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Like the many takeaways of the Chicago 7 for Aaron Sorkin are apparently "VOTE!", "SUPPORT THE TROOPS", and "OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD, THEY JUST SOMETIMES HAVE BAD PEOPLE IN CONTROL". It's amazing the stuff he just decided to invent whole cloth. It's some Rush Revere poo poo. And all the work to make Schultz human and sympathetic, just...ugh...loving contemptible. Also just an aside, get younger actors...these were supposed to be people in their early 30s or late 20s mostly...def worked more with some of the cast than others lol Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Oct 24, 2020 |
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Class Warcraft posted:By the end it's basically downtown abbey + the world's least scary ghosts. I mean, to be fair, this sounds like a pretty close adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.
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Oct 24, 2020 18:20
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Shageletic posted:I hear they turned Hoffman into a liberal. They turned everyone into a liberal lol, even the prosecutor and the judge who was an even bigger piece of poo poo irl. Taken on its own, as a movie I thought it was pretty good. Sorkin is maybe a better director than he is a writer, and the characters are fun to watch. The acting is excellent, especially SBC, Jeremy Strong, and Sir Mark Rylance. But as an account of real events, it’s a travesty, and it’s impressive how he accomplished that with mostly small changes. Starks fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Oct 24, 2020 |
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Oct 24, 2020 18:47
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dantheman650 posted:Thanks for this compelling review. You're welcome. Would you prefer a 6000 words thesis about the show and why it didn't caught my attention at all? Everything in Twitter format, of course.
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Oct 24, 2020 19:19
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because I'm a dummy and will watch whatever Netflix puts at the top of the page I watched La Revolution. The basic premise is that its telling of the French Revolution except aristocracy have all infected themselves with a disease that gives them immortality but turns them into basically zombies where they are literally eating the peasants. It isnt super high minded or anything but it is beautifully shot and the dubbing is really high quality and moves at a pretty quick pace.
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Oct 24, 2020 19:20
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Punkin Spunkin posted:It feels so "loosely inspired" sometimes and he takes such creative license (on an event he clearly wasnt very informed in) that it seems to solely exist for the purpose of sorkin writing liberal fanfiction But it's extremely entertaining
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Oct 24, 2020 19:40
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Starks posted:They turned everyone into a liberal lol, even the prosecutor and the judge who was an even bigger piece of poo poo irl. Uhhhhh no they showed very clearly that the judge was a literally insane, incompetent, racist piece of poo poo
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Oct 24, 2020 19:41
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Junkie Disease posted:Witches remake suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked Probably one of the worst movies Ive watched this year. Octavia Spencer inexplicably having all of the info needed to just dump exposition about the witches every scene, the god awful CGI, Hathaways over the top but completely unconvincing performance, the script in general. The fact they cast Kristin Chenoweth as the voice of a child was a perfect example of just how braindead this production was. It was an absolute disaster. I belly laughed that the final shot was a pan and scan of a god awful photoshop composite still.
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Oct 24, 2020 19:57
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I did not expect or deserve the Chipmunks surprise sequel ending
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Oct 25, 2020 03:34
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Junkie Disease posted:Witches remake suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked It is awful, just terrible all around. I'm not even a huge fan of the original, but we watched it a couple weeks ago and it is far and away so much better than the remake in every way. I like a lot of people involved in the making of this movie - Zemeckis, Del Toro, Cauron, Spencer, hell even Hathaway. Amazing it turned out so badly.
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Oct 25, 2020 07:41
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Like the many takeaways of the Chicago 7 for Aaron Sorkin are apparently "VOTE!", "SUPPORT THE TROOPS", and "OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD, THEY JUST SOMETIMES HAVE BAD PEOPLE IN CONTROL". this is completely confirming my pre-existing biases, but at least now I know for sure it'd make me mad.
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Oct 25, 2020 08:44
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So is "The Witches" basically HBO Max's counterpart to Disney's Artemis Fowl? A movie so incompetently adapted and horrendously conceived that it's for the best it got dropped onto streaming rather than saved for theaters some years down the line?Simone Magus posted:The Queen's Gambit on Netflix is great.
