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Honest Thief posted:When they send the actual nazis in was a cool moment I thought it was bad when they showed up because they were up to no good
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net work error posted:The First Purge was good. I remember Matt calling the movie a Maoist tale and I agree very much. This episode really needed Matt. Hope we get him back. Even if it’s just in a captain pike chair with blinking lights.
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Automata 10 Pack posted:can we admit that ex machina was garbage too? movie with great visuals and vibes making the most boring and trite story decisions possible (wow!!! misogynistic elon musk guy is a serial killer of sex robots!) yeah sounds familiar. Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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I liked annihilation quite a bit, but I’m afraid to see it again on the chance I’m just misremembering it. His other movies (and devs) all look very good but are pretty middling otherwise
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Matt IS going to die one day. Are you prepared? No. Call me cringe, but I'm not a big fan of death.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I liked annihilation quite a bit, but I’m afraid to see it again on the chance I’m just misremembering it. His other movies (and devs) all look very good but are pretty middling otherwise
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Despite what that one guest they had on a couple times has said, dying ftl.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Matt IS going to die one day. Are you prepared? Pretty psyched for my own date with death. Be bummed if Matt beat me there
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:I liked annihilation quite a bit, but I’m afraid to see it again on the chance I’m just misremembering it. His other movies (and devs) all look very good but are pretty middling otherwise
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I only watched ex machina once but I did like the end and the idea that the Nice Guy main character was as bad as the villain
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TenementFunster posted:A24 Lady Ghostbusters the l3itch
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ex machina is funny, the nice guy doesn't get laid and gets locked in a closet left to die
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Automata 10 Pack posted:can we admit that ex machina was garbage too? Yeah
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If he were really the nicest guy, he’d lock himself in the closet and just blame her for it.
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I don’t mind Garland, his movies are at least trying
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well why not posted:I don’t mind Garland, his movies are at least trying Trying my patience! No but seriously folks. His movies are good to very good, the man himself appears to be insufferable centrist, but it's midwit as hell to care about an author's intent
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I don't want to know any opinion from any author I love, unless they're curmudgeon or pisstakers like Welles.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:It’s funny how the A24 marketing tried to position it as like, the smart version of the Purge movies and instead it’s actually the dumb version of the Purge movies. Boogeyman is my own personal fingernail painted sniper, canoeing bad media
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well why not posted:I don’t mind Garland, his movies are at least trying I didn't mind him either until this movie. Haven't seen Men though, was that good?
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The REAL Goobusters posted:I didn't mind him either until this movie. Haven't seen Men though, was that good? Yeah it's cool, and almost every critic hated it
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah it's cool, and almost every critic hated it per rotten tomatoes, about 70% of critics gave it a positive review. it was mostly audiences that hated it. Civil War is predictably doing pretty well with critics, as it's a movie that views working for a newspaper as the most noble thing you can do. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Civil War is predictably doing pretty well with critics, as it's a movie that views working for a newspaper as the most noble thing you can do. This seems to be what the Chapos took away from it as well, which is truly baffling to me. All the main characters are absolute pieces of poo poo and their mission is textually pointless.
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Failed Imagineer posted:All the main characters are absolute pieces of poo poo and their mission is textually pointless. which is a great microcosm for the film as a whole, when you think about it
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Men was solid and Ex Machina kicked off my personal infatuation with Oscar Isaac so both good imo I wanted to see Civil War but either here or in some other thread I saw someone mention that they thank andy ngo in the credits potentially because they used his footage? And i outed myself as an internet poisoned person by mentioning this at a party last night when someone asked why I had reservations about seeing it 
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I will say this for Leave The World Behind in comparison: it doesn't try to construct a plausible future scenario, it knows that it's all about the confusion and uncertainty the main characters are feeling. Too bad it's mostly just loving boring! I'd much rather see Ron Swanson get canoed.
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Automata 10 Pack posted:nah annihilation is good because the pretentiousness is all subtextual, and up to the viewer to interpret or ignore while they enjoy a very cool and creepy sci-fin action horror with an AMAZING art direction.
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The first half of Men was awesome and creepy and it kinda goes completely off the rails at the end but I appreciated the audacity of what they were trying to portray (a man continuously giving birth to himself out of his own butt)
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Garland, to me, feels on level with most of Villeneuve's work. Really beautiful and evocative movies with a pretty weak script. I'll still eat that trash.
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Failed Imagineer posted:This seems to be what the Chapos took away from it as well, which is truly baffling to me. All the main characters are absolute pieces of poo poo and their mission is textually pointless. That seems to be the confusion in general, since that's what Garland has been saying the message is, or that seems to be what he's pushing in interviews. My impression is that it's like a Sicario where you watch the movie, read what the writer wanted it to be, and you're just scratching your head.
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So I don't have to look up a bunch of interviews, what did Taylor Sheridan intend vs. what's onscreen?
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Halloween Jack posted:I will say this for Leave The World Behind in comparison: it doesn't try to construct a plausible future scenario, it knows that it's all about the confusion and uncertainty the main characters are feeling. Too bad it's mostly just loving boring! I'd much rather see Ron Swanson get canoed. LTWB seemed to have a pretty good idea of how to make an image uncanny and creepy without actually bothering to put anything uncanny or creepy in the movie
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Halloween Jack posted:So I don't have to look up a bunch of interviews, what did Taylor Sheridan intend vs. what's onscreen? I'd have to go digging too since it's been too long, but the first Sicario seemed like kind of a clever thriller that was poking at American bullshit a bit and sort of interesting. Military dudes "making hard choices" are actually just too cowardly and lazy to commit to boring, non-glamorous anti-organized crime stuff and they're just making things worse in the long run to feel like they're doing something. Military dudes are just assholes in general. They push a black man to the ground and call him boy (I think) and tell the hero white lady to "just let it happen" when the climax for the movie kicks off. There's a lot of uncomfortable stuff in general that felt intentional. The action plays the cartel up as this huge threat but the military guys are clearly never at risk and the big scary raid is 90% them blasting unsuspecting people. That kind of stuff, basically. Seemed like a very intentional thing. Then you get Sicario 2 and interviews and it's like, oh, no it's just supposed to be hard men making hard choices and that we just need to go harder because the cartels are just pure evil that needs to be snuffed out. And we'll do a little, "but were we right?" naval gazing to feel important and cover it up a bit. Okay. I think this is the quote I was thinking of, with Sheridan explaining why Blunt wasn't coming back. quote:“Look what she went through,” Sheridan continued. “It was a difficult role. Here I write this lead character and then I use her as a surrogate for the audience. I make her completely passive against her own will so the audience feels the same impotence that a lot of law enforcement officers feel, I drag her through hell, and betray her in the end. It was an arduous journey for the character, and for Emily. That character had arc.” I thought there was an extra line in there doubling down that the point was that cops were impotent to affect real change because the system tied their hands, or something like that. But yeah, weird whiplash halfway through that one. Thinking about it, I guess it's like what I heard about Yellowstone. Where the writing follows the pattern of the heroes being awful people/anti-heroes but you always have the background mood that Sheridan thinks they're cool and right.  I don't know, might just be me being dumb as hell but the dropoff from Sicario 1 to 2 bummed me out a lot. Felt bad. Parakeet vs. Phone fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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