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Anyone seen any good movies lately?
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bender
What time is it?
Indeed.
Speaking of Korean movies, I re-watched I Saw The Devil. I was pretty fond on my first viewing years ago and I still think it has brilliant performances and enough of that Korean-flavored horror cinema to appease any fan, but a lot of it doesn't sit right with me. The GPS/Microphone premise is on the dumb side or at least absurd and from a philosophical standpoint, I get this is about revenge but how many times are you going to let a serial killer go who in turn will hurt, rape and murder others just to repeat the punishment cycle? The ending is pretty fucked up too by involving his parents and child.
Cutty Flam
Banned
I’m going to watch them and find out for myself before Spring begins I would guess. I still need to finish up the last bit of the book. I heard the third film is kind of so-so but I’ll bet the first two are hood enough for at least worth one watch
Kokoro2020
Member
I just seen Space Jam for the first time in over 20 years. With Space Jam 2 announced not too long ago, I thought I would go ahead with that.
Elpidio Valdés
Member
I watched The Foreigner last night. I liked it. The action scenes where pretty good, obviously Jackie Chan is no spring chicken anymore. Pierce Brosnan was solid too. If anything it made me look up the IRA movement and the history behind it. Solid 7.5/10 movie.
INC
Member
Elpidio Valdés
Member
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm pretty darn sure I've seen Patriot Games but it was probably a long time ago. The Long Good Friday I know I haven't seen so I'm going to check it out, it has great reviews.
bender
What time is it?
Caught this in theaters with friends and really disliked it. Narratively it was a letdown.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Continuing with my winter movie watches and In Bruges is never not great. I don't get how this movie isn't talked about more. It has a small cult following, but it truly is an all-time great. It's fucking hilarious, has a great soundtrack. I love so many moments. I watch it every year in December.
MaestroMike
Gold Member
Just bought and saw Pixar's Onward for $10 through Apple. Expectations were low, but definitely exceeded. I loved it!
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Anyone see The Sound of Metal on Amazon Prime?
Heard it was good but it looks like a downer.
www.rottentomatoes.com
Heard it was good but it looks like a downer.
Sound of Metal | Rotten Tomatoes
During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career — and with it his life — is over. His bandmate and...
www.rottentomatoes.com
Qwell
Member
Thanks to
BlackOlivesMatter
for the recommendation in another thread. Watched it last night and had a good time, I went in blind and it was a fun little character study. Dominics accent was a little odd but got over it quickly, and as mentioned in the other thread, really good performance by Ksenia Solo.
BlackOlivesMatter
for the recommendation in another thread. Watched it last night and had a good time, I went in blind and it was a fun little character study. Dominics accent was a little odd but got over it quickly, and as mentioned in the other thread, really good performance by Ksenia Solo.
12Goblins
Lil’ Gobbie
Amadeus fucking rules. Woke score 1/10, absolutely no black people to be seen anywhere
Why you gotta go there? Such a good movie
Unfortunately we have in common with Era that we make everything about race for no reason
Nymphae
Banned
Blame your media for making me see race issues everywhere. When I was a kid and saw this it didn't occur to me that the whole cast is white. In clown world, I must notice.
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macfoshizzle
Member
Onward was great.. Man Pixar
Schrödinger's cat
Banned
I can't say I am able to recognise what others see as brilliance in Kubrick's work without having someone point it out to me. Regardless, as someone who finds period dramas to have no appeal I was both surprised and amused by how much I enjoyed this 3-hour epic.
Michael Horden's exquisitely delivered narration is like warm honey drizzled onto the most sumptuous of visual and aural feasts.
Arkam
Member
YMMV but I found them to be intolerable. If you have read the book it’s nothing but vapid disappointment. Just about everything I loved about the book was cut out (in favor of adding additional characters so there can be a romance angle). In the book most of the time the reason the dwarves do stupid things is because they are starving.... in the films they just morons.
My favorite bit was their time in Mirkwood, which was brilliantly described in the book. It was a real moment where it felt like the adventurers would perish. In the film it was a barely a footnote.
But that’s how everything is in the films (despite being three of them). Everything is rushed and gives no sense of time to the events. Which again makes all their actions just seem like the whims of the retarded instead of the acts of the utterly desperate.
if you have never read the book and likes the LoTR films it is probably decent enough.
Cutty Flam
Banned
Damn so PJ really did drop the ball? He only had to adapt 100 pages per film since he spanned it across three films which could have worked out brilliantly if he was all in with this project. To be disrespecting the Dwarves like that is unnecessary. Maybe Bombur could be portrayed in that way for a few to several scenes but the rest were sharp as a tack based most of the story. Thorin Oakenshield is a standout character. Any characterization of him that equates to anything less than a great King is unacceptable in Thorin's case, IMO. Bilbo, Thorin, Gandalf, and I would even argue Balin, Fili, and Kili need to be almost 100% on point and true according to the book. I understand that they need to consider ticket sales and tweak accordingly, especially when each film of the three will stretch around 3 hrs each, but some characters should remain almost 100% consistent with what Tolkien wrote
It only makes sense to create something that impresses the hardcore fans all over the world first, find some middle ground with the casual viewers as well, and the rest should take care of itself if both parties are satisfied with the final product. But if he made a joke of all the Dwarves a bit too often and made them look like idiots then it seems like maybe he was just having fun out there with his crew lol
Jethalal
Banned
Opposite for me. Your Name is the first Romantic movie I ever liked. I liked the Sci-Fi aspects. I felt Weathering with You was bit lacking in execution.
Hope they don't botch up the Your Name Hollywood remake they're making. I can't even fathom how they'll approach it.
