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Post by liebkartoffel on Feb 15, 2020 5:58:17 GMT -5
3 hour flight to Seattle + 6 hour flight to Hawaii = lots of movies.
The Farewell: Melancholic but also lots of movements of light comedy. Awkwafina is very talented. Didn't particularly make me want to visit mainland China, but all the food looked incredible.
Ad Astra: 2001 meets Heart of Darkness. Like a lot of pulpy sci-fi the messaging is pretty heavy-handed--the closing narration basically states outright THE THEME OF THIS MOVIE IS THE VALUE OF HUMAN CONNECTION--but worth it for the production design and action sequences.
Yesterday: Usually I find Richard Curtis movies fundamentally problematic but reliably pretty funny--yes, even Love Actually--but this one was just kind of dull. Putting aside the eye rolling boomer premise that Beatles songs, stripped of their context and plopped into 2019, would be equally giant mega-successes, the main romance is muddled and uninteresting and even the companionable banter is weak.
I also watched 5 episodes of Bob's Burgers and Toy Story 3, both of which remain good.
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Feb 15, 2020 8:07:56 GMT -5
Pain and GloryBeautiful film, but Almodovar so no surprise there. I think Banderas should have won the best actor award (as much as I enjoyed seeing Brad Pitt have a good time, and he delivered a pretty good speech.) ...Brad Pitt won Best Supporting Actor, though, not Best Actor; Best Actor went to Joaquin Phoenix, for Joker, as you might recall. (I'm still not even sure what the fuck Pain and Glory is about.) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 10:44:24 GMT -5
I watched Knives Out. It was..... okay. I think for me it is a case where something is built up so highly that there is nowhere to go but down.
It isn't a bad movie at all, but after all the hype I expected something a bit more. It also was not what was really advertised imo. I get why they advertised it as a straight up who dun it. But it isn't really that. It also shouldn't take like an hour to get to Chris Evans, that's just an egregious error in my book.
As far as my rankings of "fuck the rich" films that came out this year:
1. Parasite
2. Ready or Not
3. Knives Out
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Post by Pastafarian on Feb 15, 2020 10:57:16 GMT -5
Pain and GloryBeautiful film, but Almodovar so no surprise there. I think Banderas should have won the best actor award (as much as I enjoyed seeing Brad Pitt have a good time, and he delivered a pretty good speech.) ...Brad Pitt won Best Supporting Actor, though, not Best Actor; Best Actor went to Joaquin Phoenix, for Joker, as you might recall. (I'm still not even sure what the fuck Pain and Glory is about.) Oh shit, you're right of course! Phoenix vs Banderas is a very apples vs oranges performance, a physical, playing a mentally ill person, showy performance vs one that is more internal and quiet. Had I been a voter I still think I'd have given Banderas the vote. I don't know if you mean you saw it and don't know what it all meant, or that you didn't see it and just don't know the plot of the movie, but I'm guessing by your emphasis it is the former. So I'll just saw the pain and the glory was the friends he made along the way. |
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Feb 15, 2020 14:50:47 GMT -5
I don't know if you mean you saw it and don't know what it all meant, or that you didn't see it and just don't know the plot of the movie, but I'm guessing by your emphasis it is the former. So I'll just saw the pain and the glory was the friends he made along the way. ...it's actually the second one.  I watched Knives Out. It was..... okay. I think for me it is a case where something is built up so highly that there is nowhere to go but down. It isn't a bad movie at all, but after all the hype I expected something a bit more. It also was not what was really advertised imo. I get why they advertised it as a straight up who dun it. But it isn't really that. It also shouldn't take like an hour to get to Chris Evans, that's just an egregious error in my book. Not gonna see it anytime soon. For my own personal reasons. |
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Post by Pastafarian on Feb 15, 2020 18:38:26 GMT -5
I don't know if you mean you saw it and don't know what it all meant, or that you didn't see it and just don't know the plot of the movie, but I'm guessing by your emphasis it is the former. So I'll just saw the pain and the glory was the friends he made along the way. ...it's actually the second one. Ahh! I assumed too much. It's about an aging film director reflecting on his life, from his childhood in the 1960s, through to his first love affair in the 80s, to being with his elderly mother in the twilight of her life. It's about creative as well as emotional paralysis, and him working to overcome both. I've left out a ton, but that's the gist as I see it anyway |
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 16, 2020 1:46:33 GMT -5
The Legend of Cocaine Island (2018) - Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. After hearing a story of a bag containing $2,000,000 worth of cocaine buried on an island in Puerto Rico an unlikely duo of dumbasses set out to find it. This documentary is their story. Told primarily via talking head interviews and re-enactments the movie does a good job of taking allowing the zany cast of characters involved in this story tell it in their own words.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 0:18:16 GMT -5
Sonic the Hedgehog - For yet another "fantastic creature gets transported to real-world Earth and teams up with a bland human buddy sidekick" movie, this one was still pretty fun. As amusing as the second post-redesign trailer indicated.
