Latest movie you watched (1-10 scale)

[MPD]

Star 80 - 6.5

[featherboa]

still thinking about woman under influence

[MPD]

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam - 6

crushing footage. everything else fuck off...

Jailbait - 6
The Onion Field - 7

[spacehamster]

Borderlands - 6/10

I don't understand why they keep letting Eli Roth make movies.

[featherboa]

gonna watch all those winonas

[Necrometer]

OLD by the one and only M. Night Shyamalan 5.5/10 this movie is truly insane! I kinda recommend it, honestly - assuming you're in the mood for a hot mess of a movie. it's just non-stop events, a la Crank. almost no internal consistency regarding what happens when & to whom. it's so so so strange. not quite "fever dream" but it's close.

[FVBTVS]

strange darling

[featherboa]

lost in america - 7?

[ghost boner]

A few documentaries I've watched as of late

Sorry/not sorry (doc on Louis ck jacking off) - 8/10
The contestant - 8/10
Who killed Nancy? - 7/10

[FVBTVS]

maybe his punishment should be that he has to jerk off in front of the audience before every stand up special for the rest of his life

[ghost boner]

[MPD]

Streetwise - 9

[THE KILL]

Borderlands - 6/10

I don't understand why they keep letting Eli Roth make movies.

It's so strange that they let him direct big budget films; guess the Hostel films made the studios some money? Anyway, I like that he still makes stupid slasher films like Thanksgiving. If he sticks to that stuff, he's at least a decent director.

[Hunter]

Civil War ('24 | 109min) - 7/10 - Seems like Alex Garland hinted at the current political strife rather than lifting directly, which was probably the only way to make this movie work. The primary character arc wasn't very interesting or impactful once it resolved - but it still kept me engaged with it's cinematography and tense situations.

[spacehamster]

It's so strange that they let him direct big budget films

Has to be the Tarantino cred. But I don't like his gore/slasher/whatever movies either, they're just sad and derivative. The funniest thing to me is Green Inferno, which is literally a movie about how Eli Roth hates woke college students and their safe spaces because they're soft and weak, and then the whole thing is nothing but a sanitized-for-the-21st-century version of Cannibal Holocaust that's about 10% as violent.

I'm not particularly fond of Mr. Roth and his oeuvre, in case you can't tell.

[godofdeadlydeath]

I loved Thanksgiving because it was fucking stupid and the kills were very funny. It reminded me the most of Cabin Fever, which I think is the best Eli Roth film. And it really nailed the South Shore Masshole vibe pretty perfectly.

[ghost boner]

A forbidden orange [doc on when the insanely censored media in Spain was first shown a clockwork orange uncut] - 7.5/10

Pretty cool but all I wanted to do was just watch a clockwork orange the whole time

[ghost boner]

Keanu - 8.5/10. This fucking ruled. Obviously for fans of key and peele but man way better than expected

[FVBTVS]

Dredd 2012

Liked this so much more than i did the first time back when it came out

[MPD]

to grown ass critical reassessment.

Roxanne - 8

[THE KILL]

Barbie - 7.5/10
Hadn't read anything about it, was pleasantly surprised/ amazed to see somebody actually made an intelligent and subversive expensive film in this day and age. The overly on the nose preachy monologue of the unhappy mum was the only part I didn't like. Ryan Gosling was great as usual.
Has the board discussed this film in depth yet?


Godzilla: King of the Monsters - 3/10
So dumb, shallow, generic and shittily written that it made me not appreciate the well animated monsters fucking shit up (although not much shit was fucked up in the course of the movie - there were only two big-ish fights in it?!). Infuriating.


The Unforgiven - 8/10
Another Eastwood classic, felt like a callback to Spaghetti westerns in how brutal and subversive it was.

Sisu - 6/10
Pretended to be a grindhouse movie, but I skipped parts of it since everything besides the (fairly well done) gore scenes was generic and uninteresting. To be fair though, I watched it on a plane and I might have dozed off before the film ended...


Inside Out 2 - 7.5/10
Pixar and Ghibli still make great kids movies (there's this one scene in the car fairly early in the movie (no spoiler!) though when they drive Riley to hockey camp and dad asks mum what they'll do over the weekend since they'll be alone, and when mum says "household chores or somesuch" he's low-key disappointed as hell ). This really felt relatable and unlike the sterile mass-produced nonsense that film studios have been pumping out the last couple of decades.

Dredd 2012

Liked this so much more than i did the first time back when it came out

I went into this thinking it would be another lame-ass "action" film as shitty as everything we got since the Matrix sequels. Boy, was I wrong. Along with Fury Road, i's the best big/ mid budget actioner of the last twenty years IMO. I should dust off those 3D-glasses mate of mine gave me and see if they work with my video projector.

[Hunter]

Dredd 2012

Liked this so much more than i did the first time back when it came out

I went into this thinking it would be another lame-ass "action" film as shitty as everything we got since the Matrix sequels. Boy, was I wrong. Along with Fury Road, i's the best big/ mid budget actioner of the last twenty years IMO. I should dust off those 3D-glasses mate of mine gave me and see if they work with my video projector.

Dredd in 3d is great - the slo-mo sequences especially. Did you know Alex Garland apparently had a heavy hand in directing? I was not aware of that until recently.

HAPPY REBEL RIDGE RELEASE DAY EVERYONE

[THE KILL]

Dredd 2012

Liked this so much more than i did the first time back when it came out

I went into this thinking it would be another lame-ass "action" film as shitty as everything we got since the Matrix sequels. Boy, was I wrong. Along with Fury Road, i's the best big/ mid budget actioner of the last twenty years IMO. I should dust off those 3D-glasses mate of mine gave me and see if they work with my video projector.

Dredd in 3d is great - the slo-mo sequences especially. Did you know Alex Garland apparently had a heavy hand in directing? I was not aware of that until recently.

I'd read about it, yeah. Garland would be an awesome director without the Dredd credit (Ex Machine and Men were fantastic), but Dredd's his crowning achievement IMO. Too bad it was not very successful, I could just see him making a trilogy otherwise... this is about as tragic as that Hellraiser reboot by Pascal 'Martyrs' Laugier we never got.

[THE KILL]

Aw yeah, Garland's Civil War has just been released in Germany.

[Hunter]

Dredd 2012

Liked this so much more than i did the first time back when it came out

I went into this thinking it would be another lame-ass "action" film as shitty as everything we got since the Matrix sequels. Boy, was I wrong. Along with Fury Road, i's the best big/ mid budget actioner of the last twenty years IMO. I should dust off those 3D-glasses mate of mine gave me and see if they work with my video projector.

Dredd in 3d is great - the slo-mo sequences especially. Did you know Alex Garland apparently had a heavy hand in directing? I was not aware of that until recently.

I'd read about it, yeah. Garland would be an awesome director without the Dredd credit (Ex Machine and Men were fantastic), but Dredd's his crowning achievement IMO. Too bad it was not very successful, I could just see him making a trilogy otherwise... this is about as tragic as that Hellraiser reboot by Pascal 'Martyrs' Laugier we never got.

I thought Annihilation was excellent and Devs was solid too. I still have yet to see Men, though.