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I was slightly disappointed by this film. But “fuck me, Howard” was pretty hilarious. 

  On 4/19/2022 at 6:10 PM, Nebraska said:

sleezy giallo slasher that's basically an excuse for the director to have the main broad take her kit off so we can get a gander at her goodies unobstructed. 

thanks mister director

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don't they all do that? directors, i mean

i remember seeing a gif of scarlet johanson on her knees with someone squeezing her cheeks and she opened her mouth and the director framed the shot showing the man standing over her like doing... you know what lol

don't know what movie was that from though

  On 4/19/2022 at 6:10 PM, Nebraska said:

sleezy giallo slasher that's basically an excuse for the director to have the main broad take her kit off so we can get a gander at her goodies unobstructed. 

thanks mister director

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english subtitled version is on youtube for 99p, which I might just do actually!

  On 4/19/2022 at 10:51 PM, cichlisuite said:

don't they all do that? directors, i mean

you're right, and my guess is that the giallo angle was tongue in cheek for this as it's clearly more of a pulpy version of "giallo" on par with the chicago 20 or de sade 70s rags. also, tini cansino claimed she was rita hayworth's relative and even changed her name to reflect this (new?) found linage. 

Is The Lighthouse worth sitting thru before seeing The Northman next week? Loved The Witch, but you lot seems kind of divided on Lighthouse.

  On 4/16/2022 at 9:36 AM, yekker said:

High Fidelity- such a classic

At this point, I’d love to see a period piece adaptation set in the London record store scene of the 90s, like it was written. The soundtrack could be amaze balls.

  On 4/21/2022 at 3:04 PM, Rubin Farr said:

At this point, I’d love to see a period piece adaptation set in the London record store scene of the 90s, like it was written. The soundtrack could be amaze balls.

Did you watch the TV series? 

  On 4/21/2022 at 3:20 PM, Shimon_Shimon said:

Did you watch the TV series? 

Yeah. Set it at Sister Ray in 1994, I’d watch that.

  On 4/21/2022 at 3:01 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Is The Lighthouse worth sitting thru before seeing The Northman next week? Loved The Witch, but you lot seems kind of divided on Lighthouse.

I loved The Lighthouse. Definitely watch it.  I actually thought it was better than The Witch, tbh.

Haven’t seen Northman yet. Let us know what you think. 

  On 4/20/2022 at 7:34 PM, Nebraska said:

you're right, and my guess is that the giallo angle was tongue in cheek for this as it's clearly more of a pulpy version of "giallo" on par with the chicago 20 or de sade 70s rags. also, tini cansino claimed she was rita hayworth's relative and even changed her name to reflect this (new?) found linage. 

aim for the moon, land between the stars, etc

or when the tongue in cheek sometimes is the whole basis or motivation for creating stuff in the first place. this reminds me of when i was running the gamut of european avantgarde and eventually stumbled upon some weird flicks that i guess i could describe as soft porn disguised as avant garde or vice versa idk lol, not quite giallo, but trashy in its own way. Tinto Brass was one of those more prominent guys that were riding that edge, and it's when i realized i had reached and exceeded the boundaries of a genre. 60s and 70s was a wild time

Drunken Dragon (1985) last night. This is probably the craziest kung fu movie I've seen so far. Absolutely nuts.

The Northman - amazing visuals, slightly more psychedelic than The Witch, but some of the dialogue was so corny people were laughing, like the big cringe scene. Bjork and Heilung were both great, and appear just about where you would expect them to. I didn't know Vikings yelled their inner dialogue at the top of their lungs though.

Moonfall - jebus Emmerich movies are so formulaic now, he's the Meg Ryan of disaster movies. you can literally just Scategories any actor names and plot nouns into a scenario, and he'll make it into a shitfest. "get professor so and so on the phone, he'll want to hear what I have to say!" it took half the fucking movie for them to go into space.

Dune and I was quite impressed by the result. Even being sci-fi fan I enjoyed it.

This looks crazy 

New batman is on crave. Probably will watch it this week. It's 3 hours?!

I saw The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent which was quite amusing. Don't expect Kubrick or anything, but pretty fun. 

