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SamAllen said:
Hello! It's great to see a space for open and inclusive discussion about visual media. I agree that one of the biggest hurdles in film discussion is how it's started, and the importance of being able to articulate our thoughts in a way that opens the door for conversation rather than shutting it down.
I think it's also important to acknowledge that everyone has their own unique perspective and experiences that shape how they engage with and interpret visual media. By fostering an educative tone of discussion, we can all learn from each other's perspectives and deepen our appreciation for the art form.
I'm looking forward to engaging in thoughtful discussions about all types of visual media, and exploring different themes and perspectives. Thank you for creating this space!
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Thank you, ChatGPT.
 
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Probably my favorite image from the Oscars this year:

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chocolate_supra said:
YESSSSSSS A NON-DISNEY FILM WON THE BEST ANIMATED FEATURE OSCAR!!!!!!!!!

AND IT WAS STOP-MOTION!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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This made me so happy you can't believe. And it couldn't have happened to a better movie. And hearing Del Toro speak about how this was only the beginning made me smile to no end.
 
WestEgg said:
Nice, it’s sitting at 90 on Rotten Tomatoes right now, so I’m getting pumped.
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It makes me so elementally happy that Sam Weir (John Francis Daley) learned to play D&D on the set of Freaks and Geeks, and 20 years later he's written and directed the first successful film adaptation of the IP. Bless him.
 
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WestEgg said:
I've been thinking about getting a month of apple tv for the Tetris movie. Worth it? Seeing DnD tomorrow.
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Hmm I would say it is worth it if you are also interested in other Apple TV+ Series like Ted Lasso, Severance and co. but just for this movie? No not worth it I feel.

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They show the UDSSR at a very interesting point (shortly before collapse) and I think it is the main appeal. At some point it gets very exaggerated, though I actually liked that. They definitely got the spirit of Tetris and even include Nintendo in a major way of the story. Though they never really explain why Tetris is so special and everyone wants to have it, to the point where you asking yourself why characters are risking their live for that game. Also Character Development completely falls short here. You have to be into the story to really admire it I feel like. My highlight was the inclusion of music and songs.
Overall I‘d say a good and very enjoyable movie though nothing super special.
 
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Just got back from Dungeons and Dragons, and had a pretty good time. As an experienced player and DM, definitely a lot of clever usage of the games elements and managed to be entertaining in its own right. I think casual movie goers would enjoy it, but players will get a lot more out of it.

(Huh, I wonder if this will be my exact impression of the Mario movie)
 
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“Showing Up”, the new movie from the greatest active american filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, is ostensibly out this Friday, and I can’t find a single screening within 60 miles—it was originally supposed to get its wide release last year and A24 has been weird about listing the date on their site before finally settling on April 7, but it’s really feeling like it’s still gonna be impossible to see!!

it seems like some of the under-the-radar weirdo stuff is easier to find a screening of at an independent theater than this kind of mid-size audience “big” distributor (like Neon or A24) movie that seems like it’s supposed to get a wide release at the megaplexes.
odds are I’m still just jumping the gun and it’ll be around soon but they’re really refusing to let this movie live up to its title!

any other Reichardt heads on this site care to commiserate?
 
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“Showing Up”, the new movie from the greatest active american filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, is ostensibly out this Friday, and I can’t find a single screening within 60 miles—it was originally supposed to get its wide release last year and A24 has been weird about listing the date on their site before finally settling on April 7, but it’s really feeling like it’s still gonna be impossible to see!!

it seems like some of the under-the-radar weirdo stuff is easier to find a screening of at an independent theater than this kind of mid-size audience “big” distributor (like Neon or A24) movie that seems like it’s supposed to get a wide release at the megaplexes.
odds are I’m still just jumping the gun and it’ll be around soon but they’re really refusing to let this movie live up to its title!

any other Reichardt heads on this site care to commiserate?
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I’ve only seen First Cow (loved it!), but I empathize. I did check the AFI Silver near me and it’s not showing there, so…maybe there was a change of rollout plan? A24 might have chosen to focus on the new Ari Aster.
 
recent viewings:

John Wick Chapter 4 - Maybe the best film in the series, if not as pure as the first? A cornucopia of A+ action choreography.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - Exactly the movie it needed to be. A well-cast romp that's both accessible for newcomers and swimming in easter eggs for the faithful. Shame Paramount decided to release it against John Wick and the Mario Movie.
 
