Let's All Go to the Movies

Lutter said:
I like their "VFX Artists React" and "Stuntmen React to" series where they get professionals in to discuss how (good and bad) VFX and stunts are done.

I always end up learning about some movie scene I thought was real that was completely faked or how padding is set up to look like part of the set for falls.
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A lot of it's great, but the videos are like 14 minutes long with 6 minutes of worthwhile content. The rest is them asking for you to subscribe and the guest stuntman talking about their work on some movie I don't care about.
 
pen15clubmember said:
Also, Edgar's run of Hot Fuzz, Scott Pigrim, and The World's End is among my favorite 3-consecutive-film runs by modern directors.
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I have a pic of me somewhere high fiving EW at the Scott Pilgrim US premiere (which strangely was here). He went to the 5 or 6 theaters playing it simultaneously and high fived the entire audience before the movie started.

I keep selfishly hoping that 'Last Night in Soho' will get a streaming release but it looks like they've pushed it back all the way to October.
 
Watched Some Kind of Heaven tonight and I know that The Villages are bizarre but holy shit.

Dude vibing on blow and grass while married to a normal chick rivaled the boss dude in his 80s that lived in his van while trying to bang old rich ladies as to where I hope I’m at that age.
 
I find it annoying when someone wants subtitles for just about every movie where someone has any kind of an accent. If the subtitles are on I often find myself reading and not watching the scene. My kids have gotten so used to them that they complain when I tell them to try to listen and interpret the character. Southern, New York, Boston accents...hell, even just an old person has the complaining they can’t understand what is being said.

and stay off of my lawn you punk kids!
 
BigFrank said:
I find it annoying when someone wants subtitles for just about every movie where someone has any kind of an accent. If the subtitles are on I often find myself reading and not watching the scene. My kids have gotten so used to them that they complain when I tell them to try to listen and interpret the character. Southern, New York, Boston accents...hell, even just an old person has the complaining they can’t understand what is being said.

and stay off of my lawn you punk kids!
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Just some quick thoughts on Malcolm & Marie which I didn't care for. I don't watch Euphoria on HBO but is all of the dialogue this exhausting? It's difficult to watch something so contrived and shallow try so hard to be profound. I don't know if I've ever seen a filmmaker work so hard to preempt criticism of the work he was making. The self indulgence of Woody Allen with none of the wit or ability for self reflection. And yes, it is weird that a white guy wrote this.

4/10 with Zendaya and John David Washington elevating the material as best they could.
On Netflix.
 
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Earwig and the Witch: Yall know I am a huge Ghibli slut and normally I love walking into a movie knowing as little as possible. That was a colossal mistake here for two reasons: this was a made for TV movie and Goro Miyazaki was in charge while Hayao had little involvement.

Painfully obvious that it was a made for TV movie because the bad CGI was the best part! The plot went nowhere... think of it like Kiki's Delivery Service (cuz both of these movies have witches!), but if Kiki never left her hometown. It also sounded like music was an important thematic device, nothing was done there either. Earwig has a lot of the trademarks for a textbook Ghibli hero. However, the lack of character development means she's basically just some spoiled brat, so this movie's lesson is bad behavior will inevitably get you whatever you want.

This was by far the worst thing that's come out of Ghibli, and yes, it's even worse than Earthsea. I feel bad for Goro Miyazaki honestly and I can't imagine the amount of hate mail coming his way. I am honestly super worried if Studio Ghibli has some kind of succession plan.

Oh and I guess it's probably fine to watch for keeping some children occupied. Apparently Kacey Musgraves is on the dub track. I normally don't do ratings either but this was a humongous waste of time, 0/10
 
Space Sweepers (5/10) is every popular sci-fi movie ever made wrapped into one charming mess of a space shoot'em-up; a Korean Guardians-meets-Star Wars and 100 other things. A giant spectacle blockbuster that cribs more than honors the great movies of the genre that at 2 hours and 15 minutes, goes on too long for its own good. Still, it seems there is a really good movie underneath all of the low-risk, overproduced, mostly CGI, popcorn fare. The plot follows a crew of Korean outcasts, who work as space-junk scrappers to pay off their never-ending debt, that happen into possession of a powerful weapon that is sought by a multitude of foes. The four crew members are all memorable characters (who also seem to be rip-offs at times) and you do find yourself rooting for them even as the movie winds on far too long. Oddly, even though Space Sweepers doesn't know quite what it wants to be, it definitely knows what it wants to say, often veering into over-the-top takes on environmentalism, the treatment of immigrants, and enslavement to unending personal debt. All are well used in the otherwise unwieldy plot, even as the movie seems incapable of subtlety.

On Netflix
 
LurchingBeast said:
Space Sweepers (5/10) is every popular sci-fi movie ever made wrapped into one charming mess of a space shoot'em-up; a Korean Guardians-meets-Star Wars and 100 other things. A giant spectacle blockbuster that cribs more than honors the great movies of the genre that at 2 hours and 15 minutes, goes on too long for its own good. Still, it seems there is a really good movie underneath all of the low-risk, overproduced, mostly CGI, popcorn fare. The plot follows a crew of Korean outcasts, who work as space-junk scrappers to pay off their never-ending debt, that happen into possession of a powerful weapon that is sought by a multitude of foes. The four crew members are all memorable characters (who also seem to be rip-offs at times) and you do find yourself rooting for them even as the movie winds on far too long. Oddly, even though Space Sweepers doesn't know quite what it wants to be, it definitely knows what it wants to say, often veering into over-the-top takes on environmentalism, the treatment of immigrants, and enslavement to unending personal debt. All are well used in the otherwise unwieldy plot, even as the movie seems incapable of subtlety.

On Netflix
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Nailed it. The action scenes were really awesome even though it was basically all CGI. The movie was way too long though. This was an awesome step forward for Korean Scifi. All I could think to myself was I hope cowboy bebop looks as good as this. don't fuck it up Netflix.
 
Continuing down the path of east entertainment, watched City Slickers last night. Seen it a dozen times but not in years. The beginning is much darker that I remember, Palance is hardly in it, and Billy Crystal is supposed to be four years younger than me (which made me want to jump off a bridge). Overall, just a good dude movie that I’m glad I watched again despite the fact that a mid-life crisis is apparently supposed to be in my rear view.

The blonde on the cattle drive is an absolute babe too.
 
TheBandit1 said:
Continuing down the path of east entertainment, watched City Slickers last night. Scene it a dozen times but not in years. The beginning is much darker that I remember, Palance is hardly in it, and Billy Crystal is supposed to be four years younger than me (which made me want to jump off a bridge). Overall, just a good dude movie that I’m glad I watched again despite the fact that a mid-life crisis is apparently supposed to be in my rear view.

The blonde on the style drive is an absolute babe too.
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We threw this one one a couple weeks ago and couldn’t make it 10 minutes with all of Billie Crystals whining
 
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