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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 13:35:42 GMT -5
Spies in Disguise - This was, as others have mentioned online, better than anyone expected it to be. I really wish they'd stop with the trope of "character's dead parent inspires them", but otherwise I liked it a lot.
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 22, 2020 7:56:12 GMT -5
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016) - While the original Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon movie decided to explore whether or not a kung fu flick could be serious cinema that cinephiles creamed in their shorts over, this inexplicable sequel decided to go a far more low-rent route. Visually this looks like something that would have aired as part of the Action Pack on TV in the mid to late 90s. The sets are pretty chintzy and the plot is real barebones ("Let's rip off Seven Samurai and call it a day!") but none of that stuff is why anyone watches kung fu movies anyway!
This movie had Donnie Yen kicking furniture at dudes and a crew of kung fu heroes that were named after their signature weapons. It had dudes wreckin' a pagoda with kung fu. People were flying around while pointing swords. A solid 56% of the dialogue was about revenge. It was everything one could possibly want out of a kung fu movie.
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Post by chalkdevil š on Jan 23, 2020 11:37:10 GMT -5
Moana (2016) - My daughterās obsession with this movie continues unabated. I still think itās pretty solid across the board. The soundtrack might be the best Disney soundtrack of all the times. I must confess, however, that Iām somewhat confused by the pig animal companion that shows up for like five minutes in the beginning and seems like itās going to be Moanaās Disney Princess Animal Companion and then disappears until the very last scene. Why have the pig and the chicken as two separate characters instead of just having one animal companion? Now, I've only seen Moana the one time, but I thought the pig/chicken thing was a subversion on the standard Disney Princess with adorable animal sidekick trope. You think the cute pig is going to tag along on her adventure but instead it is a dumb chicken and we all have a mild chuckle. Really all you need is a mechanism to help the princess escape captivity in the third act by picking a lock or chewing through ropes or whatever. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 23, 2020 17:08:03 GMT -5
Moana (2016) - A four year old girl-child lives in my house. She actually watched this twice yesterday but during her second viewing of it I was otherwise occupied so I just saw it but one time yesterday.
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) - I'm not entirely sure what there is to say about this that hasn't been said by a million other people far more eloquently than I. Fred Rogers was a good man and I'm glad that nothing in this documentary changed my view of him for the worse.
Like most people my age and older, I grew up watching Mr. Rogers but when you're kindergarten aged you don't really realize how remarkable it is that this man was talking to you like an actual human person. Sure, he was putting complex topics in terms a five year old could understand but he wasn't shying away from them at all. As someone that is now the parent of a small child and once again is watching television programs for small children, it's unfortunate that hardly any of the programs have carried on down the road that Mister Roger's Neighborhood paved.
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Post by Hachiman on Jan 23, 2020 20:39:20 GMT -5
Moana (2016) - My daughterās obsession with this movie continues unabated. I still think itās pretty solid across the board. The soundtrack might be the best Disney soundtrack of all the times. I must confess, however, that Iām somewhat confused by the pig animal companion that shows up for like five minutes in the beginning and seems like itās going to be Moanaās Disney Princess Animal Companion and then disappears until the very last scene. Why have the pig and the chicken as two separate characters instead of just having one animal companion? Now, I've only seen Moana the one time, but I thought the pig/chicken thing was a subversion on the standard Disney Princess with adorable animal sidekick trope. You think the cute pig is going to tag along on her adventure but instead it is a dumb chicken and we all have a mild chuckle. Really all you need is a mechanism to help the princess escape captivity in the third act by picking a lock or chewing through ropes or whatever. The animal sidekick is an interesting observation that I haven't thought of. Not every princess has one and they aren't always cute or even really sidekicks, but they are there and you can often sense the calculation that went into it. Moana actually should get some credit that her sidekicks aren't obvious merchandising cash grabs like the Chameleon in Tangled or that Salamander in Frozen II. That salamander in particular stood out since it was obvious that Sven the Reindeer and Olaf weren't making enough money and they needed something else. I then immediately fell this cash-grab since my daughter had a doll within an hour of seeing the movie. |
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Jan 24, 2020 23:40:00 GMT -5
JoJo Rabbit I had been wanting to see this, but as far as I know, it hadn't played anywhere within 100 miles of me till today. Our little, independent 4 screen theater in the county seat started showing it today. I had seen the previews and heard a few comments about it, but really didn't know what to expect. I have to say, it affected me emotionally more than any movie about a 10 year old kid who's imaginary friend is Adolph Hitler had any right to.
