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Red Rocket was painful and enthralling in equal measure. It felt like it captured the spirit of a washed-up pornstar in the same way Louis Theroux's porn documentaries did, although in this case it's more of an outright awful person (who is clearly aware they have charisma). By the end I was just hoping that Mikey would get out without causing further damage to any of the far more sympathetic characters. The performances are strong and Sean Baker has a real talent for capturing life on the American fringes but I'd struggle to outright recommend it.
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I actually liked Bullet Head, a sort of lite-Tarantino talk'em-up, refreshingly without a bunch of Tarantino themes... but the movie opens with this whole sequence from the perspective of a dog. You see this play out a few times in the movie, this dog's perspective as it is told to sit, come, stay, etc. on its way to a place where Bad Things Happen. I thought for sure the plot twist was going to be that the perspective we are seeing is that of a person. It's really obvious; we only ever hear grunts and sounds, which sound beastial but could be made by a human. We only ever see a chain, never any paw or part of the dog. But no... it turns out it was a dog. Which made me doubly sad and annoyed, because I was thinking that the coming "plot twist" was being too foreshadowed and that it was going to be too obvious... but then it wasn't a plot twist at all, and now I'm left wondering if it was meant to be a fakeout or did I read too much into it, or maybe it was going to be a person but somewhere in production they changed it.
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PTizzle posted:Red Rocket was painful and enthralling in equal measure. It felt like it captured the spirit of a washed-up pornstar in the same way Louis Theroux's porn documentaries did, although in this case it's more of an outright awful person (who is clearly aware they have charisma). By the end I was just hoping that Mikey would get out without causing further damage to any of the far more sympathetic characters. It feels like a Safdie brothers movie in the south. A lot of the actors in the movie are non-professionals and I feel like that really makes the tone. Simon Rex was really good too and I had no idea who he was before I saw this film.
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Oldboy: Somebody wrote this script one-handed, and I don't just mean the sex scenes. This is so close to being a brilliant satire of conservative American value fantasy. All it needs is a title card at the end saying "men would rather do this than get therapy."
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Eternals: Eeeeehhhheeaaayyyueeehhhmmmmmeeeehhhuuuggghhhhheehehmnmnmnmnnnnnnnneh.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom isn't great. Willie and Short Round both kind of suck though not bad enough to deserve the slaps they get from Indy. Short Round at least gets to do something besides screech at the scenery, which is more than I can say for the future Mrs. Spielberg. There were a lot more "huh huh look at this" gross out gags than was really necessary. The mine car sequence is by far the high point of the film. This is the least of the original three by a long shot though it beats out the fourth one.
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Feb 5, 2022 07:25
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Out of Bounds: So, is this kid going to be going to prison for a long loving time or what?
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The Privilege on Netflix: 1) if you're going to use really obvious and hilarious stock sounds, don't use them in the dramatic peak of your opening sequence and also every time you replay that scene. 2) That's not white noise. Why would you not use actual white noise? It's not copyrighted, and every decent audio mixer has it built in. There's even recordings freely available online. 3) I guess there's no FDA in Germany. 4) gently caress this movie for showing us elderly woman boobs, but having the main characters remain completely clothed while they have a random threeway. 5) The Privilege actually refers to the main character living in a modern art gallery posing as a house, which makes sense if you consider that his mother is Andy Warhol. Society was a much better movie than this.
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The Art of Self Defense: Everything in this movie is like, five percent wrong which is a great tone for a comedy, feels like you're watching a feature-length Walmart associate training video. Super cathartic ending. Great use of color, love how the cinematography changes into a different movie completely once our protagonist starts taking the night classes.
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Fistful of Vengeance on Netflix. I'm pretty sure a movie happened while I was watching this. There was lots of fighting and mystical poo poo, yet I am at a loss to explain any of the events depicted or who any of the characters were or what they were doing or why. Score: 10 out of A+
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Guns Akimbo is an aggressively stupid film that kind of gets away with it because of how over the top the violence is. Huge Shoot Em Up (2007) energy - in fact, doesn't the last act of Shoot Em Up have Clive Owen getting guns bolted to his hosed up hands? In any case, I'm glad Daniel Radcliffe has been set up for life by Harry Potter to do whatever weird indie project catches his attention.
