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Dune Part 2 : more of the same. But when it's more of a movie that was in my top 3 of the year it came out, that's not a complaint! Great character work, some amazing shots and the sound was less intrusive this time around. An all timer of a sequel
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Jack B Nimble posted:American Graffiti - Based on the dialogue in Star Wars, I hadn't expected George Lucas to write such believable, genuine characters; from the very first scene the movie is willing to leave lines unsaid, to let implications hang in the air or be suggested with just some physical acting. If a character says something that seems forced or rings untrue, it's because it written to be that way; when the characters are genuine, they're believable. Maybe his imagination and ability to realize a world becomes more grounded when he's evoking his own past instead of a fantasy, maybe it's just the differing genres of American Graffiti and Star Wars, or maybe George Lucas just gets worse as writer as his ages and his career changes. Notably, Wikipedia suggests it was editors that gave the film's narratives their intertwined nature, whereas George had originally intended to go through them all linearly, which doesn't sound like it would have been nearly as good. Regardless, relative to his later work it's such an effective, subtle, and cheaply made movie that it makes me wonder what else we might have gotten out of George Lucas if the increasing spectacle of Star Wars hadn't consumed essentially the rest of his film making career. Yeah his sci Fi movie THX1138 is Logan's Run, Soylent Green and 1984 with the serial numbers filed off but it's a much more coherent movie than the Star Wars Prequels. Makes you wonder what could have been for sure
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Apr 13, 2024 21:16
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste : Marty Feldman directing a slapstick "Airplane!" style takedown of a Gary Cooper foreign-adventure-romance flick ("Beau Geste," natch) and throwing all the gags he can at it. Even includes a Harold Lloyd-style silent movie section where the hapless Digby (played by Marty himself) is trying to escape prison and all the guards are helping him do so. Ann-Margaret doing her sultry best, a real shocker of a turn by James Earl Jones, a whos-who of comedic and character actors and just a goofy as hell movie that for some reason didn't stick in the brains of people like "Airplane!" did even though it has some of the same Looney Tunes energy
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Apr 23, 2024 13:58
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Gran Turismo: Neil Blomkamp ditching sci Fi for a racing film sounded like a bad idea but the results are pretty solid. Probably the best racing has looked since Days of Thunder. And, as the marketing was so keen to point out, it's based on a true story. Beyond that it's still a good sports movie, underdog cliches and all. Great drone shots in this, just some dazzling aerials
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Apr 27, 2024 03:00
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Blockers: a comedy with John Cena so I had to give it a shot and I'm glad I did. The parents being the focus made this a bit different from most teen sex comedies and it's fairly chaste for a movie about teens trying to bone down. Cena buttchugs a 40oz of Colt 45 (at least half of it). Hannibal Burress is... in this movie for 10 seconds. Gary Cole hangs dong and is married to Gina Gershon. It's weird and nasty but also goes way too long with the schmaltzy moralizing, still worth a watch for Cena's performance.
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May 1, 2024 15:50
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Challengers - No, Zendaya does not get Eiffel Towered as the Brazzers-worthy promotional material would suggest (would have to be NC-17 box office poison for that kind of thing anyways), but it’s sultry, sensational, and possibly the only Guadagnino film worth jack poo poo. I would beg to differ, Luca's "Suspiria" rocked my socks off
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May 3, 2024 05:55
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Magic Hate Ball posted:"No, I'd jerk off" is one of the gnarliest laughs a movie's ever provoked from me. Followed closely by the last line of the movie "I've come!" ETA: saw Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. It was good, but still had the same problem as Afterlife where they had to shove in a reference every two seconds so you remember the older, better film.
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May 11, 2024 04:21
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Old Dads : dipped out of this one almost halfway as I couldn't stand being preached to by Bill Burr about how Millennials are Bad because Woke. This movie came out last year. Just painful and a waste of the talents of Bobby Canavale.
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Cephas posted:I Saw I Saw The TV Glow. it's like if Twin Peaks and Are You Afraid of the Dark had a child. I think I had a few of the same complaints about We Are All Going To The World's Fair, which had some real meat but it was buried in the rest of the film
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