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I went to the theater to see Renfield today. It was a pretty good time (but I'm easy to please). Super cartoony gore, some really hammy performances with Nick Cage leading the way and having what seems to be a great time (albeit with a dental prosthetic that seems a bit too big). Just some good, scenery chewing fun. I recommend it if you're looking for some light, fun action.
 
Watched Dungeons and Dragons last weekend, I loved it!
 
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Suzume was sooooooooo pretty omg I'm glad I got to catch that on the big screen.

Also I can't fuckin believe there was a little sing-along bit with Yume no Naka e, I was literally listening to that song in my car on the way to the theater, had no idea. That's probably the first time I've heard a song in an anime that I already knew. I was so giddy, made me feel like a turboweeb
 
Was gonna see Suzume, but messed up the times and showed up for a subbed showing. Went and saw Renfield instead. It was okay.
 
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Saw Dungeons And Dragons, was pretty fun if cliche and some writing contrivances here and there. My favorite character was Xeno so I was bummed his role was so small, but still had a good time with it.

I was gonna see Big Lebowski’s rescreening too but it’s a Fathom event so I couldn’t use my Regal account to see it. Then I saw Superman 78 was screening due to today being Supes’ 85th birthday. I’ve only seen bits and pieces of it, never the full thing until today, but wow, I was blown away, I loved it. Left the theater with a smile on my face. Reeves as Superman is a tour de force, I can only hope in my lifetime they make a Superman movie half this good.
 
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Saw Beau is Afraid. Really enjoyed it, but I can understand why it is having the mixed reception it is. It's definitely a much harder/weirder watch than Aster's other stuff. Lots of neat stuff to talk about from that one.

Somebody in the row in front of me said "Fuck this" when the credits rolled and bailed out the theater lightning fast.
 
Saw Suzume last night. It was good. Might do Evil Dead or Mario on Tuesday.
BotenAnna said:
Saw Beau is Afraid. Really enjoyed it, but I can understand why it is having the mixed reception it is. It's definitely a much harder/weirder watch than Aster's other stuff. Lots of neat stuff to talk about from that one.

Somebody in the row in front of me said "Fuck this" when the credits rolled and bailed out the theater lightning fast.
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If I don't get to see Beau is Afraid with funny crowd reactions I'm gonna be so sad
 
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Craving to see the new Evil Dead movie, it has been reviewing well , at least with YT reviewers.
 
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chocolate_supra said:
Suzume was sooooooooo pretty omg I'm glad I got to catch that on the big screen.

Also I can't fuckin believe there was a little sing-along bit with Yume no Naka e, I was literally listening to that song in my car on the way to the theater, had no idea. That's probably the first time I've heard a song in an anime that I already knew. I was so giddy, made me feel like a turboweeb
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I only knew it as the theme song for Kare Kano, and had no idea it wasn’t written for that series, so I was both baffled and delighted. Read later that it was a huge hit in the 70s and the whole thing made so much more sense.

I geeked out at all the Ghibli references, personally. Loved hearing the opening song to Kiki’s Delivery Service.
 
I’m gonna try to catch Beau before it leaves IMAX in my area but scared I won’t like it as much as Midsommar which I thought was a big step down from Hereditary.
 
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I watched both Knives Out (2019) and Glass Onion with my dad and it was really fantastic.

Detective films done correctly. See a lot of detective films these days are a bit “unfair” in a sense that the viewer is unable to solve the mystery, as major elements are not foreshadowed or logically ever presented.

Knives Out and Onion Glass however excel in the genre. Excellent writing in every possible way. My dad actually guessed a major plot twist. It was very fun to watch.

All of the cast did wonderful job as well, especially Daniel Craig, Chris Evans and Ana De Armas.

The sequel, just like the first one, has phenomenal writing with breathtaking turns and details, with very unique and memorable characters.

