Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[chronovore]

Walter Hill out here in 70s wilding

More like "The Re-Assignment," amirite? (sorry, couldn't resist  ) Hill has clearly tapped into that rare vein of forced gender reassignment horror/porn formerly relegated to UseNet text files and hentai anime.* Hill's journey will be complete when sequel features futanari.

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and The Skin I Live In

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[Quaker]

Yeah, the guy is unquestionably better off doing the showcase episode of that season of Game of Thrones or Westwood or whatever that gets universal acclaim and all those eyeballs instead of doing some low budget studio B movie that won't get marketed or even any traction from critics or some soul-less studio tentpole. And I saw Doomsday in theatres and liked Centurion. I'd take that over him being another dude like the guy that did Jurrasic World...

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

More like "The Re-Assignment," amirite? (sorry, couldn't resist  ) Hill has clearly tapped into that rare vein of forced gender reassignment horror/porn formerly relegated to UseNet text files and hentai anime.* Hill's journey will be complete when sequel features futanari.

It actually had festival premieres under the title (Re)Assignment. Well done, you nailed it. Also the reviews weren't so hot.

and in action film news that's less likely to disappoint.

[VomKriege]

I like Doomsday, derivative and busy as it is. But I have some sympathy for Rhona Mitra. Still there was some cool parts (the cyborg eye is the one I remember). I'd take that 9 times out of 10 over The Descent, a film I found average already in theaters. Dog soldiers is dog shit (lol).

[chronovore]

More like "The Re-Assignment," amirite? (sorry, couldn't resist  ) Hill has clearly tapped into that rare vein of forced gender reassignment horror/porn formerly relegated to UseNet text files and hentai anime.* Hill's journey will be complete when sequel features futanari.

It actually had festival premieres under the title (Re)Assignment. Well done, you nailed it. Also the reviews weren't so hot.

and in action film news that's less likely to disappoint.

It's nice to see former Vice President Keith David is getting work.

[chronovore]

I'm going to rent Centurion; the copy I saw was complete garbage -- too dark and muddy. Plus, I like Fassbender and am masochistcally happy to watch Kurlyenko pout and writhe on screen.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

can a film series whose appeal lies in part due to its rampant stupidity ever suffer for it? Because Resident Evil: The Final Chapter isn't just dumb like all the rest of the films in its now six part franchise, its dumb in ways new to the franchise. Its called upon to try and make sense of as many of the loose threads that the increasingly crazy quilt of narrative strands that make up the series and predictably half-asses it in favor of spectacle. It should be noted that the spectacle here is pretty dang solid though, Anderson remains an excellent action filmmaker and thanks to seriously great 3D imagery, even an interesting visual stylist. He's like a much more competent, less successful version of Micheal Bay. But narrative cohesion has never been a strong suit of this whole Resident Evil thing, nor really of his career in total. And even though this is the first entry to come along in five years, it still feels a bit rote (another band of disposable survivors, another high-tech facility, another set of shifting alliances), and is saddled with the detriment of actually having to wrap things up and for once not forego storytelling basics in favor of zombie kung-fu fights, and around here kung-fu always wins (not entirely a bad thing). Previous installments had a bit more camp value, were a little less self serious, and were consequently more fun.

The Social Network + Fast Food + 50's Americana = The Founder, which tells the origin story of McDonalds, more or less accurately. Is that a failing of me that I have more to say and I've thought more about Resident Evil Part 6 than I have a movie with actual people in it, people who act in recognizably human ways. Well, maybe that's because The Founder is just so darn unexceptional. Its not mediocre per se, but it betrays a lack of nerve, everything is just so darn pleasant. Sometimes this is a good thing, whereas the widely imagined collective version of the 50's would have to include some sort of cornpone to feel authentic, and the conniving that takes place contrasts nicely with it, but even the most scurrilous characters here tend to pull their punches. There are still pleasures to be had from this film, but it shouldn't be anyone's first or even fifth priority for a night's entertainment. Unless you need a nice, polite film to watch with your Grandparents, the ones who don't see anything made past the end of the production code, they'll probably like this a lot.

