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Saw Crimes of the Future. Would be a really good body horror film I would recommend to anybody, if it didn't start with a realistically depicted murder of a child by suffocation. That made me sick and there should really be some kind of trigger warning for that, which is mostly why I'm writing this reaction.
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Waking Life is loving brilliant I love everything about it holy gently caress
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Midway (1976) Great cast of Hollywood actors (Charlton Heston, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda), tells a fairly straightforward tale, has a great John Williams score, sets up the stakes, is suspenseful, and pays off. Great for a Sunday afternoon. Midway (2019) Boring, a lot of CGI, and doesn't really tell a story as much as kinda just depicts some events that happened. Both cover this WWII battle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
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The Seventh Seal has some incredible and profound dialoguequote:ANTONIUS: I want to confess, as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face, and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.
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Big Scary Owl posted:Dawn of the Dead (2004) OH poo poo THEY RUN NOW. The characters start making such intolerably stupid decisions by the end of the movie.
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Caught Mad God today. 85 minutes that took 35 goddamn years to make and it shows in the best way. The design on the plague doctor thing in particular was incredible. Definitely one to see on the big screen if you can; I'm going to be mulling this one over for a while. The little terrarium!!
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Un Chien Andalou It feels more like a demo real for all the SFX that Dali and Bunuel could come up with then anything concrete. You could stretch the Eye cutting imagery into something like, the Bunuel is cutting through what you think you're perceiving with the magic of film making but naw. It's an interesting watch given it's impact and how short it is, but it's not good or interesting in content. The actress doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire later on though, that's interesting.
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Walk Hard the Dewey Cox Story literally the perfect movie. The parody is completely on point, Reilly loving kills it, the gags are insanely hilarious, there wasn't a single minute I wasn't chuckling to myself about some poo poo I just saw. My only complaint is that we didn't get to hear his Brian Wilson flavored song, and that it wasn't longer.
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Meet Me In St. Louis- Man, Halloween in the 1900s was hardcore. Very good movie overall but the Halloween segment just towers over everything else. Maxwell Lord fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Jul 31, 2022 |
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Gaius Marius posted:Walk Hard the Dewey Cox Story literally the perfect movie. The parody is completely on point, Reilly loving kills it, the gags are insanely hilarious, there wasn't a single minute I wasn't chuckling to myself about some poo poo I just saw. My only complaint is that we didn't get to hear his Brian Wilson flavored song, and that it wasn't longer. ruined biopics for me for life. I can never watch a corny music biopic ever again. anytime a new one comes out I just watch Walk Hard again. shared The Mist with my gf. I remember the ending being grim but man it was grimmer then I remembered! great movie though. I respect any movie that commits to the bit. Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Aug 1, 2022 |
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Maxwell Lord posted:Meet Me In St. Louis- Man, Halloween in the 1900s was hardcore. https://vimeo.com/189640044 The scene in question, which does rule
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Hard Eight I know he had done short films before hand, but drat for a first feature PTA came out swinging. Right from the opening shot of the diner I could feel that style of his. Story isn't as good or as large in scope as his next two, but it's got that same hosed up father son dynamic they had, but with a lot more concentration on the principals. Favorite thing about the movie is how unglamorous it portrays the casino night life. The hotel rooms, even the suites are dingy garbage, the casinos are dim and filled with obnoxious assholes, and in the end everyone but the house just ends up poorer. Seriously the highest amount of cash one person has in the film is $6000, it's pathetic. James Bond made gambling look exciting and refined, This movie makes it look like the waiting room into hell. Dave made a maze All you had to do was finish the drat maze, Dave Gaius Marius fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Aug 3, 2022 |
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DeimosRising posted:https://vimeo.com/189640044 Sadly this clip doesn't include the revelation that the child ties a dummy to the streetcar track to try and make it derail.
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Uncle Buck Has a lot of good John Candy moments, but tonally all over the place. Also, the styles of the rich teenagers feel like an extremely specific time and place. Spider-Man:No Way Home. A lot of fun, but padded, could have cut out a half hour to an hour and not miss anything.
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John Hughes grew up in the rich suburbs of Chicago and Michigan which is why so many of his "regular kid" characters live in places like the houses in Ferris Bueller or Home Alone.
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The little one-screen theater downtown was showing The Terminator tonight so I finally saw that for the first time. Remember when they Made Movies? God drat.
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PERMACAV 50 posted:The little one-screen theater downtown was showing The Terminator tonight so I finally saw that for the first time. The sequel gets my vote for one of the best of all time. Even though it’s much more of an action movie than the horror bent of the original, it’s just so loving good top to bottom. Unfortunately it’s all downhill from there.
