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>> No. 24148 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:10 pm
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I've got the new Matrix film on Plex, so I'm going to give it a watch and have a couple of beers tonight.

If you want you can watch it with me and then we can talk about what we thought about it. I'm personally expecting it to be pretty bad, because the sequels were both quite dire; but the Matrix was just too influential of a franchise in my youth (and yours too, I suspect) to ignore.

We can watch the Red Letter Media review as well and see if they agree with us or not, that's one of my favourite things to do when I watch a new film noawadays because it makes me feel like I still have friends to talk about movies with.

In fact why don't we try and make it a regular thing. Not just watching the Matrix, I mean, but new films what come out. If it doesn't go anywhere fair enough but let's give it a go eh. I'll be Mike and you be Jay.
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>> No. 24149 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:16 pm
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This would work even better with a stream, or if you set a time in GMT for us to watch at.

Unfortunately I already watched the RLM review, so I know a bit about what to expect, but I'd still be willing to watch.
>> No. 24150 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 5:22 pm
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>>24149

A stream would be a cracking idea, but my upload rate is dogshit so I couldn't host it myself. If someone wants to that would be cool.

I'd say around 1900 GMT.
>> No. 24151 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 8:51 pm
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>>24148
My brother goes to see Star Wars films he knows will be shit purely so he can watch the Red Letter Media videos the next day.
>> No. 24152 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 10:13 pm
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Well I watched it, and overall it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. But then I usually do feel less harshly about these sorts of rehash reboot sequels than most people.

What cheapened the whole affair was having the constant intercutting of footage from the old films. It was not shit enough that it would have stood up on it's own without all that nonsense. But I suppose we needed all that for the zoomers who somehow haven't seen the originals.

It feels like they more or less tried to follow the pacing of the original, but they bloated it out too much. The first film always felt like an epic but when I've re-watched it in more recent years, I'm always surprised by how quickly it clips along- Neo gets rescued, they train him up, then it all goes wrong on their first proper time in the matrix, and after that the last half hour is all the big climax where they rescue Morpheus and Neo unlocks his powers to become the One. This one does something similar, just with a lot of padding inbetween.

Also Keanu hasn't given a performance this wooden in years, I can't tell if he's just hamming it up at this point or if he's just phoning it in. I'll have to watch Bill and Ted to compare and contrast.

Also Carl from Starship Troopers is getting on a bit.
>> No. 24153 Anonymous
1st January 2022
Saturday 11:04 pm
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>>24152

Oh and the action scenes were really very sloppy, that's a big shame. Considering the original Matrix was one of the most fresh and interesting action films, you would have thought the one thing they'd do right in a reboot is to get some good action set pieces in there. Sure they didn't want to just re-hash the cliches, but I mean... Come on, what's really the point of a Matrix sequel otherwise? I mean yeah the original was actually quite deep underneath the action, but you're never gonna replicate THAT part, you might as well give the gunfights and kung-fu a bigger budget.
>> No. 24154 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 2:44 am
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>>24148
I'm going to see it at the cinema tomorrow.
>> No. 24155 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 4:54 am
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>>24148
So how is this second Matrix film everyone's been talking about?
>> No. 24156 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 5:26 pm
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>>24154
I couldn't be arsed leaving the house, in the end.
>> No. 24157 Anonymous
2nd January 2022
Sunday 11:58 pm
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>>24156
Pissed and bluepilled.
>> No. 24158 Anonymous
3rd January 2022
Monday 12:56 pm
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I thought it was pretty good considering how bad it could have been. Only thing that didn't really work for me was Smith.
>> No. 24166 Anonymous
11th January 2022
Tuesday 3:31 pm
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It was a pretty clever film actually if you consider all the meta stuff to be a valid part of a film's appraisal. I'm sure we've all either watched it or watched a video review by now, and we know how the central conceit is basically to just subvert the whole idea of a Matrix sequel.

Now, that's fine, but the thing is this film isn't going to age at all. It's a film of here and now, and it will have no lasting relevance. And I think they knew that- That's why all of it looks so cheap and naff. That's one of the biggest things I noticed about it all, it didn't feel like a big budget movie, it felt like a Netflix adaptation. It might have had a high budget, but the crew certainly didn't agonise over the process of making it.

