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« Reply #37020 on: July 12, 2020, 10:14:57 PM »
Highlander reboot looks dope:


Watched this today while grinding out quest mode in virtua fighter 5, i really enjoyed it.  Great popcorn flick, action was fun, story was good.

Me, too! It was the first legitimately good Netflix-made action film. The others I've seen have all been pretty poor, but I actually hope they do a sequel to this.

Did you watch extraction with Chris hemsworth?  I thought the action in that was pretty good too, but this was better for sure.

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They left it pretty open to a sequel I think so let’s hope!
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« Reply #37021 on: July 13, 2020, 04:33:04 PM »
Watched The Old Guard, thought it was incredibly bad.

Really unexciting and slow ass action scenes outside of the first one.

The new immortal was an awful stereotypical character and the actress was amazingly awful. Yeah her material was bad, but everyone out acted her easily. It was painful to watch Chiwetel Ejiofor  out act this chick.  And honestly her character really highlights how poor the script was. They took the low hanging fruit of having a pov character, but did'nt really want to focus on her. A braver script would have axxed this character and just focused on Charlize. There were some nice human moments such as the French guy explaining why he dosen't have a family and the gay imortals explaining thier love to the shitty uncomfortable soldiers( which ended in a dumb joke). But outside of that it was a real poorly written movie.

Also the directing and music choice felt very ammeter. Bad movie.

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« Reply #37022 on: July 14, 2020, 02:44:42 AM »
Did you watch extraction with Chris hemsworth?  I thought the action in that was pretty good too, but this was better for sure.

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They left it pretty open to a sequel I think so let’s hope!
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Nope, not yet! I'll give it a shot with low-expectations in place!

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« Reply #37023 on: July 14, 2020, 04:02:43 AM »
I’m easily amused, but I thought extraction was a perfectly serviceable popcorn flick.

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« Reply #37024 on: July 14, 2020, 04:25:43 AM »
Watched The Old Guard, thought it was incredibly bad.

Really unexciting and slow ass action scenes outside of the first one.

The new immortal was an awful stereotypical character and the actress was amazingly awful. Yeah her material was bad, but everyone out acted her easily. It was painful to watch Chiwetel Ejiofor  out act this chick.  And honestly her character really highlights how poor the script was. They took the low hanging fruit of having a pov character, but did'nt really want to focus on her. A braver script would have axxed this character and just focused on Charlize. There were some nice human moments such as the French guy explaining why he dosen't have a family and the gay imortals explaining thier love to the shitty uncomfortable soldiers( which ended in a dumb joke). But outside of that it was a real poorly written movie.

Also the directing and music choice felt very ammeter. Bad movie.

Chiwetel Ejiofor is a great actor.

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« Reply #37025 on: July 14, 2020, 05:26:55 AM »
Oh he’s fantastic. Wish he was in more stuff.


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« Reply #37026 on: July 14, 2020, 07:33:02 AM »
I’m easily amused, but I thought extraction was a perfectly serviceable popcorn flick.

Hemsworth :whew

It's like watching a caricature of masculinity at this point. Extractions aiight. Netflix most popular movie, covid etc. It's a fine action movie. What you really need to watch though is Blackhat. Gripping, hilarious, Hemsworth at his best imo. One of my favs. So close to being bad, but instead skirts the line perfectly and becomes an almost flawless comedy thriller.
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« Reply #37027 on: July 14, 2020, 10:12:07 AM »
The Old Guard was such a mixed bag. It was a decent enough action movie but my god was the script ever bad. And the music was just terrible.
The trailer looks...  :kobeyuck

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« Reply #37028 on: July 18, 2020, 02:41:25 AM »
Palm Springs... solid timeloop romcom

How did you watch it?

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« Reply #37029 on: July 18, 2020, 08:08:50 PM »
I mildly, mildly liked Palm Springs. I'd actually never seen an Andy Samberg movie before though I know who he is and The Lonely Island.

I'm all for time loop films, even more for comedy takes on them. I thought the middle of this was a lot of fun, but I felt the end kind of fizzled out and I don't like the science in the ending.

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I know this is all fantasy sci-fi anyhow, but the idea that the only way to break/escape a timeloop is to kill yourself before you can enter the next loop, ok that's fine but you'd be DEAD. Breaking the loop by dying and then you start over in a not-loop beginning just doesn't make any possible sense to me at all and it kinda ruined the ending for me.
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« Reply #37030 on: July 19, 2020, 03:20:36 AM »
Hot Rod is the only good Samberg film

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« Reply #37031 on: July 19, 2020, 08:32:56 PM »
Damn that's on my shortlist too. Glad to hear it's good.

