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Post by Lionheart on Mar 3, 2024 13:16:06 GMT
But my main take home is that I really want to see John Cena more. He has a very minor supporting role but he had a great screen presence, a magnetic presence, more than I've ever seen from Dwayne in Hollywood. …this is the first movie you’ve seen John Cena in?
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Post by Ness on Mar 3, 2024 13:26:33 GMT
Nobody has seen Cena in a movie and not for a lack of trying <_<
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Post by c on Mar 3, 2024 13:33:30 GMT
Peacemaker is what to watch Cena in. He was just amazing in that show.
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Post by Emperor on Mar 3, 2024 13:34:43 GMT
But my main take home is that I really want to see John Cena more. He has a very minor supporting role but he had a great screen presence, a magnetic presence, more than I've ever seen from Dwayne in Hollywood. …this is the first movie you’ve seen John Cena in? Yep. He is not the easiest man to see.
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Post by KJ on Mar 3, 2024 22:59:21 GMT
Just saw Dune: Part Two today.
One of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen. The story admittedly goes a bit above my head.
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Post by c on Mar 3, 2024 23:15:38 GMT
The movie did not really do a good job explaining what the Bene Gesserit were doing. I imagine if you do not know the books, would have no idea what the hell the girls were doing.
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Post by mikec on Mar 4, 2024 0:05:07 GMT
I watched Dune pt 1 so that I could see pt 2 this weekend (after a complete lack of quality movies has left me not going to the theater in months. Seriously why is my theater showing a tv show every week called The Chosen?)
I didn’t really care for it. It’s well done, and looks nice, but it’s so far outside my movie tastes that I’m pretty lukewarm to it. Just don’t really care for future sci-fi on other planets.
But I’m still going to 2 tonight, because it’s better than seeing The Chosen episodes 7-9.
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Post by KJ on Mar 4, 2024 2:22:41 GMT
The movie did not really do a good job explaining what the Bene Gesserit were doing. I imagine if you do not know the books, would have no idea what the hell the girls were doing. Yeah, never read the books. Way the hell over my head.
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Post by c on Mar 4, 2024 2:29:56 GMT
Books are dense political intrigue stories. Usually in the movies this side is glossed over so some people are focused on and you really are not told why the hell they matter at all. First book is a great book if you are into reading or audio books. Widely considered one of the best sci-fi stories written.
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Post by c on Mar 4, 2024 2:30:31 GMT
I watched Dune pt 1 so that I could see pt 2 this weekend (after a complete lack of quality movies has left me not going to the theater in months. Seriously why is my theater showing a tv show every week called The Chosen?) I didn’t really care for it. It’s well done, and looks nice, but it’s so far outside my movie tastes that I’m pretty lukewarm to it. Just don’t really care for future sci-fi on other planets. But I’m still going to 2 tonight, because it’s better than seeing The Chosen episodes 7-9. 2 is much better than 1. Part 1 is kind of lame as it stops in the middle of a larger story.
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Post by mikec on Mar 4, 2024 3:53:35 GMT
Dune 2 was better. I wouldn’t have paid to see it, but I’ve got a handful of free passes from Christmas sitting unused so it was worth that.
It’s obviously very impressive technically and I like a dark ending and appreciate the twist on the standard white religious savior tale but it’s still a sci-fi futuristic religious epic when I’d rather watch almost anything else.
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Post by iron maiden on Mar 4, 2024 16:57:47 GMT
Next Goal Wins on Disney+ with Michael Fassbender based on a 2014 documentary of the same name about a football (soccer) coach leading the American Samoa team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Premise Dutch American football coach Thomas Rongen faces the option of being fired or accepting an almost impossible task: to convert the American Samoa national team, considered one of the weakest football teams in the world, into an elite squad. The storyline also includes fa'afafine player Jaiyah Saelua, who was the first transgender player ever to compete in a World Cup qualifier game.[6]
Mom and I highly enjoyed this. I'm sure many liberties were taken, but the humor was good and it had that Cool Runnings feel.
