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Post by stephen on Feb 25, 2023 2:17:02 GMT
No notes. Everything I ever wanted from a movie called Cocaine Bear. Blackly hilarious, gruesome in all the right ways, with some surprisingly deft performances (Alden Ehrenreich and O'Shea Jackson, Jr. need to be in more things together). Margo Martindale felt like she walked straight out of a Coen Brothers movie. Can't recommend this movie enough. My audience adored it.
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Post by Feesy on Feb 25, 2023 14:57:56 GMT
Honestly, that’s all I needed to convince me to go see this. Looks fun as fuck, silly as fuck and sometimes that’s all I want, god dammit.
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Post by michael128 on Feb 26, 2023 3:36:12 GMT
Too light on the laughs. Theatre barely laughed. 55/100
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 26, 2023 6:37:11 GMT
Yeah, my audience didn't seem super into it either.
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 27, 2023 0:48:51 GMT
Trailer made it seem like it would be better than it actually was but it was alright, I enjoyed it
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Post by Pavan on Feb 28, 2023 18:07:06 GMT
I found it amusing when it should've been downright hilarious. There's so much promise in the subject but Banks and her team only managed to offer some giggles and gruesome kills here and there.
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Post by countjohn on Mar 1, 2023 4:00:24 GMT
Gonna say the opposite of some people and say this was better than I was expecting based on the trailers that just seemed like people yelling "A BEAR DID COCAINE" over and over. There were actual jokes and not just reminding us of the basic premise over and over. A lot of the funniest stuff didn't even have anything to do with the bear. The scene with the kids trying to eat the coke will likely be a contender for the funniest scene of the year and the bickering with Ehrenreich and the drug dealer made for some of the best parts too.
Speaking of which would be nice if Ehrenreich gets a bit of a comeback from this. Always liked him in comedic and character parts, he's maybe the best thing about Hail Caesar which is saying something based on that cast. Just don't think he was cut out to be a leading man despite obviously getting the big push with Solo, which looked like it was going to be a career killer for a little bit.
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Post by Viced on Mar 1, 2023 22:36:10 GMT
Truly abysmal.
Modern day CBS sitcom-tier humor, incompetently made in literally every facet (it especially looks horrible), too many characters to not give a shit about, and not anywhere near enough of the fucking COCAINE BEAR. This shit was so poorly done, it doesn't even show the audience the first time the bear does the coke. This genuinely peaked with Matthew Rhys' wordless hilarious performance in the opening 60 seconds. That was the sort of batshit comedic energy I was expecting from the whole thing... if only.
and worst of all, I cannot believe that what will probably be the last time I see King Ray Liotta on the big screen will have been watching him point a gun at a woman and children and threaten to kill them for literally no reason, kick CGI bear cubs, and get his guts torn apart and eaten by them before falling off of a fucking cliff. What an insult to a legend. Fuck this meme of a movie.
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Post by stephen on Mar 1, 2023 22:51:20 GMT
Truly abysmal. Modern day CBS sitcom-tier humor, incompetently made in literally every facet (it especially looks horrible), too many characters to not give a shit about, and not anywhere near enough of the fucking COCAINE BEAR. This shit was so poorly done, it doesn't even show the audience the first time the bear does the coke. This genuinely peaked with Matthew Rhys' wordless hilarious performance in the opening 60 seconds. Thatwas the sort of batshit comedic energy I was expecting from the whole thing... if only. and worst of all, I cannot believe that what will probably be the last time I see King Ray Liotta on the big screen will have been watching him point a gun at a woman and children and threaten to kill them for literally no reason, kick CGI bear cubs, and get his guts torn apart and eaten by them before falling off of a fucking cliff. What an insult to a legend. Fuck this meme of a movie. I feel like you and I just aren't on the same wavelength on things anymore, and it breaks my heart.  |
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Post by Viced on Mar 1, 2023 23:21:40 GMT
Truly abysmal. Modern day CBS sitcom-tier humor, incompetently made in literally every facet (it especially looks horrible), too many characters to not give a shit about, and not anywhere near enough of the fucking COCAINE BEAR. This shit was so poorly done, it doesn't even show the audience the first time the bear does the coke. This genuinely peaked with Matthew Rhys' wordless hilarious performance in the opening 60 seconds. Thatwas the sort of batshit comedic energy I was expecting from the whole thing... if only. and worst of all, I cannot believe that what will probably be the last time I see King Ray Liotta on the big screen will have been watching him point a gun at a woman and children and threaten to kill them for literally no reason, kick CGI bear cubs, and get his guts torn apart and eaten by them before falling off of a fucking cliff. What an insult to a legend. Fuck this meme of a movie. I feel like you and I just aren't on the same wavelength on things anymore, and it breaks my heart. Stephen, you were blinded by the hype here. It's alright. I don't blame you. I was hyped too. I thought it would be a fun time. But I guarantee you, in six months or so when you feel the urge to re-watch this thing... your only thought will be, "what the fuck was I thinking?"  and what else have we been at odds about lately? I feel like we were on the same page 90% of the time when it came to 2022 films. |
