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Post by S. Griffin on Feb 22, 2021 19:40:19 GMT -5
Judas and the Black Messiah Very good, however problematic in that Bill O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) should not be a more compelling character than Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluya). Stanfield fit his role perfectly and may have even been too good. He’s just fucking amazing in this. Fred Hampton had big shoes to fill and Kaluya, while an excellent actor, is simply an adequate Fred Hampton. I’m not 100% sure if it was him or the direction, but there was something that should have been there and wasn’t. I heard Fred Hampton’s words, but I didn’t hear Fred Hampton. I felt like I was watching Daniel Kaluya try to be Fred Hampton, but I didn’t feel like I was watching Fred Hampton. Kaluya just doesn't have the right energy, I think. I had hoped Daniel Kaluya would do for Fred Hampton what Denzel Washington did for Malcolm X, and that didn’t happen. Jesse Plemons is quite good (no surprise there) as O'Neal's FBI handler, and the rest of the supporting cast was quite good, as well. 7/10
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Post by okcomputer on Feb 23, 2021 8:44:28 GMT -5
I really want to see that, but I don't subscribe to HBO GoMax+.
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Post by S. Griffin on Feb 24, 2021 18:03:38 GMT -5
I neglected to point out that Judas and the Black Messiah, like so many other movies from the last ten years or so, suffers from soundtrack issues where half the dialogue is too fucking quiet, and the music is probably too loud.
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Post by NecroDragon on Mar 8, 2021 14:44:43 GMT -5
^ That greatly hurt my enjoyment of Tenet, which was otherwise really cool.
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Post by S. Griffin on Mar 10, 2021 18:53:26 GMT -5
I don't know why so many people don't know how to mix fucking sound for movies anymore. It's annoying, and it's also kind of weird.
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Post by frinspar on Mar 11, 2021 19:33:22 GMT -5
Holy shit, Nomadland is easily the most depressing movie I've ever seen. I mean, fuck. There is absolutely not one second of joy in that entire film. Bittersweet is maybe the closest word for one or two very small moments, but it's otherwise totally bereft of good feelings, or any feelings really.
It's very good at being the thing that it is, but I really could have done without seeing it. I feel like the last scene every character has in it was their last time on the earth because they blew their fucking brains out the second the scene was over.
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Post by BeefEaster on Mar 11, 2021 21:09:53 GMT -5
I tried to watch it on hulu and couldn't make it through even half.
It's like the movie equivalent of walking around in soggy shoes.
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Post by frinspar on Mar 12, 2021 0:57:09 GMT -5
^ Ha! Perfect.
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Post by BeefEaster on Mar 12, 2021 18:50:53 GMT -5
I watched this new horror movie called come true about this girl in a sleep study and it's worth a watch just for the dream sequences alone.
Imagine those super creepy stop motion tool music videos but live action.
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Post by BeefEaster on Mar 31, 2021 8:59:11 GMT -5
KvG was pretty good.
The story was complete nonsense but the monster fightin' was off da hook yo.
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Post by S. Griffin on Mar 31, 2021 14:23:12 GMT -5
Bad Trip This is Eric Andre's roadtrip prank/stunt movie. I appreciate, that unlike Jackass, the pranks and stunts actually have a punchline to them, and the movie has a story and plot. Tiffany Hadish is just outstanding in this. Lil Rel is pretty damn good (although he may be a bit more out of his element than Hannibal Burress would have been), and Eric Andre is also frequently fucking great. There were one or two bits that I could have done without, but overall, this was really fucking funny. Even Mrs. Griffin laughed a lot. For what it is, it's quite good. It's no Borat or even Borat II, but for an Eric Andre movie, it lives up to expectations. Just be aware that Hannibal is NOT in this at all. Anybody expecting even so much as a cameo (I wasn't) will be disappointed in that regard. But anybody looking for some intelligently set up stupidity and fake blood and jizz will not be disappointed. 7/10
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Post by okcomputer on Apr 1, 2021 7:49:00 GMT -5
Godzilla v Kong: Dawn of Punching - 8/10
A brainless monster fight movie with too many subplots involving the human characters, and 90% of the dialogue is explaining the batshit-crazy stuff on the screen. I LOVED THIS MOVIE.
