Movie Reviews

[Adam Strange]

lol I know, I know

but the old ones are cult classics, and it has Keanu in it! I had to see it!

but god, it was embarrassing!

An entertainer was surrounded by his family on his death bed, and someone said to him, “After such a long, productive life, it must be so hard to go.”
He replied, “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.”


I haven’t seen any of these movies, but something obviously changed from the earlier ones. Was it different writers? Have the actors changed? Has the audience grown too sophisticated?
Where, oh where, is the old magic?

[Lolita]

I saw The Age of Innocence for the first time all the way through. I’ve seen it multiple times in the past but broken up into segments because I can’t just watch a 3 hour movie all the way through. I love dramatic period pieces and I’ve read the book but it’s been a long time since. I know Scorsese films are slow burns. Very deep and poignant but I’ve always had trouble sitting through them. This time, I felt the full spectrum of the uncomfortable tension build up and the emotional stifle that goes with fitting in with the social milieu and being approved of. I truly felt for Archer. He was tricked into giving up love and a chance for real happiness by his vapid but manipulative Alpha Fe wife and the rest of the hypocritical, moralistic Fe society. I think Edith Wharton is ESI and gave a very true account of high society during the late 1800s and society at large.

[Rusal]

I truly felt for Archer. He was tricked into giving up love and a chance for real happiness by his vapid but manipulative Alpha Fe wife and the rest of the hypocritical, moralistic Fe society. I think Edith Wharton is ESI and gave a very true account of high society during the late 1800s and society at large.

I think the point is the opposite: Archer never had it in him to live the way he truly wanted. The last scene, when he refuses to go into the building and just 'imagines' perfect bliss, speaks to this.

[Aster]

Started watching first season of peaky blinders, finally...I like it a lot so far

[Aster]

Got around to watching Joker. Loved it. The second half more. Wasn’t crazy about the first half, but I suppose it had to build up. Anyway 4.5/5

Joaquin Phoenix was perfect for that part. After Heath Ledgers performance as the joker, I was doubtful anyone could do as good of a job, but imo Joaquin Phoenix was pretty good.. Of course, I still prefer Heath Ledger’s joker.

[them]

i olga hepnarova - about the last woman to be executed in czechia, starting with her suicide attempt at 13 and following until the execution a decade later. well made but unfortunately most real life psychopaths are bores with no interests beyond morbidity and so this is too. 2/5

la belle noiseuse - an old painter comes out of retirement to make emmanuelle béart contort herself into all kinds of positions so that he can draw stick figures of her callipygian shape from every angle, furthering his appreciation of the female form and its proportions to help aid in the completion of his final masterpiece: an unfinished painting of charlotte gainsbourgs mom. in doing so, belle's beau and the painters wife grow suspicious of all the time the two spend together while the artist and his new muse behave hot and cold towards one another locked away in their private world. 5/5

donkey skin - king of the crip gang tries to fuck his daughter after his wife croaks so with the help of her godmother a young princess adopts a fursona - the eponymous donkey skin - and runs away. after finding work taking care of pigs, dashing prince of the rival blood gang spots her in the forest with the furry suit off and sends his goons to make the local thots bring him baked treats, hoping catherine deneuve will turn up to get turned out and be his ride or die forever. 4/5.

[Socionics Is A Cult]

The movie recommendations Movielens gives me after 1500+ ratings, for movies I haven't rated (only 417 pages for me to get through!):




How it sees my taste (the top movies for me of those I've rated - my actual ratings in orange/gold)

[Aster]

Started watching The Crown a few weeks ago. Love it. Not obsessed or anything, but I do have a girl crush on Elizabeth now. It’s a really good show, so far, I think (only half way through season 1)

[Aster]

Watched two movies for the first time lately. Interstellar & Synchronic.

Interstellar was one of the best movies I’ve watched in a while. I’d give it a 4/5 maybe. I also liked Synchronic~ thought it was a pretty cool idea and the movie itself wasn’t bad. 3/5?

[RaptorWesNet]

The 2019 Raptors Championship documentary was revealing how fictitious and unreasonable, beyond probability or happening as to Toronto raising levels and gears through the Leonard enigma to pursue giga powered constructs of faith and achievement. I give it 7/10.

