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I'm watching Vivarium and overall I'm pleased that they try all the things I keep thinking "why don't they just ____", but if they don't kill the weird alien barking kid i'm going to be annoyed. vvv honestly they should have gone at the baby with that pick of theirs the moment they saw the note. What are they going to do, keep supplying them with new babies to kill? Trying to raise it is just playing into their hands. Why would the aliens or whatever that trapped you against your will actually honor their promise? yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 23:10 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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Parody movies were basically killed off by Friedberg and Seltzer. ^^^prepare to be disappointed
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Aug 1, 2020 23:04
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What a stupid ending. The bug aliens' model doesn't even make sense, they seem to do it solely to create the premise of the movie. Why outsource raising their baby aliens to random humans that don't want to do it? Can't the adult ones just pour the cornflakes and teach the annoying kids to bark?
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yeah I eat rear end posted:What a stupid ending. Yeah it was passable until the ending which it absolutely didn't land
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There were two good short films in there that weren't welded together that well. Also it felt like there was going to be some Splice-like sexual assault in the story but they scraped it which if that was the case I'm glad they did.
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Splice was one of those movies where I think the only person not on drugs was the cameraman.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Splice was one of those movies where I think the only person not on drugs was the cameraman. I’ve always wanted to watch that just out of curiosity
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Keith Atherton posted:I’ve always wanted to watch that just out of curiosity Just accidently trip and shut off your viewing device before the last fifteen minutes and Splice is great.
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I haven't seen Splice since its theatrical release, but I'm happy that it's been largely forgotten because it's going to be a hell of a movie for someone to discover in 5 or 10 years and feel like "why the gently caress isn't anyone else aware of this? What the gently caress is this??"
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I just got to the sit in and when she actually Rumors one of the cops for the first time and holy poo poo that entire scene was incredible. Not really Allison focused but that last episode is a trip and a half, lemme tell ya.
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It was kinda hilarious watching people discover Splice a few weeks ago on Twitter.
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OK. Now y'all are making me want to go watch Splice. Never seen it and it's in my queue. I suppose I should smoke some weed?
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BiggerBoat posted:OK. Now y'all are making me want to go watch Splice. yup.
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Or drink, heavily. It's definitely... a movie.
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I seem to remember liking it but it's occasionally a very unpleasant movie and it's weird in places for what should ultimately be like a "techno-thriller" or whatever. It's just the sort of experience I can imagine people having like what I had with movies like Repo Man or The Wraith. What the gently caress is this and why isn't this in the cultural conversation more? How is there a movie where Charlie Sheen plays the ghost of this girl's boyfriend who also drives a future car and uses the car to kill the gang that killed him, which includes Clint Howard with Eraserhead hair and also his girlfriend's new boyfriend. How did I not already know this was a thing?
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In the new transformers series on Netflix, when Optimus prime is a robot, he has broken windshield nipples but when he transforms into a truck, they are normal unbroken windows. That's weird.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:In the new transformers series on Netflix, when Optimus prime is a robot, he has broken windshield nipples but when he transforms into a truck, they are normal unbroken windows. There are a lot of legitimately irritating things about that show
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Just watched The Predator last night. Holy poo poo. I mean, I know there were rewrites, with an entire ending plus supporting scenes that were cut, but goddamn that movie feels completely disjointed. I'd actually be interested in seeing the original cut, but I doubt I'll get to. Anyway, I hate how the loonies and their fate were so telegraphed from the beginning. I mean, you just know that this movie, that stars a ragtag group of misfits at the beginning, people without family and who aren't as sympathetic as the main guy with a son, will all be killed off, and by god that's exactly what happened. And the guy who McKenna connected with the most is the last one to go, who was the most helpful, because of course he was. Though counterpoint to that, I actually enjoyed how Traeger'sdeath was just so dumb and without buildup or fanfare. He's the main human antagonist during this whole thing, and his need to be absolutely on top of any and all Predator-related stuff gets his head blown off in a super quick cut. I'm glad at least that wasn't built up along with all of the other clichés that infected that movie. Edit: wait I have more... What in the blue gently caress is up with the CIA/FBI or whatever govt entity they're all in at the end hiring McKenna's son? Yes, I know he's smart. I know he decrypted this and that, but  kid is like 9 years old.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The Wraith. I watched this as a teenager, and remember it being  I can't imagine it holds up. Apparently I need either a Moviesphere or SHUDDER account to watch it, neither of which are available in Australia. My memories of it will remain untainted by reality.
