The Official Movie Thread

[CiG]

Love me some David Field! I'll have to give it a gander.

Did you ever check out Firebite btw? That 2021 vampire show with Rob?

 

[Slammed]

There is several scenes in Ten Pound Poms where David Field shows how good he is at playing an emotionless bastard.

No I haven't seen Firebite but it's going on the list right now.
Not sure why I haven't seen it. Callan Mulvey is a good actor too.

I'm going to start watching Black Snow soon. Not sure what to think of that yet, one preview looked really good, the IMDB preview not so much.

 

[CiG]

Let me know how Black Snow is. I'm generally pretty unconvinced by Travis Fimmel for some reason, but he has been in a bunch of things I liked.

Baker looks like a ganster with a buzzcut and three day growth.

Was just thinking about this. It's cool how his appearance doesn't get any direct explanation, but I assume it's because he was in the drug squad (hence his addiction) and probably had to go undercover at some point among bikies. All his tatts etc.

 

[rms]

Why don't you two homos make an Aussie thread and jerk each other off there? Shit hasn't changed here in years

 

[no country for old wainds]

Why don't you two homos make an Aussie thread and jerk each other off there? Shit hasn't changed here in years

Spoiler

i'll be waiting for you in The Official Korean Thread, bring lube

 

[Slammed]

Let me know how Black Snow is. I'm generally pretty unconvinced by Travis Fimmel for some reason, but he has been in a bunch of things I liked.


Was just thinking about this. It's cool how his appearance doesn't get any direct explanation, but I assume it's because he was in the drug squad (hence his addiction) and probably had to go undercover at some point among bikies. All his tatts etc.

I think the lack direct explanations was well done. Letting the viewer make up their own mind about some of the things without making them obvious made the story better. Where did Travis come from? Who actually trashed his car? Was it to keep him in town after he said he wasn't staying long or was it just arsehole kids? Was there a body in the grave? Even the ending where there was no actual resolve but all the pieces were there for the viewer to make up their own minds.

 

[CiG]

Why don't you two homos make an Aussie thread and jerk each other off there? Shit hasn't changed here in years

 

[no country for old wainds]

"Margot Robbie is so good in good movies--and she's also in Greta Gerwig's smug, self-congratulatory, painfully obvious, subtext-free screed Barbie, playing Mattel's signature doll-for-girls, which, despite occasional attempts at empowerment, are still primarily thought of as regressive artifacts of a reductionist patriarchy. Does this review immediately sound like a didactic thesis more appropriate for a freshman-level gender-studies course? One that condescends to presume neither prior knowledge nor scholarship but rather hopes to build consensus through the most basic of shared sociological experiences, catchphrases, and facile platitudes? Well, fight fire with fire, I guess. It's tough to sit through populist groaners like Barbie because it's right about the wrongs it's angry about, but in the act of being right, it validates the criticisms of the worst people in the world--a strident preach to the choir that embitters the villains while actually showing those same incels, rapists, corporate stooges, and other clinically-twisted narcissists an uncomfortable amount of grace and mercy. I'm sympathetic, don't get me wrong. But while I think it's a long and rocky road to make something thorned and substantive out of a corporate icon under the supervision and financial control of said corporation, I'm of the mind that you might have been better off asking, say, Andrea Arnold to give it a go instead of Gerwig. Someone good, I mean. That is, if you were ever really serious about meaningful subversion as opposed to the stealth launch of your plastic-based cinematic universe using a name with a perplexing niche pedigree as the frictionless, candy-coated disguise for your rapacious intentions."

chaw went off lol

 

[CiG]

I'm of the mind that you might have been better off asking, say, Andrea Arnold to give it a go instead of Gerwig. Someone good, I mean.

 

[Slammed]

I just watched the 2020 version of Children of the Corn. It's not a great movie but the little kid Eden is the spitting image of one of my daughters friends at that age. I'll never be able to look at the friend again without thinking "psycho little bitch"!

 

[no country for old wainds]

RIP william friedkin

 

[no country for old wainds]

RIP william friedkin

 

[CiG]

Joshua Burge, Dweck Productions Join Joel Potrykus’ Dark Comedy ‘Vulcanizadora’

Dweck Productions has joined Joel Potrykus’ upcoming dark comedy feature “Vulcanizadora” which will star Joshua Burge.

“Vulcanizadora” will be written and directed by Potrykus, marking his fifth feature and fourth collaboration with Burge following “Ape,” “Buzzard” and “Relaxer.” Plot details for the feature have been kept under wraps with production commencing this summer in Michigan. Dweck joins the project as both producer and financier.

“‘Vulcanizadora’ is a mind bending ride of comedy, suspense and utter devastation, and we are thrilled to be producing the bold and daring fifth feature of the great Joel Potrykus,” said Dweck founder Hannah Dweck. “This is the exact type of boundary pushing, genre bending film we love to help bring to the screen. We can’t wait to watch this with an audience.”

 

[no country for old wainds]

fucking finally.

edit: “I’m incredibly stoked to be working with a company that understands what I’m up to and gives the freedom to create a film that will shake up audiences in the most unpleasant way,” added Potrykus.

lol, more spaghetti and fecal matter then?

 

[CiG]

With a dash of curdled milk!

 

[no country for old wainds]

have you seen ape? i still haven't watched that one

 

[CiG]

Seen all his shit, except for his 2 latest shorts. Ape rules btw.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i thought i remembered you posting about it but was too lazy to check sry

 

[CiG]

I just wanted you to read the bit about the apple lmao. Their dedication to obnoxious food eating scenes is admirable.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Watched for the first time, in memory of William Friedkin.

A little uninvesting initially. Couldn't tell most of the criminals they were investigating apart. But once the investigation starts to hone in on "Frog One", it becomes pretty great. People talk so much about The Car Chase I thought that'd be all there is to it, but it also features a deeply cynical take on law enforcement (with an unforgettable sleazebag cop protagonist) and lots of chillingly callous New Hollywood brutality. Car Chase was amazing obv. and the tense train hijacking sequence it was intercut with elevated that whole part to the stuff of legends.

I knew how it was gonna end because Walter White spoiled it in Breaking Bad, but I loved the way it was pulled off. Things abruptly go wrong and then it just ends without any reflection or resolution, like the cinema equivalent of a video game where you make the wrong choice and get a bad ending conveyed in two paragraphs of text and then a game over screen, instead of a lovingly crafted epilogue.