Don’t get me wrong, the space pirates and the orangutans were the most memorable parts of the movie (well, that and the sheer visuals of every planet, which were stunning). I just wish they’d been relevant to the story in some way. Feels like there were way more interesting stories to be told in this universe than the one we got.
i just went to an early screening of uncut gems and got to look adam sandler right in the eyes. i wont say anything else cause that shit was fucked up
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I can’t wait for this movie, Good Time knocked my socks off.
Frozen 2: A Review
Elsa’s still not gay
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it’s not even better than the version in movie
the movie version is hilarious because they go all the way in making it a power ballad kind of thing, right down to doing every ballad music video trope. meanwhile, the credits version is like, just done straight.
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I liked the Space Pirate part. Well, except for the super spin to perfect getaway LMFAO. Is this Fast and Furious? Until that point, I actually considered he might not make it to the initial launch to Mars.
I just didn’t like the entire sneaking on the ship thing. The fact he was able to. That they didn’t abort the launch. That they unbuckled their seatbelts mid-launch. That they pulled out guns on a spaceship. And really, that their first reactions was “this guy’s gotta die”. Indeed, they played it all out so that Brad Pitt’s character wasn’t actually a first degree murderer. But, they’re all dead because of him. And the duration of the flight bothered him more than that.
Also, we have remote destruction switches on our rockets. Houston or whoever, could have blown him up with a button. And they absolutely should have. They weren’t even gonna tell him they’d made contact with his dad. But now…they’re gonna let him kill a whole crew and commandeer a rocket?
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The Irishman is messy. Its pretty great, anytime its showing you stuff and actually being an acted film. But its also got a whole lot of narration and speaking directly to the camera? Show, don’t tell. I was constantly at odds with how much I was pulled out of it. Silence had similar problems. Big stories, indeed. I really have to wonder what these past couple films may have been like, if he’d had a team tell him “no man, we really need to re-write this and figure out how to actually play it straight.”
Everybody is great in this. I think my favorite little bits though, were whenever Pesci was dealing with his frustrations that Deniro’s young daughter never really took a liking to him. I believed the hell out of those moments and forgot I was watching something.
gravity is a little different on the moon. I don’t think doing a big jump or whatever in a moon buggy means it’s in fast and furious territory.
they were using weird tube space guns, probably using some kinda ammo that is good for going through persons and not spaceship hulls
brad pitt’s character kind of has an empathy and emotion problem.
I just liked the movie ok but some of this is some cinemasins nonsense that you can solve with a shred of imagination of 2 seconds effort of working with the movie
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the movie is your sad old lonely grandpa you’re visiting in the old folks home telling a rambling bullshit artist story because he lived around some people who knew some real mob people and wants to impress you so you’ll visit again
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I meant that the super spin landing into a large crater was perfect with zero damage. After they were just rubbing wheels for damage.
AKA “The Bachelor Experience”
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when i intuited that the plot of ad astra didn’t involve tommy lee jones meeting aliens and helping them plan their invasion or whatever i kind of lost interest
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Frozen 2 did not have the strength of it’s convictions and undoes it’s own pathos but I laughed like six times and the Power Ballad was the only good song so good movie I guess.
For the first hour I kept going “what is this movie about?” Then I kept holding my breath because it was almost a great movie and then it decided this was Disney.
it could have also been called Famous Youtubers get 23 and me results.
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Well yeah, of course. Weezer cover versions are notable either the exact same song, or notably worse.
I think a lot of Ad Astra is showing that in the future when we’re in space society hasn’t really changed at all. The same kinds of consumerism, just on the moon. The same kind of violence, just with moon gravity. The same kind of random and meaningless deaths that happen by accident, like in the science lab. The gunfight in the rocket bothered me too though, because people pulling out guns and shooting inside the cockpit seemed like such an obviously dumb idea. There are probably a dozen more options they should have attempted first that didn’t have a 95% chance of getting themselves killed. It just felt very forced and contrived like the movie didn’t know how else to get Damon alone in a rocket ship.
I also vaguely recall the agency of that one woman on Mars Damon was talking to being disappointing? The one whose parents died; I remember her seeming like someone who wanted to get some sort of closure on her parents’ death but somehow in the end she’s more willing to help Damon secretly go into space rather than doing it herself or going with him.
I think my main issue with Ad Astra is that you kind of get the message in the first 15-20 minutes and I didn’t feel like it had much new to say after that, or much variance in its messaging. I didn’t hate it or anything I don’t think; I just gradually lost interest.
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I’m just very angry that all of Elsa’s songs are moving the “Frozen is about Elsa coming out” thing from subtext to punching you in the face and then the movie ends and the whole thing is straighter than ever
edit: also both of Olaf’s recounting the events of the first movie and the short version he does of the second after the end of the credits are hilarious and serve to highlight how poorly written and slapped together the first one was
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I had to watch the 2000 Jim Carrey How the Grinch Stole Christmas today at work and good lord, what in the hell was going on that someone decided to spend 125 million dollars making that? It’s so aggressively unlikeable. Everything is both trying too hard but also so poorly thought through.
There’s so much added crap that makes no sense, much of which is embodied in the character of Martha May Whovier, played mostly by Christine Baranski. A major subplot of the movie involves an 8 year old version of Christine Baranski getting super hornt up for 8 year old Grinch Jim Carrey, trying to lick a lolipop at him (literally). The thing that makes the 8 year old Grinch hate Christmas is that he tries to shave his beard (because he has a beard at age 8, and the whos all HATE facial hair) and he screws it up, so he cuts himself and the other kids laugh at him and so he flips his shit. Also, later on, some 30-40 years later depending on ages, adult Christine Baranski is still super hornt for the Grinch, even though her former classmate Jeffrey Tambor is the mayor and trying to marry her.
Lest you think she is not there to just make sex a Thing in the movie, Christine Baranski can’t be on screen without cleavage, which of course Jim Carrey “accidentally” motorboats at one point in the movie. Oh also there is a whole long scene of Baranski shooting lights our of a ridiculously phallic gun onto her house while moaning loudly. It’s fucking weird, and why it is in what is osstensibly a kids movie, I will never know.
What’s even weirder is that the movie goes out of its way to point out that there is no sexual reproduction among the whos. Who babies are literally just dropped in from heaven and land on people’s doorsteps, but then there is a weird joke about a husband saying “but this baby looks like your boss!” to his wife and I have no idea.
Jim Carrey tries so fucking hard in this movie. All. The. Time. There is no downtime, ever, and it is so exhausting after like 10 minutes. It’s like someone watched his performance as the Riddler in Batman Forever and was like "this is way too coherent.
What made all of this even weirder was my coworkers just cracking up at it all. I had no idea where I was. I felt incredibly uncomfortable.
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Jim said the contact lenses were incredibly painful.
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Everything about that movie is incredibly painful.
The most interesting thing about it is that the little girl who went on to be on Gossip Girl.
I like the idea that the Grinch hates Christmas because the Whos are little shits that hate people different from them.
Last year my then 3 year old watched this movie every day for like a month. He’s watched it a couple times in the past couple weeks too. You tell me man.
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I saw it opening weekend in the theater.
My parents got my brother and I tiny donuts from an automated donut cooking cart in the food court of the mall, afterwards.
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