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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #29820 on: March 25, 2018, 06:25:52 AM »
I have only seen Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer, The Age of Shadows, The Good the bad and the Weird, and The Attorney. I am practically a Transformers-watching plebian.

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« Reply #29821 on: March 25, 2018, 06:32:09 AM »
Man the sound design in Annihilation was so good. It's been like two weeks and I still keep thinking of the bear and that last noise

 I just finished reading the book, and enjoyed it as a companion piece to the movie. The book makes different points than the film does, but definitely share themes. I have been wanting to rewatch the movie ever since finishing it, doubly so now that I have finished the book. The sound design was fantastic, the bear was really unsettling.

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« Reply #29822 on: March 25, 2018, 06:48:29 AM »
A Taxi Driver (2017): this film has Song Kang-ho in it. If that isn't enough to make you watch it, fuck you.
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« Reply #29823 on: March 25, 2018, 12:00:09 PM »
A Taxi Driver (2017): this film has Song Kang-ho in it. If that isn't enough to make you watch it, fuck you.
Watched this now and oh man, the feels :goldberg

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« Reply #29824 on: March 25, 2018, 03:04:57 PM »
Ingrid Goes West

Nothing clever happens in this movie, the way they were playing this straight throughout I expected some subterfuge or cleverness, but no.

I loved this movie.

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« Reply #29825 on: March 25, 2018, 04:49:37 PM »
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle: Silly and stupid as one would expect, but kind of fun thanks to the how the main characters (mainly the Rock, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black who plays a girl that accidentally chose his character) all get to act like they're fifteen year-olds inside a virtual video game very much inspired by Uncharted (there's even an Uncharted 4 poster shown on a bedroom wall in the beginning).  There's some fun moments based around this concept including interactions with all the "NPCs," but it also means that no one else besides them has any real kind of character and is extremely one dimensional.  I almost wonder why they didn't just try to make this an Uncharted movie with the same concept.

The Disaster Artist: This was great.  James Franco's impersonation of Tommy Wiseau was so dead-on that he made for a better Wiseau than Wiseau himself at in the post-credits scene.  I have a hard time believing that what happened when the movie was first screened is real and just can't see everyone applauding the movie for being so stupid and Tommy immediately playing it off as that the movie was intended to have been a bad movie on purpose.  There's just no way people didn't scoff and walk out on it initially.  :doge  Amazing that he has stayed so secretive about things this entire time.  Someone apparently found out that he was from Poland IIRC but nobody knows where his money comes from. 
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« Reply #29826 on: March 25, 2018, 05:05:44 PM »
Ingrid Goes West

Nothing clever happens in this movie, the way they were playing this straight throughout I expected some subterfuge or cleverness, but no.

I loved this movie.

Yeah I thought it was really good. Aubrey Plaza finally got cast in a role that fits really well, she plays an antihero perfectly. Ice Cube Jr was great too. I don't know if that Batman scene qualifies as "clever" but it's weird as fuck and hilarious

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« Reply #29827 on: March 25, 2018, 09:35:56 PM »
Two Lovers

The premise seemed pretty bleh to me but I wanted to check this out after rewatching the rest of James Gray's work in the last year and it was a Joaquin Phoenix movie I hadn't seen yet(this was the movie he was promoting when he pretended to go batshit on Letterman 10 years ago.) It's very low-key but it kinda plays out like if you extracted the romance/courtship parts of Taxi Driver, without the violence or psychopathy, and set it in contemporary NYC. It's not particularly *BIG* or showy, but the more I think about the ending the more soul-crushing it strikes me. Recommended if wallowing in other people's relationship-related misery makes you feel more normal.

Hard Eight

Paul Thomas Anderson's first feature, before Boogie Nights. Very impressive on a technical level for a first time director(he uses the same cinematographer here that he used on almost all of this other movies) but on rewatch the narrative thread still doesn't really come together for me. That being said, it's a good showcase for Philip Baker Hall and John C Reilly, and Sam Jackson gets about 10 minutes of really good scene chewing.


