Movies you've just watched

[Mischief Maker]

Pride Month is the best time to rewatch Top Gun!

[GaijinPunch]

Just a walk in the park, Kazansky.

[Mischief Maker]

I can't believe the second round theatrical release of Morbius bombed again!

The name was blowing up on social media, how could it not be box office gold???

When, oh when will it be Morbin' Time in America?

[GaijinPunch]

I don't quite get how that worked. Do I have this correct?

- Movie comes out - does terrible
- Removed, presumably available on streaming
- People freak the fuck out on the internet an demand it go back to the theater
- Bombs again.

???

[Mischief Maker]

I don't quite get how that worked. Do I have this correct?

- Movie comes out - does terrible
- Removed, presumably available on streaming
- People freak the fuck out on the internet an demand it go back to the theater
- Bombs again.

???

Not quite:
- Movie gets hyped by Sony as the next big thing for years as it suffers delay after delay.
- Movie comes out - does terrible
- Removed,
- People start memeing on overdrive.
- Someone at Sony sees this meme:

Spoiler

- Sony re-releases, expecting all the press from these "It's Morbin' Time!" memes to pay off.
- Bombs again.
- Memelords online laugh their asses off.

[GaijinPunch]

Good grief. What a bunch of idiots.

[Vexorg]

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore:

I can't imagine anyone but the diehard Potterheads are watching these movies anymore. I never saw The Crimes of Grindelwald so I'm probably missing some context, but between Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the Fantastic Beasts series the Wizarding World seems to be well into diminishing returns territory by now. I'm sure they'll keep dragging this one on as long as it makes money for (and I'm sure they're going to start getting into Tom Riddle / Voldemort's origin story, which should make these films rather less family friendly) but this one's probably safe to pass on for most people. As for us, my wife abandoned it with about 40 minutes left, and I rarely see her not finish a movie.

The Amazing Spider Man: **1/2

I've watched the Tobey Maguire Spiderman films plenty of times (not a big fan) but after watching No Way Home recently it occurred to me that I haven't seen the Andrew Garfield ones. Better than I was expecting it to be based on reputation, but it still feels a bit half-baked at times and spends too much time rehashing the origin story again. One of the advantages of the MCU Spider Man movies is that they just completely skipped the origin story part and had Tom Holland show up fully formed in a completely unrelated movie, thus saving us from having to watch them kill off Uncle Ben yet again (the same could be said for all the various Batman incarnations over the years. Just how many dead parents does Bruce Wayne really need anyway?) and there's no shortage of dead parents and/or father figures to go around in this one.

[vol.2]

The Amazing Spider Man: **1/2
Better than I was expecting it to be based on reputation, but it still feels a bit half-baked at times and spends too much time rehashing the origin story again.

Agreed. Though I didn't like Garfield as much as I liked the supporting cast. Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field really great job from all of them.

I thought the first movie was the better Garfield movie by far, but I was still happy to see Jamie Fox come back in the new movie.

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I thought the first movie was the better Garfield movie by far, but I was still happy to see Jamie Fox come back in the new movie.

Reading all posts really helps. I kept thinking you were talking about the CGI Garfield movies, and that Jamie Fox was in the sequel. I'm going insane.

[vol.2]

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I thought the first movie was the better Garfield movie by far, but I was still happy to see Jamie Fox come back in the new movie.

Reading all posts really helps. I kept thinking you were talking about the CGI Garfield movies, and that Jamie Fox was in the sequel. I'm going insane.

[vol.2]

Floating Weeds, Yasujirō Ozu 1959

10/10

Saw this at the local theater in a new restoration on Monday night. Rarely does a film hit on all fronts like this one. Super real cinematography, to the point where the shots felt 3 dimensional; the colors and lighting were just perfect. Acting was top notch, and the intense drama and subject matter of the film is totally relatable in 2022 as it was in 1959. Ozu has such a gift for taking the hardest and most difficult things in life and showing them in a human light; he shows us how decisions we make both impact our lives and change its course, but also how those decisions are not always big ones and that there is far more to be part of and embrace than the roles we seem to be given.

[emphatic]

What Is A Woman? 4/5

Very entertaining documentary. 98% public score on Rotten Tomatoes and 0% critic score.

[Mischief Maker]

What Is A Woman? 4/5

Very entertaining documentary. 98% public score on Rotten Tomatoes and 0% critic score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL7UStivFHY

[xxx1993]

Eraser: Reborn. Pretty solid remake of the 1996 action thriller for a direct-to-video movie. Dominic Sherwood may not be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I still liked it.

[emphatic]

What Is A Woman? 4/5

Very entertaining documentary. 98% public score on Rotten Tomatoes and 0% critic score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL7UStivFHY

So you've watched it too but didn't like it? Or what's your point?

[Hoagtech]

What Is A Woman? 4/5

Very entertaining documentary. 98% public score on Rotten Tomatoes and 0% critic score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL7UStivFHY

So you've watched it too but didn't like it? Or what's your point?

