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No. 348679

What have you watched? What are you looking forward to? Who deserves an Oscar?

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No. 348680

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as i was saying

anyone who thinks fucking oppenheimer or mission impossible are better than KOTFM should die

No. 348699

>>348679
i share the threadpic's sentimznt but i hate that i'll have to look at this flabby old scrotoid's face for ages. worst napoleon ever put in film

No. 348731

>>347741
If this can teach us anything is to always trust your instincts, never fall for a scrote's bullshit no matter how confident he is in it. She knew the bears were dangerous and he ignored it. It was close to the season when they need to hibernate so they have a strong need to feed and get as fat as possible before that. There was a lack of salmon that year, so the bear that attacked them was probably desperate and hungry. The moid knew all this and still stayed, must be some suicidal death drive there among all the alpha posturing.
>>348699
Same, I just hid the pic kek

No. 348735

>>348680
I watched Oppenheimer two days ago and it was interesting but it should have been a documentary imo. I'm going to watch Killers of the Flower Moon this weekend, I'm looking forward to it if you say it's better.

No. 348738

>>348735
Nta but KOTFM was phenomenal. It's been awhile since a movie actually made me feel intense emotion. I always like hearing and learning about Indigenous/Native culture that isn't pushed in some dumb woke pandering way

No. 348745

>>348680
KOTFM was a slog, I kept looking at my watch when I saw it in the cine

No. 348779

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whenever i spend time with my parents it's basically impossible to find a movie we all want to see. my dad likes action heist movies, my mom likes lameass woody allen films, i like funny braindead ones and idfk what my brother even likes other than marvel if he also happens to be hanging out with us, we need lowest common denominator wonderbread films, otherwise someone will hate it. i suggested bullet train last time and we had an amazing time though.

No. 348801

>>348779
This is exactly how Disney and Hollywood make their decisions and why everything mainstream is homogeneized into wonderbread.

No. 348806

>>348745
>the cine
are you some retarded eurofag with no empathy for native americans then?

No. 348830

>>348806
What a strange accusation.

No. 348832

>>348830
If you watched a film about the real-life systematic murder of indigenous people and all you could think was “wow, so boring” you either have a mental deficit or are a serial killer in the making.

No. 348841

>>348832
as if every american movies isn't about "muh pocs waaahhhh" , literally every show, movie or cartoon america makes is either about racism or lgbt and calling people who don't enjoy it racists and bigots is getting real stale

No. 348866

>>348832
Love it how you cannot criticize or even dislike anything about POCs because you'll be automatically called a racist.

No. 348870

>>348841
Just say you’re a nazi and go

No. 348919

>>348832
Lol what the fuck. Do you expect people to feel sad every time they see humans die in a movie?
Plenty of movies about real life catastrophies are fucking boring.

No. 348921

>>348841
>>348866
>>348919
even if you’re not a racist you’re definitely too retarded to watch movies and give meaningful opinions on them. stick with tiktok(infighting)

No. 348926

>>348832
you forgot scrote, because he's also obviously a scrote(scrotefoiling)

No. 348949

>>348921
Says the retard getting upset and emotional because someone said a movie was boring.(infighting)

No. 349034

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Watched The Graduate for the first time yesterday. I really liked the iconic ending, besides that it was a bit too simplistic for me I guess? The one plotline feels kinda unfulfilling, although I can see the point of it. Maybe I’ll like it more after I graduate. I love Mrs. Robinson though kek.

No. 349036

>>349034
i thought this was a picture of blackface

No. 349038

>>348679
Based OP picture

No. 349039

>>349036
both of them look super dark in this frame ngl

No. 349090

Anyone seen All of Us Strangers? Opinions?

No. 349184

>>349034
I’ll never forget the first time I watched this movie and saw the ending scene. It kind of feels like a balloon deflating. The ending is left ambiguous and I think i liked that

No. 349186

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saltburn reminded me of the occupant (2020). barry looks a bit old to play a freshman. i'd like it more if the story happened at the collage only. the whole explaining part at the end was so predictable. the movie looked great tho, i took a bunch of screenshots

No. 349214

>>349186
I was underwhelmed. I was waiting for the suspense or twist but it was just him being gross. It’s like uhm.. ok.
Also it would’ve been better if at the end, it showed him talking to his parents instead of during the movie, didn’t feel bad for anyone that died and I wasn’t rooting for Barry Keogahn

No. 349217

The new Means Girls seems so lame

No. 349238

>>349217
i don't get who the audience for this movie is supposed to be. millennials who love the original won't want to see other actors in the roles. and does mean girls even have any significance to zoomers? if anything i'd have thought they'd rather watch the original for the y2k fashion

No. 349258

>>349217
From what I've seen the fashion in the 2024 is very shein, really bad.

No. 349283

>>349238
It was promoted as 'not your mother’s Mean Girls' so children of older millenials I guess? Some of them can be 13-14 now, but not that many millenials had kids at 20-something.

No. 349284

>>349238
>if anything i'd have thought they'd rather watch the original for the y2k fashion
They would. It’s fucking retarded to make a remake of a 20 year old film.

No. 349324

>>349217
They wokeified it yet made it more coomery. Sums up just about everything these days.

No. 349495

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Has anyone else watched Sick of Myself? It's a Norwegian film about a young woman who fakes an illness for attention. It's a dark comedy with body horror stuff (nothing too bad, just lesions and mild disfigurement) but the focus on the way her narcissism functions is really interesting. Let me know if any of you watch it and what your thoughts are!

No. 349497

>>349284
>It’s fucking retarded to make a remake of a 20 year old film
and yet they'll keep on doing this. If this film didn't have the recognisable name of 'Mean Girls' no one would watch it. It's just a way to keep making shitty films but receiving easy publicity and guaranteed views because people will have expectations based on the original.
>>349324
totally. it's very 2020s. that weird mixture of censored and sanitised whilst also being hypersexual.

No. 349511

>>349217
>musical
won't be seeing it

No. 349545

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I watched the World of Kanako yesterday and I am genuinely appalled by the fact that it has decent reviews. I expected at least one thing to enjoy but just came out with nothing but disgust and misery. I cannot emphasize enough how this is perhaps the worst movie I've ever seen in my entire life; the editing is like someone with ADHD did a line of coke and then went to the editing room, the pacing is atrocious, the two halves of the story never intersected so they were meaningless, the story itself was somehow simultaneously barren and cluttered, and this movie is just two hours, two entire HOURS of women being abused. There's so much rape, abuse/beating of women, incest, pedophilia, etc. just for the shock value. It's cartoonishly evil torture porn: the movie. It wants to be Oldboy and a bunch of other shit all at once and fails in every regard. There is no weight to anything happening in the movie because nothing has stakes and you never get to process anything that happens because the main character just goes off beating and yelling at and assaulting a woman every 5 minutes. I consider myself to have a strong stomach and an interest in tasteful brutal media but this was all so senseless, I could only imagine the lowest common denominator male could like this (but a lot of women seem to like it too?) Absolutely baffling.

No. 349588

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Just got back from watching the Poor Things and I think I'd rate it a solid 2/5 at best. Spoilers:
Stunning visuals (reminded me of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch), but the story and pacing itself were awful. Not sure if I'm missing something, but I hated how all of the sex/nudity scenes felt like they were made by men for men, all the while reviews rave about it being packed with feminist and liberating messages.
Yes of course this infant brained woman will experience sexual pleasure for the first time by showing food inside of her vagina and making obvious moaning sounds. Yes of course the shots of her getting fucked and humiliated by ugly men were neccessary. Yes of course people were only interested in her because she was hot and had the mind of a child and some were even rewarded for it in the end.
I did like how the movie outright says that prostitution is harmful to the spirit and I did enjoy how the madam of the house ouright states that some men love the fact that the women don't enjoy it. But other than that nothing is actually done about it. Sure she has a scene or two were she says the women should have a choice, but literally nothing happens and the black woman is punished for agreeing (by being orally raped by a decrepit man). And the fact that the director made her a whore in order to showcase the horrible nature of people (read: men) is so lazy and porn-brained due to the way the scenes were shot.
Other anons in the celebricows thread nailed it by bringing up the Born Sexy Yesterday trope.
Also were we really expected to believe it was a decent ending? They made the other infant brained woman a dog/slave (she's mostly seen playing ball and at the end is the only one who fetches things), which reduces the weight of the scene where she is devastated after learning about the poor and dying kids below them.(learn2usespoilers)

No. 349598

>>349588
Sorry about the typos, hands are still freezing and I was annoyed that I spent my time on such a thing.
Also the accents threw me off, some of the actors kept dropping theirs. Mostly Mark Ruffalo when he had to be more emotional, not to mention the black american guy who felt completely out of place.
The sound mixing was lacking as well, felt like the movie would have benefitted from having encoded subtitles.

No. 349646

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>>349588
did pic related actually happened?

No. 349686

>>349646
yes, a man has sex with bella while his young male children watch, and the kids look uncomfortable and upset. it's not supposed to be "sexy". if you've seen other films by lanthimos this isn't unusual. i mean colin farrell's character in "the killing of a sacred deer" has a whole monologue about how he masturbated his father to orgasm and is traumatized by this behavior

No. 349710

>>349646
Now I wonder how the original scene was shot

No. 349804

>>349034
lol shit casting…he looked older than mrs robinson.

No. 349811

Has anyone seen the new mean girls movie because I hate the lyric changes in the sexy song they are so pointless. the song is supposed to be a satire of modern 2010 era feminism right. Like the “I love lesbians they’re so sexy!” type of feminism. Or just generally that type of feminism that’s about uplifting women “because they’re so hot!” And the line about dressing up as a “sexy Rosa parks!” Is in there to demonstrate how stupid that mindset is because like clearly it’s dumb to sexualize rosa parks. They also change a line from “I expect to run the world in shoes I cannot walk on” to “watch me as I run the world in shoes I cannot walk in” which is just the most surface level useless lyric change that they made to get feminism points and now all the girls on tiktok are like “omg my Roman Empire is this lyric change in the new mean girls ” and no one I know in real life would get it either I can only post this here.(emoji)

No. 349836

>>349495
>but the focus on the way her narcissism functions is really interesting

Could you elaborate? I'm really intrigued.

No. 349855

>>349836
It's pretty much what the film is all about. Instead of portraying just a basic messy B cluster being a shitty person and making impulsive decisions, it gave some more space for psychological insight or to see narcissism as something more abstract - the desperation, competitiveness, need (but also fear of) love and validation, enabled by other narcissists in her environment and in particular how self-destructive her behaviour is (the real sickness she is suffering from). But no matter what happens, even when she seems like a new person who can intellectually describe her faults, she never truly learns - her narcissism just adapts. Everything is always justified in the end. I found it quite insightful but curious what others think.

I should also add that it's pretty hilarious too. Not too heavy.

No. 350236

>>349811
I saw it in theaters yesterday and i REALLY didn't like it. I never saw the stage musical but I loved the original Mean Girls for years and the new musical film adaptation was just super lame comparitively. I know musicals aren't known for subtlety but it was so dumbed down too. For example: In the OG film, the "Too gay to function" page from the burn book is read by Janis and Damien in the hall during the riot. In the 2024 film, Damien and Janis read it also, and then Damien says aloud, "Only Cady could have written that!" Like holy shit, duh. The entire scene for 'Sexy' was super obnoxious. It's insane how sanitized some parts of the movie are (no more dreaded R slur and no more D slur), then they have 2024 Karen literally spanking a girl whose twerking, flashing her underwear/bouncing up and down while emphasizing her chest, and the coach mentioning choking in sex ed. It was a gross scene, I didn't know the lyrics we're changed but that makes it even more gross. Events from the original film are shuffled out of order. Idk if that's the same as in the play, but it makes me sperg because certain scenes make less sense. Lindsay Lohan's cameo felt really out of place. Social media montages were used in lieu of the scenes where characters just spoke to the camera in the original. There's literally a snapchat video that appears for a second where the caption is like "tfw the Plastics are gone" and i physically cringed. I'm a zoomer, a year younger than Renee Rapp, but it made me feel especially old cause my theater was full of middle school-highschool aged kids reacting to everything like it was the first time.

No. 350940

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Just been rewatching Lynch movies again. Lost Highway is my favourite

No. 350941

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>>350940
i hate david lynch but i really like wild at heart and blue velvet

No. 351034

>>350940
Are there any Lynch's that are on streaming rn so I don't have to use a slow pirate site? 2 cheap 2 rent. It seems like Mouhalland is on Paramount but I don't have paramount kek

No. 351303

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Poor Things makes me want to kill myself and burn the entire world in flames

No. 351305


No. 351399

I'm so ready for barbie to win best movie for no real reason other than Nolan Hate

No. 351445

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>>351305
Thanks queen

>>351303
everything I hear about poor things is overwhelmingly bad but it keeps making me want to watch a bad cam theater rip of it out of curiosity. I'll probably regret it if I do

No. 351484

>>351445
I watched like that on soap2day and if you end up watching it too please come back and comment on it

No. 351641

>>351303
I’ve seen people call this a pedo movie, so I don’t know if i want to watch it

No. 351643

>>351303
everything i've read about it makes me feel nauseous

No. 351712

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need more movies like this

No. 351717

I know it's old news but I watched The Truman Show for the first time a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I want to watch more movies but can't get into anything the people usually suggest because I hate how it's always gratuitous violence and sex and gritty dark stuff… Any suggestions for movies that are "deep" enough to be geared towards an adult audience but don't run wild with nasty stuff just because it's for adults? Feels like there's often a dichotomy of sanitized kiddy stuff vs glorified snuff sometimes

No. 351722

>>351717
you could check out some other films in peter weir’s filmography. dead poets society and picnic at hanging rock both deal primarily with student characters, but still have the vibe you might be looking for. and i totally get what you mean.

No. 351728

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>>351717
watch contact!

No. 351747

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>>351717
Bright Star, or any of Campion's filmography

No. 351868

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saw Poor Things today and fucking hated it, wanted to leave. 2 and a half hours of pornography / excuses to watch Emma Stone get fucked by various horrific, grotesque men while she's supposed to have the brain of a literal infant, glazed impotently with this male libfem messaging about how it's ok because her sweet fiancé back in London "doesn't mind" that she was "a whore" because it's "her body". i hope the director kills himself.

No. 351889

>>351747
Jane Campion makes good films and I think The Power of The Dog and Bright Star (from what I remember…It's been a very long time) are fine for anon's criteria. In The Cut and Holy Smoke for example would not be good choices for her though? Isn't there so much sex in them and not even to mention The Piano?

Speaking of The Piano, I love that film, it was so perverse. I don't even know if I should say '"but" it was so perverse', honestly it has to be part of the twisted charm somehow. Shaking my head and saying "oh man!" and "this guy!" so people don't think I condone it. I'll never watch Poor Things but the way nonas here and other reviewers online talk about it and argue for/against its "feminist" messages, it makes me think of the small-scale discourse around The Piano's feminist messages (if they exist).

No. 351890

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the abrupt ending of this movie sebastians sudden death by taxi had me fucking rolling. it almost made me forgive how dry reese with her spoons character was and how I wanted more screentime for selma blairs character instead

No. 351892

>>351868
At my showing 3 people actually got up and left halfway. It felt straight up like an adaptation from a De Sade novel, almost like Juliette and Justine.

No. 351894

>>351892
Poor things was based on a novel, right? Has anyone here read it and can anyone confirm if it's as degenerate as the movie?

No. 351896

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>>351303
>>351868
I fucking hate this degenerate ass movie, and I hate that it's been nominated for a fucking oscar.
You know something is going to be ass when any criticism about the gratuitous sex scenes gets you called a prude or "you don't know art!!" Picrel is the exact same argument I saw some retarded male use for the rape scene with the disfigured guy in the hills have eyes. Terrible ass movie made by a guy who wanks to cp.

No. 351906

>>351890
I love this movie so much. Sarah Michelle geller is perfect in it. Great cast all around

No. 351910

>>351717
Just off the top of my head: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Das schweigende Klassenzimmer, El sur, Mädchen in Uniform 1931 (1958 might be good too but didn't watch), aaand I suppose it might be not the tone you're looking for but I still want to suggest Amadeus because it's a good film, I really like F. Murray Abraham performance there. Damn I feel like I forgot lots of other good films though

No. 351922

>>351896
i don't think you're a prude for not liking the sex scenes, bc they did have too much male gaze for it to be truly feminist, but if you took away from the movie that the director condoned people lusting after bella in her childlike state and all of that being good then no i don't think you understood the movie. every man who objectified her was seen as pathetic and disgusting. she was ruthless when judging them.

No. 351953

>>351922
don't be retarded(pointless infighting)

No. 351980

>>351953
>this movie glorifies pedophilia!
>no, it really doesn't
>HURR RETARD
you can just say it offended you and be fine with that. it's ok to be wrong. this kind of response just makes you look dumb lol

No. 351982

>>351975
That wasn't me moron. And you can't make any defense as to why such scenes needed to be in there in the first place. Considering that the director has a track record of making movies with needlessly disgusting sexual or sexually charged scenes it's a pretty big given he's a degenerate that uses "art" as a shield to hide behind.

No. 351986

>>351922
>>351980
Ntayrt but imo it's this movie combined with the weird shots of children's bodies in the director's other movie (Killing of a sacred deer) that makes him come across as a pedo. There's especially no need to justify the latter because there are other ways to get the point across without sexualizing it. Also in the round table video Emma Stone mentioned that the director and herself watched videos of real toddlers to get the character's movement right…idk the fact that he needed to get inspiration from that, plus with everything else about him is extremely suspicious.

No. 351994

>>351982
When does he glorify pedophilia though. The people who lust after Bella when she’s a “child” get their comeuppance. I haven’t seen any of you respond to that. The man who first takes her away and tries to control her gets put in a mental institution after she throws away all his money, all the men she sleeps with are categorized as revolting subhumans, and her former husband gets lobotomized and turned into a goat. So how does any of that glorify pedophilia? Do you also think the book Lolita glorifies pedophilia?

>>351986
When does KOASD have weird shots of children’s bodies?? I’ve seen that movie several times and the only truly gross part is when Colin Ferrell’s character talks about his “secret”

No. 352004

>>351868
My boss went to see this movie during the weekend, he called it "Barbie but for edgy Bjork fans"
What kind of metaphor is that?

No. 352008

I watched the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo because I've seen it recommended many times and I could not believe it. It has graphic violent disgusting rape scenes that could have either not existed or could've simply been heavily implied. Story wise, the girl had enough of an excuse to do what she did without getting violently raped. But ignoring that, they chose to make the scenes way too graphic with her crying screaming squirming and struggling. I had to skip that shit.
And then later one there's a graphic consensual sex scene between the 23 year old girl and the main character who's old enough to be her dad. Absolutely unnecessary plot wise, both the sex and the relationship. It felt very weird and disgusting.
And then there's the other part of the movie about another girl who was being raped by her serial killer/rapist father, then by her brother after he died, and the brother went on to torture kill rape women in his sex dungeon.

If this isn't a rape fetish movie I don't know what it is. I cannot believe people actually praise this shit.

>>351922
I'm sorry but you absolutely do not need to show someone fucking a legal toddler to say "pedophilia is bad guys!". The film is so anti pedo it became a pedo wet dream. You really think a man is going to see this and feel sorry for and relate to the hot young sex crazed woman? Or do you think he's gonna relate the moids living out their sexual fantasies?

No. 352009

>>351717
I recommend sitting in an empty room drinking room temperature water

No. 352010

>>352008
>The film is so anti pedo it became a pedo wet dream
This is again the same logic of “Lolita is bad because men took the wrong idea and made it seem sexy and consensual”. You are not built for nuanced discussion of this topic.(infighting)

No. 352017

>>351994
First of all, I never said the film glorified pedophilia. I said it was a degenerate film directed by a man who wanks to cp and I stand behind that.
What about the scene where she has sex in front of children that had to be censored in the UK?
And you seem to think that pro pedophilia means that there has to be some blatant pedophilic scene. It's about desensitization. Hollywood has been trying to push pedo stuff for a long ass time. Look at brook shields and Natalie Portman in Leon the professional.
And funny you bring up Lolita the book, not the terrible noncy film that was made for it in the 90s. It's almost like degenerate directors will highjack sensitive media to push their sick fantasies onto others and use "it generates discussion" as a defense to showcase their degeneracy. You can have nuanced discussion without have such exploitative scenes in it, yet men always seem gung-ho about shoehorning exploitative sex scenes in everything.(infighting)

No. 352018

>>352008
Agree.
Men do not see the scenes as depraved and disgusting like women do. Men are so desensitized to degenerate sex due to their porn usage. Women are the only ones truly calling it for what it is because they don't have their brains melted from porn like men do.

No. 352040

>>352010
I'm not saying it's bad because of what it tried to do, but because of how it did it. The movie is very explicit and disgusting, it's basically a porno. Lolita is not a porno. They are not comparable.

No. 352042

>>351890
God, this movie is so fucking dumb. Ryan Philippe is a stupid douche and not in a hot way, I hate that they try to make you sympathize with him at the end. I don’t like Reese Whiterspoon in general and she’s annyoing there too, I hate when she plays 'sweet' characters because you can tell she’s a bitchy Southern woman in real life (also they were a couple during shooting this and were obnoxious together). Justice for Kathryn, she was the only bearable character and SMG is a charismatic actress.

No. 352054

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>>352042
I love SMG! and her character was the most undersold in the movie. Sebastian was an annoying little shit, I would've killed for a Kathryn focused movie or a subplot of her pursuing a girl on girl affair with Cecile or her affair with Ronald. All three of them would've been a better focus than Sebastian and Annette flouncing around in their weak sauce romance subplot

No. 352058

>>351890
he got killed off because that's what happens in the original novel, which has a moralistic ending (he gets killed in a duel, merteuil is disfigured by smallpox and has her reputation ruined, cecile becomes a nun) since it was from the 18th century. i would have loved for the movie ending to be more subversive but i guess they wanted to respect the source material.

No. 352064

>>352058
I knew it was based on a story and I had not read it kek thanks for the explanation

No. 352068

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This film was a compelling exploration of nature vs nurture. Nature, Kevin clearly had unhealthy tendencies and behavior from a young age. Nurture, Eva was clearly not fit to deal with a difficult child, broke his arm, and shows herself to be rather cold and distant which rubs off on him. Also how could the parents ignore so many red flags and not send Kevin to therapy or the looney bin? As someone who had a mom who hated me from a young age because I was a strange child, not psycho, just strange, the moms behavior in this film struck an unsettling chord with me. It reminded me how many people bring children into the world who shouldn't. shot and edited so well, but an absolutely offputting and emotionally damning film.

(Side note, Ezra Miller clearly never stopped method acting in this role.)

No. 352086

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I've been fixated on movies from 1990. What's your favorite 1990 movie? Specifically 1990, not the 90s in general.
I think it's The Witches for me but there's a surprising number of my faves in there

No. 352095

>>352054
Sarah Michelle Geller and Selma Blair's characters are all I cared about in this movie as a teen.

No. 352096

>>352008
That sucks so much. I was recommended Girl with that dragon tattoo years ago, but stayed away because I heard it had rape. The fact that they could have easily implied SA but decided to show it feels scrotey and trying to make rape sexy for men. I'm so angry when films do this.

No. 352102

>>352096
Has it ever occurred to you to form your own opinions by actually watching a movie

No. 352103

>>352102
no, anon is right, i've seen it and it's gross moid fetish fuel, which i would have probably known had i read about it before.

No. 352105

>>352103
Which is an opinion you formed by watching the movie yourself, not by getting a recommendation from the Approved Media list

No. 352110

>>352008
The book is just as much a retarded male fantasy with a 2 edgy 4 u depressive goth nightmare girl who's so skinny people ask her if she's anorexic and is also a promiscuous bisexual woman. The entire book revolves around a woman being horrifically raped and abused by her brother and in the end Lisbeth, the retarded MC, deduces that this woman is an evil bitch for not reporting her abuse to the authorities when… Lisbeth doesn't even report her own assault to the authorities but instead uses the filming of her rapes as ~dark triad stacy~ blackmail.

No. 352112

>>352110
It's been a thousand years since I read that book but I remember finding the male lead contrived too, like he's the scandi middle aged equivalent of an isekai protagonist. There was also some business drama side plot that was a snooze fest.

No. 352114

>>352102
>>352105
You don’t need to watch a movie with graphic rape scenes in it, in order to form the opinion that you don’t like it. Some people are never going to like something that has explicit rape scenes in it and would prefer to know ahead of time so that they don’t waste their time, not sure what your hangup on this is.

No. 352117

>>352105
kek i didn't like GWTDT at all but the amount of pearl clutching in these threads is insane, feels like i'm on twitter surrounded by zoomers trying to police every piece of media

No. 352119

>>352117
Who is policing anyone? It's not hard to understand why many women would be uncomfortable with poorly portrayed rape and sex scenes.

No. 352134

>>352117
It's not "clutching pearls" to not care for scrotey coomer bait rape scenes.

No. 352139

>>350236
I feel like some things should not be modernized. Something being a product of it’s time is not a bad thing to avoid

No. 352150

>>352117
Lol yeah all these prudes right? How could they dislike a scene where a girl is knocked out, tied up, and then raped by a fat scrote? I bet they don't watch real porn either haha.
Here I found this cool porn website that uploads all these movie rape scenes for men to masturbate to:
[REDACTED](USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)

No. 352166

Kind of a nitpick, but I don't like the title the girl with a dragon tattoo, in my language they went for a more literal translation and it's just "the men who didn't like women/the men who hated women". It probably says something about something, but I don't care to figure out what cause I just didn't like it that much.

No. 352178

>>352096
I feel like you have to be insanely internet brain-rotted and blackpilled beyond redemption to see scenes meant to horrify the viewer and immediately think "this is porn for men" tbh

No. 352181

>>352178
ntayrt but it's more about how it's executed and shot, so whichever intentions the director had is thrown out the window if it's filmed badly

No. 352206

>>352178
Maybe in a world where "rape" and "gangbang" aren't in the top 10 most popular porn categories for men.

No. 352408

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(wrong thread)

No. 352444

>>352166
no I agree, "Men Who Hate Women" is a literal translation and fits the story much better too. Lisbeth gets the tattoo pretty late in and the story is more about the mystery and overall anti-woman crimes and the dude than her.
>>352178
bad people get off to horrifying things, it's not enough to film the act and assume nobody would get off to it. How many times have you seen a rape scene that on paper is meant to be a horrifying moment for the character but instead is filmed in a way that's porny for men? "I Spit on Your Grave" and all other "rape revenge" films on paper could be decent revenge fantasies, but instead you spend most of the movie watching a woman get raped and tormented and maybe ten minutes of her setting up a trap for her tormentors to die off-screen. That's a movie that on paper is "woman takes revenge on her rapists" but is nothing but scrote porn for men who watch rape porn but want to feel better than rapists. You don't have to show rape explicitly for it to be horrifying and so the choices a director or cinematographer takes does shape the results entirely regardless of what the on paper "intent" seems to be.
Not necessarily arguing that TGWTDT was an example of rape filmed bad, but given hollywood's track record of filming rape like porn, you can't blame someone for avoiding all depictions made by men ten years out from a sexual assault lawsuit

No. 352457

>>352117
>pearl clutching
It's an explicit rape scene, you weirdo.

No. 352481

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Do you have a movie you just can’t show anyone but you wish you could? For me it’s Adam’s Apples. I feel like I would die of feeling judged if I watched it with other people due to all the dark humor (some of which I don’t even like) but a lot of it is extremely funny

No. 352490

>>352481
This is funny to read as a Dane when everyone and their moms have seen this movie here, kek. The first time I watched it I was 11

No. 352495

>>352490
lmao are the slurs not as bad in Danish? As a burger that’s just a hard no sort of thing, the subs translate it as the N word. Also the ex-con who is a former rapist and child tennis prodigy when he spirals and puts on his old tennis uniform then ties up Sarah in his room (but doesn’t do anything? and she cheekily asks the next day if they fooled around and its jaw dropping/ kinda funny in a dark way since they’re both alcoholics) makes me feel like I couldn’t even watch it with nonnies kek. I mean it’s not like it A Serbian Film but I seriously hesitate to show it to anyone casually as a funny movie

No. 352504

>>348779
I would recommend The Nice Guys though be aware there is a lot of porny content due to the plot intersecting with 70s California porn industry.

No. 352526

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>>352481
i'm not really ashamed of anything i like, but i absolutely love rope (1948) and to normies i'd have to pretend that i like it because it's some masterpiece of film and a cLaSsIc of hitchcock instead of just liking it bc it's basically a dramatized au of leopold & loeb

No. 352528

>>352481
Nekromantik 2

No. 352682

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What are you anons favourite Carpenter movies? The Thing for me

No. 352683

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>>352526
Omg nona I love Rope too! I'm not a huge Hitchcock fan normally but Rope is so unlived by folks I interact with or they just want to talk about the filming.

I will admit I mostly love it because it hates on dumb men and James Stewart is hot in it.

No. 352691

>>349495

loved this movie, i think it has a lot to say about social media and online one-upmanship.

No. 352710

I just walked outside the theater in the middle of Poor things. I can't bear this shit. If I see another sex scene of a woman with a child's brain I'm gonna kms. "a woman gaining freedom" bullshit. And people in the theater laughing at sex jokes about her… sorry for the rant I feel I'm the only sane person here.

No. 352716

>>352481
I have to watch it now kek. For me it's Napoleon Dynamite, I'm sure most people I know wouldn't find it funny and it would break my heart.

No. 352721

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>>352682
Halloween or Big Trouble in Little China lol
I’ve seen They Live and The Thing the most times and they’re great. Everyone shits on Vampires but it’s a gem. I like the music in Assault on Precinct 13. Christine is very creative but I preferred Herby Fully Loaded for sentient car movies

No. 352726

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>>352682
Escape from LA is also great. Plus it has Buschemi in it
Not as sophisticated choices as The Thing but I will re-watch these forever. The Halloween theme will pop in my head at random too, it's so good. The president's reaction at the end of Escape from New York is probably one of my favourite movie endings too

No. 352765

>>352726
Carpenter movies are honestly so fun to watch with anyone, I love them so much.

No. 352784

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>>352683
yeah, i'm a hitchcock hater tbh, i can't separate how he treated women from his other films. but rope is his rare based exception not only for the subject but he also hired two gay actors to play the leads which is shockingly progressive for the time. and beyond that it's just a fucking great movie
>>352716
are you not a millennial? every millennial i know adores napoleon dynamite, we grew up on it

No. 352791

>>352784
>are you not a millennial?
I am, but it wasn't popular in my country. Most people don't know about it, I watched it only 10 years ago or so

No. 352809

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Tacky movie by a tacky director about a tacky man. Sorry nomas, I loved it

No. 352818

>>352683
>I will admit I mostly love it because it hates on dumb men
That is literally the best part of Rope. That and they killed another man instead of a woman. But James Stewart being all "Wait…what? You took all that bullshit I said about intellectual superiority seriously? The fuck?"

No. 352819

>>352682
The Thing is 100 percent top of my list for best Carpenter movie, followed by The Fog, Big trouble in Little China, and Halloween 1.

No. 352820

>>352721
>>352726
Based af. I love how Kojima fell in love with Snake Pliskin enough to make him a character in his own games.

No. 352821

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>>352682
Prince of Darkness
>>352526
I have not heard of this movie, I'm going to add it to my list and watch it sometime.

No. 352849

>>352809
Tom Hanks accent in this was fucking hilarious to me

No. 352938

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>>352682
it's not a movie but i love his masters of horror episode

No. 352953

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i just watched the talented mr ripley, i really enjoyed it! idk if saltburn was inspired by this film or not but there were too many similarities, this one is way better tho. matt damon was fine here and gave a great performance, jude law's british accent kinda slipped out sometimes. the scene on the train was bittersweet. felt bad for tom and peter's relationship

No. 352955

>>352953
My mum is obsessed with Jude Law. This film and The Holiday are probably her most watched movies kek

No. 352960

>>352955
i like the holiday too, cute movie. i found matt more handsome in mr ripley but jude law was hot back then for sure

No. 352982

>>352849
Kek and his giant goiter prosthetic.
The writers of Walk Hard should sue the Elvis movie for plagiarism

No. 353008

>>352809
Same! Baz Luhrmann knows he's campy and doesn't try to be fake deep. I liked the cinematography and its surreal vibe. Austin Butler's accent and then his irl path to get rid of it was hilarious. What a small-nosed man. It was a fun movie and I'm not ashamed of liking it either!

No. 353086

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If anyone is in the mood for a stylish revenge film, I wholeheartedly recommend picrel

No. 354007

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Rewatched John Carpenter's Vampires this week. Wow what a hilariously bad movie, it was better in my memory. I still like parts of it and the lines are so bad they're good, but I forgot how they treat the hooker character like shit the whole fucking time. I watched the sequel (Vampires: Los Muertos) yesterday and I honestly thought it was more fun to watch even though it's bad too, it's just a more fun type of bad.

No. 354124

How has nobody mentioned the Iron Claw? It was such a good movie. I went in and expected to not like it, but it was great. I was so surprised with how abusive the father was, and how depressing the entire family was. Wow. I love biopic films like that, it's also why I loved Priscilla and I, tonya. I NEED more films like this, anyone know any like that?

No. 354126

>>352526
Also, I watched this film. Loved it! Thanks for the suggestion.

No. 354194

I’m so excited for Dune 2 I’m watching it in IMAX

No. 354471

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A New Leaf (1971) 10/10 recommend

No. 354491

watched 65 yesterday, how do you make a shooting dinosaurs in the face movie this boring? and why were the main characters aliens but they just looked human anyway? shit movie would not recommend

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>>352481
Thanks for mentioning this movie, anon, I really enjoyed it. You kinda know how it'll end from the very start but the way it's unfolding is pretty unpredictable and unusual. I get why you hesitate to show it to other people, but I personally feel like the main problem is that some won't have the patience to continue watching due to its "weirdness", even though they could've actually liked it if they watched it fully, if it makes sense. I just feel like some people would be afraid of the possibility of watching the unnecessarily upsetting film kek

No. 354620

>>354611
I’m glad you enjoyed it!

No. 354734

>>354611
I LOVED this movie. I watched it while learning Danish and I found it so fucking funny. The Green Butchers is another one I believe by the same guy, also starring Mads. In that one, Mads has a bald cap and looks intentionally so hideous and creepy kek he’s really amusing

No. 354735

>>354471
I watched this because of you and unfortunately the humor and charm of the lead actress weren't enough to save it for me. I wanted to have a good time, but the male lead is such an asshole it's unbearable. I know he's an asshole on purpose but that doesn't make it any less annoying to listen to him say such foul shit about such a sweet and intelligent woman just because she's naïve and clumsy. The dialogue was really fun, though, and the acting was good. I learned the butler was a pedo who abused his step son and he was later kidnapped by that step son and the sons real father who tortured and killed the butler guy, wild.

No. 354737

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>>354734
>the green butchers
Oh my god I forgot about that one! Yes, I loved it too, it was so funny and Mads looked insanely hideous lol

No. 354741

>>354737
>Mads looked insanely hideous
Nothing new.