Unsane

I'm a pretty big Soderbergh fanboy but I wasn't really interested because it seemed like it came out of nowhere and it was going hard on the "shot entirely on an iPhone" novelty but this turned out to be a really great, modern take on a 70s exploitation thriller. The main actress is great(I guess I have to watch The Crown now), Jay Pharoah(from SNL) has a really good supporting part here and even though the scenes shot in dark lighting can look pretty bad it's not held back by being shot on an iPhone(unlike 28 Days Later, which is a perpetual sore spot for me, personally.)

Fair warning, even though it's presented as a grounded thriller it gets pretty batshit insane and I wouldn't recommend it if you're one of those people who gets hung up on plotholes and "why didn't they just do 'x'?!?!" It's a pretty fun ride, though.
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« Reply #29828 on: March 25, 2018, 11:18:51 PM »
Death of Stalin - It lacks the fast-paced filth we expect from Iannucci, although it still delivers laughs. The narrative is strong and engaging, even more than the humor. Although the death of Stalin is a hazy event, it also plays pretty loose with established facts. Has a great cast. I ate two hot dogs and had a full bottle of wine and like a half bag of butter popcorn and threw up in the theater bathroom afterward.
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« Reply #29829 on: March 25, 2018, 11:51:29 PM »
The Pirates Movie Rewatched this. Forgot how much I loved that movie. I have a special place in my heart for Wallace and Gromit, but man, I really think this is Aardman's best movie.
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« Reply #29830 on: March 26, 2018, 08:19:44 AM »
Really? I remember taking my kids to that movie and being really unimpressed by it. I loved the animation, but everything else was pretty flat.


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« Reply #29831 on: March 26, 2018, 10:38:24 AM »

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« Reply #29832 on: March 26, 2018, 11:27:06 AM »
The Pirates Movie Rewatched this. Forgot how much I loved that movie. I have a special place in my heart for Wallace and Gromit, but man, I really think this is Aardman's best movie.

I was confused for a second because I thought you were talking about that bad Pirates of Penzance movie starring the dude from Blue Lagoon.

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« Reply #29833 on: March 26, 2018, 11:30:42 AM »
He's hardly ever sick at sea.
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« Reply #29834 on: March 27, 2018, 01:01:04 AM »
Marvel (had) no clue what to do with Thor though, good that they stumbled onto Thor Jokerson cause no one cared for any of the other shit they did with him.

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« Reply #29835 on: March 27, 2018, 04:53:07 AM »
I kill giants turned out to be some corny lifetime movie bullshit  ::)
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« Reply #29836 on: March 27, 2018, 10:58:27 AM »
I kill giants turned out to be some corny lifetime movie bullshit  ::)

Looked like some Wrinkle in Time bullshit

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« Reply #29837 on: March 28, 2018, 12:51:46 AM »
I mean, I loved Whiplash, but it's no Black Panther :doge

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« Reply #29838 on: March 28, 2018, 11:05:34 AM »
Gummo always makes me happy. 12 out of 10
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« Reply #29839 on: March 28, 2018, 01:24:49 PM »
I would have sacrificed the final performance in Whiplash for an ending which stops after the kid getting rekt on stage. :doge

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« Reply #29840 on: March 28, 2018, 02:18:56 PM »
I kill giants turned out to be some corny lifetime movie bullshit  ::)

Read the comic instead. (It was corny shit as well.)

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« Reply #29841 on: March 28, 2018, 02:26:32 PM »
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« Reply #29842 on: March 28, 2018, 04:04:01 PM »
Added another year to my internal versioning number yesterday and got my family to buy me The Quiet Family. My dad found a second-hand DVD copy on Amazon and bought it using my prime account (but using his own payment and shipping details, even!), so I'm mighty proud of him. Best birfday prez ever, he successfully braved those digital wastelands for me. My teachings have not gone to waste.  :'(
 
Hence: Currently in the process of watching it. The first death just happened, so I'm stoked to see things unfold from there.

