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smug n stuff posted:Has anyone seen Pacifiction (getting US release this weekend after being out forever overseas)? Trying to decided whether to see it, seems like europeans really liked it (Cahiers du Cinema named it #1 film of 2022) but american critics reviewing it for the US release have been pretty bad. I saw it at TIFF and it's pretty good, though it could stand to lose 45 minutes. It's mostly a vibe piece with some wonderful cinematography that comments on colonialism and hollow diplomacy and hosed up people. If you go in and just let it wash over you it's solid, though it is almost 3 hours long. I know this won't help your decision, but I don't regret watching it, and it has a lot of very memorable scenes/settings that are still with me. It is lacking a central soul to the conceit (that kinda works thematically but lets it down filmically), but it's a languid bath in Tahiti, you won't regret it if you have a free afternoon.
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I loving hated The Whale lol. good performances but it’s so goddamn fatphobic and misanthropic. I liked mother! but didn’t think Aaronofsky’s style worked for this one at all
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Feb 17, 2023 23:56
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It's funny that they're being so careful to keep The Whale in theatres only until after the Oscars, and I imagine that that must at least be in part due to the fact that the more people see it, the more people will realize it's a piece of poo poo. edit: actually the VOD release is Feb 24, so nvm. it's still a piece of poo poo.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Snakes on a Plane was good, David R. Ellis was one of our best trash auteurs (rip) I’ll concede quality for some reason and say it’s more about the marketing leaning into the meme . With Snakes it was organic and with Cocaine Bear the trailer is just 15 people screaming A BEAR DID COCAINE!!!!1 Fuckin thing sucks.
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Feb 18, 2023 00:35
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maybe Pi proves me wrong but i’m not sure Aronofsky has ever actually made a good movie
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Feb 18, 2023 00:58
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Mother! was a good theater experience. i withhold judgment as to "movie"
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Feb 18, 2023 00:59
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Noah was cool
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Feb 18, 2023 01:00
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Black Swan is pretty undisputably great
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Feb 18, 2023 01:03
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Brandon DiCamillo's cameo in the Wrestler is pretty much me during any Aranofsky movie.
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Feb 18, 2023 01:29
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I really liked mother!, which is a great representation of anxiety nightmares, particularly how the chaos and terror expands exponentially, starting quietly from a kind of Curb Your Enthusiasm social farce to the maximum destruction in the last act, where things shift so quickly that all sense of reality is lost (Wiig as the reporter is one of my favorite cameos of all time, because it plays perfectly into her slightly menacing style of deadpan humor). The Whale has much worse writing, and uses every "look at this gross body!" visual exploitation trick possible as a means to tell a limp story about martyrdom. Also, Aronofsky basically stating that hiring a disabled person would be too difficult was maybe not the best choice.
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Feb 18, 2023 01:36
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weekly font posted:I’ll concede quality for some reason and say it’s more about the marketing leaning into the meme . With Snakes it was organic and with Cocaine Bear the trailer is just 15 people screaming A BEAR DID COCAINE!!!!1 Fuckin thing sucks. The trailer felt a bit like the SNL fake movie trailers, where they have one joke and they are going to make sure you got it.
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Feb 18, 2023 01:36
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Aronofsky has made multiple decent movies, just The Whale isn’t one of them. but I do think the issues are more with the script/original play than Aronofsky’s direction
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Feb 18, 2023 01:37
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Mother! Is a hoot and a half. One of my favourite Bible movies..
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Feb 18, 2023 01:40
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mcmagic posted:Why the gently caress would I want to watch a "comedy" about people giving a wild animal cocaine and it dying? How is this not a comedy It has drugged up animals and people dying horribly ???
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Feb 18, 2023 04:59
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Saw Marlowe today, it's fairly entertaining (not actually based on a Chandler book but on the more recently-written continuation of the character). Except it has this super-weird bit at the end about art and Nazis or something out of nowhere. It's almost totally unrelated to the plot (only in as much as a few characters are involved in movie production, and that the film is set in 1940 or 1941), but at the end there's a sudden scene being filmed of a book-burning with swastika flags behind it, and Marlowe says something like, "Nazis sure hate books" and another character says, "but Leni Riefenstahl made some good films" and I was utterly perplexed. I guess maybe it's making a point about liking something from the past that's problematic (the movie itself does not shy away from characters expressing racist attitudes and using offensive or sexist language) but it felt extraordinarily odd.
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Feb 18, 2023 05:41
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This is funny but makes those two shits seem more charismatic and relatable than they’ve ever been and significantly more than they deserve
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Feb 18, 2023 05:41
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In the heart of the sea is so bad looking my goodness. Awful shots and editing
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Feb 18, 2023 05:49
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Segue posted:I saw it at TIFF and it's pretty good, though it could stand to lose 45 minutes. It's mostly a vibe piece with some wonderful cinematography that comments on colonialism and hollow diplomacy and hosed up people. If you go in and just let it wash over you it's solid, though it is almost 3 hours long. Thanks for the review! I appreciate the thoughtful comments. I knew that it was mostly about the vibes, and it’s good to hear that they (the vibes) are mostly good. I’ll try to catch it!
