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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 14, 2020 9:44:53 GMT -5
Guess it counts as a movie, but we just watched the live virtual reading of The Princess Bride by (a majority of) the original cast, put on by the Wisconsin Democrats. Watched (and donated) in large part just to annoy Ted Cruz, but still enjoyed it. Lots of technical difficulties, as one might expect, but it had an endearingly shaggy quality. Whoopie Goldberg played the mom and the booing old crone, Finn "Jesus he really is in everything these days" Wolfhard stood in Fred Savage as the grandson, Rob Reiner stood in for Peter Falk as the grandfather, Josh Gad (gamely attempting an Andre the Giant voice, which came out sounding more like Bane) was Fezzik, and Eric Idle took over as the Bishop, though sadly most of his lines were either muted or so delayed they were spoken over by someone else. (Like I said, lots of technical difficulties.) Wally Shawn (Vizzini), Chris Sarandon (Humperdinck), and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya) were probably the three strongest performers, though as a medium Zoom tends to favor the hammy monologues. Patton Oswalt led a QA (with surprise guest Norman Lear!) afterward which was informative if, again, garbled and hard to hear in some spots. Lots of Andre the Giant drinking stories. ETA: Oh, and Robin Wright and Cary Elwes remain annoyingly beautiful, even 37 years later. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was apparent that Mandy Patinkin would have been game for an in-person reenactment, complete with sword fights; he was clearly having an absolute blast. I'd also note that Billy Crystal (wearing his original Miracle Max cap) and Carol Kane were a lot of fun as well, and I'd second Wallace Shawn and Chris Sarandon doing very well with it. Cary Elwes also mimicked his original delivery on a lot of those lines incredibly well.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 14, 2020 12:32:09 GMT -5
Jurassic Park/The Lost World
We've settled into a family pizza & movie night on Fridays the last few months because we are original people with children. These were the last two weeks' selections and I did not know how much I needed our 6yo and 8yo yelling at people for being stupid around dinosaurs in my life. Like, legitimately angry at Vince Vaughn for picking up that baby T-Rex. I also like junior film critic Owl Jr.'s assessment of Lost World about 1/3 of the way in: "The first one didn't have nearly as many explosions!". This should really be put on the cover of any future physical releases.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 14, 2020 15:51:16 GMT -5
Guess it counts as a movie, but we just watched the live virtual reading of The Princess Bride by (a majority of) the original cast, put on by the Wisconsin Democrats. Watched (and donated) in large part just to annoy Ted Cruz, but still enjoyed it. Lots of technical difficulties, as one might expect, but it had an endearingly shaggy quality. Whoopie Goldberg played the mom and the booing old crone, Finn "Jesus he really is in everything these days" Wolfhard stood in Fred Savage as the grandson, Rob Reiner stood in for Peter Falk as the grandfather, Josh Gad (gamely attempting an Andre the Giant voice, which came out sounding more like Bane) was Fezzik, and Eric Idle took over as the Bishop, though sadly most of his lines were either muted or so delayed they were spoken over by someone else. (Like I said, lots of technical difficulties.) Wally Shawn (Vizzini), Chris Sarandon (Humperdinck), and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya) were probably the three strongest performers, though as a medium Zoom tends to favor the hammy monologues. Patton Oswalt led a QA (with surprise guest Norman Lear!) afterward which was informative if, again, garbled and hard to hear in some spots. Lots of Andre the Giant drinking stories. ETA: Oh, and Robin Wright and Cary Elwes remain annoyingly beautiful, even 37 years later. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was apparent that Mandy Patinkin would have been game for an in-person reenactment, complete with sword fights; he was clearly having an absolute blast. I'd also note that Billy Crystal (wearing his original Miracle Max cap) and Carol Kane were a lot of fun as well, and I'd second Wallace Shawn and Chris Sarandon doing very well with it. Cary Elwes also mimicked his original delivery on a lot of those lines incredibly well. Elwes and Wright did great, all things considered, but both were a little too quiet and Elwes seemed to be having issues with his internet connection. Billy Crystal and Carol Kane really went all out, and I loved how Crystal improvised a couple of new lines.
