11-03-2025, 12:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-04-2025, 12:00 AM by Snoopy.)
Sovereign.
Watched it earlier. It's not film of the year but it's good. It tells you from the start things are not going to end well. I was expecting it to be like Falling Down but it's more grounded. The writers have done their research. All the things you've seen on those YT videos are in the film, but the humor is quickly dialed down. It goes out of it's way to show these sovereign citizens are people who have been driven to desperation. They can't pay their bills. They're losing their homes and aren't getting any help. It's surprisingly sympathetic to them. We watched Nomadland last week and this goes well with it.
The Squid And The Whale. The guy who made this also made Frances Ha. I turned that off within the first 5 minutes because the actress was so unbearable. This was excellent though. It reminded me of The Royal Tenenbaums. The little kid in it almost steals the movie. The scenes where he freaks out losing at tennis are hilarious.
Watched Carrie for the first time in a long time. John Travolta really is a weird cunt isn’t he?
just finished watching. ben affleck is da bomb! 
watched Poor Things, which is fucking hilarious and I'm surprised hasn't been memed more
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I suppose if you had to categorise it, its a reimagining of Frankenstein, but its just a weird funny dreamlike kind of film
Poor things is brilliant, would also highly recommend the other famous Alastair Gray novel Lanark
I struggled with Kinds Of Kindness but all his other films are excellent, especially Dogtooth and The Favorite
Just got out of Bugonia.
Didn't know anything about it and went in blind.Holy crap, I loved it
(11-19-2025, 11:39 PM)killamajig wrote: Just got out of Bugonia.
Didn't know anything about it and went in blind.Holy crap, I loved it
I went to see Shelby Oaks instead 
f5ing movie leaks
Play Dirty
The premise is something that feels like it is in Shane Black’s wheelhouse but there’s no energy. Maybe two or three minor scenes. The rest is dull. With these streaming movies there’s a point where I check the runtime because I’m getting bored and think “is it almost over?” It happened about 30 minutes in.
I actually rewatched Iron Man 3 on a flight recently and still enjoyed it. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys are both great, plus the movies he wrote. But The Predator and Play Dirty were slogs.
Don't think I made it past the opening scene of The Predator. Was it as bad as I assumed?
great movie
need to find me an autistic brunette 
Crazy that the original script already had peely in it so many years ago.
John Wick Ballerina was good shit.
Flame thrower was a nice addition to the arsenal
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. It starts off tense as fuck and it just keeps getting worse. It's like Uncut Gems x 100. The camera is almost constantly in her face, there are weird dreamlike scenes involving holes and the sound design becomes deliberately unbearable at times. Rose Byrne deserves an Oscar nomination but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with a nervous disposition
(12-01-2025, 01:46 AM)Snoopy wrote: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. It starts off tense as fuck and it just keeps getting worse. It's like Uncut Gems x 100. The camera is almost constantly in her face, there are weird dreamlike scenes involving holes and the sound design becomes deliberately unbearable at times. Rose Byrne deserves an Oscar nomination but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone with a nervous disposition
don't forget conan da gawd 
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In the 90s, nobody who looked at Leo would have thought that by 2025 he would look, sound and basically be 1990s Jack Nicholson.
He needs to do a horror film
I finally got around to watching LaLaLand and was surprised how the long running joke of "Ryan gosling explains Jazz to John Legend" doesn't seem to be based much in reality. The two have a conversation about Jazz but it's much less about explaining it and instead about the two having different worldviews. Gosling is the nostalgic traditionalist and Legend is the innovator who believes Jazz has to evolve just like it evolved in the old days. It's very much a conversation on equal footing so I'm surprised (or I guess not that surprised) that it turned into a meme.
Anyway, really enjoyed the movie
I got a free month of Apple TV and am testing it out by putting on…The Family Plan 2.
Not seven minutes in, there’s been prominent product placement for AirPods, iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks.
That’s enough of that.
(12-07-2025, 05:29 PM)Polident wrote: I got a free month of Apple TV and am testing it out by putting on…The Family Plan 2.
Not seven minutes in, there’s been prominent product placement for AirPods, iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks.
That’s enough of that.
Servant was particularly bad for this, they dropped it by the end but the first half of the show is structured around videocalling other characters on their idevices. Despite that I'd recommend it it was mad.
12-07-2025, 08:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-07-2025, 08:33 PM by Potato.)
One of the lesser known aspects of Apple's marketing over the past few decades has been the huge focus put on product placement in movies and TV. It was hard to find a movie in the 2010s where a laptop was used that wasn't a Mac.
Die Hard:
in retrospect, does anyone else think that the FBI guys kind of belong in a different movie?
I need to apply all the caveats: the movie is deserving of being called one of the best of all time and nothing should be changed, I like the FBI guys and their scenes and how it contributes to the rest of the narrative, and I don't consider this observation to be a flaw in the film
but they feel overtly comedic in a way that the rest of the movie is not, honestly they would not be out of place in Naked Gun
the rest of the movie is also often funny, but not due to goofs like two guys with the same name, it's darkly comedic stuff which is realistic in context, like the dead body landing on Al's car
meanwhile these guys are quipping "no relation," "it's agent Johnson...no, the other one," hooting and hollering about being badasses in their helicopter, they even end with "looks like we're gonna need some new FBI guys"
they almost feel like director commentary/disdain for government ineffectiveness or something? they're so strongly characterized that it feels like driving home a point with a sledgehammer
it's a christmas movie 
It's a Bruce Willis movie.
I'm watching Die Hard right now with my daughter.
I don't agree. The deputy police chief is a complete clown and the FBI are just an escalated version. There's dumb comedy all the way through and the FBI are the culmination of it.
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