Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

[Chimpzy]

Couldn't they just CG/deepfake/de-age someone to get that result? You'd think with how much experience Hollywood has now doing shit like that, and doing it quite well, that this wouldn't be much of an issue to conjur up.

I suppose. You'd risk that being really uncanny tho. But that might actually work, because Alia is supposed to be really unsettling.

 

[Gordon_4]

I suppose. You'd risk that being really uncanny tho. But that might actually work, because Alia is supposed to be really unsettling.

My guess is that the real answer is studio heads are probably reluctant to make a major character - even a villain like Baron Harkonnen - in a tent-pole film series, a child rapist. Hell, Guy Ritchie had to be talked out of making Bricktop in Snatch such a character, and that's a film about gangsters.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I suppose. You'd risk that being really uncanny tho. But that might actually work, because Alia is supposed to be really unsettling.

Yeah, she's supposed to be creepy and unsettling. The Freman don't actually want to be around her when she's a child, because a child with the mind of an adult is so off-putting. It could actually work really well to have a CGI Alia just being voiced with Ana Taylor Joy with absolutely no changes to her voice.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Train to Busan (2016)

"I'll take you to mom no matter what." The plot of this film follows Seok-woo (Gong Yoo), a workaholic father to Su-an (Kim Su-an). Upon his daughter's request/insistence, he is taking her to Busan to see her mother. Unfortunately, this is pretty much the worst time to be going anywhere, as...

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[BrawlMan]

I decided to pop in Aquaman: Lost Kingdom again. I have nothing else to say other than it's an excellent movie, and the best finale that was made given the circumstances.

 

[Piscian]

A ★★★★★ review of Train to Busan (2016)

"I'll take you to mom no matter what." The plot of this film follows Seok-woo (Gong Yoo), a workaholic father to Su-an (Kim Su-an). Upon his daughter's request/insistence, he is taking her to Busan to see her mother. Unfortunately, this is pretty much the worst time to be going anywhere, as...

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If you haven't watched it, theres an animated prequel called Seoul Station. Its exceptionally good, but dark much darker than TTB.

 

[Bartholen]

Black Dynamite, 9/10

This is a pastiche of 70s blaxploitation movies from 2009 starring Michael Jai White. It's not worth recounting the plot, because it's deliberately complete nonsense. It's one of the best comedies of the entire 2000s, and one of the most criminally underrated movies ever. The comedy goes far beyond the hilarious script and acting and into the filmmaking itself: actors read cue cards and flub lines, reused shots and awkward camera movements, mics bumping into scenes, deliberate continuity errors (in one scene an extra is switched mid-scene) and fight choreography that's simultaneously genuinely impressive yet hilariously clunky. It's an absolute riot from beginning to end and just packed with memorable and quotable lines. There's so much small detail that it stands up to multiple watches even without the comedic element. The only reason it's not a 10/10 is that the two times I've watched it have both been drunk, so I'm pretty sure I've missed like half the details. You're doing yourself a disservice by not having watched this movie.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Poor Things: / Great

A pregnant woman commits suicide, and the surgeon who finds her body decides to transplant the brain of the unborn child into the mother. "Naturally," her child-like curiosity disguised behind the adult exterior leads to sexual promiscuity and her clinical objectification of the human experience.

Rarely has a movie left me this perplexed. I don't know what the point was, what message they were sending, why they were sending said message, etc. The whole film reeks of a stoner's proliferation of a moment of "profoundness" that basically just comes off as really odd to any sober person around at the time. I honestly have no idea how it got the Oscar nods. Nothing is exceptional in this feature-length collection of art house concepts.


Dune: Part Two: Curious / Great

I enjoyed it more than the first, but am still very tangled overall. I want to "get it," and am fascinated by the whole so far, but I feel any synopsis I could manage would be the gist at best. Assuming this is going to ultimately be a trilogy, it'll be one to binge over a weekend so I can get it "all at once."

 

[Bartholen]

Poor Things: / Great

I honestly have no idea how it got the Oscar nods. Nothing is exceptional in this feature-length collection of art house concepts.

There's being perplexed about a film, and then there's straight up heresy. Emma Stone's performance is exceptional from basically the first minute of the movie, and completely distinct from anything else released last year. The production design in Poor Things can be compared to only a few movies I know, there's almost nothing that looks like it. Here's just a few messages I can glean from the film off the top of my head:

• Your past does not need to define you as a whole person
• Certain types of men will profess undying love for a woman, but only as long as they act in a way they approve of, and remain firmly under the man's control
• Love and respect are not given by default, they are earned
• Sometimes you need to let people go from your life, so they can grow and make decisions on their own

And these are not subtly signaled in the slightest. I'm sorry, but I legit have to wonder how much you were paying attention to have arrived at such an indifferent opinion about the film.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Black Dynamite, 9/10

