Open Source Idiom posted:

But Andor is pretty loving good. The villains are what make the show for me; I don't give a gently caress about Cassian Andor and don't find him compelling, but the nazi twunk and the desk jockey with permanent fart face are pretty good love to hate villains. Mon Mothma is decent too.

McCloud posted:

Andor is the only good thing to come out of Disney's Star Wars, it manages the impressive feat of making almost every character interesting. The fact that it's the spin-off no one asked for that ended up being good over Obi-Wans mediocrity is really funny

TheSlutPit posted:

If you have the opportunity to see the new All Quiet on the Western Front remake in a theater I would recommend it. It’s not perfect, but it’s a very bleak movie that borrowed a lot from Come and See, though it diverges a bit from the novel and 1930 version. My only main issue is how they telegraph the rise of nazism pretty directly, like there’s a point during the armistice signing where the German guy basically says “uhhh idk seems like this could have some bad consequences” and then they later show the German general saying how good war is and how social democrats are cowards and should be killed. It was a bit weird in that it seemed to implicate Nazism as an inevitable consequence of war trauma and unfair treaties. There is probably a grain of historical truth to this but it feels like apologia coming from a german film that explicitly mirrors the style of another film portraying nazi atrocities in belarus

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2

MacheteZombie posted:

A piece of classic cinema. Love that flick

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I'm pretty sure there are some fun as heck movies in the 30-50% fresh range, possibly the most interesting ones

mutantIke posted:

Ebert's review of WHAS is one of the most insufferable things ever, he does a bizarre "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda" riff that goes on for way too long and doesn't really say that much about the movie. Rare Ebert L https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wet-hot-american-summer-2001

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I had somehow never seen it before, despite being a huge horror movie fan as a teenager. I wish I had seen it before House of 1000 Corpses because I feel like Ho1kC borrows an absolutely insane amount from it, and Idk if I would have given Rob Zombie as much credit as a horror filmmaker if I had.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I had somehow never seen it before, despite being a huge horror movie fan as a teenager. I wish I had seen it before House of 1000 Corpses because I feel like Ho1kC borrows an absolutely insane amount from it, and Idk if I would have given Rob Zombie as much credit as a horror filmmaker if I had.

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He'd not understand movies a lot, despite that being his job. WHAS is one of the best comedies ever.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Professional reviewers are a particularly weird bunch nowadays, given everyone who still has jobs in journalism is already a failchild and now they're all extremely online.

MacheteZombie posted:

RZ is 100% doing TCM2 in Ho1kC with a little extra thrown in. House has grown me a bit since I watched it back in the day and is one of the only places you can see Chris Hardwick get murdered so that's a plus.

Lords of Salem is RZ's masterpiece imo.

MacheteZombie posted:

RZ is 100% doing TCM2 in Ho1kC with a little extra thrown in.

MacheteZombie posted:

RZ is 100% doing TCM2 in Ho1kC with a little extra thrown in. House has grown me a bit since I watched it back in the day and is one of the only places you can see Chris Hardwick get murdered so that's a plus.

Lords of Salem is RZ's masterpiece imo.

McCloud posted:

lol this reminds me of failson Ben Dreyfuss who got fired as a senior editor from Mother Jones because he threw a tantrum and insulted his colleagues on social media because they liked a movie he didn't

He even bitched about it a few days ago
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1583620500349079553?s=20&t=cxpv-hIf0uJDvGZsweHdFw

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Which figures from popular culture have the funniest birth names and what are they?

I nominate Olivia Wilde and her original name Olivia Cockburn

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Which figures from popular culture have the funniest birth names and what are they?

I nominate Olivia Wilde and her original name Olivia Cockburn

Some Guy TT posted:

my understanding of the treaty of versailles loving over germany was that it was true but not in the way hitler was claiming their reparations package was actually quite reasonable and the weimar republic had no serious problems repaying it throughout the twenties the problem came when the great depression hit and we refused to renegotiate the payments to take the new economic situation into account

you are as surprised as i was im sure to learn that the hitler sympathetic treaty of versailles was evil vengeance interpretation we all remember from grammar school rather conveniently put the blame for nazism on the revenge obsessed european powers when in fact we were the ones who were unwilling to renegotiate the terms of the treaty or indeed do much of anything differently since the official government position at the time was that the invisible hand would sort everything out on its own

McCloud posted:

lol this reminds me of failson Ben Dreyfuss who got fired as a senior editor from Mother Jones because he threw a tantrum and insulted his colleagues on social media because they liked a movie he didn't

He even bitched about it a few days ago
https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/1583620500349079553?s=20&t=cxpv-hIf0uJDvGZsweHdFw

StashAugustine posted:

Yeah it's kinda funny how the treaty gets blamed on the vengeful French and British and not on the Americans demanding the Allies pay back the full war loans

loquacius posted:

Emma Stone's birth name is Emily Stone but she couldn't use that as her actress name because they already had an Emily Stone who beat her to it so she had to use Emma instead which is funny in a different way IMO

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Haven't seen it yet but I'll probably check it out before the month is over. I like Ho1kC more than The Devil's Rejects tho, which felt much more meandering and directionless than the former - like he wanted to make a sequel but didn't know why or what these characters should be doing that would require catching up with them again.

projecthalaxy posted:

a new study bible! posted:

agreed Lords of Salem is his best by a mile.

Munsters good too

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Pretty sure the movie in question was the Snyder Cut, too

Which camp are the insane internet weirdos who won't leave the other alone again?

MacheteZombie posted:

Ben doofus got fired for bullying his coworkers for liking the snyder cut which is such a huge lmao

projecthalaxy posted:

If i have my discourses correct I think that makes him a martyr.

a new study bible! posted:

Munsters good too

unlimited shrimp posted:

I tried. I just couldn't vibe with it. Kudos to him for making a pitch-perfect 1960s B-movie because I enjoyed it about as much as the real deal.

unlimited shrimp posted:

I tried. I just couldn't vibe with it. Kudos to him for making a pitch-perfect 1960s B-movie because I enjoyed it about as much as the real deal.

sitchensis posted:

re-watched Poltergeist (1982). still slaps even after 40 years.

I miss movies that establish characters and families in a way that is empathetic and relatable. I totally forgot that the parents in Poltergeist smoke dope and laugh at silly little jokes with one another after putting the kids to bed, and they aren’t painted as delinquent freaks for doing so. the kids are also pretty great in the film — they aren’t precocious and wise, they act like kids — and do/say things that actual children would do.

Even Carol-Anne, the youngest, has her own personality that reflects what a six year old girl would be like. You can tell she’s kind of weird, but she’s weird in a little kid way, not a ‘wise beyond her years’ way.

spielberg’s touch is also all over the directing. the film really effectively moves from a feeling of wonderment about the haunting (the mom is so excited by it that she shows off Carol Anne being moved independently on the kitchen floor by the spirits to her husband) and pivots to outright terror/horror as things ratchet up (a steak coming to life and crawling on the counter…)

there was a good Reddit comment about this movie that said that it didn’t make you afraid of the spirits/terrors that infest the house, rather it made you afraid for the family because it so effectively sets up the dynamics of the Freelings in the first 1/4 of the film. I have to heartily agree with this. Horror without some kind of empathy with the characters is just a demo reel of effects. what do you all think?