No. 354979

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I just saw Poor Things and I hate this movie so fucking much. It looks great and the music is good but that's about it. Every time I consume a piece of art I ask myself, what was the intention behind it, why was that a thing that someone made up etc. And with this story and this book (written by a moid of course), what's more behind it except perverted moid fantasies? He would never write this story with a male main character going through the same things and "growing" because of it, because, of course, only a woman can experience the world through getting fucked by men. I hate the false juxtaposition between the prudish evil husband who wants to cut off his wife's clit (the symbol of sexual pleasure) and free sex and fucking with every guy and getting STDs (good uwu self-discovery shit). Like there's nothing else, and like it's implying that if you're opposing the second choice, you must support the first choice. I hate the idea that this movie/book shows how a truly free woman would behave like if she wasn't "chained by societal norms" (that's the retarded take I saw in many reviews). In reality, more and more women now choose celibacy because the less they need men because of socio-economic reasons, the more they can truly see how parasitic men are. Less patriarchy means less engaging with men. More patriarchy means more engaging with men (casual sex included). I hate that the movie doesn't even reflect on the fact that Bella perceived her brothel experience as enriching even though an average prostitute (and the wast majority of prostitutes) has no choice to opt out of it at any given moment like she had. It didn't even show any instance of abuse from johns even thought that's something prostitutes go through normally. I hate the fact that I had to look at naked Emma Stone getting fucked by ugly, fat, disgusting old men twice her age. But of course it's le deep because she talks in autistic manner and the more "independent" she becomes (independence means fucking with men for money instead of fucking with men for free) the less her first fuck-buddy likes her and it's le deep because it shows how evil patriarchy wants to control female sexuality. Scaruffi and YMS loved the movie and that means it's le good.

No. 354990

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>>354737
>>354741
whenever i see any reference to Mads Mikkelsen I remember this awful, awful vintage tumblr post where a bunch of women go to bat for Mads after an anon accuses him of having a pencil dick

https://voldyrule.tumblr.com/post/61779242428/does-mads-have-a-really-thin-dick-or-am-i-just

No. 354993

>>354990
I just think of the quote about his kids saying they will kill him if he doesn’t agree to be in that Rihanna video

No. 354997

>>354979
>…claims that [Bella] was a corpse, resurrected by McCandless's colleague, the scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, who had her brain swapped with that of her unborn foetus, resulting in her having an infant's mind. While designed to be Baxter's companion, her sexual appetite causes her to pursue other men, including McCandless and a foppish lawyer named Duncan Wedderburn, with whom she elopes and embarks on a hedonistic odyssey around Europe, Northern Africa, and Central Asia.

revolting

No. 355059

>>354993
His daughter also wanted to beat his ass if he refused to be Grindelwald in the third Fantastic Beasts iirc. Or at least he didn't know anything about HP and his daughter is a fan so in an interview with the other actors he was like "omg I don't know who Hagrid is omg my daughter's going to kill me". He should have had this role from the beginning imo.

No. 355063

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Recently watched Pee-wee's big adventure, I was surprised how funny it is. This dude is so autistic and you can't help but cheer for him and his dumbass bike. Burton really peaked here

No. 355122

>>355063
Anon did you never watch Peewee’s Playhouse?

No. 355158

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Just saw Poor Things yesterday, and the more I think about the movie the angrier I get, because it could have been so good if the director wasn't a porn-brained voyeuristic moid. I don't know how Emma Stone produced this and is defending it as if it wasn't glorified born-sexy-yesterday porn. I loved the directing when Emma Stone wasn't being fucked on-screen, but of course we need to divert from the philosophical topics and instead focus on the toddler-like girl having sex. I didn't even have that much of a problem with the male gaze at the beginning since it does a good job of portraying men as the beasts they are, but slowly the movie stops pretending that the sex is used for artistic purposes and becomes gratuitous. Not really sure what to make out of the movie, but I know for sure I wouldn't be as mad is this wasn't being praised as a feminist masterpiece. This movie is gonna age terribly.

No. 355169

>>355158
it's not that trope at all

No. 355173

>>355169
So she's just repeating that le retarded gen z's are soooo prudish? She's a libfem I don't trust what she says.

No. 355174

>>355122
it never broadcasted in my country so no, I only know pee-wee through this movie. Is he just like that all the time?

No. 355176

>>355173
no but you're not gonna change your mind so it doesn't matter, but your criticism is based in things that aren't correct, so

No. 355185

>>355174
yes anon, enjoy

No. 355196

>>355169
Completely off topic but I’m embarrassed for the women in the comments saying they are just like Bella. So you have a baby brain? Kek

No. 355202

>>355174
kek nta but yes that's his entire persona. His acts were centered around being very silly.

No. 355204

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just watched picrel in the cinema. it was pretty good, not too graphic which i appreciate. i don't really enjoy movies like the pianist because they feel too "hollywood". overall this felt serious and heavy in a subtle way. i sort of wish it was longer because it ended just before a major event in the holocaust was supposed to take place. as for the characterization of höss, i think it did okay, but it was kind of ambivalent and almost too humanizing at certain points. this movie is ofc in the perspective of the perpetrators and not victims of the holocaust, which is interesting, but i didn't like that they completely left out any interaction between höss and the prisoners. but again i do appreciate that it wasn't so explicit.

No. 355208

>>355196
i think you just hate the movie and aren't willing to talk about it in any positive way despite the movie literally being about how men ruin women.

No. 355211

>>355208
Thats not even the same anon? Why are you caping so hard for a shitty porn film. Genuinely, tell me what you love so much about Poor Things that it's earned your desperate defence.

No. 355214

>>355211
already did >>347570
you're extremely weird if you saw it as a "porn film" and didn't catch the condemnation of men who sexualize and take advantage of children/women
bet you'll cry when it wins oscars lol

No. 355216

>>355158
In my opinion, my interpretation rather, is that the gratuitous sex is supposed to disgust you and make you feel uncomfortable. I didn't take it as sexual empowerment, I took it as blatant exploitation and felt that's what the movie wanted me to feel. Like I'm not supposed to be celebrating her having all of this weird sex, I'm supposed to be concerned and worried for her and her naïve and childish decisions. The only relationship that felt truly glorified was the one she had with the other sex worker she became close to and ends up living with. All throughout the movie the mc is taken advantage because of her lack of knowledge of the world and exploited right from the womb, by the doctor, by whats his nuts, the lady who owns the brothel, they all emotional and mentally manipulate her into doing what they want while also gaslighting her into thinking she's making her own decisions. It's only at the end where she really does start making her own decisions and sees how horrible the world really is where she is able to find stability and peace in her life. I hate that she marries the doctor, but at least he's a just a submissive loser. My interpretation leaving the film was that it was against the "sexuality is empowerment" bullshit that's being pushed on women and the bizzare ways society tries to justify it's treatment of women.

No. 355219

>>355216
agree w/ what you said and i said this before, but again, the uproar makes me think of nabakov's lolita. lolita is a much, much more important work, but poor things is also suffering from people mistaking it as glorifying something that it is not. it's not without criticisms and i wouldn't say it's a "feminist movie" but it's definitely not glorifying pedophilia or any of this twittard shit people keep saying.

No. 355220

>>355219
Yeah absolutely, and as someone who loves the directors work this would be at the bottom of the list for my favorites of his

No. 355221

>>355219
Samefag, in regards to the pedo shit, I think that people are taking the baby brain thing way too literally for the camp and unseriousness of most of the movie. In my opinion, it's just used as a device for the plot, and something like amnesia would have worked the same way. It's a device used to explore the world through the experience of someone who never has experienced any of the world.

No. 355229

>>355219
Would the story look the same (where most human experiences of the protag come from getting fucked by men) if the main character was male instead of female?

No. 355230

>>355229
Nta, but no not at all. That doesn't mean anything though, the story being about a female experience doesn't make it a feminist movie.

No. 355232

>>355230
Of course it doesn't, that's not what I meant. I don't think we need another male pov on how women experience the world through getting fucked by men who are in certain areas more powerful than them. We have enough blackpills irl.

No. 355233

>>355232
Uh, yeah I totally agree with that for sure. But we live in a "free" world where people can make stuff and it exists and people interpret it how they want to. It doesn't really matter who made it or even what the intention of it's creator is, the only thing that matters is how you personally feel about it, and you don't like it and that opinion holds just as much weight as someone who did like it.

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New trailer just dropped. I have very mixed feelings. I really want to like it though.

No. 355239

>>355237
is that the real actual poster? it looks ai generated or made by a fan on a mobile photo editing app. costume design is really dead huh.

No. 355240

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>>355237
it looks so bland and uninspired. the trailer reminded me of that oz great and powerful movie that looks nearly identical in CGI. The costumes are going to increase in quantity instead of quality and Ariana is going to go down as the worst Galinda by far. The current elphaba also seems bland, I don't think the director knows how to direct more theatrical performances out of people so here's to hoping she at least sounds nice. She just has zero charisma, how is "Popular" going to land at all when it's her voice singing it? "Thank Goodness" also needs some serious acting chops and punch that I cannot see her voice doing. The original story is going to be doing some serious heavy lifting to make this passable. Considering this movie has been in production since Ari was a little girl, the move to put in a sudden celebrity cash grab feels like they never had faith in the project and are just pushing it out now which is probably why it took like 20 years to make. They seriously were better off releasing a pro-shot of the original cast decades ago, but broadway has always been stupid about that.
Also it's not a good sign when the trailer only shows a very few number of scenes and sets and avoided showing most of the important bits. most of those shots are from a small number of mostly act 1 scenes and unimportant establishing shots that unfortunately make munchkinland look empty as fuck

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This was really underwhelming I expected better at least the animation was nice but Dolores and Pepa were so annoying.I don't get the popularity at all.Did not resonate with me despite being Hispanic.

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>>355229
no bc it's quite literally about men trying to control and destroy a woman, men don't experience that the same way
>>355237
elphaba being a black woman and glinda being ariana fucking grande sure is a choice. not only due to them being sisters (how?) but ariana's frequent accusations of blackfishing. i bet people will also be asking why the character frequently accused of being a jewish stereotype is the black lady. can't wait to popcorn all the discourse tbh

No. 355254

>>355233
Lol that's not even remotely true. Your opinion does not "hold just as much weight as one who likes degrading humiliating works of women and girls". The people who hold the most stakes in film production have the most power, like pedowood. If this delusional coping were true there would be equally as many degrading male movies as ones involving women and you'd see an actual organic variety of perspectives in film by women with controversial opinions but we don't for a reason. Stop this handmaiden mass coping over male and handmaiden made dogshit movies.

No. 355257

>>355237
This same director made Now You See Me 2 and even that looks better than the trailer for Wicked. Even Crazy Rich Asians looks more visually appealing. I don't understand why for the fantasy themed fucking movie that the sets look so flat and lifeless, especially considering they looked okay in the preview photos.

Don't get me started on Ariana as Glinda. Awful casting choice

No. 355264

>>355247
elphie's been played by black women before, other races too cause she's green at the end of the day, what should matter is voice and attitude.
if there's discourse all over again about an elphaba's actress's race that would be pretty stupid tbh

No. 355267

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>>354735
Sorry you didn't like it anon, here's something that might be more your speed

No. 355268

>>355237
This is my favorite sims 2 expansion

No. 355273

>>355264
i can see it coming bc of the discourse with ariana blackfishing and asianfishing

No. 355299

>>355267
nta but this is such a twitter response, disliking something for being edgy and pointless is a valid criticism.

No. 355353

>>355216
>sex worker
kek stopped reading right there

No. 355356

>>355247
Elphaba and Glinda aren't sisters tho? Are they in this movie? That would be a CHOICE since they have a lot of homoerotic subtext in both the book and musical. 'What is this feeling' is basically a enemies to lovers song.

No. 355362

>>352110
also the entire story was inspired by an actual rape the author witnessed when he was young. he saw an actual real life girl named lisbeth getting raped and didn't help her because he "felt too loyal to his friends". fuck the retarded coomer author and fuck his idiot rape fetish trilogy, it's obvious he wrote the damn thing with other hand in his pants.

No. 355364

>>355214
Yorgos Lanthimos you silly goose, you know men aren’t allowed to post on here.

No. 355471

>>355299
twitter is where you go to cancel people for having a viewpoint you disagree with. twitter is where people put “antis dni” in their bios. twitter is where people send death threats to people who like a ship they hate. you picked the most retarded response.

No. 355472

>>355299
>edgy
It's a comedy from 1971, it's about as edgy as a sandcastle at high tide

No. 355678

My prediction is that Nolan isn't getting best director because despite Oppenheimer being the long, boring and men centric piece of shit film that all critics find "worthy" of awarding, poor things is just the sexual abuse fantasy every Hollywood exec dreams off and since the Oscars are always rigged, Nolan is winning half of the awards he is nominated for, barbie might win best picture because these days women can only win awards for being women.

No. 355691

>>355219
meh, comparing Poor Things to Lolita is like comparing a mudcake to a pile of shit because both are brown and look kinda similar if you squint hard enough. (Talking about Lolita the book, not the films which are shit.)

No. 355848

>>355691
Could Poor Things actually be like a bad adaption of Lolita? Or potentially I suppose kind of like the intent vs execution of Cuties which was supposed to be a cautionary tale and biopic about the horrors of current child-dance routines but actually showed a bunch of children performing disgustingly adult routines with explicit camera shots.
To any non-pedo Cuties reads as absolutely horrific, unfortunately pedophiles had a different reading and it was pretty obvious to some in the former category that that would happen. I'm wondering if there might be a similar disconnect here that some nonnas with the movie. Basically we're probably all not pedos here aside from any lurking troons and see the scenes in the movie as horrifying, but some of us might be more sensitive to pedophile red flags than others and see recognize what they like.

No. 355860

>>355848
Ntayrt but this discussion reminds me, there's an old movie called Child Bride which was intended to criticize child marriage laws, however the message gets lost because there's a weird scene of a 12 year girl swimming naked that goes on for a while. It adds absolutely nothing to the movie, it could have been removed and the story would have remained the same. Imo the intent doesn't matter anymore when actual child actors are involved in sexual scenes because it's just adding more to the problem of child exploitation. There's plenty of ways directors can criticize it without going that far. With Cuties it's not only focusing on the kid's bodies but also having it go on longer than necessary, like it looks like something out of a music video. I don't understand why this is often the go-to method filmmakers do when trying to do these messages when the result hardly looks any different from noncritical child sexualization. Like can't they think outside the box a bit?

No. 355893

Is there any movie where Emma Stone doesn't get fucked by an older man

No. 355906

>>355893
She was cute in Easy A and Zombieland, La La Land is fairly inoffensive if not whiny, enjoyed her as Cruella, she actually does have the ability to act and is beautiful imo but no idea why she wastes it on some of the roles she's done. Especially Poor Things

No. 355912

>>355893
Easy A, though she plays a girl who is willing to further nuke her reputation in order to boost boy's which feels appropriate. she learns better (at least that she shouldn't be known as a slut, not to put herself before men necessarily) but i don't remember liking the general feel of the movie in regards to messaging. It's been a while but i don't care to rewatch to find out it's probably even worse than I remember.
I guess the spider man movies too. I remember she said some performative "feminist" shit at the press panels that got gifed and passed around tumblr.

No. 355947

>>355848
>might be more sensitive to pedophile red flags than others and see recognize what they like
not entirely sure what you mean here but even discussion of CSA makes me nauseous and want to throw up, and yet i still didn't see poor things as "pedo glorifying".

No. 356080

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I watched Anyone But You since it’s the Valentine’s Day and it has decent reviews. It’s shit though, the main conflict is idiotic (he gets mad at her for leaving him in the morning in true incel fashion and she obviously overhears him shit talking her) and the tension is so staged. The director’s coomerism is written all over it, so Sydney’s boobs are on display half of the time and the moments where they are supposed to accidentally touch each other are visibly forced. The dialogue is terrible and it’s all painfully unfunny, like your typical 50-something scrote’s lazy idea of humor. 'Rom-com revival' my ass, it’s just riding on nostalgia for the genre while keeping it as mid and uncreative as possible.

No. 356084

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>people itt unironically defending poor things and believing a moid director had the critical analysis of female roles and male gaze in mind when he filmed all the erotic scenes including one with kids as spectators
is this site now called libcow.farm

No. 356098

>>356084
picrel is accurate bc it's what you look like
go back to twitter(infighting)

No. 356103

>>356098
Nta but I don't get why this is always the response to criticism of this movie itt when twitterfags love defending shit like this

No. 356106

>>356098
ok libtard(infighting)

No. 356119

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>>356084
If you scroll up you'll see that the majority of anons abhorred Poor Things.

No. 356132

>>356080
>the tension is so staged
Almost as if its a movie, or something

No. 356153

>>356132
nta but if it was a good movie it wouldn't seem staged

No. 356239

>>355860
It's wanting to have their cake and eat it too. "We will criticize x by literally just doing x" rubbish when they can do the same without displaying x and instead implying it (but they still want to pander to people who unironically wish to indulge in whatever the x is eg. x being sexualization of minors, or prostitution, etc).

No. 356246

>>356132
Are you dense or sth?

No. 356257

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>>356080
This should've had Zoey Deutch instead. She's a better actress, her and glen previously starred in another romcom and had decent chemistry.

No. 356258

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This was dumb as hell but I liked it. Nice way to waste an hour and a half. I enjoy a good old irresponsible older sibling responsible younger sibling dynamic

No. 356293

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>>356119
she's just obsessed with the fact that not everyone agrees with her and unfortunately this site is not her conservative christian facebook group
can’t wait for the oscar sweep

No. 356302

>>356293
And so what if it wins? Do you think anyone will stop criticizing because of that?

No. 356311

>>356293
If anyone's obsessed about people disagreeing, it's you

No. 356314

>>354979
Sage for O/T but I didn’t know Scaruffi reviewed movies, unless you’re talking about a different Scaruffi. I know him from his music reviews

No. 356317

I'm just going to say it: I don't even trust men who make non-sexual films. No male director has good intentions no matter what so of course one making an overly sexual film is no exception.

No. 356340

>>356311
Your constant sperging bringing up how mad you are that some people ITT liked Poor Things says otherwise
Can you maybe contribute to the thread instead
>>356317
Men are incapable of not viewing everything through a sexual lens(infighting)

No. 356412

>>356293
>tumblr pics and twatter-like liberal rhetoric defending pedo movie/book
You have to go back. And maybe watch some actual kino instead of Emma Stone getting fucked by old disgusting fat men over and over again(infighting)

No. 356419

>>356340
You are the one that is constantly sperging whenever someone brings up that they don’t like the movie. You keep bringing up that it’s going to win awards at the oscars like that completely shuts down all criticism that other anons have of the movie, but the fact is that it hasn’t actually won anything yet, so your premature gloating makes no sense. It’s fine if you like the movie, but constantly trying to shut down other people’s discussion of it because it’ll supposedly win awards in a few months is incredibly childish.(infighting)

No. 356427

>>356419
there's other anons in here who are tired of your chimpouts about this stupid movie btw

No. 356434

I'm planning to go watch Lisa Frankenstein on Saturday, will report later how it is.
Sadly it's unrelated to Lisa Frank but damn, imagine if it was!

No. 356538

I honestly don't care for the Oscars and at work people talk about poor things as a great movie but from what I have seen on this thread the movie is about a baby brained woman being sexually abused by multiple men, is that true? What's poor things actually about?

No. 356572

>>356434
I hope you love it nonna! I saw it for V day and it was so fun. Everything I was hoping for tbh. Also Cole Sprouse looks hot as an 1800s zombie but not in real life

No. 356583

imagine calling your movie that hasn't even released yet a "future cult classic"
also hate this A24 wannabe aesthetic of trailers so much

No. 356590

>>356538
No, that isn’t what it’s about. You could try watching it and forming your own opinion instead of letting others decide for you though.
>>356583
Dead Poets Society 2024 this is not.

No. 356623

What’s the movie you have rewatched the most?

No. 356624

>>356239
imo it takes skill to actually cover dark topics without just badly shoving it in your face to shock you. that plus it's easier to direct actors if you force them to reenact something bad directly or experience real shock instead of acting around it and getting them to react to something that isn't physically there or happening (aka acting). the aftershocks of the event are what actually matter anyways, not the event in the moment as much regardless
it's like this stupid jack the ripper film (based on pedoshit alan moore's comic) from a while back that decided to get "real" reactions out of their actors by shocking them with the real crime photos of the real victims during a police scene they were expected to be shown fake and less graphic pictures. you could tell even the hollywood moids were legitimately disgusted by seeing the butchered victims. it's disgusting but also just supremely lazy and untalented behaviour

No. 356632

>>356590
>Watch the movie
no, thats boring

No. 356634

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>>356623
Poetic Justice thanks to my sister being obsessed with it. I could recite the lines from memory.

No. 356636

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>>356623
you've got mail. very comfy film that i never tire of.

No. 356637

>>356623
Probably Jurassic Park. Or Trainspotting.

No. 356640

>>352691
late seeing your response but i agree. and how being a self-inflicted victim can one-up another person's positive success in this climate. or at least people are aware that behaviour is rewarded and strive for it, instead of success.
>>352526
loved this film too. it rivalled rear window for me.

No. 356642

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>>356623
Her probably, which is weird because I don’t even like this movie. I watched it first when I was 12 and didn’t really get it, the second time was three years ago after I talked about it with my ex bf and the third time when I wanted to show it to my father and compare it with Lost in Translation after I learned about the correlation. I like Lost in Translation much better though, I find it way more touching. Her has admittedly very good script, but feels kinda stiff overall and doesn’t really move me. I like the soundtrack though.

No. 356654

>>356623
i was retardedly obsessed with the movie liar liar when i was a tween and would watch it over and over and over again, probably at least ten times. i hate it now but i could probably still memorize the script by heart.

No. 356655

>>356623
Mamma Mia, I watched it about 4 times when it came out in cinemas so that skews it a bit.

No. 356656

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>>356623
Or maybe it was this one (I’m >>356642), it’s European fujos’ Holy Grail.

No. 356657

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>>356654
omg one of the first DVDs I bought and would watch over and over for years. think I'm due another rewatch.
>>356642
this was one of the most uncomfortable films i ever watched, i don't think i could ever put myself through it again. it's been 10 years since i saw it though and i bet it hits very differently now, considering how far AI has come.

No. 356658

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>>356623
one of the funniest, sily movies ever. i don't know how to describe it because the movie starts with a crazy premise, goes off the wall with it, and then ends in a ridiculous climax. within the first 2 minutes danny devito plans to kill his wife (bette midler) but comes home to find her kidnapped and ransomed by two "ruthless" kidnappers already and tries to get them to kill her but hijinks ensue instead. 10/10 totally recommend. there's a weird blackmail subplot involving a politician that involves sex but you don't really see much and it's too over the top to feel real.
probably gonna re-watch it this weekend actually

No. 356661

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>>356623
For me it's either Silence of the Lambs or But I'm a Cheerleader. random af, I know, but I love both.

No. 356663

>>354126
happy for you anon

No. 356667

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>>356623
eisenstein's ivan the terrible. i don't even need subtitles anymore.

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>>356623
Coraline, it's just a super fun and entertaining movie. The plot is cool, intriguing, it's just the right amount of creepy. The sets are interesting, beautiful and immersive. And Coraline kicks ass. My only nitpick is that some characters are almost too ugly, but they're still charming and well designed.

No. 356671

>>356623
Fantastic mr fox and that movie I forgot the name where matt damon gets irreversibly shrunk and a divorce and then falls in love with that vietnamese activist that lost her leg and almost died in a tv box, I really liked it even though some parts are a bit underwhelming. It's the type of story that would work better if it was maybe a short tv series, in my opinion. I still watch it everytime it's on tv.

No. 356677

>>356657
mine was an overused VCR copy. I lost the original copy but I bought one at an antiques store years later and still have it on my bookshelf.

I hate Jim Carrey now for all the horrible things he's done to women but I cannot deny he had a massive influence on me as a child and teen and actually made me a little more comfortable in my own skin. I grew up very quirky and felt like nobody understood me, but if someone as crazy as him could be famous then maybe there was hope for me as a person.

No. 356680

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A little late but I loved sing 2. This is one of those times I think the second movie is better than the first. I guess the huge colorful metropolis atmosphere and the saturation of the colors plays a part cause honestly, so many live action remakes have that greyish murky atmosphere and I'm suppose to get feel good vibes off of that? the plot is also interesting and keeps me on edge since you want to know how things will turn out in the following scenes. I'm a sucker for feel good movies but there's a limit, since most movies like these fall flat in the end. This one didn't. I just loved how each character built there confidence to fulfill their roles and the story made you feel like a big part of something. I really found it bizzare that I enjoyed it this much. Anyone else seen it too?

No. 356687

>>356623
reservoir dogs and the phantom of the opera

No. 356688

>>356623
gotta be either jurassic park or back to the future

No. 356693

I’m rewatching The Matrix and I remember why I had such a crush on Keanu Reeves, holy fuck

No. 356696

>>356680
My friend and his wife stopped by the other week with their little toddler and we ended up putting this movie on, I thought it was going to be dumb snarky “Dreamworks-face” garbage but I actually laughed out loud several times and realized I was actually invested in the story and really enjoyed it kek

No. 356721

>>356427
Right back at ya.

No. 356742

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watched this the other day. basically a traumatized woman goes to stay in a small secluded village after her crazy husband kills himself and realizes that all the moids in town share the same appearance (with the exception of having different hair and clothing). increasingly creepy incidents occur. i got high before it started and when i got to the part where the creature gives birth to itself over and over again i thought i was losing my mind kek

No. 356745

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I don't want to scare other nonas with this moid but i just want to say that i keep thinking about how i would want to fuck this character if he was a woman, sorry.
I know it's a reach and probably she wouldn't exist but i can envision it, god i need female characters with his attitude and aura, i'm in the verge of tears yearning for it.

No. 356786

>>356742
retarded movie. we don't need all the shock and weird transformation sequences. it could have literally just been a woman being sexually harassed in a village full of men and been even scarier because that's just real life. men attempt to depict the patriachy without any metaphors challenge.

No. 356822

>>356742
Oh my god I was excited to see that movie and I ended up hating the second half of it so much kek

No. 356865

>>356623
Lawrence of Arabia

No. 356876

I wanted to like Madame Web so bad, we as society need more recognizable female characters attached to Spider-Man, Gwen was claimed by the trannies and I'm conflicted about this movie because it botched multiple characters that i would have loved to see adapted to movie since i saw them in the comics but now that i know Anya Corazon will never be known to trannies like Gwen did I'm at peace.

No. 356877

>>356434
>>356572
Holy shit it was great! It was like a shitpost I made myself given life in the best possible way! It was so funny but the visual style of the intro and the dream sequence were so cool.

No. 356879

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This movie, especially the scene where she visits HR, is so fucking bleak.

No. 356897

>>356876
Who got botched out of curiosity? I find it helps knowing going in to feel less disappointed

Also you nonnas have convinced me to watch Lisa Frankenstein when it's available to torrent kek

No. 356905

Just watched Saltburn, and idk seeing so much Poor Things hype I feel like 2023 was a year of disgusting mid-tier movies, even though of course there were some good ones as well.

No. 357380

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Watched May December and loved it. Julienne Moore is phenomenal in it. Many interpretations and fascinating psychology covered under slightly campy aesthetic, it's hypnotizing. And it kinda pains me to say this, but it shows the process and effects of grooming way better than Priscilla.

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First time a movie made me go from wide awake to almost falling alseep. Way too boring. I don't mind long and slow scenes but just don't make it boring. I knew when there was an official break I should have watched part 2 on the next day, but I decided against it which was a big mistake. It was painful to reach the end of the film. The imagery was stunning though. Too bad because I was prepared to love it based on all the positive ratings.

No. 357934

boy kills world new trailer. it doesn't seem good from the trailer but i'll watch it for bill, he looks cute with this hair and the jacket

No. 357942

>>357934
i dont like that his EVIL MOTHER fucked him up bc thats moidy but he looks like a cute slut

No. 357970

>>357942
>i dont like that his EVIL MOTHER fucked him up bc
the character didn't kill his mother, she killed his family.

No. 357973

>>357900
Tbh I feel like you need to be in specific mood to enjoy Tarkovsky, his movies are like poetry translated to screen. The first film of his that I’ve watched was Sacrifice (his last one) and I loved it, I think it’s a good introduction to his work, like his other films it tackles metaphysical themes and it stays with you. Andrei Rublev bores me and I think it’s a very specific piece of Russian history, I didn’t like Nostalgia unfortunately, but I was so not in the mood and just wanted to checked it off my list (I’ll have to rewatch it someday). I also have to get to The Mirror.

No. 357992

>>356623
Princess Mononoke. I've seen that movie a retarded amount of times. Used to fall asleep to it all the time because it's so comforting for me.

No. 357998

>>357970
yeah i'm saying this is stupid. the archetype of a mom being evil and ruining her son in some way is dumb

No. 358010

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any other nonnas like found footage/mockumentary films? they're my biggest guilty pleasure when it comes to movies. it is true that many of them are garbage, particularly when they're formulaic and do little more than attempt to replicate the blair witch project or paranormal activity, but they're also an excellent way for indie filmmakers with small budgets to tell compelling and sometimes even unusual stories.

No. 358011

>>358010
The last one I watched was Final Prayer aka The Borderlands. It was pretty good would recommend. A nonny told me to watch it, could have been you I don’t know kek

No. 358032

>>358010
I really do even if you sometimes have to suspend belief that they'd still be holding a camera. Creep and Lake Mungo are some of my faves.

No. 358044

>>358011
kek it wasn't me but i do like that movie, the ending took me by complete surprise and had one of the most disturbing moments i've ever seen in a horror film which was seeing the main characters being slowly digested while still alive and hopelessly trapped, screaming in agony as they were melted by stomach acid

No. 358068

>>358010
I really liked Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, although it's more of a summer blockbuster that executes audience favorites well rather than trying anything super new with the formula

No. 358260

>>357900
kek this is my favourite film, i find it genuinely so captivating

No. 358388

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The first and last time I watched this movie it must've been 2005-06 at my aunt's home. I have no idea why she had this downloaded on a dvd, maybe she thought it was a fun spy movie aimed at little girls with some girl power themes and comedy. She's a rightwing woman so I'll have to ask her one day but I'm almost certain she never checked what was actually the plot by herself. My little brother and I watched the movie unsupervised while she was doing stuff around her flat and I remember being completely mesmerized by the girls and, frankly, very uncomfortable with the plotwist (calling myself repressed doesn't even begin to describe it). Well, even though I was only 5 or 6 years old at that time this movie has been living in a corner of my brain for the past 18 years. I didn't remember the actresses faces so I was very surprised to see Jordana Brewster (I love The Faculty) as the main villain. I did remember the plot and the ending. This movie is a little gem. You can clearly see that the budget was low but the story and the script make up for it. D.E.B.S. is fun and uplifting, the themes it explores are actually interesting and I think that the chemistry between the two main actresses is huge. I was also very surprised by the soundtrack because it has two songs by The Cure and New Order. I highly recommend it and I hope I can stream it in a movienight someday.

No. 358481

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As far as Coen brothers films go this one is mid. All the hype over it and the memes and the awards and watching it the first time I guess I expected more… bombast?

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>>358481
Of the two thrillers I watched this week I preferred Zodiac. But I also like the cast better.

No. 358483

>>358481
anton chigurh is the only good thing about this movie. great character

No. 358484

>>358483
I agree, then maybe the fact that the concept of modern western movie was not bad. I don't like western cowboy shit but it's not like i know other example of more modern takes tbh, but i also expected something more impressive.

No. 358485

>>358388
omg i used to love this movie thanks for reminding me of it

No. 358486

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>>358483
he was the most memorable character. I admittedly found out about the existence of NCFOM through pictures and memes (I know, I know) and after finishing it I totally understand why Anton is so iconic and lauded

>>358484
A lot of acclaimed film bro-y movies with a predominantly male audience are hit or miss imo. Once you've seen something praised one million billion times you go in with lofty expectations and sometimes come out of it saying "that's it?". I'm hit or miss on horror movies too though. Like I'm not a woman of taste and I unironically grew up watching bad comedies, my palette has expanded and grown overtime, it's just that moids cannot convince me to like The Godfather no matter how hard they try.

No. 358487

>>358486
the godfather sucks
>t. woman of taste

No. 358488

>>358481
I think the movies appeal was exactly because it was so restrained. Practically no music with the overall atmosphere of silence so that when the brief gunfights happen, it happens like real life, brief and explosive like being shocked by a volt. It also lends more power to the extremely downbeat ending and reinforces the theme of detachment. I do agree that "bros" overhype it, and I'm almost sure none of them actually like it beyond it being adored by critics and their substitute online father figures, but don't let that take away from the actual merits of the film.

No. 358490

>>358486
I remember watching The Godfather young and liking it but rewatching clips of it on youtube, I'm afraid it won't hold up.

No. 358504

>>358486
ngl i love the godfather but filmbros like it for the wrong reasons. imo it's not a movie about being a Man(tm) it's a family tragedy (my favorite genre)

No. 358507

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>>356623
Can't name just one movie because I would rewatch some movies a billion times as a child and watched them a few or more times when I was older on TV. It's Back to the Future (the trilogy), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terminator 2, and Merlin (1998; I've ruined the vhs lol).

No. 358508

>>356623
As a kid the Lion king, as an adult probably Warm bodies

No. 358518

>>358483
I loved his character but hated how the media illiterate (men) seem to act as if he's a terminator like figure when he's totally killable see the ending and also a whiny lil bitch autist who gets upset when people don't follow his quirky serial killer routine. I really like his character but dislike how he's been wrongly represented outside of the film.

>>358486
Based and true, so many movies on the 100 movies you must watch!! lists are ok but if you're not an easily manipulated man they just fall short. Don't even mention Christopher Nolan around an educated woman.

No. 358549

>>358481
Yeah, it’s super mid. I watched it because my ex recommended it but didn’t care for it. I tried to get into some analyses to see if I missed something but I’m still not appeased. The Godfather is genuinely as good as they say tho

No. 358550

I watched Robocop for the first time last night and it was fucking awesome. Highlight was when he shot that dude in the dick. Amazing.

No. 358554

>>358481
I love it but I love pretty much every Coen Brothers film out there. I enjoyed Tommy Lee Jones's character and Anton was fabulous. Though I don't enjoy it over some of their other films, and I think Fargo's execution of its old man messages was better (the stamp conversation between the husband and wife) plus prefer their movies where Frances McDromand is the star, it still sticks with me and I remember it fondly. The conversation between Tommy and the old man where the old guy basically goes "why are you being nostalgic for simpler times? people were psycho back then too" is one of my favourites of theirs even if it isn't as well executed as the stamps scene mentioned (which granted was also rather on the nose too but it was cute so idc). It felt like a self-aware reminder which was nice for a couple of filmmakers who quite often are nostalgic for other times.
Though I am a little surprised it got the extreme love it did, I think most of it came from people who'd just seen the gas station scene and think the movie is mostly about Anton plus feel like they have to praise it cause it's by the Coens (aka most of the academy so the awards makes sense). It's a good movie imo, but like their other films, isn't for everyone and I think most people who say they love it haven't actually seen it kek. It's also one of the more "Coen" of Coen films if that makes any sense, sure it's not the Big Lebowski level "different", but not total normie tier nor typical film bro stuff. Maybe it's more accessible than I think but I just cannot see the average man sitting down and enjoying it start to finish unless they're a boomer who can at least relate to the old man stuff. Girls yeah, but I see men mostly going apeshit for the film and they're not the best at analogy or hammered home messaging.

No. 358570

>>358504
>>358518
You remind me why I get so tired of film bro male film discourse. They have subzero media literacy or rhetorical skills and then they take up the bulk of conversation and make it hard to even discuss the nuances of the film and let women have an opinion. I have a thing for analyzing and favoring villainous male characters and it always drives me crazy the way moids in film discourse interpret them

No. 358586

>>358570
The way male film bros actually get seduced by the evil men in films, the film is representing a man who is evil but clearly charismatic and instead of recognising his character as a manipulator they become the people who fall for the charisma and play that into their viewing of the film, it's ridiculous.

I think a part of it is how easy it is to watch most films, to consume most types of media, males love giving their opinion even if not educated enough to do so. Piss poor literacy, one film class would do them good, a whole degree would blow their tiny minds.

