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Imagine a Tiktok that goes on for almost two hours
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Jan 1, 2024 18:07
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I don’t think Spiritual Kung Fu would fly with the ASPCA, I’m pretty sure Jackie Chan really killed that chicken.
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Jan 1, 2024 23:28
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El Pipila posted:decided to kick off the year by finishing Out 1 Should’ve gone with Spiritual Kung Fu, this movie is nuts.
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Jan 1, 2024 23:42
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Blood Boils posted:Thats what you say every year! And guess what? I'm already halfway there! I watched Spiritual Kung Fu. Not bad. A lot of really good kung fu. It's definitely more of a normal movie than Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, but it doesn't reach the heights of the final action sequence from Half a Loaf. There's one bit where Jackie Chan is sleeping with his head up on a pillow and his legs up on a desk, and the ghosts move the pillow and the desk but he stays in the same position, it's very clearly just Jackie Chan holding that pose perfectly still completely unsupported, and it's insanely impressive. I just need to watch one more movie I will have watched movies (plural) this year!
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Jan 2, 2024 02:28
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The Peccadillo posted:I've been watching "Post Mortem: no one dies in Skarse" and its pretty good. Why is Scandinavian vampire stuff so cool, Let the Right One In was one of my favourite books as a teen and the movie was great Don't be tricked. Despite the name, Norway is actually a Greek vampire movie.
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Jan 2, 2024 16:19
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Man, I haven't seen Spaced in Ages. I wonder how it plays these days, now that having strong Star Wars opinions isn't the marker of a nerd so much as of an incredibly tiresome person.
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Jan 3, 2024 01:35
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My second movie of 2024 was The Raid: Shadow Legends. It's very good! I had never really felt a strong impetus to watch it, because I'd only really heard about it after Dredd came out and mostly in terms of how much it was like Dredd. and I really liked Dredd so I figured, "I already have Dredd" But I did watch it and it is very similar to Dredd but also does it's own thing. While Dredd has more of a focus on good story and characters, The Raid brings way more fighting. And the fighting is great and brutal. I've never seen a hero character stab so many guys. My one real criticism is that it doesn't really escalate well, so towards the end it's just more really good fight scenes. But that's enough to make me happy.
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Jan 3, 2024 03:57
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DeimosRising posted:you watched what now? That movie about the cops who raid an apartment building run by a drug lord but then have to fight their way out
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Jan 3, 2024 18:54
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Like every YouTuber has done promos for it.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:09
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Baron von Eevl posted:Great, now gripweed's going to post again in a few weeks about how clever their joke that nobody liked was. Nah that one was just ok.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:39
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Speaking of good jokes I made that no one responded to, in the Gundam thread people were talking about Gundam Seed and the practical differences between Naturals and Coordinators, how Coordinators had an easier time at anything they turned their hand to but still needed to work hard and practice to get really good at something and there was still space for Naturals to be better than them like Mu La Flaga being a Natural and still one of the best pilots in the setting, and I sad that a Natural could beat a Coordinator as long as they never saved anything for the swim back. And it got nothing! Not even a single lol. That was crushing. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jan 4, 2024 03:59
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CelticPredator posted:Hardy is incapable of doing a bad voice For Venom he invented a regional blue collar accent from a region that doesn’t exist, it’s so good.
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Jan 4, 2024 14:22
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GateOfD posted:Steven Yeun backing out of the Marvels Thunderbolts movie. How, haven't they finished filming by now?
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Jan 4, 2024 15:41
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Maybe he should've tried writing Good Cinderella
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Jan 4, 2024 15:58
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Hollismason posted:Yeah they kill a lot of chickens too. I don't know why specifically Hong Kong films killed snakes and chickens but they do. Also they seem to gently caress with cats a lot too. Jackie Chan snaps a chicken’s neck as a joke in Spiritual Kung Fu.
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Jan 6, 2024 01:43
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I’m watching Yakuza Weapon. It’s not very good.
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Jan 6, 2024 01:54
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I don’t know if I’m going to finish Yakuza Weapon.
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Jan 6, 2024 02:22
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OK when I posted that I assumed there was only like 15 or 20 minutes left, it would just be one big action set piece and that would be it. But then they started introducing this whole new plot element and I checked and there were 45 minutes left. So I am officially bailing on Yakuza Weapon
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Jan 6, 2024 02:29
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Maestro is the one where they gave the actor a fake nose significantly bigger than the actual guy's actual nose, right?
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Jan 6, 2024 03:34
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I think I'm the only person on earth who thought Threads laid it on way too thick. Ten years after the war and everybody's still living on piles of bricks. They've managed to survive for a full decade but never bothered to tidy up. And the only schooling is watching a VHS tape about skeletons. I get it, nuclear war would be bad, but that's just being silly.
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Jan 7, 2024 04:27
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And they made pre-war British life look pretty unpleasant to start with. Everybody was mean and tired before the bombs even dropped.
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Jan 7, 2024 04:28
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regulargonzalez posted:That's really cool actually. I've read novelizations where they're essentially just a transcript of the movie so gotta give him credit for going for it. Heat 2
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Jan 7, 2024 19:47
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MacheteZombie posted:So I'm beginning to think the volunteer for January isn't gunna get their thread up. Would someone like to volunteer to take on movie of the month on short notice? I can't do it right not but if nobody gets one up before me in a couple hours I'll do it. The movie will be Mobile Suit Gundam: Reconguista in G: The Movie I: Go! Core Fighter.
