Uneven, but gripping nonetheless.
Jake Gyllenhaal was fine. Dar Salim was amazing.(In case it's driving you crazy too: Parker is Homelander. I had to look it up :joy:)
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@hgram i don't even remember seeing him. I just saw the movie like 1 hour ago. LOL
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Ok - so there's good news and bad news about this one.
The bad first. I personally am very tired of the shaky-cam shtick. It's over-used and just plain annoying. Just cut it out already. A lot of the drone footage might make some people queezy. It did me, and i don't get motion sick. There is nothing but wall-to-wall action here. Like zero downtime. I know, some might see that as a good thing.
Now the good. Wowza! Non-stop action. Is the whole movie far-fetched, unbelievable, fantastical? Yes - but that's what makes it so much fun. This movie is like if Jason Bourne and John Wick had a baby and then we tossed in a bunch of zombies as well. It's that kind of frenetic. I would say that like 90% of the stunts/effects are practical (RL) with very little CGI in there. The whole thing is shot in such a way that it looks and feels like it is one continuous shot (which is not an easy thing to do).
The Koreans are truly becoming one of the leading story-tellers in movies and TV.How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
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@schmoogie wall to wall BORING action. this movie is a piece of shi.
I didn't realize this was a Predator movie the first time I saw the poster and thought this was some random horror movie but the positive buzz certainly didn't pass me by so here we are again. After watching it I'm certainly... shocked?
From the get go this did very little to pull me in, be it the CG animals, one-dimensional plot or the the selfish attitude of our heroine. Now obviously one can argue how much that all matters when the action is good but it didn't really scratch that itch for me either... the Predator fighting with the animals was certainly entertaining but random guys biting the bullet with mostly offcam/unclear CG gore not so much. Would have been nice if they showed some wits when they fought him at the camp but somehow him going invisible is enough reason to lower their weapons and start talking to each other. She saw how the camouflage works multiple times in action already..?!!
What all those scenes, and the movie poster for that matter, certainly established, is that our protagonist has little to worry and that a showdown was coming but I would never have predicted the amounts of bullshit that would contain:
- Somehow becomes a baller and expert in alien technology. Knows when the Predator is coming, takes her magic herbs to immediately lower her blood temperature (but is not shivering and still standing up) and is in the Predators path who obviously doesn't see a standing corpse right in front of it or notices her moving out of the way...
- Never used the gun but knows the right angle to shoot and remove his mask (betting on this being a weakness when this did little to stop it before).
- Gets to conveniently escape for the n-th time and has enough time to finish up some traps (which the Predator even hit on some random tree lol).
- Gets hit to the head twice from the shield that cut through the Predators limbs, spear and even stone but is unscathed.
- Can easily remove a fang attached to it's face to save herself just in time.
- GPS dog that always magically reappears is ready to bring her the tomahawk...
- Manages to sit on top of the Predator and even pull him into the bog with a tiny rope and a much much smaller statue.
- The Predator obviously submerges immediately, but little does it know of her the grand plan to have him placed at that exact LOS of the mask in anticipation that he is gonna fire from his gun (despite not having had his mask for the whole time) while he is already targeted by the laser the entire time... b r a v o. Obviously that one shot was also enough to kill it.
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@sp1ti you need to calm down bruh!
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Did you all give high ratings to make a point? Half way through the movie I could not keep my eyes open. Seriously... 8.7 / 10 in IMDB. Crazy!
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@mrbuerger you mean anesthesia? It put me to sleep :sleeping: :zzz: :sleepy:
Is Jackass Forever a stupid film? Of course it is.
Is Jackass Forever a very much needed slap in the ossified sensibilities of the postmodernist film world? Absolutely.
Jackass could be a perfectly valid, critically acclaimed piece of performance art and avant-garde filmmaking, post-structuralist and "beyond the tight confines of the oppression of plot and narrative"... if it were to be made by moustache-twirling hipsters in chequered socks and braces.
While it might not be intentionally so (especially in the start of the Jackass franchise, but perhaps less now), its mere existence is an affront to the systemic adulation of relativism, which is keenly employed to mask the incompetence that inevitably comes after a few decades of the complete abandonment of skill, beauty and the sublime. If everything is relative, and there are no standards of beauty, why isn't a middle-aged man bouncing around in a chemical toilet, truly beautiful? And who is anyone to judge otherwise?
