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Dijkstracula posted:the drafthouse screened run lola run yesterday and folks that's a 90s-rear end movie that still holds up Yeah it's really good. Fun, stylish and entertaining throughout.
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sure okay posted:The Ebert review of AI is one of the first of his I'd ever read and I came upon it shortly after my first watch. This has always stuck with me I really liked how balanced the ambiguity of Ava's personhood was. Even though I accepted her as a person by the end, there's still that "is she really?" question lingering. AI on the other hand has no ambiguity. Haley Joel Osment is the POV character and he consistently acts like a human child. If you cut out the few scenes where we see he's not physically flesh and blood (like falling in the pool), you would have no reason to think he wasn't a human kid in an appalling situation. What kind of monster would kick little Haley Joel Osment?
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Quantum of Phallus posted:probably not worth watching cos netflix will cancel it after 1 season Mega Comrade posted:Three body problem is one of those books I just don't see making a good TV show. yeah. Hard to adapt and I can't see netflix finishing it so I'll hold off for now unless I hear it is good and complete (which it won't be because of people like me holding off)
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Jan 10, 2024 15:52
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Saw Dead or Alive with a group as a student. The ending was the hardest I've ever laughed at a movie. We also watched Ichi the Killer. It sure was something. I've long meant to get back to Miike movies as he's well regarded but there was some barf-worthy stuff in those two flicks
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Jan 14, 2024 11:31
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Outpost22 posted:Why not get weird with it? Palpatine back but now he's a good guy?! And nobody believes him because he still has a monster face and spooky robe. Unfortunate circumstances keep making it look like he did evil things when in fact he saved the day and he gets attacked as he tries to explain what really happened.
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Arc Hammer posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgaYFvuBFM Also has Silent Night Deadly Night 2. Good episode
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Jan 19, 2024 15:02
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They brought Stewart's Professor X back after Logan? Lame af
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Jan 22, 2024 16:31
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Cubone posted:I know the 2011 Thing has seen some minor reevaluation, from people trying to look at it without the baggage of the practical effects being buried and living in the shadow of a superior film. like there's definitely been some "well, I liked it Yeah absolutely. We weren't denied a masterpiece because of executive meddling, at best the prequel would have been a mediocre flick with cool practical effects.
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Jan 25, 2024 11:51
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Finally saw Barbie. It was fun and entertaining. Did not expect to see Rob Brydon appear as Sugar Daddy Ken.
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Jan 26, 2024 14:07
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Bummed that the independent cinema near me that I really liked closed the other year. There's a fundraiser trying to get it reopened but it's pretty far from its target
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Jan 26, 2024 15:41
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I always check my phone's on silent in the cinema even though I've never taken it off silent in the last decade
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Jan 26, 2024 16:28
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Lister posted:Because in that zoolander clip, will ferrell's bottom row of teeth are very visibly crooked and ugly. When part of an actor's job is to be looked at, ugly teeth are distracting and uncomfortable to see. Bad opinion, doubly so when it's a comedy about the modelling industry. E: too mean, let's all get along bitterandtwisted fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jan 28, 2024 |
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Still can't believe EEaaO won last year. I mean I liked it, but a wacky action comedy with an extended butt plug scene is not normal oscar material. Until the mawkish last act that dragged on way too long. That's more like it.
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I recognise the thing but no longer clap. I tire of the thing.
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Jan 29, 2024 17:57
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dr_rat posted:Although as someone -I think a page or two ago- mentioned, dark universe could of worked too if they weren't trying to make it all 300 million dollar marvel'esq action type poo poo. Series of vaguely connected smaller budget horror films by writers/directors who like the old movies/genre, could of worked well. They just got greedy. Yeah. The Invisible Man was excellent and a big financial success. You could do the whole dark universe for less than the cost of the Mummy. Not that I think they should. Shared universes are small universes. Plus you get tone inconsistencies; a Jekyll film could be great in the same style as Invisible Man, but a Frankenstein with no camp elements sounds unappealing. Let things stand alone.
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Jan 31, 2024 09:25
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Gutcruncher posted:lol it’s like everything the Avatar remake’s showrunner says to promote the show just makes it sound like he couldn’t understand a children’s cartoon from 20 years ago Ang running away from his big scary responsibilities was the whole reason he got frozen for 100 years and the world went to poo poo. also https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1752095969506635999 Character growth is "iffy". My animes!
