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The Man From Hong Kong loving owns. It's a role reversal sort of Bond knockoff where in most of the movies it's a white guy going to an exotic country and banging their women, this is an Australian movie about an agent from Hong Kong (Jimmy Wang Yu) going to Sydney and fighting James Bond himself, George Lazenby. The fight scenes are bloody and dynamic, there's a legit great car chase, Toecutter Joe shows up, it's fun. Agent Fang is a protagonist in the mold of all those Dirty Harry cops who don't play by the rules except taken to the nth degree. There's a scene where he drives a baddie off the road and their car explodes, and Fang gets out just to watch the guy burn for a little bit.
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The French Connection New York in the seventies should get a best actor award for all the work it put in in making some of the best movies of that decade.
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Venom 2 let there be carnage, not as good as venom but hell, at least it was short. I’m assuming if this series continues by part 4 Michelle Williams and her doctor fiancé will be the main protagonist with Tom hardy providing comedic relief
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Just saw Everything Everywhere All At Once. Probably the most…film I’ve seen in a long time. I totally get what people mean when they saw it’s like watching the Matrix for the first time. Not as exciting or revolutionary but there’s absolute buttloads of potential to be extracted from it. Very fun, far more silly than I expected. Was slightly ruined as the film was audible but quiet for the first 50 minutes until staff clearly realised and jacked up the volume to ear blistering levels without warning. It made the film feel strangely anaemic and dull until then.
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May 9, 2022 23:18
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Jenny Agutter posted:Venom 2 let there be carnage, not as good as venom but hell, at least it was short. I’m assuming if this series continues by part 4 Michelle Williams and her doctor fiancé will be the main protagonist with Tom hardy providing comedic relief More like first polycule portrayed in a major blockbuster
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May 10, 2022 00:54
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The Piano Teacher - Great film. It felt psychologically real in a way that many films, including many films I've really enjoyed, don't. The way our understanding of Erika and her sexuality evolves as the story unfolds is masterful. I haven't seen too many other films by Heneke, going to add him to my list of directors I need to explore more (a list that grows, fractal like, the more a person watches). 9/10 Project A - Jackie Chan and his two 'brothers' Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao show up in what I believe is their first outing together as a trio, setting the template for most of their films of that era. This time Jackie's going up against some pirates while dealing with the interservice rivalry of the navy and colonial police. Or something like that, the plot in these movies don't matter at all. Unfortunately the best action comes around the halfway point, with the third act acting mostly in service of the comedy rather than the action, although there is a final fight to make up for it. But drat, that bike chase and clock tower scene brought the fire. 6.5/10 Good Time - Safdie brothers really know how to twist a character's balls, don't they? This has all the anxiety of Uncut Gems without having the safety net of the Sandler character's familial wealth. Dirtbag characters making poor decisions that compound on themselves into utter catastrophe are just naturally compelling. 9/10
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Two more on the plane, first spider man no way home (2021) which was fine. It’s no Spider man 2 (2004) and it’s idk a little weird that the marvel film with the most empathetic and good character ends with the worst poo poo happening to him. Whatever it’s been said before I’m sure. Then watched Licorice Pizza (2021) folks this is a drat film. So PTA I could taste it in the first couple minutes, fun and light hearted but somehow not slight at all. Fantastic performances all around. I love me a good minor character and this movie had several 👍👍
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The Booksellers A real mess of a documentary, it feels like they shot a ton of footage and then just chopped it all up without rhyme or reason to get to the hour and a half mark. The stories from the Booksellers themselves don't tend to be that interesting, there isn't enough focus on the texts themselves, and it's attempts at any sort of grander meaning or thesis are flaccid at best. It hits all your standard beats the basic bookman, the weird out there bookman, the highest priced bookman, the largest collection bookman, the woman author collector book woman, the minority collector book woman, before finally asking the question we were all waiting for "Is books dying?" Which it, with much courage answers with a hearty "Perhaps". There is a few good stories and cool shots of rare books and collections. But this is one of the rare times I can say, just throw it on while your doing chores around the house.
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It's a Wonderful LIfe is an amazing film that holds up very well, I didn't expect to get emotional at the end but I did 
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Rambo: Last Blood This is hilarious schlock. Theres a scene where Rambo impales a dude against a wall with 4 arrows(1 for each limb) then proceeds to cut his heart out and shows it to him while its still beating, Mayan style. Yeah, totally inline with what made the character of John Rambo great!
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The Northman (2022) was fuckin cool, now I think revenge is sick and to never trust a mother
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Watched Bloodfist starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson which was a mostly unremarkable kickboxing movie, my favorite part was when Don "The Dragon" Wilson got so frustrated with his girl that he jump kicked a lightbulb out There are 8 sequels
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The Mummy (1932) If only he had known, These hoes ain't loyal
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Ok Bloodfist 2 I mainly slept through but they had an evil scientist injecting mysterious goo into kickboxers to make them impervious to damage which is a step in the right direction. Bloodfist 3 on the other hand is a really seedy prison drama that's surprisingly decent!