[End]

The last good one made was "Fight Club" if I must say. I also must say that after that movie Hollywood became and still remains a propaganda engine to the exclusion of all other considerations. Even the "Oscars" prove this point. Quality in artistry and whatnot mean nothing before their perception of how effectively you "pushed the narrative" as I define it. Tick the right boxes, cast the right kind of person, win an award effort free. In essence, push the elite's agenda and generate hatred from the common folk. Do that and ye shall reap the benefits of "taking the ticket" as it were. Hell, a recent example. Howard Stern. Hater of the establishment and censorious BS to fellater of Big Tech! Why? Well, the "ticket" is just that damned appealing to the godless that's why!

Now, you can make a propaganda movie that also happens to be good from a narrative, pacing, character, etc... angle but Goebbels was a singular talent lamentably born upon the "wrong" side of my preferred history. Sin dims the intellect however and thank God it does. For if it did not we faithful would well and truly be screwed...

[Aster]

The last good one made was "Fight Club" if I must say. I also must say that after that movie Hollywood became and still remains a propaganda engine to the exclusion of all other considerations. Even the "Oscars" prove this point. Quality in artistry and whatnot mean nothing before their perception of how effectively you "pushed the narrative" as I define it. Tick the right boxes, cast the right kind of person, win an award effort free. In essence, push the elite's agenda and generate hatred from the common folk. Do that and ye shall reap the benefits of "taking the ticket" as it were. Hell, a recent example. Howard Stern. Hater of the establishment and censorious BS to fellater of Big Tech! Why? Well, the "ticket" is just that damned appealing to the godless that's why!

Now, you can make a propaganda movie that also happens to be good from a narrative, pacing, character, etc... angle but Goebbels was a singular talent lamentably born upon the "wrong" side of my preferred history. Sin dims the intellect however and thank God it does. For if it did not we faithful would well and truly be screwed...

Woke hollyweird

personally (and I know a lot of people are) am so sick of these celebs pushing their political opinions...I wish they would just shut up and make quality movies again. All this twitter drama and Instagram stuff is a real turn off, too. Sometimes people are best being quiet. they’ve ruined it for me. Celebs I used to like, I now can’t stand do to their wokeness.. Not only that, but hollyweird are also being historically inaccurate in a lot of movies to appease these people...as soon as I see that in any movie, complete loss of respect....

[End]

Woke hollyweird

personally (and I know a lot of people are) am so sick of these celebs pushing their political opinions...I wish they would just shut up and make quality movies again. All this twitter drama and Instagram stuff is a real turn off, too. Sometimes people are best being quiet. they’ve ruined it for me. Celebs I used to like, I now can’t stand do to their wokeness.. Not only that, but hollyweird are also being historically inaccurate in a lot of movies to appease these people...as soon as I see that in any movie, complete loss of respect....

Indeed. Furthermore, they even ignore the legitimately interesting instances of "diversity" that proven history has to offer. For instance, where's a movie about Yasuke the OG and truly African Samurai who served Oda Nobunaga? His lord, had he survived, would have most certainly colonized Hawaii and the East Coast of the US. This would have saved the likes of me untold amounts of grief BTW. I am very sad he didn't because he was betrayed and denied his dreams. One of which, given his hatred of the Buddhist warrior monks who consistently fucked him over, would have been to convert his entire nation to Christianity. A fun alternative history we sadly don't live in.

What of Lauri Allan Törni, the Finnish man who served three armies two of which were the Waffen SS against the Red Army and later the United States during the Vietnam War with distinction? Sabaton knew of that guy and wrote a great song about him by the way. A Former SS officer is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. I fear my mere mention of this fact will cause the woke to "crusade" for his removal from that site in their absurd ignorance of who he was and why he did what he did but it illustrates yet another point I like to demonstrate.

The "Woke" are criminally and shockingly stupid and ignorant in so many ways that matter in regards to basic survival and logical comprehension that I can only attribute their current position of dominance within world cultural to be of demonic origin. They are quite dumb, but demons aren't and so long as they follow the orders of their "superiors" they'll tend to win. Right up until they don't because in the end Jesus has domain over them. I feel we're about to witness the great reversal of fortune. Where the woke not only actually think and claim that things like "gravity" or the "Square-Cube Law" are instances of "white/Christian supremacy" , but start to actually do things like jumping off buildings built exclusively by members of "the non-trinary LGBTPXYZ3497xxxxetcyyzubv--//??" community to prove it!

