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veni veni veni posted:Watched Avatar for the first time since theaters, and I have always enjoyed making fun of that movie, but tbh it's pretty fun. I enjoyed it. Yeah it's like, a dumb silly movie, but it's eminently watchable as long as you go do something else during the "romance" parts
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Still waiting to watch Avatar in 4K HDR. James Cameron please.
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Martman posted:I'm guessing you mean I Care a Lot, and yeah it was a lot of fun! I don't know, the movies was sort of a rollercoaster for me - first it really seemed like it wanted me to root for the sex trafficing mafia bros to gently caress up the uppity feminist c-word. Maybe I am too internet poisoned but I could just imagine this going reaaaallly well with the gamergate crowd or whatever. Then it turns around and wants me to root for that absolute piece of poo poo lady after all, then ok actually everyone wins, which is the last thing I wanted. Very unsatisfying overall, which isn't something I want in times like these.
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Did you uh, not watch the end? Also not that it really matters, but they weren't sex traffickers, or at least the movie did not acknowledge it. The photos they were going through were drug mules. They were drug smugglers. Either way they were pieces of poo poo though. Yes, you feel inclined to root for the mafia to some degree due to the circumstances, but I think trying to turn it into some imagined gamergate thing is a real stretch. The only really crowd pleasing ending I could think of would be her killing the mafia guy and then the old lady killing her. What we got was probably a better ending though and I'm glad they gave Macon Blair something to do. I knew this movie was going to give some people trouble, because there is really no one to root for. Everyone is a piece of poo poo. it's best watched if you are not rooting at all or rooting against everyone.
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veni veni veni posted:Watched Avatar for the first time since theaters, and I have always enjoyed making fun of that movie, but tbh it's pretty fun. I enjoyed it. The dialogue gets more painful with age.
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teagone posted:Still waiting to watch Avatar in 4K HDR. James Cameron please. I’ll get you that, True Lies on Blu, and good quality Blus of Terminator 1 & 2, I just need 300 years
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I foolishly searched for a T1 4K a few weeks back...
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Finally got around to watching "An American Pickle". Talk about a lovely movie. So much potential wasted.
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GD_American posted:The dialogue gets more painful with age. Oh yeah. Also it's amazing how dumb Jake is, and the evil army guy is an absolute cartoon. Although I think most of the actors did well with what they were given. I'd still never call it a great movie or anything but it is a lot of fun. And it's paced pretty well for something that is so goddamn long.
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What's the relationship between National Geographic the channel and the National Geographic part of Disney+? Does Disney+ in theory get everything eventually? Asking because I want to watch this but we don't have cable: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/movies-and-specials/the-new-air-force-one-flying-fortress
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married but discreet posted:the sex trafficing mafia bros Were you in the same room as the TV?
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veni veni veni posted:Did you uh, not watch the end? She got everything she wanted and yeah she died but she died a hero, and she said before she doesn't really care about death Kirk Vikernes posted:Were you in the same room as the TV? The pictures read sex trafficking to me, but as veni veni veni pointed out they were apparently drug smugglers? Also unrelated, but googling the movie I saw a quite strange thing:  Not just this movie, or Netflix specific:  Is this plagiarism, placed ads that are supposed to look like reviews or what?
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Could just be a web conglomerate like Vox reposting an article to all of their subsites. Edit: Catching The Last Action Hero on Starz, the movie is a lot better than I remember giving it credit for. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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HBO Max: It's a Sin Comedy/drama about gay friends living in London during the 80s. It is VERY good.
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I hear it's a near-flawless portrait of queer youth!
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married but discreet posted:Is this plagiarism, placed ads that are supposed to look like reviews or what? I vote SEO or ads scam. Both businesses are super sketchy and do this sort of thing all the time.
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King of Bleh posted:I hear it's a near-flawless portrait of queer youth! I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or what
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Simone Magus posted:I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or what married but discreet posted:Not just this movie, or Netflix specific:
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My guess is that it's the press package for the movie being regurgitated or paid reviews/blurbs, which both seem pretty common
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Edit: Catching The Last Action Hero on Starz, the movie is a lot better than I remember giving it credit for. While there are still good action movies out there, I can't help but feel we've lost some of the magic since peak Arnold Schwarzenegger. Modern action movies are either too gritty or trying too hard to be campy. MajorBonnet fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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Ohhhh lol. That's loving hilarious. What's bizarre is that the show really is that good. I'm serious, it's the kind of show that's... obviously good, like Chernobyl or Deadwood. So if they paid for that, they just threw money away because it'd have gotten glowing reviews no matter what lol
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Simone Magus posted:HBO Max: It's a Sin I watched the last 20 minutes again today, I started to cry again.
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Nihonniboku posted:I watched the last 20 minutes again today, I started to cry again. Colin is too good and pure for this universe. I love him.
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Yeah, echoing the posts about It's a Sin, it's been available to stream for a short while already in the UK, and I've been recommending it to folks here. Best bit of drama I've seen in a while, really moving.
