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Post by Emperor on Aug 30, 2020 14:45:59 GMT
Fleur Delacour?
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Post by 🤯 on Aug 30, 2020 14:55:04 GMT
Since we don't have a random thoughts thread in PC, this thread will have to do... Rita Skeeter is the hottest adult female character in Harry Potter. Change my mind! ... What about Madam Rosmerta after a few butterbeers? Good shout. I could go with her as a #2. Luna Lovegood or Beatrix seems like the standard there. WTF. Luna is a child character. Do we need to get the Wizarding World's equivalent of Chris Hansen involved here? Who's Beatrix? You mean Bellatrix? If so, those teeth are a hard pass for me. Still not sure she qualifies as an adult character. Maybe by the end? Even still, reminds me to much of Claire Danes' pug ugly face to be considered.
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Post by Ness on Aug 30, 2020 15:08:53 GMT
... What about Madam Rosmerta after a few butterbeers? Good shout. I could go with her as a #2. Luna Lovegood or Beatrix seems like the standard there. WTF. Luna is a child character. Do we need to get the Wizarding World's equivalent of Chris Hansen involved here? Who's Beatrix? You mean Bellatrix? If so, those teeth are a hard pass for me. Still not sure she qualifies as an adult character. Maybe by the end? Even still, reminds me to much of Claire Danes' pug ugly face to be considered. Gotta give a pass on the teeth if they're British.
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Post by 🤯 on Aug 30, 2020 16:06:07 GMT
Good shout. I could go with her as a #2. Luna is a child character. Do we need to get the Wizarding World's equivalent of Chris Hansen involved here? Who's Beatrix? You mean Bellatrix? If so, those teeth are a hard pass for me. Still not sure she qualifies as an adult character. Maybe by the end? Even still, reminds me to much of Claire Danes' pug ugly face to be considered. Gotta give a pass on the teeth if they're British.
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Post by Ness on Aug 30, 2020 16:07:58 GMT
Gotta give a pass on the teeth if they're British.
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Post by Emperor on Aug 30, 2020 17:19:06 GMT
The actress playing Fleur Delacour was over 30 years old when filming, so it's fine.
Not sure about Luna Lovegood.
Bellatrix has that attractive evil goth vibe, but I don't like her face all that much.
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Post by 🤯 on Aug 30, 2020 18:06:13 GMT
The actress playing Fleur Delacour was over 30 years old when filming, so it's fine. Not sure about Luna Lovegood. Bellatrix has that attractive evil goth vibe, but I don't like her face all that much. I'm referring to the character portrayed being adult, not the actress! Gets too confusing going by actor's shoot age. Plus, Hermione & McGonagall would win on all fronts if we eliminate age factor anyway.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 3, 2020 23:54:39 GMT
There's really no threads for questions like this, but: What if every Christopher Nolan movie had been a Christopher Guest movie instead? What if Denis Leary had been cast instead of Val Kilmer in Batman Forever?
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Post by Ness on Sept 3, 2020 23:59:40 GMT
There's really no threads for questions like this, but: What if every Christopher Nolan movie had been a Christopher Guest movie instead? What if Denis Leary had been cast instead of Val Kilmer in Batman Forever? Thanks for the reminder. Been a few years since I listened to Asshole or Life's Gonna Suck. Add those to your playlist.
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Post by All34LOL on Sept 4, 2020 20:00:12 GMT
Bill and Ted: Face the Music-Honestly about as good as I could have expected and hoped for, not everything works, but it's a perfect callback and sendoff of the series. It might not be the greatest, but it's exactly what a Bill and Ted movie needed to be. Kudos. I really enjoyed it. With all the horror in the world right now it’s exactly what I needed it to be. It was fun and sweet. I think it’s timing was just perfect. Others mileage may vary.
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Post by UT on Sept 4, 2020 23:16:24 GMT
So 🤯Ready or Not Bone Tomahawk Upgrade Limitless Longshot Get on it!
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Post by Ness on Sept 4, 2020 23:41:59 GMT
Bone Tomahawk is definitely on my list of to watch. I've seen the "smart men don't get married" clip about a billion times so I want to see if everything else is as awesome.
Speaking of which I can now cross No Country For Old Men off.
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Post by c on Sept 5, 2020 0:09:42 GMT
Watched I'm Thinking of Ending Things. It was good, but Kaufman takes a hard right from the end of the novel that make it one of the most shocking novels in recent memory. Kaufman explains his choice, something he rarely does, but in changing the ending, seemingly late in the revision process of the screenplay as he seeds the original ending, he kind of takes away a lot of the impact of the story.
Pity it was a good movie, but if he kept the original ending it would have been such a what the fuck moment everyone would have been talking about it making it a must see movie.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 7, 2020 0:39:17 GMT
I'm Thinking of Ending Things What say you, Lionheart/Tigerspleen? Pseudo intellectual, or legitimate?
