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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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The best anime of recent years were Delicious in Dungeon and Dandadan. Delicious in Dungeon starts off with the basic question of "OK but how would the ecosystem in a D&D style dungeon actually work?" and builds arguably the best original fantasy story of the century on top of that. Dandadan is a classic "boy who believes in UFOs gets possessed by a ghost, girl who believes in ghosts gets abducted by a UFO" love story, bursting with love for cryptids and paranormal phenomenon, with the best animation on TV today. edit: they both also have fire ops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60_2zt9l3Yk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4na2opArGY Gripweed fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jan 3, 2025 |
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The Peccadillo posted:The opening title to Dandadan is pretty good but it's not a good example for anime not being perverted, a lot of it is about a teen boy's dick and balls and a gilf The part after he got his dick back when he realizes his balls are still missing is one of the greatest twists I've seen in a long time
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Jan 3, 2025 14:19
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Gaius Marius posted:5,000 years of human history and all TV has to show is less than two dozen great series. Truly embarrassing. Wrong, there are exactly two dozen great series Columbo Star Trek: The Next Generation Police Squad Twin Peaks Fishing With John The Muppet Show Garth Mahrengi's Darkplace The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau Newsreaders A Very British Coup Kids in the Hall Reno 911 Mobile Suit Gundam Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Mobile Suit Gundam Victory Mobile Suit Gundam: Reconguista in G Combat Mecha Xabungle Delicious in Dungeon Laid Back Camp Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoiyo Masarusan One Piece Mobile Psycho 100 The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
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drat I wish I had done that on purpose
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What's a movie that you so badly wanted to like, but couldn't stand? Pacific Rim 2
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I don't understand why they're releasing a movie about Robbie Williams in America, a country where not a single human being has ever heard of Robbie Williams.
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Jan 7, 2025 16:12
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Jay Rust posted:i'd never heard of spinal tap but i still watched their movie It is so easy for major British musicians to reach American audiences, if somebody is big in Britain but an unknown in America it generally suggests something.
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Jan 7, 2025 16:19
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CPL593H posted:Is the longer version of Walk Hard actually better or did they just pad out the length with a bunch of deleted scenes as was popular in the DVD marketing gimmick era? The extended Beatles scene is worth every extra second.
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Jan 7, 2025 23:42
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I didn't like Breathless either. I haven't liked any Godard I've seen.
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CPL593H posted:I don't follow UK politics too closely. Are they also packing their government full of fascist nutbars? I know they're certainly having a fight with the US over which country can do transphobia the hardest. Same thing the British government has been doing for the past 15 years; privatizing essential services and talking about how much they hate immigrants.
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Jan 9, 2025 01:43
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Wolfsheim posted:I liked that they realized the desert shiek who is also president of all assassins was a bad choice so John Wick retcon kills him off in the first 15 minutes of the sequel Wait, I thought that was supposed to be Hasan al Sabbah? Like, the guy who invented assassins. I thought that was why he was above even the table, he was like the god of assassins. But it was just some guy and John Wick kills him? That sucks.
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I didn't like the mirror shootout because I could only think about how stupid of an art installation that was.
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CPL593H posted:I'm struggling to think of an example of anything where world building actually improved the story. There might be some obvious example I'm missing but usually less is more. Minovsky Particles in Gundam.
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CPL593H posted:Do you like anything besides anime? yeah lots of stuff. But you asked for good worldbuilding
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The other obvious example of world building that enhances the plot is One Piece, but you probably won't be happy about that either.
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Srice posted:For a few weeks whenever I looked at weekend showings of Wicked it'd be like 80% filled at minimum. People love witches.
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free movie just dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UDXdqqJQPE
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Wolfsheim posted:Wes Anderson probably Hits Bottle Rocket Rushmore Royal Tenenbaums Life Aquatic Darjeeling Limited Moonrise Kingdom Misses French Dispatch Checks out.
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CPL593H posted:Cartoon Fox and old timey hotel are good. Oh poo poo I forgot about those! Yeah they're great too.
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FunkyAl posted:And what's wrong with French Dispatch? It's not very good. The only really good part is the James Baldwin segment, and by the time you get to it the movie's almost over!
