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Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:

I didn't say he was a good one at all, he loving sucks, I just think he hates that he's permanently hitched to a thing that sucks even for him

is he even still involved in FG besides voice poo poo? i'd just make sure its all pawned off as much as possible and lazily record a few lines for brian or w/e once a week

but yeah it owns

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Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
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KomradeX posted:

That's something else that these, besides that these 23+ movies have maybe 5 lines that get quoted between all of them, they're are no stand out set pieces like running from the boulder, ripping the heart out, choosing the wrong grail, the Death Star trench run, the Canal chase from T2, anything from Aliens or any of the other rich stones of well cinema that have been absorbed into culture. It's like the opposite of Avatar that made a billion dollars but left no pop cultural foot print, these Marvel movies make so much money and god knows their toys and other related things are everywhere but nothing from there movies themselves have entered into our cultural history like these other scenes have. Maybe the elevator fight from Winter Solider?
yeah super hero movies are basically design-by-algo digital entertainment equivalent of the soylent nerd drink. like just enough baseline production values, bland sometimes 'quippy' ~whedon~ knockoff writing to just marginally pretend like its smart, and then a whole bunch of unmemorable sequences

imo they're great for plane-rides and that is the only time i ever really sit down and watch em because on a 5-12 hr flight you can bang out a solid 2-6 of them, each way and helps you pass-out

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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MizPiz posted:

It's pretty much this, except instead of a 90s lifestyle is it's PMC one (which, tbf, was arguably birthed in the 90s)
whats PMC

i've never seen an episode of friends other than catching snippets on TBS or whatever while channel surfing--no real desire to either

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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Serf posted:

at this point we're not going to be allowed to forget the marvel movies and that's the true horror
tbf it's not even that they're bad. baseline is they're usually competently made, just extremely forgettable and fairly boring, which is, whatever. they're genuinely good airplane time-killers, or i guess if you have kids you want to shut em up for a night. t he issue is we're pretty much not making much else and hollywoo n poo poo has really consolidated and just sticking to the exact same formulaic poo poo the last several years and several genres just straight up dead entirely.

like john wicks and dennis villeneuve movies have been the only good things the last several years and even the former is a small-studio.

like look at 2004-2007 vs 2015-2018

2004 - 2007 posted:

