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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

St. Clown said:
I’ve not seen more than 15 minutes of the first Tron movie. I’ve not seen any of the sequels.
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The first one was cute and dumb. But we all made fun of it as anti-SF for the muggles so don't let anyone tell you it was anything else. It was another bad summer movie.
 
Saw Tron last night for 5 bucks at the discount theater. Special Effects were good. Acting was horrible. Script was horrible. Had some of that cuteness for a bad movie but just wasn't bad enough or cute enough to be a must see bad movie.

Still, I shut the brain off for a couple of hours and forgot about how the world is going to hell. That was something.
 
Threw on Austin Powers last night. It was disappointing and scary to realize we’re two years away from the same amount of time he was frozen being the same time between the movie being made and the present.
 
My favorite Finnish based period film is getting a sequel that drops in a few weeks. SISU Road to Revenge.

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The original is SISU. The story of a Finnish miner during the end of WW2 who interacts with Nazi's enroute to the nearest bank.

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Groundhog Day may be the only perfect movie every made.

I am demanding. Very demanding. I wouldn't change a single line or a single shot. It's perfect.
 
Parallels between Leone and Tarantino.

My theory: Landa set the whole thing up, practically from the start. He sees where the war is going and designs his escape, right from the jump. The improvisations he requires are just the path that happens, it could have been another way. But he exploits and manipulates all the characters all the way to the last second when he gets his highly Inglorious surprise.

(1) Patisserie: Hellstrom --> Shosanna --> Venue Change --> Landa (he toys with Shosanna (ordering milk, remembering the milk discussion at the farmhouse) to tell us he knows who she is. He knows about the venue change. He has all the elements. Does he already know about the Basterds? While we don't know yet, it doesn't really matter, he is looking ahead to Shosanna's plot; the means don't matter. We will find out later that in fact he does.)

(2A) Bar: Hellstrom again --> Basterds --> Hammersmark, then later

(2B) Theater: Hammersmark --> Landa "If the shoe fits" (we are left with a question: why does Landa seem to go nuts and kill Hammersmark? It makes no sense and does not follow from anything we know about him. Yet.)

(3) Restaurant: Aldo --> Landa "Shoe's on the other foot" because Tarantino can't help himself tying a second pair of scenes together plus you know foot fetish (Oh, now we find out Landa knew about the Basterds from the interrogations of their "Swastika-marked survivors." From the shoe, he strongly suspects Hammersmark had tried to set up the Basterds at the bar (sorry, Hellstrom). Therefore, we now understand he killed Hammersmark to tie up that loose end to allow the plot, his bargaining chip, to survive.)

These three scenes alone are great, but the combination tells me Landa planned everything nearly from the start.

He just miscalculated. He did not apply his level of brutality to Aldo, so he loses because he can't conceive that Aldo and Landa -- names that are practically mirrors -- are the same except for uniform. Ironically, we knew this from Aldo's first speech. We are the detective who is finally a step ahead of The Detective. And scene.
 
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Kepler said:
Groundhog Day may be the only perfect movie every made.

I am demanding. Very demanding. I wouldn't change a single line or a single shot. It's perfect.
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Dont tell Bill Murray that...he didnt talk to Harold Ramis until he was on his death bed because he wanted it to be much darker.

He is wrong and you are right.
 
Handyman said:
Dont tell Bill Murray that...he didnt talk to Harold Ramis until he was on his death bed because he wanted it to be much darker.

He is wrong and you are right.
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I have heard an extremely dark theory about it which would make Bill happy.

1. Ned is the devil.

2. The insurance policy is the contract for Phil's soul.

3. He is released from the loop not because of his selflessness but because he finally gives up on his authentic (nasty, but free) self. That sort of self-less-ness. The contract terms are the same as always, he gets happiness and respect and the girl. But he is damned forever. It's a horror ending. It's so caustic I wish I had invented it.

I don't buy it but I am also glad it is out there.

I prefer the simple mawkish Rom Com meaning, making it one of 3 Rom Coms I really love with Harry/Sally and Four Weddings. Unless we count musicals; then there are dozens of Rom Coms I love.
 
I'm stunned

Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Christy’ Ranks Among Worst Wide Box Office Openings With $1.3 Million Weekend​

It’s been a good weekend for “Predator: Badlands” at the box office, but quite the opposite for “Christy,” the new inspirational boxing film starring one of social media’s most hotly discussed actors, Sydney Sweeney.

Released in 2,011 theaters, “Christy” grossed only $1.3 million for a per-theater average of just $649. According to Box Office Mojo, it ranks among the top 10 worst openings for a new release on more than 2,000 screens, with three of the films below it being released during the pandemic period from April 2020 to May 2021.

“Christy” stars Sweeney as Christy Martin, who in the 90s became the winner of the first women’s boxing pay-per-view main event and the first true female superstar in the sport. In 2010, Martin survived a murder attempt by her former coach and husband and has since become an advocate for survivors of domestic violence.
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I don't understand why her MAGA fans didn't flock to a biopic about an inspirational woman...
 
If she really wants to be a MAGA darling at the box office, Sweeney's next film needs to be her playing a small-town Christian who owns a Cafe with her totally-not-gay hunk of a husband called ‘Freedom Fries'. They are cruelly sued by a trans lesbian couple and their very...*ahem*...(((New York))) lawyers because she blocks them from using the ladies' room.

I'm ready to dash out a script and shop it to Pure Flix for tens of dollars!
 
Im sure its the Woke Lefts fault she is a mediocre actor who gets by on her "great jeans". (IYKYK)
 
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If she really wants to be a MAGA darling at the box office, Sweeney's next film needs to be her playing a small-town Christian
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If she really wants to be a MAGA darling at the box office, Sweeney should do movies with her legs and mouth wide open. That is all they value women for.
 
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