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All those accusations throughout the 90s probably did a number on Cruise's psyche.
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I just finished No Time To Die after breaking it into three episodes across three flights in the last couple weeks (the first hour on one, the next hour on the next, and the last half hour yesterday). This was easily the best Bond movie in the Craig era (yes, I think Casino Royale is overrated) and would've been flirting with Top 5-10 territory had they not killed James Bond at the end. How the gently caress do you kill James Bond? Seriously, this isn't POW territory (see below). This is pour one out, he gone. It's in the same vein as Die Another Day, which I remember considering walking out of before the title sequence (at 15 years old) because James Bond does not become a POW. He doesn't. He finds a way to Richard Kimball his way over the falls, escapes, cue horrible Madonna early-2000s techno song. How do you make the next James Bond movie with no goddamn James Bond? Does the next one start with the gunbarrel, the last few minutes of this movie, and then a flash cut to James Bond waking up from a dreamlike seemingly half the episodes of Atlanta this season, which becomes a quick and cheap retcon? Gaius Marius posted:Smokey and the Bandit I want to buy a CB radio now This was my same reaction when I was like 6 and saw it for the first time. I still have my dad's CB and want to hook it up on a road trip.
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CBJSprague24 posted:How do you make the next James Bond movie with no goddamn James Bond? You just reboot like they did for Craig's Casino Royale.
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So A Video Game related Double Feature Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie I was high as gently caress when I watched it so I spent the entire viewtime trying to imagine a dark and gritty take on franchise. Also Bison in this was less of a gigachad than his live action counterpart in that he actually remembers killing Chun Li's Dad. 6/10 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Fantastic Jim Carrey stole the film, but proud warrior idiot Knuckles was something of an inspired choice. 8/10
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Mantis42 posted: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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airplane time: Interstellar: Pretty good. Matt Damon saved the second half which really could have dragged otherwise. A guy who's embarrassed about the fact that he's trying to kill you, that's something I enjoy watching. Tenet: Pretty whatever but I do like inverted soundtracks for some reason. You can see why Robert Pattinson is such an A-lister you just look at him whenever he's onscreen. Dune: I'm surprised this movie got so much good press, but I guess people wanted to save movies in 2021 so there was some charity at play. There's a problem when only six characters survive your two and half hour prequel movie. I think a lot about the movie just didn't work - there was no reason for house Atreides to feel so sterile and lifeless, you get no sense of what life on Arrakis is actually supposed to be like for non-Fremen non-nobles (they're only portrayed as hordes of people watching Paul from a few hundred yards away), the harkonnens feel more inhuman than disgusting. One of the really memorable parts of the book for me (I think this happened, I admittedly read the book 20 years ago) is Harkonnen's relief and shock at having survived the tooth and seeing it from his PoV (I like David Bautista best of the Harkonnens because he's still recognizably human). Obviously a lot of the visual stuff is cool, the winged ships are amazing and the worm mouths were great. But the movie starts with Jessica and Paul living in their own world so you don't feel as much of a sense of shock and horror when everything falls apart. This is something Game of Thrones did absolutely beautifully in season 1, and I know 2:30 is less than 12 hours but they still could have made Paul's life pre-invasion look more vivid than it did. Also it is completely devoid of humor which matters a lot for me, sure the books are too but movies really demand it more. No Wave fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Jun 13, 2022 |
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Jurassic World: Dominion I don't know what I was expecting but this is one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen in my life. To make matters worse, it's not even entertainingly dumb. There's a massive amount of plot, but none of it is compelling and nothing is fun or compelling enough to rise above the constant exposition dumps that move characters from point A to point B. Owen is a superhero at this point, literally choking out a Dilophosaurus, removing any tension at all when he's on screen. Dodgson is a parody of modern tech bro CEOs but not a real character. He's fidgety and plays with a little metal DNA paperweight thing, and he's asking for food a lot, which feels like it should have some kind of payoff, but no. It's just a weird character quirk in place of a personality. HIs death is maybe the highlight of the movie, but it's still really stupid. He decides to quote Nedry from the first movie, without any context or meaning and end the scene on a sour note. The concept set up in the last movie "Can humans and dinosaurs coexist?" is also not touched on at all, instead the end of this movie just asks that again. So you get a movie where nothing is accomplished despite the movie being 2.5 hours long. New characters show up and just disappear without resolution. Dodgson has some kind of assassin who gets a really weird bit of dialogue at the end when she seems offended by getting tazed by Claire but amounts to nothing and Dodgson also has some weird suited enforcer guy at Biosyn who does nothing at all. There are some fun scenes in a vacuum, but the movie isn't worth sitting through to get there. It's also weirdly focused on Indiana Jones and Star Wars for some reason. There's a scene that feels like it belongs in a Star Wars movie, with dinosaurs treated as weird aliens, and multiple Indiana Jones bits, including one part (I won't spoiler this cuz it means nothing) where Alan loses his hat and goes back to save it despite extreme peril. Why? Is there not enough in Jurassic Park to mine for nostalgia? I had low expectations but have seen every one of these movies, so I had to do it. But holy crap this was BAD.