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Shrek 2
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Spider-Man 3
Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Spider-Man 2
Shrek the Third
The Da Vinci Code
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch a…
Transformers
Ice Age: The Meltdown
The Passion of the Christ
The Incredibles
War of the Worlds
Ratatouille
Casino Royale
The Day After Tomorrow
Night at the Museum
I am Legend
Madagascar
King Kong
Meet the Fockers
The Simpsons Movie
Troy
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cars
X-Men: The Last Stand
300
The Bourne Ultimatum
Mission: Impossible III
Shark Tale
Happy Feet
Ocean's Twelve
Hitch
Superman Returns
Live Free or Die Hard
Batman Begins
I, Robot
The Golden Compass
Alvin and the Chipmunks
National Treasure
Over the Hedge
Fantastic Four
Enchanted
The Devil Wears Prada
The Polar Express
The Bourne Supremacy
Chicken Little
Van Helsing
The Pursuit of Happyness
Ocean's Thirteen
Wedding Crashers
The Departed
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Bee Movie
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason
The Village
Robots
American Gangster
Rush Hour 3
Eragon
Wild Hogs
Hauru no ugoku shiro
Million Dollar Baby
Click
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
The Terminal
Collateral
Constantine
Ghost Rider
Kingdom of Heaven
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Flightplan
The Aviator
Garfield: The Movie
Knocked Up
King Arthur
Fun With Dick And Jane
The Break-Up
50 First Dates
The Holiday
The Pacifier
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Hairspray
The Longest Yard
Walk the Line
Open Season
Beowulf
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Inside Man
Poseidon
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
The 40 Year-old Virgin
Along Came Polly
Déjà Vu
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator
Flushed Away
Scary Movie 4
Starsky & Hutch
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Alexander
Blood Diamond
The Bucket List
Evan Almighty
The Island
The Interpreter
The Ring Two
Memoirs of a Geisha
Miami Vice
World Trade Center
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Sin City
The Phantom of the Opera
Kill Bill: Volume 2
No Country for Old Men
Monster-in-Law
The Pink Panther
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Rocky Balboa
Dreamgirls
P.S., I Love You
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Herbie: Fully Loaded
Resident Evil: Extinction
The Legend of Zorro
Charlotte's Web
The Game Plan
Music and Lyrics
Blades of Glory
Surf's Up
Monster House
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Blade: Trinity
Man on Fire
Big Momma's House 2
Bridge to Terabithia
Munich
Bewitched
Stardust
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Ray
You, Me and Dupree
V for Vendetta
Pride & Prejudice
Nanny McPhee
Failure to Launch
1408
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Atonement
Hide and Seek
Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem
Sahara
Shall We Dance?
The Forgotten
Closer
The Notebook
Apocalypto
Eight Below
Finding Neverland
The Omen
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals
Corpse Bride
Charlie Wilson's War
The Lake House
Underworld: Evolution
Hidalgo
Final Destination 3
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Chronicles of Riddick
Arthur et les Minimoys
Dawn of the Dead
The Brothers Grimm
Cinderella Man
Ladder 49
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hellboy
Guess Who
The Prestige
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Just Like Heaven
13 Going On 30
Little Man
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Christmas with the Kranks
The Stepford Wives
The Manchurian Candidate
Nacho Libre
Jarhead
The Wild
Red Eye
Be Cool
Hitman
Secret Window
The Guardian
Syriana
Silent Hill
Four Brothers
The Skeleton Key
TMNT
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Shooter
Racing Stripes
The Transporter 2
Rumor Has It
Michael Clayton
No Reservations
The Constant Gardener
R.V.
The Shaggy Dog
Catwoman
Sky High
The Kingdom
Firewall
Zodiac
The Ladykillers
Home on the Range
Hostage
Hannibal Rising
30 Days of Night
Coach Carter
Stealth
Dragon Wars: D-War
The Sentinel
Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia
The Number 23
There Will Be Blood
Around the World in 80 Days
Yours, Mine and Ours
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Lady in the Water
XXX: State of the Union
Next
House of Wax
Curious George
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
Children of Men
3:10 to Yuma
License to Wed
The Brave One
Without a Paddle
Because I Said So
Miracle
In Good Company
Valiant
16 Blocks
Take the Lead
Two Brothers
The Benchwarmers
Friday Night Lights
August Rush
Cellular
Flags of Our Fathers
A History of Violence
Snakes on a Plane
Lord of War
Lions for Lambs
Son of the Mask
Marie Antoinette
The Reaping
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Doom
Zathura
Must Love Dogs
Derailed
Invincible
Elektra
Good Luck Chuck
Kicking and Screaming
The Punisher
Spanglish
Lucky Number Slevin
She's the Man
Aeon Flux
Eastern Promises
We Own the Night
Stranger Than Fiction
Raising Helen
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Elizabethtown
Fever Pitch
Fat Albert
Dark Water
Notes on a Scandal
Danny the Dog
The Ant Bully
Walking Tall
The Black Dahlia
Grindhouse
Torque
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Deck the Halls
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
The Nativity Story
Exorcist: The Beginning
Wimbledon
We Are Marshall
Last Holiday
Into the Blue
A Lot Like Love
Glory Road
Freedom Writers
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
A Good Year
Twisted
Gridiron Gang
Serenity
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
Beauty Shop
After the Sunset
War
The Invasion
Jersey Girl
Just My Luck
Happily N'Ever After
Assault On Precinct 13
Alfie
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Miss Potter
Wu ji
Flight of the Phoenix
Basic Instinct 2
The Bad News Bears
The Producers: The Movie Musical
The Girl Next Door
Rent
Laws of Attraction
Sunshine
Ultraviolet
The Prince & Me
Love in the Time of Cholera
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
Thunderbirds
Across the Universe
The Cave
Goal! The Dream Begins
The Whole Ten Yards
Oliver Twist
The New World
Zwartboek
Rendition
Ice Princess
Shoot 'Em Up
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compare that to

2015 through 2018 posted:

Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens
Avengers: Infinity War
Jurassic World
Furious 7
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Black Panther
Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Beauty and the Beast
The Fate of the Furious
Incredibles 2
Minions
Captain America: Civil War
Aquaman
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Finding Dory
Zootopia
Despicable Me 3
The Jungle Book
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Spectre
The Secret Life of Pets
Inside Out
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Bohemian Rhapsody
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Thor: Ragnarok
Venom
Wonder Woman
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Deadpool
Coco
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Mission: Impossible—Fallout
Deadpool 2
Suicide Squad
Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation
It
Doctor Strange
The Martian
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Justice League
Moana
Sing
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Logan
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Transformers: The Last Knight
Fifty Shades of Grey
Ready Player One
Mei Ren Yu
Kong: Skull Island
Cinderella
The Revenant
X-Men: Apocalypse
Ant-Man
Kung Fu Panda 3
The Meg
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
Ralph Breaks The Internet
The Boss Baby
Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch
Dunkirk
War for the Planet of the Apes
Hotel Transylvania 2
San Andreas
Bumblebee
Terminator: Genisys
Warcraft
A Star is Born
Jason Bourne
Rampage
Kingsman: The Secret Service
The Mummy
Ice Age: Collision Course
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Home
Independence Day: Resurgence
The Greatest Showman
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Mad Max: Fury Road
Cars 3
Fifty Shades Darker
Zhuo yao ji
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D
Fifty Shades Freed
The Angry Birds Movie
The Nun
The Legend of Tarzan
Trolls
The Good Dinosaur
Murder on the Orient Express
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
Star Trek Beyond
Peter Rabbit
The Great Wall
Taken 3
Now You See Me 2
Mary Poppins Returns
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
Green Book
The Lego Batman Movie
Passengers
The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Skyscraper
Pitch Perfect 2
Ocean’s 8
Ferdinand
Pacific Rim: Uprising
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Tomb Raider
Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
The Peanuts Movie
Blade Runner 2049
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
Pixels
Daddy’s Home
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Assassin’s Creed
Sully
Spy!
Alien: Covenant
Hidden Figures
Crazy Rich Asians
Ghostbusters
Everest
Baby Driver
Ted 2
Inferno
Central Intelligence
Geostorm
The Emoji Movie
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Tomorrowland
Smallfoot
Creed II
Straight Outta Compton
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Arrival
The Intern
A Dog’s Purpose
The BFG
London Has Fallen
Xi You Ji zhi Sun Wu Kong San Da Bai Gu Jing
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Christopher Robin
Jupiter Ascending
The Equalizer 2
Storks
Pitch Perfect 3
Creed
The Post
The Girl on the Train
Baywatch
Daddy’s Home 2
The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Focus
The Fantastic Four
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Hacksaw Ridge
John Wick: Chapter Two
The Mule
Bridge of Spies
The Huntsman: Winter’s War
Ghost in the Shell
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
The Magnificent Seven
Goosebumps
Yip Man 3
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Pan
The Predator
The Accountant
The Hateful Eight
Darkest Hour
Trainwreck
Red Sparrow
Power Rangers
Gods of Egypt
Girls Trip
The Foreigner
Pete’s Dragon
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
The Big Short
The Last Witch Hunter
American Made
Point Break
A Wrinkle in Time
Mechanic: Resurrection
A Bad Moms Christmas
Ride Along 2
Tian jiang xiong shi
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
Deepwater Horizon
The House with a Clock in its Walls
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Allied
Why Him?
Instant Family
The Commuter
Game Night
The Dark Tower
The 5th Wave
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Get Hard
Sisters
Chappie
Vacation
The Little Prince
Shaun the Sheep
Joy
First Man
Black Mass
How to be Single
Night School
Life
Poltergeist
Ballerina
Atomic Blonde
Alpha
Southpaw
Money Monster
Ben-Hur
In the Heart of the Sea
Office Christmas Party
Blockers
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
I Feel Pretty
War Dogs
Sicario
Collateral Beauty
Sherlock Gnomes
Hitman: Agent 47
Mortal Engines
Robin Hood
The Wedding Ringer
Rings
Underworld: Blood Wars
The Boss
Kubo and the Two Strings
Den of Thieves
Going in Style
Crimson Peak
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Tag
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Widows
The Transporter Refueled
The Age of Adaline
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
12 Strong
Vice
Run All Night
American Assassin
Victoria and Abdul
The Longest Ride
Fences
Hail, Caesar!
Mile 22
Life of the Party
The Walk
Monster Trucks
The Nice Guys
Chāi dàn zhuānjiā
Snatched
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
Florence Foster Jenkins
Adrift
Zoolander 2
All Eyez on Me
The 15:17 to Paris
Downsizing
The Night Before
Patriots Day
Mother’s Day
Molly’s Game
Concussion
Peppermint
The Finest Hours
Entourage
Death Wish
Phantom Thread
Hot Pursuit
A Monster Calls
Mary Queen of Scots
Eddie the Eagle
Early Man
Logan Lucky
Legend
The Snowman
mother!
Annihilation
Holmes & Watson
Fist Fight
Criminal
The Darkest Minds
Arthur and the War of Two Worlds
Steve Jobs
Snowden
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Viy
Self/Less
Kidnap
The Hate U Give
The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Nocturnal Animals
Victor Frankenstein
Mortdecai
American Ultra
The House
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
The Hurricane Heist
The 33
The Brothers Grimsby

