a 40% increase in labor was never sustainable, no long term agreement was ever reached. This is happening now because the studios are out of money (Some desperately so, WB/Disney) and unions are now above 50% unemployment.

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KeyWit t1_jef51kn wrote

Reply to The LOTR The Return of the King is a great film but the confrontation with the Ghost Army has always puzzled me. by verc1ngetor1x

The scene actually tickles me because I imagine the scene that happens off screen:

“Hey boss, I think you may have gone a bit too hard there on those guys. He seemed to legit have the sword”

“Yeah? You think? Ah, I really let me emotions run away with me there again. Just didn’t expect anyone to turn up after so long”

“Yeah I get it boss, but that could be our one chance of not actually staying in this undead cave with all of our skulls”

“You’re right Gavor Thurmsting, do you think we should try and catch them up and let them know we changed our mind? I bet they are really mad about the skulls”

“I am sure you can catch them up if you rush through a few walls”

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dbcanuck t1_jef4xct wrote

Reply to comment by PagingDrHuman in The LOTR The Return of the King is a great film but the confrontation with the Ghost Army has always puzzled me. by verc1ngetor1x

two things that are much more apparent in the books:

  • oaths have meaning and permanence; The Silmarillion is all driven by oaths taken in anger and the ruin they lead to as a result
  • Aragorn's ability to envoke the oath signifies his legitimacy as King.

I wasn't a huge fan of how Jackson turned them into a giant glowing pacman army of green.

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charleyismyhero t1_jef4iiy wrote

Reply to Likable characters who are poorly used in franchises by mranimal2

I kind of like quirky side characters that just serve the purpose of the story. Like, idk, Grace from Ferris Bueller. I don’t know her backstory or anything else about her really outside of being the school receptionist but her presence made the film better and she sure was memorable.

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ClankSinatra t1_jef47cd wrote

Reply to Why did Faye Dunaway's career not surge after she won the Oscar for NETWORK? by Lili_Danube

Conflunce of things, probably. From her choices, it seems like she started looking for films where she was the main lead instead of co-lead or supporting actor. Those tend to be hard to find if you're a woman older than 35, especially in like 1978.

The kind of New Hollywood movies she was best in and best known for started to wind down post-Jaws and Star Wars.

She was also notoriously difficult to work with, and not in the euphemistic "she wouldn't fuck the producer" way that Weinstein used to brand actresses with. She was actually a right asshole that would just not show up on set sometimes or make the production remake her whole wardrobe on a whim.

For what it's worth I think she's the best American actress of the 70s and her Chinatown performance is top 10 all-time.

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