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« Reply #37032 on: July 19, 2020, 08:34:41 PM »
How have you not seen Lawrence of Arabia?

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« Reply #37033 on: July 19, 2020, 08:36:45 PM »


Can't wait to see this once it hits some normal streaming service.

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« Reply #37034 on: July 19, 2020, 09:45:02 PM »
We should be happy that Shasta is old enough for his favorite movie to no longer be Rugrats in Paris

Still a classic tho.



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« Reply #37035 on: July 19, 2020, 09:51:38 PM »
Too old to have watched that movie. Just the right age to have watched the first one.

This bit:



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« Reply #37037 on: July 20, 2020, 03:16:27 PM »
 Many months ago, I thought it would be one of the first movies I'd be watching in theaters. :fbm


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« Reply #37038 on: July 20, 2020, 03:40:50 PM »
VOD plz :mouf
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« Reply #37039 on: July 20, 2020, 07:21:15 PM »
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« Reply #37040 on: July 20, 2020, 07:26:57 PM »
What kind of dumb fucking pretentious remark is that?

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« Reply #37042 on: July 20, 2020, 08:18:25 PM »
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« Reply #37043 on: July 21, 2020, 03:31:14 AM »
vivarium is awful  :lol stupid ass kid reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeing for cereal  :doge seems like it coulda been a decent outer limits ep, but needed a better director  :yeshrug
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« Reply #37044 on: July 23, 2020, 06:31:39 PM »
https://twitter.com/TheWrap/status/1286406365968130048

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« Reply #37045 on: July 24, 2020, 12:12:46 PM »
Now watching Earthlings on the recommendation of the Ukrainian president
Alright... no more meat for me :mjcry
The trailer looks like a parody movie.  :lol

Nature: *image of pretty mountain*
Animals: *image of penguin*
Humankind: *image of Adolf Hitler and the KKK*

BTW there aren't three life forces, there's one, and it's all nature.  ::)

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« Reply #37046 on: July 24, 2020, 03:46:12 PM »
What kind of dumb fucking pretentious remark is that?

He's a movie guy and Arabia is one of the most highly regarded films.  It is surprising that he hasn't seen it. 


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« Reply #37048 on: July 26, 2020, 12:20:00 AM »
Logan is the best xmen movie right?

mccavoy can turn me out anytime in a library like in atonement, but none of the films match logan.

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« Reply #37049 on: July 26, 2020, 10:36:43 AM »
https://thedirectorscommentary.tumblr.com

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Where have you been all my life. :heartbeat

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« Reply #37050 on: July 29, 2020, 01:48:14 AM »
Watched Child's Play 2019 I had zero expectations, it's actually pretty good. :mindblown

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« Reply #37051 on: July 30, 2020, 06:57:02 PM »
The best theater around here played Empire Strikes Back for its 40th anniversary.

I thought I was over this kiddy shit these days, now even more with those dumb culture wars mixed in. But man, V is still so good on the big screen. So many goosebump moments :tocry Fucking John Williams. Those visuals.

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« Reply #37052 on: August 02, 2020, 03:24:57 AM »
I think I'm done with art house horror films, which in turn probably means just being done with horror films in general outside the occasional one that turns out good or decent like Childs Play and Halloween, in general most studio horror is crap and not worth the time.

And most indie horror is not really even horror anymore. Or just dumb and since they all have zero budget they're really small stories that are slow burns short story equivalents are 90 mins.

Watched Relic which has great RT and everyone loves. Had a few creepy bits, but overall was boring for the first half and then the second half gets interesting and then
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has a dumb ending because psyche! this isn't a horror film after all, it's all just a big metaphor for losing a parent to dementia. Like that is a horrible thing in itself and I feel for people like the director that go through that experience.

But everyone's selling this as a horror film and 3/4ths of the film sells it as a horror film, so then turning around and being "it's not a horror film, it's a drama" and not really give any sort of ending to the horror film side of it, just rubs me wrong.
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Call me simple but in a world where there's hardly any good old-school simple horror anymore, I'd rather just have a good movie about a monster, ghost, curse, killer, vampire, etc... than a deep arthouse metaphor.

Since I didn't like Midsommer, I feel like the last indie horror film that actually paid off was Hereditary. The Lighthouse was solid, but that was more a dark comedy.

