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[TVC15]

I love Demoni. And Demoni 2. And The Church, but a little less. Still, another Philip Glass horror score!



Eh mild bummer, that cuts off the ending, which is the best part. But at least I’m not spoiling a good wtf for someone.

[Stro]

DEMONS FUCKING 6

[EchoRin]

Ford vs Ferrari

First half is pretty flat. Some of the 'moments' we should be having a stronger reaction to are kinda "yeah, sure. I see *shrug* "

Second half is pretty good and some the 'moments' stick the landing.

Not really missing out if you skip it. Tasty gear shifting though 

Christian Bale great job.

[Joe Molotov]

Ford v Ferrari seems like the perfect dad movie, which I respect now that all movies are made for children.

[TVC15]

I got speed racer vibes from the racing scenes in the trailer, but no way am I sitting through a two and a half hour long car movie. Unless it’s speed racer.

[EchoRin]

Ford v Ferrari seems like the perfect dad movie, which I respect now that all movies are made for children.

The funny thing is my dad is in town and I took him to see it 

He thought it was fine. Didn't feel too strongly about it.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Went to an advanced showing of knives out

Fucking brilliant! How could the guy who fucked up Star Wars almost as bad as George Lucas come out and write and direct such a good movie?!

Also the best allegory for American immigration I’ve seen

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did he subvert your expectations 

[TVC15]

Also the best allegory for American immigration I’ve seen

Way to kill my hype

[I'm a Puppy!]

Omg I was expecting it to be a shitty movie.  Johnson intentionally bombed the last Jedi to subvert expectations on this movie. He’s been playing the long game! That crazy son of a bitch

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[Tasty]

Some auteurs are much better suited to new IPs than existing ones.

(I still want to see Tarantino's Star Trek, tho!)

[EightBitNate]

Went to an advanced showing of knives out

Fucking brilliant! How could the guy who fucked up Star Wars almost as bad as George Lucas come out and write and direct such a good movie?!

Also the best allegory for American immigration I’ve seen

The Last Jedi was actually good though. I hope Knives Out makes people realize that.

[TEEEPO]

My one month late review of The Lighthouse:

In the credits Robert Eggers--who as best I can tell is that person you went to high school with who moved from "home" when they were a kid and overcompensated by trying too hard to be a superfan of "back home"--gives dap to Sarah Jewett in the credits for teaching him how to write local color dialog like, "If I had a steak . . . I would fuck it!," which would be like me writing a biopic of Jamaal 'abd al-Naaṣr and giving dap to Sayyid Quṭb for giving my characters diglossic accuracy.

i too stick around til the very end, specifically for the special thanks 

[Kara]

I was waiting for the post credits Nick Fury scene, OK.

[TVC15]

Went to an advanced showing of knives out

Fucking brilliant! How could the guy who fucked up Star Wars almost as bad as George Lucas come out and write and direct such a good movie?!

Also the best allegory for American immigration I’ve seen

The Last Jedi was actually good though. I hope Knives Out makes people realize that.

We’re broken up, Nate. You have a lot of growing to do.

[EightBitNate]

Went to an advanced showing of knives out

Fucking brilliant! How could the guy who fucked up Star Wars almost as bad as George Lucas come out and write and direct such a good movie?!

Also the best allegory for American immigration I’ve seen

The Last Jedi was actually good though. I hope Knives Out makes people realize that.

We’re broken up, Nate. You have a lot of growing to do.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Having a small one really gives u time to watch movies when you are up anyway

Death of Stalin:
Good but too long. Funny. Sad.

Goodfellas:
Still good. But now the bad guys aren't as cool anymore.

[Nintex]

Death of Stalin is a funny take on an event with so many horrible things going on.
It sorta flew under the radar but I greatly enjoyed it.

[Ghoul]

IT chapter 2 is a god damn mess, that's three hours of my life I'm not getting back ;(

[Stro]

You'll never get any hours of your life back, breh

[Spieler1]

Berserk Golden Age 1, ok?
Berserk Golden Age 2, ok
Berserk Golden Age 3, ok

[Kara]

I felt they did a much better job of establishing the fantastical qualities of the universe than the first show did.

Sadly they lacked anything as kitschy as "Forces" on the first show's OST.

