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God Hole posted:i was enraptured by barry lyndon all the way through the first time i watched it. i am also never going to watch it again, and i think that's exactly how kubrick intended it Also yes Barry Lyndon is amazing.
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Judakel posted:i love him as a person that's how I feel about Ron Howard Mr Hootington posted:Nope it is stupid. Length of the movie doesn't matter. The quality of the movie matters. ughh my toddler is all about cocomelon these days, I miss the dinotunes/prehistorica phase  God Hole posted:a major point of discussion in the Green Knight CD thread was that it was boring as gently caress and needed a battle scene to spice things up Peanut President posted:yeah thats why i wanted to talk about it here, the CD thread was driving me insane. "i guess if you like boring pretentious art movies this is for you" says board that considers the transformers movies subtle outsider art critique of hollywood ?? I'm reading the thread now and that's literally just one poster, the overwhelming concensus is that it's  CD's rep vs reality will never cease to amaze lol
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I liked it when john cena and idris elba tried to one up each other
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Margot Robbie is cool. Hurry up with a new Tank Girl movie already. She's perfect.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:The new suicide squad owns I'm watching it right now and really enjoying it.
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Saw Another Round with Mads Mikkelsen yesterday. Very good, would absolutely destroy my life for a chance to get drunk with Mads and do jazz dance
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Jetto Jagga posted:Someone mentioned Godzilla vs Biollante earlier, it's a top 3 Godzilla for me. Bio firms are fighting over custody of Godzilla cells, the American company bombs the Saudi lab Dr Shirigami is working at and kills his daughter, driving him to create a Frankenstein horror out of his daughter's DNA + Godzilla + a rose, her favorite flower. Ambitious and overstuffed, the last great Godzilla entry until 2004's GMK. That was me! And I sadly agree. The Heisei era didn't feel as ambitious as the Showa era when it came to presenting Godzilla and the world, if that makes sense? Even Godzilla vs. Megalon had a delightfully wild human subplot. We either got some really flat performances and stories (I'm thinking of Godzilla vs. Mothra and Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla) or straight homages to other films that maybe crib a little too much from them (Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 2). One thing you never want is for a Godzilla movie to be boring outside of the monster fights, and I found myself skipping through them more often than not as an impressionable child. Also, GMK came out in 2001! 2004 was Godzilla: Final Wars, which features Don Frye wielding a katana like a baseball bat, some extremely inspired dialogue, and the worst Matrix ripoff you ever did see.
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i think this is the godzilla cultural product i'm most aware of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ha9U7YNyA
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the new suicide squad movie was pretty good. james gunn generally knows how to turn in an uncomplicated, enjoyable film i did laugh pretty hard at waller's team betraying her. like lmao you don't make it that deep into the engine of empire with any sort of conscience. felt very contrived and "america is bad but not that bad" in the way that you're required to do so your script gets approved viola davis owns as waller, who had a lot less to do in this movie but is regardless still the best character. i love it because the role she inhabits is historically fulfilled by dead-eyed mormons in starched suits, but she gets to be as much of a psychopathic imperialist with ice water in her veins but since she's a black woman it comes across differently. showing her to be truly depraved felt like a good response to all those woke cia ads about latina bi women claiming their space in the alphabet agencies also kudos to the movie for making me feel a little bad for starro, who i always considered a joke villain
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With starro introduced, they can bring I'm the best Robin Jarro.
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in pennyworth e02 they publicly execute jimmy savile
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Some Guy TT posted:lets say ten minutes or less for the sake of argument 'Curve' is exactly what you want
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Serf posted:i did laugh pretty hard at waller's team betraying her. like lmao you don't make it that deep into the engine of empire with any sort of conscience. felt very contrived and "america is bad but not that bad" in the way that you're required to do so your script gets approved Yeah I found that pretty funny too. Those chumps would've just kept their heads down and their mouths shut and hope that Waller never noticed any hesitation on their parts (she would have) It was even funnier when she let them live AND keep their jobs in the end. I was positive she was going to at a minimum black-bag all of them but nope, gotta have them feelgoods Polka Dot man owned lol
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Yeah I found that pretty funny too. Those chumps would've just kept their heads down and their mouths shut and hope that Waller never noticed any hesitation on their parts (she would have) i kinda thought that the implication of sending them to handle peacemaker after the credits was that at some point she would give the order to have him kill them all
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Polka Dot Man was phenomenal. And that actor's story is even more so. I'm not very familiar with the DC universe other than the movies and most popular novels like The Long Halloween. Was Starro a pretty deep cut? Also the mad scientist played by Capaldi? The back-stories were handled very well compared to the first iteration of this film.
