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Black Panther was bad. It had the opportunity to be the only superhero movie with decent politics but totally whiffed it in like a dozen ways. The performances were good but otherwise it was just a boilerplate forgettable superhero movie. It being nominated for best picture seems like it was just on the basis of the only good thing about the movie (representation) Edit - As a pallete cleanser I watched Killing of a Sacred Deer which was riveting and probably Colin Farrell's best dramatic performance MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Mar 14, 2019 |
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Rolling Thunder Revue Scorsese's documentaries are some of his best work and so is this. No Direction Home and this capture Dylan's best creative output and his best live performances. It's real good
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Barry Lyndon is one of the prettiest movies I've ever seen, and now I'm real mad that Kubrick never got to make a Napoleon film
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Finally watched Candyman and drat it was good. The scene where Helen meets Candyman and is entranced by him, only to wake up in Ann Marie's apartment covered in blood with a decapitated dog and a bloody crib in the next room was such a disorienting, amazing sequence. Didn't know it was based on a Clive Barker story but he seems to have a fascination with characters being seduced by "exquisite" pain and death between this and Hellraiser.
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Oct 29, 2019 03:56
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Telebite posted:The Irishman - Youth CGI is getting better but still noticeable, and it can't change body type or shape, so you don't get Taxi Driver / Godfather II Dinero, you get old Dinero with young Dinero skin. That being said, the effect seemed to work better on Pesci. I think it was flawless on Pesci, largely because even his character at his youngest is still a dude in his 50s. It was so jarring to hear him call DeNiro "kid" in some of the flashbacks because DeNiro still looks - at best - 55 even when he's supposed to be much younger. Otherwise I loved The Irishman because it has all the moral rot of Casino or Goodfellas with none of the glitz and glamour. I think Nicholson's portrayal as Hoffa was way better than Pacino's but the dynamic between Hoffa, Sheeran, and Bufalino was perfect.
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The Nightingale has probably surpassed The Proposition as "most relentlessly brutal Australian film." It's set during the Black War of the 1820s when British colonists on the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) committed genocide on the aboriginal population there. Excellent performances but definitely not for the faint of heart.
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Häxan - Really funny pseudo-documentary about witchcraft and one of the most impressive silent films I've seen. There's stop-motion, excellent costume and set design, and a really impressive special effect of witches flying over a medieval town on broomsticks. The tone of the movie is "wow isn't it wild people actually believed this poo poo?" The final chapter of the movie even pokes fun at the modern "enlightened" approach of labeling all erstwhile symptoms of witchcraft as "hysteria."
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