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I watched "wolf warrior 2' the other night It's super RAH RAH CHINA LOVES AFRICA propaganda film Decent enough action flick but the fingerprints of the Chinese government are all over it. It's ridiculous It literally shouts at the screen "China and Africa are friends" multiple times and ends with saying to the audience "If Africa ever needs our help, then you can have it because we are friends"
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muscles like this! posted:The first movie is just as bad with the bad guys being American mercenaries (and by American I mean they're lead by Scott Adkins, a British actor.) There was a subtle dig later on in the film saying how the American forces we nowhere to be found when they were needed
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Sep 22, 2019 06:47
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CombatBonta-kun posted:Anything by Andy Sidaris is going to be terrible, but Hard Ticket to Hawaii has a special place for this scene alone. Hard ticket to Hawaii is amazing , and the end sequence with the harpoon gun and the dude breaking through is a scene of surprising quality I'm a film with nunchucking blowup doll assassins
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I rewatched cat in the hat the other night It's really interesting to see how much that didn't stick the landing and how it fell flat To juxtapose, I recently watched STALKER and had an enjoyable time with it Cat in the hat takes 40 minutes to get onto a major theme of the cat's box leaking into reality and warping it, but it frenetically bounces off the walls with sub plots (mother's party, boy is mischievous and must behave, mother's boyfriend is a prick etc) to distract you in those 40 minutes. And to it's strength it has an incredibly strong visual design that honestly isnt bad for a live action Suess film. While STALKER, A movie often called slow, has a setting and a story that includes evading the police in a sort of hide and seek style and gun fire in the first 20 minutes or so. Admittedly having read the book STALKER is based on I was far more prepped for the mood of the film. I read a quote that stated something like "STALKER challenges you to be bored" and I think that's a real good way to put it. The shots are long and earthy but subtly tracking or drawing focus. Contrasted with Cat in the hat's frenetic colour and editing style. I definitely enjoyed cat in the hat more than I expected but I couldn't quite pick the audience. I have a few young reletives spanning from 3 to 8 and I don't think they would have enjoyed it. The humor was almost always to adult for kids, but the visuals were honestly a touch disturbing ( or just unpleasant) for the younguns. An odd film worthy of study of what not to do And interesting
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munce posted:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107668/ I watched this minutes ago and unironically loved it Want a modern remake
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Dec 7, 2019 12:59
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I watched Movie 43 recently It's just atrocious in every single way Humor off base Eratic structure Unlikable characters Not even a story The whole thing felt like a tax write of for famous people to star in
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Jan 25, 2020 08:44
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What the gently caress.was "The Snowman" I've never seen a movie be bad like that before
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Very few reviews have ever made me want to watch a movie more than this one. Like, I have some degree of autism-esque social blindness and one of the reasons I like movies is that I can relax my active social processes rely on directorial and cinema language to inform me of character motivation or the feeling of a film The snowman so badly dropped the ball on this I just couldn't follow it at all The folding ideas video does a good job summing up the problems without spoiling anything major in the experience It's a hell of a ride and frustrating because it wants you to be amazed at it but it is lost up it's own rear end in a top hat
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Mar 9, 2020 01:55
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Goddamn ballistic is terrible Misso and I got up Lucy Liu's first shoot out and were just blown away by how boring it is Hard to reccomend even to bad film connoisseurs
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Quick clarification: did you misspell "erratic" or "erotic"? Yes
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Apr 27, 2020 04:05
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Just watched "Leonard Part 6" It's just , not good in any way. Like, you could quite easily cut off a half of if Cosby is a retired CIA(doesn't matter) agent(basically the translates to black-pratfall-batman) who is a successful restaurant owner(doesn't matter) in San Francisco (barely matters) who needs to stop a radical terrorist vegetarian from taking over the area using mind controlled animals. While his daughter is ostensibly being taken advantage of by an older man in the showbiz industry (yes Cosby wrote and produced this) Like it's all poor setup and no payoff and not fun. I get some real Austin Power meets Buckaroo banzai type vibes from this movie but Cosby has this real soft go with the vibe type delivery of all his lines that undercuts every line in this film. The Butler (his "Alfred" ) narrates the whole film making sure you get every beat you "need" Spoiler And like the ending does not make sense, the McGuffin is this orb that contains coloured fluids, Cosby needs to swap this orb for his.wife. Cosby's Butler swaps out the fluid with coloured detergent to render the plan non functional even after the swap. So Cosby and his wife escape their lobster death room and are able to leave. But for some reason need to go back and stop the antagonist's plan. If the McGuffin wasn't important why did the antagonist want the orb back? If the orb was successfully sabotaged why did the plan need to be stopped? Its true how did this get made territory https://youtu.be/6okmqn-omDU This is one of the less crazy scenes