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 14, 2020 23:03:53 GMT -5
Slim and I (2020): Better than I thought it would be. It's an intimate portrayal of the life of Joy Mckean and some country singer she happened to be married to, which gives equal weight to the breakout hit as it does figuring out their children's schooling situation. Note to biopic people, you don't need an extended 'fall' where the artist hits rock bottom and has to fight his way back to the top. You can handle it like 'well my husband was cheating on me but then I set him straight and then back to the high life'.
Also, my grandmother liked it, which is the most important metric for movies like this. More movies that my grandmother likes please and thank you movie people.
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 18, 2020 8:37:20 GMT -5
After (2019): Hahahahaha they took One Direction fanfiction and renamed 'Harry Styles' as 'Hardin Scott' do you get it.
Also everyone is being really blasé about how Hardin Scott is squatting in the home of a professor who just wanted him to water their plants. I'm sure the professor didn't intend for Hardin to turn it into a fuck pad. In summary this movie is trashy fun that was the prequel to one of the only movies getting released in theatres right now so I watched it with my brother and it was weird.
Everyone in this story is awful except for Landon.
After We Collided (2020): Look man, if great cinematic works were available in theatres right now I'd watch that. It would be awesome if there were an epic blockbuster propping up cinemas with crowdpleasing explosions and quippy dialogue. But none of that is in theatres right now so instead I watched this okay?!
Hardin and Tessa are the worst and it makes no goddamn sense for them to be together. And, again, they are squatting in the professor's house! Why does nobody care about their tenuous housing situation! Instead of applying for accommodation they could actually be legally entitled to they just fuck and fight and fuck and fight and side characters inexplicably support their nonstop bullshit.
Everyone in this movie is awful except for Landon. Can't believe there's two more movies coming of this.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 18, 2020 19:52:05 GMT -5
Man of Tai Chi (2013) - A delivery man and tai chi practitioner named Tiger gets roped into Keanu Reeves’ underground pit fighting ring in order to save his master’s tai chi temple from getting torn down by evil developers and along the way loses sight of what it means to be a man of tai chi. Can he save the temple without turning completely to the Dark Side? Probably!
Overall the plot was whatever but man alive were the fights in this on point. Just some brutal-ass kung fu kick-punching and isn’t that what people watch these movies for? Also shout out to Steve Yoo, the only person ever to be deported and banned for life from entering South Korea for choosing US citizenship over Korean citizenship, for his masterful portrayal of Karen Mok’s underground pit fighting informant who gets knifed to death by Keanu Reeves in the early going of the movie.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 20, 2020 13:08:43 GMT -5
I quite liked The Vast of Night. Nicely atmospheric, with a great creeping dread thread throughout. I thought I was gonna be annoyed by the male lead, but his rapid-fire wannabe cool thing turned out to be really endearing. And the female lead was just delightful ugh I love her SO MUCH.
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 20, 2020 16:54:36 GMT -5
Back to the Future (1985)
Love that Netflix, bro. This is perfect, parodic sci-fi homage. Yes, there's quite a bit of 'things that haven't aged well'. The kids liked it. So that's something.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 20, 2020 19:03:39 GMT -5
The Babysitter (2017) - Goofy enough to be a decent comedy. Gory enough to be a decent horror flick and at 85 minutes it never wore out its welcome.
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Post by ganews on Sept 20, 2020 20:00:18 GMT -5
covid week 27 movies
It's been six months and a week, and this will be the last in the series. Tomorrow I go back to in-person work at 40% capacity, and this morning I played a scaled-down version of pickup with a total of eight masked people running on the field (safer than the restaurant seating 50% capacity where I picked up tonight's burritos).