[Don Rumata]

I only read the manga, everything else is pleb tier. 

[Joe Molotov]

Maybe you need to put your grasses on so nothing will be wong.

[VomKriege]

I felt they did a much better job of establishing the fantastical qualities of the universe than the first show did.

Sadly they lacked anything as kitschy as "Forces" on the first show's OST.

Susumu Hirasawa again

[TVC15]

Darkman is so fuckin good. Now THIS is Liamneesoning.

Muy underrated papi

[TVC15]

Y’all got me in a Troma mood now. Going to sign up for their streaming service. Unlike D+, this one delivers.



3 is probably my favorite movie kill of all time

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yeah baby

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[TVC15]

Holy fuck, 10 minutes into Return to Return to Nukem High AKA Volume 2 and it’s already far better than the mostly disappointing Return to Nukem High Vol. 1. I can’t believe it took this long to finally come out. About 7-8 years, I believe they were filmed at the same time, but maybe this went through lots of reworking after the first one was received tepidly by fans.


Nsfw last trailer

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[VomKriege]

At last managed to get my ex to see Symbol from Hitoshi Matsumoto. Still holds up great to me (that's my... 3rd viewing ?) and she liked it a lot. You know she was in sync because every question she had was answered by the film 2mn after.

[Mr. Nobody]

Absolutely loved The Irishman. If Scorcese/Pesci/Deniro/Pacino never do this again (which 100% seems to be the case), they went out on a very high note.

This, however, is fucking jokes:

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It's time to go home Robert

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[Tuckers Law]

Yeah, there’s a few moments where you can see a bit of “old-man shuffle” and it stands out in particular there.

Awesome movie regardless, I still chuckle thinking on the various obits describing violent ends that Scorsese puts up throughout the movie, and then shows that well-liked guy, “Died of natural causes in 2002.  Was well-liked by everyone.”   

[Occam]

The Last Jedi was actually good though. I hope Knives Out makes people realize that.

No, and since this goes both ways, Last Jedi didn't make the prequels better, either, they will suck forever*.

*Well, unless an adult completely rewrites them and then remakes them. You know, without robot armies, midi-chlorians, slave-Anakin, Naboo, C3PO, R2D2 etc.

[Momo]

The Last Jedi was actually good though. I hope Knives Out makes people realize that.

[EightBitNate]

It was as good as any other blockbuster garbage. Basic story structure could’ve been stuck on a Marvel movie and the internet would have drooled over it. I didn’t grow up watching Star Wars so I wasn’t as bitchy at Luke being a NEET as everyone else.

[Tuckers Law]

Basic story structure could’ve been stuck on a Marvel movie and the internet would have drooled over it.

Flawed as it is I still enjoyed Last Jedi, but this is not the compliment that you think it is.  Most Marvel movies are also flashy trash.  They just have the benefit of at least having more of some interesting characters acted well enough (albeit nearly all missing any kind of character growth).

[EightBitNate]

Basic story structure could’ve been stuck on a Marvel movie and the internet would have drooled over it.

Flawed as it is I still enjoyed Last Jedi, but this is not the compliment that you think it is.  Most Marvel movies are also flashy trash.  They just have the benefit of at least having more of some interesting characters acted well enough (albeit nearly all missing any kind of character growth).

My point about Marvel movies isn’t to say Marvel movies are great-just that they never receive so much ire. TLJ was a perfectly normal blockbuster movie.

[Tuckers Law]

Fair enough 

I’m probably one of the few that actually liked Luke’s arc in that movie.  The writing was shit, mind, but so was the rest of the movie, and I do enjoy seeing Star Wars fans get bent out of shape over their space Jesus not being what they wanted.

[Spieler1]

I rewatched Casino recently, so going to The Irishman felt like going from Pulp Fiction to Jackie Brown. mattdamon_privateryan.gif the movie.

[TVC15]

Disney makes Art

[TVC15]

Only Disney could make a movie where children are described as “bred for action” and receive widespread mainstream positive attention for it.

[BlueTsunami]

Imagine spending years working on your craft, starting as a passion born as a child, taken through school and a university only to land on the production of that. I guess it could be likened to menial retail work in the media sector. It's so depressing.

