shockingly good movie, surpasses Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in every way, should watch again. i really liked it, it was dumb as hell
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Thereâs a new documentary on Midway called Insert Coin that I watched yesterday, but I really donât recommend it. Itâs like the worst type of videogame historian media, talking heads going an inch deep into the subject material and everyone is embarrassingly in love with how bad ass Midway is. All the while retro scanlines scroll down the screen, even for the parts of the screen that are outside of the 4:3 footage theyâre showing lol. I was really disappointed with it because, well it sucked, but also because a story about Midway could have been cool. Thereâs no story that emerges in this, itâs just one section talking about a gameâs production and its historical effect, no editorial or nothing. Just a terrible documentary and a terribly missed opportunity.
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Directed by Koji Morimoto! It had groundbreaking new animation techniques that made some shots possible, it was the first anime to digitally composite the animation, which meant they could have more than 4 moving layers at a time, making those wild panning shots with multidirectional parallax scrolling possible.
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Tulpa I am holding you personally responsible for not telling me about this movie before now
i watche the netflix movie where george clooney has a beard and tries to talk to space
itâs pretty bad, just wanted to let yâall know
a twist in literally the last five minutes of the movie cause it to fail to break the streak of every non-horror space movie somehow also being about estranged fathers reconnecting with their children, stealth space-dad movie is even worse than space-dad movie, at least ad astra was bold enough to wear that on its sleeve
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For the first time maybe ever I caught most of The Polar Express and I guess it has some decently imaginative action setpieces but god every character in the movie except the girl is so annoying
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ad astra was sick because there is absolutely zero subtext to it.
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yeah, james gray is very european in his sensibilities that way â his big budget movies are all explicitly about something in a way that doesnât necessarily follow from the production design
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I thought you knew it already! It was in like every blockbuster throughout the early 00s
lost city of z did very little for me, and really put me off him quite a bit tbh, but seeing ad astra being exactly the same as the yards or we own the night but on a 100 million $ budget in space felt really rad.
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i saw tenet and argued with my brother that it was actual dogshit and âworse than TROSâ
he thought it was âinterestingâ
tenet was so bad i never want to watch another nolan film. i want my however long that was back
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thatâs how I felt about Interstellar but I liked Tenet alright
Oh. That peaks my interest I should have walked out of City of Z. Not because of itâs badness just that it was exactly what it was in the first 15 minutes and that remained extremely uninteresting to me for the entire run time:
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I wouldnât say it was worse than star wars 9 but it was comically bad. It was mind numbingly dull and pointless but it didnât make me despair over the art of filmmaking as a whole the way disney movies do
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I gotta see it cause I hear itâs pretty stupid and any time a HUGE movie makes audiences really conflicted I get interested.
I thought tenet was alright. I thought denzel washingtonâs kid was good at being a stoic soldier type, and his best buddy robert pattinson is nice. the woman interjecting âincluding my kidâ when people are talking about everyone dying was definitely one of the dumber things Iâve heard in a movie though and itâs really annoying that everyone is just shooting at random things for no reason in the call of duty temporal warfare level at the end. and with their selector switches on automatic fire too, if that wasnât enough.
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the visual conceit of tenet just makes every action scene significantly less interesting to watch than if it was normal.
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Underrated part of home alone is how useless the cops are
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I can find a reason to post about Night of the Comet any time of the year. In this case, itâs Christmas adjacent.
Forget Christmas, Get High
Scores.
Itâs not the Holidays if somebody hasnât drawn blood.
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Soul is the first Pixar movie that is like not even pretending to be a kids movie and is just fully made with an audience of middle aged people in mind. I loved it but itâs incredible to think of someone trying to show it to an 8 year old.
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