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Don't Look Up

I spent some time w/ a dear friend over New Years, and the first couple of days of the year we didn't much leave the house and just perused the TV. This was the first thing on her Netflix recommendations. I went in with somewhat mixed impressions but it delivered. Obviously the jokes were low hanging fruit, but they were executed quite well. Not sure why but Jonah Hill was the stand out for me.
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A Face In The Crowd
The first movie role Andy Griffith had, and he was totally unlike anything from any other movie and tv series he was ever in. He stars as Lonesome Rhodes, a guy found by a local radio show host in a jail and rockets to national stardom while being not such a great guy when the camera isn't on him. He plays the role so perfectly you'd never think he'd go on to do a lot of comedy in his career.
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Silen Night, Deadly Night - 6.5/10
Expected more and more convincing gore; also, death scenes where people are shot/ stabbed etc. and straight away die (often with a shittily acted shocked look on their face) have become a pet peeve of mine, and this film is extremely guilty of it. I liked the satirical aspects, but as a film, it was rather clumsily made ("Punish! Puniiiiiish!"). It was only about 85 minutes long and still felt a bit drawn out. No idea why it has the kind of cult status it has.
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ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:No idea why it has the kind of cult status it has.
I think it's more the sequel with the cult following.

"Garbage day!" *waggles eyebrows*
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Mischief Maker wrote:
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote:No idea why it has the kind of cult status it has.
I think it's more the sequel with the cult following.

"Garbage day!" *waggles eyebrows*
Hahaha, I'd assumed that there was no reason at all to watch the sequel due to the rehashing of half of the first part - just watched the garbage day-scene on youtube, guess I was wrong as fuck.
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I saw Don't Look Up as well. Shit's pretty funny. It could have been edited down a bit (or a lot) but obviously Adam McKay has earned 'final cut' at this point. Jonah Hill was a highlight for sure. 'that molly I took is kicking in right now, I timed that shit perfectly'. Cate Blanchette and Tyler Perry were inspired casting choices. Make sure not to miss the post credit scenes.
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The Town - Didn’t think this was too bad. Heist movie with a twist. Not too bad.
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scrilla4rela wrote:I saw Don't Look Up as well. Shit's pretty funny. It could have been edited down a bit (or a lot) but obviously Adam McKay has earned 'final cut' at this point. Jonah Hill was a highlight for sure. 'that molly I took is kicking in right now, I timed that shit perfectly'. Cate Blanchette and Tyler Perry were inspired casting choices. Make sure not to miss the post credit scenes. I converted this masterpiece via a very good and reliable online converter which can change any video formats and now it perfectly fits the resolution of my iPhone. So I saved about 2 gb thanks to converting.
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The Wedding Singer: ***

Another one in the "RomComs my Wife Picked" category. Normally Adam Sandler is pretty high on my list of "actors I cannot stand" (occupying a spot just below the one permanently occupied by Jim Carrey and a bit above Will Ferrell) but he's surprisingly tolerable in this one alongside Drew Barrymore, even if he looks like he stole his hairstyle from Full House era John Stamos. Pretty predictable plot (Sandler plays the titular wedding singer who gets stood up at his own wedding, and starts helping Drew Barrymore's Designated Love Interest character plan a wedding to a sleazy rich loser she's pretty much guaranteed to ditch at the first available opportunity) but with a rather ridiculous ending. Oddly enough, the most memorable character in this one may be the drunkard who makes a relatively brief appearance near the end of the movie played by Carmen Filpi, a longtime character actor with a long history of playing old guy/bum/drunkard characters on movies, TV and commercials dating back to the late Sixties.
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Wedding SInger is hilarious. Definitely one of Sandler's better ones. A friend and I quote it all the time -- and Steve Buscemi's 2 scenes are excellent. Sure it's predictable, but who the fuck cares. Even John Lovitz's little cameo is memorable.
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Jumanji: The Next Level: **

Unnecessary sequel to the 2017 Jumanji reboot. You get two new characters (Danny Devito and Danny Glover for what I assume to be no other reason than "the checks cashed"), 4 new levels, a new villain, some sort of weird body-swapping mechanic, and a flimsy excuse plot to somehow get everyone trapped in the game again. In other words it's DLC for the 2017 Jumanji movie, only they're charging full price for it.
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Recommendation from a friend. Currently on HBO Max. Can't believe I'm saying this but I really liked it. Jessica Chastain was excellent. If you love the cringe worthiness of televangelists in the US, this is right up your alley. Costume and makeup people killed it as well.
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I'm not much for Romcoms, but I happened upon one just because of the cast.

