Pasquale
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Post by Pasquale on Jul 14, 2024 10:22:06 GMT
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) : Slick Guy Richie movie, that could use a 5-10 minute trim.
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Post by Brother Fease on Jul 14, 2024 14:01:10 GMT
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) - Never rises above its genre. Decent action sequences. 6.5/10. Somewhere between a 6 and 7. You don't need to watch it.
The Ladykillers (1955) - I saw the remake about 15 years ago. There are more jokes and antics in Coen Brothers version, but the original was perfectly fine. 7/10 for me.
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Post by Pavan on Jul 14, 2024 17:42:38 GMT
Fly Me to the Moon (2024)-
Not fantabulous or anything but it is mildly charming and entertaining enough that i was able to kill some time without looking at my watch. I think the film would've benefitted from a better lead than Tatum but Johansson covered some in that part of the film- 6.5/10
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Post by Pavan on Jul 18, 2024 10:27:52 GMT
Twisters (2024)-
It's alright. Not a campy fun adventure like the original. Instead Chung tried to balance human drama with spectacle and does an okay-ish job at it. Technically solid but doesn't really deliver on the storytelling aspect.
Daisy Edgar Jones is no Helen Hunt. I get it that the story is centered around her but she doesn't have the chops to carry an entire film on her shoulders. Should've been distributed some material to the rest of cast especially when you have Glen Powell who is doing a fairly good job at this 'tornado wrangler' thingy. In short, he was underutilized. Watchable film but could've been better- 6 to 6.5/10
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 20, 2024 7:02:05 GMT
Abigail -
So I was mostly happy for the first two acts (some dumb eye rolls that's necessary for modern horror that's well received) but holy fuckballs that last act was just some of the dumbest shit. On every level... completely ruined all the good will I was giving it. They ruined what could have been a good horror comedy by absolutely shitting on everything that it did well to begin with. Bah!
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 20, 2024 17:31:26 GMT
Abigail - So I was mostly happy for the first two acts (some dumb eye rolls that's necessary for modern horror that's well received) but holy fuckballs that last act was just some of the dumbest shit. On every level... completely ruined all the good will I was giving it. They ruined what could have been a good horror comedy by absolutely shitting on everything that it did well to begin with. Bah! Yep. Perfect concept for a fun horror comedy and just completely turned to shit
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 23, 2024 3:39:06 GMT
2006 Scavenger Hunt #7
Brand Upon the Brain! (Director: Guy Maddin) ![](https://criterion-production.s3.amazonaws.com/carousel-files/3b40fc21bda4ebd336f10c4d132a2bc2.jpeg) A wildly exhausting jumble of memories from Guy Maddin (who would make My Winnipeg the next year), and if you know that guy you probably have some idea of what to expect here. Using (probably fictional - I'm not about to read a whole biography of the man) childhood memories of an overbearing mother and his sister's sexual life as a basis in the same way that Todd Haynes used the idea of Bob Dylan for his Dylan biopic I'm Not There, this is a crazy ride. The plot follows young Guy, who lives on a small island in an orphanage run by his parents. All of the orphans have mysterious holes in the backs of their temples and act like they're in Lord of the Flies. His mother is extra strict with his older sister, making sure she isn't dressed provocatively and not telling her the difference between men and women. His father is a rarely seen figure that invents wondrous devices, often locked away in his laboratory performing cryptic experiments. A Nancy Drew type figure named Wendy - who is known to him and his sister as they've read the books in which she is the star - arrives to investigate the strange goings on at the orphanage, and a lovestruck young Guy and his "Sis" agree to help her... but when Wendy has to go on another mission, her brother Chance arrives to take her place - an event that sets the stage for a grand tale of sex, murder and monster movie mayhem. Maddin's rapid cutting and silent movie styling makes for a thrilling watch, but also an exhausting one. At nearly 100 minutes, this repeats itself far too many times. The concept of reimagining events of his childhood in genre movie form is an interesting one, but the narrative is so scattershot and haphazardly put together that it is frequently dull. The individual images and fast cutting are exciting, but the movie is really just a gimmick held together only by its concept and Maddin's unique approach to filmmaking. And for the most part, that's enough. I wish it was more, but it's enough.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jul 23, 2024 13:23:23 GMT