Dog Day Afternoon How many people today only know about the Attica prison riot because of this movie? Al Pacino whips up a 1975 Brooklyn crowd that's come to watch the stand-off after he and John Cazale botch everything which was obviously going to happen from the wild panic in Pacino's eyes in the opening minutes. Kind of a strange movie through 2020 eyes, because it seems like Al Pacino would have been shot the first time he steps outside alone, even though he's white and the armed partner has hostages inside. There have been plenty of movies about bank robberies and dumb criminals and hostage crises, and honestly I don't know that it much stands out. The cops are the same as ever - rushing the elderly asthmatic (black) security guard who is clearly a hostage, generally being uncoordinated. How old is the shotgun-in-flowerbox trick? Some notable faces: Carol Kane, Charles Durning 25 years before he was Governor Pappy O'Daniel. Lance Henrikson was awfully handsome when he was young and could probably ease you into doing anything; the lesson here being that Bishop in Aliens being a hero was not a surprise because the previous android was a secret villain, but because he was played by Lance Henrikson. Then there's the trans lover played by young Prince Humperdinck, who looked then like he was cousins with Alex Karpovsky; the whole thing would have sounded made-up even today. None of the characters are all that well-developed. It's just a slice of (crazy) life.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 21, 2020 19:02:55 GMT -5
For some reason I ended up watching three movies on a Monday night.
No Holds Barred (1989) So back in ‘89 Hulk Hogan’s primary fan-base was 8 year old boys and to capitalize on this fact the WWE (then still the WWF) made a movie starring the Hulkster that only an 8 year old boy could possibly love. This is that movie and it’s got everything an 8 year old boy could possibly want.
* There’s a limo driver shitting his pants and getting mocked by Hogan for doing so.
* Cartoonishly evil Big Business Man. Honorable mention to the fact that this evil Big Business Man’s go to insult directed at Hogan was “Jockass!” That’s a solid insult. Also as an aside why was there never a Million Dollar Man type wrestler who was also a legitimate giant named Big Business? It seems like a missed opportunity. If anyone out there is a 7’ tall wrestler or a wrestler whose like 600 pounds feel free to use that gimmick.
* A lady in a bra.
* A bonehead tournament titled “The Battle of the Tough Guys” in which the titular tough guys battle by clubbering each other.
* Hulk Hogan in bikini briefs doing push-ups in such a way that someone wrongly thinks he’s jerking off.
You know, all the stuff 8 year old boys love. There’s also a surprising amount of violence against women, a “joke” where the punchline is implying that two guys are gay, and Hulk Hogan randomly going berserk for no goddamn reason at the drop of a hat. This movie’s not good by any stretch of the imagination but I guess it was cool seeing non-WWF wrestle guys like Stan Hansen and Jos Le Duc in a WWF project as was the fact that outside of the movie Tiny Lister, as Zeus, crossed over into the real fake world of WWF proper and had some matches with Hogan after being pissed off that Hogan got top billing in this film. Honestly trying to figure out the logic of how a fictional character crossed over into reality is probably more interesting than this actual movie.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) I was kind of confused by the setting though since the lake seemed to be in the American Southwest but there was a cop who showed up wearing an Illinois State Police uniform at Cole’s parents’ house. Other than that it was more of the same stuff we got from the first one: gore and jokes. I don’t think they really struck that balance as well as they did with the first one since they leaned harder into the comedy this go round but I still thought it was pretty fun.
The Rise and Fall of Blackcraft Wrestling (2020) Edgelord clothing company Blackcraft decides to run an equally edgy wrestling company, is well received initially, literally crucifies a dude at a show and then slits horror legend Doug Bradley’s throat at said same show, ceases to exist. I never really got into Blackcraft’s wrestling company on account of being a grown-ass adult with a mortgage and shit when they came into existence but watching this documentary I know that if I had been 16 or 17 years old I would have thought this was the coolest shit ever. The documentary itself was pretty short, but the company itself didn’t exist all that long so an hour long documentary seemed to cover all the highs and lows sufficiently.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Sept 21, 2020 20:25:47 GMT -5
Day of the Dead (1985)
I always thought the whole Zombie craze was a pretty stupid premise, but I caught part of this TV and went back and watched more or less the whole thing. If you skip part the dumb horror parts, the interpersonal human tension between the characters secluded in the research lab is okay drama and I like the combination of pointless power hunger in one character and the shear boredom in the others. Then the ghouls came out and it just became a "look what we can do" display of cheap effects. Stray observations below:
--The rogue research scientist training the captive zombie he's supposed to be studying how to fire a gun as part as part of re-humanizing him is probably the stupidest thing possible in this scenario, yet its brushed off a minor irritation by the rest of the characters. Also, why the pissed off colonel kill only the researcher but let the man-hungry monster continue to un-live? It was completely out of character.
