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I just finished Godzilla: King of the Monsters. It was a massive improvement over the previous movie, which was a boring, overly serious slog. The movie is noticeably dumber than the previous one, but I think that plays to the film's strengths as it focussed more on giant monsters fighting each other. Some of the dialogue here was unintentionally humorous at times. But as was the case previously, the film suffers from taking itself too seriously and trying to get us to care about people that aren't worth caring about. There's one character who does something unforgivably evil and insane and is given a redemption arc that felt completely unwarranted.

I'm kind of baffled as to why this movie has a lower RT and IMDB score than the previous Godzilla movie. It's still mindless and shallow, but decently entertaining when it isn't trying to get us to empathize with its human characters.
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Those Who Wish Me Dead was... not that good.
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Power Rangers 2017. Hated every moment of this soulless, unfunny, obnoxious corporate bullshit.
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Monster Hunter is one of the silliest movies ever made, and I mean that as high praise.

Modern military fighting dragons, Milla dual wielding lightning blades, and Ron Perlman slamming a FIRE HAMMER INTO THE GROUND, what's not to like?

Oh, and cats. It has cats!

Well, cat.
Ajora wrote:I just finished Godzilla: King of the Monsters. It was a massive improvement over the previous movie, which was a boring, overly serious slog. The movie is noticeably dumber than the previous one, but I think that plays to the film's strengths as it focussed more on giant monsters fighting each other. Some of the dialogue here was unintentionally humorous at times. But as was the case previously, the film suffers from taking itself too seriously and trying to get us to care about people that aren't worth caring about. There's one character who does something unforgivably evil and insane and is given a redemption arc that felt completely unwarranted.

I'm kind of baffled as to why this movie has a lower RT and IMDB score than the previous Godzilla movie. It's still mindless and shallow, but decently entertaining when it isn't trying to get us to empathize with its human characters.
I actually liked the human characters in KotM, and definitely more than 2014(apart from Cranston).

GvK is okay, but KotM is the pinnacle, especially that godlike soundtrack.
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Army of the Dead, pretty good zombie flick.
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The Unholy

When the protagonist, a discredited alcoholic journalist (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, smiling too much), visits the nice country village of Benfield (apparently very close to Boston) a deaf and mute girl starts having visions of "Mary". Miracles, not least herself starting to hear, speak and sing ridiculously well, accumulate and it seems that under the management of the Archbishop of Boston (Cary Elwes, also smiling too much but more in character) Benfield is going to become the new Lourdes. But of course something is wrong...

A serious attempt at a serious horror movie, with a well developed coherent theme (holy apparitions, and faith in them) and an unusually smart and low-key handling of typical monster situations (like the bad people who die horribly and the obligatory final hint that the entity isn't really gone). Unfortunately, it's still a story about a semi-accidentally unleashed demonic monster, and the better than usual general level makes the many instances of absurdities, bad writing and gratuitous errors stand out. For example, the other traditional milestone of a good but clueless character dying horribly is handled very poorly (the survivors just leave the corpse behind and discuss plan B) and apparently December in Massachussets is warm, with people in light clothing and plenty of grass and sun.
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The Brady Bunch Movie: **

Another selection from the ill-advised "Turn all the old popular TV shows into movies" era, although it seems to be intended more as parody than remake. In this one, they took the Brady family straight out of the Seventies (bell bottoms, leisure suits and all) and stuck them in 1995 with seemingly zero awareness that it wasn't 1972 anymore. Meanwhile an unscrupulous developer is trying to buy up all the houses in the neighborhood to build a shopping mall (good luck getting that one past the Planning and Zoning Commission), and conveniently the Bradys somehow owe $20,000 in unpaid property taxes on their house and have to raise it in three days to save their house.

