What movies are you watching?

[doug rr]

Ratatouille for about the 100th time last night

[tommy]

I was craving some split diopter shots, so I'm watching Blow Out.

This was awesome. What a crazy ending.

[tommy]

I watched True Lies last week and I was a little blown away. Is that movie underrated? It feels like it flies under the radar, but it's absolutely spectacular - up there with T2 and Total Recall in Arnie's catalog.

[spike]

I watched True Lies last week and I was a little blown away. Is that movie underrated? It feels like it flies under the radar, but it's absolutely spectacular - up there with T2 and Total Recall in Arnie's catalog.

an american classic for sure

[bart]

I like it ok but let’s not go crazy here

[Ello Sailor]

There's no way it's on the same level as T2. What the hell, Tommy.

[spike]

arnie's funnier in true lies

[LoathedVermin72]

True Lies is some kind of masterpiece and way, way better than T2, which is Cameron’s worst film, for my money.

[Ello Sailor]

Your money is no good here! Maybe try Ecuador! Bitch!

[VinylGuy]

True Lies is a wonderful film, with one of the best Arnold performances yes. Jamie Lee Curtis is also amazing, and yes, that scene.

T2 is a groundbreaking achievement.

[BurtReynolds]

Didn't care for True Lies that much when it came out. I dunno, it was fine. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for a comedy.

[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.

[Jorge]

Finally watched One From the Heart after years of only knowing it from the soundtrack album; the last time before this year that Coppola went crazy and made an ambitious, expensive movie everyone hated. It's so good! Really beautiful photography, camera work, production design, and editing. And a really funny depiction of disillusioned adulthood. Reminds me of Company at parts. Also yeah that soundtrack is awesome

[LoathedVermin72]

Alien: Romulus is a beautifully made piece of shit. So extremely tired of movies populated entirely by anonymous 12-year-olds. Especially in something like this, where the characters are supposed to be beaten down and world-weary. Didn’t buy any of them for one second. Like why go through all the work to create such a tangible, lived-in world only to immediately break the illusion with a bunch of doe-eyed babies? I’ve been so spoiled by the far superior way old British genre movies were filled with veteran thespians playing adults with unique experiences, interests, and personalities. American horror casts are so goddamn dull by comparison, and this awful, formulaic, faceless script does them no favors.

I’ll give Alvarez credit for a lot of his visual work, though. I don’t remember being impressed by the imagery/craft of any new movie like this since West Side Story. Amazing what having black levels that are actually black can do for your movie.

[Ello Sailor]

I thought Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson were fantastic.

[E.H. Ruddock]

See Ello. It sucked

[Ello Sailor]

Yeah because LV has famously good takes. Idiot.

[LoathedVermin72]

In a Violent Nature was much more interesting than I expected. Very funny and entertaining, and I loved how it played with artifice and nostalgia. Stirred up my brain in enjoyable ways. Much better than dumbass Romulus.

[Jorge]

Alien: Romulus is a beautifully made piece of shit. So extremely tired of movies populated entirely by anonymous 12-year-olds. Especially in something like this, where the characters are supposed to be beaten down and world-weary. Didn’t buy any of them for one second. Like why go through all the work to create such a tangible, lived-in world only to immediately break the illusion with a bunch of doe-eyed babies? I’ve been so spoiled by the far superior way old British genre movies were filled with veteran thespians playing adults with unique experiences, interests, and personalities. American horror casts are so goddamn dull by comparison, and this awful, formulaic, faceless script does them no favors.

I’ll give Alvarez credit for a lot of his visual work, though. I don’t remember being impressed by the imagery/craft of any new movie like this since West Side Story. Amazing what having black levels that are actually black can do for your movie.

Kinda shocked at the extent to which your assessment of this film hinged on the cast

[LoathedVermin72]

Alien: Romulus is a beautifully made piece of shit. So extremely tired of movies populated entirely by anonymous 12-year-olds. Especially in something like this, where the characters are supposed to be beaten down and world-weary. Didn’t buy any of them for one second. Like why go through all the work to create such a tangible, lived-in world only to immediately break the illusion with a bunch of doe-eyed babies? I’ve been so spoiled by the far superior way old British genre movies were filled with veteran thespians playing adults with unique experiences, interests, and personalities. American horror casts are so goddamn dull by comparison, and this awful, formulaic, faceless script does them no favors.

I’ll give Alvarez credit for a lot of his visual work, though. I don’t remember being impressed by the imagery/craft of any new movie like this since West Side Story. Amazing what having black levels that are actually black can do for your movie.

Kinda shocked at the extent to which your assessment of this film hinged on the cast

They were a huge problem. The biggest issue for me, for sure. Though, again, it’s as much (or more) the script’s fault as theirs. If they had well-written characters to play, maybe they could have worked.

But doing stuff like mirroring the Aliens scene where Michael Biehn teaches Sigourney Weaver how to use a pulse rifle while I’m looking at no name baby #1 and no name baby #2 in place of Biehn and Weaver is just insulting.