I’m hoping it won’t so DC still gives future filmmakers more creative freedom. But I’m still going to call it what it is: mediocre film.
I watched Yakuza Apocalypse by Takashi Miike and I think something inside of me died.
Starting at :42, this is the most moving and touching speech I have heard.
Congrats to the Jacoocoo tho.
Then this at :29 seconds, :45 and :57 cracked me up. Everyone’s dressed like they’re at the opera and Eminem is rapping ‘Lose Yourself’, with old people shocked, nervously bopping and totally rocking out.
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I watched Parasite.
such story. very skill. much motif. so meaning. WOW! 9.5/10
If Todd Philips was a good director(good as in “worthy of nomination for best director good”), Joker would have looked something like this.
I checked out box office mojo today. Either there are some serious typos in the international box section, or they’re fucking with the numbers lol!
I just saw birds of prey… I didn’t want to believe what you’re initial statement read… but after seeing it I give it an even more critical review comparative to the way you saw it
It was terrible… firstly, the music choice/score, I can’t stand the current music being employed within film to cater towards this current generation… that “hit me with you’re best shot” song… sucked in the movie, the original (1980) was actually somewhat catchy, this variant took away everything catchy and had the singer repeat “hit me with you’re best shot” about 50 times… without guitar… or anything that made the initial song NOT suck so hard
Secondly, the way the story was told… it reminded me of the way my mind functions at times (regarding how it’s all over the place, going a million miles per minute). To construct a film under this pretense of thinking is terrible… I understand they were trying to portray Harley Quinn… as well… Harley Quinn… but it comes across to me as disorganised and incoherent
Thirdly, the fight scenes, this is an issue I take up with many superhero films… if the character doesn’t have superpowers, I don’t want to see him/her take out a room full of goons like it’s nothing, I’m aware film doesn’t attempt to replicate reality (because come on… reality sucks) but at least try sprinkle in a slight sense of feasibility/realism… a 110lb female (or even 250lb agile man) CAN’T take out a room full of guys (or girls) it’s illogical
However the “Black Betty” scene was neat
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Lol I was actually giving it a lot of leeway because it was mildly entertaining when you don’t look at the technical stuff.
They were trying to do a Kill Bill. You can’t do a Tarantino knockoff without understanding the source material HE was knocking off in the first place.
You know how many references to movies around the globe from multiple eras there were in Kill Bill? This was just one scene from Kill Bill Vol. 1.
This is the scene where The Bride gets her sword from the Japanese sword maker, who was previously Bill’s master.
You see the Chinese words(I don’t know if it’s the same words in Japanese but whatever) on the banner? It was a reference to a high budget arthouse Hong Kong flick directed by Wong Kar Wai named Ashes of Time, which borrowed characters and some stuff from a classic wuxia novel called “The Eagle Shooting Heroes”.
It wasn’t a very good movie but it was interesting because no one had ever seen anything like it before. Half the theater walked out within the first hour when I watched it in the cinema. I write it off as a very ambitious failure.
The words on the banner are the name of a “special” wine in the Ashes of Time.
2 guys in the “martial arts world”(which means people have superhero levels of fighting powers. Like in Kill Bill. And John Wick lol.) have the hots for a girl but they can never have her for certain reasons.
The 1st guy is the guy she really likes but can’t be with. The 2nd guy is like a beta orbiter. Both guys live separate lives, and far away from her. The 2 guys meet once a year because the 2nd guy brings him information about her at her request.
It’s some kind of Buddhist metaphysical hell; a state of limbo and repetition.
Finally, the hot chick sends the first guy the special wine, which is delivered to him by the 2nd guy. It’s supposed to make anyone who drinks it lose his memory of whatever was causing him pain, i.e, to make this guy forget about her.
The 2nd guy drinks it and leaves with his memory of her erased. He leaves the “martial arts world” and lives on an island in seclusion.
The first guy drinks it and declares that she played a joke on him because “the more you try to forget something, the more you will remember it”.