--One of the opening scenes shows that the streets of Florida have been re-taken by alligators amid the zombie hordes. Based on everything I know about actual human-gator relationships, slow-moving mostly defenseless humans would be killed by Florida fauna and decimate the threat to the living population.
--The zombies are shown dressed in a variety of outfits depending on what they were wearing when they were attacked to death (a woman in a wedding dress, a few in military fatigues, a football uniform). One is dressed as a circus clown, which of course makes me imagine someone watching its murder joking "I bet he tastes funny."
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 22, 2020 7:07:53 GMT -5
Extraction (2020): At first, this movie looks like an all-action white saviour narrative. But upon closer inspection it is revealed to be an all-action white mass murdering psychopath narrative. Chris Hemsworth's character says the cops might be on the drug lord's payroll, and then he starts slaughtering said cops. Dude, MIGHT. You couldn't set a movie in America, say some local cops MIGHT be corrupt, and then have the main character start gunning down every cop they see.
Also, shout out to the 'poverty filter' the entire movie is run through, just to hammer home the point that Bangladesh sucks and Chris Hemsworth is right to keep racking up his kill count.
That being said the action is pretty good. So it's a toss up.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 22, 2020 7:34:38 GMT -5
Extraction (2020): At first, this movie looks like an all-action white saviour narrative. But upon closer inspection it is revealed to be an all-action white mass murdering psychopath narrative. Chris Hemsworth's character says the cops might be on the drug lord's payroll, and then he starts slaughtering said cops. Dude, MIGHT. You couldn't set a movie in America, say some local cops MIGHT be corrupt, and then have the main character start gunning down every cop they see.Also, shout out to the 'poverty filter' the entire movie is run through, just to hammer home the point that Bangladesh sucks and Chris Hemsworth is right to keep racking up his kill count. That being said the action is pretty good. So it's a toss up. I mean, America's probably not the best example, because the cops would definitely be corrupt.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Sept 22, 2020 7:48:23 GMT -5
Recently watched The Personal History of David Copperfield. It's funny and the dialogue is well-written and the cast is absolutely stacked with ringers (Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, etc.) The first two-thirds are an impressively capable adaption of a 700-page book...and then it just kind of stumbles into a not particularly satisfying (or sensical) ending.
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Post by Hachiman on Sept 22, 2020 21:39:44 GMT -5
Were slowly going through most of the Pixar films and did a rewatch of Up. It is probably one of the first times we watched it since Hachikid was a baby. We got through the first part alright this time and mostly enjoyed the rest of the movie more than we originally did. As far as I can tell, we just relate to all of it differently than before. It was easy to watch the movie as a young couple and feel for Carl and Ellie going through life. Now, with a bunch of annoying kids and our own hiccups along the way? It didn't seem nearly as affecting. Or maybe it was affecting in a different way. The kid also seemed less annoying than before in that we now have direct experience with small children who just wreck stuff non-stop. It's still a very good movie.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 22, 2020 22:14:22 GMT -5
Were slowly going through most of the Pixar films and did a rewatch of Up. It is probably one of the first times we watched it since Hachikid was a baby. We got through the first part alright this time and mostly enjoyed the rest of the movie more than we originally did. As far as I can tell, we just relate to all of it differently than before. It was easy to watch the movie as a young couple and feel for Carl and Ellie going through life. Now, with a bunch of annoying kids and our own hiccups along the way? It didn't seem nearly as affecting. Or maybe it was affecting in a different way. The kid also seemed less annoying than before in that we now have direct experience with small children who just wreck stuff non-stop. It's still a very good movie. Up was not a particularly enjoyable movie to watch as in-flight entertainment a few days after my wife had a miscarriage. I've not seen it since I ugly cried on an airplane due to the opening montage thing and wonder if it would still wreck shop on me the way it did that day now that I do have a kid. I'm sure at some point it will be something that she starts obsessively watching at which point I'll find out.