Seems like my kinda jam so far.   :lol
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« Reply #29843 on: March 28, 2018, 04:05:53 PM »
It's a good movie.
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« Reply #29844 on: March 28, 2018, 05:33:45 PM »
Indeed. I'm thankful to the most honorable Great Rumbler (praised be thy name, etc) for telling me about it.

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« Reply #29845 on: March 28, 2018, 09:16:30 PM »
Man, too many good movies/popcorn movies out suddenly. Trying to make plans with people to see Isle of Dogs, Ready Player One, Unsane, Pacific Rim 2, I Kill Giants all in the next week or two. Why is everything releasing at the same time wtf.
 

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« Reply #29846 on: March 28, 2018, 09:18:06 PM »
you can scratch i kill giants off that list. trust me on this one, bb.
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« Reply #29847 on: March 28, 2018, 09:52:22 PM »
Really? I heard it's like A Monster Calls (which I really liked) and based on a good & interesting Graphic Novel. Also the reviews are pretty good on RT but there's only like 10 reviews with 2 negative/8 positive. Plus the poster looks pretty cool.

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« Reply #29848 on: March 28, 2018, 10:20:29 PM »
Really? I heard it's like A Monster Calls (which I really liked) and based on a good & interesting Graphic Novel. Also the reviews are pretty good on RT but there's only like 10 reviews with 2 negative/8 positive. Plus the poster looks pretty cool.
I didn't like a monster calls. maybe you will like i kill monsters  :doge
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« Reply #29849 on: March 28, 2018, 10:29:53 PM »
The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions:

If a person just wants fun action pop-corn movies, I think they are fine but I honestly pretend they don't exist because they remove what was cool about the original Matrix. I have a whole host of problems with those two movies but I refuse to relive the pain.  :'(

It would have been amazingly difficulty to craft 2 more movies as good as that original but I think they just kind of lost sight about what people really liked about that universe.

This is one of the few franchises I would be fine with them rebooting one day and having a fresh crack at it when I'm generally not a huge fan of rebooting. 

I did like the Animatrix though.

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« Reply #29850 on: March 28, 2018, 10:35:27 PM »
Reloaded is okay, and has a couple of all-time classic action scenes, but it's clear that the train is starting to slip off the tracks. Too many new characters thrown in with a bunch of new, muddled themes and ideas. Still a fun watch, just nowhere near as good as the original. Revolutions is just garbage, though. Most of the actions scenes aren't even that good and the ending is terrible.

On the other hand, nothing in Revolutions can touch the rave scene from Reloaded in terms of pure awfulness:



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« Reply #29851 on: March 28, 2018, 10:43:01 PM »
There was really a feeling at that time and moment especially when you watched the matrix that you were watching something subversive and smart.

By the time you got to reloaded and revolutions, the subtly was gone and you just felt slightly embarrassed you sat through a lot of wankery just to see some action set pieces.

The fights in the original matrix told a story. Each was there to provide deeper insight along with kick ass action. The fights in the other movies felt like something put in to break up the long tedious stretches.

Not to mention random characters popping up to tie into various outside media projects or just generally be "mysterious".

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« Reply #29852 on: March 28, 2018, 11:01:05 PM »
I don't really disagree with any of that either, but I still think they're fine and pretty enjoyable anyway

It's cool. I never diss anybody for different taste.

For just a bit of my backstory I was the biggest Matrix fan ever. I mean a ridiculous fan. I've never been a bigger fan of anything at any one point and time. So I was feverishly into reloaded and revolutions with almost unreachable expectations. The Matrix is pretty much a perfect film for me.

I tried to talk myself into liking reloaded but eventually came to see the movie for what it was. It's okay. Revolutions I legit don't like.

So the battle scars on the matrix movies run deep. Now I'm a bitter old man about what could have been.

