Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Great Rumbler]

I love Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies. Really wish he could get more recognition outside of Japan, or at least consistent releases for his movies.

[toku]

[Momo]

TO is an international treasure

[toku]

[Momo]

[Momo]

oh. my. god.




 

[TVC15]

Watched that new Duncan Jones bomba, Mute. No joke, I have to sleep a bit on it, but it might be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It’s not bad in an amusing The Room or Troll 2 way. Mute is truly terrible. Boring and absolutely non-entertaining in every regard. It is a chore to watch. You’ll be looking at your watch every 3 minutes. This is definitely a career ended for Duncan Jones. There is not one aspect of this movie that is even remotely close to acceptable.

[team filler]

was warcraft good?

[Momo]

was warcraft good?

Not really, the orc parts were okay, the human parts sucked, but if you're not watching it specially cause you're a Warcraft nerd, rather watch another fantasy film. 

[Mr Gilhaney]

I can cum to Antichrist all day

If you never watched it, i suggest trying Triers old tv show Riget. Can easily find it with subs, and it's amazing. Everything from two people with downs summarizing everything all the time, to Udo Kier playing "little brother" is sensational. The birth scene in particular a favorite, when she gives birth to this huge thing

( https://i.imgur.com/JPAfMIw.jpg )




But there is so many great fucked up plot lines, not a single person there is quite right.

Pathologist Dr. Bondo attempts to convince the family of a man dying from liver cancer to donate his liver to the hospital for Bondo's research. (In fact, Bondo wants it as a trophy, as it is the second largest hepatosarcoma ever recorded.) When his request is denied, Bondo has the cancerous liver transplanted into his own body (as the patient signed an organ donor form), so that the cancer will become his personal property and can be kept within the hospital.

[Optimus]

was warcraft good?

It's better than you'd expect. Aside from a few GCI fuckups the movie is pretty decent.

[Assimilate]

Watched that new Duncan Jones bomba, Mute. No joke, I have to sleep a bit on it, but it might be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It’s not bad in an amusing The Room or Troll 2 way. Mute is truly terrible. Boring and absolutely non-entertaining in every regard. It is a chore to watch. You’ll be looking at your watch every 3 minutes. This is definitely a career ended for Duncan Jones. There is not one aspect of this movie that is even remotely close to acceptable.

My sentiments exactly.

I probably would never bankroll another movie from this guy. But maybe we excuse him since his dad was passing away at the time? I dunno.

[nudemacusers]

Is it hate watchable? I wanna get drunk and watch some trash.

[TVC15]

Is it hate watchable? I wanna get drunk and watch some trash.

Nope. Not at all. We were arguing at the 20 minute mark about killing our “must finish every movie we start” policy. I opted to eat like 200mg of weed gummies and play with a high-end fidget spinner and cat.

I can cum to Antichrist all day

If you never watched it, i suggest trying Triers old tv show Riget. Can easily find it with subs, and it's amazing. Everything from two people with downs summarizing everything all the time, to Udo Kier playing "little brother" is sensational. The birth scene in particular a favorite, when she gives birth to this huge thing

( https://i.imgur.com/JPAfMIw.jpg )




But there is so many great fucked up plot lines, not a single person there is quite right.

Pathologist Dr. Bondo attempts to convince the family of a man dying from liver cancer to donate his liver to the hospital for Bondo's research. (In fact, Bondo wants it as a trophy, as it is the second largest hepatosarcoma ever recorded.) When his request is denied, Bondo has the cancerous liver transplanted into his own body (as the patient signed an organ donor form), so that the cancer will become his personal property and can be kept within the hospital.

Thanks for the rec, but I’ve seen it. Von Trier is one of my favorites.

[Bebpo]

GONJIAM - HAUNTED ASYLUM - Handcam k-Horror film of a movie crew going into a haunted asylum. Pretty much Grave Encounters Korean edition. The first half was pretty creepy af, but also pretty slow for anything to actually happen. The second half was just BLARGHGHGGH ARGHGGHGHGH RUNNNNN ARGHGHGGH BLARGHGH for 30 mins.

There's also no plot..at all.

It's decently intense and decently entertaining, but was just ok. I was really feeling it'd be great in the first half, the atmosphere is really well done and creepy. But 2nd half was super whateverrrr.

[G The Resurrected]

Super Troopers 2

I love stupid fun comedies and it didn't disappoint in that department. It also might have been a better movie than the first, which is a rarity. Some of the jokes are a bit dry after 17 years of stewing immaturity, but I found myself laughing more in this movie than I have in a decade or more. I hope they get to make a third one, because I actually teared up laughing during this one.