[Huff]

Who said the accountant was okay? I mean I'm not one to criticize taste and love some bad moves

But this is super trash

[Bebpo]

The Handmaiden - LOL

Ok, another good Chan-Wook Park movie.  I found this the most similar to Thirst, although it's similar to all his stuff these days being weird + sexual + at times oddly violent + strangely dark humorous.  I kinda feel like he's similar to David Lynch if Lynch made goofy dark comedy movies for a living and they were a little more straightforward.  Or like a darker Coen Bros x Miike or something.  Anyhow, enjoyed it and look forward to his next movie! 

[WanderingWind]

La La Land was fucking magical. I felt emotions again. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are absolutely the best on-screen couple in over a decade. I am still listening to the soundtrack and I haven't bought a soundtrack since...uh...a decade? It's fucking amazing. Life changing. Heartbreaking. Lovely. It deserves all the Oscars and all the money.

...I just had to tell somebody.

[Freyj]

Chazelle & Hurwitz

 

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Ending hits all the right spots, in a Before Sunset and Lost in Translation kinda way. Elevates an already excellent movie.

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[Momo]

So this new oceans movie, havent kept up, good vibes or nono?

[VomKriege]

Don't know but I'm expecting slighty less vitriol from insecure manchildren because Ocean's 1X wasn't part "of their childhood".

[Momo]

I like the cast of that ocean's movie, a lot, so i'm hoping it's not poopoo

[ToxicAdam]

It's the same thing as Ghostbusters though. It reeks of Hollywood.

They want to make an all-female heist film, but don't know how to market it unless it is a recognizable franchise. So, they slap the Oceans 11 label on it and serve it to the public. It's that kind of cynical reductivism that will seep into everything else about the movie.

Another McMovie hoping to be all things to all people.

[ToxicAdam]

They are going to remake Dune with Villaneuve as the director.

Hopefully, they break it into 2 movies.

[Momo]

They are going to remake Dune with Villaneuve as the director.

Hopefully, they break it into 2 movies.

Needs to be waaay more than 2 but 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Psyched. Perfect director. Apparently Dune has been his dream project for years and he's been pushing to get it going.

[ToxicAdam]

Needs to be waaay more than 2 but

Noooo. You give a director 7.5 hours to fill and they will have Duncan Idaho's corpse riding sand worms by the third act.

First movie is about building the world, the betrayal of Duke Leto and then Paul meeting the Fremen and taming a worm for the first time. The second movie is the buildup of Paul as a messiah, delve into the intergalactic space politics/modern allegories and then do an epic final battle (which the original movie really missed on).

That's it. I don't see how you break the story into thirds and have each ending feel like a proper ending. Unless you start making crazy shit up that was never in the story.

[bork]

It's the same thing as Ghostbusters though. It reeks of Hollywood.

They want to make an all-female heist film, but don't know how to market it unless it is a recognizable franchise. So, they slap the Oceans 11 label on it and serve it to the public. It's that kind of cynical reductivism that will seep into everything else about the movie.

Another McMovie hoping to be all things to all people.

I don't see it being like Ghostbusters.  It's not a reboot or a remake of any kind and it has George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh signed on as producers and they're involved in the creative process.  Matt Damon will also be reprising his role as Linus.

"However, a new Ocean's Eleven spin-off with an all-female cast led by Sandra Bullock as the sister of George Clooney's Danny Ocean character was in development as of October 2015. It was conceived by producer Jerry Weintraub, Soderbergh and Clooney."

[Great Rumbler]

The Dune miniseries pretty much covered everything and the director's cut of that was about 5 hours, so two movies would be just fine.

[ToxicAdam]

I don't see it being like Ghostbusters.  It's not a reboot or a remake of any kind and it has George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh signed on as producers and they're involved in the creative process.  Matt Damon will also be reprising his role as Linus.

