07-22-2022, 11:19 AM | #14001 |
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That seems to be a trend with netflix films too. I dunno.
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07-22-2022, 11:21 AM | #14002 |
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And the more i reflect on it im taking my 7 back. The ending meses it up too much. 6.
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07-22-2022, 12:29 PM | #14003 |
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I stopped watching when the escape scene started because of all the reasons you listed.
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07-22-2022, 01:10 PM | #14004 |
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Yeah and the worst part is the climax has alreayd happened so the audience has all but checked out any way
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07-23-2022, 11:53 PM | #14005 |
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Wild Tales - 7/10
Really good comedy. Collection of (7?) short stories with the central theme being vengeance and the secondary theme socioeconomic power dynamics. Dark sense of humor. Really enjoyed it. |
07-26-2022, 11:33 PM | #14006 |
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Ryan Gossling is a CIA hitman and the CIA wants him gone. Chris Evans is the guy who's going after him. Ana de Armas is also heavily featured and plays an action roll.
There are some pretty ridiculous action scenes but it's clear the directors knew what they were doing. It's pretty fantastic. It's almost a super hero movie without super heroes. Lots of funny lines and the action scenes are f'ing amazing. They basically did a more charismatic version of John Wick and added better action scenes. It's crazy for me to say, but for 2 hours of entertainment, it's 9.5/10. |
07-27-2022, 08:32 AM | #14007 |
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Notting Hill
Oh waa waa i'm charming british english man Hue Grant and women dont love me waaaaaaaaaaaaaa ,,,,,,,,,,, waaaaaaaaaa Gimme a break |
07-27-2022, 05:37 PM | #14008 |
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I thought you’d be more upset that there are apparently no black folks in it.
I remember that being a big deal when it came out. Richard Curtis is very much a mediocre comic writer but he does know how to frame a story for an audience in a way that appears humorous but with which the least inspection becomes quite terrifying. That one speech with John Hannah in Four Weddings is pretty great though, even for a nightmarishly manipulative bastard. |
07-27-2022, 05:43 PM | #14009 |
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The Devil All the Time - 8/10
Really good script. Robert Pattison is probably the best actor working today and this role he really gets some miles out of. Bill Skarsgård is really good here yoo. Tom Holland a bit less so but he isnt bad. There's just some really strong performances here and i cant help but think they out class himby more than a bit. He doesnt hurt the film though. Narrative has a lot of depth and im still chewing on it but its a testament to it that a few hours later imstill thinking about it. The film is bleak though and i suppose thats what leaves me thinking. SPOILER: show |
07-27-2022, 06:21 PM | #14010 |
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Elvis - 8/10
Baz Luhrmann's direction (and Tom Hanks doing a Dutch accent in a fat suit) took a while to get used, to but Austin Butler was really good throughout and I liked the musical choices. Taken as a representation more than a literal retelling of Elvis' career and life, it's one of my favorite biopics I've seen in a while. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - 7/10 Never heard of this before yesterday. I figured it would be more of a Pixar-ish kids movie, but it's definitely a more introspective adult movie and I think kids would be bored by it. Doesn't necessarily go anywhere, at times feels like a 90-minute therapy assignment for the director, but it's enjoyable and original and I'm glad movies like this can still be made. |
07-27-2022, 06:24 PM | #14011 |
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How did they handle the music in Elvis? Mostly cutaways and montages or is central to the drama?
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07-27-2022, 06:31 PM | #14012 |
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07-27-2022, 06:55 PM | #14013 |
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Trailer looked good but i was hesitant. Still might pass on in theater but I'll watch it at home for sure
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07-28-2022, 02:58 AM | #14014 | |
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07-28-2022, 03:37 AM | #14015 |
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Menace II Society (1993) - 7/10
This movie is intense as shit but it's a bit over the top. It's a classic hood drama film though if that's your thing. |
07-30-2022, 12:02 AM | #14016 |
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Ford v Farrari - 7/10
Its a testament that i couldnt give a shit less about racing or cars in general but this is pretty damn good. All real cars too. Bale and Barenthal are both really good in this. |
07-30-2022, 07:58 PM | #14017 |
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Wind River - 8/10
Finally got around to seeing this one. Fantastic. I guess the Taylor Sheridan hype is real, although honestly everything Yellowstone-related looks super lame. |
07-30-2022, 08:10 PM | #14018 |
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About A Boy
Oh waa waa i'm hue grant and im so rich and sexy but life isnt fulfilling,,,, waaaaaaaaaaa,,,,, this is Big Daddy for british people |
07-31-2022, 10:29 AM | #14019 |
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I’ve never made the “Big Daddy” connection before but I like it. Adam Sandler is like taking the quaint out of Nick Hornsby and replacing it with more ass and drool.
