Justin Decloux
@DeclouxJ
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https://t.co/mBu9XDbGOG, Podcasts: @ImprtCinemaClub, @BayStreetVideo, Dir: IMPOSSIBLE HORROR, Writer: RADIOACTIVE DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF ALBERT PYUN
Joined February 2009
If anyone would like to invite me to a film festival, synopsium, retrospective, birthday party, I am very available if you pay for travel and lodgings! Impress your colleagues with a guy who can speak loudly about Albert Pyun, has made two features, and has a podcast. Wow!.
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Remember in the Transformer film when the 20-year old guy justified dating a 17-year old by taking out a laminated card that stated the Texas law that allowed him to do it? That was effed up.
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BIG NEWS: The new 4K release of PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES contains the legendary 75 minutes of deleted scenes that have been whispered about for decades. Finally, witness John Candy smoke and eat a hot dog at the same time.
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I wish you could take a film executive aside, show them this scene and make them understand that if this was done all with CGI, it wouldn't even make an audience blink. but because it's all done practically. It feels exciting, alive and present.
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I am very excited for the feature-length THE ROOM remake (Shot mostly on greenscreen) in which the Tommy Wiseau role is taken over by Bob Odenkirk - and it's not played as a joke.
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Hideaki Anno has seemingly made one of my dream movies with SHIN KAMEN RIDER.
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We need to talk about Brendan Fraser's jaw-dropping performance as the villain in a Bollywood movie:
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I’ve seen almost 400 kung-fu and wuxia movies over the past three years, so when I say I’ve never seen a fight like this before, it’s not hyperbole
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Absolute bananas that Disney pulled the asshole move of copyrighting the monkey with cymbals (for TOY STORY 3), so no one else can use it, which is why Oz Perkin's The Monkey movie has a monkey with a drum. (learned on The King Cast)
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ALMOST INVISIBLE (2010) is the most nightmarish film you can watch on Tubi this Halloween season. I have not edited this at all. Imagine witnessing this brain-sizzling editing/writing/acting style for 95 agonizing minutes.
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In 2018, my friend Peter showed us the Japanese VHS of MAC & ME that for years he swore featured the kid getting blown away. None of us believed him. WE WERE WRONG.
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Imagine working on a film for 29 years, and then they dump it as a free DVD in a cereal box:
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It's wild about learning in the JOHN WICK 4 special features that 1) Everything cool about Donnie's character was brought to the table by him and 2) Donnie improvises his action scene on the day, and Keanu was like, "Fuck! I guess we're going to follow his lead."
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It boggles my mind how faithful TANK GIRL is to the impossible-to-adapt comic book. And it had a budget of $25 million dollars. And it came out in 1995.
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I'm just as shocked as Jake Lloyd every time I hear the homophobic slur in JINGLE ALL THE WAY.
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The Japanese SHIN ULTRAMAN Blu-ray has a lengthy special feature in which all the fights from the film are made to look like they were shot in the 1960s—and there are a bunch of new comedy fights, too!
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I don't understand why I find the ending of MARMADUKE so funny - a bunch of CGI dogs pathetically dancing to What I Like About You never fails to put a giant smile on my face.
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Back in the day, this was a fight from a so-called "Bad" Jackie Chan film.
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Is the "I LOVED YOU IN WALL STREET!" gag in HOT SHOTS PART DEUX one of the best jokes of all time? Yes.
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Hideaki Anno doing mocap for SHIN ULTRAMAN because. Of course, he would.
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From an action filmmaking perspective, it is mind-boggling that Chad Stahelski uses almost zero close-ups in JOHN WICK 4. For most of the movie, the action is framed in two ways:: Full Body and Cowboy Shot (waist to head) that the editor cuts between. YOU NEVER SEE THAT IN MOVIES
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I wish companies would appropriately credit action coordinators on films. For example, if I knew that Yuji Shimomurahad had done the new CITY HUNTER, I would have watched it instantly, but I only learned he worked on it because I follow him on Twitter. He is not listed on IMDB.