It's still going to be a heist movie where each member has a certain skill that comes in handy during (and leading up to) the heist. It's going to have the same tone and hit the same beats. It will still have references that harken back to the old movies. It will have unnecessary cameos so you can jump out of your seat and say "I REMEMBER!"

That's exactly what Ghostbusters tried to do. Recapture the spirit of the original but present itself as fresh and different because at the surface level, the cast was female.

It's an unnecessary box a movie puts itself in. It limits how great it can be.


Found this quote:

Ross disclosed to Slashfilm in June that "Ocean's Ocho" will still have the same tone with its predecessors. He explained that he will never try to reinvent the tone of incoming film because it is more of an extension and a continuation of the "Ocean's" trilogy.

[Yeti]

Wasn't Ocean's 11 already a remake of an older Ocean's 11 movie?

[Phoenix Dark]

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So this new oceans movie, havent kept up, good vibes or nono?

Really bothered by the lack of diversity. Women with plus sized #alternativebodies are not represented at all. I'm shakin rn.

[zomgee]

Wasn't Ocean's 11 already a remake of an older Ocean's 11 movie?

Yeah, 1960. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop.

This is Ocean's 8, though right?

[chronovore]

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So this new oceans movie, havent kept up, good vibes or nono?

Really bothered by the lack of diversity. Women with plus sized #alternativebodies are not represented at all. I'm shakin rn.

We know you're just waiting for the porn parody, Oceans Eight Inches, so just cool your jets. 

[Momo]

How I see a Dune movie series going in broad strokes

Movie 1 - Act 1 - Fall of Leto Atreideis, Act 2 - Struggle of Paul Atreideis Act 3 - Rise of the Muad'dib
Movie 2 - Act 1 - The Jihad of the Maud'dib Act 2 - Visions of the Maud'dib, Act3 - Betrayal and fall of the Maud'dib
Movie 3 - Act 1 -  Children of Paul - Act 2 Old Man Muad'dib Dies Act 3 - Rise of the Children of Dune

[VomKriege]

Please not another franchise 
Just a good movie will do.

[Momo]

You cant make one movie with Dune though, it probably works best as a series.

[VomKriege]

You cant make one movie with Dune though, it probably works best as a series.

You can just fine by focusing on some of the story instead of the whole, being faithful to the spirit rather than the letter. You need to find a good angle and have a good script tho.

[chronovore]

Watched Statham in The Bank Job. I had read the wiki after hearing about it on the podcast, Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff. Probably. It may have been some other history or conspiracy podcast. The movie is quite good, well-paced and clear to follow. That's an accomplishment considering how complicated the story becomes. Production work is fantastic, a great sense of the era. I'm a child of the seventies, but in the USA, not England, but it felt nostalgic in many ways. One of the more amazing parts of the story, is that they likely would have gotten away with the loot scot-free were it not for a civilian ham radio operator.


Sasha Baron Cohen's The Dictator: I laughed three times during the entire movie. I laughed more during the credits sequence toilet blooper than during the actual movie. The movie wants to criticize both dictatorships and America, and even manages to conflate them in a misguided speech at the end.

[zomgee]

I've been looking forward to this all day: I'm watching Groundhog Day.

[Great Rumbler]

Some pics from Duncan Jones' upcoming movie Mute:

[chronovore]

Looks like the Blade Runner sequel we deserve.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

I Am Not Your Negro is one of those all too rare birds, a cinematically interesting documentary. Or a visual essay, or something. But its got great content and form. Its pretty much all about James Baldwin's work as a civil rights advocate and intellectual in the 60's, back when the most prominent leaders in his cause were dropping like flies, it also rather stubbornly refuses to give all but the most cursory context for who James Baldwin was outside of his career. I don't know much more about the man than I did prior to watching the film, but I very much better understand and appreciate his stunning eloquence and intellect. It also doesn't coddle its audience, its not one of those movies that applauds progressives simply for showing up, its a deliberately confrontational work about racial inequity and the way it draws a clear line from the turbulent 60's as to now is affecting and horrifying. So its a great piece of history, and a very well pieced together and persuasive exponent for its subject.



