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MikeyC
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2023 8:15 am 
 

Finally saw John Wick 4. I liked this one more than the 3rd instalment. With that ending, I'm not quite sure how a 5th one is going to surface, but I guess we'll see. Lots of good action scenes as the series is known for. If you can put aside the questions of how John Wick survives a lot of impossible bullshit, it's a solid movie.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2023 9:59 am 
 

MikeyC wrote:
Finally saw John Wick 4. I liked this one more than the 3rd instalment. With that ending, I'm not quite sure how a 5th one is going to surface, but I guess we'll see. Lots of good action scenes as the series is known for. If you can put aside the questions of how John Wick survives a lot of impossible bullshit, it's a solid movie.

Yeah, it was better than the 2nd and 3rd movies but I still think the lore of the series is a bit wonky. The more we know about secret organizations the worse it gets.

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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2023 10:39 am 
 

Gravetemplar wrote:
MikeyC wrote:
Finally saw John Wick 4. I liked this one more than the 3rd instalment. With that ending, I'm not quite sure how a 5th one is going to surface, but I guess we'll see. Lots of good action scenes as the series is known for. If you can put aside the questions of how John Wick survives a lot of impossible bullshit, it's a solid movie.

Yeah, it was better than the 2nd and 3rd movies but I still think the lore of the series is a bit wonky. The more we know about secret organizations the worse it gets.

I'll agree the lore is a bit strange with the high table and honour and all the other stuff associated with it, but it's still a solid series. The action makes up for it, personally.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2023 8:24 pm 
 

The Master Gardener - Paul Schrader has a feel for these tortured broken men and their stories. This one I felt like didn't go as deep as it could with the themes - reformed white supremacist hitman and you'd expect maybe some more meat. But Schrader said something on Maron about this being almost a fable of a kind. An ideal, where things don't really have to dig as deep as you'd think at times. Maybe this character was never meant to be realistic at all. It's interesting stuff. It was so well made and Joel Edgerton did great that I didn't regret the watch.

Millennium Mambo - This really lurid, dreamlike trip just following this woman as she vacillates between two potential relationships. Storywise it doesn't sound so exciting but it's well made and really evokes a lot. It's like a dream of someone's half-remembered youth. Puts you in a headspace. A vibe - I liked it.

Blue (1993) - Experimental audio-only thing from Derek Jarman, who was dying of AIDS. Basically this super up-close, uncomfortable, fucking intimate narration of his last days including various dreams and hallucinations and musings. A highly unusual thing but affecting. Just really makes you think.

Safe (1995) - Queasy, ultra-paranoiac horror about Julianne Moore getting sick of some kind of unknown illness and seeking increasingly desperate means of figuring it out. Moore is always wide-eyed and weird to watch. You want to turn away a lot, it's such a fucking wrecked, vulnerable performance. It's a horror movie but it doesn't really use most of the normal hallmarks of that. The horror's all from the unsettling quiet buildups and just this pervasive wrongness. There's never any explanations and barely any blood or anything. Just sort of this person unraveling their life completely and totally, a thing coming on with no way to stop it, and she seems to even welcome it happening to some extent. Really absurd, disquieting piece of work - fucking impressive.

The Card Counter - The last of these recent Schrader films I hadn't seen yet. A really stirring, bold gut punch of a movie in some ways. Ruthless and single-minded in intent - Oscar Isaac communicates a lot in the hard looks he gives and these really weighty eyes he has all throughout. Settings are some great American ambiance, just seedy casinos and motels. It's straightforward but it carries a lot of weight.
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2023 6:34 am 
 

How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Didn't hate it, but there wasn't really a lot to get out of it. Made with probably good intentions and has the right politics for sure. But it tends to feel like homework a bit, and they don't spend enough time with the characters for it to really resonate. Too many characters for one, with a fairly short runtime. It's tough to do political art since you have to really hit the right note so to speak, and it's easy to fall into a bunch of different pitfalls. Easy to become either too preachy with no story, or to look like you're equivocating too much if you give the characters too many flaws or add too much ambiguity. But many of the best movies don't operate with everything so clear, or at least not with so little of any subtext. This ultimately has noble ideas but doesn't tell you anything you don't already know.
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2023 3:18 pm 
 

Scream 6 - It really highlights how limited this franchise is when the biggest risk it's taken so far is a purely financial one: writing Sidney out because they didn't want to pay Neve Campbell. They can change the main character, change the location, change directors, and in the end it's just another middling Scream sequel. Although I still think part 3 is the worst, this one did a couple things that prevented me from liking it as much as part 5. As someone mentioned on the previous page,

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when you have multiple "good guy" characters getting injuries that should be fatal, but they survive anyway, it deflates the tension and seems like the filmmakers are chickening out.