[TVC15]

Imagine spending years working on your craft, starting as a passion born as a child, taken through school and a university only to land on the production of that. I guess it could be likened to menial retail work in the media sector. It's so depressing.

It’s worse today than ever. Even during Tim Burton’s lean and hungry Disney years, the garbage he got to work on was leagues better than this. Our culture has degenerated beyond the point of salvation—what was lowest-common denominator 40 years ago now seems illuminated in comparison. The only solutions will be long-term massively destructive before they bear any fruit. There will be many years where no thanks are given.

[Ghoul]

The Irishman is just beautiful

[Madrun Badrun]

It was as good as any other blockbuster garbage. Basic story structure could’ve been stuck on a Marvel movie and the internet would have drooled over it. I didn’t grow up watching Star Wars so I wasn’t as bitchy at Luke being a NEET as everyone else.

This is just silly.  Marvel movies have a generic story structure that is generally sound and well executed.  The Last Jedi was neither sound nor well executed. 

[Ghoul]

Watching ready or not now. Trash so far

[Ghoul]

Yup good old trash

[Madrun Badrun]

The Joker was good.  The beginning gave me massive anxiety though. 

[TVC15]

I just watched Corky Romano and it was better than Endgame.

[TVC15]

Child’s Play 2019 - F-

Chucky looked like a My Buddy or Cabbage Patch doll. No parent would ever let this monster near their kids.

[Stro]

I got to nearly the 3 hour mark of The Irishman this morning before family bullshit unplot related thoughts:

It's such a Scorsese movie it's almost a parody. It's neat in the sense that type of movie doesn't exist anymore, but man it's SO formulaic for him.

De-aging stuff is weird, almost always stands out unless it's in a dark/shadowy scene. The light isn't 100% right, and I think the blue eyes actually might be more of a problem because they look CGI instead of contacts and stand out very much. But what you can't de-age is the gait and physicality of a 75 year old man, so even when his face looks younger, his body is still old and it's jarring. Also weird is that it doesn't actually look like what Robert DeNiro looked like when he was younger, it looks like old DeNiro made younger. Young Robert DeNiro didn't act like Old Robert DeNiro either so that is also jarring. It also looks like he's wearing some kind of body suit/shoulder pads the entire movie as well.

Al Pacino and Joe Pesci steal every scene they're in. They're doing a much better job of acting instead of DeNiro playing the SNL version of himself.

[TVC15]

I’m now 28 minutes into Child’s Play 2019 and I am in the process of revising my score.

The boy seems to be able to command the doll to do his bidding. I like this. I keep pausing to fantasize. He’s more reluctant to use it to it’s full capacity than I’d be. It’d be terrible if someone gave me one of these as a child. I’d be in prison forever before I hit adulthood. Now, though, if I had this doll’s power now, I’m wiser and old enough to resist using it recklessly.

[Stro]

I suggest you stop now as the movie only gets worse after that point in the movie and it wasn't good before that

[TVC15]

I know you’re thinking I’d use this to kill, and maybe I would, but I would be abstract and highly conceptual about it. I wouldn’t say “kill so-and-so” or simple things like that. There’d be a philosophical edge to it. I may, for example, ask Chucky to “deliver me BlueTsunami’s bounty” and see what instructions it derives from that. It could bring me his wallet, his dick, his eyes, whatever its AI determines his very literal “bounty” is based on its dictionary.

[TVC15]

“Find filler’s buried treasure. * marks the spot!”

[TVC15]

But people shouldn’t live in fear. Most of my Chuck’s time would be spent proactively making my life easier. There’s be little time for pleasure. For example, I’d have the seat removed from my chair so I can just urinate and defecate without ever getting up. This single simple life improvement means my Chucky won’t be able to leave me for more than 10 or 20 minutes at a time.

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"Chucky, daddy made another yucky!"

[TVC15]

Okay, that didn’t quite wake the dragon, but it was okay. It was acceptable up until they ripped out Chuck’s heart and disposed of him but everything after was dumber and boring. Always a big minus for not killing the kid in these pictures, but at least we got a nice shot of a screaming little girl being sprayed with arterial blood where she sounded authentic enough. C- it wasn’t a complete waste of time

I need another movie. Something that will get my head going

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