It's nice if you're an arty farty film critic snob who likes to think about the deep stuff and the meta-context; if you actually wanted a good Matrix sequel, though, you're shit out of luck.

It's kind of the exact opposite of Denee Veelnuh's Dune. That film is exceptionally well made, but straight as an arrow, with all the subtextual depth of a drink coaster. In fact all of Dennis Veelnerv's films are like that, people wank over them but they're always just really hyper-focussed, "one note", very literal. He even managed to make Blade Runner too straightforward somehow.
>> No. 24267 Anonymous
6th February 2022
Sunday 4:08 am
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Watched the new Resident Evil movie the other night.
Complete and total dross.
All the talk about keeping it close to the source material was clearly just marketing spiel.
>> No. 24268 Anonymous
6th February 2022
Sunday 1:42 pm
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>>24267

This also seems entirely redundant for Resident Evil, now, because many of the new games are more cinematic than the actual films. The first 70 minutes or so of REVII gameplay more closely resembles a film than any of the Paul W. S. Anderson nonsense.

I really enjoyed watching bits of REVII. It borrows heavily from horrors The Texas Chainsaw Masssacre with the father, Saw with the son's sadistic games, and various "found footage" films like the Blair Witch Project. The sense of horror for the series has come a long way since "Itchy. Tasty.":


>> No. 24269 Anonymous
6th February 2022
Sunday 2:04 pm
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>>24267
It looked absolute shit from the trailers, and I say this as a fan of the Anderson movies and (most) of the video games. The CGI looked laughable, like something from a Tim & Eric skit. The upcoming Netflix series should be interesting, due to Lance Reddick playing Wesker.
>> No. 24276 Anonymous
9th February 2022
Wednesday 2:15 am
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Finally got around to watching Don't Look Up.
It was "fine".
A lot of smug, quitde honestly a lot of unwarranted smug in all fairnes seeing as the world does look like the world is sort of moving on the whole climate crisis thing with the global meetings and the G20 and that.
Again, "fine".
>> No. 24277 Anonymous
9th February 2022
Wednesday 2:43 am
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>>24276
Oh, it was rubbish. The whole thing was so on-the-nose and lacking any real nuance, even to the point they had scenes of hundreds of thick yanks in the street chanting "don't look up!"

The only saving grace was Jonah Hill's character, and even then only because it was nostalgic for the kind of comedy that him and his mates would routinely put out a decade ago, but comedically the world has moved on substantially.
>> No. 24278 Anonymous
9th February 2022
Wednesday 8:53 am
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>>24277

I couldn't help but wonder what someone like Chris Morris would have done with the concept, or Mike Judge ala Office Space/Idiocracy.

I do feel like it's one of those films where the people snubbing it are largely just indignantly trying to pretend the didn't feel called out. But nevertheless, what didn't help is that the whole thing had the air of a self-satisfied, snarky Cracked article or something. It felt very much like you're supposed to be one of us laughing at people like them.

I've a feeling this will become a trend in movies in future though, if it isn't already. The in-group mindset of social media communities will start spilling over into mainstream media, and everything you watch will make you roll your eyes and cringe internally, because even if you like it, you don't want to feel identified with one of the tossers on Twitter stroking their knobs about how much they get it.
>> No. 24279 Anonymous
9th February 2022
Wednesday 9:01 am
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>>24276
It's really not though, that's the point. In terms of taking action we're "for the jobs the meteor will provide".
>> No. 24280 Anonymous
9th February 2022
Wednesday 10:57 am
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>>24277
I was going to say that Jonah Hill was undeniably the best thing about this movie and criminally under-utilised thrughout.

>>24278
Funnily enough, it did sort of remind me of Idiocracy if Idiocracy had been made by someone with a severe lack of the understanding of nuance.

