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Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Just like the poo poo I start on Plex I forgot I've seen 10 times.
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 I work from home though, so probably half of those I only paid partial attention to while answering an email from some rear end in a top hat.
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Jan 2, 2024 01:16
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:librarian here Thank you for your service. o7
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Jan 3, 2024 20:12
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You could make an argument for Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler, depending on if you think his pathetic groveling nature is goofy.
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Jan 4, 2024 02:06
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Saltburn is an OK-to-good movie with a great-to-excellent movie buried somewhere inside of it with a few more passes at the script. Too much time spent at being shocking when Fennell could have used that same energy to throw in some nuance. An interesting point of comparison is Donna Tartt's The Secret History, also ostensibly about a middle class outsider making friends with a posh college student, and then following them through the questionable moral circumstances that arise from wanting to preserve or attain high status, but where Tartt is more keen to imply and suggest, Fennell is just like HEY, DID YOU NOTICE? DID YOU? DID YOU SEE IT? The cum-tub slurpfest was shocking in a 'wow, are we really doing this' way, but the depravity following that felt more paint-by-numbers than anything else. Absolutely gorgeous movie though, wanna hang out in that house.
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Jan 4, 2024 18:01
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checkplease posted:Maestro is weird in that it’s a biopic, but I felt like it wanted me to know a lot more about Bernstein than I do. Events and names just pop up without much reference. I guess it stands out compared to Oppenheimer which actively tries to guide the viewer through this world of scientists. Maestro was probably my biggest disappointment of last year. It looks and sounds like a million bucks, and Carey Mulligan is really putting in the work, but in terms of a biopic it's almost aggressively unhelpful. Some of Bernstein's biggest/most noteworthy achievements are literally just sidelined to a single line of dialogue in the middle of the movie in order to fit in a few dozen more 'you know, I think he's a lovely husband' scenes. I saw someone on Reddit say that it was like having a conversation with the most gorgeous person you've ever seen while you slowly realize they have nothing interesting to say, and I think that's a fair appraisal.
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Jan 6, 2024 03:05
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Gaius Marius posted:Even for a prestige Biopic it just looks intensely boring. I cannot muster any enthusiasm for it whatsoever. It's worth noting that the movie is over two hours long. At a certain point I looked at the clock, certain that the movie had maybe 10 minutes left, only to discover that it still had 50.
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Jan 6, 2024 03:10
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It's a good thing I'm late checking the thread or you'd all be watching Bikini Girls vs Dinosaurs (2014).
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Jan 9, 2024 01:13
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I think the argument is that unless you can articulate your reasoning for something, you shouldn't express your opinion on it. You can hate something, but if you can't say why you didn't like it, your addition is completely unhelpful beyond being a passing aside. Ultimately, I think the only really valid film critics are finding a small group of perverts identical to yourself and getting your recommendations from them. A mainstream critic doesn't do anything for me, but if a handful of the gross weirdos in the horror thread liked something, that's much more enticing to me than anything else.
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Jan 12, 2024 01:10
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Reacher is a perfect television program for dads. Like, they figured out the exact formula that would appeal to dads and then condensed it into an 'action-only' format and went with it. The writers room collectively watched Yellowstone and was like, 'This would be better if they stopped talking about ranching and just beat people up and sometimes the pretty lady got her boobs out', and an executive was like YES THAT'S WHAT WE NEED.
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Jan 17, 2024 23:50
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Reacher is a TV show about a sentient block of meat running into (and through) obstacles. The premise of the show is that the titular Reacher is in fact Very Large, and everyone else is Regular Size, and as such he can just Do Violence and the problems go away. Something bad happening to someone? Reacher throws a slab of Grade-A beef at it and then the thing dies (or is horribly crippled) and everyone cheers and the beef shimmers. God does the beef shimmer.
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Jan 18, 2024 00:06
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CelticPredator posted:Reacher owns. People try and say it’s for dads, chuds, white people, but it is for everyone who likes cool things Reacher is a good series because sometimes you just want to see a smug guy get punched in the face and Jack Reacher almost exclusively punches smug people in the face. Sometimes he shoots them in the chest like seven times after snapping one of their limbs
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Jan 18, 2024 00:14
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Jay Rust posted:Is JR himself not also a little smug? I’ve only seen stills of the show He's smug because he's always sitting with the knowledge that he could fold a stranger in half like a piece of paper at any minor inconvenience. And he does! e: I made a comic to help you understand the show 
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Jan 18, 2024 00:24
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Gatts posted:I would like to see Tom Cruise Reacher meet TV Reacher and get on his shoulders to become Mega Reacher. GO GO POWER REACHER!
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Jan 18, 2024 03:48
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If you like that Reacher clip, I can assure you the entire show is basically that, intercut with scenes where he makes ridiculous puzzle game leaps of logic in order to solve crimes.
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Jan 19, 2024 04:39
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I'm watching Zazie dans le Metro for the first time and it's kinda wild that this movie has an extended, playful slapstick chase scene where a pedophile is chasing our young protagonist to carnival music. C'est cinéma!
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Jan 22, 2024 00:35
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I'm watching Memories of Murder for the first time in a decade and lol, lmao, I forgot how many people got dropkicked, running dropkicked, or roundhouse kicked in the loving face in this absolutely-not-a-martial-arts movie.
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Jan 23, 2024 17:47
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I saw High Tension opening night in a full theater and when the twist was revealed, one guy did a single loud cackle and now that's what I think of when I think of that movie.
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Jan 29, 2024 01:09
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Gripweed posted:Genuine question; does Buford T Justice hold the record for a character saying their own name the most times in a single movie? Gotta be Groot, right?
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Jan 29, 2024 03:02
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Hollismason posted:Hasn't Scorse already made Jesus film. He making another one? 
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Jan 30, 2024 05:08
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The Beekeeper is maybe the most incredible movie of the year, it's like someone watched John Wick and then huffed a bunch of paint fumes and was like, 'HELL YEAH I LIKE ACTION MOVIES'. I seriously, seriously recommend watching it if you want to have an incredible time.
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Both Paddington movies were January movies, IIRC?
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Feb 5, 2024 18:52
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Gripweed posted:Goddamnit I somehow got the fullscreen version of The Lighthouse. I didn’t even know they still made those. [sad harking noises]
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MacheteZombie posted:If you haven't already, go check out this month's movie of the month Yeah what MZ said, Last Black Man is very good (especially if you've spent any amount of time in San Francisco).
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