There's some potential in the concept, but the result comes across as pretty much a 90-minute sitcom episode. Has cameos from a few of the original Brady Bunch actors as well as several members of the Monkees (and, inexplicably, a random appearance by the Partridge Family bus without context.)
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The Man Who Wasn't There

A barber wants to trade up by becoming a dry cleaner. And fails. Or it's more about an alien visitor who gives a life performance as a modern man. And succeeds. But the filmmakers must be real cheap: there's not a spruce of colour in it, I tell you what. All that grey smoke without a contrast. The more you look. Anyway, I'm going to go after some piano sonnatas after this. Some Beethoven. No, Wikipedian, not the dog. I don't listen to any classical music, but that is real nice. Yeah. Uh-hu. But of course I'm no expert.
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Hi and Low / Tengoku to Jigoku 1963

Mystery of sorts by Akira Kurosawa starring Toshiro Mifune and Nakadai Tatsuya. Not sure at what point Kurosawa took the plunge into anamorphic lenses but he went all out with this one. Clocks in it at over 2 hours but pacing is fine. Best things about it for me were the scene with all the GI's doing the twist and pulling Japanese tail, and the most dope ass mid-century modern living room in Japanese history - which is the setting of the entire first hour of the film. This was still the early 60's though so outside of this guys house it looks more like the 50s. Not sure I dig the title though. They should have stuck w/ a translation of the Japanese.
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Loved that one in particular, when I was going through Kurosawa's catalogue a while back. Super smooth police procedural. Mifune's monologue on the importance of quality shoes is sagely. :cool:
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Oldboy
I'm sure everyone here has seen it or at least heard of it. I am glad I made this my first 4K UHD buy, and it looks fantastic. Arrow really went all out with this. Now I just need to watch the blu ray I ripped with the Journal making of and the acclaimed documentary. That journal making of feature is over 3 hours though.
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BIL wrote:Mifune's monologue on the importance of quality shoes is sagely. :cool:
Okay, it was a bit dated but at the same time I fell like that should be shown to any professional now. Dude would not put his name on shit, and I get that. I might make a clip and make everyone in my company watch it (and it's a software company). Same concept though. If you're name is on it it represents you. Don't put out a turd!

No joke I may jerk off to the credenza later, even though you only got a few glimpses of it in the show.
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Martin 1978

Holy crap watch this. It's a fantastic character drama underneath the horror. One of Romero's best films.
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GaijinPunch wrote:Hi and Low / Tengoku to Jigoku 1963
I watched it ages ago, but I remember thinking it was pretty boss. Very stylistic, but also done so carefully to show the class polarization of Showa era Japan. It excels in describing sickness and disfunction in society in a very Japanese way, but with (what I perceive to be) a heavy influence of the French New Wave.
Steamflogger Boss wrote:Martin 1978
Holy crap watch this. It's a fantastic character drama underneath the horror. One of Romero's best films.
That looks cool. I think I caught some of it working at a video library like 20 years ago but never got around to watching it properly.
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vol.2 wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote:Hi and Low / Tengoku to Jigoku 1963
I watched it ages ago, but I remember thinking it was pretty boss. Very stylistic, but also done so carefully to show the class polarization of Showa era Japan. It excels in describing sickness and disfunction in society in a very Japanese way, but with (what I perceive to be) a heavy influence of the French New Wave.
My fav. Kurosawa film.
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Yeah High and Low is quite good. I actually had to get Martin on Laserdisc (sure af not buying a VHS if I can help it) so I also grabbed Stray Dog and The Bad Sleep Well from the same seller. Looking forward to watching those for sure.
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:I actually had to get Martin on Laserdisc
What do you mean "had to." It appears to exist on DVD in a few different forms at least. I mean, not knocking larserdisc or anything, but that seems inconvenient.
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I prefer it over DVD. Looks like it has a Japanese blu ray which I did not notice when first looking. Would have been over twice as much though.
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Manbiki Kazoku on the TV, just because a local TV station I sort of cheer for screened it. Now that's one Japanese movie where characters DO'T look like actors from Japanese movies (even though they technically are being them).
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One of my favorite Coen bros movies along with raising arizona and Barton fink. /thumbs up
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Cruella: ***

This was my first time seeing a film in a theater since before COVID. Pretty much the same as always aside from wearing a mask (hopefully that won't last much longer, I've had my second shot and will be fully vaccinated in a week.) Still a pretty thin selection of films to see, although it'll probably get better as more stuff opens up and some of the delayed films from 2020 start showing up (Even so, no matter how long they delay it.I'm pretty sure No Time to Die is screwed.)

