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Post by stephen on Aug 16, 2024 13:34:00 GMT
I've never wanted to watch a livestream reaction more than "Fish Watches Borderlands." Oh God, that GIF really hits a different way after watching Alien: Romulus.
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 16, 2024 13:52:57 GMT
Oh God, that GIF really hits a different way after watching Alien: Romulus. My dear friend, this better not be a spoiler
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Post by stephen on Aug 16, 2024 14:15:23 GMT
Oh God, that GIF really hits a different way after watching Alien: Romulus. My dear friend, this better not be a spoiler More of a warning.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 16, 2024 16:10:42 GMT
Jacques Deray's Malady of Love (1987) - César nomination for Best Actress, Nastassja Kinski - a modern re-telling of La Dame aux Camélias - this film was not well-received upon its release and was a commercial flop in France, despite the French admiration for Kinski and her César nomination, but I have to disagree with the critics here... Once you allow yourself to give way to the Sirk-ian melodrama, the hopeless romantic nature, this film becomes so heartrendingly effective. The chemistry between La Kinski and Jean-Hugues Anglade is searing and palpable - you can feel their bodies ache for each other... this kind of chemistry is so rare in cinema now... we've seen it only rarely and fleetingly since the 80s, really... Their romance is maddening, fun, all-consuming, and is relayed perfectly by these two gorgeous actors (one of the most beautiful onscreen couples of all time, to my mind ) - I can't applaud them enough. Michel Piccoli is also wonderful as ever as Anglade's medical mentor (their characters are both doctors) who also loves Kinski's character, and I absolutely love the breezy, jazzy score that is so emblematic of 80s cinema - these scores just feels so beautifully nostalgic to me. pacinoyes Mattsby Javi LaraQ PromNightCarrie - Recommending this to you guys!
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 16, 2024 16:53:33 GMT
Jacques Deray's Malady of Love (1987) - César nomination for Best Actress, Nastassja Kinski - a modern re-telling of La Dame aux Camélias - this film was not well-received upon its release and was a commercial flop in France, despite the French admiration for Kinski and her César nomination, but I have to disagree with the critics here... Once you allow yourself to give way to the Sirk-ian melodrama, the hopeless romantic nature, this film becomes so heartrendingly effective. The chemistry between La Kinski and Jean-Hugues Anglade is searing and palpable - you can feel their bodies ache for each other... this kind of chemistry is so rare in cinema now... we've seen it only rarely and fleetingly since the 80s, really... Their romance is maddening, fun, all-consuming, and is relayed perfectly by these two gorgeous actors (one of the most beautiful onscreen couples of all time, to my mind ) - I can't applaud them enough. Michel Piccoli is also wonderful as ever as Anglade's medical mentor (their characters are both doctors) who also loves Kinski's character, and I absolutely love the breezy, jazzy score that is so emblematic of 80s cinema - these scores just feels so beautifully nostalgic to me. pacinoyes Mattsby Javi LaraQ PromNightCarrie - Recommending this to you guys! It is kind of amazing that Anglade did Subway, Betty Blue and this - in 3 successive years - all unlike the other, delineated, specifc memorable work..........he was........for a time THE young actor of the moment .........
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 16, 2024 17:18:19 GMT
pacinoyes - Right? He was the man. It's just a shame that he's so unattractive. I'm thinking he deserves his own post in the Acting sub-forum.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Aug 17, 2024 6:26:46 GMT
Borderlands - The things I’ll suffer through for Cate Blanchett. Fuck whatever the hell Claptrap was especially. 2/10 I've spent so much time and money into those games and I will defend them to the death (INCLUDING 3... but fuck Wonderlands, that was genuinely awful on all levels)... but I think I will wait the 3 weeks it will be before it's streaming to permanently have my eyes rolled back into their sockets. Ok, you’ve played these games. Is Claptrap SUPPOSED to be that annoying? If that’s what he likes in the games, that’s gonna make a miserable companion
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 17, 2024 13:00:01 GMT
I've spent so much time and money into those games and I will defend them to the death (INCLUDING 3... but fuck Wonderlands, that was genuinely awful on all levels)... but I think I will wait the 3 weeks it will be before it's streaming to permanently have my eyes rolled back into their sockets. Ok, you’ve played these games. Is Claptrap SUPPOSED to be that annoying? If that’s what he likes in the games, that’s gonna make a miserable companion Claptrap is 100% meant to be annoying to the player character, there are two DLCs basically focusing on that point. Thing is, he's annoying but actually has the player character's back. That said, never has he taken a nuts and bolts shit for 30 seconds of a trailer and called hit comedy...
