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If not Arizona, then a land not too far away. Where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and beloved. I don't know. Maybe it was the plateau of Leng, which even the mad author of the Necronomicon was reluctant to discuss
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Aglet56 posted:so it's been a little over a year: what's the consensus on Us (2019, jordan peele) i thought the big twist was so obviously telegraphed that there was going to be a better one and i was very disappointed when we got that long rambling nonsense monologue that spells out a bunch of backstory that nobody asked for instead aside from that i liked it although i wasnt blown away which is appropriately enough pretty much how i feel about get out incidentally much as was the case with get out i definitely get the impression that the movies very unsubtle message about the utter uselessness of performative gestures completely flew over the heads of the liberals who gushed for it the hardest
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Aglet56 posted:so it's been a little over a year: what's the consensus on Us (2019, jordan peele) I thought Get Out was terrific ... had a mixed reaction to Us. I think it was more of a straightup modern horror film, that leaned into slasher territory, which I'm not a fan of these days. Great imagery, great acting, felt a baggy in the middle.
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Aglet56 posted:so it's been a little over a year: what's the consensus on Us (2019, jordan peele) The imagery of a bunch of zombies in jumpsuits replicating a twee gesture from the 80s was delightfully eerie.
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Zeroisanumber posted:tbf so was saving private ryan Yeah, I was just hyped for it and even saw it in the theatre because I was in Russia then. If you want a dumb action movie with soldiers charging German positions while on fire it's fine but that's not what I thought I was going to see.
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The German film from 1993 about Stalingrad (also called Stalingrad) is another good one.
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Another good 2019 class conflict movie is Knives Out
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Aglet56 posted:so it's been a little over a year: what's the consensus on Us (2019, jordan peele) Jordan Peele slandered the mole children by portraying them as freaks and killers. There are hundreds of thousands of children enslaved in sex slavery underground right now, and the movie makes lighy of it. I hope President Trump can free them soon. #QAnon #TheGreatAwakening I do wonder if the focus on tunnels being used for human trafficking in QAnon was inspired by the film. Conspiracy theories have a rich history of ripping off genre fiction.
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vyelkin posted:Another good 2019 class conflict movie is Knives Out they don't let the villain ever use an iphone because apple doesn't allow villains to use their products lol
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nonathlon posted:I thought Get Out was terrific ... had a mixed reaction to Us. I think it was more of a straightup modern horror film, that leaned into slasher territory, which I'm not a fan of these days. Great imagery, great acting, felt a baggy in the middle. This is more or less my reaction to Us. The script felt like it was a first draft, written high, and no one had the chutzpah to tell a newly crowned golden boy to go back and make all these good ideas more coherent. Sophomore slump, definitely. I think history will be kind to it though, like it is to a lot of messy, excessive second outings. E: also I’m pretty sure the present is kind to it, lol. mysterious frankie has issued a correction as of 21:31 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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both of jordan peeles movies are basically extended twilight zone episodes which isnt a bad thing necessarily it just makes it kind of weird how hes lauded as this amazing filmmaker when all he really has is an interesting script and concept that wasnt focus grouped to hell and back
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Some Guy TT posted:both of jordan peeles movies are basically extended twilight zone episodes which isnt a bad thing necessarily it just makes it kind of weird how hes lauded as this amazing filmmaker when all he really has is an interesting script and concept that wasnt focus grouped to hell and back because that alone and not being paced like a disney movie is enough to get you into the top 5% of things worth watching nowadays
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Peele seems to have a a genuine love of horror, as expressed by how every horror-themed Key & Peele sketch was solid gold. That combined with actual talent and access to resources seems like a rare recipe these days.
