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Iirc (haven't seen them in years) he was going to basically go full shitnuts and declare war, got on national tv, and then embarrassed himself by playing some jazz tape, thereby not being intimidating at all. The real scary part of those movies is how well the hyperrepublican caricatures would fit into today's republican party.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:
You should check out a movie called Bob Roberts. It was made in 1992 and looks like a real documentary right now
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BiggerBoat posted:Good lord this. I can't watch any of Nolan's movies without needing the volume remote nearby except maybe for Momento. This is not the greatest speech in the world NO this is a tribute!
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Morpheus posted:I did like Patterson in it, he seemed like the only person that wasn't some weird mannequin character. Same. The *only* character in that entire curséd movie who didn't seem like they were playing an alien hiding in human skin.
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Roblo posted:I watched Dunkirk again and it's pretty impressive (even if the out of synch stuff is just a little bit too much for my tastes) but: The short Dunkirk scene in Atonement did a better job capturing just the mass of people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpadPP9c-sE
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When am I going to learn that movies "starring Bruce Willis" now means "he basically makes a cameo and is off screen for the rest of it"? What was I even expecting from a movie called "Out of Death"? Why are these corrupt cops so bad at being corrupt?
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In sitcoms when characters hangout before work. Who has the energy for that?
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BiggerBoat posted:You should check out a movie called Bob Roberts. It was made in 1992 and looks like a real documentary right now BiggerBoat is right. Back in 2018 I looked up the Bob Roberts trailer to see how its 25-year-old satire held up, and, well... https://youtu.be/yRpWaJRyVQo
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My wife is watching the Big Bang theory and my god this guy Leonard is a giant loving loser
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NorgLyle posted:My personal dumb theory with the upcoming Spider-Man movie (that was originally a joke) is that all of the movies happened now. What does that mean? How is that possible? Magic rewriting the multiverse; don't think about it or worry about it. Just know that now in the Marvel Multiverse, Tom Holland did reject the symbiote and ruin Eddie Brock's career and fail to save Gwen Stacy and create Electro and so on an so on. Aside from laying out that somehow Palpatine returned, the exact specifics of what any of it means will not be explored or answered or dealt with; they will just let future movie makers pick and choose the 'fun stuff' that they want from every movie that they own now. Movies are finally embracing the comics. Everything is cannon, nothing is permanent, it's all from a different universe or artist if something doesn't make sense. All the Spider-Mans are the real Spider-Man. All the Batmen are the real Batman. Michael Keaton is simultaneously Batman, the Vulture, Birdman, and every other knock-off he's ever portrayed; one day we will get a film with Keaton playing every role, ala that one scene with John Malcovich in "Being John Malcovich," except it will be played entirely straight and sincere.
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Spider-verse might have been a positive influence on the MCU. Kinda shocking. I think it doesn't help that Disney is learning the hard way what comics did decades ago; people don't like when you switch out a protagonist for someone you originally made to be their supporting cast.
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Nov 7, 2021 09:52
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Nov 7, 2021 11:20
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null_pointer posted:My loathing for Tenet knows no bounds. There was not one human emotion in the whole film. From start to finish, it was a near continuous irritating movie moment. I will merrily defend Nolan movies as actually more emotional than people give him credit for. But even I draw the line at Tenet. You can kind of see the emotional beats he was trying to go for. You've got these two big closing speeches - R-Pats talking about an expression of faith in the consistency of the universe, the Protagonist talking about the bomb that didnt go off. It's trying to tell a story about traumatised people learning to have hope and optimism again, but there's just gently caress all there until these completely un-earned closing monologues. I cant even blame it on the incomprehensible time-fuckery, because the rest of the plot is equally incomprehensible.
