The Official Movie Thread
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Blurry_Dreams
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people who absolutely love the original usually hate the re-makes
myself included
i consider the original total recall and the very first robocop as both absolute classics and the remakes both totally sucked IMHO
myself included
i consider the original total recall and the very first robocop as both absolute classics and the remakes both totally sucked IMHO
TageRyche
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I watched The Meg on PPV tonight. I still liked it. It's a really good bad movie.
TechnicalBarbarity
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really enjoyed this one, not as much as Rampart though which i thought was fucking top notch. Both had a fucking hell of a lineup.
challenge_everything
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I don't see any random feminism. It's less feminist than the original IMO. Also I think people have wrongfully assumed Guadagnino was trying to make some sort of political statement with all the Baader Meinhoff stuff, when I'm not sure that's the case, I think he was simply trying to contrast the chaos of the outside world to demonstrate the 'bubble' in which Suzie immersed herself.
I'd give you my thoughts as to what else was 'redeeming' but it would involve spoilers.
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rms
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you don't think the "we celebrate female autonomy" or whatever she said was rather random? there was another line too, just out there. and i'd argue upon hearing lines like that, it manipulates the viewer to view the film in said way
this is supposedly being argued as art-housey and motherhoodish as Hereditary, Mother and another film I already forgot. I'd have to read something on what makes the original feminist, but this one clearly is more interested. Removed all men from the cast, played with their tiny dicks for female enjoyment etc
just seemed like a bad way to cast doubt over where Patrizia went...but they made that obvious from the start. Which is what the whole problem was, this direction took the doubt in the original and decided to tell you right away--and show you! Suzie and Blanc's first scene. Contrast this version to the previous and you see two different directions, and why modern horror is usually garbage -- they underestimate our minds.
there's spoiler tags
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dwellerINTHEdark
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TechnicalBarbarity
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TageRyche
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I also saw Hardcore Henry which was a total piece of crap that was such an embarrassment of awfulness that everyone involved in the film should issue a public apology.
CiG
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RE Beyond Skyline; @Einherjar86 you were definitely onto something when you pointed out all the Lovecraftian stuff lately.
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I don't know if I like U-Turn or not. I don't dislike it though, but I'm somewhat unconvinced by the weird goofy comedic elements.
Einherjar86
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I actually wasn't even thinking about big budget stuff like that. Haven't seen it myself--what is it that fits the Lovecraftian bill, do you think?
I watched Apostle on Netflix recently, and that also fits the bill--specifically the premise of an isolated cult worshiping an unknown deity.
So, The Void, The Endless, The Ritual, Get Out, Apostle, Mandy, Lovecraft Country, Beyond Skyline et al... yeah, seems that something's on the move...
Not to mention this game that just came out: Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game (although it's based on a board game, I realize)
