Film Tank

Film Tank sits down for a deadly game of chess with an old friend. 

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Title: The Seventh Seal

Year: 1957

Plot Summary (IMDB): A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.

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Film Tank goes on the run with The Fugitive.

NOTES:

Title: The Fugitive

Year: 1993

Plot Summary (IMDB): Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.

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Look.

If you had... one take.

And one cinematographer.

To seize all the Oscars you ever wanted.

Would you make a war film?

Or just let it slip?

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy.

There's unusable footage on the hard drive already.

He's nervous, but Sam Mendes is calm and ready.

Camera's on, and it's all so upsetting

No cuts allowed. Whole set's a mushroom cloud.

The ground's soakin' now, actors are chokin' now

A line was missed, reset, start all over now!

Sam pulls me back to reality, shouts "Deakins you're my O.G."

Oh, there goes a lighting rig.

I'm so mad, but not giving up that easy, no

"Reset the shot, we need those Oscar votes!"

It don't matter, he's dope, one of the D-P GOATS

He's Roger fuckin' Deakins, when he goes back to his mansion, that's when it's

Back to the film lab 'gain for color corrections

Better go capture this next take and hope it gives Mendes erections

You better lose yourself in the shot, ride its flow,

You own it, you better never let it go

You only get one take, do not miss your mark on "go!"

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

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00:04:38 / 2020 Oscars Discussion

00:30:09 / Main Review - 1917

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Alex and Nick sit down to ask special guest Dan why he's so unpopular with the Chicago Police Department.

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Bend and oh, snap! Film Tank revisits Legally Blonde and deliberates whether it still holds up. All rise for Elle Woods.

NOTES:

Title: Legally Blonde

Year: 2001

Plot Summary (IMDB): Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.

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Film Tank searches for the Holy Grail. We did not find it. We did get one of the 7/11 Big Gulp cups, though.

NOTES:

Title: The Fisher King

Year: 1991

Plot Summary (IMDB): A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

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This is a big one folks. Film Tank brings you TWO rankings in one episode. First up, we "briefly" discuss our Top 6 films of 2019, before making way for the main event: a dive into our favorite films of the 2010s.

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00:00:00 - 00:38:20 / Intro and Top 6 of 2019

00:38:20 - 03:09:00 / Top 10 of the 2010s

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Film Tank takes a look at the first (and hopefully only) season of HBO's foray into the Watchmen canon with Damon Lindelof's bold TV series set in Alan Moore's universe, first created in 1986 with Dave Gibbons in the seminal 12 issue series.

NOTES:

Title: Watchmen (2019 HBO Miniseries)

Year: 2019

Plot Summary (IMDB): Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own.

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The Skywalker saga comes to a close. Listen to Film Tank's review of how effectively it went about closing off this recent trilogy and the saga as a whole.

NOTES:

Title: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Year: 2019

Plot Summary (IMDB): The surviving members of the resistance face the First Order once again, and the legendary conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its peak bringing the Skywalker saga to its end.

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Nothing says the holidays like adultery, romantic declarations about 9/11, mental institutions, Mariah Carey, fat-shaming, The Troggs, implied indentured servitude, nativity lobsters, and Wisconsin's well-known affinity for clandestinely operating brothels in well-lit dive bars for for European tourists.

Film Tank presents Love, Actually. Or rather, Richard Curtis does. We just watched it. 

Title: Love, Actually

Year: 2003

Plot Summary (IMDB): Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

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