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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Palum
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Big Phoenix
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Watched Johnny mnemonic again yesterday and realized it's basically cp2077 the movie.
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Rabbit_Games
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Correct.
I remember my friends and I hoping for Shadowrun/Cyberpunk movies to become a thing like superhero movies... but between that and Tank Girl not reaching much of an audience, it just never got liftoff.
I remember my friends and I hoping for Shadowrun/Cyberpunk movies to become a thing like superhero movies... but between that and Tank Girl not reaching much of an audience, it just never got liftoff.
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Post-Halloween movie watching:
A Quiet Place: Day One - Liked this more than expected given the poor reviews. Having watched all 3 movies in the series over the past five or so months and having no nostalgic attachment to any of them, I thought this one actually worked a bit better than the other two. I was more invested in the cancer lady's quest for pizza than I was in the characters wandering around in the others. Course I'm probably alone on that. Was interesting how this was essentially a retelling of Lord of the Rings, with the white guy in the Sam role of watching out for Lupita as they made their probably-hopeless journey across Mordor. The cat's name was Frodo, just to drive it home. Cat was probably the best thing about the movie. Lupita is an attractive actress, but they made her look like Gollum here, so maybe the cat was Frodo in the metaphor. 7/10.
Madame Web - Aggressively boring movie. Only good parts were the flash-forwards of the girls with their superpowers. It's all setup for a much more interesting movie that we'll never get. Some great eye candy at least (though they did everything they could to make Sydney as unattractive as possible). 3/10.
The Crow - One of the worst movies I've seen in a long time, insulting to the original and the graphic novel, and aggressively boring when it isn't outright bad. A lot of the story decisions are questionable and actively hurt the whole thing, like having the two leads basically just have a weekend hookup rather than a real relationship. Not sure why they went that route unless they think Tinder Culture is more relatable to The Keeds or something. Story would have instantly made more sense in numerous spots if they'd been in a traditional relationship but noooo. Everything about this was dour and off-putting, and the normally-good Bill Skarsgaard was wasted. 2/10.
Abigail - Weird, weird movie, felt like it had a bunch of modern identity politics swimming around under the surface. It all got pretty distracting and I didn't know who I was supposed to root for half the time. Scene to scene it was alright though. 6/10.
M3gan - Solid horror movie, felt like an extended Black Mirror episode. Always interested in things dealing with AI run amuck or killer machines. Looking forward to the sequel, but also not too sure where they'll go with it from here. Very creepy altogether. 8/10
The Substance - Been discussed to death on here already, this one weirded me out more than anything else. Quaaley or whatever her name is was pretty hot, gains two points just for her. 7/10 for being pretty memorable even if it was often off-putting.
Revenge - Girl-power revenge movie by the same French woman as The Substance. This was really, really good. Basically a survival-suspense movie that would have been an incredible Tomb Raider movie. As it is, far better than any Tomb Raider movie and does their job for them, if that makes sense. 9/10 and the only thing on this list that I'd actually watch again any time soon.
Kinds of Kindness - Watched this for more Quaaley. Was disappointed that she didn't lez out with Emma Stone (think they might have lezzed out momentarily during that quick barrage of threesome scenes we see for like 5 seconds). Super weird fucking movie where no one talked like regular people and I'm not sure what the point of it was or what any of it meant. I guess it was by the same people as that Killing of the Sacred Deer movie which was also weird as hell and also had characters talking more like lizard people than human beings. All in all, adding a couple points for how fucking hot Quaaley and Stone are, taking a few off for how this seemed like yet another Babylon-type masturbatory movie from Hollywood, blasting in all of our faces and calling it "quirky art" or whatever the fuck. 5/10.
