08-10-2025, 10:51 PM
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(08-10-2025, 01:17 PM)Cauliflower Of Love wrote: The Naked Gun was exactly the type of reprieve I needed from going to watch a movie in theatres.
As a young lad I'd watched the first, part 2 and a half, and 33 1/3 with my parents. So I watched it with them. I'm so glad it was great, and they enjoyed it.
I think the best laugh I got was dude getting punched in the stomach and being surprised it hurt. 
Same situation, I was a lot more pleased with the new Naked Gun than I thought I would be; I was worried about my fandom of the originals and the other Nielsen spoofs making it hard to enjoy this one on it's own merits, but they did a pretty good job making a new Naked Gun, AND they paid their proper respects to the originals by Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) including series & spoof movie staple that is Weird Al.
Weapons was great and the ending stuck with me.
Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) The ending of Weapons was impactful for how it didn't magically clean up everything in a neat and tidy bow despite being a movie about voodoo witchcraft. The kids and Alex' parents were lobotomized by the witch and the town was left to pick up the pieces of the tragic incident. Zach Cregger brought a sense of realness to this fantastical horror film that other films in this genre avoid.
You know what I think happened, is that they didnt realize everyone is yearning for a stud like jonathan majors to be the ultimate power of a universe.
Ballsack brolin worked because, well it's brolin.
unrelated, where can I watch creed 3?
08-13-2025, 03:18 AM
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as crazy as kanye is I will always stand by this runaway film
If you ever wanted to feel like a broken hearted man who was broken hearted this broken hearted short film will break your heart.
Watched Goodfellas again, great movie.
I always remember the ending wrong though, because Maffia has more or less the same ending but at the end the guy gets shot mowing his lawn.
In Goodfellas Henry actually makes it.
It's funny though, the only guy that the Italians could've send after Henry was Tommy and they wacked him. I also got the sense that Jimmy was always working against the Italians without anyone realizing it. He keeps busting Tommy's balls and helps with the killings. He wacks all the goons after the heist, to make sure no one talks (which is the one thing the bosses fear). He knows Henry is a wreck and just lets him fuck around. That's the hidden plotline I didn't catch before. Tommy wants to fit in, be respected. Henry is just in it for the thrill has no real agenda. Jimmy however is trying to take over.
(08-16-2025, 09:39 PM)Nintex wrote: I always remember the ending wrong though, because Maffia has more or less the same ending but at the end the guy gets shot mowing his lawn.
In Goodfellas Henry actually makes it.
its like the ending of The Shield TV show.
Sure, he's not dead. But it's not exactly a win for him.
Its not even subtext, he literally monologues how shitty his life is now.
Quote:Today, everything is different. There's no action. I have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a shmuck.
huge contrast to his opening "As long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster".
It also makes it clear this isn't untrustworthy narrator with the Voice Of God end title card:
"his wife divorced him after 25 years"
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I watched Better Man out of curiousity, because I DGAF about Robbie Williams when he was in the zeitgeist, and even less so now, but its a really interesting film, and the main conceit is handled extremely well.
(If you needed a prompt, its the biopic where the entire film has the main character as a CGI monkey)
Like, the actual narrative is boring as fuck - oh, you had daddy issues, got rich and famous and became an alcoholic coke head wanker, fucked your shit up, and eventually made peace with your demons? NEXT WEEK ON VH1s BEHIND THE MUSIC, THAT EXACT SAME FUCKING STORY, AGAIN.
He's sure as shit no James Brown.
But as a film it's really good, even if only on the technical level. Even if you don't know or care about the subject matter.
I also have to give props to the actor who portrayed him, because its a rare kind of lack of ego - even rarer amongst actors! - to completely remove your own performance and potential career recognition.
An hour into Eddington and I don't know what to make of it, which seems to be the point? It's like an exercise in making a film that has an anti-tone.
I remember No Country for Old Men was described alternately as "a postmodern western" and "a modern western," but for me it was a slow chase movie where no-one wins. Ari Aster seems to revel in messing with the viewer; Beau is Afraid is remarkably divisive, but even though I love it, it is very difficult to categorize.
It's the money and the drugs, the money and the drugs.
I need to watch that again sometime. It was the peak performance of a bunch of actors.