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Post by Brother Fease on Aug 17, 2024 15:23:32 GMT
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire - It didn't blow me away, nor did I hate it. The cast felt like they were on auto plot the entire time. 5 or 6 out of 10. Not something I would recommend.
Hit Man - 8 or 9/10 for me. This was really good. Glen Powell should get Oscar consideration for the performance. He was that good. Really liked the chemistry between Glen and Adria. The writing by Linklater and Powell was top notch too.
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 19, 2024 23:47:20 GMT
2004 Scavenger Hunt #1
Swing Girls (Director: Shinobu Yaguchi) Happiness straight to the veins. This goofy comedy about a bunch of lazy high school girls who fall in love with big band jazz and start a rocky road towards becoming the best jazz band in Japan is comfort food perfection - a frequently hilarious, always joyful exercise in sports movie formula that never misses a beat. I am so high right now from the unabashed joy coming off of this movie, I swear to God. Seeing these girls realize that they can *achieve* something and bring joy to their lives and others is such a wonderful moment... of course, that moment is the whole dang movie, BUT WHAT A MOVIE IT IS.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Aug 20, 2024 2:24:06 GMT
Cuckoo - THIS scratched an itch for me in the way Longlegs couldn’t quite do, and I was eating out of its palm. Is it subtle? No. Does it take a minute to find its ultimate footing? Absolutely. But I don’t give a damn because this movie is just so goddamn thoroughly entertaining. I was both bewildered and entranced by its gonzo concepts and execution, as well as compelled by its themes on familial trauma and manipulation. Hunter Schafer makes for a fantastic scream queen, but Dan Stevens is the runaway MVP, at once hilariously animated and deathly bone-chilling. It’s just a great time.
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Post by dazed on Aug 21, 2024 4:37:41 GMT
anyone but you
deleted the thread since the movie has been out for a little while now.
anyways, there’s three things that make a romcom great. the three things being how funny it is, the sweetness of it, and the level of chemistry between the leads. this movie went 0/3. sure there’s some pretty funny parts scattered throughout (the koala, the hemsorth aussie, and some of powells liners) but powell deserved way better than what sweeney was giving him here.
5.5/10. it was dope to see furiosas mom in this so that gives it an extra point. was hoping for this to get semi close to friends with benefits territory but it wasn’t even close. hard for a romcom to be successful when someone as vapid as sweeney is in one of the two main roles.
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 22, 2024 2:25:22 GMT
Crimson Tide
Tony Scott was just so solid man. Never made anything spectacular (imo), but almost always hit the mark. Denzel and Hackman are a lethal pair.
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Post by VERITAS on Aug 23, 2024 22:56:00 GMT
Speak No Evil (2022) - Anoint me as purebred masochist because if I come out of a film tormented, gut-punched, traumatised and mentally flayed in the most egregiously nihilistic way imaginable (as I did with this) I'm giving the creators flowers upon flowers. A relentless beastly wallop that left me sick to my stomach; and one that also serves as an overt proverb to stand on bloody business at all times. The final quarter of this one is, dare I say, sickly iconique... 8.5/10
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 23, 2024 23:43:22 GMT
My dear friend, this better not be a spoiler More of a warning. Well that was a fucking lie
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Post by stephen on Aug 23, 2024 23:52:54 GMT
Well that was a fucking lie You went? Well, that's on you.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Aug 24, 2024 19:16:44 GMT
Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue (1986) - The crown jewel of Le Cinéma du 'Look'? Visually stunning, yes, but also deeply felt. You could argue that these characters are merely archetypes, but embodied by Anglade and Dalle, they are nothing less than vividly authentic and human. For all its sadness, this has to be one of the most pure, endearing love stories ever filmed. Also, I think the film's initial sex scene has to be one of the greatest film openings - it deserves a separate mention in that thread - it's so rare to see genuine female pleasure in sex scenes, particularly in mainstream films directed by a man. And I loved the frank depiction of nudity - it's not about exploitation, it's simply about "being" - being comfortable and vulnerable with someone you love with your heart and soul. And really, when the bodies are two of the most beautiful in film, what is there to complain about? And of course there's Gabriel Yared's gorgeous, jazz-inflected score... You know how much I love those.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Aug 25, 2024 4:01:08 GMT
Tombstone (1993)
Somehow just now watching this for the first time, and was surprisingly meh on it. Val Kilmer is the best thing about it, but overall I found it far too bloated and strangely shapeless. It tries to do both Ford and Peckinpah, but it doesn't really gel. Also feels more like actors with mustaches playing dress-up than something that convincingly takes place in the 1870s...