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Saw the latest dino movie...and overall it was *meh*. It was good mindless popcorn entertainment but it stretched believability to limits and this is a in a movie that dinosaurs roam around. Jeff Goldblum acts like he is doing an apartments.com commercial for most of the movie.
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Top Gun Maverick. Obnoxious is a understatement about the unanimous premature ejaculations this film is receiving from critics and YouTube. Holy gently caress. There were barely any jet fights. Most overrated film I’ve seen in years.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? I don't think I've ever seen a movie with a cast with such a low collective iq. Ngl, Crawford killed it while Davis was just Okay.
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The Intern, with Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro. A charming fairy-tale about wealthy, attractive white people who don't have any real problems at the start of the movie, and have even fewer problems at the end. Also gently caress open-plan offices.
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Crimes of the Future is definitely not as much of a horror film as I was expecting, but it's extremely good and reminds me a lot of both Yorgos Lanthimos and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. It's fun to see Cronenberg return to body horror and sci fi, as well, it just feels so relaxed and vibey, and the way all the disparate elements gratually and seamlessly converge in the last act is really satisfying. Stewart, in particular, gives a great performance, but I also loved the pair of machine maintenance women, who reminded me of the duct repair guys from Gilliam's Brazil.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was better than expected and the leg whipping scene was very funny. I’d have preferred for it to end one scene earlier, with the conmen left standing on the tarmac.
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom This scenery is fuckin' gorgeous. These kids are so freakin' adorable I'm gonna cry. Dude. Dude. WTF are you doing? Seriously, bro, she gave you a yak. Go get that yak-herderussy. Dude, you suuuuuck. Enjoy getting poo poo on by Australians, idiot.
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Last of the Mohicans (1992): hell yes this movie kicks rear end. Incredible score, incredible Daniel Day Lewis. Magua is an all time antagonist. Need to rewatch this on a bigger screen and better sound system as soon as possible to better appreciate those Mann action scenes. Also watched her (2013). This is the most Annapurna/A24 film. Very surprised it didn’t subvert itself, just a very sincere straightforward story. enjoyable performances but blade runner 2049 (2017) has a better computer romance Finally finished Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.01 Thrice Upon a Time (2021). The animation kicks rear end and I loved the theological nonsense but I won’t be revisiting this as many times as Shin Godzilla (2016)
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The Thing is amazing. Endings up there with The Third Man in being so bleak and hopeless, complete perfection.
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Third Man definitely has a downer ending but I think the main guy ended up in a better spot than the arctic.
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Joseph Cotton might not be slowly freezing to death, but he effectively accomplished nothing except getting his former friend killed. Both Movies have points where they could've easily given the ending some level of positivity like in the original version of Third Man, and instead both just let you wallow in the despair. They may have killed the Thing, but it's as likely that one of them is infected and once the temp drops low enough they'll freeze over waiting for the spring team.
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He stopped a counterfeiting ring that was killing children, seems like a bit more than nothing. He stopped a man, yes a former friend, but still a man who was willing to sacrifice however many people to ensure his own fortune. Free of income tax, old man, free of income tax
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After all these years I finally got around to watching Edge of Tomorrow. I love how it initially subverts the Tom Cruise trope of “guy who is good at his job” until he obviously becomes hyper-competent through constant trial and error. It’s a shame it has only lived on through word of mouth, as it’s really a fantastic movie that could’ve been a huge hit. Thought the climax was pretty underwhelming and waaaay too dark to see things well on my home television, but that’s my only complaint.
