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I tried watching The Electric State, holy fucking shit those dung eating idiots sure know how to totally miss the point of the material they're trying to adapt. 

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  On 3/17/2025 at 7:48 PM, Silent Member said:

I tried watching The Electric State

me too. 

did not finish/enjoy. imo, this seemed like it was for fans of stranger things (obviously) right up to the kitschy "retro" setting but worse than that show. i even thought millie bobby brown's bro in this film was one of the kids from that show.

  On 3/14/2025 at 8:59 AM, logboy said:

quite surprise and pleased there's significant knowledge of K film here; just in case they've been missed, and considering we've been hovering around bong joon-ho, i'd point to the two filmmakers i think are often forgotten or dismissed. primarily that's lee chang-dong - beware the recent USA BD set was a little bodged, replaced, but worth navigating around that issue - and na hong-jin, who usually gets remembered for 'the chaser' but deserved far more attention for 'the wailing' which i think is astonishingly sophisticated and should have hit so much harder with audiences than anything bong joon-ho has made. i'm waiting with crossed fingers that his upcoming 'hope' is great.

 

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Saw The Chaser recently and thought it was quite good, but The Wailing, goddamn, what a superb film.

"At the Edge of the Abyss" (Mariupol docu) - well I watched maybe 2 hrs of 7. Most of you cannot watch it coz RU side.

There's also that Afghanistan US documentary, forgot the name, want to watch it.

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Anyone going to see "Ash"?  Was considering it today as I am a big Flying Lotus fan but the reviews are really making it seem like its not worth all the money to go to the theater.  May have to wait for it to come out on streaming.

Den of Thieves 2 - characters were a lot more 2 dimensional this time, Butler & Jackson were hilariously out of shape. They're trying to make it into another F&F type franchise.  C+

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  On 1/26/2025 at 9:29 AM, chim said:

 

Longlegs turned out excruciatingly dull and disappointing. What a fumble. 

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I liked it. One of the more enjoyably creepy horror films that I’ve seen in a while. Did kinda feel like a b-movie version of True Detective season 1 but Cage killed in this one. 

This looks really interesting by the guys who did black swan and requiem for a dream. it’s a bit old already and I have no idea how i missed this 

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  On 3/23/2025 at 10:09 AM, o00o said:

This looks really interesting by the guys who did black swan and requiem for a dream. it’s a bit old already and I have no idea how i missed this 

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If you’re into dumb 8th grade level retelling of

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then you’re in for a fucking amazing treat!

If you’re an adult then no haha

Also baby fat face is in it which ought to scare most people away. 

  On 3/23/2025 at 7:01 AM, Hail Sagan said:
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I liked it. One of the more enjoyably creepy horror films that I’ve seen in a while. Did kinda feel like a b-movie version of True Detective season 1 but Cage killed in this one. 

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True detective s1 was great, shitetake 🍄 

  On 3/23/2025 at 10:09 AM, o00o said:

This looks really interesting by the guys who did black swan and requiem for a dream. it’s a bit old already and I have no idea how i missed this 

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Really loved that movie. Wouldn't want to watch it again though. Pure psychological torture for me. But it kept me extremely thrilled all the way through. There are not a lot of movies quite like it. This one is not for everyone, to say the least.

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Pig good.

Longlegs I thought was basically good, not spectacular.

Mother! is not to be taken seriously, you can still enjoy it if you just shut your brain off and just take the images and sounds as they come. if you want to experience a wildly escalating nightmare in the moment. any chinstroking interpretation of it is a waste of time imo.

  On 4/17/2013 at 2:45 PM, Alcofribas said:

afaik i usually place all my cum drops on scientifically sterilized glass slides which are carefully frozen and placed in trash cans throughout the city labelled "for women ❤️ alco" with my social security and phone numbers.

  On 3/23/2025 at 10:09 AM, o00o said:

This looks really interesting by the guys who did black swan and requiem for a dream. it’s a bit old already and I have no idea how i missed this 

this film removed the name darren aronofsky from my consciousness, and then after the whale, this guy became the ari aster for anyone born before 2001.

scent of a spell by toshiharu ikeda (1985)

similarly to the film his film prior to this, 'mermaid legend', this is an attempt to create a moody on a shoestring. nighttime settings, heavy rain, chance encounters and a passionate affair with tragic elements. there's a lot of promise, not a huge amount delivered. in that sense, it's like any cheap genre film, structured around a handful of scenes. very much reliant upon how it all finally comes together, ultimately, too. takes until around forty minutes in before a solid attempt at a plot appears, it becomes a murder mystery interspersed with sex scenes, with a journalist trying to work out if he has managed to start a relationship with a dangerous woman.

as ikeda's  'mermaid legend' has somewhat suddenly become quite visible recently, and releases alongside this here in the west for the first time ('mermaid legend' gets a USA release too), i'd be surprised with anyone picking this up as a successful blend of elements similar to nikkatsu's 'roman porno' genre, which seems to bleed into the style of productions found outside that studio, and into films in general across japan in the eighties, over and above far more interesting and successful films of this ilk elsewhere that are quite easily bypassed by so many. those doing that are simultaneously interested in japanese films but oddly scared of commonly-found aspects like sex and violence.

 

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