Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Transhuman]

What's his brother's name then

[Tektonic]

What's his brother's name then

Steve.

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I'm watching Tenet in 3 days. Suck it America

hope you're surrounded by chinamen in the theater

[Transhuman]

Nice try germs

[Don Rumata]

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Nice try germs

I also consider other people in the theater less than vermin. 

[Bebpo]

Finally watched Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth. I've seen his other films, love The Favourite, like The Lobster, didn't care for Killing of a Sacred Deer.

This one was interesting, kinda one note concept, so thankfully it's only a bit over an hour, but good flow with weird uncomfortable and dark humor scenes. It was well done though I admit I was a little bored.

I liked his smaller scale movies, like Dogtooth and Alps.
Some argue something like The Lobster (which i still loved) goes on for too long, especially in the second half, and it's hard to fault that critique.

I realized I never heard of Alps. I thought his career went from Dogtooth -> The Lobster. Will have to check that one out.

[Don Rumata]

Finally watched Yorgos Lanthimos's Dogtooth. I've seen his other films, love The Favourite, like The Lobster, didn't care for Killing of a Sacred Deer.

This one was interesting, kinda one note concept, so thankfully it's only a bit over an hour, but good flow with weird uncomfortable and dark humor scenes. It was well done though I admit I was a little bored.

I liked his smaller scale movies, like Dogtooth and Alps.
Some argue something like The Lobster (which i still loved) goes on for too long, especially in the second half, and it's hard to fault that critique.

I realized I never heard of Alps. I thought his career went from Dogtooth -> The Lobster. Will have to check that one out.

Bit on the weaker side, but i liked the premise.
Other than that, it's his usual movie with surreal premise, deadpan acting, dark humor, sudden violence, awkward sex, all of that.

[Leadbelly]

I have discovered Marvista movies. I have also discovered that the trailers give away the entire plot in 3 minutes. So you can watch 4 Marvista movies in 12 minutes.

[Tektonic]

I have discovered Marvista movies. I have also discovered that the trailers give away the entire plot in 3 minutes. So you can watch 4 Marvista movies in 12 minutes.

I've just watched 3. Is "Sinister Seduction" & "Sleeping With My Student" basically the same movie? Wait, are they all the same movie? Person A meets Person B - who at the end discovers that Person A slept with/car-crashed/bankrupted Person B's mother/father/brother/sister?

I FOUND A DIFFERENT ONE! WITH A VOICEOVER : "Love's Last Resort" the summary says "Featuring Alan Thicke in one of his final roles."
Oh ok, there are the romcom ones and the romthrillers

great stuff

[Bebpo]

Continuing my Shudder run, watched Daniel Isn't Real. I'd heard this was good, and I was at a short film festival last year and one short was starring Adam Egypt Mortimer and in the Q&A after they were talking about how it's crazy he's getting all big because of directing Daniel Isn't Real. Been meaning to watch it.

Was pretty good. Like 9 out of 10 times I watch an indie horror movie I'm disappointed and it's dumb and artsy. This was one of those times where it was a bit artsy but still very satisfying and solid paced. The super low budget shows at a few bits that are a little hokey like effects, but the actors nail it and the soundtrack is pretty good. Solid story too.

I had no idea who the actors were until I was looking at film trivia and found out the lead two actors are Tim Robbin's son and Arnold Schwarzenegger's son. That's pretty funny. They do a good job. And the actresses are both good too with Sasha Lane and Hannah Marks.

It's sorta Clive Barker's horror Fight Club.

[chronovore]

I watched “cube” finally the other day. I feel like everyone in the world who watches horror has seen this movie already. The acting is quite good, and they sure get a lot of mileage out of a single set room. It’s fun to watch character dramas like this.

[Tektonic]

re: cube, don't watch the sequels.

[Great Rumbler]

But do watch this movie from the Cube director:

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1296523931864707077

Batfleck getting a second chance 

[EightBitNate]

https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1296523931864707077

Batfleck getting a second chance 

Boo

Wait Keaton Batman will be back too?

And isn’t Ezra Miller a wack job? This movie is going to be weird awful.

[VomKriege]

Gonna put Monster's Ball on and jerk off

To Billy Bob ?

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[Don Rumata]

Gonna put Monster's Ball on and jerk off

Why would you put the whole movie on, instead of searching the cut out scenes on the internet? 
Is this 1995?

[Madrun Badrun]

He going to jack it to a VHS, which is very uncomely in 2020. 

[Nintex]

Simping for Cuties

Simping for Halle Berry

[EchoRin]

Gonna put Monster's Ball on and jerk off

To Billy Bob ?

To Heath. Sexy as hell in that flick.

[team filler]

Why would you put the whole movie on, instead of searching the cut out scenes on the internet? 
Is this 1995?

