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- Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2020 stuff
- Replies: 148
- Views: 25799
Re: 2020 stuff
Dune Part 1 - This was pretty much dogshit. The characterization was borderline nonexistent, the story was thin and unengaging, the pacing was turgid, the world it built felt extremely fake and small, and the soundtrack was just generic Arab desert music with a woman going "aaaah AAAAaaah aaaa...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2020 stuff
- Replies: 148
- Views: 25799
Re: 2020 stuff
I thought it was being extremely ugly on purpose and then I read online a bunch of people praising it for its beautiful aesthetics. This is one of those times when I feel like an alien. This is one of the ugliest movies I've ever seen, whether it was in black and white or garish orange or purple or ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2020 stuff
- Replies: 148
- Views: 25799
Re: 2020 stuff
Poor Things - Dude. This movie sucks. I don't know what it is about Yorgos Lanthimos's movies that grates on my fucking nerves so much. Maybe it's the tryhard edgelord shit. Maybe it's the constant dry humor without any actual wit. Maybe it's the quirkiness. Maybe it's the cynicism without the subs...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 3:21 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Rax/Maz/Jimbo 2021 Games Thread
- Replies: 203
- Views: 19809
Re: Rax/Maz/Jimbo 2021 Games Thread
Maybe. I went through a Pixar marathon earlier last year intending to say some stuff about all of their movies here, but in the end I just decided not to. Knowing your thoughts will only be read by about two or three people max is an effective demoralizer, I guess. I also miss talking about politics...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Rax/Maz/Jimbo 2021 Games Thread
- Replies: 203
- Views: 19809
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Rax/Maz/Jimbo 2021 Games Thread
- Replies: 203
- Views: 19809
Re: Rax/Maz/Jimbo 2021 Games Thread
DKC3 was a fixture of my childhood for some weird reason. I really liked it, while I didn't care about the first one much and I never played the second. I replayed it on the Switch recently and IMO it has some fantastic music and great atmosphere and level design. Also the graphics seem like they we...
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 3:02 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2020 stuff
- Replies: 148
- Views: 25799
Re: 2020 stuff
Yeah, a bit, particularly the very last scene and the scene about halfway through the season with Homelander's public temper tantrum. They both read to me as the writers becoming much more cynical and clear-eyed about the American public. Apart from that I thought the satire in general was pretty si...
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 4:03 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Random news/topics/opinions(contribute your own if want)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 30545
Re: Random news/topics/opinions(contribute your own if want)
I've never felt proud to be a Kansan before.
Feels kind of weird.
Feels kind of weird.
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 8:21 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Gendo watches more movies in 2022
- Replies: 117
- Views: 6861
Re: Gendo watches more movies in 2022
I'm surprised to hear "Frankenweenie" is creepy.
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 4:35 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Spoilers for the new Spider-Man movie below!! omg spoilers!! Spider-Man: No Way Home - I enjoyed watching it, which is not to say it was a good movie. It might be a good movie, I don't know, I'll probably have to see it again to make that judgment. Most of it was pretty average, with the glaring exc...
- Sat Dec 11, 2021 2:32 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Running out of thread titles - Gendo's 2021 movie list
- Replies: 99
- Views: 10777
Re: Running out of thread titles - Gendo's 2021 movie list
If I remember correctly Booksmart did a joke essentially like that with the pizza delivery guy with the guilty conscience, only funnier because it was quicker and more subtle. I think Mean Girls slowly got worse as it went on. The first half or whatever of it was pretty good, the second was just ok.
- Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:19 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 9852
Re: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
Thanks, it's fixed.
- Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:54 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 9852
Re: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
Yeah I get that.
I also can't access this site through my bookmark on Chrome. I have to go the roundabout way by clicking on a link in my history.
I also can't access this site through my bookmark on Chrome. I have to go the roundabout way by clicking on a link in my history.
- Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:12 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 9852
Re: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
So do we sometimes but one thing he and I agree on is that anime is of the Devil.
- Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:27 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 9852
Re: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
Sorry to hear that. I've been the same way for a while. I've stopped posting about movies because I almost never have any thoughts about a new movie I saw besides "That was fine, I guess." I'll also probably make an effort post about something occasionally if I think I have something actua...
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 6:23 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 9852
Re: Raxivace's 2021 Movies or: (Neo General-Chat V for Vendetta)
Poor conservatives. Even the most high-profile and respected "conservative" Hollywood guy they can point to and claim as their own is, at best, only ambiguously conservative. It must be tiring to keep losing the culture war so hard.
