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Anyone seen any good movies lately?
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BossLackey
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I've seen the new Matrix... so no
The Matrix is my favorite movie and I was cautiously optimistic for the new one. I was enormously disappointed as you can imagine.
Evil Calvin
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I know the announcer here has narrarated trailers for years.....but it does NOT fit for this type of movie. At all.
AJUMP23
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I saw Transformers Rise of the Beast "This time all the whites are bad".
It was dumb. I will say it is really dumb, but better than some. I am just a sucker for the Peter Cullen Optimus Prime. Also there is a thing at the end of the movie that just made my jaw drop with laughter. Secret organization.
It was dumb. I will say it is really dumb, but better than some. I am just a sucker for the Peter Cullen Optimus Prime. Also there is a thing at the end of the movie that just made my jaw drop with laughter. Secret organization.
Muffdraul
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After I watched it, I thought, "I get it. Warner Bros went to the Wachowskis and said 'We want you to make Matrix 4.' The Wachowskis said 'No, we're not interested in doing that.' So WB said, 'Fine, we'll just make it without you then.' One of the Wachowskis shrugged 'fine, whatever' but the other one said, 'OK, OK, OK, I'll make Matrix 4. But you have to give me full control over it.' WB said, 'Sure.' Then then they got their revenge on WB by deliberately making the shittiest Matrix movie they could." It just seemed like that's literally what the plot was about.
P.S. The last movie I watched was Robin & Marian, about Robin Hood 20 years later (Sean Connery) returning from the Crusades and reuniting w/ Maid Marian (Audrey Hepburn.) From 1975 I think. I saw it once when I like 10 and always wanted to see it again. I enjoyed it as a kid, I think I enjoyed it much more now that I'm as old as Robin is supposed to be in it.
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Winter John
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It had been a long time since I last saw it. It stands up real well.
Burning Blade
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The Covenant: Lower budget Guy Ritchie movie with Jake Gyllenhal. Solid movie. Not amazing, but absolutely worth a watch now that it’s $6 to rent and not $20. Good performance by Dar Salim.
Wham!: Netflix documentary. Great! I didn’t know shit about Wham! and now I do. Highly entertaining, informative, and thoughtful. Recommended!
Wham!: Netflix documentary. Great! I didn’t know shit about Wham! and now I do. Highly entertaining, informative, and thoughtful. Recommended!
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Saw that one a couple of years ago. It was a good movie. Tom Hardy can act but it's funny how he always tries to use different voices for each of his roles
VulcanRaven
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Yes, he sounded Indian half the time in this one tbh, but I’m not an expert on the nuances of the thousand different accents in the UK.
SirTerry-T
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Think he was trying a Welsh accent, which is really hard to do without sounding like someone trying to do a Welsh accent (if that makes any sense).
If you want to see a great Tom Hardy film, try and track down "Stuart:A Life Backwards", with both him and Benedict Cumberbatch on top of their game.
....looks like it's up on YouTube
elcapitano
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I really enjoyed The trial of the Chicago 7.
You might wanna look up "Devs", series made by Garland. It's weird and a bit slow, but goes into some serious philosophical stuff.....Determinism and all that jazz.
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Avatar the way of water.
1 hour last night and the remaining 2 after waking up. I liked it a lot despite some issues.
Strangely enough I had almost no issues with my thallasophobia.
The (not so*) weirdest part of my viewer experience was that bawled my eyes out a couple times near the end. I'm guessing it triggered some underlying *deeply burrowed sorrow in me.
As well as the spiritual aspect which highly resonated.
Pretty surreal experience overall.
The visuals and designs were so good.
Fuck the trilogy setup although it had to happen.
1 hour last night and the remaining 2 after waking up. I liked it a lot despite some issues.
Strangely enough I had almost no issues with my thallasophobia.
The (not so*) weirdest part of my viewer experience was that bawled my eyes out a couple times near the end. I'm guessing it triggered some underlying *deeply burrowed sorrow in me.
As well as the spiritual aspect which highly resonated.
Pretty surreal experience overall.
The visuals and designs were so good.
Fuck the trilogy setup although it had to happen.
Grildon Tundy
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This show was great. I don't think the premise is that far-fetched at all. Behavioral predictive algorithms are already a thing, and the future-predicting fidelity shown in the show seems like where we're headed.
See the story about the lady who started getting baby product ads before she herself knew she was pregnant.
I watched City of God last night. It was really good. One scene was difficult to watch when they
but the movie was really good. Its amazing what people can adapt to as part of their environment.
get that like 11 year old to shoot and kill like an 8 year old
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Mystic River
I remember this being divisive at the time and I heard it was extremely bleak, so I never got around to it until now.
Sean Penn won an Academy Award for Best Actor for this performance?! Jesus Christ. Completely terrible overacting. And Clint Eastwood is in his overwrought emotionally manipulative melodrama phase here, as with Million Dollar Baby a year later. Too many plot contrivances and attempts at clumsy audience misdirection, and the resolution is miserable, unearned, and at times (Laura Linney) bizarre.
4/10
I remember this being divisive at the time and I heard it was extremely bleak, so I never got around to it until now.
Sean Penn won an Academy Award for Best Actor for this performance?! Jesus Christ. Completely terrible overacting. And Clint Eastwood is in his overwrought emotionally manipulative melodrama phase here, as with Million Dollar Baby a year later. Too many plot contrivances and attempts at clumsy audience misdirection, and the resolution is miserable, unearned, and at times (Laura Linney) bizarre.
