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Cats was everything people said about it. Saw it at a sing along showing with a costume contest and free cat ears for everyone and glow sticks etc. which isn’t the kind of thing I normally go in for but it hasn’t been ritualized to death yet so it was a good time
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Seems like an appropriate time to finally get around to watching take shelter and drat, outstanding film. Really effective at building tension and then that ending. Really loved the score too
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Mar 19, 2020 06:53
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A girl walks home alone at night. I appreciate a film that takes its sweet time.
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Mar 22, 2020 08:22
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Enemy was weird
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Under the Skin was weird
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The Lobster was weird, and hilarious
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Insidious was fun, just a fun ol horror movie, not very scary. Saving Grace was an extremely pre 9/11 comedy with terrible music but it was cute. All about Eve is fully sick,loved the acidic wit in the dialogue. The performances were obviously incredible. Glad I finally saw this
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The wild goose Lake was kind of a weird one. Very nice looking but unpleasant, it didn't have the wit I like in noir but maybe that's a result of the translation. Somehow my local art house has a deal to stream the films they would be showing, not as good as the theater but it's cheaper than two tickets
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Knives out was great. Rian Johnson holds a similar place to the Coens for me, great dialogue and genre pastiche, just don't give him too big a budget
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Apr 3, 2020 07:02
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Bacurau owns, Udo Kier owns
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i watched the first lone wolf and cub movie and it kicked rear end. especially when suddenly the shadow ninja leader was watching Ogami fighting in his home estate and freaked out when he stepped into a river adn unleashed his Hidden Sword of River Wave attack.
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Harakiri (1962). Absolute masterpiece, I’ll be thinking about this one for a long time. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and the lead actor gave a fantastic performance.
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High life was impressively unpleasant but it’s cool. That part near the end with the dogs was funny. Also didn’t realize Andre 3000 was in it until the credits lol
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I wasn't prepared for how insane A Fall From Grace turned out to be
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The Nightingale has probably surpassed The Proposition as "most relentlessly brutal Australian film." It's set during the Black War of the 1820s when British colonists on the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) committed genocide on the aboriginal population there. Excellent performances but definitely not for the faint of heart.
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May 3, 2020 17:11
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secretary. 2002 seems a little late to have extremely bad green screen compositing but it was charming
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Scoob was pretty alright, had some nice Hanna Barbara callbacks, but I wish the rest of the gang had more screentime.
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In the last 10 days I've watched Midsommar (liked) The Lighthouse (didn't like) and Hereditary, in that order. (not sure yet) Hereditary was last night... and I'm not sure what I think about movies that REQUIRE a second viewing to completely understand. It doesn't feel like good storytelling for nothing to make sense the first 90 minutes, and then the last 15 you exposition everything going on. It definitely had some severely spooky moments, though.
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May 22, 2020 23:10
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The correct answer for all of those was (liked it) so you've failed. Do not pass go, do not correct $200
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May 23, 2020 03:00
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What's Up Doc (1972). I don't think screwball comedies are really my thing, I found Barbra Streisand completely mystifying in a bad way. The chase scene was fun at least.
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Clementine was lower stakes than I expected. all the major characters were kind of lovely but redeemable. I don't think I've seen that sort of "first love" story from the other perspective before. On a different note I finally understand what mumblecore is, most of the dialogue was barely audible and it was mixed so low I had to turn my volume up higher than with anything I've watched previously
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Saw midsomnar and thought the horror was pretty subtle though i guess I was expecting more slasher horror from the movie .
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Finally saw portrait of a lady on fire. I was planning to see it the day my local theater closed. Extremely good film. Loved the chemistry between the actors, the photography, everything. Hulu loving sucks though, I haven't seen such a low quality video stream in years
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Roma was pretty good.