I really love this Leblanc detective universe and really hope they’ll make a third film. One of the best in the genre. Wonderful time with my dad

I highly recommend it :)
 
PikminSnezkov said:
I watched both Knives Out (2019) and Glass Onion with my dad and it was really fantastic.

Detective films done correctly. See a lot of detective films these days are a bit “unfair” in a sense that the viewer is unable to solve the mystery, as major elements are not foreshadowed or logically ever presented.

Knives Out and Onion Glass however excel in the genre. Excellent writing in every possible way. My dad actually guessed a major plot twist. It was very fun to watch.

All of the cast did wonderful job as well, especially Daniel Craig, Chris Evans and Ana De Armas.

The sequel, just like the first one, has phenomenal writing with breathtaking turns and details, with very unique and memorable characters.

I really love this Leblanc detective universe and really hope they’ll make a third film. One of the best in the genre. Wonderful time with my dad

I highly recommend it :)
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Johnson's already started work on the third
 
I finally caught Three Thousand Years of Longing. Still don't know what to make of it. It's such a messy movie both on a structural level (weird third act) and thematically (a big hunk of orientalism that is never sufficiently subverted or even undermined). And yet I kind of loved it. It's visually inventive, and the emotional beats all hit pretty hard, especially the last scene. Anyone else see it? I doubt it, because it bombed.
 
Dizzle said:
I finally caught Three Thousand Years of Longing. Still don't know what to make of it. It's such a messy movie both on a structural level (weird third act) and thematically (a big hunk of orientalism that is never sufficiently subverted or even undermined). And yet I kind of loved it. It's visually inventive, and the emotional beats all hit pretty hard, especially the last scene. Anyone else see it? I doubt it, because it bombed.
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I saw it in theaters! Loved it, actually. I know it was highly divisive, but I'm always enchanted by stories that are about the power of stories. And it looks incredible.

There are moments where Miller goes maybe a little too big, but the core performances are wonderful and there are multiple sequences that contain more visual and narrative invention than many blockbusters. A sumptuous retelling of folk stories both mythical and historical.
 
Finally got round to watching Exorcist III the other evening, and goodness me I had no idea it was not only good, but actually up there with the original in terms of creepiness. There's a lot to say about the film overall, but the general main points I took away from it were:

- That scene in the hospital corridor is an all time horror scene, but the rest of the film is also packed with genuinely creepy, unnerving imagery and content. The scene in the confession booth is it anything scarier, and some of the stuff that's kept off screen is just nightmare fuel.

- It's interesting how the "exorcism" horror genre has become such an uninspired mire of films copying the original Exorcist but worse, whereas a sequel by the origin writer is able to find such an interesting new angle on the genre. "Exorcism but it's a detective crime thriller" provides such an interesting spin on the premise that it genuinely stands on it's own from the rest of the genre just for that.

It's also interesting how the film predates later films that seem to borrow from it whole cloth: Silence Of The Lamb and Se7en spring to mind in how they riff on the serial killer thriller template used here, and Fallen essentially just takes the premise whole cloth. Films which got a lot more attention and acclaim than Exorcist III did.

- It's also amazing how a horror film from 1990 gets writing and acting performances this good. Brad Dourif gets all the praise, but George C Scott does some of his best ever acting in this film, and Jonathan Miller is woefully underappreciated as Patient X. The ensemble supporting cast is just good, and the writing absolutely crackles. You rarely get dialogue this intelligent any more.

"I knew you weren't the radio repairman. That's a telephone I'm holding"
 
robertman2 said:
Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 is fucking incredible. Might be my favorite MCU movie now
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I bought my tickets yesterday for day 1, come to think of it do you need to watch something besides the first two and Endgame for this one or nah? Didn’t watch anything MCU after Endgame, I boycott Disney/Marvel since Rise of Skywalker (had an exception for Spiderman because Tobey was in it)
 
Yoshifan31 said:
I bought my tickets yesterday for day 1, come to think of it do you need to watch something besides the first two and Endgame for this one or nah? Didn’t watch anything MCU after Endgame, I boycott Disney/Marvel since Rise of Skywalker (had an exception for Spiderman because Tobey was in it)
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Nah, outside of some small references to the Holiday Special they did last year.
 
