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Post by lurker on Feb 1, 2019 21:21:47 GMT -5
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Feb 1, 2019 23:57:53 GMT -5
Do what.
This comes out in August? Holy shit.
Harold! Get back on your stick!
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Post by lurker on Feb 3, 2019 22:16:04 GMT -5
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Post by chronotigger65 on Feb 5, 2019 21:10:17 GMT -5
Saw Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs tonight. Need to see the next two movie in the series one day.
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Post by shelverton on Feb 11, 2019 8:03:49 GMT -5
I watched Mother! on netflix last night. It was...a lot. I had to google to get some kind of explanation and perhaps I should’ve guessed it was all biblical references. I really think the movie was atrocious, but after doing my research I guess I can see how there was actual thought put into the script. Still, not my cup of tea at all.
I’m also 8 episodes into Nightflyers. This is also...a lot. I hope the story goes somewhere soon cause right now it’s just throwing random sci-fi tropes at me with no focus or direction... It reminds me of Stargate Universe, which I think I enjoyed more though.
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Post by jackcaeylin on Feb 16, 2019 11:33:32 GMT -5
I watched some movies in the last two weekends, from worst to best:
-Seed of Chucky
This movie is quite weird and it is kinda a horror comedy movie. The dialogue is weak and aimless to a certain degree. This movie is, I think, unintentional lgbt friendly, due to the gender identity of the daughter/son. It is kinda weird that the sequels ignored the existence of the child. I still think that every movie after 2nd should not exist, because they don't really know what to do with the character and they change the lore depending on the mood of the writer. I like the dynamic between Chucky and his wife, but everything else was a forgetful experience. The series should kinda die like the Freddy Nightmare movies.
-Annihilation 2018
People claimed this is a art movie, but I strongly disagree. This movie is weak and use art as an excuse. The cg backrounds look ugly. The mutant animals in the backrounds look out of place and all of these characters behave horrible. I mean, I would understand that, if they were dumb people, but they are scientists! Most of them aren't well used and they behave really dumb. They don't wear body suits, despite the fact that someone came back with organ failures. All of them don't even have scientific equipments and they touch the environment without a second thought. There is even a character that only has one line. With that line, you find out that she is a lesbian and that is everything that you will ever learn about her. (as well as her alcohol problems from a different character and thats it) I don't really understand why they send a team of scientists without proper military and science equipment in these unknown territories. I don't really know what moments of the movie should even be called as art. I don't want to spoil, but the ending is very weak and I am pretty sure that was the first idea that they found. I do admit that the movie had interesting ideas, but the execution didn't really work, due to the poor behaviour of the characters and the way the story was told. Honestly, this would work as a miniseries. As a miniseries it would have enough time to flesh out the nonexisting parts of the movie. The delivery of the message doesn't really work in this movie. Which is sad, because I like the idea of this movie, but it is a mess.
-Widows 2018
It was a great movie and I like the performance of Viola Davis. The themes in this movie are strong and shows certain problems in the society. I doesn't invent something new, but it is well told. I don't really want to write too much about this movie. It has lots of different plot lines, but they were delivered well and interesting. The pacing was great in this movie.It is not an epic heist movie. It is kinda grounded. I can imagine that some people could hate it, but I like the storytelling of the director. There is just one twist that felt a bit shoehorned.
-Silence 2016
A movie from Scorsese that had a quiet release? I don't know, but I got the impression that most of his movies get lots of marketing, but this movie had a phantom release. I didn't even know the existence of this movie, but I adore this movie. The dialogues are awesome. I don't really see that often in movies.
It is rather a dialogue heavy movie, thus you have to be in a certain mood to enjoy the movie. One thing that is rather weird are the characters. I mean, they were great, but I got the impression of Scorsese that he likes to use suitable nationalities for his characters. I thought, he would use some "american-spanish" actors for these roles, but it wasn't the case. I am not complaining, I was just surprised. The motive of this movie is "faith" and it tells a unique story with different ideologies. Not many people tell the story of the Shimabara Rebellion.It was an interesting take to have a movie during that rebellion. It is certainly fresh. My only and small complain: I am not a fan of the last 10 to 15 minutes of the movie. It was an afterthought. It doesn't ruin the movie or something like that, but it was an unnecessary move and it feels tacked.
Yours sincerely
Jack Caeylin
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Post by kaoru on Feb 18, 2019 8:32:24 GMT -5
Coco. I really liked it. Pixar also learned a thing from Up in that in Coco the emotional core is still the old lady (the movie is named after her for a reason) but most of the screentime goes to her plucky great grandson and his funny dog on a colourful adventure through the afterlife. So that their main audience of kids have something more fun and relatable than a cranky old dude.
The Shape of Water. Liked that one a lot too. Especially Del Toros usually past-glory rooted in real world but kinda magical world look and it being about a main character who's for the most part simply average (outside of her disability, of Course).
Call Me By Your Name. I kinda want to applaud it for not going through the usual beats most gay movies seem to always predictably go through. But in turn we have 2 boring hours of nothing really happening and no real conflict, and then final 10 minutes of mysery porn to win an Oscar.
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Post by windfisch on Feb 18, 2019 13:44:16 GMT -5
Coco. I really liked it. Pixar also learned a thing from Up in that in Coco the emotional core is still the old lady (the movie is named after her for a reason) but most of the screentime goes to her plucky great grandson and his funny dog on a colourful adventure through the afterlife. So that their main audience of kids have something more fun and relatable than a cranky old dude. I liked it, too. It looks great and has beautiful music.