I got halfway through it. Walsh’s voice is kinda deep and lulls me to sleep.

Welcome to the free thinker side. I’m glad we’re not all sheep around here

[emphatic]

Welcome to the free thinker side. I’m glad we’re not all sheep around here

I see you and appreciate your line of thinking.

[Mischief Maker]

Welcome to the free thinker side. I’m glad we’re not all sheep around here

I see you and appreciate your line of thinking.

People were saying the exact same thing when Ben Stein's documentary came out.

It's always a huge conspiracy to control your thought, but you... you're Neo, taking the red pill.

A red pill that disassociates him not only from the rigid social role the system placed him into, but also the body it claimed was his. This was followed by a protracted period in which he slowly adapted and grew into his "true" body with a small support network of people on the outskirts of the system, away from the creature comforts of the dominant paradigm but at least living their truth with their own chosen names.

Of course when Neo returns to the system in his true identity to open people's eyes to "a world without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible," he is relentlessly pursued by an agent of the system whose signature line is leaning really hard into dead-naming him.

[EmperorIng]

My mate tells me that the new Top Gun is even more gay than the original. Could this be possible???? Is this yet another gift to pride month from Tom Cruise?

[BIL]

Welcome to the free thinker side. I’m glad we’re not all sheep around here

I see you and appreciate your line of thinking.

People were saying the exact same thing when Ben Stein's documentary came out.

It's always a huge conspiracy to control your thought, but you... you're Neo, taking the red pill.

Interestingly enough, the poles appear to have been reversed. Now we have the (often quite fantatical) evangelists of a post-dimorphic (edit: wrote "post-dysmorphic" - not a freudian slip, it's just late here!) humanity bewailing the thoroughly secular notion of men and women being immutably different at a biological level.

Faith vs reason, always good for a laugh. At least when you're at safe distance! (unlike a woman locked up with a hulking man in a wig who rapes her LMAO)

As this new orthodoxy is pushed, the silent majority will become gradually less silent, and you will see unassuming, formerly disinterested little men like this guy popping up more frequently (your wife... chased you out of your own house?* ). Because this isn't a comfortably distant "where are we from," ripe for shitty navel-gazing ala Prometheus (expert thread tie-in ), but the discomfortingly immediate "what are we" with a side of "where are we going."

I've not read Matt Walsh's book or seen his film, but I do enjoy seeing pampered white people calling for his assassination on the twatter. Terminal violence and/or e-drama junkie.

*haha no I get it. I've done the same. it's a very innocent, charmingly English way of things. I'm 90% sure he's not a cuck or anything! It's just I'm from the Anglosphere's #1 murder hotspot full of ultra-violent impoverished black people whose openly murderous homophobia is tacitly endorsed by the highest corridors of power, so I still have a knee-jerk "JEEESUS, THE MAN WHIP LMAO" response, you know.

[Mischief Maker]

Interestingly enough, the poles appear to have been reversed. Now we have the (often quite fantatical) evangelists of a post-dysmorphic humanity bewailing the thoroughly secular notion of men and women being immutably different at a biological level.

Faith vs reason, always good for a laugh. Until a woman gets locked up with a hulking man in a wig who rapes her, LMAO!

Or when the parents of a trans kid take them to a Texas hospital that reports the parents to government investigators because the kid has hormones in their medical history. LOL! Nothing says "free thought" like the gender gestapo!

So the combined anti-trans forces of the state, religious orthodoxy, and many powerful billionaires in the media are "secular," but friends and family members who tweet in support of someone coming out of the closet are the "evangelists" here?

The funny thing is the whole trans panic whipped up for this current election cycle is literally a Mad-Libs find-replace of the old propaganda about the gay agenda corrupting our youth from previous election cycles.

As this new orthodoxy is pushed, the silent majority will become gradually less silent, and you will see unassuming little men like this guy popping up more frequently

An organized group of people and bots giving a fancy restaurant 1-star reviews? Like an organized group of people and bots giving 5-star rotten tomatoes reviews to an anti-trans documentary funded by the literal evangelical billionaire Wilks brothers?

[BIL]

Interestingly enough, the poles appear to have been reversed. Now we have the (often quite fantatical) evangelists of a post-dysmorphic humanity bewailing the thoroughly secular notion of men and women being immutably different at a biological level.

Faith vs reason, always good for a laugh. Until a woman gets locked up with a hulking man in a wig who rapes her, LMAO!

Or when the parents of a trans kid take them to a Texas hospital that reports the parents to government investigators because the kid has hormones in their medical history. LOL! Nothing says "free thought" like the gender gestapo!

I have to take more damning view of this depraved monstrosity and men like him being given succour - and victims - by one government, than another displaying an abundance of caution at a potential Kira Bell assembly line. Or disassembly line, I suppose.

So the combined anti-trans forces of the state, religious orthodoxy, and many powerful billionaires in the media are "secular," but friends and family members who tweet in support of someone coming out of the closet are the "evangelists" here?

