He really knocks it out of the park here.Ello Sailor wrote:This looks promising. I've been a fan of Jeffrey Wright ever since he showed up on Boardwalk Empire.epilogue wrote:American Fiction was great. Different than I expected and really glad that's the case.
Every performance is wonderful. Great writing. Feels like a film I'll come back to a lot in future.
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That part with the oil tanker was pretty cool.Jorge wrote:I like ostentatious camera work as much as anyone but the directing in Leave the World Behind is so awkward and ill-fitting. Those zooms
Some good moments though
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Should I rewatch Annihilation?
I remember it being an ok sci-fi movie, but I keep seeing people raving about it.
I remember it being an ok sci-fi movie, but I keep seeing people raving about it.
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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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Yes! I love Annihilation.
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What do you love about it?Farmer John wrote:Yes! I love Annihilation.
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Farmer John wrote:Yes! I love Annihilation.
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No follow-up questions, please.epilogue wrote:What do you love about it?Farmer John wrote:Yes! I love Annihilation.
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Farmer John wrote:No follow-up questions, please.epilogue wrote:What do you love about it?Farmer John wrote:Yes! I love Annihilation.
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Why not?Farmer John wrote:No follow-up questions, please.epilogue wrote:What do you love about it?Farmer John wrote:Yes! I love Annihilation.
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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 liked everything about it. I liked the story. I liked Natalie Portman. I liked the visuals and the horror imagery. I liked the brooding, dreamlike state of it. I liked that screaming bear thing.
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The book is really solid. The movie (because it tried to condense three books into one, apparently) is not great.tragabigzanda wrote:I really hated annihilation. I hear the book is even more illogical than the movie.
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Does the book have Tessa Thompson's cute face?
Checkmate, atheists.
Checkmate, atheists.
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Ello Sailor wrote:Does the book have Tessa Thompson's cute face?
Checkmate, atheists.
Counterpoint - MIB: International and Thor: Love and Thunder
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Both superior to their novelizations due to Tessa Thompson's cute face.tommy wrote:Ello Sailor wrote:Does the book have Tessa Thompson's cute face?
Checkmate, atheists.
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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 take the opposite viewtragabigzanda wrote:I agree the visuals were very good. The plot was goofy as hell.Farmer John wrote:I liked everything about it. I liked the story. I liked Natalie Portman. I liked the visuals and the horror imagery. I liked the brooding, dreamlike state of it. I liked that screaming bear thing.
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I remember the CGI and story both being mediocre.epilogue wrote:I take the opposite viewtragabigzanda wrote:I agree the visuals were very good. The plot was goofy as hell.Farmer John wrote:I liked everything about it. I liked the story. I liked Natalie Portman. I liked the visuals and the horror imagery. I liked the brooding, dreamlike state of it. I liked that screaming bear thing.
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Holy shit Trag and Joe are throwing down today.
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