ugh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
Shakey, Tampa is all strip clubs.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
male strip clubs?
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
that cater to hetero women?
Midget strip clubs, nun strip clubs.
― Doc Vig (Eazy), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
you name it, they strip
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
I would believe that Windsor strippers would have crabs.
I think there is a male stripper night at a Toronto strip club here but otherwise the men are only in gay clubs. As a lady myself the only one I've ever been to had female strippers, I went with a lesbian friend who'd just suffered a breakup. :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 21 February 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
it did make me wonder... do these places really exist? I mean, is Chippendale's still in business?
shakey mo, in a video rental store.
― caek, Friday, 22 February 2013 08:07 (eleven years ago) link
i finally saw this and mostly dug it. Morbs otm that the more serious it gets the more of a drag it becomes. it didnt really earn the Saturday Night Fever ending
cody horn gave one of the most annoying performances i've seen in a while. even when she's not saying anything in the single intonation she's capable of, she's making weird shapes with her dumb mouth and looking vacant and naggy and basically driving me insane
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
one of the funniest things about it was kevin nash looking like he didnt even rehearse any of the dances. there was one point where all the guys were doing their coordinated routine and he's the only one whose lower body is completely motionless.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
His incompetence at stripping was absolutely mesmerizing.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just glad I still don't know what "Pony" is.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
there's a bar called Pony across the street from me. I don't remember why I bookmarked this thread tho
― resulting paste of mashed cheez poops (silby), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
i saw this a while back and liked it quite a bit. there was something really compelling to me about the naturalistic and easy way people would interact with each other...it felt almost improvised but didn't have that weird halting thing that so much improvised dialogue does.
― ryan, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
I lost my shit at that scene where Tatum bitches out the other guy for messing with the protective seals on his dashboard chrome.
― Sheela-Tubb-Mann, You Real Know-It-All (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
that part was great.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
this was a really good movie
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
color palette is incred & love that everything is shot so wide
i really like that the characterization is v shallow for basically everyone, they all care abt sorta common dumb stuff, small talk abt 'rich dad, poor dad'; plus everything feels just super casual, even when it gets "dramatic", yeah ryan otm re: naturalistic vibe
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
h4a so far offtm abt cody horn tho
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
i found this mostly boring
halfway through I felt like I'd been conned into one of those timeshare conferences: "$500 gift certificate if you sit through four hour powerpoint", but instead it was "10 minutes of lol terrible stripclub if you sit through stilted conversation about furniture & Channing Tatum applying for bank loans"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
damn girl -- I'd have loved to watch this with you after chicken wings and beer and a trip to Mons Venus.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
lool
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Would've given Cody Horn Best Supporting Actress (knew nothing when watching, didn't google her til later).
― The End**^ (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit, Mons Venus is a real name and the best name ever.
― The End**^ (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the Florida-ness of it, but there wasn't enough to interest me, idk
the naturalism is fine but those lives were kinda boring
tatum & that sister chick had all the chemistry of a block of wood
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
my first strip club experience
xpost
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 June 2013 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the slice of life aspect of the first half of the movie, the Actual Conflict And Danger of the second half felt a little forced and unnecessary
― some dude, Friday, 7 June 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
otm, it felt like soderbergh was tryna emulate the ~darkness~ of similar movies like Boogie Nights and Saturday Night Fever and stuff and it fell a little flat at points. good movie overall though
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http://i.imgur.com/1jh2w.png
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 7 June 2013 06:19 (eleven years ago) link
gotta love that piss-drenched color palette... or something
i think i see a lotta piss drenchers up in this house
― goole, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 7 June 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
was there dick in this movie?
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Sunday, September 16, 2012 10:40 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
uncommented-upon penis pumping large in the front of the frame is p funny
― johnny crunch, Friday, 7 June 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
that was so funny! I had such high hopes for the movie based on that moment
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
i finally saw this, and it was better than i thought it would be in spite of the corny tacked-on unnecessary happy ending romance with the sister. CT played a convincing misunderstood bohunk with rather impressive dancing skills. that's about all i remember.
