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50 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:
Holy shit, Ang Lee actually made HFR work.
That was my biggest fear. I detest 60 FPS - and all the other failed attempts.
120 FPS, I'm sure, will once again look wretchedly unnatural - and straight out of TV, which is instakill for any expensive movie on the big screen.
BUT - maybe 120 FPS is high enough to make a sizeable difference for the 3D action (never happened before): a difference so big that we are willing to pay the price of the TV look of the rest of the movie.
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9 hours ago, JB33 said:
Indeed, a great article. Pitt sounds genuinely interested in the advanced concepts in this film. I definitely get more of an Interstellar vibe than Gravity.
Interstellar <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Gravity
Watched Gravity 15 times - could hardly stomach the bad Kubrick imitation of late Nolan once.
Gravity even destroyed it at the BO: a rare occurrence of the stupid masses showing a bit of reason and taste.
Ad Astra is not Interstellar in any way. Interstellar even looked like shit. Not the case here.
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7 hours ago, Plain Old Tele said:
Mmmm, yeah, I agree.
@Water Bottle liked it more than I did. We both figure it’ll get a pretty mixed Cinemascore.
Come on, Tele - what did you expect?? As if there was a really good and coherent space sci-fi movie EVER?? Apart from Gravity, of course - that Cuaron movie was genuinely the eighth wonder of the world, watched it 15 times in cinemas.
Ad Astra always looked like there's a lot of "metaphysical" mumbo-jumbo thrown in, ala The Fountain. But the space parts alone should be worth multiple viewings - especially the Moon scenes.
Is there any other problem the Shay has not foreseen?
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Midway is a better Star Wars movie than The Last Jedi!!
No one understand special effects like Emmerich does. Welcome back, master!
Will see this at least three times - though I would have enjoyed the movie much more if the Americans got beaten to a pulp.
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4 hours ago, belligerent talking robot said:
are any Jedi or force users strippers?
Hustlers fails the Star Wars test
Actually, the MOST famous female Jedi took the FIRST chance she got to be a professional half-naked dancer - and was pretty LEWD about it.
Yeah, it was just a phase for her - but it is for 99% of strippers. It only works while they are young. That's why Jello and the Chinese aunt shouldn't even be in this movie.
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This is the polar opposite of a 4-quadrant movie.
Coloured female under 30ies are the only ones that will see this - but unfortunately it will be enough to make it a "hit".
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3 hours ago, Lordmandeep said:
I actually would like to watch this film later on (likely at home) as i like to see this business from a female perspective lol
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31 minutes ago, ban1o said:
LOL Scorcese and Soderbergh have made a career of films about criminals and lowlives but god forbid the film is about women lmao
Yeah, but I never understood them either.
The only movies about criminals I could like are the ones they end with their guts out of their bodies, dying in misery like the worthless scum they are. Anything else is glorifying the worst aspects of human nature - and should be despised.
And I very much doubt that those bitches here end their lives like that. I also have the sneaking suspicion that they are being glorified and humanized a great deal.
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1 minute ago, Lordmandeep said:
Lol reading the short story reminds me why I got out of this business asap.
Were you a hustler?
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6 minutes ago, Valonqar said:
You are wrong. The story is very interesting and they aren't lowest of life. They didn't kill, maim, etc anyone. They didn't steal from the poor. They are not heroes but they are not the Corleones either.
I am not wrong. I have dealt with hookers a lot in real life - and know how to deal with them. Try something like that in a country with real men = sleep with the fishes.
I also find Jell-o or whatever her name is incredibly unattractive in any possible way, not to speak of creatures like Cardi B. If I had made the mistake to go to this movie without checking - it would have ended really bad for everyone involved.
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1 hour ago, YourMother the Edgelord said:
OMG, what a magnificent, gorgeous movie it was indeed!
It is STILL in theaters here, so I'll just go see it again now, for the TWELFTH time.
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47 minutes ago, Valonqar said:
Read the story it's based on. I can't guarantee all the beats are there but short version of the story not the movie:
Wu is retired from stripping and interviewed by a journalist. She recounts that she worked at the bar, was treated like shit by drunk clients, and was low paid. So star stripper, Lopez, takes her under her wing and teaches her to become a stripper cause better pay. So Wu becomes a stripper too, makes more money but is still treated like shit. Eventually Wall Street crashes, times are tough and she and Lopez come up with the plan to make more money by pretending to be high class prostitutes, drugging their clients and charging their credit cards to up to $20,000. Since clients were wealthy Wall Street brokers, $20,000 wasn't much for them and the girls convinced them that charges were right for services they provided which clients couldn't remember (for they passed out after being drugged) but they agreed.
As the business boomed, the duo started to hire more girls but the duo kept dis-proportionally bigger cut of the loot which caused loyalty within the group to plummet. Wu emerged as the main planer and recruiter while Lopez reveled in spending on designer clothes and expensive cars which Wu didn't like for it attracted too much attention plus other girls figured that they weren't paid enough. So they started to clash.
