saw Sonic last night at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood last night.
can’t say i really enjoyed it, but Jim Carey has a couple very good moments in it.
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Thank you for this beautiful mental movie.
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The widespread insistence that the Sanic movie is “you know, not great or anything, but pretty good” is evidence that we are all suffering from blockbuster Stockholm syndrome
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you can only see so many MCU movies before your brain liquifies
I’m not sure what a proverbially “great” Sonic movie would even look like though
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you can try to do that for most video game titles, and you will have a hard time, tbh.
Want a Gran Turismo movie?
Go to a track day and be bored to death (normal people, not me. I’d enjoy myself, I think, so I am not normal!)
Tetris the movie?
Watch your local logistics guy packing/unpacking his van/truck/container.
Mario the Movie?
Surely not what we got in the 90ies.
R-Type the movie?
… shit, now i wanna watch this.
Ace Combat?..
… when is Top Gun 2 out?..
… i somehow lost track of where i was going 
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i have now seen detective comics comics harley quinn and the birds of prey, the only movie where you can see a character beat up a ton of guys purely on the implied powers of cocaine
this movie is basically a weaker episode of batman: the brave and the bold. everyone in the central cast is really great
Yeah they probably shouldn’t make one then
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I mean it would be Wachowski Speed Racer basically
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Is Carrey in the Sonic movie basically playing Robotnik as an alt-right guy? Got huge gavin mcginnis vibes off his look and performance in the trailers. Does it feel that way in the movie?
not really!
I’m guessing there’s a Lex Luthor moment going on, with the hair?
Frankly he’s a pretty depoliticized classic supervillain type, he thinks he is the smartest and therefore deserves to rule everyone and loves robots because they do what they’re told unlike pesky people. I mean you could pull politics out of the movie but it’s as neutral as a 2020 CGIfest can be
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My man, are you familiar with the Sonic cycle
Expectations were so low that anything better than Trainwreck is a miracle
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I saw Marketa Lazarová at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and it struck me by how big it is. The opening preface really sets the tone.
There was some funny business with the reels, but it felt like poetry. Outlines on subtitles were too faint, making them illegible when cast on the snowy landscape, so characters had secret conversations at key moments. The reel leading up to the intermission was poorly spliced so glimpses of a scene from the second half filtered in between black silence.
All in all, a great film experience
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watched memories of murder last night, was worried it was gonna be one of those ~totally fucked up korean thrillers~ like some ineffably crappy i saw the devil shit but it was actually a movie about kang-ho song being the most awful detective, comedically commiting a bunch of humans rights violations, grabbing his bro’s dick, checking out dicks at the spa, people keep randomly dropkicking each other lol, it’s a boys kind of movie. it has a nice anime score set to shots like this:
I liked it. This and parasite are really so much better than that dumbass snowpiercer movie.
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Saw 1917 in Imax. The J-subs helped me read a bunch of signs I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise.
The one shot thing is really really overblown as they just do a really good job at transitions. The first half feels so much like arriving at the idea of video games without having looked at video games. At how cameras work there. You just feeeeellll the load times and transition areas. Then something happens and you’re like “one shot huh lol.”
Spent a lot of time just staring at the uniforms and CGI flies and other animals. Which made me start questioning the CGI in every single shot. And how they would just go “hey we had a long conversation and now at the end of this shot here are a bunch of extras that could have fucked up the talk.”
Also jesus christ the music was loud. Could we go to options and turn down the fucking music please lord. I am not sure it was emotionally manipulative because it was so fucking loud.
Some of the chase scenes you’d think our heroes were caught with the Duke’s wife.
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rewatched spl 2 a time for consequences last night. still one of my actual favorite action movies. most movies have shitty music so this has mozart and vivaldi it owns… the lacrimosa part of mozart’s requiem is one of my fav things to listen to and smoke a cigarette to when i’m in a certain mood cause of this movie. yes i only know classical music songs because of action movies lol
this and gemini man feel like antithetical to the extremely 2010s style of overlabored one perfect shot-esque action direction to me… some shit like the the raid movies are basically midsommar but for martial arts movies imo. i won’t pretend like i don’t enjoy watching them to some extent but i do think they kind of suck.
but yeah this is a beautiful extremely sentimental and melodramatic movie about people being fated to save each others lives and it fits right in with the subgenre of movies that i adore that are entirely based on one in a million coincidences like collateral and uncut gems. also i think one of the protagonists being a fucked up addict detective in too deep undercover in a human trafficking operation is like the perfect neo-noir shit to me.
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