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Momo

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« Reply #33360 on: March 14, 2019, 01:26:19 PM »
Nobody post the new avengers trailer yet? Hawkguy has a hell of a haircut :lol

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« Reply #33361 on: March 14, 2019, 01:34:32 PM »
I thought Captain marvel was just a middlingly interesting as every other Marvel Movie.
I enjoyed it enough, I will never rent it, buy it, watch it on Netflix, or even on cable tv on Christmas.

I’m perfectly fine never seeing it again. It’s exactly the same way I fee
About all of the marvel movies except maybe Thor Ragnarok.

I didn’t really think that they did a great job with the 90s nostalgia.

Like it just didn’t feel particularly 90s to me, despite all of the forced references.

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« Reply #33362 on: March 14, 2019, 01:58:42 PM »
The only Marvel movies that have gone beyond the "well, that was entertaining" level for me have been Thor Ragnorak because it's funny af and Winter Soldier because I went in with low expectations because every Marvel movie had been so by the books safe until then and then suddenly it's like a legit almost R action thriller with good choreography and Evans being badass as hell.

I also appreciated Black Panther for the social contribution and great art design, but the actual movie was just good and entertaining popcorn flick like most of the rest of the Marvel films.

I didn’t really think that they did a great job with the 90s nostalgia.

Like it just didn’t feel particularly 90s to me, despite all of the forced references.

Yeah, I'm with you on that. As a "90s kid" myself it felt tacked on. I haven't seen Mid-90s yet, but I have a feeling that will be a lot more legit nostalgia.

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« Reply #33363 on: March 14, 2019, 02:37:07 PM »
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« Reply #33364 on: March 15, 2019, 02:55:01 PM »
Gunn is back baby!

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« Reply #33365 on: March 15, 2019, 03:08:19 PM »
Gunn is back baby!
This is a great day for pedophiles everywhere :rejoice

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« Reply #33366 on: March 15, 2019, 04:00:11 PM »
Gunn is back baby!

I highly doubt it will, because he's got a formula that works, but it would be funny if it ended up sucking.

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« Reply #33367 on: March 15, 2019, 08:56:28 PM »
IF YOU HAVEN'T figured it out by the time you see a young Hitler being fellated by a Viennese sex worker, Love, Death & Robots isn't your average Netflix show.

Of course, if you haven't figured it out, you probably haven't been paying attention: "Alternate Histories," which features said act being performed upon said icon of evil, is the 17th of 18 episodes in the animated anthology. By that point, you'll have seen full frontal nudity (male, female, and demonic); you'll also have seen a zero-G rendition of 127 Hours that deserves every Foley Art award possible, plentiful crushed heads, and even more plentiful arcing ichorous spews, and a sex scene that looks like the result of Cinemax becoming a game developer.

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« Reply #33368 on: March 15, 2019, 09:34:46 PM »


When the misanthropy becomes so overwhelming you find yourself side-eyeing a film. I'll never watch it again but the imagery and insane scenario are going to stick with me. The acting was rough in places so it teeters on the edge of being comedic due to how overhwhelming it all is but then draws you back in.

The initial act, the very long character introductions, wore thin on me but when shit got real you're made to think back on these characters, and how they portrayed themselves. Ultimately left considering each character and their outcomes within the group.
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« Reply #33369 on: March 16, 2019, 03:26:26 AM »


Caught this over the weekend and it was a gut punch of a film. Two very broken people getting together due to the convenience. Deals with substance abuse, suicidal tendencies, and cultural differences when it comes to the role of men and women in society and in a relationship. It gets dark in a particular way that only foreign films seem to allow.
Speaking of gut punch films named Head On, have you seen the Australian film from 1998?
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« Reply #33370 on: March 16, 2019, 04:34:38 AM »
Prospect 2018 is really good. I wouldn't watch the trailer because it seems to give a lot away, but I would definitely try to find and watch the film.

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« Reply #33371 on: March 16, 2019, 05:13:09 AM »
Prospect 2018 is really good. I wouldn't watch the trailer because it seems to give a lot away, but I would definitely try to find and watch the film.
I've been keeping my eye on that one. Where did you see it?
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« Reply #33372 on: March 16, 2019, 05:35:13 AM »
I'm Australian remember

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« Reply #33373 on: March 16, 2019, 10:18:51 AM »
I'm Australian remember
That's why I asked. Where is it available here?
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« Reply #33374 on: March 16, 2019, 11:58:46 AM »
Legally? Beats me.