It's unique and somewhat bizarre premise, and the fact that it let it's 10 year old protagonist actually be a little kid, allowed a complex, nuanced, sometimes horrifying, sometimes funny examination of a time and place of fear and misery, and of some of the humans struggling to remain human in nearly impossible situations. Seeing such a surreal situation through the eyes of a little boy, and observing his growing realization of the cruel realities of his world, was a stroke of genius.
I can't think of a performance in it that was bad. A few of the minor characters were one dimensional, as might be expected, but all the main players were superb. Standouts were Roman Griffin Davis, who plays the boy, Thomasin McKenzie, ScarJo, and Sam Rockwell.
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Post by nowimnothing on Jan 25, 2020 5:52:37 GMT -5
The Turning (2020)My daughter wanted to see this. I didn't realize it was based on The Turning of the Screw. Not that that mattered much because I have not read the book and I guess it doesn't follow the plot too closely. The first 3/4 of the film was your typical horror movie, haunted house, creepy kids, jump scares. But just when it was getting boring and predictable it goes slightly off the rails. I don't want to imply that it gets crazy and wild, it just shifts into a different movie and not in a good way. So much so, that it seems like they filmed two different endings and then added the second ending right after the first one. So the woman escapes with the kids, then I guess the writer found out that they needed 15 more minutes of film, so they ret-conned the escape by jumping back to an earlier part of the film and and going with that other ending instead. But that ending does not even really have an end, it just stops and you are not really sure why. So is the woman insane? Is she a figment of her crazy mother's imagination? Is her mother the ghost of the former governess? I really don't know and I don't think there is a way to figure it out. I am all for breaking norms but this was just confounding without being interesting.
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 26, 2020 18:22:55 GMT -5
Moana (2016) - I saw this in full again. In the days that have passed since last I logged it, I also so bits and pieces of it; probably enough to log it as being seen in full again, though never from beginning to end in one sitting. My daughter has taken to singing along with the movie and dancing in front of the TV while watching it. Last night I was press-ganged into joining her and made to sing "You're Welcome." I assume this is due to the fact that I have the exact same physique as The Rock.
Five Element Ninjas (1982) - This has to be one of the most over the top kung fu movies I've seen, which is kind of saying something when you take into account the fact that I watched Buddha's Palm earlier this month. There were ninjas in gold foil, a disemboweled kung fu fighter tripping on his own intestines during a fight, limbs being ripped off, lady ninja boobs, red smoke, weaponized hats, revenge, and so so soooooo much red paint.
Another thing that this movie pulled which I absolutely love in a terrible movie is before the movie began they put up some text with the claim that all the weapons depicted in this movie were based on weapons that appeared in ancient military texts. This movie included both the aforementioned weaponized hats and a battle axe that turned into a spear that turned into stilts. There were some legit weapons in here as well, and anytime a ninja used a weapon that was not traditional Chinese, text would appear on screen informing us of what the weapon we were seeing was called. For example when a lady ninja stabbed a dude with a sword hidden in a bouquet of flowers, "SWORD IN THE FLOWERS" appeared on the screen to inform us that this was a commonplace ninja weapon.
The only thing the movie does lack for the majority of its runtime is a central protagonist. Early on it looks like its going to be an ensemble cast since we're introduced to like ten kung fu students and their master, but all the students save for two die to the antics of the various Five Element Ninjas. The remaining two students and their master then prepare for a ninja attack they know is eminent. The teacher and another student die and we've got about 25 minutes of movie left before our main character is finally revealed. He gets a new master and some new cohorts and then sets out to wreck house on some ninjas. He does so but pays the ultimate price in the final battle: getting cleats stomped into his chest as he rips a man's legs off with his bare hands. His compatriots then smash a big ass rock with the Chinese character for Earth/Dirt (å) into a million pieces. We get a good-ass freeze frame to end the movie and as we do we see that one of the kung fu heroes is clearly about to fall on his ass. A perfect ending to a perfect movie!
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 27, 2020 18:52:48 GMT -5
Videodrome (1983) - Today I learned something of critical importance: by watching boobs and karate violence on basic cable we, the general public, can kick off a series of overcomplicated events that will lead to professional asshole, James Woods, ceasing to exist. Iām doing my part so itās up to the rest of you to do yours. Together we can make the world a better place by ridding it of the archfiend James Woods once and for all!