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Non Compos Mentis posted:there has to be a dr doolittle that is extremely racist, it seems like that kind of story the 60s musical from what I've heard e: oh and on the subject of that lawsuit: Inceltown posted:People really need to see what they submitted bitterandtwisted fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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The first one was decent, except the baby subplot was so stupid. We know the monsters have been on earth more than 9 months. Was the pregnancy by choice? Was one or both parents a religious fundamentalist who wouldn't consider abortion? What if the baby cries and they have to choose between killing it or everyone dying? So much you could do with that but instead the resolution is just "a mattress over the trapdoor". Apparently that wasn't an option before. I saw the sequel, don't recall much about it. A prequel might be a cool as a spectacle.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Has there been a worst pilot? Like you watch the pilot, then you watch the series, and it feels like you got a bait-and-switch with what you were promised vs what you got? Stargate. Maybe not the worst, but definitely the least representative of the rest of the show, what with the full frontal nudity and alien worm rape.
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JP but members of an exclusive fine dining society are bringing back long extinct creatures to eat and invite our group of protagonists to sample the delights. Third act twist: you were eating hominids
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Non Compos Mentis posted:speaking of spiders Looks like a fun creature horror. The whistling spider motif made me chuckle. I should rewatch Arachnophobia, not seen it in years
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the TOS music kicks rear end, especially the fight theme tune. As much as I love the later TNG seasons, I did not love the sonic wallpaper score.
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Frank Frank posted:The same movie shot 4x from slightly different perspectives hell yeah Beatles Rashomon
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Feb 20, 2024 16:20
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more chance of a good hungry hungry hippos movie than a Ringo biopic
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Presto posted:I watched the Len Kabasinki-recommended movie 'Raw Force' on Tubi. What a film. The ending fell a little flat, but it might be the best bad movie I've ever seen. Kung Fu, cannibal monks, guy with a Hitler mustache, Cameron Mitchell, and gratuitous nudity. Yeah it's a really fun flick.
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kalel posted:I think the big misstep of the MCU was having any kind of definitive ending at all. it gave people an out to stop caring about the endless deluge. then covid killed theaters for a bit and it really became a past era of the zeitgeist in audiences' minds. instead of giving people a satisfying conclusion, they should have strung everyone along with nonsense for another decade and a half I was tired of the MCU long before Infinity War/Endgame and the promise of a conclusion to the series was the only thing that kept me watching these movies as long as I did.
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AARD VARKMAN posted:effortlessly changing the subject, I'm down to the last 10 episodes of DS9 and golly that was a terrible Vic Fontaine episode with the gangsters The casino heist one? I thought it was fun 
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oh rip xjakk  I really don't like when the thread becomes hostile
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Feb 21, 2024 16:52
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yeah if you're reading this dude, take care
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Molothecat posted:xjakk seemed like a good dude and def didn't deserve that bizarrely hostile reception Yeah he was always an inoffensive presence and I hope he's ok. His videos didn't look appealing to me but, y'know, scrolling past them took less effort than rage posting about them.
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reissues used to be common, it was home media that killed them. I saw most of the Disney classics in cinema before they were on VHS. Disney was super reluctant to release them on VHS, thinking it would reduce their "brand prestige", until they discovered how much money it made so they released them all plus straight to VHS shovelware sequels.
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Watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. It was exactly the level of stupid, gory and goofy I was hoping for.
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Oompa Loompa doopa dee dethlab
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I usually go to one of two indie cinemas near me and almost never get annoyed by other viewers. Going to the imax at the local chain cinema for Dunc 2 at opening weekend. Not sure how wise this decision will turn out to be.
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Saw Dune. I liked it a lot and would recommend. It's a very good looking film and I'm glad I saw it on imax. The Harkonen planet was striking, though the millitary parade in pseudo-black and white evoked WW2 in a way that felt a bit on the nose. A couple other moments took me out just a little. One has Paul march menacingly toward the camera in robes and hood looking very Episode 3 Anakin. The other was where Stilgar says "only the true messiah denies his divinity". There was laughter at that, and it's meant to be funny, but it was like it was daring the audience to shout Monty Python quotes at the screen. Fortunately the audience was fine. Packed room, chain cinema, opening weekend, and nobody was annoying.
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That DICK! posted:trying to remember a film, a bunch of aliens coming down to earth to have a good time, they get trapped under a bunch of popcorn and they decide they have to eat their way out, and it was all black and white except for one of the aliens who had a red spacesuit Schindler's list
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Sunk Dunk posted:I started going through all of the Star Trek stuff a while back. I got through TOS and TOS TAS which I mostly enjoyed. I then got to the movies. They are....OK, but god some of them are a slog, mostly past Wrath of Khan. I might just skip the movies and go straight to TNG 2, 4 and 6 are good. 1 is good if you're like Mike and me and enjoy boring trek. 3 is not bad. 5 is bad, but endearingly so.
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Shrek 4 was ok
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Corman's 97. Hope they're sticking to the original 2 day production schedule.
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