I also wasn't thrilled with the killer reveal. (Again, part 3's was worse.)

In case it seems like I'm picking on Scream for flaws that are universal in horror franchises? I'd argue Nightmare on Elm Street felt substantially different by the 4th movie (imaginative and fun rather than truly scary), evolving more in just a few years than Scream has evolved over 5 sequels spanning a quarter century. Plus, it only took the Texas Chainsaw franchise two movies to establish two radically different moods.

(edit) OK one more example before my namedropping reaches Kirby levels. Even the Terrifier movies show more growth in two entries than Scream has managed in two decades.
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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2023 7:45 am 
 

The fire that took her - A gut wrenching, heart breaking documentary about the ordeal of a young woman who is a burn victim against her assailant and both her and her family's quest to ensure her assailant would get a life sentence. One of the very first cases in US history where a testimony of a victim was used postmortem, changing the charges from "domestic violence" to murder. The amount of pain this young woman had endured until her demise, would break the heart of the most cynical fucker out there. It broke mine. Humans are monsters.

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PostPosted: Mon May 29, 2023 7:10 pm 
 

kovner1972 wrote:

He is the ultimate one-trick-pony if there's ever been one as an "actor", which he most certainly isn't.


Keanu a one-trick pony? He's played a narcissistic gay hustler, a very patient and forgiving doctor, a stand-offish self-destructive fighter of demons, and a stupid surfer dude that's always had a smile on his face. In other words, he's practically tried to play every type of character trope imaginable and he's tried his best to fit those roles. If you don't think he's ever been successful, that's one thing, but if that's what a one-trick pony looks like to you, then what do you consider versatile?

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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2023 12:13 am 
 

Days of Heaven - great movie set around 1910 that largely takes place on a wheat field. The farm house and land used in this movie are absolutely beautiful.

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kovner1972
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2023 2:22 am 
 

KeeperOfTheMissingLink wrote:
kovner1972 wrote:

He is the ultimate one-trick-pony if there's ever been one as an "actor", which he most certainly isn't.


Keanu a one-trick pony? He's played a narcissistic gay hustler, a very patient and forgiving doctor, a stand-offish self-destructive fighter of demons, and a stupid surfer dude that's always had a smile on his face. In other words, he's practically tried to play every type of character trope imaginable and he's tried his best to fit those roles. If you don't think he's ever been successful, that's one thing, but if that's what a one-trick pony looks like to you, then what do you consider versatile?


You just exactly described the one trick pony that this awful 'actor' is: he can "play" all kinds of roles, yet he always remains the SAME character in all of them; it's like a human robot being given only different texts to say; saying them with the same stupid blank facial expression, same intonation and tone, same mannerism, same everything no matter what the character is supposed to be; his acting is plastic, rigid, amateurish, forced and fucking clueless. You talk about versatile actor? He is the very anti thesis to this; it's not the character that he's SUPPOSED to play, it's the acting itself. He is no Jeff Bridges, I'll tell you that.

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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2023 3:11 am 
 

kovner1972 wrote:
he can "play" all kinds of roles


That's kind of what you're supposed to do as an actor. What do you expect of him? Plastic surgery between each movie so that he looks and sounds different? A human being has only one face, after all.

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yet he always remains the SAME character in all of them


That's the exact opposite of what I said, and the exact opposite of the truth. How are his characters in Constantine and Something's Gotta Give even similar, let alone the same? In Constantine, he plays a self-destructive anti-hero who's standoffish to everyone he meets and smokes a pack-a-day despite the fact that he's dying of lung cancer. In Something's Gotta Give, he plays a doctor who's extremely polite to everyone he meets, and even is forgiving of Diane Keaton's character when she stands him up on a date. How can you look at those two performances and say "I just can't tell the characters apart"?!

Like I said, if you think he didn't do a good job at either performance, that's fine, but saying he plays the same character with the same facial expressions and the same vocal tone is factually incorrect.

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He is no Jeff Bridges, I'll tell you that.