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 23, 2020 17:29:29 GMT -5
The Story of Sin (1975)
At first attempt, I made it only as far as Lukasz abandoning Ewa (meaning 25 minutes into the 130 minute film). I mentioned previously that I was enraptured with the 19th century interiors. The remaining running time of the film did not disappoint in showing more ornate Polish interiors. But, this is an adaptation of a 19th century Polish literature classic - so there's *content warning* rape, domestic violence, filicide. The film did drag on, but it was determined to maintain its tone throughout - dreary and forlorn. I did enjoy this for its 'throwback' quality. There were some moments of ineptitude on the part of the director in the last act, wherein a home invasion goes wrong. It was clear that the director's preference was to film light erotica, not well-paced action. Still, watching 19th-century Euro bad guys clumsily shoot their way into a disaster and their deaths was absurd fun. I rated this 2 slices of brown bread and a bowl of soup.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 24, 2020 22:42:08 GMT -5
The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019)
I’ve finally watched enough shit on Netflix that its algorithm was able to recommend the perfect movie for me; a 30 minute musical biopic about two of the late 80s greatest athletes: Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco. This cinematic masterpiece tells the remarkable true story of the Bash Bros. through a number of expertly performed raps. This is the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 25, 2020 6:53:02 GMT -5
Casino Royale (2006): So I had some trouble with this one.
James Bond as a spy suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. He blunders around from setpiece to setpiece, murdering anyone who might have the information he needs and getting everyone else killed in his incompetent wake. But hey, it's a silly movie, it's just being silly. Then why is it a 140 minute long tale of a dour and unhappy man becoming even more dour and unhappy? Over two hours of Daniel Craig travelling the world looking constipated in all the nicest of places, and also getting instantly caught whenever he tries to be sneaky because he's a terrible spy.
James Bond as a protagonist suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. What does he actually do this movie? Aside from bankrupting the economy of Madagascar I mean. He did avert a bombing, which I'm not sure if there were going to be people on that plane but if there were he saved some lives there. Then he won a poker game that had no bearing on whether anyone would be able to arrest Le Chiffre, then he gets captured by Le Chiffre, and then somebody else kills him! Then it turns out he handed $150m to a mole for good measure. The best thing you can say he did was really fuck over Le Chiffre's career.
James Bond as a person suuuuuuuuuucks. Okay, we all knew this part, it's been a foundational building block of the series forever. But it does make it harder to invest in the movie especially once you add the first two parts. I don't care if this egotistical finger sucking creep finds happiness, and I don't care when he doesn't find it either. Nor do I particularly care about his mission, because he's really, really, really, really bad at executing it. Whatever it is. Can someone please tell me what his goal this movie was.
Maybe it would have been better if I saw it in theatres. I'll keep blundering through the Craig-Bonds, because what else is there to do than hope No Time To Die actually comes out in November.
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Post by LazBro on Sept 25, 2020 8:21:02 GMT -5
The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019) I’ve finally watched enough shit on Netflix that its algorithm was able to recommend the perfect movie for me; a 30 minute musical biopic about two of the late 80s greatest athletes: Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco. This cinematic masterpiece tells the remarkable true story of the Bash Bros. through a number of expertly performed raps. This is the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I think it's a really great thing to watch, but it also disappoints me, because I feel it delayed the next "true" Lonely Island album.
(I count Popstar, because that OST is fantastic and delivers as a standalone TLI album, but Bash Brothers doesn't work for me like that.)
I should rewatch this.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 25, 2020 8:59:31 GMT -5
The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019) I’ve finally watched enough shit on Netflix that its algorithm was able to recommend the perfect movie for me; a 30 minute musical biopic about two of the late 80s greatest athletes: Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco. This cinematic masterpiece tells the remarkable true story of the Bash Bros. through a number of expertly performed raps. This is the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I think it's a really great thing to watch, but it also disappoints me, because I feel it delayed the next "true" Lonely Island album.