Satyajit Ray's Charulata (1963) - One of the most lush and moving portraits of solitude and hidden emotion... Moving like leisurely turning pages, its simplicity belies its strength. Madhabi Mukherjee is stunning. ![](https://static.mfah.com/images/charulata-film-image.10743703239696975360.jpg?width=1680)
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jul 24, 2024 15:14:20 GMT
David Miller's Diane (1956) - Starring Lana Turner as Diane de Poitiers, the lover of Henry II of France who was 20 years his senior... Turner is very sympathetic in the role and of course looks divine in all her period finery, but it's Marisa Pavan as her rival, Catherine de' Medici - history's greatest schemer, who steals the show. To be fair to Turner, though... Medici is by far the more fascinating role. Roger Moore as Henry II is... shall we say, less successful than his co-stars. ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/30ulL7PvEvGt97femFHx.gif) The film fails to rise above standard period fare, but it's worth watching for its actresses and for its sumptuous production values. What really piqued my interest was the fact that Christopher Isherwood, the great novelist, wrote the screenplay... The film's most fascinating scene - where you can actually feel Isherwood's pulse in the story - one of the Medicis' clairvoyants seeing into Queen Catherine's future: ![](https://dcairns.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/vlcsnap-2018-07-14-12h46m41s216.png?w=768&h=432) Hit me with your best shot? - Pavan as Catherine spying on Turner as Diane: ![](https://dcairns.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/vlcsnap-2018-07-14-12h40m43s331.png?w=768&h=432) Costume designer Walter Plunkett's sketch of Turner as Diane... Gorgeousness!: ![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Lana_Turner_costume_sketch_by_Walter_Plunkett%2C_1955.jpg)
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jul 25, 2024 14:16:58 GMT
Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974) - Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall are two of my all time favorites... I'm so sorry that it took Duvall's passing to prompt me to watch. They are both so beautiful they made me cry in this scene: ![](https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/styles/mast_image_landscape/public/mastimages/Carradine%3ADuvall.jpg?itok=ffv5CR8t)
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 29, 2024 23:33:31 GMT
2006 Scavenger Hunt #8
Volver (Director: Pedro Almodóvar) ![](https://www.intofilm.org/intofilm-production/scaledcropped/1096x548https%3A/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/images.cdn.filmclub.org/film__3144-volver--hi_res-fa2b66bb.jpg/film__3144-volver--hi_res-fa2b66bb.jpg) I'm not the biggest Almodovar fan - I find his excessive style to be... well, excessive. It doesn't add entertainment value, it's just bright and garish. Volver, like his later Julieta, is one of his better works because all of it is told in a lower, less melodramatic key. Like Julieta, it perhaps swings a bit too far into restraint, but I'd much rather have that over what he normally churns out. The plot is typical Almodovar: Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) comes home to find that her teenaged daughter killed her father when he tried to rape her - and as they are trying to dispose of the body, she gets a call that another relative has passed away. Ghosts appear and lots of melodramatic high drama nonsense ensues. But as I said before, it's all told quietly, in a restrained, realistic manner. The characters are treated with respect - solemnity, even - and the story is grounded in this tone. And it's not bad. Not great, not bad, fairly average. It's a straightforward tale with no frills and nothing especially noteworthy about it... and that's perfectly okay.
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Post by stephen on Jul 30, 2024 22:41:01 GMT
Thelma: A sweet little flick that perfectly complements The Beekeeper and would make for a very fun double-feature. Squibb is excellent and really anchors the film beautifully; I'd love to see her get some awards traction but, y'know, Magnolia. Roundtree was really great as well and Hechinger was charming. Posey and Gregg were good together but they felt a bit over-the-top with their characters, but I think that was a script issue more than anything else. And yeah, McDowell was a hoot.
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Post by mhynson27 on Jul 31, 2024 5:58:53 GMT
Deadpool & Wolverine I don't care, had a ton of fun with this. Jackman was acting his ASS OFF. Reminding me that he should have been nominated for Logan Glad most things didn't get spoiled for me.
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Post by Brother Fease on Jul 31, 2024 18:14:11 GMT
Deadpool & Wolverine I don't care, had a ton of fun with this. Jackman was acting his ASS OFF. Reminding me that he should have been nominated for Logan Glad most things didn't get spoiled for me. Exactly my take. I stayed away from the previews and discussions. My entire theater was roaring with laughter. Yes, the movie is one meta joke after another. Fun time — that’s all what matters.