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The Batman (spoiled because it's really new) was super weird to me because most of it I was annoyed at how bad they did a lot of things and then at the end they made all the bad stuff make sense. I think I'm gonna rewatch it in a new light when it's out of theatres. Like their portrayal of the Riddler was terrible imo for most of the movie but at the end it felt as if that was a portrayal by the riddler so create his following and not who he really was and in that light it was cool.
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The Batman was cool. Good looking film, great cast. Good to see marvel hasn’t completely ruined action blockbusters
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Wife made me watch the Bad Batch (2016). Felt like a Kelly reichardt film the way it meandered along but kind of didn’t feel like it got what it was reaching for. It’s a movie that knows it’s a movie but doesn’t really say anything interesting about it imo
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Stolen Kisses owns. There's so much truth in how Antoine acts it's hard not to see parts of my younger self in him. Excited to see where he ends up in the last two
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Dr. Strangelove: First of all holy poo poo it's so good. Apparently Megadeth named their band after a sign in it and that's super cool. It was also funny as hell.
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Two English Girls is causing an existential crisis in me. 4.5/5 stars
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Man with Hat posted:Dr. Strangelove: First of all holy poo poo it's so good. technically not a sign 
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I was thinking of watching High Fidelity again, then I realized I truly hadn't seen Evil Dead 2 yet. It's fun as hell, obviously. The pacing is great, the production value is great for how low the budget is, and the Raimi camera goofiness is just enjoyable. The video and sound quality do suck, though. I put on Army of Darkness afterwards (I had seen that before) and the difference in quality is pretty jarring. That, and the low budget, would probably make this movie seem extremely dated if you didn't know what you were getting into.
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Last Week: Fanny And Alexander: I wouldn't have predicted this when it took an hour for the plot to start but I kinda wish I watched the longer 5 hour version. Idk what the common interpretation is but I see the whole thing as being from Alexander's POV - even the scenes where he's not present. The Bishop probably wasn't even that bad a guy, really. 8.5/10 Autumn Sonata - This feels like baseline Bergman. Just two characters in a room revealing their emotional damage. Once again, I have to side with the 'bad' parent and say Ingrid isn't so awful. Stop busting your mother's balls, okay? 8/10 A Woman Under The Influence: Think I posted about this in genchat already, don't remember. A better Cassavetes than TKOACB was. Awkward, uncomfortable, brutal. Now I understand why we never saw Colombo's wife on the show. 7/10 Eyes Without A Face: P cool little classic horror story. Watch this if you want some Dracula vibes but with a little bit more going on underneath the surface. 7/10 0 For Conduct: The pillow fight was well shot. 0/10 The Adam Project: Not my pick. Ryan Reynolds is annoying. 4/10 Withnail & I: I bet theater kids loved this poo poo back in the day. Less so now because, you know, all the gay panic stuff. Withnail's actor does a great job and the dialogue is witty but I didn't really find the movie funny. A cult classic where I'm not in the cult so lets split the diff and give it a generous 7/10 This weekend: The Power of the Dog: Was OK, but why is such a simple story so long? Kind of a slog tbh, surprised this got nominated when something like The Green Knight wasn't. 6.5/10 Big Bug: The French aren't funny. Not my pick, didn't finish. No score.
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Mantis42 posted:Big Bug: The French aren't funny. Not my pick, didn't finish. No score. Finally saw The Rock, so much loving fun. What a stacked cast. Robert Duvall trying to blackmail the pentagon for its iran contra slush fund to pay his death squad troops while pointing nerve gas at san francisco, it all proved to me that 90s Michael Bay, Bruckheimer, and a resurrected Don Simpson (with a heart made of cocaine) coulda made an amazing and fittingly ridiculous Metal Gear Solid movie.
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La Chinoise is mostly boring. The aesthetic is cool, but the only two parts that really stood out are the conversation on the train, and when Léaud and the Woman are talking, he tells her he loves her, but they cannot even have a normal conversation without devolving into mindless maoist rhetoric. I think I understand what he was trying to do, with the young people desiring some change, but their lives have already been so commercialized that even Communism becomes another product to be sold to them. And like a catchy jingle, they can only cast it back like an echo, they spend the whole movie Learning but never Thinking. . All in all a rather boring experience. Give it one and a half stars half for the mao map song and one star for Léaud who I'd watch watching paint dry. I don't know much about the man, but something about the way this movie worked makes me feel like Godard had serious imposter syndrome, and was absolutely terrified that he wasn't as cool or innovative as he thought. The film was just giving off vibes of a man very uncomfortable in his own skin. I'm highly biased against him though, I read about his split with Truffaut and having been so enamored with Truffaut's films I've got an instinct to read everything Godard does or is very uncharitabley despite myself.