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 25, 2024 11:41:41 GMT
Alien: Romulus
An incredibly mixed bag. David Jonsson is that guy though.
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 25, 2024 12:11:14 GMT
Hit Man (re-watch) Didn't like this quite as much as the first time around ( I think a festival audience definitely helped), but it's still a whole lot of fun. And Adria Arjona can still step on me if she wants
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 26, 2024 19:51:42 GMT
Strange Darling - One of the best horror films of the year. Beautifully lensed by Giovanni Ribisi and featuring a tremendous star-making turn from Willa Fitzgerald, it sets itself up initially as a grindhouse throwback before taking on a much more interesting and modern turn. Low-key some of the best production design of the year as well. Echoing all of this
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 28, 2024 0:53:43 GMT
2004 Scavenger Hunt #2
Survive Style 5+ (Director: Gen Sekiguchi) An over-the-top maximalist waltz through five surreal hyperlink stories. This sounds like it is right up my alley, and for 80 minutes it definitely was. In story #1, a murderer has to keep killing his wife night after night as she keeps coming back to wreak violent vengeance upon him. #2 features a woman who writes the world's most boring commercials as she fails epically at her job. #3 is about a family who go to see a hypnotist stage show, only for their lives to fall apart when one of them can't snap out of his trance. #4 is about a British hitman (Vinnie Jones - Bullet-Tooth Tony himself!) who just wants to have a nice time killing people and pondering deep philosophical questions. #5 is about a gay guy that has a crush on his best friend. All of them are far weirder than these descriptions let on. And it's a blast! Sekiguchi has style, with some of the most over-the-top set designs and costume designs you'll ever see. The hyperlinking is fun, never letting any story get stale as we get rushed to another character and another ridiculous scenario. The trouble comes in when the story slows down and tries to tie together into some grand statement on human nature or something. And it doesn't work. This movie is completely fucking insane, and that's its charm! The sad attempt at pathos and thematic cohesion actively hampers any enjoyment, as I was enjoying my cum bunnies and pink airplanes and headbanging salarymen. The "themes" are so shallow as to be laughable, so why not just let us have a straight comedy? Whatever. It's still fine, but I liked it a lot more when it was Guy Ritche filming The Happiness of the Katakuris on ecstasy, instead of Paul Thomas Anderson filming Magnolia... on ecstasy.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Aug 28, 2024 17:19:35 GMT
Oh honeys, As much as I want to like Alex Ross Perry's work I always find something lacking. Despite this having an excellent cast of some of the most pretentious 'artists' around [Why wasn't I in it? Alex, I've been in crap movies? Next time, call me]- Chloe Sevigny; Jason Schwartzman; Lily Rabe, what's not to like? [Well yeah, obviously it would have been liked more if I'd been in it] But something was severely lacking. This was flat for me and a little pointless in the end, despite it starting well. I always find his spoken dialogue a bit 'literary' - words that no-one would actually say in real life, but would write in say... a pretentious novel about life and human connections. Anyway, this is not a film about dubious sexual practices. 5/10
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 30, 2024 3:58:32 GMT
Caddyshack Fucking Murray man
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 31, 2024 7:14:35 GMT
I had my fantasy draft with a few friends and a few drinks... okay more than a few... I'm watching Borderlands: The Motion Picture. I honestly just facepalmed in real life after writing that. Honestly, and I do really need to update you all on some good horror movies I've seen, but I'd rather watch fucking Megalodon 14: The Search for Peace than this (that's not a real horror movie, by the way, just making a point... but it's not far off from a lot of those shark movies).
I will post my *sigh* thoughts in the morning.
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