So I saw Frozen for the first time the other day.
I'm kind of amazed that this is the movie that blew up the way it did. It seems...I dunno...thin? Like, if it were live action, I would suspect that it had a really limited budget or something?
Elsa's parents just shutting her up in her room for like a decade seems...really weird?
Elsa's whole "let it go" setpiece has her build a giant empty castle that doesn't even have any furniture. She doesn't make a friend (except later, a giant evil snow monster) but she's acting like she's finally liberated and happy.
Also the one guy turning out to be evil was sort of strange...if he hadn't heroically defeated the ice giant and spared elsa--why not let her get blasted with the crossbow right there, if his plan was to take over the kingdom?--it would've seemed better.
Also I think the lord of Weaseltown was unfairly maligned. Yes, he sent his hitters to kill Elsa, but also she was unequivocally causing massive damage to the entire region and, in the specific moment, trying to kill them with ice spikes and shit. Seems like a reasonable course of action IMO.
I think this might be the longest post I've written about a movie on here?
I agree, the movie wasn't great.
It was all about the song.
Yeah, I have previously brought up to friends that Mulan has better music, a better story, higher stakes, and features an absolutely kick-ass heroine. Their counter is that Mulan succeeds by aping a man's path through to success, whereas Frozen is about two women supporting each other to success. (shrug)
05-13-2025, 03:25 PM
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Warfare
Super intense 90 minutes about a mission that couldn't feel more pointless
What I find interesting though is the discourse surrounding the movie online, with some people angrily calling it propaganda, something I just can't really agree with.
For example it opens with the US soldiers occupying a house in an Iraqi village. Naturally they don't do this by asking nicely but by essentially taking the family that lives there hostage. By that nature alone I already find it harder to see the US soldiers portrayed there as pure heroes.
There's one bit I found even more fucked up. Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) At one point they leave the house to escort one of the soldiers to a tank and the soldiers make an explicit point of sending the two allied Iraqi soldiers, who are there mostly as translator, out first. Like just straight up used as cannon fodder as you can also tell that the two guys aren't all that well trained either. And as it happens, the two Iraqis get blown up with one of them dying. (which will also be the only deadly casualty on the US side for the movie). There's no commentary inside the movie that calls out these actions as bad but I don't think you really need it to hold it your hand for this.
One thing I found kinda tone deaf however
Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) is that the movie ends with a "For Elliott" dedication, a soldier who survived, while the allied Iraqi soldier that got blown to bits remains unnamed
Overall an interesting movie I found worth watching
Turner and Hooch does not hold up.
(05-14-2025, 12:58 AM)chronovore wrote: Turner and Hooch does not hold up.
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You just pissed on my childhood. What's next? You're going to tell me Short Circuit isn't good either?
Warfare. I'll put my reaction to what happened after a certain part in spoilers because it would ruin the film if you haven't seen it and it's worth a watch. The photography is great. The sound design is top notch Oscar worthy stuff.
Anyway it got to Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) the aftermath of the attack with the wounded guys screaming, when suddenly I thought of Tropic Thunder. I should've switched it off right there. All I could think of was Ben Stiller with his hands blown off. It was impossible to take the film seriously after that.
(05-14-2025, 02:39 AM)Potato wrote: (05-14-2025, 12:58 AM)chronovore wrote: Turner and Hooch does not hold up.
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You just pissed on my childhood. What's next? You're going to tell me Short Circuit isn't good either?
Sorry!
I had never seen it before, and it seemed like a safe bet for my wife, who loves all dogs (including me). It is not a bad movie, just typical '80s smarm. Apparently at the time it was the most ever paid for a screenplay, and it doesn't feel like anything other than a paint-by-numbers comedy.
(05-17-2025, 06:46 AM)chronovore wrote: (05-14-2025, 02:39 AM)Potato wrote: (05-14-2025, 12:58 AM)chronovore wrote: Turner and Hooch does not hold up.
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You just pissed on my childhood. What's next? You're going to tell me Short Circuit isn't good either?
Sorry!
I had never seen it before, and it seemed like a safe bet for my wife, who loves all dogs (including me). It is not a bad movie, just typical '80s smarm. Apparently at the time it was the most ever paid for a screenplay, and it doesn't feel like anything other than a paint-by-numbers comedy.
