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Tokelau All Star posted:Latest Rez Dogs was incredible. Now that I have kids, this hit me right in the chest. Devery Jacobs and Ethan Hawke both need Emmys for this. It would have been so easy to just write Elora's dad as some piece of poo poo guy. Instead, we got a real picture of a flawed man who knows he hosed up real bad, knows he can't ever make up for it, and is barely holding it together trying to do better with the kids he does have. I really felt for both him and Elora. Agreed on all counts. The acting in this episode was just phenomenal.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Yeah that was fun insanity. I appreciate that the aliens basically just give her therapy at the end. That's interesting, my interpretation was they didn't, they realized that she was so hosed up and alienated that she wouldn't care if the body snatchers won. She's already controlled by her trauma and that's why she could spit the bug out. I liked No One Will Save You. Great movie? Absolutely not. Nice visuals with good alien spooks that knows what makes Greys creepo? 100%
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:That's interesting, my interpretation was they didn't, they realized that she was so hosed up and alienated that she wouldn't care if the body snatchers won. She's already controlled by her trauma and that's why she could spit the bug out. She's clearly hosed up tho for that to be her Happy Ending yeah
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Holy poo poo Paramount+ on my Roku shows ads for stuff when I pause what I'm watching. That's incredibly evil and ingenious
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My interpretation is that the aliens think they have some higher calling to make other races as happy as possible that they're actually improving the universe and they *prefer* to not murder the people they're trying to save but in this case nothing worked so that one grey was just like "I have a better idea" and the boss was like "Alright whatever I don't have time for this poo poo."
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Upsidads posted:Mr.Inbetween Yeah, it’s great. I binged it a few weeks ago. Crazy how the lead actor/writer has done pretty much nothing except the show and the old movie it was based on.
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Papercut posted:My 7-yr-old loved Elemental and my 10-yr-old liked it Basically the same in my household. They never finished the new Little Mermaid, but I've seen them watch Elemental a couple of times. You don't even have to dig deep on the allegory, D+ literally has a little special that autoplays after where the creator of the movie talks about his inspiration of the movie being him as a kid in his NYC apartment building imaging items around him coming to life and playing out his daily life. Turning Red is also a really excellent movie that got hosed by COVID and being released straight to streaming. I really think that one would have made some bank if it had gone into theaters. Elemental was almost a victim of the movie oversaturation we've talked about a couple times in the Greenlighted thread, where good movies can't make their money back because too many high budget movies are getting released at once and there's not enough audience money in circulation for them all to make enough. I think Elemental managed to pass that threshold, but several other perfectly fine movies got hosed by this in 2023.
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I watched The Clearing and Three Pines. My name for this genre that I have just invented is "gray tv". My next gray tv adventure I'm about to depart on is Top of the Lake. Was that a good show? Did it have a satisfying ending? Any other similar recommendations?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I watched The Clearing and Three Pines. My name for this genre that I have just invented is "gray tv". My next gray tv adventure I'm about to depart on is Top of the Lake. Was that a good show? Did it have a satisfying ending? I didn't watch the second season of Top of the Lake but the first one was good. And if I understand you correctly, you could add Les Revenants to the list.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egy3n-7DQAU
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Shageletic posted:I'm a guy who sort of like horror, but like A24 like horror like Men, Under the Skin, and especially It Follows. Always looking for more stuff like that. Found this list that's giving me a couple ideas: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/a24-horror-movies-ranked-best-worst/ Robert Altman's 3 women is possibly the most A24 movie that predates A24. Eerie rather than outright scary. Anyone who has every cast Mia Goth or Anya Taylor Joy in a spooky movie has almost certainly watched it.
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lol i love this https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1706299250470945174
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Upsidads posted:Skinamarink might be considered the worst honest attempt at making a horror movie I have seen. It reminds me of Battlefield Earth where the director thought that the entire movie should be Dutch angles. This is as fundamentally unsound. You really gotta stop and think about some of this stuff.
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It's a cheap movie and marble hornets looked better Good for them on the cost to develop to profit ratio.
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It’s very deliberate in what it’s trying to do. But what it’s trying to do I can’t relate too because being up that late as a kid and being weird wasn’t scary to me but fun. 
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Would it have been fun if there was an actual monster that killed everyone in the house? Use your imagination drat
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It's really funny to say "half the time the characters are not in frame, and they don't speak clearly". This movie sure is made in a strange way.