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Post by Lionheart on Sept 7, 2020 0:41:58 GMT
Kaufman is 100% Pseudo-Intellectual to the core.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 7, 2020 0:55:32 GMT
Kaufman is 100% Pseudo-Intellectual to the core. But the performances were great! Especially Jake's parents.
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Post by Lionheart on Sept 7, 2020 0:57:23 GMT
Kaufman is 100% Pseudo-Intellectual to the core. But the performances were great! Especially Jake's parents. Maybe, but I don’t watch Kaufman movies.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 7, 2020 1:06:50 GMT
But the performances were great! Especially Jake's parents. Maybe, but I don’t watch Kaufman movies. Wait, then how do you know if they're truly pseudo intellectual or not? 🤔
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Post by Lionheart on Sept 7, 2020 1:18:18 GMT
Maybe, but I don’t watch Kaufman movies. Wait, then how do you know if they're truly pseudo intellectual or not? 🤔 I used to watch them. Until I watched one of them. Now I don’t watch them.
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Post by System on Sept 11, 2020 2:00:27 GMT
Bill & Ted Face the Music: Bogus
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Post by c on Sept 13, 2020 12:52:17 GMT
I'm Thinking of Ending Things What say you, Lionheart /Tigerspleen? Pseudo intellectual, or legitimate? I wish he did not hedge. Either go with the book, or go with the reconstructing your life from movies. Do not try to do both half-assed. The book had the much cooler ending. Once they get to the school Jake disappears altogether. Her goes to look for him, and realizes she knows the school despite never being there and slowly starts to refer to herself as We. She meets a janitor and remembers her past. Jake saw her at trivia night but was too shy to talk to her so he wrote about a shared life they had together instead. The janitor hands her a coat hanger, she says "I'm thinking of ending things" and rams the coat hanger through her throat. As she bleeds out she says "A single unit back as one." Jake ends the fantasy, and commits suicide. The entire story was told by people talking about a horrible tragedy that occurred at the school 30 years before about a shy janitor who lived alone on a farm after his parents died when he was young that spent most of his time writing in notebooks. This was a story of Jake's death. Kaufman liked the story but not the sexism that was in it, with the girl being the one punished, and being portrayed as a victim and just going along with all the weirdness as if she was too stupid to understand that things were not right so he changed the ending in later drafts so the school was more of Jake mixing his fantasy life with lives he had seen (Beautiful Mind, Oklahoma, ect). The whole movie is littered with easter eggs of other films as well, showing that the story was constructed from parts of movies Jake enjoyed.
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Post by Big Pete on Sept 15, 2020 12:37:34 GMT
I'm Thinking Of Ending Things (2020)
I really enjoyed it and it reminded me of a lot of themes apparent in Under The Silver Lake. Was also getting major 'Undone' vibes from the visit with the parents where there's no sense of time and you're getting a peek into these moments that you shouldn't. Like a lot of Kaufman, it requires a lot of unpacking and additional research to really understand his choices. I understood that there was a bit of Vanilla Sky-ism going with Jake pulling ideas from media he'd been consuming but I'm not overly familiar with the subjects he was referencing. Ultimately I found it was a really sobering film about regret and re-writing your own story to have your happy ending without the experiences to really flesh them out. It was complicated but I thought they did an excellent job of nailing it. It's also nice to see Jesse Plemons take his experience from the Master and assume the role as the next Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Lancaster Dodd would have been most pleased.
Also popped huge for the Zemickis reference in the movie.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 15, 2020 17:50:06 GMT
I like Big Pete's take better than Lionheart's (NO SURPRISE THERE!), and it aligns more with my experience/opinion. c has also intrigued me to consider seeking out the book. Although, I never did seek out the Orchid Thief like I've always meant to...
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Post by Lionheart on Sept 15, 2020 17:56:09 GMT
I haven’t even watched it! Omg! My opinion would be so much better! It would look like this:
Pseudo-intellectual garbage. Do not watch.
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Post by 🤯 on Sept 15, 2020 17:57:56 GMT
I haven’t even watched it! Omg! My opinion would be so much better! It would look like this: Pseudo-intellectual garbage. Do not watch. So... Better or worse than Dark Phoenix?
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Post by Lionheart on Sept 15, 2020 20:22:01 GMT
I haven’t even watched it! Omg! My opinion would be so much better! It would look like this: Pseudo-intellectual garbage. Do not watch. So... Better or worse than Dark Phoenix? Interesting philosophical question. It depends on what you mean by better. In terms of sheer raw entertainment, you won’t find much in Dark Phoenix but there is at least some as opposed to the average empty void of fun you’ll find in a Kaufman movie. So it wins there by default. In terms of technical production qualities, nothing is worse than Dark Phoenix so Kaufman wins by default.
