Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)
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what?! Wow. I am kind of disappointed in you.
oliverclaude
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If one really likes Woody Allen movies, I can't imagine how one can like Irrational Man, Magic in the Moonlight or Cafe Society. I mean, Jessy Eisenberg? C'mon... the last Allen reincarnation I kind of liked, was Josh Brolin, the last of his films that touched me, was Sweet and Lowdown. But that was Sean Penn, not Jason Biggs. Of course, a bad Woody Allen film is still better than the best works of many directors and those titles I mentioned above, remain interesting failures, but I'd still argue: we need less Allen, too.
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If you just mean his last few movies, then sure. The guy makes like 2 movies a year and has one of the most prolific filmographies.
Vickie Christina Barcelona was great. I enjoyed Midnight in Paris. And his early work is phenomenal (Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask, bananas, sleeper, life and death, and Annie Hall). Sweet and Lowdown is a really good documentary of sorts as well, and I can’t imagine someone watching it and not remembering Django Reinhardt like Emmitt did.
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Not a big Halloween guy. The first one is a damn near perfect horror movie and the second one's pretty good too but the rest are somewhere between bad and unwatchable and Michael Myers never really did it for me. Hopefully this one's good. They're on the right track pretending all of that later stupid shit never happened.
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Never watched Halloween but this looks good.
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That's literally what they did over a decade ago with H20, which while not perfect, is about on par with 2 and 3 quality-wise.
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...or remembering how Allen likes to watch movies himself, i.e. watching trains go by, which no one understands. Yeah, this fake biopic can touch your soft side easily and would make for a great thread: your favorite Woody Allen film moment. The coke sneeze in Annie Hall or the short talk he has as Sandy Bates with his former school friend, who is a taxi driver now and a real Travis Bickle spoof, too, are among my favorites. And yeah, lol at Bananas for emancipating your underwear
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1 and 2 are exceptional. I like 4 as I owned an original tape growing up and watched it a lot.
I’m really looking forward to the new Halloween, but I’ll be honest, I have my doubts they’ll be able to pull it off. Myers looks great though. It really needs Donald Pleasence.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Jamie Lee Curtis is good in it and it's significantly better than 4-6 and everything after it but it's not even in the same zip code as 1+2 and suffers from post-Scream irony/genre-savvy overload (Kevin Williamson did write it). Fuck, how is that movie twenty years old?
I think everyone has a movie like that that's bad but you love it anyway because you watched it way too many times at a critical time in your life. I think mine is Hellraiser 4.
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The Strangers: Prey at Night - awful title aside, not bad. I'm a big fan of the first Strangers- it's written so well, it maintains tension and dread, feels plausible, and it does a couple things that are unique in that it never has the villains take off their masks, and they flat out have no reason for doing what they're doing.
The new one captures a decent amount of what the original did well, mainly creating a good sense of dread, but it takes too many cues from 80's horror, of all things (the first one actively avoids doing that), and it has some nice callbacks to the original (I mean aside from the obvious, the three bad guys), but there are several things that really don't work as well. The biggest is how dumb the protagonists are. All four make terrible decisions, repeatedly. For being reliant on realism a lot of the time, having the characters be so dumb on a movie-logic level is annoying.
The ending also is a little too out there. It has entertainment value, but it's dumb, frankly, and it's maybe the worst example of the movie trying too hard to be like Halloween instead of The Strangers.
The new one captures a decent amount of what the original did well, mainly creating a good sense of dread, but it takes too many cues from 80's horror, of all things (the first one actively avoids doing that), and it has some nice callbacks to the original (I mean aside from the obvious, the three bad guys), but there are several things that really don't work as well. The biggest is how dumb the protagonists are. All four make terrible decisions, repeatedly. For being reliant on realism a lot of the time, having the characters be so dumb on a movie-logic level is annoying.
The ending also is a little too out there. It has entertainment value, but it's dumb, frankly, and it's maybe the worst example of the movie trying too hard to be like Halloween instead of The Strangers.
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Unsane - pretty decent, though not as good as Side Effects. Soderbergh likes that topic, apparently. The story ends up being more straightforward than I expected, though it does a good job with that simpler story. The premise itself is completely ridiculous, though, even for a movie. Get past that and it's fine.
Rewatched Kill List - overrated. The general experience of watching it is alright, especially the first time, since the sense of disorientation is so strong and the characters get more development than you'd expect. But the ending is so bad and so little actually makes any sense when you stop and think about it, really hurts the film.
Rewatched Kill List - overrated. The general experience of watching it is alright, especially the first time, since the sense of disorientation is so strong and the characters get more development than you'd expect. But the ending is so bad and so little actually makes any sense when you stop and think about it, really hurts the film.
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Jurassic World 2 - there was a guy with a Ted Levine (Buffalo Bill)-esque voice, and the entire time I was wondering, man who the fuck is this second-rate Levine voice guy? To my astonishment, it turned out the actor was Ted Levine. Goddamn I just now checked wiki and it turns out he's 60 and not closer to 70, which is how old I thought the actor was in the movie. Looking rough.
As for the film it was stupid as shit and lacked all the blockbuster charm of the first Jurassic World.
As for the film it was stupid as shit and lacked all the blockbuster charm of the first Jurassic World.
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Early Hollywood effort from Jan de Bont and he delivers. The very first shot of the factory has already more depth, than any current CG frame.
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Awesome movie. I think that and Cry Baby are my favorite Waters films.
Walking Out- Estranged son and father go moose hunting and shit goes real bad. Recommended.
Dean- Written, directed by and staring Demitri Martin. Not great but charming and fairly realistic.
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(dinner time!)SPLIT SECOND.
with rutger hauer. 09/10 clean.
has the right amount of fuckupery, good plot, and a dystopian atmosphere.
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Yeah Serial Mom is great. I read somewhere that the studio wouldn't let Kathleen Turner kill the fly in the beginning of the movie, so Waters hired some guy to create a splattered dead fly with some food coloring and paste lol.
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I agree with Serial Mom... I enjoyed the goofiness and plot....
Kathleen Turner sure did let herself go after that...
xROTx
PS. I just watched Southpaw again... I forgot how much I enjoyed Jake Gyllenhaals perfomance...
EDIT. 50cents is one shitty actor...
Kathleen Turner sure did let herself go after that...
xROTx
PS. I just watched Southpaw again... I forgot how much I enjoyed Jake Gyllenhaals perfomance...
EDIT. 50cents is one shitty actor...
