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One of the worst movies I've ever seen, constant disappointment, failed orgasm type of feeling through the whole thing and specially the end.null24 said:
Now that I've gone thus far, I'd recommend ashes and snow 2007, it's like a docu, interesting
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I just watched the new one a couple of weeks ago and I love it as much as I do the original, but for different reasons.
Both try to really pay homage to the original source material in their own ways. The first I see as a fast forwarding of almost the entire book, covering as many bases as possible of pertinent details emanating from the book. The newest one is more detail oriented, which may make it a bit "slower" but it's still thoroughly engaging for me.
I prefer the depiction of Jessica in the new movie over the original. She's portrayed with a great deal of balance and willpower in the book and I feel like the new movie brings that out. The original appears to have defaulted to societal tropes of how women are perceived and expected to behave and react to dire circumstances and situations.
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It seems like it has been awhile since anyone posted here. I know some of these will be repeats but I hope some are new:
Sons of the Desert (painfully funny)
Some Like it Hot (very funny)
One, Two, Three (timeless amped up classic)
Holy Mountain
Blueberry aka Renegade (A psychedelic Western with battles in hyperspace)
Cloud Atlas
Crime of the Century (not happy but a MUST see to understand the opiate crisis)
This last one is real special:
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Sons of the Desert (painfully funny)
Some Like it Hot (very funny)
One, Two, Three (timeless amped up classic)
Holy Mountain
Blueberry aka Renegade (A psychedelic Western with battles in hyperspace)
Cloud Atlas
Crime of the Century (not happy but a MUST see to understand the opiate crisis)
This last one is real special:
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Pandora said:Holy Mountain
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Wowwzers that one looks crazy!
The Crime of the Century - ill give it a go :S
Some Like it Hot - seen ages ago, good suggestion :thumb_up:
Going through my Movie folder -
A Beautiful Mind
Ai
All Eyez on Me (2pac)
Amelie (sweet AF)
American Pie (Classic)
Annihilation (trippy alien)
Any Given Sunday (weirdly my favorite movie, football)
Austin Powers (for a laugh)
Avengers Endgame (epiccc)
Back to the Future (just watched fun times)
Bad Boys (teenage fav)
Baraka (must see)
Blade Runner 2019 and 2049
Blood Machines (Must watch, rare)
Captain Marvel
Children of Men (end of days, no children)
Dangerous Minds (classssic)
Dark Phoenix
Doctor Strange
Donnie Darko (if you havent seen have you lived?)
Dont look up (climate change / political satire)
Dragon Bruce Lee story ()
Dune
ET
Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp brilliant)
Elvis (Power and addiction)
Enter the Dragon
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (Kate and Jim)
Ex Machina (coming soon)
Fantastic Fungi
Fear and loathing (must see for psyz)
Fern Gully
Fight Club
Free Guy
Gladiator
Great Expectations (1998)
Her (spoiler ai leaves us
Honey, I shrunk the kids
Interstellar
Joker
Kill Bill
Men in Black
Moulin Rouge (love love love)
Point Break
Prey
Revealing Ukraine (war doc interviewed by Oliver Stone)
Roman Holiday
Romeo and Juliet 1996
Rushhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Scott Pilgim vs the world (fun fun fun)
Stardust (shine on!)
Straight outta compton
Tawai A voice from the forest
The Aviator
The Doors
The princess bride (does it get more classic?)
The Rock (losers always wine about their best - Sean COnnery)
The Theory of Everything
The Wolf on Wallstreet
The Last Samuria
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
This is the End (Hillarious comedy)
Titanic (of society...)
Tombstone (Western, shows many aspects of humans)
Top Gun(s)
V for Vendetta
Vanilla Sky
Venom(s)
Wayne's World(s)
X-Men Apocalypse
Yesterday (2019 beatles musical)
I got bored over the pandemic and needed some entertainment
urchin444 said:Some of my personal collections, in no particular order
Le Sang d'un Poète (1932) director： Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau
J'irai comme un cheval fou (1973) director：Fernando ArrabalTerán
god. you make me remember the time when I watched Le Sang d'un poète, was so surrealistic,
I think I have to re-watch it again soon!
and come back with some review
Scavengers reign
A cool animated series about an alien planet flora and fauna
Scavengers reign
It kind of feels like... an Hayao Miyazaki film mixed with Rick and Morty stuff...
in a hostile planet with Moebius comic artstyle.
