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Sometimes when I'm looking for something in the dark using only the light from my phone I think about the monster reveal scene from The Descent.
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Gripweed posted:I watched Punisher War Zone. It's pretty great, they let someone who understands that the Punisher loving sucks make a Punisher movie! There's good bits in that interview, it was just after Virgina Tech while they were courting her and she's like "a hero who shoots people, right now? Hard pass" so they sent her Punisher MaX and recalls a panel where Punisher stuffs a guy's nuts in his mouth during a torture and she's like "haha, nevermind I get it" Also some stories about Doug Hutchison being a very unwell man but I don't remember specifics
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Apr 14, 2025 01:46
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The Peccadillo posted:There's good bits in that interview, it was just after Virgina Tech while they were courting her and she's like "a hero who shoots people, right now? Hard pass" so they sent her Punisher MaX and recalls a panel where Punisher stuffs a guy's nuts in his mouth during a torture and she's like "haha, nevermind I get it" Married a 15-year old girl. Skimming his Wikipedia, he's an overall weirdo.
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Apr 14, 2025 02:18
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Gripweed posted:I watched The Descent So, you gonna watch part 2?
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Apr 14, 2025 02:26
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Azhais posted:So, you gonna watch part 2? I dunno
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Apr 14, 2025 02:30
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No need if you watch the director's cut of the first one.
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Apr 14, 2025 02:31
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Ok not to restart the discourse but I did just see Warfare because my wife is a true Garland head and it does feel like the kind of movie the nazis would make about themselves. Not because it's overtly fascist (no moreso than any US military ad is anyway) but because it kinda feels like one of Hitler's paintings; so thoroughly unremarkable and perfunctory that you're just left kind of shrugging at what the point of it was. Like its not even a 'war is hell' movie, it's a 'wow that sure was crazy, anyway semper fi' movie  The absolute most interesting thing that happens is when they blur out half the faces of the real guys during the end credits lol
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Apr 14, 2025 03:02
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Lol, Kat Dennings went to Disneyland and forgot she was in a bunch of Marvel films, so was surprised so many people waved at her in Avengersland or whatever.
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Apr 14, 2025 03:40
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The Icelandic Film School is bankrupt. They've completely run out of money so much so that the staff, who haven't been paid in two months, actually paid for the last electric bill out of their own pockets because they're trying to ensure the few students left can at least finish their projects, especially those close to graduation. The students have started collecting bottles and cans to scrounge up money for bills until a solution can be found. It's a privately run school but used to get some government grants but since the University of Arts opened their own film department two years ago they've been essentially deemed superfluous and cut off. The University of Arts is also privately run but has signed a deal with the government for funding and is a fully accredited institution that can offer Bachelors and Masters degrees. Something the Film School, which is more of a trade school, isn't licensed to do. Because of this you could no longer get a student loan for the Film School which meant the number of applications and students collapsed by like 60% which meant no real money coming in. I've got a friend that teaches screenwriting there and he's not thrilled about the situation. I also know some people on the verge of graduation and they aren't too big on this either.
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Apr 14, 2025 04:19
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A major accredited art university (the biggest one offering four-year degrees) here in Philly had that happen around last year, the board just decided to pack it in and shut down with almost no warning.
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Apr 14, 2025 05:33
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Wolfsheim posted:Ok not to restart the discourse but I did just see Warfare because my wife is a true Garland head and it does feel like the kind of movie the nazis would make about themselves. Not because it's overtly fascist (no moreso than any US military ad is anyway) but because it kinda feels like one of Hitler's paintings; so thoroughly unremarkable and perfunctory that you're just left kind of shrugging at what the point of it was. Like its not even a 'war is hell' movie, it's a 'wow that sure was crazy, anyway semper fi' movie But I don't think "good" art necessarily must have a progressive point of view. The main takeaway I got from the movie is that combat is like experiencing an extremely violent car crash with rapid degradation of human bodily function towards incapacity and there's a struggle to return to a baseline. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Apr 14, 2025 |
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Apr 14, 2025 06:48
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The Peccadillo posted:There's good bits in that interview, it was just after Virgina Tech while they were courting her and she's like "a hero who shoots people, right now? Hard pass" so they sent her Punisher MaX and recalls a panel where Punisher stuffs a guy's nuts in his mouth during a torture and she's like "haha, nevermind I get it" It was wackier than that. His balls had been severed but he managed to find a little Dixie cup so he was running around with his balls in a Dixie cup.