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Also started The Knick now that it's on Max and uh yeah it's also incredibly good. Clive Owen has always been one of my favourite actors
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I watched the first episode of Allen vs Farrow. I know this is going to come as a shock to people but christ Woody Allen is a piece of poo poo. (They didn't get to the molestation part yet either)
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Every time, and I mean every time, I see that title I think there's a new Alien vs. (Something) film coming out.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Every time, and I mean every time, I see that title I think there's a new Alien vs. (Something) film coming out. There is in fact a character named farrow in aliens who is killed by an alien so it tracks
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Class Warcraft posted:There is in fact a character named farrow in aliens who is killed by an alien so it tracks Ferro 
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david_a posted:Ferro I didn’t want to be the one to do it lmao. She has the best line in the film too. “We’re in the pipe, 5 by 5...”
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Aliens had a board game/RPG way back when, and Ferro got her pistol out in time if you rolled a 6.
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david_a posted:Ferro Close enough.
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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... It's funny, all of the scenes with the authentic nomads were great. Nothing against Frances McDormand or anything, but the docudrama nature and the fact that it was basically her and David Strathairn surrounded by these real nomads just made me wish I was seeing a politically incisive documentary instead of "Frances McDormand inserts herself to reveal the tragedy of the common people". Plenty of pretty nature vistas for sure. I understand the need to survive and adapt to new conditions and find beauty in your life, but it felt like it was more about discovering the rugged frontier individualism of the new reality rather than condemning the evil that brought it about and showing the real ugliness and desperation past making GBS threads in a bucket and old people dying (people have surgeries but there's little mention of healthcare, and the idea of moving into your well-off family's home is shown as some sort of surrender, as if the type of people who become nomadic Amazon seasonal workers aren't living that way because of our coercive corporate oligarchic economic structures rather than some choice to be on the "new frontier"). Maybe I'm being too harsh though, expecting too much, blaming it for what I assumed it would be. It was still a decent movie and definitely moving at times. A solid B-. It's not Nomadland's fault people are acclaiming it so hard. I guess I'd rather have seen a documentary based on the book. I wanted more Harlan County USA vibes, less Into the Wild and wannabe Kelly Reichardt/Terrence Malick vibes. It just felt like something was...missing. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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mcmagic posted:I watched the first episode of Allen vs Farrow. I know this is going to come as a shock to people but christ Woody Allen is a piece of poo poo. (They didn't get to the molestation part yet either) I never really knew the details because I didn't like his movies and never sought the info out. I knew about Soon-Yi of course, and that there were allegations from Dylan, but I had no idea how... loving unambiguous it seems to be true, that it started when she was loving 5 and that everyone already suspected it back then. Holy mother, yeah, he seems in all likelihood to be an enormously evil person and I'm really, really glad I already disliked his films so that I don't have to consciously avoid them
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I wasn't really that taken by Nomadland. i appreciate this write up. a movie buddy of mine who isn't very good at articulating his thoughts told me this was great, but had trouble telling me why he thought so and just kept talking up how good an actress frances mcdormand is. he is pretty ultra lib, though, and i suspected there was some political ideological reason it resonated with him so much. i actually really liked into the wild, or at least from what i remember since it's been almost a decade now i think, so i'll still check this out i guess.
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Simone Magus posted:I never really knew the details because I didn't like his movies and never sought the info out. I knew about Soon-Yi of course, and that there were allegations from Dylan, but I had no idea how... loving unambiguous it seems to be true, that it started when she was loving 5 and that everyone already suspected it back then. I grew up loving his films and I probably have seen all of them and I really was finding it harder to separate him from his films but I think it's just impossible now.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I wasn't really that taken by Nomadland. I read today that this is a pretty common criticism of the movie, so you're not alone. I watched it last night. It was good, but it didn't scream Oscar front runner to me. I love Frances McDormand, she of course did her thing here. I thought the plot was lacking substance and meandering though. It sort of seemed like the message of the movie was, "Life's tough, help your fellow man, except, don't."
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Simone Magus posted:I never really knew the details because I didn't like his movies and never sought the info out. I knew about Soon-Yi of course, and that there were allegations from Dylan, but I had no idea how... loving unambiguous it seems to be true, that it started when she was loving 5 and that everyone already suspected it back then. yea it's a thing where you likely know the general concept of 'Woody's a pedophile who raped his daughter' but, like, people forget how completely uncontroversial the accusation was on merits but instead was just argued with vague 'well Mia's a poo poo mom too' and general 'come on who doesn't like Annie Hall????' Like, people completely thought it was probably true from the get-go.
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mcmagic posted:I grew up loving his films and I probably have seen all of them and I really was finding it harder to separate him from his films but I think it's just impossible now. Manhattan is unthinkable to watch now
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regulargonzalez posted:Manhattan is unthinkable to watch now That is such a great movie but Mariel Hemmingway even said that he tried to date her during that movie and she was 17. He's a complete ghoul.
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