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Memento posted:I watched this as a teenager, and remember it being  I just watch Kavinsky videos and assume it’s basically the same thing.
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holy poo poo how good is Kavinsky I got into Perturbator and Carpenter Brut from listening to them as well Not sure what it is about French people and synthwave but I'll take it
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Ugly In The Morning posted:She started using her powers twice in the second episode when the cops arrested her husband, and only stops the second time when he husband says hello be fine. She has extreme hang ups on using her powers because of all the stuff with her daughter. I love how eventually she's all "Why don't I use my powers? Because of the terrible cost." But then the moment she starts using them in front of her husband she's just immediately goes full sociopath retribution against that racist diner guy. The power doesn't seem to have a terrible cost unless you're ludicrously callous and cruel with it. Which she is. She might as well have said "I can't use my power because I only have two speeds: not using it and cavalier torturer."
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I think human nature prevents people who can have anything they want from settling for just a little.
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Memento posted:I watched this as a teenager, and remember it being Unfortunately it's just kind of dull.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Unfortunately it's just kind of dull. Dull is a good way to put it, with some memorable scenes sprinkled in. You can see them all in Kavinsky/Perturbator/etc. vids.
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rydiafan posted:I think human nature prevents people who can have anything they want from settling for just a little. For all the poo poo Verhoeven's Hollow Man got, it was absolutely right about a scientist given that kind of power immediately turning into a monster.
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I'm watching Hide in the Light on Prime and it's not great? But the thing that gets me is this movie is about a haunted orphanage that sat around peacefully since the 60s until some Urbex people break in and rile up a demon. The poor guy was just relaxing and suddenly a bunch of rich people break in the door and start poking around the closets. It's just practicing a Castle Doctrine
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:For all the poo poo Verhoeven's Hollow Man got, it was absolutely right about a scientist given that kind of power immediately turning into a monster. Same with Chronicle. The lesson is clear - never give a nerd power*. *Source: Am nerd. Could not be trusted with power.
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can anyone else who has watched John Henry with Terry Crews confirm/deny that my feeling that the movie was absolute trash is correct? I don't know what the hell it was going for, but it didn't work. At all. It was like it was trying to do some arty thing but the main character just hardly ever did anything. He just rolled over and let things happen until someone helped him out, then he hit some cybernetically augmented gangster with a hammer and...it just ends. Even for revenge porn the movie just sucked, and not even close to in a good way.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:For all the poo poo Verhoeven's Hollow Man got, it was absolutely right about a scientist given that kind of power immediately turning into a monster. I think that's kind of a running thing with with Invisible Man adaptations, the idea of not having to look at yourself in the mirror divorces you from morality. The one thing I didn't really like about last year's Invisible Man is that he was always a monstrous, abusive, manipulative piece of poo poo. He just also happened to invent a suit that made him invisible. yeah I eat rear end posted:can anyone else who has watched John Henry with Terry Crews confirm/deny that my feeling that the movie was absolute trash is correct? I don't know what the hell it was going for, but it didn't work. At all. I don't think you are alone in that: Wikipedia posted:On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 0% based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 3.45/10.[7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 27 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[8] Reading the synopsis it sounds like it has more to do with John Henry Irons from Steel than with any actual John Henry legend. Baron von Eevl has a new favorite as of 03:15 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Talking about the Invisible Man just reminded me that’s there a John Carpenter adapter that stars Chevy Chase. If I’m remember correctly he’s an rear end in a top hat and stays an rear end in a top hat the whole film. A John Carpenter adaption starring John Candy would have been better. He’s invisible, but he’s also very large, so people can’t help but bump into him or hear him as he’s trying to sneak around.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Talking about the Invisible Man just reminded me that’s there a John Carpenter adapter that stars Chevy Chase. If I’m remember correctly he’s an rear end in a top hat and stays an rear end in a top hat the whole film. John Carpenter replaced Ivan Reitman during production due to Chevy being an rear end in a top hat. A large part of the story of the pre-production is recounted in William Goldman’s ‘Which Lie Did I Tell?’: in it, he makes it very clear to CAA (the agency that represented all three of them) that he, Reitman and Chase were never going to be able to make a movie together because they had different ideas of what the movie should be. Goldman wanted to work with Reitman because he thought he had a good chance of making a great special effects-comedy with the guy who did ‘Ghostbusters’. Reitman liked Goldman’s work on ‘Butch Cassidy’ and ‘All The President’s Men’. CAA threw in Chevy Chase, who was pretty bankable if you were throwing together a comedy in 1990. The best line in Goldman’s story is the most telling: “I had no problem exploring ’the loneliness of invisibility’, I just didn’t want to explore it with Chevy Chase.”