loving shameful

Xaris has issued a correction as of 04:17 on Oct 15, 2019

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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MizPiz posted:

Professional-managerial class

It's simultaneously annoying and apt that it shares an acronym for glorified mercenaries

ah gotcha, yeah i was c onfused with the PMC term lol

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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Fleetwood posted:

I think Ragnarok is a legit good movie

thor ragnarok is a legit good movie, but mostly bc the cast loving nails it with hemsworth and goldblum just loving around having fun, and Taika Waititi is extremely funny and talented. anyone else in the director's chair and it'd have been boring and forgettable as thor 2. it's good enough that it works on it's own outside of any marvel attachments (and the few marvel attached parts actually drags it down a bit). it manages to never take itself seriously but avoiding the trap of self-referential "haha we know we're not trying to be serious cuz its bad :xd:!!" that many ones fall into trying to be to pomo whedon-whatever garbage or w/e its called.

It's not so much a problem that they exist, as i said, they make very good filler to kill time on an airplane ride, or I presume if you have kids its a way to shut them up for 2 hrs. It's more the overall industry has consolidated and turned into a stagnant boring algorithmic-focus-tested behemoth that doesn't actually do much else besides reboot, prequels, live-action/3d remakes, and more reboots and sequels of poo poo that once worked 5-20 years ago. Like yeah there's still some good movies coming out: Midsommar, Blade Runner 2049, sicario, Get out, sorry to bother you, John Wicks, Grand Budapest Hotel, and stuff are v good, but a) they're usually small production work or the last remaining directors with talent to have enough pull to get their own pet-projects funded (villeneuve, tarantino, alfonso cuaron, del toro, etc), and b) very far and few between. even though there was a lot of bad stuff being made before, at least it was more novel or fresh and a one-off from the getgo. it definitely feels like we get less movies like Children of Men/No Country for Old Men/Will be Blood/Pitch Black and such than we used to.

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Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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cargo cult posted:

why hasnt there been a proper paranoid spy movie in ages? we live in an age where spooks seem to run everything and have captured all the tech giants but the only thing that gets greenlight is garbage like jack ryan. john krasinski seems like a massive islamophobic chud

if you haven't seen it, Atomic Blonde is actually pretty great. but it's set in Cold war. i loving love the run-down dystopic east-euro/germany grungy punk setting tho

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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Some Guy TT posted:

reason annapurna failed is because the major studios effectively control the distribution system it has nothing to do with actual consumer demand