And you can do indie and arthouse and still just do regular satisfying horror. It's not impossible. My favorite indie horror film The House of the Devil isn't a slow burn that's actually a metaphor for dealing with an abusive SO with a cocaine addiction, it's a movie about demonic scary shit.

And also just kind of a remake of
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Rosemary's Baby, but still.
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Anyhow, I watch like one or two movies a month these days because playing games instead, so I get annoyed when I spend two hours on something I don't like. /rant over

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« Reply #37053 on: August 02, 2020, 03:32:32 AM »
Like the other horror movie I watched this month after a few people recommended it was CAM which...wasn't terrible, but probably wasn't worth the 90 mins either. Again, it wasn't scary because the actually twist thing was

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Basically what seemed like an identity stealing deepfakes AI that steals Cam girls accounts and acts as them?

Which I mean is a bit original so I'm not gonna say it's a bad movie, but the problem with that is it's not really scary because outside of the mental impact, the AI can't really physically harm anyone (and doesn't seem like it has any intention to do so) so it's not really scary at all.

It's almost more a sci-fi short story than a horror one.
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« Reply #37054 on: August 02, 2020, 03:46:27 AM »
Leave it to a man to say something so ignorant

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« Reply #37055 on: August 02, 2020, 08:05:14 AM »
Arrival (The Villeneuve one) : Eeeeeh. I didn't entirely click with the core idea. I thought it worked well emotionally but the manner they solved the plot with it was really rushed and hamfisted. Otherwise it's all very well done, tasteful and subdued.

Baby Driver : Pretty cool but I thought the gimmick was a bit overdone after a while. Like syncing gunshots to the music felt really artificial and unnecessary. It's a very superficial and shallow thing to nitpick, of course the musicality of the whole thing is also incorporated in the editing & camera work and I don't really have anything to say about that. Liked it overall. Some of the emotional string they start pulling in the second half are a bit too facile perhaps.

Horse Girl : The RLM boys mentioned it and I was intrigued. Thought it was good. Refreshing, surprising, good writing (a lot of small touches are dead ends but I think it's a more interesting portrayal of the protagonist than wrapping all up neatly), thought the visuals were really nice.
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« Reply #37056 on: August 02, 2020, 08:19:55 AM »
Watched The Hunt for Red October with two friends who hadn't seen it.
It has aged like fine wine but the slow pacing is perhaps not everyone. 
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This shot


This soundtrack


Sean Connery dominating every scene


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In this alternative universe he violently kills a little known KGB officer Putin
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« Reply #37057 on: August 02, 2020, 03:48:40 PM »
Speaking of that director, I watched the movie that sent him to jail (Rollerball) and the movie it was a remake of (er, Rollerball as well). Technically I watched the former again as I saw it during its original theatrical release but I didn't remember very much of it.

Elevator pitches: The original movie is a bad version of This Sporting Life. The remake is a bad version of The Wages of Fear.

tl;dr in the spoiler.

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Rollerball (original): This was much more of a sports ball movie than I was expecting since people constantly lament the absence of its social commentary in the remake. Nothing wrong with that, just found it unintentionally amusing. Anyway, let's move on.

The good: Strong performance from Jimmy Caan. Cinematography that is comfortable with large, empty space. I found its observations that sexism can strongly persist in an arch corporate economy and that knowledge degrades when monopolized by large corporations prescient.

The bad: This movie is an interesting artefact. It's gripped by that very Boomer anxiety of "what if all my material comforts are met, but I'm not free?" which to be blunt falls spectacularly flat during the COVID-19 portion of 2020. It was also made in a time when movies still believed they could be art so it has a soundtrack straight out of that classical music video program PBS shows at ungodly night hours.

The ugly: There's some questionable cultural content in the run-up to the game against Tokyo. (I'm sure you can use your imaginations here.)

The gold: This is a movie about a Houston sports ball team overcoming cheating done by other competing parties to win a championship. Oops.


Rollerball (nü): Remember when Hollywood was so hard up for leading men that Chris Klein had a career? Me neither. Remember when street luge was a cutting edge "extreme' sport? No? Rollerball does!

The good: There's a extended scene in this movie shot entirely in bad night vision that evokes the sterile horror of Operation Desert Storm coverage (while presaging its continuation in the later Afghan and Iraqi wars) that includes multiple Looney Tunes sound effects. This is a movie willing to clobber you over the head with commentary on obscene income inequality while Slipknot literally performs live.