Hudo
Member
They're making a live action thing? What the fuck
Jethalal
Banned
https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/...getting-a-hollywood-live-action-remake-092920
Apparently they are making the girl a Native American, would be interesting to see if it works in the new setting. Though JJ Abrams producing scares me, hope his creative input is minimum. I haven't gotten over TROS yet.
Hudo
Member
Well, damn. I mean, I'd love to be pleasantly surprised by it but I don't have any hopes. I think part of why Your Name worked so well was exactly because it was an anime, in a sense. I also like that Makoto Shinkai's movies aren't afraid of showing longer scenes where "nothing" significant is happening, which Hollywood is unable to do. That JJ Abrams is involved is another red flag for me because that's exactly one of the problems his Star Trek movies had, something always needed to happen.
INC
Member
watched American gangsta last night
yeh its ok.........feels like a series that was condensed into a 2hr+ movie
it has the same issue alot of denzel films suffer from, and thats denzel over acting to look scary, or crazy, i just dont buy it, like training day, i think he ruined that film, i know he got an oscar, and yes he is a great actor, but a gangsta.......yeh i can never buy it
still its an ok film 7/10, worth a watch
yeh its ok.........feels like a series that was condensed into a 2hr+ movie
it has the same issue alot of denzel films suffer from, and thats denzel over acting to look scary, or crazy, i just dont buy it, like training day, i think he ruined that film, i know he got an oscar, and yes he is a great actor, but a gangsta.......yeh i can never buy it
still its an ok film 7/10, worth a watch
Jethalal
Banned
Saw WW84 at the theatre, these are my thoughts on it. Please go to watch it at a theatre if possible. Amazing movie.
Peggies
Gold Member
Just watched "The Woman" and am utterly impressed. What a movie, 9/10! I always liked Jack Ketchum as an author but he did really good with that screenplay too, well together with Lucky McKee. Did anyone see it?
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macfoshizzle
Member
Saw the Hunger Thief with Liam Neeson and it was your typical Liam Neeson flick. If you like those type of movies which I do, then it's enjoyable
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Trying to keep himself young with all of these b level action movies I guess. I like them well enough.
Jethalal
Banned
Are you in america, then get HBO Max sub. Watch wonder woman there and then watch it's sequel drops tomorrow. Both are pretty good.
Kev Kev
Member
Jethalal
Banned
WW84 is better IMO. If they'd cut out 15 mins from 1st half it would've been my top 5 solo superhero movies. Best DCEU flick and 2nd DC after Dark Knight.Have you seen it? I only saw it once but it was a damn good movie and Gadot is
I loved WW but I hated it's last 3rd part otherwise I would've placed it above WW84.
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Watched Eyes Wide Shut and Michael Clayton. Two of my all-time favs. MC is my favorite movie ever.
One thing I noticed in Eyes Wide Shut over the years is there are about 50 times in the movie where Tom Cruise repeats back a line someone says to him in the form of a question.
I love cold weather movies, I don't know why. I think it just makes them seem more tense.
One thing I noticed in Eyes Wide Shut over the years is there are about 50 times in the movie where Tom Cruise repeats back a line someone says to him in the form of a question.
I love cold weather movies, I don't know why. I think it just makes them seem more tense.
Prison Mike
Banned
Blue story
Film about gang culture and postcode wars in inner city london.
Knowing people who have been involved in this so called lifestyle i think it did a good job also great soundtrack.
Prison Mike
Banned
Pointless fact although it was set in new york was actually filmed in London
Tschumi
Member
I watched the 1979 animated Lord of the Rings film.. really loved it, they used.. motion capture for lack of a better term.. their Aragon was pretty cool (regrettably all manly men wore miniskirts in those days which was a bit hard to ignore), it covered a lot of story at quite a good clip.. yeah!
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Kev Kev
Member
ive tried to watch that so many times. i usually get about 20 minutes in and then im like
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Yep. Also heard Kubrick tortured the hell out of them and it led to Cruise and Kidman’s split.
#Phonepunk#
Banned
A Christmas Story - still classic
The Outpost - good but harrowing modern war movie
Gremlins 2 - for when I was feeling the Egg Nogg
The Outpost - good but harrowing modern war movie
Gremlins 2 - for when I was feeling the Egg Nogg
GreenAlien
Member
Just saw "Upgrade" with Amazon Prime, it was surprisingly good. If you want more Cyberpunk after Cyberpunk 2077, maybe give it a shot.
SirTerry-T
Member
Give Fire & Ice a go, it's Bakshi's other take at doing a fantasy film. Wafer thin plot but decent, corny, fantasy... co-produced by Frank Frazetta too. It's not high art but fun enough.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Soul
If you like Pixar movies then you will no doubt enjoy this. Great movie, great message.
If you like Pixar movies then you will no doubt enjoy this. Great movie, great message.
Jethalal
Banned
I loved it. Just finished it. Definitely better than Inside Out, the director's other flick. The movie definitely made me think about my life decisions, I don't wanna be a lost soul. I am taking a break from internet before things start slipping away from my hand. I guess I'll be back soon, until then Sayonara.
INC
Member
Finally saw tenet
Loved it, need a second viewing.
But my god the sound mixing is horrific, you can barely hear what anyone is saying in some parts, the fact people try and defend this is laughable, I literally gotta rewatch with subtitles on.
Apart from that 8/10, some amazing film work done in this film
Loved it, need a second viewing.
But my god the sound mixing is horrific, you can barely hear what anyone is saying in some parts, the fact people try and defend this is laughable, I literally gotta rewatch with subtitles on.
Apart from that 8/10, some amazing film work done in this film