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[filmlover]

1 minute ago, The Last Panda said:

Honestly besides mother! and Spider-Man, I didn’t think his list was that bad (and even mother! I’ll give him props because it’s not a fanboy movie)

Though it's from a fanboy-friendly director.

[RandomCat]

4 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Take SMH and Apes out, and that's a pretty decent top 10, especially for his standards  

Pretty much (minus the entertaining part though). I will give him props for holding off on a TLJ rating until a rewatch though.

I'm easily entertained, tbh, but he's a lot better than a lot of the youtube review shit. It's not a bad list, it's just very much a geek standards playlist.

[The Panda]

7 minutes ago, Sand-omJC said:

Jahns is a geek reviewer, and while he's mildly entertaining, he doesn't really have much of anything to say. Pretty much like any geek reviewer. His top 10 seems to be just a list of pre-programmed hip choices. (though Wind River seems left field, but I don't know what it is)

 

Wind River is actually a great movie.  I’ve really liked everything Sheridan has done as a writer and director, so far (although I’ll give Villeneuve more credit for Sicario than Sheridan.  For some reason I’ve seen people talk about Sicario like it’s Sheridan’s movie and not Villeneuve’s, the style is much more Villeneuve than Sheridan)

[The Panda]

2 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Though it's from a fanboy-friendly director.

That’s true.  And my complaints about mother! come more from the realm that it’s falsely provocative.

 

It beats you over the head with its ideas, while trying to act like it’s subtle high art.  

[Dementeleus]

1 minute ago, The Last Panda said:

That’s true.  And my complaints about mother! come more from the realm that it’s falsely provocative.

 

It beats you over the head with its ideas, while trying to act like it’s subtle high art.  

 

I don't think mother! was trying to act subtle at all, in any way, shape, or form. 

[That One Girl]

1 minute ago, Lor San Tele said:

 

I don't think mother! was trying to act subtle at all, in any way, shape, or form. 

 

Subtlety ain't necessary for a film like that

[The Panda]

3 minutes ago, Lor San Tele said:

 

I don't think mother! was trying to act subtle at all, in any way, shape, or form. 

Subtle was probably a bad word to use.  Maybe provocative?  But I’d stick to the notion that it shoves its ideas in your face, meanwhile wanting you to walk away with things to digest.  I tend to find if a movie’s ideas are too blatant, it detracts from the experience as a whole for me, it doesn’t give you much to think through.

 

Nonetheless, I’ll still give it credit for being a unique movie.  I’d rather see mother! Top somebody’s list than Spider-Man: Homecoming, for instance.  Despite me giving mother! a D+ and Homecoming a B

[BoxOfficeZ]

For a Christmas movie I watched Scrooged which I found very enjoyable. Murray was excellent.

[That One Girl]

My Christmas movie was Wheelman.  Very Christmas-y film.

[The Panda]

My Christmas movie was Marjorie Prime, nothing screams the Holiday Spirit more than a film about your memory wasting away while an AI pretends to be your dead husband.

Edited December 26, 2017 by The Last Panda

[Barnack]

33 minutes ago, Lor San Tele said:

 

I don't think mother! was trying to act subtle at all, in any way, shape, or form. 

I think it was a bit too subtle with is main idea, maybe some did find they hit you on the nose with it (really ?), while many didn't understand it at all.

[Eric the Minion]

10 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:

Double Toasted spoiled Father Figures, and........ uh.......

 

 

[RandomCat]

Christmas movie was Remember the Titans. Don't ask me why, it was what TNT was playing.

[Barnack]

27 minutes ago, The Last Panda said:

But I’d stick to the notion that it shoves its ideas in your face, meanwhile wanting you to walk away with things to digest.  I tend to find if a movie’s ideas are too blatant, it detracts from the experience as a whole for me, it doesn’t give you much to think through.

Many didn't even got what the main ideas were, in that context it is hard to say it was too blatant. I kid you not when I say that some (at Screen Junkie) were piss 

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that it is all ok at the end because the artist create again, not seeming to get at all that humanity itself just completely die and what next form life would be in the post human earth world started.

 

Edited December 26, 2017 by Barnack

[WrathOfHan]

1 hour ago, filmlover said:

Though it's from a fanboy-friendly director.

Is Aronofsky really fanboy friendly? The dude wanted to make his own twist on Batman that would've fucked with all the lore  

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

Is Aronofsky really fanboy friendly? The dude wanted to make his own twist on Batman that would've fucked with all the lore  

But that lesbian scene in Black Swan, bro.

[AJG]

I, Tonya goes in the ‘its OK but i’ll never watch it again and I’ll probably forget it exists in 2 weeks’ pile.

[Kvikk Lunsj]

1 hour ago, WrathOfHan said:

Take SMH and Apes out, and that's a pretty decent top 10, especially for his standards  

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I do not think I have any of his movies in my top ten only a couple of them would make my top 20.

[RandomCat]

9 minutes ago, Darth Suburious said:

I do not think I have any of his movies in my top ten only a couple of them would make my top 20.

I think Blade Runner and Get Out are top 10 worthy.

[CoolioD1]

ok i lied a few more.