Cocaine Bear WTF

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  • scubalab
    scubalab Posts: 3,103
    Saw Cocaine Bear Friday night. :o

    OK, let me explain...

    Both of my daughters work part time at our local movie theater and one of the 'perks' is free movies. They've both been into really cheesy movies lately and when we saw the preview for this a month or two ago (while we were seeing M3GAN - for free), we said, we've GOT to see it! So, opening night, my kids got some of complimentary tickets and we went with them and some friends.

    All I can say is I would NOT pay the 12 bucks to see this movie. For free? Yeah, just for the curiosity.

    My short review is to expect exactly what you think it is - a very exaggerated bloody gore (dark) comedy - like the Evil Dead movies. If there's a ridiculously bloody way for someone to die, they will. There were some laughs, jump scares, and cringeworthy bloodshed. I should have bought stock in prosthetic limbs and theatrical blood.

    On a final note, kind of sad to see Ray Liotta in what would be his final role. He's certainly done a few better flicks in his career.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    Well -- I mean -- Bela Lugosi exited with Plan 9 from Outer Space.
    I.e., it coulda been worse.

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  • newbie308
    newbie308 Posts: 768
    I want the 5 minutes of my like back that I just spent reading this thread.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,445
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    newbie308 wrote: »
    I want the 5 minutes of my like back that I just spent reading this thread.

    Dude.
    You need to read faster.
    B)

    A couple of lines should help out with that...
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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,918
    I obviously have no life. I went to YouTube and searched for and watched a couple trailers when this thread was posted.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    I've had that danged J. J. Cale song* stuck in my head all day today. :#

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  • displayname
    displayname Posts: 1,148
    scubalab wrote: »
    kind of sad to see Ray Liotta in what would be his final role. He's certainly done a few better flicks in his career.

    Honestly, I would look at it from the other side. When I see older very respected actors in movies like this at the end of their career, I assume they are at the point of only working when it's fun. He probably had a blast on set and went home with a smile most days.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    I was surprised to see a fairly straight-faced assessment of this movie from The New Yorker yesterday. :#

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/cocaine-bear-quiet-girl-movie-review
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,547
    My son begged me to go see this with him tonight. After many eye-rolls, I realized that I really had noting else going on, so I figured what the hell…?

    I have not laughed more in a movie theater since… I don’t know when. Is it stupid? Yea - but it knows it’s a stupid movie, and doesn’t pretend to be anything else. If you like a good dark comedy, and you’re not offended easily, you could do a lot worse…
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,786
    Añd before Nostradamus the ancient Sumerians made reference to "The Bear" in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
    ......they didn't specifically say "Cocaine Bear" but it's pretty obvious that's who they meant.
    🐻
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  • xschop
    xschop Posts: 5,000
    I'd have to hit a few brews first....

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    edited March 2023
    I know that one of the protagonists of Cover of the Rolling Stone
    [Had]... a freaky old lady name of Cocaine Katy
    Who embroiders on my jeans...

    B)

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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    It’s definitely a funny one ! Didn’t know Ray passed away! Another suddenly!
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  • tonyb
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    Make fun of that Bear all ya want, he'll be up for best supporting actor next year Oscar time.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    tonyb wrote: »
    Make fun of that Bear all ya want, he'll be up for best supporting actor next year Oscar time.

    Ursines are definitely under-represented in the Academy. :|

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,786
    And when's the last time a chacma was prominent in a featured Hollywood film ?

    Clint Eastwood did his part for diversity and inclusion bit that was over 4 decades ago.

    Gubbermint needs to address this injustice !
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    Sal Palooza
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,118
    I was surprised when I read the other week that Elizabeth Banks directed this philum.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,118
    edited March 2023
    Also, skimming the stills on IMDB, I saw that Russ had a bit in the film, as well.

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  • txcoastal1
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    Figured him for a Nikon or a Canon man, though, not an Asahi Pentax. B)
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  • SeleniumFalcon
    SeleniumFalcon Posts: 3,831
    ^ I had that exact same camera, I brought one back for my dad from Okinawa.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,118
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Figured him for a Nikon or a Canon man, though, not an Asahi Pentax. B)

    jeeze, Eagle Eyes Hardy up there! ^^^
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    edited March 2023
    msg wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Figured him for a Nikon or a Canon man, though, not an Asahi Pentax. B)

    jeeze, Eagle Eyes Hardy up there! ^^^

    Have you not heard?
    We do cameras in my family. B)

    The younger Dr. Hardy's blog: http://icouldbeahero.blogspot.com/

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    edited March 2023
    We do bears, too. No cocaine, though, thankfully.
    Imagine mamma on Peruvian Marching Powder? :#

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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,118
    sooo, wait a minute, just clarifying here - are you guys into photography? :D

    I have a few, but only one or two cool old ones. I should probably display them and take photos of them.

    I remember those clocks. unpleasantly alarming.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    edited March 2023
    On the old TV series M*A*S*H, a patient once asked Hawkeye Pierce if he was a doctor.
    Capt. Pierce's reply (as best I remember it):
    No, I have a white coat fetish, and this is the only place I can get away with it.

    We (the two Drs. H) probably just have a bit of a camera fetish. Does that have anything to do with photography?
    Not necessarily. B)

    Actually, the younger Dr. H is an extremely good photographer.
    Me? Not so much. See the fuzzy bear(s) above. :#


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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,118
    edited March 2023
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Have you not heard?
    We do cameras in my family. B)
    here's one!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,894
    edited March 2023
    very cool! I don't believe I've ever seen a Konica rangefinder! :) Great images, too.

    That said, chances are if I ask my son about them, he'll probably say something like this:
    "We have one. It's in a box in your basement."
    He uses the first person plural to describe "our" (mostly his) cameras, for reasons that remain opaque. ;)

    In seriousness, though -- I don't think there's a Konica RF here or in NoVA as part of the family :p collection.

    Does that use the classic Leica screw mount (I am too lazy to look it up... 40 mm, maybe??) or a bayonet?

    EDIT: Yeah, that is definitely an interesting camera!
    https://www.dantestella.com/technical/koni3.html
    Fixed lens. :|

    Lest I be accused of straying off-topic:
    Keep it away from bears!
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,118
    I need to break it out again. Last I messed with it, the shutter was sticky. I found a shop in San Antonio who said they could fix it.

    I received it from my mother's uncle, my Great Uncle John. Arrived in a box wrapped in an old quilted flannel shirt/jacket, with a short letter and folded slip of paper with notes on the last roll of film he ran through it. Kinda neat. I even got to keep the shirt jacket as a bonus.
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