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« Reply #29853 on: March 29, 2018, 01:26:33 AM »
I'm with Stoney on all of this. The Matrix could easily have been the Star Wars for this generation, particularly including that it's a story about rebels struggling in secret against an oppressive power, backed by secret knowledge. I was super, extra ready for Reloaded to be the Empire Strikes Back equivalent, but it was mostly just placeholder. I suspect that having the siblings both dealing with their overwhelming and unexpected success, everyone dogpiling on the sequels to have a part of the magic, and also dealing with their desire to transition all proved to be too much.

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« Reply #29854 on: March 29, 2018, 02:14:37 AM »
Matrix ran out of steam (after movie one) when the Wachowskis couldn't reasonably rip off more anime without it being obvious to normies.  Literally the only thing I find continually enjoyable they did was Assassins, good lord at the rest of the garbage they write.

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« Reply #29855 on: March 29, 2018, 02:31:56 AM »
Revolutions has too much shit in the real world or something.

But was it the real world tho :ohhh

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« Reply #29856 on: March 29, 2018, 05:50:05 AM »


"What is the deal with neural networks"

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« Reply #29857 on: March 29, 2018, 06:53:44 AM »
Having slept on The Quiet Family some, I am unsure which of the peeps I like best. I think it's the Brother.

Then again, ... the uncle. The way he just blatantly inserts himself in the walk and sticks out like a sore thumb as he pines after the heiress makes him my spirit animal, I think. Plus, I'm always someone called on for maintenance on tech gadgetry for some reason. He can restore reception to a TV by freaking clapping.

Then again, that singing/macking scene between the older sis and the wanderer... so SMOOTH.  :lol

...no, but seriously, what a delightful bunch. The only role that felt somewhat lacking was probably the little sister. She didn't get much airtime, and although she's integral to the plot, I felt like she could have been fleshed out some more.

Feels like i need to rewatch it some more to get a better feel of everything going down in that movie. Looking forward to it. I mean, it isn't a complicated movie, but frankly, I was tired last night, so I probably missed a whole bunch of less obvious stuff. Plus, I feel like I should observe some more of the facial expressions and reactions of the father. He's hilarious.

Once again, many thankings to the Great Rumblodon, may your brain remain wrinkly, your teeth sparkly, and your pastures ever so green.
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« Reply #29858 on: March 29, 2018, 07:26:13 AM »
I'm liking the korean movie talk in here lately :lawd

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« Reply #29859 on: March 29, 2018, 07:38:07 AM »
It's nice watching South Korean media were the kids don't all wear blazers and have hair so perfectly quaft that it would make Ryan Gosling cry with jealousy.

Also should I watch The Wailing, A Bittersweet Life, or Okja.


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« Reply #29860 on: March 29, 2018, 07:56:40 AM »
Of those three? The Wailing.

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« Reply #29861 on: March 29, 2018, 11:39:07 AM »
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« Reply #29862 on: March 29, 2018, 06:18:34 PM »
but Bound is friggin great tho. I'd love for them to take another crack at a non-sci fi/fantasy anything. Seriously, that movie rocks.

Weirdly enough, the best legacy that The Matrix created wasn't from the Wachowski's, it was from Keanu spending so much of his own clout and effort repaying back the stunt crew with career opportunities. So he produced a film for his personal martial arts instructor (Kung Fu Man), and when that got shelved after its production he doubled down and directed/starred in anothed film starring the same guy (Man of Tai Chi). And John Wick got made because Keanu let his former stunt double shop the project with him attached to get financing.

So, thesis statement. Bound is awesome, and Keanu Reeves is a great guy.

Edit: aw heck, I thought we were still on Matrix complaints. Now we're onto Korean cinema (love you guys).

Also should I watch The Wailing, A Bittersweet Life, or Okja.
A Bittersweet Life is one of my gateway recommendations for K-film. Its just that damn good I can't imagine anyone being dissapointed with it. The Wailing is fantastic as well, but intentionally grueling, steel yourself first.
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« Reply #29863 on: March 29, 2018, 07:18:58 PM »


 I normally can’t stand Ethan Hawke but that looks good.