No. 358637

>>358486
>Once you've seen something praised one million billion times you go in with lofty expectations and sometimes come out of it saying "that's it?"
Me when I watched Taxi Driver the first time. But not going to lie it grew on me and maybe I read an article on an actual film blog that put it into historical context. I rewatched it probably not even a month later and if I did star ratings I'd say it went up uhh 2 or so for me I think it's a good ass film.

No. 358645

>>358550
Robocop is phenomenal

No. 358692

>>358550
The dick shot from robocop was so iconic. The fan remake redoes that scene with robocop graphically shooting dicks off like 30 guys for 2 minutes, its awesome lmao

No. 358743

>>358637
I liked both Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy but I don't ever mention this to filmbro scrotes unless I wanna get a boring lecture kek

No. 358771

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>>358743
Midnight Cowboy had me completely entertained throughout and sobbing by the end. RIP Ratso.

No. 358782

>>358743
Same, anon. it's weird how most dude bros praise them as their manifestos. I havent seen midnight rider yet, but I did see Taxi driver when I was 20.

No. 358786

>>356623
Revenge of the Sith, Jurassic Park and Interview with the Vampire are def some of my top watches.

No. 358788

>>355906
>>355912
I hated Easy A so much. My at the time friend recommended it to me and I told her it was shit. Why would any college woman ruin her own rep to make a good feel better? it made no sense to me. it was so skeevy. I think I only liked her in Zombieland, and even that the two male leads carried the movie for me because Emma was the annoying NLOG romantic interest. Now I can't remember a single movie I liked Emma stone in and i've seen so many. I guess the only non sexual she's been in was Cruella.

No. 358801

>>356745
From Fargo? This character was definitely one of my favorites. In general, I freakin love that movie

No. 358802

>>358481
This movie is one of my favorites. I think both the casting and acting is absolutely perfection. It's one of my favorite thrillers out there (sorry, I'm a bit sleep deprived. I just love the acting so much)

No. 358805

>>358508
The Lion King to Warms Bodies pipeline is so legit. I watched the Lion King 100 times as a kid.

No. 358807

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I'm high af right now. Can anyone recommend a great movie? I just watched Happy Death Day last night and loved it.

No. 358923

>>358807
Triangle (2009) maybe

No. 358943

>>358807
malignant (2021)

No. 358947

>>358807
Megan, it was pretty fun and no heavy brain lifting

No. 359085

>>358486
>A lot of acclaimed film bro-y movies with a predominantly male audience are hit or miss imo. Once you've seen something praised one million billion times you go in with lofty expectations and sometimes come out of it saying "that's it?". I'm hit or miss on horror movies too though. Like I'm not a woman of taste and I unironically grew up watching bad comedies, my palette has expanded and grown overtime, it's just that moids cannot convince me to like The Godfather no matter how hard they try.
This. I recently watched a few movies praised by moids (The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, The Godfather, Blade Runner) and they are either decent but disappointing and underwhelming or just mediocre.

No. 359093

>>359085
>Donnie Darko
is so overrated. I seriously just don't get this movie. I don't even say it's bad, if someone likes it, whatever, but why all the praise?

No. 359149

>>355912
>>358788
I watched Easy A when I was around 11-12 and I liked it back then though I bet I would hate it if I rewatched it. At the risk of sounding libfemy but the movie did make me less hostile towards other girls and women. I felt bad for the main character and realized that I should probably stop calling women and girls for whores kek. The movie didn't make me think that sex was totes empowering or some other bullshit but it did make me more hesitant to believe rumors at school and it did make me stop caring about other people's love lives. I remember the movie had a positive message but I was young when I watched it so I probably missed some of the movies themes or messages

No. 359153

>>359085
I love blade runner, one of my fave movies (I do just like the cyberpunk genre even though Bladerunner is very mild cyberpunk) but I find it so hard to rewatch because of the rapey sex scene, it's not rape but up until the last moments it is filmed that way.

No. 359155

>>359093
>why all the praise?
I don't know but Donnie is troubled and tortured and kind of a delinquent(never really gets punished for his actions), is always "the smartest person in the room", a girl falls in love with him instantly, and he's secretly the savior of the world or something so my theory is that moids want to be him.

No. 359358

>>359085
There's some I enjoyed (Kill Bill, Nightcrawler, American Psycho, Scarface was fun but not a masterpiece and I love Pacino's hammy acting, even in movies where I don't care for the plot) that were standouts, and others are a bore. NCFOM was one of those 50/50 for me. I still need to see Taxi Driver.

Speaking of film bro-y directors I was pleasantly surprised by Shutter Island and went into it not even knowing it was a Scorsese film but it kept my attention for a 2.5 hours. You couldn't pay me to watch The Irishman though

No. 359360

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Saw Dune 2 today! The story is interesting enough but god I loved the visuals

No. 359374

>>359358
Ayrt and I really liked Nightcrawler. I thought preferred Jake in this compared to Darko or maybe this movie was just better.

No. 359377

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>>359374
Nah the movie was much better. He was completely shafted for his performance in Nightcrawler, downright chilling, atmospheric, tense trip of a movie

No. 359401

>>358504
>it's a family tragedy
Yes! Kay deciding to abort her male baby in II because of how fucked up the Corleone men are was an integral part of the story. The point just flew over most of the audience's heads because hurrr durr evil woman.

No. 359411

>>359377
this is the performance of gyllenhaal's life and one of my favorite fictional characters in general

No. 359423

>>358504
>>359401
Thirding you nonas. That shit (Godfather part II) was devastating, Michael threw everything away. Brotherhood, fatherhood, being a husband, everything.

No. 359433

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>>359401
ayrt and right! I actually like how they handled the way women are treated in the family. kay and connie are integral parts of the story. it's not just a moid movie. filmbros who actually think michael is just a stone cold badass are total retards who missed the point of the entire saga.
>>359423
yes yessss. part ii is so good. the paralles between vito and michael and the way their stories ultimately differ are so well executed. and there's nothing like watching a character hurtling towards inevitable doom not because of fate, but entirely as a result of their own choices

No. 359449

>>359360
it was sooooo good, I loved how Jessica looked by the end as well, so striking

No. 359541

>>359153
>rapey sex scene, it's not rape but up until the last moments it is filmed that way.
I read somewhere that Harrison Ford insisted this scene be played out this way and ever since then I cannot stand anything with him in it. I always thought he gave off such shitty energy anyway, no loss for me personally.

No. 359593

>>359541
That's disgusting if true, why on Earth would you want that unless you are a horrible creep? He did also sign that release polanski thing so, not surprising ig.

No. 359736

If they don't have a femdom bisexual threesome in this movie I will be very sad

>>359360
The Bene Gesserit were the most interesting characters in my opinion, loved them.

No. 359923

>>352504
late but thank you nonny.

No. 360000

DUNE SUCKED . i automatically assumed some white guy wrote it (like 30 minutes in), it came off as a power level fantasy

No. 360003

>>360000
the books suck too

No. 360183

>>360003
can confirm. i watched part 1, kinda cared enough about the rest of the story to read the book, and then it evaporated any desire i had to ever bother watching part 2. it’s such an underwhelming story and i refuse to be gaslit by book fans going “oh but the story’s not really over until your read xyz.” and it doesn’t help that the author was apparently off the rails on some pedophilia shit by the time he wrote the last two books. no thanks.

No. 360243

>>360183
wait wtf? i heard the author also included some sexual fantasy of women getting overpowered and whatnot, or "losing" to men. whats this about?

No. 360273

>>360243
full disclosure, this is all shit i remember from skimming wikipedia after reading the first book, but in later parts of the series, there’s a scene where an adult’s brain is put into the body of a child clone, and the only way to “awaken” the adult brain is with sex. and iirc there’s also a villain later on who literally causes drug-level addictions in any man she fucks which is of course the most terrifying thing in the universe in this moidbrained novel (although it’s not nearly as bad as all the pedo shit).

No. 360284

Watched Poor Things today. The movie is not like it's depicated here in the thread at all. I enjoyed it and the main character Bella was very entertaining and cool. There was no rape in the movie.(b8)

No. 360294

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Reading about some chinese movie drama
>YOLO, which takes its name from the acronym for "you only live once" in English, is a drama about a female boxer. It is the highest-grossing movie so far this year and sparked strong debates on social media because of the star's dramatic weight change. Jia Ling, the successful actress and director who also starred in the Chinese 2021 blockbuster "Hi, Mom," first gained 20 kg and then dropped 50 kg for the film. This is not very common among Chinese actors and generated controversy as to what kind of message such an abrupt weight change conveys.
>In recent years, netizens expressed concerns over her health due to her growing weight, but they have also judged and criticized her, even likening her to "a balloon about to explode". That's why many were surprised by her transformation from a once plump and bubbly comedian into a muscular, strong, and healthy physique. Jia has clarified that her film does not center on weight loss or aim to perpetuate body image concerns but rather is about portraying the mental and physical transformation of her character, a jobless, people-pleasing, and socially isolated woman who turns to boxing to enjoy and control her own life, and telling the audience that it's never too late to change and love your life. Jia’s decision to lose weight was also influenced by a desire to break free from typecasting because of her previous body shape.
https://dongshengnews.org/en/news-on-china-no-180-en/

>The film centers on a reclusive woman, played by Jia, who takes up boxing after feeling disconnected from society.

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1014646

Honestly it sounds like a cool movie I want to see it now

No. 360298

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No. 360305

>>360294
this sound so cool, cant wait to see it! i hope it releases on streaming soonish

No. 360311

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This movie is too damn sad oh my fucking god. I wanted to watch it but I turned it off because it was making me feel physically upset lmao. I'm not usually such a wuss.

No. 360313

>>360311
Some movies just have a cover/poster that makes you think yeah this'll make me cry and depressed and this is one of them.

No. 360322

>>360294
This kind of thing reminds me of how women’s bodies are seen almost like a public property. Scrote actors can gain and lose like 50 kilos to play a part and they’re “method actors”, and dedicated to their roles, but anything a woman does with her body, even if it is for a role where it makes sense, is open for criticism and “sending a message” like just having a body that is female is a political thing.
Sorry for the sperg. It does sound like a cool movie. Like Million Dollar Baby but (hopefully) not as depressing.

No. 360326

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>>360284
obsessed with the people who like poor things, aren't you(replying to bait)

No. 360327

>>360311
I heard they die at the end in the movie?
Cause in the book they are almost dying, but then the writer pulls a deus ex machina and they are saved.

No. 360329

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>>360311
"share the adventure of a lifetime" my god the producers were REALLY struggling to try to make it seem like this isn't one of the most fucked up movies ever made huh

No. 360330

Finally watched Kamikaze girls. I loved it, it gave me joy, I’m glad I saw it recommended somewhere here

No. 360332

>>360327
the ending is open-ended and bleak as fuck, basically implying they may or may not die

No. 360335

>>360322
Oh, one hundred percent. I was interested to read that extreme weight loss/gain is apparently not common for actors in China but the way people are talking about her body is just the same universal misogyny you see everywhere in my opinion. She’s making her movies and doing her thing, wish her the best she sounds successful and the movie sounds good I hope I can figure out how to pirate it with English subs kek

No. 360345

>>360327
>>360332
There's a chance they could live, but it's clear they will mostly die, I remember crying for an almost an entire day when my dad showed me this movie.

No. 360381

>>360311
This, Watership Down and Felidae are like the trinity of cartoon movies that leave you with that extremely depressed feeling mixed with uneasiness and fear. They're just sad, bleak and creepy but the stories and animations are genuinely well-done. Felidae is a lot more fucked, don't watch it nonnies.

No. 360396

>>360311
>>360329
I got a good kek out of "A special kind of movie magic from the creators of Watership Down."

No. 360397

Do nonas know any movies set before the 2000s where nothing really happens and it's just women living life? Like 80s and 90s movies.

No. 360439

>>360381
nona now I have to watch Felidae. why would you do this to me

No. 360473

>>360439
the whole thing is actually on youtube (if you still want to check it out). tbh i’d say it doesn’t feel nearly as “artistic” as watership down or the plague dogs, but it’s def still a worthy watch if you like that category of dark animated films. fair warning though that felidae legit has cat sex scenes in addition to violence. like, they’re a fairly big part of the plot.

No. 360498

>>360473
>tbh i’d say it doesn’t feel nearly as “artistic” as watership down or the plague dogs
I'd have to agree with you on that, Watership Down and Plague Dogs feel like bleak slice-of-life type of movies while Felidae is a lot more focused on the central murder mystery of the story with a lot of fucked up shit happening in between.

No. 360503

>>360473
>spoilered text
Oh no lmao. Why? is it a covert furfag movie?

No. 360504

>>360503
Nta but most of it doesn't feel like a furfag movie, but I'm not really sure. It does kinda fit the theme of the movie that is genetic experimenting and breeding a superior race of cats while killing off all the unfit ones in various ways but it's not like that scene was necessary… maybe it's there for the shock factor or because it's an adult movie therefore it has to mention sex even if it's about animals.

No. 360509

>>360504
Falidae seems more of a shock type movie than Watership Down and The Plague Dogs, Watership Down is art through and through, I'm the crazed man screaming down the alley's that the violent bunny mayhem was important to showcase the ideas at show. Feels bad to put them in the same category even though they fit together.

No. 360512

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Just watched Made in Dagenham and it was really good, don't know why I'd never heard of it. Based on real events, it's basically a feminist victory story. Felt good to see. The actors are good too and there's a good bit of comedy in the drama, it was entertaining.

No. 360514

>>360503
>>360504
yeah, it doesn’t feel like a furfag thing imo. it comes off more as a “look how edgy and adult our animated movie is” kind of thing, like they threw it in just to hammer in the whole grimy-mystery-thriller-but-with-animals vibe.

No. 360563

>>360514
I googled it and found discussions about it being a movie with actual sex on furry forums but they can make anything part of their fetish so I don’t know. The director only did three movies according to IMDb, one of which was Pippi Longstocking in 1997 lol

No. 360587

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Olaf was way creepier than I remember. Like another anon said in a different thread he's so molesty. Pardon me it's been awhile since I watched this or read the books, and I don't mind adaptation villainy- I haven't watched the Netflix series sans a few episodes, is he supposed to be coded as a creep? Or is that just Carey Olaf? I'm tempted to give the Netflix series and books another whirl because I love the vibe of ASOUE, the last time I watched series I was with my ex and we broke up before finishing it so I never did

This reminds me that I wish Emily Browning were in more things. The kid who plays Klaus wasn't half bad either, doesn't seem like I see either of them in much nowadays. I know this movie was panned but it has a solid cast and setting. It's one of those adaptions up there with Percy Jackson that while it's not loved by book faithfuls, I enjoy it on its own.

No. 360594

>>360587
i like both the movie and tv series, but i think i prefer the tv series because Neil patrick harris definitely feels less sleezy as Olaf than Carey, and we get more of the fun side characters. the books also has some fun tidbits in its prose that i think is worth reading even if you know how the story goes imo

No. 360597

>>360594
I'll probably read and watch both then, thank you for the recommendation!

One other thing I really enjoyed about the movie version: the ending animation. This was so cool to me as a kid and is still cool to me now

No. 360606

>>360587
I agree with >>360594 the tv series Olaf is lot goofier, the movie version of Olaf and his allies are genuinely scarier, cause he is a deranged murderer who is gonna marry a teenage girl.

No. 360815

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Been a few weeks since I watched Poor Things and I'm still thinking about how the only character to face consequences for their actions is also the only one shown to be abusive to both men and women.
Everyone who limits their victims to women gets a happy ending.

Feminist masterpiece btw

No. 360874

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Can anyone recommend me movies that are more character driven, less plot driven? Idk if there's like a word to describe this genre but like films where they mostly focus on one character, tends to be more grounded in reality, not very dialogue heavy. Usually kind of a depresso vibe, generally doesn't have a happy ending. Tends to be more of the artsy fartsy variety. The kind that gives the vibe that it would win awards at festivals. You know the type?
Some examples off the top of my head: Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Lacemaker, The Match Factory Girl, and The 400 Blows.

No. 361092

Just watched the holdovers, and if you're in the mood for a character development heavy, coming of age, unlikely friendships formed through less than perfect circumstances film then this might be up your alley. Genuinely engaging, bittersweet moments, tear jerker scenes with funny moments throughout.

No. 361094

>>361092
I personally found the movie pretentious, the restaurant scene only cemented the movie as a slop for me. After watching it I was nothing but sad that I hated it so much while others have fun, but it is what it is.

No. 361100

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>>360874
have you seen ghost world? it's free to watch on tubi

No. 361176

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I will take the heat if you all hate me for loving Hedwig I don't care it's hands down one of my favorites, just cried through almost the entire damn thing. Love the set designs, costumes, THE SONGS, the jokes, everything. I'm just extremely touched by the identity stuff, not in a tranny way I promise.

No. 361185

>>361176
You’re so right anon. If anything I perceived hedwig as about reconciling with your birth sex as a gender dysphoric person, recognizing that you are the person you are no matter how much you wish things were different, and also reconciling with the unchangeable harms you did to yourself in your efforts to be somebody else. I actually think this about rocky horror too. Something about the back to back combo of “rose tint my world” contrasted with “I’m going home” (the lyric is even “I see blue skies through the tears” vs “rose tint”… you get me) makes me feel like it’s about the dream being over and now it’s time to wake up because it isn’t truly good for you, and you’re sad about it but it’s also a relief in a strange way. This also accords I think with the fact that both these musicals are from a prior era of gnc culture when men who were extremely gnc or dysphoric and who were genuinely introspective had to reckon with the heartbreaking and very relatable experience of deep existential desires that simply can’t be fulfilled. It actually makes me upset that this experience has been laundered into such fakery feel good delusional gender bullshit in the new gen of trans shit because it’s so human and powerful.

No. 361233

>>360874
the word is mumblecore, i believe. or its a genre close to what you're looking for. anyway, some movies i enjoyed that are similar (not maybe not completely..) are: microhabitat, wasp, the days between, irma vep, la cíenaga, christine (1987), cure: the life of another, frances ha, and frownland.

No. 361248

>>360874
Beautiful (2000 film)

No. 361256

>>361100
i love this movie so much it hurts, i always feel guilty being a little jealous of enid fucking seymour, i was SO much like her as a teen. i can relate to everything about her on a personal level down to wanting to have a weird relationship with an older put-together guy

No. 361258

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>>360874
I watched picrel recently and I felt it had a similar vibe to Welcome to the Dollhouse imo.

No. 361262

>>361258
RLM gave this a good review and now I want to watch it. A romance between an autist and a failing white trash musician sounds cute tbh.

No. 361279

>>360874
Fat Girl (theres a creepy sex scene though), The Tracey Fragments

No. 361568

Poor Things sweep underway at the Oscars. You hate to see this momentum

No. 361569

>>361568
i do in fact hate to see it. if emma stone gets actress instead of gladstone i’m eating my foot.

No. 361579

>>361568
is it good? worth paying money to see in the cinema or watch online?

No. 361582

>>361579
Just read the posts about it ITT or else another infight will start

No. 361589

Haven’t seen this movie, didn’t take part in any infight and I don’t really care about it but I sure hate to see that annoying anon being right.

No. 361608

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Goji Minus One won best VFX
Im so happy nonnas!!

No. 361616

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>>361569
It's over for your foot nonnie, stream the feast.

No. 361619

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The academy should sudoku themselves for this one. I know none of them take animation seriously and probably only picked based on the titles but it's never been more blatant than this (animated shortspilled nonnies will know)

No. 361624

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>>361616
lol, i loved poor things but lily deserved that.
still gonna laugh at the butthurt weirdo who was obsessing over people liking poor things ITT cuz of this
>>361568
freaks who think it's pro-pedophilia garbage on suicide watch

No. 361625

>>361262
>>361258
Watched this a while ago and really liked it, been thinking about making it my first attempt at a moovie night. Might just do it.

No. 361630

I’m not sure why people are surprised that Poor Things is full of weird sex scenes, his earlier film Dogtooth has plenty of scenes like this such as an older woman making a younger woman perform oral sex on her in exchange for various items and a woman being forced to have sex with her brother by their parents. He’s just like every other degenerate scrote director who insists that the sex scenes in their movie are ~deep~ and ~artistic~.

No. 361632

>>361630
it's not a surprise, it's just not pro-pedophilia, sorry

No. 361636

>>361619
>>361279
Fat Girl is insane good like captures things I’ve never seen on film anywhere else from growing up as a fucked up low status preteen. that said nonna might be underselling “creepy sex scene” there’s minimum 20 minutes of extended rape in that movie if you count all types of forced or coerced sex lol. Once again I love it but it’s brutal. Tbh I mainly decided to post this not out of puritanism or to be pedantic but in the hope that an anon who is insanely masochistic like me will decide to watch fat girl and change her life

No. 361639

someone I know really is pressuring me to watch poor things with her. how bad is it really, nonnies? also I did read up and >>360815 bugs me a lot, enough to resist watching it.

No. 361640

>>361568
>>361616
Hollywood going full mask of with the pedophilia I see. No wonder all these retards signed the Polanski petition etc.

No. 361641

>>361639
no one fucking cares tbh

No. 361642

>>361639
Just read the wikipedia entry for the plot and consider if it's worth watching.

No. 361644

>>361642
i feel like this question has been asked at least 5 times and i refuse to believe it isn't the same person. continually asking "my friend likes this movie but idk it seems gross and rapey, should i really watch it anons???" so weird.

No. 361645

Cringe kino. The only good moment from the oscars
Pacino being totally senile was funny also

No. 361647

>>361639
not worth it. pornsick film

No. 361649

>>361645
I was caught off guard when Slash showed up.

No. 361653

>>361647
>>361641
yeah that was more what I was weary of. at least I know to avoid it now.
>>361644
is my first time bringing it up. I think the confusion is happening because there seems to be such high praise for the movie so the idea that it is that blatantly scrotey/perverted is unexpected?

No. 361654

>>361653
Go ask the others tweens in your discord if a movie is problematic uwu(uwu)

No. 361659

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No. 361661

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>>361659
continually asking a stupid question like "should i watch this movie if i think it looks gross" is more bait tbh, i don't believe you that it's your first time asking, i have never seen anyone do that for any movie in these threads so much as poor things and it's obvious there's an anon furiously samefagging here because they're mad that some people like it and it's getting awards lol.(infighting)

No. 361662

>>361661
Wasn't even the anon asking kek.

No. 361663

>>361661
I was the anon asking if its worth watching about a few hours ago, I haven't asked twice. Decided not to after looking up the sex scenes, its too pervy for me

No. 361666

>>361661
Who knew criticising a shitty film would get someone so worked up?

No. 361673

>>361632
Never said it was, just that the director is a typical sexually degenerate scrote. No amount of pretty visuals will make his movies ‘deep’, sorry.

No. 361674

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It was bad night for me, personally.

No. 361677

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>>361608
hell yeah!!

No. 361678

>>361625
Do it!!
>>361248
oh shit I remember seeing this movie on cable TV in the early 2000s I should rewatch it, I remember it being really good but I was like 13 so I'm not sure if it holds up kek.

No. 361679

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>>361608
the crew had amazing godzilla shoes too

No. 361689

>>361679
Hahaha, that is so cool. I really liked that movie and the effects were great, they deserve it.

No. 361691

>>361674
This snub was so sick and twisted…

No. 361694

>>361666
The only Poor Thing here is you samefagging and reporting everyone who doesn’t agree with you booboo

No. 361696

>>361661
>>361624
>>361694
>>361632
You're getting recognizable, and all just to defend a shitty gross pedo film. We know it's you because you're literally incapable of ignoring criticism about this movie and replying to "da haters", always talking about said movie winning "awards" like anyone gives a shit(do not respond to infighting bait, just report and move on.)

No. 361699

>>361696
>get called out for samefagging and being weird
>”no u”
Keep reporting posts though anon it’s funny that you have to do that because you have no actual response.(infighting)

No. 361705

If Villeneuve ever makes a Rendezvous With Rama movie as he says, will you be excited for it?

No. 361763

>>361705
As long as he doesn't adapt the sequels. Or figures out a way to explain the mystery without the stupid human drama.
It would probably be really interesting visually.

No. 361769

I didn't watch the entire Oscars but I caught when they were doing best screenplays and I was surprised they gave Best Adapted to American Fiction. The writing for that movie was competent but not great, and from that category it was the worst. That movie was disappointing because it had such a good premise.

No. 361779

>>361699
>Everyone who disagrees with me is the same person
>You're banning me just because you disagree, not because I'm breaking the rules by infighting like a reddit scrote chymp
Nta buy why are schizos like this.

No. 361784

>>361769
The fact that it won over the other candidates proves the message of the movie, it wasn't awarded because of how competent it can be but because it was made by a black man.

No. 361787

>>361639
The book is better. The movie fucked up the ending. All of the disgusting things that happened are revealed to be lies made up by a moid to slander the main character. The movie got rid of this twist, implying that everything was true in the universe of the story and even having the baby-brain thing happen to another woman. The moid filmmakers must have disliked the idea of their wank fantasy just being slander kek. I'm so glad it didn't win best picture. Oppenheimer may be a sympathetic portrayal of a man who murdered thousands of innocent people, but at least I can be reasonably confident that the moids involved didn't pick the script because it made their dicks hard. I'm sick of coomer torture porn trash like Blonde and Poor Things being passed off as feminist when it's the exact opposite.

No. 361790

>>361784
Gotta have at least one best picture nominee with a black director and black lead actor, otherwise retards on Twitter will throw a tantrum about how the awards for an industry full of the wealthy and privileged doesn't give enough rewards to underprivileged people.

No. 361791

>>361616
Pedowood not even trying to hide the fact they want to fuck children anymore. Emma is extra trash for this

No. 361800

>>361679
So cute. Happy for the Gojira crew!

No. 361819

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I might not sell it well but I really liked Clockwatchers. I love the portrayal of the highs of new friendship and the sadness of eventually drifting apart. Directed by a woman as well! Watch it. Totally in love with Parker Posey's character.

No. 361828

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>>361784
>Hard to Watch based on the novel Stone Cold Bummer by Manipulate
Crazy to give an Oscar to a mid movie that basically turned a 30 Rock joke in to a full length movie, 15 years later and less funny

No. 361830

>>361654
Since when does uwu get red texted you faggots. Inb4 take it to meta(meta to it take)

No. 361850

>>360606
reading this thread from the bottom up and I had to read this 3 times before realizing it wasn't about the snowman from Frozen. I swear I'm not stoned

No. 361867

>>361830
>inb4 take it to meta
You wouldn't have had to say this if you had just posted about it in meta to begin with

No. 361869

>>361830
new farmhands have been terrible for a bit(take it to meta)

No. 361883

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>>349186
this movie could have been fujo kino, what a waste. and damn, barry keoghan looks so fucking damaged, why the fuck did they pick a leather raisin to play a college kid?

No. 361907

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Finally saw Poor Things. It was so visually beautiful, I loved the freaky architecture like picrel and the outlandish deep-sea creature/vagina shirts she kept wearing paired with incongruous modern boots. Very Camille Paglia.
As for the pedo accusations, I agree with previous anons that the way the sex scenes were shot left something to be desired, but I saw enough seinen anime as a teenager to know the difference between disguised porn and this. It clearly freaked out right wingers by seeming to confirm their jewish pedowood fantasies. Libfems wanted a Barbie movie a sequel and this didn’t hammer home the message that Exploit Women = Bad hard enough. Radfems saw the first sex scene and instantly passed out.

No. 361912

>>361907
>this didn’t hammer home the message that Exploit Women = Bad hard enough
well it seemed like it sort of wanted to do that message until later on. some of the predatory male characters are presented as good guys who get a happy ending just because they're 2% less predatory than the others.

No. 361915

>>361907
It's a penis

No. 361916

>>361907
How is it right wing to think it’s pedo? Children can’t consent, having a childs brain means no ability to consent is the logic. Even if we think of it as an adults brain in an adult body but the development level of a child, it’s still illegal. It’s against the law to fuck severe retards, same sort of thing. They don’t wait until she’s adult minded in the film. You can present the same thing minus the sex scenes, maybe have one and imply the rest, but no, gotta exploit women and shill it as ‘feminist’. Men should be banned from trying to claim any of there fetish shit is feminist.

No. 361919

>>361916
It’s not, anon’s brain has just been fried by all the hentai I mean “seinen anime.” It’s a classic case of the trope “born sexy yesterday” which caters to the male pedo gaze

No. 361921

>>361907
I think the anons calling it ~literal pedophilia~ are being overly dramatic and taking the movie too literally, but there are plenty of reasons to despise this movie beyond just being icked by the sex scenes. Men have no business attempting to make "feminist" films, especially ones with sex scenes, because they're literally incapable of visually portraying female sexuality in a way that isn't tainted by the male gaze. I imagine what this movie would have been like with a female director and I weep for what could have been. Also, it's extremely obvious that the producers, director, etc chose this script because it was shocking and made their dicks hard, not because the gave a rat's ass about women or women's problems. The way the changed the ending from the book gives the whole game away. Seriously, the twist ending is that the whole story was made up by Bella's scorned ex-husband because he was intensely jealous of her success and wanted to slander her. The author was basically saying that these are the sort of sick fantasies men cook up about women they resent. The filmmakers, as male perverts themselves, clearly took offense to the concept, which is why they changed the ending to not only be the true story, but also for the doctor to abuse another woman in the same way, because they were just so enamored with the idea of domestically abusing baby-brain women. The fact that they changed the ending is the biggest proof to me that this movie stripped all the feminist intentions from the book, and that the men behind it are chauvinist pigs trying to pass themselves off as ~arteests~. I wish the next male who tries to market his wank fantasy as a "feminist" film winds up like David Carradine.

I can't believe I'm even still contributing to this discourse. You are never going to convince me to like this movie, and the people who like it (notably the dogfucker from YMS) will never care about the film's issues. It's okay to like this movie, but stop treating people who don't like they're hysterical pearl-clutching bra-burners.

No. 361926

>>361916
ayrt, I agree that she has a child's brain in an adult body and couldn't consent. all the male characters who had sex with her while knowing that were in the wrong. some of them like the doctor's assistant got good endings, just like in real life where sometimes people do questionable or downright bad things and get good endings.
the genital mutilation scene, i thought to be about her own personal sexual freedom rather than a political thing. if this had been Barbie, someone would've done a speech about FGM = bad but bella had "matured" from a overgrown child into a selfish and hedonistic woman. she decided to leave her ex-husband/father's house because she wanted to preserve her own pleasure.
overall i interpreted the movie not as an attempted feminist statement or really anything positive, more of a fucked-up surreal reality, a horror movie basically.

>>361915
astute

No. 361931

>>361916
She's a Frankenstein monster basically ffs. She's not a child. She's not even human since she's reanimated. It's like a zombie with some cognitive function like the zombie in FIDO. There is no pedophilia there, I don't understand where the fuck people are pulling this argument out of their ass from.

No. 361932

>>361931
>It's Frankenstein
How does that change anything when it's mentally a child?

No. 361933

>>361932
It's like being reborn, but she's not a child. It's a new discovery movie. This isn't even a new trope. I think the issues >>361921 are bringing up about the male director and everything being changed is more of the issue. If this was a problem you'd think people would've been in uproar when the book was around. Nope. They are mad because you can't grasp what reanimating a body does in fiction and would instead fight over invisible pedophilia.

You'd think the fucking full frontal of a female baby in A24's High Life would be more of a pedophilia on screen discussion, but in the context the baby was being changed. That doesn't stop the people who are watching that who are pedos having a movie that is recently doing that and is available FREE TO WATCH. The priorities are hilarious. Anons would rather argue over an adult women acting out a reawakening trope rather than actually focus on dangerous showcases of children [or a fake body, idc, it was a full shot and it made me turn off the High Life].

No. 361935

>>361933
She's not being reborn though, the dead womens mind is not mingled with the childs, it's a completely new person. It's not being reborn, it's just being born. To be reborn implies she has prior experience (like that of the adult OG mother). It would be being reborn if the dead women was revived in a new body she had to learn to explore, not her child.

No. 361937

>>361936
>Doesn't have a childs soul
If we think of them as having souls, how would it have any soul other than a child. It is literally the brain of her child aka her childs consciousness and the soul of that consciousness.

No. 361938

>>361935
The brain doesn't have the child's soul, she isn't the child. It's just a brain. If for some reason they transplanted a dog's brain in to her and she still acted like she does after the transplant, would you call it bestiality? The logic isn't there and it doesn't work. What if it was a man's brain? Is she a man now? You need to walk me through the logic.

No. 361939

who else /never in a million years would've watched the movie if it wasn't for the sperg with the hateboner against it/ here(bait)

No. 361942

>>361938
Isn't this just the "their an old soul therefore ignore their actual age argument" kek?
>>361938
>>361939
Brain's have stages of development, a new borns brain is that of a child, aka has no experience? It's like saying what makes an IRL child a child is their body not the combination of their brain and form. You want to pretend they're two seperate things when they aren't, they're interlinked. What are you even talking about. The cope is unreal. Also, again, cope that everyone who hates the movie is one person. If you really think so, report them as samefagging and see if it's banned, if not, accept you're wrong. It's the opposite seeming honestly.

No. 361943

>>361940
>>361942

It's pointing out the absurdity that a transplant equates to age rather than someone coming back to life in general. Does Franskenstein's monster really have an adult brain with his fumbling nonsense and get married off to a fumbling female version or were they all children to begin with and the book is actually promoting child marriage? No.

You can try to argue it's pedophilia but it isn't even in the slightest.

No. 361944

>>361943
Frankenstein's monster literally does have an adult brain both physically and acts as such with it's attempt at integration into society. Have you even read the book?

No. 361947

>>361944
We aren't talking about books, clearly.

No. 361948

>>361947
You brought it up to try and prove your point which it doesn't and are trying to backtrack now because you don't actually know the story beyond pop culture/adaptions that leave things out and change the story? If it's not a child (as if souls are real) why does it act like one while literally having a baby brain implanted.
>>361907
>>361919
>Anime watcher
Should've ended here. Opinion discarded.
>>361915
Probably kek "you wahmen are just too stupid/juvenile to see art of emma stone being brain swapped with a child and railed on screen for 90% of the movie".

No. 361949

>>361916
>It’s against the law to fuck severe retards
I honestly feel like this is the bigger issue with the movie. Pedos won't get off to it, Emma Stone is an obviously grown woman and they are attracted to a child's body more than her brain. But she is literally acting retarded, and moids are more likely to develop a fetish for handicapped women if they're watching softcore porn of a hypersexual retard with an adult body.

I have really mixed feelings on the movie overall. I hated the gratuitous and unpleasant sex scenes, I don't buy the idea that a child would be that compulsively sexual in the first place, I hated that her partners were almost all revolting and old (if a child is having sexual feelings it will be towards cute young boys ffs). I don't trust the male creators intentions with any of this, even if they did get tantalizingly close to a good point occasionally. But I was entertained throughout, visually it's fascinating, and it had some really funny lines. I keep thinking about it so I think it's inevitable I'll get the urge to rewatch and get mad all over again at the sex scenes while reluctantly enjoying the rest of it.

No. 361950

>>361948
Have you not seen Frankenstein movies? He moves around, confused as hell like a toddler.

No. 361951

>>361949
>moids are more likely to develop a fetish for handicapped women
This is such a stretch. This has got to be bait. There's no fucking way.

No. 361952

>>361951
Key words being 'more likely', it seems far more plausible than pedophiles seeing a 36 year old woman as an actual child because of how she speaks and thinks.

No. 361953

>>361952
Neither is plausible. Can we stop derailing about hypotheticals and get back to the movie?

No. 361954

>>361950
That's movie interp, not the book. Haven't seen any films because the book is better. It's canonical to the story his brain is that of an adult. If in the film he tries for integration/revenge/speaks, then it is the case as in the book aka he is an adult.

No. 361957

>>361954
No1currs about the books. We are all discussing the movies relative to each other.