He then proceeds to channel his emotional pain into conquering the “martial arts world” by challenging all the martial arts masters to duels and killing them.
Which brings into question whether the 2nd guy really forgot about her, or he’s just decided suppress his pain and live in denial.
Which is pretty much what The Bride and the Japanese dude are going through at this point in the movie. He lives in seclusion, having retired from the “martial arts world”. She’s about to go on a bloodbath. Both of their paths cross because of Bill.
THIS IS THE LEVEL OF DETAIL Tarantino puts into his movies even when he knows the main audience isn’t going to get it. I’ll bet you that you won’t find what I just wrote anywhere else on the internet. But anyone can still enjoy the movie without ever knowing this shit.
You can’t just lift some elements from his movies and try to put your own spin on them because they are constructed with so many layers of stuff that people don’t notice. But they subconsciously know something is missing when this stuff isn’t there. It’s only the fucking critics who think they’re a lot smarter than the audience who don’t get it because they already think they know so much film theory.
You know what Wong Kar Wai said in an interview when he was asked about what he would say to film students studying his films?
“Stop over-analysing and go watch MORE movies.”
I’m cool with this as long as they make it “look” possible(in a cinematic way). I can go along with it. But that would require:
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Talented filmmakers.
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Female characters taking lots of hits and ending up bruised and bleeding, and the twitter loons will start screaming about encouraging violence against females.
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Holy shit dude.
On a separate note:
I saw a headline describing Once Upon a Time In Hollywood as torture porn for men. Made me laugh - one hippy’s kinda flirtatious and a few people get attacked by a dog. Not my idea of porn, but hey
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I liked it quite a bit.
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Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it
I’m having déjà vu…
Guess Flap’s kind of a freak in the sheets.
The movie? Me too - I just found some people’s opinions regarding it laughable.
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Yes. Even the songs were legit Manson songs. Tarantino is a cunt but great film
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Altered Carbon season 2 was meh.
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I knew it was going to be. I loved the first season, and read all this stuff about how the creator of the show had a vision where they could just put Takeshi in anyone’s body and have any actor play him in any season, and I knew it was gonna be lame.
I rented Doctor Sleep (sequel to the Shining) a week ago and kept putting off watching it because it’s 2.5 hours and I didn’t have enough time to watch it any night. Watched it tonight with the wife. It was fucking righteous. Disturbing, terrifying, mesmerizing, gut-wrenching horror. Not cheap bullshit make-you-jump thrills, true horror. A continual sense of dread from beginning to end.
I read the book years ago, didn’t remember most of it, fortunately.
9/10. Watch this movie. Perhaps watch the shining leading up to it- I had seen it within the past few years and it was enough to explain a lot of it. You could theoretically watch the sequel as a stand-alone but there are a lot of references that wouldn’t make sense.
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Well, technically that is the entire point of the technology.
I gave up midway because I found I liked Joel Kinnaman’s portrayal of Takeshi and not Byron Mann’s portrayal.
I loved the book. Vintage King imo.
I remember enjoying it, just lost a lot of the plot besides the alcoholism thing (not giving anything worthwhile away here). Made for a more enjoyable experience than the time I watched my one and only GoT episode with some friends and it was the red wedding episode, and everyone was just so horrified, and I was like “yeah, not that surprised, this was in the books”. I make it a point to attempt to judge movies that have been adapted from books as completely separate works of art from the books they were adapted from, but it’s usually an exercise in futility. It was nice to jump into this with a distant memory of the book, and as I watched it, I noticed that the film was not far off how I had imagined the book in the first place. Seriously cannot recommend this movie more.
I know that’s the point of the technology, but the question is - is the flexibility to play any actor as the protagonist thereafter a convenient result of the technology, or was it written in such a way that it used that plot point to justify playing any actor as the protagonist? I liked Joel Kinnaman a lot. He still played a more pivotal role than Byron Mann when all was said and done at the end of the first season. I just didn’t harbor any high hopes when I saw that Anthonie Mackie was going to play Tak.