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Fast and the Furious 1-8 marathon with the wife. These are loving awful. Each one is the worst one.
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checkplease posted:The fast films are fun action with big cars and solid stunt work. And maybe the only minority led blockbuster franchise. They're still really bad
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Jan 23, 2024 09:44
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Dumb Money. This loving movie can hodl my dilz with its diamond hands until I nut to the moon and then take me out for chicken tendies.
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Jan 27, 2024 17:03
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Data Graham posted:Ferrari - Well nothing much seems to be happening in this movie, just a lot of rack-focus stunts and cameras being placed on the ground, lots of family drama and not a lot of racing, not sure what all the buzz is ab— 
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Jan 27, 2024 17:06
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Thanksgiving - Eli Roth once again shows he doesn't have any business being behind a camera in any way, shape or form. What a tremendous piece of poo poo movie.
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Feb 3, 2024 06:01
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:The House of Yes: Parker Posey should retroactively get the Oscar. Love how unhinged and dense the dialogue is and how uncomfortable the atmosphere is. Shockingly great. If this movie was released in modern day I feel like the inciting incident would have been 9/11. I love this movie but hate Tori Spelling in it. She's just terrible.
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Feb 3, 2024 19:36
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The Beekeeper was a really sad and tired attempt at a revenge flick with a kinda-sorta-not-quite John Wick thing going on about secret assassin groups. The action was dull, the editing was sloppy and the characters had no character. It wanted to be quippy and wink at the audience but also be serious about how lovely people who defraud the elderly are (seriously, that's the plot). It just felt like a big budget movie made entirely by amateurs trying to hit above their weight. Really wasted Jeremy Irons too.
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Feb 11, 2024 02:10
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Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen Never seen these before so I binged them all. Eleven - Decent heist flick with a bit too much magic technology mumbo-jumbo for my liking. The cast is charismatic but with so many it's hard to really latch on to them. It's obviously a Clooney/Pitt vehicle, but still. Bernie Mac is criminally underused. Don Cheadle has the worst fake English accent I've ever heard. Twelve - Overly complicated plot that's completely undone by the terrible contrivance where the first 80% of the movie doesn't matter at all because the last 20% shows "what really happened" which renders everything that came before pointless. Bernie Mac was so criminally underused that they just threw him in a jail cell for half the movie. Cheadle's accent is somehow worse? The capoeira laser scene was hilariously stupid. Thirteen - Back to hotel heists. Way too much magic technology poo poo. Way too much suspension of disbelief for me (both chunnel drills are allowed to dig under the strip with no problems from the city?, etc.) Bernie Mac is criminally underused. Complete waste of a Bob Einstein cameo. Cheadle is barely in the movie, but the accent still sucks. Overall I give the series a meh/10. If I don't see another crash zoom for a year, I'll be fine.
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Feb 14, 2024 04:42
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In Training posted:You gonna check out Oceans Eight.
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Feb 14, 2024 08:00
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It's actually really entertaining and way better than the other adaptation, Trucks.
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Feb 17, 2024 23:17
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Gaius Marius posted:Vertigo loving hate when you see a film this good cause it's gonna make everything else seem worse for the next month. Perfect hosed up toxic relationship mixed with a wife killing and a psychosexual look at make neuroses. Literally what more could you want and oh yeah it's loving gorgeous.
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Feb 18, 2024 04:16
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In Training posted:Well yeah, she's lying to him. It's supposed to be a bit of a send up of Hollywood romanticism, and Scotty is the sucker who buys into it bc of his own insecurities. It's cool
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Feb 20, 2024 00:15
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Oppenheimer - Despite being overlong by 40 minutes (usual for Nolan), having some weird directorial decisions (usual for Nolan), sometimes having the soundtrack drown out the dialog (usual for Nolan), and getting a little JFK there every once and a while, this was a great movie. The soundtrack, actors and cinematography were all top-notch. Great film.
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Feb 20, 2024 22:47
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It's a revenge fantasy for Pit Viper-wearing divorced dads/red-pilled BJJ bros/wanna-be operators. That's it. That's the appeal.
