The Official Movie Thread
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Slammed
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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.
Einherjar86
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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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Einherjar86
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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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Just watched this.
Not bad. Some of the fish shots were a bit average but the movie was still good.
Always good when you're going out on a boat that the captain says, "I guess nobody knows you're here then."
Jai's psycho rating wasn't off the charts but he was psycho enough to be entertaining
Loved the look on Hassie's face under water near the end.
I would however have ended the movie a few minutes earlier when the guys hand went limp.
Bloopy
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I rewatched Hannibal Rising. Cromulent enough to me if I think of it as a mindless lowbrow revenge flick and don't ponder too much about the relevance to Lecter's character. I don't think it's as unfitting as people say though - 2-3 decades of the guy's story remains unwritten so he had plenty of time to become more uh, subtle and refined.
TechnicalBarbarity
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...main actor/hannibal sucked from what i remember.
Tonight. A double pepperoni and olives + ...
Tonight. A double pepperoni and olives + ...
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One good thing about AI chatbots is you can easily ask about stuff that's only ever really been discussed in languages you don't know. There was a few things I still hadn't fully grasped about the Polish movie Miś, such as why the plantation is labelled as experimental, what the guy was claiming about the Brits drinking red vodka with mice in it, and the "30th plenum of the cooperative Zenum" saying. Now I feel truly enlightened. 
Einherjar86
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man, Weapons was a trip. Had similarities to Barbarian in form but not in content (which is good--no rehashing old ideas). At its core, it's a work of suburban neighborhood/community horror, but with disquieting undertones of urban decay and environmental depletion/despoilation, especially given its outskirts-of-rustbelt PA locale. Also taps bigtime into childhood terrors about family, parents, classmates, etc. A bit more subtly, you could track numerous contemporary social issues through its imagery, despite it not being about any of these things (or, not in the way we expect): school shootings, child abuse, COVID, etc.
Finally, I'll say it's not easy for a film to whiplash between creeping horror and absurd humor. Made the whole experience really enjoyable.
Finally, I'll say it's not easy for a film to whiplash between creeping horror and absurd humor. Made the whole experience really enjoyable.
Cronopio
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Sounds like a must watch. I don't watch that many new movies anymore, but that writeup made me intrigued.
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