Films Recently Watched

The Batman

Unnecessarily slow and way to long, I think a good hour could be cut from this.

Emo Batman is kinda cringe, moves so slow sometimes he looks more like Slothman amrite will wink

Catwoman hot AF tho.

hi GORDO

this thread just got GORDO’d

  On 2/28/2022 at 2:24 PM, YELLOW said:

First time watch of this, I thought it was pretty awesome. Seems like most people didn't like it. It hasn't even gotten a bluray release

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This was my first glimpse at Tilda Swinton in the mid 90s. She almost ruins the film with the overacting and overbearing scene stealing way she played the head of the group. Sal! Sal! Sal! Robert Carlyle on form at the start though, and loved the beginning of internet culture at the end where the main character logs onto the web. 

  On 3/4/2022 at 5:39 AM, GORDO said:

Catwoman hot AF tho.

indeed

Free Guy - this did have some dumb Waititi schtick in it, but it was actually a coherent storyline if you’re a gamer

Oh, man, when they brought in the marvel and star wars merchandise I wanted to kill myself.

The Tragedy of Macbeth. Had higher hopes for this one, but overall it was pretty good. Being fairly familiar with the play and other adaptations, I think most of my issues were nitpicky little critiques of the way the characters were developed or how certain lines/soliloquies were performed.
It was visually interesting. I liked how it felt like a film from the 30s or 40s, not just because of the black and white but also because of the creative sets and lighting. 
If you’re a Cohen Bros fan, you’ll probably know this is the first movie Joel has done without Ethan. Ethan, however, wrote a hilarious review of the film that is 100% worth a read. 
 

The Batman - I love Colin Farrell

Speaking of Colin Farrell, I watched After Yang. Pretty good. Emotional in ways I didn’t expect. 

twister (1996) - over-the-top weather and physics and everything

I THINK WE'RE GOING IN

The batman. They knocked it out of the park in my opinion. Great gritty detective movie.

this looks like fun.... BUT OF COURSE IT'S AN AMERICAN MOVIE SO THERE MUST BE SHOOTING

I just watched Taxi Driver for the first time.

Amazing

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you talkin' to me?

anyone else on here that can't stand Jean-Luc Godard's stuff? I tried Le Mépris and Made in U.S.A. (for a few minutes lol) and both piss me off equally 

  On 3/11/2022 at 10:36 PM, Berk said:

anyone else on here that can't stand Jean-Luc Godard's stuff? I tried Le Mépris and Made in U.S.A. (for a few minutes lol) and both piss me off equally 

your heart must be fresh broken in order to enjoy Pierrot Le Fou and Le Mepris. I'm speaking from experience, there's no other way.

watched possessor recently.  saw the uncut version. it's a good psychological type syfy horror. immersive and has a nice muted subdued type score. well done. will probably watch it again at some point. 

Paranoid Park 7,5/10 

Great 2007 pre smartphone vibes

The Batman

Real nice critical race theory / wokeness propaganda film.

Everything's the evil rich white man's fault.  They had to throw the "white" in there as much as they could.

this film was amazing. i wish it wasn't zombies though but whatevs-

so good

  On 3/13/2022 at 2:24 AM, lyst said:

The Batman

Real nice critical race theory / wokeness propaganda film.

Everything's the evil rich white man's fault.  They had to throw the "white" in there as much as they could.

I hope you’re ok. Sounds like you had a tough time

It's hard to believe the events in the documentary Johnny Mnemonic happened just a year ago.

not the best of the 'girl boss' films (mainly due to swapping miki sugimoto & reiko ike for ritsuko fujiyama) but still decent enough to warrant a view if you're into that series. 

despite this film's reputation as being one of the original 'video nasties' it's a pretty embarrassing piece of work. a wide eye psycho cruises different bars in new orleans soliciting (then killing) strippers. there's a detective on the case, but you wouldn't know because the other side to this film is his romancing a dame that the rebuffed the psycho's advances. 

if anything- this film can be seen as a travelogue for the new orleans club scene circa 1977-78. 

someone made a retrospective documentary about this psychotic woman's career. there's lots of "interesting" archival footage but it's mostly BTS from her retrovirus tour. as one of her band members said- the closest you'll get the lydia lunch is a punch to the face