This is The Beast yeah?
yeah
Some friends were rewatching Interstellar, I was reminded how good this sequence was:
Thereās a bunch of things Iām not nuts about in this movie, but overall I liked it a lot. TARS is probably one of the coolest robots Iāve ever seen.
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watched I Saw the TV Glow and i really hope the ending fucked up a lot of people like me
movie was a fuckin tactical nuke aimed directly at my dumb ass
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the last time i opened tiktok i got a long string of videos of people silently looking at the camera or doing makeup with the text āi saw the tv glow and i unplugged itā
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imā¦ not sure what message they think theyre communicating there
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Watched Seven Samurai for the first time tonight with my dad. Shocker it is a pretty okay film but dad was struck by how heavily the Magnificent 7 lifted directly from it.
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I finished watching KieÅlowskiās Dekalog today. I didnāt realize that it had most of A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love in it. I have really warmed to the series, as if it were a friend. Thereās something really powerful about returning to the same place and following different lives within it. Almost every episode has a different DP. Itās phenomenal.
Iāve been playing Raw Danger off and on as well, which leads me to imagine a Dekalog game adaptation done in the Raw Danger engine. It would be the greatest game of all time, Iām sure.
@Felix , you should watch it for the tenth episode. It will be of some interest to you as you enter your current phase of life as a philatelist. It just so happens to be my favorite episode.
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I 
the Dekalog
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i blew a raspberry so hard at the narrator introducing a sappho quotation in megalopolis that my wife said āwow. this is worse than i expected.ā and turned it off
i donāt think iāve noticed when a screenplay is dragging down the production before except for like star wars, normally i donāt have the ear for it
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They screened the 4k scan at the museum here, a couple months ago. What a movie, I love the cinema. They also pulled a ālook under your seat to see if you have the right numberā to give away reproduction film posters at the end, wish I woulda got one.
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I went to see Heretic in the theater the other night. Iād been looking forward to it, but I hadnāt watched a trailer or anything because I wanted to be surprised by whatever it ended up being.
And what it ended up being was half lecture and half (relatively tame) horror movie. I realized after a few minutes that Iād heard Hugh Grantās name but Iād never seen him in anything before (aside from Lair of the White Worm a long time ago, it turns out, but my memory of that film is hazy). I thought he and the other actors did a good job in this film, even when things got a little silly.
When I say lecture I donāt mean that in a negative way. It was fun to see the type of discussion of religion I used to spend a lot of time reading on the Internet in the form of a story like this. And they did their homework with the parts specific to Mormonism.
Same production designer as Mother.
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the incredible power of this admission
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so sick of horror movies lately only being about SATAN itās so conservative
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Ari Aster said he picked Paimon for Hereditary because invoking Satan was boring.
Heretic doesnāt mention Satan once that I can recall.
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Just watching Bat Pussy, after midnight, and having a grand time. It was very funny when the couple did very bad oral sex and someone off-camera belched, loudly. That is my kind of comedy.
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Anora was pretty good. Someone from Film Comment called it āscrewball social realismā, which sums it up perfectly. Both the comedy and tragedy landed for me. The worldās most emotive Good Guy henchman enforcer, loved that weird character and his silent presence. I wasnāt crazy about Sean Bakerās previous film Red Rocket, but heās back, baby!
The premise kind of reminded me of Zola, which also made me realize that I canāt remember fucking thing one about that movie, totally in one eye and out the other.
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Omg I forgot to mention, Anora also has the most 90ās-ass ānobody in this production has ever seen a video gameā acting Iāve seen in a minute. The rich failson plays some gears of war looking third person shooter, and the whole time heās randomly bashing on an xbone controller in the craziest way. Every time the camera cuts back to him heās doing it completely differently. At one point heās just holding the controller in one hand and poking the A and X buttons with his index and middle fingers on his other hand. At this point itās rare to see this sort of thing. You gotta wonder how an actor in his 20ās could get it so wrong, lol.
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Very late to the discussion, but I watched Monkey Man and mostly enjoyed it. Iāll agree with @daphaknee that the training montage is fucking goofy (youāre telling me he got that much better at fighting just punching a bag of rice to a rhythm?), and I groaned out loud at the weird snippet of Roxanne just sorta shoved in there to make sure thereās no subtlety to an extremely obvious scene.
Those fights were good, though. Cornball stuff canāt take that away.
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