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soderbergh has been doing that for a while. i kind of Don't Get It. i mean, I get that he's emulating to some extent the subdued, flashed-out palettes of 70s New Hollywood cinematography, but I don't recall that stuff being so soft, blown-out, and sickly-looking. i mean i suppose soderbergh is getting the results he wants, and he's very thoughtful and consistent about it, but it still looks like shit a lot of the time.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 14 June 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
see also the informant, parts of traffic, haywire... side effects looked a bit better/cleaner, as did contagion (some of the time)
basically a lot of his recent films give me eye strain even when i see them in a theater
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 14 June 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
pee-vision
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
"see the new Soderbergh movie in bold vibrant PEE-D"
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 14 June 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
erin brokovich was completely drenched in piss iirc
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
Traffic was this was in the Peeajuana sections.
― lols lane (Eazy), Friday, 14 June 2013 19:53 (ten years ago) link
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, June 14, 2013 10:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
wes anderson is addicted to the piss filter too and it drives me even crazier with him because his movies would be amazing looking without it. i think soderbergh's movies have looked worse since he switched to digital... DPs have figured out how to shoot good-looking movies on digital now, to the extent that it's pretty difficult to tell when you're watching digital nowadays unless you're looking out for the right things, but soderbergh either hasnt figured that out or just isnt interested in looking like film. he even admits that DPing his own movies means they dont look as good as they could, but i think he likes the level of control it gives him
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
For Soderbergh it worked best in the sand-blasted landscape of Erin Brockovich.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
piss-blasted i think u mean
― ⚓ (elmo argonaut), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
well moonrise kingdom was on super 16mm which gives it a bit of grain and anderson definitely gave it a more subdued palette than the previous films, more '70s. but all his films before that make a lot of use of really sharp photography and eye-popping color. darjeeling limited is pretty intense that way, although there are a few sequences that are self-consciously otherwise.
soderbergh has been going for variations on the flashed 70s look for a while but i agree it's when he moved to digital that it started looking dim and ugly. when i saw the informant on the theater i had to ask the manager if the bulb in their projector was dim. a problem is that by default digital cameras don't have as much latitude as 35mm, so if you aren't careful to balance the range of light intensity in a shot, you end up with either some parts of the frame incredibly blown out or parts that are really dim. that eastwood film on hoover tried to use this as a positive by making it a basic part of its almost-monochromatic "prestige" look, but i thought that film was incredibly ugly.
i think you're right that soderbergh likes having direct control over cinematography, and of course he knows that there are ways to get around the sort of problems i mention above, as many digitally-shot films (among them david fincher's) look a fuckton like 35mm. but i think he's become enamored of the "ugly" look he gets. which is why i note above that it's clearly intentional. it just hurts my eyes (literally).
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
except for the good german i can't think of a film where soderbergh uses the kind of expressive depth of field that anderson relies on. and anderson still relies a lot on wide-angle lenses (although i think they were less in evidence in moonrise kingdom) which soderbergh def does not. just note all the very long-lens work in magic mike.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
to be pretentious i think most of anderson's films starting w/ rushmore est. a kind of internal dialectic b/t the sort of depth of field/wide angle stuff associated w/ welles (and also to a great extent, scorsese and bogdanovich, both big influences on anderson) and (in smaller doses) the longer-lens, hazier, more freewheeling (zooms etc) photography closely associated with other new hollywood stuff anderson loves (think ashby, altman, much of the graduate, etc....)
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
i think anderson is probably the smartest director working in terms of knowingly and expressively utilizing past styles. see e.g. the rough handheld work used to cover the max fischer players staging of "serpico" in rushmore. or the weird sloooowww zooms in darjeeling limited.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
soderbergh's aesthetic has always seemed less eclectic, and a little too stuck on notions of "realism" as the motivation for different forms of camerawork (or perhpas more charitably, he tends to work within a range of period and contemporary styles that signify "realism"). i think he's a fascinating filmmaker but because he's so whip-smart in interviews he maybe gets more credit than he deserves for the sharpness of his style....
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 15 June 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
a problem is that by default digital cameras don't have as much latitude as 35mm, so if you aren't careful to balance the range of light intensity in a shot, you end up with either some parts of the frame incredibly blown out or parts that are really dim. that eastwood film on hoover tried to use this as a positive by making it a basic part of its almost-monochromatic "prestige" look, but i thought that film was incredibly ugly.
j. edgar was shot on film, and used the expensive silver retaining process that WB indulges clint with on all his movies. i agree it was really ugly
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 15 June 2013 04:20 (ten years ago) link