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The Birds (1963) - It took like an hour for the birds to start doing anything. I get increasing tension, but come on. Once it actually started, I guess it was fine. It's nice to know that the horror movie tradition of characters being incredibly stupid for no reason stretches back all the way to 19...

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The dialogue in the Before trilogy was only sometimes engaging. Usually it was just cloying and dull. It never felt particularly perceptive or deep or challenging or to me. Except for the fight scene, I wouldn't consider the writing in the trilogy to be particularly good. I wasn't impressed by the i...

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The Lovely Bones - wow, that was fucking stupid. I think I've seen it before? Idk. It's a piece of shit compared to Heavenly Creatures.

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Undone - a very unique and good 8-episode show on Amazon Prime. It's about a woman who starts seeing visions of her dead father after a car crash who tells her she needs to go back in time and prevent his death. It's basically a trippy scifi show with grounded emotions and realistic character relat...

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Before Midnight - it was fine. I probably enjoyed it the best of the trilogy, even though it was pretty brutal. The characters are a bit more mature and cynical and less annoying. They still often speak in faux-intellectual lofty worldly "philosophical" screenwriter-speak in casual conver...

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I guess I'll have to think about it. Anyway, I've seen some more things: Cold War - a very artistic and sophisticated production. Black and white, 4:3 aspect ratio, historical period piece, sweeping epic romantic drama - you know, you can tell. Very high-minded. The only real break from tradition is...

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I didn't think there was anything to either like or dislike about Lady Bird very much. It was okay. It's one of those movies where I sort of suspect the critics either had some previous affinity for the director or they strongly saw themselves in the main character or something. I'm kind of mystifie...

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Yeah, but her sense of superiority was to cover up her severe inferiority complex. It was clear that piloting the Eva was the only way she took pride in herself, and her insecurity primarily stemmed from her mother not acknowledging her or validating her. Then she realized her mother was watching he...

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I think you're still overestimating how cultured the average person is. I could be wrong but I doubt more than a small percentage of people would even recognize the name. You might say I have too low an opinion of the public but a poll just came out that said less than a quarter of Americans can loc...

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Well, damn, Eva. That was a lot. I just watched Rebirth (Rax was right, it was a glorified recap, although it cleared absolutely nothing up) and EoE, and I'm still trying to process it. I generally just took Shinji strangling Asuka as him trying to find out if he was outside Instrumentality by seein...

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Just saw the sequel yesterday and it's pretty much exactly like the first one. It was sort of entertaining and fun.

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If Rosemary's Baby isn't as well known today, I think its probably because it doesn't have any single scene that's as easily parodied or recreated as Psycho's shower scene or The Exorcist's head spin. Same thing with The Shining and the hallway scene. And the typewriter. And the "Here's Johnny...

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I think Rosemary's Baby was a bit more intimidating to me because it doesn't seem well-known among the general public at all (unlike other classic horror films like Psycho or The Exorcist), regular people don't talk about it much, but it seems universally well-regarded among cinephiles. So it's almo...

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I need a recap.

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I go my own way.

And I've only seen the show so far. I'm going to watch Death and Rebirth and EofE shortly.

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Wow, I didn't know Rax was that big of a fan of the show. Seriously, Rax, why have you never said anything before?

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Happy new year's or whatever. Anyway - Neon Genesis: Evangelion - wow, has anyone here ever heard of this? Why has no one here talked about this yet? Idk, that was fucking intense. That's the best way to sum it up. Also incredibly dense and intensely confusing. I watched the show through twice, and ...

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Shoulda watched Cats instead.

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Marriage Story - I don't know, it was fine. It's weird that it became so meme-y and discoursey given how basic and basically competent it is. A lot of the comedy beats felt out of place and interrupted the drama. The acting and directing weren't anything special. I might have been more moved if I h...

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Jeez you see a lot of shit. I don't think I"ve seen anything since that horny Alfonso Cuarón movie.

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Man, this thread was an emotional rollercoaster.

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Oh. I don't really know what that means. It always keeps my full attention the entire time even after watching it several times, due to its flawless script and pacing and characterization. It seems cinematic to me. I also don't know why I forgot Pulp Fiction. It's probably in my first tier. I wouldn...

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What don't you like about it?

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Not really sure why I left out Mulholland Drive. It belongs there, definitely.

Rax and Lyndon makes my list look basic and stupid.

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Here you list your favorite movies. Or don't. Whatever. You don't have to. You don't have to do what other people tell you all the time, you know. Me: Mad Max: Fury Road Lost in Translation Nightcrawler Heavenly Creatures Bully Perfect Blue 12 Angry Men How to Train Your Dragon The Edge of Seventeen...

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Y Tu Mamá También - damn this movie was horny as fuck. It was good. The ending was a gut punch. The sexual tension between the two boys throughout the entire movie was intense. The woman, obviously, belongs in prison.

