The Official Movie Thread

[TechnicalBarbarity]

NP:

...one of the dollar bin movies i picked up a while ago. Fuck it

 

[CiG]

I remember that being nothing too special but still pretty fun. ^



All my horrorhead friends are sharing this. Looks interesting.



Ryan Reynolds dropped this teaser for Deadpool 3, with Hugh Jackman walking around in the background lol I guess that means Logan will be making an appearance.

 

[Slammed]

Clive Barker is back writing and directing Hellraiser, something which hasn't happened since he sold the rights before the first one was released. With a bit of luck it will be worth watching.

Deadpool not being released until 2024 sucks, it better be worth it.

 

[challenge_everything]

This will probably appeal to some people here. Debut feature by Aussie director, a kind of magic-realist folk horror filmed entirely in Macedonian. Raised alone in a cave until the age of 16 to be protect her from the claims of shapeshifting witch Maria, Nevena is nevertheless 'turned' by Maria and proceeds to discover the world through the different guises of the various peasants whose bodies she takes over. I saw it described as Robert Eggers meets Terrence Malick, which is pretty apt. The inner monologues of Nevena are pure Malick (either profound poetry or total nonsense depending on your perspective). The similarity to The Witch (aside from the superficial witchcraft element) is the way in which both completely eschew any glamour whatsoever in the peasant lifestyle. It also reminds me of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, in terms of the wide-eyed naivete of Nevena in learning about the world. What disappointed me, though, was the rather conservative morality of it all

Spoiler

as Nevena ends up identifying with the petty and mundane lives of the villagers rather than the free-spirited Maria.

 

[CiG]

Watching Taken 2 for the first time and holy shit the editor was a war criminal with this fucking dogshit overuse of quick cuts and shaky cam. Guy should be taken and dumped in a gutter.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Don't worry, it gets better in Taken 3.

 

[CiG]

BRUH.

 

[no country for old wainds]

lmao. thank god i stopped after 2

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

did anyone notice the hole in the plot of the first one??
what made it fucked all to hell is that the hole in the plot of Taken was something that could have been fixed with another 30 sec of screentime

 

[CiG]

What's the hole?

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

if you're gonna kidnap someone and ask for a ransom, you gotta make sure you kidnap the right person, to make sure you can actually get a huge ransom payday, but if you're NOT gonna ask for ransom, you've got a different problem

imagine if the kidnappers in Taken had kidnapped Paris Hilton, you see the problem right??

the girls were kidnapped after leaving one of those European shops where all the customers were Americans
you could have just shown the girls bitching about how they have no money and therefore can't afford to buy anything in the shop
you could have shown the kidnappers hearing this talk while the kidnappers are in a backroom watching the security cam footage of the store
so the kidnappers know for sure before the actual kidnapping that the girls that they kidnap are actually totally broke as opposed to the possibility of the kidnappers accidentally kidnapping someone that's actually rich

 

[CiG]

I regret asking.

You're a fucking retard. They kidnapped the girls for sex trafficking purposes, it has nothing to do with a ransom.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

I regret asking.

You're a fucking retard. They kidnapped the girls for sex trafficking purposes, it has nothing to do with a ransom.

yes, the girls were kidnapped for sex trafficking purposes
i'm saying that because they are NOT going to ask for a ransom, they need to make sure the girls that they kidnap are broke
if rich-as-hell girls were kidnapped for sex-trafficking purposes, it wouldn't work

 

[CiG]

yes, the girls were kidnapped for sex trafficking purposes
i'm saying that because they are NOT going to ask for a ransom, they need to make sure the girls that they kidnap are broke
if rich-as-hell girls were kidnapped for sex-trafficking purposes, it wouldn't work

How the fuck is that a plot hole?

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

to me, it just seemed like there really really should have been a scene where the kidnappers actually know before the actual kidnapping that the girls are broke
and it could have easily been done the way i described adding less than one-minute to the total screen-time

 

[CiG]

Whether they're broke or not is completely irrelevant to anything in the movie. The point is they're young and alone in a foreign country. Fucking retard.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Whether they're broke or not is completely irrelevant to anything in the movie.

irrelevant in the movie except for the fact that in the real-world sex-traffickers actually do what i'm describing
they go through the effort of actually making absolutely sure that they're only kidnapping girls that are actually broke

 

[CiG]

irrelevant in the movie except for the fact that in the real-world sex-traffickers actually do what i'm describing
they go through the effort of actually making absolutely sure that they're only kidnapping girls that are actually broke

That's not a plot hole, that's just a conflict between the script and realism. In real life old Irish dudes don't punch their way through Europe to find sex traffickers based on two words they said through a cellphone.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

In real life old Irish dudes don't punch their way through Europe to find sex traffickers based on two words they said through a cellphone.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I remember that being nothing too special but still pretty fun. ^

I liked it it. Kind of like MiB on crack. They couldve been more creative with the monsters/demons tough. Thought Jeff Bridges was hilarious and pretty much carried the film.

One of my buddies shot me his HBOmax password and im about to finally watch some of these DC movies ive been wanting to see for a while now. Staring with this one...