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 1, 2024 14:11:16 GMT
Why isn't this thread pinned anymore??
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 1, 2024 14:18:33 GMT
Why isn't this thread pinned anymore?? Boom. Fixed.
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VERITAS
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Post by VERITAS on Aug 1, 2024 22:31:06 GMT
Oddity (2024) - Instant camp classic. Filmed on a microwave with a convoluted yet smoothly paced script, you simply can't resist seeing a blind queen go at it with a snobby homewrecker in front of her stale charcuterie board... 8/10
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Post by stephen on Aug 2, 2024 1:06:48 GMT
Starve Acre: Oh, this one scratched that itch for a moody '70s horror in the Don't Look Now vein. It doesn't quite come together like I wish it did, but Matt Smith and especially Morfydd Clark really capture the emotionality of the piece as parents coping with their grief in different ways.
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 4, 2024 0:08:35 GMT
2006 Scavenger Hunt #9
Apocalypto (Director: Mel Gibson) ![](https://shots.filmschoolrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/APOCALYPTO.jpg) When my mother forced me to read Watership Down as a child, I had nightmares. The first two chapters in which Fiver has visions of a horrifying fate and prophesies of a great calamity latched onto my young psyche, as my dreams repeated Fiver's own in almost exact detail. I still remember waking up and vomiting afterwards. Apocalypto is as close as any movie has come to replicating the horror of those early Watership Down chapters. It is an eerie horror film of visions and prophecies and the most gruesome, horrible violence, and a damn good pulse pounding action movie to boot. I'm not completely sold on the film's opening quotation being at all relevant ("A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within"), but the fantasy and mythmaking here is so good that I'll let that slide. Definitely one of the best movies of 2006, and Mel Gibson's best as well. Not just as a director - I think this may surpass any of the movies he's acted in.
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Post by Brother Fease on Aug 4, 2024 22:42:58 GMT
Dune 2 (2024) - Visually stunning. Loved the acting, especially from Austin Butler. I probably would understand the movie more, if I read the books. 8/10. Terrific film. I liked a little less than Part 1.
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Post by ireallyamsomething on Aug 5, 2024 17:41:41 GMT
Satyajit Ray's Charulata (1963) - One of the most lush and moving portraits of solitude and hidden emotion... Moving like leisurely turning pages, its simplicity belies its strength. Madhabi Mukherjee is stunning. ![](https://static.mfah.com/images/charulata-film-image.10743703239696975360.jpg?width=1680) I'd also recommend Mahanagar (The Big City) and Kapurush (The Coward) if you liked her performance here. Ray is one of my favorite directors though Charulata isn't one of my favorites (do think I should rewatch it sometime, been a while since I first saw it).
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 9, 2024 23:59:42 GMT
2006 Scavenger Hunt #10
Tazza: The High Rollers (Director: Choi Dong-hoon) ![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/d3ykKAzIs4FKHsXrgjajRYQgJXnOtUfapIGZRYmAmDXpva0zyv183M9349FkRWtkUD61Mqq37jLV0BGKeL2O8ObaWV7XHw) An overlong, overly complicated narrative of betrayals and deception keep this gambling thriller from reaching any sort of excitement. A loser trains under a master gambler and gets the taste for it, but over the course of the film there will be many allies and enemies who will switch all over the place. It isn't too terribly hard to follow, but it's all rather one-note. Nobody is totally trustworthy and they're all pretty scummy, which makes it hard to care.
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 10, 2024 3:38:45 GMT
Glengarry Glen Ross
Watched this for the first time because of the Broadway announcement and GODDAMN, wish I had seen it sooner.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 10, 2024 12:42:51 GMT
Cuckoo. Well directed with a nice aesthetic. Schafer was very good in the lead role. Csokas and Henwick were quite wasted but Steven’s was having fun and was appropriately creepy. Some very familiar themes around abandonment and trauma, but that’s par for the course for horror these days. Solid watch overall
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Post by stephen on Aug 10, 2024 15:05:48 GMT
Glengarry Glen Ross Watched this for the first time because of the Broadway announcement and GODDAMN, wish I had seen it sooner. Cast ranking?
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