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Post by RT on Mar 5, 2024 21:30:38 GMT
Oppenheimer Gets a big "meh" from me, dawg. Like it was fine and I am glad I watched it, but I don't understand what all the hype was about. It's a shoe in for Best Picture...why? Cillian Murphy winning Best Actor, sure, I get that. I won't even argue with Best Director. But the way everyone is talking it's like nothing stands a chance at beating this movie next weekend. I thought we were past this "huge ensemble cast makes a historical drama" trope of always taking Best Picture, but I guess not.
It's completely in the face of my entire argument but I would choose Killers Of The Flower Moon over Oppenheimer 10 times out of 10. And let's be real: Barbie was far more entertaining and crushed it in the box office. That might not mean anything to the Academy but maybe that is why they're completely out of touch with society and have been for a long time.
Anyway, 6/10. Movie was fine but I'll never watch it again and don't feel any different after having sat through it.
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Post by The Show on Mar 5, 2024 23:55:44 GMT
That’s a fair assessment but the movie still made almost $1 billion world wide and has a higher user score than Barbie. Your post sounds like the movie bombed(no pun intended)
1 billion vs 1.5 billion. Both movies crushed it and it was a big win for the film industry.
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Post by System on Mar 6, 2024 14:02:22 GMT
Dune 2
Christopher Walken and Austin Butler were weakest parts of the film, otherwise loved it and it’s 7 endings.
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Post by RT on Mar 6, 2024 21:25:55 GMT
That’s a fair assessment but the movie still made almost $1 billion world wide and has a higher user score than Barbie. Your post sounds like the movie bombed(no pun intended) 1 billion vs 1.5 billion. Both movies crushed it and it was a big win for the film industry. I was going from memory and did not think it made that much. For some reason I thought Barbie almost doubled it and that it capped out at the 7-800 million range. I stand corrected.
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Post by c on Mar 8, 2024 9:08:46 GMT
Watched the Acid King. Good film about growing up in the outskirts of NYC in the 80's-90's and having metal people in your extended circle that took shit way too far. Also went over shit like drinking in the woods or cemeteries, the kid who has a hearst and other weird ass crap. They covered satin lives which I did not know was connected to this but a common joke phrase in the area growing up that no one really knew the origin of but we would spray paint.
Great coverage of Ricky Kasso and the murder though, and how the media twisted it into proof of satanic cults existing all throughout this area when really it was just a homeless troubled stoner kid just snapping after a friend stole drugs from him.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Mar 10, 2024 11:02:07 GMT
The Creator was pretty solid, definitely looked great, derivative as all get out, and the major beats were predictable, but a decent enough watch. Gotta give it to the kid, great at the emotional scenes, a key aspect many her age don’t quite get.
Really enjoyed a Haunting in Venice, might even be my favorite of the 3. Death on the Nile was a bit of a step down, mainly because bits of the ensemble didn’t work so well, but no such issues here, every last piece was perfect. I’ll keep watching as long as KB keeps making ‘em.
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Post by System on Mar 14, 2024 15:12:45 GMT
Imaginary: (Not to be confused with IF starting Ryan Reynolds)
The first two acts are a slow build to a 3rd act that goes on forever. As mentioned in the other thread it’s so tame, episodes of Goosebumps and thinks of that nature were more graphic when I was a kid.
I didn’t want a gore fest but the cut aways at anything that could be more than slightly bloody was annoying. Story was flat and done 1,000 other times anyway.
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Post by RT on Mar 18, 2024 3:41:18 GMT
Poor Things
I didn’t get it. Was too weird. Started with an interesting premise then immediately cut to Mark Ruffalo banging a woman with the brain of a child. From there I was lost.
2/10 do not recommend. Lily Gladstone got robbed.
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Post by @admin on Mar 18, 2024 3:58:25 GMT
Poor Things I didn’t get it. Was too weird. Started with an interesting premise then immediately cut to Mark Ruffalo banging a woman with the brain of a child. From there I was lost. 2/10 do not recommend. Lily Gladstone got robbed. The "interesting start that devolves into complete weirdness" was my exact take on Lanthimos' previous movie The Lobster and I realised he just wasn't for me. PI loved him though, one suspects that imbibing substances prior to watching may increase the enjoyment.