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I refuse there’s a film component to The Whale. To me it’s just that one image of a balding and overweight Brendan Frasier wearing scrubs looking dead eyed in the middle distance.
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Feb 18, 2023 08:17
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FreudianSlippers posted:Mother! Is a hoot and a half. Noah narrowly beats it because of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCXHr8aKDk
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Feb 18, 2023 09:26
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Alhazred posted:Noah narrowly beats it because of this scene: This, and the flashback of Methusalem going scorched eart on the Children of Kain, literally. I show the creation scene in every RE class I'm teaching, and it always fucks.
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Feb 18, 2023 11:44
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El Mariachi is pretty good, but has some screwball bits that feel like they’re gunning to take The Last House on the Left’s crown of most ill-fitting comedy. But also, it has a cool dog in sunglasses, which is always good.
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Guy A. Person posted:This is funny but makes those two shits seem more charismatic and relatable than they’ve ever been and significantly more than they deserve I think Shapiro comes across very poorly in that clip.
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Feb 18, 2023 14:16
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Also, G-Saviour is better than a independent Canadian made-for-TV live-action Gundam movie should be. It’s cozy watching a low-rent sci-fi movie with actual production design and blocking. And the dated late-90s CGI actually helps the mecha scenes because they look stilted and weighty, like how you’d imagine a real giant robot fight would go. The screenplay is largely exposition and it drastically streamlines Gundam’s typical complexity (they don’t even use any Gundam-specific terminology except “side”), but the acting’s solid enough to make it not unbearable. It won’t convince anyone to try more Gundam, but it’s nice surprise for fans. Also the whole thing’s on YouTube, so it’s our Youtube of the Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLFxPBrKjM
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Feb 18, 2023 15:37
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Australian director George Miller died. But not the Mad Max one, a different Australian director named George Miller.
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And not Filthy Frank either
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Baron von Eevl posted:Australian director George Miller died. But not the Mad Max one, a different Australian director named George Miller. Jesus Christ, don't scare me like that.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Australian director George Miller died. But not the Mad Max one, a different Australian director named George Miller. gently caress you
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Watched Hail, Caesar! and No Country For Old Men and it's wild how the same directors can make so tonally different movies. Hail, Caesar! is a fun little movie where Channing Tatum does a tap dance, meanwhile No Country For Old Men's message is that evil won and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Feb 18, 2023 19:05
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I really wish A Scanner Darkly wasn't so hideous to look at.
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The ending of Hail Caesar is truly wild. The movie is simply over and not even in the characteristic Coen script way.
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Alhazred posted:Watched Hail, Caesar! and No Country For Old Men and it's wild how the same directors can make so tonally different movies. Hail, Caesar! is a fun little movie where Channing Tatum does a tap dance, meanwhile No Country For Old Men's message is that evil won and there's nothing you can do about it. Hail, Caesar! is also a movie about evil winning it's just extremely tonally different in its delivery. (I guess maybe it's more like evil was always in control.)
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Speaking of Hail, Caesar!, if you liked it, you like a bunch of regular Coen themes, and you're willing to tolerate reading fiction, then I gotta recommend The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe. It's a book that very much exists in the same thematic space, where a ridiculous dipshit studio owner hires a title card writer to find old cowboy Shorty MacAdoo so as to turn Shorty's story into a movie.
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Grendels Dad posted:Jesus Christ, don't scare me like that. Failed Imagineer posted:gently caress you Just be glad I clarified it wasn't that George Miller! I was inconsolable for like 5 minutes until I figured out which one it was. I am sorry if any of you were fans of Andre or Zeus And Roxanne though.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I refuse there’s a film component to The Whale. To me it’s just that one image of a balding and overweight Brendan Frasier wearing scrubs looking dead eyed in the middle distance. The Whale is something that was always gonna be absurd in execution regardless (though it doesn't help there's a scene of him devouring everything in sight backed by ominous horror music). Saw Quantumania. This is gonna be a future Attack of the Clones / The Room-esque so bad it's good meme watch. Majors tries to bring this above the neutered family-friendly Rick & Morty knock-off shenanigans surrounding him composited ala Vito Spatafore on Geonosis, but it’s a futile effort. The Council of Kangs mid-credit sequence looked ridiculous and started making me side with the "The MCU died with Tony Stark" crowd. Cassie tho, she's uh... distractingly attractive. *hides* (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 18, 2023 21:21
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Not sure what you mean, attack of the clones is great star wars
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Cassie tho, she's uh... distractingly attractive. *hides* Sorry I don’t know about the movie but from the trailer isn’t this Ant Man’s teenage daughter
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Feb 18, 2023 21:43
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Yeah, op might mean they are going to hide from the police.
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