challenge_everything
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Please don't. I hate the word 'woke' but in this case it's truly fitting.
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Please don't. I hate the word 'woke' but in this case it's truly fitting.
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Yeah on many levels. Love how the main character is an artist who co-opts the imagery of the Candyman without understanding the underlying story, just as the director co-opts the original movie without understanding it. It's so obvious I wonder if it was intended to be self-deprecating but given the obliviousness of everything else in the movie I doubt that.
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@Slammed I was meaning to ask you, how did you feel about Wolf Creek season 2 fleshing out a lot more of Mick's worldview?
(Wrong thread I know.)
(Wrong thread I know.)
I thought it was very interesting how it established his personal philosophy for how he justifies his crimes. He talks about how, as a descendant of a penal colony, it's his job to take care of foreign pests like rabbits, foxes, wild pigs, tourists etc.
That part was always pretty much implied in the movies (he hates Brits, Kiwis, Americans etc) but in that season we see for maybe the first time ever his larrikin mask slip when he's forced to kill the 3 aboriginal blokes. For one, he doesn't outright kill them, he fires a warning shot and tells them to leave (I was so surprised) and then when they return to try and help the tourists he's forced to kill them and he takes no pleasure in it. Then when one of them survives and goes to get Tommy Lewis (!!!!) and they try to ambush Mick, he kills them, walks over to Tommy and says "it's over, dingo man" in an aboriginal language and then says angrily "fucking tourists" because this all resulted in 3 dead aboriginals.
Holy shit it was so much new insight into his profile that I wasn't expecting.
That part was always pretty much implied in the movies (he hates Brits, Kiwis, Americans etc) but in that season we see for maybe the first time ever his larrikin mask slip when he's forced to kill the 3 aboriginal blokes. For one, he doesn't outright kill them, he fires a warning shot and tells them to leave (I was so surprised) and then when they return to try and help the tourists he's forced to kill them and he takes no pleasure in it. Then when one of them survives and goes to get Tommy Lewis (!!!!) and they try to ambush Mick, he kills them, walks over to Tommy and says "it's over, dingo man" in an aboriginal language and then says angrily "fucking tourists" because this all resulted in 3 dead aboriginals.
Holy shit it was so much new insight into his profile that I wasn't expecting.
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‘Blackout’ First Look – Larry Fessenden Is Back With New Werewolf Horror Movie.
My erection is larger than Larry's forehead right now.
Should I even bother watching it? I saw it's on Netflix lol, any decent kills or effects at least?
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Finding out if I can still get through a Seagal film without beer. Turns out I can.
Features a mid-20s Dean Norris in a bit part. God, what a hunk.
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This was hugely disappointing. Not that I regard the Palme D'Or as necessarily the stamp of excellence, but this movie feels more like Oscar bait than Cannes material. Calling it satire is too generous, because these rich people are such ridiculous stereotypes that it's more slapstick cringe than anything trenchant. It's an entirely safe movie sticking the boot into the safest of targets, complete with a climactic vomit scene that is straight out ripped off numerous other movies. The movie eventually takes a third act turn - reminiscent of Parasite but without the creativity. Whatever this movie has to say, it certainly didn't require 147 mins to say it.
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So many insane moments in this one. Powers Boothe's villain is one for the ages.
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This was hugely disappointing. Not that I regard the Palme D'Or as necessarily the stamp of excellence, but this movie feels more like Oscar bait than Cannes material. Calling it satire is too generous, because these rich people are such ridiculous stereotypes that it's more slapstick cringe than anything trenchant. It's an entirely safe movie sticking the boot into the safest of targets, complete with a climactic vomit scene that is straight out ripped off numerous other movies. The movie eventually takes a third act turn - reminiscent of Parasite but without the creativity. Whatever this movie has to say, it certainly didn't require 147 mins to say it.
have you seen any other ostlunds? ‘cause this sounds more or less like my take on the square; painfully unfunny, unfocused and overreaching satire that has a few interesting ideas but feels like a first draft and takes a lot of cheap shots. he really thinks he’s the second coming of bunuel or something lol. force majeure was alright but just a worse version of the loneliest planet to me (or you can just go to the source with contempt). play i don’t remember too much but i remember thinking it was provocative but shapeless as well.
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I watched the new Scott Cooper film The Pale Blue Eye last night. Cooper is becoming one of my favourite director's. I still need to see his directorial debut Crazy Heart.
His latest venture is a very well made, moody gothic thriller. Superbly shot and thankfully not darkly lit. Christian Bale is suitably on good form but it is Harry Melling who steals the show as Edgar Allan Poe. Thankfully Melling (like Daniel Radcliffe) has shaken off the Harry Potter shackles and has being getting his teeth into some really juicy, complex roles. We even get a cameo from Robert Duvall has an occult expert.
The plot does falter a bit near the end but not too much.
My Scott Cooper ranking -
1. Hostiles
2. Out of the Furnace
3. Black Mass
4. The Pale Blue Eye
5. Antlers
His latest venture is a very well made, moody gothic thriller. Superbly shot and thankfully not darkly lit. Christian Bale is suitably on good form but it is Harry Melling who steals the show as Edgar Allan Poe. Thankfully Melling (like Daniel Radcliffe) has shaken off the Harry Potter shackles and has being getting his teeth into some really juicy, complex roles. We even get a cameo from Robert Duvall has an occult expert.
The plot does falter a bit near the end but not too much.
My Scott Cooper ranking -
1. Hostiles
2. Out of the Furnace
3. Black Mass
4. The Pale Blue Eye
5. Antlers
Einherjar86
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Sucked it up and watched Baumbach's White Noise. I'm a big fan of the novel, so this was a risk. I didn't hate it quite as much as I expected, although it's mostly an awkward adaptation. I did enjoy the horror tropes though, which aren't really present in the novel (although an understated horror courses throughout the entire narrative). Jack's dream was especially creepy, and the airborne toxic event scenes were given an almost Lovecraftian atmosphere.