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Post by c on Mar 18, 2024 4:24:15 GMT
As was also the case of The Killing of the Sacred Deer. Lanthimos is def not for everyone but makes really interesting films if you go into them knowing what you are getting.
Knew as soon as I seen the director that this film would be polarizing.
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Post by mikec on Mar 18, 2024 23:02:29 GMT
I liked Poor Things. I knew the premise going in and knew to expect extreme strangeness. It really slows down once on the boat, so the second half is definitely less enjoyable.
I am sure there’s a deeper meaning to it, but for me it’s just become a series of quotes I’ll spew out to my wife because of the clumsy language from the main character and others. My personal most used is “Roday was not a good day for Bella Baxter.” or I’ll throw up my hands and yell Belllllaa! in my best Ruffalo impression.
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Post by Gyro LC on Mar 18, 2024 23:15:56 GMT
How old mentally is Bella in Poor Things? All of the stuff I read says the brain of an infant was put in her but it isn't clear how much time has passed before the movie takes off. Based on my limited knowledge, this movie seems to embrace the "if there's grass on the field, play ball" approach to creeping on kids.
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Post by mikec on Mar 19, 2024 1:19:03 GMT
It’s not a point the movie is trying to go for, obviously the body is an adult and nobody that has a sexual relationship with her in the movie would know or expect the fetal brain story. But obviously her mental development doesn’t seem to reach adulthood, rather much like a young person she finds something that feels good and goes for it as much as possible. Just unlike a kid her body is way ahead in sexual development and there’s nothing stopping her.
My guess though is she can’t be much more than ten, giving the end of the movie.
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Post by c on Mar 19, 2024 1:55:21 GMT
I dug Poors Things as well. I went in expecting an art house style film, and got one. I loved DaFoe, Ruffalo and Watson were all fun in it, and it was a just such a strange steampunky setting. Felt like a high art cleanup of a John Water style film.
And like Mike said, omg is this film filled with hilariously strange quotes. How the hell they got through the overly acted scenes without fits of giggles is beyond me.
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Post by Gyro LC on Mar 19, 2024 2:25:22 GMT
I know this movie takes place in a bygone era and is fiction, but I'm having a hard time. Despite having an adult body, it's a child having sex with adults. Maybe everyone's just happy to see Emma Stone naked but this seems like a very fucked up thing to get so much praise.
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Post by Lony on Mar 19, 2024 2:31:58 GMT
I went and saw a couple of movies over the past two weekends, first up was Imaginary, which I thought had a few decent at best jumpscares. The Wife and I also took the kids to go see Kung Fu Panda 4, it was fun, action-packed, and if you're a fan of the series, you'll enjoy this one as well. Argylle Imaginary Kung Fu Panda 4 Lisa Frankenstein Madame Web Night Swim Orion and the Dark The Beekeeper
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Post by mikec on Mar 19, 2024 2:33:29 GMT
I know this movie takes place in a bygone era and is fiction, but I'm having a hard time. Despite having an adult body, it's a child having sex with adults. Maybe everyone's just happy to see Emma Stone naked but this seems like a very fucked up thing to get so much praise. I think it’s more the first part, where we’re talking about essentially a Frankenstein character in a dark fairy tale fiction, not a child. I don’t think most people that like it are just there for the nudity. This movie is so outlandishly crazy and detached from the bounds of reality I didn’t really ever bump against the ethics of sex with children.
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Post by c on Mar 19, 2024 2:36:47 GMT
How old mentally is Bella in Poor Things? All of the stuff I read says the brain of an infant was put in her but it isn't clear how much time has passed before the movie takes off. Based on my limited knowledge, this movie seems to embrace the "if there's grass on the field, play ball" approach to creeping on kids. Bella is like an infant or so mentally at the start of the film but she ages rapidly mentally hitting puberty age basically early on, then by mid film she is reading classical philosophy. The people that focus on the sex really do not get the film at all. Focus is how people see society at different points in their life, from childhood wonder, to self gratification of the early teen years, to the naive liberal musing of early adulthood and so on. Since sex is the focus near the start, that is what people seem to focus but I am not sold they continue to watch the film when the sex stops, since it is really a minor part of the whole.
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