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The only legit good live action Death Note movie before Wingard's is Light Up the New World, which has the plus of being shot like a Dark Knight mockbuster.
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What should I watch if I hate horror films and aren't up for any anime? I've just finished binging Samurai Champloo again and have gotten the next two years' worth of anime done with. I love crime shows like Forensic Files, and Mindhunter was extremely my jam, even though I'm not normally up for fictionalized crime stuff about real life characters. Currently on my list: Great British Baking Show (first collection was great), The Departed, (seen before but it's been a few years) Dark Tourist, Glow, Frankenstein Chronicles (watched season 1, it was p. good) LotR Wormwood The Crown As an indication of tastes, Bad: Disenchanted Sherlock MST3K The Office (cringe comedy...ugh) Good: Better Call Saul Hot Fuzz Thor Ragnarok All of John Mulaney's standup Ex Machina, but only once Or, I could continue to rewatch Parks and Rec/The Good Place, or continue watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine (up to season 4, have them all on Plex). Is there anything that's really gripping anybody right now other than animechat?
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:What should I watch if I hate horror films and aren't up for any anime? I've just finished binging Samurai Champloo again and have gotten the next two years' worth of anime done with. I love crime shows like Forensic Files, and Mindhunter was extremely my jam, even though I'm not normally up for fictionalized crime stuff about real life characters. Patriot
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I'm trying to get through The Reef and I have never watched something with such viscerally revolting audio before. Every single kiss sounds like someone punching spaghetti, every scream and sob sounds like it was recorded with a mic jammed down the actors throats, every splash of water sounds like I'm personally plunging into a pool. It's awful. I can't even watch it with headphones anymore.
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precision posted:Patriot Ah poo poo I've seen it but should probably watch it again. It was damned smart.
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Aug 28, 2018 00:06
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The Informant is on Netflix. Matt Damon is just so gosh darn good at playing a turd of a person.
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Aug 28, 2018 02:26
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Yeah I thoroughly enjoyed that flick. Good ole Soderbergh does it again.
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Mother is good but not quite as good as Mother! Too bad Mother isn't on Prime anymore, but now there's Mother!
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Mother; had a good sequel hook.
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precision posted:I thought the film of The Road was a terrific mood piece that was unfortunately doomed to being compared to the superior novel. If I remember correctly the studio tried to bury it with a pretty non advertised release because they wanted the reader to be the big oscar contender movie, and they thought the Road was too much of a downer film or something.
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Parachute posted:is there some like christian movie review site that will tell me about all the swears and (mother spoiler) newborn child death so i can avoid doing that again? I use to listen to a podcast that featured a few goons called Bloody Good Horror. They would sometimes read the hilarious reviews from some Christian website. I remember at the end of every review it would say stuff like, "movie had 5 profanities, male upper nudity, anti-Christian socialist message, and 5 deaths". It was great. Also I was listening to this podcast as of last year (I stopped listening to podcast for time being), so I would guess the website might still be around. I just can't remember the website name. LORD OF BOOTY posted:Also the Netflix Death Note movie is legit good as gently caress and it really annoyed me how basically nobody seemed willing to give it a chance. The racial angle was especially loving stupid because one of the things DN does best is adapting the premise to be about American racial politics and white privilege. I didn't think Death Note was bad, but I do think it is Wingard's worst movie. That is also my problem with his take on Blair Witch. The Guest (I absolutely love this movie) and You're Next were so great, that both Blair Witch and Dead Note pale in comparison. Wingard's next movie is Godzilla vs. Kong.
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Last night I was rewatching the original Blair Witch on the giant 50" in the bedroom with the lights off. I heard a small noise and looked over to my left. There was a large millipede on the bed.  It's only the second time in my 43 years I've even seen a millipede in person. The universe has a hosed up sense of humor.
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I first saw the original Blair Witch on a pirated DVD before the film's release. I was watching it on an old CRT monitor and was laying on the floor with the lights out. I forget tbe exact scene but at a particularly tense moment the monitor switched off into power saving mode so the entire room went pitch black and at that exact instant my little kitten swatted me on the top of my head. I jumped, screamed like a little girl and my heart was near exploding. Never been scared during a film before or since. I liked the movie and will still watch it if it's on. I remember debating the last scene with friends as to whether or not the dude standing in the corner was levitating slightly. The copy we all had wasnt the greastet so it wasnt until seeing it later that we could agree that his feet were on the ground. Woulda been better if he was levitating I think. Witch power! Anyway that's my BW story and I haven't seen the remake. Or the sequel.
