The Official Movie Thread
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Watched Happy Gilmore 2 last night.
It's better than I expected it to be after all this time. Sure it's stupid and some of the jokes are recycled but it's still a fun movie.
The cameo list is pretty impressive too. Not just the golfers, the list of known people turning up is impressive too.
Sandler's family gets a fair run too, I think there is two daughters and even his mum credited with roles in the movie.
It's better than I expected it to be after all this time. Sure it's stupid and some of the jokes are recycled but it's still a fun movie.
The cameo list is pretty impressive too. Not just the golfers, the list of known people turning up is impressive too.
Sandler's family gets a fair run too, I think there is two daughters and even his mum credited with roles in the movie.
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Been on a Soderbergh kick. We watched Presence and Black Bag this weekend, both tight, tense thrillers. Presence definitely upends all expectations of horror, including being scary (which it wasn't at all); but I thought it was still a clever gimmick. I'm not sure it has as much to say as Soderbergh's more explicitly social/political pieces like Traffic, The Good German, Contagion, Kimi, etc., but it was enjoyable. The real discomfort came from watching a wildly dysfunctional family break apart, not to mention the
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Black Bag was really good, felt like a callback to taut, thoughtful, slow-burn spy thrillers. Not much action but a lot of tension. I'll look forward to watching that again someday. The plan is to go back and rewatch some of his older stuff that I haven't seen in a while: Traffic, The Limey, Out of Sight, etc. I tend to favor his dramatic output but maybe we'll go for a comedy here and there.
weird oedipal stuff going on between the mother and son
Black Bag was really good, felt like a callback to taut, thoughtful, slow-burn spy thrillers. Not much action but a lot of tension. I'll look forward to watching that again someday. The plan is to go back and rewatch some of his older stuff that I haven't seen in a while: Traffic, The Limey, Out of Sight, etc. I tend to favor his dramatic output but maybe we'll go for a comedy here and there.
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Haven't seen that one yet, will check it out. Thanks!
Managed to catch 28 Years Later on the last day it was in theaters. It felt zanier to me than 28DL, with some odd cuts and fragmentations in the narrative, but I was not prepared for all the complex layers of sociopolitical commentary on nationalism, Christianity, and xenophobia. Really fascinating and curious how much Garland managed to pack into that script. It feels like a formative post-Brexit film, much like the first one is a commentary on post-2001 apocalyptic anxieties and national fracturing. I should rewatch the second film but seem to recall it being quite forgettable, so not sure; but the first and third make a stellar pair. I'm excited to see where the next film goes.
Also, that final scene was fucking nuts, lol.
Managed to catch 28 Years Later on the last day it was in theaters. It felt zanier to me than 28DL, with some odd cuts and fragmentations in the narrative, but I was not prepared for all the complex layers of sociopolitical commentary on nationalism, Christianity, and xenophobia. Really fascinating and curious how much Garland managed to pack into that script. It feels like a formative post-Brexit film, much like the first one is a commentary on post-2001 apocalyptic anxieties and national fracturing. I should rewatch the second film but seem to recall it being quite forgettable, so not sure; but the first and third make a stellar pair. I'm excited to see where the next film goes.
Also, that final scene was fucking nuts, lol.
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