Civil War - Particularly charged movie to put out in an election year. Liked that it didn't take a political side, with Texas and California making up the "confederacy" in this case and the president's party never actually being named. However, him being in his third term and looking the way he does (plus the way he's shot by a team of minority soldiers at the end), I think it's safe to say he's a stand-in for Trump. However, the audience can flip that around easily enough and have him be Newsom or something if they want to. Considering how the dictator's last words are him crouched on the floor begging for his life like a puny coward, if the creators of the movie intended for him to be a Trump allegory, they must have felt pretty goddamn stupid/ashamed when he actually got shot and reacted to it by standing up and pumping his fist in the air like he didn't give a shit. 7/10 for the movie overall.
A Quiet Place: Day One - Liked this more than expected given the poor reviews. Having watched all 3 movies in the series over the past five or so months and having no nostalgic attachment to any of them, I thought this one actually worked a bit better than the other two. I was more invested in the cancer lady's quest for pizza than I was in the characters wandering around in the others. Course I'm probably alone on that. Was interesting how this was essentially a retelling of Lord of the Rings, with the white guy in the Sam role of watching out for Lupita as they made their probably-hopeless journey across Mordor. The cat's name was Frodo, just to drive it home. Cat was probably the best thing about the movie. Lupita is an attractive actress, but they made her look like Gollum here, so maybe the cat was Frodo in the metaphor. 7/10.
Madame Web - Aggressively boring movie. Only good parts were the flash-forwards of the girls with their superpowers. It's all setup for a much more interesting movie that we'll never get. Some great eye candy at least (though they did everything they could to make Sydney as unattractive as possible). 3/10.
The Crow - One of the worst movies I've seen in a long time, insulting to the original and the graphic novel, and aggressively boring when it isn't outright bad. A lot of the story decisions are questionable and actively hurt the whole thing, like having the two leads basically just have a weekend hookup rather than a real relationship. Not sure why they went that route unless they think Tinder Culture is more relatable to The Keeds or something. Story would have instantly made more sense in numerous spots if they'd been in a traditional relationship but noooo. Everything about this was dour and off-putting, and the normally-good Bill Skarsgaard was wasted. 2/10.
Abigail - Weird, weird movie, felt like it had a bunch of modern identity politics swimming around under the surface. It all got pretty distracting and I didn't know who I was supposed to root for half the time. Scene to scene it was alright though. 6/10.
M3gan - Solid horror movie, felt like an extended Black Mirror episode. Always interested in things dealing with AI run amuck or killer machines. Looking forward to the sequel, but also not too sure where they'll go with it from here. Very creepy altogether. 8/10
The Substance - Been discussed to death on here already, this one weirded me out more than anything else. Quaaley or whatever her name is was pretty hot, gains two points just for her. 7/10 for being pretty memorable even if it was often off-putting.
Revenge - Girl-power revenge movie by the same French woman as The Substance. This was really, really good. Basically a survival-suspense movie that would have been an incredible Tomb Raider movie. As it is, far better than any Tomb Raider movie and does their job for them, if that makes sense. 9/10 and the only thing on this list that I'd actually watch again any time soon.
Kinds of Kindness - Watched this for more Quaaley. Was disappointed that she didn't lez out with Emma Stone (think they might have lezzed out momentarily during that quick barrage of threesome scenes we see for like 5 seconds). Super weird fucking movie where no one talked like regular people and I'm not sure what the point of it was or what any of it meant. I guess it was by the same people as that Killing of the Sacred Deer movie which was also weird as hell and also had characters talking more like lizard people than human beings. All in all, adding a couple points for how fucking hot Quaaley and Stone are, taking a few off for how this seemed like yet another Babylon-type masturbatory movie from Hollywood, blasting in all of our faces and calling it "quirky art" or whatever the fuck. 5/10.