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« Reply #33375 on: March 16, 2019, 12:18:07 PM »
Sorry To Bother You was pretty good. That's about all i watched lately.

Heard they originally wanted Donald Glover as the lead, glad that talentless white bread fuckboy didn't get to ruin it.

Tessa Thompson :heartbeat
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« Reply #33376 on: March 16, 2019, 07:09:50 PM »
I think Cap Marvel was the first Marvel movie I legit disliked. They forgot to give her any personality or character. Brie was fine, the script just failed.

It was also boring to me. Fell asleep toward the end for a moment.
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« Reply #33377 on: March 16, 2019, 07:33:42 PM »
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« Reply #33378 on: March 16, 2019, 07:34:13 PM »
Went to see Captain Star Wars Marvel

An ok film. It had a lot of Nick Fury and overall it was better than I expected. These Marvel films just get more pretty to look at. The Kree planet stuff was really pretty.
Brie Larson didn't do any award winning acting but I don't think she did a bad job considering what she had to work with either. The humor worked well in this film but it was no Thor.
It seemed to have some sort of identity crisis, especially towards the end. I think it would've worked better if they had more grounded scenes on earth.
My memory also failed me with some of these characters that were in previous films. "What was the role of this big generic baddy again?"

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Also, she could've saved us from a decade of Marvel movies had she blown up more ships at the end  :doge
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« Reply #33379 on: March 16, 2019, 07:34:41 PM »
expensive and shitty mid-80's films geaux!

I really wanted to like Dune. Its lovable and aged in ways that are charming, but its so often tedious, dramatically inert, and endlessly expository (it pretty much only stops being that when the credits roll) that all the best practical effects that 1984 could provide (and a fair number of crappy ones for that matter) and cool production design can't mitigate all of its flaws. I watched it as homework, more or less for next year's almost certain to be better re-adaptation. But no matter how well the new version comes out, it'll have to work hard to be as bracingly strange as Lynch's version sometimes (not often enough) gets to be.



Presently, on American Netflix, the first 21 James Bond films are available to stream. So I've been taking the opportunity to revisit a bunch of films that I hadn't seen in many years. Mostly I've been pleased with the older films, but I've got to make special mention for A View to a Kill, which sinks far below the comfortable mediocrity of the weaker entries and is just plain shitty. Its only two years after Octopussy (not actually terrible) but the already creaky Roger Moore looks like he aged ten years in between. Its a James Bond film that wastes Christopher Walken as the villain, and this was long before he became his own self-parody. Even accounting for the unusually persistent stunt doubling the action scenes have got no zip, and once again, the edge-of-elderly Roger Moore's lechery is just off putting. The film even fails at the lifestyle/travelogue porn that these films always succeed at, with a litany of the worst in 80's fashion paraded around the screen. James Bond has perhaps had so much lasting appeal because its always been such a potent male fantasy for the audience to vicariously enjoy, this one at least turns that undeserving, colonialist fantasy way sour, so at least there's that.


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« Reply #33380 on: March 16, 2019, 07:36:05 PM »
hypaaaaaaaazone, I'm thinking of checking out some of Tsai Ming-liang's work, The Wayward Cloud in particular. Any recs, comments?
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« Reply #33381 on: March 16, 2019, 07:51:06 PM »
I'd of course very much welcome whatever input you may post here on your discoveries.

I was about to recommend some things, but as it turns out I was confusing Hou Hsiao-Hsien for Tsai Ming-liang.

Seriously, I got nothing.

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« Reply #33382 on: March 16, 2019, 11:42:53 PM »
Dune is definitely flawed, but there's not another scifi movie quite like it.
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« Reply #33383 on: March 17, 2019, 02:19:25 AM »
yeah, the visuals are sooooo much stronger than, well, everything else it kinda hurts the film. I would very much enjoy a better picture that keeps its aesthetic. Hell, a megabudget David Lynch film sounds exciting just on principle alone.

