Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[BlueTsunami]

Oooo boy. Still processing, but Dr. Sleep pressed all the wrong buttons. Pretty sure it’s objectively worse than the Shining TV miniseries.  At best, nobody will remember this in two months. Critics really missed the mark on this one, similar to Death Stranding. Why are critics wrong so often lately? Aren’t most critics liberal? Makes you wonder—if you can’t trust their reviews, can you really consider their political positions valid? Huh? HUH

Still, it’s not all bad. Here are my bullet points:

* First half hour was a little sloppy, but it seemed promising. It had potential; I was a little hyped, actually.
* The doubles they used for Danny and Shelley Duvall were abysmal. They looked terrible (a double is no longer good enough in the year of de-aging, but even by the standards of using doubles, these were really poor matches). More importantly, they acted -nothing- like Danny and Shelley in The Shining. These are two very famous performances, and neither are that complex. Just bad, bad, bad. If they couldn’t have done these scenes right, they shouldn’t have done them at all...
* ...but then there wouldn’t be much connecting this to the Shining. This movie is really its own thing. If you walk in thinking this isn’t a sequel to the Shining, you may like it. But it will remind you it’s a sequel to the Shining frequently, even though the plot is disconnected.
* The new little girl is a bad actor and has no personality. She delivers all of her lines like they’re the moral of an after-school special. She is not charming or likable or dislikable or anything. She’s just there—and since she’s a lead that’s a big problem. Can’t feel or care about a block of wood.
* Rose and Crow were pretty cool. I could’ve used more of them and the baddies in general. Their introduction was handled really shittily, but they end up being the fun part of the movie.
* This fucker feels long. It’s very slow paced. The plot is very simple, but it wasn’t planned out in advance and it meanders and meanders. It’s a simple plot but it would take me three fucking paragraphs to describe it because either King or the script writer thought they were brilliant and dumped all over the fucking place.
* Terrible, generic movie soundtrack, ca 2019. Not good for a genre flick. Not at all acceptable for a sequel to a fuckin’ Kubrick flick. They use a few Wendy Carlos music cues from the original and a -horrendous- orchestrated version of her Shining theme. No exaggeration: they put no effort in here.
* I did enjoy the ending, but let’s not pretend fanservice is difficult to pull off. No ideas were required to put this ending together.

The movie (probably wisely) doesn’t ape Kubrick’s visual stylings at all, outside of a recreation of the Big Wheel steadicam shot and a few other shots. The stuff in the Overlook is most often in Flanagan’s own style.

Just a failure from nearly every angle. Director’s first big misfire, too. This is King in fantasy mode, where he typically produces lesser works (The Stand, Dark Tower), so it’s not really a shock, although reviews swerved me by making me think this might be good. It kinda feels like King stapled an okay beginning to a Shining sequel onto a bunch of random ideas that had been sitting in his desk for decades. It bad.

I think the most frustrating thing about it is the flashes of brilliance for me. I adore the surreal aspects but it just seemed weighed down throughout. I also really dislike the almost clinically diffused lighting style this director seems to favor.

[TVC15]

Oooo boy. Still processing, but Dr. Sleep pressed all the wrong buttons. Pretty sure it’s objectively worse than the Shining TV miniseries.  At best, nobody will remember this in two months. Critics really missed the mark on this one, similar to Death Stranding. Why are critics wrong so often lately? Aren’t most critics liberal? Makes you wonder—if you can’t trust their reviews, can you really consider their political positions valid? Huh? HUH

Still, it’s not all bad. Here are my bullet points:

* First half hour was a little sloppy, but it seemed promising. It had potential; I was a little hyped, actually.
* The doubles they used for Danny and Shelley Duvall were abysmal. They looked terrible (a double is no longer good enough in the year of de-aging, but even by the standards of using doubles, these were really poor matches). More importantly, they acted -nothing- like Danny and Shelley in The Shining. These are two very famous performances, and neither are that complex. Just bad, bad, bad. If they couldn’t have done these scenes right, they shouldn’t have done them at all...
* ...but then there wouldn’t be much connecting this to the Shining. This movie is really its own thing. If you walk in thinking this isn’t a sequel to the Shining, you may like it. But it will remind you it’s a sequel to the Shining frequently, even though the plot is disconnected.
* The new little girl is a bad actor and has no personality. She delivers all of her lines like they’re the moral of an after-school special. She is not charming or likable or dislikable or anything. She’s just there—and since she’s a lead that’s a big problem. Can’t feel or care about a block of wood.
* Rose and Crow were pretty cool. I could’ve used more of them and the baddies in general. Their introduction was handled really shittily, but they end up being the fun part of the movie.
* This fucker feels long. It’s very slow paced. The plot is very simple, but it wasn’t planned out in advance and it meanders and meanders. It’s a simple plot but it would take me three fucking paragraphs to describe it because either King or the script writer thought they were brilliant and dumped all over the fucking place.
* Terrible, generic movie soundtrack, ca 2019. Not good for a genre flick. Not at all acceptable for a sequel to a fuckin’ Kubrick flick. They use a few Wendy Carlos music cues from the original and a -horrendous- orchestrated version of her Shining theme. No exaggeration: they put no effort in here.
* I did enjoy the ending, but let’s not pretend fanservice is difficult to pull off. No ideas were required to put this ending together.