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Jun 13, 2020 12:13
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Did I mention Leonard part 6 here? It's basically bill Cosby trying to blend get smart and police squad, while also being the straight man and the funny man simultaneously It's very bad and should have been put in as evidence in his trial
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Jul 25, 2020 13:37
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The fanatic was far far better than expected It started real strong with genuine effective cringe from the main character and significant character development through the movie. The autism poo poo could have been toned down just a bit too The "antagonist" really felt three dimensional, which added to the sense of intrusion into the life of a celebrity The last third really fell flat and was at an 11 when a 4 would have been appropriate Having a large heavily socially impaired man break into your house and behave as a super fan is terrifying enough , you didn't need a slasher film reenactment and mild torture porn That the film doesn't really have a strong storyline kinda worked in a "Hollywood is grimy here's a story " kinda way I wouldn't mind seeing another durst film if he makes one
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Sep 12, 2020 13:04
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I also watched "Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever" And that was a poo poo film A poorly explained infight within the FBI, involving a smuggled nano kill drone and the allegedly killed wife of a protagonist You never quite workout who is fight who and why and what is at each other's disposal Lucy Liu has infinite guns and the bad guy has infinite goons The whole thing felt like it was trying to copy the matrix and have a baby driver style thing going on with the music but it doesn't work at all On the positive The film has a habit of actually showing the stunts real good Here at 1:30 https://youtu.be/K-PxME5uIE4 You actually follow the stuntman down to the Ground, and there are other moments where you see the stunt in the entirety
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Sep 13, 2020 02:05
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wesleywillis posted:I guess they aren't straight to video, but I wish they'd gently caress off with the Fast and Furious sequels. Hard disagree, the later ones are far better than the early sequels
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Oct 25, 2020 05:35
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I watched "solar babies" It's like, Madmax meets the Goonies on rollerskates It's just doesn't make sense The problem is the world is all desert-y The god ball comes down to litteraly Deus ex machina the problem away Except , the world outside the fascist state seems functional enough to have a working relationship with the satellite communities, with a manufacturing capacity for rollerskates and market places and the blink-and-you-miss-it glacier community shows has life existing quite happily, which has an odd feeling of this film being like a fallout movie adaption, but it's just a silly quest about a bunch of rollerskating idiots The problem that the god-ball solves is releasing all the water in the aqua-bunker onto the plains and destroying the fascist outpost Good job idiots all that water is now gone, there isn't enough water in a single dam to reflood the local area significantly and the govenment still exists, you just took out a wing Bad bad dum silly bad movie
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Mar 15, 2021 12:55
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Me and mate who both love bad movies recently sat down and watched some actually well made movies (2013's Mystery Road & 2016's The Wailing) Goddamn, the breath of fresh air of watching something actually good ,after years of trash was amazing
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Aug 1, 2021 22:05
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I watched "The doorman" Interestingly bad film The general premise is that a hotel is mostly vacant due to renovations so a team of heavily armed dudes break into to steal a cache of paintings hidden in the walls of a room of a family. Its up to ex-military Allie to save the day die hard style. And to its credit , the action is fairly competent and the setting of old abandoned hotel is good But as a movie it just doesn't really work, but has all the aesthetics of a heist film eg, all the goons walk into the vacant hotel heavily armed and disguised. Why? The hotel is ostensibly vacant but for a pair of old people who they plan on killing The movie makes a point of putting a cellphone jammer on the roof and cutting the telephone lines which functionally works to stop people from calling the authorities. But again, the hotel is vacant When the plan goes pear shaped and the goons need to intimidate a different family to drill a hole in their wall. The disguises aren't used to clear the family out it goes straight to "hold the young daughter at gun point" The movie equates "save the fortune in the walls" with "save the family". And it's really weird that everyone wants to risk the family getting shot inorder to stop the thieves from getting their money, when the whole framing is save the family. Also some really weird gender identity politics re: reclaiming masculinity and traditional gender roles. Whole thing is perfect wine mom fodder
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Nemesis was surprisingly good
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