Recent content by Szlia

One of the best film I have seen in 2024 sofar. Very thematically rich movie and extremely free and uncompromising form. If a discussion between two characters is worth lasting 15 minutes, it lasts 15 minutes. Deal with it. There is also a very healthy dose of dark humor in it which certainly...

Like... Furiosa?

I guess it was not crystal clear the way I worded it before or I am confused. Let me try again: Civil War, the movie this thread is about, is written and directed by Alex "Ex Machina" Garland, *not* by Neil "The Descent" Marshall.

@Dr.Retarded The Descent was directed by Neil Marshall (who also directed Dog Soldiers). Alex Garland is the director of Ex Machina and Annihilation as well as the writer of 28 Days/Weeks later, Sunshine and Dredd.

Ice hockey layman here. I have a question: what is the balance of forces in a shootout? In soccer, the strikers score something like 90% of the time, so any miss or save is momentous. Is it more balanced in ice hockey or is it expected for the keeper to block most shots? :emoji_thinking:

The whole point is that you don't understand what is going on and that everything is ambiguous. While a very different movie, Annihilation kinda worked on the same principle.

We live in a world with Sonic games on Nintendo consoles, so I must confess I am unfazed by an empty shell buying another empty shell. Atari is now a french company, as the french developper Infogrames bought the brand and changed its name to it, and the Intellivision brand has been sold by...

On the other way around, I had the misfortune of seeing the second of these movies (To the swordsmith village) without seeing the show and that must take the cake of the most obscene cash grab in the universe. These movies are the last two episode of a season and the first of the next put back...

It must be very tiresome to be the communication manager at one of Elon Musk's companies... if these positions exist.

They have very little in common except they are both about a boy who lost his mother during WWII. One is about the struggle to survive and the other is about finding a magical land near a mansion in the countryside!

Fanfic.... somehow an 80+ director, that has not made a movie in more than a decade and whose last few films have been mixed bags at best, had trouble to finance an ambitious movie. Shocking! That said, he attracted a bunch of big names for his cast, so it's still a bit surprising that he had to...

That article about the Rock reads from top to bottom as "Some mysterious insiders told us something terrible and when we asked for confirmation we were told it didn't happen".

Because it is? This is from an AI powered fake trailer. Media literacy will be a whole new cattle of fish when AI will be able to generate videos that are not longer distinguishable from man made ones. At this point that sounds like a question of "when" not a question of "if" and the answer...

Obviously it is better if you have seen the show and the previous movies, but can it be seen as a stand alone movie? I recently saw Cucuruz Doan's Island and Hathaway that both fit in a longer continuity but both also work as stand alones.

Not unpleasant but not great. Does not have much in common with the original show. Comedy is mildly amusing but you will not find yourself rolling on the floor. It is supposed to be an ode of sorts to stuntmen, but that aspect takes second fiddle to the mystery. On that topic I would recommend...