Re: Movies you have watched thread.
371The Forgiven with Jessica Chastain and Ralph Feinnes. Good film.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
372That's a good one.A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon May 29, 2023 5:32 pm Watched Tender Mercies last night - one of those I had never got around to. Lovely film, and so well performed.
janeway wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:52 am i do want to apologize if i offended anybody with my posts lately .. i was in denial of my impulses going wild
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
373If you've ever wanted to know what it would be like to slammajam Maniac into Irreversible, holy heck have I got a treat 4 u...
https://letterboxd.com/film/sombre/
Sombre (1998) - come for the Elina Lowensohn, leave feeling not great!
https://letterboxd.com/film/sombre/
Sombre (1998) - come for the Elina Lowensohn, leave feeling not great!
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
374Watched Beau is Afraid this weekend. There were a few things I admired about it, but I wouldn't watch it again. I thought it did a good job at depicting anxiety early on, and the whole perception that the outside world is full of danger and should be avoided.
"Whatever happened to that album?"
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
375Close --- Really well done, acting is great, makes you sad and then suggests that such is no one's fault an that it is nonetheless natural for blame to be asserted and, hopefully, retracted or replaced with forgiveness. Season to Taste.
Beau is Afraid --- My lady said she had ate some candy that, unbeknownst to her at the time of ingestion, seemed to be packed with drugs. Thoughtlessly, I saw give me one. 20 of Indica. Not the best way to see this movie, which I followed and forgot in real time, save for a seen where a giant penis AND balls are cornered and savaged with a knife. I have to see it again if only to get my money's worth from the first viewing.
Spider Verse 2 --- I loved the first entry. Near perfect. Excited for this film. Very good, but, though the art is stellar and presses onward with new ideas and executions, not as gob-smacking as the first one. Also a place holder. Looking forward to Pt 3 and then being able to absorb the trilogy in a singe go.
Beau is Afraid --- My lady said she had ate some candy that, unbeknownst to her at the time of ingestion, seemed to be packed with drugs. Thoughtlessly, I saw give me one. 20 of Indica. Not the best way to see this movie, which I followed and forgot in real time, save for a seen where a giant penis AND balls are cornered and savaged with a knife. I have to see it again if only to get my money's worth from the first viewing.
Spider Verse 2 --- I loved the first entry. Near perfect. Excited for this film. Very good, but, though the art is stellar and presses onward with new ideas and executions, not as gob-smacking as the first one. Also a place holder. Looking forward to Pt 3 and then being able to absorb the trilogy in a singe go.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
376Watched The Imitation Game (biopic about Alan Turing) again on the flight over to Korea. I watched it once when it came out, but I enjoyed it more this time around.
Looking forward to Oppenheimer.
Looking forward to Oppenheimer.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
377The new Mission Impossible, on the world's largest IMAX screen. Even that didn't save it from being fucking terrible. Surprised to be honest, as I thought the last two were decent efforts for that sort of thing.
at war with bellends
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378Have tix reserved to see this on Saturday morning at a digital IMAX theater. It was either settle for that, go to downtown Chicago to see it on 70 mm film, or go to Indiana or Michigan to see it on IMAX 70 mm.
Am still really looking forward to it but am worried it's not going to match the hype.
jason (he/him/his) from volo (illinois)
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379The Barbie movie is so bad.
It is essentially a lecture about Barbie and feminism and body image and patriarchy for two hours, while doing sight gags about toys at human scale, a few silly movie parodies and lots of 4th wall-breaking wink-wink stuff. On one level it's like being trapped in a SNL sketch that won't end. On another level it felt like an Ayn Rand novel for Democrats. They're supposed to be dolls but every character is either a straw man or a sock puppet and they're all here to talk to YOU about feminism.
There is some half-hearted attempt to overlay the standard action beats of a Hollywood three-act film over all this but it's beyond flimsy. Oh, we'll get Will Ferrell to do that scenery-chewing cartoon baddie thing he does and he can... whatever. A chase or something. Who cares, not important. Then the ghost of Barbie's creator turns up to provide some additional cultural context because fuck the movie, we've got a thesis going here. By the end the characters are just standing around monologuing the director's blog posts at the audience.
It is essentially a lecture about Barbie and feminism and body image and patriarchy for two hours, while doing sight gags about toys at human scale, a few silly movie parodies and lots of 4th wall-breaking wink-wink stuff. On one level it's like being trapped in a SNL sketch that won't end. On another level it felt like an Ayn Rand novel for Democrats. They're supposed to be dolls but every character is either a straw man or a sock puppet and they're all here to talk to YOU about feminism.
There is some half-hearted attempt to overlay the standard action beats of a Hollywood three-act film over all this but it's beyond flimsy. Oh, we'll get Will Ferrell to do that scenery-chewing cartoon baddie thing he does and he can... whatever. A chase or something. Who cares, not important. Then the ghost of Barbie's creator turns up to provide some additional cultural context because fuck the movie, we've got a thesis going here. By the end the characters are just standing around monologuing the director's blog posts at the audience.