Nailed it.
Is that new Final Destination movie actually good or has the industry become so bad that a sequel to an early 2000s mid horror franchise looks good compared to the current output?
Might be nostalgia but I'm super pumped to watch it.
It'll also be nice to NOT see an actor that is or has been a superhero at some point.
Saint Maud. OOF. Those poor Converse. Squelch. Squelch.
Ugly Stepsister. Body horror take on Cinderella with some of the grossest shit I've seen in a movie.
Watched the Minecraft movie in the background and it’s really weird how the movie’s message is anti Minecraft, anti escapism, and kind of anti hedonism. Spoilers but the ending is telling the man child living in the Minecraft world to grow up and embrace reality. He does and it’s presented as the correct choice. Yet most of the movie is Jack Black looking into the camera and mentioning something from the game.
(05-19-2025, 01:54 AM)Straight Edge wrote: Ugly Stepsister. Body horror take on Cinderella with some of the grossest shit I've seen in a movie.
I've got this on the list.
Watched final destination bloodlines, was great which I didn't expect.
(05-19-2025, 11:41 AM)Besticus Maximus wrote: (05-19-2025, 01:54 AM)Straight Edge wrote: Ugly Stepsister. Body horror take on Cinderella with some of the grossest shit I've seen in a movie.
I've got this on the list.
Watched final destination bloodlines, was great which I didn't expect.
I was surprised at how gory it was.
Somehow I went all this time without knowing that Girl, Interrupted is a period movie.
Kind wonder if a modern movie would allow a protagonist to act openly racist like Winona's character did here at one point.
The Luckiest Man in America was good. It was weird seeing David Strathairn playing a 'villain', his characters are usually moral to a fault. Anyway, watch this movie. You can also watch the episode of Press Your Luck featured on YouTube, it's interesting to see the small changes they made for emotional impact
(05-20-2025, 02:04 PM)DavidCroquet wrote: Somehow I went all this time without knowing that Girl, Interrupted is a period movie.
Kind wonder if a modern movie would allow a protagonist to act openly racist like Winona's character did here at one point.
Never seen it but always thought it played in the 90s. Probably because Winona's short haircut looks rather modern
Looking into watching Mission Impossible and what the hell is screen x. They add two more screens to the sides for peripheral immersion. From what I’m reading, Top Gun Maverick is the rare movie with footage shot for the format. Most is CGI added in post.
Or you could watch The Luckiest Man in America, just saying...
Quote:Brave New World was played as a political thriller similar to Captain America: The Winter Soldier,
https://screenrant.com/thunderbolts-captain-america-brave-new-world-ending-same-op-ed/
05-25-2025, 07:23 AM
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(05-25-2025, 01:51 AM)Cauliflower Of Love wrote: https://screenrant.com/thunderbolts-captain-america-brave-new-world-ending-same-op-ed/ Quote:Looking Back Now, I Can’t Believe Thunderbolts* & Captain America: Brave New World Basically Have The Same Ending
"Looking back" like three whole weeks to the premiere?
Also, this piece doesn't argue just that they have the same ending, it argues they have the same premise too.
Fountain of Youth
I have Apple TV for the time so I put this on in the background. It’s fine. It’s a National Treasure movie with Jim from The Office. Directed by Guy Richie, who is directing two movies a year now and lost any identifiable style.
There’s a genre of movie now that Adam Sandler popularized. You take known actors from the before times. They vacation in pretty locations. They don’t do much in terms of acting or action. Reading lines while sitting in a hotel room. Fleece some streaming service for a lofty paycheck. Repeat.
I saw lilo and stitch and was aghast that they changed the ending to where nani leaves lilo in a dumpster behind a fire station so she can do kegstands and fuck fratboys. Also Stitch is put down by animal control and his corpse is incinerated onscreen. Horrible changes.
I was shocked that Tom Cruise had to do a sex change operation to finish his mission but it was a great movie otherwise
Final Reckoning is a fantastic blood pumping rollercoaster, no joke.
Watched Mickey 17. That was great.
Was definitely a Bong Joon Ho film. Had the same weird feel as okja.
Also watched Deadpool and Wolverine. Pretty decent, even beyond the fan service.
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