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Artorias

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The Hurt Locker 7.5/10

Good film but not seeing why this won best picture. Similar stories have been told. I guess the scope helped keep it tight and focused.

Django Unchained 8/10

Not the best QT film but solid. I really thought he should have changed his style and done something a little more grounded instated of the overexaggerated parody of Westerns, a little too over the top for me. Christoph Waltz and Dicaprio elevate this film greatly and without them it would have been mediocre.
 

MrSquished

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why couldnt they released all the eps at once?
waiting for the last eps then binge

Besides Netflix, I see all the other major streaming services have gone away from the drop the whole season at once thing anymore. And it's been that way for a bit now. It's just the new business model to keep people subscribed for longer. And it probably works with a decent amount of customers.
 
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I'm so glad that I saw "Better Call Saul" first. I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much if I had seen Breaking Bad. It's hard to like the full-on uninhibitedly scummy Saul. Truly a "criminal" lawyer.
 

DigDog

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i watched Teen Titans Go To The Movies - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7424200/reference/

which was allright. IF you are into this sort of thing. It's still not as weird and edgy as the TV show, which in turn hasn't been weird and edgy as it used to be, for a while, but that's the nature of all things - except Austin Powers - those keep getting better.

So, let's say that there is a group of superheroes called Teen Titans. These are the most "adolescent's idea of gritty and poignant group of superheroes" that have ever been designed, truly a piece of work. Sadly, they have quite a fandom.
Now, imagine a spoof of this. Same characters, except that they are hanging out in their Batcave or whatnot, eating pizza, making fart jokes, as teens actually do. That is Teen Titans Go!

This is the film of the tv series.

IMHO TTG (Teen Titans Go!) is to comedy, what Bojack Horseman was to drama. Veeery surreal, but not in a Aqua Teen Hunger Force kind-of-way, more like, "how can we make the absolutely mundane, into complete madness?" way.

Now, the film was, eh, not terrible. The show has episodes that are 15-minute long, so it's ok for the viewer to "put up" with whatever-weirdness that one episode uses as its main story, be it a music-only episode, an episode with different art style, one all in CGI, one where a main hero acts completely out of character, etc.
The film instead plays it .. uh.. "straight"?

Doing what the TTs do, they get into a conversation with Superman, who is headed to the premier of his own movie. The TTs dont have a movie, and they are very jealous of this.
The TT decide that they want to get a movie about them. How, is to go back in time (OBVIOUSLY) and prevent all the other superheros from having their "origin story", so then the only heroes to make films about will be the Teen Titans.

It doesnt go well. But then, with action! and music! once again the good heart of the Teen Titans prevails.

Like i said, if you aren't into TTG, don't watch it, watch the early seasons of the show instead.

For the others, 6.5/10
 

DigDog

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i watched Lean On Me - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097722/reference/

Morgan Freeman hogging up a solid 90% of the screentime, he plays the hard-as-nails school principal brought in to a slum school to clean it with up with marine-sergeant manners.

Decent performance from Freeman, but a very basic script that really doesnt do much. He arrives - he fires/expels a bunch of people - discipline ensues - end of film (in a cringey final scene). The only one bit of anything that resembles confrontation between characters, is ONE scene where a character who's practically been mute since (his assistance) rants at him right before the finale.

6/10 - i've seen better, you've seen better.
 

mikeymikec

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Django Unchained 8/10

Not the best QT film but solid. I really thought he should have changed his style and done something a little more grounded instated of the overexaggerated parody of Westerns, a little too over the top for me. Christoph Waltz and Dicaprio elevate this film greatly and without them it would have been mediocre.

IMO there were good/funny bits in it but it's the weakest QT film (possibly by a long shot).

Mainly because of the ending: Black couple in the south during the era of slavery kill an entire slaver's family and burn their house down, then they happily ride off into the sunset with no supplies whatsoever in the middle of slaver country. Maybe if the central plot was tied nicely in with a reasonably factual 'smuggling slaves to the north' operation then it wouldn't seem quite so absurd.
 

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Lincoln Lawyer Season One Netflix 8/10. Not a bad lawyer show.

Spider - Man No Way Home 5/10 Very weak script, Sherlock and the other Spidies phoned it in. Holland and Zendaya just aren't any good.
 
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Watched Hustle last night.

Really good movie.

