Blade 2 was great.
Hellboy was pretty good too.
Pan’s Labyrinth was fuckin phenomenal. He’ll always get cred just for that. But yeah, he’s not very consistent.
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Oh I don’t remember jack shit about the plot. I just shut my brain off and smile like an idiot while the monsters and robots smash each other.
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Yeah, I did that with Monster Hunter which made about as much sense so I have no leg to stand on here.
I like giant monsters fighting each other more than giant machines fighting each other. Yes, Optimus Prime going on a rampage and kicking ass is fun though.
There are certain scenes in KOTM that I really enjoy- chief among them Ghidora biting that power transformer (I assume), absorbing the electricity and blowing everything up with it. I enjoyed those specific scenes more than anything else in Godzilla vs Kong. It doesn’t help that I didn’t watch Godzilla vs Kong in theaters either, so less of a “wow!” factor.
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Ok, so I re-watched around half an hr of Godzilla KOTM last night and it was better than how I remembered it. I guess was sitting too close to the screen. It’s a lot better on the small screen. Or maybe I was laughing too hard after Ken Watanabe says, “No, WE become HIS pets.”. Da fuck.
It was the way the dialogue in the scene progressed, which was more or less similar to way events progressed and escalated throughout the movie. They start with a valid premise that opens the door to some interesting ideas and challenging questions and answers, then fuck it up in the dumbest way possible.
First one dumbass something says about them having to live with him like a new species and gives scorpions as an example during a hearing on whether the monsters should be destroyed, which was kinda silly but I can let that slide. Alright. That’s a legit discussion. Then the dumb fuck presiding over the hearing says, “So he becomes our pet?”, which leads to the aforementioned retort by the guy who was mainly in the previous movie to deliver exposition of the woo woo kind that was supposed to contrast with modern day culture and critique our supposedly distorted view of how the world - the natural order - works due to wars, commercialization and too rapid technological advancements.
I got the intent(in the previous movie) and thought that was a little too on the nose but accepted that it was pretty clever and would have add added nice balance if it were written a little better but the overall writing sucked as a whole but not to the point of complete absurdity except for everyone applauding Godzilla at the end. It’s like they thought the nonsensical ending made sense and went full retard in this one.
Marvel can just brush away all the Gods and superpowers and aliens and shit in ONE minor scene with ONE line where Thor tells Natalie Portman and the audience “Your ancestors called it “Magic” , but you call it “Science”. I come from a Land where they are one and the same.”. It’s that simple.
Some of the dialogue was legitimately intentionally funny, though. Like when the guy who lived in the same cabin as Tony Stark did in Endgame told everyone to stand down and one of the tech guys goes, " Oh yeah, sure, let’s bring him in for a beer! You outta your goddamn mind?" when Godzilla is first seen approaching them.
I think I was also laughing at the way they pronounced the China chick’s name. Why couldn’t they simply tell actors how to pronounce if they decide to give her that fucking name? It’s “Chen” which sounds like *“churn” with “r” silent. That’s it. Spell it differently on the script or just give her a name that everyone can pronounce. That’s MY surname in Mandarin ffs. They should just name every Chinese person “Lee” or “Wong” or "Wing. Who gives a shit? Just something easily pronounced phonetically which overlaps with the Chinese version(hanyu pinyin).
You know why it’s so hard to contact someone by phone in China? Because there’re so many Wings and Wongs every time you wing, you get the wong number. #canceldt79
Then Norma Bate’s mother decides to give a speech on bringing the world back to equilibrium or something that was so woo woo even Ken Watanabe couldn’t handle it and I laughed so hard again I almost had an asthma attack. It was the idea that they needed 2 Asians this time to handle all the woo woo being thrown around that was so funny lol. But I was too tired and I fell asleep a while later.
Watched Brahman Naman the other day
Crippling funny, don’t understand why it’s only got a 5.6/10 on IMDb
Sure, it’s not PC, it’s crass; but that’s the point. It’s a homage to the old “sex comedy” films that can’t really be released anymore in the midst of today’s cancel culture
They released a new American pie last year and it was GOD AWFUL!!!