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I liked Roma a lot. It was cool how cuaron put a scene from all of his other movies into it
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Community service announcement: if anyone feels the urge to watch the sci-fi movie High Life on Netflix, don't. It's one of the most execrable wastes of time I've ever had the misfortune to watch. It has two settings: dull, and relentlessly unpleasant, which it switches between without rhyme or reason. The mumbled dialogue is stilted and unnatural. The characters have no clear motivation, and the premise and setting of the movie is so poorly conveyed through the action and dialogue that there are several scenes and voiceovers that have been clearly shoehorned in during the editing process to try to patch the gaps. They did not succeed. The director is clearly unable to distinguish between 'controversial' and 'gratuitous'. It's unbelievably pretentious and extremely undeservedly so. This is not the kind of bad movie that you can watch in order to enjoy the trainwreck factor. This is worse than The Room. This is worse than the 2017 remake of Dirty Dancing. This makes Ed Wood look like James Cameron. There is no joy to be found in its badness, just a series of increasingly weary utterances of "oh for gently caress's sake" every time the bar is lowered until you wonder whether it's possible to die simultaneously from boredom and disgust. It's the worst movie I've ever seen.
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Dr. Sleep was pretty good. A weird combo of superhero movie meets horror. It was way too blatant with the whole "THIS IS THE SHINING 2" bit but other than that I enjoyed it.
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High-Rise Well i suppose that's one possible class war scenario?
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I've gone back and gotten high to watch a bunch of 80s cheese over the last few months. Most recent one was Soul Man, the highly controversial movie about a white guy who takes tanning pills to qualify for a full scholarship to Harvard Law. Definitely a bad movie and should never have been made. It plays the thing pretty straight as a typical 80s hare-brained scheme with moral lessons learned at the climax and less of an incredibly awful thing for a human being to do. Ghost Dad is a terrible movie, but it somehow managed to be so bad that it circled back into being funny as hell, albeit unintentionally. No Retreat No Surrender is a must watch and a cinematic tour de force.
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Knife + heart was great, as good at nailing a bygone filmic aesthetic as the love witch. The m83 soundtrack was excellent
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Häxan - Really funny pseudo-documentary about witchcraft and one of the most impressive silent films I've seen. There's stop-motion, excellent costume and set design, and a really impressive special effect of witches flying over a medieval town on broomsticks. The tone of the movie is "wow isn't it wild people actually believed this poo poo?" The final chapter of the movie even pokes fun at the modern "enlightened" approach of labeling all erstwhile symptoms of witchcraft as "hysteria."
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Speaking of Swedish movies I rewatched Smala Sussie today and god drat it's a good weird as hell movie and you should see it.
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The other guys. I enjoy dumb comedies so this was good, to me.
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Aug 16, 2020 06:40
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Under Siege, where Steven Seagal vogues while knife fighting Tommie Lee Jones on a battleship. Terrorists were zany characters who did it for fun and money in the 90s.
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Deep Red, i loved the odd camera work and gore.
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Watched The Death of Dick Long which is the most successful American attempt at cringe comedy I’ve seen, it’s great
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Just watched Good Morning Vietnam for the first time. I’m supposed to like the Robin Williams character but he’s actually kind of gross and unsympathetic in some ways what with the going after a random local girl he sees on the street and being pissy while having one of the least poo poo military jobs in Vietnam. So what if there are a couple of guys cramping your style, just do your term and get out. Movie did get better once the inevitable VC subplot happened and it wasn’t nonstop creeping by the DJ. Williams improv bits were funny as always.
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Just saw Ava. I liked it. Some good action and rooted for the antagonist which is always fun although I'm not sure if it's just because I like the actor. The final fight between Simon and Ava was great just in the way that they both got obviously exhausted
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Just watched Mulan. From the very beginning the film told me that kungfu is bad actually. I struggled with that because kungfu is good, but girl does it therefore bad. Mulan talks to no one and doesn't develope beyond being good at kungfu and bad at talking. This isn't the woman from the ballads or the joyful tomboy of the cartoon. The tone is fine being all grimdark, but it gets undermined by taking every opportunity to callback to the cartoon. Orchestral versions of the disney songs are teased, but the joy is gone. It feels like they just play the tune to let my memory of those cartoon scenes fill in the character motivations and development. Mulan is hero because chi and that's p shallow. Sets pretty tho. KirbyKhan fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Sep 12, 2020 |
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Is there a comedy relief tiny Dragon?
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