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Besides both featuring demon cults I'm not sure what Rosemary's Baby and Hereditary have to do with each other. I think Infinity War is far and away the worst MCU film I've seen in terms of story. Captain Marvel is blah but at least it doesn't have glaring overwhelming problems. Avengers: Endgame is...

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Rosemary's Baby - it's kind of a weird experience watching these types of movies. I've heard of this movie all my life, never learned anything about it. It's a ground-breaking classic, a cultural milestone, untouchable, larger-than-life. Kind of weird to see it show up on Netflix like it's just ano...

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Oh. Well that sucks.

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for me to access the previous boards?

Because I can't.

Thanks.

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I agree, I thought Midsommar was, for all its flaws, a very memorable experience.

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Yeah I was surprised at much the movie seemed to want me to dislike him and how little I actually did. Like I guess he was bad, but not that bad. He was overtly manipulative in that conversation with her at the beginning, but besides that, his biggest problem was that he was inattentive. Like I am n...

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You guys seem confused. This thread is about Midsommar now.

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The second most interesting thing here is that it has the most absurd suspense scene ever put on a film, involving a naked man hiding in a bathroom while taking a dump from a gunman, and trying very hard not to shit too loudly so the gunman doesn't notice him in the bathroom and murder him. I'm not...

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Midsommar - It was fine. Much more straightforward than Hereditary. It's also about relationships, but more like romantic and emotional relationships than familial relationships. It wasn't really scary or disturbing. It was fine. The whole thing was basically just a giant metaphor for a bad breakup...

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Bad Match - a random Netflix original movie. It was actually sort of good. MAJOR SPOILERS!!!! I was going to say that I choose to interpret it as a deconstruction of the "crazy scorned woman/ex-girlfriend" trope, but after thinking about it there was really no room for ambiguity; that's o...

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The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism (Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski) - When people say "socialism doesn't work", what they usually mean is "large-scale top-down economic planning doesn't work". One o...

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Yeah, I didn't really connect with Taxi Driver or Travis Bickle much either. I thought the movie was good, but it didn't do anything for me emotionally. Travis Bickle has a few specific superficial similarities to me, which I thought would make it easier for me to connect with him, but it didn't. Th...

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The Fly (1986) - wow, that was gross. The ending was goddamn brutal. That's how horror movies should end. All the important shit is over, your emotions are at their highest, suddenly it's over. This is a movie that wastes no time. I liked it, it was more emotional than I was expecting. It's interes...

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The first fifteen minutes were by far the worst part. It gets gradually better.

Most of these raunchy teen movies seem to be trying too hard, so I just went in with my expectations set.

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Lol, thanks. I had a good time, too, it was a good movie, but when I think about it more, I think this angle does a lot of damage to it. Spoilers ahead, but the main character's coming-of-age is premised on her getting over her superiority complex towards her classmates. That's she's not that much b...

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Booksmart - It was fun. The comparisons to Superbad are warranted, as it parallels it in its plot structure and emotional journey, but it's a bit more empathic. The story beats were pretty standard and in the last act felt forced. I like how the overachiever Tracy Flick-type main character, who had...

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Lol well clearly I'm biased. I'm just really sick of superheroes at this point completely dominating our movie culture for twelve years straight. This is like the first time any high-profile voice has ever voiced any mild criticism of it.

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Yeah, because Martin Scorsese really needs to actually physically see Guardians of the Galaxy to know a movie about a talking raccoon set in space is not going to be high art. The self-importance of some people. Like, does James Gunn actually genuinely think Martin Scorsese needs to show some respec...

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It's amazing how so many people actually had a problem with Scorsese's comments on Marvel. Like they couldn't imagine how an extremely creative, thoughtful, and well-respected director would take some issue with film turning into bland factory-made assembly line-manufactured paste based on comics an...

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Marianne - a scary show on Netflix. It's okay. The first three episodes are pretty good and are actual horror, but then it turned into a trope-y YA dark fantasy show. It can't really be compared to Haunting of Hill House; it's very different, and its highs are much higher and its lows are much lowe...

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Well, I wasn't really complaining about it. I don't mind art portraying the poor as a bunch of assholes, because they are. I'm just saying that it's not a particularly strong or effective anti-capitalist message. But it wasn't really trying to be one. If you're going to go to bat for the working cla...

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Just saw it. It was fine. It was neither bad nor good. I neither liked it nor disliked it. It was perfectly medium. I didn't feel anything at all during it and I didn't feel anything at all when it ended. I feel like I'll probably forget it in a day. I'm not sure what to say about its anti-capitalis...

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BruceSmith78 wrote:I suck at reviewing movies.

That's never stopped me!

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Woah, Bruce! You're still here!

Yeah I'll go see Joker. I'm keeping my mind open and my expectations in check.

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