They will find that such things are not mere social constructs, but iron laws of reality with predictable results. Turns out it matters not who built a building nor whom jumps off of one. The average human cannot survive a lithobraking maneuverer. Or, to exercise my "colonial privilege" and "white/man/cisplain" that terminology. You just won't survive hitting a solid piece of rock/matter at 100+ Kph naked, unprotected, and unmodified no matter how much you "believe" you will. That ain't colonialism, xism, or supremacy of any kind. That's just a fact.

[End]

Indeed. Furthermore, they even ignore the legitimately interesting instances of "diversity" that proven history has to offer. For instance, where's a movie about Yasuke the OG and truly African Samurai who served Oda Nobunaga? His lord, had he survived, would have most certainly colonized Hawaii and the East Coast of the US. This would have saved the likes of me untold amounts of grief BTW. I am very sad he didn't because he was betrayed and denied his dreams. One of which, given his hatred of the Buddhist warrior monks who consistently fucked him over, would have been to convert his entire nation to Christianity. A fun alternative history we sadly don't live in.

What of Lauri Allan Törni, the Finnish man who served three armies two of which were the Waffen SS against the Red Army and later the United States during the Vietnam War with distinction? Sabaton knew of that guy and wrote a great song about him by the way. A Former SS officer is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. I fear my mere mention of this fact will cause the woke to "crusade" for his removal from that site in their absurd ignorance of who he was and why he did what he did but it illustrates yet another point I like to demonstrate.

The "Woke" are criminally and shockingly stupid and ignorant in so many ways that matter in regards to basic survival and logical comprehension that I can only attribute their current position of dominance within world cultural to be of demonic origin. They are quite dumb, but demons aren't and so long as they follow the orders of their "superiors" they'll tend to win. Right up until they don't because in the end Jesus has domain over them. I feel we're about to witness the great reversal of fortune. Where the woke not only actually think and claim that things like "gravity" or the "Square-Cube Law" are instances of "white/Christian supremacy" , but start to actually do things like jumping off buildings built exclusively by members of "the non-trinary LGBTPXYZ3497xxxxetcyyzubv--//??" community to prove it!

They will find that such things are not mere social constructs, but iron laws of reality with predictable results. Turns out it matters not who built a building nor whom jumps off of one. The average human cannot survive a lithobraking maneuverer. Or, to exercise my "colonial privilege" and "white/man/cisplain" that terminology. You just won't survive hitting a solid piece of rock/matter at 100+ Kph naked, unprotected, and unmodified no matter how much you "believe" you will. That ain't colonialism, xism, or supremacy of any kind. That's just a fact.

Damnit, I meant west coast. Basically, California and the other states/areas that compose "The Left Coast" as one Collin Woodard put it would have instead been Japanese territory if Nobunaga had survived and got to actually exercise power as the First true "Shogun" after the unification. And, like I said previously, he'd have been rather enamored of the Jesuit/Portuguese/Christian Monks/Missionaries whilst have been very, oh so very peeved at his "native" Bhuddist variants who had collectively fucked him over quite vehemently in the arse. Small wonder whose "god" he'd likely prefer his nation follow if given the chance to decide. Plus hey, "Divine Right" of kings would sound very appealing to him. Upholding a modicum of morality implicit within the Western Version of the "Mandate of Heaven" would gel right in. Harems are bad eh? Good! That rather bothersome pain in my future ass China practically lives off of that. Good to know this foreign god has granted my descendants a causus belli. Sin dims the intellect you say as well? HO boy, you really are selling me on this "Jesus" you worship! How do you navigate the seas again? I'll be sure to include more than a few of you monks within the fleet in exchange. Just, show us the way so that we may spread his most holy word. I seek to help you accomplish this "great commission" you speak of.

