“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[Nintex]

oh shit

[Polident]

Final Reckoning helped me appreciate Dead Reckoning more as a complete picture. Think every movie in the series is great in their own ways.

It’s interesting to hear the director talk about the process. Him and Tom, in a sense, were approaching it as a silent film. An intentional choice to have the bulk of dialog as exposition so you’re prepped for long stretches without dialogue.

[chronovore]

Final Reckoning helped me appreciate Dead Reckoning more as a complete picture. Think every movie in the series is great in their own ways.

It’s interesting to hear the director talk about the process. Him and Tom, in a sense, were approaching it as a silent film. An intentional choice to have the bulk of dialog as exposition so you’re prepped for long stretches without dialogue.

It's a reasonable explanation, but the fact is the exposition is just happening to explain setpiece stunt sequences they thought would be neat, and stringing them together.

[Polident]

Final Reckoning helped me appreciate Dead Reckoning more as a complete picture. Think every movie in the series is great in their own ways.

It’s interesting to hear the director talk about the process. Him and Tom, in a sense, were approaching it as a silent film. An intentional choice to have the bulk of dialog as exposition so you’re prepped for long stretches without dialogue.

It's a reasonable explanation, but the fact is the exposition is just happening to explain setpiece stunt sequences they thought would be neat, and stringing them together.

That’s the intent. They also spoke about, to put it gently, dim audiences who tend to ask “why is he…? who is…?” Tons of setup and explanations so you’re prepped for the set pieces.

The typical approach being characters explaining what they’re doing as they’re doing it.

This leads into taking about F1. There’s a lot of that. Mid scene Brad Pitt is explaining what he’s doing. Or the team is explaining what’s happening. Or the announcers explaining it.

Not that it’s a bad thing. I liked the movie. And like Tom Cruise in MIFR, Brad Pitt can’t escaping aging.

[benji]

[Polident]

Materialists has one of the weirdest revelations or twists I’ve seen in a movie

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Pedro Pascal was a secret 5’6” manlet and broke his legs to grow six inches

[DavidCroquet]

I watched Clerks again.

I know Kevin Smith went on to have like...a whole giant career after this, but I always think that Clerks is not only his best movie, but also his only good movie. 

I wonder about an alternative universe where he had stuck to making movies on a $300 budget with his friends. He'd probably be a lot poorer but a much better filmmaker.

[Rendle]

I just looked and you're right, only one. Even Shymalan had two, yet Kevin Smith is lauded as a brilliant filmaker and Shymalan is seen as someone whose film quality has floundered.

[boreform]

mallrats is da bomb

[Snoopy]

Muppets Take Manhattan is better Sinners.

[HaughtyFrank]

[DavidCroquet]

today I realized the voice actor for Guillermo Del Toro's character in Death Stranding is doing an Guillermo Del Toro impersonation. I just thought they let the VA act however. 

Somehow I have never heard Del Toro speak before today.

[Besticus Maximus]

today I realized the voice actor for Guillermo Del Toro's character in Death Stranding is doing an Guillermo Del Toro impersonation. I just thought they let the VA act however. 

Somehow I have never heard Del Toro speak before today.

Had the same thought process

[Eric Cartman]

Watched Freddy Got Fingered for a little stay-at-home date night with the missus.

I wanted to be all edgy and bloviate about how it's a good movie, actually

I watched Clerks again.

I know Kevin Smith went on to have like...a whole giant career after this, but I always think that Clerks is not only his best movie, but also his only good movie. 

Dogma is good, actually

If you like actual fucking shit films that are meta-hilarious due to the fact that some exec actually fucking funded them (Freddy got Fingered), then Tusk is also amazing I guess?

[HaughtyFrank]

Dogma is the peak of Kevin Smith with a budget. Afterwards he lost a lot of sauce

[Polident]

The thing about Kevin Smith is, if you’re my generation and were into nerdy hobbies, you had friends who made you watch those movies way too often. There’s some bitterness there. Memories of “you guys want to watch Mallrats??”. Good lord no. “Did you watch this Joss Whedon show??” You fucking bitch.

[Potato]

Predator Killer of Killers is pretty good. Great little mid credits Easter egg too.

[Eric Cartman]

Saw The Frighteners pop up on streaming, which I haven't seen since it came out and I assumed was just one of those films everyone has forgotten about because I think it was a huge fucking bomb.

Its certainly the odd one out in the Peter Jackson filmography release schedule, coming right after beloved critical darling Heavenly Creatures and right before the LOTR trilogy was the fucking Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. But as a big longterm fan of Peter Jacksons, it was a pretty great follow up to Bad Taste amd Brain Dead, albeit significantly toned down for a more mainstream appeal.

It still holds up really well! Plot is good, VFX are still mostly good, some really interesting action scenes, good cast with some notable performances - Jeffrey Combs is fucking great, and I like John Astin as much as the next guy but I think they missed a trick not casting Christopher Lloyd in that role for some cheap Back To The Future heat. Worst I can say about it is its supposed to be set in america but is very fucking clearly new zealand.

Honestly don't know why it was such a bomb its definitely worth a watch.

[Besticus Maximus]

Frighteners is a classic but it's quite a weird film and the tone is all over the place

[Snoopy]

The new 4k version of Rocky Horror Picture Show is on sale on Apple. That was an instant buy. It’s like Jaws. You don’t see it for years, then randomly watch it one night and it’s pure entertainment all the way through.

[Potato]

Weapons was great. 

Story was a bit hokey, but atmosphere was 10/10

[killamajig]

Saw the new Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein today.

Second half was better than the first. I thought it would have been better but still a decent Frankenstein movie. 

I had pretty high hopes for a del Toro Frankenstein film

[HardcoreRetro]

Watching Visitor Q by Takashi Miike.

The man is an absolute master of his craft. Didn't know it was a black comedy, so I went in expecting a horror movie.

The scene in which the father fucks his co-worker's corpse almost made me choke with laughter.


Here's some choice dialogue from that scene.

"The mysteries of life are amazing! Even a corpse can get wet!"

*The father feels what's making the corpse wet*

"Hey, this is shit! It's not a mystery of life, it's shit!

He then proceeds to get his cock stuck in the corpse as rigor mortis sets in. 

10/10

[Nintex]

Idris Elba as a sort of Black Trump in House of Dynamite was certainly something.
Overall the movie was pretty tense it starts weak but gets better as it gets going.

What would happen if nuclear bomb now.

Well you know the acting deputy NSA is late to work and the Secretary of Defense is playing golf and all the expensive tools don't work and the President hasn't got a clue.

[boreform]

" I sat back with my arms folded and thought, This movie did nothing for me. But I think Ive run into the Holy Grail of Something White"

[D3RANG3D]

[boreform]

watching longlegs. is this just nic cage as a resetera moderator?

[benji]

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[D3RANG3D]

[simiansmarts]

This is Mila Kunis erasure