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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 10, 2024 12:50:50 GMT
Poor Things (2023) - What is this movie trying to say? "Sex is good," okay, I'm with you.... but it is not meaningfully juxtaposed against anything else. Yes, society doesn't want people humping each other in public, there's a reason for that. I genuinely don't have any idea of what this was intending to do, aside from show lots of unappetizing sex and turn you off of it through sheer animalistic ugliness. Don't get me started on the last act with Mr. Misogyny - that was clear in what it was doing, and I hated it. 2/10
Election (2005) - I got lost early on, and then I stopped caring very soon after. Mean gangster movies really aren't my thing. 4/10
The Unknown Country (2022) - The narrative is derivative and dull, but the nonfiction interviews with the side characters (all playing themselves) were all quite sweet. I could have gone for a whole movie of those. I have not one fucking clue why Lily Gladstone got such raves for this nothingburger performance. 6/10
The Addams Family (1991 rewatch) - A collection of amusing one-off gags that never connect or build in any way. This is a longer format than a comic strip, you need to have momentum and build-up, not just one panel gags randomly inserted through a movie. 5/10
The Promised Land (2023) - An old fashioned romance film for adults, yes please. Nothing here is at all groundbreaking - it is instead standing on solid foundations of human psychology, putting Ludwig into situations that test his morality over and over and asking where he buckles. I dig it. The fact that this is good at all in the year of 2023 is a small miracle. 7/10
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 10, 2024 13:06:37 GMT
Deep Rising (1998)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
The Substitute (1996)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Above the Law (1988)
Serial Mom (1994)
Hit Man (2023)
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Post by mhynson27 on Jun 10, 2024 13:41:02 GMT
Deep Blue Sea
Problemista
A Different Man
A Horse Named Winx
Thelma (2024)
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Post by JangoB on Jun 10, 2024 14:34:46 GMT
The Fall Guy - Fun in certain spots but strangely shapeless. There's an art to crafting a narrative that pulls the viewer in, and I think that art was lost on David Leitch here. The movie seems to be designed for background watching while you're doing your chores or exercising or something. Gosling is enjoyable (although not a hoot - The Nice Guys it ain't), his chemistry with Blunt is good, the action scenes are decent... but it's all somewhat stale.
Unfrosted - I guess the intensely negative online response to this movie has to do with Seinfeld being anti-woke and supporting Israel and all that? 'Cause why would you hate this utterly silly and inoffensive comedy otherwise? I'm not saying it's great or anything but I can respect a flick that chooses the lane of stupid and sticks to it all the way through. I'm not even ashamed to admit that at one point I cry-laughed due to the sheer idiocy of what I was seeing. Which in my book is not that bad of a thing.
Inferno - Yikes. I guess this was Ron Howard attempting to breathe some life into Robert Langdon's fairly boring adventures with all the shaky-cam and quick cutting... but he doesn't succeed. It's pretty clear that nobody's really trying with this one. Like, I don't know for sure but I'm pretty confident that this is one of those scores that Hans Zimmer delegated to his interns. Maybe Ron did so too.
Unforgiven - REWATCH. Yeah, it's genius.
Out of the Blue - This just knocked me out. I was NOT prepared for where it went, and nor should anyone be. Don't read up on it - just watch the damn thing and be stunned. Linda Manz... incredible.
Gallipoli - REWATCH. I first saw it many years ago and while its ending stayed with me ever since, I kind of forgot everything else. Pleased to report that everything else is also quite excellent.
The Champ - The 1979 one. Definitely a case of the tear-jerker jerking those tears a bit too damn hard. It's a somewhat decent movie but Zeffirelli's reliance on Ricky Schroeder's tears as a tool to elicit the audience's emotions goes too far. The damn kid is crying in pretty much half of his shots. And this is nothing against Schroeder himself - he's pretty fucking great and moving in a youth performance that's clearly thought out and not just cleverly assembled in editing. But it's as if Zeffirelli doesn't trust his own material and just has to go for them tears all the time. Welp, maybe he was onto something: apparently there was once a study which concluded that the ending of this movie provided the biggest emotional response among 500 participants than any other film. I guess simple tricks do work. You know what doesn't, though? Jon Voight doing a Rocky imitation throughout.
The Bridges of Madison County - REWATCH. Um... kind of a masterpiece? Unforgiven was a western to end all westerns, and this is... a melodrama to end all melodramas? It just might be! I haven't shed a tear in a while. Thank you, Clintus. Meryl Streep is just astonishing, this is one of her two all-timers (along with Sophie's Choice). And Eastwood is absolutely fantastic too. Those comparisons with Keanu that I occasionally see on here... oof. Lemme see Keanu do this kind of performance.
The Devil’s Advocate - Utter trash but decently made trash. Way too long, sleazy and with a horrible ending too. But then there's Pacino having the time of his life with a role that he rejected a whole bunch of times beforehand, chewing the scenery as if there's a golden ticket inside. His final diatribe makes it all kinda worth it.
Conan the Barbarian - First off, it's fucking awesome. Secondly, half (or maybe even more than that) of the reason it is so fucking awesome is Basil Poledouris's magnificent score which does a genius job of evoking a feeling of a lyrical legend John Milius is obviously going for here. The movie's almost dialogue-free for a reason. How did that man never get the recognition he deserved? A shame.
