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Post by jakob on Jul 6, 2018 5:21:13 GMT
What this movie is going to do to unsuspecting audiences is hysterical. By far, the WTF movie of the year and possibly of many years. I can't think of a movie that takes such a hard left turn into batsh!t insanity particularly one that is already batsh!t to begin with. I think contextually, it all works. Narratively, it's a lot to digest and unpack. It's as if Spike Lee and Charlie Kaufman had a baby together that was deformed and addicted to cocaine. This sh!t is WILD. If Boots Riley keeps up with this, he's going to be a name to be reckoned with.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 6, 2018 6:54:01 GMT
This doesn't have a release date here yet
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Post by thelistenercanon on Jul 6, 2018 7:30:16 GMT
Hey, you're not bothering me. So can you tell me what movie you're talking about at least?
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jul 6, 2018 7:32:58 GMT
This doesn't have a release date here yet Here too
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Post by Zeb31 on Jul 6, 2018 14:48:52 GMT
This doesn't have a release date here yet Same. I've been dying to see it since the first trailer came out, but I suspect it'll just be quietly dumped on VOD a few months from now.
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Post by jakob on Jul 6, 2018 18:48:32 GMT
What this movie is going to do to unsuspecting audiences is hysterical. By far, the WTF movie of the year and possibly of many years. I can't think of a movie that takes such a hard left turn into batsh!t insanity particularly one that is already batsh!t to begin with. I think contextually, it all works. Narratively, it's a lot to digest and unpack. It's as if Spike Lee and Charlie Kaufman had a baby together that was deformed and addicted to cocaine. This sh!t is WILD. If Boots Riley keeps up with this, he's going to be a name to be reckoned with. Oscar Chance? Zero. The Oscars aren’t going near this unless Boots Riley manages to squeak a Best Original Screenplay nomination. I can’t spoil the movie but there’s a point in the film where any major awards chances are flushed down the toilet and I don’t mean that in a bad way. Get Out was a Disney movie compared to this.
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Post by jakesully on Jul 6, 2018 19:00:39 GMT
It's as if Spike Lee and Charlie Kaufman had a baby together that was deformed and addicted to cocaine. This sh!t is WILD. If Boots Riley keeps up with this, he's going to be a name to be reckoned with. Sounds good to me man . Love your description of this shit . I still haven't even watched the trailer (gonna see it as cold as possible. ) All I know of it is Hammer is allegedly a huge coke head in it.
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Post by jakob on Jul 6, 2018 20:41:10 GMT
It's as if Spike Lee and Charlie Kaufman had a baby together that was deformed and addicted to cocaine. This sh!t is WILD. If Boots Riley keeps up with this, he's going to be a name to be reckoned with. Sounds good to me man . Love your description of this shit . I still haven't even watched the trailer (gonna see it as cold as possible. ) All I know of it is Hammer is allegedly a huge coke head in it. Going in blind is best, haha. It’s definitely a horse of a different color!