But just like Up it suffers a bit from a villain that feels tacked on (the first half of Up is so much better than the second). There is enough conflict already in that family and adding an external threat as a catalyst to solve all those problems is just lame and takes away time that could have been used to further explore relationships within the family. While the character that ultimately serves as the villain certainly is of some importance to the plot development, there was no need to go into super-evil-territory.
It's especially disappointing after Upside Down proved that Pixar is very capable of telling a powerful story without having to resort to a mustache-twirling nemesis.
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Post by kaoru on Feb 19, 2019 5:35:09 GMT -5
Yeah, the film is more predictable and rootet in traditional screenplay trappings, but I didn't mind that much, since it's a kids movie after all.
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Post by windfisch on Feb 19, 2019 16:46:44 GMT -5
Yeah, the film is more predictable and rootet in traditional screenplay trappings, but I didn't mind that much, since it's a kids Hollywood movie after all. Fixed it for you.
After all, there are some amazing kids movies and TV shows like My Neighbour Totoro or The Moomins that don't need to resort to these kinds of clichés.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Feb 19, 2019 18:01:30 GMT -5
I should watch Coco. I missed it in theatres and knowing Netflix it'll probably gone soon.
Speaking of Netflix, I watched a bunch of random movies on Netflix, as I'm sure everyone does every once in a while. Didn't go very well, as per usual. Lucy thinks it's smart but it's really stupid. Tau is the most cliche movie you can make about an AI that gets too human. Sicario was decent but dissapointing after Wind River and High or Hell Water. Velvet Buzzsaw is one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. Jake Gyllenhaal is very entertaining in it, but other than that...hoo boy. It doesn't work as an art world satire, and it doesn't work as a horror movie, and both elements aren't intertwined in a clever way. Unless you have an obsession with Gyllenhaal it's not worth the time.
On the plus side, I've started watching some Disney animated feature films. Only got through Snow White and Pinocchio so far, but they are very enjoyable. It's surprising how well the humor still holds up and the animation seems a lot more modern than shorts from ~1937. I never really grew up with the Disney classics so it's cool to see them for the first time.
Also watched the Glass trilogy. When a friend asked me to go see Glass in the theatre I didn't know it's the third in a trilogy, so I had to cram in Unbreakable and Split as well. I thought Glass was a really good conclusion to an interesting trilogy. Though it is hard to take the main character in Split seriously at times.
And now that I'm typing, might as well mention Talk Radio. Very intense performance by Eric Bogosian which makes the movie a must-watch. It's a bit of a downer though, and the voice acting of the callers isn't very convincing.
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Post by kaoru on Feb 20, 2019 2:10:19 GMT -5
Yeah, the film is more predictable and rootet in traditional screenplay trappings, but I didn't mind that much, since it's a kids Hollywood movie after all. Fixed it for you. After all, there are some amazing kids movies and TV shows like My Neighbour Totoro or The Moomins that don't need to resort to these kinds of clichés.
Of course there are. Just like there are Hollywood movies that don't follow the usualy screenplay trappings It's just that I'm usually a bit more forgiving to kids movies when twists are predictable or things can warp up just a bit too nicely, because the target audience is somewhere between 25-30 years below my age. Doesn't mean I'm not even more appreciative if they are more complex than that. On the plus side, I've started watching some Disney animated feature films. Only got through Snow White and Pinocchio so far, but they are very enjoyable. It's surprising how well the humor still holds up and the animation seems a lot more modern than shorts from ~1937. I never really grew up with the Disney classics so it's cool to see them for the first time. Heh, a couple years ago I watched myself through all of Disneys animated masterpiece classics, or however they like to label them at any given point. All 47 "classical" animations from Snow White to Winnie the Pooh (2011) in order, one movie a weekend. Was a pretty enjoyable time, though some of course are clearly better than others. The several package movies after one another can be a bit tiring, and the 70s/80s output when they clearly weren't making what they used to until the Renaissance hit in the early 90s, has some stuff can also seem suprisingly low budget and unambitious.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Feb 20, 2019 2:29:11 GMT -5
The Shape of Water. Liked that one a lot too. Especially Del Toros usually past-glory rooted in real world but kinda magical world look and it being about a main character who's for the most part simply average (outside of her disability, of Course). Yea I really tend to like Del Toro's movies. But then I've always been a fan of magical realism in literature, and he borrows heavily from that.
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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Feb 20, 2019 7:49:52 GMT -5
Heh, a couple years ago I watched myself through all of Disneys animated masterpiece classics, or however they like to label them at any given point. All 47 "classical" animations from Snow White to Winnie the Pooh (2011) in order, one movie a weekend. Was a pretty enjoyable time, though some of course are clearly better than others. The several package movies after one another can be a bit tiring, and the 70s/80s output when they clearly weren't making what they used to until the Renaissance hit in the early 90s, has some stuff can also seem suprisingly low budget and unambitious. I'm still debating whether or not I should include the package movies, Song of the South and Victory Through Air Power. I guess it'll depend on whether I can find them in good quality. I did see some of the 90's 'renaissance' era movies as a kid. Pretty sure I've seen most of them, in fact. But that has been such a long time by now that I'm definitely looking forward to watching them again. The only one I've seen sort of recently was when we watched Hercules in greek class in high school for some reason. But even that's like a decade ago at this point.
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Post by windfisch on Feb 20, 2019 8:55:58 GMT -5
After looking at a few clips from that Air Power movie I have to say: Holy fuck, alongside Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens, some Fleischer Superman cartoons and a couple others by Disney and Warner Bros, this was indeed the Golden Age of morally bankrupt, yet aesthetically superb propaganda movies. Eat your heart out Michael Bay/Zak Snyder!
(My pacifist heart is breaking a little while writing this.)
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