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Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| February 2017
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this is funny because my Gf and I are marathoning Community.
George Oscar Bluth II
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Hah, I've been marathoning the first 3 seasons the past week because Netflix UK are removing the show.
Cripplegate
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I've been debating whether or not to watch S4 of Community. Like, it's on Netflix, and it's only 13 episodes... but it sucks, right? I feel pretty content with my memories of S1-3.
My personal opinion here, but I honestly only laughed once, and it was at the most obvious joke.
The origin of "Pop Pop!"
HitchcockInTheZiplock
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That's a damn fine list of recs, and also very serious. I know I'm late to the convo, and wasn't asked, but I'd also like to add The Loved Ones, May, Triangle, Snowtown Murders, Behind the Mask, Orphan, VHS (2), Funny Games, Eden Lake, Lovely Molly, I Sell the Dead, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Oculus, Hush, The Revenant (2009), Ginger Snaps, Wolf Creek (2), Cold Prey (2), Dead Snow 1 and 2, Bedevilled, Cold Fish, Confessions, and Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead.
I with you on that. Always loved Hard Boiled since a kid, but I got The Killer like a year ago, and really fell in love with it over the former. Hard Boiled has the better characters I think, but the action in The Killer is the best Woo has ever done imo.
Watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning on netflix. Felt more like a modern Wrong Turn film. Seriously ironic. The first remake wasn't bad, so this follow up was a definite disappointment. I don't think the over the top gore of say TCM 2, mixed with a serious in tone story of the first TCM. Maybe it was just bad writing. The ending was just dumb shit. It sacrifices any logic just to confirm that Leatherface is a hulking badass, and the family cannot be fucked with, so stay tuned for the sequel! Meh.
Also got my blu of Riki-Oh. Had to watch it immediately, it's been a few years. I wish I lived in a world where everyone saw this movie lol. For those who like anime, martial arts, over the top gore and effects, or just bad taste movies in general. This is probably the most tame action in the movie. Edit: Oh, actually forgot this movie actually has Phillip Kwok aka Mad Dog from Hard Boiled.
Messofanego
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Speaking of action movies, Jacobus (the Rope a Dope and Rope a Dope 2 guy) released another short, Blindsided.
It's pretty good, and decent action comedy is hard to come by.
It's pretty good, and decent action comedy is hard to come by.
near
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A Cure for Wellness
I liked it. A Cure for Wellness is absolutely nuts, but that's exactly what I expected from Verbinski. It's full of red herrings and layers that encourage misdirection, and while that's not a good thing entirely, Verbinski doe's an excellent job of uncovering the veil in the final act. The aesthetics are brilliant giving A Cure for Wellness the feeling of a lucid dream/nightmare, were at times you're left unsure what's real and what's not. It's visually gorgeous and the cinematography takes a clear nod at classic horrors. The story is sort of made up of three parts, for me I like how it all ties together and the ending was satisfying, again for me, but I can also appreciate where the complaints stem from. The story is so bonkers that I couldn't possibly expect more from it. This might be one of the very few Verbinski films I will appreciate.
4/5
I liked it. A Cure for Wellness is absolutely nuts, but that's exactly what I expected from Verbinski. It's full of red herrings and layers that encourage misdirection, and while that's not a good thing entirely, Verbinski doe's an excellent job of uncovering the veil in the final act. The aesthetics are brilliant giving A Cure for Wellness the feeling of a lucid dream/nightmare, were at times you're left unsure what's real and what's not. It's visually gorgeous and the cinematography takes a clear nod at classic horrors. The story is sort of made up of three parts, for me I like how it all ties together and the ending was satisfying, again for me, but I can also appreciate where the complaints stem from. The story is so bonkers that I couldn't possibly expect more from it. This might be one of the very few Verbinski films I will appreciate.
4/5
I'm hoping you can combine these two with Logan, assuming it's as good, to make a cogent enough trilogy for future generations to ignore all the other films.
Atraveller
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Mine never had it to begin with. Not even TV is playing it.
Is there a deadline?
George Oscar Bluth II
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Alien 3...might be worse than Resurrection? Take away the underdeveloped prison monks concept and it's just the shitty slasher version of Alien. The digital effects and the practical puppet are godawful, the xeno's size and features and color drastically change from shot to shot and half the time it looks like it's floating across the screen. Meanwhile Ripley's arc is basically a watered down mashup of her arcs in Alien and Aliens.
You haven't seen s4-6 at all? Because while 4 is rough, 5 and 6 are pretty great. Inferior to 1-3, certainly, but overall funny and exciting.
Well, if you go about it like that.
I wish the movie was all about the space prison planet of people just abandoned to themselves.
Hah well they make it easy to do! Even in the assembly cut where their religion gets more focus, you never get more than a superficial sense of who the characters are. Would truly be better it had been just them, proper character development would've been necessary. Their religion could've come to mean something, why each of them decided to stay behind and why they ended up there in the first place might have been explored and their slaughter might have meant something as a result. Instead they're fodder for the tracking slasher-cam.Well, if you go about it like that.
I wish the movie was all about the space prison planet of people just abandoned to themselves.
Fancy Clown
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I liked the setting a lot, but yeah it's definitely not as developed as it could be. The Alien parts of the movie are by far the worst too, totally tensioless. which renders the last act kind of a slog. But I think despite its messier elements it's still pretty good. It's a pretty good looking movie, I thought thematically it was pretty cohesive about how Ripley has to come to terms with death, and it's got some good side characters like Charles Dance and Charles Dutton. I admire how dedicated it is to its bleak meditation on death and finding meaning in it, I know a lot of people can't get over how casually it kills off Hicks and Newt but in the context of the story it works.
It's a big step down from 1&2 but I think it's far better than all the films that have come after it even with its whack-ass faults.
Infernostew
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