What the movie could have done, rather than taking a stab at tech giants(?) was go after energy conglomerates. Rather than trying to shoot the comet down, they could have had it where the solution instead was to move the Earth out of the way with a massive rocket engine strapped to that Mexican desert (in the dinosaur extinction crater for added symbolic effect) with the caveat being it will require all fuel resources to be diverted there affordably.
Cue in some Armando Ianucci bureaucratic comedy and you've got a movie that whilst literally is even more on the nose, has more to actually say about the issues it raises.
>> No. 24281 Anonymous
9th February 2022
Wednesday 12:08 pm
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For all your own knob-stoking about how you get it more than the people involved, it appears you really don't.
>> No. 24282 Anonymous
10th February 2022
Thursday 10:23 am
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>>24281
>knob-stoking

Sounds painful, m7.
>> No. 24328 Anonymous
14th February 2022
Monday 2:51 pm
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So I finally watched this Don't Look Up, and while it is certainly a very blunt movie, I don't really get where the criticisms are coming from.

It lacked nuance? Sure, but that's about as valid of a criticism as attacking Keith Lemon for being unsubtle. I really don't think subtlety is what they were going for. And besides- Americans simply aren't very good at it. I see the comparisons to Idiocracy certainly, but the other thing it reminded me of quite strongly was The Thick Of It, only in a much more directly cynical manner.

The character that seems to come at the focus of most people who disliked the movie is the tech-CEO strawman. I thought maybe people were rustled by a bit of an unfair portrayal of Musk-esque billionaire idealists; but then, I saw this article about Musk's own experiments with putting brain chips in monkeys.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-neuralink-experiments-monkeys-extreme-suffering-animal-rights-group-2022-2?r=US&IR=T

https://consequence.net/2022/02/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-chips-monkeys-died/

>Neuralink chips were implanted by drilling holes into the monkeys’ skulls. One primate developed a bloody skin infection and had to be euthanized. Another was discovered missing fingers and toes, “possibly from self-mutilation or some other unspecified trauma,” and had to be put down. A third began uncontrollably vomiting shortly after surgery, and days later “appeared to collapse from exhaustion/fatigue.” An autopsy revealed the animal suffered from a brain hemorrhage.

>Jeremy Beckham, a research advocacy coordinator with the PCRM, told Insider that out of the 23 monkeys, seven survived

You really don't even need to strawman this kind of stuff.
>> No. 24329 Anonymous
14th February 2022
Monday 3:05 pm
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>>24328
>You really don't even need to strawman this kind of stuff.
I've been working on a piece of fiction where some characters get arrested for giving away food, showing how cruel the regime they live in is and it just feels cartoonish, unbelievable over-the-top stuff. Despite the fact that it's happened and continues to happen, here, in the West. It's hard as fuck to satirise the reality we're in.
>> No. 24332 Anonymous
14th February 2022
Monday 5:19 pm
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>>24329
That's a law in Hungary, right now, for giving food to begging refugees and immigrants, to dissuade them from going to Hungary. If they start dying of starvation, it's illegal not to let them starve. I assume you were already aware of this, but this is a law in a country that's honestly called Hungry. You're right: some things are beyond satire.
>> No. 24721 Anonymous
2nd March 2023
Thursday 9:37 pm
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First thread found that looks like a 'film club' or 'free' films thread, so I'll put this here.

Today The Whale made me cry in a public cinema. Thankfully there were only 6 other people watching (all women), so I got away with a little blubber without drawing much attention.

The film is really good. I mean it's not that good but the subject matter touched home pretty close, being the child of a morbidly obese parent (talking 6XL minimum). I'll definitely buy a copy on DVD when it's released later this month.

The portrayal of binge eating is really quite accurate. I've never really understood how Americans can enjoy eating milkshake poured together with burgers (there's clips of it, for real), but the chaotic sense of the binge eating scenes really strike me as honest. I've felt like that before, when you just hate fuck yourself with food. It can become a horrible experience, especially when you're watching yourself do it.

My main complaints with the film is how 'theatrical' it is, and I don't mean flamboyant or exagerated. There're moments when a character will appear to be leaving the scene but abruptly stop in the door way before any other character has asked them to wait. It's clear they're meant to be implying thought, emotion or whatever, but it just looks like how I expect an actual play would run, like in a live theatre. There're other instances of this sort of thing but I'm not perceptive enough to specifically point them out - it's just a feeling throughout the film. This complaint is shared between a number of professional reviews, too, though I don't agree with some of their generally low ratings.