Sorry for the Koreans as that alternate history means that one of their greatest and most badass figures in their history/national heroes would have never been given the set of circumstances that enabled him to become the titan of their history he ultimately became. He'd have been a weird admiral/general who had crazy ideas and paranoid delusions that never came to fruition. A footnote, not a symbol of national identity. It is, sadly, a very bad future for the Koreans and the Chinese if ye denied Christ yet Japan didn't at that juncture. For it would have been thee that suffered the incident of "The Black Ships" as Japanese history put it. Far worse, you'd have seen both American and Japanese Marines/Armies disembark from them. Seeing "the White Man" exclusively disembarking would have hurt enough. But to see those who looked like you disembark as well and flat out get along and even deeply respect and admire each other? Good luck reversing those optics Satan!

[them]

monty python&the holygrail - 1/5 stupid, silly&gay, waste of time ,alpha quadrant may enjoy

[EUDAEMONIUM]

This movie was a disappointment. It had useless fanservice moments with the characters from the show. The story was boring and ran too long.

3/5 stars

[Aquamarine]

I watched this recently. I loved it. I didn't expect it to be what it was since I don't really watch movie trailers. But I was pleasantly surprised. It pulled on my heartstrings. I'll give it a 4/5

[EUDAEMONIUM]

Ok so I watched Don't Look Up. It was a funny, clever movie. Shows how stupid the world is, which was funny. Ran entirely too long and fell apart in the middle. But I would still say its worth checking out.

[EUDAEMONIUM]

Well, I watched the new Batman movie. I was surprised at how much I liked it. Batman is an actual detective and a human in this movie. It was gritty and dark and not afraid to make it a mystery not an action movie.

[Aster]

Uncharted


watched this one last night. Actually really liked this movie. I haven’t watched one that has grabbed my attention and made me want to watch it until the end for a long time.

[Aster]

Binge watched Dahmer on Netflix. Was really really good and disturbing lol



im giving it a 10/10

And Blonde. Absolutely love love loved it



giving it a 10/10, too

[Aster]

Was watching, “You’ve Got Mail”, for the millionth time yesterday, but it had been a while since I had seen it. I really think it’s the best Rom Com of all time. Yep.

Thats 5 stars

*****

[Aster]

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2103264/

Watched a movie called Emperor today. was a pretty good movie. It’s currently on tubi.

[Socionics Is A Cult]

I just saw The Matrix Resurrections (the fourth Matrix movie). It felt like a tribute act. It was watchable and had something new to say, but not especially remarkable. Maybe 7/10.

[Aster]

Watched Barbie finally. I had to see what it was about. It was weird. Thats my main takeaway lol. My 14 year old daughter loved it a lot. I didn’t hate it. Tbh I’m undecided. I need to think about it more or see it again. Idk. A lot of it just felt like Barbie trying to establish herself in the current social climate for sales reasons and the whole thing seemed like one Big Barbie Promotion to me. You could also say it was uplifting to women. But I’m being negative.

[Aster]

Watched Renfield yesterday. It was pretty funny. Dark humor. Lots of Gore. If you don’t mind that kind of thing (or like it lol), def worth a watch. It wasn’t anything great or mind blowing, but it wasn’t awful either imo.

[Sol]

"Superman" movies deserved better one


at least, "Draculas" at now are blessed by his light

[huiheiwufhawriuhg]

I've recently watched Poor Things and it's honestly the best movie I have ever seen in my whole life. Watiching it felt like watching a movie that should have been written a long time but hadn't and now hits just right. I also loved Emma Stone casted as Bella, she was amazing. I also wonder if other Beta NFs can relate to Bella as much as I do, she's fucking me!

[Socionics Is A Cult]

I've recently watched Poor Things and it's honestly the best movie I have ever seen in my whole life. Watiching it felt like watching a movie that should have been written a long time but hadn't and now hits just right. I also loved Emma Stone casted as Bella, she was amazing. I also wonder if other Beta NFs can relate to Bella as much as I do, she's fucking me!

I thought it was fun.

[Socionics Is A Cult]

Based on my 2000 or so movie ratings,

My IMDB movie ratings has a rsquared correlation with the IMDB average rating of 0.029. The correlation with the number of IMDB ratings was 0.027, only slightly lower.

For Criticker, there was a rsquared correlation of 0.059 between my ratings and my predicted scores.

For Movielens, there was a rsquared correlation of 0.180 between my ratings and the predicted rating.