It's this, but also tbf in a small distribution you do have to take into account tastes. Like Vice, i'm a radical gay space communist leftist and i don't have any particular desire to pay money to see a movie about a loving war criminal, which because ive been trained over 3 decades of neolib center-right hollywood that they're predictable, is gunna suck him off and portray him as a Flawed But Good Intentioned Guy. i would imagine most of the smaller-movie goers probably thought the same thing I did.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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Some Guy TT posted:

it gratifies to me to read that actually i thought i was the only one who reacted that way but thats because i have to get most of my movie related feedback from the entertainment press which is poo poo unsurprisingly

it also didnt help that i hated the big short a lot the more i thought about it the movie is incredibly unnecessarily condescending to its audience and entirely too sympathetic to its main characters who by any reasonable definition were vultures profiting over the economic destruction of the rest of the country
yeah i mean it shouldn't be surprising given every single ~dramatic biopic~ flick from big hollywood has always been sucking them off even if they're an insane sexpest war criminal. well sure maybe he did a bad thing, but did you consider, he's also done good thing and bad thing happened to him???. For me, Vice seemed to fall right into that Big Hollywoo neolib trap, although I was mistaken in that because it was actually Annapurna that's quite a bit smaller.

never seen the big short but i figured that would probably be the case is portraying main guys as lovable reasonable goofballs who just happened to be ___. it's always the loving case

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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Serf posted:

all other things aside, black panther is a movie that glorifies the cia and whitewashes our history of intervention and imperialism

i genuinely dont get the collective internet sucking it off when it came out. like alright it's nice to have minority representative in an extremely white industry, but uh that doesn't excuse shitlib n cia apologism

michael b jordan was real cool but the rest of the movie sucked

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Jul 25, 2006

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Son of Thunderbeast posted:

this, also it ends with black panther replacing low-income housing with a school where kids can lrn2code IIRC

lmfao i loving forgot about that

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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Some Guy TT posted:

the head of the most powerful studio in hollywood either sincerely believes that black panther is a comparable piece of filmmaking to the work of scorcese and coppola or just thinks that acting like it is will score him points in the field of public opinion

and people think im a curmudgeonly rear end in a top hat for thinking that film has gone to poo poo lately

nah it definitely has

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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if you order the movies from Best Selling to Worst Selling from 2015 to 2018 it's p much the whole thing lol. blade runner 2049 sold worse than the Peanuts Movie and Alvin Chipmunks 3D Reboot #324201

quote:

1. Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. Jurassic World
4. Furious 7
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron
6. Black Panther
7. Star Wars Ep. VIII: The Last Jedi
8. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
9. Beauty and the Beast
10. The Fate of the Furious
11. Incredibles 2
12. Minions
13. Captain America: Civil War
14. Aquaman
15. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
16. Finding Dory
17. Zootopia
18. Despicable Me 3
19. The Jungle Book
20. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
21. Spectre
22. The Secret Life of Pets
23. Inside Out
24. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
25. Spider-Man: Homecoming
26. Bohemian Rhapsody
27. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
28. Thor: Ragnarok
29. Venom
30. Wonder Woman
31. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
32. Deadpool
33. Coco
34. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
35. Mission: Impossible—Fallout
36. Deadpool 2
37. Suicide Squad
38. Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation
39. It
40. Doctor Strange
41. The Martian
42. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
43. Justice League
44. Moana
45. Sing
46. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
47. Logan
48. Ant-Man and the Wasp
49. Transformers: The Last Knight
50. Fifty Shades of Grey
51. Ready Player One
52. Mei Ren Yu
53. Kong: Skull Island
54. Cinderella
55. The Revenant
56. X-Men: Apocalypse
57. Ant-Man
58. Kung Fu Panda 3
59. The Meg
60. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
61. Ralph Breaks The Internet
62. The Boss Baby
63. Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch
64. Dunkirk
65. War for the Planet of the Apes
66. Hotel Transylvania 2
67. San Andreas
68. Bumblebee
69. Terminator: Genisys
70. Warcraft
71. A Star is Born
72. Jason Bourne
73. Rampage
74. Kingsman: The Secret Service
75. The Mummy
76. Ice Age: Collision Course
77. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
78. Home
79. Independence Day: Resurgence
80. The Greatest Showman
81. Solo: A Star Wars Story
82. Mad Max: Fury Road
83. Cars 3
84. Fifty Shades Darker
85. Zhuo yao ji
86. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse 3D
87. Fifty Shades Freed
88. The Angry Birds Movie
89. The Nun
90. The Legend of Tarzan
91. Trolls
92. The Good Dinosaur
93. Murder on the Orient Express
94. xXx: Return of Xander Cage
95. Star Trek Beyond
96. Peter Rabbit
97. The Great Wall
98. Taken 3
99. Now You See Me 2
100. Mary Poppins Returns
101. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
102. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
103. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
104. The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist
105. Green Book
106. The Lego Batman Movie
107. Passengers
108. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
109. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
110. Skyscraper
111. Pitch Perfect 2
112. Ocean’s 8
113. Ferdinand
114. Pacific Rim: Uprising
115. Alice Through the Looking Glass
116. Tomb Raider
117. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
118. Maze Runner: The Death Cure
119. The Peanuts Movie
120. Blade Runner 2049
121. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
122. Pixels

