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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: 5150]
#25264503 - 06/12/18 09:29 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Can you go into a little less detail next time? It's too much for my puny brain to handle.
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akira_akuma
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: Jufin]
#25265648 - 06/13/18 12:58 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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revenge film. it's really good. good build up, good family drama...really good, visually.
wrong film. i was thinking of another Russian film, sorta reminds me of this one...i don't really remember this one fully...the end is good. i remember it gets exciting with the "revenge" portion, that i do indeed remember- but that's it...humph
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: akira_akuma] 2
#25267056 - 06/14/18 02:03 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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10/10
challenging as an art-film. the camerawork, the long range zoom leaves a dazzling impression- basically, a movie for woman...literally. well, save the rest of the elegant film-making, that anyone can enjoy.
but for women it's....heh....well,....it'd be effective, because i went to almost full feminist mode, but by the end....whew. Darren Afronofsky, you propagandist, you.
PS: "A boycott was also called for against the movie after political comments from actress Jennifer Lawrence in an interview for the film"
people can have God take credit, but someone says mother nature enacts severe weather to clean house, you've got a boycott on your hands...plus no one likes to be challenged.
this world depresses me sometimes.
Edited by akira_akuma (06/14/18 02:20 AM)
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: lar20]
#25267847 - 06/14/18 12:45 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Going to go watch Hereditary in a few hours. Have high hopes for this one. It's like one out of a hundred when you find a good horror movie.
If anyone hasn't seen Get Out yet, I highly recommend it.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#25269234 - 06/15/18 02:31 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: 10/10
challenging as an art-film. the camerawork, the long range zoom leaves a dazzling impression- basically, a movie for woman...literally. well, save the rest of the elegant film-making, that anyone can enjoy.
but for women it's....heh....well,....it'd be effective, because i went to almost full feminist mode, but by the end....whew. Darren Afronofsky, you propagandist, you.
PS: "A boycott was also called for against the movie after political comments from actress Jennifer Lawrence in an interview for the film"
people can have God take credit, but someone says mother nature enacts severe weather to clean house, you've got a boycott on your hands...plus no one likes to be challenged.
this world depresses me sometimes.
You're talking about 'mother!', yeah?
It's funny because I love that movie, and my wife hates it, and she hated me for loving it for about a month.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: Jufin]
#25269782 - 06/15/18 11:05 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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haha, i forgot to add the name of the movie. lol oops
yep, you got it though. i thought it was awesome...
the end..."did you have an abortion today?"
that shit would make your stomach turn if you ever did. nicely political too. shitstarter Afronofsky.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: akira_akuma] 3
#25270118 - 06/15/18 01:39 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Inherent Vice
8/10
P.T. Anderson's filming of Thomas Pynchon's book, the movie is principally interesting for the roles of Doc Sportello -- main character, private eye -- played by Joaquin Phoenix, and his cop associate "Bigfoot" Bjornsen, played by Josh Brolin. The movie is a bit disappointing, imo, given the promise suggested by Pynchon's book. It meanders a bit with a mystery that's a bit underwhelming, and it just seems at times like a somewhat random stacking of events that doesn't deliver a huge payoff. That said, it is not bad, relatively entertaining, and immaculately filmed. Phoenix and Brolin keep it interesting, and I felt it deserved a slight nudge above three stars, despite its flaws. Worth a watch.

The Master
10/10
Also by P.T. Anderson, this movie is actually pretty great, and seems to have slipped below a lot of people's radar. Anderson is a phenomenally gifted director, and at times it feels like his chops, purely as a director, approach the level of some of the greats. This dovetails with amazing cinematography as well, and he always seems to get a ton out of actors. And man, the acting in this movie -- primarily by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman -- is absurdly excellent. You won't see better in too many movies.
The movie is about Scientology, and L. Ron Hubbard in particular, although alternate names were used for the characters and the organization. It's interesting in that respect, as a study of Scientology, but also in its deeper focus on whether brain or behavioral change is possibly in principle, and whether Hubbard was able to do it in particular. These questions could also refer to someone like Timothy Leary, who attempted behavior change through psychedelic chemicals. Anderson draws his own conclusion, and I'd imagine it's one most people would share. The movie is really almost perfect in most of its aspects, and if you haven't seen or heard of it, you're in for a unique and excellent piece should you choose to check it out.
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Yeah, I agree and would go with The Master over the other one. Much better movie and it had the late Hoffman in it who was a great actor when alive.