The bad: This is obviously a movie that had a lot of problems in production and it also presaged the contemporary trend of releasing movie that are too long for how little they have to say. (Despite some of the scenes you have to see and meditate on--covered in the gold portion--the structure of the movie feels pretty familiar.) It's also a movie about a sport that has contempt for sports in general so key moments on the field lack the gravitas of Rollerball (old), probably because it uses the NFL as a Rosetta Stone for sports.

The ugly: Besides being the movie that sent a beloved action movie director to jail? This is a movie that says the world is ugly and embraces it in totality. Is that inherently wrong? No, but it comes off quite cloying here.

The gold: Becky Romijn is in this movie with an accent and behavior that leads you to believe she's vaguely Slavic and then you find out during a match that she's just Dutch. This is mirrored by Jean Reno being a Russian oligarch who just talks like Jean Reno. Amazing accent work all around in this movie, up there with 1956's The Conqueror.
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« Reply #37058 on: August 02, 2020, 04:10:39 PM »
Nu Rollerball is really bad, especially for a director so talented as McTiernan (Even stuff like Basic which is arguably mediocre is still engaging IMO). Terrible music by Serra too and very dated all around. His very vocal french fandom tried to pass the wool over it (and the night vision bit was featured prominently) but in retrospect the production woes that spilled into literal prison just suggest it was a bad project that was miserable for everyone. It happens.

Hunt for... is really great and holds well despite the Clancy sourcing and the quirks (Connery's accent, famously).
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« Reply #37059 on: August 02, 2020, 04:15:12 PM »
Saw the Rise of Skywalker yesterday and...

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« Reply #37060 on: August 02, 2020, 04:25:37 PM »
Speaking of that director, I watched the movie that sent him to jail (Rollerball) and the movie it was a remake of (er, Rollerball as well). Technically I watched the former again as I saw it during its original theatrical release but I didn't remember very much of it.

Elevator pitches: The original movie is a bad version of This Sporting Life. The remake is a bad version of The Wages of Fear.

tl;dr in the spoiler.

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Rollerball (original): This was much more of a sports ball movie than I was expecting since people constantly lament the absence of its social commentary in the remake. Nothing wrong with that, just found it unintentionally amusing. Anyway, let's move on.

The good: Strong performance from Jimmy Caan. Cinematography that is comfortable with large, empty space. I found its observations that sexism can strongly persist in an arch corporate economy and that knowledge degrades when monopolized by large corporations prescient.

The bad: This movie is an interesting artefact. It's gripped by that very Boomer anxiety of "what if all my material comforts are met, but I'm not free?" which to be blunt falls spectacularly flat during the COVID-19 portion of 2020. It was also made in a time when movies still believed they could be art so it has a soundtrack straight out of that classical music video program PBS shows at ungodly night hours.

The ugly: There's some questionable cultural content in the run-up to the game against Tokyo. (I'm sure you can use your imaginations here.)

The gold: This is a movie about a Houston sports ball team overcoming cheating done by other competing parties to win a championship. Oops.


Rollerball (nü): Remember when Hollywood was so hard up for leading men that Chris Klein had a career? Me neither. Remember when street luge was a cutting edge "extreme' sport? No? Rollerball does!

The good: There's a extended scene in this movie shot entirely in bad night vision that evokes the sterile horror of Operation Desert Storm coverage (while presaging its continuation in the later Afghan and Iraqi wars) that includes multiple Looney Tunes sound effects. This is a movie willing to clobber you over the head with commentary on obscene income inequality while Slipknot literally performs live.

The bad: This is obviously a movie that had a lot of problems in production and it also presaged the contemporary trend of releasing movie that are too long for how little they have to say. (Despite some of the scenes you have to see and meditate on--covered in the gold portion--the structure of the movie feels pretty familiar.) It's also a movie about a sport that has contempt for sports in general so key moments on the field lack the gravitas of Rollerball (old), probably because it uses the NFL as a Rosetta Stone for sports.

The ugly: Besides being the movie that sent a beloved action movie director to jail? This is a movie that says the world is ugly and embraces it in totality. Is that inherently wrong? No, but it comes off quite cloying here.

The gold: Becky Romijn is in this movie with an accent and behavior that leads you to believe she's vaguely Slavic and then you find out during a match that she's just Dutch. This is mirrored by Jean Reno being a Russian oligarch who just talks like Jean Reno. Amazing accent work all around in this movie, up there with 1956's The Conqueror.
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Wow, I'd never heard of the whole jail thing. Just looked it up and that's crazy he threw away his whole career and life savings because he was paranoid about a studio exec on a...Rollerball remake  :mindblown

He was actually a good director too. Red October, Predator, Die Hard 3, all legit stuff. Shame he blew it.