I should watch more Bollywood pictures. The melodrama of Kaabil is turned all the way up, and the good taste is way at the other end of the scale. This Blindspoltation revenge thriller barely, just barely keeps from crossing the line into self-parody, which is for the best because the more overheated a melodrama is the better it works out. Also, the performances are genuinely strong, Rohit and Ronit Roy are frigging great as the oppositely aligned but still evil brothers, and Hrithik Roshan nails the hell out of his darn near supernaturally talented and disabled protagonist. Its always sincere, and its loopy enough to be unpredictable. Its even disarmingly sweet at the beginning, so we can better like the very cute couple at the outset before their lives get destroyed by the only-technically-not-mustache-twirling-villains. Its a decent bit of disreputable fun.

[Bebpo]

Sing Street was sooooooooo good.  Once was amazing, Begin Again was amazing, and this was amazing.  John Carney's movies just hit the rights notes for me.  They're funny, charming, great dialogue, great music and are just real feel good pictures that make you smile constantly.  After 3 hits in a row, I think he's my new favorite modern director.  I feel like all three of these are gonna be in my top films of all time forever. 

If I had to be a little more objective, I think Sing Street's only real weaknesses is everyone outside the main character is underdeveloped.  I feel like Begin Again is a deeper and in some ways more satisfying film (Once was too long ago that I can't really compare it), but Begin Again also has some flaws while Sing Street is great from start to finish.  But the kids are all so hilarious and awesome it's hard to not be fully on board with Sing Street.  Lots of great dialogues & comical moments.  The main guitarist was amazing.

[VomKriege]

Baahubali 2 is coming 

BAA-HU-BA-LIIIIIII !

[Valkyrie]

Watched Before I Go to Sleep (2014) [IMDb], and it was good! The first half or so was a bit slow, but shit got real eventually.

Recommended if you're into Mystery/Thrillers. It's a bit of a mindfuck too. It wasn't amazing, but I enjoyed it, and thought it was above average.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Yeah, I liked that. Bit of a shame it had such a minimal impact, good adult thrillers are rare.

So Neruda is pretty good. Even for a guy who's only passingly familar with Pablo Neruda, it works quite well as an introductiom to the dude, his work, his fraught place in Chilean society, and the rise of fascism in 1940's Chile, that's no small feat. That it does so while also being hugely unconventional about how exactly it tells its story, using a device that's all too appropriete for a movie about a self-absorbed and self-aware artist struck me as impressive. So its far from your standard bio-picture, with a wisely limited scope (just a short period of time is chronicled) and tons of somehow non intrusive artistic flourishes. Saying too much would spoil things, which is weird because how can you spoil anything based on history? Thanks for finding a way Pablo Larrain (between this and Jackie, he's quickly cornering the market on unconventional biographical films on mid-century figures).

[Mr. Gundam]

Got a date night on Friday. Could go see Moonlight, Neruda or 20th Century Women.

First world problems.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Tsui Hark's more psychedelic and special effect enabling qualities marry somewhat uncomfortably with Stephen Chow's affintity for broad slapstick in the still entertaining but overstuffed and shambolic Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back. But for a while at least, Hark's direction of Chow's story and unmistakenable comic style and established characters works out pretty well. The first half of the film is frequently hilarious, and even when its not it still remains amusing. Yeah, China's film industry didn't really need another huge production about the Monkey King, but a psudo superhero/Ghostbusters style team picture is a pretty good hook to hang it on. Also, holy crap, this Tsui Hark dude is pretty good at corralling imaginitive and non-realistic special effects.The spectacle of the constant and continually escalating CGI setpieces is a fair bit of fun(Hark is the best 3D director out there, by a mile), even though it becomes a bit tiresome by the end. The jokes pretty much dissapate in the all-action back half, and sight of special effects-aided punching isn't a good enough trade off. Its a fun movie, its a funny movie, but both Hark and Chow have done better, recently even in fact.

