"How do you do that with your voice?" :D :D
mmaculate is a very good horror film. Great cinematography and soundtrack. Sydney Sweeney gives a great performance with a particularly striking finish.
Well, this was a surprise. I've long since grown bored of nun and religious horror, but Immaculate was genuinely enjoyable. It didn't go as hard as it could have, but it went hard enough to be satisfying.
Repairing a power armor component only costs 5 caps? I feel so ripped off right now.
Disappointed that the intro doesn't begin with "war, war never changes". (Update: nvm, just keep watching :)
Saw a clip on YouTube and was like wow that looks decent.... one of the best shows I have been watched... It has action..comedy..heart...great characters.. top notch entertainment
Why are they flanderizing Lucy each episode more and more with her annoying, self-centeredness and neuroticism?
Why are they dragging out this Oscar sideplot? Just to keep that shady red haired lawyer in the show? No one cares about Oscar at this point. He was fun back then now he is overstaying his welcome in this show, even if he is only mentioned.
Why are they rushing the one thing that pretty much ruins every show with Nolan and Bailey suddenly getting baby fever? To give more screen time to our Superwoman character and one dimensional actress Dewan? She's by far the weakest character in this show. She needs less screen time, not more.
Why is Juarez stumbling through her job for the past several episodes without any actual repercussions?
Everything in this episode was just patched together to fill an episode, nothing more. Not even in a good way.
Ohh.... What!
Awe... Ahhh...
OHH... W. T. F**K
There HAS to be a Season 4
(Why we only got 8 episodes this season 'Is Some Bullshit!)'
Not a single person in this movie behaved like a person would if such thing happened in real life.
The film has one decent scene. The rest is kinda boring.
ranjit's actor's monologue about the war was incredible tbh
What a terrible way to send off Luca. Killed by a random nobody out of nowhere. Why bother bringing him back just to kill him off like that?
They really should disable voting and commenting until a movie / TV show does release.
So, a young man wants to know something about a certain video game and he goes to the book store to buy a book about this game, in 2023? Right, that sounds like a very realistic situation.
Otherwise, it's a typical cliche teenage romantic movie, with a bit of a charm to it.
Poor Things is very pretty, I’ll give it that much. Colors pop, and the watercolor, blurry sky and the scaling but condensed environments of Lisbon and Alexandria both convey the miasma of Bella’s mind quite well. How the background blurs in our young memories and how we remember all the buildings and places that looked large over us but so rarely the walks to them. Those work for me. So much of the rest of the film doesn’t.
I see what it’s going for- it’s hard not to. A journey of womanhood through the conceit of a child’s brain in a woman’s body, when women are treated as children and property to begin with. But it’s so fucking weird, with that conceit, to devote so much time to sex. Sex is an important part of being human for many people, I’m not denying that. But the attention it gets here throughout compared to brief, paltry scenes of Bella reading, seeking knowledge, having an interest in medical science and surgery is disproportional. Especially when the film wants to play her coming home and following in Godwin’s footstep as a culmination of her journey when it’s a facet of the film that barely gets any play in comparison. Angelica Jade Bastien, whose Variety review you should all read, brings up how in a film ostensibly about a cis woman and her relationship with her body menstruation does not come up once. It’s so telling where the film’s true focus lies.
And yes, sex can be beautiful, and conversely so can sex scenes. But the ones here are done dispassionately yet voyueristically. There’s no interiority, no sensuality, no sense of emotion and character felt through them. Compared to films like The Handmaiden they are sterile in heart if not content. It’s a big swing to go from black and white to color, and I can see sex being the impetus for it, sure, but when it’s done like this I don’t buy it. It’s interesting to me that her first time having sex is portrayed like this, with penetration until the man comes, thrice over, and yet her first time with cunnilingus is off screen. I feel like all the sex in this film is similarly narrow and lifeless.
None of what this film is trying to say is new, but much of it is muddled. It wants to rail against the entitlement of men, how they see women as property, how they want them to be exciting and adventurous but only in service of them. And yet it gives Max no grief at all for falling in love with. A child. Literal child, this is not a metaphor, it’s a child’s brain. And marrying her but refusing to have sex with her until marriage because that would be taking advantage, as if marriage would not be taking advantage and has not been used as the ultimate control. On some level the film condemns this, but only in the opposite direction, as part of Emily leaving Max is her frustration over not having sex. It’s baffling that the film seems to take the viewpoint that we ought to let children consent to sex with adults, that it is part of their development and journey to personhood. The film is similarly forgiving to Godwin, who used a woman’s body in a way she would very likely not have consented to all while the film extols a woman’s choice and ownership of her body.
Everything the film has to say about the nature of man and people, about women’s place in society, about sex work, etc, is rote. Nothing here is new, and nothing is heightened by the core conceit. It’s so surface level. And the cast is game enough. Dafoe is Dafoe and that’s always a good time, but I wouldn’t call this one of his greatest roles. Carmichael, much as I love his standup, just is not working here. Stone and Ruffalo are acting for the back seats, and while that has its moments of charm, it’s too much for most of the runtime. And Stone is just. She’s playing into ableist stereotypes for so much of this performance. The film drops the r slur and we’re just gonna pretend that Stone isn’t doing an insulting caricature at the same time? I don’t even want to delve into all the questions raised by the mental disability angle, others could do that better than me, but it’s another level of thoughtlessness and surface level depth.
