Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Don Rumata]

Let's not forget Wild Wild West!

[Ghoul]

watching parasite. This film is just masterful, it's like watching battle royale vs hunger games

[team filler]

My top 5 train films:

Age of Shadows
Train to Busan
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Accused
Snowpiercer

back to the future 3

[TEEEPO]

whats that scifi film where some dude wakes up on a train in someone else's body and has a few minutes to identify some terrorist bomber or am i just making shit up? i remember that being kinda cool


and also buster keaton's the general

[Stro]

Are you sure that isn't an episode of Quantum Leap

[TEEEPO]

could be but i clearly remember seeing it in the theaters, fuckkin help someone

[TEEEPO]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/

i'm not crazy 

[Transhuman]

The Good, the Bad, and the Weird was a good train movie.

I was thinking about that one!

South Korean directors love trains

[EchoRin]

whats that scifi film where some dude wakes up on a train in someone else's body and has a few minutes to identify some terrorist bomber or am i just making shit up? i remember that being kinda cool


and also buster keaton's the general

I want to say it was this film with my boy Jake Gyllenhaal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code

Edit: Oh, derp. You found it.

[Great Rumbler]

It's called Source Code.

The movie you were thinking about.

With Jake Gyllenhaal.

On a train.

[Transhuman]

It's on my list of worst 5 train films

[VomKriege]

It's on my list of worst 5 train films

Torque has a scene on a train, literally.
I'm sure there's enough Murder on the Orient Express adaptations to a worst 5.

[TEEEPO]

thx for the help guys!

[Great Rumbler]

I'm sure there's enough Murder on the Orient Express adaptations to a worst 5.

Two-thirds of them are good, though!

[TVC15]

Come on people, Strangers on a Train was gay almost before gay existed. Sure, not much of it takes place on a train, but whatev. It’s one of Hitch’s best. And based on a Patricia Highsmith novel too for bonus points.

[Transhuman]

Come on people, Strangers on a Train was gay almost before gay existed. Sure, not much of it takes place on a train, but whatev. It’s one of Hitch’s best. And based on a Patricia Highsmith novel too for bonus points.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(TV_programme)#Patricia_Highsmith

She was ahead of her time

[TVC15]

Come on people, Strangers on a Train was gay almost before gay existed. Sure, not much of it takes place on a train, but whatev. It’s one of Hitch’s best. And based on a Patricia Highsmith novel too for bonus points.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dark_(TV_programme)#Patricia_Highsmith

She was ahead of her time

Her diaries are coming out soon: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/26/patricia-highsmith-diaries-published-controversial-views

I really like her shit a lot but I’ve only met one other person that’s read her and that’s a shame

[Joe Molotov]

In a 1970 letter to her stepfather Stanley, Highsmith described sexual encounters with men as "steel wool in the face, a sensation of being raped in the wrong place—leading to a sensation of having to have, pretty soon, a boewl [sic] movement."

[TVC15]

She was a total nutter all around but holy shit is The Talented Mr. Ripley awesome.

[shosta]

I'm watching It's a Disaster and I love this so much. Perfectly distills the semi-hostile brunch experience.

"Tracy, if you want to cut me out of your life and never talk to me again, I would completely understand that."
"No! Pete, I would never"
"I'll let you think about it."

[Stro]

I like the specificity of the wiki article:

Writing under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan", Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending

[Raist]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/

i'm not crazy 

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

"We have the resources and technology to do this, but you'll be teleported with only 8mins to accomplish your mission."

That's a dick move tbh.

[Stro]

I had a nice little giggle this weekend when I saw Batman bin Superman was on TNT and what I tuned into was back to back to back scenes of:


1. Bruce confronting Diane at the party, doing the cocky know it all thing, but actually having no idea who the fuck he was talking to and coming off as a fool.

2. A sequence where Batman kills a bunch of dudes with both a machine gun and handgun (this isn't taking into the consideration later in the movie when he straight up kills a number of mooks via shooting with a machine gun on his car and also crushing a few people with his car)

3. The Flash using the time force to deliver a message to Bruce....inside of a dream.


 


Such a perfect encapsulation of Synder not knowing these characters at all, all back to back.

[Great Rumbler]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/

i'm not crazy 

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

"We have the resources and technology to do this, but you'll be teleported with only 8mins to accomplish your mission."