[VomKriege]

It's weird but I can't really get past over how terrible the digital fx looks for Journey to the West 2. I mean it's not novel for Hark films (you had these as soon as "Love through the twilight of time" in 95), but not as omnipresent as this except for Legend of Zu that was terribad in its own right.

I had to check twice when watching the trailer it was the Hark film and not some other Monkey King mega epic since this stuff looks garish all the same, though there was some Harkness in it (some of the coloured wardrobe and action setups).

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Aw man, that Zu Warriors remake was sooooo friggin shitty. That followed Time and Tide, which remained his only good movie for about a decade (I think Seven Swords was just okay).

But yeah, that's actually a fair comparison(but without the self-serious bathos). His recent run of big-spectacle fantasy/period films have been a ton of fun. This isn't as good as his Detective Dee films, but it aint bad either. I would have likely deducted points seeing it at home, but on a very good theater projection (with stunning 3D depth and clarity) it was quite a treat. Hark clearly pit his imagination into making the most artificial and eye-pleasing sights possible, in this he is occasionally successful.

edit: VomKriege buddy, that's Bridgette Lin in your avatar, right? Awesome.

[VomKriege]

That's Joey Wong and I'm fairly certain the image comes from Swordsman III : The East is Red which also features Brigitte Lin as Invincible Asia for ambiguous lesbian undertones (The film has a real weird premise but it doesn't live up to Swordsman 2).

Brigitte is the GOAT though 

I like the two Van Damme films he made. Knock-off especially is a pretty high mark for the Belgian splitter, it's probably the closest he'll get to do a genuine sub-Jackie Chan flick (it's also funnily weird to see Hollywood actors thrown in some B-flick from HK). I think Seven Swords has good artistic direction, exciting designs and characters (at a glance), decent lighting & grading (it's a style I'd like to see more of) but it's totally let down by the rather mediocre everything else.

I tend to let go of directors after a couple bad flicks and the absolute lowest point for me was "All About Women", a character comedy that wasn't funny, which is made just after his Ring-style horror flick that is all around dreadful.
Besides I'm kinda blasé about Stephen Chow. I found Kung Fu Hustle to be average bordering on boring and in light of his long list of earlier films, it's very iddling as far as comedy goes (Shaolin Soccer is a bit of the same, though it has a fresh story bait at least).

Out of the recent batch I only saw the first Dee. I should really catch up on the rest because Dee was really the most faithful recapturing of his mid-90s productions

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

man, Double Team and Knock Off gotta be high in the running for the most absurd action films of all time. Even among 90's HK productions, that shit is cray.

Toni Erdmann draws a lot of its surprisingly affecting power from how normal and off-kilter it is. Every single wacky thing that happens in the film is somewhat understandable by the incremental steps taken to get there, but the grounded and credible business culture it depicts as well as the strand of successfully miserable that inhabit it can give a lot of pathos to what could have been a very dopey comedy. Maybe that's why this film works so well as a character drama, its funny parts (and it is sometimes explosively funny) seem incidental to the ongoing yet mundane crisis that the characters have no choice but to endure. Just like in real life, as healing as laughter can be, it can also only be a temporary salve to ongoing problems. At its core, its a cringe comedy/drama about a loving Dad trying to help/reconnect with his semi-estranged daughter. The tools of which at his disposal prove to be inadequate or useful depending on the situation. It almost feels wrong calling it a comedy, but that's the category it sorta fits into. Anyways, its pretty good.

[Joe Molotov]

Legend of Zu was awesome, it was like the Tron of HK.

[chronovore]

Watched RUBBER, the French/American joint effort about a psychic, homicidal tire; it is supposedly black comedy but is more of an examination about the nature of cinema's relationship with its audience. It was OK. It goes a little overlong, ignores its own rules (nicely summarized by a chess match in one scene), but is more original than I'd hoped. It's worth watching.

[Stoney Mason]

Train to Busan

Watched it last night. It's okay. I mean its a melodrama zombie movie through the lens of another culture. So it sort of feels like that Dawn of the Dead Snyder remake where as I'm the type of person who prefers his zombie movies to feel more like the original Dawn of the Dawn Romero flick.