No. 361958

>>361949
>I don't buy the idea that a child would be that compulsively sexual in the first place,
They wouldn't it's male fantasy. Children are traumatized by it, it's just as anon linked >>361919 , men like the idea of corrupting a women/moulding her into whatever he desires. It's why JFG likes retarded women and rees when anyone points out it's suspect to prey on them, and why tradfag moids ree about needing to marry women younger aka more impressionable.
>>361951
Anon linked it >>361919 , it's so common it's a trope.
>>361957
>Brings up the book as defence
>Fails to prove point
>"N-no1currs anyway"
KEK.

No. 361959

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>>361958
The author of Poor Things has said in interviews that she thanks Shelly and Frankenstein as inspirations. I think that sums up what the point is. Just opposite sex. I swear the point of the movie went over everyone's head and they are trying way too hard to read into it to force a controversy that isn't even there. Maybe read anything the author has said and it will give clarity. I'm not going to derail about books.

https://time.com/6344025/poor-things-frankenstein-mary-shelley-feminist/

No. 361960

>>361948
I’m the anime watcher anon, not any of the book discussion anons. I brought up seinen anime as an example of something that portrays underage girls in a way meant for men to jack off to. Things like Dokuro-Chan are not actually sexually explicit and yet when you watch them you can tell it’s porn. It’s masturbation fuel. The plot focuses on which girl the guy is gonna have a sexual tension moment with next and whose boobs are what size. The female characters in seinen are less like characters and more like sex dolls. Poor Things is not like this.

No. 361962

>>361960
I agree with you that Emma Stone's situation isn't the same. The point is that she isn't dictated by how men think she should act. She's dictated by how she wants to act. How she talks, who she doesn't want to talk to, who she dances with, how she dances, who she fucks, doesn't want to fuck.. The movie isn't about the sex, yet with all praise of everything else from posters, that's all they are focusing on when so much of the rest of the movie is supposedly good. Just sounds like being mad to have something to be mad over and people who read too much in to context. The sex scenes were not even close to porn scenes. It's just sex on film. It's going to be called porn regardless by people with no class.

No. 361972

>>361959
>Just opposite sex.
I don't remember Frankenstein having a million voyeuristic sex scenes but okay.

No. 361974

Are you guys done arguing about that shitty movie yet? I want to discuss good films.(report them and move on)

No. 361999

>>361625
Thank you for actually doing it!! I’m excited for Sunday.

No. 362013

>>361974
The Goji anons made a valiant effort.

No. 362014

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I love horror movies but I struggle finding ones I like because gore that’s super believable or intense makes me feel physically ill, but this one was so damn good. It’s a foreign flick! I watched it October of last year and was very impressed with the cinematography and the writing. It’s super creative and the ending was crazy. Would highly recommend and love to hear the thoughts from other nonnas who have watched it. Incantation is another one I liked a lot and genuinely creeped me out.

No. 362063

>>361999
I'm glad anon, if this one goes smoothly I'll definitely do more in the future.

No. 362102

>>362014
I think I might've posted about this in some previous thread. I liked it, it was gross but not in an over-the-top way. I remember hearing from an interview with the directors that the main character was supposed to be a boy at first but one of the women involved in the process asked the writer to change it into a girl, made it so much better imo. They also mentioned that they had a team making the different types of puke she feeds to the hatchling and that the girl acting in it got to taste test them and pick the ones she liked the most kek

No. 362124

>>361959
Nta and your point still stands, but Alisdair Grey (the author of the book Poor Things) is a man, albeit one with more insight on women than most moids.

No. 362145

>>361962
Not necessarily related to Poor Things (which I'm sick of hearing about at this point) but I think there's a reasonable discussion to be had about how male artists and directors often struggle with portraying sex in a way that doesn't feel voyeuristic and/or porny. I think they suck at leaving their personal sexual taste at the door while creating these depictions. Sex does have utility in storytelling, I just find that modern men get 90% of the knowledge of the visual language of sex from porn and it absolutely shows in how the films they make depict and frame sex.

No. 362154

>>361907
Sorry for poking the Poor Things hive, I've also watched it after all the controversy I've seen online and think it's a lot of smoke for very little fire. It's a genuinely hilarious movie, although obviously there are very many questionable choices both with presentation and the so-called "feminist and socialist messaging", which I have no idea if it was poking fun at in good or bad spirit. But I'm ever so tired of like women's worldliness and maturity being tied to sexuality in any fiction, but what else would you ever expect of male artists.

No. 362158

>>362014
Oh my god Hatching! I loved that movie, it was just the right amount of grotty to be uncomfortable but not over the top and the story was really interesting. Love the creature design especially.

No. 362160

>>362154
there's like 1 or 2 fucking schizo obsessed anons in here who keep bringing it up because they hate it and most people don't hate it, don't worry about it anon.
>>361974
maybe if the aforementioned schizo stops bringing it up constantly to provoke infighting, but this is lc after all

anyway what's the best horror movie you've seen this year anons? i'm in the mood to be scared.(infighting)

No. 362164

>>362160
>maybe if the aforementioned schizo stops bringing it up constantly to provoke infighting, but this is lc after all
NTA but you're doing the same thing by responding to a post made 14 hours ago

No. 362169

>>362160
You're the schizo anon seething people don't like it. It was literally bought up by someone who did like it sperging about those who hate it for the most recent slapfight >>361907 and reeing because anons disagreed with their opinion kek.(infighting)

No. 362175

>>362014
I really liked it, I hosted it in the movie room. The effects were great and the momfluencer character was so awful in an accurate and unsettling way.

No. 362181

>>362124
That's my bad. I usually don't care about author gender, some names are obvious. I wasn't sure about his and just automatically female coded it lol

No. 362194

>>361907
>>361926
Can you confirm if 2 12 y.o boys watched her do sexual stuff? I read an interview where Emma was talking about her sitting down with the director and discussing how 12 year old boys would react to her doing sexual stuff irl so they could make the movie more realistic..

No. 362204

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just watched picrel and it was pretty fun, a bit convoluted but it was interesting to see some horror based on buddhist themes

No. 362218

>>362194
There is a scene that is about a dad "teaching" his early teen sons about sex by hooking up with her in the whorehouse. It's pretty clear from the editing that nothing took place in front of the actual kid actors though.

No. 362312

>>362194
Obviously they didn't do anything in front of kids. What a wild tinfoil some anons come up with when they refused to post proof. That's a dead giveaway.

No. 362316

>>362312
Ntayrt but I thought it was true because of what was described in this article
https://www.nme.com/news/film/poor-things-sex-scene-so-controversial-uk-law-required-it-to-be-re-edited-3568579
idk if I'm misreading it or if it's worded strangely(this is an imageboard)

No. 362554

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I appreciate the energy it brought and its goofy premise, It's nice to see a mid budget comedy that channels the 90s-00s energy I'm sometimes nostalgic for.

Zac looks so botched now it's distracting though I'm sorry

No. 362558

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Enjoyed this recently and how it touched on the difference in cultural norms between the east/west and the value of family. I also enjoyed how it was based on the screenwriters real family. Between this and Quiz Lady Awkwafina actually has more potential playing strait laced roles, it's better than her over the top acting.

No. 362575

>>362554
He broke his jaw. There's nothing he can do.

No. 362581

>>362575
He made that up, the timelines and inconsistencies in his story don't add up. Plus compare to Dylan O' Brien who got actual reconstructive surgery without looking botched.

No. 362588

>>362175
Thanks for hosting that movie again!

No. 362651

>>362581
Zach's jaw was hanging, that's more than just a little reconstruction. There's a difference.

No. 362818

>>362651
nayrt but it's a blatant hollywood lie and a quick google provides tons of evidence. This video is great for disproving his bullshit narrative but you might want to watch on a faster speed as she talks a little slow. The guy started fucking with his face and hairline pretty much from the moment he was an adult, he just can't hide how bogged he is now which is why he started using the jaw injury excuse (if it's even a true event that happened to the extent he claims tbh).
>>362558
>>362554
these look interesting in different ways, thanks for the recs nonas! but i have to ask going in, is john cena playing a troon or skirting the edge of playing one? cause if so, amazing and it's being watched tonight

No. 362836

>>361953
The director is obviously has a fetish for sexualizing autistically naive awkward characters, if you pay attention to his body of work, so I think it’s not really a stretch to feel this way(This is an imageboard, post directing examples)

No. 362859

>>362836
Well, what other work? This isn't a new story, it's based on a book.

No. 362949

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>>362818
>is John cena playing a troon?
No his characters original job before he's hired to play Ricky Stanicky is a lewd song impersonator (the costume reminds me of Britney Spears but is never coupled with a song).

I also thought it was a veiled reference to his "teenage girl" skit character on The Tonight Show kek

No. 363031

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Wonka was surprisingly whimsical, way better than I expected it to be based on the trailers. If I were a kid again I would've eaten this up

No. 363034

>>363031
I hate how grey it looks.

No. 363035

>>363031
timothee is awkward when he tries to be whimsical, color palette sucks as another anon said, and all of the songs were horrendous

No. 363049

>>363035
They reused the chocolate song about 4 times too! That is the only song I remember because of it. I'm used to muscles doing reprises but it's mostly just twice. This was just so lazy on the artist's side for creating anything catchy and memorable just to be able to have something they could put out in theatre. I think everyone liked working on the film, everything was fine, but not a movie I'm going to pick up at all any time soon. I'd rather watch Frozen 2 8 more times than this.

No. 363079

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>>359360
Saw it, the visuals are indeed the best part. The costuming is just beautiful, music was great to. Also really loved the arena fight. Feyd Rautha was weirdly hot

No. 363080

>>363079
gotta say I hate that pretentious mf (Butler) but he acted great

No. 363084

>>363080
Yeah his acting was great. He's the cringe guy who insist that his voice changed to Elvis because he played him in a movie right? I think this proves he cah easily change his voice to something else kek.

No. 363095

>>363084
Tbh the voice thing is very possible depending on if he method acted and talked like that all filming, even outside of the movie set. His drawl is very specific because it's also so slurred and southern. The pacing of his talking too. It's no different from living in a different country for half a year and having a bit of an accent. Before shooting, he was probably already taking classes lined up by his manager in order to learn how to talk like Elvis, so possibly a year talking like that and practicing. Even his normal speech might've had an accent without meaning to as he slowly transitioned out into his normal talking. I love, love watching actors learn different accents and some British/Australian actors also developed Americanized accents from having to play Americans constantly.

No. 363108

>>363034
>>363035
>>363049
Welp you guys are a tough crowd, I thought it was cute

No. 363110

>>363108
Nobody likes prequels and no one on the entirety of lc likes tinytim (except for one anon on /g/), what did you expect lol

No. 363114

>>362818
Christ all that plastic surgery but he still couldn't be assed to put on some goddamn sunscreen? Why are men like this.

No. 363128

I watched the Crow recently and it feels like a movie made for women. Like, he's back from the dead for revenge of his fiancee's death. He goes looking for her ring, tells a guy going through divorce how much his fiancee's feelings mattered, got a child her mom back, and SO much emphasis on his back muscles and his line delivery was filled with quotes. Tell me this was a movie for moids… Even though majority of the production was by men, this is a film not for them.

No. 363278

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Just watched Strictly Ballroom (1992). This may be the best movie ever made, but I'm also big Hairspray fan so maybe I'm just into unserious movies about weirdos in dance competitions where love wins.
It's 3 hits out of 3 Baz Luhrmann movies I've watched so far, Romeo and Juliet is next.

No. 363282

>>363108
i thought it was cute too. i probably wouldn't watch it again but i didn't expect it to be anything more than a couple hours worth of scenery and songs, which is exactly what it was.

No. 363294

>>363108
I thought it was too, but its nothing to pick back up again. Just like that Jingle Jangle Christmas movie that was put out

No. 363317

>>363095
It would be funny if he was stuck with speaking with the Feyd voice now

No. 363345

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I've been on a mob movie run and have binged Goodfellas and American Gangster the past couple days. I'm wondering if I can actually watch the Godfather without falling asleep like the first time I saw it. I fear I slowly may be becoming moidbrained. But I appreciate that as I've gotten older I've been able to expand my horizons when it comes to films I either doubted the first time or had never seen and passed on
>>363317
kek that would be hilarious

No. 363473

>>363128
James O'Barr was grieving the loss of his fiancee (she was hit and killed by a drunk driver) and wrote The Crow to help cope so it makes sense that his love for her comes through in the way his female characters are treated.

No. 363653

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I know that I'm months late but I finally watched Barbie and I cried quite a lot during it. I don't even really know why but it felt really touching. I know that it's only very soft libfem and yet it felt good to finally here something feminist on screen.
I also feel really similar to the Margot Barbie, I really have nothing going for myself, I have no idea what to do with my life. I wish that at the end Kens got punished and she went back to live like she did before, because as sensitive as she turned out to be, real life will be hell after the first excitement wears off. I also wish I had that many female friends, that everything was more pure and much less male-centered and that our world, clothes, houses, everything were more colorful. Even tho they were at a sunny beach in California, everything nevertheless suddenly looked so grey compared to Barbieland.

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>>363653
On a side note I'm so mad this movie didn't win for best sets and costumes because while it was majorly snubbed at the academy awards that is the category it excelled in. Real shame. Barbieland was so gorgeous and colorful and the outfits and styling were magnificent, plus they used lots of practical effects to bring it to life. Even if it is just a mild libfem take it's still a nice movie with a nice message and seeing it the second time on the small screen made me as happy as the first, plus all the women the first time i saw it in a packed theater with their girlfriends, moms, sisters, and some even inviting their bfs or husbands, everyone was laughing, just a wholesome experience

No. 363666

>>363656
That's disappointing it didnt win best sets. The barbie world was really fun and convincing. Especially Barbie's dream house.

No. 363667

>>363656
I actually watched it with my little sis and my mom and surprisingly she liked it despite usually being annoyed by anything even remotely pro-women.
Something that struck me was how long it took her to see how male-centered our world is. Ken walked through the streets and buildings for a good 5 minutes and only then she suddenly exclaimed "Oh, it's all just men?!"
Maybe this is the most feminism a movie can show and still be palatable to a broader audience than just very young and already woke women.

No. 363816

>>363667
My mom who's usually a strange hybrid between lolburtarian and moderate-right with some occasional shitty conservative conspiracy theorism loved the movie and actually appreciated the feminist message which surprised me. Although she's grown more liberal over the years I expected her to complain. It was nice to see older women watching and enjoying it, not complaining about it, and moreover while the message was a little obvious, it wasn't presented in a forceful or weird way, which I think is baby's first step to educating the uneducated about feminism safely without offending the skeptics. I appreciated it for that alone and it was nice enough to turn my brain off and appreciate the jokes and aesthetics. The fact that it plucked at my heartstrings so much surprised me, especially the What Was I Made For scene

>>363666
I'm honestly pissed that Poor Things swept so many categories at the Oscar's. I'm going to watch it eventually to form my own opinion despite my skepticism of the premise, but I think people are right to cope and seethe over Emma taking best actress from Lily Gladstone and it stealing best costumes and set from Barbie. The entire sweep of Poor things during award season feels bought and paid, not authentic. I know the Oscar's loves weird shit (Everything Everywhere All at once was weird but at least enjoyable with an original concept) but what was Poor Things bringing to the table that made it deserving of a win? Sorry, I don't get it. Born sexy yesterday janked up to 11 doesnt sound Oscar worthy

No. 363820

>>362154
> It's a genuinely hilarious movie
There wasn’t anything funny about it, I didn’t smile once throughout it and I didn’t find anything amusing. The director is a try hard who tried to be funny and quirky and failed.
>>361962
The sex scenes were very porny, from the context to the specific positions they put Emma stone in, I don’t care for sex scenes as it is but these ones were awful and particularly unappealing.
>>361959
The author is a male
>>361952
Pedos aren’t going to see a late 30s woman as a child, no, but the movie is arguing that children love sex and would be nymphomaniacs if they weren’t prevented from participating in sex. The fact that she has an adult body is to show that the old men “aren’t wrong” for using her sexually, and it’s arguing that mental maturity matters less than physical maturity- something that pedos have always argued (teenage girls are ready to be sexual partners for adult men because their bodies are mature enough, so to pedos it doesn’t matter that they’re kids)
It also presents sex as enlightening (it literally turned her world from black and white to technicolor) and that adult women and children are held back from experiencing this

No. 363831

>>363820
I liked it, didn't see any of these issues you're having.

No. 364084

>>362859
Yeah, and in the book there are two parts: first is what we see in the movie as woman-baby born sexy yesterday and all that whimsical whoring. It was written as a fiction that a husband wrote about his wife in a form of, supposely, his memoir and, supposedly, her words.
And then the second part: after the husband's death, his wife is writing about this book he made and asked her to read, and also about her real life - that she was raised in abuse, got married to literallywho, wasn't pregnant, didn't even want to commit suicide, that Dafoe's character wasn't an ungodly freak but the opposite - that's why she fled to him (after discovering her first husband's cheating on her), that she wasn't necessarily oh so horny trembling about her future second husband (as he wrote in his fanfic) - well, basically, that all things described in the first part, written by her dead husband, was an obvious absurdity driven most likely by the husband's jealousy, because Bella/Victoria was in love with God
Should I say that prostitution part was just a couple of sentences and there was lot more economics, politics and culture talk than sex?
So yeah, that all was the director's deliberate choice he made (and other people said "uh huh cool") and it is rather telling

And what about banning for "no receipts" on fucking media board? And what images do you even want from me? Dogtooth screenshots? Imbecile

No. 364087

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>>363820
it's almost like people have different opinions on what's funny than you
>sex as enlightening (it literally turned her world from black and white to technicolor)
not because she was having sex. because she was no longer caged and kept away from reality. the world didn't turn to color when she began masturbating. it was opening her eyes to the way the world can be both fun and horrible.

>>363831
me and my gf were laughing so hard we cried in the theater. whimsical, fun, sometimes depressing movie. loved it and love bella

No. 364105

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watched chameleon street from 1989, it is a fictionalization of william douglas streets life and WOW. i absolutely loved it, and it made me sad to see the director only had one film. very strange, very stylish, with an unsettling edge to it. has an absolute perfect end credit sequence.

No. 364129

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So apparently the kickass kid might be the next James Bond, i liked him better as the Twink/nerd be played on kickass but I don't really mind this choice, thoughts?
i know most of you probably don't care about the James Bond franchise because it's mostly just top scrote power fantasy but i like it.

No. 364130

>>364129
I'm not into James Bond and he'll probably get a hair cut for the role, but for some reason a curly long hair James Bond feels really weird.

No. 364144

>>364129
He denied he was taking the role kek

No. 364180

>>364144
The stupid shit he said about not wanting to be defined by one character and then going for superhero stuff. Bond is such a great career move, probably just doesn't want to put in the effort to make sure he's known for me.

No. 364187

>>364087
It happened when she had sex, not when she masturbated.
>me and my gf were laughing so hard we cried in the theater
I’m sorry but I’m just imagining two obnoxious fat pickmes with onlyfans, shrieking and bellowing as they guffaw in laughter with tears streaming down their fat faces.
All the women I know irl and have spoken to about it online just despised the movie and thought it was cringy and disgusting. The only people I’ve seen praise it are pedophile moids, women with onlyfans who dress like kids to appeal to pedos, and autistic women who like Bella and the premise because they’re literally mentally challenged by definition(infighting)

No. 364189

>>364129
I can see him as Bond, I wish he would take the role since he’s more attractive than the past actors who’ve played him. Every actor who has been suggested for the role has said they don’t see themselves as Bond or they’ve just been cagey about it, I wonder why that is. It seems like most actors would die to play Bond

No. 364193

>>364187
I completely agree with you I simply didn't want to infight with that anon. Only the most retarded pickmes like that movie(infighting)

No. 364194

>>364187
>and autistic women who like Bella and the premise because they’re literally mentally challenged by definition
I'm probably autistic and had sexual issues growing up and the movie completely fucked me up. It's like they were portraying the most hurtful shit I went through in childhood on the big screen for everyone to enjoy and laugh at

No. 364207

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>>364187
you have intense issues you need to sort out lmao. sorry you're so miserable that you have to cope by telling yourself that anyone who liked poor things is fat and ugly, you sound more misogynistic than anything in the movie
>>364193
>i don't want to infight but i'm going to infight
>>364105
this sounds awesome. gonna watch it soon(infighting)

No. 364210

>>364187
This comment stinks of projecting landwhale. You saw that anon said she had a GF and got triggered into a rage knowing you’re forever alone, hating other women who are prettier than you, obsessing over the nasolabial folds of cows. Your hatred of her manifests as insane assumptions and trying to insult her taste in movies because you know nothing about her. We get it, you’re unmedicated and don’t remember what fresh air smells like.Now can you stop derailing constantly (especially unsaged?)(infighting)

No. 364215

>>364210
I didn’t accuse her of actually looking like that, I said it’s the image that came to mind at the thought of a woman actually enjoying that repulsive pathetic movie. This >>363820 was my first post in this thread, I’ve never derailed. And new posts should be unsaged in order to move the threads along, this isn’t /snow/

No. 364216

>>364207
No one likes you. Normal, intelligent people think that Poor Things was vile, and made by morally bankrupt people. Everywhere online, in real life, in other threads on lc, I see people talking about how disgusting it is that these freaks are shamelessly promoting pedophilia and getting awards for it. You can defend it all you want, but you like Poor Things because you’re ugly inside and dumb, you have ugly thoughts and opinions, and you don’t know right from wrong(calm down)

No. 364221

>>364216
>>364215
It's very easy to tell when someone hasn't actually watched a movie. The premise was easy to understand and the main guy who liked Bella even specifically says her doesn't want to have sex with her because it would feel like taking advantage of her. Mark Ruffalo's character, however, is the epitome of a man who doesn't care about Bella aside from looks, regardless of mental state (he wasn't aware of the operation though unlike the other guy who knew and purposely refused bella). The story makes sense when you're not trying to go to lengths to twist it into this attempt to call it pedophilia. I'm really not sure how the premise of the film about female independence could be missed by veiwers when it was spelled out, even in dialog. The sex scenes are supposed to be uncomfortable, that was the point. For a while she was just having sex without even understanding why until she learned she could take it into her own hands at the brothel and realized why men were doing it.

No. 364229

>>364216
Take your meds and quit shitting all over the movies thread. You keep distracting from actual discussion with your idiocy

No. 364237

>>364189
>It seems like most actors would die to play Bond
I think it's not always a guaranteed success for the actor. Back in the old Bond days people would be very critical of everyone's performances and rate them against each other harshly and it would cause a career to suffer if they didn't do well. There's a lot of pressure, plus as the years go by the legacy only increases.
Also the reboot hasn't exactly been that great minus Skyfall imo, and even then I can say I think I prefer the spectacle of the movie over the movie itself and just love Judi Dench. Plus every film it seems they're trying to go bigger and more Hollywood. They also keep adding to the legend of Bond instead of being their own film so any scripts or story ideas might be daunting to a new actor. Plus they're coming off of Daniel Craig's well liked performance and a franchise more or less rebooted around him (or at least a series that wound up being about him).
Plus I think the series fucked itself by confirming that this bond is all the other bonds in Skyfall then actually killing him. Now when they pull the "007 is the moniker not the agent" thing legit (right after disproving this theory as canon in their series up until now) it'll put the newest actor (and the writers) on the backfoot because Daniel Craig is all Bond, and this guy is going to be actually nothing at the start. Unless they claim plastic surgery

No. 364254

i dont like when movies with a serial killer always end up being one massive friday the 13th reference. Hope this is/tries to be different at least

No. 364261

>>364254
This literally looks like Friday the 13 the reimagining kek. OT but I always hated the original movie, I don't know why it ever gained such a cult following and is regarded as a classic horror film. It sucks, even the remake version with Jared Padalecki is better KEK

No. 364303

>>364254
I feel like every time they try a new spin on a slasher it all end the same. I'm saying this as a horror fan and we know most of slashers ARE the same. What's this one's shtick? It looks like they want to show it more from the killer's perspective and I'm going to be honest but I'm afraid it's going to be a snoozefest. 50% of the trailer looks like Dead by Daylight gameplay.

No. 364312

>>364254
>Shudder
Shudder has some good stuff but there's so much shite that's just oh I loved these horror films growing up so imma just make a worse version of them.

No. 364321

I hate this movie ughh(bait)

No. 364326

>>364261
fun kills and jason is hot

No. 364330

>>364326
>jason is hot
i get in fanart, but he's canonically a deformed retard

No. 364338

>>364321
Here we go again

No. 364340

>>364330
shit taste

No. 364345

>>364221
I’ve seen it, and it’s supposed to promote the idea that children want to have sex and should have the freedom to do it.

And by the way God said he couldn’t have sex with her because he was a eunuch, it sounds like you’re the one who didn’t watch it
That’s why he tried so hard to get her married off to the assistant, because he couldn’t sleep with her himself. Your claim that he didn’t want to take advantage of her is completely false because he was trying to convince a man to marry her, and said he could tell they were “in love” despite her being a baby

No. 364349

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>>364345
>>364321
jesus christ enough. get a containment thread already.
anyway does anyone have recs for good recent asian horror movies? any nationality

No. 364353

>>364221
I'm sorry but the story is still terrible, still portrays prostitution as good, still portrays Emma as a weird frankenstein toddler, it's a creepy movie, she has sex with the ugliest of males for money, she masturbated with a chicken bone, it's normal to be grossed out by it(infighting)

No. 364363

>>363345
Goodfellas isn't as good as people hype it up to be. Personally prefer introspective Scorsese over his more over the top gangster work 90s onwards. Mean Streets/Taxi Driver/Alice Doesn't Live Here > Goodfellas/Departed/Gangs of NY

No. 364367

>>364363
I'm usually more into over the top, but thanks for reminding me I should watch Taxi Driver

No. 364369

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>>364363
sorry for the derail but the departed is a remake of a hk movie called infernal affairs that's actually pretty great. haven't watched the departed bc i hate dicaprio but infernal affairs I and II are really enjoyable, definitely recommend

No. 364371

>>364345
He's not who I'm talking about, kek, so Idk why you think Mark Ruffalo and William Defoe are the only men in the story.

No. 364373

>>364353
it's pretty much a movie about white liberal feminism, 2010s "random sex is empowering" rhetoric, and age gaps. I'm surprised it's such a hot topic considering how shallow it is kek.

No. 364378

>>364373
She literally discusses how she had to use sex to save herself due to being in s position where a man wanted to control her. There's so much context that isn't being talked about. They spell it right out for you in the movie, the reason behind everything.

No. 364382

>>364378
do you think that's why it was filmed the way it is with typical emphasis on the male gaze and what men think female sexuality would be, and most of the makers being non-feminist men? bella isn't real, they are.

No. 364384

>>364382
I didn't get a single sense of male gaze.

No. 364386

>>364378
You are an imbecile with a subhuman iq(infighting)

No. 364392

>>364378
She could had done any other job like flipping vintage cottagecore burgers or baking cakes, instead she had to be used by more men because of course

No. 364395

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Movie: Late Night with the Devil
This is going to come to Shudder too. I guess they used AI for the quick break segments, there are 4 images total. Some posters were saying that they could easily go in and edit the images before fully releasing the movie but why would they even do that when they saved money to begin with?

No. 364396

>>364353
I just hate that so many films about womens character growth emphasize on how having sex changes your world view and makes you into a fully developed person who sees life differently because omg the power of having a man put his pp in you is just soooo life changing right????? Yawn, boring and gross premise and pure male propaganda to normalize selling your body as good and taking back power haha yes yay for quirky girl boss Emma stone!

No. 364399

>>364395
>Late Night with the Devil
I was actually looking forward to this movie, where did they use AI?

No. 364400

>>364396
>omg the power of having a man put his pp in you is just soooo life changing right?????
Honestly it's funny because men think it's so life changing when if fact it feels like nothing.

No. 364407

>>364395
Nooo I had high expectations for this movie, please don't be a piece of shit

No. 364414

>>364321
I was agreeing until she pulled Igor out of thw movie canon and went for a coombaya Frankenstein and Monster on the same team type ending. Victor Frankenstein was never an outcast he just felt guilty for playing God in secret. If he revealed the monster to the world the moids of the time would have ate that shit up as scientific advancement while mostly women and priests argue against it. She also completely ignored Elizabeth's existance in her rewrite and never mentioned that the original story was already a Feminist take.
Eyes Without a Face did the mad scientist and freak daughter better.

No. 364416

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>>364349
lmao this exact image is what i've been thinking every time i see that retard posting. poor things was great and i refuse to engage with them
>>364399
even if it sucks i'm gonna watch it because david dastmalchian is cute(just stop)

No. 364418

>>364395
Was excited for this. I've seen a review of the movie that stated that AI is ''all over the movie'' in the cutaways and those network breaks segments, which makes me more worried about the whole movie industry than about the state of this movie itself, which people seem to like. A shame, but not everyone will have a problem with it and outside of the whole AI think it's probably going to be fine.

No. 364433

>>364414
It's not supposed to suck. That's the problem. This actually garnered a lot of attention and the people who know about the AI are going to be conflicted with wanting to not support job theft and wanting to see a horror movie that everyone is pretty hyped for.

The problem I have is that once movies start implementing the AI replacement of jobs little by little, it becomes a slope. Supporting even the indie stuff with this, which you would think indie artists would know better about protecting jobs, everyone is going to just do it. Normal people aren't going to care or even know about the AI because they don't have stake in the business, but everyone else who knows, artists, graphic designers, and concept artists… People you need to do basics in movies, all movies will do this. The movie looked so good and now I'm just going to wait for a recap or pirate it. I'm not giving money to the creators for probably putting the actors in a situation where they will get harassed over the use of AI too. This also opens up the movie for people to judge if other aspects were written or conceptualized by AI.

No. 364436

>>364416
ths image was aimed at everyone posting about poor things whether they liked it or not. yes, you too.
>>364433
you're right. they start by cutting corners but even background elements are important. a good set designer and well-done props will go a long way in making a movie look unique and interesting.
it tells me the ppl making these movies have no artistic vision if they think they can just replace that with AI slop. and unfortunately you know studio execs are going to push it snce they care only about the bottom line and not the artistic merits of fimlmmaking. bleak.

No. 364454

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>>364399
It was three still images, and they did some further editing

No. 364469

>>349217
i tried watching it the other day since it was free on one of the streaming platforms but i had to turn it off within minutes. it's god awful, im so glad i didnt waste money renting it or seeing it in theaters

No. 364479

>>364454
Sounds lame and disappointing as hell. What's 1970s aesthetic about AI at all? How does it fit in a film trying to look like a 1970s broadcast? Of course in your picrel they have to say nice things about it (and probably exaggerate), what else are they supposed to say? Everything's a bottom line these days, people are getting way too brazen about how much they don't want to pay artists, performers, or general creatives for anything, they just want them to kick rocks.

No. 364524

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>want to watch Eyes Without a Face 1960 on the TV youtube for free
>subtitles can't be translated off desktop
At least knowing the plot is getting me through it

No. 364526

>>364524
that looks spoopy what is it about?

No. 364532

>>364524
what about connecting your laptop to the tv with an hdmi cable?

No. 364623

This looked interesting until I read the comments and googled the director… he’s a tranny. And some commenters saw this at Sundance or some other film festival and spoiled it, the entire movie is a metaphor for trooning. This is going to suck so hard. (Please god don’t let the fact that Emma Stone produced this crap make the PT infighters come back)

>>364414
“Coombaya” is genius nonna

No. 364638

>>364526
It's about the dangers of plastic surgery before people understood it
>>364532
That's smart, thank you!

No. 364661

Nonnas, what did you think of Dune now that part 2 came out? I watched part 2 yesterday and I still don’t know what I feel about it- it looked beautiful, but I found the dialogue kind of lackluster. It also feels like the story doesn’t have much meat on the bone for a movie with a combined 6 hour runtime. I admit I laughed out loud in the cinema when ATJ showed up, it’s like they were trying to complete the hand of “Hollywood’s only 4 young actors, apparently” so they shoehorned her in. Although I guess it could be setup for a possible sequel.
It did have a better pace than most movies that came out recently. Time passed so fast when I was in the cinema.

No. 364663

>>364623
>the entire movie is a metaphor for trooning.
I'm curious how a movie about haunted 70's tv show would have that metaphor.

No. 364691

>>364661
Very disappointed in Dune 2. It felt like they had to fill the plot with things that were covered in the first movie to justify the bloated run time, instead of adding things from the other books instead. Also disliked how self conscious the movie was about being about the most special white boy in the universe. Paul would not fucking say 'they deserve to have one of their own people lead them' kek. Austin Butler was an unexpected highlight for me considering I do not like his face, but he really commits. His impression of Stellan Skarsgaard was really good.
Also disrespectful to the Bene Geserit. Why are they constantly gasping and flinching.

No. 364698

>>364661
it was cringe how hard the film was lampshading the orientalist and white savior narrative of the text, but it was still entertaining, engaging, and well-filmed imo

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>>364663
Tracked down the comment I saw, just a random comment so take it with a grain of salt I guess but based on the director I wouldn’t be surprised, plus that seems in line with what’s shown in the trailer.

No. 364809

>>364414
> and never mentioned that the original story was already a Feminist take.
Nonna, she mentions that 2 minutes in.

>Eyes Without a Face did the mad scientist and freak daughter better

Good taste nonny

No. 364914

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>>364105
NTA who replied to you, but I watched this last night, thank you a lot for bringing it to my knowledge! Unsettling is right, I had to fast forward in one part (keeping it vague) where the little girl was cut. So I don't know what happened in that scene. Some of it especially at the beginning was tricky to follow, it was super stylish, kind of fantastical, and maybe I'm using this word wrong, but…campy? The script had so many great lines and quips. A very sarcastic kind of delivery style. It was a great watch and the context I read afterwards about its showing and prize-winning at Sundance and all that and then crickets afterwards seems such a shame.

No. 364922

>>364661
I loved the cinematography and atmosphere, the harkonnen planet scenes especially had such an oppressive and breathtaking presence.
But the writing and acting itself wasnt impressive. The main leads have no chemistry, and they dont show pauls rise to power and prominence very well - they made the timeline so much shorter than the book. Also it's like they were scared to show the evil of the harkonnens, the power and manipulation of the bene gesserit, it all felt very sanitised and like paul was never in any danger of losing. I don't want to say spoilers outright but even the destruction later on felt weightless.
Also the dialogue in some parts was ridiculous and I could hear other people in the cinema laughing at some moments too (that are supposed to be serious).
All in all even though its better than most trash that comes out these days it's not great - it doesnt seem like a classic or something people would watch over and over.

No. 364924

>>364797
>little boy "experimenting" with his gender
this is totally gonna have pedo bait.

No. 365380

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the AI bits were distracting and bad. pretty indefensible because they could have easily hired some artists to do better work for a decent price without having to deal with the backlash. as for the movie itself, i loved it. fantastic writing, atmosphere, everything. i definitely want to watch it again. i loved how the ending made it fairly ambiguous. you could argue that there were demonic forces present, or that all of it is jack having a psychotic break from the guilt of killing his wife, triggered by the hypnosis session.

No. 365422

>>365380
So they lied. They didn't do in and adjust the ai at all.

No. 365423

>>364797
This sounds like a fucking bitter idiot who probably missed the entire plot and fixated on something. This is a whole targeted comment too. I also highly, highly doubt this person saw this at Sundance and isn't instead posting based off of some bullshit someone else fed them. Comments like these have no basis in actually explaining anything about the movie.

No. 365431

>>365422
ifk if they lied but if they actually retouched the art it certainly doesn't look like they did. anyone who's played around with ai can spot it. the skeleton one has already been posted, but there's an even worse one imo which is an owl on a tv and it has like 20 claws on its feet.