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Post by cougar42 on Apr 9, 2021 7:36:09 GMT -5
Oh, shit. Can I start doing this again? I have seen so many movies and I didn't have a place to be all snake about them!
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Post by frinspar on Apr 12, 2021 12:03:12 GMT -5
Thunder Force. Corny as all hell and with more plot holes and devices than you can imagine, but it was fine for some laughs. McCarthy always makes it amusingly awkward, and she and Bateman do have fun together. Plus, seeing him perform his surprise action feature in the climax damn near killed me. That was worth it on its own.
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Post by S. Griffin on Apr 12, 2021 15:44:24 GMT -5
^^^The trailer put me off more than any other trailer I've watched this year (to be fair, I've avoided a few trailers here and there). I saw a review that said it's "an action comedy written and directed by someone who neither understands comedy nor action." That's what the trailer looked like to me, so that was that.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 12, 2021 16:18:07 GMT -5
I hadn't heard of it until going to Netflix to watch something else and it was right there, so I hit play. Y'know, it really didn't have much in the way of action, it was very badly written with so much ignored or glossed over, and it was just very dumb. But I guess the dick jokes from McCarthy and Bateman were good enough at the time to get through it.
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Post by frinspar on Apr 18, 2021 13:26:01 GMT -5
Becky. 1 lawnmowered face out of 10.
Fucking dumb. I actually enjoyed the directing style and visual presentation, though it was too masturbatory with the gore. Someone has a fetish, or a cousin owed favors and who makes practical effects. The script was complete garbage. So lazy and thoughtless with whale-sized holes for every plot point, big and small. What's worse is that it was written as a direct setup to an assumed sequel. Everything this movie is is meant to push you to want to watch the next one, and it's so plainly obvious. Becky is now going to become an international child assassin, carrying a literal key that is supposed to release some mystical unknown white supremacy mechanisms on the world to correct all the woes of the pure white race. Or whatever. And she's going to have to fight to keep it out of the hands of Nazis meaner than Doug Heffernan. Or, she could drop it in a furnace and be done with it all. And herself along with it.
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Post by BeefEaster on Apr 18, 2021 21:10:20 GMT -5
I couldn't even make it 20 minutes into that movie.
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Post by BeefEaster on Apr 23, 2021 11:55:31 GMT -5
Mortal kombat was so dumb it was entertaining.
If it wasn't for the unintentional cheese it would be unwatchable though.
6/10
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Post by frinspar on Apr 23, 2021 18:05:17 GMT -5
^ Yeah. Something like that can't be taken seriously. It's a fucking game about ripping spines out. Should've have a comedian write the script.
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Post by S. Griffin on May 2, 2021 12:30:13 GMT -5
Mortal Kombat Not bad. Not good, either. Trades the camp of the 1995 movie for gore, harder violence, the word "fuck," and being very serious, which isn't necessarily for the better. It lacks a sense of fun. It also has waaaay too many fucking Aussies. 6/10
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Post by GhostRider5289 on May 2, 2021 23:01:20 GMT -5
I hated Cole McNobody. Added nothing that couldn't have been done with Johnny Cage. Plus the screen was so damn dark we couldn't see what was happening half the time.
Sub-Zero kicked all the ass though so that was awesome.
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Post by S. Griffin on May 2, 2021 23:34:03 GMT -5
I hated Cole McNobody. Added nothing that couldn't have been done with Johnny Cage. Plus the screen was so damn dark we couldn't see what was happening half the time. I didn't have a problem seeing things. I don't totally agree that Cole "added nothing that couldn't have been done with Johnny Cage." There's the whole parallel with his wife and kid to Scorpion's wife and kid, and without him, he and Scorpion don't tag team Sub Zero, because of their familial bonds, and it just doesn't seem like Johnny Cage's style. I also don't give a shit about any of that, couldn't give less of a shit about the character, and I thought his akana was silly and made no fucking sense in relation to the others. As for Sub Zero, I wanted to see him throw more freezing ice instead of making sharp icicles pretty much all the fucking time.