Pretty shit tier review I guess, I just wanted to talk about it.

Oh and the orchestral score is absolutely incredible. If you liked the music of Dysco Elysium, you'll like this. Check it out;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw1-S-36uAM
>> No. 24722 Anonymous
2nd March 2023
Thursday 9:42 pm
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>>24721
I agree about the theatrical feel but once you realise it is a play and just go with it, it's fine.
>> No. 24723 Anonymous
2nd March 2023
Thursday 9:58 pm
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>>24721

I haven't seen this yet, but I've certainly been meaning to. I always find films interesting that take an apparently "washed up" actor, or one who was typecast in certain roles, or otherwise just not taken very seriously, and showing that they have real acting chops. It seems like that's what this is for Brendan Fraser (aka him from The Mummy).
>> No. 24724 Anonymous
2nd March 2023
Thursday 10:20 pm
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>>24721
I was thinking about bunking off work tomorrow to watch it. I've done a fair amount of binge eating also and let's just say my parents don't have the best impulse control in the world, so I think like yourself I'll have a small weep in the back of the cinema also. I think it being a Darren Aronofsky film put me off it, because it's 50/50 if a film of his will be trite dreck or not, but you've talked me around.

Honestly a very good review as well. You described how it made you feel, the film's style and what it's about without bullet pointing every single event in the film like some professional reviewers, who often seem desperate to hit a word count. Which in their defense they probably are, but that doesn't help me any.
>> No. 24725 Anonymous
2nd March 2023
Thursday 10:43 pm
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>>24723
>showing that they have real acting chops. It seems like that's what this is for Brendan Fraser
I'm not sure if he has real acting chops because they're mostly buried behind a massive fat-suit, but it's definitely a film showcasing how his eyes do this.
>> No. 24728 Anonymous
3rd March 2023
Friday 11:45 am
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This is apparently a thing. Rowan Atkinson and Olivia Colman starring and The Divine Comedy doing the music. Has the potential to not be total shit but I won't hold my breath.
>> No. 24729 Anonymous
3rd March 2023
Friday 12:41 pm
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>>24728
Does Willy Wonka really need an origin story? Also Timothee Chalomet as the lead, I find him a bit of a charisma vacuum.
>> No. 24730 Anonymous
3rd March 2023
Friday 5:23 pm
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>>24729
Now that Netflix owns Dahl they are going to turn his work into their own fucking cinematic universe.
>> No. 24733 Anonymous
4th March 2023
Saturday 7:06 pm
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>>24730

I think you're correct and it pains me.
>> No. 24734 Anonymous
4th March 2023
Saturday 7:20 pm
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>>24733
He is.

>The agreement struck by Netflix, which already has a deal in place with the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) to license 16 titles, will help it build its content arsenal in the streaming wars against rivals including Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max.

>Netflix’s total production budget under the existing licensing deal is $1bn and includes the Jojo Rabbit director, Taika Waititi, creating a TV series based on the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and an adaptation of Matilda the Musical.

>“These projects opened our eyes to a much more ambitious venture,” Netflix said. “The creation of a unique universe across animated and live-action films and TV, publishing, games, immersive experiences, live theatre consumer products and more.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/22/netflix-acquires-works-of-roald-dahl-as-it-escalates-streaming-wars-matilda-bfg
>> No. 24735 Anonymous
4th March 2023
Saturday 9:14 pm
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>>24734
Why does everything have to be a universe in America?
>> No. 24736 Anonymous
4th March 2023
Saturday 9:26 pm
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>>24735

"Universe" is the film industry's preferred euphemism for "sequels, prequels, spin-offs, remakes and lazy cash-ins for the same old shit".
>> No. 24737 Anonymous
5th March 2023
Sunday 12:22 am
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>>24735
New intellectual properties are a creative risk. Making films that already have an existing fanbase before the script has even been written is lucrative and profitable. When you put it that way, you'd be an idiot not to spend your studio's budget on a tenth Fast & The Furious film instead of some mental hippy shit about psychedelic space-fairies or whatever. And this is why that second film does not exist, even though it would clearly be fantastic.
>> No. 24738 Anonymous
5th March 2023
Sunday 9:42 am
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>>24737
This summer, Nicholas Cage will feed your head and go intergalactic in... Some Mental Hippy Shit About Psychedelic Space-Fairies or Whatever.
>> No. 24741 Anonymous
6th March 2023
Monday 1:26 am
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>>24738

I'd rather watch that than another pointless Fast and Furious sequel.