No. 365659

>>364469
I just watched it on Paramount+ myself and I don't know how I got through it, especially considering I hate musicals.
Sanitized and yet more sexual makes a lot of sense. Like they took out the part about the coach and the underage student (fair honestly), Regina's mom offering her condoms. But then there's a whole sexy Halloween dance number and they explicitly say that Karen has fucked 11 different people.
The acting felt like high school theater kids trying to re-enact Mean Girls. I guess it's hard not to when the original is so iconic so imitations will always pale in comparison, but there's this specific brand of Gen Z acting that this movie suffers from and I can't put my finger on it. Every character feels like a watered down version of their original counterpart too. Janis's characterization in particular I was super not a fan of.
>>349258
My god the fashion was atrocious. The outfits they chose for the first scene of the plastics were so ugly. None of it was preppy rich girl, just cheap knock-off costumes and sheinshit

No. 365701

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>>365423
there are already reviews out for this movie, it is literally a metaphor for being transgender.

No. 365713

>>365701
I honestly don't care about any of this. Just is it a good movie or not. Trying to say it's bad just because of subject matter is such a weak excuse for disliking a film.

No. 365730

>>365713
Plenty of people wouldn't enjoy a whole movie designed to push tranny shit, nonna. Anyway the review posted before says it's shit in general >>364797

No. 365735

>>365730
I'm going to watch it to give an accurate description and breakdown, but I don't think there's some force agenda being pushed. It's not propaganda just because the movie's plot is about someone being trans. That's like saying a serial killer movie is propaganda.

No. 365820

>>365701
lol letterboxd is so retarded. this isn't even a film review. this person just goes "this film rocks, dude. it's like, so good and emotional. and it like, makes my transness feel so valid. it's so freaking awesome"

No. 365895

Another Defoe/Stone movie and by the creator of Poor Things. What do you guys think?

No. 365907

>>365895
Nothing about this makes me want to watch the film but I am the type of person where seeing a bunch of celebs I know in films just tires me out immediately. So many just repetitive celebs.
Not a film I'd go to watch straight away, one I'd wait for reviews.

No. 365923

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I really liked Possession and I find myself thinking about it often since I've watched it. Both Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill were great in their roles. Do you know anything similar in terms of atmosphere, nonnies?

No. 365967

>>365820
Can we have a letterboxd cringe thread at this point

No. 365988

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>>365923
Made me think of 3 Women 1977. You might want to check out the art house horror movies that were made around the same time frame as Possession. If you liked performances there is also Nosferatu The Vampyre 1979 with Isabelle Adjani and In the Mouth of Madness 1994 with Sam Neill. Both are horrors. I didn't watch Nosferatu yet but Mouth of Madness was pretty good.

No. 365991

>>365988
In The Mouth of Madness is really good

No. 365999

>>365988
Thanks for recs, nona, 3 Women looks interesting, I'll definitely watch it. I enjoyed In the Mouth of Madness too! Guess it's time to rewatch it as well

No. 366115

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>>365967
I’d love that because I was looking up reviews for a movie I want to go see and found this hysterical review. She’s crying over this shit

No. 366121

>>366115
kek she must be joking right? that's ridiculous.

No. 366182

American Girl Melody is getting a movie, good for her but I thought it was going to be about Claudie because the girl in the trailer wasn't in any iconic Melody dress and hairstyle.
Also I'm salty she got a movie before Addy.(this is an imageboard)

No. 366183

>>366182
can you post a trailer?

No. 366189

>>366182
There was a Melody movie in 2016, the full thing is on the American Girl youtube channel. Is there another one now?

No. 366191

>>366189
>>366183
It was this one, it is this one. Why did youtube give me an old trailer? I'd heard that after the Barbie movie success there was going to be a movie based on the books. I assumed that meant they were going to make more than the ones they already had and this was the follow-up to that article from last year.
I'm confused about getting a trailer for this.

No. 366194

>>366191
Always check the timestamps. IMBD is a good source to check for upcoming titles too since they have a bunch of things announced at all times.

No. 366197

>>366191
Well the full movie was only uploaded to youtube a month ago so I guess it's recent to YouTube and maybe that's why you got an ad for it, but it's from 2016.

No. 366217

>>366115
>AI art finally being used in profesional movies
Based, I'm going to watch it 5 times.(bait)

No. 366230

I now understand the poor things hatred, I saw it, i really disliked the blatant Oscar bait shit of it all and the fact that most of the movie is about multiple men having sex with what essentially is a baby just feels gross. The movie tries to be surrealism but it's not surrealistic enough for me to think that the sex scenes aren't actually supposed to be anything but sex scenes, it's not deep, it's not dramatic all this is a sexual fantasy Hollywood creeps dream of daily, fuck this.(Poor things bait)

No. 366246

>>366230
Kek poor things must be jannies favorite movie(continued poor things sperging)

No. 366266

>>366115
jfc. i hate ai shit but i'm happy i supported them with money because it's a great film and i think it's important to support indie films. i don't agree with their use of ai but the good outweighs the bad for me. i'm guessing the person who wrote this has a gendie art style and puts watermarks all over her ugly shit.

No. 366270

>>366266
Ayrt and I’m going to see it with my father tomorrow, excited for it. I have a feeling he’s not going to notice at all, haven’t told him there’s AI in it

No. 366273

>>365380
go watch the shudder v/h/s anthologies, they're the exact same thing so you'll probably dig them. i think 94 is considered the best one

No. 366274

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>>365923
Jacob's Ladder, Repulsion. Wish there were more movies like these with female leads though.

No. 366279

The only thing i didn't liked about Godzilla X Kong is that there isn't enough Godzilla in it, we see him drain a nuclear plant and then kill a radiation eel and then most of the ass kicking is done by Kong, it's not fair! It makes me think western writers think Goji as a super being while Kong is closer to a regular human

No. 366281

>>366279
Dang disappointed to hear this. The american movies do seem to play favorites and treat Kong like he's more interesting.

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>>366270
hope you enjoy anon! i don't think anyone who wasn't told it was ai or plays around in ai programs would notice it at all.
>>366273
ayrt, i'm a huge fan of the VHS series and no… they aren't at all the exact same thing. LNWTD had a completely different vibe. 94 is among the worst in the series too, 1 + 2 are the best.

No. 366374

>>366274
Jacob's Ladder is cool, I recommend watching it totally blind to avoid spoiling the ending. Just the original, though, the remake is shit.

No. 366404

>>365923
images, symptoms, let's scare jessica to death, messiah of evil, kotoko

No. 366455

>>363278
You inspired me to watch Romeo+Juliet again and it’s amazing, it hits so differently now that I’m an adult as compared to when I was a teen watching it for the first time in high school. It helped a lot that I can now parse the Shakespearean in real time rather then having to dissect it sentence by sentence and it makes me appreciate all the more how brilliantly it was acted and filmed. The way they modernized the tale too is so impressive, I wish he’d adapt more Shakespeare.

No. 366512

>>365735
Are you lost?

No. 366595

Watching argyle right now, can't believe how fat Bryce Dallas Howard has gotten since Jurassic World 3, it makes me wanna gain a bit of weight myself.

No. 366598

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>>366595
idk anything about argylle, did she gain weight on purpose for the role or is it natural? she seems very covered-up and ashamed of it in pics i'm seeing of the movie which makes me sad

No. 366608

>>366595
>>366598
She talks about it in https://time.com/6622198/bryce-dallas-howard-argylle-body-interview/
time interview.
She didn't gain for the role, was approached for the role and said she would't lose weight for it, kinda love that she does still look great. She was absolutely tiny doing Jurassic world.

No. 366609

>>366608
well i'm glad she's not ashamed of it but did the director make her cover up or what? she's in a damn turtleneck and cardigan while dua lipa is in a club dress

No. 366615

>>366609
I mean, isn't the whole thing that she's a normal real person who's an author and Dua is a fictional heroine come to life? She apparently does wear "sexy gowns" according to that interview.

No. 366617

>>366598
She's so pretty in Jurassic world. I don't know why she would gain so much weight, even for a role. Seems like she regrets it.

>>366608
The movie actually looks good, but I hate henry cavill and his ugly vegeta hairline.

No. 366618

>>366615
oh i see, i had no idea what the movie was about

No. 366626

>>366617
I can't watch things with Henry Cavill he gives me slimy feelings, same with shallot, films don't really seem super unique with actors at the moment.

No. 366719

>>366598
her weight has gone up and down a lot over the years. people gave her shit when she gained weight during her pregnancy and didn't lose it all immediately after giving birth, then she did later lose weight but gained more for a role in black mirror, then lost that weight and now has gained again. i don't blame her not wanting to talk about her body anymore and deciding that she's done with the fluctuations.

No. 366936

Nonnas, do you have recommendations for good “female rage” movies that aren’t just rape and revenge shit or sexualized to hell?

No. 366943

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>>366936
may not perfectly fit what you're looking for but I always liked Freeway (1996). Have you seen any you like?

No. 366944

>>366936
not sure if these all qualify as "rage" but i do think they deal with similar ideas: daisies, raw, thoroughbreds, excision, the loved ones, the novice, fun (1994), in my skin, sick of myself, 2DLK, and thelma

No. 367015

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Just watched The Cell. I had hoped it would be awesome but it was just okay. 13 Ghosts is way better and Jlo is a bad actress. Vince Vaughn threw me off a little too. I liked the concept but it focused too much of her being a savior and then she turns into a serial killer. Or rather it leaves that open to interpretation. I took the ending as she was just starting out.

No. 367035

>>367015
i feel the same, it's def one of Tarsem Singh's weaker works, his later movies are better imo. and 13 ghosts is just a straight up classic to me at this point, it's the perfect level of horror and campiness

No. 367049

>>367035
The cell just seemed so fast paced.

No. 367117

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speaking my truth! i liked this is me… now
the movie is genuinely objectively bad but what i love about it the most is the visuals. it’s a fun movie to watch! also jlo basically had all of us listen to her album by using it as the soundtrack… i might have to give her her 10s for this

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>>366936
I think the Craft fits your criteria though it's not extreme rage, more like extreme emotions overall
Also First Wives Club for a more comedic approach to female revenge and rage.

No. 367197

>>367117
I love the text on screen in the trailer that says from the HEART from the SOUL from the DREAMS of Jennifer Lopez lol

No. 367198

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>>366944
NTA but The Novice looks like an amazing movie thank you I'm gonna watch it

No. 367221

has anyone seen Cabrini? I want to see it but the 2+ hour runtime makes me hesitant to see it in theaters

No. 367222

>>367117
I like it, I wish more musicians went wild with movies tied to their music. I wish Madonna made a movie out of Express Yourself and the rest of her Like a Prayer album. Let it be funky I just want style!

No. 367285

>>366944
Cosigning Thoroughbreds. That movie is so good.

No. 367649

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Just saw that shitty Sydney Sweeney romcom from last year and Sydney hate aside, it just really bad and the black guy friend was insufferable and maybe the worst character i have ever seen on a romcom, no chemistry between the leads and kinda wanted everyone to murder each other at the end. My god what awful fucking movie.
I didn't cared enough to find a high res version of the poster, I'm glad it bombed.

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We should do a Cannon Movie Tales watch night, these are so charming. Rumpelstiltskin is one of my favorites, I like how Amy Irving as the heroine is older than your usual teenage fairytale lead, and the prince is cute lol. She performed the songs herself too

No. 368096

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>>365988
yes anon, i adore 3 women! i wrote a paper about it. i highly recommend it, the way altman portrays women is the best we can get from a male director, the cinematography and costumes are beautiful and the idea to put sissy spacek and shelley duvall in main roles was simply divine (it actually came to him in a dream). a masterpiece for autistic weirdo women.

No. 368350

>>358482
Nta and ot but I watched this movie around the same time with my sister… I don’t think she’s a farmer but just out of curiosity do you have a sister 4 years younger than you? Kek

No. 368427

Any recommendations for silly cartoon movies or just silly light hearted movies in general ? I don't watch alot of movies so feel free to recommend popular stuff.
Things aren't going very well for me and I want something to watch that helps me forget everything for a bit, but doesn't trigger me lol.

No. 368441

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>>368427
the first spongebob movie is amazing even if you're not into spongebob

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>>368427
hot fuzz always makes me laugh too

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>>368427
and spy

No. 368460

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>>368427
have you ever seen galaxy quest? it's a fun movie with a great cast (tim allen is the main character but everyone else outshines him).

No. 368485

>>368441
>>368442
>>368443
>>368460
Thank you anons! I'll try to watch some of these tonight before I fall asleep

No. 368493

>>368427
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

No. 368524

Me and my friends are holding a tragic movie marathon. Please nonnies I need suggestions for the most tragic films you've ever seen. I need the type of shit that gets you ugly sobbing and reflecting on it for days. I've already made them watch Capernaum so I need something more tragic if that's even possible.

No. 368532

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>>368524
the garden of the finzi-continis (1970) by vittorio de sica

No. 368543

>>368524
Arrival?

No. 368546

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>>368524
blue valentine, the life aquatic with steve zissou, lost in translation, big fish, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, everything everywhere all at once (ymmv on that one, some people hated the humor of it, but the way they portrayed the multiverse shook me to my core)

No. 368551

>>368524
"Right at your door", very depressing, very slow, nothing hollywood. Expect for that Blade Runner and Koyaanisqatsi and, what I got told is the most depressing film ever is "Johnny got his gun". I haven't seen it as I don't want to see it imagining the story and emotions that movie has to offer.

No. 368554

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>>368524
Lilya 4-Ever, Oslo August 31st, The Life of Oharu, Au Hasard Balthazar, Han Gong-ju, Bastard Out of Carolina, Happiness, Johnny Got His Gun, Kids, Silenced, Precious, The Green Mile, The Florida Project, The Innocents (2016)

No. 368571

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>>368524
microhabitat, a death in the gunj, nothing bad can happen, christine (1987), hotel coolgardie (not sure if documentaries are cheating), nitram, control (2007), sound of metal, and vagabond come to mind. maybe these are more so just depressing instead of tragic, though.

No. 368578

>>368554
damn you really wanna fuck her and her friends up lol. that was the assignment I guess.

No. 368584

>>368546
EEAAO was SO good and so hard hitting. I watched this with my friends too, and I cried so much I was choking and hiccuping and used up an entire box of tissues. In retrospect it really wasn't THAT sad… but very very good nonetheless. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is definitely something I want to watch but I think my friend has already seen it.
>>368554
I've been meaning to watch Lilya-4-ever forever (lol). I predict it'll majorly fuck me up. I've seen The Florida Project and it was good, the acting was amazing especially for such young children but the ending was dumb for me and ruined it.
>>368578
I appreciate it though!! Thank you everyone who replied, we're aiming to flood the room with our tears.

No. 368587

>>368524
Oh, I'm a crier, this also depends on how easily you cry though. How about: Hachi, A Dog's Purpose, Homeward Bound [the cat getting hurt kills me every time and a bunch of animals were injured on set], Ladder 49, The Fox and The Hound, Bridge to Terabithia.. I know there is more, but I'm terrible with names/titles. I'd need to spend time reminding myself of what I watched.

No. 368618

>>368584
yeah, i know you asked for more tragic movies but idk if i've cried as hard at any movie as EEAAO. i think it's the way it's so bittersweet and is ultimately about possibly the most relatable thing to all humans: strained family ties + wishing you had a different life. there's nothing quite like it

No. 368620

>>368524
dead poets society is pretty sappy for most of its runtime but the ending makes me cry like a baby. the impossible (the movie about the tsunami) is also quite possibly one of the most tearjerking movies i’ve ever watched, although it ends on a hopeful/bittersweet note.

No. 368650

>>368584
If my friend had me watch Bastard Out of Carolina and all she said was it was a sad movie, I'm not sure we'd still be friends at the end lmao. I definitely wouldn't let her pick movies for me anymore.

No. 368654

>>368524
I didn't think I had any recommendations nonas didn't already suggest, but there's also Plague Dogs >>360311
If you want something you won't be able to watch, there's Earthlings >>>/m/284034
My Girl is also good if you want a regular sad movie not too mentally scarring just good for some waterworks. I don't like to recommend movies with mainly child actors because i don't think children should be acting lol but it's a good movie they do a good job

No. 368664

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>>368524
grave of the fireflies is the only ghibli movie i've watched just once because it was so horribly depressing

No. 368685

>>368443
>>368442
you should marry me

No. 368691

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>>368685
let’s watch silly action comedies together anon

No. 369443

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>>368524
PULSE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Japanese language
>Set in Tokyo, ghost have begun invading the world of the living via the internet. Plant shop employee Michi Kudo discovers that her coworker Taguchi has committed suicide and become a ghost.

TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne) French language
>A working-class woman learns that she will lose her job because her coworkers were promised bonuses if they voted to make her redundant. She must convince each of them to give up their bonuses to protect her livelihood.

THE HUNT (Thomas Vinterberg) Danish language
>A kindergarten teacher is wrongly accused of sexually abusing a child. The village takes the child's side.

THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg) Danish language
>A family gathers to celebrate their patriarch's 60th birthday. A terribly family secret is revealed.

INCENDIES (Denis Villeneuve) French/Arabic language
>After their mother dies, Canadian twins Jeanne and Simon travel to their mother's native country in the Levant. Her tragic past amongst a bloody civil war is revealed.

TOWER (Keith Maitland) English language
>Semi-animated documentary film about the 1966 University of Texas shootings. In a country plagued by school shootings, one day in 1966 proved to be one of the deadliest school shootings in the country's history.

ROOM (Lenny Abrahamson) English language
>A young woman has been held captive for seven years in a garden shed. Her five-year-old son is a product of rape. The two hatch and execute an escape plan.

GREEN ROOM (Jeremy Saulnier) English language
>A broke self-made punk band arrive to perform at a bar in Portland, Oregon, only to realize the venue is a Nazi skinhead bar. They stumble upon a murder in the green room. The proprietors will not let them leave so easily.

BLUE RUIN (Jeremy Saulnier) English language
>A homeless man discovers that the man who killed his parents 20 years earlier has been let out of prison. He sets out for revenge.

THE RETURN (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Russian language
>Two Russian boys' father suddenly returns home after a 12 year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake.

No. 369469

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>>369443
>INCENDIES
Seconding this a hundred times, it's so good

No. 369616

>>369443
nta but has anyone seen the hunt? and if so, did you like it? i’ve been wanting to watch it for a while but keep putting it off since the premise of “alleged pedo teacher is actually totally INNOCENT and being hunted by a WITCH MOB” seems kind of moidy.

No. 369660

>>369616
I only have a vague memory of it but I did watch it. I don't remember thinking it was a moidy boo-hoo but what about how false accusations ruin men's lives? sort of film but it has been a while. In the reality of the movie plot he is innocent and it's more about how everyone else acts or decides to believe whatever they're going to believe sometimes without their reasoning being very logical because they are so swept up in their emotions that they stop listening to anyone even the kid when she tells them he didn't do anything. I need to watch it again though because I vaguely remember wondering wait, am I supposed to think he could have done it? No… The movie gets in your head a little.
I get where you're coming from though, I watched some netflix slop with a similarish premise and it irritated me the whole time how it was handled (a priest was being accused of having CP on his compute but it wasn't his…. he was protecting a pedophile out of pity though so it was hard to feel bad for him and the entire plot just seemed in poor taste because of the rampant sexual abuse in churches.) But Hunt wasn't super shitty like that where the guy is clearly trash but you're supposed to feel bad for him. The character in Hunt is actually likeable and the drama is intense.

No. 369661

>>369616
It's been a while since I watched it and maybe I don't remember it quite it right, but I think the movie leaves it clear he is innocent. It's less about the alleged abuse and more about how that affects his life and the people around him. I remember the movie portraying both sides in a understandable way, you could relate to the falsely accused teacher, but also understand people's outrage and suspicion.

No. 369664

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>>360311
This movie and Watership Down scarred me for life when I watched them as a kid.

No. 369680

>>369664
I bought watership down for my sister when she was a kid cause I knew nothing about it and knew she liked bunnies, so I put it on while I made her dinner. I came back and she was having a funeral for her Peter Cottontail and crying. I didn’t get it until I looked up a review of the movie. I am so sorry, 5 year old little sister

No. 369785

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i recently watched play misty for me. clint eastwood plays a radio show host who attracts the biggest stalker bpd chan on the planet and she spends most of the film fucking up his life in every possible way. i'm a big fan of movies with a completely insane female character tormenting a moid, like fatal attraction and swimfan, so i thoroughly enjoyed this one.

No. 369817

I hated Schindler's list, it felt like a whitewashed almost pornographic gentrification of history. It felt almost disrespectful and I would much rather read another book by the survivors of the Holocaust. It reeks of holywood and profit. I'm not jewish but it still felt weird to me. Anyone else?

No. 369823

>>369817
I didn't know Michael Haneke was a farmer

No. 369832

>>369823
I doubt he could comprehend the depth of my criticism but I'm glad someone agrees with me

No. 369835

>>369823
Ok here it goes: first, the women. They don't even speak. The camera lingers on their tits. All they do is cry and get raped. The film doesn't tell their story at all and treats them like exploitation porn. The camera itself is a nazi towards women.
"6 million was murdered but let's celebrate the 600 who weren't" is a mindset I don't approve of. I fucking hate Schindler in general. He's morally grey but is turned into a Chris Evans type of "he's so me" character. It's meant to appeal to the audience. The focus isn't even on the jews, it's on the Hollywood Hero Man. It's a misery porno meant to excel in profits and nothing else. Also 3 hours? Fuck off.

No. 369869

>>369817
the boy in the striped pijiamas felt more respectful and that's saying a lot

No. 369870

>>365967
I’d actually love that, I’ve seen some pretty stupid reviews. I feel like it would become another trans hate thread too because every time I see a retarded letterboxd review I go to their profile and it’s a tranny. I saw one for “Mandy” complaining about how the cult was a harmful stereotype of polyamorous people

No. 369937

>>369869
Unrelated, but I hate that movie. It's one of those movies that make no sense to exist. The whole point of the book was for the narrative to be skewed by the kid's point of view, and for us to slwoly piece together what was really happening. The movie doesn't work because there is no way to rob the viewer from the very clear nazi references. It ends up being another movie about holocaust that relies solely on the shocking ending to hold up. Cheapens the whole story.

No. 370042

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watched christine (2016) tonight, and i'm not sure how to feel about it. i'm not sure if there should have ever been a film made about christine chubbuck, or if a man deserved to write/direct her "story." is there even a "story" to be told? can you reduce a real woman to a character in a 123 minute long film? i suppose it is better than that god awful movie network that was inspired by her, turning a tragedy into a male power fantasy…

its always the films you see yourself in, huh.

No. 370046

>>365967
I feel like I have to just scroll down the letterboxd homepage to "popular reviews this week" to get instanted turned off from seeing a (often recent) movie. I don't believe that's always the movie's fault. But man is the average letterboxd crowd doing the opposite of selling Monkey Man.

>>370042
I met a moid film program grad type guy who said Network was in his top 5 faves. I haven't watched it yet. Should I now be worried?

No. 370066

>>370042
I've seen this a few times, I enjoyed it but I am also conflicted about it. She was a seriously troubled woman, but her last words were a statement about how news media prioritizes blood and gore over uplifting stories. And here we are watching a movie about her that wouldn't have been made if not for how her life ended in blood and gore.
I think at least, it's a very honest look into the mind of a severely mentally ill person, and how they can slip through the grasp of the people who love them. Same as you, I think a lot of my fascination with it is because I relate to her.

No. 370511

Just saw the trailer for joker 2, ngl I'm into it.

No. 370622

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I never liked Twilight but i like Warm Bodies, i don't think it's a good movie or that it's a good romance but it makes me feel like it was almost a shitpost on that era where spooky/creepy gf anime was kinda popular (Sankarea/Another/Dusk Maiden Of Amnesia).
I want more cheesy monsterboy bf movie attempts.

No. 370630

Im slowly picking the habit of watching movies while I work. Is the girl with the dragon tattoo a movie worth watching? I like suspense/action films with little to romance or sad stories

No. 370679

>>370511
I'm surprised I don't immediately hate it. I was sure they'd ruin the story with a shitty forced romance sequel, but based on the trailer it might even turn out to be decent. Definitely going to see it at some point. The first one was clever with the references to Chaplin, low key hoping the second one will reference something like Titicut Follies (a documentary classic filmed in a 1960s in an institution for the criminally insane).

No. 370752

>>370511
I love that it's going to be a musical.

No. 370755

>>370622
>Cheesy Monsterboy bf romance
Shape of Water is the best one for specificthis genre.

No. 370757

>>370630
no
try con air

No. 370760

>>370511
I loved all of it except Gaga, she isn't putting any effort in at all to convince the audience that shes Harley Quinn. I don't see her as a separate character, it literally just comes off like its a Gaga x Joker self insert fic kek

No. 370764

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rewatched picrel again, now wanting to watch more sandra huller or courtroom dramas in general.

is toni erdmann worth the watch? i've heard a few good things about it, but also the person that recommended it to me has no standards so i'm taking the rec with a grain of salt.

No. 370781

>>370046
Network is good, I wouldn't listen to someone who admits to identifying with someone who committed suicide on air

No. 370785

>>370622
Have you watched Lisa Frankenstein?

No. 370805

>>370785
NTA but i totally forgot, will pirate it right now because it looks like it rocks and I'm so happy about Zelda Williams becoming a filmmaker.

No. 370808

>>369680
kekkk I feel sorry for your sister, but that's hilarious.

No. 370893

>>370622
I love this movie with all my heart.
>>370785
holy smokes thanks for this! The world need more zombie bf movies.

No. 371202

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Nonas. Drop me a movie that sticks with you. I mean in the way that it made you feel so many things, had you thinking about it for weeks after watching. For me this was nocturnal animals. Not only was it incredibly beautiful to watch but the tone so brilliantly conveys the darkness between the two leads. Jake Gyllenhaal was fantastic, so was Amy Adams. I watched it years and years ago but my mind goes back to it often.

No. 371206

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>>371202
happy together (1997)

No. 371207

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>>371202
Can't pick a single one. The Turin Horse, Au Hasard Balthazar, and Poetry were the ones that stay with me the most.

No. 371282

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HUNGER. I thought this was going to be a fun takedown type of movie, but it wasn't. The ending was so dumb and completely disappointing and unsatisfying.

No. 371284

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>>371202
Curse of the golden flower (2006)
also ivan the terrible (1945) but if i keep bringing it up ill look like a personalityfag

No. 371904

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>>371202
wake in fright. what a fantastic and disturbing movie, truly captures the horror of toxic masculinity and the way men spur each other on. haunting ending, but in such a mundane way.

others that stuck with mind include let the right one in (literally my favorite romance movie, i think it really does capture the purity of love you feel for others as a child), top of the heap (fascinating and unique look into the struggle black men feel at wanting to be "the man" similar to white men and the ways they lash out at never truly being able to achieve this fantasy), daddy (1973) (a slightly fictionalized exploration of niki de saint phalle's tragic childhood due to the abuse of her father), and i could go on and on but i'll stop lol.

No. 371909

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A24 using ai too now

No. 371991

>>371904
Gonna second you on Wake in Fright

No. 372047

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>>371909
Samefag, but just got wind of the Netflix one too. We don't acting like LNWTD wasn't too bad are the ones who enabled this. So many jobs are going to be lost in movies and production in the next year because of this.

No. 372048

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No. 372101

>>372047
>>372048
That’s fucking awful, if it’s a documentary they should be required to be honest. Glad I cancelled my Netflix subscription, 20 bucks a month for garbage like this… smh

No. 372118

>>372047
That's pretty fucked up to do in a documentary.

No. 372127

>>371909
Eh, not that bad.
>>372047
While i disagree that this is wrong and really fucked up and that they are massive retards for not hiding it well enough Late Night with the devil was an amazing movie and AI art shouldn't be detrimental to it's reputation, it should infact be a plus for artists experimenting with new tech.

No. 372131

>>372127
The AI images in Late Night with the Devil were literally just two still images used as "bumpers." I dislike it (an actual illustator could have done a much better job), but I think it's a relatively harmless use of the tools.

No. 372140

Zootopia would work better as a sexism analogy. It still doesn’t fit but it would make more sense.

No. 372164

>>372131
Yeah, I enjoyed LNWTD a lot and I'm sad the AI debate taints it. I dislike the use of AI and it was pretty lazy, but it is vastly different from using AI to create pictures of a real person for your documentary. Or even movie posters ala A24. It's also easier to forgive an indie movie over big hitters like Netflix and A24. I really hope this doesn't become a trend, but it probably will.

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>>372127
>it should infact be a plus for artists experimenting with new tech.
except it looks like shit and there's plenty of artists who drew better renditions for free. i loved the movie but come on now.

No. 372372

>>371904
poor kangaroos

No. 372659

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I just watched this movie called Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker and I thought it was a lot of fun if you're into shitty, low budget 80s slashers. The standout point for me was how the final girl is a cute guy instead and there are multiple scenes where he is vulnerable and crying, which was refreshing. Are there any other horror movies that feature a guy as the "final girl" instead?

Also, is it just me or were men more sexualized in movies than they are now? I mostly watch horror movies so I can't speak for movies as a whole, but I've noticed that quite a few movies from the 70s and 80s will feature male nudity in a way that is obviously meant to objectify the actor, which surprised me. Nowadays if you do see male nudity, the guy is usually out of shape and not very attractive and it's not in an objectifying way.

No. 372665

>>372182
the AI version is so fucking bad. They could have paid a real artist and then sell the design as tshirts or something. I refuse to watch anything with aishit in it.

No. 372666

>>372659
>I've noticed that quite a few movies from the 70s and 80s will feature male nudity in a way that is obviously meant to objectify the actor
give some recs, sounds nice. Male actors in the 70s/80s were def much, much hotter.

No. 372673

>>372659
I thought that was a NoES poster at first. This looks really cool, I might check it out.

No. 372686

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>>372659
that movie is an old favorite of mine, just so much fun! we definitely need more final boys, but some classic examples i can think of are: tommy jarvis in jason lives (he has a trilogy but he is only cute in this one), NOES 2 and the 2012 reboot (its shit but quentin is pretty cute, he isn't as big as a focus as the female lead is tho), the hitcher 1986 (absolutely delicious male whump, probably the closest to what you want), the lost boys, night of the creeps, the burning, the loved ones (a cute boy with long hair and a female villain, very good), and fright night.

some of these are debatable, but its hard to make a good list.

No. 372702

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AI controversy aside, Late Night With the Devil was one of those horror movies that leaves you frustrated because everything about it was mediocre. Every character was a walking trope, full of exposition dumps and bashing the viewer in the head with foreshadowing that made the reveal pretty obvious in the first twenty minutes. So many movies have done closed-room mysteries/confined sets really well and the camera work in this made it one of the least visually engaging ones I've ever seen. Mostly I'm embarrassed for the production team because for a big theatrical release it felt as cheap as a Youtube creepypasta vid with it's jumpscares and special effects (I'm sure there's creepypastas made by teenagers that are more fun to watch). You'd think all the references to real life happenings and people of the time would make it interesting but it's so dry. The skeptic was just James Randi. The psychic was just Uri Geller. Wow the satanic panic, not like every possession movie set in the 70s hasn't done it twenty times over. The entire thing was a linear vehicle with no buildup for an overplayed, predictable ending. If anyone was even slightly intrigued by this I advise you to watch Berberian Sound Studio. If you're more into the possession stuff watch Session 9.

No. 372710

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>>372686
Incredibly based taste. NOES 2 is so fun and I didn't realize they made a reboot of it! Thank you for all these recommendations, I felt bad that I couldn't think of many other movies to recommend the other nona who replied to me. It seems as though sexualizing men in 80s horror movies is quite common and yet I can't think of too many examples off the top of my head from specific movies.

>>372666
Sadly I can't remember a lot, but I do remember that the Killing Kind (1973) was another movie I watched where I was surprised by how objectified the male lead was. Also Nightmare on Elm Street features pre-wall Johnny Depp in a crop top. Even Cannibal Holocaust has a gratuitous nude scene with one of the young male actors (who had a surprisingly nice body lol), although I don't know if I'd recommend that movie just for that one scene because it's a very brief moment. It's just weird that horror movies don't do that anymore. You'd think that with changing social expectations that you'd see more of that stuff, not less.

No. 372987

>>372702
Omg I agree with you 100%. I posted about this yesterday in the unpopular opinions thread but I should’ve posted it here. You explained it better than I could though, well said.

No. 372990

>>372987
Actually it was your post that finally inspired me to watch it because you mentioned Bohemian Grove. The big cultural and media shift of 70s America is interesting to me but disappointingly the era had absolutely no bearing on the plot in that the cult itself wasn't really relevant and could have been any cult from the 60s/70s/80s, maybe they chose Bohemian Grove to be subversive since it's not as ubiquitous as the Mansons. I felt the same disappointment as you about Parasite, too. Thanks for your interesting review!

No. 373000

>>372990
>>372987
>>372702
I disagree, it was a great movie.

No. 373005

>>373000
What aspects of it were really good in your opinion? I thought the supporting cast did a great job, the young girl didn't take it too OTT.

No. 373140

>>371904
Is the MC part asian?

No. 373507

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>>373140
gary bond? no, he isn't.

No. 373531

>>373005
nta but it really did feel like a tv show. why are the uri gellar and james randi archetypes bad? the host was just a carson wannabe and gus was just ed mcmahon, so what? all the actors were great and believable. i also feel like this is the first analog horror movie we've gotten because it's not really found footage.

the only complaint i had with the movie was that i'm not sure how we, the viewer were able to see behind the stage for the necessary exposition but that's a minor nitpick. this was incredible for an indie movie breakout with a small budget.

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watched the passenger. extremely boring, absolutely nothing going for it aside from having kyle gallner in it (he's ugly now but i can appreciate a good scream king). i'm very sick of these thriller films about some guy and another guy driving around and committing violence in order to kind-of skirt around discussing their trauma, or whatever.

No. 373599

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The worst scene was when the Aunt died but you could see her breathing and laughing.

No. 373600

Late to the party but I just watched Poor Things. Pedo stuff aside, the movie was shallow and trash. I don't know why it got so much praise. Lanthimos's previous movies were far better so this was a huge disappointment. If his next movie continues in the same vein, I'm never watching his stuff again.

No. 373602

>>373600
talking about this movie is bannable now

No. 373603


No. 373605

>>373602
that's not true.
>>373603
ignore them they're lying. there were some bans upthread when poor things sperging got out of hand.

No. 373606

>>373605
>that's not true.
??? >>366230 was a normal non-infight post that got banned

No. 373622

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It was ok. Predictable, but still somehow managed to capture a bit of interest for me to finish it. It's the typical story of how a girl gets into the fast money lifestyle and ends up losing everything. Not bad for a Tubi movie. Way better than this >>373599 crap.

No. 373625

>>373622
Is this a legit tragedy or is that just a wild movie name choice?

No. 373629

>>373625
Both, I guess? It is a tragedy but a Tubi tragedy if you catch my drift. If you want a more serious tragedy then Girl Lost or Girl Lost: Hollywood would be better.

No. 373633

>>373622
samefag but man Crystal The Doll is in almost every Tubi movie alongside that asian lady with the blaccent and the bbl

No. 373647

>>373622
love you tubi-chan. i need to up my freevee/tubi game

No. 373755

>>373622
>>373599
What even are these, ai generated scripted movie? I like D-list movies, but what even are these about?

No. 373840

>>373755
They are ghetto-independent Tubi movies. They have over-the-top plots, usually about street life or some raunchy revenge-type shit. It's low-quality entertainment. I like them because they're unintentionally funny.
>>373647
Thank you nona.