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Old was very terribad but the pregnant eliza scanlon reveal was just excellent stuff.
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Elevator to the Gallows It's great that this dude's murder plan was competent unlike say Double Indemnity's plan, then the dude fucks it all up in the dumbest way. The movie almost lost me at the end, but the final scene as the photo's developed saved it. I almost feel bad for the pair, if they'd only run off together instead of choosing murder the whole thing could've been a fun romp instead of a tense noir. Standout shot was the MC giving the report to his boss while wearing the gloves, just that one thing being off signaling poo poo is about to go down.
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May 16, 2022 05:05
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The Conversation was good, but I expected it to be better given the way people talk about it. Also funny that he shows a few ways of surveilling without needing a microphone in the room, yet tears up his apartment looking for something that might not even be there.
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From my Letterboxd: Old A nice under 2 hour sci-fi horror. It’s not peak Shyamalan, but it’s well directed and shot with a fun concept and creepy body horror. Plus it looks into the horrors of capitalism (big pharma specifically) without ethics. It is funny how much everyone’s job completely defines them (actuary talks future and stats, museum curator talks bones and past, therapist trying to talk it all out, and medical people doing medical things). But in the power of time, none of that matters. None of their careers can change their fate. Only love remains. Only friendships can save them. Time is shown to literally heal all wounds (cuts and arguments). But time also ends everything. The movie needed to end like 10 minutes earlier though
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May 17, 2022 00:48
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8mm The detective descending deeper and deeper into the bowels of hidden society is my favorite genre, and this film did an admiral job until the end. I kept waiting for the reveal that the snuff film was fake, or he was in a snuff film the whole time, or something. instead it ends on a weirdly uplifting note for a movie where the MC murders two people instead of going to the police, and gets one person killed. Gandolfini killed it. If true romance didn't convince me the man could be tony this woulda. I only realized halfway through that the kid was phoenix
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May 17, 2022 05:15
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My Night at Maud's Eyes wide Shut, with less paranoia. A fascinating examination of the conflict between the human form and the religious ideal. A model for healthy relationships, a spotlight into a man who loves too easily only to be let down. Maud contains multitude in it's slight runtime. I liked Rohmer's other tales, but the dude went back to the shop, got back on the field and decided to only hit Homerun. Rohmer might be lowkey one of my favorite directors.
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Bonnie and Clyde was just about perfectly balanced. I've heard people claim it makes them too sympathetic but man am I baffled at that reading. They are stupid sociopathic teenagers who can only get off on self-righteousness and violence and godawful poetry...but I still felt sad when they met their deserved end. Outside of that, I loved the scene-setting of depression era sharecroppers. the slideshow at the beginning really did a great job of putting me in the space, and it held there the entire time. "it's so clean!" says Blance as they walk into a filthy and disgusting house.
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Jules et Jim it's nice to be back to some Truffaut, but I had a premonition that I wasn't going to love it, and I sure didn't. Obviously the easiest comparison to another movie is going to be Two English Girls, the same relationship triangle exists. But against popular opinion I prefer much more how Two English Girls did it. There the characters all feel like people too trapped in their own heads and end up constantly making the wrong decision at the right time or the right decision at the wrong time. The whole film exudes a deep melancholy, it has an almost dream like quality about it, an impressionist film perhaps. Jules and Jim is more grounded, but bringing in the war gives such a clean break to the Happy/Sad dichotomy that it loses something. Jules himself is no fun to watch at all, Dude is the Stu making pudding at 3am of french cinema, and Catherine comes off as awful. I don't know if I've ever seen someone so conceited and unwilling to grow up. The actress does do a great portraying such a troubled woman, almost the same premise as the character of hers in Elevator to the Gallows with a dash more impulsiveness.
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I remember watching Jules and Jim years ago and being like "wow wes anderson just took all of this huh"
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Rope Leopold and Loeb's even dumber cousins decide to murder a man they both know in their apartment and then invite over people whom know them both for a party. I honestly feel bad for Nietzsche for how bad a rap he gets from dunderheads like these whom are as incapable of reading as they are getting away with murder. Other than that, it's a pretty tense joint, but it didn't feel like much special to me. I hadn't even really considered how difficult it would be to do a film like that back in the day with actual film and all that. A good film but I can honestly say reading about it's production was more interesting to me personally. Une Histoire d'Eau This sucked tracking down. It's not often you can see the clash in styles between directors in one piece, and so clearly. You can see the Phantasmical rather than Fantastical romance underlying the film so clearly Truffaut, and then Godard came in to remix it with his constant narration and philosophical/commercial navel gazing. To be fair though I think it works. The driving beats and overheads give a sense of urgency to what would otherwise be a pretty lackadaisical short. It's also interesting to see the water imagery, and the boat with it show up again. This is the first of it, but you also see it heavily in Domicile Conjugal, and The Woman Next Door , there's a series of degeneration or something with it being actual people in this short, it being models in Bed and Board. and then it scaled down models in Woman Next Door, I don't have a hypothesis for what it means, but it's interesting.