Part 1 was already absolute tripe.
>> No. 24742 Anonymous
8th March 2023
Wednesday 3:04 am
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Alright, I watched it again to make sure and so I can now confirm Serpico is one of the best films I've ever seen.
>> No. 24764 Anonymous
20th March 2023
Monday 10:09 pm
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Internet meme film Cocaine Bear was better than I expected it to be.

But then again, I think lots of films are better than I expect them to be nowadays. I can't tell if my taste is just getting worse in old age, or if it's just because the edgy cynical teenlad thing is wearing off, meaning I am able to enjoy things in a more uncritical, unpretentious way that I couldn't before.

Anyway on the face of it it sounds like it's just another Sharknado vs Giant Octopus or whatever, but it's really nowhere near as bad as those. It's not exactly going to win any Oscars, obviously, but I mean it's just one of those good old fashioned "people slowly get picked off in gruesome ways" horror-lite movies. It put me strongly in mind of films like Final Destination, actually. There used to be loads of films like this in the late 90s and mid 00s, and maybe that vibe is what made me like it so much, it was nostalgic in a way.

Hack frauds Mike and Jay said it was shit, but they're honestly wrong about fucking everything these days, I swear to god. I think they really are going senile.
>> No. 24765 Anonymous
20th March 2023
Monday 10:51 pm
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>>24764
I caught the trailer, looked too gimicky for my liking. Looking forward to watching D&D Honor Among Thieves at the end of the month. Might also catch Shazam!, the series of which I thought was pretty funny on Netflix, Prime or where ever I saw it.

>Hack frauds Mike and Jay
Oh that's who those guys are. Might take a look at some of their videos.

Any other film critics and industry insiders we should know about?
>> No. 24769 Anonymous
24th March 2023
Friday 7:56 am
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>> No. 24770 Anonymous
24th March 2023
Friday 7:39 pm
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>>24769
I can't see this working. The Room was earnest; its whole thing was that it didn't know it was shit. If Tommy Wiseau makes another film, it will either be better and therefore pointless, or equally bad but self-aware now. Even if Tommy Wiseau truly is mentally deluded, someone else must have told him this film is expected to be a punchline and that's why they're funding it.
>> No. 24771 Anonymous
24th March 2023
Friday 8:03 pm
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>>24770

You're spot on of course, but on the other hand, if he says "oh hi shark" in it, it'll make millions.
>> No. 24772 Anonymous
24th March 2023
Friday 8:20 pm
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Best film about the occult I've ever seen, and apparently it only cost 50k to make.
>> No. 24773 Anonymous
24th March 2023
Friday 8:39 pm
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>>24769

Is this film ever going to come out? I've been hearing about it on and off for years.
>> No. 24774 Anonymous
24th March 2023
Friday 11:03 pm
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The Weird Al Yankovic film was pretty good. It was very funny to start off with, only has a bit of a wobble in the middle where it sorta struggles to keep its tone straight and Daniel Radcliffe's acting chops definitely get stetched a bit too thin, but recovers it for an audible mirth ending. There's a wealth of references and subtle jokes to spot if you're a fan of Yankovic and music in general, too, which showed it was made with some love.

I had no idea what to expect going in but when the penny dropped what they were doing, a parody of musician biopic movies, about a guy who has spent his entire career doing musician parodies, it had me. I think it's also interesting watching the variety of stuff Radcliffe does to try get away from being "the Harry Potter kid", the problem is he's just really not a very good actor. He wasn't as a kid, and after 20 years of practice, he still isn't.
>> No. 24825 Anonymous
26th May 2023
Friday 2:07 pm
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Fallout Nuka Break is kind of okay. The story sucks, the acting is poor, numerous jokes fail to land, but the costumes are pretty good and the scene dressing (lighting, props, etc) are impressive.
It's a fan film - check it out if you like the Fallout series.
Apparently the game developers liked it so much they added an ingame item referencing the series.