So many cameo's. Only one that kind of bothered me was that Kenny Smith didn't play Kenny Smith. I thought that was a bit odd. Might as well have just gotten a real actor, although he did pretty good.
 

DigDog

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i could talk for hours about everything that is wrong with this film, and every other QT film. so i won't.

I wanted to watch ONE scene in good quality from Pulp Fiction, and so i wound up obviously watching the whole thing. 10/10 - to me, one of the most important films EVER made, and THE most important film since its own release.

.. it almost hurts to see just how good PF was; for the time, and today. For 1994, this was a world-changing event, we left forever the world of "no Pulp Fiction" and moved into the world of "yes Pulp Fiction".

Obviously, whatever QT is gonna make after this, will be worse. Maybe not A LOT WORSE, but you can't expect the man to crank out perfection after perfection, which is why i've always been happy to give him a break.
This is the same problem that a lot of music bands have and have always had; you start as a struggling musician, spend years training and exploring weird shit, and your head is filled with ideas, and when you make your first album, BAM! twenty years worth of intuition all rolled up into one, and the you go for your second album, and you got what, six months of life to draw your ideas from.

On top of that, QT has had too much blind praise to be able to tell his head from his ass, and i can't really blame him for that, it's just the hollywood effect.

Django is, without any difficulty, a mediocre FILM, and a average post-PF QT film. Yeah, we get all the "content" of this film, but it just feels like add-on content for Pulp Fiction, or, for the Quentin Tarantino Expanded Universe. It's not its own thing, and if it is, good god it's horrible. For the same reason, i found H8 particularly horrible,just re-heated content we have seen before (although i have to admit Jennifer Jason Leigh really killed it). Fuck the "classic cinematography", i can just watch another Sergio Leone film if i want that. Good cinematography should be a given, not something you watch a movie for, it's like, you don't go to a restaurant "because they have plates".

They say that Orson Welles was always criticised in life, because he never could make a film that was as good as Citizen Kane; so maybe i've comparing QT to Orson Welles. Back in the 80s, CK was firmly at the top of the "world's greatest films" lists, so maybe that's not a bad thing, but Django, together with ALL of QT's films bundled, are not even on the same planet as Pulp Fiction.
 

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Watched Severance pretty good, pretty solid. 8/10

I thought the acting and writing was well done, enjoyed John Turturro and Christopher Walken. Enjoyed the cliffhangers throughout the season and the reactions they elicited from my wife, who wants to know EVERYTHING right NOW. Ricken and his friends are just the worst people in a thoroughly hateable way. Looking forward to season 2.
 

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Chernobyl - excellent mini-series. Really well done and good music/sounds. I appreciate they admitted their poetic license in that they condensed the roles of many scientists into the role of one, to help the main character. It did make it able to be less hectic, though I wish they could have pulled it off. But wow, what a story and told well.
 
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They say that Orson Welles was always criticised in life, because he never could make a film that was as good as Citizen Kane;
The Other Side of the Wind (2018) - IMDb

Watched this only coz it took 40 years. I don't understand what all the hype is about. Judging from this, he's a weird film maker, definitely not into making crowd pleasing movies. Maybe some day I will force myself to watch Citizen Kane. Watching black and white movies is not easy for me. I find them depressing.
 
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Chernobyl - excellent mini-series.
I couldn't watch more than two episodes. If it captured even 1% of the horrors of that absolutely damned incident, I would ban all things nuclear and wipe the knowledge of nuclear fission from human brains. Dumb humans don't deserve this knowledge. Too dangerous, no matter how clever scientists think they are.
 

Charmonium

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I couldn't watch more than two episodes. If it captured even 1% of the horrors of that absolutely damned incident, I would ban all things nuclear and wipe the knowledge of nuclear fission from human brains. Dumb humans don't deserve this knowledge. Too dangerous, no matter how clever scientists think they are.
I was looking at some show - chernobyl: secrets and lies, something similar. It did NOT mesh with most of the major plot points. For example, yes, there was definitely a danger of ground water contamination. But it didn't require teams of men risking one of the nastiest deaths possible - fatal radiation exposure. It was 3 people who had to open some valves IIRC. I WILL say though, for fiction, I also liked. But that was when I believed I was learning something.

Morbius - 6.5/10 (2022)

OK, let's start by just admitting there's some seriously lazy writing in places. The is also a healthy dollop hard eye-roll moments. My fave - walks into a forger's hideaway, maims the main head forger and proceeds to set up shop by taking parts from a 70's dorm fridge (I'm making this up) and an $80k intaglio printer to make his very own, completely hacked, PCR autocycler.