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« Reply #37061 on: August 02, 2020, 04:56:17 PM »
I think the apologist defence (as I said, very vocal fandom here) was that he got railroaded and singled out in the Pellicano affair, when that private investigator was involved in dozens if not hundreds of similar shady cases involving many Hollywood types of similar or superior stature than McTiernan.

Which is perhaps true but also a bit of a diversion. My impression is that he should have copped out with some of the earlier deals he got instead of fighting to the bitter end. But it's not like I have ever been in that position, I suppose it's hard to just compromise and cut losses when you feel you're being wronged.
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« Reply #37062 on: August 02, 2020, 08:12:14 PM »
The Hunt for Red October is a fun and laid back film to watch, despite the high stakes.
It has the perfect balance of serious military action and dark humor that I love about such films, like the Russian who wants to live in Montana and the bickering generals not unlike Dr. Strangelove.
And finally there's the cheesy out-of-place one-liner from Jack Ryan when he has to take a chopper: "Next time you should write a memo Jack!"
It couldn't be more different from 'modern' Jack Ryan.

And then of course James Earl Jones is also a great actor in nearly all his roles, you don't have to question that he is the Admiral.

I really enjoy these type of films but they're not really being made anymore, at least not in the same way.
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« Reply #37063 on: August 03, 2020, 01:34:01 AM »
Withnail and I - An odd little one. I feel like I need to be in England for 6 months or just be more well versed in British film that is very British. Cause frankly some of the movie didn't register with me all the way and I think it has to be cultural. Oh and the accents weren't the easiest for me to understand at all times especially when some of the conversations get a little more poetic than regular talking. So yeah, cultural barrier.

But it's also got some really fantastic scenes. The stuff with Monty was a treat. A messed up treat, but a treat. The scene when Withnail and the other dude are terrified of what's entering the cottage. So good. The drug dealer's last scene after the 2 main guys return to their flat. That had me rolling.

I didn't really like the movie all that much, but I'm happy to have seen it.

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Guns Akimbo - *breathes in* Not good. Tonality all over the place and just meh. Cool concept though that Harry Potter finds himself in. And the main female lead trying to kill Potter was great. Wouldn't recommend. Unlike the movie I mentioned above, There is no particular scene in this movie where I'd go "eh let's just watch these 5 minutes and then switch it off."
Though the way the movie kills off people is kinda neat. It has you thinking "ah it's gonna go in this direction" and then bam! That person is dead so scrap whatever idea you had.
In short. Pass. Go watch Swiss Army Man instead.

Oh yeah, I hated he music selection for the final showdown. It just came off lame to me and I'm so over that kind of music choice. Part of my criticism of the movie's tone.
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« Reply #37064 on: August 03, 2020, 03:02:29 AM »


Withnail and I - An odd little one. I feel like I need to be in England for 6 months or just be more well versed in British film that is very British. Cause frankly some of the movie didn't register with me all the way and I think it has to be cultural. Oh and the accents weren't the easiest for me to understand at all times especially when some of the conversations get a little more poetic than regular talking. So yeah, cultural barrier.

But it's also got some really fantastic scenes. The stuff with Monty was a treat. A messed up treat, but a treat. The scene when Withnail and the other dude are terrified of what's entering the cottage. So good. The drug dealer's last scene after the 2 main guys return to their flat. That had me rolling.

I didn't really like the movie all that much, but I'm happy to have seen it.

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Guns Akimbo - *breathes in* Not good. Tonality all over the place and just meh. Cool concept though that Harry Potter finds himself in. And the main female lead trying to kill Potter was great. Wouldn't recommend. Unlike the movie I mentioned above, There is no particular scene in this movie where I'd go "eh let's just watch these 5 minutes and then switch it off."
Though the way the movie kills off people is kinda neat. It has you thinking "ah it's gonna go in this direction" and then bam! That person is dead so scrap whatever idea you had.
In short. Pass. Go watch Swiss Army Man instead.

Oh yeah, I hated he music selection for the final showdown. It just came off lame to me and I'm so over that kind of music choice. Part of my criticism of the movie's tone.

Yeah, same opinion on Guns Akimbo. I was so hopeful, but it doesn’t know what it wants to be. It tries to play the “if this was a movie” card, playing at realism, but is a stupid, atonal stab at cartoony presentation. Dumb, overly stylized, loud palette to go with its cheesy violence.