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 27, 2020 19:38:07 GMT -5
Videodrome (1983) - Today I learned something of critical importance: by watching boobs and karate violence on basic cable we, the general public, can kick off a series of overcomplicated events that will lead to professional asshole, James Woods, ceasing to exist. Iām doing my part so itās up to the rest of you to do yours. Together we can make the world a better place by ridding it of the archfiend James Woods once and for all! More boobs and less James Woods? Sign me up!
Seriously, I would probably vote for someone who used that as a campaign slogan.
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 28, 2020 9:34:58 GMT -5
WHAT DID JACK DO? (2017) - Watched this entirely due to the fact that the title was completely in caps. David Lynch is a film noir detective that interviews a monkey about a murder while smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee in a train station. The monkey speaks using that Syncro-Vox superimposed mouth thing that they used on Clutch Cargo and those Conan OāBrien skits. The two trade cliche detective movie lines at one another. The monkey sings a love song to a chicken. The chicken shows up and the monkey runs after her before getting arrested off camera. The end.
This movie honestly kind of bordered on self-parody. Like if David Lynch hosted an episode of SNL this is the sort of random-ass sketch they would put him in and much like that hypothetical SNL skit it went like five minutes longer than it probably needed to go.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 29, 2020 0:41:29 GMT -5
WHAT DID JACK DO? (2017) - Watched this entirely due to the fact that the title was completely in caps. David Lynch is a film noir detective that interviews a monkey about a murder while smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee in a train station. The monkey speaks using that Syncro-Vox superimposed mouth thing that they used on Clutch Cargo and those Conan OāBrien skits. The two trade cliche detective movie lines at one another. The monkey sings a love song to a chicken. The chicken shows up and the monkey runs after her before getting arrested off camera. The end. This movie honestly kind of bordered on self-parody.
Based solely on your description I thought it was a parody.
I looked it up. Lynch: "It's a strange film of 17 minutes"
The Wikipedia entry quotes an IndieWire review: "As youād expect from Lynch, itās quite bizarre and unsettling, but also very funny, whether intentional or not."
I may watch this over the weekend? Maybe?
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 29, 2020 1:00:06 GMT -5
WHAT DID JACK DO? (2017) - Watched this entirely due to the fact that the title was completely in caps. David Lynch is a film noir detective that interviews a monkey about a murder while smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee in a train station. The monkey speaks using that Syncro-Vox superimposed mouth thing that they used on Clutch Cargo and those Conan OāBrien skits. The two trade cliche detective movie lines at one another. The monkey sings a love song to a chicken. The chicken shows up and the monkey runs after her before getting arrested off camera. The end. This movie honestly kind of bordered on self-parody.
Based solely on your description I thought it was a parody.
I looked it up. Lynch: "It's a strange film of 17 minutes"
The Wikipedia entry quotes an IndieWire review: "As youād expect from Lynch, itās quite bizarre and unsettling, but also very funny, whether intentional or not."
I may watch this over the weekend? Maybe?
It's only 17 minutes including the credits so it's not really a huge time investment provided you have Netflix or some other service where it's readily available for viewing. It's got the same look as Eraserhead (black and white and scratchy so it looks a lot older than it actually is) if that impacts your decision one way or another. Also the monkey who is conversing with David Lynch is, I think, also voiced by David Lynch so it's David Lynch having a conversation with David Lynch in which the entirety of the conversation is cliched film noir one-liners delivered by David Lynch to David Lynch and one of the David Lynchs is a monkey who is wanted for a crime he may or may not have committed. |
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Jan 29, 2020 6:59:11 GMT -5
Wild Things
The more I watch this film, the more I become convinced that it's one of the best films of the 90s. The way it combines teen soap opera, sleazy noir, and softcore porn, all served with a delicious satirical wink is goddamn fun to watch. That the central mystery is genuinely gripping makes this basically a perfect comfort food flick. Neve Campbell and Theresa Russell deserve much more love for their brilliant and hilarious performances. Russell's delivery of 'that son of a bitch must be insane if he thinks he can do this to me!' after her daughter says she was raped is so deliriously ridiculous, it's a camp hoot for the ages!
And as I discovered last night, it's a great date film too!
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 29, 2020 9:31:27 GMT -5
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018) - The plot of this was some bonkers comic book bullshit with Kingpin's family dying because he was an asshole and then him building a machine to try to get a version of his family out of a different dimension or some shit but everything went haywire and BAM! MANY SPIDER-MANS! Some of them are women. Some of them are Porky Pig. Some are cheapo looking knock off Japanimation. One of them is Nic Cage. The best one is Miles Morales. Thankfully he's the central character of the movie. The Spider-Mans have to learn to use the power of friendship to triumph over evil and because this is a cartoon movie for children of course they do that very thing.