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Post by GhostRider5289 on May 3, 2021 0:30:27 GMT -5
I saw it at a drive-in. I don't know if it was the screen or the projector but something was messed up.
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Post by frinspar on May 3, 2021 11:14:37 GMT -5
Probably a crappy old bulb.
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Post by ravenmaniac on May 5, 2021 13:10:11 GMT -5
I saw it at a drive-in. I don't know if it was the screen or the projector but something was messed up. Maybe clean your windshield before you go next time.
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Post by S. Griffin on May 23, 2021 21:58:50 GMT -5
MK Spoilers I left out of my review, but I've been thinking about this...
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Don't read any further if you give a shit.............
It's not the biggest spoiler in the world if you think about it, because it involves Jax's robot arms.......
But seriously, avoid this if want to be completely surprised by this movie, which is just okay.
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What the fuck would Jax's akana have been if he hadn't had is arms torn off? Metal arms anyway, kinda similar to that stupid ass armor that Cole got?
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Post by frinspar on Jun 15, 2021 17:24:33 GMT -5
The Stand-In Drew Barrymore plays an alcoholic junkie version of a post-career Adam Sandler who is forced into rehab after the IRS digs into her. She scrounges up her old stand-in from her acting days, also played by Drew, and has her go to rehab for her.
It takes a few turns you think are going the other way, and it's not entirely awful. But it's bizarre and very uncomfortable the entire time. I dunno, it was a thing to watch and cable straight up eats it.
BlacKKKlansman It was good and entertaining. But it had a style to it that sometimes made it feel like a sitcom. I expected a laugh track or boos at times. It felt safer than some of Spike's other stuff. He could have gotten really basic with it, but it felt like he tried to remove some of that weight. The scene where Driver is in the bar meeting the klowns for the first time, they get so fired up using racial slurs and hate speech. And it comes with a barrage of laughter as aggressive as the language that the scene becomes a cartoon. Or, maybe that's just what Spike thinks a group of white racist fucktards are like when they get together. But it wasn't just that scene. Still, good movie. But toothless outside of Belafonte's awful tale and the real footage tacked onto the end of things that happened under T-boy the last few years.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 15, 2021 21:41:07 GMT -5
The Stand-In Drew Barrymore plays an alcoholic junkie version of a post-career Adam Sandler who is forced into rehab after the IRS digs into her. She scrounges up her old stand-in from her acting days, also played by Drew, and has her go to rehab for her. It takes a few turns you think are going the other way, and it's not entirely awful. But it's bizarre and very uncomfortable the entire time. I dunno, it was a thing to watch and cable straight up eats it. BlacKKKlansman It was good and entertaining. But it had a style to it that sometimes made it feel like a sitcom. I expected a laugh track or boos at times. It felt safer than some of Spike's other stuff. He could have gotten really basic with it, but it felt like he tried to remove some of that weight. The scene where Driver is in the bar meeting the klowns for the first time, they get so fired up using racial slurs and hate speech. And it comes with a barrage of laughter as aggressive as the language that the scene becomes a cartoon. Or, maybe that's just what Spike thinks a group of white racist fucktards are like when they get together. But it wasn't just that scene. Still, good movie. But toothless outside of Belafonte's awful tale and the real footage tacked onto the end of things that happened under T-boy the last few years. Spike Lee doesn't have a clue what white people are like at all, racist or otherwise.
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Post by okcomputer on Jun 18, 2021 8:58:45 GMT -5
It's been a while since I've seen Black Klansman, but I love it. And I think the depiction of the white people in the movie is intentionally cartoonish, since they're all either cops or Nazis (but I repeat myself...).
It's a movie based on a true story of a Black cop who took advantage of the Klan being really fucking stupid, and it has that incredibly cathartic scene where a racist white lady accidentally blows up her racist husband and his racist buddies. But then to keep things from falling too far into buffoonery, there's the bit with Harry Belafonte telling the story of Jesse Washington that lands like a sledgehammer. And the ending montage of actual footage of the murder of Heather Heyer and other examples of how the fight continues and must continue... it's pretty damn incredible filmmaking.
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