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

[Polident]

In the movie and Bruce Willis’s career afterwards is being the salt of the Earth every man. It depends on those higher up on the ladder being out of touch and ineffectual. 

So, you got Takagi, Ellis, heads of the LAPD, FBI, and the news media all getting played. It takes John and Carl Winslow, street cops, to know what’s actually happening. 

As for whether the director held a grudge against the FBI, well, they certainly held one against him.

[TylenolJones]

Cinema is saved!!!

[Nintex]

Well Die Hard was cultural commentary of upcoming trends that would spiral into the world we have today.

Traditional provider husband with no role in the family because of the corpo feminist career wifey who upstaged him
Kid growing up with no dad because wife prefers situationship with HVM
Fuckboi trying to win her over with money
Bureaucratic systems the common man doesn't understand
Big government agencies telling local law enforcement what to do
Mobile phones mostly in cars but still
More reliance on computer systems that can't be trusted

The suave villain who understands and manipulates all these new dynamics for his own gain while pretending to have an ideology

But in the movie John McClane, the hero who works hard for the right thing "wins" Christmas.

IRL, well the bad guys won John would've been fired the villain would've gotten away with it all. Johns wife would've ended up with multiple chad fuckbois for pump and dumps then made sob story tiktoks about how she can't find a good man. The kid fatherless would've hated unemployed dad for not giving him a PS5 for Christmas, the FBI would've shot a bunch of hostages and then Kash would've blamed it on the media. The whole thing would've been live streamed on Facebook and editted into memes. The black guy would've been the focus of at least 20 conspiracy theories. 
 

[DavidCroquet]

I saw Jingle All The Way for the first time yesterday. 

I was impressed by 2 things: 

• Phil Hartman's seduction techniques, which I don't know that I've ever seen on screen before, but certainly have witnessed in real life. 
  
• The way Sinbad gets progressively more insane and dangerous in a way that I did not predict. Even 3/4ths into the movie, I still thought him and Arnie were gonna end up in a buddy-cop situation.
  

Maybe 3 things, if you count Sinbad making jokes about Rodney King, Jesse Jackson, and racial discrimination.

[D3RANG3D]

[benji]

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

literally half a second of Lobo  

[D3RANG3D]

[Nintex]

[Nintex]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Polident]

The Avengers Doomsday teaser is out there. Links seem to go down but 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

the message is “don’t worry about the last six years of movies and tv”

[Nintex]

[Polident]

Avatar 2

Saw it in the least ideal way. On a 12 hour flight, small screen, video artifacts. But I enjoyed it. The family angle makes the “protagonists” more interesting, even if they’re still second fiddle to the military guys. There’s an almost throwaway line about Earth dying and humanity wanting to migrate to Pandora. But maybe they thought that’s too nuanced and the thrust is…saving the whales?

[nachobro]

jesus that odyssey trailer looks like shit holy fuck

[Besticus Maximus]

Odyssey looks like a film troy mclure would star in

[Nintex]

It looks and sounds exactly like a Nolan film should. Absolute cinema.

"promise me you'll come back"

"what if I can't"

BOOOM BOOOMMMMMM

[Snoopy]

Corey Feldman vs The World is on Apple. Fuck yes. Xmas has arrived

[Nintex]

[Polident]

The Odyssey looks exactly how you’d expect The Odyssey from Nolan to look like. It’s a little boring in that sense.

[Nintex]

Really Mr. Antinous we're going to beat this Cyclops with a horse. We ate them all remember.



Not just any horse Telemachus but a Trojan one old chap. I nicked it when Oddy wasn't looking

A+ A++++++++++++++

Absolute Cinema

[Nintex]

close enough

[filler]

[Potato]

This is going to be such a shit movie.

[Uncle]

if you haven't seen amadeus in a while you really ought to watch amadeus again

by the way, the theatrical version was just restored and re-released this year, which is better than the director's cut, which has been the only ubiquitous way to experience the film for over 20 years

one entirely unnecessary scene: going and talking to opera singer in her dressing room where she rehashes an attitude and a vibe we already fully understand, like the audience is too dumb to get what was going on

the primary and longest unnecessary scene: salieri pretending to #metoo constanze, leading to her getting her boobs out and then he embarrasses her by sending her away, solely responsible for making the film R-rated and feels unnecessarily risky and out of character for salieri at that point in his life/rivalry

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

[Uncle]

or...if "corporate" is the villain...a lack of a script demonstrates unchecked corporate meddling and creation by committee, instead of letting the director stick to his singular vision

[DavidCroquet]

if you haven't seen amadeus in a while you really ought to watch amadeus again

by the way, the theatrical version was just restored and re-released this year, which is better than the director's cut, which has been the only ubiquitous way to experience the film for over 20 years

one entirely unnecessary scene: going and talking to opera singer in her dressing room where she rehashes an attitude and a vibe we already fully understand, like the audience is too dumb to get what was going on

the primary and longest unnecessary scene: salieri pretending to #metoo constanze, leading to her getting her boobs out and then he embarrasses her by sending her away, solely responsible for making the film R-rated and feels unnecessarily risky and out of character for salieri at that point in his life/rivalry

I literally just watched this 2 days ago. Fun movie! Also mindboggling that it is older than me. It feels extremely fresh and modern, in a good way.

[benji]

Yeah, I really don't think multi-million dollar productions just build random sets and wing it with whatever the actors feel like doing that day.

[Nintex]

yall reply guying to an Ai post

[DavidCroquet]

Amadeus is AI???