Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Which movie has the highest peer pressure rating?
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Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| September 2016
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User 479360
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Spectre premiered on The Movie Network last night, so I saved it and watched it today. I went in with low expectations given the middling reviews, so maybe that factored in to why I found it surprisingly decent and better than expected. It's no masterpiece, but it has some phenomenal action scenes (the helicopter and plane scenes, as well as the railcar fight).
ViewtifulJC
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Michael Mann's Heat, due to the combined powers of myself, Net_Wrecker, Disco, and Fancy Clown
Discotheque
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At least 2 of those accounts are the same person tho....
Fancy Clown
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:^)
Freeza Under The Shower
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Oh? We starting a fight? okay, how about:
The Fountain, Tree of Life, that kind of self-congratulatory human-spiritual self-wank 'art' stuff that's so embarrassingly shallow it's in the same category as moe anime in terms of how interesting it should be for an actual adult. No wait, moe fans are 30+ creeps. I meant YA, that "I'm so fucking deep, man" audience, where it's cliché after cliché and they ain't deep at all.
You're better off with movies that threat humans as actual humans. None of that ascesis crap. I'm not allergic to the concept, I just don't like the wankjob that happens with it.
The Fountain, Tree of Life, that kind of self-congratulatory human-spiritual self-wank 'art' stuff that's so embarrassingly shallow it's in the same category as moe anime in terms of how interesting it should be for an actual adult. No wait, moe fans are 30+ creeps. I meant YA, that "I'm so fucking deep, man" audience, where it's cliché after cliché and they ain't deep at all.
You're better off with movies that threat humans as actual humans. None of that ascesis crap. I'm not allergic to the concept, I just don't like the wankjob that happens with it.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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The Tree of Life is the greatest 90 minute movie ever made with about an hour of wankery attached to it. The section that takes place in Sean Penn's memory of his childhood is some of the finest work ever committed to celluloid.
ViewtifulJC
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that middle part is pretty great, but the bookends...terrence stop
Dude, Tree of Life doesn't treat humans like humans? Brad Pitt in that movie was like a brick in my stomach, with how poignantly it depicted all them daddy issues.
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Saw The Nice Guys, hilarious movie, Ryan Gosling really killed it.
Not that familiar with Shane Black, but really enjoyed this.
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Saw The Nice Guys, hilarious movie, Ryan Gosling really killed it.
Not that familiar with Shane Black, but really enjoyed this.
Fancy Clown
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It's really just the sean penn shit and that one dinosaur scene I don't like. Everything else is A+.
brianjones
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Malick peaked with thin red line
his movies have been redundant since
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his movies have been redundant since
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You like the finale on the beach?
ViewtifulJC
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all that beach stuff was
I do love The Tree of Life but I have a hard time parsing any other meaning out of that ending other than "Jack peace with his brother's death because his family will be reunited in heaven someday." Which, unless you're that religious, is kind of a boring resolution to me.
And I say that as someone who liked the finale of Lost!
And I say that as someone who liked the finale of Lost!
ViewtifulJC
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Fancy Clown
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Hell naw. That's part of the sean penn shit.
Discotheque
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New World and Thin Red Line are Malick goats. But the family part of tree of life is his best work.
Nobody likes the Penn scenes. Even he was like "Tree of life was great but why was I in it"
Nobody likes the Penn scenes. Even he was like "Tree of life was great but why was I in it"
Fancy Clown
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Brb just gotta cork the magic island and then have a dramatic fist fight with an antagonist reconstituted as everyones fan favorite character just because.
As someone not religious, to me it means "You'll never find peace in life".
Matches up with zombie Penn at least.
Fancy Clown
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Sisters was quite obviously an amateur effort by De Palma, and while it's not really all that great, it's still fun to see him play with his usual toys like split screen, fake outs, and ultra pulpy take on Hitchcock scenarios. The entire murder sequence (which is pretty shocking actually) and use of split screen for a rear window esque tenant across the way witnessing it was particularly well down.
Tree of Life is a perfect movie.
I don't think you have to be religious to swallow the ending. I read the ending as more metaphysicalyou don't have to be religious to believe our connections to loved ones are more than our in-person interaction with them
I don't think you have to be religious to swallow the ending. I read the ending as more metaphysicalyou don't have to be religious to believe our connections to loved ones are more than our in-person interaction with them
lost finale's great too
Fancy Clown
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*peer pressure intensifies*
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Lost is a fourth-rate "The Prisoner".
Net_Wrecker
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1. Realistically, the highest peer pressure rating has to got to, like, Seven Samurai or Lawrence of Arabia or something. One of those universally praised epics that the MovieGAF Blog™ will soon expose as overrated trash.
2. I'll gladly be on the HEAT cheerleading squad, but only if you all accept the lord and savior Miami Vice into your lives. Otherwise, the Mann-boyz remain splintered, forever in this civil war. Our very own airport fight scene.
3. All these asterisks you have to attach to The Tree of Life is why The New World >>>>
2. I'll gladly be on the HEAT cheerleading squad, but only if you all accept the lord and savior Miami Vice into your lives. Otherwise, the Mann-boyz remain splintered, forever in this civil war. Our very own airport fight scene.
3. All these asterisks you have to attach to The Tree of Life is why The New World >>>>
Infernostew
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It's pretty funny that those two are the last two films I've rated 10/10.