I enjoyed seeing Jim Carrey back in form as the over-the-top goofy guy. Plenty of easter eggmen for Sonic "fans" too, including Sonic calling Robotnik "Dr. Eggman" at one point.
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 17, 2020 4:10:04 GMT -5
Porco Rosso (1992) - A pig in a plane. Pirates and fascists. An evil American. A couple of girls. Biplanes to heaven. Aquatic boxing match. A bunch of Japanamations.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 10:47:51 GMT -5
Ms. Goblin had to work late on Friday, so we missed the MST3K live tour that's purportedly Joel's final. Drag. As a consolation, I watched the Rifftrax guys' take on one of the films Joel is mocking: No Retreat, No Surrender, directed by stunt coordinator Corey Yuen and featuring a pre-Bloodsport JCVD.
Recommended if you're looking for a fever dream-logic chimera of '80s staples including Karate Kid, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and the countless cash-grabs exploiting Bruce Lee's memory. Apparently the sequel is a Rambo rip-off set in Cambodia, of all things.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 17, 2020 12:37:13 GMT -5
I watched Knives Out. It was..... okay. I think for me it is a case where something is built up so highly that there is nowhere to go but down. It isn't a bad movie at all, but after all the hype I expected something a bit more. It also was not what was really advertised imo. I get why they advertised it as a straight up who dun it. But it isn't really that. It also shouldn't take like an hour to get to Chris Evans, that's just an egregious error in my book. As far as my rankings of "fuck the rich" films that came out this year: 1. Parasite 2. Ready or Not 3. Knives Out Where is Us? |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 17, 2020 12:47:45 GMT -5
I watched Knives Out. It was..... okay. I think for me it is a case where something is built up so highly that there is nowhere to go but down. It isn't a bad movie at all, but after all the hype I expected something a bit more. It also was not what was really advertised imo. I get why they advertised it as a straight up who dun it. But it isn't really that. It also shouldn't take like an hour to get to Chris Evans, that's just an egregious error in my book. As far as my rankings of "fuck the rich" films that came out this year: 1. Parasite 2. Ready or Not 3. Knives Out Where is Us? Is Us really a fuck-the-rich film? Also, I'm disappointed you didn't pedantically point out that none of the films listed above (including Us) came out in this year 2020 C.E. (or 22 W., for that matter) |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 13:12:12 GMT -5
The Conversation
Boring movie!