Civil War - Particularly charged movie to put out in an election year. Liked that it didn't take a political side, with Texas and California making up the "confederacy" in this case and the president's party never actually being named. However, him being in his third term and looking the way he does (plus the way he's shot by a team of minority soldiers at the end), I think it's safe to say he's a stand-in for Trump. However, the audience can flip that around easily enough and have him be Newsom or something if they want to. Considering how the dictator's last words are him crouched on the floor begging for his life like a puny coward, if the creators of the movie intended for him to be a Trump allegory, they must have felt pretty goddamn stupid/ashamed when he actually got shot and reacted to it by standing up and pumping his fist in the air like he didn't give a shit. 7/10 for the movie overall.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Gonna disagree on Civil War. It's dogshit. Its written and directed by a foreigner who gets his ideas about America from watching the BBC and CNN.
There isn't a question of if the President is a Trump allegory. Of course it is. His supporters are white rednecks killing foreigners in W Virginia. Oh and the "terrorist" carrying the flag who suicide bombs "poor peaceful protestors" in NYC.
It splurges all over the "brave and selfless" journalists standing up for Democracy no matter the personal costs. Fuck them. Show me those "journalists" actually exist anywhere but in a movie.
Im not saying the subject and story doesn't have the potential to be a great movie. I'm saying this was a shit version.
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Rajaah
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Ya know in retrospect I agree. For the most part it seemed like the movie wasn't telling you whose side anyone was actually on (which I appreciated as a commentary on the fog of war and so forth) but mulling over it now, it did give things away. The guys with rainbow hair were good (or at least not evil), the safe camp where they find refuge is covered in grafitti (very much representative of CHAZ/CHOP or anything antifa got their mitts on), the most glamorous (in presentation) fighter in the movie is the Mexican guy mowing down white dudes with a machine gun, and the scariest people are all WV rednecks. The best scene in the movie was red sunglasses guy and his "what kind of American?" attitude. The fact that the characters didn't know what to tell him (i.e. which side he was on) was a good example of the movie trying to stay neutral. However most of the people in his corpse pile were minorities.
So on the surface the movie tries to remain as neutral as possible, but under the surface it's full of subliminals that steer you towards who is what. Also the president "having journalists shot because he considers them enemy combatants" was telling.
The journalists in the movie are beyond idealized, running in front of literal enemy fire to get photographs of events. Most of our actual "journalist class" have never been anywhere near a war zone and are nothing more than talking heads paid to read a script, but a lot of young people probably don't know the difference.
Probably gonna downgrade this one to a 5/10 after further rumination. At least it was shot very well and it managed to capture the chilling nature of the conflict.
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We recently watched Godfather 1 and 2. Both good movies. Surprised how well they held up. 2 was a little harder to follow. I know I saw at least one of them when I was young and thought it was boring and dumb. I just wasn't ready for it.
We started 3 and got about 30 minutes in. It is not on the same level as the first 2. Is 3 the one everyone hates? We will probably try it again in a week or so. I did like that crazy nephew and the reporterette he was banging.
We started 3 and got about 30 minutes in. It is not on the same level as the first 2. Is 3 the one everyone hates? We will probably try it again in a week or so. I did like that crazy nephew and the reporterette he was banging.
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Yes 3 is supposed to be awful.
With that said I've never seen any of them.
With that said I've never seen any of them.
It almost seems like it's too on the nose but it came out almost 30 years prior to cp2077. Reeves in both of them, japs the main evil mega corp, both have rogue blonde ai women.
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This was pretty bad but almost in an endearingly good way. Almost. The best part was Fred Durst showing up and playing himself. 5/10 is fair but it is a cheesy 5/10, not straight trash 5/10.
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That's an odd co-incidence, my brother in law is well know for having zero interest in films. But he expressed an interest in the Godfather so we put that on and he was able to stay around and watch it. He later said he liked it, that's a big positive review there.
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A comedian once said you buy the Godfather box set, watch 1 & 2 as they are the greatest movies ever made (in my personal top 10) and do coke on the disc for 3.
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I actually thing GF2 AND The Empire Strikes Back are the only movies better than their freshman movie. TESB is my personal #1.
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Terminator 2 and Aliens are in that debate as well. Coincidentally both James Cameron.
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