This is a link to watch it:
LINK
A cool animated series about an alien planet flora and fauna
Scavengers reign
It kind of feels like... an Hayao Miyazaki film mixed with Rick and Morty stuff...
in a hostile planet with Moebius comic artstyle.
This is a link to watch it:
LINK
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This movie (Poor Things) is a trip. It really divorces psyche, development and culture and what we are shown is disturbing, amusing, enlightening and so much more.
Poor Things
Poor Things
It was an incredible disappointment for me. Not dictated by the expectations I had before seeing it, but the expectations I created while watching it (at the cinema when it came out months ago). An incredible potential for philosophical and anthropological exploration that ultimately crashed into the great banalities of the controversies of our time. It will not face the challenge of time well.
Well, I decided to give this one a shot today on IMAX. Hadn't been in a cinema since Interstellar released, and I loved that one so I figured Nolan wouldn't disappoint, surely. He did. Big time at that.
They threw a quarter of a billion USD into this, put some of Hollywood's biggest actors in, and what came out was still the epitome of flashy mediocrity. I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting, but it was definitely much more than what I got, which was, at best, mild hearing loss.
Despite the movie having several pretty cool scenes, it couldn't wrestle its way out of feeling flat and rushed. They tried to cram an enormous amount of mythology into one movie, and what resulted from that haphazard effort is nearly 180 minutes of utterly forgettable, loud chaos. Massive plot holes plugged using scenes whose only purpose was to ramp up the drama factor (which Hollywood has shown time and again they love doing). Many scenes that make zero narrative or temporal sense. The fight scenes were nothing short of disappointingly lazy. Dialogue was chock-full of the typical overdramatic, borderline cringe lines exchanged in a way that feels almost like AI wrote the whole thing. And the sound...oh my god, the sound.
Whoever was the mixing engineer for this movie needs to go drink a very big glass of water because apparently they're severely dehydrated and have no idea what they're doing. I'm sure Ludwig Göransson wrote a very nice soundtrack for this movie, but I didn't hear none of it because every single epic scene in the movie is so far into the red that all you hear is this deafening roar of a 1000 sounds combined and pushed far beyond reason, to the point of making me wince and physically recoil. One scene in particular, that with Polyphemus, apparently ranks as one of the loudest scenes in a movie in all of cinema history, and I was on the verge of straight up leaving the theater during that.
The fact that Nolan himself said that he's figured out how to make a movie sound good and this was his proof makes this 10x funnier. I feel like things went downhill for that dude ever since Interstellar came out.
I just think about all the benefit humanity could have derived if those $250 million were put into science research, for example. Instead what we got was yet another mediocre Hollywood epic that could have turned out amazing but did not because it doesn't have to - the bar is low enough that it scrapes the bedrock, yet theaters are crammed full of people, so why should they try harder?
Disappointing all around. I'll go see Dune 3 on IMAX and then I'll return to my previous decade-long cinema hiatus because it's just not worth the money or time.
The last movie I enjoyed watching was "Project Hail Mary," because of how lighthearted it was. Hollywood has become a money-making machine, imo.
Instead of art, they push some kind of agenda on people and want money for it. I can't watch anything nowadays and would rather rewatch an old masterpiece.
Today, you can expect better movies from outside the US. "Society of the Snow" is a good example. I hope Dune 3 won't disappoint.
Instead of art, they push some kind of agenda on people and want money for it. I can't watch anything nowadays and would rather rewatch an old masterpiece.
Today, you can expect better movies from outside the US. "Society of the Snow" is a good example. I hope Dune 3 won't disappoint.
Admittedly I'm a big Ryan Gosling fan, however I also really enjoyed the reboot as well.
I'm saving myself for after I read the book but I might give it a watch at home. But in general seeing the big new thing coming out of Hollywood made me realize I haven't missed much in these 10 years haha, with the only exception being Dune because I think Denis Villeneuve and his entire team working on this movie are on their own level entire, far, far above the whole rest of Hollywood.
I'd love to see Jodorowsky's version of Dune, but sadly it never became a reality. You can watch a documentary about it, which is a fine movie in itself.
Now I'm waiting for "The Incal," which could potentially be quite good. The era of good sci-fi movies seems to be over. It's the spirit of these times, I guess.
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