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Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Wasn't he playing an actor promoting an Armageddon-like disaster film whilst "both-sidesing" the controversy by saying the national discourse had gotten too divisive? The 'Devin Peters' guy.

EDIT: Yeah, that's it.

I thought the movie was solid. A little on-the-nose with its satire, but what can I say? We live in interesting times.
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I didn't recognize him, but my god that scene.

I don't think the actors playing in the movie realized how perfectly and deeply they were being destroyed. The Ariane Grande concert was the most brutal indictment of celebutards I have seen since Day of the Locust.
 
No Time to Die. B-

Good to see Craig go out on a decent note after a string of really bad Bonds.

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Premise was fine. The plot itself is such a meaningless hodgepodge I stopped worrying about it about 45 minutes in. I think Malek was wasted with bad writing.

The Mabuse references to Blofeld in prison were excellent and I would have like to have seen that developed more. Even though the Magik Eye was fucking stupid I forgave them since it served an excellent purpose.

The love interest was about 14 years old, and it was pretty tough watching an apparently 70-year old Bond slobbering all over her.

The kid was cute. It's a cliche device more worthy of a franchise like Indiana Jones but whatevs.

Q's Muppet Baby cuteness is such a Disney/MCU note it really jarred.

Loved the opening sequence. Loved the revival of "James Bond will be back" in the closing credits.

The passing reference to the Blofeld brother theory was hilariously done.

The toss of the visitor badge into Moneypenny's trash was also a perfect note.

I hope they replace Fiennes, he's ghastly.

Poor Felix, how many times he gotta die?

And as always, pure cinematographic porn. So beautiful, especially the Italy sequences.
 
aparch said:
Yikes. Glad I can stream it free thanks to my cable package.

I thought I heard mixed reviews of Don't Look Up, but I may give it a shot. Netflix seems to be the king of "eh, this isn't that terrible" movies with big name casts as of late.
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Don’t Look Up - I really enjoyed it. McKay pretty well skewered everybody. It’s sad that they just had to make Trumpers look stupid was to show them what doing what they do, the same thing for the Fox News parody.
 
St. Clown said:
Don’t Look Up - I really enjoyed it. McKay pretty well skewered everybody. It’s sad that they just had to make Trumpers look stupid was to show them what doing what they do, the same thing for the Fox News parody.
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My only objection to Don't Look Up is the rednecks realized they'd been had at the end. In reality, they never will. They will all go to their deaths incapable of recognizing they have been victims of the most obviously transparent con.
 
aparch said:
I'm halfway through Don't Look Up and half the cast is punchable, this is an on-the-nose movie.

I love it.


*edit* What a great film. It nailed it, and of course the "media" is gonna hate the accurate thrashing they took in it.

I almost missed Chris Evans cameo. Brilliant sendup of Amageddon-esque films.

Also, Jonah Hill's post credit scene was *chefs kiss*.
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I agree with all of this. I loved the movie but it spun me into a depression for a week, I think because it showed exactly how Americans would react. Ignorant, willfully ignorant masses more concern d with hell’s kitchen season 146 and what underwear a singer is wearing vs reading actual books. It was devastating.

A+ to DeCaprio and Lawrence.

I still despise Jonah Hill who I just have never found funny in anything.
 
Kepler said:
Really? I'm just the opposite, I've liked him always. He's just been in some horrifying movies (Knocked Up, This Is the End).
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I’m just generally not a fan of the movies he’s done and I’ve never laughed at his jokes.

having said that, he may blow me away as Jerry Garcia next year in Scorsese’s new film. Who knows… I used to not like Jim Carrey, The Truman Show changed my mind.
 
solovsfett said:
I used to not like Jim Carrey, The Truman Show changed my mind.
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Have you seen Man in the Moon? I hate Carrey but that was Oscar-nomination worthy.

I thought Hill was excellent in Don't Look Up because his character is so hideous, so he can really lean into the annoyingness of his presence. The guy is genuinely intelligent, I think, and he's gotta know part of his Hisness is like biting on tinfoil, it's just ghastly. He's the kind of person you'd trip in the airport for no reason. So that role was perfect.

The only role where I honestly liked Hill's character was Superbad, but I found everything about that movie to be a love letter to my friends in junior high school.
 
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mookie1995 said:
ahem, Road House
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I'm talking about the experience of seeing a movie for the first time, in a theater. Nobody saw Road House in a theater. It is the quintessential repeat viewing home tv movie. Its only competitor is Die Hard.
 
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Kepler said:
I'm talking about the experience of seeing a movie for the first time, in a theater. Nobody saw Road House in a theater. It is the quintessential repeat viewing home tv movie. Its only competitor is Die Hard.
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Except that everybody saw Die Hard in the theater.
 
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