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e: whatever not worth it
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Apr 14, 2025 09:28
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how on earth did you get that from the post you quo-ok never mind pull up Watched the 4K remaster of A City of Sadness last night (it’s not right to call it a restoration, they scanned a print and stabilised it and it does mostly look amazing but there’s still some signs of scratches and stuff) and while it took me a while to figure out how everyone was connected to each other once I did it was just so fantastic, one of the best uses I can think of of telling a political story through a domestic drama lens, and contains several of the most gorgeous shots I’ve ever seen. As far as cinematic formalism goes it feels like a peak, I’ve seen other Hou films and know how good they look but this really took every frame a painting to another level (disclaimer I still haven’t seen The Assassin)
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Lobster Henry posted:Anyway! I'm rewatching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy because it always seems to be on BBC Iplayer. I feel like it gets overshadowed by the miniseries, but maybe it's one of the best thrillers of the 21st century? It kind of makes other modern espionage films look like clodhoppers by comparison. It's subtle, it rewards effort, and it's palpably about something - paranoia, imperial decline, middle age, sexual frustration, professional and personal failure, male ego, male loneliness and isolation, etc. And it's soaked in atmosphere. People don't talk about this film enough imo. To highlight one thing I love about this film: the set design is superb. Not only does everything look really of the period (much harder to achieve at the time of the film than the miniseries), but each setting tells us about the characters which inhabit them. Take the top floor of The Circus, with those askew containers lined with soundproofing foam. What kind of dysfunctional meeting led to that being the solution? Control's conspiracy-theory filled apartment tells us lacks he the faculty to find the mole, but also gives us hope there is a signal to find in all the noise. In a film that needs to cover a large amount of ground in a limited runtime, having that much visual storytelling is a boon.
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Apr 14, 2025 19:03
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy does have the minor issue that Colin Firth is notably more famous than anyone in the film other than Gary Oldman, so if you think about how movies work he's necessarily the mole from the moment you meet him. But even if you notice that it's so well-made that it's very enjoyable seeing how it all plays out.
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Apr 14, 2025 21:36
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...is he, though? I would consider Cumberbatch and Hardy significantly bigger stars than him these days. Hell, if asked to rank all the actors I'd put him in around the same level as Toby Jones and just above Cirian Hinds. Maybe I just don't watch enough period dramas to understand his star power, though. The last thing I can remember him starring in was The King's Speech 15 years ago.
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Apr 14, 2025 22:24
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It was certainly true in 2011 when the movie came out
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Apr 14, 2025 22:25
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I'm glad I can finally talk about it since its out but boooooooooooooooooooooooooooy is The Amateur a fuckin nothing film. It feels like something you would watch as an in-flight movie or something that would be playing on USA/TBS on a Sunday afternoon when you leave the TV on because you're cleaning and wants some background noise. It's not even a geezer pleaser like The Beekeeper. It's just so superfluous. A completely empty film.
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Apr 14, 2025 22:36
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Yeah that's exactly the best description for it. And Rachel Brosnahan is the most dead wife a dead wife character has ever dead wifed. Malek's character being so poo poo at being the tough guy never really amounts to much as he ends up two steps ahead of them bad guys anyway.. What was the point of Jon Bernthal's character, he was set up as being the guy to be the brawn to Malek's brain but after giving him an ominous warning in that bar he just disappeared. And are we supposed to be cheering for the CIA clearing house at the end? Are we supposed to believe the new director is actually going to make wide sweeping changes?
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Carpet posted:Yeah that's exactly the best description for it. And Rachel Brosnahan is the most dead wife a dead wife character has ever dead wifed. Malek's character being so poo poo at being the tough guy never really amounts to much as he ends up two steps ahead of them bad guys anyway.. What was the point of Jon Bernthal's character, he was set up as being the guy to be the brawn to Malek's brain but after giving him an ominous warning in that bar he just disappeared. And are we supposed to be cheering for the CIA clearing house at the end? Are we supposed to believe the new director is actually going to make wide sweeping changes? The film feels like it was rewritten, reshot, and recut multiple times over. Like you mention - Jon Bernthal might as well not even be in the film. Why does he exist at all? I assume there was a far different version of this film at some point. The politics of the film are baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad too. Like, really loving bad. My favorite person in the film is Laurence Fishburne - I love how he gets "killed" but then shows up at the end for zero reason just to say "hey, good job!" It serves zero point. Like, the film isn't bad in an interesting way. It's just bad in a boring way. It's a film that will be forgotten in six months. This film will have no lasting impact on anyone. I suspect most people will forget they ever watched the film in the first place.
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Mordiceius posted:Like, the film isn't bad in an interesting way. It's just bad in a boring way. It's a film that will be forgotten in six months. This film will have no lasting impact on anyone. I suspect most people will forget they ever watched the film in the first place. It's been a thin few weeks at my local AMC, they usually have a good selection between American releases and Asian options. But these past few weeks have been almost all religious movies and crap like this. I was looking at my options for tonight, and it was between this and Drop and Hell of a Summer. I think I'll stay home and watch the new season of Black Mirror instead.
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Apr 14, 2025 23:20
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I chose between The Amateur and Drop for my Friday night new release choice, and after 30 minutes was wishing I'd chosen the latter (especially after I read Bear McCreary did the score. However I watched it on Saturday evening instead and while it had some nice touches the ending and a few stupid contrivances spoiled it a bit stupid unnecessary action sequence where the lead character drives a thirty minute route in five, in someone else's car. And that decompressive skyscraper window was also very stupid, they were only about 30 stories up.
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Apr 14, 2025 23:42
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Did anyone see Sinners yet? I'm going to see Sinners tonight.