I prefer Sandler’s take. |
08-01-2022, 10:14 AM | #14020 |
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Death To Smoochy
Really funny... "holds up well". Robin Williams so good. was not allowed to watch this as a kid. Seems really funny that they used the tactic of framing someone as a nazi in 2002 to publicly ostracize them... so funny... |
08-01-2022, 02:34 PM | #14021 |
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Not Okay
funny... person who wrote it spends a lot of time online obviously. kinda similar to "dont look up" insofar as how they depict people/social media reacting to stuff and the effect that has... interesting trend |
08-04-2022, 10:10 AM | #14022 |
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Bob Roberts
This was really fucking good... was a random pick from the hundreds of laserdiscs I have Cant tell if it was very prescient or if american politics were just always like that... electoral politics just very stupid in general... sooo funny |
08-04-2022, 02:23 PM | #14023 |
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I’ve actually been tempted to watch that for a while so I will get on it tomorrow night.
Tim Robbins was amazing in the 90’s. |
08-04-2022, 02:27 PM | #14024 |
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Arlington Road was good Tim Robbins… I remember being freaked out by that film when my mates parents rented it for us to watch as kids.
They also let me see The Exorcist when I was 12 though so they were pretty laid back. I remember my buddies 7 year old cousin telling his mum we let him watch Freddy Krueger and she accused the responsible adult of child abuse. Pretty funny at the time… fucked up in retrospect. |
08-04-2022, 03:50 PM | #14025 |
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Oh man, think I saw all the "classic" horror character movies when I was waaaaaaaaay too young.
Remember being fucking terrified of my "My Buddy" doll after being allowed to watch "Child's Play". |
08-04-2022, 06:10 PM | #14026 |
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Are you one of those bad bastard Bulger boys?
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08-04-2022, 06:10 PM | #14027 |
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Venables the chippy child murderer, employee of the month
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08-05-2022, 08:51 AM | #14028 |
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08-05-2022, 11:54 PM | #14029 |
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Prey 4/5
Best Predator film in 30 years |
08-06-2022, 12:35 AM | #14030 |
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So the first good predator film in 30 years
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08-06-2022, 12:37 AM | #14031 |
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08-06-2022, 07:05 AM | #14032 |
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Check Hulu, they have a Comanche dub
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08-06-2022, 03:18 PM | #14033 |
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Watching it now. They sure are laying the Native American crap on real thick.
Mel Gibson should have done it for them, he knows how to get the most out of his indigenous actors without making it look like a white guy told them how to do it. |
08-06-2022, 08:14 PM | #14034 |
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Hmmm, that is one of the more impressively bad films in the Predator franchise. I suppose after the last one where Shane Black hired his pervert mate and got in trouble this new Predator film was going to have to go female and ethnic in a big way. Sadly I think in doing so the film cheapens the culture in a familiar Western style and actually casts Native American men as the supplemental bad guys alongside some fur trappers and the Predator himself. Oh and Predator uses arrows instead of plasma blasts now, because Predator might have cracked interstellar space travel millennia ago but it would take it a few more years to discover shoulder cannons. He can still turn invisible though, that’s easy peasy.
They fucked up big time not just going with “Predators were female all along” if they wanted to get woke fast. I didn’t like this film, it annoyed me with feminism. |
08-06-2022, 08:21 PM | #14035 |
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The worst aspect is this notion that a woman can only be empowering if she is unrealistically superior in physical contest with men and above all else a truly insufferable, stuck up bint in any moment of opportunity for acquiescence…like agreeing with or even just being civil to anybody would show her up for the weakling she surely is…
Infuriating. This was the exact problem I had with Brie Larson in Captain Marvel. They just turned her into a cunt. |
08-06-2022, 08:24 PM | #14036 |
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Admittedly it is quite realistic in that Predator essentially ignores her for the whole film so he can fuck up every bloke in sight because they are a real threat but she acts like she’s the one who had a hard time.
Women though…unbelievable. |
08-07-2022, 09:02 AM | #14037 |
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You miss Nark too eh?
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08-07-2022, 10:19 AM | #14038 |
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@seanny "alls you need is a kickboxing women." I always see it as they only see validity in women being men. By their own portrayals if women are shown being strong in traditionally feminine ways its shown as weak or undesirable.
Same thing we see when they race swap a character. By their own actions theyre saying the only credibility is found in white characters. Everytime i see it i think...yeah a white person wrote this/demanded this. Its the great white hope insidiously burrowing its way in via tokenism. Its beyond condescending. The kickboxing woman trope is exactly the same. Women are only valid if they fullfill male roles. Dominance through force etc. There's a sexism baked into the fabric of their feminist ambitions that should be insulting to anyone actually thinking these things through. Its lazy, hacky and borish... and people fucking love it. |
08-07-2022, 11:42 AM | #14039 |
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I hope it doesn’t annoy you as much as it annoyed me but it almost certainly will.
Joan Wick or Preycahontas |
08-07-2022, 11:46 AM | #14040 |
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Aside from the wokeness it was just Predator again but instead of a hit squad made up of impossibly large men, this time it’s a group of native Americans with bodies straight out of the trail of tears.
Seriously I have a better body than some of those guys. |