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Punkin Spunkin posted:I wasn't really that taken by Nomadland. I understand why people are though, just the realness and tragedy of these realities is enough to power a decent dramatic vehicle, and so many people are hungry for any crumb of populism and recognition of gig capitalist evil...but it felt mostly toothless, more Into the Wild-y than I wanted or expected... The part I had the hardest time with was they didn't even approach any indictment of Amazon at all. It seems like Amazon must have let them film in their warehouses, so maybe they had some kind of influence over the film? And, maybe the people who rely on those jobs in the movie actually like them, I suppose that could be a possibility. My other criticism would be that the ending just wasn't very strong.
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regulargonzalez posted:Manhattan is unthinkable to watch now That was my first attempt trying to watch a Woody Allen film Didn't make it ten minutes in , it was that disgusting. Haven't watched one since & don't plan to.
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Island Nation posted:That was my first attempt trying to watch a Woody Allen film I pretty much assume that the last new Woody Allen fan was created years ago.
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The worst part is that my Woody Allen impression is impeccable
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One great little moment in Nathan for You was an interview with a pretty good Kramer/Michael Richards impersonator trying to still make it work.
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I didn't like Nomadland. It's a movie that's obsessed with death, drenched in death, seeming to want us to bathe in the reality of our impending mortality. It seems to say that life is short, okay, and you need to make the most of it. Alright, cool, I'm with Nomadland there. The problem is that it says that only by living this one specific kind of life can you really be making the full use of the limited time we have. Normies just aren't having the true, authentic experiences that make life worth living. This is where it leaves me cold. Because if you're living in an unheated van and making GBS threads in a bucket, aren't you missing out on some of the joys of life? What would be so non-uplifiting about saving up and doing the research and buying a really comfortable chair, then sitting in that comfortable chair and being very happy about it? How's that a waste of your life? I'm not saying the nomad life is wrong in any way but it's just one way to be. Nomadland's message is that if you aren't living that life, you're a sucker in 21st century America's con game. I think that's just one perspective. It's got a powerful energy of "person who just got converted to something and wants to talk your ear off about it at a social gathering" Also, yes, I think it super pulls its punches politically. I'd be a little more okay with its pushing its perspective if it had a more explicit and less wishy washy message about the failures of late stage capitalism. Teriyaki Hairpiece fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Sounds like a modernized Fight Club philosophy.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I didn't like Nomadland. Nothing says living like making just above minimum wage for the worlds largest conglomerate and having an unsecure housing situation! It's fine if that's what you want to do but it isn't the only way. Edit: I did find an article where someone involved with the film addresses this directly: https://www.thewrap.com/how-nomadland-managed-to-shoot-in-a-real-amazon-warehouse-credit-frances-mcdormand/ quote:The presentation of Amazon in the film is matter-of-fact, neither a celebration nor a condemnation of the retail giant. “It’s a weird argument to say that the movie is making a big critical statement,” Richards said. “I mean, we simply show Fern working there. We also show a Ford Econoline as well, but I don’t think we’re making a big critical statement about Ford. Obviously, you can find politics in anything.” frogbs fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I didn't like Nomadland. I think some of you wish Nomadland was, instead, pity porn about how unhappy nomads really are. But if you read any article about modern nomads in America, it's that many chose that lifestyle. Rather than be poor and stationary, they chose to be poor and mobile. Within the narrow confines of our economic system they made choices. The film is pretty clear that this is a choice fraught with trade-offs. (You really think that scene with her making GBS threads in her car was supposed to be inspiring?) I don't think you can fault the film for fairly representing the motivations of its subjects.
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I think the scene towards the end where she gets out of bed at David Strathairn's family compound and goes outside to sleep in her van makes the implicit explicit. I don't think it's a subtle movie.
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Watched Bliss on Prime despite the horrid reviews and tbh I thought it was pretty decent. Not like, amazing or anything but well worth a watch. The premise is pretty good and I don't know why critics were expecting it to pan out much differently than it did. The ending was a bit sloppy but not terrible.
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frogbs posted:Nothing says living like making just above minimum wage for the worlds largest conglomerate and having an unsecure housing situation! It's fine if that's what you want to do but it isn't the only way. Oh well there's the problem, they're intentionally making a non-political film about an intensely political issue. No wonder it's so muddled.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I think the scene towards the end where she gets out of bed at David Strathairn's family compound and goes outside to sleep in her van makes the implicit explicit. I don't think it's a subtle movie. Right. Moreover, absolutely nothing about the movie demonstrates that Fern has chosen this life, she shows no enjoyment in it like some of the other nomads who make it clear this is a lifestyle and philosophy they embrace. Fern is shown that she is doing this purely for survival. The town she chose to make her life in simply no longer exists. So when she is offered a way out in the form of stable housing with people who show they love and care about her, she rejects it, what, 3 or 4 times during the movie? For what? Freedom? She doesn't seem particularly fond of it. It seems that the message is that she is self-flagellating, that she seems to think she deserves to suffer for the sin of outliving her husband. The messaging in the movie is simply very muddled.