Dude, Jeff Bridges has as much versatility as Keanu Reeves does. He's been using the same mannerisms and vocal tones from all the way back to Fat City, but I think that's fine. That's what practically every actor does.


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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2023 8:54 am 
 

Calling Keanu Reeves a one trick pony would be like calling Iron Maiden masters of eclecticism, simply not true. In fact this is so wrong from every single angle that it should qualify as fractal wrongness.

I suppose his character of serial killer David Griffin in the Watcher - an excellent thriller - is identical enough to Conor O'Neill in Hardball - a sports comedy/drama - especially since both films came out within 12 months of each other. So Ted 'Theodore' Logan from Bill & Ted is identical of a character as Tom Ludlow from Street Kings or Alex Wyler from the Lake House?

What is next? You going to say Christian Bale is a one-trick pony who never transforms himself for the roles?
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2023 11:34 am 
 

I wouldn't say Keanu is a great actor (though I like him in what he does, usually) but I also wouldn't say that he is a one-trick pony. He's just better at some roles than others, but he did try different things, and sometimes he did well, others not so much, but just the difference between Bill and Ted, the Matrix and Point Break, to me, show that he's more than a one trick pony.

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kovner1972
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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2023 3:25 pm 
 

Jesus Christ, Keanu Reeves fans. I dreaded this day. To call this plastic mummy an actor is something I have never realized I would ever see. Seriously though, I don't really care. Go on and indulge in your John Wick 1 to 100 for ll I care.

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PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2023 5:46 pm 
 

kovner1972 wrote:
Jesus Christ, Keanu Reeves fans. I dreaded this day. To call this plastic mummy an actor is something I have never realized I would ever see. Seriously though, I don't really care. Go on and indulge in your John Wick 1 to 100 for ll (sic) I care.


One doesn't need to be a Keanu Reeves fan to point out that you're statement was factually wrong and unfair. If I were to say "I hate Oscar Isaac because he makes every film he's in about himself", people would rightfully point out that that's not true. If you get frustrated when people say that your inaccurate criticism is inaccurate, maybe don't make inaccurate criticisms.

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PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2023 4:29 am 
 

KeeperOfTheMissingLink wrote:
kovner1972 wrote:
Jesus Christ, Keanu Reeves fans. I dreaded this day. To call this plastic mummy an actor is something I have never realized I would ever see. Seriously though, I don't really care. Go on and indulge in your John Wick 1 to 100 for ll (sic) I care.


One doesn't need to be a Keanu Reeves fan to point out that you're statement was factually wrong and unfair. If I were to say "I hate Oscar Isaac because he makes every film he's in about himself", people would rightfully point out that that's not true. If you get frustrated when people say that your inaccurate criticism is inaccurate, maybe don't make inaccurate criticisms.


Sure thing sport, thanks for the life changing advice. And who's Oscar Isaac?

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PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2023 6:03 am 
 

Reality - A riveting real story about one brave whistle blower who leaked a classified document about the Russians' involvement in the US election in 2016. Sydney Sweeney is a marvellous actress (well, not like Keanu Reeves, but still) and the whole seemingly simple plot is as suspenseful as an action movie. Highly recommended.

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kovner1972 wrote:
Jesus Christ, Keanu Reeves fans. I dreaded this day. To call this plastic mummy an actor is something I have never realized I would ever see. Seriously though, I don't really care. Go on and indulge in your John Wick 1 to 100 for ll I care.


Did Keanu Reeves come to your home, piss in your cereal, fuck your mom and strangle your goldfish or what?

No need to take it so personally.


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PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2023 2:31 pm 
 

Curious_dead wrote:
kovner1972 wrote:
Jesus Christ, Keanu Reeves fans. I dreaded this day. To call this plastic mummy an actor is something I have never realized I would ever see. Seriously though, I don't really care. Go on and indulge in your John Wick 1 to 100 for ll I care.


Did Keanu Reeves come to your home, piss in your cereal, fuck your mom and strangle your goldfish or what?

No need to take it so personally.


No he did not, but I hear your mom comes real cheap.


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Classy.

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PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2023 4:04 pm 
 

kovner1972 wrote:
And who's Oscar Isaac?


He's this guy. Everyone else in the world seems to like him, but I haven't liked a single performance from him. I've been avoiding him like the plague since.

Anyways, I watched two silent films recently.