That's a dick move tbh.

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Actually, it's just a simulation.

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But actually, it's an alternate reality.

[close]

[close]

[EchoRin]

and it gave us this gif

[Spieler1]

and it gave us this gif

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This was the biggest mind blow since I've seen Jeremiah Johnson LTTP.

[Raist]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/

i'm not crazy 

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

"We have the resources and technology to do this, but you'll be teleported with only 8mins to accomplish your mission."

That's a dick move tbh.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Actually, it's just a simulation.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

But actually, it's an alternate reality.

[close]

[close]

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So basically they ripped off god emperor Kojima

[close]

[Stro]

Walmart is selling new Aliens toys that appear to be based on the Capcom came or comics. Pretty weird.

[Joe Molotov]

Walmart is selling new Aliens toys that appear to be based on the Capcom came or comics. Pretty weird.

Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa

[bluemax]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/

i'm not crazy 

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

"We have the resources and technology to do this, but you'll be teleported with only 8mins to accomplish your mission."

That's a dick move tbh.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Actually, it's just a simulation.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

But actually, it's an alternate reality.

[close]

[close]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

So basically they ripped off god emperor Kojima

[close]

Wasn't this movie based on a Phillip K Dick novel/short story that absolutely pre-dated Kojima?

[TVC15]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/

i'm not crazy 

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.

"We have the resources and technology to do this, but you'll be teleported with only 8mins to accomplish your mission."

That's a dick move tbh.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Actually, it's just a simulation.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

But actually, it's an alternate reality.

[close]

[close]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

So basically they ripped off god emperor Kojima

[close]

Wasn't this movie based on a Phillip K Dick novel/short story that absolutely pre-dated Kojima?

That’s the skeleton of like 5 different pkd plots

[Great Rumbler]

It's not based on anything, as far as I know.

[Joe Molotov]

Invisible Man is 90% at RT, wao. Might have to check it out this weekend and see if it’s actually better than the Kevin Bacon one.

[Raist]

It can't be

The KB version is so good (because it's so bad).

[Philip Cardgage]

Candyman kinda looks like some Wish Upon shite.

[Don Rumata]

Invisible Man is 90% at RT, wao. Might have to check it out this weekend and see if it’s actually better than the Kevin Bacon one.

That movie was garbo, but how did they do the Kim Dickens invisible titty grab? I remember that scene puzzling me at the time, i figured it was done compressed air or a vacuum, but it was probably just cgi, now that i think about it.

[EchoRin]

Promare -  aww man. It's stuff like this and Dragonball Z that made me think all anime was like this until like halfway through high school. You know, kinda like when you find out "wait, comic books =/= superheroes all the time every time?!"

Also, I knew I recognized that ost composer halfway through the movie Sawano. All the good and bad that came with him in Xenoblade X.

I find the movie kinda lacked consistency in its own rules. A bunch of deus ex machina, things explained on the spot to make up the rules. It was basically all power level mumbo jumbo. Really disliked the character design even if the artstyle was appealing at times. The movie has several gifable moments. Overall though, I pretty much tuned out halfway through. I take it if I didn't like this I probably won't enjoy Kill la Kill and Gurren Lagann?

Sorry guys and gals, this is exactly the kind of anime that kept me out of the medium for the longest time.

Didn't enjoy the plot, didn't care for the characters, the combat goes all Neo God Mode after at least starting out more Matrix 1 before it goes all nuts power level "I AM A GOD animu" to the max.

1 out of 5.

Take the rating with a grain of salt if this type of anime is up your alley.

[Bebpo]

Invisible Man is 90% at RT, wao. Might have to check it out this weekend and see if it’s actually better than the Kevin Bacon one.

Upgrade was so good that I definitely wanna see this.

[Potato]

If you have young kids, Dora and the Lost City of Gold is brilliant.

[TVC15]

[TVC15]

The Invisible Man was really good! They sacrificed some plot logic for the sake of a more satisfying parable and it was the right choice.

[EchoRin]

Ok. I'm convinced then. I'll see it Tuesday.

[Transhuman]

Invisible Man was bad and I felt very lied to by rottentomatoes.

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Plot logic was very flimsy towards the end

[close]

[EchoRin]

Great. Now I don't know what to do 

[Transhuman]

It's not like there's anything else out worth watching though.

[EchoRin]

It's not like there's anything else out worth watching though.

