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ANYONE SEEN ANY GOOD MOVIES LATELY ?
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controversial opinion: cinema is truly dead
theatrical releases are trash
the output from the streaming bigs is hot garbage
I haven't seen a single good art house flick in a theater or streaming since early 2020
it's like good movies are....DONE
trying to see:
Holy Spider
The Whale
Vesper
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once was fun...original...great great great cast
Fablemans and Babylon....hollywood masturbation as usual....boring
fkkkk...look at Yellowstone...hugely popular show...with plot holes big enough to fly a Boeing through
strange days
why do I care about this friendship? they did absolutely nothing to get me emotionally invested in it aside from Collin having a funny donkey and being simple. no explanation....honestly, the far-off allusions to the war I felt were something critical to the story which was totally lost on me
cinematography couldn't save it for me....and I wanted to enjoy it. truly.
theatrical releases are trash
the output from the streaming bigs is hot garbage
I haven't seen a single good art house flick in a theater or streaming since early 2020
it's like good movies are....DONE
trying to see:
Holy Spider
The Whale
Vesper
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once was fun...original...great great great cast
Fablemans and Babylon....hollywood masturbation as usual....boring
fkkkk...look at Yellowstone...hugely popular show...with plot holes big enough to fly a Boeing through
strange days
but who cares?
why do I care about this friendship? they did absolutely nothing to get me emotionally invested in it aside from Collin having a funny donkey and being simple. no explanation....honestly, the far-off allusions to the war I felt were something critical to the story which was totally lost on me
cinematography couldn't save it for me....and I wanted to enjoy it. truly.
fck off the northman was good.
still haven't watched the banshees of whereverville. i heard it was sad and i just haven't been in the mood.
agree on the witch and the lighthouse.
Nah, cinema isn't dead, your soul maybe though!
I agree that the ratio of bad to good seems to be more and more and weighted towards bad, but there's still good stuff being put to film, even today.
I do think that Banshees is getting way more attention than it deserves. I thought it was good, but I thought White Noise and Triangle of Sadness, also recent releases, were much, much better. I do not think it deserves any kind of award either.
Watched Jojo Rabbit recently. Blew my mind. Satire, yet heart wrenching, and amazing art direction.
Honestly, me too...The first hour DRAGGGS and the quirky setting just isn't enough until some fingers start flying.
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Taika Waititi is a genius
go watch What We Do in the Shadows or, even better, Reservation Dogs
absolutely CRUSHING writing, characters, and story
he has an incredible knack for getting you laughing and then immediately turning the knife in your heart
@Aruka - sir, the Northman was the most formulaic, boring movie ever....not compelling in the least....I like the actors, the director, I went in totally wanting it and by the end I was just like...what was the fkn point of that?
gratuitous nonsense
I turned off White Noise about 30 minutes in
maybe i just went in with no expectations. or rather, i expected it to be total garbage because i had no idea what it was when i randomly clicked on it one night. i don't think it was quite as good as The Witch but comparing it to the crap i usually end up watching when i have no idea what to watch, it was great.
Good movie. I like Refn's films generally.
White Noise is streaming? Damn I might have to bring Netflix back...It's the kind of film that needs to be watched a couple of times I think. Made me want to read the book again.
i loved that flick
the scene with the rocks talking to each other made me laugh so hard i cried
can't figure out why its not more popular with the group of people i would have expected to really dig it
but who cares?
why do I care about this friendship? they did absolutely nothing to get me emotionally invested in it aside from Collin having a funny donkey and being simple. no explanation....honestly, the far-off allusions to the war I felt were something critical to the story which was totally lost on me
cinematography couldn't save it for me....and I wanted to enjoy it. truly.
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imo their relationship was representative of the civil war. Two sides that used to love each other, undone by a bitterness neither they, nor the rest of the people, want. But they're unable to walk away from it.
I personally was more interested in the question of what's the better way to live: to be a good, decent person or to create something that lasts after you're gone. But I thought that got lost in the civil war allegory.
It was a well made movie that I did not like it. Besides a few chuckle-worthy moments of Colin Ferrell trying to puzzle out why they're not friends, it was just so joyless.
why do I care about this friendship? they did absolutely nothing to get me emotionally invested in it aside from Collin having a funny donkey and being simple. no explanation....honestly, the far-off allusions to the war I felt were something critical to the story which was totally lost on me
cinematography couldn't save it for me....and I wanted to enjoy it. truly.
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imo their relationship was representative of the civil war. Two sides that used to love each other, undone by a bitterness neither they, nor the rest of the people, want. But they're unable to walk away from it.
I personally was more interested in the question of what's the better way to live: to be a good, decent person or to create something that lasts after you're gone. But I thought that got lost in the civil war allegory.
It was a well made movie that I did not like it. Besides a few chuckle-worthy moments of Colin Ferrell trying to puzzle out why they're not friends, it was just so joyless.
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People still go to the movies???? Just saw this story pop and thought of this thread.
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It was a dramatization of existentialist philosophy
Which I love
And the kid delivered one of the best performances I've seen in a while
But yeah... I get that it ain't for everyone
Hated the Northmen, loved The Lighthouse so I hope we are still friends
Could not make it through White Noise
Kinda over Noah Baumbach stuff
Everything Everywhere All at Once was what movies should and can be
And I agree, it's all too rare
And fvck you James Cameron, I'm not sitting through your three and a half hour mash up of Waterworld and Fern Gully
Kinda over Noah Baumbach stuff
Everything Everywhere All at Once was what movies should and can be
And I agree, it's all too rare
And fvck you James Cameron, I'm not sitting through your three and a half hour mash up of Waterworld and Fern Gully
There's no such thing as a bad movie with vikings.
And if you go with some semi potent edibles and combine that with a theatre that has a bar, recliners and send the wife out on beer runs, the 3 hour plus Avatar thing is doable.
Bunch of high brow, pseudointellectual wannabe film critics...
And if you go with some semi potent edibles and combine that with a theatre that has a bar, recliners and send the wife out on beer runs, the 3 hour plus Avatar thing is doable.
Bunch of high brow, pseudointellectual wannabe film critics...
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yup.There's no such thing as a bad movie with vikings.
Bunch of high brow, pseudointellectual wannabe film critics...
the impotent sexually confused bolsheviks have ruined this thread...
It's Nicole Kidman. That's what ruined it for me. I don't know why, I'm just over her.