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Drunkboxer posted:I kinda wanted to watch the Joker because of the zeitgeist or whatever but I just can’t muster the interest to see anything with Batman or Batman junk in it anymore. I think I’ll probably die without seeing another Batman movie. Joker is a soft recommend. It's shot, acted, designed and scored exceptionally well. It's just written incredibly poorly.
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Joker plays like it was written by a guy who just discovered that mental illness is a thing and is like "woah, have you guys heard about this?"
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May 12, 2021 23:06
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I think Joker was worth it for Phoenix's performance but I'm kicking myself for seeing it before one of the Scorsese films it apparently liberally borrows from.
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May 12, 2021 23:14
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STAC Goat posted:I think Joker was worth it for Phoenix's performance but I'm kicking myself for seeing it before one of the Scorsese films it apparently liberally borrows from. The King Of Comedy is great and you can definitely make the argument that it's a horror movie.
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May 12, 2021 23:15
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:The King Of Comedy is great and you can definitely make the argument that it's a horror movie. That was the other thing, I really like The King of Comedy and don’t really want to see some goofy joker version of it
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May 12, 2021 23:19
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Joker plays like it was written by a guy who just discovered that mental illness is a thing and is like "woah, have you guys heard about this?" haha that's a good description but I enjoyed it anyway.
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May 12, 2021 23:21
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King of Comedy of one of Scorsese's best and that's saying a lot.
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May 12, 2021 23:22
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STAC Goat posted:I think Joker was worth it for Phoenix's performance but I'm kicking myself for seeing it before one of the Scorsese films it apparently liberally borrows from. Gotta save those early Scorcese flicks for the summer when its really hot and muggy so you get that 70's/80's sweat texture in life and in the movies.
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May 12, 2021 23:32
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dorium posted:Gotta save those early Scorcese flicks for the summer when its really hot and muggy so you get that 70's/80's sweat texture in life and in the movies. Cape Fear is one of the wettest, dampest movies ever made even before it gets to the houseboat
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May 12, 2021 23:42
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STAC Goat posted:I think Joker was worth it for Phoenix's performance but I'm kicking myself for seeing it before one of the Scorsese films it apparently liberally borrows from. I haven't seen Joker and I'm sure hoping it's The Last Temptation of Christ.
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May 12, 2021 23:46
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The Cape Fear remake is just as good as the original. It straddles the line of horror and thriller though. I dunno if I'd call it a outright horror movie , but its definitely a thriller.
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May 12, 2021 23:48
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Hollismason posted:The Cape Fear remake is just as good as the original. It straddles the line of horror and thriller though. I dunno if I'd call it a outright horror movie , but its definitely a thriller. i agree, i wish de Niro did out-and-out psychotic antagonists more
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May 12, 2021 23:57
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The Black Tower (1987) is a really creepy low-budget short films that manages to build a seriously oppressive atmosphere with just narration and a few brief snippets of footage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw6exAfUWMI
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May 13, 2021 00:32
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alf_pogs posted:i agree, i wish de Niro did out-and-out psychotic antagonists more Yea its a real shame he didnt play more straight nutcases. He doesnt seem like he wants to really act much anymore if he isnt being de-aged poorly. I would want him to play the grandpa in a TCM re-re-remake or something 
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May 13, 2021 00:41
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Basebf555 posted:Did you see The First Purge? Because I mostly agree with you about the series overall but First Purge was a legit good movie that was really a pleasant surprise. The First Purge is a really good retread of The Raid and Dredd. I'll keep watching that same general concept as long as they keep remaking it. (Yes to be fair, The First Purge doesn't really rip off The Raid until the last like 30 minutes) I never saw the first because I heard it sucked, but the second was "okay", the third was sub-mediocre and The First Purge was really good. Those are my thoughts on the Purge series 
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May 13, 2021 00:42
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Halloween Jack posted:Right, it was a good movie and audiences liked it. The weird moral panic over it started before it was released. Vogue published an article about why they refused to review it. It got negative reviews from the NYT, The Atlantic, and other outlets for high-status idiots. Timeless Appeal fucked around with this message at 21:18 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 01:43
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The final Purge movie has a trailer now . I've watched all the other Purge movies so I'll definitely watch this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6wVsmgDkjI
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May 13, 2021 03:53
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Yeah I wouldn't classify Joker as a leftist film, nor particularly great, (nor a horror film either though that wasn't the debate) . I guess I just fundamentally disagree and am unconvinced with the "critics hate leftist films" line based on the evidence provided. More importantly though I watched Hellraiser: Revelations yesterday and oh dear me. Almost certainly the nadir so far, just an incredibly brazen on-screen scam in order to keep the rights. One more Hellraiser to go.
