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Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Tue November 21, 2023 7:20 pm
by BurtReynolds
Renfield - it was ok. I heard bad things about it but it's alright. I like that Dracula is just totally evil. No sympathetic bullshit. awkwafina is an atrocious actor.

6.5/10

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Wed November 22, 2023 1:11 am
by Ello Sailor
Three Billboards...

Possibly one of the greatest films I've ever seen. The cast is bonkers. McDonagh is nothing short of a genius. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you might even poop. Unfuckingreal.

9.0 cunt punts/10

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 4:25 am
by Ello Sailor
Brawl in Cell Block 99

It took me entirely too long to realize this was an intentionally shitty/exploitation-style film. For a while there I thought it was just regular shitty.

Some of the dialogue and sound effects are undeniably ridiculous. In one scene, one of the Latino drug runners yells something to the effect of "Get ready for 9/11 part 2!" before lobbing a grenade at a Police car. In another scene, Vaughn's character gets a fellow inmate in a sort of bear hug, and I guess he breaks his back or whatever. Typically, you'd expect a sort of cracking sound here, but instead it sounded like a bucket of entrails hitting concrete from a great height. Just... what the hell?

This movie doesn't give a single fuck. Vaughn was great though.

6.2 crushed prosthetic limbs/10

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 5:24 am
by Anders
Both those movies are great. Seen Brawl in Cell Block 99 twice, and loved it both times. It's like a throwback to movies of the past, it's violent, but still has plenty of humour. The pacing, the structure of the story, the dialog, the action, all superb.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 5:25 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Happy Thanksgiving, Anders

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 5:36 am
by Anders
Happy Thanksgiving, Lenny.

I don't celebrate it, so you better do it right for both of us.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 11:50 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Anders wrote:Happy Thanksgiving, Lenny.

I don't celebrate it, so you better do it right for both of us.
You have to

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 1:50 pm
by Jorge
Brawl is awesome. I would not use the words "intentionally shitty" to describe it though. It's very earnest

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 7:07 pm
by Anders
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Anders wrote:Happy Thanksgiving, Lenny.

I don't celebrate it, so you better do it right for both of us.
You have to
What do I have to do?

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 7:17 pm
by tommy
Anders wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Anders wrote:Happy Thanksgiving, Lenny.

I don't celebrate it, so you better do it right for both of us.
You have to
What do I have to do?
Eat a turkey

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 8:49 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Anders don’t be a terrible person

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu November 23, 2023 8:59 pm
by Anders
Thank you. That is good advice.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 3:36 am
by Jorge
Planes, Trains and Automobiles

More charming than funny. Turns out all the things I thought were weird or underdeveloped about it (like the out-of-nowhere burglar who robs them in their hotel room, or Steve Martin's wife's bizarre behavior throughout the film) were explained and developed in subplots that were ultimately cut out of the movie.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 6:57 am
by Anders

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 1:02 pm
by Farmer John
John Candy was 36 years old in Planes, Trains & Automobiles, in case anyone else is interested in that kind of information (Steve Martin was 41)

It’s a shame John Candy never got a chance to do more dramatic roles, because you can see how strong of a dramatic actor he could be in certain scenes in that movie.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 2:47 pm
by Bammer
We’re gonna watch Karate Kid 2 tonight

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 3:25 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 5:14 pm
by Anders
Always loved John Candy. Difficult to say what kind of career he would have gotten had he lived, probably something like what his closest colleagues have had. I only wish he was still around.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 5:16 pm
by Anders
Watching Bumblebee. It’s a bit as expected. A Transformers film with more personality and humour. Story not top engaging though.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Fri November 24, 2023 5:20 pm
by Anders
I’m nearly done watching movies from 2018. Seen more than a hundred since this summer. Remaining movies are:

Shoplifters
Burning
Cold War
Happy As Lazzaro
Eight Grade
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Nightingale
Mid90s
Hotel Mumbai
Love, Simon
Thunder Road
Dragged Across Concrete
Instant Family
Christopher Robin
Tully
Wildlife
Widows
Stan & Ollie
Guernsey
On The Basis Of Sex
At Eternity’s Gate