Latest movie you watched (1-10 scale)

[FVBTVS]

I think i saw that shadow of the vampire is available for streaming again. i remember that being pretty fucking cool

[MPD]

Without Warning (1980) - 8

[THE KILL]

We need to talk about Kevin - 7.5/10
Pretty evil bastard of a film. Tilda Swinton is even better than usual in this. All the actors fit their roles perfectly, even the kid actor does an amazing job of portraying this piece of shit kid who craps his pants just to spite his mum. Had some lengths, but that might have been me. Really looking forward to watching You were never really here.

[Whee of the Dead]

John Carpenter's Vampires - 7/10 - JC doing a dad rock cover of Peckinpah fused with 90's nu-goth vamp shit. Stupid and kind of rushed but also charming in a goofball way. Strikes a weird balance of being a lot better than it should've been but not nearly as good as it could've been. Better than most 90's horrors by a long shot. I got to see this opening night when I was 12 and fucking loved it. It's a great movie for 12 year olds who love movies with tits, gore, guns, and grizzled bad ass dudes saying curse words.

Extreme Prejudice (87) - 8/10 - Walter Hill doing a Peckinpah cover with better results but staying truer to the source material. Absolutely crushed it with the cast. Michael Ironside, Powers Boothe, Michael Forsythe, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown, the gay black kid from Revenge of the Nerds... Driftless, lost in time and space hardened pro killers doing battle with Powers Boothe power mad cartel leader while righteous sheriff Nick Nolte is buzzing around. The Wild Bunch rip-off ending rules with 80's squibs.

Ulzana's Raid - 7/10 - Aldrich doing some rough and gritty revisionist western with Burt Lancaster being enlisted by the cavalry to find an escaped indian and his gang who are raping and pillaging through the country side. Despite some flashes of shocking violence it doesn't go as hard as the material could've (a spaghetti western version of this would've been fucking solid) and the score feels out of place. Timothy Bottoms as the liberal idealist turned pro-slaughter and back again is handled pretty weakly but overall a sturdy western from one of Hollywood's reliable journeymen directors.

Hangmen Also Die! - 8/10 - Fritz Lang's Army of Shadows. Great and tense spycraft. My first true deep dive in Lang's filmography and surprised to see how much Hitchcock was inspired by his work. This movie just piles on well done suspense scenes with clever twists brought on by the cunning nature of a desperate resistance. Can't wait to get to the Mabuse movies.

[godofdeadlydeath]

We need to talk about Kevin - 7.5/10
Pretty evil bastard of a film. Tilda Swinton is even better than usual in this. All the actors fit their roles perfectly, even the kid actor does an amazing job of portraying this piece of shit kid who craps his pants just to spite his mum. Had some lengths, but that might have been me. Really looking forward to watching You were never really here.

The kid being a piece of shit in real life is not surprising after you watch that movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Miller

[THE KILL]

John Carpenter's Vampires - 7/10 - JC doing a dad rock cover of Peckinpah fused with 90's nu-goth vamp shit. Stupid and kind of rushed but also charming in a goofball way. Strikes a weird balance of being a lot better than it should've been but not nearly as good as it could've been. Better than most 90's horrors by a long shot. I got to see this opening night when I was 12 and fucking loved it. It's a great movie for 12 year olds who love movies with tits, gore, guns, and grizzled bad ass dudes saying curse words.

Extreme Prejudice (87) - 8/10 - Walter Hill doing a Peckinpah cover with better results but staying truer to the source material. Absolutely crushed it with the cast. Michael Ironside, Powers Boothe, Michael Forsythe, Rip Torn, Clancy Brown, the gay black kid from Revenge of the Nerds... Driftless, lost in time and space hardened pro killers doing battle with Powers Boothe power mad cartel leader while righteous sheriff Nick Nolte is buzzing around. The Wild Bunch rip-off ending rules with 80's squibs.

Ulzana's Raid - 7/10 - Aldrich doing some rough and gritty revisionist western with Burt Lancaster being enlisted by the cavalry to find an escaped indian and his gang who are raping and pillaging through the country side. Despite some flashes of shocking violence it doesn't go as hard as the material could've (a spaghetti western version of this would've been fucking solid) and the score feels out of place. Timothy Bottoms as the liberal idealist turned pro-slaughter and back again is handled pretty weakly but overall a sturdy western from one of Hollywood's reliable journeymen directors.

Hangmen Also Die! - 8/10 - Fritz Lang's Army of Shadows. Great and tense spycraft. My first true deep dive in Lang's filmography and surprised to see how much Hitchcock was inspired by his work. This movie just piles on well done suspense scenes with clever twists brought on by the cunning nature of a desperate resistance. Can't wait to get to the Mabuse movies.

That's a bunch of solid film reviews, mate!

[FVBTVS]

vampires is so awesome and stupid

[THE KILL]

We need to talk about Kevin - 7.5/10
Pretty evil bastard of a film. Tilda Swinton is even better than usual in this. All the actors fit their roles perfectly, even the kid actor does an amazing job of portraying this piece of shit kid who craps his pants just to spite his mum. Had some lengths, but that might have been me. Really looking forward to watching You were never really here.