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Is that a Bollywood movie? Never really got into them. I’ve only watched the old ones that were shown on TV and a couple of popular ones. You might enjoy Muna Bhai M.B.B.S if you dig them.
Don’t think so. It’s indian, but the dialogue is all english (original, not dubbed)
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Godzilla vs Kong
Saw it in IMAX. It was awesome. Watched it again with my kids on HBO two days later. It was…pretty good.
You get what you pay for with this one. Spend the extra money and see it in a theater on the biggest screen you can find. 8.5/10 in IMAX, 7/10 at home
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Took my wife to see this for her birthday. She didn’t like it very much. I thought it was pretty sweet. 8/10
He was so bad in Sons of Anarchy; literally the least-convincing tough guy in the history of modern entertainment. I have no idea why I liked that show so much.
I think if you didn’t like Pacific Rim then it’s because you didn’t see it on a big enough screen. In IMAX it felt like a ride at Universal Studios. I saw it twice. Then I watched it at home and could barely get through the first act. It’s an objectively terrible movie that can be insanely entertaining if all logical thought is blasted out of your noggin by Dolby digital sound and a screen that would dwarf a medium-sized office building.
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I don’t remember where I saw it, to be honest. Definitely not IMAX. That makes sense - I enjoyed Avatar in IMAX and then the next time I saw it, I couldn’t make it halfway through.
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He made David Beckham look like a tough guy while they were in the same scene together in that Arthur movie.
Me neither. I couldn’t get behind that show.
My wife just finished watching the whole series (again…) a few weeks ago. Every time I’d sit down to watch, all I could think about was that all the “protagonists” are criminals and when something bad happened, it was their own damn fault. Lost all interest pretty quickly.
Plus Charlie Hunnam is… not great and it really shows when he’s next to some of the stronger actors in that show.
I just found out - thanks to Guardian none the less - that there is a Russian made-for-TV version of Lord of the Rings from 1991 on Youtube. It’s called “the keepers” and this appears to be Part 1:
No English subtitles unfortunately.
On YT there are also Soviet Westerns that I watched as a kid, but unfortunately all without subtitles. I’m pretty sure @dt79 would find them interesting.
I’m referring to serious movies, not that East German Western trash with Dean “Red Elvis” Reed.
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Any recommendations? I definitely can’t watch them without subtitles. I’ll have to source for the DVDs or try to find them on one of my TV apps.
It’s interesting cos I actually just watched the original Django (1966) and it was awesome. Found it on TeaTV. I think I put off watching it for so long because it had a reputation for being an Italian schlock film and I’d seen enough crap already(amongst a couple of gems).
On a separate note, I watched half of Unhinged. Russell Crowe was actually acting in this one and he was great lol. Genuinely scary fucker. Will be watching the rest tonight.
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Do you want hilarious trash or good movies?
You have to understand that the Eastern Bloc produced their versions of everything - from Adventures of Tom Sawyer through Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to a surprisingly large number of Westerns.
For each Tarkovsky masterpiece there are hundreds of feature length movies that are almost unwatchable.
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Anything lol. I don’t care lol as long as it’s either a good movie or “good” trash. I’ve never watched any Russian flicks, but for Italian ones I loved Mario Bava’s classic Black Sunday, which was a legit work of art, and one of my favorite horror movies is his son’s, Lamberto Bava’s, trash classic Demons.
But I take it you have seen Tarkovsky? All of his movies are on YT with English subtitles, including Solaris and Stalker.
Edit: Will post recommendations tomorrow. I have to think a bit to determine which ones could be worth your time.
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Unfortunately, no. I’ve watched a lot of US, Italian and HK movies so I never really had the time to check out Russian ones.
Thanks, but it’s alright, just post a couple off the top of your head. I may not be able to find all of them anyway even if you recommend specific ones. Django wasn’t even available on Netflix in my region. I had to use an illegal app to find and watch it.