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Has anyone else watched Missions on Shudder? Binged the whole thing yesterday and I’m still not sure what to make of it. It’s like the French lovechild of Mission to Mars and Interstellar starring an extremely incompetent group of astronauts. There’s even a very heavy-handed and poorly written c-plot reminiscent of Guy Pearce’s plot in Prometheus. The plot comparisons with Mission to Mars in particular were driving me nuts. - 1st Martian crew finds something weird on Mars that kills them all, 2nd crew is a rescue mission - Husband/wife astronauts where the husband dies on the way to mars after saving the rest of the crew - Crew lands on Mars, but the ship is hosed - 1st Mars crew is killed by odd Martian force because they used the wrong method to access an ancient Martian secret, 2nd crew discovers dna-related data that allows them safe access - Face on Mars that leads them to a hidden Martian temple - Crew discovers Mars is the ancient origin of all humanity - Ancient martians were wiped out by calamity, colonized prehistoric Earth - One crewmember is ‘destined’ to come to Mars and ends up staying behind Even the intro seems to be aping The Expanse. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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So my fever dream where Mission to Mars and Red Planet were the same film is true?
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:So my fever dream where Mission to Mars and Red Planet were the same film is true? Nah, Red Planet had that weird plot where the robot dog was hunting them and humans were trying to terraform Mars with bugs. I love Mars movies, but they’re almost all universally terrible. There’s maybe two or three exceptions.
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Which is the one where the "face" is a real face? Or is that a third movie? Pretty sure The Martian is going to be the only Mars movie anyone will remember.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:There’s maybe two or three exceptions. the obvious one being 
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Lycus posted:Which is the one where the "face" is a real face? Or is that a third movie? Mission to Mars has a literal Face on Mars that’s revealed via dust storm to be a building of some sort. Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a basically forgotten technicolor film, but it’s really great and goofy.
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Lycus posted:Which is the one where the "face" is a real face? Or is that a third movie?
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I rewatched the new season of mst3k and it's still charming and fun
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The Last Days on Mars was pretty cool when I watched it and I just checked and it's on Hulu. Also I was watching Hulu yesterday and they have a series about going to Mars coming out in early September, looks OK I guess.
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Finally got to watch Spring Breakers. That movie's really something. It's like mumblecore but actually enjoyable to watch.Junkie Disease posted:I rewatched the new season of mst3k and it's still charming and fun I've kind of avoided it since it came out and just kept watching old episodes when I was in the mood for mst3k. I watched a couple new ones recently though and was surprised how well they nailed it.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Nah, Red Planet had that weird plot where the robot dog was hunting them and humans were trying to terraform Mars with bugs. John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars starring Ice Cube is an all-time classic I mean I haven't seen it since I was 12, but I'm sure it holds up.
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Watched Spring Breakers based off of recommendations here. Went in blind and yeah, it's not what I thought it would be based on the first 5 minutes. About at the halfway mark I was thinking how it reminded me of Kids. Didn't realize it was the same director. But now that I've finished it, I think it would make for a good double-feature with Audition. My read on both is that they are examinations of femininity in general and more specifically, women's search for meaning and what it means to be a woman, a search to define their own role instead of the traditional role men have decreed for them. Then again, what do I know.
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Screenwriter, not director.
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K. Waste posted:Screenwriter, not director. I think I agree with you and say that Mister Lonely is my fave Harmony Korine film, but I'm seeing a 35mm print of GUMMO tonight, so that's still a possibility.
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Franchescanado posted:but I'm seeing a 35mm print of GUMMO tonight, so that's still a possibility. I am quite jealous.
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Franchescanado posted:I think I agree with you and say that Mister Lonely is my fave Harmony Korine film, but I'm seeing a 35mm print of GUMMO tonight, so that's still a possibility. All his poo poo is good, by Mister Lonely is just the straightest story and frankly follows the most interesting characters.
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K. Waste posted:All his poo poo is good, by Mister Lonely is just the straightest story and frankly follows the most interesting characters. I think Spring Breakers is a little straighter, if only because Mister Lonely has an entire 2nd plot with the flying nuns that is never directly related to the 1st plot. Mister Lonely's sincereity and sentimentality just make it so emotionally fulfilling for me. That and Werner Herzog's alcoholic priest is hilarious.
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I watched Spring Breakers for the first time recently too, and the thing that I think impressed me the most was how coherent the look was, while also being so stylized. It's a fairly wide range of different settings, and yet that intense lighting always seems to be consistent and also appropriate for what's happening on-screen. Or in a scene where the lighting is toned down a bit, there's really bright spots of color all over the frame to kinda serve that same purpose.
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Spring Breakers owns and is basically Bully (2001) + Miami Vice (2006), two more movies that own.
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Franchescanado posted:I think I agree with you and say that Mister Lonely is my fave Harmony Korine film, but I'm seeing a 35mm print of GUMMO tonight, so that's still a possibility. Bath scene in 4D when
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It's not free but if you have 5 bucks to burn Upgrade is fuckin dope
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The Innocents, The Sinner, Insatiable: any of these any good?
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I thought: Innocents was okay, a little better in the last half; Sinner is okay, pretty good if you dig mystery shows; Insatiable is awful.
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I got high as poo poo and put on spring breakers. This movie is loving wild, closest movie I can draw a comparison to is wake in fright, but a bit more stylish and with more sleaze somehow.
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