(I count Popstar, because that OST is fantastic and delivers as a standalone TLI album, but Bash Brothers doesn't work for me like that.)
I should rewatch this.
I had no idea it even existed so it was like when I went to the record store and found Nirvana’s Incesticide. “Oh shit new jams by a band I like!” It might now be their most even album but it’s still previously unknown to me tunes that were pretty good. Also my buddies and I used to joke about the Bash Bros. well into our college days (there may have ironically been a Bash Brothers poster in the living room of our student apartment) so the concept worked for me.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Sept 25, 2020 9:55:58 GMT -5
Casino Royale (2006): So I had some trouble with this one. James Bond as a spy suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. He blunders around from setpiece to setpiece, murdering anyone who might have the information he needs and getting everyone else killed in his incompetent wake. But hey, it's a silly movie, it's just being silly. Then why is it a 140 minute long tale of a dour and unhappy man becoming even more dour and unhappy? Over two hours of Daniel Craig travelling the world looking constipated in all the nicest of places, and also getting instantly caught whenever he tries to be sneaky because he's a terrible spy. James Bond as a protagonist suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. What does he actually do this movie? Aside from bankrupting the economy of Madagascar I mean. He did avert a bombing, which I'm not sure if there were going to be people on that plane but if there were he saved some lives there. Then he won a poker game that had no bearing on whether anyone would be able to arrest Le Chiffre, then he gets captured by Le Chiffre, and then somebody else kills him! Then it turns out he handed $150m to a mole for good measure. The best thing you can say he did was really fuck over Le Chiffre's career. James Bond as a person suuuuuuuuuucks. Okay, we all knew this part, it's been a foundational building block of the series forever. But it does make it harder to invest in the movie especially once you add the first two parts. I don't care if this egotistical finger sucking creep finds happiness, and I don't care when he doesn't find it either. Nor do I particularly care about his mission, because he's really, really, really, really bad at executing it. Whatever it is. Can someone please tell me what his goal this movie was. Maybe it would have been better if I saw it in theatres. I'll keep blundering through the Craig-Bonds, because what else is there to do than hope No Time To Die actually comes out in November. I have never really enjoyed a James Bond movie. I did play a lot of Golden Eye on the N64 in college, though.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Sept 25, 2020 19:09:52 GMT -5
The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019) I’ve finally watched enough shit on Netflix that its algorithm was able to recommend the perfect movie for me; a 30 minute musical biopic about two of the late 80s greatest athletes: Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco. This cinematic masterpiece tells the remarkable true story of the Bash Bros. through a number of expertly performed raps. This is the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. For whatever other faults Netflix has, I do appreciate that they’ll let people do genuinely weird one off projects like this. See also: John Mulaney’s Sack Lunch Bunch
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 25, 2020 20:05:50 GMT -5
The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019) I’ve finally watched enough shit on Netflix that its algorithm was able to recommend the perfect movie for me; a 30 minute musical biopic about two of the late 80s greatest athletes: Mark McGuire and Jose Canseco. This cinematic masterpiece tells the remarkable true story of the Bash Bros. through a number of expertly performed raps. This is the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. For whatever other faults Netflix has, I do appreciate that they’ll let people do genuinely weird one off projects like this. See also: John Mulaney’s Sack Lunch Bunch I will have to see that one as I had no idea it existed but I do agree with that sentiment. If Netflix isn't going to give me all the b-movies from the 70s and 80s that I wanted it to the least they can do is give me weird shorts. The one that came to mind for me was that weird David Lynch thing where he's a detective interrogating a monkey who speaks via a superimposed human mouth ala Clutch Cargo or that Conan O'Brien segment.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Sept 26, 2020 0:07:00 GMT -5
Casino Royale (2006): So I had some trouble with this one. Needed more David Niven and Orson Welles
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 26, 2020 20:55:07 GMT -5
I am super not into the Addams children at odds with their parents, nor am I a fan of Morticia and Gomez acting like uptight parents in regards to how their kids behave. Half the appeal of Morticia and Gomez was always that they were extremely accepting of whatever other people wanted to do.