Watched Battle of Algiers (1966) for the third time last night. Still as amazing as the first time I watched it.

  On 4/26/2022 at 11:55 PM, Rubin Farr said:

This looks crazy 

 

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it looks pretentious and overwrought and worst of all, british

oh and the northman was kinda mid unfortunately. 

which means disappointing because I really enjoyed the Lighthouse and the Witch was fine. Sort of wish they had gone with a less boring and obvious "plot" or "legend" because even before the movie started it was clear what the plot points would be and how it would end. There was an attempt at a twist that sort of worked but it didn't really matter or change anything at all except maybe it gave him the poise to get more slav pussy. Part of the fun of the Lighthouse and to a lesser extent the Witch was their original stories inspired by historic tales, but that they weren't a retelling of a story like Hamlet that everyone knows.

None of the actors were that good; Ethan Hawke was terrible. I don't understand what's up with that woman Anna-Taylor Joy. She fucking sucks at her job of saying lines and moving her face. There were some cool shots but also some clunky set pieces. They really tried to go for that first Indian raid in Revenant for the viking attack but it just was no where near the mark. Eggers still has a decent way of incorporating some surreal imagery that is in keeping with the realism of the rest of the film. In the Lighthouse they were real costumes and practical effects, this time it was some weird and muddy CGI.

Oh an also there's a part in the middle where skarsgard stops and looks at the camera and recites the 14 words and does a heil hitler while burzum plays.... serving some serious white supremacy vibes. not a good look, my dude

The Batman - hands down my favorite Batman in cinema (note I said "my favorite" not "best"... mileage will differ). Reeves somehow took the gritty realism of a Nolan Battersea and made it even more gritty/real, with the result being a Batman who feels somehow more human but still fantastical. There is actual... character growth? That's just not something I think we've really seen before, and I absolutely love that

A moody, emo piece that I loved to pieces. There are two, very minor quibbles I have that make this a 9.9/10. But that 10 means perfect in every way in this context, so it's like a normal film's 45/10. 

  On 4/29/2022 at 3:44 PM, T3551ER said:

The Batman - hands down my favorite Batman in cinema (note I said "my favorite" not "best"... mileage will differ). Reeves somehow took the gritty realism of a Nolan Battersea and made it even more gritty/real, with the result being a Batman who feels somehow more human but still fantastical. There is actual... character growth? That's just not something I think we've really seen before, and I absolutely love that

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A core theme of this is moving from vengeance to hope. That trauma can evince a desire to obliterate, and that can feel really good for a long time, but that approach only ends up hurting both yourself and the people you love. When he reaches out at the end, and there is this pause, because everyone is still just frightened as fuck, and the boy takes his hand... lost it. It's a create foil to the first scene where he saves that guy and the dude is like "please don't hurt me." 

A moody, emo piece that I loved to pieces. There are two, very minor quibbles I have that make this a 9.9/10. But that 10 means perfect in every way in this context, so it's like a normal film's 45/10. 

 

 

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Damn.
I mean, I liked it too, but damn, man, haha. I can respect it though. And when take an extra peek at Nolan's Batman movies, they're really not very good. The Dark Knight is a great Joker film and that's about it.

I did fucking love Colin Farrell's take on Oswald Cobblepot. His voice was unrecognisable.

this film should have been A LOT better but turned out to be A LOT worse than i thought (mainly due to budget, terrible cinematography and an incredibly muddy transfer)

God. Fucking. Damnit.

I was curious to read the comments on Youtube and I'm amazed at the amount of bot replies.

Also these die hard fans...

a catalogue of the depraved experiments by unit 731 under the command of shiro ishii who (is this accurate?) is portrayed in this as completely mental. this film attempts to be incredibly accurate but seems to have over stretched it's reach and thus comes off a little exploitative and incredibly crass.

also, salute to that one white broad that looks like sarah yarkin that was gassed to death. 

  On 4/29/2022 at 9:41 PM, Squee said:

God. Fucking. Damnit.

I was curious to read the comments on Youtube and I'm amazed at the amount of bot replies.

Also these die hard fans...

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Dinosaurs in the snow, give me a fucking break. And still no feathers?