This is a pastiche of 70s blaxploitation movies from 2010 starring Michael Jai White. It's not worth recounting the plot, because it's deliberately complete nonsense. It's one of the best comedies of the entire 2000s, and one of the most criminally underrated movies ever. The comedy goes far beyond the hilarious script and acting and into the filmmaking itself: actors read cue cards and flub lines, reused shots and awkward camera movements, mics bumping into scenes, deliberate continuity errors (in one scene an extra is switched mid-scene) and fight choreography that's simultaneously genuinely impressive yet hilariously clunky. It's an absolute riot from beginning to end and just packed with memorable and quotable lines. There's so much small detail that it stands up to multiple watches even without the comedic element. The only reason it's not a 10/10 is that the two times I've watched it have both been drunk, so I'm pretty sure I've missed like half the details. You're doing yourself a disservice by not having watched this movie.

Sometimes I lay in bed thinking about this scene.

 

[Xprimentyl]

There's being perplexed about a film, and then there's straight up heresy. Emma Stone's performance is exceptional from basically the first minute of the movie, and completely distinct from anything else released last year. The production design in Poor Things can be compared to only a few movies I know, there's almost nothing that looks like it. Here's just a few messages I can glean from the film off the top of my head:

• Your past does not need to define you as a whole person
• Certain types of men will profess undying love for a woman, but only as long as they act in a way they approve of, and remain firmly under the man's control
• Love and respect are not given by default, they are earned
• Sometimes you need to let people go from your life, so they can grow and make decisions on their own

And these are not subtly signaled in the slightest. I'm sorry, but I legit have to wonder how much you were paying attention to have arrived at such an indifferent opinion about the film.

I paid attention the whole time. There's no objective quality to be appreciated by a work of fiction. There was noting austere, subtle, or inventive in the way those clear messages were delivered, and none of them new. Consider your "legit wonder[ing]" sated.

None of those messages was new or creative, and the way they went about delivering them was comically whimsical, i.e.: hard to take seriously, or at the very least, hard to think they were taking them seriously. Nothing about the film moved me or provoked a single thought outside of "why?" if "thought-provoking" was what they were going for.

If this film blew you mind, I'm happy for you, but it was basically comedic, softcore porn barely disguised as female empowerment to me. I'll give you Stone's performance was distinct from anything released last year, so too would my own if I were to film myself funneling fire ants into my rectum; wouldn't make it Oscar-worthy, but certainly distinct.

 

[Bartholen]

I paid attention the whole time. There's no objective quality to be appreciated by a work of fiction. There was noting austere, subtle, or inventive in the way those clear messages were delivered, and none of them new. Consider your "legit wonder[ing]" sated.

None of those messages was new or creative, and the way they went about delivering them was comically whimsical, i.e.: hard to take seriously, or at the very least, hard to think they were taking them seriously. Nothing about the film moved me or provoked a single thought outside of "why?" if "thought-provoking" was what they were going for.

If this film blew you mind, I'm happy for you, but it was basically comedic, softcore porn barely disguised as female empowerment to me. I'll give you Stone's performance was distinct from anything released last year, so too would my own if I were to film myself funneling fire ants into my rectum; wouldn't make it Oscar-worthy, but certainly distinct.

Okay, so first you say that you didn't

know what the point was, what message they were sending, why they were sending said message, etc.

but it seems like you were in fact picking up on it, you just weren't impressed or dramatically compelled by it. I dunno man.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Poor Things: / Great

A pregnant woman commits suicide, and the surgeon who finds her body decides to transplant the brain of the unborn child into the mother. "Naturally," her child-like curiosity disguised behind the adult exterior leads to sexual promiscuity and her clinical objectification of the human experience.

Rarely has a movie left me this perplexed. I don't know what the point was, what message they were sending, why they were sending said message, etc. The whole film reeks of a stoner's proliferation of a moment of "profoundness" that basically just comes off as really odd to any sober person around at the time. I honestly have no idea how it got the Oscar nods. Nothing is exceptional in this feature-length collection of art house concepts.

I mainly saw it as a person mentally growing up in the adult world as an adult. Instead of how one usually grows up with other kids and in school and whatnot.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Okay, so first you say that you didn't

Knowing the point, and getting the point can be mutually exclusive. If I'm sitting on a park bench next you on a sunny day, and you tell me that the sun is out, I've every right to be perplexed as to why you'd have to mention the sun is out, and at the same time, your expecting recognition for stating the obvious can be unreasonable. I don't disagree with what the film put down; I disagree that it was a noteworthy effort.

but it seems like you were in fact picking up on it, you just weren't impressed or dramatically compelled by it. I dunno man.

Precisely.

I mainly saw it as a person mentally growing up in the adult world as an adult. Instead of how one usually grows up with other kids and in school and whatnot.