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(Juliet, Naked)

Ethan Hawke plays a semi-retired/washed-up indie musician, and the main character who's boyfriend has an unhealthy obsession with him winds up getting involved with Hawke, much to the boyfriend's immense annoyance, especially since she flat-out hates his music.

It's a bit by-the-numbers, but has some solid acting, and avoids a few annoying tropes. Mostly.

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My favorite movie of the year, by a mile, was Licorice Pizza.
(Runner up: The Green Knight)

PTA still has it, definite must-watch, his best since Magnolia.
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Ah fuck me. I checked out Alamo a week ago and saw tix for Groundhog Day. Passed them up at the time and now I regret it.

Always next year.
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Mad God - 9/10
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Jesus Christ on a stick, this shit is intense. If you like trippy films and/ or stop motion animation, you need to see this film.
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cj iwakura wrote: My favorite movie of the year, by a mile, was Licorice Pizza.

PTA still has it, definite must-watch, his best since Magnolia.


Just saw it last night. I loved it. It's probably my favorite movie of his all around. The cinematography is incredible. The pacing is perfect. I've heard reports from others that they didn't dig into the story that much, but it's really there if you can absorb the filmmaking with the plot. It's French New Wave kind of good, but set in mid 70's LA with fake terrible people that you would hate in real life brought out as being feeling and human and lovable. See it in a theater if you can because the shots are really important for this one. It's like a Wong Kar Wai kind of thing where a lot of the story information is encoded in the film language, and it's so subtle that you won't get all the emotion unless you have that projector-in-a-dark-room experience.
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The new Matrix gave me diarrhea... sitting on the toilet was more fun.
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Started Cloud Atlas and after forty minutes in I don’t really have much interest in finishing it.

Hell or High Water. I didn’t really care much for this one either. Really slow movie that doesn’t have much happening.
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Vexorg wrote:The Wedding Singer: ***

Another one in the "RomComs my Wife Picked" category. Normally Adam Sandler is pretty high on my list of "actors I cannot stand" (occupying a spot just below the one permanently occupied by Jim Carrey and a bit above Will Ferrell) but he's surprisingly tolerable in this one alongside Drew Barrymore, even if he looks like he stole his hairstyle from Full House era John Stamos. Pretty predictable plot (Sandler plays the titular wedding singer who gets stood up at his own wedding, and starts helping Drew Barrymore's Designated Love Interest character plan a wedding to a sleazy rich loser she's pretty much guaranteed to ditch at the first available opportunity) but with a rather ridiculous ending. Oddly enough, the most memorable character in this one may be the drunkard who makes a relatively brief appearance near the end of the movie played by Carmen Filpi, a longtime character actor with a long history of playing old guy/bum/drunkard characters on movies, TV and commercials dating back to the late Sixties.
wedding singer is really good and although I get that sandler sentiment, I really enjoy him in both that and punch drunk love.

your post also reminded me that I watched a romcom recently with one of those actors that people hate/love, moonstruck (nicolas cage and cher), which ended up being one of my favorite movies in the genre
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I'm not a Sandler fan, but I loved the Wedding Singer and Happy Gilmore. Absolute high water marks for him.

I saw Punch Drunk Love in the theater and I didn't get into it. I felt like it was over-worked and the pacing sucks. Bored stiff the whole time for me.
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MOSQUITO FIGHTER wrote:Started Cloud Atlas and after forty minutes in I don’t really have much interest in finishing it.

Hell or High Water. I didn’t really care much for this one either. Really slow movie that doesn’t have much happening.
The second one is worth holding out for. It really pays off later on.
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye

A biography with good actors and a number of really touching scenes, but a disappointing lack of detail in the descent of the characters into moral corruption. I suspect the original documentary the film is based on would be better.
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Just saw Moonfall. It's not as bad as critics say it is, but not that good either. It was average. But what peeved me the most is when the movie kept cutting back to Jo and Brian's family members on Earth, the same problem with Independence Day: Resurgence when that movie kept cutting back to Julius and the bus. At least there was a car chase during that moment.
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Django VS Django 8/10
Really well made documentary that has Quentin Tarantino, Franco Nero and Ruggero Deodato talk about Sergio Corbucci's Westerns mainly. I was surprised that Tarantino's ramblings weren't annoying me in the least, he gives a very good overview and analysis of Corbucci's films.
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Don't Look Up: Better than I expected.