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the recent high brow horror renaissance with peele and aster and things like the nick cage lovecraft movies and The Endless has been extremely my jam for the very very limited amount of desire for new horror I've had the last few years I still need to watch midsommar but I'm years out and still don't think I can handle something that much about breakups and being a bad boyfriend especially after how intense hereditary was
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hey you fuckers wanna see wwe's antifa faction https://streamable.com/48r7d8
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Zvahl posted:the recent high brow horror renaissance with peele and aster and things like the nick cage lovecraft movies and The Endless has been extremely my jam for the very very limited amount of desire for new horror I've had the last few years Midsommar was pretty good, def. intense but a bit predictable. The Ritual was better imo.
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Midsommar was pretty good, def. intense but a bit predictable. The Ritual was better imo. i had not heard of the ritual and that's an instant watch this weekend just bc of that beautiful run time i used to wonder why people complained about runtimes for movies as a kid because i loved long poo poo but 93 minutes is where you fkn want to be for horror pacing
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Atrocious Joe posted:I have limited knowledge of wrestling, so correct me if I'm wrong. The only people that watch WWE anymore are boomers and redditors.
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Some Guy TT posted:both of jordan peeles movies are basically extended twilight zone episodes which isnt a bad thing necessarily it just makes it kind of weird how hes lauded as this amazing filmmaker when all he really has is an interesting script and concept that wasnt focus grouped to hell and back the vast majority of modern horror movies are about a single parent witha child in a suburban house being attacked by the ghost from the ring
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Taintrunner posted:The only people that watch WWE anymore are boomers and redditors. ...and me
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Farm Frenzy posted:the vast majority of modern horror movies are about a single parent witha child in a suburban house being attacked by the ghost from the ring sale on bulk sadakos pays mixed dividends
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Zvahl posted:i had not heard of the ritual and that's an instant watch this weekend just bc of that beautiful run time It's a similar "bunch of tourists go where they don't belong and poo poo goes south quick" setup but it's about guilt rather than relationships and overtly supernatural rather than semi-realistic. Also yeah it's just where it needs to be lengthwise.
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I def pick movies based on runtime. A couple nights ago I started watching the new Jumanji and just stopped it at the 90 minute mark. soul crushing stuff- they could have cut ten minutes just by editing lines that were being repeated from previous scenes
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Why even watch a short movie just watch TV in that case. The longer and flabbier a movie is the better
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Why even watch a short movie just watch TV in that case. The longer and flabbier a movie is the better movies under 95 minutes are always the sweetest plums Repo Man Runtime: 93 minutes Re-Animator Runtime: 85 minutes Django (1966) Runtime: 91 minutes From Beyond Runtime: 85 minutes The Brave Little Toaster Runtime: 90 minutes They Live Runtime: 94 minutes and so on
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Why even watch a short movie just watch TV in that case. The longer and flabbier a movie is the better why even watch a movie in that case, why not watch a season long tv show
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Egg Moron posted:when I see that a movie is 87 minutes long there are exceptions, but yeah, pretty much this
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Host on Shudder is like 54 minutes and GREATLY benefits from it. makes me hope that we see more filmmakers experiment with shorter run times, since a lot of these films are straight to VOD/made for streaming services
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i like a long movie need to finally watch Inland Empire, see ya next week
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I like the bad poltergeist remake where the dad’s all sad that he lost his job but had managed to purchase a home bigger than in the original movie and spends the first act of the film replacing a couple thousand dollars worth of his family’s electronics although if I encountered a ghost in real life my first response would be to tell that motherfucker to keep away from the TV
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the irishman was over three hours long and im not convinced anyone actually watched it
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Some Guy TT posted:the irishman was over three hours long and im not convinced anyone actually watched it i half watched it while playing switch iirc
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The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya is 162 minutes making it the second longest animated film ever made.
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Some Guy TT posted:the irishman was over three hours long and im not convinced anyone actually watched it i watched it and tbh it wasn't great and would honestly have been a better movie if a studio exec had been like "3 and a half hours marty? edit this down to a tight 120 and we'll see"
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I watched Grand Prix recently. that's a three hour movie or thereabouts
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90 minutes or three hours imo
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