eugene
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i gave up on it after about 4 episodes, the writing gets more stupid with every episode. the characthers' actions make no sense, the hanging dread of the brutal murder of the whole family seems like a minor headache for them. that ruth character is awful and annoying as fuck. and just in general it feels like there's some serious mismatch between acting and writing.
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this is a bit of a dilemma isn't it? so there are new twin peaks, got and decker ep's. in what order should one watch them to optimize the viewing experience?
i'm thinking GOT with intermissions of decker in between when GOT goes boring, and then the real kicker TP.
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yes and no
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ive got a tough 8 weeks ahead of me waiting for game of thrones to air all episodes so i can sit and get hammered on caffienated tonic wine and marathon the whole series in one sitting as the gods intended. no spoilers in this thread if poss.
every major character dies within the first 15 minutes of the first ep, the rest of the episode is a clever and allegorical 45 minute montage of samwell tarly cleaning librarians' shit. as brave and audacious as one would expect from this landmark show.
6/10
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lol
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can anybody recommend some industrial-type horror films? aesthetics that involve grime, machinery, urban decay, scavenging, plague, that kind of thing. (not Tetsuo, more atmospheric.)
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Lol
lolIf Chris Cunningham's too busy
loL
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this season of preacher is actually not bad, it's better paced and more colorful, more ridiculous and comic-like, there's much less dead space compared to the previous one.
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Midnight Special
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lolled the hardest at agent tammy being really awkward with her body language when gordon and diane are having their heart to heart, while realizing that and trying to combat it with being very sexy.
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FUCKING LOL @ soundcloud testing on animals
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ghost in the shell - it's pretty amazing how something that is filled with cool, over the top sci fi stuff in every single second of the film can be so excruciatingly boring.
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The Comedy
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88 Minutes
127 Hours
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Nine Months
Seven Years in Tibet
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also i don't get people praising the effects, pretty much all of the scenes were aliens of different kinds were in motion looked phony as hell.
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this was complete garbage. way worse than even prometheus. at least in prometheus david had some mystery and subtleness about him, it was interesting to ponder about his very much in-human motivations and his development, here he's just an evil lying robot, explaining everything to the audience. it's also just fucking unbelievable how can a filmmaker with 40 years of experience actually put the whole weight of the final act on this lame as fuck cut-to-next-scene-before-the-robofight-resolves, and so the audience will have to keep guessing "ooooh, is this the good walter or bad david??". how fucked up on the head and devoid of any semblance of inspiration he can be to consider that this was a good idea? there is basically barely an original idea here, it's just checking boxes of references and cliches. we get the original alien facehugger scene ripped straight from alien 1, the heavy machinery vs aliens stuff from alien 2, all those "hard landing", "bad communication" overused shit. at least prometheus had a somewhat decent noomi rapace, this one had zero engaging characters besides david, and even he was way worse here than in prometheus as i mentioned. trash, utter trash.
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the lost city of z - expected much more from this. it's beautiful for sure, visually and sonically, even the very opening of the film with the title to the side of the native group is gorgeous and very tasteful. some of the directorial and editing moves are used very well for keeping a good pace and look in the jungle sequences. but in general it's just too plain, formal and conservative as far as adventure movies go, only in the last 30 minutes or so it snapped in onto something greater and moving. the characters are not interesting and in general poorly developed, the main protagonist's obsession wasn't really fleshed out enough to convince me. moreover, him being a bit a of a progressive war-hero feminist superman fighting the colonial mindset of the time and always having to emphasize how natives are people too was kinda corny and overly aggrandizing on the part of the director. gray showed that he can do much better characters, especially with "two lovers". the fact that the film is covering about two decades and presumably a rich biography also brings in a lot of the usual problems of compressing and cutting off too much stuff and ignoring a lot of context and development to get to the real meat (which wasn't that meaty anyway), that's always a compromise. it's like we have to assume that almost nothing significant happened to the protagonist for years, which weakens the characterization even further. it's almost 2 and a half hours but it actually thought it needed to be longer or cut to several films or something to deal with all those 3-5 year time skips that made the whole thing very spotty.
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loving this. the blonde is oh-so-lovely. only 10 episodes though? i wish netflix would put out like 300 episodes of this
it's funny when it does the funny, kinda similar to bridesmaids and other paul feig quite a bit, but it sags and drags when it steps into drama.
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haha wtf
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oh, there's a whole thread on this, i already started hating in the movies one. anyway, blompkamp is completely talentless, the first 15 minutes of district 9 is the only worthwhile thing he's ever done. his script/character writing abilities abilities are completely juvenile. the only thing he's got going is ripping off paul verhoeven's action films' gore aesthetic and some originality when it comes to visuals and tech design.
the chre' expressing their high regard for him was the lowest point in their career imo.
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win it all - ultra conventional and even ultra predictable indie (but not jew york, artfag, black and white for no reason, everyone speaks in clever one liners kind of indie) comedy drama about a dude with a gambling addiction who gets in trouble and has to pull himself out. it's paced and acted well, it feels honest, lifelike and unpretentious and goes down well, like a deece beer. probably forgettable but very enjoyable nonetheless.