What movies are you watching?

[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.

[Monkey_Driven]

Parasite

You dig?

Only about 45 minutes into it...

[LoathedVermin72]

Rewatched Jacob’s Ladder for the first time in years. Man I had forgotten how strong some of that horror imagery is. Truly nightmarish stuff.

[Monkey_Driven]

Rewatched Jacob’s Ladder for the first time in years. Man I had forgotten how strong some of that horror imagery is. Truly nightmarish stuff.

I haven't seen that movie in probably 20 years. What did you think?

[LoathedVermin72]

Rewatched Jacob’s Ladder for the first time in years. Man I had forgotten how strong some of that horror imagery is. Truly nightmarish stuff.

I haven't seen that movie in probably 20 years. What did you think?

Very good, though the final act is perhaps a bit too explanatory. Adrian Lyne is so great in this mode; wish he’d make more horror.

[VinylGuy]

The Exorcist 3.

What a great movie. Beautifully shot, some great scenes, some very cool dialogues...and damn, George C Scott, Jason Miller and Brad Dourif are terrific.

[darth_vedder]

Trolls World Tour
Onward
Despicable Me
Frozen 2
Escape to Witch Mountain
The Lion King
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 & 2

[E.H. Ruddock]

How was the new trolls?

[The Argonaut]

A History of Violence is a very odd movie. It feels tremendously amateur in certain ways, but it is a great movie at the end of the day. It's just that a lot of the family stuff is really bad. I kind of hate when a parent is actually going through something real, and then there is a B story in which their child is being bullied at school which is supposed to be read as some sort of parallel to the parent's situation. It's unnecessary. Most of the family stuff in the movie is unnecessary and awkward

[VinylGuy]

The Exorcist 3.

What a great movie. Beautifully shot, some great scenes, some very cool dialogues...and damn, George C Scott, Jason Miller and Brad Dourif are terrific.

Still thinking about it. This one makes karras’ sacrifice of the first one more powerful and also sad. It also makes the demon more evil.

[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.

[Dev]

I don't remember having that problem with History of Violence. I love Cronenberg tho.

[VinylGuy]

Scarface.

I consider it a minor movie in De Palma´s career , but damn it still has some great moments. That ending.....

[oasisfan35]

The Exorcist 3.

What a great movie. Beautifully shot, some great scenes, some very cool dialogues...and damn, George C Scott, Jason Miller and Brad Dourif are terrific.

Still thinking about it. This one makes karras’ sacrifice of the first one more powerful and also sad. It also makes the demon more evil.

Scott is hilarious in much of the film and the scares really balance out what could fall in to a procedural escapade. The horror overall felt more menacing than the first seeing as the demon was pretty free to roam vs a more fixed conduit in the original. After the shitshow that was The Heretic I felt it was an apt end... and no, I'd prefer not to discuss Dominion/The Beginning or the television series, ever.

[VinylGuy]

The Exorcist 3.

What a great movie. Beautifully shot, some great scenes, some very cool dialogues...and damn, George C Scott, Jason Miller and Brad Dourif are terrific.

Still thinking about it. This one makes karras’ sacrifice of the first one more powerful and also sad. It also makes the demon more evil.

Scott is hilarious in much of the film and the scares really balance out what could fall in to a procedural escapade. The horror overall felt more menacing than the first seeing as the demon was pretty free to roam vs a more fixed conduit in the original. After the shitshow that was The Heretic I felt it was an apt end... and no, I'd prefer not to discuss Dominion/The Beginning or the television series, ever.

I fucking love George C Scott performance. His friendship with the priest is so fucking good...the dialogue is perfect. I love how this goes to some serial killer to Karras, to the relationship between Scott with him and the priest. Its so well done.

I remember watching The Beginning at the movies and thinking it was fine. Very well shot. For some reason, being im a big Paul Schrader fan, i havent seen Dominion. Ill watch it soon.

Is the tv series worth the watch? Its on Prime...

[epilogue]

A History of Violence is a very odd movie. It feels tremendously amateur in certain ways, but it is a great movie at the end of the day. It's just that a lot of the family stuff is really bad. I kind of hate when a parent is actually going through something real, and then there is a B story in which their child is being bullied at school which is supposed to be read as some sort of parallel to the parent's situation. It's unnecessary. Most of the family stuff in the movie is unnecessary and awkward

Look, it's legit a bad movie. Don't apologize for it. It's bad. It's ok to acknowledge no that it's bad.

[LoathedVermin72]

lol

[The Argonaut]

The scumbag motel killers stuff is good. The Ed Harris stuff is good. The William Hurt stuff is goddamn fantastic. Viggo is good. Most of the family stuff is bad.

And I don't mean to say that there should be no family stuff. It is an important part of the story, that's true. But it has always always always bugged me that one of the first scenes between the husband and wife is the wife saying "we never got to be teenagers together, so I'm going to fix that" and then dressing up like a cheerleader before he eats her out. It's presented like the fact that this forty-something married couple didn't meet as teenagers should pique our curiosity and make us realize that maybe this idyllic life is not what it seems. They didn't know each other as teenagers...what???!?

And then everything with the son is garbage. First of all, none of the kids in this movie can act, so it is just painful to watch. Second, I do not care about this kid getting bullied and then beating up the bully (and then the other thing after that). If there is supposed to be a moral in there, I was too turned off by the very existence of this B plot to even take the second it would require to figure it out and put it into words.

I'm going to do a re-watch of Eastern Promises next, then finally take a first look at Cosmopolis.

[makeshift]

Exorcist 3 has that hospital hall scene. Nurse going in and out of the rooms and then.............such good timing.

[Anders]

Twelve O’Clock High was a positive surprise. The best of the old war movies I hadn’t seen so far. Perhaps the best role Gregory Peck ever did.

21 Bridges was a little disappointing. Well made, but the plot was poor and unoriginal. The idea of the 21 Bridges was a complete waste, and not used at all.

Watching the Railway Man now.