I know haha. That's my issue. I've seen all the Oscar noms that theaters keep showing off (and The Gentlemen). I can see some other flicks in a theater that's a bit further from me where they are playing Portrait of a Lady of Fire and The Assistant, but I kinda want to go to the closer theaters who only have The Invisible Man and the Will Farrell movie as possible options for me. I'll probably go watch the Invisible Man anyways.

[Don Rumata]

It's not like there's anything else out worth watching though.

I know haha. That's my issue. I've seen all the Oscar noms that theaters keep showing off (and The Gentlemen). I can see some other flicks in a theater that's a bit further from me where they are playing Portrait of a Lady of Fire and The Assistant, but I kinda want to go to the closer theaters who only have The Invisible Man and the Will Farrell movie as possible options for me. I'll probably go watch the Invisible Man anyways.

Yeah, i think you know what you should do.
Don't fall for the Rottentomatoes meme.

[TVC15]

Great. Now I don't know what to do 

Transhuman’s a moron that doesn’t like Street Trash. Disregard his considerations.

[Nintex]

Finally caught up with Uncut Gems.

What a gem of a movie. One crazy roller coaster ride from start to finish, I loved it.
That ending though 


Also went to see The Gentlemen. This is Guy Ritchie at his best.
Great characters and world building, a story that throws you curveballs and overall a lot of Guy Ritchie-ness.
Not sure if better than Snatch as some people say, because that is such a classic, but certainly a great film.

[BlueTsunami]

The Invisible Man was fantastic. I always loved when films instill a sense of dread into empty spaces and this film uses that framing of a scene to great effect.

[TVC15]

So do you think he was wearing diapers? He had to be. That’s the only way to explain the movie. It should be called The Invisible Man in Diapers, which is frankly a more scary concept.

[BlueTsunami]

So do you think he was wearing diapers? He had to be. That’s the only way to explain the movie. It should be called The Invisible Man in Diapers, which is frankly a more scary concept.

That or dropping deuces

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in the attic

[close]

The things we do for love

[TVC15]

So do you think he was wearing diapers? He had to be. That’s the only way to explain the movie. It should be called The Invisible Man in Diapers, which is frankly a more scary concept.

That or dropping deuces

spoiler (click to show/hide)

in the attic

[close]

The things we do for love

spoiler (click to show/hide)

but when she was locked up, he had to be dropping them right in the room with her

[close]

[BlueTsunami]

So do you think he was wearing diapers? He had to be. That’s the only way to explain the movie. It should be called The Invisible Man in Diapers, which is frankly a more scary concept.

That or dropping deuces

spoiler (click to show/hide)

in the attic

[close]

The things we do for love

spoiler (click to show/hide)

but when she was locked up, he had to be dropping them right in the room with her

[close]

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That suit was pretty skin tight. I think, in true narcissist fashion, he did whatever it needed to take. ie his lower half was probably swimming in his own excrement.

[close]

[TVC15]

Imagine what we could’ve gotten.

“Thank you for letting me stay in your house! Btw, there’s an invisible man making me look crazy to everyone and it’s all really poignant because I’m a woman! Help!”
“Bitch, why does our room smell like shit?”

But really, I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. Elizabeth Moss was great casting for the role, too.

[BlueTsunami]

I'd say she's the new scream queen but that's been the case for a while now. Well, as far as her ability to convey emotion.

[Bebpo]

Watched Girl on the Third Floor now that it's on Netflix. I don't watch wrestling, but boy can this C.M. Punk guy not act  , makes John Cena look like a distinguished actor. Add to that a few other actors delivering pretty bad dialogue and the writing definitely suffers.

BUT, if you can get passed that, the atmosphere of an oozing, pussing, bleeding haunted house makes for a solid entertaining ride. Overall I liked it but it wasn't great. Had potential to be better.

Also C.M. Punk in this movie looks A LOT like Evil Dead age Bruce Campbell. Very similar facial structure and expressions. I was googling around and other people made the same comment. If he can learn how to act, he'd be a great Young Ash in something Evil Dead.

[Great Rumbler]

[team filler]

the "ahh, ahhh, ahhhhhhh" part was  destiny child song is 

[Stro]

Is Candymayne a remake, direct sequel that ignores the other sequels, or a soft reboot because the tralier looks like it could be all 3 things at once.