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

[filler]

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

[Snoopy]

Obsession. The hype is real. Excellent film.

[Nintex]

    

[Besticus Maximus]

Evil Dead Burn. Sorry fellas but this is pure dogshit and i hated it, made by an idiot, last jedi levels.

[Polident]

Spider-Man No Way Home

tl;dr I forgot places open at 11 AM here and it was too hot to wait outside. Movie theaters have mini theaters in the lobbies for trailers. So I sat inside and watched a couple. The new Spider-Man looks alright and I didn’t really remember the last one. Decided to rewatch it.

You can really tell it was shot during peak COVID. “New York” and “people” don’t really exist. Everything is set on small sets or indoors against green screen. The main location is Jon Favreau’s apartment. Some of the actors are clearly not next to one another. Just a really weird vibe throughout.

Anyway, Willem Dafoe saves it.

[Snoopy]

Watched that Iron Maiden doc. It was pretty good. Although I had to laugh at the hypocrisy of fucking Gene Simmon's where's grunge now? comment. Like he didn't try to jump on that bandwagon.

[Potato]

Iron Maiden doco was indeed good. Gene Simmons is indeed a fucking arsehole.

[Besticus Maximus]

im gonna watch that cos you two said its good

[Potato]

While you're at it, add the Diego Maradona and King Otto documentaries too.

[Nintex]

The Odyssey was mind blowing. Holy fucking shit what a movie

A lot of people will absolutely hate it though. It is very Nolan.

Exposition, Exposition, Exposition. What if Tennet meets Dark Knight Rises but Homers Odyssey.

[Potato]

So a combination of his worst two (and categorically bad) movies?

[Nintex]

It’s great if you're a nolan fan and you enjoy subwoofers

Stuck for 7 years(?) With Charlize theron sign me up

[Besticus Maximus]

So a combination of his worst two (and categorically bad) movies?

Interstellar is a big old turd, told that film to fuck off twice when watching it

Inception is another one that doesn't hold up on a re-watch. I remember seeing that in the cinema thinking it was great then I watched it again around the time dunkirk came out and realised it was actual nonsense and 80% of the film was unconvincing explanations for the nonsense. The worst thing being they had to fall backwards through water or something and that being a serious problem they all had to deal with.

People try to edify him as some kind of modern genius but the actual substance of nearly all his films is silly wibble wabble and it gets even worse when he makes a science film, except oppenheimer because thats a real thing

[Potato]

He's a lightning rod for psuedo-intellectuals who try to replace a personality with film fandom. Just like the rabid Tarantino fans. 

He really makes popcorn flicks for people who can't lower themselves to admit they really wanna watch capeshit.

Memento was great. Batman Begins was good. Inception was ok as a visual spectacle. Insomnia was good. The Prestige I don't understand the praise. The Dark Knight was about 30 minutes too long and The Dark Knight Rises was bad AND too long. Interstellar was boring.

I haven't seen Dunkirk, Tenet or Oppenheimer and The Odyssey can fuck off too.

[Polident]

I find it a little endearing how Nolan hasn’t buckled to any criticisms across his career. Tenet was like, this is ostensibly a summer action blockbuster with the most flat, impactless, dull action scenes. A decade after Inception and his Batman movies, and it is that same awkwardness where a guy gets shot, the sound and reaction don’t match up. The stuntman jumps back a second too late or early. 

Anyway, I looked up when The Odyssey is showing here. Second week of September… if I’m waiting that long and the movie is stinker, it may be the worst 9/11 I can think of.

[HardcoreRetro]

Cristopher Nolan movies feel like those virtuoso guitar players on youtube. Technically impressive but completely soulless.

I like the Batman movies cause it juxtaposes his autistic clinical filmmaking with dudes in costumes.

[HaughtyFrank]

[DavidCroquet]

I watched Wuthering Heights (the new one) and it was very fun and very horny and--surprisingly--very faithful to the spirit of the book, despite changing many things.

I haven't dug into the online reception beyond knowing that it was kind of mixed. But I really liked it!

[benji]

[Nintex]

My brother liked it same as me. Co-worker absolutely hated it especially the ending. She knows the story well and Nolan modernized it. 

She yelled: "Modernized? He butchered it!"

One quirky thing I enjoyed was that the characters sometimes literally say the old lines from the book as if they share something "meaningful".
The delivery much like poorly translated Japanese to English in a Square Enix RPG.

[Besticus Maximus]

I don't care unless you've read Ulysses and can talk about it 

[saltygeneraltso]

The scene with them farding, pissing, and shitting in the horse was pretty kino

Also, when they meet the cyclops and plan their escape as if they're about to hang some drywall or something.

"If we kill him now he can't move the rock"