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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2020 19:19:04 GMT -6
Alrighty best movie with an Amazon logo on the poster.
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Post by ultravisitor on Dec 5, 2020 20:04:19 GMT -6
I watched it the other night, too. I thought it did a decent job depicting a bit of what it's like to go through some of those experiences he had with his hearing.
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Post by thebosma on Dec 5, 2020 21:45:58 GMT -6
Tenet was stupid as shit lol
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Post by munkivelli on Dec 5, 2020 22:15:24 GMT -6
Yeah, Sound of Metal was great
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Post by munkivelli on Dec 5, 2020 22:15:57 GMT -6
Tenet was stupid as shit lol I have no reason to believe it's anything more than stupid as shit.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2020 0:15:25 GMT -6
yep we did Sound of Metal tonight as well and it absolutely wrecked me. amazing work in every facet.
gonna go put my earplugs in and cry my eyes out
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Post by concertgoer on Dec 7, 2020 10:58:30 GMT -6
Watched Mangrove last night and it was great. Think it’s my favorite 2020 film so far.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 7, 2020 11:48:18 GMT -6
HAVE YOU SEEN-A GEENA?™1. The Fly (1986)A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. tonight! who's joining?
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Post by kb on Dec 7, 2020 13:07:44 GMT -6
i was very hungover for my college sci-fi film class screening of the fly. ran to the bathroom to puke then bailed on the class to drive three hours to chicago to see the white stripes at metro. never finished the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 13:17:03 GMT -6
sounds like you kinda lived it, tbh
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Post by krentist on Dec 7, 2020 13:21:28 GMT -6
For new mothers looking to familiarize themselves with Cronenberg, may I recommend The Brood.
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Post by teekoh on Dec 7, 2020 16:53:25 GMT -6
It appears that The Fly may be on Shudder, in which case I will watch it tonight. I have not seen it yet.
After abandoning the new Castle Freak last night, I watched Birds of Prey instead. Surprised how fun and enjoyable that was.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 7, 2020 19:42:26 GMT -6
I am planning to start The Fly at 9pm central but watch at your leisure of course
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 22:15:06 GMT -6
well Tenet is a movie!
honestly i enjoyed the experience and overall i think i get it but it'll require several more viewings before i have any real grasp of the plot. the style alone is commendable though.
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Post by teekoh on Dec 7, 2020 22:16:52 GMT -6
I forgot there was an MLS playoff game tonight, so I'm watching that instead. The Fly will have to wait for tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 9:08:46 GMT -6
well Tenet is a movie! honestly i enjoyed the experience and overall i think i get it but it'll require several more viewings before i have any real grasp of the plot. the style alone is commendable though. to add to this, Eric and i spent most of the rest of the night trying to figure out the plot and logistics of the film and the answer is basically -either the film is SO convoluted and overly thought out that it's impossible to follow by means of ordinary visual storytelling and will require several viewings, a timeline map, and a commentary track to make sense of. -the line of dialog "don't think about it, feel it" is hilariously on the nose and the logic actually doesn't work so just shut your brain off and watch stuff blow up and accept that Nolan didn't really think this through. either case is hilarious for a filmmaker who is so focused on technical detail but conveying it a way that you usually get the gist of it on the first try. oh also yes the sound mixing is god awful but i've been banging that drum since TDK so i wasn't surprised by that at all.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 9:10:29 GMT -6
God that does not sound enjoyable.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 9:16:48 GMT -6
once you reach the point of acceptance and turn your brain off, it is fun. but i also couldn't help but think, "nolan's whole brand is big action films where i'm NOT supposed to turn my brain off" so it still felt a bit disappointing.