Just saw Hereditary. Went in fucked up and it really messes with your head. No spoilers but all these fucking miniatures of houses and then it zooms in slowly to where this family is the exact same house and everything is exactly the same as the goddamn toy house. And their are so many other things psychologically that you notice on the screen that is not put attention to but it is just there to mess with ones head and perception of reality.
Highly recommend it. Even more so if you are on a substance(s) of ones own choosing. God, I still can't process it all and this is the next day.
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The Master was a great great movie.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: akira_akuma]
#25272390 - 06/16/18 02:36 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Dunno about putting a number on it, but Avengers: Infinity War was fantastic.
Rated high on my Schindler's List scale. You know, that thing where you mope away from a film with your spirit having taken a beating, talking about what a great movie it was.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: SavageGerbil]
#25272589 - 06/16/18 03:59 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/theaters-to-add-strobe-light-warning-to-‘incredibles-2’-after-viral-twitter-thread/ar-AAyJhH9?ocid=spartanntp
God the world we live in. I like the saying about industrialized countries and their problems compared to third world ones. When people have to walk a mile to just get some water. Perspective, their is so much bullshit that means nothing in the larger scheme of things.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: Barnaby]
#25272667 - 06/16/18 04:27 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I think dogs go to a better place. Like the quote of someone at sometime. If dogs go to heaven, I want to go where they went.
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#25272890 - 06/16/18 06:03 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Burbs (1989) 7.5/10
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: DustyBottoms]
#25275407 - 06/17/18 09:32 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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supertrooper 2 8/10 first one was funnier
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mother!
9/10
Interesting stuff, Aronofsky lost me a little about 3/4 of the way through, then picked me back up in the final five minutes. Unique, well directed, well acted, definitely a movie you'll either love or hate. akira pointed out the feminist aspects, though I felt they were not dogmatic, more eliciting sympathy, and I really had no problem with that element. Good arty movie, it will be fun to watch it again knowing the ending.
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yeah, at some point it goes into "art for the sake of art" territory, and it's drastic...but...you know, i really appreciated the camera in that movie...it reminds of the fact that...and i'm just gonna segue into it and say it here...i'm sick of new movies and their needless panning and camera movement into still scenes, where the camera moving is like the only thing that gives the scene life...like watching dinosaurs pour around a pod and you see the people come out, and the scene looks all green screened to death, so you're getting all this camera movement just to make it look like something is happening- but really nothing is. you can tell. the scene seems lifeless, if not for the ability to cordon off your susceptibility to witnessing it's fakeness (i imagine it almost like watching a video game cutscene- cause that's what it looks like)....mother! is an film with excellent techne, where none of the apparent "fakeness" of new films show through (and yes, plenty of CGI green screen is in the film, yet, you cannot notice it), and no scene feels lifeless, in terms of the camera's movement, and/or the pacing of the visuals.
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Re: rate the last movie you watched [Re: akira_akuma] 2
#25278441 - 06/19/18 08:59 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Annihilation 10/10
The climax literally made me tear up, most amazing thing I've ever had the pleasure of seeing on the big screen.
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#25278550 - 06/19/18 10:21 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: yeah, at some point it goes into "art for the sake of art" territory, and it's drastic...but...you know, i really appreciated the camera in that movie...it reminds of the fact that...and i'm just gonna segue into it and say it here...i'm sick of new movies and their needless panning and camera movement into still scenes, where the camera moving is like the only thing that gives the scene life...like watching dinosaurs pour around a pod and you see the people come out, and the scene looks all green screened to death, so you're getting all this camera movement just to make it look like something is happening- but really nothing is. you can tell. the scene seems lifeless, if not for the ability to cordon off your susceptibility to witnessing it's fakeness (i imagine it almost like watching a video game cutscene- cause that's what it looks like)....mother! is an film with excellent techne, where none of the apparent "fakeness" of new films show through (and yes, plenty of CGI green screen is in the film, yet, you cannot notice it), and no scene feels lifeless, in terms of the camera's movement, and/or the pacing of the visuals.
I had exactly the same reaction, and feel the same way about CGI. Something is missing from a lot of modern movies with such liberal use of computer effects. It just feels and looks wrong. However, the CGI in mother is exceptionally well done. There's a fair amount of it, but it's much more seamless than a lot of other films. Good points.
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52 Pick-up (1986) 9/10
"There's something about your face that makes me want to slap the shit out of it"
An extremely entertaining sleazy crime thriller directed by the legendary John Frankenheimer & based on a novel from Elmore Leonard with himself & John Steppling doing the screenplay. Roy Scheider gives a great performance but even better are Clarence Williams III & John Glover as the main villains. Well worth checking out if you can get your hands on it!
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