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I've got a ticket to a preview screening on Wednesday evening but it's on a lovely screen and I'd already got a ticket for Warfare on the only day it's on IMAX screens in the UK. I've heard good things about it though, planning to see it this weekend on a proper 1.43 (digital) IMAX screen.
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Carpet posted:I've got a ticket to a preview screening on Wednesday evening but it's on a lovely screen and I'd already got a ticket for Warfare on the only day it's on IMAX screens in the UK. I've heard good things about it though, planning to see it this weekend on a proper 1.43 (digital) IMAX screen. Be sure to grade it on a fascism scale of 1-10 when you get back from the viewing 
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Carpet posted:I've got a ticket to a preview screening on Wednesday evening but it's on a lovely screen and I'd already got a ticket for Warfare on the only day it's on IMAX screens in the UK. I've heard good things about it though, planning to see it this weekend on a proper 1.43 (digital) IMAX screen. Yeah it's not in wide release in the US yet. This is also an IMAX sneak preview (which answers my question about whether or not these are still done). I'm not 100% sure if it's film or digital but the IMAX I'm going to is one of the limited locations that has a film projector.
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This is the full list of 15/70 and digital 1.43 locations. (the only theatre outside North America with a film print is the BFI IMAX, but railway engineering works means I can't make it this weekend.)
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Carpet posted:This is the full list of 15/70 and digital 1.43 locations. (the only theatre outside North America with a film print is the BFI IMAX, but railway engineering works means I can't make it this weekend.) I know where I'm going shows film I just don't know if they're showing film or digital tonight. Edit: I'm stupid. No film this evening. Edit 2: My boyfriend is double stupid. It's not even tonight. CPL593H fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Apr 15, 2025 |
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Did we discuss the minecraft movie in a thread or in here? I’m kinda interested to see what cined locals thought about it. It’s weird.
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Wolfsheim posted:Be sure to grade it on a fascism scale of 1-10 when you get back from the viewing what was your wife's score?
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well why not posted:Did we discuss the minecraft movie in a thread or in here? I’m kinda interested to see what cined locals thought about it. It’s weird. Someone make a Minecraft movie thread so i dint have to read about it
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MacheteZombie posted:Someone make a Minecraft movie thread so i dint have to read about it it is you. you are the chicken jockey
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feedmyleg posted:...is he, though? I would consider Cumberbatch and Hardy significantly bigger stars than him these days. Hell, if asked to rank all the actors I'd put him in around the same level as Toby Jones and just above Cirian Hinds. Escobarbarian posted:It was certainly true in 2011 when the movie came out Yeah, I saw the movie when it first came out, so I was speaking in that context. The King's Speech was a year before Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the former. Cumberbatch and Hardy are definitely both bigger stars in 2025. Fair point that the film might actually work better in retrospect than it did at the time.
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Apr 15, 2025 02:10
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Colin Firth is huge, Bridget Jones and Kingsman were big franchises. He’s not as big as hardy/cumberbatch but he’s an a-lister
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Apr 15, 2025 02:13
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He also played a major role in Pride and Prejudice and Love Actually.
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well why not posted:Did we discuss the minecraft movie in a thread or in here? I’m kinda interested to see what cined locals thought about it. It’s weird. It’s bad. Even for a kids movie. I guess it’s better than It could’ve been if it was made by someone who doesn’t have a style but I don’t know It should’ve been about a kid or Steve surviving Minecraft and then fighting the dragon instead of the movie we got
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Baron von Eevl posted:He also played a major role in Pride and Prejudice and Love Actually. He was almost Paddington, but then he discovered the character would be CGI rather than letting him play the part with prosthetics and forced perspective. Shows real dedication to the craft.
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I've come to accept that I will probably watch The Minecraft Movie at some point out of morbid interest. I played the game when it was in Beta, largely left it years before it became the cultural goliath, and have literally watched as members of my family born after I started playing it roll their eyes at me assuming I don't understand the experience. Feels like watching it will be a nice funeral to the franchise vs. the slow "I'm good" that actually occured. I do credit Minecraft as being where I had a straight up Ozymandias epiphany. Wandering around the SA Servers as a matter of fact I was hit with such a sadness – so much time and effort was put into these vast monuments and cities. All long abandoned. Jokes and references to users who had clearly been gone for ages, or moved onto new projects. A kind of microcosm for the internet broadly as more forums go under, but very visceral there. The movie feels like it'll be a nice capstone on that, the zombified corpse of a fun survival horror/lego sandbox world I used to enjoy. The perfect flick to watch and find mid on a two hour plane ride. Did stop playing before chicken jockey's were a thing, so I fear that scene will not resonate strongly.
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well why not posted:Colin Firth is huge, Bridget Jones and Kingsman were big franchises. He’s not as big as hardy/cumberbatch but he’s an a-lister I think Firth was definitely bigger than either of them in 2011. Now, not as much. Gary Oldman gets new glasses at the start of the film, and there's a lot of flashbacks. So I read a thing saying "you can tell it's a flashback because Oldman's glasses are different." Thing is, the other thing that happens early is John Hurt tells Oldman there's a mole and then dies of cancer or something, and every single flashback has John Hurt alive. The dead guy talking and moving is a pretty good clue it's in the past.
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