Also agreed: just watch Swiss Army Man again instead.

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« Reply #37065 on: August 03, 2020, 02:07:56 PM »
being horny is the real matrix  :doge
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« Reply #37066 on: August 04, 2020, 11:32:11 PM »
I ended up watching Wild Goose Lake finally, and it was quite beautiful and fun.
Really creative from a visual stand point, and it builds up tension like a motherfucker in some scenes.
I dunno if i liked it more than Black Coal Thin Ice, though.

In the last 5 or 6 months i've basically watched zero movies, so i want to get back into it, no more wasting my time with tv shows! (i'm probably still gonna watch The Boys s2, even though the first one was just alright :fbm).

Even when TV is good (like Sharp Objects or whatever) it's just alright at best, but it's really easy to consume.
I need to restore my fucking attention span with some decent artsy fartsy cinema.  8)

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« Reply #37067 on: August 04, 2020, 11:59:56 PM »
This one was more of a straight up thriller/entertainment, but still quite incredibly crafted.
That dolly shot with the lightnings, as the protagonist walks towards the decapitated guy, is  :lawd


However, now i'll have to watch all of Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks in one sitting, to regain my powers.  :hmph

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« Reply #37068 on: August 05, 2020, 02:54:26 AM »
I ended up watching Wild Goose Lake finally, and it was quite beautiful and fun.
Really creative from a visual stand point, and it builds up tension like a motherfucker in some scenes.
I dunno if i liked it more than Black Coal Thin Ice, though.

In the last 5 or 6 months i've basically watched zero movies, so i want to get back into it, no more wasting my time with tv shows! (i'm probably still gonna watch The Boys s2, even though the first one was just alright :fbm).

Even when TV is good (like Sharp Objects or whatever) it's just alright at best, but it's really easy to consume.
I need to restore my fucking attention span with some decent artsy fartsy cinema.  8)
Yes.

I was not expecting a strong, low-key Chinese neo-noir genre film very similar to Drive/Only God Forgives without the pretension of Refn that's just as graphic/explicit.

It reminded me also of Ash is Purest White but skewing more towards genre/action instead of the profound/philosophical(not a knock.)

Tangentially related:



Some of the interviews were a little dry but I was impressed by how much attention was paid to the craft/presentation for a 10 year old documentary with such a limited audience, especially after being somewhat disappointied by Herzog's latest docu-drama thing, which was fine but visually was so flat.

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Thanks for calling out Tie Xi Qu. It's been on my list for a while but I hadn't realized it was on Youtube and since it was seemingly shot on early digital video there shouldn't be that much of a loss in quality.

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« Reply #37069 on: August 05, 2020, 05:06:42 AM »
Wild Goose Lake is really strong, I'm glad I saw it in theater.
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« Reply #37070 on: August 06, 2020, 08:08:37 PM »
lol

So I decided I was going to pay for Shudder after using it for free a couple of months back. I Saw some decent movies added. I go to pay for membership and I see a 'promo code' box. So I decide to search for promo codes, because you never know, and I notice a 30 day free trial promo code. I enter it in the box and it works. Now I have another 30 day free trial on Shudder.

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« Reply #37071 on: August 07, 2020, 04:57:52 AM »
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« Reply #37072 on: August 07, 2020, 01:28:57 PM »
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Only in cinemas 2021.
Seems quite optimistic  :heyman
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« Reply #37073 on: August 08, 2020, 05:54:00 PM »
deep blue sea 3 is better than deep blue sea 2 but its no deep blue sea.

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« Reply #37074 on: August 08, 2020, 06:01:51 PM »
Also great scene

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« Reply #37075 on: August 08, 2020, 07:18:36 PM »
deep blue sea 3 is better than deep blue sea 2 but its no deep blue sea.
how does it compare to the anaconda sequels?  :thinking
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« Reply #37076 on: August 08, 2020, 08:18:15 PM »
That's really hard to say without knowing where you are on the snake-shark spectrum. 

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« Reply #37077 on: August 08, 2020, 08:28:06 PM »
 :drool
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« Reply #37078 on: August 08, 2020, 08:43:34 PM »
They call me a half-and-half because I'm into gaters.  Crawl is my jam. 


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« Reply #37079 on: August 08, 2020, 08:45:22 PM »
Watching the Predator now.  This movie is straight out of 1993.  I had no expectations coming in and it has far surpassed them.  If this was the first in a franchise, it would be beloved.