That's exactly what it was. But the journey of an immature mind evolving into adulthood primarily via sexual interaction, to me, was a an uninteresting disservice to the core concept.

I don't fault anyone who liked this movie, I just felt it underwhelmed. Clearly the sex was meant to be a teachable/learnable experience, but it came off as more humorous than anything, and they delivered it thusly. If anything, I think it could have used more seriousness, like, and I'm loathe to say it, but an outright rape scene where Stone is able to distinct the pleasures of sex from the severity and intent of it. Instead, we got a "woman" coasting through this adolescent adulthood fucking everyone, and effectively taking notes on how her partners psychologically receive it. Then there's a chicken with a pig's head, and the comeuppance of an ex-husband whose brain is swapped for a goat's.

Juvenile. It's rare that comedies get Oscar nods.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

That's exactly what it was. But the journey of an immature mind evolving into adulthood primarily via sexual interaction, to me, was a an uninteresting disservice to the core concept.

I don't fault anyone who liked this movie, I just felt it underwhelmed. Clearly the sex was meant to be a teachable/learnable experience, but it came off as more humorous than anything, and they delivered it thusly. If anything, I think it could have used more seriousness, like, and I'm loathe to say it, but an outright rape scene where Stone is able to distinct the pleasures of sex from the severity and intent of it. Instead, we got a "woman" coasting through this adolescent adulthood fucking everyone, and effectively taking notes on how her partners psychologically receive it. Then there's a chicken with a pig's head, and the comeuppance of an ex-husband whose brain is swapped for a goat's.

Juvenile. It's rare that comedies get Oscar nods.

I would've liked if the movie continued to be more on the philosophical side like it was towards the end of the boat chapter, but then it did the prostitution section.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Dune: Part Two: Curious / Great

I enjoyed it more than the first, but am still very tangled overall. I want to "get it," and am fascinated by the whole so far, but I feel any synopsis I could manage would be the gist at best. Assuming this is going to ultimately be a trilogy, it'll be one to binge over a weekend so I can get it "all at once."

If they keep going it will most likely be 5 parts.

Dune part 1 was the first 1/3 of the first book, and part 2 was the other 2/3. If they continue the story, the next part will be the second book (Dune Messiah), and then they would do Children of Dune (the 3rd book) in 2 parts.

Dune Messiah is a bit underwelming, but sets up a lot of the interesting things in Children of Dune, and Children of Dune is too long and dense to be a single movie.

They probably wouldn't go past Children of Dune because God Emperor of Dune is basically not adaptable, and the rest of the books are too sexual and weird for mainstream movie audiences.

 

[Xprimentyl]

If they keep going it will most likely be 5 parts.

Dune part 1 was the first 1/3 of the first book, and part 2 was the other 2/3. If they continue the story, the next part will be the second book (Dune Messiah), and then they would do Children of Dune (the 3rd book) in 2 parts.

Dune Messiah is a bit underwelming, but sets up a lot of the interesting things in Children of Dune, and Children of Dune is too long and dense to be a single movie.

They probably wouldn't go past Children of Dune because God Emperor of Dune is basically not adaptable, and the rest of the books are too sexual and weird for mainstream movie audiences.

The Oscars liked Poor Things, so never say never...

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

The Oscars liked Poor Things, so never say never...

In books 5 and 6 of Dune (Heretics of Dune and Chapter House: Dune):

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The villains are a group of women called the Honored Matres, who attempt to take over the known universe through the sexual subjugation and enslavement of men. Their leader has sex with giant dog monsters because men have become too easy for her to break and control and so cannot satisfy her desires.

One of the main characters in book 5 is a 15 year old boy, who awakens the memories of his thousands of past lives, and is able to have sex with an Honored Matre and defeat her in a sex battle, making her fall in love with him and unable to live without "getting that dick." By book 6 he has started training an army of men in the art of sex, to fight against the sexual powers of the Honored Matres.

Frank Herbert was really horny after his wife died.

So yeah, when I say the later books are too weird and sexual for mainstream audiences I mean it.

Also, there's Space Jews, who are still really mad about the Holocaust over 20,000 years into the future.

 

[McElroy]

Dune Part 2
7-8/10, I dunno. Crafted masterfully. Surprisingly well-acted throughout, even Zendaya. After the halfway point the plot starts thickening with more and more important elements and macguffins, and while the end brings it all together I dropped off a little. And honestly I just can't take all the knife-fighting seriously. There are lore reasons, sure, but I just kept thinking about all the easy ways you could dispose people armed with only knives even if the fremen know how to dodge roll - the movie even features lots of arsenal. I prefer Part 1 because the simpler plot is more effective.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★½ review of Spaceballs (1987)

"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." The plot of this film follows the evil Spaceballs, led by President Skroob (Mel Brooks) and enforced by Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) and his loyal soldier Colonel Sandurz (George Wyner) in their evil plan to steal all the air from...

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