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Bottle Rocket Secret sequel to Thief, secret prequel to resevoir dogs, and seemingly the inspiration for the Ed, Edd, and Eddy Big Picture Show, what doesn't this movie have? The answer is a lot honestly, the direction is exceedingly well done for a first feature and the writing and characters aren't terrible. But most of the movie feels aimless, given that's how the characters feel most the time it's not the worst thing, but it doesn't make for a particularly compelling watch. The robbery at the end however is fantastic, there's a very different world where Wes went on to make incompetent robber movies, and I don't know if I would prefer that, but I think he'd do it well.
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Jurassic World : Dominion. A movie that dares to ask the question "does anything matter?" And answer it with a resounding "nope" It's main sins? Squandering any good will I had from the previous Pratt centric flick, burying any chance of good performances from the legacy JP cast and just generally being more of a Kaiju movie (and a mediocre one at that).
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PERMACAV 50 posted:The little one-screen theater downtown was showing The Terminator tonight so I finally saw that for the first time. Cameron was on God mode from day one, watched Aliens for the millionth time and it just rips from the get go
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The Royal Tenenbaums Ben Stiller fully ruined this movie for me. And as someone whose a Salinger apologist, seeing something so influenced by his stories fail to effect me is disappointing. Huston, Luke Wilson, Paltrow, and Gene Hackman especially are all giving great performances and it's just Ben Stillers complete inability to melt into the scene that ruins it, every scene with that clown drags me right out of my suspension of disbelief. Halloween It's great to see how you can make such a tense movie with such simple concepts and characters. It's weird to think this came after the thing though, it's not usual to see a director scale so far back, but I'm guessing Carpenter had to after The Thing bombed. And it's not his fault but the final synth track that plays when Myer's body disappears the opening riff of that sounds like the First 48 theme. That show where they have police try and track down missing people as soon as they go missing, sound just like it. Gaius Marius fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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2046 - Another Wong Kar Wai banger. This one's a sequel to my favorite film of his, In The Mood For Love, and I put off watching this simply because, well, how could you possibly follow that up? With 2 hours of Tony Leung looking cool as hell and a rotating cast of gorgeous women in qipaos, most of whom are returning from other WKW films. Oh and his most complex screenplay yet. This time the Chow character assumes a sort of Don Draper role, using his past heartbreak from the first film as a way to empathize with, and seduce, a variety of women, most of whom end up residing in room 2046. It's a more episodic structure than the first film, intercut with sequences from a sci fi story Chow is writing that acts as a metaphor for his inner life. The enjoyment here comes from just how layered how some of this becomes. That might be a double edged sword though, as I can see this be a very oblique and boring movie for some viewers, especially if you haven't seen the first one. Rare for a movie, the second act was the strongest for me. The 2nd Su story arc is narratively very important but feels almost rushed in how quickly it goes by, as if they pared it down to keep the last act paced well. This one did not have as immediate and powerful a climax as the first film, and overall I would say this film works less as a great story in it's own right and is more of a perfect coda for the first one. So if the first is a 10/10 all time GOAT for me this one is like an 8/10. Wait a second, why did Tony Leung have his moustache in the flashbacks to the early 60s? He didn't have that in the first film. Nevermind this is a 0/10, hope someone got fired for that blunder.
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Three Colors: White: Uhh, what the hell did I just watch? This movie is very gripping to watch, and pretty intense, but makes little sense? The plot sorta whips you around, but I still felt it had an emotional core? We just watched Blue the night before and I'm really curious to see Red to see how these are even a trilogy.
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Oh man, from what I remember Red is the best one. Haven't seen them since I was a teen though, don't remember them super well.
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Mad God - Honestly most of this movie is just people walking through Beksiński-esque hellscapes while weird poo poo goes on around them but I'm down for that. The world is feces and decay, you're just a drone doing pointless work for da big baby on the tv and none of this makes any sense. 7/10
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Gaius Marius posted:Halloween It's great to see how you can make such a tense movie with such simple concepts and characters. It's weird to think this came after the thing though, it's not usual to see a director scale so far back, but I'm guessing Carpenter had to after The Thing bombed. And it's not his fault but the final synth track that plays when Myer's body disappears the opening riff of that sounds like the First 48 theme. That show where they have police try and track down missing people as soon as they go missing, sound just like it. The Thing came in 1982, Halloween was 1978. He still had enough juice from Halloween’s massive success and Escape From New York’s less, but still good, success at the box office that The Thing didn’t really sideline him too much, and to rebound off the failure, he went with a surefire thing to at least make back its money: a Stephen King horror pic! Christine was his follow-up to The Thing. He would scale back following Starman and Big Trouble in Little China being modest hits, signing a deal with Alive Pictures where his budgets were dead set at $3 million a picture, and he’d crank out Prince of Darkness and They Live under that deal before the studios wooed him back with Memoirs of an Invisible Man, which… let’s not talk about that movie.