In the meantime, men started to report to the police that a gang of stripper-hookers drugged them and charged their credit cards but nobody believed it until some guy made one of new girls to confess the scam and he taped the confession and sent it to authorities. Because drugs were involved, DEA took the case and arrested everyone. Girl immediately turned on each other to save their skin and there's even a funny moment (I hope they kept it in the movie) when DEA agent asks Wu and Lopez who was the ring leader and each pointed at the other.
Anyway, that was the end of Wu and Lopez friendship that was already on shaky legs during the business boom, as well as the end of the business itself. There were charges, prosecution, jail time and at the end we find out that Wu isn't in the business anymore nor she talks to Lopez.
I'm sure that movie's going to make it more uplifting and more BFF than the real story with glossing over how Wu and Lopez exploited other girls for low pay.Well, that is just terrible... a movie about the lowest of lowlifes?
Now I understand the critics saying you got no one to root for. LOL, you kidding? The Shay would like to strangle the hookers with his bare hands in the first 30 min. So - once again - what is the fucking point of this movie?!!
So glad my instincts screamed this is a terrible movie, just by looking at the "talent" involved. That is why you NEVER EVER listen to RT! Now I'll go spoil myself with the actual plot somewhere - and if they tried to portray the bitches as anything else than the murderous scumbag pigs they clearly are - there will be hell to pay.
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Can anyone even grasp this movie, what it actually is? Care to explain?
It looks, by all accounts, like something that should have 6% RT and scoop all the Razzies.
I could never watch such thing - but I wonder what scam they pulled to get good reviews.
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On 9/9/2019 at 3:46 PM, TMP said:
Dune will DESTROY West Side Story
Dune will destroy itself, nothing else.
It is a nonentity. Look no further than Mortal Engines, on a similar date last year.
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Did they really place this to open on 9/11?!! OMG...
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45 minutes ago, Asyulus said:
Looper?
Really, really hate it, thank you. So I am not just a Last Jedi hater, I hated RJ way before that - and was really worried for Episode 8 way before I saw it.
The Brothers Bloom was OK, I remember - but really nothing special. Let's hope this (KO) builds upon The Brothers Bloom.
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I honestly expect this movie to suck.
Dumb reviews haven't swayed me one bit. I always believe my experience and instincts over some hysterical or paid buffoons.
Having said that, RJ is a total disaster at sci-fi - and this is not sci-fi, so maybe he fucked it up less this time around.
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35 minutes ago, Avatree said:
I disagree, the 1969 moon footage still holds up today.
No, only some of it. And the part that holds is because it's all practical effects. They had no CGI technology in the late 1960ies (let alone space travel technology, lol). The director was also a big name. But part of it actually looks laughable, especially by today's standards.
What is interesting is they went with a highly fictionalised image of the Moon - it doesn't actually look any way like this* - but this artificial image has substituted the real one, and even Ad Astra uses it now in that scene.
* the Chinese rover photos from last year - probably the first real ones - show brown and earthly Moon, not the Apollo silver dusty guesswork.
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Why is no one here talking about the AWESOME Moon Rover Chase scene that leaked and took YouTube by storm?? Everyone there is talking about how great it looks - and it also looks much better than the fake Apollo moon rover reel, but that's because of 50 years of SFX of course.
You people disappoint me.
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6 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:
That is the best Bollywood movie EVER!!
Should have kept this in.
Shay can't wait for the sequels!
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38 minutes ago, TheDarkKnightOfSteel said:
So since his time is coming to an end...am I the only one who this that Craig was a terrible Bond?
He is the ONLY Bond, and there should be no more Bond movies.
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This beautiful movie just keeps giving.
Should have put this song at least over the credits (instead of that stupid Zayn cover).
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The Shay is only (but wildly) interested in Episode 9.
My poor ass, however, is still banned in the SW thread, I presume.
So if any good soul directs me to what events to anticipate (only connected to TROS), I'll be more than grateful.
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Did a bit more digging, so here's some easy data about
RECENT SUMMER OWs IN BULGARIA:
Tarantino 9 --- 17 000 tickets
Pikachu --- 4000 tickets (lol)
Aladdin --- 32 000 tickets (yay!!)
Toy Story 4 --- 6000 tickets!! (LOL! AHAHAHAHAH!!) - Funny fact, it actually lost the 1st place in its opening weekend to Annabelle 3, lol.
Spiderman 7 --- 18 000 tickets
Alita --- 16 000 tickets
Say what you will, but we obviously show MUCH better taste than the US (and Latin America) Yay for the man Quentin!
AD Astra | Sep 20 2019 | Sci Fi | Best movie of the year with a B- cinemascore? | Brad Pitt
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Tele, you old grouser: leave the movie be!! It's better than most of the others.
Also, I suspect the more you (passively) attack it - the more people will want to see it.