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That new Folding Ideas video is pretty good. It turns out it's mostly a documentary about the previously thought lost, recently recovered creationist documentary Footprints in Stone
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I dreampt another movie. This one was about a group of mentally ill queer people in Japan. It wasn't set in Tokyo, it was a smaller city further north. One of those smaller cities where it seems like all the queer people in it are connected by like at most two degrees of separation from each other. The gimmick was that everybody's mental and emotional problems were manifested physically. The main character was extremely avoidant, she would metaphorically and sometimes literally run away from situations if it even looked like they might become intense, so she was a bunny girl. She had bunny ears and bunny mannerisms and stuff. There was another character who literally didn't take up any space and people were always literally walking through her. She was introduced to the movie when the main character went to a diner and sat down in a booth and then realized she had sat exactly where the other girl was sitting. That part was actually really impressive because they did the effect super well. The movie was also absolutely laden in Japanese queer culture references and signifiers that flew over my head. Like, I was talking about it online with somebody and I asked about something a waiter said that didn't seem to make sense and they explained that you can see the waiter's phone case has a single pearl in it, which means.... etc. Also it was an adaptation of a longer manga so characters kind of came and went and not all the plot threads were tied together, but it was still an incredible vibes movie.
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Man I wish Inherent Vice was better than it is.
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Escobarbarian posted:It’s hard to get better than “nearly perfect” tbh. Like pretty much your only option is “perfect”, and that’s difficult for anyone! True, but we're talking about Inherent Vice
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CelticPredator posted:This movie was not good. yeah like so much of it is good but it doesn't hang together well at all.
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I watched the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123. It's not very good. It's mean and ugly in that way particular to 2000s movies. And the end is complete nonsense. Wouldn't recommend.
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Jay Rust posted:imo that list should've been ranked by verifiable body count. ("MAN" is #1, #2 is Skynet. And #3? Yep it's the death star) If you start doing it like that you end up with poo poo like Sadako being the most deadly movie slasher because of the plane she crashed. And I'm pretty sure Dozle Zabi killed more people with Operation British than died on Alderaan.
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Air Skwirl posted:What are other movies with actors that traditionally play the protagonist turning in excellent performances as the villain? the GOAT 
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I watched Horror in the High Desert. Pretty good. It pulls off the fake documtary thing pretty well, the actors all do serviceable jobs. The main character is well developed, he come off as a real person very well. I will say, the special effects for the monsterman could have been better. Like, a lot better. Really it looks like poo poo. But thats never been a deal breaker for me. I know there's sequels, I haven't looked into them yet but I really hope that they are all, as the ending of the first one set up, just a series of influencers going out to try to find the monsterman and dying one after the other in an unending sequence. I would find that delightful.
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Everybody is talking about Horror in the High Desert today!
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I watched Butterfly Kisses. It was alright. Mainly held back by how incredibly annoying the main character is. You see him in that hat and instantly wish he was already dead. And I think the stinger at the end kinda missed what worked about the movie, focusing on the mystery about the girl and not the obsession with the story. But beyond, it's a pretty solid found footage fake documentary. I really liked the audio guys, they had a kind of natural enthusiasm that was very fun on screen. And the "blink test" scene was great. There's so many of these "a ghost is gonna get you" movies, especially in found footage, so it was so fun to have a part where one of the characters realized the ghost was basically restrained by his scary nature and couldn't just immediately kill him because that wasn't scary enough, so he had some fun with it.
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Gaius Marius posted:They never met in person. anything is possible with some movie magic
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MacheteZombie posted:Isn't the brutalist about a real guy? Like couldn't they just his buildings? Baron von Eevl was probably right, they couldn't get the rights to the buildings.
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CPL593H posted:It's funny to me that people talked wholesale poo poo about Late Night with the Devil for using an AI generated image you see for three seconds but the Brutalist did that ridiculous poo poo and people are saying how great it is as a work of art. I'm not saying that.
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trapstar posted:What future movies are you guys looking forward to? Here's one I am, Christopher Nolan is adapting The Odyssey (The Greek Epic). Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-. It's getting a one night theatrical showing in America Feb 28th. I will be there.
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Jay Rust posted:What does the fifth u stand for? There's an unconfirmed rumor that the us aren't us, that part of the title is actually cut off. Which is supported by how it's stylized in the official logo seen here at the top left.  But quuuuuux also seems like on obvious derivation off the metasyntactic variables qux and quux. So there may be some meaning there. It may be one or either of those, or both, or a third thing, or some combination of the three, but quite simply we don't know yet. Gripweed fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jan 20, 2025 |
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Jay Rust posted:that's a cool tennis racket axe That's a Heat Hawk, the trademark weapon of the mass-production Zaku. The blade gets so really hot so it can cut through metal easily.
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The case of mapo tofu sauce that was supposed to arrive today and I was going to rely on to get me through the freeze has been delayed until Wednesday. I'm in crisis mode over here.
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