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Watch the first three Eva rebuilds. Great animation and music, if you liked nge you’ll probably like these too
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Jenny Agutter posted:Watch the first three Eva rebuilds. Great animation and music, if you liked nge you’ll probably like these too Watch the last one, it cashes the checks the third one wrote.
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Just finished Deadpool and Deadpool 2 and I don't understand what the point of Yukio's character was in Deadpool 2.
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Thunderball was boring but the ‘high speed’ boat chase at the end was great to watch.
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SuperTeeJay posted:Thunderball was boring but the ‘high speed’ boat chase at the end was great to watch. I always really liked the chase into the Carnival, and Fiona Vulpe Last Year at Marienbad I slept on it and am still sure, this is my new favorite movie.
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Thief Soon as I saw Tangerine Dreams I knew this poo poo was going to be dope. I usually barely notice scores in movies, but this ones might've been the best actor in the film. I think most people would agree after some thought that their is a special pleasure one feels in seeing a master working their craft, and Mann does an amazing job of showing the sheer blood and grit it takes to get the job done. And all that leads back to what a great job the movie does, surprisingly, at portraying Labor relations. I've seen a lot of "Smarter" movies that totally miss the human element of the devaluation of Labor. Granted perhaps it was a little on the nose to have him abandoning his family, blowing up his house, and his business; or to have the Mob boss give a speech that amounts to "gently caress you, your life is mine and I'll ride you until you die" but hell why not. Seventh Seal Really well shot and acted but not particularly resonant with me personally. Still interesting though Gaius Marius fucked around with this message at 05:21 on May 25, 2022 |
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Spider-Man No Way Home: feels like into the spiderverse is just the better version of this film. No way home is a bit long and takes a while with its convoluted college entry plot just to get all the villains and spidermen there. It’s fun seeing old characters again, but it always best to include a nic cage super hero if given the chance.
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Mission Impossible Vacillates wildly between being a goofy bond ripoff and being a de palma film. I love how they don't even bother giving the badguy a reason, and the second he gets fully revealed he turns into a total rear end in a top hat who shoots his wife immediately. Hit a lot of the fun action movie and spy thriller notes I was looking for, but it misses the fun travel aspect. Every Bond film has at least one place that I'd die to go to, The Ice Hotel, the Piz Gloria, Macauian Casino's those kinda places. MI just didn't get there with it's non descript Praguian streets and palaces. Mission Impossible 2 Movie really doesn't pass the vibe check. Having John Woo direct is the first in a series of totally baffling choices in the film. The film tries to pull a Goldeneye and have the villain be an eveil counterpart to Ethan, but the dude is fully incompetent and plain stupid. He doesn't have the virus until Ethan does all the groundwork, his plan to release the plague is to release a suicidal woman into Sydney to infect people, at no point does he ever seem like a threat because he never has his poo poo together. Cruise meanwhile went from someone capable of pulling off a double cross mole hunt into a flat action hero who does incredibly stupid poo poo like letting the ex agent just have Nyah for some loving reason. Giving him the virus for the first time in the actual film, and making it so he just has to save her again. Seeing the John Wooisms is fun, but the script is awful, people have terrible lines and nothing flows at all. The only redeeming feature is the cool action but even that is taken down a peg for how much it's used to paper up how nonsensical it all is. Gaius Marius fucked around with this message at 22:44 on May 28, 2022 |
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I watched most of point break (1991). Very fun movie! Can’t believe Keanu would go on to be known as a protector of dogs after he punted that pit bull
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The Sadness - Taiwanese zombie film that just came out on Shudder. The zombies aren't the traditional kind but are turned into sociopathic killers and rapists who are still capable of thinking. The gore effects are pretty good, there's gallons of real fake blood instead of that digital poo poo. The best sequence comes about a half hour in but I was invested during the whole runtime. A solid entry to the genre. 6.5/10
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Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway - What if Godfrey Ho made Videodrome? What if Philip K Dick wrote an episode of Danger 5? This is the pure cinema. 9/10
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Everything Everywhere All at Once ABSOLUTELY OWNS AND MAKES MULTIVERSE MARVEL MOVIES EAT poo poo
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Willy's Wonderland - Nicolas Cage x Five Nights at Freddy's, except he's an absolute silent badass who does not say a word during the entire movie and murders the poo poo out of the animatronics. It's actually surprisingly entertaining and fun. Badass human vs supernatural stuff should be it's own genre of film imo cause it's so cathartic to watch.
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Smokey and the Bandit I want to buy a CB radio now
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Top Gun Maverick (2022) was fun and dumb, my wife was screaming “just let him rest” when Tom Cruise falls off a roof. However, someone posted that it was better than Fury Road (2015) and that person is out of their mind
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