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How have we lived in a world where John Candy didn't spend minutes talking about how PSYCHO ruined the shower curtain industry?
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Someone needs to find a word to describe the type of humour found in I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE: You chuckle, maybe even laugh while watching it, but then a week later, you'll remember a gag and keel over in laughing hysterics as tears stream down your face.
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In the 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS EVE (2022), Kelsey Grammer is killed by Santa every day as punishment for his sins.
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The world was robbed of Jim Varney (Ernest himself) doing serious roles. The man was a trained Shakespearean actor!
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Every day I wake up disgusted we only have one DREDD movie starring Karl Urban.
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It's illegal to make a movie in Vancouver and not cast Lochlyn Munro in it. The man has 270 credits, and he will goddamn make sure it's 400 by the end of 2025. He can do the cheapest DTV action schlock and then have a recurring role in RIVERDALE. Is he Canada's Eric Roberts?
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What if there was a radically different version of Albert Pyun's CAPTAIN AMERICA that has never been released? One with a daring structure, a rad synth score, and a downbeat tone that feels like Alan Moore style revionism. It exists, and I saw it:
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Whose baby did Fat Bastard eat? My wife thinks it was his own, which made me sad.
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The big rolling ball in FAST X was mostly real!!!???? But they did so much CGI around it that it looked fake.
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You know the faux one-take action sequences in THE VILLAINESS? That director made a 139-minute film that is just one fake long take-action scene called CARTER that's on Netflix now: an absurd fever dream of violence and impossible camera work that you'll hate or be fascinated by.
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In SHIN ULTRAMAN, actor Bin Furuya, the original suit performer from the 1966 series, did mocap for the movie.
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I can't stop laughing at this shot of Steven Seagal standing up in UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY and shambling forward like Frankenstein's Monster.
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THE PEOPLE'S JOKER has played once at TIFF and has been forced to be pulled and have the rest of the screenings cancelled. People should talk about this because the man doesn't want you to see it.
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If you want an example of the tonal change in Albert Pyun's original cut of CAPTAIN AMERICA (1990). LEFT: The final shot from the theatrical version of CAPTAIN AMERICA. RIGHT: The final shot from Albert Pyun's Original Cut of CAPTAIN AMERICA.
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GAMERA: SUPER MONSTER features one of cinema's greatest dramatic finales. PLEASE NOTE: This is how it is in the film. I have not changed anything.
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I can't believe Alan Moore drew an amazing Godzilla pin-up.
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"How should we sell this new streaming movie?" . "As unexciting as possible!"
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@EnginVIR @TarsTarkasnet Robert Rodriguez consciously removed the CGI smoothing effects on the skeletons when he made SPY KIDS 2 to make it look more like stop motion.
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I am always impressed by the incredibly complex things Keanu Reeves can pull off in the JOHN WICK movies that just zoom by in the blink of an eye.
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The paper-cut-out animation of .Kazuo Umezu's CAT EYE BOY (1976) is so awesome.
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The day Tim Burton's soul left his body was the day he decided, "You know what, let's go with CGI instead of stop motion for the Mars Attacks aliens."
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There's a new film out this week called STUNTMAN, about a grizzled Hong Kong stunt coordinator, brought out of retirement for one last film, and I want to talk to you about the guy that plays that grizzled stuntman: actual legendary action choreographer Stephen Tung Wai.
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It's depressing how much grandiose spectacle is overrated in cinema. Audiences truly don't care! There's a reason that a climax that has a dozen real cars rushing down the road feels more exciting than a million CGI armies clashing together.
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If there's one thing gay hardcore films are missing these days, it's super catchy musical numbers:
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While on a shoot, I noticed my pal Alex miming a bunch of fight moves in between takes, and when I asked what it was from, he admitted that he knew the choreography from the climax of Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY by heart!