I thought the movie looked pretty good except the one character that was cheapo American imitation Japanamation and the one that was Porky Pig but a Spider-Man. Their look didn't really mesh with how everything else in the movie looked and it kind of bummed me out when they were on the screen but otherwise the look was pretty good.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2020 9:38:13 GMT -5
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018) - The plot of this was some bonkers comic book bullshit with Kingpin's family dying because he was an asshole and then him building a machine to try to get a version of his family out of a different dimension or some shit but everything went haywire and BAM! MANY SPIDER-MANS! Some of them are women. Some of them are Porky Pig. Some are cheapo looking knock off Japanimation. One of them is Nic Cage. The best one is Miles Morales. Thankfully he's the central character of the movie. The Spider-Mans have to learn to use the power of friendship to triumph over evil and because this is a cartoon movie for children of course they do that very thing. I thought the movie looked pretty good except the one character that was cheapo American imitation Japanamation and the one that was Porky Pig but a Spider-Man. Their look didn't really mesh with how everything else in the movie looked and it kind of bummed me out when they were on the screen but otherwise the look was pretty good. To be fair (fayuhhhh), Peter Porker the Spider-Ham has been in existence for decades as a parody comic. The Anime version was created just for the film. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 29, 2020 9:56:46 GMT -5
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018) - The plot of this was some bonkers comic book bullshit with Kingpin's family dying because he was an asshole and then him building a machine to try to get a version of his family out of a different dimension or some shit but everything went haywire and BAM! MANY SPIDER-MANS! Some of them are women. Some of them are Porky Pig. Some are cheapo looking knock off Japanimation. One of them is Nic Cage. The best one is Miles Morales. Thankfully he's the central character of the movie. The Spider-Mans have to learn to use the power of friendship to triumph over evil and because this is a cartoon movie for children of course they do that very thing. I thought the movie looked pretty good except the one character that was cheapo American imitation Japanamation and the one that was Porky Pig but a Spider-Man. Their look didn't really mesh with how everything else in the movie looked and it kind of bummed me out when they were on the screen but otherwise the look was pretty good. To be fair (fayuhhhh), Peter Porker the Spider-Ham has been in existence for decades as a parody comic. The Anime version was created just for the film. Both of them actually existed before the movie (anime Spider-Girl with a robot showed up in the comics in 2013 or 2014) but the animation style of Spider-Ham and Peni Parker looked like shit compared to everything else in the movie. I would have preferred a more consistent style of animation. |
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jan 29, 2020 11:32:17 GMT -5
To be fair (fayuhhhh), Peter Porker the Spider-Ham has been in existence for decades as a parody comic. The Anime version was created just for the film. Both of them actually existed before the movie (anime Spider-Girl with a robot showed up in the comics in 2013 or 2014) but the animation style of Spider-Ham and Peni Parker looked like shit compared to everything else in the movie. I would have preferred a more consistent style of animation. Eh, I enjoyed the differing animation styles and I thought it was a pretty clever way of visually conveying the multiverse chaos. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 30, 2020 8:03:52 GMT -5
Gantz:O (2016) - So on Netflix I suddenly have a category list titled, āViolent Movies,ā assumedly because of watching Wonāt You Be My Neighbor. This movie was there and was apparently about ghosts fighting giant monsters in Japan so I decided to give it a watch not knowing it was actually a Japanamation.
