I liked Pig a lot.

  On 9/10/2021 at 6:00 PM, usagi said:

I liked Pig a lot.

Have to watch this one.

it's simple, well executed and quite touching.

Gotta love Nic Cage going all in for all those indie and crazy movies.

  On 9/10/2021 at 6:06 PM, thefxbip said:

Gotta love Nic Cage going all in for all those indie and crazy movies.

 

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if he's wearing sunglasses, you know Nic means business

i don't consider myself a fan of spike lee, but this made me re-think that stance. it feels (and looks) like a documentary made in the late 90s about every time NYC has been the epicenter of some tragedy (starting with 9/11). i really wish this was much longer, but it has a really personal charm by being unpolished and having a samaritan sneer. to put it bluntly, it's a very new york type of documentary about new york. so go figure 

recommended

  On 9/10/2021 at 6:06 PM, thefxbip said:

Gotta love Nic Cage going all in for all those indie and crazy movies.

 

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  On 9/10/2021 at 6:56 PM, _vow_of_silence_ said:

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Do i detect a Fellow Sion Sono fan? :P

(he didnt write it tho, which often means possible disappointment in my case, the ones he writes are often masterpieces but his director only are quite uneven. but im still excited by the spicy combo of Sono/Cage)

Malignant

All the various emotions I went through in chronological order:

Blood Red Sky -

This had some funny parts, skewering the gig economy and social media, a serial killer rideshare driver. it got far fetched at the end but I liked it.

  On 9/11/2021 at 7:31 AM, Rubin Farr said:

This had some funny parts, skewering the gig economy and social media, a serial killer rideshare driver. it got far fetched at the end but I liked it.

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this is a very different, yet damning commentary on american culture. there is a lot happening though that obfuscates and piles on an already complex message with incredibly dramatic acting almost like you're constantly changing channels on the television and being bombarded with the same message. 

approved!

First Reformed (2017)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6053438/

holy f ...had no synopsis or anything, but i knew something would go down as soon as i saw that A24 logo in the opening credits.

Pig -

½way fru,  :

the empty man -

Birdman (or the unexpected virtue of ignorance). Second watch and yes it is one of my favourite films of all time.

Shot Caller. Wasn’t expecting much from this but actually liked it far more than I thought I would. Pretty decent.

  On 9/13/2021 at 8:28 AM, _vow_of_silence_ said:

the empty man -

Might check this film out, the synopsis sounds exactly like my kind of thing, even if the reviews are a bit lacklustre. 

  On 9/13/2021 at 5:39 PM, beerwolf said:

Might check this film out, the synopsis sounds exactly like my kind of thing, even if the reviews are a bit lacklustre. 

  On 9/11/2021 at 8:01 AM, _vow_of_silence_ said:

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Watching this now. Trippy. And good.

Hotel Coolgardie entertaining fly on the wall docu on the misadventures of two Finnish girls working in a bar in the Australian outback

when i was in high school my first girlfriend was in the theater and through her i became friends with the theater kids. one day at lunch period i was with 3 of these kids, a dude and two women. the dude's bday was coming up and we asked what he wanted. without missing a beat he frankly answered "a threesome with you two beautiful girls." they were like yeah right yuck gag me with a spoon etc. after he left we got to talking and somehow devised the following scheme: the girls would use their acting abilities to convince him they changed their minds and consented to the threesome. however, in reality it would be a big prank. which went as follows: he arrived at the apartment of one of the girls (she was "emancipated" from her parents and lived in her own place). i was hiding in a closet in the living room listening for certain dialog cues we had predetermined. once a certain phrase was said i opened the door to let in like a dozen theater kids who all crept around the bedroom door. again listening for cues we waited until the fatal phrase upon which we all burst into the room with streamers, poppers, confetti, balloons, etc. one guy was filming. the lothario who thought he was having a threesome was literally tied to the bed, nude, and fully hard. he took it in good stride and we all went to see the matrix which had just come out.

last night i watched the matrix. it was fucking good as hell. held up way better than i expected, actually. fun movie, lots of grand shit happening in the way it's shot and edited. i think the theme is really smart and still interesting. incredible action stuff which holds up way better than the majority of major hollywood stuff. super cool.