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« Reply #33384 on: March 17, 2019, 08:03:12 AM »
Sadly the collection is mostly terrible garbage.

The ‘game developer turns Cinemax’ sentiment is pretty accurate but not exactly an endorsement.  :doge
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« Reply #33385 on: March 17, 2019, 10:06:58 AM »
And that soundtrack



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« Reply #33386 on: March 17, 2019, 10:33:20 AM »
Dune is atrocious
Nothing from Lynch is "atrocious".  >:(


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« Reply #33387 on: March 17, 2019, 10:55:16 AM »
Anyhow i watched all them Love Death + Robots shorts on Netflix.

They all look quite stunning visually, but most of them are sort of shallow and uninteresting when it comes to anything else.
Story wise, the only one that did something for me was probably Zima Blue.
Visually speaking, The Witness was the best one probably.

Worst ones was probably Alternate Histories, just cause visually it wasn't all that interesting or impressive, but the jokes weren't funny either.
Sonnie's Edge, though visually good, was hard to watch because of all the edgyness (i get that it was intentional).

Everything else was ok, again, nothing stood out too much to me, aside from visuals.

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« Reply #33388 on: March 17, 2019, 11:03:38 AM »
Sadly the collection is mostly terrible garbage.

The ‘game developer turns Cinemax’ sentiment is pretty accurate but not exactly an endorsement.  :doge
Yeah visuals aside, there's nothing that interesting in any of 'em, unfortunately.
Most of them look like videogame cutscenes/trailers, but with some nudity.

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« Reply #33389 on: March 17, 2019, 11:59:06 AM »
Controversial opinion: The fact that a few characters explicitly talk about horror movie tropes isn't enough to justify calling Scream a brilliant meta horror movie
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« Reply #33390 on: March 17, 2019, 01:17:02 PM »
It's just a brilliant regular movie

BobFromPikeCreek

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« Reply #33391 on: March 17, 2019, 02:08:37 PM »
I mean yeah it's a good horror movie, but I just hear a lot of people really oversell the meta elements. IMO New Nightmare did the meta stuff better.
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« Reply #33392 on: March 17, 2019, 02:25:22 PM »
The yogurt one was the best because Maurice LaMarche.
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« Reply #33393 on: March 17, 2019, 02:32:38 PM »
Jabberwocky (1977)

It's about ugly, dirty people scrabbling around in piss and shit in their filthy hovels and dank castles. It taught me everything I know about England. 5/5

"A man in the next town over claimed he'd seen the beast. Turned his teeth snow white overnight!"
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« Reply #33394 on: March 17, 2019, 11:35:36 PM »
Controversial opinion: The fact that a few characters explicitly talk about horror movie tropes isn't enough to justify calling Scream a brilliant meta horror movie

haven't seen New Nightmare, but a big part of what worked with the meta cinema of Scream is it doesn't overdo it.
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« Reply #33395 on: March 18, 2019, 09:32:37 AM »
New Nightmare is full-on meta. As in, it's presented as a documentary about the making of a new Nightmare on Elm Street movie but then Freddie comes out of the movie universe to torment the movie crew.
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« Reply #33396 on: March 18, 2019, 11:20:31 AM »
I knew it was about England when you said it was about ugly, dirty people scrabbling around in piss and shit

Thought it was about ResetEra TBH
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« Reply #33397 on: March 18, 2019, 12:39:42 PM »
Except it isn't presented as a documentary at literally any point in the movie :what

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« Reply #33398 on: March 18, 2019, 01:16:30 PM »
Jabberwocky (1977)

It's about ugly, dirty people scrabbling around in piss and shit in their filthy hovels and dank castles. It taught me everything I know about England. 5/5

"A man in the next town over claimed he'd seen the beast. Turned his teeth snow white overnight!"

Jabberwocky is a goddamn gay icon.

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« Reply #33399 on: March 18, 2019, 06:41:01 PM »
Jabberwocky (1977)

It's about ugly, dirty people scrabbling around in piss and shit in their filthy hovels and dank castles. It taught me everything I know about England. 5/5

"A man in the next town over claimed he'd seen the beast. Turned his teeth snow white overnight!"

Jabberwocky is a goddamn gay icon.

