09-20-2021, 11:05 PM | #13321 |
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I wasn’t big on plot development when I was nine.
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09-20-2021, 11:06 PM | #13322 |
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A grown man crawling out of a rubber animatronic asshole though?
Hell yes. |
09-20-2021, 11:10 PM | #13323 |
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that is a legitimately funny scene and the best part is on the page its just *ace crawls out of rhinos anus*
its all carey there. theres nothing any writer did or couldve done for that scene. ALLS IM SAYIN is dont give up on the project just yet. |
09-21-2021, 12:03 AM | #13324 |
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I still wish they would do some kind of big comedy ensemble movie that has a general plot to it that is laid out but let all the actors just go with it and ad lib all their lines for the entire film. Would be interesting to see how it would turn out I think. Would either be a hilarious masterpiece or hilariously awful but would probably be entertaining either way.
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09-21-2021, 12:12 PM | #13325 |
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Jim Carey's films haven't aged particularly well, though I still enjoy watching them whenever the opportunity presents itself.
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09-21-2021, 05:25 PM | #13326 |
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i think to enjoy them you have to be under 16. his early work atleast
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09-21-2021, 05:26 PM | #13327 |
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but in all fairness most comedy ages really poorly. the point of comedy is to work along the edges of normal. thats where the misdirection lives. once someone works there its not as "edgey." in 20 years its tame.
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09-21-2021, 05:27 PM | #13328 |
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Jim Carey is too old to get away with doing talking arse impressions both as a spectacle and as an expectation of his near sixty year old body.
If he really hurts himself trying to be wacky then they should keep it in the film. I’m thinking a broken wrist from a pratfall would heal slowly at his age. |
09-21-2021, 05:29 PM | #13329 |
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i do have to wonder how much physical comedy he's capable of. not a lot of tumblers in the old folks home
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09-21-2021, 10:12 PM | #13330 |
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09-26-2021, 06:16 PM | #13331 |
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Dear Evan Hansen - 8/10
after listening to the motion picture soundtrack i went into this assuming the absolute worst. the tracks were all overly produced. tons of autotune and synthetic instruments being used. major somgs missing and the 2 new numbers didnt add even half enough to replace what was lost. to my complete surprise half of these issues werent issues. the motion picture soundtrack isnt used in the film. instead the use the best method: the songs are (overwhelmingly) sung live in camera. this is always best. actors are able to act through their singing. instead of matching their faces. for a musical that is as heavy as this one its crucial to hear the pain through theirs mouths as well as to read it on their faces. the lost tracks are problematic. the 2 tracks added dont add anything of substantial merit. the tracks lpst are all from the parents leaving only 1 (and a half i guess) of the parents tracks. the one track they left is the final number which is a solo by the mother...and its her first number of the picture. so a song that should be reconciling the 2 major plotlines it only deals with 1 since the other is heavily neutered. this brings me to wonder would the "final" number give the resonance if i didnt already know the value of it since im so familiar with the stage play. hard to say. i say "final" becauae this film continues for 10 min after having a new ending and a very brief final song. the song is fine but the ending weakens the point by a large magnitude. all the adaptation quirks aside the film is very good. the performances are really top notch and the editing is very good. and everything not mentioned from the play is just as great as it always was. |
09-26-2021, 06:22 PM | #13332 |
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Waiting for the Seth Hanson sequel.
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09-26-2021, 06:25 PM | #13333 |
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just wait for the chris hansen prequel
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09-27-2021, 01:00 AM | #13334 |
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I’m interested by Clayne Crawford’s comeback joint “The Killing Of Two Lovers”.
Looks pretty heavy, getting reviews like it’s my sort of movie. Sometimes I just want to watch a fuck up destroy himself. |
09-28-2021, 03:13 AM | #13335 |
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Promising Young Woman - 9/10
Good film. Well-acted, well-written, smart and stylish. |
09-28-2021, 04:06 PM | #13336 |
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Free Guy 8/10
I found it to be a genuinely entertaining film, with some real 'lol' moments. |
09-28-2021, 05:40 PM | #13337 |
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I found it pretty forgettable.
Jodie Comer isn’t really my cup of tea. She should stick to TV. |
09-28-2021, 08:08 PM | #13338 |
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Magnolia - 9/10
the score could rise or fall after a second or third viewing but likely it would rise. ill be brief since there is a depth here that a single viewing cant grasp. what i will say is this structurally is a stunning achievement in writing. there are multiple scenes that play congurently that have an outlandish divide in stakes but dont feel like they have any divide at all. im not sure ive ever seen anything crafted this way tonally and if i have it certainly wasn't as successful at it. i have a lot of thoughts but theyre all half formed so ill stop here but it was very very good. |
09-28-2021, 10:29 PM | #13339 |
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That was another one of those films I stumbled upon by chance years later and had always meant to watch. That never seems to work out for me...
It’s a strange film. I’ve only seen it once because it made me feel so bad. I don’t know why he made it or what he was trying to do but it was well acted and a couple of the story threads were at least entertaining rather than soul destroying. Paul Thomas Anderson doesn’t make happy films though. |
09-28-2021, 10:53 PM | #13340 |
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maybe a hot take but the scene with Cruise at his fathers bed is very likely the best scene ive ever seen him in
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09-28-2021, 11:01 PM | #13341 |
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my thoughts are still very underdeveloped but actually think this films point is a happy one. im not ready to defend this statement but i think the point is something along the lines of "the tragedies of the past must be faced forthrightly even if it brings ultimate strife; only after we suffer can we embrace hope and make a new beginning."