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Post by stephen on Mar 1, 2023 23:27:16 GMT
I feel like you and I just aren't on the same wavelength on things anymore, and it breaks my heart. Stephen, you were blinded by the hype here. It's alright. I don't blame you. I was hyped too. I thought it would be a fun time. But I guarantee you, in six months or so when you feel the urge to re-watch this thing... your only thought will be, "what the fuck was I thinking?" and what else have we been at odds about lately? I feel like we were on the same page 90% of the time when it came to 2022 films. I truly am the Little Alex Horne to your Greg Davies. I can't remember what it was, but there was one movie from the last two years that I sang praise to, and you thought I was out of my mind, and I think you may have been right about the hype at that time. Not sure I'd agree on Cocaine Bear, because I still think about that movie with great positivity. |
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Post by Archie on Mar 1, 2023 23:38:25 GMT
Stephen, you were blinded by the hype here. It's alright. I don't blame you. I was hyped too. I thought it would be a fun time. But I guarantee you, in six months or so when you feel the urge to re-watch this thing... your only thought will be, "what the fuck was I thinking?" and what else have we been at odds about lately? I feel like we were on the same page 90% of the time when it came to 2022 films. I can't remember what it was, but there was one movie from the last two years that I sang praise to, and you thought I was out of my mind, and I think you may have been right about the hype at that time. That was Antlers  |
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Post by stephen on Mar 1, 2023 23:51:29 GMT
I can't remember what it was, but there was one movie from the last two years that I sang praise to, and you thought I was out of my mind, and I think you may have been right about the hype at that time. That was Antlers THAT'S WHAT IT FUCKING WAS. ANOTHER KERI RUSSELL MOVIE IN THE WOODS. |
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Post by countjohn on Mar 2, 2023 0:44:30 GMT
and worst of all, I cannot believe that what will probably be the last time I see King Ray Liotta on the big screen will have been watching him point a gun at a woman and children and threaten to kill them for literally no reason, kick CGI bear cubs, and get his guts torn apart and eaten by them before falling off of a fucking cliff. What an insult to a legend. Fuck this meme of a movie. When the caption came up at the end I was jealous that I won't get to have a movie called "Cocaine Bear" dedicated to me after I die. |
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Post by tep on Mar 3, 2023 16:52:02 GMT
It’s ok, fairly entertaining. Definitely expected more though. 6ish
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Post by Joaquim on Mar 3, 2023 23:00:39 GMT
Even though I didn’t hate it, I do agree with all the criticisms of this movie. It needed a more competent team behind the camera. The cinematography was truly hideous, especially during the waterfall scenes at the end of the movie. Way too many unnecessary characters that make the movie feel longer than it is. The only characters that I would’ve kept are the ones looking for the drugs, and to a lesser extent Martindale. The entire subplot with the kids didn’t need to be there. I didn’t mind Liotta’s death scene too much. Sure it’s unfortunate that he’s pointing his rifle at a woman and her kids, and kicking the shit out of baby cubs but if the buildup to his death was done better, then getting his guts ripped out and kicked off a waterfall would’ve been a rad way to put the punctuation mark on his screen career. Like maybe he makes amends with his son and sacrifices himself or something instead of, you know, pointing a rifle at an innocent woman and children and kicking the shit out of baby cubs
But yea I was still fairly entertained, a 6 sounds about right
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Mar 5, 2023 2:17:53 GMT
I definitely wanted to like this a whole lot more than I did. Agree that it needed to lean way harder into the wildness and absurdity and cut out a few side characters. Still had some entertaining bits though.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Mar 20, 2023 7:38:18 GMT
Oh honeys, Margo Martindale should have been on for much longer. Some of the lines had me laughing out loud like when he asks if the dog is on cocaine... |
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jun 14, 2023 6:06:23 GMT
Cinema
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 27, 2023 20:56:01 GMT
One joke repeated over and over... but that one joke could have been funny if they actually spent more time with the Cocaine Bear and less time with all these annoying fuckers and their stupid fucking dogs and fucking kids that can't actually be killed but are all edgy because they're allowed to say fuck and that's apparently funny in itself right?
Give me more Cocaine Bear going on rampages and just make her some dude in a bear costume instead of this CG monstrosity. Is that too much to ask?
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