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« Reply #29864 on: March 29, 2018, 07:21:40 PM »
I think the Wachowskis are great and they still continue to do shit far above everyone else. Not sure what you fuckers are talking about.

Reload/Revolutions had problems, yes but it was and still is far above most shit we get today. Fuck, no one in the theater understood anything about the Architect scene, but most podcacsts all over the net are littered with that type of speak dealiing with the implications of A.I, freewill etc today. And how didn't Revolutions not have amazing scenes? The fight with neo and smith at the end has been copied 100x over by Zack Snyder and every other garbage superhero movie.

They're also responsible for V for Vendetta, another movie that set off a cultural phenomenon years after it was released. They pretty much directed it despite not officially directing it. Cloud Atlas was a wonderful attempt at something that should have been a Netflix miniseries, Speed Racer, and even Jupiter Ascending for how campy and silly cheesy it was is STILL more interesting than most of Marvels junk.

I even enjoyed Sense8. See, Cindi, wherever you are,  i'm not transphobic! :doge


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« Reply #29865 on: March 29, 2018, 07:26:19 PM »
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Reload/Revolutions had problems, yes but it was and still is far above most shit we get today.

Reloaded and Revolutions are Marvel-tier at best, fam.
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« Reply #29866 on: March 29, 2018, 07:36:25 PM »
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Reload/Revolutions had problems, yes but it was and still is far above most shit we get today.

Reloaded and Revolutions are Marvel-tier at best, fam.


And people were criticizing the burly brawl scene in 2003

you don't even get that level of CGI now from Marvel  :neogaf

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« Reply #29867 on: March 29, 2018, 08:53:44 PM »
Pacific Rim 2 - Went in with low expectations, trailers looked bad, sequel didn't have Del Toro, but...

Uh, Pacific Rim 2 was great! It was everything I wanted the original to be. Story was better, action was cooler, more mechs. Human development got the short end of the stick but it wasn't bad. Cinematography was a step down, but yeah I liked this a lot better. Probably best live action mech movie to date.

Like until the last five mins I was thinking “man, I don’t have a single complaint about this film” but then in the end I have a small complaint:
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the final burning dive attack should’ve pierced through the kaiju with gypsy tearing through it and coming out the other side. Maybe if they were willing to be more unrealistic they’d even have them not eject and it pierced through and lands on its feet in a pose flaming smeared with blood dynamic kill
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But in the end that’s a small complaint,

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Like Pacific Rim 1 is a fine movie but I was really disappointed as a mecha fan. Pacific Rim 2 feels like my anime/videogame mecha brought to life. Really enjoyed it and I thought Boyega was fine and likeable. It even had Unicorn Gundam! And Eva robo-alien hybrids! Felt written by mecha anime fan.

They even

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killed some of the kids and fucked up their mechs in the final boss fight. Shit was fucked up like my favorite animes
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Plus it's nice

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seeing the mechs actually use weapons and shit, instead of just punching, lots of missiles and beams and flaming chainsaws and whips and swords, that's what I wanted in PR1.
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Pacific Rim 1 felt like they tried too hard to bring videogame/anime mecha to a more grounded realistic western film. Ended up in the middle and wasn't pleasing. PR2 just feels like a fucking live-action videogame/anime and that's fine, I like mecha videogames and I like mecha anime. Totally satisfied.

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« Reply #29868 on: March 29, 2018, 10:26:59 PM »
Unsane

Very entertaining flick. I went in not really knowing what to expect and came out happily entertained. Taking a serious subject and coating it in a B movie veneer to which it still comes out the other end without greatly diminishing its primary theme.