AQP

Really? yeah it was good, but nowhere near as good as Hereditary(

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) in the horror department, but it was great at world building and character drama.

Hereditary

Saw this two weeks ago,

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I haven't been the same since.

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[BlueTsunami]

Super Troopers 2

I love stupid fun comedies and it didn't disappoint in that department. It also might have been a better movie than the first, which is a rarity. Some of the jokes are a bit dry after 17 years of stewing immaturity, but I found myself laughing more in this movie than I have in a decade or more. I hope they get to make a third one, because I actually teared up laughing during this one.

AQP

Really? yeah it was good, but nowhere near as good as Heredity (

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) in the horror department, but it was great at world building and character drama.

Heredity

Saw this two weeks ago,

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I haven't been the same since.

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Fookin G with the impeccable taste. Been waiting on Hereditary

[TVC15]

All The President's Men:

70s political thriller 

Redford and Hoffman in their primes 

Redford wearing corduroy suits the same color as his hair and skin for 70% of the movie and still looking amazing   

Newsrooms 

Journalism 

Typewriters 

Bringing down a corrupt administration flagrantly breaking the law via freedom of the press 

Saw this last year and I let my expectations get away from reality.

The 70sness of this movie cannot be understated. The hair could withstand motorcycle accidents.

Anyway, my complaint was that the presented story is too confusing/doesn’t make sense unless you already know, in detail, the events and people being presented. This was probably a fair ask at the time of release. With that said, it’s still understandable in the same way Primer is—you don’t have to know exactly what’s going on to understand what’s going on.

[Bebpo]

Watched Resolution. That was pretty clever. The main two had a good dynamic and the comedy and weirdness were great. The story was kinda neat and made sense though I'm not a big fan of the last 20 seconds.

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I would've liked it better if the main two character manipulate their own ending (which they did) and then leave having had a happy ending. The whole "Hey, this is a happy ending" and then the entity [the audience] rising up and they're like "can we try this again?" only works is the audience demands that every horror movie has a bad ending where everyone dies. I'm a horror buff and if the characters are good, smart and likeable like these ones I'm more satisfied by a happy ending that they earn themselves. So I would've cut the last 20 seconds and called it a great movie myself.

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Looking forward to seeing The Endless next week now that I've seen Resolution & Spring.

[TVC15]

Watch this and thank me later.

https://www.amazon.com/Terrorvision-Diane-Franklin/dp/B009G5776K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524453871&sr=8-1&keywords=terrorvision

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, TerrorVision! It's a lot of fun, perfect for some late-night campy horror.

[Momo]

http://comicbook.com/dc/2018/04/21/adam-brody-added-to-shazam-cast-dc-/

The fuckery is complete

[Joe Molotov]

Michael Weldon in his 1996 Psychotronic Video Guide described this as a good example of "inept filmmaking" and an opportunity to "see once-popular stars degraded."

[Joe Molotov]

Is the Millennium Falcon one of the stars that gets degraded?

Sadly, that was just false advertising. The space ship in the movie looks like a carousel with some flood lights on it shot through some trees.

[Mr. Gundam]

Saw Pacific Rim 2 yesterday with my buddy and his son. I turned off my brain and enjoyed the pretty pictures. The Unicorn Gundam statue outside the Anaheim Electronics building in Tokyo was a fun little nod.

[Mr. Gundam]

Surprised about the lack of Wes Anderson enthusiasm here. Kinda figured for hipster cinema fans in their 20/30/40s he's one of the top adored directors.

Going from that, what are your guys/gals favorite directors? For me I'd pick Anderson, Soderbergh, Fincher, Speilberg, PTA, Kubrick (rip), Coen Bros, Villeneuve, Satoshi Kon (rip), and if they keep on their excellent track records a bit more Fukunaga & Saulnier. I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch though. There's also guys who I love but have done some great films & some weaker stuff like Michel Gondry, Terry Gilliam, Spike Jonze, Edgar Wright.

I love Wes Anderson. My other favorite modern directors are Wong Kar Wai, Almodovar, Fincher, Cuaron, Soderbergh, PTA, etc.


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Isle of Dogs - I love Wes Anderson movies, have since Rushmore, and this was cute and fun (though I enjoy his animated films like this and Fantastic Mr. Fox less than his live-action films). But, yeah the whole thing about the movie getting flack for weaboo cultural appropriation is pretty legit criticism. The film is masquerading as a Japanese made film...but made by white people and presented as the fetishized western view of Japan and Japanese people and Japanese pop culture. Like it didn't bother me that much and I still enjoyed it. But when I imagine a Japanese made AMERICA film masequerading as an American made film featuring nothing but the western stereotypes of white people in Japanese anime/tv/films/game shows...that would be pretty cringy/lame, so I see the issue. I saw Isle of Dogs with a Japanese friend and it definitely bothered her a bit.