Is it? That's not something that I've heard before.
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« Reply #33400 on: March 18, 2019, 10:30:20 PM »
When you search a streaming site looking for a movie to watch.
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« Reply #33401 on: March 18, 2019, 11:31:54 PM »
Jabberwocky (1977)

It's about ugly, dirty people scrabbling around in piss and shit in their filthy hovels and dank castles. It taught me everything I know about England. 5/5

"A man in the next town over claimed he'd seen the beast. Turned his teeth snow white overnight!"

Jabberwocky is a goddamn gay icon.

Is it? That's not something that I've heard before.

Fuck, that’s the babadook I’m thinking of.

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« Reply #33402 on: March 19, 2019, 01:21:30 AM »
Jabberwocky (1977)

It's about ugly, dirty people scrabbling around in piss and shit in their filthy hovels and dank castles. It taught me everything I know about England. 5/5

"A man in the next town over claimed he'd seen the beast. Turned his teeth snow white overnight!"

Jabberwocky is a goddamn gay icon.

Is it? That's not something that I've heard before.

Fuck, that’s the babadook I’m thinking of.

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shosta

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« Reply #33403 on: March 19, 2019, 01:33:03 AM »
I'd of course very much welcome whatever input you may post here on your discoveries.
I just watched A Wayward Cloud. This is it. This is filmmaking at its finest. There's barely any dialogue in this movie. Just perfectly framed long shots and auteur level direction. It's loneliness distilled. Some of it is downright hilarious. I was deeply impacted by this movie. You need to watch it. Legendary ending, too. People walked out of this film.
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« Reply #33404 on: March 19, 2019, 03:32:03 AM »
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« Reply #33405 on: March 19, 2019, 05:52:34 AM »
That scene is what aged the most in that movie. It's not bad but really it's really of its time. The rest of the film is great, all the ending especially (both in visuals and how the script leads you there), it's definitely one of the most solid entries in that vein of paranoid espionage that was so popular at the time.
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« Reply #33406 on: March 19, 2019, 05:59:22 AM »
Hans Zimmer is Scoring ‘Dune’, Which Has an Official Synopsis and A Possible New Cast Member

https://www.slashfilm.com/dune-score/

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« Reply #33407 on: March 19, 2019, 09:18:01 AM »
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« Reply #33408 on: March 19, 2019, 10:45:30 AM »
Where's the toy diversity? Why they all gotta be white.


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« Reply #33409 on: March 19, 2019, 12:17:44 PM »
I'm still waiting on "Great" Rumbler the stupid fucking mutt to tell me what scenes of New Nightmare are presented as a documentary.

its right there in the trailer:

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« Reply #33410 on: March 19, 2019, 12:51:23 PM »
maybe the meta was just too deep for you to understand
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« Reply #33411 on: March 19, 2019, 02:18:44 PM »
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« Reply #33413 on: March 19, 2019, 02:47:39 PM »
That scene is what aged the most in that movie. It's not bad but really it's really of its time. The rest of the film is great, all the ending especially (both in visuals and how the script leads you there), it's definitely one of the most solid entries in that vein of paranoid espionage that was so popular at the time.
Personally I think that The Conversation, which came out two months after Parallax View, was much better executed, but this was still a great movie.
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« Reply #33414 on: March 19, 2019, 03:10:36 PM »
The Conversation is easily a top 5er for me. Coppola’s best, to me.
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« Reply #33415 on: March 19, 2019, 03:48:14 PM »
It's pretty  good, but it's no Twixt

I heard Val Kilmer was pissed when he arrived on set to discover it wasn’t a Twix-related movie.
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« Reply #33416 on: March 20, 2019, 01:18:42 AM »
The Converstion is easily my fav Coppola film and its not even close.

Not that I dont love any of his other films, but The Conversation is like sooooo good you guys. Its gotta be the best movie ever about an insular main character.

The Parrallax View is pretty good too.

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« Reply #33418 on: March 20, 2019, 05:44:48 AM »
shosta get in here

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« Reply #33419 on: March 20, 2019, 02:44:10 PM »
Damn, that looks amazing. It gives me that same goofy vibes of Pulp Fiction.

Brad Pitt is slowly morphing into Robert Redford.