On the use of the smartphone as the primary film device, I was actually digging it. I used to roll my eyes at this sort of approach to creating but then, a couple of years I'm to my own photography I came to find that limiting yourself, be it by focusing your vision or reducing your tools, can actually be beneficial to the creating process. I went into this film with that sort of sensibility towards ita usage and came away inspired. You can tell Soderbergh was extending himself, to find different angles and places to place the device to find its strengths and I greatly appreciated that. Although its the opposite of something like The Revenant that offers a more natural experience. Unsane is in your face,  uncomfortable, and voyeuristic.
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« Reply #29869 on: March 29, 2018, 10:38:06 PM »
So I really, very much liked The Death of Stalin. Its friggin hilarious, but its also got a lot of meat on its bones, substance wise that is. The matter of which the ghoulish business of running a totalitarian regime, an actual one, begins at absurd and ramps up nicely. Its history as black comedy and it works so dang well because the reality that it satirizes is just so damn grim.

Anyways, I loved it.

And I hate as to how much discussion about contemprorary film ends up circling back to the MCU, but even the crappiest Matrix film (Reload/Revolutions, take your pick) have waaaaaaaaay better action than any movie with a Stan Lee cameo. If they held up that standard of spectacle, I'd like em' all a whole lot more.

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« Reply #29870 on: March 30, 2018, 02:03:22 AM »
So after surprisingly enjoying Pacific Rim 2, I just got out of Ready Player One and I feel like shit :(

Now if you've read the book and you're a hater, might as well stop reading now. You'll probably like the movie in the way that I like the Death Note Netflix movie because I love to troll the Death Note source material and the movie was a troll of the source material so I had fun. Ready Player One movie is a troll of the source material as it takes what all the haters said about the book, that it's nothing but references to fap to, and makes the movie exactly that. There's nothing underneath. There's no characters, there's no story, there's no human emotion, it's just a bunch of zzzzzz CG sequences with a million pop culture nods.

I liked the book. I actually thought it was a great, fun read. Like even if you stripped every pop culture reference out of the book I'd still have enjoyed reading it because I liked the plot and the cast and felt it had some sappy, but nice power of friendship themes. I liked that it felt like an adventure, and had lots of mystery and downtime to develop the characters. I thought it opened really well on copy & paste school planet with nothing to do and a main character completely broke finding his way into an old dungeon and meeting the female lead. I liked the backstory stuff in the book with Halliday and Ogden and their relationship.

I felt like all of that was completely missing in the movie. Hell,

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Ogden's character is essentially cut out of the story (which makes you wonder why they bothered getting Simon Pegg to play Ogden).
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I dunno how the movie stands on its own, but as a book adaptation this takes me back to the days when I used to read a lot of books before the movies came out and sometimes the adaptations were really trash and completely missed the point of the source material. What's even crazier is that Ernest Cline was actually involved in the screenplay, so the only conclusion I can come to is that the book is literally unfilmable, at least as a 2 hour movie and there is no way to make it work. I think if budgets didn't exist, Ready Player One probably works better as a 1 season TV show. The book pacing is a lot closer to a TV show with sorta an episodic feel between keys and doors and character moments along the way. But it would never work as a TV show because the budget, so yeah maybe just unfilmable.

Was surprised how much it got the source material wrong though. Like even the ending is changed,

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The whole 3 people for 3 keys thing, that what matters is working together with other people; hence why IOI fails...completely missing. It's just Percival doing it solo.
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Idk, with Spielberg attached I sorta expected a good adaptation of a book I rather enjoyed, but this was really bad. Pacific Rim 2 was like 10x better movie than this.  :'(

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« Reply #29871 on: March 30, 2018, 03:42:45 AM »
I think the Wachowskis are great and they still continue to do shit far above everyone else. Not sure what you fuckers are talking about.

Reload/Revolutions had problems, yes but it was and still is far above most shit we get today. Fuck, no one in the theater understood anything about the Architect scene, but most podcacsts all over the net are littered with that type of speak dealiing with the implications of A.I, freewill etc today. And how didn't Revolutions not have amazing scenes? The fight with neo and smith at the end has been copied 100x over by Zack Snyder and every other garbage superhero movie.

