What movies are you watching?

[run2death]

I enjoyed "Okja."

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Tilda Swinton is always great. The little girl is also great. Not sure how I feel about Gyllenhaal's performance. Those kinds of over the top performances tend to cut me the wrong way.

I like that the message was out in the open, instead of trying to smash you over the head with subtleties, which seems typical with this subject matter. But the whole corporate greed meets sci-fi alternate future storyline isn't exactly the most original thing. The scenes with Okja and the girl are genuinely touching in the best of Studio Ghibli kind of way.

The pacing isn't great, however.

I think I need to watch it again.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Biff Pocoroba]

I watched Split last night, in part due to the some of the recommendations here. While I thought McAvoy did a good job the movie itself was pretty standard stuff for its genre. That said I do look forward to the story's continuation.

[LoathedVermin72]

My wife and I were rewatching The Others last night. As we started it, we both commented and how it would probably look really good in black and white. So I decided to turn my TV's color down to 0. Holy shit, it looks so much fucking better that way. It's insane. I don't think I can go back to watching it in color. It seriously looks like it was made to be watched that way.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

black mass wasn't bad, i suppose...i think the screenplay could have been better, and despite a great cast there were only a few strong performances

i also thought some of the subplots seemed rather pointless or underdeveloped

[LoathedVermin72]

Black Mass is very not good

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Black Mass is very not good

joel edgerton, at least

[LoathedVermin72]

Black Mass is very not good

joel edgerton, at least

Yes, and Dakota Johnson.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[makeshift]

Alien covenant. Ridley Scott directed this? Really? On par with Alien Resurrection IMO.

[doug rr]

I enjoyed "Okja."

Spoiler: show

Tilda Swinton is always great. The little girl is also great. Not sure how I feel about Gyllenhaal's performance. Those kinds of over the top performances tend to cut me the wrong way.

I like that the message was out in the open, instead of trying to smash you over the head with subtleties, which seems typical with this subject matter. But the whole corporate greed meets sci-fi alternate future storyline isn't exactly the most original thing. The scenes with Okja and the girl are genuinely touching in the best of Studio Ghibli kind of way.

The pacing isn't great, however.

I think I need to watch it again.

i wanted to like this..it was really bad

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[epilogue]

Harry Lime thought the script was so good that he was preparing himself for the best film ever made. I'm not kidding. I think he quit posting though before he reviewed the actual movie.

[VinylGuy]

The Counselor is streaming for free. If I like McCarthy and the actors, should I watch it? Or is it as bad as the reviews would have me believe?

Yeah watch it. Its a mess but its Ridley Scott.

[Strat]

I watched "The Circle" last night since i had recently finished the book.

Oh. My. Lord. That was bad. No wonder it was reviewed so shitty and in theaters for so little time. I've never seen a wonderful story so hacked to pieces for the big screen before. Characters merged into one, important plot and character development plot points were completely missing. Total hack job and flimsy.

I wasn't expecting this to be some sort of masterpiece but i was hoping for something entertaining. Makes me wonder if the writers and filmmakers involved actually read the book. If so, very curious as to what they deemed was important in the telling of the story.

oof.

[Jorge]

Dave Eggers co-wrote the screenplay with the director

[Strat]

Dave Eggers co-wrote the screenplay

I just read that. Geezes.

[Strat]

He completely changed his ending. So strange.

[LoathedVermin72]

Spider-Man: Homecoming was exhausting. Marvel movies are so formulaic that they feel inhuman. It's like a movie made by aliens or an AI or something.

[Strat]

Spider-Man: Homecoming was exhausting. Marvel movies are so formulaic that they feel inhuman. It's like a movie made by aliens or an AI or something.

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