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Feb 17, 2020 14:19:23 GMT -5
Ms. Goblin had to work late on Friday, so we missed the MST3K live tour that's purportedly Joel's final. Drag. As a consolation, I watched the Rifftrax guys' take on one of the films Joel is mocking: No Retreat, No Surrender, directed by stunt coordinator Corey Yuen and featuring a pre- Bloodsport JCVD. Recommended if you're looking for a fever dream-logic chimera of '80s staples including Karate Kid, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and the countless cash-grabs exploiting Bruce Lee's memory. Apparently the sequel is a Rambo rip-off set in Cambodia, of all things. of those got shown in Rabbit on The Avocado; they were such dumb fun. The second one's got Cythnia Rothrock! |
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 17, 2020 14:38:22 GMT -5
Ms. Goblin had to work late on Friday, so we missed the MST3K live tour that's purportedly Joel's final. Drag. As a consolation, I watched the Rifftrax guys' take on one of the films Joel is mocking: No Retreat, No Surrender, directed by stunt coordinator Corey Yuen and featuring a pre- Bloodsport JCVD. Recommended if you're looking for a fever dream-logic chimera of '80s staples including Karate Kid, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and the countless cash-grabs exploiting Bruce Lee's memory. Apparently the sequel is a Rambo rip-off set in Cambodia, of all things.  There are actually two sequels neither of which really have anything to do with the movies that preceded them. They all kind of rule ass if you like your movies filled with random kick punching for no goddamn reason. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 15:54:10 GMT -5
Ms. Goblin had to work late on Friday, so we missed the MST3K live tour that's purportedly Joel's final. Drag. As a consolation, I watched the Rifftrax guys' take on one of the films Joel is mocking: No Retreat, No Surrender, directed by stunt coordinator Corey Yuen and featuring a pre- Bloodsport JCVD. Recommended if you're looking for a fever dream-logic chimera of '80s staples including Karate Kid, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and the countless cash-grabs exploiting Bruce Lee's memory. Apparently the sequel is a Rambo rip-off set in Cambodia, of all things. There are actually two sequels neither of which really have anything to do with the movies that preceded them. They all kind of rule ass if you like your movies filled with random kick punching for no goddamn reason. Cosigning Mr. Greene's October Surprise. What a garden have I apparently just stumbled upon... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 16:11:45 GMT -5
The ConversationBoring movie! It is too long, like every '70s movie. |
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Post by Mr. Greene's October Surprise on Feb 17, 2020 16:39:50 GMT -5
There are actually two sequels neither of which really have anything to do with the movies that preceded them. They all kind of rule ass if you like your movies filled with random kick punching for no goddamn reason. Cosigning Mr. Greene's October Surprise . What a garden have I apparently just stumbled upon... A veritable garden of earth delights, you have...  Also, Nudeviking!  Where've you been, man? |
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Post by oppy all along on Feb 17, 2020 18:32:59 GMT -5
Is Us really a fuck-the-rich film? Also, I'm disappointed you didn't pedantically point out that none of the films listed above (including Us) came out in this year 2020 C.E. (or 22 W., for that matter) That was my read on the movie. The nice family represent the obliviously privileged and the tethered represent like third world sweatshop workers who make our clothes. Through virtue of nothing but being born on the sunny side of the Earth rather than the shithole caves underneath it, the nice family have pleasant fulfilling lives while the tethered eat bunnies and shit. Similarly, through virtue of nothing but being born in the right countries we use iphones and workers die on the factory floor assembling them. The tethered rising up is essentially the less privileged showing up at our door like "how the fuck is it fair that you're eating avocado toast right now while I was pressganged into a child army when I was eight years old" |
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Post by repulsionist on Feb 17, 2020 19:00:12 GMT -5
Norwood (1970)
Read on multiple content hubs, including this one, that Charles Portis had passed. In what should represent an extreme disrespect to his body of work, I speed-watched this flick on YouTube. A 70s road movie with such luminous lights of forgotten stub realities as Joe Namath, Dom DeLuise, Pat Hingle, and Glen Campbell. Most songs by Mac Davis. Directed by the son of the dude playing the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. There are some women in this film, some who did notable character actor work in television and film, but, well, this is a 70s movie without much of today's "wokeness".
In conclusion, I dislike most everything, my sense of humour has diminished to the point of its own absurdity, the human world appears irretrievably screwed, and this did not have much value, even as a quick-hit, half-witted remembrance of a great American writer.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 17, 2020 19:31:34 GMT -5
Is Us really a fuck-the-rich film? Also, I'm disappointed you didn't pedantically point out that none of the films listed above (including Us) came out in this year 2020 C.E. (or 22 W., for that matter) That was my read on the movie. The nice family represent the obliviously privileged and the tethered represent like third world sweatshop workers who make our clothes. Through virtue of nothing but being born on the sunny side of the Earth rather than the shithole caves underneath it, the nice family have pleasant fulfilling lives while the tethered eat bunnies and shit. Similarly, through virtue of nothing but being born in the right countries we use iphones and workers die on the factory floor assembling them. The tethered rising up is essentially the less privileged showing up at our door like "how the fuck is it fair that you're eating avocado toast right now while I was pressganged into a child army when I was eight years old" I think this is a valid take on the central metaphor of Us, I'm just not sure I'd call the Wilsons "rich" in the sense that I've been conditioned to expect the rich people in the fuck-the-rich genre to be. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2020 20:02:09 GMT -5
Is Us really a fuck-the-rich film? Also, I'm disappointed you didn't pedantically point out that none of the films listed above (including Us) came out in this year 2020 C.E. (or 22 W., for that matter) Look, I clearly meant 2019! Also, I'm with you. I don't see US as fuck the rich. It isn't specifically targeting the rich, considering everyone had an other. |
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Post by sarapen on Feb 17, 2020 21:08:06 GMT -5
Off today so I spent most of my daylight hours at the movies. I saw 1917 in the morning and Parasite after lunch. They were both fairly entertaining, inasmuch as movies containing rotting corpses and stabbings can be entertaining - which is to say, very much so if you've grown up watching such things.
