04-04-2023, 09:42 AM | #14641 |
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04-04-2023, 04:11 PM | #14642 |
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That doesn't excuse how boring the rest of the film was. Straight to DVD garbage.
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04-04-2023, 04:43 PM | #14643 |
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Joe Carnahan doesn’t do boring.
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04-04-2023, 04:54 PM | #14644 |
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I haven't enjoyed any of his work since The Grey.
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04-04-2023, 09:59 PM | #14645 |
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Cocaine bear was fine
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04-04-2023, 10:56 PM | #14646 |
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04-05-2023, 10:46 AM | #14647 |
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Cocaine Bear was funny but it would have been a funny heist movie without the bear anyway.
I laughed a fair bit. |
04-05-2023, 10:47 AM | #14648 |
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04-05-2023, 03:06 PM | #14649 |
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What can I say...he's a bore.
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04-05-2023, 03:11 PM | #14650 |
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You fucking are
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04-05-2023, 03:21 PM | #14651 |
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04-05-2023, 04:16 PM | #14652 |
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John Wick: Chapter 4 - 4.75/5
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04-06-2023, 12:49 AM | #14653 |
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Saw "Good Time" tonight. Robert Pattinson was good in it.
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04-06-2023, 02:08 AM | #14654 |
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Watching "Logan Lucky" for the first time. So many recognizable actors.
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04-06-2023, 07:54 AM | #14655 |
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“The Searchers” - 3/4
It is imperfect and downright silly at times, but it is so visually influential both in cinematography and style that I should really be giving it a 4/4 on principle. People like to say Kurosawa was influential, but I bet he looked up to John Ford in his own way. This is big cinema at its best in a time when representation wasn’t a consideration, but there are very obvious signs of respect and integrity in Ford’s depictions of the savage and the civilised. If I had to show somebody a perfect example of the acting style of the time period I would have to show them this. This or “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” are the epitome of the era’s ideals. |
04-06-2023, 06:55 PM | #14656 |
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I would love to see an Audie Murphy biopic made again.
I have a lot of admiration for him as both an actor and a man. His short life is a tragedy. |
04-06-2023, 06:58 PM | #14657 |
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If he was younger Matthew McConaughey is who I’d want. Audie Murphy could only be played by a real talent.
I think you’d need a young man to do it. That Nick Robinson would be a good shout. |
04-07-2023, 08:05 AM | #14658 |
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Saw Mario on the worlds biggest Imax yesterday. It was an excellent experience. Great movie. Could have been a little longer but otherwise I loved it and if you don't love it you're a square. 800/10. (Not really, but I'd give it like an 8)
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04-08-2023, 01:02 AM | #14659 |
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Super Mario Bros was fun
I'd give it 7/10, it's just a really fun movie |
04-08-2023, 04:37 PM | #14660 |
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Watching “The Cowboys” with John Wayne and in it he uses a group of kids to drive his cattle instead of men as none are available.
Anyway a black cook goes with them and when he sees his colleagues are kids he says he’s going to “fix up some sugar tits to take along”. Then later on a kid called him the n-word. Crazy shit. |
04-08-2023, 04:37 PM | #14661 |
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Haha one of them asks him if he has a black cock
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04-08-2023, 05:33 PM | #14662 |
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John Wayne cures a lad’s stutter with good old fashioned verbal abuse.
Later on anotherboy is stampeded by a herd. These kids are growing up fast or not at all. Bruce Dern playing a bad heel. A kid hitter. |
04-09-2023, 07:06 PM | #14663 |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie - 6.5/10
Was ok, some really neat sequences, visuals, and references, but real shallow on everything else. Not that I was really expecting anything but shallow on everything else. |
04-10-2023, 01:10 AM | #14664 |
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Seeing a lot of people mad at critics for not liking it.. this confuses me. Last thing i would want is critics championing popcorn
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04-11-2023, 04:14 AM | #14665 |
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Attempting to watch Cape Fear and this might be the weirdest Scorsese film I've seen.
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04-11-2023, 06:17 AM | #14666 |
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Going to watch Vivarium next.
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04-11-2023, 07:43 AM | #14667 |
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You better stay away from Imogen Poots; she's mine!
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04-11-2023, 08:24 AM | #14668 |
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This was absolutely mental. Might watch Repo Man again. Remember it being pretty dope.
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04-12-2023, 06:11 AM | #14669 |
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Watching Sean Baker's "The Florida Project". Red Rocket was a riot.
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04-12-2023, 08:48 AM | #14670 |
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This movie made me bawl.
