I watched Furiosa this past Tuesday. It was such a great movie, I loved every minute of it. The movie was nonstop action all the way through.
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I just got back from seeing Furiosa with my son. I love it, but he hasn’t seen Fury Road. Somehow, even though it was a prequel, I think he missed a lot of it because he hadn’t seen Fury Road. It was great, I thought.
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Been watching a lot of old soviet and Russian films. I’ve been sort of learning Russian and I love when words click:
Brother (1997) and the sequel Brother 2 (2000) - Both are really good and honestly quite wholesome. I like the lack of “emotional rollercoaster”. Things always improve or stay the same wrt to the main character’s “luck” or “performance”
Brother 2 feels like a Russian version of “coming to America”.
“Liberation” series- These are great “feel good” films. I like the sort of docudrama style where action on the ground is paired with real war footage and overviews of the action. Some of the action scenes are kind of corny but it is endearing. Reminds me of the old Chinese renditions of Journey to the West and I prefer the not so great tech to the recent video game style graphics.
I have qualifying exams coming up so my consumption Russian content and content about WWII has been high. I use this type of film for stress relief
Brother 1 and 2 are very different films - in the span of three years the political situation changed and consequently Brother 2 tone and message is very different from its predecessor.
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yeah, but I don’t mind it.
I really like the scene where he’s in the taxi in NY and realises that the complaints are similar
Unlike the first movie, in Brother 2 Danila cannot kill the main antagonist. The American dude is a made guy, even if he’s the “enemy” - mobsters are aristocracy and therefore off limits for serfs like Danila, much like in Tsarist times. A serf can confront enemy aristocrats (mobsters) only indirectly by fighting their proxies from “inferior” races and ethnicities on behalf of his feudal lord(s).
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I hadn’t thought about it that way
The anti Ukrainian sentiment was weird. I still really liked the movie though
My kid and I went to see the Deadpool vs Wolverine movie yesterday. I feel like they didn’t really make the movie to appeal to aging gen-x men who never got into comic books. I was confused by a lot of the jokes and the film was gay in the kind of over-the-top way that’s annoying to me no matter what someone likes to do with their dick.
Watching this film made me feel old, out-of-touch and unnecessarily cranky. This is the second Marvel movie I’ve seen in the last five years or so and I was once again disappointed that Gandalf didn’t make an appearance. There was at least some decent Jedi combat with the French guy and his purple lightsaber.
I saw it the other week and I would agree with you about the repetitive dick jokes, the overplayed bits (that disgusting looking dog they kept including), and the thin to non-existent “plot”, if you could call it that.
However, I didn’t go into it thinking I was going to see an epic film like a Lord of the Rings or something grand, I knew what I signed up for; two hours to be entertained, laugh, and to NOT think about the political shitstorm going on in this country for a little while. So, I guess to that end, mission accomplished.
In addition, and this was hilarious, my wife bought our tickets and she thought she had done good by getting us the 3D tickets, which I was pretty “meh” about. When we get into the theatre, I see these weird looking seats grouped in double pairs (4 seats right together) that are raised up from the floor, with somewhat narrow seats with no raiseable armrests, and as I squeezed my large self it, thought “goddammit, this is gonna be miserable!”. Then the movie starts playing and as I put my 3D glasses on, the fucking seats start moving up and down, shaking, pulsing, like we’re at a Universal studios theme park! I was like WTF is going on? LOL, I asked my wife what kind of tickets she bought and she said “well, it said 4D actually but I thought that was just even better than 3D”. Yeah, after looking at the tickets on her phone she had bought tickets to the 4D experience showing-- with moving, bucking seats that also blow air burst by your face when things like bullets whiz by and there are also water-misting fans that line the ceiling that blow water on you whenever water is encountered by the characters onscreen (and no, they don’t soak you or anything). I have to admit, I had a blast! I really enjoyed it and it was cool during all the fight scenes to feel the action, and shit there were some events onscreen that made the seats move so violently that I thought I was on a rodeo electronic bull; hell I almost even fell outta the chair on several occasions. I also managed to get popcorn thrown all over me, her, and everywhere else.
But for 2 hours or so, we actually really enjoyed ourselves. When we left (since we obviously couldn’t talk during the loud movie), I hesitantly asked my wife “well…what did you think about that whole fiasco (thinking she hadn’t like it)?” and to my surprise, she said that shit was awesome, I can’t wait to watch another action movie like that!
So, that was experience with the Deadpool Wolverine movie. It was exactly what you would expect going into it: nobody was going to win an Oscar, your brain would never be challenged, but you were going to see a lot of blood, action, bad language, and jokes (some hilarious, other not so much). I would recommend this movie to anyone who would enjoy the items I listed in my previous sentence and anyone who, like us, actually ENJOY R rated movies and seeing things in movies that are “graphic/adult”. It feels like the movie studios have really cut down on releasing R rated movies because I’m sure the greedy fucks think that they can’t sell as many tickets because kids/families. But this Deadpool movie I’ve read is now the highest grossing R rated movie of all time–so I guess there are many other people like us who are more enticed to see a movie rated R vs P-fucking G.
Oh I get what it was trying to do and it definitely was a cheese-filled beat-em-up that surely would have been more coherent to me if I had watched more than three or four Marvel films, read comic books or stayed remotely current on popular trends.
It’s almost like they weren’t making this film for guys like me at all, which I would normally take personally if a certain 1990’s action legend didn’t make a cameo. I was also glad to hear a jiu jitsu joke, which I think are far too underrepresented in film and music today.
My son really liked it so I liked going there with him.
This is how I saw it too. I almost got motion sickness the first time they were driving around. But it was a fun experience.
I’m not a comic book guy, but I like Deadpool. I’m Gen X and I do think it’s funny. Also, it made fun of the stupid-ass multiverse bullshit that is just lazy writing. Nothing matters in a multiverse cause there’s always another universe where it’s different. Bullshit.
I like some fourth wall-breaking, self-deprecating humor in my movies, but it was a little over-the-top for my taste and I also lacked all of the backstory about the multiverses to begin with. Parallel timelines seem like a crappy idea likely borne out of cash grabbing and lazy writing, so I suppose it deserves to be mocked.
For well-done self-deprecating humor in film, I present two examples.
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We went to go see Beatlejuice Beatlejuice tonight and I thought it was entertaining and fun. It seemed like it was in keeping with the spirit of the original, which I last saw when it was in theaters.
I found myself genuinely upset whenever Jenna Ortega was mistreated on screen. I believe that impure thoughts might be at the root of my impulses to protect her, but she’s on the wrong side of the 1/2 your age + 7 rule so I had to remember that it’s just a movie and I should share these thoughts here, not with my companion.
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I have a Wolverine poster personally done for me by a Marvel illustrator
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Please show it.
Glad this popped back up. I watched;
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. The best part of the movie was the synthesizer track that played over the opening credits.
Day of the Dead(1985). I hate zombie junk, despite that this was surprisingly good! Small cast and just a couple locations made for a tight story. Special effects were great. I liked it so much I dug up a low definition edition Romero’s OG version of Dawn of the Dead with commercials.
Salem’s Lot (2024). Nothing special. Good enough that I watched the whole thing. One of the heroes was a young kid being chased by kid vampires and my little daughter loved that.
You gonna get it framed?
Eventually. I have a ton of art / paintings / antiques / masks / military and police stuff