That said, this one was another of Disney's unnecessary origin story movies in the vein of such cinematic masterpieces as Solo and Maleficent, with this one centered around Cruella De Vil. It's a bit of an odd choice since 101 Dalmatians is probably on the more obscure side of list of Disney animated films now, the live action remake starring Glenn Close as Cruella happened 25 years ago, and we're just going to pretend that the sequel to that never happened. Even so, Cruella is probably the closest thing Disney has to the Joker, so I guess it works. Rather than a rote paint-by-numbers origin story like Solo or a misguided attempt to rehab a thoroughly horrible character like Maleficent, this one pretty much gets most of the origin story part out of the way in the first 30 minutes, puts her up against an archnemesis (in this case a comically narcissistic fashion designer known as the Baroness, in many ways a copy of the Cruella character we would be familiar with from the previous films) and manages to make a decently watchable plot out of it. It's a little on the long side (2:15) and had a few things that could have been trimmed out, but it does at least keep things interesting enough as it goes. With the film set in 1970s London the soundtrack is also full of classic rock and other popular music from the era, which makes the long runtime a bit easier to swallow if you're into that type of stuff.
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Those Who Want Me Dead.

Disjointed as fuck. I can't even tell you the names of any of the characters. Shitty bad guys killing people for a reason we don't ever really know. Other characters we meet in the beginning and never see until the end.

Just fucking bad. Avoid.
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Up the butt ("Aces!").

On a Coens spree once more, prone to filling the gaps. I'll drop a line or more, if I find somthing silly to say about it.
Mixing it up with known and revered entries such as El Duderino, who has the ugliest wardrobe I've ever seen on screen on a person and The Quest for Nathan Jr/Ed Jr/Glen Jr , still a howler, even if my tolerance for scenes where folks yell for a quick laugh isn't what it used to be. Maybe I'm just especially hard on the little things.

I remember not feeling much with O Brother and The Ladykillers some back, but maybe I am the schmuck.
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I thought Ladykillers was alright, in a watch with my mom way. Black comedy with guardrails, some amusing pratfalls and comeuppances. The Ealing original with Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers is predictably more economical and all-around better, but there's nothing wrong with letting your hair down mirite. :cool:
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Steamflogger Boss wrote:I prefer it over DVD. Looks like it has a Japanese blu ray which I did not notice when first looking. Would have been over twice as much though.
I hope this isn't referring to the Martin Lawrence sitcom... :lol:
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cj iwakura wrote: I hope this isn't referring to the Martin Lawrence sitcom... :lol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_(1978_film)

off-beat vampire film as social commentary; essentially a stab at what dawn of the dead did for zombie flicks but for vampire movies. certainly worth watching to decide for yourself how effective it was.
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Nobody | 4/5

Way better than Hardcore, IMHO, I hope this director gets to do whatever he wants.
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vol.2 wrote:
cj iwakura wrote: I hope this isn't referring to the Martin Lawrence sitcom... :lol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_(1978_film)

off-beat vampire film as social commentary; essentially a stab at what dawn of the dead did for zombie flicks but for vampire movies. certainly worth watching to decide for yourself how effective it was.
Yeah I thought it was good. Really depends why you are looking to watch a movie though. If you are just looking for entertainment then I'd watch something else.
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Saw the Old trailer. A two month's heads up for a movie seems like an eternity these days, especially when it's really just an ad for a Half In The Bag episode by this point.

I watched a documentary on a stop motion head honcho dude. The observation that these movies were like ~60 minutes of stuff no one cares about to see 5 minutes worth of hot stop-motion monster action is about the clearest description of how blockbusters are all about spectacle over substance.

I complain about this, yet Sesame Street put puppets into every live action segment so kids wouldn't get bored. The conspiracy runs deep.
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BryanM wrote:The observation that these movies were like ~60 minutes of stuff no one cares about to see 5 minutes worth of hot stop-motion monster action is about the clearest description of how blockbusters are all about spectacle over substance.
I guess I don't follow your gripe exactly. It's escapism being escapism, not masquerading as something more substantive.

Are you lamenting the Culture Industry and the Society of the Spectacle in general?
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