walked out of avatar 2 2/3 of the way through
unwatchably tedious, the apologists are dull
the visual effects are fine, but the movie is just so plodding
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so itâs just like the first one
how wet is it? Do you think those underwater shots could have been done by just mocapping above the surface and then digitally making the cgi mannequins wet?
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one of the only anachronistic and interesting things about it is actually how 2000s hoo-rah it felt, like it was still somehow a protracted halo cutscene about the iraq war
an insult to cinema thatâs simultaneously way too pathological about indigeneity to even score points for good politics
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the underwater shots were obviously good but I probably wouldâve had to seek out a non-3D screening to really compare their fidelity to anything, because everything was sort of dark and blurry enough to evoke but compare poorly to eg half life alyx
none of the actors get the opportunity to demonstrate anything like acting
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Acting is when youâre struggling to keep from getting a lungful of water for 10 minutes at a time, right?
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we watched part of Black Adam, got bored, skipped around, watched chunks all over and then the ending. The wild thing is that the people who made this movie clearly had like, something to say about the world, but were of course prevented from saying it at every turn thanks to the iron grip of IP. Itâs a terrible movie but itâs a very sad watch because some people involved in this clearly actually wanted to make a movie about superheroes being colonizers, and their intention has been warped beyond hope into something dull and bad. I donât think itâs possible to do deconstructed superhero movies or whatever at a big IP, and I donât think anyone should have tried⊠but there you go, someone tried. Maybe someday someone will do a low budget version of that idea as a sci fi b movie and actually pull it off?? who knows
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alex iglesia does not disappoint
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Banshees of Inesherin was great. In Bruges was my favorite movie of 2008, and this movie nailed that exact same overall sense of sadness while still being extremely funny.
Last week I went to my nieceâs birthday party which was at a therapy farm, where I got to hang out with a friendly stinky old donkey for a couple of hours, and now this movie has a great donkey in it! Iâve got donkeys on the brain. I want a donkey.
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Also just watched this! I was apprehensive watching it because, though I liked parts of Three Billboards, I feel like it didnât work for me as a whole. But yeah, agree that it felt more like a return to the real good funny of In Bruges with that big sadness. Obv Farrell/Gleeson are a real good duo, but I like their friendship in the context of that whole stupid town a lot. Farrellâs face of like perpetual bewilderment is also very excellent.
I just watched Au Hasard Balthasar and wanna watch EO. The good donks are everywhere rn!!
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i guess it was fun knowing the final punchline of tar ahead of time but i canât even guess what my reaction would have been like if i hadnât known it was coming. admire how quick and opaque it is, i have to imagine âtar ending explainedâ got some hits
funny that thereâs a 2021 movie about tilda swinton hearing things and a 2022 movie about cate blanchett hearing things
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I watched tar not knowing about the ending, clocked it immediately when the narration started, and yeah my brain went absolutely nuclear.
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I love how the whole mood changes at the same pace as mine when I would depression drink
I heard three billboards was just SO mean spirited and I already live here and it doesnât look like this
so I didnât watch it, gonna check out the same actors yelling at eachother in Bruges though. also YES COLIN FARRELS SAD FLCL EYEBROWS ARE SO GREAT.
I dunno, Iâve been burned by that same kind of stubborn curiosity so many times, I felt too seen at parts. love that deep down ill always be a peasant
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YES!!!
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heâs just bad at America imo. swing and a miss
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matthew stokoe is my go to outsider who gets Horrible America perfect anyway
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Yeah after In Bruges I found 7 psychopaths unbearable and wasnât a fan of Three Billboards either, so I was really excited by this movie.
I was feeling Colin âbreakfast lunch and fuckin dinnerâ Farrel so I booted up After Yang. Was expecting a fairly dour bummer of a movie considering what I knew of the story, so when the opening credits kicked in I got really excited that I might be in for a weirder/more dynamic movie:
watching Wax or the DIscovery of Television Among the Bees [85:00, 1991] - YouTube possibly as a healing activity, idk. the guysâ new stuff looks like crap though. i donât know what it is about new media artists when given Too many tools
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I love wax but yeah I havenât bothered with any of his newer shit
have you seen terrorism considered as one of the fine arts tho, have you lost your mind with peter whitehead
I liked The Guard, by his brother, then did not like War on Everyone. you never know what youâre going to get with the McDonagh brothers
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noooo
have you seen terrorism considered as one of the fine arts tho, have you lost your mind with peter whitehead
noooooooooo
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