Waxworks - A horror anthology film where the framing story concerns a wax museum hiring a story writer to come up with stories involving the wax figures of historical people like Harun al-Rashid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. Each segment's very entertaining and because it's of the German expressionist movement, it's a very nice looking film. Conradt Veidt who played the somnambulist in Dr. Caligari plays Ivan the Terrible, and is very engrossing, but the most entertaining segment (even if it's the shortest one) is the Jack the Ripper one. The writer falls asleep, and has a nightmare where Jack the Ripper is chasing him throughout the museum, and there's superimposed images up the whazoo. If anyone here likes German Expressionism, I highly recommend checking out this film if you haven't yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMm178LLcDo

Maciste in Hell - Supposedly, a submission in a long-running franchise back in the day, but I found it entertaining enough as a stand-alone film. A very muscular, strong man is taken down to hell and the Devil tries to corrupt him and ruin his morality. The titular Maciste is probably not the brightest, but he makes up for it in his excessive strength, and there's even one scene where he punches a demon's head off. The appeal to this film here is the production design of Hell, and how batshit crazy it gets. Apparently, this was the first film Federico Fellini ever watched, and if you're familiar with his work, you can definitely see some overlap, especially with his film Satyricon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4FYUyu1FWw

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 3:13 pm 
 

Just watched Skinamarink the other day. I can confidently say that was the scariest movie I've ever watched. So slow, so brooding, so dreadful.
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Curious_dead wrote:
Classy.

This you?
Curious_dead wrote:
Did Keanu Reeves come to your home, piss in your cereal, fuck your mom and strangle your goldfish or what?


To be honest you're both embarrassing yourselves here.
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kovner1972 wrote:
Keanu Reeves is the single worst actor in the history of film.


No, he's not. Hulk Hogan is.
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Required Fields wrote:
kovner1972 wrote:
Keanu Reeves is the single worst actor in the history of film.


No, he's not. Hulk Hogan is.


Hulk Hogan doesn't think he's an actor.

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kovner1972 wrote:
Hulk Hogan doesn't think he's an actor.


That hasn't stopped him from trying to get an acting career.

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EvergreenSherbert wrote:
Just watched Skinamarink the other day. I can confidently say that was the scariest movie I've ever watched. So slow, so brooding, so dreadful.

I will have to check that one out, then. I miss being scared from watching a movie. I hate modern horror movies in general. Hereditary came close, but I found the special effects fake looking, so it ruined it somewhat for me.

The only two horror movies that got under my skin recently are these slow-burn atmospheric found footage movies. I recommend Lake Mungo and The Fourth Kind. Lake Mungo in particular has no distribution anymore, so you have to download it, making it truly underground these days. I watched it at 3 am with headphones all alone, and I was immersed in the horror.

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Lake Mungo is really good. It actually does a lot of interesting things for horror and tells a more emotional story than just trying to go for the scares.

Influencer - New Shudder horror about this social media influencer girl who befriends a stalker-esque serial killer kind of character unknowingly. Becomes this sort of cat and mouse thing. Nothing in this was terribly surprising but it all moved along at a good pace and was never dull. Just a good solid exciting thriller. If there's a weakness it's just that it didn't really have a lot to it - very straightforward and the character isn't fleshed out very much. This been done before, but there's always room for more entertaining horror, especially when the settings look this nice. It's like taking a vacation without actually going anywhere.

Akira - This one was so influential that, watching it for the first time now, it almost seems like you've seen it before - which isn't meant to be a critique, just an interesting phenomenon with how this stuff goes. Really fucking cool animation and a dystopian future that feels cool and kind of fresh even. Cool fucking cyberpunk aesthetics and the story is solid and has resonance today too. Like a lot of anime stuff I found the prolonged "epic battle" stuff at the end a little dull compared to the cooler stuff in the build up. But good movie overall.
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Empyreal wrote:
Akira - This one was so influential that, watching it for the first time now, it almost seems like you've seen it before - which isn't meant to be a critique, just an interesting phenomenon with how this stuff goes. Really fucking cool animation and a dystopian future that feels cool and kind of fresh even. Cool fucking cyberpunk aesthetics and the story is solid and has resonance today too. Like a lot of anime stuff I found the prolonged "epic battle" stuff at the end a little dull compared to the cooler stuff in the build up. But good movie overall.

I will die on the hill that Akira is not a good movie.

