TheDude391
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I generally hate the third act CGI finales in these superhero films but I hope this one at least goes completely insane like Aquaman (one of the only times I enjoyed a third act battle). Seeing it tonight.
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This would be a dream come true if it could happen. I’ll be praying to the movie gods. It’d be great to see big budget experimental stuff again.
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Continued my Clint Eastwood directorial marathon. Finished the 1980s.
Bronco Billy - 9/10
Firefox - 6/10
Honkytonk Man - 10/10
Sudden Impact - 8/10
Tightrope - 7/10 (ghost directed by him)
Pale Rider - 8/10
Heartbreak Ridge - 6/10
Bird - 7/10
More in depth thoughts and ranking here:
Also rewatched the second and third Dirty Harry films:
Magnum Force - 8/10
The Enforcer - 6/10
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From the lighting and costumes it looks like a porn parody. So cheap looking.
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This movie kinda sounds super up my alley I can’t wait.
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8 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:
HBO executives are complete fucking cowards and the no-show of ANYONE in person with some lame excuse that the 2 main guys couldn't show due to "personal/family" commitments was a joke. They could have sent half a dozen others to do this, but they were terrified of facing exhibition in person.
Anyways, the scene from Dune was out of this world great. The scale of the film is beyond epic.
The Matrix got a full trailer and title with Christmas date locked in. It isn't moving.
King Richard looked great in extended footage and so did The Batman.
Didn’t other studios get booed by theatre owners? Cowardly but avoids that bad headline.
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So Seamus McGarvey had to step down as cinematographer due to scheduling and COVID stuff and on the IMDB page for NWH, there's no one listed for that role.
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36 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:
I rewatched Casino Royale and watched Quantum of Solace last night and both movies or so fucking good. Casino Royale an absolute masterpiece (the turn to romantic melodrama towards the end works so well) and Quantum of Solace is a lot more weird and brutal than I expected (probably why it's so divisive). Movie follows its own convuluted rhythm and feels very deliberately edited to really hone in this idea that Bond is just a chaotic killing machine (some really interesting crosscutting during the action scenes).
Watching Quantum back to back is the best way to see it, doesn’t work super well on its own. Casino is one of the best in the whole franchise and one of the great 2000s action films. No Time To Die looks like it could match it from what Fukunaga has been saying, a blend of that grounded deconstruction with classic Bond stuff being brought back again (megalomaniac villains, crazy gadgets and tech, evil lairs, etc.)
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MCU Spider-Man just isn't for me. Homecoming was fine and Keaton made the movie but FFH was dreadfully dull and this looks worse. Audiences will probably love it but it just looks like 2.5 hours of an overstuffed fan service mess. I also think that Sony probably had more creative control on this one as a result of the renegotiation, I don't think Feige would have jumped into Spiderverse so suddenly.
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Any word on reaction/reviews in Asian countries? Seen a lot of praise for the martial arts action and wuxia influences here but I’m curious how it’ll be received in places that are more familiar with those types of films.
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52 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:
Most likely it goes to Telluride (same as Sully).
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2021/8/9vl6nsk3tkfs90xhz8vsi6zwl0r5u7
Doesn't look like it but you never know.
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I was surprised it didn’t go to TIFF at least. I thought maybe the HBO Max day and date thing is affecting it but Dune is playing so.
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3 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:
I thought this was pretty lifeless. Lowery is best when he is playful and light (probably why his best film is a Disney film) but I find his contemplative stuff to be empty. Also surprisingly ugly film.
Edit: Adding onto the "ugly" stuff. Some nice compositions, but the movie just looks so muddy. First time I couldn't see parts of a movie properly in a completely dark cinema.
I saw it twice, first time was hard to see but second time at a newer theatre was fine. It’s a very dark, murky film (too much imo) but unfortunately if you get a theatre with a dim bulb, you’re out of luck.
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32 minutes ago, grim22 said:
Its kind of amazing that they gave everything the audience asked for to them in F9, and it was still so bad. Not sure what hook they can go with here anymore since Han is back, and they went to space.
In the minority but I liked F9 a lot. The way forward is to scale it back, moreso to 5/6 levels where its over the top and crazy but "grounded" enough in reality. Maybe bring back some of the street racing again (but I suspect that might be saved for the finale to go full circle).
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Started my Clint Eastwood directorial marathon earlier this week, I've made my way through all his 1970s work.
Ranking and reviewing them here: https://boxd.it/cYBaG
Play Misty For Me - 8/10
High Plains Drifter - 9/10
Breezy - 6/10
The Eiger Sanction - 5/10
The Outlaw Josey Wales - 8/10
The Gauntlet - 7/10
Also rewatched one of my favourite films, Dirty Harry - 10/10.