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04-12-2023, 08:50 AM | #14671 |
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Fucjing Willem Dafoe
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04-12-2023, 09:18 AM | #14672 |
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - 7/10
Ah the American Musical. The only red white and blue art form. This film coming in at the peak of its tenure as the giant of the american film industry just 2 years after Singing in the Rain. I was all in when the films I want song was "bless your beautiful hide." Hilariously brilliant pun the establishes everything you need to know. The goals of the protagonist. Who the protagonist is and just how backward he is. Juxtaposing him against the town.The world the characters will be set in. Everything you need an i want song to do it does and its a toe tapper to boot. Fundamentally this is two fairy tales kinda mashed together. Its beauty and the beast and the 7 dwarves. Snow white tries to train the drawves to be men essentially. Not all the songs hit that well, honestly probably only 2 or 3, but where this really nails it is the dance numbers. Choreography is nearly peerless. There's a huge number at the top of the 2nd split in 2 parts. 1st is the dance before a barn raising and the 2nd half is the barn raising itself. In the 1st half the 6 brothers are trying to be men to captivate the civilized women as civilizedmen. and it works. In the 2nd half the civilized men challenge the brothers on the primal level and they've diluted their instincts. The civilized men begin to take advantage of them until they revert to their natural selves but they lose the women in the process. Now this is incredibly smart stuff. In courting you need to be soft enough attract a female and hard enough to drive away the competing men. If you veer to far in either direction you risk failing the endeavor. And they do this during an outstanding dance number full of gymnastics, tumbling, pratfalls, swing dance and just outright fun. Another number i really enjoyed was afte the brother return home alone and defeated they have this bit showing their depression where theyre chopping wood in the snow. The song is pretty lovely but what i really appreciated is how they used the work they were doing to be the percussion for the number. It added a really interesting visual layer to the bit and i really enjoyed it. The films conclusion is pretty outrageous. The men misinterpret a book and conclude kidnapping is the key to getting a wife. So they do. Its all played for laughs and it is pretty funny to be fair. The girls do fall for them ultimately andand when the towns folk come to get back their daughters the girls try to hide from them. They dont want to go home. The brothers try and force them to go home to avoid bloodshed and the girls resist. This creates a scene where everyone is doing the right thing but from the towns folk perspective it looks like the brothers are forcing themselves on the women. And again its pretty damn funny. This all resolves with the women declaring their love and the fathers forcing the men to make honest women out of them after its implied theyve spent all winter fucking them (even though they didnt.) And while it probably shouldnt be its pretty fucking funny. Last edited by Destor; 04-12-2023 at 09:54 AM. |
04-12-2023, 09:19 AM | #14673 |
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A completely ridiculous premise that just fucking works.
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04-13-2023, 09:30 AM | #14674 |
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It’s a perfect film for boozing
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04-13-2023, 10:39 AM | #14675 |
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I really enjoyed that review, you obviously understand what makes it such a fun film.
The choreography is bonkers. |
04-13-2023, 04:06 PM | #14676 |
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The choreography is like a 3 stooges bit through dance. Its excellent
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04-13-2023, 05:10 PM | #14677 |
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The Naked Spur - 2.5/4
It’s a bit like “3:10 To Yuma” if you replace the gravitas with some top shelf buffoonery. James Stewart is the gangliest, most emotional and weirdest cowboy in almost every western he does. This one is actually a good story but with every climax going slightly wrong… lots of daft shit is going on in the Wild West, from gullible elderly gold-diggers to dishonourably discharged confederate cavalrymen. At one point spurs are used like crampons for hands on a sheer rock face. Spurs spin though. At the end James Stewart just bursts into tears and blubbers like a big fanny. Apparently it is beloved by the French. I enjoyed it. If it hadn’t been made in the fifties it might have stood a chance at being good for the right reasons because it’s pretty clear that it was trying to be all-out shocking. Robert Ryan smashes Janet Leigh in the head with a gun at one point and James Stewart kicks a guy in the face. Obviously they hit clean air both times and it is visibly ludicrous when the blows are sold as fully as that but that’s how screen violence usually was in Westerns before the sixties turned it up a notch. James Stewart is just a hard guy to buy as a badass. |
04-13-2023, 05:51 PM | #14678 |
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If you want a good Jimmy Stewart film, check out 'Shenandoah;' both a western and a civil war film.
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04-13-2023, 09:52 PM | #14679 |
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Antichrist (2009) - 7/10
I wont go in depth on this one because by design its meant to be interpreted by the viewer so there isnt any value in my take away becauae its my take away. I do have thoughts though and I'll enjoy muddling through them over the next few days. What i will say is if youve ever seen a Lars Von Trier film and didnt like it this wont be the one that changes your mind. His films are challenging across every metric he can muster and he doesntmake films for commercial reasons. You're either interested in exploring the space along side him or you arent. I was watching an Actors on Actors with Collin Farrell and Hugh Grant and Ferrell was saying how he proffered the smaller roles that were less commercial and more about characters and performances and Hugh chimed in that ultimately their jobs were to be "stuck up their own asses" but to entertain. Ferrell sheepishly agreed. I couldn't disagree more. Not everything is about entertainment. As if that is some holy virtue. And Von Trier certainly doesnt give a shit about it. Hell he'll actively engage in boredom if it draws you to the emotional peaks he's aiming for. That said this film is very intense and once the horror film is in full motion during the late 2nd and 3rd acts there's plenty to stimulate the viewer. It isnt for everyone. Hell it isnt for most. I did take a point off for the cinematography though. The camera constantly reminded you of its existence. Making deliberate motions that the characters would react to. As if its a 3rd party to the events. While i do think there is deliberate intention to it it does reduce immersion and that is something this film has as a strength until those moments. |
04-14-2023, 07:34 AM | #14680 |
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Watching Minari today. Seems promising.
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