The movie (probably wisely) doesn’t ape Kubrick’s visual stylings at all, outside of a recreation of the Big Wheel steadicam shot and a few other shots. The stuff in the Overlook is most often in Flanagan’s own style.

Just a failure from nearly every angle. Director’s first big misfire, too. This is King in fantasy mode, where he typically produces lesser works (The Stand, Dark Tower), so it’s not really a shock, although reviews swerved me by making me think this might be good. It kinda feels like King stapled an okay beginning to a Shining sequel onto a bunch of random ideas that had been sitting in his desk for decades. It bad.

Big missed opportunity to not have Ewan give Billy a brojob after getting all emotional at their AA meeting.

Biggest plot hole was no blow job bear. You’re trying to tell me that wasn’t the most haunting, traumatizing shit he saw? He NEVER encountered and boxed blow job bear? Bull-fucking-shit.

I think the most frustrating thing about it is the flashes of brilliance for me. I adore the surreal aspects but it just seemed weighed down throughout. I also really dislike the almost clinically diffused lighting style this director seems to favor.

I agree. I liked the angle with Danny in therapy and him helping people die, but that gets dropped quickly. I thought that could’ve been intriguing.

[Joe Molotov]

Yeah, that part seems like an afterthought in the movie. They had to show him at the hospice for a few minutes so the title would make sense, then they dropped it.

[Stro]

Just the idea of Dr. Sleep sounds like a bad idea.

The book and movie of The Shining are so different, so making a 40 years later sequel to a Kubrick movie without Kubrick, based on the Stephen King sequel that is a sequel to the much different book and not movie....

[VomKriege]

Dolemite is my name : Gonna agree with RLM here, it's entirely predictable (apparently the writers made Edwood and all the other movies in that mold) but it's still a pleasant comedy : it's hard to go wrong with such a colourful and cult story and a great casting giving it all its heart.

[Great Rumbler]

At least Sonic doesn't look like some freakish gnome anymore, but the movie itself still looks garbage.

[ToxicAdam]

It's really getting hard to tell if these early "bad CGI" trailers are a studio gimmick or are just the logical chain events when making a film.

They get all the internet buzz for the bad trailer, then the dummies think the movie is worth watching because it's improved in later versions. I shouldn't shit on Sonic fans .. they've been beaten down for so long they deserve something decent for once.

[Tasty]

He looks better but literally every line is him being annoying then going "Haha isn't it funny how annoying I am!"

I guess that's true to form tho.

[Don Rumata]

Yeah i mean, that is Sonic.
Sonic is shit that should've never survived the 90's.

[Stro]

It's really getting hard to tell if these early "bad CGI" trailers are a studio gimmick or are just the logical chain events when making a film.

They get all the internet buzz for the bad trailer, then the dummies think the movie is worth watching because it's improved in later versions. I shouldn't shit on Sonic fans .. they've been beaten down for so long they deserve something decent for once.

Making your product intentionally look like garbage and make a terrible first impression so you can clean it up later and get praised

[Don Rumata]

Why does anyone give a fucking fuck?

Sonic is the biggest Sex Symbol of the 2000s, nailing his looks (and bed-eyes) is PARAMOUNT.

[Nintex]

What does Martin Scorsese think about Sonic the Movie?

[Leadbelly]

Why are they even making the movie to begin with? I just feel like it is going to be a flop. No one gives a shit about Sonic anymore it is not the 90s.

[Leadbelly]

Budget: 90 million USD

Good luck with that. lol

Edit: And that was before the changes so it is going to cost more.

[BlueTsunami]

Ford v. Ferrari comes out this week. Can't wait to watch a coupla guys bein dudes

[Boredfrom]

The sonic film is probably going to be crap but:

https://twitter.com/tyson_hesse/status/1194331183351357440?s=20

That is actually nice to hear.