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Bro Dad posted:

Speed Racer is my favorite "get super high and let it wash over you" kinda movie

i just watched that for the first time on a bunch of edibles a couple weeks back and holy poo poo yeah, it loving owns and easily in a favorite list now. i dunno how i went 12 years without seeing it

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i'd hold out hope for martin to do better in the books
lmao not happening

at least jordan was still making poo poo up till he died i think. grmm literally hasn't. there was an entire tv show that started adn finished and during that time he couldn't even put out one book while there was probably most motivation to do so to hurry up and not let it get ruined and in the pop culture sphere. the one book he did just before its launch was also lazy rear end

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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

Yeah I'm a film buff. Defeated many an unserious "fan" in intense debate and discussion.
:maga:

i was trying to find the maga pray but smilies is a mess so i give up and that one is sufficient

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Stairmaster posted:

my gut sense is it's gonna burn out like westworld did.

did it? season 1 of westworld was extremely good and i even liked season 2 a lot despite being worse. i'd def watch a 3rd season although it sounds like maybe there won't be one? idk. it seems very popular still.

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mysterious frankie posted:

Seriously, how am I just hearing about Lodge 49 when it's cancelled? This is Terriers all over again.

gently caress i completely forgot Terriers. That was such a god drat good show that deserved another season.

i'll checkout lodge 49

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i say swears online posted:

finally watched buster scruggs

four of the six vignettes were masterpieces

I'm not a western movie person but y'all I love the cohens

I love Coen Bro's but i was kinda mixed on it. 2 were masterpiece, 2 were just OK to good and 2 were pretty bad

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LGD posted:

E: For real - the viewing experience may be more comfortable at home, but you’ll never match the energy of a live audience during something like the original Lord of the Rings films, or the joy of taking a very inadvertently revealing survey (stoned af) because the studio badly wanted to understand what sort of freaks were paying money to go see Cats

yeah. we have this small-time local olde theater that has tables and couches along with seats and has an attached restaurant that has servers bring drinks and pizza (and it's pretty good 'za) to you. it's smallish and tech isn't very good but it's cozy and always a good crowd that makes it way more enjoyable. i generally don't enjoy the AMC Experience too much because i find those feel sterile even with fancy tech and almost zero reactions or anything happening.

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indigi posted:

for the last eighteen months there’s been ten Star Wars series in production and/or airing for Disney TV On The Internet. what happened to this lid

they need to get their $4 billion dollar IP accumulation worth. these stock dividends arent going to pay themselves you know

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Jul 25, 2006

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the chapo episode on WW84 was magical and i tried to watch it and yes it was as horrible as they said

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Jul 25, 2006

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Farm Frenzy posted:

its probably a small portion of the fanbase of these movies that make a billion dollars every release but theres definitely lots of these freaks around. theres so many thinkpieces and poo poo that cater to them

this. there's going to a percentage of psychos for most anything; and especially wider when they have a massive audience making bazillinga $$ a year. it just so happens most of them are on twitter and even these very forums.

