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08-10-2021, 02:02 PM | #5791 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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08-10-2021, 02:13 PM | #5792 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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ain't gonna lie, giant starfish was p. dope 2
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08-10-2021, 03:25 PM | #5793 |
Shut the fuck up!
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that scene makes no sense. Why? Why have flowers? These movies' budgets are so big they have to add pointless CGI
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08-10-2021, 03:34 PM | #5794 |
Shut the fuck up!
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08-10-2021, 03:42 PM | #5795 |
Minion of Satan
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08-11-2021, 01:29 AM | #5796 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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what do you think this is, ingmar bergman? it's a superhero comic book movie ffs. they have flowers and shit cos it's A W E S O M E and D O P E af
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08-11-2021, 01:30 AM | #5797 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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08-11-2021, 01:30 AM | #5798 |
Just Hook it to My Veins!
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08-20-2021, 10:08 AM | #5799 |
Janis Jopleybird
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This movie FUCKING RIPS, A+++ I'm going to be puzzling out some of this shit for a long time, particularly the way I think it embraces the different tellings of the story throughout history |
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08-20-2021, 11:12 AM | #5800 |
Braindead
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looks pretty senescent
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08-20-2021, 12:24 PM | #5801 |
Apocalyptic Poster
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Watched it last night. Really left an impression on me. The last 15-20 minutes are intense. Best of the year easily
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08-20-2021, 03:56 PM | #5802 |
Janis Jopleybird
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You're not supposed to ever agree with me. Take it back right now.
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08-21-2021, 04:57 AM | #5803 |
Immortal
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12-09-2021, 01:29 PM | #5804 |
real estate cowboy
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Persona Non Grata - A-
Scandinavian awkwardness/painfulness at its worst which means best. Hurts to watch, yet at some point gets you to like also the people you want to hate. |
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12-17-2021, 05:54 PM | #5805 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Amazing premise, great cinematography, acting good... but something just didn't click for me, and I'd really wanted to love it. Hard to articulate. Part of it is that I caught on to where it was going very quickly, but maybe they didn't mean for me to be surprised and more just to dread what was coming. I'm not sure now. I dunno, definitely worth a try if you're into horror. Gonna go with a B. |
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12-17-2021, 07:23 PM | #5806 |
real estate cowboy
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on it!
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01-04-2022, 11:38 AM | #5807 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Matrix Resurrections fuckin' ripped and you're garbage if you hated it
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01-04-2022, 02:20 PM | #5808 |
Minion of Satan
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yeah i went into it having only really heard complaints & left wondering why people were whining so much
maybe that's just the "goof ball" in me or maybe we are the only ones who truly know |
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01-04-2022, 02:21 PM | #5809 |
Minion of Satan
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i also watched John Wick for the first time last night, since wi-fi went out due to crazy & sudden weather changes (Yeah, i don't know) & Johnny W on blu-ray which i had owned for like 3 yrs before even opening was just sitting there waiting 2 entertain
& entertain it did! very "Kill Bill"-y but exactly what i wanted to be getting into last night |
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01-05-2022, 12:39 PM | #5810 |
Minion of Satan
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My roommate had me watch the first half hour or so.
I just… didn't get it. I can't tell if it's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek or not. Any scene that doesn't have John Wick around to do something badass has other characters talking about how badass he is. It seems like a purpsolely over-the-top parody, a send-up of the male-led action revenge movie genre. But at the same time, it doesn't seem to make any commentary or provide any critiques on the genre in order to actually qualify as a parody. It might be trying to play the genre straight. I this movie ironic? Is it for real? Last edited by Disco King : 01-05-2022 at 12:44 PM. |
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01-05-2022, 12:45 PM | #5811 |
Minion of Satan
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Any time I asked any of these questions to my roommate, his only response was, "it's John Wick, baby."
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01-05-2022, 01:49 PM | #5812 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Like...neither? It's straight with some goofy/fun aspects to it, but definitely not parody in any way. If you'd gotten farther, you'd see that there are, essentially, Chuck E Cheese tokens that professional assassins can exchange for a murder-scene cleanup crew or a stay at a hotel that's just for assassins. I can guarantee no one involved in making it thought "this is so badass and hardcore and gritty," it's just, y'know, fun. It's a fun movie. It's John Wick, baby.
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01-05-2022, 01:54 PM | #5813 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Although, if you didn't cry about the dog, please proceed immediately to the nearest police station and turn yourself in
Again, the idea of "retired assassin murders an entire criminal organization for mercing his puppy" is I think purposely goofy, but they also play that out in such a way that is definitely not parodic |
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01-05-2022, 02:17 PM | #5814 |
Minion of Satan
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good lord i really must have hit my head hard last night, up until that last post I thought D King was talking about Resurrection while he (& his roommate, i suppose!) cutely referring to Keanu as "John Wick"
i see now, i see the light anyway, suppose i should check into 2 & 3 sometime soon, eh? hopefully they're still on Some Streaming Service I Happen to Be Subscribed To atm |
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01-05-2022, 05:57 PM | #5815 |
Janis Jopleybird
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01-06-2022, 02:11 PM | #5816 |
Minion of Satan
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Lamb - Good/10
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02-22-2022, 04:16 PM | #5817 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Shouldn't have waited so long to get around to this. A fucking plus. There's a moment during a car chase/fight where the camera comes up to a car, goes through the window, through the car, and out the other side, and it's not flashy or something you'd necessarily think about, but they did it for real and it involved a camera guy disguised as a car seat, and that's fucking cinema right there. I don't watch these closely enough to know who half these people are or what they've done in the other ones or whatever, but, sure, this was fun. Cool locations, stunts, fights, cars, pretty people, Paddington, that's enough. Boring villain, but that seems standard. B I guess. |
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02-23-2022, 07:43 PM | #5818 |
Janis Jopleybird
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Nothing less than an assault on human dignity. Three utterly charmless, talentless automatons slogging through some kind of algorithmically generated average of every heist movie ever made. They're going to film two more of these back to back, if I don't act. Worth noting: There's a bit toward the end where the Rock kisses someone, and it feels unnatural. It feels like watching... Barney the goddamn Dinosaur frenching a human woman. Barney or, like, a broken printer. It's not lewd, it just... doesn't make sense. Rating: -Z |
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02-24-2022, 01:16 PM | #5819 | |
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I think it works as a m e t a critique of the film industry itself, but am I so wrong for wanting just one more return to my teenage male power fantasy vis-à-vis beautifully choreographed violence brought to you by Yuen-Woo-ping, stylistically framed by Bill Pope, perhaps a tracking shot or two, set against an orchestral score synthesized by Don Davis |
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02-24-2022, 01:31 PM | #5820 |
Saturday Night Goth
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I suppose, if one were inclined to watch Keanu Reeves kill people in artistic fashion, one might simply watch the John Wick movies. Is it too much to ask for him to put on sunglasses and a trenchcoat though.
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