They're also responsible for V for Vendetta, another movie that set off a cultural phenomenon years after it was released. They pretty much directed it despite not officially directing it. Cloud Atlas was a wonderful attempt at something that should have been a Netflix miniseries, Speed Racer, and even Jupiter Ascending for how campy and silly cheesy it was is STILL more interesting than most of Marvels junk.

I even enjoyed Sense8. See, Cindi, wherever you are,  i'm not transphobic! :doge

Oh, right, I actually really enjoyed Cloud Atlas as well!

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« Reply #29872 on: March 30, 2018, 06:00:58 AM »
I was expecting to post about it in the trash movies thread, but i can't. I really liked Love Beats Rhymes (Dir. RZA, w/ Azealia Banks). It was what I expected, and grounded in cliche but it had enough humour (intentional and not), to carry itself, with a cast i liked (nice to see Azealia doing stuff still tbqh). Excellent comfort cinema.
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« Reply #29873 on: March 30, 2018, 09:18:35 AM »
I would rather suffer through Valarian again than have to watch those Matrix sequels. Fuck those movies.


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« Reply #29874 on: March 30, 2018, 11:20:13 AM »
I would rather suffer through Valarian again than have to watch those Matrix sequels. Fuck those movies.


No, fuck you   :sheik

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« Reply #29875 on: March 30, 2018, 12:06:26 PM »
Ready Player One movie is a troll of the source material as it takes what all the haters said about the book, that it's nothing but references to fap to, and makes the movie exactly that. There's nothing underneath. There's no characters, there's no story, there's no human emotion, it's just a bunch of zzzzzz CG sequences with a million pop culture nods.

So what you are saying is it's not like the book by being exactly like the book?

 :P

Not my job to convince people to like the book. It's been out long enough and people either like it or they don't. I'd be interested if people who disliked the book like the movie, because it feels like people who like the book won't like the movie and if people who dislike the book still dislike the movie then I'm not sure who the audience for the film is. I guess Twitch stream watching kids?

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« Reply #29876 on: March 30, 2018, 12:11:15 PM »
It is time.

Time to indulge in my Germanitude.

... why doesn't every other country love the Bud Spencer & Terrence Hill movies like we do? Is it the "translation", the freeform editing and rearranging of story, creating something entirely removed from the original work, filled with flapsy puns, neologisms and ridiculously zany dialects ("jemandem die Qualle aus dem Drömel hauen" = "beat someone's jellyfish out of their lanky figure" with Drömel being a nigh-unknown word outside of a small bunch of barbarians living in some holes near the river Rhine)?

I will never know.

For now, though, I have watched "Das Krokodil und sein Nilpferd" (Io sto con gli ippopotami). Within a minute of the beginning of the movie, we are treated to the view of a luscious lake populated by a genuinely humongous flock of Flamingo. And they are screeching like seagulls. It's... it's just beautiful.  :'(

Glorious German localisation in mono, year of ye Lord 1979. This is a joy you moonspeak-gargling subhumans will never know. :aah

(One of these days I will buy the Bluray box set, just because.)
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« Reply #29877 on: March 30, 2018, 12:49:10 PM »
I’m watching Meatballs 4 starring Corey Feldman and Jack Nance in my jockey shorts with my hand on my dick and xanaxed out and none of you can do anything about it.

Meatballs 4 > Manchester by the Sea > Interstellar > Call Me By Your Name
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« Reply #29878 on: March 30, 2018, 01:32:05 PM »
“During filming, Jack Nance received a call from his then-wife Kelly Jean Van Dyke saying that she was going to commit suicide. Nance attempted to console his wife over the phone, but a lightning storm killed Van Dyke's end of the receiver. Nance, as well as the director, took 45 minutes to find a deputy sheriff, who in turn, contacted LAPD and Nance's apartment manager, but by the time they had arrived at Nance's apartment, it was too late, as Van Dyke had already hung herself.“

:(

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« Reply #29879 on: March 30, 2018, 02:34:50 PM »
WCW Thunder addict dislikes thing of quality. shocking.



I love how many times his accent changes.
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