[Joe Molotov]

The sonic film is probably going to be crap but:

https://twitter.com/tyson_hesse/status/1194331183351357440?s=20

That is actually nice to hear.

fur artists

Is that what they call them now?

[shosta]

[Potato]

Sonic sucks, I have low expectations, my kids will enjoy it when it comes out on Netflix/whatever, i'll watch while playing around on my phone.

[EightBitNate]

The Farewell was fantastic. Even though I’m not Chinese, there were messages I could really relate to. Americans like to poke holes in foreign traditions, but this movie really highlights why things aren’t so simple for immigrants/the children of immigrants in America. Plus it’s beautifully shot and will make you cry. 5 out of 5 stars.

[EchoRin]

Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away. This year to save me from...

A schlocky, saccharine romantic movie with some laughs in it. I seem to always go for these types of movies once a year cause I am sort of a romantic dweeb. You want great plot? You came to the wrong movie mofo.

Funny how the main plot twist is essentially the same thing as Angel Beats. Is Angel Beats much better than Last Christmas? Well, yeah. Of course. But does it have a bunch of George Michael songs? Checkmate.

I don't really see the point in rating this movie. If anything though, I will say the casting was good. Eh, the whole immigrant angle is kinda neato too, as I can relate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: There is this annoying clown in the movie for like 3 scenes. When I first saw him I said sort of audibly "I'm the Joker. baby." and nobody reacted. Of course, this movie wouldn't have any incels in the audience.

[Transhuman]

Any bangin'?

[EchoRin]

Any bangin'?

 
I'm afraid not. Though the Dragon Queen does fuck. No dick or titty though.

[Tasty]

Edit: There is this annoying clown in the movie for like 3 scenes. When I first saw him I said sort of audibly "I'm the Joker. baby." and nobody reacted. Of course, this movie wouldn't have any incels in the audience.

The idea of incels filling a theater for a romantic comedy just to sit there and angrily stew at the people on-screen getting some is hilarious, thanks for that image Echo.

[toku]

The Place Beyond the Pines



/ 5

Bore Hall of Famer Phoenix Dark's favorite movie.

[EchoRin]

Terminator: Dark Fate. Didn't intend to see this. Roommate wanted to go see a movie. Some plot aspects were meh and it's funny how this movie seems to scrap everything after T2. Action was good though. I was wondering how the main Termigirl would be and she does well with the tag team of Sarah Conner. Termigirl has a real sense of strength about her and it looks right when she's physically annihilating enemies and the evil terminator. Arnold is back (oh yeah I groaned at the "I'll be back" comment made by Sarah early in the movie) and there is something adorkable about him this time. Lots of screen time too. From the trailers I was suspicious if this would be only some cameo.

Non essential viewing, not half bad of an action movie. No more Arnold though, please.

[TVC15]

What’s the Place Beyond the Pines? Is that a thing I will love or hate or get bored from?

[EchoRin]

What’s the Place Beyond the Pines? Is that a thing I will love or hate or get bored from?

you might love the first half. You might get bored of the second. Not that I'm all that clear on on you TVC. Just how I think it might go with you.

[Bebpo]

With Disney+ rewatched the original 1979 Muppets Movie. That was like one of my favorites as a kid growing up. Still a good movie. Lots of jokes still hold up and all those cameos. I think I'm gonna re-watch all the Muppet movies. The Rainbow Connection is still a great song.

Also watched:

Shaft 2019 - Did not expect much because even though the trailers looked good, the reviews killed this on release. Well it turns out that it's actually pretty fucking funny like the trailers made it seem. It's pretty similar to 2019's Captain Marvel in that it's a Sam Jackson action buddy comedy and Sam Jackson was a lot funnier here. Richard Roundtree was great too. It's a by the books movie, but the jokes are funny and it's a fun watch.

Haunt - Ugh, this movie sucked. The directing tension and pace and gore kills were cool, but the script sucks so much and is so dumb and there's like so many bad guys you can't even keep track of them and it doesn't know what it's doing in the back half. Bad movie.

Velvet Buzzsaw - It's not a bad movie, and it's got its funny parody of the art world and tortured artists, but as a horror ghost film, it's written like a PG ghost flick by someone with only a cursory interest/knowledge of horror and so it's really cheesy and silly and overall feels empty and pointless waste of everyone involved. I think if they ditched the ghost story and it was more grounded it would've been much better. Why can this game do the amazing and horrific Nightcrawler but then he misses and misses with Roman J. Israel and Velvet Buzzsaw??  Make something more like Nightcrawler quality plz. This is like if David Lynch did Seven and then started making modern Tim Burton movies.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Ok guys, dumb question.
But there was a movie released a few months ago where a woman marries into a wealthy family and they all then try to kill her all night. I got some "Clue" vibes from the trailer. Wanna watch it, but I totally forgot the name. Any help?