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Starro isn't particularly obscure, it's probably the most well-known DC character in the movie besides Harley and Waller. (Obviously not saying much since the whole joke of Suicide Squad is it's full of Z-listers) Usually one of Superman or the League's cosmic level villains, though.
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one more thing about the The Suicide Squad portrayal of American atrocity/imperialism. I don't think it's bad- some criticize it as making light of imperialism, or confusing it with the political situation. I disagree, within a superhero context the American presence is clearly evil and villainous, and the political situation is that the U.S. was in favor of the old Nazi-sheltering family. I just wonder if turning it into a trope is almost like- Woke Anti-Imperialism? Or maybe not even that. Woke Capitalism highlights the woke aspects to hide capitalist malfeasance. This sort of comic book portrayal of imperialism brings it up, yawns at it as "just the way things are", and goes on. It's like Hollywood depictions of evil corporations. Or when they jokes about police brutality. It turns real life atrocity into a trope. It sort of reminds me how when The Dark Knight Rises came out, it was a little shocking to show C.I.A. as torturing captives on the plane, even if it was "just" psychological torture and then Bane gives him the comeuppance. If that sort of depiction had been in a Bush era movie, conservatives would be crying foul about how it was un-patriotically showing America's intelligence agents in a bad light. But by 2012 no one bats an eye, it was just scene setting, everyone knew that "we tortured some folks", that's just what the CIA does, plus Bane got the drop on him anyway. So it's interesting, I wonder if by turning these sins into tropes, they normalize them. So someone can watch The Suicide Squad and not get offended at the depiction of renegade cowboy ultra-violent American special forces going in and killing a bunch of Latin Americans in name of Yankee interests- because "hey, that's just how things are."
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a lot of people will say the main reason this feels more like a marvel movie is the quips, but in reality it is the winter soldier-esque conclusion that the status quo is the best we can do. this works better when you're dealing with morally gray characters, and considerably less so when you're dealing with captain america. the politically ambiguous factions in the film just come across as cowardice by gunn. dude is a puss compared to the previous dc directors
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i managed to watch most of the movie in humorless grump mode willing to acknowledge some bits as clever but still not a particularly cohesive whole very much a less than the sum of its parts kind of flick
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Starro isn't particularly obscure, it's probably the most well-known DC character in the movie besides Harley and Waller. (Obviously not saying much since the whole joke of Suicide Squad is it's full of Z-listers) Usually one of Superman or the League's cosmic level villains, though. Captain Boomerang is actually one of the Flash’s biggest nemeses. In the comics he often served the function of “See the Suicide Squad totally has important characters in it!” for the cover. Of course He dies in the first ten minutes of the movie so does he really count?
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Dammerung posted:What's the name of the main guy, Gibbs? I remember his actor having a dog or something that would attack the other actors on set, and refusing to do anything about it because they couldn't tell him what to do. I wonder if shows like that, wherein an actor portrays an unstoppable and untouchable cop, make the actors think they're invincible, or if they're naturally good fits for those sorts of roles because they believe that they're invincible. I like black coffee because I was a Marine. I was Marine and we take our coffee BLACK and therefore I am tough. Did I mention no cream in my coffee? 
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skooma512 posted:I like black coffee because I was a Marine. I was Marine and we take our coffee BLACK and therefore I am tough. Did I mention no cream in my coffee? I like when he dumps the nails out of the baby food jars and pours whiskey in it and drinks out of that, a real man's man
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if I see one more person on my Twitter timeline with a blue check mark/was a salaried employee throughout the pandemic/has a six-figure income go on and on about the greatness of Ted Lasso, I am going to throw my phone into the nearest river that show is basically The West Wing except not even occasionally funny, plus the main character is based off a rug-wearing cheat of a basketball coach
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anybody remember that piece of poo poo movie Hide and Seek, someone brought up the irishman in another thread and i have the image of robert de niro attempting to kill someone with this weird forced smirk with a split personality that was supposed to be an imaginary friend of some girl (??????????????) one of those unintentionally funny things that pops into my head occasionally
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZBHcQac3qo why is this hilarious i love algorithm-created content
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re: 2icide Squad - why would they kill off the only actors capable of delivering a joke in the first ten minutes. seems like a strange decision
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does pete davidson really deliver jokes? he was some kid of comedy wunderkind at one point but I kinda figured Lorne Michaels keeps him on because he can never admit he's made a mistake.
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i like pete  edit vvvv oh yeah i hate pete
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Lmao, Pete apologised to that hosed up eyepatch guy for making fun of him.
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ok I finished 2icide Squad it was ok. not sure how you get anti imperialism out of that but it’s definitely critical of particular types of American intervention
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