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bigmilko
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Post by bigmilko on Jun 10, 2024 15:12:27 GMT
RW Hellraiser (1987) - 10/10: Absolutely Rips
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) - 7/10: Doesn't rock as hard, maybe better on rewatch, but interesting seeing it expand the mythos and extend the character arcs from the last (even if it feels artificial)
RW Bad Boys (1995) - 9/10: Pure cinema, Bay cooking with straight gas right out the gate
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) - 5/10: Very quickly losing the main bit that makes Pinhead interesting by turning him into a violent killer instead of a kinky freak, BUT it still has some really cool moments, so I cant write this movie off right away
The Sopranos - 10/10: Watched over the course of about 9 months. As seminal, engrossing, and great as the hype has been. Even when stuffed with so many characters, they all bring so much to the screen I cant help but love/hate them all
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (2014) - 6/10: Very interesting. Some jokes that were actually really funny. Never felt grating or like its exclusively for babies
RW The Devils (1971) - 10/10: Found a bootleg dvd of the Uncut version, but it came hard coded with the directors commentary. Still an interesting listen/watch
Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996) - 4/10: I don't even know how they came up with this one, the ultimate "out of ideas" horror sequel out there
Hellraiser: Inferno (2000) - 5/10: For a Se7en knockoff, it does cook with some sauce quite often, especially with the cenobite stuff. Fumbles itself by the ending, but definitely feels like this one is the closest to getting that the cenobites are supposed to be weird sex freaks
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 10, 2024 16:04:49 GMT
The first real good movie I've seen this year (besides Late Night With the Devil) and it kind of feels like multiple films in 1 - it is that creative and full of ideas that spin out into other ideas....... the often extraordinary The Beast which probably needs rewatches at some point to fully feel its intent.......  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 10, 2024 16:55:48 GMT
Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers in theaters for the very first time. Extended editions so comes with a bit of bloat, especially Two Towers with all the added Merry/Pippin/Treebeard stuff, but still thrilled to be able to experiences these movies on the big screen. We marathoned these at home a few months ago but Arwen's ride, Amon Hen, Helm's Deep, Theoden and Gandalf's charges all hit different in a dark theater with the music & sound crashing all around you. Audiences have been a bit too muted tbh, I was hoping to watch these with a bunch of rabid LoTR fans clapping and cheering at all the best bits lol Return of the King tonight! 
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Post by hilderic on Jun 10, 2024 18:31:44 GMT
Kisses at Fifty
Mr Vampire
Les Misérables
Classe tous risques
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 10, 2024 21:24:49 GMT
Station Eleven - Was recommended via The Last of Us section on Google recommended while waiting for The Last of Us season 2. I found it pretty forgettable. 6/10
Scooby Doo Return to Zombie Island - Pointless sequel. Nothing like the original. Has animation really gone down? Kinda feels like it. 4/10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Probably my least favorite of the main 9 Star Wars movies. Its rehashing and inability to carve its own world separate from word to word (or very close to - what Lucas laid down) drags it down. By the time they got to that planet Takodana I felt ready to turn it off. It's clear they were just mixing and matching characters at that point.
A lot of complaints in 1999 over Anakin and Jar Jar and the fact that The Phantom Menace wasn't really a Star Wars movie. Well...not sure how anyone could feel like The Force Awakens is like a Star Wars movie either. And the characters here feel even more alien to the original Star Wars fans. 4.5/10
Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker - I don't get why this one of the 3 was the one with mixed reviews. It's the only good movie of the new trilogy. Ok maybe a bit harsh on The Last Jedi - that might be at least decent but the Luke and Rey on the planet while Luke endlessly debates why hes in his existential crisis and lost the will to live and explains why he has to remain in exile was so boring and that was 1/3 of the movie. A few dazzling sequences but Rise of Skywalker avoids all that and gets to actual Star Wars stuff again and for that...I think it's the best of the trilogy.
Maybe people just didn't like the idea of Palpatine still being alive and having to go there again; and Rey being revealed to be a Palpatine, but those minor bits of things shouldn't be the overreaching aspects. 7.5/10
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jun 11, 2024 1:43:04 GMT
Moscow on the Hudson - 7 / 10
Places in the Heart - 7 / 10
The Peanut Butter Falcon - 7.5 / 10
Going in Style (1979) - 8 / 10
Hit-Man - 7.5 / 10
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jun 11, 2024 5:16:53 GMT
Unfrosted - I guess the intensely negative online response to this movie has to do with Seinfeld being anti-woke and supporting Israel and all that? 'Cause why would you hate this utterly silly and inoffensive comedy otherwise? I'm not saying it's great or anything but I can respect a flick that chooses the lane of stupid and sticks to it all the way through. I'm not even ashamed to admit that at one point I cry-laughed due to the sheer idiocy of what I was seeing. Which in my book is not that bad of a thing. Was it the January 6th riot parody ? |
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Post by JangoB on Jun 11, 2024 5:24:22 GMT
Unfrosted - I guess the intensely negative online response to this movie has to do with Seinfeld being anti-woke and supporting Israel and all that? 'Cause why would you hate this utterly silly and inoffensive comedy otherwise? I'm not saying it's great or anything but I can respect a flick that chooses the lane of stupid and sticks to it all the way through. I'm not even ashamed to admit that at one point I cry-laughed due to the sheer idiocy of what I was seeing. Which in my book is not that bad of a thing. Was it the January 6th riot parody ? No man, the one that did it for me was the funeral scene . I couldn't help myself, it was just too moronic  |
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Post by taranofprydain on Jun 11, 2024 5:28:34 GMT
I didn't feel enough enthused to list my viewings this week. Blah week, not helped by one film that quickly entered the list of worst films I have ever seen (2000's Pay It Forward, whuch the only enjoyment I got from it was a friend on another website summing up Helen Hunt's haggard look in the film as giving off vibes of Rachel Roberts playing Tonya Harding in Flashdance)
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