No. 373841

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Suffocated. Watch this shit if you want to laugh. It's terrible, even by Tubi ghetto standards. TLDR; Lexy has a shitty, cheating drug dealer boyfriend, but she's too dumb to break up, so chaos ensues. The MC was so dumb, I got pissed off at her. Picnic in a driveway? Not even a park? And all the unnecessary sex scenes with the terrible soundtrack were just overkill. I keked at the druglord giving Mike the coke in a ziplock bag. It's a dumpster fire movie. 0.5/5

No. 373851

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I enjoyed the reenactment of Andrew's interview in this kek. Although of all the journalist movies I felt this was one of the most "mundane" if that makes sense and packed less of an emotional punch

No. 373853

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finally saw this after years of seeing it shilled on social media and I can see both why people criticize and enjoy it. it's a very aesthetically pleasing movie that glimpses into the haze of adolescence the girls are going through, but at other times is very tense, heavy and unnerving. also I feel like a lot of 13 year olds unless you were either very popular or a loose leashed LA 13 year old are nowhere near as promiscuous or risky as the characters in it are either, even if part of it was based on reed's own experiences

No. 374093

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Watched Challengers for the first time. Was scared at first because I don't like seeing women getting shafted for the sake of men in movies, especially gay men, but this one was good. Zendaya acted perfectly, and was a Stacy the whole time, despite her being pretty abusive. I know people came out of the movie hating her, but honestly, she was living the dream. The blonde one was cuter than he looked, but I wish the other guy was more attractive. Still gave it five stars for the drama because I love to see a dominant woman in media. Zendaya was so cute in this movie. Also to anyone who was scared of seeing this movie just in case it got weird, Zendaya doesn't get naked, the men are all sexualized, sort of in a gay moid way but if you like men then you'll be alright.

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>>371202
>https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/election.htm
and
>https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/election_2.htm

I felt mentally damaged after watching the sequel. Still not as dark as the reality.

No. 374096

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>>361608
Not that Oscars mean anything, but at least the franchise will get more exposure. Here's hoping for a sequel to -1.

No. 374187

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What are your thoughts on Labyrinth? I fully admit that most of my love for it is from nostalgia since I grew up watching it with my family and associate it with good memories. even watching it now I’m still mesmerized by it. I know most people view it as the David bowie bulge movie but I guess I can overlook it since I didn’t see anything weird about it as a kid kek. It makes me so sad that nothing like it will ever be made again since cgi is replacing puppetry/practical sets.

No. 374241

>>374093
Nona were the guys' looks more tolerable in motion? Because I saw a picture of them in the Ugly men psyop thread and I was devastated both for Zendaya having to go through that AND the female audience for being denied a FMM scene with actually attractive guys.
Beyond that, your description of the movie sounds intriguing and maybe I'll end up watching it.

No. 374299

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>>374241
They're more tolerable, and I guess it's a "different strokes for different folks" because the girls I saw it with all found picrel hot and I thought he was ugly. By lolcow standards, you probably will find the guys ugly. But by regular, normie standards they're fine. It might just be a vibe thing too because some girls liked that his personality was abrasive, meanwhile, I preferred the blonde one because he was basically a doormat for Zendaya. Also if you don't mind spoilers for the FMM scene it's much shorter, Zendaya doesn't even sleep with them. She just watches them kiss and then says she doesn't want to be a homewrecker and leaves.

No. 374310

>>374095
nayrt and yeah election is sooooo god. that ending was masterful. definitely one of the best hk flicks i've seen

No. 374345

>>374187
not a fan of how scrunkly bowie looks so that was a distraction for me tbh, but I love how dreamlike the movie was, and the practical effects of puppets and him walking on walls and shit was cool

No. 374493

>>374310
>flicks
Is it normal to use /tv/ language here?

No. 374503

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>>374093
I also loved this, it’s super entertaining and one of the sexiest movies I have ever seen (and it doesn’t have any actual sex scene). I don’t know how anyone can hate Tashi besides failmales, she was based the whole time.

And yes, the blonde one didn’t look too bad, especially with longer hair. The other one is way too British looking but we never stood a chance, picrel are other possible casting choices. All fucking uggos.

No. 374521

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>>368546
thanks nonna for the recommendation, loved the film. it was really sweet, and i've been recently loving everything that has to do with the chinese immigrant experience so this was a fine time to watch it.

on a different note, i saw Take This Waltz and seems it was a good time for that too, it hit me. the reviews are pretty mixed, others thought it was empty and the mc was annoying, but idk i found it poignant and sort of relatable?

No. 374534

>>374493
huh? i've never been to /tv/ in my life, "flick" is common slang. even the mainstream press uses "chick flicks" or "action flicks". where do you think the "flix" in netflix came from?
>>374299
im sure o'connor is a good actor but i'll never be able to think of him as anything but prince charles ngl

No. 374665

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Twisted Marriage Therapist. Part of the "Twisted" Tubi movie series. It's a spicy suspense drama. TLDR; A couple with marital issues seeks guidance from a therapist, not knowing her sinister motives. This is a Tubi original, meaning no iPhone cameras, better acting, and better wigs. In other words, they upped the production, and it is similar to Lifetime's (but don't expect anything too stellar). As with every movie in this niche, it's predictable, but the plot is (somewhat) interesting enough to keep the viewer engaged. It also features lesbianism, if that piques your interest. I would recommend it if you're looking for a silly thriller. Don't look too much into the plotholes or MC's naiveness.

No. 374739

>>373853
this movie is so fucking hard for me to watch. i'm reminded of both horrible and cringe things i did as a teen as well as my turbulent relationship with my mom. yeah parts of it are exaggerated for drama but it still feels real. i didn't live in LA, i lived outside of seattle, and at 14 i was getting high and jumping into cars with groups of boys i didn't know at all. it does happen

No. 374786

>>373600
I agree some of his previous movies were far better. I watched and mostly felt it didn't deliver anything well. It goes all over the place and it looks bad. Honestly, I wasn't completely surprised, I remember the first movie I watched from him was dogtooth and that movie is also kinda pointless.
>>374187
I always liked the movie and the song, but even back then Bowie's character weirded me out but I couldn't say exactly why. I still love how it looks.

No. 374825

>>374093
I seem to be the only one who found it boring and dragged out. I found the characters to have no chemistry, the sex scenes were clumsy and the music design was really fucking annoying, could barely hear the actors when the techno music was blaring
The visuals were nice, I saw what the director was doing with the colours and I thought that was kinda neat

No. 374885

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>>374665
I love when nonas come here and post about movies like this. No pretentious artsy stuff with a deep meaning, just some silly movie where you can turn your brain off and enjoy. Reminds me of that one Omar Epps movie Fatal Affair where picrel from a scene got turned into a meme for a minute kek. Similar low budget, predictable story but it was decent entertainment for an hour and a bit

No. 375164

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what was even the point of this movie?

No. 375204

>>375164
Oh, I went back and watched this in October when I was looking for spooky movies. It took a while to remember the plot to find it because all I could remember was "woman's husband died, she keeps having flashbacks and tries to stop it".

I think they wanted it to be a suspense tragedy which is fine, but I wish they kept it from being a groundhog day mystery and more of having her cope after a sudden death and living with survivor's guilt. Like, we didn't need to see what happened in order for her to cope, especially when it just comes back around to her being fine in the end when getting out of bed with her kids. Should've just been her trying to live her life and maybe have made it "Who killed my husband", but the tanker truck makes that's obvious lol

No. 375240

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This was a great horror movie and I will die on that hill.

The director's short film "Heck" is even more disturbing.

No. 375243

>>375164
That poster is terrible.

>graphicdesignismypassion.png

No. 375344

File: 1714579923121.jpg (1.88 MB, 1385x2000, pyewacket.jpg)

>>375243
Reminds me of this poster for Pyewacket. It's like the stuff i would make in 2008-2010 for my friends screamo-band.

No. 375424

>>375204
The plot ultimately makes very little sense to me and the only highlight was Sandra's acting which she seems to give even in bad movies. It's even more empty than the average bad nonsensical "mind screw" movie which I usually like watching for shits and giggles

>>375344
kek

No. 375479

>>375240
I really liked it too, I get why ppl might find it boring but I thought they nailed the atmosphere and some parts were horrifying. It felt really familiar like it unlocked some weird buried feelings and nightmares from my childhood. I'm never watching it again though, it's too fucking creepy and unsettling

No. 375583

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Someone recommended this movie to me
>it's just like Jacob's Ladder
Yeah sure, if Jacob's Ladder got turned into a bad movie with terrible acting and script. Keira sounds and acts so bad. I can only imagine the director asked her to act like a complete idiot, some scenes are just dumb, like the one she is biting her lip. Don't get me started on the "romance" of this movie. It's been so long since I watched such a pointless and shitty movie.

No. 375738

>>375164
The movie sucks but there's a blooper of her fumbling the severed head prop that made getting the DVD worth it.

No. 376396

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>>375424
AYRT, I would always just revert back to 'The Others' as being the perfect mind fuck movie. I've rewatched it so many times because the scene where they realize what's happened is such a shock. They directed it so well.

No. 376405

>>374241
Just saw challengers and they 100% looked better in motion. I was expecting them to be unattractive and unworthy of zendaya because of the ugly man psyop thread but the entire film really was a feast for the eyes. I thoroughly enjoyed it

No. 376443

File: 1714805284396.jpg (Spoiler Image,92.75 KB, 1895x788, MV5BZjZlZTdiMDAtNzY3OS00NTFjLT…)

>>375240
this movie filled me with a dread i've never felt in another horror movie. this weird innate fear we seemingly have all felt as children when it's dark in the house and there's a sense that something is off in the atmosphere. also, one of my greatest fears is being stuck in a time loop and that seems to be all this entity is doing. trapping people in some repetitive hell they can't escape

No. 376468

File: 1714830837106.jpg (299.56 KB, 844x1248, outwaters.jpg)

has anyone seen the outwaters? i saw multiple reviews describing it as a disorienting and unsettling viewing experience but i found it so underwhelming that i fell asleep watching it. the idea of wandering aimlessly through the desert with no hope of rescue while suffering from a serious head wound and being stalked by your attacker who has also violently murdered your friends is pretty scary but there was way more emphasis on the experimental aspect of the film than on the actual storyline.

No. 376510

I don't think I'll see challengers, but from trailer it might be very generic, Zendaya has said that playing a "villain" was a challenge on its own for her on interviews, but the trailers mostly show is that scene of her having a threesome with 2 guys and then the guys start making out with each as she watches smugly, is she being a villain by making boys gay? I get it, that's kinda evil, but is that it?

No. 376535

>>376510
why would we discuss a movie with you that you've never seen? it's honestly very odd to strike up a conversation about a film you have not watched and do not plan to watch.

No. 376538

>>375583
I can already tell it's bad because 1) Despite the two main actors I've never heard of it 2) The poster visibly relies neither on plot nor artistic value to bring the pigs to the slop, just sheer star power. Brody and Knightley are in it, that's our only argument, we've got nothing better to offer!

No. 376549

>>374093
I don't understand the takes about Zendaya being evil or being a villain. But I don't agree with you that she was abusive or that she was living the dream. She was too good for both the men which is why she was never truly happen with just one of them. I got the impression we were supposed to think she was perfect aside from the cheating. I think she lost her dominance and conscious manipulativeness after her injury and she only started rediscovering herself towards the end of the film, in between she was acting on subconscious instinct. I'm not angry with her at all. Loved the movie.

No. 376551

Why are you so defensive?

No. 376553

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Have any anons seen Civil War? I saw it last night with my dad and ended up really liking it. Ngl I didn't know anything about this movie before my dad asked me to go see it with him, but I saw it was directed by Alex Garland, which piqued my interest. Based on the title I felt a little skeptical, but the direction the film took was pretty interesting. I liked how it ended up being more of a character driven movie about the photojournalists than about the civil war itself (like it's never said how it started) and how fucked up being in a war zone is. I know a lot of people are probably expecting some rightoid shit since right wingers are the ones who want a civil war to happen, but that's not the case at all with this movie. On another note, Jessie (the one on the right in picrel) is so frustrating, she's such a dumbass at times like how she ended up getting Lee killed…also I don't understand why she was using a film camera kek. Barely any photographers use those anymore but also who the fuck has time to develop film when you're in a war-torn area trying to survive

No. 376580

>>376510
>hasn’t seen movie
>makes assumptions about movie anyways
>”but is that it?”
No, that’s not what the movie is about. Don’t be retarded. I wouldn’t care if you actually watched the movie and didn’t like it, but since you didn’t, your opinion is useless

No. 376620

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The past few months on here and other websites people have brought up about Aaron Taylor-Johnson and most of it is in relation to his marriage but other than that I don't know anything about him so I figured I would watch some stuff he was in so I picked Kick -Ass. It was alright and I just started 2. As far as 1 goes it has some slightly disgusting teenage boy humor but overall it's like hearted enough and jokey. One thing that continued to throw me is how high ATJ's voice is. It was so unexpected to me based on his looks that I had to rewind parts and retake it in. I'm two minutes into 2 and he still talks like that. He was also apparently in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging but I haven't seen it since it was on Nickleodeon years ago

No. 376622

>>376620
I enjoyed Kick Ass 1000x more than I expected to, it was fun and Nicolas Cage was really good in it.

No. 376623

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Watching picrel for the first time (I know, I live under a rock) and finding it not as compelling as I was expecting. The romantic upper class vibe is vaguely annoying to me, not sure pretentious is the right word but it's something close. Should I give it more of a chance?

No. 376624

>>376620
ATAPS was life changing for 8 year old me

No. 376625

>>376623
I think the #cum peach scene is too specific to be fictional, I'm 100% sure that came from real life. Certain scenes and actions seemed too cringe to be imaginary which was the most interesting part about the film to me. It was like the 4th wall kept being broken while I was watching it.

No. 376633

>>376623
i hate both the leads but i enjoy this movie for being a fantasy. a summer dream.

No. 376638

>>376620
Too bad the sequel is basically 'groom your girlfriend'. This is a moid wish-fulfilment fantasy.

No. 376718

>>374187
I was 19 or 20 when I watched it for the first time so it doesn't have a nostalgic value to me and I found some parts a bit annoying (like with those creatures in the woods?) but in overall it's a good old fairytale movie and I share this feeling:
>It makes me so sad that nothing like it will ever be made again since cgi is replacing puppetry/practical sets.
I always think about it rewatching The Neverending Story. Movies like this have a lot of charm and what I also like is that they're filled with various emotions, so they don't seem as superficial as some newer fantasy movies. They can be pretty gloomy and even somewhat depressive at times, and in newer films, when something tragic happens, the plot just quickly moves on… You're not really emotionally involved there. I wonder if kids ever get sad or scared watching these movies.

>>376396
Nta, it's such a nice movie, I also rewatched it many times. It's pretty simple, not overcomplicated or anything, and yet it works so well.

No. 376726

>>376622
ayrt and yeah I thought Nicolas Cage was really good and I'm sad he won't be in the sequel, Big Daddy was a good character

No. 376918

File: 1714975206827.jpeg (75.48 KB, 455x674, IMG_5311.jpeg)

I watched the City Hunter live action movie, don't know the comic, don't know the anime, the only exposure i have of it was him being playable on that shitty bamco crossover 3D fighter, Jump Force.
The overall meme with him was that he was a character that just used a normal gun in a context of super powers and magic and I have to say the movie has some more of that and absolutely does not explain his whole deal with weapons, i guess he is just really good at shooting.
So from the beginning i can tell this was directed, written and choreographed by a moid, the main character is like a huge pervert but also just "perfect" he can't lose a fight nor get hit, he lands every shot and barely ever gets hurt.
is that his true super power?
The protagonist's friend is not as perfect and i guess he is the self insert for every fat weeb that was hyped for this movie because he is just as much of a pervert and dies 20 mintues into the movie, but like gets hit by a truck and doesn't die until 10 minutes after some druggie stabs him
the friend's sister takes his place and she is pretty much useless and barely does anything in the movie because according to the script she is just inferior to her brother because she is adopted and a woman.
The McGuffin of the movie is a girl that just happens to be a cosplayer that gets introduced to also be a druggy who has super powers but once the main guy "rescues" her she just doesn't have them anymore, don't know what's up with that.
There's a scene where he obstructs the view of perverts that want to take upskirt pictures of the cosplayer so I guess he is a "good" pervert and i swear that convention scene could be an Andrew Dobson reference
The super henchmen that fight with City Hunter are a fat guy and a woman and he obviously wins because one is a fat guy and the other is a woman.
The friend's sister ends up moving with him and trashes all of his porn which i guess is a good ending, Netflix at it again with the endless trash
So yeah, City Hunter the tale of an invincible pervert with the super power of giving a power fantasy to the 0% self aware moids.
I probably wrote this somewhere else but this why fuckin hate anime because it appeals to like the male fantasy and that's just totally wrong.

No. 376949

>>376918
Sounds like the beginning is an accurate adaptation of the original manga so I wouldn't blame it on the director being male. A female director would have done the same thing if she wanted the characters to not be ooc. I'm not going to watch it though, I don't have a netflix subscription and don't want one.

No. 377466

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Yesterday I gave Persona (1966) a try since one anon posted that she didn't like it and it was in my list. I enjoyed this film, mainly because the acting was excellent. Some of the dialogues made me very uncomfortable though I hate when men write about post partumdepression, pregnancy or sexuality from a female pov, it feels wrong, unrealistic and inaccurate. The tension between Elisabet and Alma was perfectly achieved through each of their interactions, despite Elisabet being a mute. I knew beforehand that there was some jungian thing going on and it made me have a different perspective while observing the women, that was very interesting. My favourite line was delivered by the doctor at the beginning while she was talking to Elisabet. Another aspect I really liked was being able to see so clearly the actresses' skin texture, it gave a very raw touch to the photography, almost as if I was watching a play in real life in a theater, something intimate. I feel like my mind and my eye are not culturally educated enough to appreciate films like this but I still liked Persona and I'm looking forward to watch more of his movies. His short series, Fanny and Alexander (1982), is actually really good but, again, it has some of the flaws I pointed out in the first spoiler.

No. 377493

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>>377466
It's a beautifully made movie, but I kind of got filtered towards the end. These kind of films are frustrating to me, since I always like many of the individual parts, but they don't come together into a cohesive whole. Pic related.

No. 377529

>>376549
She had Art trapped in that marriage (even though, yes, they could've divorced), but she was pretty obviously emotionally abusive and even did so while knowing she had control over his career and the decisions he made in his life. But I mostly agree with all you're saying, and I don't think our opinions are saying two entirely different things

No. 377533

>>377493
> These kind of films are frustrating to me, since I always like many of the individual parts, but they don't come together into a cohesive whole.
Yes, exactly, I guess they're made that way, at least it seems partially intentional. I just watched the trailer of Jacob's Ladder and it's the kind of movie I enjoy kek so I'll add it to my list

No. 377565

>>377493
the only good and memorable part of the movie is the hospital hallucination lbr

No. 377705

>>377565
The nightmarish surreality was what made that movie… explaining it (and so badly) ruined it over.

No. 378686

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What do you think about Spring Breakers nonnas?

No. 378695

>>378686
it's been a while since i seen it but i remember disliking it cause it's mostly ass and titties: the movie, and some people used to claim it was empowering and deep just because the girls lightly bully james franco

No. 378696

>>378686
i remember seeing the trailer everywhere when it came out and feeling soo fascinated kek, it was the first harmony korine movie i ever saw and opened my eyes to hies filmography

No. 378724

>>378686
harmony korine is a fucking hack. i hate him and all his movies. fucking up-his-ass spoiled rich kid profiting off white trash porn. he didn't even pay the people who appeared in some of his early films. he also is friends with larry clark, known pedophile, and korine feels like a pedo too. he also just in general has a punchable face

No. 378762

>>376549
I think people tend to pit the 3 together too much when they're all flawed and hurt each other in different ways at different times (shrug). Tashi wasn't too "good" for either of them, what she wanted was a pet tennis boyfriend to live through vicariously since she couldn't play anymore. She loved tennis above all which is why she could never fully connect with Art or Patrick, and Patrick calls this out pretty explicitly.

And I think her continued draw to Patrick was that he could "challenge" her in ways she needed as someone obsessed with competition, whereas Art was like a dog at her heel. But Patrick wasn't willing to put tennis first for her, so even though he had a better dynamic with Tashi he would never give her what she wanted. And I think the ending kind of shows the only way the trio work is AS a trio, or at least Tasha can only have 100% of what she needs if she has both Art and Patrick.

No. 380741

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Nonnas, I just saw the first Terminator movie for the first time and I'm kinda pissed because Arnold was actually slightly cute at the beginning, but then they burnt off his eyebrows and his hair so he spent half of the movie looking UGLY until they fucked up his face some more so that at least it actually looked cool with the robot effects. The fake head was also laughably bad, though.

As for the actual movie, I don't really have any strong feelings. I just feel that Robocop did the soldier roboguy concept better, especially in terms of acting (Arnie kept doing funny faces during the action scenes even tho he's supposed to have no humanity whatsoever, it was actually distracting to me).
I don't really see the hype for The Terminator, but I've seen some people say they liked Judgment Day better so I'm looking forward to whenever I feel like watching that one anyway.

No. 380865

>>380741
Judgement Day is definitely better in my opinion. I loved it as a child but I still enjoy it greatly whenever I see it. It's cooler in many ways and Arnie and especially Sarah are way more interesting in the movie. Liquid metal robot is awesome too. Judgement Day feels more like a complete movie which includes many interesting elements while the first Terminator is mostly this chaotic chase + a bit of romance, way simpler.

No. 380886

>>380741
>>380865
yeah sometimes the first two terminator movies blend together in my mind but Judgment Day is the more fun one. You have to see them in order though, The Terminator sets you up for Judgment Day. I bet it was super hype for everyone in theaters in 1991 when Arnold went from being the bad guy to being the good guy 7 years after the first movie. I know it got me going when I was a kid watching them on VHS.

No. 381434

>>378762
I agree with this. Neither Art nor Patrick could give her everything that she wanted/needed, it took two to do so. I don't think Art or Patrick would have been satisfied with only Tashi either, same as they wouldn't have been happy if they just got together. Like I think they did kind of want to be together and did have sexual chemistry together but it could never be expressed without a woman mediating that between them. It's why Art and Patrick didn't just continue in the bedroom together after Tashi left.

They were only ever gonna be happy as a trio. I've seen takes about how they should have ditched Tashi at the end which IMO neglects the needed role she plays for them, Patrick and Art aren't interested in each other like that unless Tashi is there to bring that out of them.

No. 381794

Just watched "Cabin In the Woods" last night. Horror movie that subverts pretty much every single trope in the genre, yet still takes itself seriously just enough for it to be genuinely entertaining, unlike Scary Movie or other such trash.

No. 382574

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Does anyone know if this movie was at some point shilled by coquette/pickme/edchan/minor girls at some point? I had to watch it with a woman i knew and it just seemed odd that she would pick it for certain reasons.
i was also surprised that there were no sex scenes

No. 382765

File: 1715898026451.jpeg (54.9 KB, 620x395, buffalo66.jpeg)

>>382574
Screenshots of Christina Ricci in Buffalo 66 were all over tumblr back in the day if that means anything. I like Ricci and I always noticed they got a lot of notes. Her makeup and hair were probably style inspo, shots of her in the skimpy dress were reblogged hornily imo.

No. 382778

>>382574
yeah and it still is

No. 382904

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Horror nonnas, what did you think of It Follows?

No. 382905

>>382904
It Sucks

No. 382907

>>382904
Awful, overhyped shit. How famous it is is probably some kind of moid psyop. At the bottom of my list.

No. 382917

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The quotes are full of people saying that critics are always wrong. I don't know about the quality of the movie, but can't people just accept that not every movie will be good just because it's from a critically acclaimed director? Seems like Twitter film bros just want to prove some point and they're determined to cope their way in.

No. 382928

>>382904
I liked it a lot. I like the rules of the curse. A monster who can only walk towards you and can change appearances is fun, it was like a nightmare.

No. 383086

Does anyone else feel like the audio quality of ATSV is so much worse than they remembered it? I watched some scenes on youtube but the audio sounds almost cheap. I know that movies obviously sound different out of theatre but this sounds so drastically different lolol

No. 383120

>>382904
its a good subversion of the virginal final girl trope

No. 383642

>>383086
The audio quality was bad also in the theaters. It feels like every theater I went to had a different sound mix to it, so I'm not surprised if digital is just as poorly thrown together

No. 384031

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The Virgin Suicides premiered 25 years ago today in Cannes! Not my favourite Coppola movie, but I still love the soundtrack, visuals and eerie atmosphere.

No. 384226

Im seeing a lot of jokes about that new Zendaya movie where she tricks 2 boys into kissing each other, mostly moids are making that same joke about
"Zendaya is so mid she turns you and your friend gay"
And idk maybe it's overexposure but I'm starting to find them kinda funny, is there something wrong?

No. 384233

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>>382904
one of my favorite modern horror movies ever. i'm so impressed by how they managed to make a normal guy in a white t-shirt terrifying.
>>384226
picrel is the type of man to call zendaya mid. she's beautiful. it's fine if you don't think she's attractive but calling her mid is insane

No. 384516

>>384226
>maybe it's overexposure
>is there something wrong
Yes. This is like when moids meme themselves and their peers into outlandish fetishes they wouldn't otherwise have, not saying it's on the same level but you seem subsceptible to brainwashing that starts off at first as maybe just a joke. How often do you see these posts and why? Why curate your space to include instead of exclude moidslop takes? Social media's harms on display. This isn't a problem of someone who touches grass and sees how other living people around them look.

No. 384770

>>384031
I got halfway through that movie and turned it off, I'd never been so bored. it does look pretty but it was just not for me apparently.

No. 384777

File: 1716262976989.jpg (38.2 KB, 345x460, picture for ants.jpg)

>>384770
Not my thing either, bored me to death for some reason. I watched Mustang which is kinda like a turkish Virgin Suicides and I liked it better.

No. 384800

Challengers plot felt like a Wattpad story I would read at 11. And the camera effects were corny like the director just got a camera for the first time and wanted to do all those special angles for the sake of it. Selection and timing of music were also bad and ruined a lot of scenes. Pretty bad movie.

No. 384827

>>384800
i am so glad my brain is not as small and smooth as yours

No. 385575

>>384777
Mustang was beautiful.

No. 385831

Do any movie that pass the bechdel test exist or is that an impossible concept?

No. 385837

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>>385831
If I remember correctly, Alien passes the Bechdel test (Ripley and Lambert talk about the spacechip alone) and I think Silence of the Lambs passes it too

No. 385842

>>385837
Lambert is trans, so no it doesn’t

No. 385845

>>385842
NTA but I thought you were trolling so I googled it and FUCK! Can't have shit in the Nostromo.

No. 385849

>>385845
I mean, the alien killed all the men on board, so still pretty cool

No. 385854

File: 1716498666421.jpg (104.21 KB, 644x966, Jones.jpg)

>>385849
Correction, the alien spared the one male worth saving: Jonesy :)(no emojis)

No. 385856

>>385842
I am going to kill Ridley Scott in minecrat
>>385854
Wholesome

No. 385865

>>382904
Didn't age well for my tastes. Concept is cool and creepy, but wouldn't watch it again ever. I think it would feel like a chore. I didn't even think about this movie after i watched it and never wanted to talk with somebody about it, so my opinion about this film is like "eh".
>>385831
There is bechdeltest[dot]com

No. 385870

>>385865
Yeah, I get that is was pretty innovative for a horror in 2014 but I watched it this year for the first time and it's just fine? I like the concept and certain elements, but overall I don't find it super great unlike some people and critics.

No. 385880

>>385842
played by a woman and no one would ever know if it wasn't for that little flash of text plus it's scifi so magic is allowed and I don't care. it's a woman in this case.

No. 385882

>>385842
honest, it was probably an inside joke on set that weirdos online ran with when they finally noticed it.

No. 385964

Just watched Southern Comfort because it's free with ads (adblock takes care of them) on YouTube. Despite being nearly two hours of barely competent national guard scrotes bumbling through a swamp and getting each other killed, it's a surprisingly entertaining and well-made action thriller. Ry Cooder did the soundtrack and there's some real-deal Cajun music at one point, which was a nice touch. Pretty much every character who gets significant screen time is a bastard in some way so it's very gratifying and more than a bit funny to watch them suffer. Unfortunately none of the main group are terribly attractive, except maybe Keith Carradine.

No. 386409

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So Atlas staring Jennifer Lopez, it's just bad
I tried liking it but at some point JLo's acting was very hard to take seriously and by the end it seems like she is simping for AI.
I have never fully played Titan Fall but my mind went on that direction while watching the movie since the sentient robots are introduced (which also feels like an unintended tranny analogy because the first sentient robot is voiced by a woman and says that "she" prefers that people refer to it with "she/her pronouns") i guess whoever made this movie was a fan of the titan fall concept.
kinda sad this is what Randall from this is us is up to now days

No. 386506

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Finally watched The Usual Suspects. It was ok. Overrated but it was intriguing enough for me to finish it. How much of Söze's backstory was real and how much was fake?

No. 386534

>>382574
It's been a staple on Tumblr for 10 years now but it's a pretty popular movie even before the screencaps all over Tumblr. I first found out about it because it played on TV randomly back when TV was a thing.

No. 386997

File: 1716825734151.jpg (55.07 KB, 270x367, Ete_85.jpg)

Has any nonna seen Été 85/Summer of 85? Upon rewatching I realized what a wet rag of a character Alex is, no wonder David got bored of him lol.

No. 387006

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I watched Near Dark recently, it was pretty fun. If it wasn't for all the violence it almost felt like a family movie. I know it seems to disappear from streaming sites randomly but it's on Tubi now.

No. 387056

>>384777
I didn't like how the movie sexualize (ironic) the girls.

No. 387066

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>>382904
I actually really enjoy it and have rewatched it a few times. I like the liminal feeling of the scenes in between the action, of the kids just hanging out together. It reminds me of being that age and just lazing about with no real responsibilities. Which sounds like paradise but there's something sad about it, maybe because it's not forever. Our youth passes us without much fanfare and death comes for all of us–that's definitely one read of the film. Also I like the weird technology they use at times.. like the shellphone(?). It helps the film kind of feel somewhat ageless when we don't have specific iPhones, etc to date it.

No. 387098

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>>387006
i fucking LOVE near dark, and i hate vampires generally, near dark and the lost boys are top. did you know near dark was directed by a woman?

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>>387006
i LOVE near dark, all those 80s vampire movies are such a treat. fright night is another underrated one, but the subtle homoeroticism of them all is my fave aspect.

>>387098
nta but i love kathryn bigelow, she has some really underrated gems. strange days is a masterpiece, i don't care what anyone else says.

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>>387006
Near Dark is so good! I love all you Near Dark sisters, 80s vampire movies have my heart.

No. 387153

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speaking of 80s/90s vampire movies, are there any where the goody two shoes protagonist doesn't win? i hate that they always end with the cool ragtag found family group of vampires being murdered with glee, literally could not care less about the losers who got turned and acted like big babies about it. i think it's from the oversaturation of movies where we're meant to sympathize for the schmuck because they still have their humanity or whatever. carpenter's vampires at least painted the coven as truly awful people so you actively want to root for the good guys. i've already seen queen of the damned but is there even anything else

No. 387169

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I have been watching tons of action movies lately. I specially really liked hard boiled by John Woo. Modern actions movies are so insanely soulless though. I refuse to watch john wick, no matter how ''good'' it is i already know its going to look extremely sanitized and clean. Thank god there are tons of 80s-90s hidden gems i can watch.

No. 387326

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I generally hate remakes but I was curious about this one, is it any good?

No. 387327

>>387169
based. the golden age of HK action movies was something else. have you seen beast cops (1998) or the mission (1999)? they're not as good as the john woo ones but they're stull really good

No. 387377

Something about "The Loved Ones" really stuck with me like I do not enjoy exploitationy goreporn films but I quite enjoyed this one Only thought the father/daughter incest and dog killing was a bit silly
Something about how he could only make these gutteral monster like sounds was fabulous her crawling on her elbow because her hand visibly had a bone sticking out of it at the end was so well done, looked like a zombie movie
It also got to the point very quickly, very much appreciated.

No. 387379

>>387326
no, it is not good at all. some of the body horror was decent, and they did a good job at having the main characters art look realistically done (which is an issue i have with a lot of fictional painters depicted in film). but horrible pacing, terrible tonal shifts, and the third act is so mind bogglingly bad and no character acts in a logical way at all.

No. 387608

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"The Exorcist universe" shut the fuck up there's two movies and two novels and nothing else. I wouldn't even be so angry if Doctor Sleep wasn't such an affront to Kubrick, can't wait how he fucks up yet another classic. Only condolences being the new prequels/sequels are so bad this is just another drop in the bucket.

No. 387612

>>387608
What a waste of Mike Flanagan's talent.

No. 387758

>>387608
Flanagan can be weirdly hit or miss but more hits than misses soo that's ok but the exorcist is so boring, I know it says a "new take" but a new take on shit is still just new shit.
He makes such inventive and unique stuff so yeah >>387612 really seems like a waste to have him do the exorcist of all things.

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Anyone watch this? The title seems familiar, like it’s a remake or a book maybe, but I can’t find anything on Google. Idk, might just be some crazy deja vu.

No. 387790

>>387782
maybe the title reminds you of 3:10 to Yuma? it came out a while ago

No. 388024

>>387608
There's 5 movies.

No. 388318

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The Death Note movies from 2006 are terrible but entertaining

No. 388639

>>388318
Japanese anime movies always are, and I'll always love them.

No. 388667

>>388639
I thought Ichi the Killer was a genuinely good horror movie in my early 20s, I wouldn't have guessed it was based on a manga. Haven't rewatched it to see if it holds up

No. 388936

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had Firelight on my backlog for years, finally watched it and it was great. its jane eyre if Jane wasnt retarded, Rochester wasn't an ugly douchebag, and they got to fuck. and the dialogue made me laugh a few times. super underrated as a period piece tbh. if you like historical romance you'll probably love it

No. 388963

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Has anyone seen Furiosa? I liked Fury Road but I mostly disliked this aside from like one action scene. I didn't see ATJ in anything else but I thought she was kind of mediocre as Furiosa. Charlize Theron gave a lot of depth and emotion to the character whereas ATJ's acting felt very flat. Also she looks so tiny and frail compared to Furiosa in the first movie, it's hard to take her seriously. I wish they at least didn't put her in the same costume as in Fury Road because it just looked like she was cosplaying. I hated the stupid ass friendship/romance with whatshisface, he was fucking ugly and boring and underdeveloped and their relationship comes out of nowhere. It's a shame because I thought the characters in Fury Road were fun and interesting, I liked the way they worked together and they had plenty of little interactions and moments where we see their personalities. Chris Hemsworth's character started interesting but by the end I thought he was annoyingly repetitive and felt like a bad comic relief. It's a nitpick but I wish they didn't give her long hair midway through the movie because it would've made a lot more sense for her to keep it short at that point and it felt like it was only there to make her more attractive. And the ending was stupid and too long. Overall the movie felt weirdly paced and messy

No. 388966

>>388963
ATJ being picked is the most confusing part for me because she is such a waif, I thought Hollywood was getting less hung up on using visibly strong women but it feels like they scared themselves back to old habits (maybe they think that’s what woke is).
I haven’t seen it yet, I probably will eventually because of the director, but from your description it feels like they potentially tried to humble furiosa’s character by making her visibly more feminine (and therefore less practically because what are women but vain creatures meant to be beautiful and inept).
Is it set when she’s a young teenager or something? I thought the story was she lived as a war boy, had a stint as a wife but lost her arm so stopped being a wife or something, that’s the only position I could imagine she’d have where the impracticality of long hair wouldn’t be a detriment. Anyway, I guess I’ll reserve further judgment until I see it, just don’t want it to end up being a waste of time and money because they decided she needs to be more feminine as apposed to a fully fleshed out character.