The other annoyance for me was that, in this particular universe anyway, there is no way you get the entire panoply of vampire abilities just from science. It's called the "SUPER-natural" for a reason.

But . . . there's also a lot to love here too. For example, the partial fragmentation while in vamp mode really helps you sort of "feel" what is going on so much better than any other imagining I've ever seen.

I do see why it was such a flop though. There's only so much you can expect fans to just write off. Homophobia could also be at work, but there are only a handful scenes where it's less than obliquely something that is suggested.
 

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13 Minutes 2 / 10

A cheesy soap opera trying to pretend it's a movie about a massive tornado outbreak. I was actually rooting for the tornado to finally show up to shut down all the drama in the town. If you still want to watch it, save the $3 and wait for it to move to being a Prime Video freebie.

The movie is really about individual subject matters such as abortion, single motherhood, racism, homosexuality, and immigration. And it doesn't really paint the residents of that entire town as any kind of decent people. For example, even after the tornado hits and everyone pretty much miraculously survives, a kid's family still disowns him because he came out as gay to his parents moments before the tornado hit. The writing and acting rises to the level of a cheap made-for-TV movie.
 

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i could talk for hours about everything that is wrong with this film, and every other QT film. so i won't.

I wanted to watch ONE scene in good quality from Pulp Fiction, and so i wound up obviously watching the whole thing. 10/10 - to me, one of the most important films EVER made, and THE most important film since its own release.

.. it almost hurts to see just how good PF was; for the time, and today. For 1994, this was a world-changing event, we left forever the world of "no Pulp Fiction" and moved into the world of "yes Pulp Fiction".

Pulp Fiction is ridiculously good. All around excellent film-making.
Django, Inglorious, and Hateful8 - all interesting, all from his frenetic mind of weird mash-ups but not his finest work.

JackieBrown I think is his 2nd best work - much different than his other films. Well edited and tight script!

Death Proof was too much fun & Once Upon a Time are both solid. OUATIH could have been a bit tighter on dialogue but I think QT restrained himself enough to make it really enjoyable and I love the Manson alternate reality tie in.
 
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Sorry to any fans of Triangle but my takeaway:

Melissa George
Cleavage
Jiggling

Other than that, it's a head-scratcher alright.
 

HomerJS

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i could talk for hours about everything that is wrong with this film, and every other QT film. so i won't.

I wanted to watch ONE scene in good quality from Pulp Fiction, and so i wound up obviously watching the whole thing. 10/10 - to me, one of the most important films EVER made, and THE most important film since its own release.

.. it almost hurts to see just how good PF was; for the time, and today. For 1994, this was a world-changing event, we left forever the world of "no Pulp Fiction" and moved into the world of "yes Pulp Fiction".

Obviously, whatever QT is gonna make after this, will be worse. Maybe not A LOT WORSE, but you can't expect the man to crank out perfection after perfection, which is why i've always been happy to give him a break.
This is the same problem that a lot of music bands have and have always had; you start as a struggling musician, spend years training and exploring weird shit, and your head is filled with ideas, and when you make your first album, BAM! twenty years worth of intuition all rolled up into one, and the you go for your second album, and you got what, six months of life to draw your ideas from.

On top of that, QT has had too much blind praise to be able to tell his head from his ass, and i can't really blame him for that, it's just the hollywood effect.

Django is, without any difficulty, a mediocre FILM, and a average post-PF QT film. Yeah, we get all the "content" of this film, but it just feels like add-on content for Pulp Fiction, or, for the Quentin Tarantino Expanded Universe. It's not its own thing, and if it is, good god it's horrible. For the same reason, i found H8 particularly horrible,just re-heated content we have seen before (although i have to admit Jennifer Jason Leigh really killed it). Fuck the "classic cinematography", i can just watch another Sergio Leone film if i want that. Good cinematography should be a given, not something you watch a movie for, it's like, you don't go to a restaurant "because they have plates".

They say that Orson Welles was always criticised in life, because he never could make a film that was as good as Citizen Kane; so maybe i've comparing QT to Orson Welles. Back in the 80s, CK was firmly at the top of the "world's greatest films" lists, so maybe that's not a bad thing, but Django, together with ALL of QT's films bundled, are not even on the same planet as Pulp Fiction.
What?
 
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