And since Jackass is comedy, but not satire, it leaves absolutely zero space for pointing fingers and whataboutisms. Who can really be offended with a bunch of dudes who put themselves to complete torture just to have a few cheap laughs? Even worse, who can really be offended on their behalf?
But still, Jackass offends. It offends by its relentless freedom, by its sheer energy, its virility which is disproportionate for the age of the people behind it. It offends not because it is bad, because of course it is, but because it does not pretend to be otherwise.
I would like to live in a world that I didn't like Jackass Forever so much.
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@reficulgr were you high when you wrote this?
The real question is why the hell did the guy charge money for snacks at the white house?
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@sagar_uchiha it's a power move.
A bit slow, a bit dark and a bit confusing, not bad but not as good as the series. One question, why are the poor people always have to have dirty faces all the time, the water was free :)
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@lat try to work day and night to see if you have time to wash your face!
If i had to sum this movie up with one word.
Boring!
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@mediacenterkodi one word... TIHS
This was extremely boring and dull.
Alexandra Daddario’s character is annoying and frustrated me so much. There didn’t seem to be an answer for why she acts the way she does.
I can not recommend this movie :sleeping::sleeping:
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@olivewahh Depression. Nothing to hold on too. The only bad thing about this movie is not seeing enough of her tits.
The Assistant was one of the movies I was most excited to see at Sundance.
I went in with the wrong expectations however, as the trailer and synopsis both seem to be selling it in a different light than what this was.
Julia Garner does a great job playing an assistant that grows increasingly aware of the situation she's working in. The movie takes place over a single day, but this is where it starts to lose me.
Typically slice of life movies are my thing, but something about The Assistant just really didn't deliver. I left the movie wanting a lot more than what I got, and about 2/3rds of the way through it really started to feel like it was dragging on. Even with a runtime of 85 minutes.
Overall, I think you could go in with the right expectations and you might enjoy it, but I'd have a hard time recommending people take the time out of their day to see it.
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@the_argentinian If his president can do it, then so can he.
The Assistant was one of the movies I was most excited to see at Sundance.
I went in with the wrong expectations however, as the trailer and synopsis both seem to be selling it in a different light than what this was.
Julia Garner does a great job playing an assistant that grows increasingly aware of the situation she's working in. The movie takes place over a single day, but this is where it starts to lose me.
Typically slice of life movies are my thing, but something about The Assistant just really didn't deliver. I left the movie wanting a lot more than what I got, and about 2/3rds of the way through it really started to feel like it was dragging on. Even with a runtime of 85 minutes.
Overall, I think you could go in with the right expectations and you might enjoy it, but I'd have a hard time recommending people take the time out of their day to see it.
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@jb4times4 So her boss messed around with chicks. What was her problem? I don't even understand what is the point of this movie.
This (science fiction) family drama is a slow burn with no burn. It's like reheating leftovers in the oven but not turning the heat on high enough even if you leave it in for two hours.
Proxima is the story of an astronaut who's also a mother and thus must also deal with female / maternal issues as she trains for a mission to Mars. I'm probably alone in this, but I left the cinema feeling the director wanted me to think being a mother makes a woman less qualified and too sensitive to be a good astronaut. This take-away made me very uncomfortable, despite the sideshow of actual women astronauts with their children that's shown during the credits.
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@saint-pauly I agree. It is a very stupid thing for her to do at the end. They were quarantined for a year and she ruined all that effort just a few hours before launch. I'm glad to see Eva's asset is still looking good after all these years though.
The first Ip Man is the best. This one is OK. Nobody will be as good Ip Man as Donnie.
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@konax you can't. I watched it in theater.
"Free Solo" is a spectacular achievement in storytelling, cinematography, and filmmaking. It expertly captures the pinnacle of Alex Honnold's accomplishments: his free-solo ascent of El Capitan. The film is absolutely worthy of a big-screen viewing!
I most enjoyed the way the creators captured the emotions of everyone involved in the climb. The main focus was naturally on Alex, but the movie also thoughtfully presented his girlfriend Sanni, his climbing partners, and the filmmakers themselves.
My main criticism: Certain words were censored via dubbing, and that yanked me out of those scenes. This was an emotional event - let the language flow freely!
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@valefox No kidding. Nobody under the age of 18 would sit through this movie. Censorship is getting out of hand.