Yes. "Men and women aren't interchangeable, keep your son out of my daughter's restroom" is as mundanely universal a cause as it gets. State-enforced flights of fantasy and/or insanity (see Loudon County dad dogpiled by obedient pigs) are effectively how several of humanity's major religions hit it big. This particular church is simply one of the fatally-overreaching ones, doomed to fail.

The funny thing is the whole trans panic whipped up for this current election cycle is literally a Mad-Libs find-replace of the old propaganda about the gay agenda corrupting our youth for previous election cycles.

As with the earlier Darwin v Creationism, no. Maybe in your Bible-thumping (?) patch of Burgerland, the old gay panic never went away. It certainly didn't in my own backwards West Indian shithole. All who deviate from the strictest heterodoxy are fair game for anything from corrective rape up to murder by torture, if the local badmen find out or even suspect. Swathes of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South Asia are similar, largely because Islam, though Christianity most definitely has its zealots, too. You often see little patches of such intolerance taking root in England, for reasons that will be obvious to anyone familiar with the country's recent immigration practices.

(leading to my favourite IDPOL matchup of Muslims vs THE GAYZ )

In the Anglosphere, and the West at large? You must be joking. The place is gay as fuck, God bless it. Those "Sharia Patrols" get stamped out, fast. Driven back into their native enclaves, at best. Nobody in the mainstream is equating snipped dicks, lopped tits and raped kids with grown-ass Adam and Steve tying the knot, outside of the aforementioned backwaters. This is a unique development that will draw the attention of busy, disinterested, thoroughly modern John and Jane Doe, who don't care whose ass you're plowing, as long as its owner consents, and you don't try to teach their five year-olds about it.

As this new orthodoxy is pushed, the silent majority will become gradually less silent, and you will see unassuming little men like this guy popping up more frequently

An organized group of people and bots giving a fancy restaurant 1-star reviews? Like an organized group of people and bots giving 5-star rotten tomatoes reviews to an anti-trans documentary funded by the literal evangelical billionaire Wilks brothers?

Raped daughters and castrated sons cross all social boundaries imaginable - there will be millions of whitebreads across the spectrum of religiosity, from bible-thumping to flatly atheist, balking at what amounts to coerced denial of observable truth.

I'm not a gambling man, in the least, but I'd happily wager the backlash you're concerned with will only intensify, as more randos find themselves exposed to the lunatic fringe, whether by flopping cocks in girls' changing rooms, or bricks hurled through the windows of non-compliant businesses, or stories of the same. For all the burning twatter vitriol he attracts, Johnny The Walrus is never going to trip that collective third rail, the way Karen The Transgender Rapist and his pal Kira The Depressed Chick With A Dick will.

[Mischief Maker]

flopping cocks

Maybe we should relocate this discussions to the politics thread. All I wanted to say what that movies with wildly uneven critic/audience scores due to mass upvoting campaigns by psychotic fandoms are not unprecedented.

I got halfway through it. Walsh’s voice is kinda deep and lulls me to sleep.

Shit, this guy's in favor of the film's politics and he couldn't even stay awake. 10/10 sweep, really?

[BIL]

IIRC, Chappelle's Sticks & Stones displayed a similarly stark critic/audience split. I'm sure there's an element of catharsis to these things.

And ofc, people in general love telling professional critics to eat shit. I know I do!

Well anyway, cocks is a great segue back to the apparent gayness of the new Top Gun

My mate tells me that the new Top Gun is even more gay than the original. Could this be possible???? Is this yet another gift to pride month from Tom Cruise?

[emphatic]

Thanks for being a reasonable being, BIL. And not a bigoted conspiracy nut.

[BIL]

The only nut around here is the massive one I'm gonna bust if this is on the Top Gun 2 soundtrack

[BryanM]

I freakin' love Richard Ayoade. He did such a great job as Dean Learner.

[BIL]

A national treasure, is Mr. Ayoade! That whole generation of British comic actors and/or writers who came up roughly around Chris Morris in the early 90s through early 00s are, really. Great decade for UK television and radio.

[vol.2]

Absolutely. Ayoade is hilarious, and Garth Marenghi was amazing. Also a fan of The Mighty Boosh.

[null1024]

Got to see Top Gun Maverick. It's pretty good! Has its fair share of callbacks, but handled that pretty well. It's all capped off by a very cool Ace Combat-like mission [to the point where I'm genuinely trying to remember which mission in which game is closest ]. Had a few really odd moments [like the opening bit where he's a test pilot lol -- how did Maverick even get that position lmao], but overall, good stuff.

Spoiler

God, seeing Iceman and Maverick together there hit me super hard.
I was extremely glad to see Val there on the big screen, especially given everything he's been going through.
Also, it felt a bit odd going from the picture-perfect ending of OG to seeing how much Maverick kept screwing up to where he's at in this sequel, even if it's all entirely believable for him and not actually character assassination.