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May 13, 2021 04:50
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I wouldn't say that critics as a rule hate leftist films but they absolutely as a rule will be willing to criticize leftist messaging far more harshly than they do the right wing psychopathy gleefully on display in much of the rest of hollywood.
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May 13, 2021 05:53
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Reminder that as of today Saint Maud is available for streaming on Hulu and Amazon Primedorium posted:There's only one bad purge movie and that's the first one. the rest are great 
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May 13, 2021 13:55
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I think the first one isn't a bad story to tell per se. It'd be a passable middle entry in the series or a decent episode of the TV show but as a first entry it was not the right story to tell.
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May 13, 2021 14:02
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But it was the cheapest. I don’t like it but I appreciate it because it was basically a test run so that they could do the bigger and better ones.
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May 13, 2021 14:16
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Drunkboxer posted:I kinda wanted to watch the Joker because of the zeitgeist or whatever but I just can’t muster the interest to see anything with Batman or Batman junk in it anymore. I think I’ll probably die without seeing another Batman movie. I'm very tired of each Batman being more dark and "realistic" than the last. I'm waiting for when we swing back to Batman 66 before I see another Batman thing.
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May 13, 2021 15:47
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CelticPredator posted:But it was the cheapest. I don’t like it but I appreciate it because it was basically a test run so that they could do the bigger and better ones. That's fair. I don't think you'd need a huge budget to do something that wasn't a bottle story though. For a concept that's so big and far reaching that's prob not where I would've started.
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May 13, 2021 15:49
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Lurdiak posted:I'm very tired of each Batman being more dark and "realistic" than the last. I'm waiting for when we swing back to Batman 66 before I see another Batman thing. Lego Batman
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May 13, 2021 15:51
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dorium posted:Lego Batman Yeah that and Batman: The Brave and the Bold were real fun.
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 Dee Snider's Strangeland (1998) sure is something else. Mediocre film-making, 1990's aesthetic, protracted scenes on internet chatrooms and a nu-metal soundtrack. It all combines to make something.... kinda, fun? It has a weird part in the middle not a lot of slashers do (if you thought the first sight of Bizarre Magazine version Snider was scary wait until you see the second...) and then Robert Englund shows up in his pants. This is why I prefer Amazon Prime's cheap weird VHS store approach to Netflix.
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May 13, 2021 16:09
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A horror hill I will die on is that The Purge neeeded/needs to be an anthology film. That the show only scratched that is baffling.
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May 13, 2021 16:15
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Chris James 2 posted:Reminder that as of today Saint Maud is available for streaming on Hulu and Amazon Prime Finally, been waiting on this for a while.
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May 13, 2021 16:23
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RobbZombae posted:This is why I prefer Amazon Prime's cheap weird VHS store approach to Netflix. Anyway, everybody watch Robot Jox.
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May 13, 2021 16:27
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Saint Maud was a good time.
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Halloween Jack posted:Right, it was a good movie and audiences liked it. The weird moral panic over it started before it was released. Vogue published an article about why they refused to review it. It got negative reviews from the NYT, The Atlantic, and other outlets for high-status idiots. There's an Alamo Drafthouse in a shopping area that I cut past the lobby of to go to other places there and they had security people checking everyone's backpacks on the day of the premiere. That one cop who kept saying the guy that shot up that Dark Knight screening claimed to be the Joker over and over again did a lot of damage.
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Halloween Jack posted:"Watch trash on Amazon Prime" has been my weekly online hangout with my best friend during the pandemic. Since I had to wait an hour in line for gas yesterday, we're keeping it up even though we're both vaccinated... Robot Jox does not fit into your stated purpose for these hangouts.
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May 13, 2021 18:54
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Robot Jox is absolutely trash. It is not garbage, which is very different. For example, The Bronx Executioner is garbage.
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May 13, 2021 18:58
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Robot Jox is cool and good and your friend.
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May 13, 2021 19:23
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The trash aspects of Robot Jox have aged like a fine wine. They don't make movies like that anymore.
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May 13, 2021 19:36
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Robot Jox is dumb fun, and certainly not even the worst dumb-fun Stuart Gordon film (Space Truckers)
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May 13, 2021 21:26
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Space Truckers is cool and good and your friend.
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May 13, 2021 21:55
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Hollismason posted:Space Truckers is cool and good and your friend. Absolutely. Space truckers is nutso every second.
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I only saw Space Truckers once at 7 AM on an 8th grade class trip in a hotel room. And I don't want to let go to it feeling like a weird dream I had.
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