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 2:28 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
I tried to fight the impulse... I really did... but it was just too strong. I will at least attempt to do the decent thing and try to keep these things short. Palm Springs - Watched it, thought it was ok. Watched it again to see if I would think it's as great as everyone else does a second time, but...
- Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:34 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
K, I'm done with this stupid project. My new list of favorite movies, with the extra special favorites in bold: 12 Angry Men The Apartment The Bad News Bears The Conjuring 2 The Edge of Seventeen The Florida Project Fucking Åmål The Guest Happy-Go-Lucky Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Heavenl...
- Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:16 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Your Name (2016) - My words from two years ago: It was good. Not really what I expected. The aspect of it that everyone said was its primary story was really only the first half, and then a sort-of twist a bit before the halfway point led the story down an entirely new direction that the first half...
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:30 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Wreck-It Ralph - Hugely entertaining, imaginative, engrossing, exciting, creative, with a good story and good characters and a good message. Not saying it's as good as Pixar at their best but it's on par. Some of the emotional aspects felt kind of forced. Other than that it was great. The Oreo gag ...
- Sat Jul 17, 2021 11:47 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Where the Wild Things Are - It was good. Fine/good. Somewhere between those.
- Wed Jul 14, 2021 12:55 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
The Virgin Suicides - Good movie. Somewhere between Sofia Coppola's other two movies on this list. Out of all of her movies I've seen (which are all except On the Rocks), this one is probably the most "conventional", the one most like a regular movie, the that follows all the traditional ...
- Sun Jul 11, 2021 2:48 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
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Vertigo - I had a very lukewarm reaction to this again. I guess I don't really "get it" and I don't particularly care to. I don't know what the big deal is.
- Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:20 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Up in the Air - I don't know, I don't have a lot to say here. It's all right. I didn't think it was quite as good this time as it was the first time I watched it. Or more accurately its effect on me the second time was relatively muted. It was sort of melancholy, but it was also kind of cloying and...
- Thu Jul 08, 2021 7:55 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Two Days, One Night - Wow, I haven't seen this since it came out and I was kind of expecting it to be underwhelming, but it very much was not. It's excellent, a very humane and sensitive depiction of working class desperation and depression, with an amazing performance by Marion Cotillard at the ce...
- Wed Jul 07, 2021 4:25 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
It didn't do much for me this time. Toy Story 2 - I think this movie is severely underrated. Yes, kind of strange to say for a movie that is universally loved and considered one of the greatest sequels of all time, but... I don't know, man. It's always seemed kind of obvious to me that this is Pixar...
- Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:48 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
The Truman Show - It was good, I guess. I liked the score and the premise was mildly interesting. Probably seemed more interesting back in 1998. I guess it deserves credit for predicting reality television or whatever.
- Tue Jul 06, 2021 6:41 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: HELLO Hello hello...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6850
Re: HELLO Hello hello...
Yeah I saw a thing a few days ago where the top ten most shared political posts on Facebook or whatever was mostly Ben Shapiro stuff, mixed with some Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson or whatever. Disturbing. Youtube seems to have gotten a lot better in the past few years, though. A lot of the alt-righ...
- Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:10 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Slightly less disturbing than Tangled, I respect this movie much more than I actually like it. The last third or so of it is so insane that it makes you forget how boring the first two thirds are. The frantic nervous intense filming style mixed with the extremely grimy...
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:11 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Tangled (2010) - It was nice. It was pretty. It was charming. It had a lot of charm. I don't know, that's about it. It's about a step above "passably entertaining", maybe a few steps, primarily due to its aforementioned charm and its pretty woodsy throwback fairytale atmosphere. The chara...
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 6:21 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
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Synecdoche, New York - I get the feeling that everything this movie is saying about life, I would agree with, if I could actually suss out wtf it's saying. It's honestly severely unpleasant for me to sit through, and not in the "oh yeah, it's certainly depressing" way, the "holy fuck...
- Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:22 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) - I don't know. It was fine. It's the only horror musical I've ever seen or even heard of, and I probably liked it because of its dark edgy aesthetic. But it's just okay. Kind of bland. I don't care much for the flat saturated monochrome visual ...
- Sun Jun 27, 2021 7:38 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
I hear rumors that the cast of the Raimi trilogy is supposed to return for the next MCU Spiderman or something. Like they go into an alternate dimension or something. Idk. It will be interesting to see Raimi get MCU-ed. Submarine (2010) - a thoroughly mediocre little indie drama thing that is only s...
- Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:25 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
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Spider-Man 2 (2004) - Yeah not only just as good as remembered but better, for the same reasons as the first one. In fact everything the first one did, this one does better. The script, the pacing, the writing, the themes, the emotions, the action, the villain, the performances, the special effects...