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CGI RHINO HORN ON A CGI TRAIN: *yawn*. BIG RUBBER RHINO HORN ON A REAL TRAIN: *YEAAAAAAA*
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Christopher Lambert loved Albert Pyun - and he sums up why Albert was so special in less than a minute.
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Feeling down, may spend all day posting videos from Spider-Man 2 - look at that amazing dummy fall!
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Today, I learned there's an Aerosmith video featuring a giant mech with breasts.
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In SUPER MARIO BROS: THE INDUSTRIAL CUT, my pal Pierce painstakingly removed all of Alan Silvestri's score and replaced it with industrial music that fits the tone of the movie's visuals. It's an amazing example of how music can change the entire feel of an experience:
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I forgot we have the pleasure of seeing The Mask sperm in THE SON OF MASK.
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It's hilarious to me that, supposedly, Netflix asked Writer/Director Timo Tjahjanto (THE NIGHT COMES TO US) if he could make a more "family-friendly action comedy," and this is what he delivered:
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Comfiest serial killer? Definitely Jigsaw. That dude knows how to relax.
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The first adaptation of RING (1995) is a full-on Sam Raimi riff. This is from the opening sequence where a lady dies seven days after watching the tape:
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In case you were wondering what Alec was up to these days.
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Holy moly, BLACK STORM (2024) has an all-timer elevator fight. And it looks like it was shot on a real elevator that was slowly moving?!
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@ReliableRandom It's on the 4K Blu-ray released by Paramount Pictures, and the deleted footage is included as one big 75-minute chunk on the Blu-ray:
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This sequence is more fun than the last 22 things the MCU has put out. Notice how he catches all the props physically, and then the camera pushes in, and there's dialogue to show it wasn't a reverse trick. They executed a concept on set and kept it in the movie! Wild.
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@Kryptonian_Cafe I don't want to diss CGI artists at all, it's an art, after all! I just think what's asked from them is often impossible within the time frames and parameters that are asked of them, that it's viewed as 'easier and faster' when it's not at all.
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One of my favourite special features of all time is the commentary in which the SCARY MOVIE 3 creative team, which includes screenwriter Craig Mazin (THE LAST OF US) reacts in utter disgust at the terrible alternate ending of the film. Please enjoy these highlights:
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A fascinating observation about men screamin in cinema is brought up in the new issue of FANGORIA.
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One of the best making-of documentaries a filmmaker can watch is the one included on the Blu-ray of GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE - a 90-minute spiral where you can watch a movie crash in slow-motion, even though everyone had the best of intentions.
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ME: Whoa, that's a crazy stunt for a DTV sequel to BEHIND ENEMY LINES and. HOLY SHIT!!!!
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Whenever I think of a director out of control, whose closest friends and collaborators won't tell him, "That's an awful idea," I think of this image:
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SHOCKING FILM PRESERVATION FACT: A theater can not pay Disney to play any of the Ernest films they made - goes to camp, scared stupid, prison or christmas. Disney does not have any DCPs of them.
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LAST CRUSADE cost 48 million dollars in 1989, about 101 million with inflation. DIAL OF DESTINY costs $300 million dollars. Money is not the issue.
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Imagine some other film beating RRR as Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. It's impossible. You can't.
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WATCHING 200 MILLION DOLLAR CGI ANIMATED MOVIE: *yawn*. WATCHING A FEW FRAMES OF PERSPECTIVE CHANGE IN A LOONEY TUNES CARTOON: Wow! Now this is the cinema!!!!
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If you've ever wanted to see a Hollywood film fall apart, you have to watch FUCKING KASSOVITZ, an hour long documentary about French director Mathieu Kassovitz losing control (and eventually being fired from) the Vin Diesel film BABYLON AD.
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TOO YOUNG TO DIE (2016) has one of the greatest openings ever. This happens literally at 4 minutes and 22 seconds:
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Why hasn't anyone told me about the Filipino Monster movie BALAWIS (1996) before!!??
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Watch Director Roy William Neill show off like mad in BLACK ANGEL (1946):
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