No. 388995

>>388963
i was very excited when this movie was first rumored, but when the casting wad revealed, i instantly knew it would not live up to fury road. it makes me upset that charlize theron, who truly did elevate the character and had such a strong and incredibly presence (i really could see a woman like her demanding her place on the war rig), wanted to be in their prequel but was dismissed for being too old. as if they couldn't slap some makeup on her, or do some editing. too bad, because i agree about ATJ- she was not believable as a badass, at all, and was horribly miscast. if they had went with a young actress that looked more like charlize, okay, maybe… since she is supposed to be young, but it definitely felt as if they were almost discrediting her as a character by reducing her physical strength.

another nitpick i had was while in fury road, you can very much feel the love she has for the women she is escaping with and the women she is fleeing to see, and these relationships are her priority and what keeps her going. but here in this movie everything she learned was from a man, even though she helped build the war rig, and some of the dialogue choices, particularly near the end when she is talking to dementus (who i understand is supposed to be a dark take on max, as a former father who loses his purpose in the wasteland, but is far too cartoonish to live up to immortan joe in fury road), it makes her feel genuinely stupid. it is almost like the director felt he created a female character that was too badass, and has to make her a braindead, little feminine girl.

he also nerfed the vuvalini, i noticed, by having a bunch of men in the background of their society (even though in an old interview it was canon they would kill their male offspring), and having furiosa instantly trust a male. tragic.

i have some other complaints regarding pacing, the cgi usage, ect. but i just want to say i did really enjoy watching the war boys in this movie. makes me sad that they were my favorite part, even, especially since furiosa has been my favorite female character since i watched fury road as a child. sad

No. 389000

>>388995
Well you just cinched it for me, I won’t be seeing it. Sounds like typical female humbling, we have to have rape in movies because realism but scrotes can’t accept a fictional culture killing their fictional males at birth? Weak. Sounds like the same thought process that condemned marvel, they dithered and capitulated instead of doubling down on the “this is fiction, it’s not reality, it is a fantasy with very loose ties to reality if any at all” they said “no you right, bitches be dumb and dainty irl so no power fantasy for them, they might get ideas!”

No. 389021

>>388963
mad max fury road is one of my most favorite movies ever made and i'm afraid to watch this because i'm not hearing anything good about it

No. 389024

>>388963
Immediately knew this was misogynistic shit and I wasn't gonna see it from the moment I saw they gave Furiosa long hair, because god forbid a strong female protagonist not be sexually attractive! Nevermind the ATJ casting when Theron is very much alive and well and the entire reason why Furiosa was such a great character. Did she even show up at all in this movie, even as a cameo?

No. 389058

>>388995
Im so glad people share my view!! I rolled my eyes when she revealed her long hair - it would be so impractical and outright dangerous in that environment! She's working with machines all day long, her hair would get covered in grit, dirt and grease, or might get trapped in wheels and injure her. Why not a plait or a bob? That's way more realistic and still 'cute', if that's what they wanted. And why would a woman who has been shaped by the trauma of what an evil man has done to her mother immediately trust some random guy??? Bizarre choices. The only good bit was the ending imo.

No. 389085

I just got done watching Johnny Got His Gun. I decided to check it out after listening to Metallica's heartwrenching classic "One". While the movie took some unexpected directions and some daring writing choices, it was still incredibly jarring and I recommend watching it if you're not easily disturbed (no visual gore but the theme is dark)
I like that the scenes from the past are colored and the present is black and white. It symbolizes how Joe "feels" his memories more than the present. The final scene is extremely impactful and I love the movie's anti-war message. They portrayed Joe losing all notion of time very convincingly. I also think that him having his face covered is even creepier than if it were uncovered
Spoilers ahead
However I don't like how all those imagination scenes take up most of the movie. I get that all Joe does is daydream, but it feels like a writing decision made out of fear that the audience would get bored unless they have all these nonsensical dream sequences. Same for the pointless nudity and the insane amount of cheesy love scenes. I think it would've been better if the movie's first half was in chronological order, before daydreams replace the flashbacks completely. Otherwise it's very good and I wish we'd gotten more of an insight of the priest and general arguing because it's a very interesting moral dilemma they were discussing there. Oh, and I love the nurses. This movie shows men are the root of all pain and sorrow while women always know how to help!

No. 389087

>>389058
i definitely agree, and i'm glad to see so many others who feel the same way about the movie after i had moids in my life get mad at me for disliking it.

maybe if she had a shaved head and a lovelock or something similar she was hiding the pit it, it would be more believable. especially with her long hair, i sincerely doubt that she was able to pass as male for as long as she did, i was surprised the war boys seemed completely oblivious. i suppose none of them have spent much time around women, though.

No. 389101

>>388963
I adore fury road and charlize theron's portrayal of furiosa, and like other nonnas here, I was very disappointed when they announced the casting. I wish they at least picked a buffer woman to play her–that should have been the bare minimum. but I just saw furiosa this past weekend, and I really enjoyed it. is it as good as fury road? no. is it still damn entertaining and tense? yes. to any nonnas who are mad max fans, I'd recommend watching it still. it's a fun movie and not a bad prequel imo

No. 389102

>>389058
The real reason she has long hair for the middle section of the movie is because ATJ did not shave her head for the role like Charlize did, and buzz cut wigs look bad. Someone should have insisted that she shave her head, her bleach fried hair needs a break anyway

No. 389480

>>389101
Tbf is a young version, isn't it? Probably still cared about herself vs practicality as she got older.

No. 390782

Would it be worth it to go out for the Lord of the Rings anniversary screenings? I didn't realize how freaking long the extended editions are, each movie is over 3 hours long.

No. 390795

>>390782
Do you want to watch them? If yes then it's worth it. I watched the extended edition on mute on someone else's screen on a flight and I enjoyed if that helps.

No. 392453

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What do you think of this movie? I'm downloading it to watch it tonight, I'm concerned about the possible rape and grandpafucking scenes mostly

No. 392457

>>392453
I highly preferred the Swedish version, but it’s a great series. There is explicit rape in it and at least one really gross scene, but her revenge is pretty amazing regardless. I watched it when I was in middle school because my mom loved the series and wanted me to see it, and she basically felt that Lisbeth is a great feminist role model, which I can agree with.

No. 393135

>>392453
Hambeast rapes her

No. 395155

I was terribly excited about the new Nosferatu film, because I loved Eggers' films so far but…is it just me or this looks like absolute garbage? The CGI looks cheap and some of the scenes with Lily Rose Depp (e.g where there black liquid coming from her mouth) look like old horror film cliches

No. 395158

>>395155
idk im sure it will be fine. eggers has not missed yet.

No. 395175

>>392453
Hated it. The plot is dogshit and the Lisbet Salander character is a manic pixie dream girl archetype who gets constantly sexualized for no reason.

No. 395206

All this talk of those rape revenge films and now just watching the trailer for Heretic (women trapped with Hugh Grant) made me very thankful for Black Phone giving us victims that weren't young women for once, what a breath of fresh air, not once in that movie was was I worried about something awful happening to the young girl because i was like hey, mans not into that

No. 395228

>>395155
i'm sick of these movies, i want a film where dracula/nosferatu sexually harasses jonathan harker in the castle instead. i'm so over these men torturing women films, especially in vampire films. uninspired, uninteresting.

No. 395239

>>395228
Vampire shit is just rape allegory anyway (usually a man preying on a young woman, sucking the life out of her while bending over her, his genitalia where hers are, vampires are usually depicted as finding drinking blood pleasurable and moan, make an O face when they're finished, their prey can't move because overpowered, he comes into her window usually when she's wearing just a nightgown, comes out at night to stalk vulnerable alone women pulls her into an alleyway) So I am also quite tired of men just finding different ways to use their rape fetish, I would much prefer it to be homoerotic yes.

No. 395241

>>395155
I am surprised by how bad the trailer looked. I really liked his other movies and this might be okay but the trailer itself is just awful. I blame the studio.

>>395228
I agree with you, but I do think in this specific case there was sometimes a sexual element to how Dracula treated and interacted with Harker. But the focus is still on women, yes.

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>>395228
>>395239
You are both so real for this.

No. 395258

>>395239
it should be used as a rape allegory against men, and it should be hot young men being predated by vampires too. not just vampire movies, but horror movies need to get over their obsessed with sexual violence towards women, we already had 50 other movies about their in the last few years. it used to be my favorite genre but i'm so burnt out on it by now.
>>395241
that is true, but i would prefer it to be the focus. i honestly think harkers time in the castle is the scariest and best written part in the novel, and i would love for a movie to give it a proper focus, with lots of uncomfortable homoerotic sexual tension. the guy playing hutter in the movie is kind of ugly too, so i don't really care if he is getting predated on, but i hope with its inclusive they don't chicken out and they do make it obvious he was getting molested.

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>>395228
>>395239
>>395258
which is weird because dracula, the book which arguably kicked off the "vampires can be sexy" trend in the first place, was extremely homoerotic.

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>>395206
a truly weird trailer. door to door god-botherers don't look like this.

No. 395295

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>>395258
>and it should be hot young men being predated by vampires too
only if the vampires are hot and young themselves, speaking of which I really hate seeing older vampires in media, the point of vampires is not that they are supposed to be immortal and alluring and yet we get too many old and fat vampires

No. 395363

>>395282
Yeah I was looking at them like yeah fuckin right these types of girls are going around preaching the good word can't have a he's got them in his basement film without sexy young women. I actually love the type of trapped scared under a mastermind type films (or even just a generic creep if he's handsome) but the victims always being young women is just tiring. I love films where women and men are victims who happen to be women and men not female victims and male victims (the conference on netflix is a good example of victims simply happening to be women and men, love that film)

No. 395366

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I’m 2 years late but this movie pissed me off terribly. Then I went to read articles about the true story behind it and got pissed off more.

No. 395368

>>395295
To be fair, isn't this a comedy?
I doubt the intention was for any of them to be alluring.

No. 395422

>>395368
Personally I think Nadja and Nandor were hot in the first season. But this is a TV show not a movie. There was a movie but that’s >>395295 not it

No. 395486

>>395366
Can you explain why? It is on my to watch list

No. 395489

>>395363
just more weak faggot moid fantasies about torturing attractive young women

No. 395554

>>395228
it's not a film but the 2019 bbc dracula show features dracula tormenting jonathan harker for almost an entire episode. he has a sex dream about mina only to realize the body on top of him is dracula feeding on him in his withered old man form. it depicts multiple instances of violence against women though including a mass slaughter.

No. 395560

>>395363
>>395282
There were some religious groups that sent attractive young women out to preach or whatever to get more converts, it was called "flirty fishing" by one.

>>395295
To be fair, in pic related that was the joke.

No. 395578

>>395206
>>395363
I don't think you guys have been around religion that much. This is purposely done, Mormons even do it. It's because if you're attractive you're more likely to get people to talk to you which means you're likely to get people to take pamphlets and listen to you. This is common as hell.

No. 395604

>>395578
i have never once in my life seen young hot women doing door to door stuff. it's always young men. pretty sure the movie just wants to torture young women, so.

No. 395911

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Just watched Blue Steel, it's part of an assignment I have regarding "the daughter archetype and the fathers law". I enjoyed the 2/3rds of it, then it got a bit too much for me. What do you other anons think of it?

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My new favourite film, Hoard. Finally some genuine weird girl representation kek. Made me cry so much & I've watched it 3 days in a row.

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>>395918
A moid-free pic in case that's offputting

No. 395926

>>395911
I’m surprised to see someone bring this movie up, I actually really like it

No. 395945

>>395578
I've been around religion plenty I am religious and the only attractive young woman I know is too important to door>door, everyone who's ever come to my door has been a young man or old woman.

No. 395948

>>395486
The rapes were horrific and systematic and repeating and no one was angry enough, the one angry woman got browbeaten about how angry he she was and the religious shit was maddening and unimportant unless you were trying to make a point about how religion oppresses women which this movie was NOT doing because all the women remain devoutly religious and the religion is not questioned. The fact that someone heard about this story and then made a movie about the fictional conversation that they imagined all the raped women would be having, a conversation that never took place…. What the fuck would compel a person to make this?? And they had to add a male community member that was a good boy and an Ally[TM] which is just irritating frankly. As if he wouldn’t know exactly what all the other men there were doing.
The articles I read were mostly uninformative because the real story is about a closed Mennonite community in Bolivia and they’re very secretive so few facts are released, and one article was bad because it was a Vice journalist complaining for most of the article that she thinks the movie used her reporting but didn’t credit her and she has an oh so special relationship with the women there even though she doesn’t speak to them anymore and she barely gave one sentence of her piece to mention the rapes never stopped in real life which… what? Report on that then omg.
The fact that any men actually got turned in to the authorities from this closed community is actually shocking and the real story of what exactly compelled them to break their insular societal structure and turn those men in would be a much more compelling story but it’s probably so dark it couldn’t be aired in theaters unlike this slop.

No. 395950

(Cont) Some parts of it were very real and relatable in the context of normal women talking to each other but in the context of what was actually going on it was absurd. The movie should have started with the angry woman at the beginning killing all the jailed men with her scythe then they could talk about that for two hours ffs

No. 395951

>>395948
>extremely secluded women don't dismantle their entire faith during one conversation
Sorry this movie didn't end like Inglourious Basterds nona

No. 395966

>>395951
If they got to the point where it happened to them and they were talking about it in factual terms like “we were raped” and the excuse they got previously was they were being visited by demons, then their faith should have already been pretty rattled frankly. They were way too hunky dory and unquestioning, barely even any baby’s first agnostic thoughts about it expressed at all. It would have been a good angle to explore but it was simply not explored

No. 396656

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I don't get it how this movie is getting such a high praise, is it's the emperor's new clothes type situation where people are worried if they speak negatively about the "trans story" they'll be excluded from the movies fanclub or something? "We're all going to the world's fair" was pretty interesing and a solid story so I went into this one hopeful, especially since the reviews are better than the world's fair got, but this was just aesthetically packed, pretentious nothingburger; just that the director made sure to tell everyone beforehand that it's related to his transitioning experience.

No. 396660

>>395422
Nandor was cute but got to admit, Lazlo was fucking hilarious, dude has great timing and funny pronunciation. I remember liking him in IT crowd too.

No. 396669

>>396656
WAGTTWF for trannies

No. 396673

>>395948
I looked it up and it seems they put a TIF in the movie too? So not only they used real life women's rapes as inspiration, they shoved troon shit in it too? That's grim

No. 396678

>>396673
Yes! I forgot about that. They made one woman a tif. But they don’t misgender her ever because Mennonite woman totally accept being trans and follow the trans rules, obviously, and they go out of their way to say she did not become a boy because of what happened to her obviously (fucking kek / grim.)
She got raped by her brother and multiple other men and in a scene before she dons her boysona she speaks to her brother in the rapist shack/prison-cell and it’s revealed her brother impregnated her but what she’s actually sad about is that she lost the baby because she loved her incest rape baby so much I guess. She also implied it was deformed due to inbreeding and that’s why she lost it, which… ok. Just keep making it more salacious. So now she’s a boy (but NOT because of what happened.)

No. 397368

Anyone else excited to see Longlegs? I haven't seen a good horror movie in such a long time and everyone's raving about this one. Can't wait

No. 397634

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Anyone have any recommendations for me based on my 3x3?

No. 397636

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No. 397639

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>>397634
not quite the same vibe, but it came to mind

No. 397651

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>>397636
i watched this a few weeks ago and i enjoyed it. i wasn't a fan of the horror parts but i enjoyed the concept
i loved seeing them all have fun being witches together and doing magic and hanging out. the drama was interesting too
while i was watching it, i was even thinking of asking movie nonnas for recommendations. does anyone have any suggestions for movies that are centered around a girl group? preferably no comedy or horror genres. i like elements of those things, just not as a main genre

No. 397715

>>397651
Now and Then (1995)
Set It Off (1996)
Made in Dagenham (2010)
The Little Hours (2017)
Polite Society (2023) just sisters not a group
Just listing things from the moovie room really kek

No. 397738

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>>397634
Ginger Snaps
Perfect Blue
Any Park Chan-Wook movie but especially Thirst, Stoker, and Lady Vengeance

Have fun Nonna

No. 397797

>>397738
Already seen perfect blue (second favorite movie but I only had live action films for this list)
Ginger snaps is on my list and I'll prolly watch it tonight
>>397636
Also on my list
>>397639
Looks cool I'll add it.

Thanks for the recommendations everyone!

No. 398136

I wanted to watch something American for July 4th, so I went with American Psycho. I'm so glad the director and writer for it were women, aside from the female characters being murdered it was so corny and borderline femgazey to watch.

No. 398245

>>397715
thank you nonna!

No. 398470

Maxxxine was definitely the worst of the 'I love Mia Goth she's so cool' trilogy, the plot with the father was silly but technically introduced in the second film, the nightstalker stuff was silly and I wish there was more gore like when there was gore it was great but there just wasn't enough. did enjoy the scene where the man was put in the position women usually are when being assaulted in films tho

No. 398474

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Best movie of all time 10/10

No. 398485

>>398470
I really wanted to see it in a theater next week, should i save my money?

No. 398544

>>398485
I don't think it's awful, just the worst in the trilogy, I was still happy to watch it, there were some well done and cathartic moments where 'based' was all I could think. Worth if you liked the other films, not as much if you didn't

No. 398691

>>397368
i love oz perkins' stuff so yes very excited. really hope it's good

No. 399865

>>397368
Added to my "to watch" list. Ty for posting trailer nonners

No. 400560

>>397368
Ugggggggh this is coming out in 1 August in my country and I want to see it NOW

No. 401346

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>>397368
boy did this suck ass. i was covering my face with embarrassment from several scenes. offensively stupid plot with some cool cinematography and a great performance by maika monroe, that's it.

No. 401361

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I liked this one, but I made the mistake of going home and rewatching the first, and now all I can see is how cheap looking it is compared to the first one, even though it was made almost 10 years ago. All the human characters have that creepy gummy look of 3d characters in the past few years (think Encanto) it felt very similar to the first movie, including the same scene of Joy crying while surrounded by memory spheres before coming to a realization by exhamining them. But the characters are a lot of fun, and overall it was an enjoyable movie, I'd recommend it if you liked the characters in the first

No. 401485

is kinds of kindness good, ie. should i go see it in a theatre or pirate it or just skip it?

No. 401486

>>401361
Autistic detail but I always liked the texture of the emotions' hair.

No. 401522

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>>401486
I bet they’d feel like this to touch

No. 401546

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i know it's old news, but i loved this movie. it was a huge departure from the first movie in the X trilogy. i almost didn't watch it because the first movie was way too gorey for me, but i ended up loving it. watching the first one did actually improve my experience too. it added to the tragedy since it basically tells you the outcome. made me feel better for wasting my time watching X, kek

No. 401553

Saw the new twister movie, it wasn't like other legacy sequels, infact I'm sure this movie wasn't even made to be a 20 years later sequel to Twister (1996).
I was surprised that Kiernan Shipka had such a small role in this movie.
My mom even thought she was supposed to be the lead.

No. 402068

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Has anyone watched picrel? I did recently and I'm still thinking about it, I could make an entire iceberg chart out of this movie if I was motivated enough. If anyone has watched it please give me your thoughts and if this post is old by the time you read it but you still want to share your thoughts please go ahead

No. 402114

>>402068
I saw this film over a year ago, maybe close to two years ago, and I still think about it fairly often, I've been thinking about it especially recent days as I'm in a foreign country and watched an inferior recent Korean film on the long plane ride and I have William Faulkner's Barn Burning on my ereader. I'm coming down with a sickness so this wasn't a long post but Burning is great and I recommend it highly to whoever's reading

No. 402206

>>402068
I think about this movie from time to time. It's really good but I haven't watched it in a while. Lee Chang-Dong is one of the best Korean directors and his other works are recommended.

No. 402219

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I didn't like it. I think it is one of those things, where the hype around it made my expectations way too high. I was really expecting this movie to make me feel things, but instead it felt like a yawn fest. It doesn't help that I didn't feel like I was really the target audience for it. It would've been an alright movie if I went in completely blind, but instead I am left disappointed.

No. 402242

>>402068
Yeah, it's pretty good. It's based on a murakami short story. I won't recommend his books to all nonnas, he's still a moid and still tends to describe women in uncomfortable ways, if you can ignore it, I think he writes pretty interesting stories.

No. 402546

anyone saw longlegs? is it worth going? I need some more opinions

No. 402700

>>397368
Was super good if you're into classic horror and suspense.

No. 402742

>>402546
it was horrible

No. 403755

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has anyone seen the blackcoat's daughter? it's by the director of longlegs. definitely recommend it if you're looking for something eerie to watch.

No. 403771

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>>402219
I remember watching this and being bewildered that everyone was like 'oh this is such a touching mother and daughter story, loved it!!!' when the mother was very obviously narcissistic and abusive towards Lady Bird and it's WILD that people failed to notice it and just write it off as being a 'complicated' family dynamic

No. 403776

>>403755
saw it, was okay, rated it 6/10, I just don't like Emma Roberts and thought the ending the movie was leading to was very easy to tell. It's not one of the bad horror movies we had the last years, but not amazing either.

No. 403790

>>403771
i hated both of them tbh

No. 403828

>>403771
nonna, there are many mothers like this (mine was), and it's complicated, you can't love them like you used to but you can't hate them because you know they went through worse, all you want is for you to forget about the bad times and tolerate each other

No. 403908

>>403755
I liked it, but i thought that the exorcism scene was silly and the demon-thing didn't fit the film well.

No. 403923

>>403755
I enjoyed it, it was a certifiably creepy slow burn and everyone turned out decent performances. My only complaint was emma and kiernan didn't really resemble one another enough for their character to be the same person

No. 404069

I watched the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and it was so freaking good, I can barely believe it came out in the seventies. I need to watch more old horror movies if there's more with the same level of quality

No. 404074

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>>404069
You should watch more horror movies from the 70s, there are a lot of gems from that era. I suggest Let’s Scare Jessica to Death if you like gothic stories.

No. 404219

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>>404069
if you're looking for older sci-fi horror i highly recommend the thing

No. 404333

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>>404069
These might be kind of obvious choices, but Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Omen (1976), and The Wicker Man (1973) all hold up incredibly well.

No. 404339

Who's the superman/Clark Kent in the batman 2022 universe? Is there one?

No. 404374

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Tonight I watched Kryptic and The Beast Within.
Kryptic was a fun weird movie that I have yet to fully understand. I will watch it again when it has a video release to make more sense of it. Chloe Perrier performance is great. Most reviews seem to hate it. It is Kourtney Roy first full lenght movie and it shows a little but she has great potential as a filmaker.
The Beast Within had amazing acting, direction, photography and beautiful scenery but it was so boring. Most people in the audience seemed to think the same.

No. 404405

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Watched this last night at the theater. I think it's one of his weakest movies, I still can't decide if it's better or worse than Killing of a Sacred Deer but it's definitely down there. The three story aspect was interesting, the first one and the last one were the strongest in my opinion but the second one had the highest ups and downs for me, I actually wheezed at the dog island scene, the music and Emma's acting and the final montage with the suicide dog and human roadkill were just too absurd I wish he had chosen one to develop into an actual movie though. Felt like Lanthimos was pulling a Wes Anderson.

I've seen people compare it to Dogtooth in terms of absurdist surrealism but I think Dogtooth is much superior as it actually has a coherent narrative and takes its time to build up its crazy world. Anybody else watch it? What were your thoughts?

No. 404427

>>404405
I was so so on poor things, was this better than poor things? (please tell me it was)

No. 404438

>>404427
Surprisingly, no. If you're a fan of the being uncomfortable horrified, and then laughing at the absurdity his movies cause then Poor Things is a better narrative. The only thing I hate about it is the ending trying to be a "feminist message", he should stick to bleak endings like in Lobster or the Favorite, yes it makes the movie unpopular but it's much more interesting imo.

If I had to rank all the Yorgos Lanthimos movies I've watched, it'd be The Lobster>Dogtooth> The Favorite>Poor Things>Kinds of kindness>Killing of a Sacred Deer.

No. 404929

>>404333
I've seen TCM and The Omen a while ago, but I watched The Wicker Man for the first time last night and liked it. The movie length seemed short but it was like the perfect amount of time for the plot. I've also never seen Christopher Lee act so silly because I'm only familiar with his acting from his older years.

>>404219
I actually got to see The Thing during its anniversary screening, which was really fun. Unfortunately it was on the first day when they played the really fuzzy looking rip so it was like watching a VHS tape at a movie theater

>>404074
I'll add this one to my list! I also watched Audition this week, and while it was good I don't think I'd watch it again. The moid abuse scenes were entertaining especially after the reveal of how sleazy the main character actually was[spoiler]but I disliked the amount of [spoiler]child abuse scenes

No. 404993

>>404929
Audition was also a really good book, highly recommend.

No. 406703

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Sorry for bringing up capeshit but the Deadpool vs Wolverine movie is pretty alright if you like Deadpool and Wolverine as characters. There were some good laughs. The car fight scene would have made my 16 year old fujo heart skip a beat had the movie come out back then, but overall I hope this is the last Deadpool movie because the whole schtick is really tired at this point. Some very dated jokes but it's kind if hard to be snappy and relevant in this turd of a decade. The emotional scenes dragged on, they were the most crippling part of this movie overall. The scene with X-23 and Logan… it's like holy shit wrap it up already. They made plenty of jokes about desecrating the legacy of Logan which was all fun and stuff, but the scene between those two at the fire was really the worst offender of them all, and it sucks because that scene was supposed to be a heavy-hitting emotional one. It failed to hit that mark but whatever.

The trilogy is fun. Obviously movie Deadpool is a far cry from his comic counter part but I was really hoping to see Ellie Camacho and Emily Preston at some point, though those characters are definitely way too modern for the comic to film adaptation beast. It's a shame because the relationship between Deadpool and Ellie is the most fun parent-child relationship to come out of contemporary comic runs. Way more interesting than Cable and Hope. Kind of related but (spoiler) there was a Warda Wilson cameo. That was fun… it was weird how they very obviously highlighted her but an Ellie Camacho Zenpool cameo just didn't happen. That was kind of wack.

No. 406704

>>404993
This is false the book was a huge waste of time with no pay off, went off on needless tangents, and, again, zero pay off.

No. 406766

>>404438
>Killing of a Sacred Deer last
why?

No. 406963

Is Incendies any good? I've been planning to watch it tomorrow since I have time but if it's shit I'm not gonna waste my time

No. 406993

>>406963
It’s not good. The plot twist of The mother’s son being her rapist and father of her twins was so retarded.

No. 406999

>>406993
Sounds like some pornsick shotacon plot.

No. 407052

>>406703
I just watched it and it was just ok imo. Some parts were really funny and other parts were trying and failing so hard to be funny it was embarrassing to watch, there was no in between. I think all the Deadpool movies are a bit too tryhard in general though. There are times where I could just pictures some old farts in suits and ties around a table trying to check what's popular with young adults online and forcing themselves to incorporate these elements in the script, I don't see how else I can describe it. It's also insane to think I would have been totally confused if I didn't watch the first X-men, FF, etc. movies and on TV as a kid like 20 years ago and weren't dragged to the cinema to watch the Deadpool movies. It's exactly why I gave up on the MCU after Endgame but my friends asked to go see that one and I agreed.

No. 407053

>>397368
Finally watched it yesterday and I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would and frankly I don't think it was as innovative as everyone touted it to be. The atmosphere and the cinematography was on point though

No. 407059

>>407052
Ayrt, amd I agree with you. I only really liked it because I do like Deadpool and Wolverine is cool too. But yeah the entire time while watching it was just kinda like… yeah the well has run dry. The reddit-tier humor is so apparent, and that's the movies' whole thing but man, the novelty of being the first mainstream R rated marvel character movie has really worn off.
Also Josh Brolin's fugly, midget ass should have never been Cable. And Ryan Reynolds' whole thing with playing Deadpool is just to act like a faggot with ADHD. His voice is kind of too gay to hit that "weird/disturbing" kind of je ne sais quoi that comic Deadpool has. He's weird and disturbing precisely because he's childish and still a skilled mercenary who kills whoever for money, he's also weird and disturbing because he's such a sorry piece of shit due to the way he's been constantly taken advantage of. They kind of got it in the first film but every other one has been the "snappy gay ADHD" version of Deadpool that's just annoying and tired and also kind of boring. Part of his appeal is how he can be kind of scary. Ryan Reynolds is just kind of faggy.

No. 407083

>>406963
Best Denis Villeneuve movie.

No. 407695

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watched single white female the other day. thrillers with a crazy bpdchan villain are my favorite so i quite enjoyed this one. jennifer jason leigh's unhinged skinwalking reminded me of some of the cows we have here.

No. 409201

>>406703
I enjoyed it, but my main complaint was the music montages and action scenes upstaging the plot more than usual. I feel like the writing was weaker than in the first two movies. The first two movies had their silly moments but something about this one just felt… cheaper and like it was trying too hard? Which sucks because I really was enjoying Deadpool and Wolverines interactions. The Bye Bye Bye scene in the intro was fucking hilarious ngl

No. 409798

I thought Longlegs was supposed to be a TIM so that was the scariest part of the movie for me.
>>402219
My perfect older sister described this movie to me as “a mom who’s a poor hardworking nurse in the early 2000s Sacramento and oh yeah she has an annoying daughter”. I felt for both the mom and daughter when it came out in my highschool senior year but when I rewatched it the other day I hated the mom more because I could feel how young the daughter was. The prom shopping scene broke me because her mom couldn’t just fake something nice about her. As a norcal suburb loser who always wanted my emotionally unavailable mommy’s validation it was really relatable sadly.

No. 410078

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So i just watched pic related. For context i have played the first and second game. Let me start of positive
>The guy who plays Krieg has a really nice body and was tall.

Okay now everything bad
>Roland is played a by a manlet.
>Casting of Lilith and Tannis was also odd, because the actresses are a lot older but it makes moids seethe so don't care to much
>None of the actual jokes were funny.
>They tried to create some emotional scenes, but the writing and acting is pretty bad so it didnt really hit.
>Lots of predictable stuff in the plot.
>Lilith's hair looked ass.
>Bad cgi
>Not a lot of creative fighting scene's

Yeah it was bad, also if you really want to watch it i do recommend brining a friend because otherwise it might get boring. Most of the time it was just us looking at eacother after a dumb scene and then trying to hold our laughter. I think if i would watch it alone it would just be to frustrating. We also were seated at these motion chairs even though when i bought tickets it said the chairs would be normal. At the end we turned the setting to high and it was just moving so wild, it was a funny experience. Dont recommend those chairs if you want to actually concentrate on the movie tho.

No. 410817

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This movie felt very Sorry to Bother You esque but I don't think it was nearly as good. I felt like everyone turned in a good performance though and it got me thinking of our beloved Boyegachan

No. 411314

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I really liked this movie. Some lines and scenes felt a bit forced but overall I really loved the vibe of this film. Highly recommend.

No. 411396

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Watched Angel Heart recently. Good but predictable. Enjoyed the setting , it reminded of Jacobs Ladder in certain parts

No. 411981

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I just watched In the Mood for Love, my third Wong-Kar Wai film. I honestly found it a bit boring but it looked very beautiful, and I really liked all the rain scenes for some reason, as well as the cheongsams. If anyone has any other Hong Kong movie recs, preferably "period pieces", do let me know.

No. 412045

>>411981
Oh boy. Let me tell you I had such a blast watching whatever https://www.lovehkfilm.com recommended back when the site was active.

>preferably "period pieces"

Off the top of my head:
https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/everlasting_regret.htm
https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/kung_fu_hustle.htm

No. 412046

>>410078
I had a feeling Borderlands' humour wouldn't translate well to movie form. I'm glad it made moids seethe though.

No. 412054

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>>411981
if you want cool rain scenes and beautiful period clothing try wong kar wai's "the grandmaster". (picrel). it's a masterpiece imo
while not a cinematic masterpiece, "bodyguards and assassins" (set in hk in 1907) was also pretty fun.
if you want to branch out to the mainland, "raise the red lantern" and "farewell my concubine" have beautiful costumes and amazing photography

No. 412210

>>412045
>>412054
Thank you so much for the recs! Kung Fu Hustle, Raise the Red Lantern, and Farewell My Concubine were already on my watchlist, I hope I can get to them and the others soon.

No. 412414

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kinda want to see this. it's gotten good reviews and i liked the director's other film caveat.

No. 413118

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I like a lot of old school slasher movies, so Terrifier was intriguing at first. I don't know if I'm just biased toward old = better (which I acknowledge isn't always true), but this movie didn't really do it for me and Art the Clown is a really bland slasher. Maybe the movie will grow on me with time, but we'll see. It hasn't done anything that other popular slashers haven't done before and from what I've heard, the director has a huge ego or something.

I did think the special effects for the movie were awesome though. Maybe my mind will be changed when I watch the second one (and the third one when it comes out).

No. 413156

Why is Mark zuckerberg last boss in Alien Romulus, why was this decision made.

No. 413187

Oh god this looks incredibly cringe. Why is Jenna just doing her shitty Netflix Wednesday character? Why is a middle aged Lydia still dressed like her teenage self? Burton lost his touch ages ago.

No. 413363

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It’s been a long time since a movie caught me so off guard. Also, the character Marmalade was such an insufferable MPDG, but with a dash of violence. I loved her.

No. 413438

>>413118
I enjoyed the first Terrifier movie a lot. For me it was an homage to the big slasher names.
I enjoyed the twist at the end, it wasn’t great but it was fun.
The second movie was a disappointment to me, it was boring and kind of cringe.
I am not even a huge slasher fan and just recently got into the genre, but I love horror. What kind of slasher do you like?

No. 413600

>>413438
I'm halfway through the second movie and I totally agree that it's kind of boring. I don't know if the movie needs to be more than 2 hours long. But I will come back with more to say once I actually finish it.

I guess my taste might be pretty basic, but off the top of my head stand outs have been Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas (I'd highly recommend this one if you haven't seen it before!), Driller Killer, Scream, Rise of Leslie Vernon, etc. Slashers are ridiculous and fun and sometimes they can explore interesting themes at the same time. I didn't find Terrifier all that fun, even though there were points that were supposed to be silly. But it wasn't a bad movie by all means.

No. 414245

Rec me some comfy, lighthearted movies

No. 414292

>>414245
Malcolm (1986)
>Australian train autist makes friends and robs a bank

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
>A bumbling fool and his competent dog sidekick try to eradicate a rabbit infestation before the big vegetable growing competition
>stop motion

The Naked Gun movies
>Rapid fire comedy with a lot of visual gags in the back ground
>3 of them

No. 414293

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>>414245
Practical Magic or the Paddington movies

No. 414295

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>>414292
Seconding the Wallace and Gromit movies except the one with that sociopathic penguin

No. 414334

>>412414
Saw it at a festival and it was fun. There's great tension and the wooden doll is well used in jump scares.

No. 414846

Just watched Lost in Translation. So incredibly overrated.

No. 414924

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I didn't expect anything out of this movie and it managed to disappoint me in every possible way. What was the point of this movie if not Shyamalan desperately trying to promote his daughter's irrelevant music career? This movie is rated PG-13, so I guess it makes sense why it sucked ass, but it's still unjustifiable. Very few movies make me want to rewind in time and get the hours I wasted back, and this is one of them.

No. 414928

>>414924
Oh wow. I saw this when it first came out and I enjoyed it, I didn't expect much from it, but I had no idea that girl was Shyamalan's daughter… Honestly that changes how I feel, it really is just a movie shilling her. Though I'd probably do the same to my own hypothetical kid.

