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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 4, 2024 8:06:17 GMT -5
I have a love/hate relationship with film discussion nowadays. I feel like so often this is how it goes: Before a film is released the chatter is about how it’s the most amazing movie ever, a masterpiece. Lots of hype. When it’s first released you start to hear the people angry that it didn’t live up to the (frankly impossible) hype. The backlash starts immediately upon release and people who don’t like it take the tone that everyone who does is wrong. Within a couple weeks the general tone is that it’s mid or problematic. Then the next film gets hyped up and the previous one has to be horrible in comparison because everything has to be a competition, everything is mid, and joy isn’t allowed. I thought Longlegs was really good, to discuss the film that I think you’re subtweeting here.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Aug 4, 2024 8:38:33 GMT -5
I have a love/hate relationship with film discussion nowadays. I feel like so often this is how it goes: Before a film is released the chatter is about how it’s the most amazing movie ever, a masterpiece. Lots of hype. When it’s first released you start to hear the people angry that it didn’t live up to the (frankly impossible) hype. The backlash starts immediately upon release and people who don’t like it take the tone that everyone who does is wrong. Within a couple weeks the general tone is that it’s mid or problematic. Then the next film gets hyped up and the previous one has to be horrible in comparison because everything has to be a competition, everything is mid, and joy isn’t allowed. I thought Longlegs was really good, to discuss the film that I think you’re subtweeting here. It’s definitely an example of that treatment! It’s a fantastic movie. And it seems like people somehow don’t understand that horror movies have been hyped as the scariest thing ever since horror movies started. Also “I wasn’t scared” isn’t criticism. But it’s definitely a trend I’ve noticed with lots of other movies. One thing I have to remind myself of is that sites like Letterboxd aren’t a hive mind, though there’s even people I notice there who lead this cynicism trend.
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Post by songstarliner on Aug 5, 2024 18:54:32 GMT -5
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Aug 8, 2024 19:00:15 GMT -5
Just finished seeing Deadpool and Wolverine. May have more thoughts on it later but my first thought is, and I know it is obscure, but at one point I really wanted Wade to say something like "take it easy there Ricky Jay". If you know, you know.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 13, 2024 13:47:06 GMT -5
Not much of a follower of baseball so I was puzzling over the title's meaning on the new film Eephus. Then, this weekend I listened to The Dollop podcast's episode on the pitcher Bill "The Spaceman" Lee, who used that form of pitch. Apparently, he's in the movie as is Frederick Wiseman of all people as the team's announcer.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 16, 2024 14:39:25 GMT -5
Not much of a follower of baseball so I was puzzling over the title's meaning on the new film Eephus. Then, this weekend I listened to The Dollop podcast's episode on the pitcher Bill "The Spaceman" Lee, who used that form of pitch. Apparently, he's in the movie as is Frederick Wiseman of all people as the team's announcer. The Eephus pitch is incredibly funny to watch when it is properly deployed. Zach Greinke occasionally threw one. What I mean is, it is funny when this pitch results in a strike by the hitter. Not funny when the hitter crushes it for a home run. But, wow, it is hilarious to see professional hitters swing and miss this pitch. I read that review, and I'm not entirely sure why that is the title of the film. It seems they are trying to make some metaphor of the pitch movement representing the plot of the film, but "incredibly slow with deceptive topspin" just isn't translating for me.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Aug 16, 2024 16:27:06 GMT -5
Not much of a follower of baseball so I was puzzling over the title's meaning on the new film Eephus. Then, this weekend I listened to The Dollop podcast's episode on the pitcher Bill "The Spaceman" Lee, who used that form of pitch. Apparently, he's in the movie as is Frederick Wiseman of all people as the team's announcer. The Eephus pitch is incredibly funny to watch when it is properly deployed. Zach Greinke occasionally threw one. What I mean is, it is funny when this pitch results in a strike by the hitter. Not funny when the hitter crushes it for a home run. But, wow, it is hilarious to see professional hitters swing and miss this pitch. I read that review, and I'm not entirely sure why that is the title of the film. It seems they are trying to make some metaphor of the pitch movement representing the plot of the film, but "incredibly slow with deceptive topspin" just isn't translating for me. Wasn't Eephus a Greek philosopher?
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 16, 2024 17:53:30 GMT -5
The Eephus pitch is incredibly funny to watch when it is properly deployed. Zach Greinke occasionally threw one. What I mean is, it is funny when this pitch results in a strike by the hitter. Not funny when the hitter crushes it for a home run. But, wow, it is hilarious to see professional hitters swing and miss this pitch. I read that review, and I'm not entirely sure why that is the title of the film. It seems they are trying to make some metaphor of the pitch movement representing the plot of the film, but "incredibly slow with deceptive topspin" just isn't translating for me. Wasn't Eephus a Greek philosopher? Not according to the first page of Google search results, which is the most work I'm willing to put in on this today. Though that search does provide many videos of hilarious Eephus pitches and the hitters reactions.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 16, 2024 22:28:52 GMT -5
Huh apparently a movie of Stephen King’s The Long Walk is in production.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 30, 2024 18:27:26 GMT -5
Watching the Rifftrax version of the original Red Dawn. Some solid riffs, and we're enjoying it. But watching the movie for the first time as an adult, I'm realizing that literally nothing in it makes any sense whatsoever. Roadrunner cartoons feel more realistic. It's not just the overarching plot - which may be the dumbest in the history of film - but every individual scene is just deeply stupid.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 6, 2024 13:29:49 GMT -5
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Post by songstarliner on Sept 11, 2024 18:53:24 GMT -5
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Sept 12, 2024 10:26:04 GMT -5
Talk to Me - Pretty decent horror flick. Bunch of teenagers get hold of a plaster hand that lets one speak to and/or get possessed by spirits of the dead, and uses it as a party trick until bad shit starts to happen, especially to one girl whose mother died a year or two prior.
I feel like it was well done in that the main characters did things that were very obviously a bad idea, but it made some sense from a character standpoint of WHY. Entertaining.
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