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I watched Dunkirk last night in 70mm IMAX. I think that what makes it so impressive isn't just the picture but the sound. Sound design is incredible. I didn't notice aspect ratio shifting once! It's going to clean up at the Oscars; it's a critical and commercial smash about WW2, done to the highest technical standards. It's astounding just on a physical production level.
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Dreamed last night of a crossover between Friday the 13th and The Natural where Robert Redford fights Jason with a bat called "wonderBREAKER"
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TrixRabbi posted:I'm gonna be in Baltimore in Sept. Anyone know anything fun or cool to do there besides hunt for John Waters sightings? Visit all the famous locations from the critically acclaimed television drama The Wire.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I didn't understand the political aspect at all as a kid, and I'd imagine it probably hasn't aged well, but the basic concept was so enthralling I watched it over and over. Every time I eat a raw tomato I think about that movie. Haha I want to see more film critic couples with reviews like this.
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Snak posted:That looks amazing. I want watch that. It's really not that memorable and the politics are kinda dumb.
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Aug 2, 2017 16:21
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precision posted:I spent very little time thinking about the logistics of the story or how the twists worked at all. One thing that I feel like I'm missing entirely is what the secret that Delphine told Lorraine in the flashback that she said was nothing in the debriefing was supposed to be - was that just a deliberate red herring in her story? I don't see what the point of including it was in a Keyser Soze style bullshit, and if it was irrelevant but she knew it was caught by a wire Percival planted why not have something fake? More than John Wick or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the plot left a sour Now You See Me kind of aftertaste more than anything.
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Well, Alien Covenant was terrible but we'll always have Prometheus.
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I'm going to watch that today and it's going to be fantastic.
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CelticPredator posted:I'm going to watch that today and it's going to be fantastic. I got nothing out of it. 2 nice shots and a good David scene. The rest was utter bunk.
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Power of Pecota posted:One thing that I feel like I'm missing entirely is what the secret that Delphine told Lorraine in the flashback that she said was nothing in the debriefing was supposed to be - was that just a deliberate red herring in her story? I don't see what the point of including it was in a Keyser Soze style bullshit, and if it was irrelevant but she knew it was caught by a wire Percival planted why not have something fake? More than John Wick or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the plot left a sour Now You See Me kind of aftertaste more than anything. It was obviously "Percival is Satchel", and was simply to try to misdirect us from thinking Lorraine was Satchel. For that matter, why did Percival even kill Delphine? He's not Satchel. Actually all of his motivations are unclear, because they say that list has the potential to extend the cold war by anither 40 years. This is what percival wants, because he's a rogue cold war profiteer. So why does he do anything he does in the movie? He has the chance to turn Spyglass over to the soviets, but doesn't do it. Then he has the chance to help spyglass escape to the west, but kills him instead. The only explanation we get is because "I. loving. LOVE. BERLIN." I guess he wanted to sell the list to soviets, rather than give it to them, which makes sense. I guess he gets off on the risk of the gamble. If he loves playibg the game in berlin so much, the best option would have been to let the soviets have the list, thus extending the cold war and getting to continue his game forever. Instead, he gambles that he can get rid of Lorraine and make a bunch of money. So it makes a little more sense than I thought. My issue was mostly with pacing and oresentation ofnthe twists, like we were supposed to shocked, when they were perfectly in line with everything we knew about the characters. They weren't even twists. I definitely want to watch it again, because I want to like it more than I did.
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Dark Universe core creative, and director of The Mummy, Alex Kurtzman may leave the franchise IGN posted:The future of The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman's involvement with Universal's shared monsters Dark Universe franchise is in doubt. When IGN asked Kurtzman during the Television Critics Association press tour (where Kurtzman is promoting Star Trek: Discovery) if he is still involved in the Dark Universe in the wake of The Mummy, Kurtzman said he wasn't sure. "You know the truth is, I don't know. I really don't know," Kurtzman told IGN. "I haven't really decided. Is the honest answer."
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Aug 2, 2017 17:15
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Good. James Wan would be the perfect person to shepherd those movies, if he wasn't busy shooting Aquaman.
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Their mistake was not having Abbott and Costello as the Nick Fury-style linking characters
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Can someone post that ultra serious DARK UNIVERSE trailer? Because that was the cringiest thing ever.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Their mistake was not having Abbott and Costello as the Nick Fury-style linking characters But who would play them? My vote is Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.
