The Official Movie Thread

[CiG]

chaw gave the new potrykus 3.5/4, i don't recall him ever reviewing a potrykus before. sounds like a plausible rating, i would probably give every potrykus 3.5/4 tbh

I hope it's out this year.

Edit: @no country for old wainds have you seen trailers for this new experimental Harmony Korine movie?



lol wtf.

 

[no country for old wainds]

@CiG you seen this masterpiece?

 

[Slammed]

I watched Deadpool and Wolverine the other night.
It's not as good as the other Deadpool movies. It does have plenty of funny and stupid moments but for me the movie didn't carry as well as the others did.
I thought Hugh and Ryan worked okay together but I really don't have any interest in the Marvel world other than Deadpool so to me the story line wasn't as interesting as the Deadpool movies were. But it was much better than Fall Guy and Bad Boys so that's something.

 

[no country for old wainds]

 

[Ares_Kevin]

Oof. What a gorefest. Especially compared to The Devil's Experiment. Charlie Sheen famously contacted the FBI after viewing it thinking it was a real snuff film.

From what I've read the later stuff veered more into broad comedy/slapstick. Talk about night and day.

 

[Einherjar86]

How does a slasher work with the flipped perspective? Seems contradictory.


Can't tell with the hype machine and if that movie and Long legs are worth checking out..

The problem is that Longlegs is a good (not great) movie that went way too deep into its marketing campaign, such that the film Perkins made is really underserved by the expectations it set for itself. Is it the scariest movie of the decade? Hell no. It demands a lot of suspension of disbelief and rewards viewers who are willing to entertain tenuous connections and possibilities. The entire thing operates on dream logic, right down to its title, which invokes a host of substantive references that aren't always made explicit in the film. It's like how your brain sometimes makes what seem to be superfluous associations between things which then turn out to have more going on between them on further inspection.

I think the biggest loss for Longlegs and its wild marketing campaign is that no one was prepared for (and no one is really talking about) how funny it is. So much was made out of how scary Nic Cage looks in all his makeup... I mean, he looks weird, but scary? And the thing is, it's Nic Cage, so he embraces the silliness of it and wraps that into his performance, and it makes for a wonderfully absurd, off-kilter, and sometimes disquieting character. But he's not gonna haunt anyone's nightmares. It's way too theatrical for that.

 

[CiG]

Finally saw The Outwaters last night. Probably the best "found footage horror" I've seen since the original Blair Witch Project. Recommendations are welcome, I haven't seen that many.

Negatives would be the very slow first act, especially because the relationship dynamics between the four characters are established for 25 minutes with no payoff. With the way it develops the four people could be perfect strangers for all it would impact the plot.

Positives are, setting aside its relentless cosmic horror mysteriousness and ultra-graphic thrills, the cinematography and sound design are incredibly good, especially for this subgenre that typically sticks to dry and purposely amateurish film structures in my experience. The endless beauty of the location and the experimental whimsy of the filmmaker come together to create a fucked up descent into hell that I couldn't take my eyes off for a second.

There are parts of this film that are burned into my mind now, which is not something I can say for a lot of other newer movies.

 

[WorldObliteration33]

From what I've read the later stuff veered more into broad comedy/slapstick. Talk about night and day.

Yeah I watched the rest of them. Mermaid in a Manhole is less on the slapstick end than the others and wound up being my favorite. Super gross body horror with awesome practical effects.

 

[Einherjar86]

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Finally saw The Outwaters last night. Probably the best "found footage horror" I've seen since the original Blair Witch Project. Recommendations are welcome, I haven't seen that many.

Negatives would be the very slow first act, especially because the relationship dynamics between the four characters are established for 25 minutes with no payoff. With the way it develops the four people could be perfect strangers for all it would impact the plot.

Positives are, setting aside its relentless cosmic horror mysteriousness and ultra-graphic thrills, the cinematography and sound design are incredibly good, especially for this subgenre that typically sticks to dry and purposely amateurish film structures in my experience. The endless beauty of the location and the experimental whimsy of the filmmaker come together to create a fucked up descent into hell that I couldn't take my eyes off for a second.

There are parts of this film that are burned into my mind now, which is not something I can say for a lot of other newer movies.

The opening act is a bit overdone, but I love the landscape cinematography leading up to the halfway point when all hell breaks loose. It gives viewers a nice sense of the alien desolation in which all this madness takes place.

I know a lot of viewers hated the limited perspective, which Banfitch leans hard into with the camera's narrow beam of light; but I found that it enthralled me to the film because I was desperately looking for something to lay my eyes one--and when you do catch glimpses of things, it's exhilarating. Unlike typical B-level handheld/found footage narratives, which rely cheaply on the anticipation of jump scares, The Outwaters engenders an ambivalence toward its subject matter by encouraging audiences to look closer and try to see what's happening.

 

[CiG]

Yes I'm slowly discovering a lot of people hated this movie which is surprising.

Personally as someone who has spent a lot of time out in the bush and the desert, I find the scenes in the pitch dark desert with just a narrow circle of light as all you can hear is screaming to be very effective horror. Trying to see something and only catching glimpses weirdly took me back to times I was afraid as a kid after sneaking out of my tent and exploring the bush.

 

[Bloopy]

If the absurd comedy Miś was the closest Polish filmmakers could get to portraying the Militia during their existence, this one is the harsher reality they couldn't show us back then. Corruption and swigging vodka endlessly.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

so then this happened

Disney's ‘Deadpool & Wolverine' becomes the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time

The feat not only showcases the MCU’s durability at the box office, but also suggests that Marvel Studios can delve into darker content.

www.nbcnewyork.com

 

[CiG]

Tonight:

I haven't watched this dumb amazing comedy in years.

 

[rms]

Grew up watching that

 

[rms]

Alien Romulus was a pile of shit. Has it always been this impossible to trust any reviews for a new movie? Can't find my people.

Can't get over how bad this movie was lol

 

[WorldObliteration33]

Everything after Aliens has been ass so I doubt I'll bother lol.

 

[rms]

Everything after Aliens has been ass so I doubt I'll bother lol.

I like Aliens 3 , but I bought into the hype with this one. Got me excited and everything. Blah

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Alien Romulus was a pile of shit. Has it always been this impossible to trust any reviews for a new movie? Can't find my people.

Can't get over how bad this movie was lol

this made me remember that one single movie reviewer that actually loved green lantern hahahahaha

 

[CiG]

Eh even Resurrection, as goofy as it was, has some redeeming qualities.

 

[Einherjar86]

Alien 3 is seriously underrated, too bad it got dragged critically. I still haven't seen Romulus but I'm preparing for the worst. Kept up this long, and I'm a diehard Alien fan, so I can't stop now.