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Jan 8, 2024 21:30
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Well now it's a race
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Jan 8, 2024 21:36
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I’m watching Re-Cycle, this Chinese horror movie about a lady who gets sucked into the world of abandoned things. I wasn’t really feeling it to begin with, and then she got to the hallway of aborted fetuses.
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Jan 9, 2024 00:32
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Hollismason posted:He's got 24 hours or I make the thread and its going to be Angst! maybe Cannibal Holocaust! So it's a hard no on Mobile Suit Gundam: Reconguista in G: The Movie I: Go! Core Fighter?
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Jan 9, 2024 01:04
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I for one was being serious. There's something you guys need to learn
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Jan 9, 2024 01:16
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Anime Eratosthenes? When she says that she's fighting someone in space, they can all see the earth isn't literally square. She's speaking metaphorically. That metaphor baffled the person she's fighting, and a good chunk of the viewing audience at the time
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Jan 9, 2024 01:27
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oh btw I did not finish Re-Cycle. The lady is getting led around the world of abandoned things by this little girl, so as soon as the hall of aborted fetuses was introduced I was just like, "oh come on please don't" and then yup it turns out that was what the movie was about. Re-Cycle and Yakuza Weapon, two fuckin duds in a row, this sucks. And these weren't total blind buys either, Yakuza Weapon starred Tak Sakaguchi, the star of Versus, so that could have been good. And Re-Cycle was by the Pang Brothers, who did The Eye which I really liked! But no, I trusted them all and they all let me down.
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Jan 9, 2024 03:03
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You guys hear about that guy who got stuck in a urn?
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Jan 9, 2024 03:55
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Anybody see any good movies lately? No! I'm having terrible luck with movies lately.
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Jan 9, 2024 16:57
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I saw you guys talking about Saltburn a while back, I was listening to a podcast that’s not about movies but the guy mentioned he saw Saltburn. He said the whole thing is shot like a cologne commercial, it’s about this nerd who tries to be cool and goes to a house where everyone’s bisexual and does increasingly gross horny stuff until eventually the movie ends.
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Jan 9, 2024 18:31
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I watched Barbie. Pretty good!
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Jan 10, 2024 03:14
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Man, looking at the production history of Barbie, I’m really glad we got the Barbie movie we got. And not one written by Diablo Cody or starring Amy Schumer. Dodged a couple bullets there. The Cannon one probably would have been fun though.
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Jan 10, 2024 14:45
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Open Source Idiom posted:Eh, Cody's fun. I've liked a few of her things (United States Of Tara, Jennifer's Body) and that trailer makes her new thing look good. United States of Tara was so weird. The first season is this grounded little dramedy, very clear on the premise that the different personalities are all Tara, they all have a clear emotional purpose for Tara. And then the second season starts, and suddenly each personality is a different person and they have discussions inside Tara’s mind, and one of them gets a girlfriend. And the teenage daughter gets a job as a repo man and she repossesses a black lady’s car but then it turns out the black lady is very wise and for no reason at all she starts giving the teenage daughter life lessons and a magic pair of boots. I would really like to know what happened in between season 1 and season 2 of this show. It’s probably unfair but based on absolutely nothing I always blamed Diablo Cody for the show taking such a hard lovely turn.
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Jan 10, 2024 16:16
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Huh. I owe Diablo Cody an apology.
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Jan 10, 2024 19:35
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The Peccadillo posted:Wait I kinda get the bad summary critique. I remember talking to someone and I mentioned I just saw Nce Guys and they said I saw that too, it sucked nothing happened. And I didn't understand. The movie happened. It wasn't good, it was cute but a ton of stuff happened.That's just not somebody I'm gonna talk movies with we're not on the same page 'bout it Nice Guys was really good.
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Jan 11, 2024 21:38
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Gaius Marius posted:Honestly it was better than either Godfather I haven't seen Godfather but I strongly doubt it's better than Nice Guys
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Jan 12, 2024 04:27
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Gaius Marius posted:The worst things about the modern world is the psuedodemocraticazation of art, the rise of geek culture, and poptimism which has lead to a morass of people whom have deeply held belief that all art is equal but lacking the actual experience in the deeper ends of art have zero vocabulary, skill, or will to engage with anything outside their narrow comfort zones. Watching or reading and considering the great works is invaluable for rounding out your own opinions, comparing and contrasting why you react to one thing or lash out at another, it gives you ineffably a better ability to dissect and diagnose your own experience with art. People who watch nothing but trash cannot even understand why people deride their experience because they lack basic literacy. When a bunch of Marvelite simpletons rail against Scorsese they aren't doing it in an ironic fashion, they fully believe that whatever slop they watch is actually equal to Taxi Driver or KOTFM, they literally cannot understand that art can be more than a series of tropes, quotes, and flashing images. It's sad. The interesting thing about that kind of movie person is that they automatically assume that anything "high brow" is going to be boring or foreign or have a protagonist who is a bad person. I think the real thing there is that they expect that so-called "great" movies will demand something of the viewer. Paying attention or knowing about foreign culture or being willing to deal with complexity, those are all impositions they fear the movies will put on them. And they don't want that, they do not approach movies as something they interact with. They have fully accepted the concept of "content". They simply want to be supplied content. But to be honest I also think that group is very small. People who love Marvel but despise Scorsese as a moral position are not a significant population.
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