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At this point I think it's safe to say for the most part, that if you see a movie that is full of A list talent, but is inexplicably going straight to a steaming service, it's going to be extremely bad.
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Oct 25, 2020 10:58
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What's the ratio of fun to drama in Queen's Gambit?
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feedmyleg posted:What's the ratio of fun to drama in Queen's Gambit? 50/50. It's also gorgeous looking.
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Oct 25, 2020 15:44
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Just watched On the Rocks. Listen, if you need something soothing and low-key, possibly after a bad day at work or something, put it on. If you're in a situation where you've going to watch a movie on TV with your parents and want a non-controversial consensus choice, put it on. This is not something you have to rush to consume. It'll be around. Keep it in your back pocket. It's perfectly charming and everyone does a good job but it's not something I'd label a must watch.
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Oct 26, 2020 03:00
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Cats is on HBO now and also it's in the kids section. I'm pretty sure that counts as child abuse
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Simone Magus posted:Cats is on HBO now and also it's in the kids section. I'm pretty sure that counts as child abuse as long as its not the butthole cut I don't mind
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Oct 26, 2020 04:07
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Just watched On the Rocks. That's disappointing to hear! I generally like Sofia Coppola's films, although she does have some misses (like that Civil War movie she did a few years back) (also, I had no idea she's 49! I guess I still picture her in her early 30s). Does Apple+ have a large enough catalogue of quality content yet to be worth subscribing for a month during quarantine?
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Oct 26, 2020 04:20
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Nihonniboku posted:That's disappointing to hear! I generally like Sofia Coppola's films, although she does have some misses (like that Civil War movie she did a few years back) (also, I had no idea she's 49! I guess I still picture her in her early 30s). I think $5 is a perfectly fine cost to watch For All Mankind, Ted Lasso, and On the Rocks.
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Oct 26, 2020 04:35
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For All Mankind is pretty good. I'm about halfway done with it and I'm enjoying it a lot.
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Famethrowa posted:as long as its not the butthole cut I don't mind This is the only cut that exists
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Oct 26, 2020 06:46
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Anyone else watched Over the Moon here? Felt like there was a really good Pixar killer here, but it gets a bit lost in ideas that should have been on the cutting room floor (Gobi, the ping-pong match) to expand more on the main plot (the amulet, Fei Fei and Chin bonding).
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Oct 26, 2020 09:17
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I'm half way through the Third Day on HBO and this poo poo is pretty bonkers. I'm really digging it.
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Oct 26, 2020 09:28
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Simone Magus posted:But it's extremely entertaining i just read a take of Sorkin as a great storyteller/artist who is absolutely infected with terrible morals and values. Its the reason why all his characters are smart white men that list going into Harvard within their first sentence of dialogue. Sorkin is a terrible man whose awfulness in real life is well documented. But he is very entertaining. Dont know why that is more awful than a Michael Bay, another well documented awful person that is fabulous in entertaining... The hypocrisy? The preening? People I should respect valuing him so highly? Sorkin needing to impose his privileged douchebaggery as an answer to the world's ills?
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veni veni veni posted:I'm half way through the Third Day on HBO and this poo poo is pretty bonkers. I'm really digging it. I finished it. It was okay. I much prefer We Are Who We Are, the other HBO show that is currently airing on Mondays. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Oct 26, 2020 13:03
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Shageletic posted:i just read a take of Sorkin as a great storyteller/artist who is absolutely infected with morals and values. Its the reason why all his characters are smart white men that list going into Harvard within their first sentence of dialogue. Sorkin is a terrible man whose awfulness in real life is well documented. It is weird, isn't it? I think that Trial of the Chicago 7 is a better film than Pain and Gain (barely) but I would say that Pain and Gain is more "honest". At the same time, I think Bay is probably (barely) more of an rear end in a top hat. I lowkey hate Sorkin but I dunno, I liked Trial. Maybe liberal fanfiction was what I needed lol.