1917 was okay but doesn't really show me much of anything I hadn't seen before in film. It's obviously impossible that a film of this length with this many actors and scenes could have been filmed in one shot, so I deliberately avoided trying to identify at which points Sam Mendes hid the cuts in, but I still ended up noticing a few.
As for Parasite, I could write a class analysis but I feel like I'd just be stating the glaringly obvious. The whole thing was very Those Who Walk Away From Omelas, although in that story at least it held out hope for another way of life beyond the one constructed around material inequality. The bulk of Korean language films I've seen are more like City of Violence or My Wife is a Gangster so I guess it was interesting how the audience for this one was mostly white, and clearly not the hipster type. I wonder if the Best Picture win put butts in seats as well, since the 12:50 showing I went to was fairly full for a movie that's been out for months.
Anyway, I've now seen two more Best Picture Oscar nominees than I normally do in a given year.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Feb 17, 2020 22:01:25 GMT -5
The ConversationBoring movie! I.....I am simply stunned. I consider The Conversation to be one of the best movies I've ever seen (and I had every cable movie channel free for about 20 years as a satellite TV dealer, so Ive seen a lot of movies). Maybe my electronics geekdom prejudices me in favor of it, and maybe it's because it hits my Powers-That-Be-Conspiracy paranoid sweet spot, but it's a movie which, if I come across it playing, I must stop and watch it. The Conversation, Night Moves, and Bite the Bullet are among my favorite Hackman performances.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Feb 17, 2020 22:02:32 GMT -5
The ConversationBoring movie! It is too long, like every '70s movie. Now you guys are just trying to piss me off. |
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 17, 2020 22:35:28 GMT -5
A veritable garden of earth delights, you have...  Also, Nudeviking!  Where've you been, man? In a Germany. Making some business. Eating some meat heaps. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 17, 2020 23:32:25 GMT -5
It is too long, like every '70s movie. Now you guys are just trying to piss me off. is so dumb. Just don't go in the water, dumbass! |
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Post by oppy all along on Feb 18, 2020 0:38:20 GMT -5
Now you guys are just trying to piss me off. is so dumb. Just don't go in the water, dumbass! But it would bankrupt the town! Hundreds if not thousands of people would lose their livelihoods! |
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Post by Hachiman on Feb 18, 2020 1:08:40 GMT -5
A veritable garden of earth delights, you have... Also, Nudeviking ! Where've you been, man? In a Germany. Making some business. Eating some meat heaps. Have a few schweinshaxe for me! |
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Post by Jimmy James on Feb 18, 2020 10:37:32 GMT -5
Is Us really a fuck-the-rich film? Also, I'm disappointed you didn't pedantically point out that none of the films listed above (including Us) came out in this year 2020 C.E. (or 22 W., for that matter) When do we mark new years of the Willenium in the Roman calendar? Is it from the November 16, 1999 release date of Willenium, or the September 9 release date of the single "Will 2K", which has the pleasing aspect of starting the Willenium on 9/9/99? I'm assuming also we're using Oscar rules, where the film must be screened in a commercial theater instead of counting the Cannes /TIFF festival release dates for Parasite and Knives Out, respectively, which both fall in the previous year of the Willenium by either reckoning. Then we can count Knives Out in this year of the Willenium by either reckoning, but need a definitive reckoning of Annum Gulielmus for the October 11* release of Parasite.
*Theatrical release in South Korea and Australia were earlier, but I'm going by North American (specifically West Philadelphia) dates.
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