counterpoint:
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Can’t believe they built up to comic-accurate costumes for Aquaman and Ocean Master and somehow made it work
Speaking of Crusties…
(Lobstercules suit from The Tick Season 2)
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I had turned off Minority Report 15 minutes in a year ago. Now I am currently reading the PKD story I went back to it. What a strange movie! All this wowy future technology and comedy scenes and weird horror and bizarre jokes and hyperbloom and like one action scene that is real goofy and fake and a young colin farrel. And that scene with the plant lady!
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I watched Sorcerer last week. I saw the older Wages of Fear adaptation years ago and enjoyed it, but I never knew there was another one. Apparently Sorcerer was overshadowed by Star Wars at the time of its release.
Anyway, the two people who recently told me that Sorcerer is worth seeing (one on the Internet and one in person) were right.
Here is a piece of Sorcerer concept art that Birch showed me. (I don’t think this would be considered a spoiler, but I will hide it anyway because I liked the part where this was revealed in the film.)
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Yeah Sorcerer is good!
It is good to fall asleep listening to the Sorcerer score.
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Sorcerer is slow in all the best ways
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I watched John Wick 1. it was a good movie.
then I watched John Wick Chapter 2… well there’s a movie that kicks an unbelievable amount of ass. it’s probably been said before, but it’s the actual sequel to The Matrix that I always wanted and never got. thank you Keanu, savior. reloads
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has anyone watched the zac efron ted bundy movie yet
no, but i have read this post
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So I just watched Detective Pikachu, and it’s pretty much just a fun kids movie. Nothing terribly amazing or anything, but if you like the games you’ll probably get something out of it.
The plot is kind of a hyperactive jumble of cliches and blatantly obvious plot twists, and if you haven’t played the games or watched the anime, you’ll likely think it’s an incoherent mess since it never really tries to explain many of the concepts all that well. I kinda stopped caring about the main plot during the climax, but I think as a switch-your-brain-off kind of movie it works.
I guess pointing this out is kind of a spoiler, so:
If you think you already guessed the big twist at the end, congratulations, you got it
It mostly carries itself along with the antics of Pikachu and all the other background pokemon. Most of the jokes are of the variety of “that pokemon with the tongue did a thing with its tongue”.
The aesthetic tone of the movie never really felt completely right to me. The Blade Runner vibe to the city feels like they based that solely on the fact that it’s an American movie based on a Japanese property. And the funky colours and non-stop overload of things happening on screen felt a little like a tonal whiplash from the games. Like if Hollywood made an adaptation of say, Animal Crossing but made it come out feeling more like Scott Pilgrim.
Also it feels a little weird seeing Hollywood actors saying the word ‘Pokemon’ without it being some kind of pop culture gag. And after having been to Tokyo last year, it’s funny seeing that weird glass pinecone building being center stage for a lot of the city shots.
I think my least favourite part of the movie was in the editing, where it definitely felt like they had shaved off a second or two from every shot to make sure the pacing matched their focus-tested analytics of how long can a talky scene go before the kids get bored, etc. It reminds me a bit of advertisements on Chinese Television.
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I’m sold
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After the Friendly Fire Podcast I had to seek out The Key (1958). I loaded up itunes I failed to rent it 4 times took 40 minutes to update itunes and then I couldn’t figure out how to download my rental because itunes is the worst. But eventually it started playing. My first pay digital rental.
it was as fucking great as they said it was. What a watchable film. A+
Detective Pikachu is a pretty good movie but the Mr. Mime interrogation scene is so good that it’s real disappointing that the rest of the movie isn’t working anywhere near the same level of manic energy, dark comedy or strong performances
if there isn’t a full version of Ryan Reynolds singing the first Pokemon theme song depressingly, I will cry
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Avengers: Endgame
I intentionally waited until it had been thoroughly spoiled before seeing it, which was an interesting experience. It felt like I was rewatching it.
The only surprise was Thor just kinda murdering Thanos. I had heard Thanos dies early, but I hadn’t heard how it played out.
Tessa Thompson is in this looking beautiful as ever.
Thor + The Guardians of the Galaxy is more interesting to me then either of those things alone.
also jesus christ the Sonic trailer ran before my Pikachu show and seeing the two so close to each other is
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managed to see detective pikachu AND burning in one day
burning is…fucking fantastic. slow, tense adaption of a murakami short story that somehow is both an existential meditation on youthful ennui AND a simultaneous indictment of both the gentrifying forces driving masculine rage and the rage itself?
it’s fucking gorgeous? I’ve totally bought in to steven yeun at this point? fuck
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