The craziest thing about this movie is that it made $175million at the US box office which adjusted for inflation is like $450mil. That’s Captain American Civil War money.
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buffet froid
wow this movie was much more funny than I expected. Scenes of pointless murder all centering on a hapless gerard depardieu (late 70s edition so he looks like a BD character more than a human). A sort of cynical rejection of reality at every turn, but played for laughs. A detective more concerned with a character blackmailing another over witnessing a murder than he is about the murder itself. Soon after, the detective and gerard accidentally suffocate this man while trying to assassinate another man. Just a facade of civil society over endless seas of blood.
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Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 the best of the 2023 Part 1 movies in that it is almost a whole movie. That doesn’t mean it is good. The trailer and the Train Sequence on youtube will be enough.
Late Spring been a minute since I tried to watch Ozu. His Norman Rockwell style values always grate the hell out of me. There is a contemporary movie called Our Marriage that is a similar store but has some more reality in it even if no one is a villian. The dad in Late Spring is a villian and we never even hear the arranged marriage husband speak, cause he doesn’t matter. He’s packing material to move the daughter. Nice like establishing shots and all the stuff about how they live is nice.
Tomb Raider The New One who cares. The action is all pretty small scale which is a nice change of pace.
Yeah We’re Millenials What Of It?
Japanese Movie follow up to a tv show. Had a more complex relationship with non-Japanese than I was expecting. One of the leads is Chinese-Japanese. I watched it without sound as the plane was landing. A lot of the jokes were “I’ve made that mistake.”
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I’m keenly awaiting an English release/fansub of this. I ended up really liking the TV show. At least from my perspective as a complete outsider, the stereotype of the yutori-educated generation entering the workforce for the first time and causing a clash of values was a fascinating premise. Some of the actors went on to do some pretty high profile stuff so it’s cool that they all came back for the movie.
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I just watched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. I’ve never visited New York but I like the idea that there’s a place where people talk and treat one another like everyone in this movie, or at least did at one time. The story is decent but the main appeal is the character interactions.
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I watched this last year and also loved it. The Tony Scott one also rules.
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i know its reputation but i did not expect the audio mix in resident evil to evoke sonic adventure 2’s inaudible dialogue under industrial music
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I watched Jennifer Lopez’s visual concept album/music video thing called “This Is Me…Now”. And it’s tonally extremely wild. It’s partially like a Hallmark movie about a lady who keeps getting married too much made by a very out of touch rich woman filmed on The VOLUME. But also it’s very much like the last gasp of hyper expensive high concept 90s music video filmmaking with great choreography and really fun visuals. It’s totally Wachowski-core by which I mean “Love Is The Realest Thing In The World And This Elaborately Done Self Indulgent Scifi Metaphor Involving Complex Temporal Editing Made By A Girl On Deviantart Is Why”. It’s got a bizzare group of her celebrity friends playing a council of the Zodiac signs like Keke Palmer and Post Malone and Neil Degrasse Tyson and Jane Fonda are all decked out in Hunger Games costumes greek chorusing on the whole thing from a hole in the sky. There’s a throughline where Ben Affleck plays a Fox News style host called Rex Stone in weird old man makeup and a southern accent and it feels like something out of Southland Tales?
Also it’s like 60 minutes long. I can’t believe it’s real it’s such a thing.
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Tom Cruise defies the Train of Hell | Final Scene | Mission: Impossible 7 | CLIP (youtube.com)
Linking the train scene so the gamers can all point to it.
I put this on for my wife last night, telling her it was some Gen X music video shit she’d love, and just as I expected she went from protesting why we were watching it for the first 3 minutes to absolutely captivated for the rest of it
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The Zone of Interest is available on streaming now 
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Saw Perfect Days today at 1pm. The theatre was 80 percent full of retirees. Good movie.
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I have one friend who is kind of the main person I talk with about movies. I recently mentioned that I might want to watch some westerns at some point because I’ve seen very few but I’d been impressed with some books in the genre over the years (such as Wraiths of the Broken Land, Lonesome Dove, and Blood Meridian).
Turns out my friend is enthusiastic about westerns and brought something like ten choices to my place yesterday so I could choose one for us to watch (half from his personal collection and half checked out from the library on his way over).
Based on a brief description of each, I chose The Proposition which, it turns out, was written by Nick Cave (not just the music but the whole thing). It was quite striking and bleak. I see why they chose that director for the The Road movie.
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I lost faith in the power of filmmaking
Then I saw The Beekeeper
movies are good, everyone
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it’s 2024
Amazon released a movie about john wick hunting down eric trump
somehow I forgot from when the trailer dropped that Kurt Wimmer wrote this, so the instant his named popped up in the opening credits, I was on board for all of his insanity
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David Ayer’s good buddy Kurt Wimmer, no less, who is maybe the funniest guy to ever hold writing credit with James Ellroy on a script (the amazing film Street Kings which naturally begins with police Keanu going on a racist rant because some Korean teenagers call him “white boy”)
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Saw that Drive Away Dolls movie. I think probably it was not very good, idk, I had trouble paying attention to the movie after it was revealed that one of the main character’s gf was a cop, which was the wackest shit I’d ever seen in a gay movie. Like, what da fuck? I mean, I think people are starting to realise that LGBT movies should be at least written by a gay person, and it’s really obvious no gay people worked on or starred in this movie! Like, all the jokes in this movie are basically “haha, wasn’t being gay in the 90s crazy, or what??” I shoulda held out and saw Love Lies Bleeding next month instead which hopefully will feature no 80s jokes at all.
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As a chef, I was kind of disappointed that the set up for the big showpiece fight at the end of Beekeeper had ice sculptures being transported by truck, because that absolutely never happens. The scultures are way too fragile, so even without the risk of melt happening there’s significant risk of the thing just cracking if the truck hits a pot hole.
Also, making ice sculptures on site means a couple of chefs all dressed in white with the gear to make the sculptures. Chainsaws and blowtorches. Ice sculptures require chainsaws and blowtorches on the site where the sculptures are.
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This was a good deal of fun. It’s so generic that it begins to feel like a D&D party questing in the wild west, but that party comprises a cowboy played by Charles Bronson, a samurai played by Toshiro Mifune, and Ursula Andress playing a roguish brothel owner hunting down a man in black whose stolen a golden katana meant as a gift for the US president from the emperor of Japan. Directed by a James Bond director. The villain is fairly sinister and suave, and played by a Godard actor.
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