Judge Dredd Scott posted:

disney definitely purposefully stokes the culture war fire every single time they have a major release. its sexist to not like captain marvel. racist to not like black panther, etc. wildly effective marketing scheme i guess
hollywood has gotten good at this string pulling by a sycophantic army of social media libs. i have a feeling an overwhelming majority of the shadowy ghost conservative figments that they felt the need to post2praxis against don't even really exist -- i.e. the lady ghostbusters era was horrible

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Farm Frenzy posted:

anyway i watched malignant and it was like 20 minutes too long but otherwise pretty fun and the ending is very funny. for all the 80s, giallo and raimi references it reminded me the most of weird self aware intentionally lovely 90s slashers like wishmaster and leprechaun

is it worth watching if you dislike self-aware intentional lovely stuff like sharknado? i prefer sincerity, regardless of 'campy' levels, 70s-80s horrory stuff more. i don't like stuff that's more like directors going oh hahah ya bro i also watch mst3k, u like that ref?? lmao this is so bad am i right??

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Farm Frenzy posted:

like imagine a slightly worse drag me to hell that turns into freddie vs jason

alright sounds good enough, i'll give it a whirl at some point here since there isn't much else. 2021 is mostly dire for movies but I loved The Green Knight and Pig; Nobody was decent enough flick, and Night Drive was surprisingly good for a no-budget movie. Free Guy was ok, better than I expected, and felt very early 2000s.

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MLSM posted:

Blade definitely owns. Now Disney is making a PG13 one lmfao

lol

iirc disney has never released an r-rated movie. some of their subsidaries (i.e. owning mgm/touchstone/etc) have but never A Walt Disney Universe movie

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Some Guy TT posted:

im honestly scratching my head as to why theyre even still around their whole gimmick was weird programming in unusual timeslots and we now live in an era where we can watch weird programming at whatever stupid time of day we want

yeah pretty much. that said the ~2003 - 2009-ish period was golden age of AS. just a ton of weird experiment (often stoner but not always) shows that was great to put on after some intoxication late at night when the only other options are diabetes/mesothilienoma commercials, and a bunch of poo poo.. sealab, moral orel, 12 oz mouse, squid, athf, metapoc, frisky dingo, space ghost, harvey, early robo chicken, venture bros, etc

by 2011 it was pretty much a wasteland of it's former self having killed off their experimental side and mostly just running re-runs and syndicated programming. ime the more Tim & Eric

now a days you can put on whenever you want at whenever you want and easier than ever to curate own tv-like channels

edit: I guess they still have Eric Andre, Rick & Morty going on, and Primal was v good. though i imagine most people pirate it these days but maybe im wrong there

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spacemang_spliff posted:

Play the same 5 episodes of Rick and Morty
unlike most goons, I actually like R&M well enough; its a fun way to blow 20 minutes. but man i can't imagine rewatching it syndication-style.

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indigi posted:

idk why exactly but I loving despise “folx”

it’s like the ultimate meaningless woke gesture. we need to decolonize ks

its very bad and being used unironically is a good excuse to completely ignore anything else. but at least it's not as bad as latinx which is straight up white upper-class academia dc libs doing cultural imperialism

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Jul 25, 2006

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is the new james bond good? it seems pretty bad and lib

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indigi posted:

Altered Carbon was awesome, everything was stupid on 11 and the action was fun and you got to see Marc Antony’s dick again which I always appreciate. Poe was good and the part where the Mexican Granny got sleeved into a neonazi was adorable

e: Maniac was probably “better” but I remember so much more from Altered Carbon. second season sucked really really bad though I never even finished it
altered carbon is a fantastic late-night drunk/stoned show, just perfect vibes and really loving good sets and lighting. it poo poo itself as it got closer to the end but the first 5 eps or so were very enjoyable and it's up there with 2049 as some great scifi cinematographic slow-burning media.

really too bad about s2 though, holy god what a lovely season. i would have preferred netflix just did the cancel-after-s1 thing because it was just awful.

indigi posted:

one of the problems with the second season of Altered Carbon is that it wasn’t sexy enough. I don’t mean having sex scenes or romance I mean like dudes and ladies in the background of scenes with their gennies out like it’s nbd, super sexy outfits, showing off muscles and skin, just horny ambiance. helps keep you interested between absurd exposition and overwrought emotional scenes
also yeah i can get that, there was certainly a problem. but s2 also just felt ungodly angry, awkward, and sterile, and just straight up lazy. also felt a lot cheaper and poorly editted with lazy Vancouver Scifi work. i like mackie but i thought he did a pretty bad job as kovacs and lacked a lot of the charm of kinneman with mostly just angry face whereas the kinneman kovac had a lot of humanity and charm to it even though he was supposed to be the more stoic-standoff-who-warms-up model. like it was just not enjoyable to watch at all.

rip poe.