(08-20-2025, 01:22 AM)chronovore wrote: I remember No Country for Old Men was described alternately as "a postmodern western" and "a modern western," but for me it was a slow chase movie where no-one wins. Ari Aster seems to revel in messing with the viewer; Beau is Afraid is remarkably divisive, but even though I love it, it is very difficult to categorize.
Quote:but for me it was a slow chase movie where no-one wins.
What do you think westerns are?
08-21-2025, 06:39 AM
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The other modern western I LOVE is MCU's Civil war.
I watched Shin Godzilla at the theater yesterday. They rereleased it in 4k so now you can see all the wrinkles and pore's on people's faces in all those tight close-up shots. 
The director liked the camera about six inches from the actors faces most of the movie
(08-20-2025, 01:22 AM)chronovore wrote: I remember No Country for Old Men was described alternately as "a postmodern western" and "a modern western," but for me it was a slow chase movie where no-one wins. Ari Aster seems to revel in messing with the viewer; Beau is Afraid is remarkably divisive, but even though I love it, it is very difficult to categorize. I think Beau is Afraid is funky enough to be misunderstood or have mixed recepition, but will eventually be recognized for it's overall captial-G Greatness.
Eddington, on the other hand, might not even be a good movie, but the more I think about it the more I feel like I come to understand the intention and message, and feel like there's something valuable being conveyed there. I almost want some other director to try and address the same concept, but like...more gooder.
I can't work out what the message was, it seems like it's superficially a pox on all their houses they're all mental but the second half of the film is way more on the nose than the first and it starts parodying itself
IMO the whole “solidgoldmagikarp” thing—being some old, unparseable term for earlier AI that would prompt them to return no response or just plain gibberish—is a metaphor for individual inability to parse the world around them.
Spoiler: (click to show)(click to hide) The movie sort of hoodwinks you with “both sides are bad”, but it’s really about how the characters involved don’t even comprehend what they are seeing and hearing and have unpredictable responses…in the same way as referenced AI described above. I think a lot about the scene where the blond girl is lecturing the black cop—her supposed ex—about how he should join the BLM side, and he’s looking at her with daggers in his eyes. But its not actually daggers or anger…he’s wondering wtf she is talking about, because his perspective is that they barely even know each other. His reaction is both confused, and confusing.
(The movie already established this kind of “misunderstanding” between Sheriff Joe’s wife and the mayor: one side thinks there was some pivotal life-altering relationship, and the other only recalls a couple unremarkable dates)
The last scenes, IMO, really push the audience into this place further, with the unbelievable left-wing murder squad showing up quite literally out of nowhere, and finally the sheriff’s mom sleeping in the same bed as him while making out with his in-home nurse who is also in the same bed. It’s “unparseable” to us.
I watched Alien: Resurrection because I have been nostalgic for it for quite some time. The last time I saw it, I think was standard resolution DVD, so not quite VHS.
Winona Ryder looks really young in it. Sigourney Weaver looks older, but it looks like she has also gone on a diet to make herself look more reptilian and feral.
I remembered that it has been directed by half of the pair that made “city of lost children.”
It is an interesting movie that takes a number of chances. It’s honestly a better movie than alien covenant or Prometheus.
Low bar. Prometheus and Covenant were trash
Alien and Terminator are both scifi franchises that nobody really knew what to do with or where to go with them, and never hit the same heights after James Camerons banging sequel, prove me wrong
(08-29-2025, 09:57 AM)Potato wrote: Low bar. Prometheus and Covenant were trash
Yes, but hilarious trash! I'd eagerly watch more sequels just to see what kind of comedy David gets up to.
Alien Earth is pretty good by the way. No guarantees that it wont go off the deep end but so far it has everything I love about Alien.
I've watched the first episode. I mildly enjoyed it. I'll probably watch the rest.
Paris, Texas. It's one of those films the critics say every film fan should see. Apple have it on sale so I bought it. It wasn't what I was expecting at all. I thought it would mostly be a guy wandering through the desert. Totally wrong. It's about a guy who has been lost for years trying to reconnect with the world and his family. I'll not say any more because spoilers. Anyway, everything the critics say is on point. Great film.
They should do one of those xxx parodies with the same concept.
The Long Wank.
Do you think you'd make it to the end?
Seriously, were remaking/rebooting B-movies as B-movies now?
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