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Mantis42 posted:Third Man definitely has a downer ending but I think the main guy ended up in a better spot than the arctic. e: now that i think on it, the third man with a happy ending is essentially just altman's the long goodbye (complete with visual reference) Coaaab fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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Jurassic World 3 or 8 or whatever unnecessary sequel we’re on is one of the dumbest and most joyless things I’ve ever seen on the big screen. It’s incredibly poorly made, inconsequential, and lifeless. Worst movie since the first Suicide Squad. I can’t decide if Collin Trev hates Jurassic Park or never saw it.
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in my room (ulrich kohler, 2018) - go in as blind as possible, even a synopsis spoils too much. starts out almost nondescript, then develops into a fairly common conceit seen across fiction that here is given a european arthouse sheen. the ultimate point of this film is well-observed and bitterly amusing. avoid if you don't like animal death (though I think none of them actually died?)
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Took the munchkin to see Lightyear. My God that was a terrible movie. The plot was every sci-fi trope thrown into a blender, Chris Evans is a fine actor but as a voice actor he has all the charisma of a piece of wood. The much talked about "controversial scene" was pretty much a blink and you will miss it moment. The real issue the plot twist was telegraphed within the first 45 mins of the movie.
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Jenny Agutter posted:Last of the Mohicans (1992): hell yes this movie kicks rear end. Incredible score, incredible Daniel Day Lewis. Magua is an all time antagonist. Need to rewatch this on a bigger screen and better sound system as soon as possible to better appreciate those Mann action scenes. Also has some of the best lines ever Major Heywood: There is a war going on how is it you are heading West to Kentucky? *beat* Hawkeye: Well we kinda face to the North and then real sudden like turn left.
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Saw Jurassic World Dominion yesterday. I enjoyed the hell out of it. I enjoyed the heavy-handed environmental messages (gasp, even some animal rights talk!) and felt like there were satisfying ends to the characters arcs of most of the cast. Jeff Goldblum was underused, and as a consequence maybe phoned it in, but with so many moving parts, that was inevitable. Perhaps they could have introduced one or two less new characters to keep things a little tighter. The dinosaur effects were predictably great and I was happy they finally let B.D. Wong redeem his character. Summer blockbuster fun and fan-service done right. 8/10
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the cgi looked like absolute dino poo poo what movie did you watch
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Bottom Liner posted:the cgi looked like absolute dino poo poo what movie did you watch TBF, I've been watching Obi-Wan Kenobi so maybe my calibration is off on CGI.
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Watched They Live in the theater. Totally holds up, and I love how Roddy Piper's character could also just be seen as a schizophrenic. "You can see aliens, but only if you wear these totally normal looking sunglases.
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PeterCat posted:Watched They Live in the theater. Nada is one of my all-time favorite movie heroes just for his reaction upon finding out secret aliens rule the planet: "It figures it'd be something like this."
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Watched They Live for the first time after seeing it mentioned a few posts up. Three immediate reactions: Wrestling moves look much more painful when done on pavement Lol at sneaking in titties at the very last moment Meg Foster's pale, dead eyes are legitimately creepy
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Just saw The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and it was pretty amazing. The story is pretty slight, but it packs a huge wallop. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I'm finding myself doing, and really don't know why it hasn't been more a part of the film critics that I follow.
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Carillon posted:Just saw The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and it was pretty amazing. The story is pretty slight, but it packs a huge wallop. I wasn't expecting to love it as much as I'm finding myself doing, and really don't know why it hasn't been more a part of the film critics that I follow. I saw somewhere people talking about Double Feature Ideas, and someone came up with Umbrellas and Battle of Algiers as a run. Radically different in Tone and Style but joined in it's portrayal in the Human cost of War/Imperialism. Plus both in one day will destroy you emotionally and ruin whats left of the day which is always a plus.
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They both also feel like the ur example of do many movies too. You watch those and I feel you understand a hundred other movies referencing or cribbing from them.
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thiccabod posted:Watched They Live for the first time after seeing it mentioned a few posts up. Three immediate reactions: The bit at the end with Piper and David going through an office building shooting people with m16s hits a little differently now that we have all these mass shootings. Basically my take away is don't trust capitalism the police or women.
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Just watched Chunking express. Good stuff, got some songs stuck in my head now. I think the food stand owner might be the best character? All these silly romantics should listen to him. But Faye is too cute. And that ending is perfection.
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