Probably worth watching if you are a zombie fan. Mostly a pass if zombie material doesn't do much for you.

 

[Beezy]

Hidden Figures surprised me. I wanted to see it mainly because of Janelle Monae (she killed her role), but it was a great movie overall. Actress Monae is 2 for 2 so far.

[Nola]

John Wick 2 is the best action movie since John Wick.

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Just got back from seeing John Wick 2 

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[Joe Molotov]

The Cure for Wellness

Just a big, meandering mess of a movie...that I kind of liked?  I can't really say much in it's defense (other than it is a gorgeous looking movie), it's about an hour too long, it's not scary at all, it telegraphs all of it's twists, but I'm just a Gore Verbeinski stanley I guess. This movie's no The Ring and it's certainly no The Shining, but it's so ridiculous and weird that I just couldn't help but like it a little.

Parental Warning: This movie contains Incest, Rape, Masturbation, Full Frontal and Backal old-person nudity, and a middle-aged white woman asking the main character "Have you ever had a 12" black dick in your ass?" Actually, I'm upgrading my rating of this movie to Movie of the Year. A major Hollywood studio looked at Lone Ranger, looked at this, and then said "This is fine. This is something we want to put in 2500+ locations nationwide. Here's $50 Million, please." It's like the 70's never ended.

Gore Verbinski

[Mupepe]

I didn't read your review so I could avoid spoilers. But my wife's little cousin loves Rango so I am taking her to see it tomorrow.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

There will be lots of obsenely expensive, explosion heavy and exposition light films coming out this year, but will they all be as fun as The Great Wall? Probably not. Its no masterpiece, and honestly the most interesting thing about it (besides the fact that a patriotic Chinese film got major play worldwide) is its visuals, but that alone was reason enough for me  to enjoy it. Its an empty eddifice of spectacle, but at least the spectacle here is good (or maybe I'm just a sucker for well composed 3D vistas). Matt Damon has a wavering accent and suppressed charisma as the lead guy Whatshisface and Pedro Pascal gets to be a little saltier as his companion Namesdontmatter. But they're not the only ones playing dour, Canto superstar Andy Lau features prominently as the guy who's also gravely serious about the lizard-wolves encroaching at the, umm, walls of he Great Wall.

Its all really stupid, but its fast paced enough, and eye-pleasing enough to paper over its many basic flaws as a storytelling device. Its fun, its action packed (and visually coherent, nice), and teeters on just the right amount of dumb. I liked it better than the last three superhero films I've seen.

[Joe Molotov]

Adam & Eve Meet the Cannibals (1983)



This was on my Amazon Prime recommended list, so lo didst I watcheth it. And it was good.

It starts off which God creating the Heavens and the Earth, all that business. Then he creates Adam. Genesis kinda skips over how Adam was created, so the makers of this movie decided to go with "hatched out of a bloody egg sac". Adam gets bored living in Eden by himself so he makes a lady sculpture on the beach with wet sand and then lays beside it, as you do. Rain comes and washes the sand away revealing Eve underneath. Things are good for a while, but then Eve gets all bitchy about how boring things are, eats the apple, and then they get sucked out of Eden by a vortex or something, and dropped outside where everything is brown and barren. Adam decides they need to find the sea, but he doesn't know where it is, so they just walk in a random direction.

After fighting a giant vulture, they get kidnapped by a tribe of cave people. Are these the titular cannibals? They are not. They poked at Adam and Eve for a bit and were fascinated by Adam's dingus, but did not attempt to eat them. Eventually a tiger showed up and scared all the cave people away, but Adam stared down the tiger and it left him alone. They leave the caves, but Eve decides she doesn't want to look for the sea anymore and tells Adam to take his sea and shove it. He goes in one direction and she wanders off in the other. Trouble in paradise. 