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Aug 2, 2017 17:33
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LesterGroans posted:James Wan would be the perfect person to shepherd those movies, if he wasn't busy shooting Aquaman. He is actually producing the new Resident Evil movies.
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Aug 2, 2017 17:42
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Chris James 2 posted:Dark Universe core creative, and director of The Mummy, Alex Kurtzman may leave the franchise This guy sounds like he's in denial. "I haven't really decided," pretty sure the public already made that decision for you, buddy.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Can someone post that ultra serious DARK UNIVERSE trailer? Because that was the cringiest thing ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCm2PX5Iz00
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Aug 2, 2017 18:13
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Snak posted:It was obviously "Percival is Satchel", and was simply to try to misdirect us from thinking Lorraine was Satchel. Clearly that's the purpose re: the audience, but she's already explicitly saying that to Gray/Kurzfeld so why play it like she's hiding something? If it was recorded on a wire, what was Delphine telling her and if it wasn't why even feint that there was something?
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I was ambivalent about Dunkirk when the trailers came out. Then everyone said it was an IMAX experience to behold. A week passed and my enthusiasm waned. But now everyone in the thread is saying I have to go for 70mm IMAX.
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LesterGroans posted:Good. Jim Jones would be the prefect person to shepherd those movies.
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Bar Crow posted:Jim Jones would be the prefect person to shepherd those movies. you're right, The Mummy was bad so it's clearly utterly impossible to do anything with Universal Monsters whatsoever
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Aug 2, 2017 18:50
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How interesting that the worst Tom Cruise film is the one he supposedly had the most control over...
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Aug 2, 2017 18:52
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Josh Lyman posted:I was ambivalent about Dunkirk when the trailers came out. Same, I'm confused. On the one hand Nolan sort of sucks but on the other this one is good because of all the things that suck about Nolan? Very confusing.
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Snak posted:It was obviously "Percival is Satchel", and was simply to try to misdirect us from thinking Lorraine was Satchel. I think what you might be missing is that ATOMIC BLONDE is not a spy movie, it is a celebration of Berlin in the 80s. The film outright tells you this textually, subtextually, AND meta-textually (like how the music keeps going from diagetic to not diagetic and back again)
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Burn the internet to the ground https://twitter.com/IjeomaOluo/status/892765850155044864
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James Woods Fan posted:How interesting that the worst Tom Cruise film is the one he supposedly had the most control over... I don't really believe those rumours for a second. He pretty clearly has a lot of control over the Mission: Impossible franchise. I doubt his influence is what caused a studio to put out an obvious franchise-starter that was aiming for too many quadrants.
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Nevermind, internet can live. https://twitter.com/DanKaszeta/status/892450050173001730
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Skwirl posted:Burn the internet to the ground Proud to be a member of the Black Lives Matter Al Qaeda Panthers
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Their mistake was not having Abbott and Costello as the Nick Fury-style linking characters Their mistake was making the loving logo when they hadn't even released one film they were proud of in the franchise yet (still haven't)
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married but discreet posted:Same, I'm confused. On the one hand Nolan sort of sucks but on the other this one is good because of all the things that suck about Nolan? Very confusing. I wasn't really interested until the reviews started coming in, it seems like even Nolan haters are digging it. And the running time is already a big step in the right direction for him.
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Skwirl posted:Nevermind, internet can live. holy fuckin poo poo hahaha
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married but discreet posted:Same, I'm confused. On the one hand Nolan sort of sucks but on the other this one is good because of all the things that suck about Nolan? Very confusing. It's under two hours, the dialogue is sparse, and it ends precisely when it needs to, it avoids the things that suck about Nolan.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Whycome the ending of The Stand so bad?? It's based on a Stephen king novel
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X-Ray Pecs posted:It's under two hours, the dialogue is sparse, and it ends precisely when it needs to, it avoids the things that suck about Nolan. The dialogue is the best part of Nolan's good movies though.
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Nolan and Alien Covenant are so great. I these things. But they don't love me back. 
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precision posted:The dialogue is the best part of Nolan's good movies though. Naaaaah. The Prestige is his best movie and a lot of it is because the subject matter matches his goofy, too cute dialogue.
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"He's the hero we deserve but the the one we need" is nonsensical tripe
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LesterGroans posted:Naaaaah. The Prestige is his best movie and a lot of it is because the subject matter matches his goofy, too cute dialogue. I have to imagine that was a sarcastic post, right?
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