Also rented Boss Baby for my kids. They loved it. I thought it was okay. There were some funny parts in it.Originally Posted by reverie
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.
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.
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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.
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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
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.
Mortal Engines (2018)
7 / 10
It's made for kids, so the story is primitive and has stupid places.
But... The movie has a charm.
By the effects it reminds me a "Super Mario Bros" (1993). It's also stupid, but after watching you keep the pleasant impressions.
Good art work in the both cases.
Bundy was a little rat....I could have twisted his head off and used it for a bowling ball.
Zac Efron was not a good Bundy and Bundy a disappointing film...The timeline was weird. It did not go into the guts of Bundy's murder spree. Efron is only a mediocre actor and poor choice. He lacks Bundy's glibness and dark undertone. Even somebody like Joaquim Pheonix would have made a better choice. My IEI-Ni 4w5 sx/sp told me later that Zac Efron produced the movie.
A lot of serial killers are pussies.. That's why they target the weak in backhanded ways. Who else would have such an uncontrollable need to feel Like god? Mentally and usually physically weak people
The theme of Equilibrium (2002) movie is how people reject the important part of own psyche. The cost they pay to be easier controlled. While the one who ruled by them did not rejected that in own psyche. People were made such as slaves.
With the lost of important part of Self people lived in repose, but were they happy and satisfied by that life? Following to reactions of main character - no. After he've contacted with the rejected part of own Self he never returned to previous state and tried to destroy the existent social relations. Which rob a part of peoples' Self, make them as not complete humans, make them as slaves.
This associates good with duality effects people feel.
Emotions what was demanded to supress in that socium. Christian Bale's type is LSI and the character's personality is close to this. His character gets the contact with his emotions - his suggestive region.
It's a part of what dual does and dualization is. Dual improves your consciouse contact with your weak regions, makes your consciouseness more complete, returns your real Self to you and the energy which was in your unconsciousness befor. Dual also teaches you skills how to deal better with your weak regions.
Brave New World (2020)
Free interpretation of initial Aldous Huxley work. The beginning is more interesting than it ends, where becomes some boring and having the final falling to vulgar massacre, with later a link for the next season.
Bernard Marx is annoying, not smart enough for the occupation and too neurotic. The play of John the Savage by bully alike actor is also strange, not harmonius and surface. You may not remember others there due to similar lack of appropriate and textured characters.
And there is no answer what is to live in that world, too much was left beyond the script.
So is there anything to worth to watch it?
The only what is catchy is acting of Jessica Brown Findlay: her sexual charm, her character's changes and general acting.
I rewatched Fritz the Cat after so many years. The X rating is warranted. I can see why Robert Crumb was unhappy with Bakshi's harsh portrayal of 1960's counterculture.
I tried to watch Fritz the Cat a couple times. I thought it was boring and unrelatable. The existential angst that Crumb continuously expressed in his comics was simply something that didn't interest me. And the movie added silliness to that by creating characters which represented types instead of being people. It all seemed incredibly sophomoric.
The characterizations didn't seem subtle to me, either. Bakshi was a counterculture figure himself, so I'm not too sure about his original intent. If he wanted to paint the 1960's rebels as sex-addicted, impulsive opportunists who used politics as a cover for their actual goal of juvenile violence, that's definitely the message that I got. FWIW, there's a redeeming moment for Fritz near the end.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Addon reality is the future of makeup industry. Ford's younger look is among best FX which movies had on today.
Computer made scene on a train with running people above, where human models were not made by motion-capture device - is a shame for a multimillion movie, especially of so famous serie.
To expect realistic physics of what happens would be naive in historical genre. Bulletprof wood-plastic side of a motoroller... Much of alike.
Ancient arrow weapon could hit and even destroy a flying airplane, mb even space ships on the orbit could not to feel safe with 7 yo scriptwriters.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge looks charming. It's the best part of her play.
John Rhys-Davies has lost some kg.
When you choose beta as Mads Mikkelsen to play a Nazi - you can't mistake.
Why Nazi->US->Nazi again rocketmaker (with outstanding fight abbilities for an engineer) was assured to come in 1939 having no understanding how that device works and even did not tried to test it before final usage - 7 yo scriptwriter gave no answer.
The main personage is in the past, near historical people and events, in hard drama situation and... nothing, just lost the consciousness and woke up in modern time. It's how budget saving works.