It's the story of a trio of well-meaning but ultimately flawed human scientists desperately trying to get the word out about a planet-killing (but preventable) comet heading straight for Earth, and running head-first into the perverse incentives driving our government, media, and big-tech.

Their flawed human responses to the resulting insanity is not the preach-a-thon I've heard the film described as by its detractors. Though the last word I'd describe the film as is "subtle."
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Don't look up - 5.5/10
I'm firmly in the "the comedy fell flat/ the satire was on the nose and shallow"-camp. Enjoyed Leo Dicaprio's great acting but not much else. Was an hour too long as well. Sorry to say this, but it came across as a satire for simpletons.
Also fuck Jonah Hill, what an unfunny dunce.
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Ruthless People: ***1/2

1986 film from the Zucker Abrahams Zucker trio best known for Airplane! and a number of other slapstick movies from the eighties, although this one is a dark comedy rather than a slapstick movie. A rich fashion designer (Danny DeVito) finds that his wife (Bette Midler) has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom by a desperate couple (Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater) whose ideas he stole and got rich off of, unaware that said fashion designer was already having an affair and plotting to murder their kidnap victim for her much larger fortune. The kidnappers turn out not to be very good at kidnapping, while Danny DeVito's character keeps trying to get the kidnappers to kill his wife off while trying to avoid suspicion.

Overall, it gets just a little too crowded with plots and subplots (it seems like everyone gets mixed up in some scheme, including the police) but Danny DeVito gives one of his better performances in this one, and it's worth at least one watch. Also, the house the couple lives in might just be the most 80s thing ever seen on a screen.
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The Conjuring 2 - 6/10
None of those new school softcore horror films (The Nun etc.) from the last ten years have been of any interest to me, so I haven't seen any of it. Was kinda forced to watch TC2 with a bunch of horror nerds, but was pleasently surprised at how old fashioned it was and how thoroughly it created atmosphere (it was merely atmospheric though, not scary in the least; I realize this is subjective, one of the guys found the film super scary). Last half hour was the usual overdramatic fare and included idiotic scenes and dialogue. Meh.
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You know what's been one of the biggest tragedies of recent film history? Pascal Laugier, the maniac who made Martyrs and Incident in a Ghostland, was working on a Hellraiser remake (!!), but since the studio kept interfering too much, he threw in the towel. FUCK. It might have had the potential to be the best horror film of all time.
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Moonfall.
It's a very dumb movie, with hideous cliché characters, literally a dozen obvious plot holes at minimum [some of which would take no effort to fix, while others would require more substantial rewrites], and quite a bit of corny dialogue. The situations depicted throw physics to the wind [which is fine, honestly], despite having had a surprisingly decent summary of the actual physics of what would happen beforehand.
It is a total C-movie, but with an obscenely high budget.

...but god damn it, I had fun watching it.
It takes a little bit longer than I'd like to get to the action, and maybe gets into the action too quickly after that if you get what I mean, but then it's a pretty consistent sequence of setups and setpieces after that, which is about what I expected from this kind of movie.
I got to see it with a buddy, and we were the only two customers in the theater, period [honestly, I was amazed that the place was still open lol], so we got to talk shit about it the entire time. We made jokes before going in about how the moon was "exactly the right distance from the Earth and the Sun in an eclipse" [eg, too close, and you can't see the corona of the Sun, too far, and you don't block out the Sun] and giggled like morons when that bit got mentioned.
I'm still smiling. We kept trying to think of how dumb things could get, and it kept meeting our expectations.
The bits on the ground were often patently nonsense [why did they just stand get out and look at the moon that one time lmao, they were driving], and admittedly detracted a little from the main team, but it was reasonably handled and you had some cool set-pieces like when the group on the ground were fighting the bandits with the moon overhead, so the gravity was all weird.
It also had some really nice looking shots.
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we also kept trying to figure out what was going to happen, my buddy expected something like in Metal Black or Gurren Lagann, where we saw a fake moon and the real moon was hidden
when the day was finally saved, the moon bounced off the Earth [kinda] lmao, it hit a mountain just as it was set to re-ascend to the sky
everything should be turbo-screwed, but like, the moon is full of futuristic hyper-technology, and that's the note the movie ends on
Kinda wish we got to see it in IMAX, but there weren't any more showings past the first week apparently. Lame.
It bombed absurdly hard though, so I guess I couldn't expect theaters to keep running it in IMAX.
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