What was the fecking point of it, was the fecking point of itReaper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:25 pmI pretty much agree with all of this. I laughed at a couple lines, the acting was all great, but what was the fecking point of it? I really didn't give a shit about any of it.Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 12:03 pm I want to say that The Banshees Of Inisherin was beautiful, but it was not. It was laugh out loud funny in parts and also very, very sad in parts. Farrell and Glesson picked up from In Bruges with really strong performances, but Kerry Condon as Farrell's sister was brilliant. Jenny the miniature donkey was also great.
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Tar was good. Cate Blanchette is ridiculous at acting. I thought for sure it was a biopic but then I was confused why it's so recent and they could have made it so quickly. It's not apparently but totally has that feel.
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There was some viral marketing around the biopic angle I think.
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It's pronounced biopic. Come on guys.
(I thought that too...weird)
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You say biopic, I say biopic.
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She was in a film at Sundance a few years ago where she played 13 different roles (or more even). She did a good enough job that it was really hard to tell it was her in every role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_(2015_film)
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Oh cool, I'll check that out! You ever see the Dylan biopic where she played him in one of his stages? It's fucking eerie.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:21 amShe was in a film at Sundance a few years ago where she played 13 different roles (or more even). She did a good enough job that it was really hard to tell it was her in every role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_(2015_film)
(Very strange movie. It was basically performance art on film.)
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She’s so good she kind of sticks out (in a good way) in Life Aquatic. It’s almost like she’s in a different movie.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:21 amShe was in a film at Sundance a few years ago where she played 13 different roles (or more even). She did a good enough job that it was really hard to tell it was her in every role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_(2015_film)
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Can't wait to be Shymalaned again tonight. That's where you walk out of a movie wondering why the fuck you paid money for it.
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I’m usually not much of a rom-com guy, but I really enjoyed You People. It did include many of the regular tropes of the genre, but otherwise really well-written and funny. Nice to see so many recognizable old-timers* getting some work. Jonah Hill and Lauren London were cute as the main stars.
* Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Duchovny, Nia Long, Elliott Gould, Rhea Perlman, Mike Epps, Richard Benjamin, Matt Walsh, Hal Linden…
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At least they're not raping kids, and covering it up on a mass, global scale I guess though?The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:39 pmI went down a Scientology rabbit hole 7-10 years ago. Read a bunch of books, watched documentaries... it's a wild fucking world. Infuriating how they were able to get the IRS to give them tax-free status as a religion. Hounded the highest-level authorities for years, down to constantly calling his house throughout the night, tailing their kids and calling to say where they were and what they were wearing, making all sorts of threats. They held strong for years, but the "Church" was relentless and broke the poor guy's psyche who eventually caved. They have teams of private investigators that hunt down Church members who flee. Terrifying stuff.
At the time, I had a coworker whose close friend went into a Narcanon rehab clinic for cocaine addiction. It's a Scientology front. I told my coworker to get his friend the fuck out of there ASAP. His friend completed the program, then stayed as he was offered a job as counselor. A few months later, the guy sold all of his possessions and cut off contact with all of his friends and family. It was crazy reading the emails his friend was sending during the process, watching him get pulled into different levels of the cult, then nothing. Coworker didn't believe me at first that it was a cult, he was happy his friend was getting help. Coworker quickly saw what was happening and was panicking, calling the friends' family to help persuade him. Lost touch with the coworker, but I wonder if his friend ever made it out of the cult.
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It was actually pretty damn good. Bautista was great in it.
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Which in my opinion didn't make for much of a movie. The acting was great, but ultimately, "so what?"Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:36 pmWhat was the fecking point of it, was the fecking point of itReaper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:25 pmI pretty much agree with all of this. I laughed at a couple lines, the acting was all great, but what was the fecking point of it? I really didn't give a shit about any of it.Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 12:03 pm I want to say that The Banshees Of Inisherin was beautiful, but it was not. It was laugh out loud funny in parts and also very, very sad in parts. Farrell and Glesson picked up from In Bruges with really strong performances, but Kerry Condon as Farrell's sister was brilliant. Jenny the miniature donkey was also great.
Although I wouldn't mind having a miniature donkey.
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Finally got around to this one and all I can do is echo above. Highly enjoyable, solid writing. Monae is top notch. I would love to be a "Derol" in a movie.rass wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:42 amI agree with a Pruitt movie take for once. Quibbles but a lot of fun.
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Since he's in the air this morning, I liked the Elvis movie from last year. Or at least it's stuck with me, every time he's come up since. It's difficult to make a straight-ahead musician biopic in a post-Walk Hard world, and Baz Luhrmann is gonna Baz Luhrmann anyway. Somewhere among all the quick cuts and transitions and the anachronistic music and Tom Hanks using a weird voice in a fat suit it just really captured the essence of his beauty, or what made him special, and the tragedy of the end of his life.
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Yeah, that one scene right there was incredible. I mean she was just in a tshirt and panties and it almost moved?Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:15 amShotgun Wedding seemed like a vehicle mainly to show off the fact that J-Lo still has an incredible body. Which, you know... That's cool and all.
Other than that, a very very silly - not great movie.
Though my wife and I laughed often enough at the rest of the movie. And some of the kills (especially the final villains) were perfect.
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Should also mention that we turned that off and checked out the 10PM vintage SNL and the host was peak Brad Pitt end of Friends-era Anniston, who herself has obviously aged well but it did highlight the differences between a perfect young 30 and a perfect in your 50s.