Also, I'm a little surprised how weaboo this movie is considering Wes Anderson's been around forever at this point with so many movies to his name and I never once felt any of his stylistic nods to cinema were Japanese inspired. He never struck me as someone really into Japan, but there's no way Isle of Dogs could be made by someone who isn't a huge ass weaboo.

I haven't seen Isle of Dogs yet, but didn't he co-write it with a Japanese friend of his?

[Bebpo]

Mr. Gundam, yeah he co-wrote it with two other people, one being a Japanese actor who was in Grand Buddhapest iirc. Have a feeling the Japanese writer wrote all the Japanese dialogue and cast all the Japanese actors/actresses since he was also the casting director.

Not sure if that makes it better. I was talking with some Japanese friends and they found the whole situation harmless and at worst just a bit weird.

[Transhuman]

Wild Things: 53rd rewatch. This film continues to give me Goosebumps.... in my dick that is.

[thisismyusername]

Thor: Ragnarok - Solid. Way better than the previous two solo outings. Having the Hulk along for the ride was the right move. And the comedy was pretty solid. Got a few actual laughs out of me. Here's hoping if there's a 4th Thor that the same director is used. He seems to get changing things up.

[nudemacusers]

My Tutor - 1983 - this movie is signficant for a few reasons, it was released the year I was born, features a young and pudgy crispin glover, and has some fine ass milfy tittays and sex scenes. highly recommended, 5/5 teenage fantasy pillow grinds.

[Momo]

[team filler]

 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Venom? More like Cum for eyes.

[nudemacusers]

looks aight. his accent makes him sound kinda distinguished mentally-challenged but then again he is playing a new yorker.

[chronovore]

I, for one, welcome this big-screen adaptation of [PROTOTYPE].

[Joe Molotov]

I haven't even clicked on the trailer yet, but that thumbnail looks 90's as fuck.

[Joe Molotov]

[Joe Molotov]

ya Paddington 2 is a dense film, I didn’t understand a lot of the symbolism until my 3 or 4th viewing.

[benjipwns]

Sitting through its 2 hours and 30 minutes is like gorging on tapas: You wind up both overstuffed and unsatisfied.

It's too much. Too many characters, too much action, too much everything. It's a superhero surplus with too many heroes and not enough screen. It's Infinity overload.

It took us 19 movies over a span of 11 years to finally reach this destination. The end result? "Infinity War" is just too much of everything.

There's no pacing in Avengers: Infinity War. It's all sensation and no pulse. Everything is big, all of the time.

Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War -- an overstuffed sausage of summer entertainment

The noisy, bloated spectacles of combat were surely the most expensive parts of the movie, but the money seems less like an imaginative tool than a substitute for genuine imagination.

Throughout the film, rapidity of dialogue and drama is mistaken for actual rhythm, of which directors Anthony and Joe Russo have one mode: pedal-to-the-metal pandemonium.

snyder da god taking down the MCU on his way out after putting out two masterpieces and a truly moving and deep work of art butchered by that hack Joss Whedon

[Corporal]

Family I've been friends with since kindergarden are Christians. I'm at best agnostic.

So, a few days ago, they lured me over with some food. I was a bit wary at first, but hey, food. Plus the promise of a Jesus-free movie.

We watched that movie where the Indian guy gets trapped on a life boat with a Tiger and hallucinates his balls off. Maybe he even dreams up the tiger too. Or did he just tell a tall tale to showcase something... which version will you choose to believe? Nudge nudge, wink wink. 
Not the first time I've seen it, and I like it, but those expectant gazes and thinly veiled at best willingness to go into deep philosophical discussions after watching the movie...

Life of Pi is still a nice movie to watch. It pretty much exists to set up and pose one question, but it's fun to nibble at so whatever. CG gets a bit overbearing at times, especially at the island. I like how it pulls off the survival bits better than the Martian, and not just due to being based on Erf - it just flows better and more believably. The overall style is also impressive, the CG tiger blends in surprisingly well, all things considered.

Plus, damn, those bioluminescent plankton/jellyfish bits are just as awesome in real life as they seem in the movie. If you ever have the chance to experience a nightly swim when the plankton are active, then go for it. Boats become comets, every movement creates a wild swirl of light, you basically feel like bathing in stars. Highly recommended.

Finally: Went to the Zoo yesterday to watch two fat tigers laze around. The real thing isn't even half as exciting. Then again, I refrained from climbing in and beating them with sticks and stuff.

