MUWT 2: The Quickening

Input Cinephile Shodown
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I hope that means Chappie is even better.

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d9 > chappie > elysium, pretty clearly imo

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imagine if you could have made out a single detail of it tho

imagine that

imagine if your understanding of its ebb and flow wasn’t based on “well I guess I know the basic mechanics of human bodies so I more or less see how these frames have to follow from one another”

what if you could have seen it

imagine this world

where the action wasn’t just a few cool frames flitting for a microsecond between the boughs of noise

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I mean there is nothing more beautiful to me than

stupid special forces beard bonner

ranger panties bonner

roboskellington bonner

cinderblocks bonner

ridiculous sword held by a man with a roboskellington used for bbq bonner

but I probably only noticed it in the theater because of promo shots featuring this shit

come on

it is the best designed/worst constructed movie of my lifetime

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NOW IMAGINE IF THEY HAD CUT 75% OF THE DIALOG

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http://www.icollector.com/Elysium-Kruger-s-Shorts-Under-Garment_i23631671

:waynestare:

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At the end I turned to my movie buddy and said I’d watch it again immediately if it didn’t have a narrative.

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Yeah his designs keep getting better and his movies keep getting worse? At some point they’re going to have to demote him to art designer/CGI supervisor and let someone else direct the damn things.

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Wait, Cuba isn’t aboard the Chappie hype train? What the hecm

545

never watched chappie, how irritating is sharlto copley in that one

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Chappie is way way better than I was led to believe, it’s not district 9 but it’s totally decent

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I loved Chappie for Die Antwoord.

Also the part where Chappie networks a bunch of PS4s to build a super computer.

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What no, Chappie is awesome. But I think D9 is better, yes.

Well, y’know, maybe not. I haven’t seen D9 since release, which was a while ago now, maybe I’d think differently if I saw them back to back.

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M A G N I F I C E N T 7 R E M A K E

I spent a lot of time wondering why an Apache would be named “Denali”

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The only interesting thing about it is how it seems to glance of recreating the outsiderness of the titular seven from the Source Material by making the survivors all non-white. I say “glances off of” because it only touches on race in jokes and genial-racist-patter-what-teambuilds despite 4 of the 7 being persons of color. Racism toward Denzel is suggested in his introduction then never brought up again. It’s a very casually multicultural average period action movie.

At the end the survivors literally ride away from town the moment the last Bad Guy is dead as the townspeople say their thanks. Not even a second of reflection on anything at all. There’s a tacked-on voiceover from Female Lead that seems like an awfully late addition since it’s spoken over an obviously CGI recreation of the valley they fought over. She says oh how wonderful these men were. They were
 magnificent.

She’s very Frontier Dressed Down but still gets a costume change for every major story beat. I liked her Sharpshooter Outfit come battle time. Looks like maybe she integrates Dead Husband’s long underoos? Scandalous.

Byung-hun Lee owns but duh.

I’m not sure why Red Harvest (el-oh-el?(that one was Pizzolato’s idea wasn’t it?!)) the Comanche cares so much about defending white people’s land rights from other white people but OK, whatever, never mind.

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I thought the movie was real dumb. Chris Pratt’s Wild Ride at the end was the most forced possible way of giving him his heroic death, the movie seemed to be saying absolutely nothing with its inclusion/survival of POCs but in this way that made you puzzle over what it might be saying (answer: nothing), the Tough Lady Who Wasn’t did nothing except end up a damsel, most of the action took place over a flat field so there was no interaction with geography (which is what makes mook-mowing worthwhile), and what in the fuck was the deal with the Comanche. What even was his deal.

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Wait, did I not warn you guys about the movie two weeks ago

whoops

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All those white people and they only make a point of him stabbing the other Injun.


so he can tell him off for siding with the wrong set of white people?!

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I bet that old Apache got paid pretty good