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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
I'm a Silly said:
I love BTBR. Cosmatos has yet to let me down.
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I sure love when a tense and visually interesting movie (even if forgiveably pretentious) ends with the villain tripping on a root, falling, and breaking his neck. And don't you give me any shit about it being the girl using her powers or some crap, I went frame by frame on that shit and it's just Discount Christian Bale tripping on a root and dying.

It's a skit. A long, pointless, insulting skit.

There was an old Internet story you'd send your friends to "prank" them, it was this long tale about a man going on a quest towards an unknown land in the middle of the desert, meeting a talking snake he would call Nate, and finding a lever that, if pulled, would end the world. The story was well-written, it had an intriguing mystery, endearing characters who developed as the story went on, etc.

And in the end of this epic journey, the man and his son are on an out of control jeep, in direct collision course with the world-ending device, and swerving would mean hitting the talking snake instead. At the last moment, the man says:

Better Nate than Lever!

It was all for a pun.
I read it and thought it was brilliant. I sent it to a friend, who read it and sent me a message:
Never do that to me again.
This same friend and I watched BTBR together, over a literal decade later. I think he'd watched something else by Cosmatos and was curious about this one.

It felt like his revenge for the Snake story. Except he didn't know how it ended, he was a victim too.

Anyway fuck this movie, fucking bullshit, I hate it.
 
Did you see Mandy? It's Cosmatos' other movie, which is probably what your friend saw. It's very different, but you can tell it was made by the same director. I was eagerly awaiting it and wasn't disappointed.

Black Rainbow is very rewarding upon second viewing. Some details start to make sense and you come up with your own theories. Even if the ending is the worst part, my approach is that it's just 3% of the whole movie. There's a whole lot to offset it: the cinematography, the main guy's acting, the music, the droning sound of the mysterious device, the trip scene...
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
Did you see Mandy? It's Cosmatos' other movie, which is probably what your friend saw. It's very different, but you can tell it was made by the same director. I was eagerly awaiting it and wasn't disappointed.

Black Rainbow is very rewarding upon second viewing. Some details start to make sense and you come up with your own theories. Even if the ending is the worst part, my approach is that it's just 3% of the whole movie. There's a whole lot to offset it: the cinematography, the main guy's acting, the music, the droning sound of the mysterious device, the trip scene...
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BtBR is one of the best movies I can think of where the budget was virtually nothing and yet the director managed to execute a very strong vision with a great small cast, a moody soundtrack, good costuming and makeup, and powerful, limited special effects.

Granted, Cosmatos papers over a lot by doing the Passion of Joan of Arc thing and filming most of the movie in extreme close-up. But it works, even if it's unconventional.
 
frozen_runner said:
BtBR is one of the best movies I can think of where the budget was virtually nothing and yet the director managed to execute a very strong vision with a great small cast, a moody soundtrack, good costuming and makeup, and powerful, limited special effects.

Granted, Cosmatos papers over a lot by doing the Passion of Joan of Arc thing and filming most of the movie in extreme close-up. But it works, even if it's unconventional.
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Yeah, the budget was supposedly 1 million Canadian. I'd love to see an extensive behind the scenes documentary like the one that was made for A Field In England, which is another cheap, weird movie I adore. There's over an hour of footage about the making of it and they discuss fucking EVERYTHING. It's awesome.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
Yeah, the budget was supposedly 1 million Canadian. I'd love to see an extensive behind the scenes documentary like the one that was made for A Field In England, which is another cheap, weird movie I adore. There's over an hour of footage about the making of it and they discuss fucking EVERYTHING. It's awesome.
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Not a coincidence that those are both flicks that go balls deep on the simulated drug trip experience that I am very sympathetic to people who cannot stand. Cannot deny that Cosmatos' stuff is absolutely gorgeously made as far as aesthetics go, similar to Refn.
 
Nick Obre said:
I sure love when a tense and visually interesting movie (even if forgiveably pretentious) ends with the villain tripping on a root, falling, and breaking his neck. And don't you give me any shit about it being the girl using her powers or some crap, I went frame by frame on that shit and it's just Discount Christian Bale tripping on a root and dying.

It's a skit. A long, pointless, insulting skit.

There was an old Internet story you'd send your friends to "prank" them, it was this long tale about a man going on a quest towards an unknown land in the middle of the desert, meeting a talking snake he would call Nate, and finding a lever that, if pulled, would end the world. The story was well-written, it had an intriguing mystery, endearing characters who developed as the story went on, etc.

And in the end of this epic journey, the man and his son are on an out of control jeep, in direct collision course with the world-ending device, and swerving would mean hitting the talking snake instead. At the last moment, the man says:

Better Nate than Lever!

It was all for a pun.
I read it and thought it was brilliant. I sent it to a friend, who read it and sent me a message:
Never do that to me again.
This same friend and I watched BTBR together, over a literal decade later. I think he'd watched something else by Cosmatos and was curious about this one.

It felt like his revenge for the Snake story. Except he didn't know how it ended, he was a victim too.

Anyway fuck this movie, fucking bullshit, I hate it.
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<3 in honor of your passion. True hatred is a flame that burns in the best of us.
Hentai-Semitism said:
Yeah, the budget was supposedly 1 million Canadian. I'd love to see an extensive behind the scenes documentary like the one that was made for A Field In England, which is another cheap, weird movie I adore. There's over an hour of footage about the making of it and they discuss fucking EVERYTHING. It's awesome.
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I've not seen the doc, but I did grab archives of a site about the esoteric nature of AFIE:
Cosmatos, Refn, Wheatley, maybe Wingard -- does someone have a list of idk, a bunch of post-Carpenter/Cronenberg directors?
 
Mussolini’s Merkin said:
Overall another solid re:View episode. It's always nice when they talk about movies they seem to genuinely like.
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No surprises, no startling insights, no absurd hot takes: just a walk down memory lane concerning how much fun Back to the Future is.

I would add that Mike's double chin is now nearly large enough to qualify as a guest star.
 
Mola Ram said:
No surprises, no startling insights, no absurd hot takes: just a walk down memory lane concerning how much fun Back to the Future is.

I would add that Mike's double chin is now nearly large enough to qualify as a guest star.
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Jay is slowly draining the life force from Mike, cancelling out Mikes vampiric effect on Rich Evans.
 
Starman John said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DD-KzLF9pxc
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Kids when they get into their dads closet:
microjay.webp
 
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