'Scar's makeover in the second series is fucking awsome though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq8swQ7kpg

>>24774
The trailer is awesome, i loved that atleast.
>> No. 24930 Anonymous
30th August 2023
Wednesday 5:18 pm
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Been re-watching Tarantino's films lately. Apart from obviously having watched my DVD of Pulp Fiction so many times I can recite most of the dialogue from memory (as I imagine a great many teenage lads did) I've only seen most of his films once, so it's been a good several years since I've seen most of them. It's interesting how my impressions have changed over time.

The one I always remembered liking the least was Inglourious Basterds. At the time, I think it must have been too much of a stylistic departure from the over-the-top action in Kill Bill, and didn't have enough of those quotable lines. But upon this revisit, I'm almost close to considering it his best film. On the surface it looks like an indulgent, trashy Jewish revenge fantasy, but it conceals a lot of very sharp stabs at post-war revisionism and the idea of heroism in war. It pulls off a similar trick Paul Verhoven did with Robocop and Starship Troopers, a film with some real substance masquerading as a b-movie. You could say that about many of Tarantino's films, but it's certainly the most true of this one. Meanwhile at the heart of it there is just the constant, agonising, simmering tension of every scene, so thick you could cut with a knife. And of course, you have to give it to Christoph Waltz, who just steals the entire movie.

Conversely, Django Unchained is one I remember enjoying a lot the first time, but has fallen dramatically in my estimations. It's just very flat, with very dull dialogue compared to any other Tarantino movie, and unlike Basterds, it comes off as very heavy handed and blunt with its subject matter. I mean, really it doesn't need to be subtle and multi-faceted when you are dealing with the unambiguous evil of human slavery, but even so, I do feel it ends up coming to the films detriment. It starts off well and has some great performances, Leo especially, but loses its way around the midpoint. I think the main issue is how the plot changes gear, in an attempt to generate the same tension with the Candyland dinner scene as the pub shootout scene in Basterds. Except tension building falls flat, and then the climax feels much more contrived, rather than a satisfying pay-off of the tension boiling over.

What's also interesting is how his early films, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown hold up. Reservoir Dogs is obviously a very impressive debut, but you can see all the elements in there that would make his later films great, all the concepts are in there that he develops and matures later in his career. Pulp Fiction comes off as a bit more juvenile than I remember, but I can't really step back and assess that movie, it's too connected with a lot of personal memories and feelings. Jackie Brown is perhaps his most underrated movie, but it's easy to see why it's the one most often glossed over and forgotten about (other than Death Proof, but that one doesn't even really count).

Haven't watched Kill Bill or the most recent two yet. I'm expecting Kill Bill to either hold up a lot better, or a lot worse than I remember. Hateful Eight is one that people seem to dislike, and I can barely remember anything about, so that has potential to surprise me. I will probably make a sequel to this post when I have watched them.
>> No. 24931 Anonymous
30th August 2023
Wednesday 5:51 pm
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>>24930

Surprised you didn't get around to Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. It's such wonderful, tense, ridiculous wish fulfillment and a really brilliant meta-statement on violence in film. It might sort of encapsulate Tarantino's career to me.

I intend to get around to Jackie Brown at some point, since apparently it's the one time Tarantino did something a bit more mature and talky.
>> No. 24932 Anonymous
30th August 2023
Wednesday 6:10 pm
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>>24931

Yeah, I was going basically in order of "how long is it since the last time I saw this one", so Unce Upon A Time In Hollywood will likely be the last one I get around to.