Adam eventually climbs to top of a large hill and sees nothing by desert in all directions so he discourages about finding the sea, and decides to go back and find Eve. In the meantime, Eve has been kidnapped by another primitive tribe? Are these the cannibals? Nope, they're just your basic hunter-gatherers. But they're hunter-gatherers with food and thatch huts and that's more than Adam's got, so Eve decides it's time to get a sugar daddy. Adam finds the village and sees Eve getting in the bone zone with a cro-magnum man, but only watches from the distance, sad and aroused.

But just then, some huge hairy dudes crash the party! Is it cannibal time? It's cannibal time! They start smashing everyone with huge sticks and then just eating them right there on spot in the middle of the melee, so you know these are totes cannibals. Several people get killed and chewed on, but Eve and her new lover get taken alive and tossed in a pit for later. Before they can be eaten however, Adam shows up and gets them out and they escape into the woods. Where they get attacked by a bear. To further emasculate Adam, Mr. Cro-Magnum kills the bear while Adam cowers from it. Adam decides it's time to fight for Eve's love, but he gets the shit kicked out of him. Eve realizes she does still kinda love him after all though, and they leave together.

Adam and Eve resume the quest for the sea, which ends with them wandering into the arctic circle and nearly freezing to death. Just when all hope is lost, the ice starts to crack and the chunk of ice they are on breaks off and floats into the sea, and apparently off to some tropical locale. The tropical location has a nice village with some neolithic people that were not cannibals so Adam and Eve settle down there and start a family. And so the film ends, with a slightly more graphic than necessary child birth scene. The End.

[chronovore]

Arrival - probably the best science fiction film of the last decade.

[Bebpo]

^^ I will watch that this weekend!



Kedi

I like cats!  But while the cats were great and some of the anecdotal tales of people living in Istanbul and how experiences with local cats have changed their lives for the better, the problem is that there isn't a great cohesive dialogue the movie is trying to make, so it's literally a youtube video of interviewing people 90 mins about their experiences with cats and in the 2nd half I near fell asleep and my friend I went with found it unfortunately pretty boring too.  And this is cat lovers saying that!  So yeah a bit disappointing.

I think my favorite unintentional comedic moment was when this fisherman was talking about how cats were like kids and they're so great having kids to care for, and then the reporter goes "but you have two kids of your own, right?" and suddenly he stops smiling gets really serious, looks down and says "yeah, uh...it's tough"

[fistfulofmetal]

John Wick 2 was pretty great. It leaned into it's world of assassination just enough but didn't over explain anything. That's something that I really like about these two films, they don't pause the movie to explain every aspect of the hitman world to you and instead rely on imagery and actions.

Like in the first John Wick - the movie doesn't explain to you that the Continental is a hitman hotel. The concierge doesn't go on a 30 second spiel about the history of the hotel and the benefits. John Wick simply places the gold coin on the table and you instantly get it. They setup the gold coin earlier in the movie twice - once when he literally pulls a giant case of them out of his basement and then when he uses them to pay for the cleanup crew. When John places the coin on the table your brain connects it all together and you know the hotel is a hitman hotel.

The same stuff continues in the second movie. It never exposit's anything to you unless they absolutely need to. The characters just do things and expect the audience to understand.



So back to the movie. This is basically the correct way to make a sequel. It takes all the aspects of the first and tweaks them slightly, expands the lore, and introduces new threats. The action is continually awesome, but I like that they don't overdo it. They could have filled the movie with action sequence after action sequence but it maintains a sense of humor and spaces things out really well.

I think it's slightly too long and the second half isn't as strong as the first. Also the motivation John has isn't as strong as well. The first movie you have a crystal clear emotional reason for everything he does. In the 2, it's a little less clear. Finally, I would have liked John to be a little less god-like. Common's character comes close to rivaling John... but barely. John dispatches everyone with little effort. 

Really loved it overall, and I really like the place they are in for Chapter 3

[nudemacusers]

greasy strangler

No, uh, words?  it actually was well put together, much more so than it has any right to be. More of an exercise in oddity and the grotesque than anything. Rating: eh.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/BonafideBlack/status/833709665410117632

[team filler]

straight outta compton movie is complete garbage. I couldn't even finish it lol