[Mupepe]

A few years back at the Austin zoo I got to experience two tigers get into a fight.  Those sounds will induce bowel movements for sure.  That shit was exciting.

[Great Rumbler]

I was at the zoo once and this tiger charged and leaped at the viewing glass right in front of me. Let me tell you, I felt some rumbling in my caveman genes when I saw that.

[I'm a Puppy!]

A few years back at the Austin zoo I got to experience two tigers get into a fight.  Those sounds will induce bowel movements for sure.  That shit was exciting.

There are several ways to take this

[Mupepe]

I’ll clarify. Erotic.

[Yeti]

I was at the zoo and I saw a tiger drinking from its water and then it turned around and pissed right into the water.

[TVC15]

I still watch that video where a monkey mouth fucks a frog to death a lot

[Huff]

Finally found the time to watch the old blade runner. P good

Team human deckerd. Him as a replicant makes no sense

Riddle Scott hack fraud

[paprikastaude]

One flew over the cuckoo's nest - First time I've seen this in 10 years or so. Still all the emotions. I guess they had some nightly re-run because of Milos Forman dying. Funnily enough, until I've seen an interview of his a few days ago I didn't realize the institution was an allegory for his experience in the soviet system.

[kingv]

Saw inifinity war.

It really earned that 68.

For a 2.5 hour movie that was filled with explosions I was regularly shocked how bored I was.

For the culmination of ten years of movies,  I care so little about any of the characters that the stakes just feel low. Most of the dramatic moments are sort of ruined by 1) how bad the acting is 2) how little reason there is to care about any of the characters.

Also Thanos is much more sympathetic in this than the comics. So much so that I would say they are nearly totally different characters. He is a more rounded character in the movie, but I’m not sure I would say more interesting. The black order were surprisingly comic accurate in their look.

Overall, it’s basically average at best.

[TVC15]

Watched Batman 89 at movie night tonight. It’s still the best comic book movie to date.

[Momo]

Watched Avengers Marvel Boogaloo, I give it marv/marvel

[Chim Richalds]

Three O'Clock High

 

'80s high school movies are the best, and this one is up there at the very top. 

[Joe Molotov]

Watched Batman 89 at movie night tonight. It’s still the best comic book movie to date.

Batman 66 tho

BTW, seeing Death of Stalin today instead of Infinity Snores.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/ericallenhatch/status/988875832042098689

[Great Rumbler]

BTW, seeing Death of Stalin today instead of Infinity Snores.

Infinity Wars

The Death of Stalin

[BlueTsunami]

The Vanishing (1988) George Sluizer

This is essentially 'Interview with a Sociopath'. I was expecting a murder mystery but got this strange and effective film about the setup for serial murders. It was dark, emotionally bleak.

It touches on obsession on both ends. On the one hand loss, he couldnt let go. It consumed him completely and made his PoV compelling. From his end you could work put symbolism and analogies. The manic state you enter in a sudden removal from a loved ones life.

But on the other end, the cold calculated nature of a sociopath. The narcissism and the subterfuge. How it also intertwined with the seemingly acceptence of mistresses in French culture.

The final reveal of the kidnapping was horrific. It wasmt about intellect and planning. It was this awful sense of nature that made me sick. And the final scenes. Darker than dark. It was absolutely a statment on the folly of this man, the searcher. His inability to move on.

[TVC15]

Three O'Clock High

 

'80s high school movies are the best, and this one is up there at the very top. 

A forgotten classic. It deserves recognition far more than, say, most John Hughes movies.

[BlueTsunami]

Three O'Clock High is all the high school intense without the cheese. Def a classic.

[Raist]

So I've not seen IW, but since I generally give no fucks about spoilers and especially not for Mahvel shite, I read the plot summary on wiki.

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Start with a few movies with a handful of iconic superhero. Then spam as many as you can in the past couple years with 53459 new characters, only to wipe half of them

I suppose that's a way to terminate actors' contracts.
Although I fully expect some time travel or magic shenanigans to bring some of them back or something.

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[Momo]

So I've not seen IW, but since I generally give no fucks about spoilers and especially not for Mahvel shite, I read the plot summary on wiki.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Start with a few movies with a handful of iconic superhero. Then spam as many as you can in the past couple years with 53459 new characters, only to wipe half of them

I suppose that's a way to terminate actors' contracts.
Although I fully expect some time travel or magic shenanigans to bring some of them back or something.

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This isnt really true

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The only people that actually died is Heimdal, Loki, (maybe) Vision and (maybe) Gammora. The collector is prolly dead but no one gives a fuck, all the others that died are going to be reversed

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