That was the first one I actually managed to go and see in the cinema, though, and I remember it very fondly. I liked the fact it told a much more personal story about two mates and how life changes and moves on, rather than his usual plots about thugs and lowlifes. It was a much warmer film than his others.
>> No. 24933 Anonymous
30th August 2023
Wednesday 6:16 pm
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>>24930
I really like Hateful Eight. That could be because it's almost tailor made for me; revisionist Western, beautiful nature shots, being cold, anything to with The Thing nand it's completely fucking miserable. However, it does look a bit weird on my telly because it was filmed in a super-widescreen format, but that's tough shit. Art shouldn't care about my wants and needs.
>> No. 24943 Anonymous
4th September 2023
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It was National Something Or Other Day yesterday, so the cinema near me was doing tickets for £3. We decided to go and see Oppenheimer, which was one of those films where you're interested in seeing it, but not quite sure if you want to see it in a cinema where you'll have to hold in a piss for 3 hours or risk missing a vital piece of story information; but at 3 quid why not. Anyway as it turns out, people will actually go to the cinema if you bring tickets down to the kind of money they're actually worth, and every single screening was booked up until 10pm. So, fine, late night movie it is.

I shared a moment of bonding with the blokes either side of me, who each also had their missus out cold against their shoulder by about half an hour in, profound understanding expressed in the "what are they like, eh?" eye roll as the lights came back up, and we had to nudge the womenfolk awake and pretend nobody saw them flat out sleep through the whole fucking thing.

Anyway the film itself was pretty good, certainly better than the last bag of shite Nolan curled out. Lots of "Oh it's that guy!" moments because it has actors you've seen in other things but wouldn't know by name, and the big ones are cast in roles that really allowed them to blend in, which you don't often see. Iron Man is made to look very old and different, and I didn't even recognise Matt Damon for half the movie because he has a moustache.

What I liked is how it spends about as much time focusing on American McCarthy era commie paranoia as it does on the development of the atomic bomb, and uses the character study of Oppenheimer himself as a way to demonstrate just how much of an effect the machinery of American politics had in shaping the post-nuclear world. I'd say, however, that it does kind of rely on the viewer understanding a lot of the stuff already, or else it might fly over their head, but then again it's not integral to the movie, it still has a solid story about a bloke being framed as a traitor because he pissed off the wrong people even if you don't grasp the history behind it.

Out of all Nolan's movies it reminded me of The Prestige the most. The science is all glossed over, it's treated as merely a plot device, for what is really a feud between two men, with a reveal late in the film that you might well already have pieced together if you were paying attention.

The big explosion bit was a let down though. They try to do it all artistically, but really it was the cinematic equivalent of edging, but done badly, so the timing is all wrong and you just end up with an unsatisfying ruined orgasm. I can let it off because obviously it was an intelligent movie nit a big explosion movie, but still.
>> No. 25053 Anonymous
2nd November 2023
Thursday 3:44 pm
25053 Killers of the Flower Moon
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I am unsure how I felt about this film. Despite being based on a true story, I found the relationship between the two leads unconvincing. Because Leo di Capri Sun's character Ernest is such a completely evil bastard, and a fucking idiot, that any affection he expresses towards his wife rings hollow, but the character doesn't appear to realise that himself. It also makes his wife, Mollie, look like something of an idiot by assosiciation, rather than breathtakingly understanding as was I think the intent. In reality I suspect the dynamic between the two was much more straightforwardly abusive, but that is speculation on my part Regardless, after that scene where he sends Anna away about a third of the way into the film, I would have been glad to see Ernest slow garrotted to death in a filthy ditch. However, he keeps crying and moaning like I'm supposed to feel any differently about him, while becoming an even more loathesome person.

It was also the first and only time I have eaten a pork pie in a cinema.
>> No. 25117 Anonymous
1st January 2024
Monday 1:16 pm
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I watched that Everything Everywhere All At Once one last night. I thought it was pretty overrated in the end, considering how I heard so many people rave about it. Ended up being a pretty trite sentimental story, just dressed up in what seemed to be not much more than a thin plot excuse for as much 2000s era "lolrandom XD" shit as possible.

Like, I guess I can see the appeal, and I can understand what people like about it I guess, but it didn't come off in a good way for me.
>> No. 25156 Anonymous
15th February 2024
Thursday 10:41 pm
25156 How to Get Ahead in Advertising
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Pretty good film, but it's ultimately being carried by Richard E. Grant's brilliant performance. That's not a bad thing, as the whole film's about him, or rather he's a vessel for the whole him. As in if you cut basically everyone else out of the film, you'd still get the gist of it.

According to the Channel 4 website you can watch it there for just another FIVE(!) hours, so hop to it, because according to this thread, noone here actually watches films.

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