It wasnāt a normal Japanamation though. It was all CGIed to shit and looked like a PlayStation 4 RPG cutscene. While I generally donāt cotton to Japanamations this was a movie about ghosts fighting giant monsters. The entire thing was ghosts blowing away boobmonsters with big ass guns and brodude heromans doing flips nā shit. For a crap Japanamation it kind of ruled-ass.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 9:53:16 GMT -5
Gantz:O (2016) - So on Netflix I suddenly have a category list titled, āViolent Movies,ā assumedly because of watching Wonāt You Be My Neighbor. This movie was there and was apparently about ghosts fighting giant monsters in Japan so I decided to give it a watch not knowing it was actually a Japanamation. It wasnāt a normal Japanamation though. It was all CGIed to shit and looked like a PlayStation 4 RPG cutscene. While I generally donāt cotton to Japanamations this was a movie about ghosts fighting giant monsters. The entire thing was ghosts blowing away boobmonsters with big ass guns and brodude heromans doing flips nā shit. For a crap Japanamation it kind of ruled-ass. I watched that one a year or two ago, and was similarly surprised that it was...fairly decent! |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 30, 2020 15:59:33 GMT -5
The Turning (2020)My daughter wanted to see this. I didn't realize it was based on The Turning of the Screw. Not that that mattered much because I have not read the book and I guess it doesn't follow the plot too closely. The first 3/4 of the film was your typical horror movie, haunted house, creepy kids, jump scares. But just when it was getting boring and predictable it goes slightly off the rails. I don't want to imply that it gets crazy and wild, it just shifts into a different movie and not in a good way. So much so, that it seems like they filmed two different endings and then added the second ending right after the first one.Ā So the woman escapes with the kids, then I guess the writer found out that they needed 15 more minutes of film, so they ret-conned the escape by jumping back to an earlier part of the film and and going with that other ending instead. But that ending does not even really have an end, it just stops and you are not really sure why. So is the woman insane? Is she a figment of her crazy mother's imagination? Is her mother the ghost of the former governess? I really don't know and I don't think there is a way to figure it out. I am all for breaking norms but this was just confounding without being interesting. I have read the book; itās a quick read for what itās worth. Like, if youāve ever thought āMan, thereās something off about the characters in Victorian novels who are so endlessly cheery and well behaved and always saying normal shit using generic old timey overwrought language,ā then itās pretty excellent, imo. I donāt want to actually spoil the movie by reading your spoiler alert, but wasnāt too intrigued by the trailer. Is it actually any good, faithfulness to the book aside? |
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Post by nowimnothing on Jan 30, 2020 16:40:09 GMT -5
The Turning (2020)My daughter wanted to see this. I didn't realize it was based on The Turning of the Screw. Not that that mattered much because I have not read the book and I guess it doesn't follow the plot too closely. The first 3/4 of the film was your typical horror movie, haunted house, creepy kids, jump scares. But just when it was getting boring and predictable it goes slightly off the rails. I don't want to imply that it gets crazy and wild, it just shifts into a different movie and not in a good way. So much so, that it seems like they filmed two different endings and then added the second ending right after the first one. So the woman escapes with the kids, then I guess the writer found out that they needed 15 more minutes of film, so they ret-conned the escape by jumping back to an earlier part of the film and and going with that other ending instead. But that ending does not even really have an end, it just stops and you are not really sure why. So is the woman insane? Is she a figment of her crazy mother's imagination? Is her mother the ghost of the former governess? I really don't know and I don't think there is a way to figure it out. I am all for breaking norms but this was just confounding without being interesting. I have read the book; itās a quick read for what itās worth. Like, if youāve ever thought āMan, thereās something off about the characters in Victorian novels who are so endlessly cheery and well behaved and always saying normal shit using generic old timey overwrought language,ā then itās pretty excellent, imo. I donāt want to actually spoil the movie by reading your spoiler alert, but wasnāt too intrigued by the trailer. Is it actually any good, faithfulness to the book aside? In a word, no. I did not care for it. It was a typical mediocre horror movie for most of the time, then it got slightly weird and then just ended. The actress playing the child was decent, but there are plenty of superior horror movies with creepy kids. |
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Post by The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk on Jan 30, 2020 17:02:18 GMT -5
Now, I've only seen Moana the one time, but I thought the pig/chicken thing was a subversion on the standard Disney Princess with adorable animal sidekick trope. You think the cute pig is going to tag along on her adventure but instead it is a dumb chicken and we all have a mild chuckle. Really all you need is a mechanism to help the princess escape captivity in the third act by picking a lock or chewing through ropes or whatever. The animal sidekick is an interesting observation that I haven't thought of. Not every princess has one and they aren't always cute or even really sidekicks, but they are there and you can often sense the calculation that went into it. Moana actually should get some credit that her sidekicks aren't obvious merchandising cash grabs like the Chameleon in Tangled or that Salamander in Frozen II. That salamander in particular stood out since it was obvious that Sven the Reindeer and Olaf weren't making enough money and they needed something else. I then immediately fell this cash-grab since my daughter had a doll within an hour of seeing the movie. I am actually deeply irrationally angry that there isn't more Idiot Chicken merchandise. He's my favorite animal sidekick from any movie, ever, partly because he subverted the Cute Animal Sidekick thing and also because I really, really love incredibly stupid birds. Also, there's a making-of video where Alan Tudyk makes the chicken noises and pauses, looks at the camera, and says, "I went to Julliard," which just makes Idiot Chicken even funnier to me. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 23:13:44 GMT -5