No. 414944

>>414846
That movie sucks fat donkey balls, "woe is me I'm a moderately successful old white american male and I'm BORED WITH MY MID JOB in this SHITHOLE ALIEN COUNTRY with all these CRAZY WEIRD JAPANESES who will NEVER UNDERSTAND ME and my anguish like 17 year old Scarlett Johansson does!!"
American Beauty also fucking sucks, gen X fake deep shit is not dunked on anywhere near enough

No. 414960

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Has anyone seen Ravenous? I was looking for a new horror movie to watch with my mom and found this one being suggested a lot. It is supposedly gory, which we don't mind as long as it isn't at the level of Martyrs.

No. 414964

>>414960
Ravenous is great! It's got some gore, but it's not constant and it's also quite funny in a surreal way. Would recommend.

No. 414972

>>414960
i love this movie! great soundtrack too. since it involves cannibalism there is of course some blood and bone but it's nowhere near as gory as extreme films like martyrs. highly recommend it and now i kinda wanna watch it again kek

No. 414988

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Nonnies what did you think about beetlejuice 2? I watched it just cause I heard it was good(and wanted to go to the cinema) and while it was ok, it felt like they introduced too many subplots so it was too busy. The first one was simpler and I think it made it more wholesome. Monica Belluci's role was totally unnecessary to the plot and she was probably only there cause she is Tim Burton's current girlfriend.

What I find weird is that Tim Burton said that he doesn't plan for a sequel and that it wasn't made to be a cash grab but the ending was pretty open-ended and I really thought they set it up to make it into a franchise

No. 415141

>>414924
i liked the concept of this movie a lot and thought it was entertaining. definitely no need to buy a movie ticket to see it though.

No. 415148

>>414988
I thought it was a fun little diversion. The trailer made me think it was going to be a lot worse than it actually was. I was pleased that it wasn't just a rehash of the plot of the original, which so many of these sequels/reboots are today. I thought the bit about Lydia selling out and becoming a TV medium was a fun idea. I also thought the way they got around having to use Jeffrey Jones (now a sex offender) was funny.

>Monica Belluci's role was totally unnecessary to the plot and she was probably only there cause she is Tim Burton's current girlfriend.

Completely agree. The sequences with her were cool (especially the part where she puts herself back together) but her whole subplot could have been cut. I heard the guys on RLM say that it feels like they took every plot idea someone had for a Beetlejuice sequel over the last 35 years and tried to cram it into one script.

Not going to spoil it for any anons interested in seeing it. I thought it was kind of retarded that they didn't wait until October to put it in theaters, but whatever. Maybe they thought it would be more profitable to have it on streaming in time for Halloween.

No. 415258

Just watched buffalo 66 & it was actually really good. I swear some farmers hate on things based on a few surface level facts & it's not always justified

No. 417807

I watched I Saw The TV Glow and my god the main actor is so fucking bad.

No. 418125

>>414944
>American Beauty
is that not about an old man lusting over a teenager yet again? all these retarded movies are touted as good by loser males bc they're loser male fantasies.

No. 418142

>>418125
>>414944
I liked American Beauty because it frames the teenager as this horny succubus that is trying to seduce the dad at first only to show that she was actually trying to mimic older people and that she's super scared and that the situation is actually horrific and abusive, thus deconstructing that lolita trope
The dad soon realises this as well, although that doesn't make him a good person and I don't think that's the intention of the movie anyway. I also liked the subplot with the teenage boyfriend.
YMMV though.

No. 418146

>>418142
i've never watched it but apparently that fell on deaf ears bc when i see moids discuss it they only mention how it's about "wishing for what you'll never have again" aka an old useless man wishing he could fuck a teenager

No. 418398

>>418146
Well, that's just usual moidery.

>"wishing for what you'll never have again"

It touches that theme as well, because the guy is on a dead end job, the wife also cheats, the teenage daughter is aloof, so it's about getting your life back together again especially since their daughter's bf kills himself it has that whole "seize your life and choices, don't waste it on stuff you hate" thing going on, but the wanting to fuck a teen is completely scrapped. They even have a visual separation of that idea, when he puts the blanket on her.

No. 418432

>>418398
idk it really just sounds like a boohoo poor man besmirched by women/girls story

No. 418454

>>414988
I saw it opening night, it was a lot of fun and actually better than I expected. I'm glad they stuck with a lot of practical effects and that it focused on Lydia's story. Jenna Ortega wasn't as annoying as I assumed she would be. I also laughed at the portrayal of the "deep" softboi who reads Dostoevsky and turns out to be a murderous ghost.
"As Dostoevsky would say…'Later, fucker!'"


Re: the sequel thing, since this one is "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" they have to make a 3rd one now right? To complete the rule of 3s

No. 418516

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I saw Hubie Halloween and thought it was hilarious. The naysayers don’t know what they’re talking about

No. 418908

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Who else has seen this clusterfuck? I just watched it by myself and it's hard to process. It's on YT for free if anyone's interested. It's a dark comedy about a clown who perform's at kids' birthday parties, one night he gets raped and has to fight the trauma. In other words, we got Joker at home

No. 419351

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I don't mind Jack Black, but holy shit is he going to be in every video game movie now? He was in the Mario movie, the Borderlands movie, and now he's going to be in the Minecraft movie.

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Just watched 30 Days of Night and it was a good thrilling dark movie. Great premise but it would work better as 10 episode miniseries imo. I did kinda disliked the ending, it felt tad goofy when the film spent the first hour to build this brutal and realistic atmosphere but overall I had a good time.

No. 419508

>>419351
LOSE WEIGHT YOU FUCKING FATTIE.

No. 419806

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I have to talk about this movie because I personally found it awful. It seems like the book itself sounds great but for the movie adaptation it falls short. It almost felt like a fanfiction of what it would be like to be in an abusive relationship and the ability to leave so easily. I kind of felt insulted in that sense because it is way harder than the movie makes it out to be. The script also felt kind of stupid, fair enough its got that hollywood touch to it, but often times I felt like I was watching a Hallmark movie. And why is everyone stuttering so fucking much. Also it jumps too fast ahead for me to feel that invested in what's happening to the characters. On top of all the I found Blake Livelys acting to be ok. Maybe I was just too tired watching this movie but I really don't see the hype around it

No. 419816

>>419806
>It almost felt like a fanfiction of what it would be like to be in an abusive relationship
That's basically what the book is kek. There's some awful cringy quotes from it that were posted in another thread but I can't find it now.

No. 419899

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This movie really is about how settling for a moid will make you lose your life force huh

No. 419944

>>419351
that's why he got so mad at Kyle Gass and canceled their tour. He didn't want to lose out on the cash from his video game movie gigs

No. 419945

>>419806
To be fair, the only 'hype' I heard about it was people roasting Blake Lively for promoting this movie as if it were a quirky rom-com and only talking about the flowers and fashion or something instead of the serious subject matter.

>I felt like I was watching a Hallmark movie

It feels like Blake Lively wants her life to be like a Hallmark movie, kek

No. 419987

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are these movies any good? should i watch them? i really have been meaning to because i like mia goth/her look in them, i even bleached my eyebrows like her rofl, i am just worried they are pro-sex work or pro-porn? i don't really know much about the movies

No. 419988

>>419987
Pearl's the only one worth watching to be honest.

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>>419987
As the other anon said, Pearl is the only good one.

I recently watched May and I really liked it. Dare I say, I would recommend it. It felt fun and different, and it one of the few good movies I have seen in such a long time.

No. 419991

>>419988
>>419990
any reasons specifically you'd suggest skipping the other two??

No. 419993


No. 419994

>>419991
Pearl has a much more engaging story than the others, which are basically just slasher pornos.

No. 419996

>>419994
pearl was surprisingly good, the others try too hard to be libfem girlbossy. You don't need the context of the other movies to watch pearl anyways, it's a great movie on its own.

No. 420010

>>419991
X was basically porn for 90% of the movie until the end

No. 420014

>>420010
There's also a weird white guy cuckolded by black guy porny fetish thing that happens that comes across as really… "grew up in the age of x-hamster and reddit porn" that just kind of distracts from the time and setting of the movie overall. This might be a nitpick though.

No. 420026

>>419944
Imagine losing goodwill and oversaturating yourself for a shitty videogame movie.

No. 420037

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This was an incomprehensible mess of some sort of wacky bullshit.
Worth watching if you want to see the cast struggle spiritually, Adam Driver especially.

No. 420179

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But why tho?

No. 420181

>>420179
>live action
>cgi
I hate what we’ve become

No. 420182

>>420179
Who is going to take one for the team and send a pipe bomb to every Hollywood exec's home?

No. 420293

>>419365
you should check out the comic series it's based on. there's numerous sequels of varying quality but the original run is quite good and you'll probably like it if you enjoyed the film.

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>>420179
I can't imagine what this horror is going to look like. What if it turns out like picrel kek

No. 420714

>>420179
I hate my generation's obsession with childhood nostalgia and Hollywood for feeding into it.

No. 420969

I LOVE how much Joker 2 is making male fans seethe. I'm not saying it's a good movie but a lot of male fans are hating the fact that there's a woman who sings in it and that their incel power fantasy is getting destroyed by being made silly things and getting raped and killed (literally).

No. 421729

>>419987
X is mostly porn like another anon said, the storyline was also goofy and didn't make much sense. I did enjoy certain aspects, Mia plays the older woman which I thought was cool. Also Jenna's acting was actually really good, it seems like she had fun on set. Pearl was okay, I didn't like it as much as some other anons did. Some parts I found to be really cringe and weird in a sort of moidy "weird girls totally do this shit right?" way. Mia's acting really exels in this movie though, and the scenes where she rages out are fun. Maxxxine is the only one I really liked, it was exciting and I loved the crime aspect to it. Everything was sort of gritty yet polished and theatrical and I loved watching it play out. It is a sort of sequel to X so the ending scene and certain parts throughout the movie might not make much sense if you haven't seen X. But even though I really only liked Maxxxine I'm still glad to have seen the other 2, and I do really enjoy Mia's acting. There's also some really great scenes in Maxxxine that were cool to see or just really satisfying in a way. If you end up watching any let us know what you thought of them.

No. 422066

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Holy Shit. I understood everything. 10/10.

No. 423106

I'm watching Byzantium right now, I'm enjoying it so far

No. 423136

>>422066
Kek honestly such a good movie

No. 423137

>>422066
>>423136
The movie sucks and is another entry to Lynch's "innocent pure hearted blonde corrupted by dark forces outside of her control" repertoire because he has a weird fetish for watching women suffer.

No. 423143

>>423137
She is not pure-hearted, did you even watch the movie?

No. 423146

>>423143
I always fall asleep halfway through because I fucking hate Lynch.

No. 423165

>>423137
agreed, and they have to "be gay" together because he's one of those guys who fetishize lesbians of course

No. 423268

Has anyone here watched the substance? What did you think of the film? I'm thinking of watching it next weekend.

No. 423426

just saw an ad for this, not this specific ad but the one i watched makes it look super good, i'd definitely watch this. critics raving over it with a 98% on rotten tomatoes too

No. 423502

>>423268
just now saw it, and it's BRUTAL. possibly the closest thing we'll have to the movie equivalent of peeling scabs. and i'm not just talking about the gore. shit gets deep.

No. 424054

>>423268
I loved it so much, the storyline, the acting, the script, the practical effects. Everything was so good. Coralie is my favorite director and I loved seeing similarities with her other film Revenge. She has such a distinct style and it shows really well. So many scenes were quietly horrifying because they speak to real life truths without being depressing or seeming like pandering. I usually don't like politics or feminism being incorporated into horror because it's difficult to make it seem organic to the plot and not like an intrusion but Coralie does that so well. She even made some scenes seem funny, horrifying and tragic all at the same time. And Demi and Margaret's acting was amazing, even Dennis Quade did so well with the character given to him. I also loved the score and the vibrance of each scene, I love bright colorful horror. It was so good, I'm excited to see what she creates next.

No. 424135

Nonnies I'm itching for some good tudor / elizabethian period dramas, films or shows I don't care, any recs?

No. 424583

"The Uglies" sucked as a book when I read it in hs.It sucks even more as a movie. I cackled when the male best friend got the surgery and they literally just died his hair and made him even uglier than he was before

No. 424585

Did anyone watch the new VHS? Was it me or did the part with the dog lady really stick out? Over all I enjoyed it but not as much as the last one.

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You know. I’ve watched terrifier 3 just now and. How should I put it. I kind of have many thoughts that could be expressed in one word - why.
I went to it blindly, never seeing previous two, only with a knowledge that this is a torture porn slasher, that’s it. And I was truly close to walk out, I have never walked out a movie, the other walk-out urge was years ago, it was Norbit. That time I was with a friend, that’s why I couldn’t go, this time too, so I stayed and for the most time I was just, you know, looking at the screen with a clear thought: “What am I doing here? Why am I doing this of my own will? And payed money for this? What is happening here, why all these people gather here, to do exactly what with exactly what purpose? What drives them? Why this movie got made, with what goals to be achieved? Why is it popular, what does it say about humanity? Why people even laugh at something like this, what make them think it is funny?” etc etc. So I was just partially watching, partially staring unfocused at the matter of the universe, like you do when you zone out. I don’t know, think I am a christian pearl clutching prude or whatever but jesus christ what the fuck wrong with you people.
I am ok with horror, splatter is fine too, occasionally, like something like hellraiser stuff I don’t mind, but what is this. I just see it and think - ok, so this is a pornography made by a person who is certainly once paid someone to go to morgue to fuck a corpse, at least I am absolutely convinced he (moid of course) did masturbate to fake or real snuff (with women of course). I sincerely do believe that - that he made this movie not for the sake of moviemaking or vfx artistry or whatever bullshit, he just make it for mentally challenged moids who have a raging boner for stuff like this. I mean of course main audience are rage apes, like no shit. And they find it funny even? Yes, there were funny moments, but only because of the main killer’s actor, he was great, really. But it was mere seconds, all of the movie was really unaesthetic psychopathic wet dream. I do understand that there is a genre, it is specific, and there is an audience. I am wondering WHY is there an audience for deranged movies like terrifier, are THAT many people are pathetic 4channer ogrish or whatever “cool” now dweller edgelords? Who like to watch people being graphically mutilated, tortured and murdered for the sake of “oh duuude I am soo tough, I’ve seen shit, that was sooo cool! I am soo speshul and so non-npc”
Like wtf, what’s wrong with you, and that’s not rhetorical, I am genuinely curious what is wrong with people who like this and, even, laugh at this. What is the clinical picture consist of, what is the diagnosis.

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Was anyone else massively disappointed in this? I went in blind like everyone suggested and still was able to predict everything that happened. It was so Tumblr/sex-posi “feminist” and I was not surprised to find it was directed by a man.

No. 424630

>>424588
>Yes, there were funny moments, but only because of the main killer’s actor, he was great, really.
I agree with your entire post. I only saw the first Terrifier and I really liked Art The Clown's character just because the actor did so well playing him. I hated everything else about the movie though, especially the scenes of women's genitals and breasts being mutilated. I hated all of it. I wish the actor and character were placed in an actually decent horror movie. I read that he's trained professionally as a mime so that's why he's so good at conveying emotions and creepiness through his actions and not words. I also read that the director was working on the second one during covid lockdowns and was pissed off he couldn't finish it so he used the time off to extend a scene of a woman being tortured and killed in her bedroom. So your assumption about him being a degenerate misogynist are no doubt correct. The fact he simulated a fictional brutal murder of a woman because he was angry is a major red flag. I hope this franchise tanks, so tired of it.


>>424590
Agreed, although I did like it a bit just for the layout. I definitely saw the "twist" coming a mile away, but I still enjoyed the layout of the chapters and how they weren't in order. But yeah it really did seem like something straight out of Tumblr.

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This actually kinda sucked ass. Like ohh, they're all gonna die what a twist!! Also the main girl was so fucking lame, she had zero personality and acted like a spoiled little kid the entire time, despite being sooo working class and of course she gets to live because she wanted a cheezburgur like all the million other cool girls who eat greasy food yet look like ana-chans huh funny original so clever and anti-elitist.

No. 424669

>>424668
Gesture vaguely at anticapitalism and your movie will rake in the money… that's how we're getting all these shallow satires.

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I didn't have very high expectations for this movie, figuring it would just be a soulless cash grab, but it was better than I expected. I really liked that they kept the gritty space environment from the previous movies, rather than what a lot of Sci-fi movies use nowadays like super advanced touch-screen holograms, etc.

No. 424775

>>424669
I have a feeling that the one who’d get all the “elite” restaurant satire would be exactly who are familiar with this culture, so - rich people. I mean it is kind of specific. So you shouldn’t get those people feeling upset with your satire, make it look like a friendly roast, I guess

No. 424802

>>424668
don't forget the essential detail that she's a prostitute which means he respects her as a fellow "service worker." couldn't be more obvious a man wrote this

No. 425153

>>423137
ayrt and im not gonna lie a lot of it is just Lynch's fetishes but i really dig the themes and imo what he's trying to say about Hollywood is absolutely true

No. 425406

>>425153
Lady Gaga said everything he said about Hollywood with her 5 minute Paparazzi VMA performance, so I'm not impressed with his scrotal take.

No. 425414

>>425153
feels a bit ironic though since he supported polanski..

No. 425446

>>425406
sksksks get ha ass sis an i OOP an i OOP(non-contribution)

No. 425451

>>425414
Polanski was always disgusting, but he inspired surplus sympathy because he fled the Holocaust which afaik claimed the lives of both his parents and because of how hard Sharon Tate's murder or the Manson murders as a whole shook him and the rest of Hollywood, and of course his talent. But the support for him could still very well be pure hypocrisy on Lynch's part, Pedowood gonna Pedowood.

No. 425673

>>423268
It was whatever. Feminist…? Maybe a little bit. It offered a surface level critique of plastic surgery that might be new to most watching the film but if you're expecting anything subversive or radical it's not. The contradictions in the movie's production like the porny scenes of the younger character dulled any "feminist" critique the director was aiming at. It's otherwise a fun watch and I thought the visuals interesting. I won't get at specifics because they'd be spoilers but I thought the movie at first was directed by a man because if how moidy it is but when I saw it was by a French woman, it made sense.

No. 425747

>>424668
The recognition of the prostitute main character as a "service worker" and (forgive me I watched this a year ago) the chef talking about her and him loving their jobs because she makes people happy through service made me so angry, I turned the movie off and had to go back and finish it later. What a retarded fake-deep movie, like just about every other multi-million dollar budget movie hailed for their 'subversiveness' or 'scathing critique at the elite/patriarchy/whatever.' These movies throw these dog bones to the audience so that the masses are placated through simple recognition of their struggle and never bother to think how ironic it is that the elite funders of these movies are literally participating in the behaviors they're offering whitewashed "criticisms" of.

No. 426047

>>425673
I think the movie was more about how older women are suddenly discarded because they aren't considered attractive anymore to the male gaze and how it reflects on women self esteem.
I really loved this movie, my favorite one of the year so far. I really enjoyed Revenge and I was excited to see it.

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>>423268
one of my favorite movies ever made
>>425673
brainlet

No. 426135

>>425673
This is when I think reading in to a movie too much is going against what's being shown at face value. Kind of like >>426047 says, it has a clear narrative. Not everything needs to be philosophical. Honestly think that's why people hated the new Joker film. They read way, way into what they hoped it would be and read subtext when there was none.

No. 426136

>>426135
it's idiotic to think that the scenes of sue dancing weren't meant to be grotesquely exaggerated. i'm even seeing moids say it was "uncomfortable". it's a movie forcing them to stare and feel bad for staring. it accomplished its goal.

No. 426138

>>426136
The movie is so good, honestly think I'll watch it again.

No. 426144

>>426136
Agreed, I felt like scenes of Sue being objectified were very fitting to the story, and it's honestly no different than what we see with a lot of influencers and celebrities. The over the top, in your face nature of it suited the film so well because everything else seemed quite over the top too. And it made scenes like the chicken leg one all the more uncomfortable and anxiety inducing without completely coming out of left field. One of my favorite scenes was when Sue first met the producer that fired Elisabeth she was smiling and he said something along the lines of "look how happy and peppy, positive you are" or something like that. Maybe even innocent or light or something. But it's so accurate to how men view women in society, Sue was birthed out of Elisabeths anger, resentment, betrayal and bitterness towards her boss and the world at large. But because Sue is beautiful and has a nice smile he assumes all these positive traits about her, when in reality Sue harbours some pretty negative personality traits. I feel most women have experienced that, when your young and bright eyed men just assume your nice and kind and happy even if your really going through it or in a bad mood.

>>426047
Completely agree

No. 426612

I went to see Longlegs tonight. I don't understand the hype. It wasn't bad but it was nothing amazing. I will probably forget about it and never watch it again like all the other movies from this director. I legit thought that Nic Cage was supposed to be a troon at first kek.

No. 426640

>>426612
longlegs embarrassed the fuck out of me. i like maika monroe though.

No. 426689

>>423268
I didn't like it, it was hyped so much but it ultimately fell flat. There isn't anything especially clever or unique about how the movie delivers its message, which it relentlessly beats you over the head with for the entire runtime of the movie. It's like the director thought that the audience wouldn't get it if she didn't reiterate it every ten minutes. She literally named the tv producer Harvey for fucks sake and yet didn't have anything to say about how men like that use their power to abuse women, just that it's mean when people call middle-aged women old and ugly.

The story is nonsensical, in particular Elisabeth's motivations don't make any sense why doesn't she quit using the substance when it becomes clear that going over the seven day limit will permanently age her and Sue doesn't give a shit if that happens to her? What benefit does it bring her? It's not as if her consciousness is transferred into Sue's body when it's her turn, nor does she share memories with Sue. They are two separate people, one of them just so happens to parasite off the other. Also does nobody notice or care that she (and Sue) are AWOL for a week at time? Nobody is trying to contact Elisabeth when it's Sue's turn, and Sue doesn't have any filming or work commitments when it's Elisabeth's turn? How convenient.

I also hated how Elisasue is modelled after a real person (Joseph Merrick). It's cruel to model your movie's monster after a real person who suffered for his entire life through no fault of his own, and then have characters in your movie mock it for how hideous it looks. Overall, I thought it was an empty, repetitive, derivative and dull film, and I am so glad that I didn't pay money to see it.

No. 426726

>>426689
They are not seperate people, they kept repeating it in the movie. The consciousness is transferred. Being young, hot and loved is what she wants.

No. 426730

>>426689
Finally someone I can agree with. I didn't like the movie either. Yes, it makes you think and it doesn't let go of you for some time, which is great, the cast did a brilliant job, the picture is juicy but then there's this pretentious ugly tone. It thinks the audience is retarded, repeating every idea, shoving the clues a thousand times from different angles (in slow mo over them) into your throat, stretching the movie's runtime so much it overstays its welcome.
There's so much lip, food, gore smacking and asmr elements that weren't that necessary too. And not only the body horror is done distasteful, makeup looks offensively plastic (The Fly did it better and it was almost 40 years ago).
>Elizabeth's motivations don't make any sense
I've had a thought that Elizabeth is so deep into her self-hatred it's terminal clinical condition at this point. Probably meant to be this way too, plus I feel like celeb women are even more insecure than any other woman, so I'm surprised that we sort of saw this side to a Hollywood star. Also why she didn't kill Sue immediately after she started feeding on her: it's only because she was still able to sort of live through Sue, like mommagers live through their stage daughters. There's a theme of dysfunctional maternity lying here somewhere but I don't think many people, including the director herself, see it at all.
I've seen reviews where people mentioned there were women in their theaters who laughed at Elizabeth as she struggled with her aging process. On one hand, right, she's rich but mad that people don't think of her highly anymore, fucking laughable just retire and enjoy; on the other - some people would laugh at anyone's struggle without ability to relate to it. And it's scary that the message they try to bash into the heads of their supposedly dumb audience gets lost in the narrative, violence and blood, and people walk out from the seance with tasteless porridge overfilling their heads. So who was this movie made for?

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I just watched The Shining for the first time and it's so so shitty, I hated it, it aged like milk and I don't get why people still love it so much outside of nostalgia.

No. 427187

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>>427186
blah blah male auteur blah blah stanley kubrick is a genius and everything he touches is amazing blah blah
anyone see smile 2? definitely my favorite horror movie of the year next to the substance. i rolled my eyes when i saw it being described as better than the first one but it really was.

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I don't get one flew over the cuckoos nest like something about it just agitated me and I couldn't finish it. I've liked other movies set in mental wards so it's not like it's the plot, it's just the movie itself annoyed and didn't do anything for me

No. 427491

>>419987
Pearl > Maxxxine > X
x had too much porn, but I enjoyed the aesthetics and the acting. Pearl was probably the best acting and plot wise. Maxxine is good but it's lacking cohesion as to what Maxine's backstory was that I think they should've included. Mia kills the roles in all of them so I watched them just hearing about her performance and she delivers. I just wish x didn't revolve around porn so much, that's why I don't find it very rewatchable.

No. 427492

>>427490
the book is better. the movie really just makes it the jack nicholson show

No. 427493

>>427492
Jack Nicholson does annoy the shit out of me in many roles he's done so that's probably why. He'll always be the psycho from The Shining to me kek

No. 427494

>>427493
the book is much more focused on the main character, "the chief" and told from his POV. it's more interesting

No. 427495

>>427494
I figured, I heard the book was different so I'll check it out. Thanks for the rec!

No. 427496

>>423426
I like how this director seems to portray sex workers without it seeming cheap or exploitative. The Florida Project was shockingly good so I have high hopes for this

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No. 427560

>>427493
Not the Joker?

No. 427563

>>424686
I liked it but it was a bit different in an essential wasy from the other Alien movies. There were a lot of jump scares and the aliens were treated more like scary mob monsters than in any other Alien films. The Alien and even them big guys (whatever they were called lol) in Promethius were more like characters with personalities. The Aliens and the abomination she gives birth to were scary but had no personality, if that makes sense. Just pure scary.
The android was really good, I liked that plot angle.

No. 427576

>>426689
>why doesn't the main character simply not make bad decisions, and instead make good decisions?

No. 427600

>>427560
Okay his joker was good I'll give him that

No. 427602

>>427576
it's almost like elisabeth is supposed to be flawed in a way that causes her doom. she has no friends. seemingly no family. no one in her life. her whole life IS her career and being seen as perfect by the public so she doesn't have to face being utterly alone in the world. i can't imagine being so low IQ that this wasn't obvious to you.

No. 427613

>>427490
I remember I used to like the movie a lot because I almost completely missed the very beginning where they tell us how McMurphy got into the ward. After paying more attention to that and reading the book I couldn't stand him anymore. In the movie he's brought some life into this place but he ruined everything in the perspective, and seeing how it affected other patients poor Billy can only make one angry. Definitely check out the book and I recommend to check out a different movie on semi-related topic called Awakenings (1990).

No. 427614

>>427490
I remember I used to like the movie a lot because I almost completely missed the very beginning where they tell us how McMurphy got into the ward. After paying more attention to that and reading the book I couldn't stand him anymore. In the movie he's brought some life into this place but he ruined everything in the perspective, and seeing how it affected other patients poor Billy can only make one angry. Definitely check out the book and I recommend to check out a different movie on semi-related topic called Awakenings (1990).

No. 427615

>>427490
I remember I used to like the movie a lot because I almost completely missed the very beginning where they tell us how McMurphy got into the ward. After paying more attention to that and reading the book I couldn't stand him anymore. In the movie he's brought some life into this place but he ruined everything in the perspective, and seeing how it affected other patients poor Billy can only make one angry. Definitely check out the book and I recommend to check out a different movie on semi-related topic called Awakenings (1990).

No. 427788

>>427602
I understand what the movie is trying to say, but it was executed poorly. It so desperately wanted to be seen as subversive, but fails miserably.
>>426730
>I've seen reviews where people mentioned there were women in their theaters who laughed at Elizabeth as she struggled with her aging process.
So many of the reviews I’ve read mentioned that the audience was laughing during the final scene, which is strange because the audience should be feeling sympathetic towards Elisasue not laughing at her expense. Just another casualty of the film’s off tone.

No. 427883

>>427788
so the movie is bad because you don't understand or like dark humor. ok

No. 427887

>>425673
>>427788
I agree that it just lacked deeper…substance. It had barbie-tier feminism to me. But seeing how society and others react to movies like Barbie and the Substance, maybe people aren't really craving a deeper look on feminism. Like we all know how society treats women who are actors and how ageism affects them, and although you'd think it would be an overdone message, I guess it isn't to the casual viewer and that's probably why they really enjoy this movie. I think the only parts I didn't enjoy were the prolonged shots of ass from the younger actor. And inb4 "HURRR you don't get it, its SUPPOSED to make you uncomfortable!!" I understand why she put those shots in the movie but I still don't like them so whatever

But I still did think it was a good movie.
>>427883
Not at all what she said.

No. 427889

>>427887
genuinely have no idea how to respond to this if you think it had "barbie tier feminism" then lmao your media literacy is concerning

No. 427911

>>427889
What? Is media literacy becoming the buzzword of the thread? I told you I understand the movie, I just didn't think its points were ground breaking. If anyone can't understand what's being said, it's you. Not even to mention I wasn't trying to argue a point, simply agree with an opinion. But feel free to like the movie if you want to like it.

No. 427962

>>427887
It definitely had the potential to be a great film, but unfortunately that potential was squandered and it ended up being mediocre. If it only it was in the hands of a more competent director.

No. 427969

What's the scariest movie you've ever watched?

No. 428412

>>427969
When I was a kid "Candyman" and the 90s version of "It" scared the shit out of me. "Candyman" because it's people getting attacked in gross scary bathrooms by a bee monster; "It" because Tim Curry is terrifying as a clown. I'm drawing a blank for what the adult version of myself finds scary.

I hope more anons answer, I'm so curious what scares everyone here. Happy Halloween.

No. 429443

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I watched Venom 3 and it was so horrible I think I'm gonna cry.
the fake positive ai reviews also aren't helping.

my advice if you enjoyed the first and second venom movie then avoid this cashgrab.

No. 429454

>>427969
hard to say. i love horror movies, so i think it'd be best for me to put them into subgenres.
- scariest paranormal? it follows (2014).
- scariest slasher? the texas chain saw massacre (1974).
- scariest found footage? the blair witch project (1999).
- scariest sci-fi? nope (2022).
- scariest psychological? the lighthouse (2019).

No. 429461

>>427969
Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake

No. 429767

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Loved how unpleasant the main character was. There's nothing better than loserish women with huge egos. 10/10

No. 430330

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huh

No. 430355

>>427969
Pans labyrinth or I am legend

No. 430356

>>430355
Are you 8 years old?

No. 430725

Saw Heretic and honestly I was expecting something a bit more, but overall a very enjoyable horror flick and Hugh Grant really makes the whole thing work. But God why are old fucks so insufferable in movie theaters? One shriveled up moid spent half the movie making shit jokes like some bad YouTube commentary channel. Yeah the creaky door needs some oil now shut the fuck up.

No. 431166

>>430725
I just saw Heretic myself yesterday. Maybe I'm biased, but while I did enjoy it as a horror flick, the whole thing kind of felt like some reddit atheist's pretentious fantasy.

No. 431425

>>431166
kek I felt the same way throughout the movie. I enjoyed the first part as an ex-evangelical that likes to think about that stuff but I kept thinking this is like a cringey reddit comment section.

>>Hugh grants: all religions are an iteration. riddle me this- jews oldest religion and have the fewest members?? its all a lie!

>> Goth mommy gf archetype: akshually u never mentioned the holocaust HA gotcha

No. 431734

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saw this last night. it was good. great acting not a single moment that didnt have my attention. twist was crazy. love a good pressure cooker thriller

No. 431740

I watched hereditary bc I kept seeing people online mention and how good it was.
The actors of the parents carried the movie. The mom was the perfect mix of going insane and desperately trying to keep her cool, and the dad looked pretty realistic in that he stayed passive and actively avoided doing shit so as not to cause a fight. The woman who played Joan was also pretty good, but mostly in the manipulative aspect, she didn't carry over when it started going full cult possession. The buildup was okay, and the ending wasn't bad, the pacing and the whole premise of the movie was just shit, and seemed too tryhard.
Also, I lost it at the scene where the mom finally looks through her moms shit and reads the demonology book and the passage in the book mentions paimon goes by he him pronouns, lol. It could've just left it at the paimon reveres the male form part
The way the teens acted in the movie seemed super stereotypical to me. The movie didn't have a good buildup bc it really went nowhere, and it wasn't one of those movies that has an uncomfortable heavy atmosphere to it, even though it seems like that what the director wanted. I feel it would've been better as some kind of psychological horror than what it ended up being, and I think people who talk about movies like it being genuinely scary are talking out their ass to seem different. It was not scary, and the horror scenes were grating against the rest of the movie.

No. 433098

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I won't see this but I still hope this isn't the actual colour scheme. It's supposed to be a romantic comedy and darkness like this doesn't match that mood at all. I hate how dark movies are these days, looks like the very definition of "slop" and gives me nausea when I try to watch.

No. 433134

>>431740
I thought the ending was underwhelming

No. 433263

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I just watched this substance movie and oh wow - I, for some reason, had some expectations, not much but I expected it to be somewhat decent. Never would I thought it would be bad - and that bad! It is such a moronic movie! Why!
I get it’s oh so physiological but did we really need that much pornified objectification - yeah we get it - butt, I got it the first time, killing for peace, same old. And super fan of repeating stuff remember they give her a gift? Oh poor stupid you, of course you don’t remember it, I’m gonna place a line track riiiight here. And also I will do shit like this a dozen times or so.
Idk if I need to comment the in-universe logic, for example the movie extensively telling us that two are the same, but they are fucking not, because the same movie just proceed to show us exactly how they are two separate entities. And no, it was done not to show the substance provider is misleading and deliberately lying, because it has never played out if he was like that.
Bitch, ok, what’s the idea? Is it a story for a very niche problem of a very few people? Ie actresses who need to look young to be “presentable” and employed? And how they chase looks making a lot of procedures ending up abusing it and becoming botched “monsters” just to be mocked by people? Ok? Then why it is played so comical and mocking itself, the movie tone? Clearly making fun of main character? The bitch director thinks she is so smug she is not like those stupid hoes who care about their youth and appearance? Or what? I can appreciate (I guess??) the story of a character who is not relatable, but it is mostly laughable, again, but now regarding the story itself - oh poor rich woman, what a first world problem, how sad.
Males depiction is also what is laughable, they are so cartoonishly villainous, yet never close to real life villainous - they would say some poster sexist thing like “girls should smile” yet never try to harass a character. The author is that much sheltered it seems, I assume she was born rich, all this is so shallow, no wonder basic bitches and celebs loved this movie so much, I should’ve known.
The look of a movie is super cheap, it’s painful to see greenscreened tv, like would it hurt to actually play the fucking footage. Yeah, I get the giant billboard shooped by an eightgrader supposed to be super comical and more of a symbol than real in-universe thing, but come.on.
And the guy who told her about the substance, what’s his deal in the story - besides being the plot tool - to make people around him miserable because he is miserable himself? What.
The only good things were that monster bmovie audience reaction and splashing at the end, and ok, let it be the geting ready scene too

No. 433266

>>433263
Sry to doublepost, but I am sure this is just a huge mubi pr what made this movie so popular and not real audience opinions. It’s a cheap movie and I guess much more money went into ads (paying twitter accs for memes? idk) Did they secretly teamed up with charlie xcx pr team too, because this is stupid

No. 433283

>>433263
Sorry nonna but it feels like you watched the movie while scrolling on your phone, sue and elisabeth are the same person because they have essentially the same personality and flaws, not that they are one entity. Their issues would've been easily avoided if they talked (through notes or some shit) to eachother but neither ever thinks of bridging the gap because they are so self absorbed, they both think their version is the one that should be the boss.
The whole thing is presented as a twisted fable and it follows the conventions of a fable to a T.

No. 433284

>>433283
whoever wrote the comment you replied to sounds like an illiterate 15 year old boy. criticizing this movie while calling the director a bitch and a whore is pretty crazy.



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