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I don't get what was so great about the original Witches.Punkin Spunkin posted:it seems to solely exist for the purpose of sorkin writing liberal fanfiction
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Wayne is coming to Prime Video November 6th. Along with Cobra Kai, they were the best of Youtube Red.
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't get what was so great about the original Witches. I was really impressed by how much it commits to the witches and general transformation being actually gruesome and scary. I watched all kinds of movies as a youth, but it really made a mark on me by merging childlike innocence with surprisingly scary imagery and situations... the scene of him witnessing the witches taking off their disguises (while barely hidden and obviously about to be discovered the entire time) is really nightmarish stuff, the kind of thing a kid would actually dream about and get real scared by. It never really lets the tension drop or removes the sense of danger; I was pretty surprised the main kid gets part of his tail chopped off. And while they do throw in the "and then everything went back to normal" very very end, it's still impressive to me before that that the kid just accepts his new mouse life. A worse movie would devote a huge chunk of its runtime to "how do we get back to normal??" but the main character is this great little dude who's too busy on his mission to even worry about that.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Anybody seen the "Barbarians" miniseries yet? It owns. I rewatched HBOs Rome in sort of a lead up to it so I could pretend this was, in a way, the continuation we never got and so far I am really enjoying it and its filling that long left open hole as much as possible. Im fairly into Roman history and while it of course takes some liberties to add more drama, it is also fairly historically accurate thus far.
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AccountSupervisor posted:It owns. I rewatched HBOs Rome in sort of a lead up to it so I could pretend this was, in a way, the continuation we never got and so far I am really enjoying it and its filling that long left open hole as much as possible. I've only watched the first episode so I'm still on the fence, but the fact that they made all the Romans actually speak in Latin is pretty bonkers.
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Class Warcraft posted:I've only watched the first episode so I'm still on the fence, but the fact that they made all the Romans actually speak in Latin is pretty bonkers. Its definitely not as "exciting" as the trailer made it out and the famous battle is highly highly condensed which was pretty disappointing because I was hoping theyd take the chance they had to really portray something like that in its full span over several episodes but all in all I enjoyed it. But Im also incredibly forgiving of shows/movies like this because I cherish any decent attempt to portray this era of history.
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veni veni veni posted:I'm half way through the Third Day on HBO and this poo poo is pretty bonkers. I'm really digging it. It's fuckin great!!!!
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Halloween Jack posted:I don't get what was so great about the original Witches. Anjelica Huston completely elevates what would otherwise be standard kids fare of the era.
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Oct 26, 2020 23:18
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Just watched Vivarium on Prime. It's "what if coo coo birds but instead of a bird tricking another bird into raising its young, it's aliens and humans." It's ok. Visually interesting. Cromulent acting.
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I just watched Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings. I didn't know anything about it, and I assumed it was sort-of Sherlock Holmes in ancient China (which sounded great). It starts out a bit like that, with some Wuxia elements added in, but it got increasingly mystical and strange as it went on. I liked the first two acts, but felt a little worn-out and vaguely unsatisfied by the end. I would have preferred something more grounded. This is the third of three movies, so maybe I should have watched the first two beforehand.
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DorianGravy posted:I just watched Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings. I didn't know anything about it, and I assumed it was sort-of Sherlock Holmes in ancient China (which sounded great). It starts out a bit like that, with some Wuxia elements added in, but it got increasingly mystical and strange as it went on. I liked the first two acts, but felt a little worn-out and vaguely unsatisfied by the end. I would have preferred something more grounded. This is the third of three movies, so maybe I should have watched the first two beforehand. ago, but I think I felt pretty much the same way about it as what you have described about the third one, so I'm not sure that having seen the other installments would make much difference in that regard.
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GORDON posted:Just watched Vivarium on Prime. Vivarium is extremely dope. Is there a dubbed version of Barbarians around, any language but German? From the trailer the fancy TV German of the Germans is absolutely unbearable, even worse than Dark.
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