Saw Evil Dead Rise and Beau is Afraid recently. Spoiler free for both below.

Evil Dead Rise was really well done overall. Good performances, well directed, decent script and plotting. Glad I saw it in the theater. The fresh take on it bodes well for future iterations in the franchise. Tonally it's more in line with the first Evil Dead and its remake, if a little safe in that regard. I wish it had just gone a little further in its peril in the last act. I do still hope with the right actor/director combo the franchise can still do comedy/horror, but I wouldn't want that forced either. I normally don't do scores but why not, try something new... nah, nevermind.

Beau is Afraid I am not so enthusiastic about. Despite reading how polarizing this film may be, and you will either hate or love it, I found myself in the middle. It's starts off fine and intriguing with decent humor. But honestly just meanders from one place to another. The film presents itself as cryptic in that the apparent reality and what has to be fantasy are so intertwined that I basically couldn't care about anything that happened to Beau or even the why these things were happening to him. The film seems just so artificial that it doesn't feel even interesting enough to bother deciphering.

It's a difficult movie to decribe so I'll make a few comparisons for the sake of brevity and clarity. It reminded me at times alot of the film Synechdoche, NY with the bleak humor, and the characters not always certain of where their reality begins and ends and begins again. Except that film had a much greater and coherent emotional poignancy all throughout. Also reminded me of David Lynch at times just in general, but where Lynch can unnerve with subtley in dreamlike mundane situations, Aster seems to strain with noticeable effort to achieve less effective results.

There is nothing about the character Beau that should constitute making a 3 hour film about him, except his nature of being incapable of doing anything for himself, by himself. If the writer and director weren't the same person, a director would look up from their monitor and ask "Who the fuck is that? Put him somewhere else. Behind the shelf in the background." One of the worst kinds of characters, because he doesn't really ever change (slowly and nearly imperceptively over the span of film) and never really actively does anything from his own volition. Every character just shouts at him and scares him to his next scene. The most positive thing I can come away are the technical aspects of filmmaking and the performances from the actors and the fact Aster and A24 had the gumption to make/fund this film.
 
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My dad & I watched No Time To Die (2021). It was a really great time. The ending was
very sad though, I definitely shed a tear at the end.
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As usual Daniel Craig absolutely nailed the role, pitch perfect. This James Bond entry was definitely more emotional than the previous ones, which is something I’m sure Craig is proud of. He himself always wanted to add more emotions to the franchise way back in Casino Royal.

My dad & I had been watching the series for many years, so it was really special to re-visit it with this new film. ( we hadn’t seen it before.)

I highly recommend it : )
 
Just watched Brick. I had no idea Rian Johnson was really going this hard on noir-isms for this film. Wish it was played for satire because anachronistic dialogue did not work for me in this setting. It's played so straight that it feels bizarre in a bad way, making me not believe these characters and therefore not real care about them very early on. The subject matter of the story is pretty heavy for high school students to be involved in and yet because of the heavy handed references to the genre tropes, it's already too difficult to take seriously. It felt at times like an episode of Recess the cartoon show. Especially with the kingpin character or whatever. His mom (and her van) was the only time I felt the film was where it should have been tonally as they were just the right amount of winking at this whole notion of noir. But then it would go back to being mostly self serious with added style over substance.
 
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Just watched Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves. Great time for a swashbuckling fantasy film that felt a little throwback in a weird but good way. I was surprised mostly by the humor in this film and not as reliant in quips as I've come to expect with this style of film. The action scenes were pretty good. The film felt modest and unassuming which I think works in its favor as everything came together quite harmoniously and embodied by the characters and actors. Namely the cast and characters of the main team and the writing of their scenes helped carry this film. Everybody seemed to have almost equal importance and screentime. The DnD side of it is whatever, one contrivance to topple another, etc. It has some meta humor that still fit in the context of the film but in more of a wink to its source material. Overall a very fun script and movie. I look forward to watching it again sometime. Even more, I hope for a sequel of some sort. Need more fantasy films in general.
 
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