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The director forgot
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The boom mic guy was there. Barely
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I think you can understand the intent and still not be terribly interested in 10 minute static shots of the corner of a room with subdued old timey music playing or whatever In other horror streaming news I saw No One Will Save You and thought it was a pretty good romp but I don't really know if it totally earned its ending
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Sure, but you should probably not make it seem like you were actively trying to not understand the intent. Use your words better than that.
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High Warlord Zog posted:Robert Altman's 3 women is possibly the most A24 movie that predates A24. Eerie rather than outright scary. Anyone who has every cast Mia Goth or Anya Taylor Joy in a spooky movie has almost certainly watched it.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Sure, but you should probably not make it seem like you were actively trying to not understand the intent. Use your words better than that. Oh that wasn't me it was someone else I've never seen Skinamarink because both the positive and negative reviews are about how deliberately tedious it is and I barely even like regular horror movies so it was an easy miss for me
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Randomly watched Im a Virgo. What an interesting piece of filmmaking. Bottoms Riley is his own universe of pointed surreality, and he's so effective in communicating that visually. The ending seemed a little sermonizing, tho I def agree with his point. It seemed the logical riposte to superhero vigilantes but still oddly deflating nevertheless. I guess that's the point. Either def worth watching and then thinking about.
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Shageletic posted:Bottoms Riley
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Field Mousepad posted:The boom mic guy was there. Barely now I want to see a horror movie where people think there might be a boom mic guy showing up in their house at random times of night
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This third season of Picard is good, but every time I hear "Frontier Day" I involuntarily think of Tom Goes to the Mayor
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https://www.slashfilm.com/1400801/no-one-will-save-you-director-brian-duffield-exclusive-interview/ Director of No One Will Save You about questions he got from streaming studios when he pitched the idea of a film with no dialogue: 
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Steve Yun posted:https://www.slashfilm.com/1400801/no-one-will-save-you-director-brian-duffield-exclusive-interview/ lmao perfect
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Steve Yun posted:https://www.slashfilm.com/1400801/no-one-will-save-you-director-brian-duffield-exclusive-interview/ Been saying this forever brian dufffield posted:
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Watched it tonight, rippin good time. I loved that every 5-10 minutes there was a new WTF moment
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I hate hate hate the state of movies right now.
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New season of Sex Education is out on Netflix. Hoping it stands up to the others!
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I hate hate hate the state of movies right now. I went to the theater to see Mission Impossible recently. It is amazing that Tom Cruise did that stunt bike jump to base jump. But the rest of the movie was so telling that writers are on strike. It was soooooo loving lame by the train scene which was just viscerally wrong somehow. Just pathetic how the jump cuts made zero sense. Basically don't spend that money at the theatre or you will be punished.
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I agree it was the weakest of the recent MI movies, but it was finished long before the writers strike so that had nothing to do with it.
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Yeah I thought MI:Dead Reckoning was ok. Not the best one in the series but passable. They've always been kind of a loose excuse for Cruise to do wild stuff and run and stare intently while going after a apocalyptic object code-named The Seven Leafed Clover or The Dragon's Tail or My Sister's Scrunchie or what have you.
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The MI issues were because it was made at the height of covid restrictions so every dialogue scene between more than two people is edited to death to try and hide that fact, I don't think Ving Rhames is literally ever in the same room as another person (and of course the cast + crew health and safety is paramount but it really messes up the kind of slick momentum and practical effects stuff this series is known for) The biggest failing though is that submarine scene at the beginning which was apparently originally the opening to the next film, but Cruise insisted they put it at the beginning of this one because I guess he thought audiences would be confused? But it's such a bad mistake in several ways: it ruins the central mystery of the film, it makes the opening feel way too long, and it just undermines the entire structure.
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10 Beers posted:New season of Sex Education is out on Netflix. Hoping it stands up to the others! I didn't love it. They spend a lot of time with new characters who are kind of annoying and the older characters don't really have much to do.
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Wolfsheim posted:The MI issues were because it was made at the height of covid restrictions so every dialogue scene between more than two people is edited to death to try and hide that fact, I don't think Ving Rhames is literally ever in the same room as another person (and of course the cast + crew health and safety is paramount but it really messes up the kind of slick momentum and practical effects stuff this series is known for) It was doomed to begin with once they decided to break it into two parts.
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