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Pig, Lamb and now Rooster. Great year for animal films.
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31 minutes ago, Madhuvan said:
Maybe it's time to stop the press. This wasn't needed.
"Kept coming out against Marvel"
Scorsese said it once, then made a follow up article to clarify his stance...2 years ago. Move on already, this is just sad and embarrassing.
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3 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:
July aka Western month, thanks Panda
*Amélie - 6/10
The Magnificent Seven - 6/10
Pyaasa - 7/10
Le Notti Bianche - 7/10
*Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - 8/10
*The Leopard - 7/10
*I Vitelloni - 6/10
Pinocchio - 8/10
Johnny Guitar - 9/10
The Emperor's New Groove - 9/10. Obviously the greatest thing Disney has ever done.
*Cloud Atlas - 6/10
Watch Out for the Automobile - 6/10
Stagecoach - 8/10
Destry Rides Again - 8/10
The Ox-Bow Incident - 8/10. Actually quite a bit better than that for 80% of its runtime, until the awful device with the letter that couldn't possibly sound more like a preachy Author's Message if the writer himself stepped into the frame, got on a soapbox and read it into the camera. A shame. The first hour is terrifying.
*Trainspotting - 7/10
My Darling Clementine - 9/10 [longer "pre-release" cut] Not a fan of what this ends up doing with Linda Darnell's character, but otherwise a nearly perfect hangout western I could watch for hours. Wouldn't surprise me if David Milch had the same thought once upon a time, and that's how we got Deadwood.
*The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 8/10
Red River - 8/10 [shorter cut with the narration] First hour's something of a drag, but it starts paying off in a big way once Clift takes charge. The ending is powerful in theory and almost works in practice, it's just hard to accept it given some of the things Wayne's character does in the lead-up to it. Has what is probably the greatest-ever reaction by a movie character to getting shot with an arrow.
The Gunfighter - 8/10
The Naked Spur - 8/10
The Searchers - 8/10. The first 45 minutes is pretty staggering, absolutely feeling like myth brought to life, which only makes the useless comic relief to come more bewildering. The romantic/melodramatic parts semi-work for me as contrast to the urgency of the main narrative (Life Goes On, etc.), and are helped by some emotionally raw work from Vera Miles, but still barely function on their own narratively. It's a testament to the fundamental power of Ethan's character and story, and to Ford's sense of control whenever he doesn't inexplicably lose it, that I still came away thinking of this as a great film.
Basic Instinct - 6/10
Seven Men from Now - 7/10
The Tall T - 8/10
3:10 to Yuma (1957) - 8/10, though I suspect I'm underrating it and can't wait to see it again. Biggest surprise of the month, a moody melancholy western with some breathtakingly beautiful stretches (everything with Glenn Ford and Felicia Farr as the barmaid), gratifying attention paid to character interactions above all else and an ending that actually makes sense unlike the remake's.
Forty Guns - 7/10
Decision at Sundown - 7/10
The comic relief in The Searchers is a hindrance but I believe was only in there to distract the censors from the violence. I did a first time watch of both versions of 3:10 to Yuma recently and yeah the remake’s ending makes zero sense and kinda ruins the rest for me.
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Liked it a lot, didn’t love it. The visuals were far too dim half the time which may have been for realism but it was too much. Great sound design and atmosphere.
I’m very confused at all the comparisons to Boorman’s Excalibur though, they’re probably just PR buzzwords but the two couldn’t be more different. -
Watched a lot of great stuff the last week:
The Heartbreak Kid 8/10
High Noon 8/10
Rio Bravo 10/10 - Discovered it earlier this year and seen it 3 times since, instant favourite and John Wayne’s best film.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 9/10
How Green Was My Valley 10/10 - Catching up on my John Ford and this is the best of his I’ve seen so far. Astoundingly beautiful film.
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1 minute ago, elcaballero said:
Count me in on the weak marketing train. WB has done very little to differentiate this from the last one, imo, except for highlighting James Gunn's name.
They waited too long to put "From the director of GOTG" in their trailers. The GA doesn't know who Gunn is or his "horribly beautiful mind".
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I thought the teaser for this looked decent but the more they show off of it, I've lost all interest. Rooting for Simu Liu though, loved Kim's Convenience.
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24 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:
This looks infinitely worse than the 2016 film and also feels kinda pretentious with how it's taking itself so seriously lol. It's obviously going for TFA vibes here which is the opposite direction for a sequel to a goofy comedy film.
I agree with you that banking on GB as some epic nostalgia mythology is bad and bizarre (the original is mostly SNL guys riffing) but it looks significantly better than the 2016 one.
Best Picture Predictions - 2021
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And if they bet on the wrong horse before festivals see them, they're saddled with the one they focused on. Doesn't make sense imo.