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Nov 7, 2021 11:28
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CORN: Field of screams - how can people be this bad at seeing people that are right in front of them? These people they're chasing are so horrible at hiding, like for example two of them hide in a lit up swimming pool at night and the girl just goes underwater and holds her breath and the guys chasing her just don't see her. This wasn't a murky pond, it was a chlorinated swimming pool with submerged lighting. It's like someone played Skyrim and thought it was realistic that as long as you're crouching it's physically impossible for anyone to see you.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:CORN: Field of screams - how can people be this bad at seeing people that are right in front of them? These people they're chasing are so horrible at hiding, like for example two of them hide in a lit up swimming pool at night and the girl just goes underwater and holds her breath and the guys chasing her just don't see her. This wasn't a murky pond, it was a chlorinated swimming pool with submerged lighting. It's like someone played Skyrim and thought it was realistic that as long as you're crouching it's physically impossible for anyone to see you. 
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Honestly that is a better hiding job than the main character. At one point toward the end, she loudly clambers into a window talking to the guy trapped on the table, and when the guy just in the other room who would definitely have heard her comes in she just freezes right under the window, and despite her being lit up fine, he doesn't see her. To make it worse, someone pops into that same window with a flashlight and is like "anyone who shouldn't be here in here?". Just look down! she's right there!
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Wow that's way past harvest time.
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No Time to Die: The characters drive dangerously fast even when they do not need to.
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It's because on a subconscious level they all want to die.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I will merrily defend Nolan movies as actually more emotional than people give him credit for. See, up until Tenet, I felt that Nolan's movies had a lot of emotion in them. I mean, the emotional thrust was often incredibly depressing (Memento's view on human identity, The Prestige's take on obsession) but could actually be occasionally uplifting (Inception, the Batman trilogy). But Tenet should have been suffocated in its bed.
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James Bond is Sisyphus except the boulder is drunken sex with beautiful women with punny names.
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null_pointer posted:See, up until Tenet, I felt that Nolan's movies had a lot of emotion in them. I mean, the emotional thrust was often incredibly depressing (Memento's view on human identity, The Prestige's take on obsession) but could actually be occasionally uplifting (Inception, the Batman trilogy). I'm 100% certain he's trolling everyone bitching about his audio problems in the scene on the boat. Protagonist and Kenneth Branagh are on a loud high-speed boat and talking to each other about important poo poo with muffled earphones and we can't hear poo poo either. Why the gently caress would they talk on a loud boat.
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I still like the Prestige ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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FreudianSlippers posted:James Bond is Sisyphus except the boulder is drunken sex with beautiful women with punny names. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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christmas boots posted:You get like one Miles Morales a decade And even then, it took Spider-verse for that to really stick. Sometimes you get the opposite like with Green Lantern and the Flash, where Geoff Johns really wants to push the original ones that no one cares about even if he has to basically give them the personalities of the newer ones people actually like.
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RCarr posted:Wanting to die but not having time to die seems like constant torture. Capitalism does suck, yeah.
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Armacham posted:I still like the Prestige ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Same, it rules.
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Armacham posted:I still like the Prestige ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's based on a book rather than an original property, though. And the best part is Michael Caine's VO in the trailer, about which Christopher Priest was really upset that he didn't think of it for the book.
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Armacham posted:I still like the Prestige ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I thought it was going to be a movie about shooting lightning around and then it was just all talking so I turned it off after half an hour or something.
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Watched The Good Liar with my mum last night and holy poo poo that tonal shift at the end just completely took me out of it. The whole movie is fun and charming and yeah he's a bad guy and ruthlessly breaks a guy's hand and kills another guy but he's still cheeky and charming and... I dunno, fun? And you're waiting for him to get his comeuppance because it's pretty obvious that she's scamming him instead of the other way around. So then it happens and it's a really fun scene with him stumbling like an old goof and we get a bit of history and we go from funny old con artist to rapist in like 10 seconds of fairly explicit exposition.  Like, I dunno, it wasn't exactly bad or anything but it just blindsided me and left a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe it's the medium and it works better in the novel but the whole thing is lighthearted, fun, not too serious and then boom, you're watching the character, that you were kinda rooting for to realise he fell in love with his target and to change his criminal ways, rape her as his pupil when he was her tutor. Just... yuck.