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I thought this movie was fecking great.Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:27 pmWhich in my opinion didn't make for much of a movie. The acting was great, but ultimately, "so what?"Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:36 pmWhat was the fecking point of it, was the fecking point of itReaper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:25 pmI pretty much agree with all of this. I laughed at a couple lines, the acting was all great, but what was the fecking point of it? I really didn't give a shit about any of it.Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 12:03 pm I want to say that The Banshees Of Inisherin was beautiful, but it was not. It was laugh out loud funny in parts and also very, very sad in parts. Farrell and Glesson picked up from In Bruges with really strong performances, but Kerry Condon as Farrell's sister was brilliant. Jenny the miniature donkey was also great.
Although I wouldn't mind having a miniature donkey.
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Strange thing is that the next day I started thinking about it and I realized that it was really good.A_B wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:02 pmI thought this movie was fecking great.Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:27 pmWhich in my opinion didn't make for much of a movie. The acting was great, but ultimately, "so what?"Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:36 pmWhat was the fecking point of it, was the fecking point of itReaper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:25 pmI pretty much agree with all of this. I laughed at a couple lines, the acting was all great, but what was the fecking point of it? I really didn't give a shit about any of it.Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 12:03 pm I want to say that The Banshees Of Inisherin was beautiful, but it was not. It was laugh out loud funny in parts and also very, very sad in parts. Farrell and Glesson picked up from In Bruges with really strong performances, but Kerry Condon as Farrell's sister was brilliant. Jenny the miniature donkey was also great.
Although I wouldn't mind having a miniature donkey.
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SamePruitt IV wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 6:59 pmStrange thing is that the next day I started thinking about it and I realized that it was really good.A_B wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:02 pmI thought this movie was fecking great.Pruitt IV wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:27 pmWhich in my opinion didn't make for much of a movie. The acting was great, but ultimately, "so what?"Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:36 pmWhat was the fecking point of it, was the fecking point of itReaper wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 11:25 pmI pretty much agree with all of this. I laughed at a couple lines, the acting was all great, but what was the fecking point of it? I really didn't give a shit about any of it.Tom 1860 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 12:03 pm I want to say that The Banshees Of Inisherin was beautiful, but it was not. It was laugh out loud funny in parts and also very, very sad in parts. Farrell and Glesson picked up from In Bruges with really strong performances, but Kerry Condon as Farrell's sister was brilliant. Jenny the miniature donkey was also great.
Although I wouldn't mind having a miniature donkey.
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If this has been posted already, I couldn't find it.
Anyway, don't think I'm taking my kids to the new Winnie the Pooh movie.
Anyway, don't think I'm taking my kids to the new Winnie the Pooh movie.
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I guess that means I missed that Winnie the Pooh was in the public domain.
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It happened January 1, 2022.
Edited to put the original link under a spoiler, since it seemed to reveal a good bit about the movie. New link just talks about the public domain.
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God help me but the Disney+ chip and dale movie from last year was pretty better than just ok?
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Just a little liquor, never made it upstairs to the fun drawer. Made the youngest watch with us and it was fun to see her try to fight the charm of John Mulaney and Paul Rudd.
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Elvis was very boring to me. With as much visually as was happening gawd the characters lacked chemistry.
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Were there more than two characters in that movie? I really liked butler and was bemused by Hanks.
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Nope. And their chemistry sucked.
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Went and saw Aunt-Man (shout out to my fellow Chip-heads) and I think I liked it overall more than both BP2 and Love and Thunder. Rudd is Rudd. A lot of pfeiffer, which was nice, and I think Majors could be a lot of fun as the big bad the next 3 or 4 years or whatever their schedule is.
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Our French comrade tweeted this trailer - and - whatever the eff this is - I am all in
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I agree on the trailer, though the dog better not die.
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Watched Ant Man. If you took the under on my whelms, you are a winner!
So so so dark. I'm not even talking about themes. All the edges are too dark around the characters. I know it's a money saving endeavor, and the darker you make it the less detail you need with your CGI, but this was too much. And a lot of the way the actual actors were shot just played into it. Came home and watched The Last of Us and am surprised at how much better the dark colors look on tv, but maybe that's more about less CGI use in those scenes and more live footage.
Anyway, this one is in the bottom 5 of all Marvels for me, though I think it did its meager job of setting up the next phase.
So so so dark. I'm not even talking about themes. All the edges are too dark around the characters. I know it's a money saving endeavor, and the darker you make it the less detail you need with your CGI, but this was too much. And a lot of the way the actual actors were shot just played into it. Came home and watched The Last of Us and am surprised at how much better the dark colors look on tv, but maybe that's more about less CGI use in those scenes and more live footage.
Anyway, this one is in the bottom 5 of all Marvels for me, though I think it did its meager job of setting up the next phase.
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RE: darkness I felt exactly the same way about BP2, but then I saw Avatar 2 later the same week and even taking into account the obsessive care Cameron takes with his craft, and that I went out of my way to see A2 on what is supposed to be a really nice screen, I decided that I must have had an extremely shitty showing of BP2. Couldn't see a GD thing in the underwater scenes.
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For those that don’t know, Sisu is a Finnish term that translates loosely to ‘tenacity of spirit’. I cannot wait to see this.tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 4:06 pm Our French comrade tweeted this trailer - and - whatever the eff this is - I am all in