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Watched The Neon Demon last night. It was just ok? Seemed kind of long but I enjoyed the performances and the long shot of Jena Malone bathing in the tub of blood was super creepy and cool.
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Zathura: A Space Adventure was on TV and I was bored. Yeah it 's a blatent ripoff of Jumanji, but really a sci-fi themed version of that story is a solid concept. This film is not bad; not great. Kristen Stewart was kinda wasted in what was barely a role. Didn't really need the twist at the end, but how else are they going to squeeze in the incestuous undertone, i guess.
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Buttchocks posted:Zathura: A Space Adventure was on TV and I was bored. Yeah it 's a blatent ripoff of Jumanji, but really a sci-fi themed version of that story is a solid concept. This film is not bad; not great. Kristen Stewart was kinda wasted in what was barely a role. Didn't really need the twist at the end, but how else are they going to squeeze in the incestuous undertone, i guess.
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My Dinner with Andre is an incredibly interesting little film. I wish more films had the courage to just lean fully into two characters having a bit of philosophy without all the extraneous bullshit. There's a tendency for works like this to push a favored reading, especially in the final act, the film gains a lot by having both the two mains making pretty good points. Andre is right that the modern world tends to denigrate the basic acts of living, but his constant need to try and force these transcendent experiences is both unhealthy and ultimately unachievable to the majority of people, a fact reinforced every time they show how out of place Wally is in such a moneyed restaurant, and especially at the end when Andre grabs the check. Wally seems to be a lot more grounded, but while he can take joy in the smaller things in life, he also spends the majority of his life simply spinning his wheels. Perhaps after their dinner both of them can take a bit of each other and both end up happier. Kinda sad they felt the need to bait and switch with the title, how many people were expecting Andre 3000 to show up at dinner? I know I did. The Young Girls of Rochefort I didn't know this was a musical when I started it. It reminds me of Tyler's video for SEE YOU AGAIN
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Martman posted:It's based on an actual sequel to the Jumanji book! Huh, I did not know there was a sequel! I also never made the connection that Jumanji and Polar Express were written by the same person.
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Swiss Army Man absolutely absurd but somehow still emotionally touching. nothing else like it
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loving walking by and the homeless man quotes Boethius. Go gently caress youself 24 Hour Party People New Order is the only band in the movie that isn't an embarrassment
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I started watching hustle and flow but couldn’t finish it because the main character was mean to a baby and I felt too sad 
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The Decameron, it's nice to see such a depiction of medieval society. But there doesn't seem to be much point to the movie. And the way it's shot with the long pauses on peoples faces and almost no score, it doesn't feel...representative of the novel is I think what I want to say. Not exactly a bad time watching it, but a film that doesn't seem like it has any purpose besides entertainment, and maybe the glorification of the lower classes over the upper. I do appreciate how few fucks the movie gives about sex and nudity. I'm so loving over this neo puritan poo poo that keeps happening in media.
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Everything everywhere all at once is so drat good, audience even gave it an ovation. The score was great even though I was hoping for something as idiosyncratic as Swiss army man. Loved it
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Jenny Agutter posted:Everything everywhere all at once is so drat good, audience even gave it an ovation. The score was great even though I was hoping for something as idiosyncratic as Swiss army man. Loved it We just got out of this earlier, and my wife and I both left the theater teary eyed and full of existential hope.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once is one of the greatest films ever made and has instantly found its way into my top 10. Over time I could see it becoming my favorite movie ever. Peak cinema.
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Out of all the cinematic fight scenes that can only come to an end by yanking a buttplug out of one guy's rear end and a dildo from another, it's my #1 Seriously it's a really good movie
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Everything Everywhere All At Once was a wild ride. I expected a lot from the trailer and the movie gave so much more. Costumes, music, and even no music were all spot on. So many movies are full of one-off goofs but this one finds a way to pull them all together for the plot. Go see this movie!
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zerofiend posted:We just got out of this earlier, and my wife and I both left the theater teary eyed and full of existential hope. Oh good, it wasn’t just me, lol. The last time I left a movie feeling that good was Mad Max: Fury Road. Everything Everywhere All at Once might even be better. I think it’s the best movie I’ve seen in a decade. I started smiling the moment James Hong first appeared and basically never stopped.
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