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The irrationally irritating part of 'Finch' is that you will accurately predict who lives and who dies and how it ends merely by being told the star and the premise: On a post-apocalyptic Earth, Tom Hanks creates an AI to take care of his dog. Don't worry, it's not the dog.
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The thing that pissed me off about finch is the guy decides to have a cross-country RV road trip decades after a very sudden apocalyptic "Carrington x100" event. Somehow fuel isn't even a consideration and the roads are just perfect for travelling with no blockades or cars broken down. Peak car-brain. Also scenes where the mc coughs watery blood capsules all over himself and pathetically exclaims "i've ruined my suit!" it's castaway with cars but wilson survives instead Jokerpilled Drudge has a new favorite as of 13:12 on Nov 8, 2021 |
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Well, in the beginning he mentions they have to get out of Chicago and can't go north or south for reasons, so I guess going west made sense. Maybe he had to keep going to scavenge for food? Also, having grown up where tornados are common, unless that RV was a LOT more heavily armored than it looked, all staking it to the road would mean is that the shredded remains of the RV would be easy to find after the tornado passed. I've seen 2x4s driven through cinderblock walls. A lot of movies make this mistake with tornados, even, famously, Twister, the movie about tornados, i.e. it's not the wind -- it's what else is in the wind. A tornado is not a small hurricane, where you tie everything down and ride out the wind. A tornado is the cartoon Tasmanian Devil carrying meat cleavers in both hands. Imagined has a new favorite as of 13:38 on Nov 8, 2021 |
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In Last Night In Soho, An old man is hit by a black cab because he's standing in the road outside the Toucan. He doesn't just step into traffic, he has a lengthy conversation while standing in the middle of Carlisle Street. The thing is, this is pretty much impossible. The Toucan is right by Soho Square, and on a one way street the cab would have had to take a sharp turn onto, he wouldn't have had the chance to build up the speed to not be able to stop in time. Soho is also FULL of drunk pedestrians wandering into the middle of the road, no cabbie is going to speed through the area even if it was possible. You can't even blame it on spooky shenanigans, it just happens!
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm 100% certain he's trolling everyone bitching about his audio problems in the scene on the boat. Protagonist and Kenneth Branagh are on a loud high-speed boat and talking to each other about important poo poo with muffled earphones and we can't hear poo poo either. Why the gently caress would they talk on a loud boat.  . It definitely felt like Nolan was taking a huff, in the same way Jason Bourne felt like Paul Greengrass was deliberately leaning into "you can't see anything during the shakeycam action" out of spite.
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Imagined posted:Well, in the beginning he mentions they have to get out of Chicago and can't go north or south for reasons, so I guess going west made sense. Maybe he had to keep going to scavenge for food? my issue is where is the fuel coming from? Also, why are the roads clear? Finch also seems to "accidentally" invent a lot of AI which is a huge stretch
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Revisiting the corn movie: my main irritation with it is the corn had zero role in the murders. In children of the corn at least they got the corn involved. In this one, despite the site of the screams being explicitly defined to be in the field, the corn was...just there. I was hoping for at least some cob through the skull action.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Revisiting the corn movie: my main irritation with it is the corn had zero role in the murders. In children of the corn at least they got the corn involved. In this one, despite the site of the screams being explicitly defined to be in the field, the corn was...just there. I was hoping for at least some cob through the skull action. It's like all those low budget movies that have a big name listed as a star and it turns out the guy has 5 minutes of low-effort screen time.
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Facebook Aunt posted:It's like all those low budget movies that have a big name listed as a star and it turns out the guy has 5 minutes of low-effort screen time. It's more offensive than that because at least those other movies aren't titled like "BruceWillis: punches to the face"
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