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Mantis42 posted:Oh man, from what I remember Red is the best one. Haven't seen them since I was a teen though, don't remember them super well. Red was definitely my favorite having just finished it! Well I really liked Blue too, so might have to think more on that, but Red was superb. I knew Irene Jacob from U.S. Marshalls of all movies, so was nice to actually see her have a real, important role.
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Jurassic World: Dominion - I don't have high standards for monster movies. I've seen Rampage like 5 times, okay? This one sucks hard though. 2/10
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The Cameo posted:The Thing came in 1982, Halloween was 1978. He still had enough juice from Halloween’s massive success and Escape From New York’s less, but still good, success at the box office that The Thing didn’t really sideline him too much, and to rebound off the failure, he went with a surefire thing to at least make back its money: a Stephen King horror pic! Christine was his follow-up to The Thing. I realized that at work the next day, I saw the Thing on TV and didn't even think it was the og one Elvis Absolutely exhausting, the most frentic editing I've seen in my life, the whole thing is cut like a music video which works really well for certain points, and not very well when they blast through a decade of Hollywood in a 2 minute montage. The biggest problem is Hanks, he's nine inches from just being the devil and needed to lean in that bit more. Baz shoulda just said gently caress it had Elvis sign his contract with Parker at the crossroads. Either that or tell Hanks to act like a human being instead of whatever the gently caress he's acting as. Butler is doing a great job portraying someone whose very insecure with a unhealthy codependence with the love of his fans, but anytime the movie tries to get more deep than montage and music video if falls flat on it's rear end. The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) Ten minutes into this I fell in love with it, the opening is fantastically well done with a really unique way it's edited and the robbery was top in class. Especially with McQueen in the lead everything just feels effortlessly cool in a James Bond way. I really couldn't see how anyone could prefer the Brosnan version, and then I watched the rest of the film which consists mostly of wheel spinning leading up to a rather meh ending. It's a film that really needed some doctering.
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Castle in the Sky (1986, dubs) pretty cute movie but I felt it lacks the emotional weight of Miyazaki’s best. Great production design though
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Fantastic Mr.Fox I've heard people say this is secretly the best Wes Anderson movie, I can see why but personally I'm meh on it. They clearly worked really hard on the animation but it's just not my scene. Waking the Dead The movie comes this close to being great, but it's just not developed enough. Connolly and Crudup are doing great work but their characters are just a tad too thin, the politics are never fully explored, Crudups political bosses seem corrupt but they never ask him to actually do anything wrong, his brother and his Korean girlfriend are fully out of place, and all the Catholic iconography feels more like set dressing than a real statement. The movie would be lower, but I do think it sticks it's landing well enough that I have to give it props. Gaius Marius fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Aug 12, 2022 |
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Finally watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time and yo that movie is loving cool. I also watched Prey today expecting a terrible predator movie and it was way better than I was expecting. A good day for movies.
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Gaius Marius posted:Walk Hard the Dewey Cox Story literally the perfect movie. The parody is completely on point, Reilly loving kills it, the gags are insanely hilarious, there wasn't a single minute I wasn't chuckling to myself about some poo poo I just saw. My only complaint is that we didn't get to hear his Brian Wilson flavored song, and that it wasn't longer. Which version did you watch? There's a 2-hour DC which I felt was overstaying its welcome (I wrongly remembered it being even longer than 2 hours). FeastForCows fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Aug 12, 2022 |
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Watched Blade Runner for the first time. I somehow made it my life without knowing anything at all and this movie was good. The sets, the shots, the sound, all wonderful. Glad I watched it alone so I could pause and rewind certain parts. Rutger Hauer was perfect. Edit: also yo I know it’s “noir” and she’s a robot but that one scene was pretty cringe. Rolo fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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Walk Hard is a perfect spoof of the musical biopic genre and 5000x times funnier than Popstar.
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FeastForCows posted:Which version did you watch? There's a 2-hour DC which I felt was overstaying its welcome (I wrongly remembered it being even longer than 2 hours). Must've been the regular dollar thirty cut, you're not the first person I've seen say the DC is bad but I still want to go back to it. Especially after Elvis. Before Sunrise Threw it on on a lark after hearing it brought up a couple times on The Big Picture podcast. What a touching romance, turns out you don't need gimmicks or hooks to make a picture, just two people and a dash of love. I fuckin' knew I was gonna get L'eclisse'd but it sure didn't make it hurt less. Really interested to check out the other two in the series and see if they get back together or if it's different casts or what. These feel a lot like a Rohmer film Gaius Marius fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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My partner loves the Before trilogy so much she looked for similar films and that's how I've seen a bunch of Rohmer films recently!
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