- Fri Jun 25, 2021 6:24 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
It's funny, what you're saying about the The Mummy (which I haven't seen... I guess I should) also applies very well to the next movie I'm doing. In this one the villain also doesn't really properly show up and meet the hero until a little past the halfway point, and we hardly notice because the mov...
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:38 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
I guess I liked all the twists. Also Rooney Mara, probably. The Sixth Sense - Without the twist I think this movie would be remembered, if at all, as a mildly above-average ghost story. But the twist significantly heightened its emotional resonance and heft and gave it a lot of rewatch value, even i...
- Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:17 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
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Side Effects (2013) - hmm... no idea why this is a favorite. It's crap. Next!
- Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:46 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
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Repulsion (1965) - a horror film from Roman Polanski about a woman who was cursed by God to harbor a very primal and visceral hatred and repulsion of men and sexuality, and yet be so physically attractive that she is constantly the target of male lust. The universe played a terrible, terrible cosmi...
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 9:58 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: HELLO Hello hello...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6850
Re: HELLO Hello hello...
Honestly I think it's really unbelievable that literally nothing has changed from all this. Lol. Like literally nothing. COVID and the biggest protests ever and it's like they never happened. Everything remains exactly the same. Even the polling numbers are back to where they were before. I mean, a ...
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 6:16 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Thanks Faustus. I try. Rango - wow this movie was kind of stupid. Lots of care and craft in the visual department, nothing for the story. The humor was also extremely fucking stupid. By the time Clint Eastwood showed up and cracked a joke about how he wants to eat poptarts with Kim Novak I fully che...
- Sun Jun 13, 2021 4:09 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
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Pulp Fiction - I fucking love this movie, a lot. But so does everyone else on the planet. Howard Hawks, according to Roger Ebert, once said the definition of a good movie is three great scenes and no bad ones. This movie has about thirty great scenes. It's basically just a presentation of great and...
- Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:34 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Princess Cyd - I guess I like these little no-budget slice-of-life coming-of-age indie drama movies with no plot or conflict, at least if the main character is attractive enough. Or maybe I just like this one. It's very tender and gentle and emotional and sweet. No conflict, no drama, no histrionic...
- Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:15 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
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Yeah that's what I got out of it. The Piano Teacher - I genuinely can't tell if I like this movie. It's unpleasant, sure, but mostly I found it slow and unengaging. Isabelle Huppert single-handedly saved it; without her it would have been dumb and shallow. She gave the movie all of its psychological...
- Mon Jun 07, 2021 5:02 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Nope, I have not, but I fully expect to in the near future. Do you have any thoughts on Mulholland Drive? I know you're a Lynch fan, I'm wondering if you got something more out of that movie than I did. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl - Yep, still pretty good. As far as blockbuste...
- Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:06 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
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They both have great rewatch value. Perfect Blue - Similar to what Eva said, I found this a bit better the first time than on my rewatch. Much of this movie's impact is in its twists and disorienting effects, and if you take away the immediate visceral shock and confusion of those it loses a lot of ...
- Fri Jun 04, 2021 10:59 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Pan's Labyrinth - One of the best movies ever, definitely holds up. I don't really have anything to say about it beyond the obvious. Breathtaking visuals, heartbreaking story, mixes two genres (war and fantasy) seamlessly, haunting atmosphere and soundtrack, superb set designs, and so on. It's high...
- Sun May 30, 2021 11:28 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Nightcrawler (2014) - Still really good! I like it a lot! It remains incredibly surreal to me that so many people have totally missed the incredibly glaring and unsubtle subtext of this movie. It's not primarily about the news media, it's about capitalism. Lou Bloom is the personification of capita...
- Wed May 26, 2021 5:13 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Mulholland Drive - Yeah, I don’t know. This movie is obviously well-made, but I don’t know what the fuck it’s saying, whether it’s even saying anything, or whether it’s stupid of me to go into it expecting it to be saying something. I guess the basic message is that Hollywood is a destructive profi...
- Sat May 22, 2021 12:53 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Yeah. Josh Peck and Scott Mechlowicz did as well. Millennium Actress - It was good. A well-made and warm and moving love letter to cinema. The reverse image of Perfect Blue, in that the latter is about a woman falling into delusions unwillingly because she's losing her mind and the former is about o...
- Thu May 20, 2021 4:47 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: 2021
- Replies: 126
- Views: 14447
Re: 2021
Mean Creek - Undoubtedly the best in the "a bunch of kids kill someone and then deal with the fallout" movie sub-genre, at least from the ones I've seen (Bully, River's Edge, Super Dark Times). It's haunting and atmospheric, disturbing and incredibly bleak, with great performances and a h...