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Post by rad on Sept 15, 2020 21:18:31 GMT
"I'm Thinking Of Ending Things" Beautiful, morose and a whole lot of "what the fuck am I watching!?" Well acted though and I appreciate the time taken to craft the little details into the narrative. It felt at times like watching an art major trying to beat me over the head with existential dread, but once you figure out what's actually going on it's easy to appreciate, albeit still a daunting watch altogether. It is definitely NOT a film for everyone though. EDIT: Damn, everyone beat me to it already. Thank you c for the explanation on the ending, that would have been soooo much better than what we actually ended up getting in the film.
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Post by Lionheart on Sept 16, 2020 2:26:54 GMT
It felt at times like watching an art major trying to beat me over the head with existential dread, but once you figure out what's actually going on it's easy to appreciate, albeit still a daunting watch altogether. It is definitely NOT a film for everyone though. And that sums up exactly what I was saying about Kaufman. Pseudo-intellectual nonsense. Why is everyone watching this anyway!? This is not a normal movie for people to be watching. Watch good not-normal movies instead!
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Post by Lionheart on Sept 16, 2020 4:18:24 GMT
Peninsula
The sequel to Train to Busan. The original Train to Busan is what I legitimately believe to be the greatest zombie movie of all time - better than the original Night of the Living Dead. Absolutely check it out if you have not seen it. I am a very pessimistic man though, so I was not expecting much out of this sequel. But then again, it is the same director and writer who created the masterpiece first one so I thought there was a chance at it faring okay. What I watched was one of the absolute worst, dogshit, stereotypical boom boom brainless actionfest clusterfucks of a movie of all time. It boggles my mind how they went from the first movie to this one. It almost makes me question if the first one was really that good after all. I think it was though, as the critics seem to be with me on this. An impressive 98% certified fresh to the original and a 50% rating on this one. How did this happen? Well, truth be told...it wasn't directed that poorly. Both the direction and acting seemed to be quite good still actually. I was even really into some of the characters. So what drove this monstrosity of shit? Well, I can only assume that since there's an additional writer credited that wasn't on the first that this dolt actually wrote this crap and the original writer was only there for continuity consultation. I'm just completely guessing this is the case, but nothing else even comes close to explaining this so I'm going to firmly believe that. The first movie was completely counter to your typical zombie movie. The high drama, little action, and emotional struggle showcased in it was moving to the point that I even teared up. It was a beautiful film. The massive powerhouse and one of my favorite actors, Ma Dong‑Seok, elevated it to lofty heights with his brilliance. Sadly, he was not present for this sequel. In his place was another master actor, Gang Dong‑Won, from one of my favorite movies Master as well as another of my favorites Golden Slumber. Unfortunately, while brilliant himself and a very precise technical actor...he does not carry the movie-carrying charisma of Ma Dong-Seok and couldn't save this atrocious film.
The plot has nothing to do with the original movie. It crams a half-assed backstory into it within the first ten minutes then skips to 4 years in the future for another half-assed ten minute setup plot, jumping around so fast you can barely tell what the fuck is going on or who anyone is. It sets them up to go into zombie territory and starts out with a 10 minute straight action sequence of a kid running over zombies in her car, flipping over obstacles and drifting through zombies in completely physically impossible maneuvers. HOW IS THIS THE SAME FRANCHISE!? Anyway, I could quickly tell the movie was going downhill from there. But one major redeeming quality in the film appeared:
This guy. Actor Koo Kyo-hwan. From nearly the second he appeared, I couldn't stop laughing during every scene with him. He looks and acts exactly like Michael Jackson. Very eccentric and comedic performance from this guy. It's not really a comedy role, but it doesn't matter. He makes it comedic with his nonstop awkward mannerisms and subtle expressions. I love wacky villains! This guy is either an absolutely phenomenal actor or a complete weirdo that isn't acting at all. And I couldn't tell which. But I definitely want to see more from him. If this guy was on screen for the entirety of the movie, it would have been a good movie.
Anyway, the ending of Peninsular perfectly caps it all off with the most stupid deus ex machina of all time that makes no fucking sense whatsoever. Completely illogical nonsense. Stupid movie.
At least it served to showcase this Koo Kyo-hwan guy. I hope he gets more big roles from this.
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Post by rad on Sept 16, 2020 5:18:32 GMT
It felt at times like watching an art major trying to beat me over the head with existential dread, but once you figure out what's actually going on it's easy to appreciate, albeit still a daunting watch altogether. It is definitely NOT a film for everyone though. And that sums up exactly what I was saying about Kaufman. Pseudo-intellectual nonsense. Why is everyone watching this anyway!? This is not a normal movie for people to be watching. Watch good not-normal movies instead! Thriller's are my go-to genre of film. Sadly, it wasn't that at all, so in that regard I was very disappointed. Google had labeled it as such but I was about 30 minutes in when I realized that was bullshit but couldn't stop watching it anyways, waiting for everything to tie together. I still appreciate it from a creative/filmmaking perspective though... That being said, this was my girlfriend and I's reaction the entire time watching that film:
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