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Jan 2, 2025 02:51
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I resolve to watch more movies this year
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Jan 2, 2025 02:58
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CD Genchat 2025: Part 6: Freddy's Dead
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Jan 2, 2025 03:11
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GenChat 6: CineD Under Siege
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Jan 2, 2025 03:19
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Starting the new year by binge watching all the Nick & Norah Charles/Thin Man movies. I absolutely adore these films, they're bursting with charm and energy. They really lean into the sillier side of noir. Myrna Loy may have been one of the most beautiful women to walk the earth. Just pure fun. Part of me hopes for a reboot someday (I think the main couple from Crazy Rich Asians would be great) but also I want it to remain as it is.
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Jan 2, 2025 03:43
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Watched Airplane vs Volcano. Giving The Asylum a fair shake and... eh, maybe didn't need to. Setup is fun - "what if a airplane was trying to fly through hell", and it's downright charming that the plane just can't seem to escape volcanic eruptions and debris. Fun scene where a guy has to fix something on the exterior of the plane and is dangled outside via tied up seatbelts.  He succeeds in fixing the plane, but a stray fireball knocks him into the plane engine. It's a shame, this plays like a middle schooler's first Flash movie. Cast and crew are willing to play ball, but it just doesn't have any heart. Of course this guy succeeds but is killed. It's like an echo of better disaster flicks, made by people who just don't get how to instill any heart in the story. Flight to Hell by Alvaro Passeri is a much better bad plane movie.
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Jan 2, 2025 03:43
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My first movie of the year was Laid Back Camp: The Movie. It was nice. Nice little cap to the series, but not really a highlight of the series, if that makes sense
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Jan 2, 2025 03:56
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If I don’t make a feature film this year then I truly failed at life
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Jan 2, 2025 04:07
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I guess movies are good but have any of you ever considered having sex 
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Jan 2, 2025 04:30
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Wolfsheim posted:I guess movies are good but have any of you ever considered having sex You can do both. A lady hosed me because I was watching El Enfanto and she was scared of spooky movies and wanted to make me quit it
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Jan 2, 2025 04:59
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Wolfsheim posted:I guess movies are good but have any of you ever considered having sex Sex is temporary Cinema is Forever!
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Jan 2, 2025 05:51
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Wolfsheim posted:I guess movies are good but have any of you ever considered having sex In movies there are no sex
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Jan 2, 2025 06:30
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Wolfsheim posted:I guess movies are good but have any of you ever considered having sex I watched Mask of the Phantasm tonight and it literally unironically has a cut to the waving curtains moment
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Jan 2, 2025 07:44
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I watched Mask of the Phantasm tonight and it literally unironically has a cut to the waving curtains moment Batman TAS can get away with it. It's very on theme.
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Jan 2, 2025 07:49
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Carry On is so bad. tarron very explicitly dupes out the bomb luggage as a trick but then ... Jason Bateman just takes the bomb on the plane. and at one point says "nice trick switching out the bags" so I guess there's a scene missing
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Jan 2, 2025 10:54
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Probably, I get the impression it's basically standard for Hollywood movies these days to be hacked to pieces in the editing room usually based on executive whims, and it's often the final cut only makes sense to one person who saw the connecting tissue so many times they forgot the audience hasn't.
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Jan 2, 2025 11:28
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Swapping the bag lets them track it through the barcode, and is why it subsequently won't fit in the overhead locker. It's an essential, if ridiculously specific jigsaw piece in Egerton's very stupid plan for stopping him.
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Jan 2, 2025 12:04
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Y2K was really fun, I'd even say 'underrated'. Didn't know Kyle Mooney also directed it, explains a lot actually. The nostalgia was only laid on too thick couple of times, mostly it was pretty accurate and tastefully done, the casting was good, and the violence was perfectly slapstick. When things started to get stupid I was about to be like "I see why the reviews were bad" but quickly came around to "actually this movie rules" when the kid gets his dick caught in the blender and just about every death afterwards was hilarious. Ending conceit was kind of weak but you can't really expect more from a movie that does 'Virus (1999) but funnier' the entire time. Worth watching. The Order and Nightbitch were both decent too, I probably should have paid attention more (this was all mostly background for edting photos from NYE all evening) but they were both solid films. Gladiator II, I really expected to hate, but it was pretty awesome. I can see what they meant about the opening scene being 'the most expensive thing Ridley Scott has ever done' or something, it certainly was one of the more epic battles I've ever seen and the CGI was seamless, very LotR-level compositing where you're hard-pressed to actually find what's real and what's not. There were definitely few rehash characters and cornball 'oh he's trying to one-up the first film' moments, and the CG animals in later scenes (of which there were a LOT) still didn't feel as real IMO. I guess both are sort of unavoidable; the epic tale is going to have its archetypical characters and if you want to show people. mauled by baboons or gored by rhinoceros you gotta use what CG you got. I expected to not care about the main character at all but whoever that actor is won me over - you know it's coming but his wife's death hit pretty hard and when the exact same thing happens to Lucilla it was also very affecting. Denzel Washington was really impressive. Pedro Pascal's vocal lessons must have been intense, he sounds like a totally different guy especially when he publicly claims the conquered city. The twin emperors seemed like Scott trying to out-effete Phoenix's performance in the original - I didn't catch on until later but a large part of this was one of them being syphilitic, a plot point that drives the last act of the movie. I just thought they were giving off major McPoyle Twins vibes. Anyway Ridley Scott should do more of that and fewer Alien movies.