[team filler]

comedy?

[I'm a Puppy!]

comedy?

Seemed like a dark comedy.

[Joe Molotov]

"Ready or Not" is the movie you're thinking of.

[I'm a Puppy!]

"Ready or Not" is the movie you're thinking of.

Oh!That's it!

Any consensus? Worth tracking it down?

[Joe Molotov]

"Ready or Not" is the movie you're thinking of.

Oh!That's it!

Any consensus? Worth tracking it down?

I've heard it's good, but I missed it in theaters and it's not on DVD/VOD yet. Probably on fillerbay, tho.

[EchoRin]

Ready or Not was good. I wouldn't buy it, but worth a watch.

[shosta]

What’s the Place Beyond the Pines? Is that a thing I will love or hate or get bored from?

You'd hate it. Nothing grizzly, campy, etc. Too serious.

[Momo]

Parasite is the best movie I've seen this year. A+

[team filler]

[EchoRin]

The last scene in Ready or Not is dope as hell. If you skip the movie you should still look at that once people upload clips to Youtube or the movie is streaming.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I always enjoy any movie where

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people explode

[close]

[benjipwns]

[shosta]

IS THAT MY DAUGHTER IN THERE
YOU MOTHERFUCKERS
 IS THAT. MY. DAUGHTER. IN THERE?
IS SHE IN THERE??
AAAAAAAAH! AAAAHGGHHHHHUURURURUHGHHGHG!!!!!!!

[shosta]

I had to shut this movie off an hour in. So boring. Might finish it tomorrow.

[shosta]

[sean penn, bent over a table and forcibly fucked in the ass]
IS THAT YOUR DICK IN THERE?
IS IT IN THERE?
MOTHERFUCKERS.
YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.
IS THAT YOUR DICK? IN THERE? AAAAAH!

[Joe Molotov]

Don't say a mother word to me!

[Spieler1]

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[close]

[Leadbelly]

[sean penn, bent over a table and forcibly fucked in the ass]
IS THAT YOUR DICK IN THERE?
IS IT IN THERE?
MOTHERFUCKERS.
YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.
IS THAT YOUR DICK? IN THERE? AAAAAH!

Is that your dick in there?
I can't tell.
Is it a micropenis?
You motherfucker.
Nearly didn't realise it is so small.

Now it makes a bit more sense.

[Transhuman]

Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away. This year to save me from...

A schlocky, saccharine romantic movie with some laughs in it. I seem to always go for these types of movies once a year cause I am sort of a romantic dweeb. You want great plot? You came to the wrong movie mofo.

Funny how the main plot twist is essentially the same thing as Angel Beats. Is Angel Beats much better than Last Christmas? Well, yeah. Of course. But does it have a bunch of George Michael songs? Checkmate.

I don't really see the point in rating this movie. If anything though, I will say the casting was good. Eh, the whole immigrant angle is kinda neato too, as I can relate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: There is this annoying clown in the movie for like 3 scenes. When I first saw him I said sort of audibly "I'm the Joker. baby." and nobody reacted. Of course, this movie wouldn't have any incels in the audience.

https://amp.nine.com.au/article/2274a19a-d1a5-46eb-859b-f7e0bc674af0

That headline....

Remember, this is the guy that made 2016 Ghostbusters...

[TVC15]

Paul Feig generally makes entertaining stuff. Ghostbusters was just a misfire. If I see his name on a movie, I consider seeing it.

[Transhuman]

Oof.

Freaks and Geeks was a one-off

[Stro]

The Heat and Bridesmaids were also terrible though

[TVC15]

Oof.

Freaks and Geeks was a one-off

No it wasn't

[Madrun Badrun]

Right, wasn't even a one-off.

[Transhuman]

Oof.

Freaks and Geeks was a one-off

No it wasn't

[TVC15]

Oof.

Freaks and Geeks was a one-off

No it wasn't

 

[BlueTsunami]

Feels like Paul Feig is the type to melt into sentimental corny sop as he ages. Ghostbusters should have burned him but that new Christmas flick he made looks gag inducing. All downhill from Freak and Geeks.

Which is strange cause I'm a pussy ass mofucka..I'm just not into his modern sense of sentimentality.

[TVC15]

I will fuck you like a bitch for slandering anything even vaguely George Michael related

[BlueTsunami]

I will fuck you like a bitch for slandering anything even vaguely George Michael related

I cry to 'Jesus to a Child' every drunk formed weekend. FIGHT ME

[TVC15]

You sold out bad