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Bi_3 wrote:Anyone seen The Lighthouse yet?
I want to
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El Camino. I want to like this, but it really plods. Feels like a really stretched out lost episode.
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Watched The Last House on the Left last evening, surprisingly never got around to it even being a fan of both the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series.
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oasisfan35 wrote:Watched The Last House on the Left last evening, surprisingly never got around to it even being a fan of both the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Nightmare on Elm Street might be my favorite.
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VinylGuy wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:Watched The Last House on the Left last evening, surprisingly never got around to it even being a fan of both the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Nightmare on Elm Street might be my favorite.
Perhaps it was the lower budget or the porn star cast inclusion but I thought that I'd really like to see Bret Easton Ellis attempt a full-on horror story written for the screen.
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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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tragabigzanda wrote:The Laundromat.

It’s mid-tier Soderbergh but still better than most anything else on TV. He utilizes the same pastiche storytelling of Traffic or Contagion, but the spirit is more The Informant! And then he adds some similar exposition devices as Adam McKay used in Big Short and Vice, but to much better effect.

Not sure why Streep has been the face of this thing, that’s not really the case.

Despite some great performances and camerawork, and the story being told, the whole thing still feels intentionally slight, like he’s trying to make a comment on the futility of the investigative reporting that played out in real life.

Mostly I’m reminded what a casually meticulous filmmaker he is. Everything is perfect, yet feels tossed off.

Fun one for a lazy afternoon.
can you write another review in english for the other rubes like myself that are interested in this show?
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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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tragabigzanda wrote:I miss LV
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oasisfan35 wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:
oasisfan35 wrote:Watched The Last House on the Left last evening, surprisingly never got around to it even being a fan of both the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Nightmare on Elm Street might be my favorite.
Perhaps it was the lower budget or the porn star cast inclusion but I thought that I'd really like to see Bret Easton Ellis attempt a full-on horror story written for the screen.
I hope someone cool does Lunar Park.
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Wounds.

Well, its a mixed bag. I expected a lot more, but its still a very weird and tense movie. The first scene in the bar was really fucking intense...i kept thinking that something awful was about to happen.
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We were watching Addams Family Values last night and there's a non-to-subtle masturbation joke in it with Fester and Thing.
Uncle Fester: [talking to Gomez about wanting a relationship with a woman] I... I have *needs*!

Gomez: ...There's Thing!

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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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Yeah they're both excellent for that. The change of Granny to Carol Kane though was an odd choice. Too bubbly.
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The Lighthouse.

Part of me liked it, part of me thought it was dumb as hell.
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Dr Sleep.

Fuck, i loved it. Flanagan is such a good director...Ewan was good but both Ferguson and the kid were just incredible...The movie looks stunning, like a movie from another era.
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Watching Looper now.
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VinylGuy wrote:Dr Sleep.

Fuck, i loved it. Flanagan is such a good director...Ewan was good but both Ferguson and the kid were just incredible...The movie looks stunning, like a movie from another era.

Encouraging. I'll save it till next Halloween season but looking forward to it.
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bada wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Dr Sleep.

Fuck, i loved it. Flanagan is such a good director...Ewan was good but both Ferguson and the kid were just incredible...The movie looks stunning, like a movie from another era.

Encouraging. I'll save it till next Halloween season but looking forward to it.
next year? why?

I dont see it as a horror movie at all.
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Watchmen the movie. Seen it a couple of times before.
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