What movies are you watching?
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Re: What movies are you watching?
Im watching Gotti now. Travolta is fucking great in this.
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I’m a half hour in and I’m trying to stick with it, but...it’s all just so dead and miserable. Like so many other faceless indie and arthouse movies right now. Nothing has any pulse. I feel like there are so few successful, straight-ahead movies these days. Everything feels like such a labored statement now. I’m so over it.Strat wrote:That aside...lol....is it any good? Or are visuals the only thing you care about?LoathedVermin72 wrote:Struggling to get through Hold the Dark. Really can’t wait for this modern cinematography trend of raised black levels and nonexistent contrast to end. This movie looks like shit.
That isn't mean to sound like an attack....
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What planet do these filmmakers live on where everyone speaks exclusively in austere, measured whispers?
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Pretty sure you're the only one to publicly say thisStrat wrote:Im watching Gotti now. Travolta is fucking great in this.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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This movie is just a bunch of dead-eyed depressives meandering interminably through an assemblage of miserable scenarios
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Yeah i dont like Wright at all. Dont really get the love he gets.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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RM is full of wit and humor. Not even closetragabigzanda wrote:Sounds a lot like RMLoathedVermin72 wrote:This movie is just a bunch of dead-eyed depressives meandering interminably through an assemblage of miserable scenarios
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I think Travolta is fucking nuts and i can barely stand his face. I have very little knowledge on Gotti to being with but i feel that Travolta is putting on a good performance here.Rangi Guy wrote:Pretty sure you're the only one to publicly say thisStrat wrote:Im watching Gotti now. Travolta is fucking great in this.
Overall though the moving has lost me with boredom.
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Me too. Movies are so dark.LoathedVermin72 wrote:Struggling to get through Hold the Dark. Really can’t wait for this modern cinematography trend of raised black levels and nonexistent contrast to end. This movie looks like shit.
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So it seems tomorrow I'm taking my eldest daughter to go and see the Paw Patrol movie.
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Watched "Monster Squad" last night for the first time. It's pretty good for what it tries to be.
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I love this movie passionately. Watched it again like a month ago. It’s just perfect.bune wrote:Watched "Monster Squad" last night for the first time. It's pretty good for what it tries to be.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:I love this movie passionately. Watched it again like a month ago. It’s just perfect.bune wrote:Watched "Monster Squad" last night for the first time. It's pretty good for what it tries to be.
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Arrival
Watching the extra features before hand. Wow. These made me love this film even more.
Watching the extra features before hand. Wow. These made me love this film even more.
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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Yeah, I saw it was on Prime and decided to make an executive deision to make everyone watch it. A good time was had by all, except for a bit here and there for some light MS3TK ribbing.
The same one that directs television shows. WTF is it with whisper talking lately?LoathedVermin72 wrote:What planet do these filmmakers live on where everyone speaks exclusively in austere, measured whispers?
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The whispered thing is definitely taught in many film acting circles these days. It's really weird. It's easy to be way too big in film acting and there's a lot to be said for subtlety and closeness, but fuck, that ain't the way.