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Apparently Donnie Yen is directing a movie about his blind assassin character from John Wick 4, taking place after the events of the movie.
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yeah it's lame, loved him
he's had cancer for a while though, i'd assume the pneumonia was a complication of that but idk
he's had cancer for a while though, i'd assume the pneumonia was a complication of that but idk
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anyone actually seen Y2K??
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Rachel Zegler's Very Funny 2024 Sci-Fi Flop Is Finally Finding Fans On Max - SlashFilm
This Rachel Zegler-led sci-fi horror-comedy deserved to fare better at the box office. Luckily, it's now climbing the streaming charts on Max.
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Tonight I rewatched Relaxer yet again and finally decided to bump it up to a 9/10. Vulcanizadora needs to fucking come out already!
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Everyone and their mom giving the new Gareth Evans a 3/5 or thereabouts. They must be out of their mind, right?
Nah, that's basically what it is. Damn, I had such high hopes for this one. The action is alright, good but not his best, but the story feels totally underwritten. I don't mind that it has 800 characters and is totally chaotic, that's arguably the point. But there's not a single hook to get the viewer invested.
Nah, that's basically what it is. Damn, I had such high hopes for this one. The action is alright, good but not his best, but the story feels totally underwritten. I don't mind that it has 800 characters and is totally chaotic, that's arguably the point. But there's not a single hook to get the viewer invested.
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I didn't give a shit about the story, I was too distracted by the shaky cam. I'm being generous giving it a 3.5 but I fully expect to drop it after a rewatch.
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Honestly, Sinners lived up to the hype. Pretty badass. May have felt like it played too much into the musical elements--but then, the music was so good it didn't matter.
Also, the film had a weirdly layered soundtrack. The only way I can describe is that it felt like people in the theater were talking throughout the movie. There were a couple occasions when people were, but then at other times I thought people were chattering and realized it was part of the soundtrack. Like there were spirits about the theater whispering in your ear. It was fun.
Also, the film had a weirdly layered soundtrack. The only way I can describe is that it felt like people in the theater were talking throughout the movie. There were a couple occasions when people were, but then at other times I thought people were chattering and realized it was part of the soundtrack. Like there were spirits about the theater whispering in your ear. It was fun.
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Trump rewatched his favorite movie, Bloodsport, and asked himself why America isn't making movies like that anymore.
I thought the musical elements were the best parts if anything. The movie was fine but fell into the elevated horror trap a bit of really wearing its subtext on its sleeve so that snotty critics will take it seriously. Strip away the important themes of cultural identity and racism and all that and you're left with a pretty standard, uninvesting riff on genre classics.
I don't mean to be too hard on it, it was a good movie and a great theater experience but I made the mistake of reading a review where someone said it really subverted the A24 art horror template or something and yeah lol no it didn't
I thought the musical elements were the best parts if anything. The movie was fine but fell into the elevated horror trap a bit of really wearing its subtext on its sleeve so that snotty critics will take it seriously. Strip away the important themes of cultural identity and racism and all that and you're left with a pretty standard, uninvesting riff on genre classics.
I don't mean to be too hard on it, it was a good movie and a great theater experience but I made the mistake of reading a review where someone said it really subverted the A24 art horror template or something and yeah lol no it didn't
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I've been delaying watching it because the only thing I've seen or heard is Hailee Steinfeld being filthy
horror adventure is also one of the strangest sub genres I've heard
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That's well said.
"Elevated horror" has become nothing more than a marketing ploy to sell A24-style horror at this point (if it was ever anything more than that, although I like to think at some point it was a sort of critical marker). Describing films this way is beginning to do a real disservice, especially with recent fare like Sinners, Longlegs, Late Night with the Devil, The Substance, Smile 2, etc. Having a modicum (or even a significant degree) of social commentary doesn't automatically make a film "elevated." Elysium has plenty of on-point shit to say about class warfare and exploitation but I'm not ready to call it "elevated science fiction."
A more appropriate descriptor for Sinners would be genre-bending, since it's practically a musical. It would have had me at that. Let's just leave the damn "elevated" crap behind. It brings back all the old obnoxious gatekeeping of "high" and "low" culture.
Finally no, it didn't subvert the A24 template (whatever the fuck that is) at all. A24 is already doing a weird mashup of shit in its horror offerings. I don't think there's a template to undermine.
horror adventure is also one of the strangest sub genres I've heard
It's an action horror film. They've been around for decades. Haven't you seen From Dusk til Dawn?
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