The kid being a piece of shit in real life is not surprising after you watch that movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Miller

they lol
can't say what made him a dick, but some of his weird behaviour seems due to mental illness. It's strange that no one's trying to get him to, say, take meds and do therapy or whatever

[FVBTVS]

3rd or 4th rewatch now of reeves batman and it keeps getting better

[ghost boner]

Seen it about the same amount and yeah totally. Just the fuckn main score sounding like a slowed down imperial march is the only thing keeping it from being a perfect 10

[Eight Bit Alien]

The riddler chatroom goons were so fucking lame dude

The riddler in general sucked I'm sorry

Im sosorsosorrsosorsosorry to be this type of guy right now

[FVBTVS]

youre dead wrong but i will still hear you out for the sake of gotham

[Eight Bit Alien]

Look

Fuck

[Necrophilic Mallard]

Zone of Interest - 2.5M men women and children were killed at Auschwitz.
Fuck.

[Eight Bit Alien]

Re: BATMAN

It's really the third act that took me out of it. As a whole I thought they killed it with the vibe, cast, score, and particularly photography. They nailed the vibe so well that it makes the Nolan movies feel slightly off by comparison, and I'm obviously a huge fan of those.

I started to feel kinda weird when Dano did his riddler rant in jail, yelling at Batman... I kinda thought that that was unintentionally funny, it didn't smell right to me at all. Then the stuff with the importance of the upcoming election (uuuuuuuuuuuuugggfghhhhhh) and the dam.... and oh no look the big new problem is a bunch of RANDOM GUYS who were radicalized in a chatroom???? It's not a horrible idea and I can see how it may have read on paper, but as things unfolded on film I felt more and more lost.

"Batman bad guys always have these goons.... what would that be like in the real world?? In our world? Maybe...."

Oh it's something from Twitter, well now I'm in that world and not Gotham anymore

I may simply be overexposed to superhero media at this point, as well. Maybe I've lost some capacity to take simple joy from a Batman movie in the way that a healthy dork should. I know that if the thing had come out 10 years prior I probably would have lost my shit in the best way.

I'm trying to be responsible and honest about my retardation and not just a jaded nerd tbqh

[Eight Bit Alien]

I struggled also with watching Batman scratch his head puzzling over childishly simple riddles

I don't really know what I'm asking for here exactly. You can't have unsolvably esoteric puzzles that a crazy genuis would write, that a general audience has zero chance of beating as they watch. Mystery stories have to be solvable and guessable or its cheating. But what they did was show the worlds greatest detective struggle with shit you'd read on a popsicle stick sold to 6 year olds

I think the correct way to do it may have been to let other characters not understand them for a little while, and at some point simply show Batman having already solved them in his head.

[Eight Bit Alien]

Zone of Interest - 2.5M men women and children were killed at Auschwitz.
Fuck.

I sometimes think that the entire 20th century left us with a moral debt that can't be paid off. Like if we were to be judged, that 100 year block of time would render us categorically irredeemable.

[Whee of the Dead]

Im sosorsosorrsosorsosorry to be this type of guy right now

Why are you so ashamed to speak truths.

These people get countless dollars and get to stand on the shoulders of giants and they can't even pass scrutiny as journeyman technicians and are forever shielded because legitimate criticism is treated as venom.

no forgiveness (without bloodshed)

[MPD]

Dances With Wolves: Extended Edition - 9
Arcadian - 4.5
Goin' Down the Road - 7.5
The House on Sorority Row - 7

[spacehamster]

Re: BATMAN

It's really the third act that took me out of it.

I re-watched it recently, after seeing someone on Youtube expound on the importance of the third act for Batman's character development, and he wasn't wrong. Batman's arc is that he goes from a boogeyman that scares everyone, including the people he's meant to be helping, to the guy carrying the child out of danger at the end when everything gets flooded, and that's really the point of the movie - he goes from "I'M VENGEANCE!" to prioritizing saving people. Which, you know, is the same meditation on "what it means to be a hero" that these movies are always about, but fine. So that needed to be there.

The problem is that the movie is still at least 30 minutes too long, and everything in that final act is lame for the reasons you posted, so fine, it's not a tacked-on final act but necessary for Batman's character arc, but that just means the movie's pacing sucks and it doesn't change that everything after Falcone gets shot is tonally inconsistent with the rest of the movie.

I still like it because the overall aesthetic is just fucking great and it gets so many things right, but the script really needed another draft.

[ghost boner]

Alien romulus - 5/10. This started off pretty strong and just completely fell apart at the last half

[THE KILL]

two minions movies, don't know which ones exactly - 7/10
Eh this shit is surprisingly entertaining. The made up language the minions speak is inexplicably hilarious to me.

Once upon a time in the west - 8.5/10
Obviously great movie, but not as great as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:
- doesn't have Clint Eastwood
- the OST is inferior/ not as memorable
- the harmonica theme is overused; it's cool the frst three times it's on, then it gets too much, also because it's a character that plays it - while he's busy playing it, Henry Ford or any of the other characters could have shot him a dozen times over
- it felt a bit too long. The Good... never did.

[Warpsmasher]

The minions are such a blatant caricature of China - those cute yellow mini people that make everything and chatter incomprehensibly

[THE KILL]

and they speak a mixture of Romanic languages!


wait a sec, they don't have slant-eyes... mmmh...

[Foot Foot]

Alien: Romulus - 3.
UGH eat my ass with these fucking callbacks and "lOrE". would've been cooler if they stayed on the grimy colony and just had a single Alien running around picking off colonists.... like more of an urban slasher film set in a dirty future. (maybe the Disney Popsicle from the opening credits lands there and gets thawed out and starts picking people off or something).