Because it's a good movie? Duh

[Sman]

So... I finally sat through Under The Skin.

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[team filler]

were you not jerking teh cock throughout the entire movie 

[Sman]

Not a sexy movie. No matter who's the lead. 

Still thought about the abandoned baby at the beach. 

[Don Rumata]

Glazer is king.

Also jerk your cock to Ray Winstone's balls freeze-frame in Sexy Beast. 

[Bebpo]

One Cut of the Dead - yeahhhhh, no. I had to FF through most of this. The concept was cute but the execution was just a 30 min terrible movie and then a movie I wasn't interested in watching.

Mayhem - Entertaining, but that's about it. After seeing Yeun really act in Burning, he's kinda just ok here and Samara Weaving has done much better stuff as well. It's surprisingly tame for the concept, but fine.

[Tektonic]

every movie from the 00s has a shitty rock score

Freddy vs Jason is the apex of everything awful about the early-mid 00s


Track listing
No.   Title   Artist   Length
1.   "How Can I Live"   Ill Niño   3:18
2.   "When Darkness Falls"   Killswitch Engage   4:02
3.   "Beginning of the End"   Spineshank   3:32
4.   "Sun Doesn't Rise"   Mushroomhead   3:13
5.   "Condemned Until Rebirth"   Hatebreed   2:07
6.   "Snap"   Slipknot   2:42
7.   "Army of Me"   Chimaira   4:21
8.   "The After Dinner Payback"   From Autumn to Ashes   2:50
9.   "Leech"   Sevendust   4:30
10.   "Bombshell"   Powerman 5000   3:14
11.   "Welcome to the Strange"   Murderdolls   4:19
12.   "Out of My Way"   Seether   3:51
13.   "Inside the Cynic"   Stone Sour   3:23
14.   "Swinging the Dead"   DevilDriver   3:38
15.   "The Waste"   Sepultura featuring Mike Patton   3:39
16.   "Middle of Nowhere"   The Blank Theory   4:05
17.   "Ether"   Nothingface   3:43
18.   "Trigger"   In Flames   4:56
19.   "11th Hour"   Lamb of God   3:44
20.   "(We Were) Electrocute"   Type O Negative   6:49
Total length:   77:59


The bootleg Jack Black and Silent Jay. Jason Ritter. Kelly Rowland. Hard fakkit dropped. Terrible CGI.

I think Daredevil has a pretty comparably bad soundtrack... but it has Jennifer Garner in it.

[Transhuman]

If you could know your own future, even if it couldn't change it, would you?

It's your choice.

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You're not going to like Tenet

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[Tektonic]

If you could know your own future, even if it couldn't change it, would you?

It's your choice.

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You're not going to like Tenet

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tenet = nolan trying to pull the same tricks again? fwiw i didn't like dkr, interstellar. thought inception was ok, then i saw it a 2nd time and thought it was average. haven't seen dunkirk, should i see tenet (eventually)?

[Transhuman]

I liked Dunkirk, I thought Inception was okay for a popcorner, I loved The Prestige, Interstellar was pretty bland, Tenet is bad. Just way too garbled. Hard to feel emotionally engaged in it at all.

[EchoRin]

You see it on a big screen Transhuman? IMAX or no.

[Transhuman]

Reg screen

[EchoRin]

Bummer if it's not too hot. I really liked Dunkirk and though I didn't see it in IMAX it was still a very big screen which was great for that movie. I was hoping Tenet would be decent enough to go see in a theater cuase I'm not really interested in seeing it at home.

[Leadbelly]

I have discovered Marvista movies. I have also discovered that the trailers give away the entire plot in 3 minutes. So you can watch 4 Marvista movies in 12 minutes.

I've just watched 3. Is "Sinister Seduction" & "Sleeping With My Student" basically the same movie? Wait, are they all the same movie? Person A meets Person B - who at the end discovers that Person A slept with/car-crashed/bankrupted Person B's mother/father/brother/sister?

I FOUND A DIFFERENT ONE! WITH A VOICEOVER : "Love's Last Resort" the summary says "Featuring Alan Thicke in one of his final roles."
Oh ok, there are the romcom ones and the romthrillers

great stuff

Well, it's kind of the same plot, yeah (lol). And, yeah, it seems like they do an awful lot of romantic thrillers, but do some other genres as well on occasions.

Like this one seems like an attempt at a family adventure movie.

[Joe Molotov]

There once was a ghost from Nantucket, who had an ectoplasm so long...

[nudemacusers]

re: cube, don't watch the sequels.

they are so awful, not even enjoyable as genre trash flicks. just bad movies.

