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

[Nintex]

[benji]

yall reply guying to an Ai post

Elon eliminated all the bots and it has a verified human check.

[Potato]

Watched The Banshees of Inisherin on the plane ride to LA. 

Sooooooo good. It's easy to forget how good an actor Colin Farrell is, but damn if him and Brendan Gleeson don't just complement each other so perfectly in this film. Barry Keoghan plays a brilliant role in this as well. 

Was a long flight and I'm still processing it (it's a bit of an ordeal of a film) but it seems to be about the futility of conflict and the often pointless causes of it (it's set against the Irish civil war in the 1920s), but also about whether it's important to suffer for your art and sacrificing others to achieve your aims.

If you're feeling maudlin or just in the mood for something that explores deep human emotion, I highly recommend it.

[Snoopy]

We were looking for a Xmas movie. I was thinking of something like The Holdovers or Die Hard. We ended up watching Goodfellas and American Psycho. Somehow they were perfect.

[HaughtyFrank]

I watched the Timothee Chalamet Wonka movie and ended up liking it more than I expected. Exactly the kind of low stakes movie I needed around Christmas. The movie cheaps out a bit though because it never really gets around to how Wonka also has a meaner side to him that enjoys teaching those kids a lesson

[HaughtyFrank]

Ever wonder what Kevin Spacey is up to?

https://www.reddit.com/r/officehourslive/comments/1q0gbuw/kev_tappin/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[DavidCroquet]

Jansen accidentally reminded me that I saw Sinners a couple weeks ago. It was pretty cheesy and gay! Much more so on both counts than I expected.

My wife and I were observing that it was like a “race-conscious” treatment of the Marvel movie formula. Like, there’s enough there that you can pretend you saw something of actual social merit, but it’s a fully by-the-numbers pop movie.

Also some writer was really proud of learning the word cooze, and put it in the script as often as pissible.

[Nintex]

[benji]

Very tired of seeing the factually incorrect tagline of the ads for this movie.

[Polident]

I needed a flash drive and found one with a video file called Gemini Man on it. Oddly large file size without a set file size. So I plug it into my TV and watch it.

Turns out it’s a pre-slap Will Smith where the gimmicks are de-aging and occasional high frame rate action scenes. I don’t know if it’s a mix of both causing all the action to feel like those scenes in Blade 2 where there’s a digital double and they become rubber people. A lot of the action has cuts to first person scenes to be immersive?

The young Will Smith acts like he’s 13 but he’s meant to be into his 20s. There’s a bit where Clive Owen goes “are you hungry? Come on, champ. Let’s get you a bowl of cereal.” and the next scene he’s randomly eating a cone of ice cream like “oh boy ice cream!”. It’s so weird. Later he’s telling the lovely Mary Elizabeth Winstead to strip to check for wires, and he’s acting like Forrest Gump at Jenny’s dorm.

There’s another twist towards the end where a magic bulletproof cyborg man shows up and you’re immediately thinking “it’s another will smith”. And they turbo kill him (without damaging his face), and upon unmasking, are shocked to discover another will smith.

[Nintex]

Quentin Tarantino on Joker 2:

"Todd Phillips is the Joker. The Joker directed the movie. he’s spending the studio's money like the Joker would spend it ... He’s saying fuck you to the movie audience. He’s saying fuck you to Hollywood."

 

I watched the Tuesday Murder Club on Netflix or whatever with Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and some other oldies.
It's a fun knives out type of murder mystery but knives out is better. The plot was also too obvious if you're good at cluedo.

[Snoopy]

Corey Feldman vs The World. The opening scene is his wedding ceremony. His vow starts with, “when we met at the Playboy mansion…” that was when I knew it was going to be a wild ride. And it is. Everything people suspected about his angels is pretty much confirmed, but it’s not a hit piece. It’s clear the director has some sympathy for him. He’s not Epstein. He’s just a horny guy trying to get laid.

[DavidCroquet]

Joker 2 rules.

[filler]

[Polident]

Roofman

Movie is rated R and it’s largely PG or PG-13 content. Except for two or three brief shots of Channing Tatum’s dong or a loose tit.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Roofman

Movie is rated R and it’s largely PG or PG-13 content. Except for two or three brief shots of Channing Tatum’s dong or a loose tit.

Such a beautifully worded review.

[Polident]

Roofman

Movie is rated R and it’s largely PG or PG-13 content. Except for two or three brief shots of Channing Tatum’s dong or a loose tit.

Such a beautifully worded review.

I left out the part where he attempts to bond with a lady’s kid by giving a copy of Zelda Four Swords. Then he says “it even includes a special controller!” And hands over a Game Boy Advanced.

Fuming over this.

[HaughtyFrank]

[Polident]

Tron Ares

Main two actors are robotic and at least Leto’s Ares is supposed to be. There’s zero chemistry or believability to their friendship and his turn. There’s literally a moment where he looks at her emotionless face and text on screen reads “empathetic response”. 

But the visuals and music are cool.

[Nintex]

Watched the 4K Blu Ray release of the F1 movie.

Great HDR only downside is no IMAX aspect ratio but that's rare anyway. Fantastic movie, loved it when I watched it in the cinema and it's one of those you can watch plenty of times and not get bored with. Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt make a great team and Kerry Condon is this films secret weapon. It's weird she hasn't been in that many big movies throughout her career.

[HaughtyFrank]

Tron Ares

Main two actors are robotic and at least Leto’s Ares is supposed to be. There’s zero chemistry or believability to their friendship and his turn. There’s literally a moment where he looks at her emotionless face and text on screen reads “empathetic response”. 

But the visuals and music are cool.

I feel like it would have worked better if they had just kept Leto being robotic but instead halfway through they kind of try to make him funny and Leto just isn't great at that. Made me wonder what the movie could have been like if it starred Ryan Gosling. That said, the whole core of the story wasn't all that interesting to me, so maybe a different actor wouldn't even change much.

 It's true though that it has some cool visuals and pretty great soundtrack

[Polident]

His attempts to be light were so awkward I thought he was manipulating the humans. It doesn’t help that their life on the grid is shown as standing in a sterile red neon room.

There’s a moment where the lady program pauses after experiencing water for the first time. That was more humanizing than anything to happen with Ares.

[Polident]

The Running Man 2025

Very mediocre. On paper, it had good talent behind it and the lead actor is good and all. It’s mostly messy and tonally scattered. Maybe Edgar Wright lost it.

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

I need the Peter Mayhew cut.

[killamajig]

Corey Feldman vs The World. The opening scene is his wedding ceremony. His vow starts with, “when we met at the Playboy mansion…” that was when I knew it was going to be a wild ride. And it is. Everything people suspected about his angels is pretty much confirmed, but it’s not a hit piece. It’s clear the director has some sympathy for him. He’s not Epstein. He’s just a horny guy trying to get laid.

Yeah, dudes trying to start a sex cult and call it a band.    Definitely a watch for people into seeing a non-self aware human train wreck. 

[HaughtyFrank]

28 Years Later Bone Temple

I liked it but just as with the previous one there was a certain unsatisfying feeling when the credits rolled. It's a bit like these aren't quite movies but episodes from a pretty good TV show. I will still be seated for part 3 though

Also invited my date to the real Bone Temple afterwards 

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

I'm kidding, there was no date 

[Potato]

If I hated part 1, will I also hate Boner Temple?

[HaughtyFrank]

If I hated part 1, will I also hate Boner Temple?

Yeah pretty sure you'd hate it. It's as direct of a sequel as it can get. The eurotrash power ranger looking guys were less ridiculous than I feared though.