The animal sidekick is an interesting observation that I haven't thought of. Not every princess has one and they aren't always cute or even really sidekicks, but they are there and you can often sense the calculation that went into it. Moana actually should get some credit that her sidekicks aren't obvious merchandising cash grabs like the Chameleon in Tangled or that Salamander in Frozen II. That salamander in particular stood out since it was obvious that Sven the Reindeer and Olaf weren't making enough money and they needed something else. I then immediately fell this cash-grab since my daughter had a doll within an hour of seeing the movie. I am actually deeply irrationally angry that there isn't more Idiot Chicken merchandise. He's my favorite animal sidekick from any movie, ever, partly because he subverted the Cute Animal Sidekick thing and also because I really, really love incredibly stupid birds. Also, there's a making-of video where Alan Tudyk makes the chicken noises and pauses, looks at the camera, and says, "I went to Julliard," which just makes Idiot Chicken even funnier to me. Alan Tudyk is a national treasure. "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" "I DID NOT MURDER HIM!" "There are many parts of me that know this is wrong. None of them care. And six... they just find it funny." "Uh, betray us, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain." |
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Post by haysoos on Jan 31, 2020 11:04:24 GMT -5
I am actually deeply irrationally angry that there isn't more Idiot Chicken merchandise. He's my favorite animal sidekick from any movie, ever, partly because he subverted the Cute Animal Sidekick thing and also because I really, really love incredibly stupid birds. Also, there's a making-of video where Alan Tudyk makes the chicken noises and pauses, looks at the camera, and says, "I went to Julliard," which just makes Idiot Chicken even funnier to me. Alan Tudyk is a national treasure. "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" "I DID NOT MURDER HIM!" "There are many parts of me that know this is wrong. None of them care. And six... they just find it funny." "Uh, betray us, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip... all the p... ung. Pain, lots of pain." "Some kid, he just hucked himself right into the wood chipper!" "It doesn't matter what happened. What matters is what looks like what happened and what looks like what happened...is purdy nasty!" |
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 31, 2020 20:11:28 GMT -5
Maria (2019) - When a gang of drug dealers plots to kill a governor they discover that one of their former assassins they thought dead is actually living a normal life as a housewife and then drop everything they are doing to try and kill her. They off her family but the woman, the titular Maria, survives and what follows is a pretty standard issue revenge flick. Maria kick-punches her way through heaps of low level goons until she has a final fight on the docks in the rain with the man responsible for killing her husband and daughter.
While the plot was pretty barebones there were some cool fight scenes and Iām kind of a sucker for movies where a cool lady kicks all kinds of ass so this was well in my wheelhouse. Iāve also not seen a ton of Filipino martial arts movies so it was cool to see Escrima in choreographed fights and fight in the bathroom might be the best bathroom based battle Iāve seen since True Lies.
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 1, 2020 3:11:19 GMT -5
Dolemite Is My Name (2019) - Rudy Ray Moore is a man who after seeing some boring-ass ācomedyā film decided to make a movie of his own with ātitties and kung fuā because thatās what people actual like. This is a biopic about Mooreās quest to make that movie.
I was familiar with the movies they showed being made here (a couple of the scenes they showed being filmed were actually from the Dolemite sequel Human Tornado) but wasnāt all that familiar with the behind the scenes stuff which honestly a far more interesting story than the razor thin plot of Dolemite the movie.
I thought the cast was uniformly terrific. Murphy was great as Moore/Dolemite but I think the MVP might have been Wesley Snipes as DāUrville Martin who had me in tears in nearly every scene he was in. Another thing I liked was the way Mooreās relationship with Lady Reed was depicted. They were friends and confidants but never shown to be romantically attached to one another which often happens in biopics. āGotta get that love interest in!ā
No, instead of that we got a guy betting on himself and finding success and fame by making a movie with kung fu and titties in it because thatās what the people like. If thereās a better example of the American Dream in action Iād like to see it.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Feb 1, 2020 19:28:39 GMT -5
I'm watching the original Muppet Movie. So many 70s guest stars! Bob Hope, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin who still has some dark hair. And of course, Carol Kane. "It's a myth - you know, myth, myth!" "Yeth?"
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Feb 1, 2020 20:30:33 GMT -5
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
I guess my expectations were too high. Not in my top tier of either Quentin Tarantino films nor Once Upon a Time films.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Feb 1, 2020 21:37:04 GMT -5
So now I'm watching The Jungle Book (the animated one). They got elephants completely wrong! They have a male leading the herd. I'm retroactively irritated.
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