Nazi are very punctual to appear with a second accuracy on critical events, despite how far they were before and knew nothing about what happens. I suspect there was a script variant which would point on time machine usage to explain this.
Popcorn movie with a script made with AI help and then mainly drawn by another AI. A computer game cut-scene of 2h long and with faces of famous actors.
If you like Jones and don't expect much - it will be boring, but acceptable.
@FreelancePoliceman
I'd stick movies thread. There is alike for books.
It was the worst one of the series, imo. Went and saw it at the theaters. I must have fallen asleep because I barely remember it.
"Jones" is a fairytale for kids, with added "adult" scenes. It looks better for teenagers and near.
In case you'll wish to sleep again, it's not hard to find in Internet.
From (2022)
Boring fairytale about slow "vampires". Besides the scenario, the other is made on good level so it's possibly to watch. Scenarios are the main problem for today movies.
The cast and setting was supposed to represent rural part of USA. It's mainly day side of the atmosphere.
People are in crazy environment but act alike live in common place. They even have assigned own police. There is 1(!) human which behaves unusually and it's explained by his long existence there. It's harder to do realistic scenarios, especially for unusual conditions, - this needs to think while scenarios seems are written on weekends.
In 2nd season they have added another "living" character. Which has SLE and tries to behave naturally for that situation alike such people would do there. In 3rd season mb will be inputed another character, who behaves as not artificial mupet.
Obligate for today USA movies homosexualists exist too. Even in a group of ~30 random people they describe 2 of them, having this rare disorder. Mass medias makers get serious descriminations when they do not input such sexual disorders.
@FreelancePoliceman
The theme was unsticked. 2 people in mods here would be enough to have lesser mess.
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@FreelancePoliceman
The theme being not sticked will be read lesser and hence will have lesser interest to post in it.
Thash themes which can be unsticked:
16Types Adventures: The Origin of Oprah
Post some lyrics from the song you're listening to
Answer with a line of lyrics
To rename:
"movies you never get sick of watching" -> Favorite movies
To place in "Anything" section:
What are you watching?
I stickied this and unsticked the oprah thread since only a couple people posted there, and hasn't been posted in for a while. The rest I think is fine though.
I really loved the old movie when it came out. I was probably 10-11 when I saw the movie for the first time. That put me right at about the same age as the Losers. I read the book when I was 12 and it probably became one of my favorite books at first because of the friendships between the main characters. It had that youthful, coming of age feel that is very relatable. I thought that the old movie had that same sort of vibe to it....as a preteen. Overtime, however, the movie seems more and more "cheesy", although it still has a place in my heart and memories.Yeah, my initial reaction to Boss Baby was about like waceys, but when you have kids......I particularly liked the Gandalf alarm clock. I thought he was the best part of the movie.
I'm so terribly jealous of everyone that has seen It. I haven't been able to go because I'd need a babysitter and there aren't any matinees close enough to go to to be back in time. But I'm so determined to see it in theaters.
How did you think it compared to the old It movie? Do you think it was scarier? It seems they might have put parts in from the book that weren't in the old movie. And the old one was long. Over 3 hours long...
In comparison, while the old movie is a horror classic and was written as an adaptation to television, the new movie surpassed it. It is creepier and came much closer to what it was that made the book frightening; it is the lingering fear of the unknown that is at the core of the children's fear, and the creature that is It uses it to prey and hunt. But it is more than that. It likes to play with its food, feeding off fear as much as the flesh. It is evil incarnate, or at least that is how humans see It, and the movie did a great job of doing it in a way that was not cheesy and very much in the spirit of King's horrific visions. The house on Neibolt St. played an important role in this movie as well, which the first movie completely ignored. The scenes involving the house in the book were some of the most frightening parts within it. The new movie did an excellent job in this area. It was a little different, but again captured the feel. I wish they included the Stand Pipe from the book, and the Mummy from when Ben was walking home, and the Ironworks that Mike wandered through. Those would have been awesome scenes to include.
One of the things that the movie did differently was change the roles of some of the characters. Mikes role thus far seems rather insignificant, whereas he played a very prominent role in the book and the first movie. The timeline was different too. The book was the late fifties and then the eighties, where the new movie was the late eighties and then today. That gave it a different atmosphere and is nostalgia for a different generation. I could go on, but I do not want to spoil much at all. I hope you find a babysitter, and that you get to go watch and enjoy the movie and see for yourself. If was pretty awesome.
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