So, at the moment, I'd recommend Movielens as the best site I know for finding movies to watch. Criticker does have TV show recommendations too though (Movielens does have a few TV shows inadvertently in their database).

[Adam Strange]

4.5/5

Out of all the John Wayne movies I've seen, this one is now my favorite...Suprisingly good. Recommended to my by someone.

The Quiet Man is very good. John Wayne is SLI, Maureen O'Hara is probably IEE. I first saw it when I was a kid. My father is also SLI (and Irish, and a good fighter, but as with Wayne, you might not know that at first), and this movie showed me (I was really young) what a grown-up relationship should be like. (Except for the woman-as-property part. Lol.)

I wonder if this movie created my Imago. I'm attracted to women with red hair, and my ex looks a bit like a thinner Maureen O'Hara.

[wacey]

I watched Passengers. I'd rate it the same as Chae. 3.5/5.

Kept my attention the whole time. I thought it was an interesting idea. Wouldn't buy it, though, or probably watch it again. But I'd say it's worth watching at least once.

Could say a number of things about this movie. One thing I noticed, something I have not seen mentioned in the review utube videos or columns. The thing was Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt had zero on screen chemistry. It was very stitled. They are both actors, just no chemistry together. My theory is because they are the same person in male/ female form.

[wacey]

Just got out of the theatre for Aliens Covenant.

Excellent movie. They made some excellent, excellent choices, through-out the whole film.

[wacey]

3.5/5

Tbh, I thought this looked kind of dumb, but I rented it for my kids. It was actually pretty funny. It seemed like one big metaphor. I wouldn't want to buy it, but it was worth watching once, even as an adult. Good family movie, anyway.

Anyone seen the new IT movie yet?

I will never watch the Big Baby Boss movie in my entire life, but thanks for the review.

So I saw "It" in theatres and it was fantastic. It followed the book closely. It paid tribute to the made for TV series from the 80's by casting similar looking kids and several similar scenes. It was creepy as fuck. I never felt scared, I did feel really creeped out. It was just creepy from the first scene onwards and the pace never stopped. There were no slow spots, no useless character development spots, it was a very tight script, that moved quickly and genuinely topped each scene with a more creepy one for the next. It featured fantastic young actors who were convincing and the plot was updated with current dialogue terms which made it feel relevant to todays age while remaining true to the source materials time frame of the 80's. It had preteens being terrorized and attacked by pennywise the monster and showed several disturbing sequences. I'm told the Netflix series Stranger Things felt similar in style to the It, although I wouldn't know I couldnt get passed the second episode of that show. I would recommend the movie to watch in theatres. It was fun to see teenagers feel the fear of "It" for the first time.

[Skepsis]

3.5/5

Tbh, I thought this looked kind of dumb, but I rented it for my kids. It was actually pretty funny. It seemed like one big metaphor. I wouldn't want to buy it, but it was worth watching once, even as an adult. Good family movie, anyway.

Anyone seen the new IT movie yet?

Also rented Boss Baby for my kids. They loved it. I thought it was okay. There were some funny parts in it.

Saw "It" and thought it was excellent and really captured many of the horrifying elements of the novel. They did change the story around a bit, but it kept with its overall horrific spirit. Loved it.

[Kill4Me]

Halloween: He never stops walking. heh.

Hereditary: The fuck the director thinks he is, Andrei Tarkovsky. Great horror is like great porn: the artsier it is, the more it sucks.

Mission Impossible, Fall-out: Too many previews.

Deadpool 2: It doesn't touch the first one.

Skyscraper: Burn, baby, burn.

Game night: Game Night reminded me of the grandmother from Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard To Find: "The Misfit takes a moment to clean his glasses and pick up the grandmother's cat; he states that the grandmother would have been a good woman if "it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Good..._(short_story)

Equalizer 2: I liked the violence in the first one better. It had a John Wick style like John Wick and Cassian. The Equalizer part one was special in that it showed you the different uses of a corkscrew and contained a high kill count....Denzel was totally off the grid. Part two tones the violence down. I hate it when they do it.

Superfly: The Snow Patrol was corny as fuck. They could have at least made the depiction of the drug business realistic instead it came across like the drug business as depicted in a decked-out two hour music video. For all the special effects in the remake, the original is so much better.

