Fargo felt pretty grounded in the scenes outside the wacky murder plot

I remember one scene where the cop was chatting about the weather with some guy who was out shoveling his driveway. Nothing really happened in the scene, but it made me want more movies like that.

Lived and worked in LA for a couple years and Falling Down seemed pretty close

I think that was the smartless podcast with Bateman, Arnett and Hayes. Great pod.

Yeah. OG Saw is pretty much the epitome of "a good concept with a really bad execution". The elevator pitch was amazing but the script was incredibly lacking. And the idea to emphasize the torture porn aspects of it hurt the film.

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And then every single sequel took all the worst aspects and made them the core.

Wait, Heart of Darkness.. isn't a rousing jungle adventure?

His performance is good, but not nearly the best of the year that year. And that would have been quite the trick considering he wasn't nominated. Now, Morgan Freeman could have won over Hanks, and Hawthorne was fabulous in Madness of King George. There is even an argument that Samuel L. Jackson could have been in the lead category, he had won the Indpendent Spirit Award for Male lead for Pulp Fiction. Robbins is excellent, but I don't think he is doing anything he hadn't done before.

The actual idea in this X movie is pretty interesting - seems to be idea of old age being the horror - or the horror of getting old… this is probably scary to everyone. They certainly made the old people horrific looking. Not sure if this has been done before. To many people and especially to women, losing your looks as you get older is the horror they were highlighting in this.

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She was awesome in it mostly, I do agree Julianne Moore is amazing in boogie nights

>It's an allegory for the Irish Civil War broadly, and more about how absurdly these kinds of conflicts start.

It's so weird to me that some people don't see this. You'd think the setting and time would make it rather obvious.

Ironically Hanks was the original choice to play Andy Dufresne, but couldn't take the role because he was doing Forrest Gump

but I swear in 2017 it was a very normal movie, good sound but all the original actor voices and NOT dubbed i.e. their lips moved correctly to what they were saying. But this version every single actor's voice had been replaced and none of the lips moved to the dialogue correctly.

Sometimes the director, producer, etc doesn't like how the actors sounds. I remember watching Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan...

Andie MacDowell appears on the screen and someone else's voice comes out of her mouth. The director felt her "southern twang" didn't work. Glenn Close dubbed her lines.

Edit autocorrect gone wild

"Brilliant actor" Dave Bautista

I get that looking back on Forrest Gump critically it seems undeserving but people forget what a powerhouse it was at the time. It was loved and praised and Hanks in it.

Your three year old should definitely not see Saw.

Man, that would be so awesome to have. He must be very lucky

It’s not super common but there are instances of actors being dubbed over with someone else’s voice.

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Yep, my boss who has more money than sense has it at his house :)

Nah. It's one of my favorite movies but the best actor in it was Freeman.

But I don't think Hanks should have received a best acting Oscar either for Gump.

What exactly are work print copies and 35mm open mattes of movies?

I agree Shawshank should’ve won best picture, but I still think Hanks deserved best actor.

Especially with how the Academy feels about that shit.

Phonetically, best I can do is "On Col-een Cue-in"