Excellent animation, cool aesthetics, great soundtrack? Sure. But the story is complete nonsense and the characters are entirely disposable. Because of course they are--they tried adapting a story the length of Lord of the Rings in an 80-minute movie, it was always going to be a catastrophic failure on a narrative level. And it is.
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Ultimately it coulda been more than it was, yeah.
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Zelkiiro wrote:
they tried adapting a story the length of Lord of the Rings in an 80-minute movie


Have you seen the original Ghost in the Shell film? I feel the same way about that film. I still like it in spite of that fact, but I can see why it would elude people.

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I really like Akira. I think the story works well. I saw that on a cinema a couple of years back and it was incredible.

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Yeah I mean I wouldn't have said the story didn't make sense or anything like that; it was as tight as they could do it I thought.

The Boogeyman (2023) - This was based on a super old Stephen King story, which I like. Not more rehashed IP shit or something super obvious.

That said it was just OK. Good, eerie stuff in the first two acts, but man,

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shame about the ending that seemed to be trying to turn it into a family movie or some shit.

What was up with the happy pop punk kinda song for the credits?

They shouldn't have showed the monster nearly as much as they did.
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Body Double - a tribute to Hitchcock and I liked the references to Vertigo. Cool but weird.

Miami Blues - Very entertaining.

The Elephant Man - 1st time I have seen this. Well done.

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Extraction 2- very entertaining John Wick style.

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KeeperOfTheMissingLink wrote:
Zelkiiro wrote:
they tried adapting a story the length of Lord of the Rings in an 80-minute movie


Have you seen the original Ghost in the Shell film? I feel the same way about that film. I still like it in spite of that fact, but I can see why it would elude people.

The difference is, Ghost in the Shell 1995 adapted a properly-sized chunk of the story for a 90-minute movie, so the pacing and narrative structure of that film is much more sound and satisfying.

Akira bit off way, way more than it could chew in the time that it had allotted for mastication. And unlike Ghost in the Shell, there's no mini-arc it could've adapted for a better narrative experience in its runtime--the story of Akira is very all-or-nothing for the most part. It shouldn't have been a movie. It should have been a full-blown TV series. Even Ghost in the Shell went on to do a few TV adaptations, and some of those (Stand Alone Complex seasons 1 & 2, specifically) were phenomenal.

Basically, Akira needs the Brotherhood treatment: New adaptation, big budget, TV series. Preferably Production I.G., ufotable, or Bones handling it.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 17, 2023 3:08 am 
 

Zelkiiro wrote:
It should have been a full-blown TV series.


Eh, I don't know if I agree with that. There's far too many TV shows that are extensions of movies nowadays, I don't want to see Akira metastasize into another overlong, padded out TV show.

For movies I watched recently, I watched Robocop for the first time. Especially surprising that I took this long considering that I like a lot of what I've seen from Paul Verhoeven, but it was good. Great cast (funny seeing two Twin Peaks actors Ray Wise and Miguel Ferrer playing very different characters from what they play in TP), and a cutting edge beneath its fun exterior.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 17, 2023 7:45 am 
 

You guys are insane. Akira is perfectly fine as it is. It's not like the manga makes a lot more sense. It's a good adaptation and it doesn't drag as much as the manga.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:28 pm 
 

I rewatched Antichrist the other day, and I have to say, I think this is the film everybody was praising Hereditary for being.

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:14 pm 
 

I watched Speak No Evil last night. Definitely not a perfect movie (or even a very enjoyable viewing experience) but one that the more you think about it the better it is. I'm kinda wishing I had someone to watch it with because I imagine there could be some interesting conversations. The movie's basic theme was the politeness of the couple and how their failure to honor their feelings about the situation (by actually asserting themselves and saying no) only made things worse for them. There were just so many opportunities to do what was best for them and their child I think the movie did well in showing us the conflict between what they thought/felt and what they thought was "proper" in the eyes of good manners or social etiquette. The villain was basically a representation of that conflict and there only to put it to the test.

Again, it might be something that is better suited for a philosophy club or something but I tend to like those kind of films. The good thing about movies is you can view the action through the eyes of someone else in vivid, visceral ways and this movie let me do that with the Danish couple. Finding myself actually agreeing with what they did (on most occasions) is actually quite disturbing. Would I have had the balls to remove myself from that situation, if I'd been there? Or would I have been the polite and "nice" citizen of the world, at the risk of my family and child? I'm not sure, and that's pretty fucked up.

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