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Feb 25, 2024 20:21
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Seconds, the 1966 John Frankenheimer film recently came to my attention from a Criterion Closet video. I'm not sure what I think about it. There's a lot of handheld and extreme closeup used to give a sense of extreme paranoia and alienation which works. There's also some almost-Steadicam footage that reminded me of the technique that Darren Aronofsky used in Pi and Requiem For A Dream, but this was done 10 years before the Steadicam was invented, so, yeah, really cool. I know nothing about movie making techniques from an historical standpoint, so maybe this was more common that I'm aware of, but I was impressed. Unfortunately, the movie itself was kind of a dud. The first third certainly got you invested in the story and did a really good job of requiring the viewer to read between the lines as to what was happening. Unfortunately, the mid-part became far flabbier. There's this whole hippy/Bacchanal wine stomping section which I suppose was intended to show the protagonist's "rebirth" but just didn't work, especially considering that the scene directly after has the lead completely fail to assimilate into his new life. Unfortunately, the finale makes the whole movie seem like an extended Twilight Zone episode.
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Feb 29, 2024 19:11
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Lovely Dark and Deep. What a piece of poo poo. It was like watching an LP of an Eastern European psychological horror walking sim.
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Mar 2, 2024 03:07
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Archer666 posted:Poor Things - Been a while since I enjoyed a movie like this. Just sucked me right in from start to finish.
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Mar 3, 2024 19:24
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I thought it (especially the ending) was laughably bad, but Dever brings it. My wife really likes the show Unbelievable which she's great in.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I'm going to suggest that the ideal way to watch Skinamarink is not
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Mar 15, 2024 20:01
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Just finished Poor Things. loving amazing.
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Mar 19, 2024 03:40
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Maurice - being gay in Edwardian England really sucked. Good Merchant-Ivory stuff here.
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Mar 26, 2024 15:28
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Looker (1981) - 45 years before deepfakes were A Thing, Looker posited the existence of perfect computer generated actors and the lengths that a corporation would go to to advance that technology. Unfortunately the movie itself is terribly boring and laughably confusing. Why is the company trying to frame the surgeon who's making these women "perfect" before killing them off? Why is there a subplot about a light gun that causes the victim to go into a trance, and why does it seemingly make the wielder invisible, sorta? Why did the film makers waste Albert Finney so completely to the point of having the last 40 minutes of the movie be him silently walking around in a security guard uniform and hiding behind counters on kitchen TV sets? I'm pretty sure this movie was made just because the Michael Crichton wanted to get Susan Dey naked.
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Apr 5, 2024 21:13
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The Vourdalak (2023) - what an odd little vampire movie. A French nobleman travels through Eastern Europe in the 1700s and due to unfortunate circumstances ends up lodging with a very strange family, the patriarch of which has been missing for 6 days. Before he left, he told his children not to allow him back into the home if he returns even a second after 6PM on the 6th day, or else he will be a vourdalak, a Slavic vampire that feeds on family members. Well, the father shows back up at the stroke of 6. The movie has a very hazy, dreamlike quality to it and feels very much like a lost 70's European horror flick. The "special effects" choices are quite interesting and actually work for what the movie is going for imo. Such an odd little film. Worth checking out.
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Apr 15, 2024 14:56
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Immaculate (2024) - Rosemary's Nunnery. Absolute crap. A perfect example of the problem with most horror movies simply going down a list of spoopy tropes and checking them off. Seriously, don't waste your time.
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Apr 18, 2024 16:26
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Fast and Furious 9, aka F9 (2021) - I still don't understand how the FnF series does it; each movie in the franchise is the worst movie of the franchise. It doesn't matter what movie you compare. F5 is worse than F3, yet F3 is somehow worse than F5. F9 continues with that truism by being the worst movie in the franchise. I wish my wife would stop making me watch this god-forsaken series, but she likes watching car wrecks.
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Apr 19, 2024 04:21
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Fast X aka Fast and Furious 10 (2023) - The worst one of the franchise, but still not as bad a 1-9. Momoa knew exactly what kind of movie he was in and at least looked like he was having a good time. VD has never been good in anything but this is his career nadir. Just absolutely phoning it in for this one. Late Night With the Devil (2024) - Man, what a disappointment. First, on a positive note, the set design and costuming was pretty good. Now for the negatives. When movies fake recordings of live broadcasts, they always fail for one reason: the acting always feels rehearsed and not at all naturalistic. This doesn't seem to bother other people I've mentioned this to, but it's a big annoyance for me. The special effects were pretty terrible. I realize this was low budget but the movie had like 7 or 8 production companies attached to it and the special effects looked worse than poo poo people do for fun in Blender on YouTube. The ending was incredibly stupid and telegraphed. Just laughably bad storytelling. Finally they really did James Randi dirty.
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Apr 21, 2024 15:12
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Gaius Marius posted:Up there with Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights for best older actor acting in a young hotshot writer director's film about the porn industry and not really understanding the film they're in.
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Happiness is an amazing movie and more people should be blindly recommended it.
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