Watched The Sea of Trees tonight. Very powerful. I don't understand the critics complaints with it but it was very captivating to me. 8/10
Fancy Clown
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I may come around to this eventually, The New World has been growing on me further since I've seen it. It's definitely the more consistent movie, and the ending is wayyyy better, but I still think the bulk of Tree of Life is better.
sans_pants
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watched midnight special, 8/10, loved it mostly but the kid wasn't a great actor and the
would highly recommend
also watched high rise. dunno about this one. some great stuff in there but probably not able to unpack it after one viewing. can't say id recommend it to that many people either
massive shadow city didnt make sense if they were beings of light but whatever still cool visual
also watched high rise. dunno about this one. some great stuff in there but probably not able to unpack it after one viewing. can't say id recommend it to that many people either
brandonh83
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Spectre is good. But just good. It's not bad at all. Just kind of there in terms of quality Bond.
Infernostew
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Spectre is the type of film that the more I thought about it after seeing it, it made me angrier and angrier.
User 479360
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The Intern with Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway? Yeah, that's a good flick.
Yeah, it's tough to disagree with that. I do think that I liked it more because I adjusted my expectations, but the mentioned action scenes were standouts and badass. (And I'm normally not someone who gets hung up on action movies or goes crazy for over the top scenes. I'm more of a drama/horror guy.)
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Yeah, it's tough to disagree with that. I do think that I liked it more because I adjusted my expectations, but the mentioned action scenes were standouts and badass. (And I'm normally not someone who gets hung up on action movies or goes crazy for over the top scenes. I'm more of a drama/horror guy.)
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That seems like the complete opposite to me :lol
I don't think he was zombified at the end. He looked content. He *was* a zombie for basically all of his scenes up until that last one, but then you've got that beach reunion juxtaposed with Penn cracking a smile as he's walking.
Now that's a hell of a weirdo ending.
Net_Wrecker
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Ain't too many movies you'll watch in a year that you can describe as "delightful", but Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship (2016) is just that. I have a soft spot for these British period romantic comedies tbh, and this one is filled with entertaining performances and snappy dialogue. Tom Bennett in particular steals every scene he's in as the tremendously awkward and goofy Sir James Martin. Kate Beckinsale has a fantastic voice btw, I could listen to her talk forever. Lovely movie. Great movie. Tremendous movie. We have the best movies.
old manatee
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The only good part of The Intern was when Robert DeNiro cleaned that messy table.
lazybones18
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Don't Breathe
Don't Waste your time and money watching this
Don't Waste your time and money watching this
User 479360
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That was a good part.
The movie wasn't a masterpiece, but it was definitely better than I'd expected and I enjoyed it. It took my mind off of things, and I like the cast.
Days of Heaven. I really enjoyed this but not for the story. I loved all the factory and farming insights. Malick definitely does a great job of putting you there because he shows so much random scenery to the point you feel like your taking things in like the cast is. The story just felt boring in comparison. I was more interested in seeing how farms worked back in the day and how the tractors operated.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Where is the GAF on film Twitter account when you need them.
Southside With You is rather delightful. Pleasantly engaging and directed with enough flair to be something special without being distracting, it's a charming romance that just so happens to be about our current First Family. Sumpter and Sawyers are both spectacular in their role, as you completely believe they're Michelle and Barack, while also, for the most part, forgetting who they will become. The script is constantly sharp, with the exception of a fifteen minute detour in the middle of the film which, though necessary, moves away from their heartfelt romance to a more-Barack focused flick. Southside With You is a wonderful romance and a really special movie all around, powered by a strong script and direction and even stronger performances.
UberTag
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I'm going into this hoping it'll turn out to be Before Sunrise with the Obamas. Or at least a close facsimile.
Speaking of, has anyone seen the new Criterion 4K remaster?
That's what i mean.
The guy can't get over his trauma in life, and essentially has the hope that an afterlife will (literally) magically fix everything.
If you don't believe in religion or afterlife, that's a pretty grim take, masqueraded as a happy ending, because the final part is essentially wishful thinking.
I know, that doesn't change the Christian interpretation of struggle & reward, that's at the basis of the ending, as well as at the basis of Christianity.
You suffer in life, you reap the benefits in the afterlife.
But i mean i'm not faulting it for it or anything like that, i was just pointing out how more grim the movie comes off if you don't believe in an afterlife.
There's no doubt that Malick films have a presence of Christian themes but I don't see their presence conforming in line with typical ideas of guilt, repression, penitence etc. Not to say that they aren't there but I think he presents them through a lens of humanism and some weird form of naturalism. The same is true of The Tree of Life. He doesn't put forth any ideas of a causal relationship between suffering and salvation. Like most of this other films, its about people coming to terms with an incomprehensible (maybe indifferent?) universe. Instead of taking a nihilistic view on this, he adopts a more optimistic view. This is what makes his films religious I guess, assigning such a quality to existence. The drawn connections behind the events happen to be incidental (kind of like Kieslowski).
Or at least, that's how I've come to view his films over the past 15 minutes.
Or at least, that's how I've come to view his films over the past 15 minutes.
Yes! I'm right there with you, movie was simply so delightful. The dialogue was exceptional. A highlight for me this year, and something different.
pauljeremiah
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As part of my local cinema club, we have screenings at one of my local cinema. Each screening is a mystery movie and we don't know what the film is till the film starts.
So last night's movie was, The Exorcist.
I have never seen this film before, much to the shock of most of my friends. So here are some thoughts about it.
The story is brilliantly told and I love how it is paced. 1970's hospitals are terrifying, and I love how the characters, including Fr Karras, trying to find a scientific understanding of what is happening to Regan.
The physical and practical effects all still hold up and look great.
I'm still trying to digest the film, so I may come back and add more thoughts to it.
So last night's movie was, The Exorcist.
I have never seen this film before, much to the shock of most of my friends. So here are some thoughts about it.
The story is brilliantly told and I love how it is paced. 1970's hospitals are terrifying, and I love how the characters, including Fr Karras, trying to find a scientific understanding of what is happening to Regan.
The physical and practical effects all still hold up and look great.
I'm still trying to digest the film, so I may come back and add more thoughts to it.
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