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09-28-2021, 11:05 PM | #13342 |
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something like that. again half formed thoughts
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09-28-2021, 11:08 PM | #13343 |
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I saw it a long time ago and remembered enjoying it.... remember very little about it now
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09-28-2021, 11:08 PM | #13344 |
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the cipher for the film likely is inside the boys rap at the top of the film. he's probably a profit. there's a lot of biblical parallels obviously
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09-28-2021, 11:09 PM | #13345 |
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I'll rewatch it in a half a year or so after ive digested it a bit
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09-29-2021, 10:48 PM | #13346 |
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Dunkirk - 7/10
i had been told by people i trust that this was a masterpiece but i went in with very tempered expectations because while nolan is a very quality director i dont believe he has a masterpiece in him. many directors are good, few ever manage anything in the neighborhood of great. even still this film left me underwhelmed. mostly because it doesnt really have anything to say. its just a war film. its done very well and its historical accuracy is high and thats all well and good. if thats what you want from a picture this will deliver that for you. its tension is often incredibly high and genuine tension is the ear mark of a good film maker. for me however it isnt nearly enough. i dont feel like nolan, in general, is capable of making a film that merits discussion and ultimately this film simply exists for the time its on the screen and once its run time has ended so is your entire interaction with it. there's absolutely nothing lasting about it. ...and in a world where we have apocalypse now and full metal jacket i dont think making a film about "war is hell" is a particularly worthwhile endeavor. its been done masterfully already and i doubt anyone manages a masterpiece on strictly that topic ever again. i dont dislike war films, i dont think a 7 out of 10 =a bad movie, but this doesnt have the depth to rise above just "a very good action/war film" and become something truly memorable. |
09-29-2021, 10:55 PM | #13347 |
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inception merited discussion to some degree but mostly from people who were initially confused by its timeline and whatnot. once they sussed that out though...eh
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09-30-2021, 01:09 PM | #13348 |
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Memento is always going to be his best film.
Pure genius. |
09-30-2021, 01:12 PM | #13349 |
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Looking forward to the new Ben Wheatley film “In The Earth” and I looked at his filmography just to see if I’d missed any. Well he’s making The Meg 2....
I feel like that’s possibly the strangest hiring decision a major studio picture could ever make. The man is a genius but I dunno how this could ever work. |
09-30-2021, 03:55 PM | #13350 |
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I started watching Sleepers on Netflix without any prior knowledge. It's a bit overwhelming and dark at times, the narration and acting are on point.
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09-30-2021, 04:04 PM | #13351 |
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“Sleepers” has quite an impact on me when I first saw it, and every subsequent viewing since. It’s a Hollywood movie but it’s actually worth watching.
I feel like indie versions of this sort of film get too ugly too quickly and it always sticks in my craw. The British film “Scum” is also worth a watch but again, pretty harrowing stuff. I should probably watch “Girl, Interrupted” again to see if that holds up. |
10-02-2021, 01:05 AM | #13352 |
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Free Guy - 7/10
Was surprised to find this on Disney+ so soon, so I watched it. Was entertaining enough for what it was. It was like a slightly better Ready Player One. |
10-02-2021, 03:36 AM | #13353 |
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Colour out of Space - 5/10
Weird and not very good. Some nice visuals but they can't compensate for the rest of the film. Nicolas Cage in MANDY this is not. |
10-02-2021, 11:03 PM | #13354 |
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She Never Died 8/10
A surprising semi sequel to He Never Died |
10-04-2021, 10:18 PM | #13355 |
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In The Earth - 1/4
Ben Wheatley makes unique films usually, but this is so much like a pagan horror version of “A Field In England” that it amounts to nearly two hours of repetitive weirdness that never resolved itself. The two leads deserved a lot better than they were given here, both of them performed with a quality that was thoroughly out of place in such a silly film. The two supporting actors were hamming it up so much that any ambiguity in their motivations held absolutely no interest to me. This is an impressively bad film. I think it was trying to be like “The Ritual” which was too recent and too good to be replicated or borrowed from so lazily. British film makers do films about mysterious happenings in the woods a lot better than this usually. This is officially the worst one. |
10-04-2021, 10:21 PM | #13356 |
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is it bad enough to watch for the train wreck factor or is it pure avoid at all costs
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10-04-2021, 10:42 PM | #13357 | |
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That said, this movie was the hugest of letdowns for me. Did not do the story justice at all and Cage's performance was flat out awful, one of the worst of his career. I wouldn't have been nearly as generous with the score as you were. Prob 2/10 for me. Also it was kind of baffling that out of all the Lovecraft stories they chose this one. It's a fine story, but so many of others deserve the film treatment more than this did. Give me The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadanth. At The Mountains of Madness (QUIT CANCELLING DEL TORO'S PASSION PIECE YOU HOLLYWOOD ASSHOLES). A new version of The Dunwich Horror even. |
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10-05-2021, 12:45 AM | #13358 |
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Sleepers - 7/10
Excellent watch, although difficult at times. Cheesy in parts but solid acting overall. |
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I couldn’t turn it off, mate. It is completely off the rails from the get go but it loses any semblance of restraint by the end. It’s jumps from being science fiction to horror by act two and by act three it’s almost Shakespearean. People will compare it to “The Wicker Man” but it’s not that straightforward. I admire the effort but the last act was objectively mental by anyone’s standards. |
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10-05-2021, 06:43 PM | #13360 |
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Just watched Chappelle’s last Netflix special.
Not great by his standards, but I did enjoy it. |