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The United States posted:

It's about a dying and decaying empire
i guess thjat's cool. more death to the UK (and US) imo

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Jul 25, 2006

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i do really really like ana de armas though, she owns and i hope she keeps getting $$$$. if i watch it it'll mostly be because shes in it

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Mirello posted:

my wife and I loved it. fun, which has been missing from bond for a long while. the ending is amazing too. I'd definitely say it's worth the watch.

good to know. i thought all of the craig bonds, aside from casino royale, were pretty bad and boring. and yeah they just weren't fun and got far too grimdork SUPER SERIOUS mopey; and also a lot of terrible writing. i did like casino royale a lot though

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ToxicAcne posted:

Dune seems like a movie that really wanted to be R rated but they couldn't get studio approval or whatnot. The action scenes look like those video games where swords hit like blunt objects. Otherwise the movie was gorgeous to watch.
catching up on a lot of pages but I just watched DUNC last night and yeah

i loved the movie, very gorgeous, but the two things that made it not reach the heights of 2049 for me was the action felt very... not so great, and it was too fast of a movie. like there was a lot of moments where the movie should have let things breathe like he did in 2049 (which was one of the best paced movies of all-time)

still, an extremely good late-night weed movie but it really needed to be 4-hours long, and i normally don't particularly love long behemoths but it really needed it and would have been so much better with just extra breathing room here and there for a lot of scenes.

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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

in suspiria (at least the original, idk about the remake) the boarding school is a site of unfathomable evil, in harry potter it is for the most part presented as a refuge and in spite of events a safe and desirable place

you should watch the suspiria remake, it was really good

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Judakel posted:

god man i was looking at the release schedule is things are really grim. these giant whales that are comic book movies are now all year round because of the pandemic. no window for smaller movies to make good money without these behemoths
yearly marvel giant whale movies, even multiple-per-year, have been a thing for past several years now. the age of the sort of 80s/90s small/mid-budget flicks largely died out by 2005

however, thanks to the likes of A24/annapurna, small budget movies have had a fantastic resurgence the past couple of years, and hopefully that continues. just absolute bangers made on budgets of like $1mill to $20 mill and doing extremely well because they dont have the expectation of BILLIONS of epsteinbucks profits to produce.

it's also viable because in this age, really cheap stabilizers and cameras can look as good as the big whales and editting software and such has become so good and cheap. and then on the advertising side: word of mouth, streaming services, and other specific online targetting lets them get out the word without a $5000 million buckaroo marketing blitz that Disney et. al poo poo out.

a24 is going to singlehandedly save cinema lol

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DesertIslandHermit posted:

Blumhouse is hit and miss but I support movies with a budget in the single digit millions. The new Invisible Man was very good.
yeah blumhouse is another pretty good one; and yeah really most are hit or miss but at least A24 has a pretty good batting average for what it does.

i hope the future is death of the mega-billion hollywoo disney universal poo poo and more small-budget flicks where directors are handed a few million and told to go film whatever their vision is. instead of design-by-commitee/design-by-algo digital entertainment equivalent of soylent poo poo slurries that have been pumped out.

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Judakel posted:

i wasn't talking about yearly, i was talking about all year round. lower budget movies are doing really poorly now
oops, my bad.

oh, well yeah pandemic is making most all movies do really poorly. i think they have more leeway and future on streaming services because of demand for content and being cheap enough that they aren't expected to make back $2 billion bucks. and theaters themselves are dying.

one of my favorite movies of this year (surprise, a small-budget A24 flick), The Green Knight, managed to release during a pandemic in theaters and still made 25% profit which seems pretty good all things considered

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Judakel posted:

netflix made a western with cgi blood instead of squibs.

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grim poo poo.

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