i've been trying to watch videos and listens to podcasts that explain but it kinda only further proves that there's a storytelling issue if it takes this many people to sit down and figure out what the hell happened.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 8, 2020 9:17:29 GMT -6
co-starring: geena davis jeff goldbum plays such an annoying jackass in this, im not even that mad his experiment gets all fucked up. by the end though...pretty devastating stuff. great cronenberg - but also typical cronenberg in that at times its a little stiff. the body horror is so thoroughly gross though, i love it so so much. extremely small cast so its pretty much goldblum and davis the whole time which rules. she is fantastic, no surprise. the "cheeseburger" gif from the original "have you seen-a geena" post is from this movie. hard for me to overstate how much i disliked the seth brundle character, so i wish she wasn't his love interest, but i play the hand i'm dealt. best scene-a with geena: when she tries to push brundlefly away from her and accidentally pushes his entire jaw off (!) score: 4/5 gd factor: 4.5/5 ranking: 1. The Fly (1986)
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 8, 2020 9:20:01 GMT -6
i'll be watching Earth Girls are Easy tonight if anyone else would like to shut their brains off and experience that
promise you won't need a director commentary to get through it
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Post by thebosma on Dec 8, 2020 9:21:09 GMT -6
once you reach the point of acceptance and turn your brain off, it is fun. but i also couldn't help but think, "nolan's whole brand is big action films where i'm NOT supposed to turn my brain off" so it still felt a bit disappointing. i've been trying to watch videos and listens to podcasts that explain but it kinda only further proves that there's a storytelling issue if it takes this many people to sit down and figure out what the hell happened. My big takeaway is that Christopher Nolan went to the Aaron Sorkin school of writing women.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 9:26:06 GMT -6
once you reach the point of acceptance and turn your brain off, it is fun. but i also couldn't help but think, "nolan's whole brand is big action films where i'm NOT supposed to turn my brain off" so it still felt a bit disappointing. i've been trying to watch videos and listens to podcasts that explain but it kinda only further proves that there's a storytelling issue if it takes this many people to sit down and figure out what the hell happened. My big takeaway is that Christopher Nolan went to the Aaron Sorkin school of writing women. ftr i do agree the way he writes women in most movies is shit and this movie is no exception (the extent of depth he gives the one main female character is PLZ SAVE MY CHILD over and over again) but on the other hand every character in Tenet is so thin and flimsy that i can't be bothered to call it sexist because that would infer that he put any more time into writing the male characters and i don't think that happened here either. Nolan was explicitly only interested in the Inversion idea and then stole a James Bond plot to wrap around it and didn't think about things like motivation or consequences so long as the scenes looked cool. Robert Pattinson's character is great but it's because RPat decided to make him a flamboyant drunkard like Tom Hardy did with Inception and that feels like an actor choice not a Nolan choice. so good on them.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 8, 2020 9:28:44 GMT -6
never been more comfortable with my decision not to see a movie except maybe star wars
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Post by irvred on Dec 8, 2020 9:35:48 GMT -6
I’m too lazy to look what/if I wrote about Tenet back when it came out. But it is bad. I think John David Washington may be a bad actor... although it doesn’t help that every single other character only talks in exposition at him.
As ‘confusing’ as Inception is (it isn’t), there is a very clear A-to-B heist, and you know what Leo is trying to do, at least in broad strokes, at any given time. Tenet... people just appear. In places. On boats. I think they were trying to stop a bomb? But I could not tell you at all why John David Washington did what he did to get to the bomb.
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Post by thebosma on Dec 8, 2020 9:37:39 GMT -6
I’m too lazy to look what/if I wrote about Tenet back when it came out. But it is bad. I think John David Washington may be a bad actor... although it doesn’t help that every single other character only talks in exposition at him. As ‘confusing’ as Inception is (it isn’t), there is a very clear A-to-B heist, and you know what Leo is trying to do, at least in broad strokes, at any given time. Tenet... people just appear. In places. On boats. I think they were trying to stop a bomb? But I could not tell you at all why John David Washington did what he did to get to the bomb. He was endlessly horny and desperate to get the opportunity to live his days thinking about sleeping with a 6 ft+ woman
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Post by thebosma on Dec 8, 2020 9:38:14 GMT -6
Which brings me to my next point, Tenet is actually about edging
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Post by irvred on Dec 8, 2020 9:38:31 GMT -6
I mean same but I’d be more emotive about it
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Post by irvred on Dec 8, 2020 9:39:29 GMT -6
I think he says straight up, ‘I’m the protagonist!’ like minimum twice in the movie and that fuckin’ sucks
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Dec 8, 2020 9:40:21 GMT -6
when bosma told me the movie was about a guy destroying the entire world just to sleep with a tall woman, my initial reaction was "finally a nolan movie with a relatable protagonist"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 9:40:56 GMT -6
I’m too lazy to look what/if I wrote about Tenet back when it came out. But it is bad. I think John David Washington may be a bad actor... although it doesn’t help that every single other character only talks in exposition at him. As ‘confusing’ as Inception is (it isn’t), there is a very clear A-to-B heist, and you know what Leo is trying to do, at least in broad strokes, at any given time. Tenet... people just appear. In places. On boats. I think they were trying to stop a bomb? But I could not tell you at all why John David Washington did what he did to get to the bomb. yeah my takeaway was basically "i know what happens in Inception and Interstellar. i may need more than one viewing to get all the details and goofy easter eggs, but i get the goddamn story. i have no idea what happened here."
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