With our second 18th round selection, Direct2Video selects It's All Gone Pete Tong in the Wildcard category.
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It's All Gone Pete Tong is a 2004Canadianfictionalindependentmockumentary about Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye), a DJ who goes completely deaf. The title is a reference to a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain in the 2000s, referring to the BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong, standing for "it's all gone wrong". Like the similar mockumentaryThis Is Spinal Tap, the film takes measures to appear non-fictional, but Frankie Wilde himself is a fictional character.
At the beginning of the film, Frankie Wilde is a wildly successful DJ on the party island of Ibiza. He has a recording contract, performs at high-profile nightclubs, and lives in a luxurious villa with his trophy wife, Sonya, and their son. In talking head sequences, contemporary DJs laud Frankie's turntable skills during this period. It is also evident that Frankie has cocaine and alcohol addictions (in hallucinations, his drug addiction is represented by a giant, menacing badger). His career is increasingly guided by egotistical, insensitive super-agent Max Haggar.
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Watched this film in my DJ Culture class last winter and really enjoyed it. For those of you who follow house music, the guest stars and cameos in this movie are a real who's-who of the peak era of house.
Team Clint Eastwood would like to submit - for the approval of the other GMs and league commissioner - a request for change to the name of our team. Box office sales have been sluggish for a team named after a guy whose movies do not appear on our roster (there was a point to this originally but... I have decided, ah, fack it). Team owners feel this change is necessary to the continued viability of our market.
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Old team name: Team Clint Eastwood
New team name: Sequel: Part 2
I think it's really clever. At least, more clever than Clint Eastwood.
Is this gonna be cool? Make my day.
I certainly don't mind this change - it's just too bad it's so late in the draft!
Man, trading my pick was a slight mistake. I don't regret picking up Jurassic Park, but it's felt like forever since my last pick... I'm going through withdraws...
In the pre-1960 category, 6DTM is proud to select the 1927 Fritz Lang classic, Metropolis.
I thought Itse's Nosferatu pick was a steal this late in the draft, and I think Metropolis is, too. One main reason for picking this film is the art direction and design. It took an abstract world and rendered it in a manner that had never been done before in film. The gorgeous, art-deco Metropolis came to life using a combination of miniatures and other new film techniques. Eugene Schuefftan developed the Schuefftan effect while working on this film: a process of using mirrors to create composite shots, which was in use pretty much up until the time that blue-screen technology was developed.
The story combines elements for Wells, Capek, and other early science-fiction writers, but even though it borrows from these contemporaries, it also helped to popularize both science-fiction and the sub-genre of disutopia. In this case, the disutopia is a city divided into a ruling elite who live in the art-deco skyscrapers, and the worker city beneath them. With mad scientists, cyborgs, angry mobs, and a visual style that lives on in Batman, Dark City, Blade Runner, Gattica, and numerous other science fiction films, it's enjoyable to watch simply to otherstand where all this other imagery came from.
It's admittedly it's a little muddled at times, although it's been speculated that this is because the film was heavily edited for American release and as much as 25 minutes of original footage was lost. (This footage was recently discovered in Argentina, and I'm looking forward to it's rerelease next year).
I thought Itse's Nosferatu pick was a steal this late in the draft, and I think Metropolis is, too.
Agree for sure (M was an awesome pick too), although I must admit I haven't seen Metropolis. One of those "I know I have to see it, just haven't made time" kinda movies. Sure is critically acclaimed, and by all accounts, is still timeless/relevant/visually inventive after all these years. If I can track down a copy online I'll check it out soon octo and let you know what I think!
Metropolis is a classic and deserves to be picked for all the technical innovation alone, but I have to admit I didn't like it very much. A tedious film in many ways. It's longish (almost two hours is the "most current" restored version I believe, which is still not even close to the original length of something like three hours), silly and not very well acted. Some gorgeous scenery though. Well worth seeing for the historical value, but I recommend not setting your expectations for entertainment very high.
well isnt this just funny...
Ill admit to never having seen the original 1927 Metropolis, and the fact that it was basically taken with the choice right before mine makes this hilarious...
while not as ground breaking as its inspiration, still a fantastic anime film; with our next wildcard selection DVD-eh selects:
Metoroporisu (aka. Metropolis)
the anime movie released in 2001, based on the Metropolis manga series (which was inspired by a movie poster for the original)
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Metropolis is a story of how important emotions are and how they separate humans from everything else. The movie follows a young boy and his uncle (a private investigator). The story is set in the far future where humans and robots live together, unfortunately not in harmony. Many robots are forced underground and are terminated for entering unauthorized areas. They are more or less servants to humankind. The plot starts to unfold when the boy meets a robot named Tima and they get in all kinds of trouble. Never a dull moment when you've got a robot by your side
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Nice! I wasn't at all familiar with that version, but came across it when I was doing research for my pick, and I made a mental note that I'd have to seek out the anime version at some point. Now I'll definitely need to look for it.
Czure, when I saw the pick for the original, I thought of the anime right away. Not a bad pickup... I mean, you could have gone with Ducktales: The Movie... but nice pick none the less.