And this music is SHIT I understand someone thinks it's hilarious for Lurch to play the worst REM song, and maybe it would have worked if it was played on a PIPE ORGAN because everything is better on a pipe organ
Morticia is wearing a red dress why is Pugsley blond why isn't Gomez unhinged
who actually thinks that the Addams would not think that was hilarious to be attacked with a catapault by a bunch of suburbanites
why are Gomez and Morticia barely interacting there hasn't been any vaguely to extremely awkward PDA
wtf is even happening with this movie did they even WATCH The Addams Family no they did not obviously
I also think Charlize Theron is not a good choice for voice-over work, or else I think she's just a bad choice for Morticia, I don't know which i it is. But I will push for Oscar Isaac in a live-action version until my head falls off.
In conclusion, do not watch the latest animated Addams Family movie
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 27, 2020 4:14:57 GMT -5
Quantum of Solace (2008): Okay, it's better than the first one. James Bond is making a nominal effort to subdue rather than eliminate potential leads here. He even does some really slick spy work at one point. And the narrative is a less mechanical than 'kill lead, steal his phone, kill lead, steal his phone, kill lead, steal his phone, play poker, have the main bad guy killed in front of you before you can steal his phone, discover mole, have the mole killed in front of you, steal her phone'. Plus, 100 minute runtime. It's not that long movies are bad, but it's a virtue to close before the audience gets tired of you.
I was fascinated by the movie's attempts to reconcile the Bond frachise's structural misogyny with 'wait shit we're releasing this movie in the 21st century'. That's not to say it was effective, of course. Making literally every man in your movie a creepy monster who abuses and exploits women may make James Bond the character look better in comparison (and is also realistic), but it also means every woman in your movie is defined by being abused and exploited. Judi Dench as the only female non-Bond Girl character remains a step in the right direction. It sure would be terrible if something were to happen to her and she was replaced by, say, a white man and a secretary.
The movie does get points for identifying that the true enemy is multinational capitalism.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Sept 28, 2020 9:49:45 GMT -5
I watched Enola Holmes (2020) this weekend and found it delightful. I have no interest in Stranger Things whatsoever, so this was my first exposure to Millie Bobby Brown. She was absolutely charming, and I look forward to seeing where her career will take her. The movie could have trimmed about half an hour and ditched the love interest, though. It suffered a bit from "this young lady in olden times isn't 100% gender-conforming, quick, give her a male love interest so everyone knows she's normal!" syndrome. Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin wouldn't have been my first choices for Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, respectively, but they did fine. I'd like to see their relationship with Enola develop over the next few movies. Helena Bonham Carter was also fine, as she always is. I do love a suffragette willing to just bomb the shit out of everything.
I watched the first hour and 45 minutes of The Devil All the Time (2020) and then switched to an episode of Harley Quinn because I was depressed and bored and didn't give a shit how the movie ended. It should've just been two and a half hours of Robert Pattinson's absolutely unhinged preacher critiquing potluck dishes. Please, someone give this man a guest spot on a cooking competition show. I'll actually watch it if you do, Food Network, I swear.
And last night I saw Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) because I loved the Darwyn Cooke graphic novel this is based on and thought I should give more DCAU movies a try, and I enjoyed it very much. Good voice acting (I wouldn't have expected Jeremy Sisto to pull off Batman so well, but he did) and animation. I liked the changes made to the story, which kept it moving in a way a 100% faithful adaptation wouldn't have.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2020 10:46:03 GMT -5
We just finally watched But I'm A Cheerleader for the first time the other day, and adored it - very sweet and very, very gay. Gave my wife and I big lesbian emotions as expected, and now we plan to watch with my partner, too. Also, my friend's band is on the soundtrack, twice, underscoring two different scenes, which I already knew about but was very, very cool to actually experience!
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