Peppermint: Even a broken clock is right twice a day, except for that broken-ass clock of a movie.

Blindspotting: Miles! Now there's a Funny as fuck SLE, total street animal. I love the fight in the house-party when Miles goes ballistic. It shows that Miles is more than just a poser, that he really has a lot of fight in him. There's a difference between being a fighter and being tough. Teddy Atlas explains this very well about Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson was tough. He had so much talent and strength that he could knock out a lot of guys. But when he got in the ring with somebody who brought the fight to him (Buster Douglas, Holyfield, Lewis, etc), Tyson would sorta give up and get beat, he didn't want to be there, because he didn't have that fight in him which is distinct from just being talented. He was tough, but not a fighter.

[Kill4Me]

I saw Girl in the Spider's Web last night. The plot points were poorly connected. For example, the screenwriter (s) needed to get the American NSA agent from a heavily guarded holding cell into the parking lot ready to help Lisbeth get a child back into the USA. In order to connect the plot points they made Lisbeth's character into something holy unreal. This kept happening throughout the movie. It was like the solution to every major plot dilemma was just to make the character so extraordinary and hope that the viewer suspends disbelief. Total amateur hour. It reminded me of a television series type plot that got written on the fly, so rinse-repeat the objective-obstacle-solution formula for two hours.

I bet if I invested a few years in my free time I could write a sick fuckin movie. Putting together the only structurally/conceptually/logically flawless breakdown for each enneagram type, wing and stack is harder than writing a structurally/conceptually/logically flawless plot because the type list is reality-based. Granted the typelist deals with and categorizes real people and their real character types, but I could always just organize the plot using real events and character types. Just because a movie is fiction does not mean that the plot can be structurally/conceptually/logically flawed.

Keep in mind that a great role requires the lead actor to suffer psychologically for the benefit of the director's vision. This usually involves some act of on-screen humiliation or immersion into darkness that scars the actor/actress internally to play (it's usually the recipe for a cinematic masterpiece)....For some great examples, see Susan George in Straw Dogs; John Wayne in the Searchers; Maria Schneider in Bertolucci's masterpiece Last Tango in Paris; Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow. A woman is not a woman until she is willing to fight off female rivals even to the death for the man she loves.

[Kill4Me]

Widows was pretty good.

Veronica: EII-Fi 1w2 so/sp
Harry Rawlings: LIE-Te 8w7 sp/sx
Jamal Manning: SLE-Ti 8w9 so/sx
Jatemme Manning: SLI-Te 8w9 sp/sx
Alice: IEI-Fe 9w1 sx/so
Belle: SEE-Fi 9w8 sx/so
Tom Mulligan: LSE-Si 1w2 sp/so
Jack Mulligan: LSI-Ti 6w7 sp/so

[PussyInASarcophagus]

Widows was pretty good.

Veronica: EII-Fi 1w2 so/sp
Harry Rawlings: LIE-Te 8w7 sp/sx
Jamal Manning: SLE-Ti 8w9 so/sx
Jatemme Manning: SLI-Te 8w9 sp/sx
Alice: IEI-Fe 9w1 sx/so
Belle: SEE-Fi 9w8 sx/so
Tom Mulligan: LSE-Si 1w2 sp/so
Jack Mulligan: LSI-Ti 6w7 sp/so

IMO
Veronica ENFj 1w9
Harry ISTp 8w7
Jamal Manning ESTp 8w7
Je t'aime Manning ESTj 8w9
Alice ISFj 6w7
Belle ESTp 7w8
Tom Mulligan ESFp 3w2
Jack Mulligan ISTp 6w5

[Sol]

Stalker (1979)

I watched it for the 1st time in ~18 yo and was impressed much.
The best part of the movie is the atmosphere. The plot is secondary. You get what wanted to be said intuitively.
The main actor mb EII, what could be one of reasons to impress me.

Recommend to watch as interesting and original movie. It was made some before USSR was betrayed and destroyed. In the movie you may get the associations of the crush, of the time which destroys and transforms anything. That spiritual is the only important as all material is temporal. The dark genre have appeared in USSR years later, when Gorbachev have started to ruin the country. But Stalker was not just dark, it was about higher senses.