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Toy Story is of course a movie series that doesn't really hold up to literal analysis and doesn't try to, being more or less in the magical realism genre, but I can't help but ponder the implications of the part where Buzz, despondent after realising he really is a toy and has been delusional the whole time, is at Sid's sister's tea party and gets apparently 'drunk' on tea. Imaginary tea. Of course, it makes a degree of sense thematically that imagination is important to the toys for obvious reasons, and not like they generally have any other physical needs or ability to engage in them besides physical maintenance and repair. (and Sid's collection implies they can survive a lot)
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I need to read more William Goldman. I’ll have to look up that book. Apparently that movie marked the beginning of the end for Chase’s career. It peaked with Christmas Vacation in ‘89, came to a halt with Invisible Man, and turned to a pile of poo poo with his talk show in ‘93.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Toy Story is of course a movie series that doesn't really hold up to literal analysis and doesn't try to, being more or less in the magical realism genre, but I can't help but ponder the implications of the part where Buzz, despondent after realising he really is a toy and has been delusional the whole time, is at Sid's sister's tea party and gets apparently 'drunk' on tea. Imaginary tea. The potato heads are where the series really gets hosed up for me. In the third movie Mr. Potato Head reconstructs himself by sticking his accessories into a tortilla, which then becomes him. Mrs. Potato Head leaves an eye on the other side of town and still sees through it, although only distantly. There's some real ship of Theseus implications behind them.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The potato heads are where the series really gets hosed up for me. In the third movie Mr. Potato Head reconstructs himself by sticking his accessories into a tortilla, which then becomes him. Mrs. Potato Head leaves an eye on the other side of town and still sees through it, although only distantly. There's some real ship of Theseus implications behind them. The funny thing is, the third movie's gag is actually a reference to the original Mr Potato Head toy, which didn't come with a body and was just a bunch of various body parts intended to be stuck into any available vegetable for comic effect.
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Either a piece of his consciousness exists within each part (so any replacement part would probably feel alien) or it’s just powered by belief so his body is whatever he believes it to be at the time.
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The fourth one has an antagonist, Gabby Gabby, with a defective voice-box that she needs to replace. She can still talk to other toys and poo poo, but I guess she can't communicate as the toy normally would with children. But children are perfectly capable of hearing and understanding the toys when they want to be heard, think about Woody threatening Sid in the first movie. Gabby could just as easily say the lines she's supposed to say when a child pulls her string, but she believes herself incapable.
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christmas boots posted:Either a piece of his consciousness exists within each part (so any replacement part would probably feel alien) or it’s just powered by belief so his body is whatever he believes it to be at the time. The latter is probably more plausible, though might be more that the consciousness and personality of the toys is shaped by their design- Buzz, who has a decent amount of backstory and identity at least through marketing and the box blurb, takes a while to realise it is actually just box blurb, though it still informs his baseline personality. Likewise, toys like the Barbies tend to act like you expect them to. (And remember Barbie has had a zillion jobs) Mr Potato Head's identity is specifically as a toy with detachable and rearrangable parts, and I imagine we can figure likewise for Mrs Potato Head, and thus seeing from an eye left behind makes sense for her, just as Mr Potato Head's limbs can function independently when necessary.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The fourth one has an antagonist, Gabby Gabby, with a defective voice-box that she needs to replace. She can still talk to other toys and poo poo, but I guess she can't communicate as the toy normally would with children. But children are perfectly capable of hearing and understanding the toys when they want to be heard, think about Woody threatening Sid in the first movie. Gabby could just as easily say the lines she's supposed to say when a child pulls her string, but she believes herself incapable. And not all the toys could talk. Gabbys Ventriloquist dummies couldn't (though perhaps they could they were just staying in character because they know their operator is supposed to be talking for them). Also Sid's haemonculi toys weren't able to talk either even though most did have a head.
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