I saw The Suicide Squad. I liked it, pretty good
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The Suicide Squad
I really enjoyed this. James Gunn brings his own style to this in a way that works quite well and makes the movie feel pretty unique. It’s really entertaining through and through, and just works.
I will say that I am not a massive fan of Gunn’s humor at times. He has a tendency to let a joke go on for too long, or go too hard with it, beyond the point of funny.
Maybe someone who reads the comics can help me out here, but I also feel like the gore and nudity felt a bit excessive. I mean, I’m definitely not the type of person who can’t have fun with gore, and this is fun, I sort of just suspect it’s not really true to the source?
I think my biggest problem with the movie is that they made Peacemaker into a joke-character, in the sense that the jokes don’t spring naturally from his character, but rather his character is all of the jokes. I don’t really like that unless I’m watching a straight up comedy.
The film is stylistically and visually great. There’s a sequence involving Harley that I particularly loved.
I also really like that they don’t shy away too much from some of the silly source material, like Starro the Conquerer, and his colorful cartoony design or the rater ridiculous looking outfit Peacemaker has in the comics.
Can’t say I remember much of the soundtrack, except that it wasn’t bad. shrugs
Definitely a huge improvement over Suicide Squad (2016) which I don’t really like.
I hope they come up with a way to bring back Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag. I know the way he died was specfically made to make it clear he’s dead, but we’re talking about comic book movies here, they can make it happen.
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Just watched King Speech by a recomendation.
Should say it’s very similar to The Rain Man and Homeless Brooklyn.
All three are great and strong movies, but bit dull at the same time 
Nevertheless all of them are worth to watch and to enjoy the great acting
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Kings Speech was excellent. If you enjoy that time period and some historical fiction check out Winston’s War. It’s a novel that follows 4 or 5 people through WWII (all English) and is mostly rooted in the facts of history but takes some artistic liberty to make the story interesting.
I think one character is totally made up (he’s a rank and file soldier) and the others are all real people but how could the author know exactly what was said on that meeting when the records say “no one was in the room except A+B and no notes were taken.” It’s a great book!
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king’s speech seemed to me to have the same structure/main character arc as an adam sandler flick. 
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I’ve just finished watching (well not really just finished, but I’ve been meaning to write an analysis on it for a while) From Dusk Till Dawn. I’ll be giving an analysis on a particular scene I liked.
Just after finishing a rather eruptive battle with a store owner to which it was blown up, Seth and Richie has just booked a room in a motel along with the kidnapping of Gloria - a woman so scared that a simple action required the heed of doing as the two men tell her to.
The scene begins where Seth lays down rules for her to follow through, or else she may never see the light of day. He interrogates Gloria of a yes or no answer of whenever she wants to live. She answers yes profoundly. Seth then lists the first rule of making no noise or to ask questions. It’s pre-emptive to the point that if she alerts anyone, Seth or Richie will know and thus would murder Gloria with a .44 revolver.
Rule two is then explained that she must heed whatever Seth and Richie tells her to. That in presumption is followed the same way rule one is. The premise being that it sets in stone by now that Gloria’s life is in jeopardy here.
The scene intensifies to which Seth puts the gun to Gloria’s head listing that rule three is she cannot run away from them. Again it follows through the same way rule one and two is, because either she does the thing the two men tells them to or it will lead to her finalised murder.
Of course the scene follows through where she does get murdered, although this is attributed to that Richie is a registered sex offender, and is thus already a danger to Gloria regardless of the rules set for her. But much to that Seth has tried to keep his word as opposed to Richie has.
Seth makes it abundantly clear that he means by what he says, which is alluded to his statement, “I’ll give you my word”. Much to that so, he says that again in another scene where they hijack an RV to get across the Mexican border. Of course they succeed that, and they carry on their adventure in Mexico.
So to finalise - the prejudiced quarrel between Seth and Richie can be summarised that Seth knows how to keep his word, and Richie needs to be supervised or else another hostage will meet the fate where they will be raped and killed.
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He doesn’t actually rape the girl he captured but impregnates her with an injection tube. But I fully agree that trying to turn him into the hero just completely kills the movie for me.
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Wrong and insane, yes. But I still have to agree to disagree with you about the rapists part.
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I’m really not interested in conversations here on the forum regarding what is and isn’t considered “rape”. If you want to pursue this conversation any further, I expect that to happen within a PM.
