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Post by Tomo on Nov 15, 2024 18:32:24 GMT
mikeckYeah, I found the parents' passivity hard to reconcile as well, but it makes sense in the context of the "Because you let me" line, which slightly threw me at first, but is actually the point of the entire film basically. They were wet fish  . Plus, I think their grief for their daughter - and frankly themselves - had set in at that point. 2024 film is well worth watching. James McAvoy is a particular treat.
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Post by mikeck on Nov 15, 2024 18:35:57 GMT
Absolutely Tomo it's why I wasn't too annoyed about (as in it annoyed me, but didn't ruin anything for me). I do want to see the 2024 version just for McAvoy, he can do menacing roles SO well. |
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Post by Nanocrystal on Nov 15, 2024 21:43:30 GMT
Team America: World Police
This movie is 20 years old but has aged remarkably well. Watched it last night for the first time in ages and found it funnier than ever. It would make a great double-bill with Hot Fuzz. Like that movie, it works as both a loving parody of action movies and as a competent action movie itself. Also like Hot Fuzz, the script is sharply written and dense with double meanings and foreshadowing. Then of course it's a comedy, a musical, a Thunderbirds pisstake, a critique of Hollywood, and a biting commentary on post-9/11 US foreign policy and the discourse that took place around that at the time. The "problematic" aspects that I thought might seem quite nasty nowadays are actually rather tame by today's standards and are mostly either punching up, clear satire, or are so ridiculously over-the-top as to be beyond any serious criticism. The creators must have had an absolute riot making this, you can tell they're having so much fun with the puppets. Always fade out in a montage...
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Post by MolarAmšµ on Nov 15, 2024 22:06:42 GMT
Speak no Evil (2022)Fucking hell, that was fucking bleak.Ā I know it's in keeping with the point of the film, but the fact the parents didn't fight back just annoyed me to no end. I really had to suspend belief that they wouldn't have put up some kind of struggle. If I was in that situation and witnessed that happening to my daughter there is no way I wouldn't try to inflict some damage.Ā Again, I understand the director's intention with this choice, but so hard to reconcile for me. That being said, it was a very good film, but not one I'd ever re-watch. I do want to wwatch the remake though only because it is less BLEAK I feel like the point of the movie would have been made more effectively for me with less bleakness. I read an interview with the director where he said he intended it as satire. Which... fair enough, but it failed pretty hard on that front for me. At the end I wasn't thinking "oh yes haha, perhaps I too should be less accommodating to things that are obviously wrong", I was thinking "Jesus Christ what the fuck, what kind of sick person wrote this". I'm not someone who needs everything to have a happy Hollywood ending. But in this case the original film didn't work for me. |
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Post by Binky on Nov 15, 2024 23:02:38 GMT
Dune: Part deux
Itās really pretty.
Itās also very Star Wars/matrix/Jesusy.
It felt like it was missing scenes all over the place. The edit felt rushed as it jumped from set piece to set piece and like the first one I never really felt connected to any of the characters.
Itās a solid āgoodā from me.
6/10
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 16, 2024 0:57:24 GMT
I still don't understand how Paul's trial in the desert just seems to stop, I don't think I nodded off in the cinema.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Nov 16, 2024 3:11:16 GMT
Glad2ator It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. Denzel was good, Pedro Pascal was good, Connie Nielsen was good, the emperor twins were more fun as villains than Joaquin was, a couple of the action scenes were good. But it was still pretty bad. Bad script, bad dumb plot that didn't make much sense. And Paul Mescal is no Rusty Crowe. He's doing his best, but there's very little charisma, and he only gets to deliver lines from the aforementioned bad script. I was entertained, but not nearly as much as I was by the first one. 6/10 It's going to have to work very hard to overcome the inherent dumbness of 'and then exactly the same thing happened to his son'.
Like Alien: Romulus, I'm really struggling to drum up any enthusiasm to go and watch it, although I'm sure it'll look great on the big screen.
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Post by MolarAmšµ on Nov 16, 2024 4:06:19 GMT
It does look good! The effects are good, some of the colluseum stuff is good. It's just... missing something that the first movie had, and for me that came down to the script and lead performance.
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Post by Lizard on Nov 16, 2024 4:57:57 GMT
Stargate - 5/10
I've been scrolling on my phone throughout and can't really review it, but it gets five points for the bit where Kurt Russel gives a cigarette to an indigenous kid.
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Post by dfunked on Nov 16, 2024 8:36:04 GMT
The Terminator - 8/10
Scrubs up very nicely in the new 4K release. They even left a bit of film grain in there (or reinserted it), and no plastic looking people thankfully, apart from that one mirror scene...
Still a stone cold classic.
The Wild Robot - 8/10
Excellent stuff. Got a bit bored of the big smashy finale after a while (Marvel fatigue syndrome), as it just felt a bit at odds with the rest of the impeccably crafted film.
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Post by britesparc on Nov 16, 2024 9:14:08 GMT
Stargate - 5/10 I've been scrolling on my phone throughout and can't really review it, but it gets five points for the bit where Kurt Russel gives a cigarette to an indigenous kid. Stargate, I seem to remember, is one of those films where the first act build up is so much better than the "proper" film that it skews the ratings. I think I'd give it a 4/5, but that's mostly based on nerdy James Spader figuring out alien runes. Actually, you could make the same argument for Independence Day and Godzilla really, couldn't you? |
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 16, 2024 10:26:27 GMT
The Terminator - 8/10 Scrubs up very nicely in the new 4K release. They even left a bit of film grain in there (or reinserted it), and no plastic looking people thankfully, apart from that one mirror scene... Still a stone cold classic. Watching it at the cinema I was very pleased at how it turned out, still puzzled by the one scene with a flying HK attack that looks like my old VHS though. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Nov 16, 2024 10:44:35 GMT
Deadpool 3 - genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed it, probably the best Marvel Product sinceā¦. man, I donāt know.
Despite lampshading recent run times, it *is* too long but the shtick didnāt wear too thin which is a win or it would have killed it dead.
7/10. Maybe 8
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Post by clemfandango on Nov 16, 2024 12:10:03 GMT
Deadpool 3 - genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed it, probably the best Marvel Product sinceā¦. man, I donāt know. Despite lampshading recent run times, it *is* too long but the shtick didnāt wear too thin which is a win or it would have killed it dead. 7/10. Maybe 8 I thought it was great, not sure how anybody couldnāt like it really. Did you watch the final end credits scene? Easily the best one Iāve seenš |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Nov 16, 2024 12:16:15 GMT
I think so. Disney+ helpfully gives a āskip creditsā prompt to get straight to it.
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Post by simple on Nov 16, 2024 12:49:32 GMT
I think thatās a new feature but I do appreciate not having to fast forward or skip ahead manually
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Post by MolarAmšµ on Nov 16, 2024 13:11:23 GMT
Deadpool 3 was a weird, weird movie. The references are thick and deep enough that I've nfi how anyone could watch the thing without having done their homework of 20+ years of non-MCU Marvel. But at the same time it wants to mock the nerds who care about this shit, and bite the feeding hands of multiple corporate overlords.
Anyway, I did enjoy it, but not as much as the last two. Hugh Jackman was great though.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 16, 2024 13:35:37 GMT
Did it really bite the hands of the corporate overlords? I think you're looking at that situation almost too earnestly.
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. Plus, I think their grief for their daughter - and frankly themselves - had set in at that point.