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Jan 2, 2025 14:51
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My first film of 2025 was Wicked. My daughter wanted to watch it so we made themed snacks and rented it. It was *still* impossible to find 4 seats together at the theaters that were together without booking more than a week out. So I guess it's still popular! But yeah, ultimately just not for me. I love musicals, but none of the songs really ever stuck with me. I guess Defying Gravity was ok. But honestly, I feel like I've just been spoiled by Lin Manuel Miranda. His songs are just catchy as hell with clever lyrics. People just sort of singing dialogue doesn't do it for me anymore. Visually very pretty although the color grade seemed oddly washed out. But on reflection... I didn't mind it? Seemed like an interesting choice and there's so much color everywhere that I think toning back on the saturation prevents it from feeling full on "fantasy color explosion." Or something. Can't quite find the right words to describe it. I wasn't familiar with the story and it just seems sooooo unnecessary and I hate all the dumbification of some of the words/language. Shiz is also the stupidest name for a school. Bowen Yang had some funny moments. Cynthia Erivo was easily the standout of the entire thing. Everyone else felt very caricaturish (which... I get it. That's the material). But Erivo's performance was great.
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Jan 2, 2025 15:34
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I snickered every time they said "Shizz". It's a pretty mediocre songbook imo, The Wizard&I, Popular, What Is This Feeling?, and Defying Gravity are good-to-very good songs but the rest is unmemorable-to-dire. God knows how they're going to have to pad out part 2 musically cause all the good songs are in the front half. In the film, Defying Gravity was sapped of all energy and momentum by constant interjections . It's kinda the same in the musical, but there it's allowed to build to several crescendoes which feels satisfying, whereas imo the film editing never allows it to peak at all . Cynthia Erivo is a great singer tho and The Wizard&I was a highlight of the film.
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Jan 2, 2025 16:10
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Failed Imagineer posted:I snickered every time they said "Shizz". I forgot about The Wizard and I. I did enjoy that one... shame it happens so early on.
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Jan 2, 2025 16:17
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Does he at least have the Power Glove?
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Jan 2, 2025 16:21
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Does he at least have the Power Glove? Fraud recognizes fraud
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Jan 2, 2025 16:28
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First movie of the year was Nosferatu (2024) which I quite enjoyed, here’s hoping we get some good movies in 2025.
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Jan 2, 2025 17:02
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josh04 posted:Swapping the bag lets them track it through the barcode, and is why it subsequently won't fit in the overhead locker. It's an essential, if ridiculously specific jigsaw piece in Egerton's very stupid plan for stopping him. No it went through the bag check. Worst terrorist
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Jan 2, 2025 20:38
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Safety Factor posted:CD Genchat 2025: Part 6: Freddy
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Jan 2, 2025 22:44
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it is happening again
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Jan 2, 2025 23:07
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I resolve to watch a few movies this year
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Jan 2, 2025 23:08
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Blood Boils posted:I resolve to watch a few movies this year Pfffft, you're going to watch movies? Is this pre-school? I'm going to ~experience cinema~.
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Jan 2, 2025 23:32
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My first movie of 2025 was a rewatch of K.Kurosawa’s Cure, specifically the new UHD version which is fuckin beautiful, utterly pristine. The first time I saw this movie I liked it but didn’t feel like I “got” it, this time around though I kinda do? I dunno it’s very hard to pin down and has a lot going on but god drat the feeling of dread permeating every scene is almost unmatched.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:05
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I will watch about the same amount of movies this year, but they're all gonna be better ones. And maybe a little older, too.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:13
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I'm planning on half-watching a whole lot of bullshit this year, in the hopes of finding some weirdo low-budget gems. This is the same thing I do every year.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:19
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I'm gonna watch more anime
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Jan 3, 2025 00:20
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I have been watching more anime the past month. It's a mixed bag, to say the least. But when it's good, it's fuckin' great. Someone uploaded this to YouTube recently, big recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbMS17BIrY Just unbelievable style, and so fun. Sort of Yes, Madam in space. Excited for the OG series to finally have a dub this year, since it's too hard watching subs as background viewing.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:24
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Once in a great while I make the mistake of posting somewhere that isn't Something Awful and it immediately reminds me of why I don't do that. People are just needlessly angry and aggressive about absolutely everything all the time.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:32
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feedmyleg posted:I have been watching more anime the past month. It's a mixed bag, to say the least. But when it's good, it's fuckin' great. Someone uploaded this to YouTube recently, big recommend: Hell yeah man, Dirty Pair rocks. Check out Space Adventure Cobra (the series). I guess it is probably subs only tho.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:39
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Anonymous Robot posted:Hell yeah man, Dirty Pair rocks. Check out Space Adventure Cobra (the series). I guess it is probably subs only tho. Hell, check out Space Adventure Cobra (the movie).
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Jan 3, 2025 00:42
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Two main goals for me in 2025 are to go through the entire Zatoichi series (loved the Kitano film), as well as watch/re-watch the entirety of Hitchcock's films in honor of the 100th anniversary of his first film.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:42
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First movie of the year last night was The Order. For some reason I thought it was going to be a schlocky action movie, instead it was a bleak and kinda depressing cop drama about modern-ish nazis. Second movie was Baby Assassins 2, which was every bit as good as 1 in the action department and even better in the hangout department. The title drop in this movie is so goddamn good. Highly recommend it, looking forward to seeing the third one and eventually catching the TV show. Saori Izawa is a real deal action star.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:58
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Anonymous Robot posted:Hell yeah man, Dirty Pair rocks. Check out Space Adventure Cobra (the series). I guess it is probably subs only tho. Schwarzwald posted:Hell, check out Space Adventure Cobra (the movie). Yeah, I've got 'em and they're amazing. But only the first episode of the series is dubbed which is a bummer, got so excited when I thought it was the whole series. I really wonder how long it is until AI fandubs become a thing. I think it's imminent.
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Jan 3, 2025 00:59
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