[Nintex]

Watched Mad Max: Fury Road

It has been a while since I had last seen it so I had forgotten how good it was. The visuals, the setting, the pacing, the casting. Basically everything fits together extremely well.
Even though the story is rather dark and the action gruesome at times this is such a fun film to watch.

[Great Rumbler]

The Batman trailer is also floating around out there, but hasn't been officially released yet.

[Bebpo]

Satanic Panic - Was campy good. Sorta like a not quite-as-good-Ready or Not with campy gore of not-quite-as-good-Evil Dead.

[benjipwns]

ONLY IN THEATERS

[Don Rumata]

Looks alright, like a Grunge version of Nolan's interpretation.
It's really hard to get anything new out of this character though.

That Catwoman "mask" though... 

[Tektonic]

Suicide Squad : "it's like no other superhero movie", "it's a 70's".. blah blah. Wasn't Gunn cancelled already and now redeemed?
looks better than original suicide squad, but that aint hard. pass
Black Adam, seriously a bad animatic? reserve judgement until real trailer.
WW84 - that Cheetah cgi costume, ouch. wait for streaming
The Batman, guess DCs new plan is 70's aesthetic... Batmans beatdown of the white faced thug is giving me nolan thrown punch flashbacks. but looks like it will be good, and Pattinson is always watchable.

when are we going to lose the 10 second pre-trailer trailer, or do we move to that only, which i blame on tiktok 

[Nintex]

ONLY IN THEATERS

The previous trailer with the New Order song had me more excited.
It seemed somehow more interesting than the usual super hero movie.
Did they change direction?

[benjipwns]

No, the movie has been done since the Fall of 2019. That's just the power of editing.

[Madrun Badrun]

Everything looks a lot better than DC 5 years ago so that's good. 

[Nintex]

Everything looks a lot better than DC 5 years ago so that's good.

It figures, DC and other comic book creators deliver their best work with a Republican in office who inspires them with existential dread.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I think I might be in love with ryan gosling.

[Sman]

Saw Drag Me To Hell yesterday.

Much more straight forward. Short. Plot and motivations of the lead established within 15 minutes. I appreciate those qualities.

Technically horror, but more campy/funny. I lol'ed multiple times.

Reviews overhyped this though and I was guessing the twist towards the end. The movie is only barely 11 years old but it felt older to me.

Good for a single watch, but ultimately forgettable.

[Don Rumata]

The Batman looks dope! Might be the closest we get to the the OG 89 movie.

I didnt see any humor at all in the trailer.
Seemed closer to Nolan's.

[team filler]

I like what their doing as far as setting it up where the low level criminals become terrified of the batman. think they'll go from "who the fuck is this bish" and fighting him, to just running away when he shows up by the end. batman should be terrifying to them like a horror villain, or a billionaire 

[team filler]

or maybe that's just what I would want out of a batman movie 

[EchoRin]

I'm all for the general vibe of The Batman.

The trailer left me hopeful enough. I like this kind of direction. Not fully sold yet, but it's still the most anticipated comic book movie for me that is not released yet.

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I'm looking forward to the new Wonder Woman too as I did enjoy the first film.

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[Tektonic]

secretly hoping The Batman fails, and we end up getting a reboot/rehash of this:

[Joe Molotov]

Batman 66 is unironically a great comedy.

[paprikastaude]

secretly hoping The Batman fails, and we end up getting a reboot/rehash of this:

Youtube allows the ending of Dark Knight Rises to be uploaded like that?

[EchoRin]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Great. This was great. Went in completely blind. I only knew the main poster image and that was it. So the main premise was a complete shock to me.

I liked how the movie timeline is not linear as we experience it. I like the main two characters (I’m a little less into Kirsten and Mark’s characters as they were kind of annoying to me, but in a way they sort of were meant to be.) Jim Carrey not being a goof is nice to see. I like the more human side of him and he has a few scenes where he gets to pull out  a little of his wacky side (it’s subtle though). Kate Winslet slides in really well with this eccentric character that she plays. The dynamic between her and Jim’s characters seems very fitting. With Jim being much more careful in both his actions and words while Kate’s character is more brash and unrestrained. It’s a bit of a ying and yang situation.

The things that happen in Jim’s character’s mind during the session he is going through is fantastic. Both what we see unraveling in terms of the relationship and also the camera and set design transitions. Super cool. Loved that.

The movie glides effortlessly and its 1:50 or so running time goes by quite briskly. Several twists that caught me off guard as well. This was great. I’m really happy I got to experience this movie without having the slightest clue what it was about.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Eternal Spotless, Man on the Moon, and Truman Show are some of the greatest movies.

No one but Carey could have pulled them off.

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sandler>carey

[Bebpo]

Eh, both are great in more serious roles. Seems to be the case with comedians a lot of the time.