4/10
Quasicat
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I went to a friends house, out of state, last week for a couple of days and each night we watched his recommended movies that I hadn’t yet seen.
First night was Edge of Tomorrow, a good Tom Cruise movie about fighting aliens mixed with the movie Groundhog’s Day.
Second was Grandma’s Boy, a pretty bad movie involving game testers for a made up video game company.
Lastly was Eurotrip, a great sex comedy involving recent high school graduates traveling to Europe with one of them wanting to meet up with a pen pal in Germany to start a relationship.
First night was Edge of Tomorrow, a good Tom Cruise movie about fighting aliens mixed with the movie Groundhog’s Day.
Second was Grandma’s Boy, a pretty bad movie involving game testers for a made up video game company.
Lastly was Eurotrip, a great sex comedy involving recent high school graduates traveling to Europe with one of them wanting to meet up with a pen pal in Germany to start a relationship.
ForAcademicPurposes
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★★★☆☆ / I died of laughter
StreetsofBeige
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Got lucky and one of the movie channels was showing The Prestige and I caught it in the first 5 minutes. Great movie. Hadnt seen it in a while. For those of you who havenet seen it, it's got Bale, Jackman, Johanson and Micahel Caine. Great cast and acting and plot about magicians doing dumb shit.
It's a weird movie for two reasons. The movie isn't chronological. It's skips around sometimes kind of like Memento or Reservoir Dogs, but not that crazy. Second, despite the plot and time line (it's London 100 years ago), it's got a creepy vibe to it. Not in a horror movie way, but it always seems what is going on in the scenes it has a eerie kind of feel to it.
It's like drama, suspense, thriller all in one.
Hot tip: IMO, Scarlett Johansson looking her best!
It's a weird movie for two reasons. The movie isn't chronological. It's skips around sometimes kind of like Memento or Reservoir Dogs, but not that crazy. Second, despite the plot and time line (it's London 100 years ago), it's got a creepy vibe to it. Not in a horror movie way, but it always seems what is going on in the scenes it has a eerie kind of feel to it.
It's like drama, suspense, thriller all in one.
Hot tip: IMO, Scarlett Johansson looking her best!
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Dr.Morris79
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That was such a good movie. I think (Dont hold me to this as I havent checked..) there is a second one. I could have sworn I heard it was being made years ago..
FullMetalx117
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Mission Impossible Fallout - among the greatest action movies ever. In awe of some of the scenes they had in this movie.
I believe that they made a tv series after with some of thr same characters but the TV series also had some comedy or less serious elements. Then they made a movie from the TV series
Cyberpunkd
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Extraction, Extraction 2. Really good action flics, good set pieces, Nik is hot.
Dr.Morris79
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Ah, I did not know that, i'll still give it a watch even if it is a bit comedic, it's probably still better than most dross these days
NeverYouMind
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I watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on Paramount Plus. It is a medieval fantasy action comedy. It has a charismatic cast and great action scenes. It also has much better pacing than the Hobbit Trilogy. The pudgy dragon scene is the funniest shit I have seen in years.
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ForAcademicPurposes
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★★★★★ / Nos is a hell of a drug
John Marston
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Finally rewatched this after almost 30 years.
De Palma not fuckin' around
Solarstrike
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Fbh
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4/10
Didn't really like it. I generally like Wes Anderson movies, and this one has a great cast and his usual distinct visual style and weird characters which I enjoy.
But I guess the point of the movie just went way over my head. Even reading a bit about it online afterwards the best conclusion I get is that "it's supposed to not make sense" which I guess some people might enjoy but to me gets into the pretentious artsy territory which I don't like.
Darkmakaimura
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Picard season 3. Maybe it's not a movie but it sure felt like a 10-hour movie considering the production values. Really really good stuff.
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ForAcademicPurposes
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★★★☆☆ / Would've been a different movie if Ken read Mein Kampf instead of random horse books
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Can everyone please make up their minds about Neogaf's "official" movies thread? Every couple of days this seems to change.
Either we all switch to "Movies You’ve Watched Lately [OT] - 2023" or we continue posting here. But close one of them!
Either we all switch to "Movies You’ve Watched Lately [OT] - 2023" or we continue posting here. But close one of them!
Doom85
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AJUMP23
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We need more men like this guy. Just to terrorize the WEF
ForAcademicPurposes
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★★☆☆☆ / A megalodon in a trench. I don't know what I expected
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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What screenshot?
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What screenshot?
I have this guy on Patreon who watches mainsteam (hiphop etc) through a occult/ritual lens. I couldn't share his take on (prolly Patreon onky) Jamie so i posted a screen so if anybody was interested they could look him up on his podcast.
That's all.
But I get why it was deleted and shouldn't have posted it in the first place.
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Seeing i can't PM you.
He's on Spotify as well. And funny af.
Mods feel free to remove if deemed necessary.
Not my intention to antagonize. Sincerely.
Feel free to PM me
I can't follow you since you set your profile to private.
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Lol i posted this in the wrong thread. It was the Jamie Foxx thread.
On Topic:
The great Gatsby. Beautiful but bittersweet and depressing. Great acting.
Rewatched Edge of Tomorrow. It's good.
ForAcademicPurposes
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