The score is similarly cloying and overbearing. It insists on a scene rather than being a part of it. It doesn’t enhance it or complement it, it beats you over the head with how the scene is meant to make you feel. I could enjoy the sound of it in isolation, but as a score it’s distracting more than anything else. It’s a bit surprising to me how much this film has been praised as outside of the production design, I don’t see it. I just don’t. For me, this is as much a misfire as Barbie, if not more. Poor things.
If you're looking for a cure for horniness then you've found it with this stunningly boring nonsense. Not even Emma Stone can save it.
TL;DR: Deceivingly good trailer, shit movie.
It pains me to write a review like this when I'm a fan of Cavill, Cena and Jackson.
The writer and director just couldn't make up their mind what kind of movie it is supposed to be. They could've gone for: 1) light-hearted spy movie with a few clichéd plot points 2) romance 3) 'normal' type of comedy 4) 'absurd' type of comedy. They went for all 4.
The plot didn't make sense, and they were more concerned with making fun and cool moments rather than a cohesive film. Here's some examples:
Why was Argyle being all seductive to Ellie in her 'hallucinations', if it was just her own subconscious trying to bring back her memory? Why was Aiden shown as Argyle if it was really Ellie herself? When the oil skating scene was over all I could think of was why weren't her knees covered in oil?
The CGI was terrible. Dua Lipa clearly never touched the accelerator on her bike. Even the server room looked bad.
This episode had to be, the best episode I have seen. I've watched SWAT for years, the story line, acting, just outstanding
They all hate each other :skull: this rocks
What a terrible episode. One of the worst casts I have ever seen. Was a huge struggle to get thru this garbage.
Great episode!!! extra star because Pete Davidson wasn’t in it
I never thought they could make a 2 hour movie with Emma Stone in multiple sex scene's this bad, but they did.
I guess the bending looks better than the movie… but that’s as much good as I can say about this. Let Avatar be the ultimate example of why animation should be a respected form of media and that not every animation needs a live action.
It is as if the dumb kid copying the exam of the smart kid and doing it poorly. It lacks everything good the original had.
"Coming through, buddy" :police_officer:♀:grin:
"I have been robbed twice' Haverford, Tom
[7.8/10] I love all the moving parts of this one, and how the episode ties together the budding relationship between Leslie and Dave and Leslie’s responsibilities as a beauty pageant judge.
After agreeing to go on a date with Dave, Leslie starts to demur when she realizes that he doesn’t know who Madeline Albright is (humorously thinking she’s Leslie grandma), and wonders if the two of them share the same values.
Then she goes to judge a beauty pageant, and there’s Trish, the bubbly, airheaded “hot one” whom everyone on the judges panel loves, and Susan, the accomplished, smart, but plainer contestant who only Leslie seems to appreciate. Despite Leslie’s attempts to 12 Angry Men her fellow jurors, Leslie loses out to Tom’s horndoggery and the rest of the panel giving into Trish’s sparkly, xenophobic presentation. There’s a great deal of potent commentary there about how women are judged or overlooked, and it manages to be quite funny as well.
The B-plot sees Mark coming over to Ann’s to fix her shower, and Ann discovering that Andy lives in the pit. I like that Ann is frustrated but Mark is sympathetic to Andy, and convinces her to bring him in. It’s the start of Andy being gormless but ultimately sweet when he’s that excited about seeing her, and you can see the show beginning to transition him into something a little nicer. (Though I’ll admit, I’m probably retroactively applying the character he’d become to the character he was at this point of the show.) There’s also a surprisingly nice comic dynamic with the three of them in the same room together.
We also get our first April subplot, with her starting to be developed a bit more. Her attempts to do the beauty pageant thing are hilarious, and the fact that she quits when she learns the prize is only $600 in gift cards that will defray the cost of a fence is perfect.
But what’s more perfect is that even when Leslie is a bit resigned at how things went at the pageant, Dave shows up. And after an evening when everyone was fawning over Trish because she’s bright and bubbly despite her being empty-headed and pandering, Dave just wants to be straight with Leslie and barely even notices Trish. Leslie sees that he does share her values, and him learning the names of all the female leaders pictured on Leslie’s bookshelf is the icing on the cake. It’s elegant emotional and character material, and I just love how it comes together.
SPOILERS FOR MUCH LATER IN THE SERIES. DO NOT READ THE BELOW UNLESS YOU’VE AT LEAST SEEN THROUGH SEASON 4
Leslie and Ben are one of my all time favorite television couples, and I wouldn’t trade them on this show for anything. But man, there’s a part of me watching this season and wishing that we had gotten more of Leslie and Dave. Dave is just so adorable; Louis C.K. brings a distinct energy to the show, and Dave and Leslie’s chemistry is amazing. He really fit what the show was doing and where the character of Leslie Knope was at the time, and it’s a delight going back and seeing the two of them together.