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Tonight I was more or less forced to watch Amélie, a French Movie from 2001. My significant other have for a long time wanted me to watch it and I always put it on hold. Like with many other films that are important to her, Love Actually, Pride and Prejudice and The Notebook. More often then not she hits the mark with these movies (I didn’t like Love Actually the first time around, but since she got a sadistic relationship with this Christmas movie, I have learned to like it), however Amélie is exactly the kind of film I dislike. Absurdist films and plays, is a genre I greatly dislikes, especially when it got a “artistic flare” I often would categorise as pretentious. The movie suffered from a range of characters, that weren’t believable nor a world I believed in. It felt like a hazy dream world, which to be fair is what the director went for. It just not a genre I really like, the only Absurdist film I have yet to enjoy, is The Lighthouse’.
I once had the great displeasure to watch Waiting for Godot in a theatre, I only made it through 2 hours of the more then 3 hour the play took.
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Now you can insist on watching the '54 Godzilla with her. A movie everyone should see and love in my opinion.
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I don’t think she would hate it, she is fairly open to movies. The only movie I had to force her to watch was The Terminator, she liked it. She didn’t admit it though, before a few years later. I have yet to amid I liked ‘Love Actually’, It was hard to lie about ‘The Note Book’ since I cried like a little boy towards the end.
Normally when she suggest a movie genre I would never watch, I always ask “Is it French?” and if it is I always reply with “no”. Which is silly, because there are many French film I have enjoyed through out my life.
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really? it’s so wholesome and quirky… except when she rigs that guy’s house up; that’s straight up terrifying.
how do you feel about wes anderson?
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Been successfully avoiding it for 20 years and have no intention of changing that 
Be hardcore, go for Shin Godzilla. The OG film is too easy to like 
(side note: haven’t bumped into the PS4 game so far, only one instance of a Japanese PS3 release, but will keep looking when time allows 
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I have only watched one of his film, from what I can recall. I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel recently. I did enjoy that film, that said I was also prepared for it being absurd and I found it funny. I can’t say the same for Amélie. But in general really dislike Absurdist films, more often then not I’m unable to buy into the premise.
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Last night was sort of a movie night. I was recommended to watch American Animals, and that was 116 minutes of my life wasted. It was more an advice than a film, “Don’t rob, robbing is bad”. Could’ve told the story better.
Then it was time for Terminator 2; I always enjoy movies of this genre, and Terminator 2 is for sure an exceptional sci-fi but still I believe it was poorer than Terminator 1. The idea of “This Robot against that Human” touched me more than “This Robot against that Robot”. The intensity, the story, the main theme… Everything about Terminator 1 was in a way better.
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Love Actually is fantastic! It’s like a Quentin Tarrantino style romantic comedy.
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Artists be like: I hate drawing hands, they’re so hard.
Jérémy Clapin be like: I’m gonna make an animated movie all about a hand!
I saw the French film “I Lost My Body”. It’s licensed by Netflix, so you can watch it there.
It’s a surreal animated film about a disembodied hand who goes on a quest to find its owner. As the film progresses, the hand reminisces about its previous life of love and loss.
Gosh, it’s really good, especially from a cinematic standpoint. The animation is made in 3D, but looks 2D, and at times it’s so detailed and fluid, it looks rotoscoped (drawn over real footage) – but it’s not! It’s all original.
The story is told through many flashbacks of Naoufel, the owner’s life – As a child, and as a young man struggling to get by – and also as the hand’s journey across Paris to find him.
There are a lot of scenes that have minimal dialogue, great artistic flair, and use of a classical/electronic soundtrack.
Edit: I should note that the movie is pretty macabre at times (it’s a film about a chopped-off hand, what do you expect?) with some animal violence and hand-violence that can be pretty unsettling. There’s some serious stakes in this film, and you really feel for the hand’s well-being.
The ending is a bit abrupt and doesn’t have much finality to it, but if you think about it in the way that Naoufel described fate earlier in the movie, it makes a bit more sense, to me at least.
He had a really shitty series of events, and decided to do something irrational and impulsive, to get some sort of victory and control over his life. I think that’s nice.
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Worth
It’s about the 9/11 compensation fund that was setup in order to keep endless litigation from crippling the air carriers, but the movie focuses more on the people who were eligible for payouts, their stories, and the stories of the people who were working to try and make it all work.
Michael Keaton and Stanley Pucci are fantastic in it. The “bad guy” (if you will) is played by Tate Donovan who is also great.
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Dune (2021)
Just got back from watching this. Definitely a great movie. Visually stunning, with loads of shots that just looks like paintings. Great use of lighting, color and framing. Set/costume design is great as well. Could’ve had a bit more color in places, the film feels mostly grey and sepia toned.
The story is quite heavy, with a real Biblical feel. Lots of lore/world building… at points maybe a bit too heavy handed, but it works.
My biggest criticism: The film has quite a lot of sword fighting, but it’s not necessarily great. Could’ve been better shot/choreographed.
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