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jul 7, 2018 4:18:20 GMT
this movie looks totally bonkers. Dying to see it
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Post by Sharbs on Jul 13, 2018 19:41:43 GMT
watched last night first off, it was cast to perfection. Hammer and Thompson were the MVPs of the movie. I definitely thought it pretty tame for what I was expecting, maybe that's a fault in expectations but I definitely wish Boots and company took additional steps further into the surreal. It was way to straight-forward left absolutely nothing to the imagination. Boots tried to cover, it seems every single social construct and really only follows through on a few, corporate greed, some aspects to its race politics were sufficiently explored. A lot of the gags were either incredible or face-palm inducing a few incredible examples: Cassius' rap Armie snorting a line of coke about three-feet long white-person voice basically Danny Glover, his lines and delivery were incredible. Especially him saying "relax seedling" a couple excruciating examples: elevator key-code Steven Yeun's rally speech about his STDs Overall, pretty fun trip where aspects felt squandered, but I think this will lead into more opportunities for others to have similar narratives but maybe just executed better. - 7.5/10
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Post by DeepArcher on Jul 14, 2018 2:34:54 GMT
Never woulda thought that I'd say that I wanted a movie where the big gag is about people being transformed into horse-people for the sake of more efficient slave labor should have been "more weird", but here I am saying essentially just that. I loved it for being creative and a true original with many of its totally-bonkers, deliciously weird concepts, and I commend Boots Riley greatly for taking so many ballsy risks with his debut picture. It's one of those rare cases where I feel like I can tell you the characteristics that define a Boots Riley film solely based on his first outing. Very impressive from that angle, and I love the world that is designed in this movie, both in the conceptual and aesthetic sense -- it's very colorful, which is awesome. The entire thing is bursting with its own personality and voice, and the entire cast is incredible. That being said, it has a lot of messy aspects. Not all of the humor works; in fact, most of it didn't, for me. It has a lot of bits that feel like they've been done before, and it definitely repeats the same jokes far too many times. It's also just very structurally confused (and in a way that doesn't feel intentional), and has a ton of plot-threads and/or thematic ideas that are never actually taken anywhere. It loses a lot of coherence at certain points, and not in a good way. But ultimately what hurts it is what I alluded to before -- that Riley doesn't take his strange narrative further and get any weirder after his big "twist". As Sharbs said, he really should've taken further steps into the surreal. The concluding bits especially felt far too tame in comparison to everything before, as the film fails to accelerate to the very end, instead loosening its grasp a bit too much when it matters most. I liked it quite a lot, it's very entertaining and easily one of the most original films in recent memory, but there's too much of it that is left as untapped potential.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2018 15:26:42 GMT
This was fucking beautifully insane. Unique as hell, daring, bizarre, and at times really damn funny. I dig what it had to say, even if it at times it starts to get a little bogged down by its own surrealism, but not to the point where it loses sight of what it wants to get across. Lakeith and Tessa are magnificent, and I hope Boots gets to make more movies in the future.
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Post by chris3 on Jul 14, 2018 23:20:11 GMT
This movie was so amazing. Ten times better than Get Out, but that's a bad comparison. It's more like Brazil for the 21st century.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jul 19, 2018 22:13:37 GMT
FUCKING HELL!
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 20, 2018 0:14:01 GMT
I enjoyed it but was expecting a lot more. Think the bar was set too high based on what I was hearing. Still really good.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jul 20, 2018 16:30:56 GMT
And here I though Lakeith freestyling N-shit over and over was the hard left turn Jakob was talking about. How woefully unprepared I was...
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Post by stephen on Jul 28, 2018 3:28:03 GMT
Goddamn, Boots. God. Damn.
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Post by Viced on Jul 28, 2018 3:57:04 GMT
Saw it the other day... thought it was crap.
Doesn't have anything interesting or fresh to say and it just got stupider and stupider as it went along (after an interesting first 20 minutes or so).
Stanfield was good though... and I wish there was more Danny Glover.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jul 28, 2018 17:54:40 GMT
Saw it the other day... thought it was crap. I’m using you as my new barometer for whether or not I’ll like a movie.
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Post by Film Socialism on Jul 28, 2018 19:40:44 GMT
heard the dude shit on obama-era fake leftism so might actually check it out
well done boots
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Post by AKenjiB on Jul 29, 2018 0:30:53 GMT
Really enjoyed this. One of my biggest issues was some edits at the beginning of the film felt kinda weird and jarring, like the camera focuses on Tessa Thompson’s earrings for no reason and then slowly fades to the next scene. But overall I had a lot of fun. The entire cast is fantastic (I wish Danny Glover had more to do. His character seemed to vanish from the film without explanation) and I didn’t find the commentary preachy. Kinda felt like an Oakland modern-day version of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street...at least until the last 3rd when the film took a very different turn.
Very excited to see what Boots Riley does next, assuming he makes a second film.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Dec 9, 2018 5:26:19 GMT
I was digging its humor and character in the first half while thinking that it was going way too fast with its pacing, then the second half absolutely fucking floored me and I felt the ideas Riley was putting forth came together rather well. It's imperfect, sure, but enthralling all the same and I was really impressed with how Riley had the conviction to propose real world solutions when it's much easier for artists to employ satire as a means of saying "(insert thing here) sucks" and leave it at that.
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