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Judas and the Black Messiah is good
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I think Netflix might have made this for me, specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViNNMQEW9fU
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promising carl posted:I think Netflix might have made this for me, specifically lol at this shot  The MR2 is mid-engined. He's stuffing documents into the engine bay
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GD_American posted:lol at this shot Gotta keep em warm
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One of the interesting things about Nomadland is that many of the nomad characters aren't actually poor. Charitably, you could call them "Bohemians" (the uncharitable term would be "poverty tourists"). David Strathairn's character is almost certainly not actually poor given his children's wealth and that he can easily afford a surgery despite only working menial seasonal jobs. Swanky is also retired, not poor. On the other hand, Fern is mostly a nomad by necessity. Although she could move in with her sister, she actually did lose her house and her means of income. Because of that, you could read Fern leaving David towards the ending as an illustration of the class tension between the nomads by choice and nomads by necessity. This isn't really a strong engagement with the political questions raised by the nomads' situation, though, and one of my main criticisms about the movie is that its apolitical stance feels inauthentic. Aesthetically, not wanting to portray Fern's work as too hard or too easy makes each of her tasks less involving. I would honestly prefer the movie if it did glorify poverty and Amazon's labor practices. At least there would be something to think about.
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The 2012 Dredd movie was added to Prime (US) today. It's the good Judge Dredd movie
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pospysyl posted:One of the interesting things about Nomadland is that many of the nomad characters aren't actually poor. Charitably, you could call them "Bohemians" (the uncharitable term would be "poverty tourists"). David Strathairn's character is almost certainly not actually poor given his children's wealth and that he can easily afford a surgery despite only working menial seasonal jobs. Swanky is also retired, not poor. On the other hand, Fern is mostly a nomad by necessity. Although she could move in with her sister, she actually did lose her house and her means of income. Because of that, you could read Fern leaving David towards the ending as an illustration of the class tension between the nomads by choice and nomads by necessity. Totally agree. I personally gave this a 5 stars on the ol Letterboxd, but this is definitely my criticism of it. I read and loved the book, and was a little dismayed it didn’t dig into a lot of issues laid it in it (terrible work conditions and pay for these jobs, the need to have to become a nomad vs desire to do it)
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GD_American posted:It's the only Raid remake you'll ever need. Dredd was in production a year before The Raid.
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Deadite posted:The 2012 Dredd movie was added to Prime (US) today. It's the good Judge Dredd movie One of my favourite movies. I got the UHD recently (had to get it shipped from Amazon US  ) and it holds up. Also, the audio on that disc really pumps. I felt like doing an effort post on it but 1) I couldn't work out how to capture from my TV, and 2) my movie insights amount to not much more than "I liked this scene."
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veni veni veni posted:Dredd was in production a year before The Raid. Yeah I was half-joking. I love both movies and wish Dredd had gotten a sequel. For any Letterkenny fans who want the perpetually uneasy feeling of seeing a very young Wayne and a normal acting McMurray in a pretty decent Montreal cop drama, "19-2" is streaming on Amazon now. 2014 Canadian cop show.
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Yeah, I've seen that mentioned before. My old Sony TV could do 3D (a feature which seems to have been a fad) and I do still have my PS3. With some effort, and the original Bluray, I could probably make this happen.GD_American posted:I love both movies and wish Dredd had gotten a sequel. It's absolutely the #1 Movie Most Deserving of A Sequel But Will Never Get One. Kalko fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Put me down as somebody who wished Dredd got a sequel. And I hate sequels. Dredd and Master and Commander.
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Dredd was great. It's also one of the few movies I've ever seen that actually works better with 3D. Also, I still feel that in the film he should have shot the kids instead of "juvie cubes".
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In retrospect I was really lucky to see Dredd in theaters since it was one of the only movies that had fun with 3d.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:In retrospect I was really lucky to see Dredd in theaters since it was one of the only movies that had fun with 3d. Same, but it's one of the few movies that comes with the 3D version with every Blu Ray. I'll pop it on in a VR headset and relive the theater magic every once in a while.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Put me down as somebody who wished Dredd got a sequel. And I hate sequels. Now that would be a crossover worth watching  But yeah, Dredd is one of those movies that you can really just put on any time and have a good time with, even if you've already seen it a dozen times before. It knows exactly what it wants to do and does it perfectly.
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Am I crazy or did the first 15min of Monster Hunter feel like a spoof of the type of Michael Bay Transformers movie I thought this was gunna be? It was atrocious and then I started loving it once the spiders got involved. I was genuinely shocked they killed off every single useless cliche military side character so brutally and that entire spider sequence felt like Event Horizion Anderson and TIs death genuinely freaked me out. The random nameless monster world characters getting absolutely destroyed out of nowhere by that dragon had me cackling like an idiot.. I also really enjoyed Milas chemistry with Tony Jaa. Obvious sequel/franchise bait and felt like 45min pilot but I actually kind of liked the movie and am really surprised how well done most of the action sequences were.
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Is there some kind of never ever thing with a Dredd sequel? We all know Karl Urban would jump back in right away even 20 years from now.
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Glottis posted:Is there some kind of never ever thing with a Dredd sequel? We all know Karl Urban would jump back in right away even 20 years from now. It was a flop, and while it's got a loyal cult audience there's no sign that it's enough to justify the risk of a sequel.
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There's a Mega City One show supposedly in development and iirc he's said in the past that he'd be open to appearing on that if possible.
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I read that Alex Garland originally wanted to do more with it but lost interest.
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There's going to be another Beavis and Butt-Head movie on Paramount+ at some point.
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Search party's whole thing incest thing. I get that it was going for different/millennial/weird/dark comedy but that came out of loving nowhere.
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Dredd bombed due to non-existent marketing. I had no idea the movie existed and only watched it because I wanted to kill time and it was the only movie poster that looked interesting.
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