The Usual Suspects
Ain’t gonna trust anyone after that twist.
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my favourite line:
“i’m gonna be shittin’ blood tonight.”
the writer went on to make one of my favourite movies: way of the gun. you might like it.
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I watched Way of the Gun recently. It had some good parts (started out strong, had some cool action bits) and a good cast (minus the ultra-bland Ryan Phillippe), but I found it pretty uneven and kind of dated in places.
James Caan was terrific, though.
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yeah, that’s fair. it’s definitely of its time. i love it, personally.
i like the way it controls the information it gives the viewer. it’s very guarded while still giving us everything we need to work it out if we’re observant enough (or watch it a second time). there’s always another layer to what’s being said too, which is put to great use with their explanation about the card game.
on top of that, everything is a subversion of some kind (don’t read @Hichkas !): the cold open, the heroes are bad guys. the slow car chase, the off-screen kidnapping central to the film, the old man gunfight with the impossibly heavy money, etc.
it’s been a while, but i always thought it was class… even ryan phillippe… and i hate that guy! 
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I finally got around to watching the director’s cut of Dark City. John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes up in a grimy bathtub with no memory of who he is and ye olde dead hooker in the next room. John Hurt is the detective investigating the murders (yes, plural) and Jennifer Connelly is the wife who hasn’t seen Murdoch in three weeks. Throw in a breathy Kiefer Sutherland as the doctor who (maybe) wants to help him and a group of mysterious Nosferatu-looking bald dudes in old-timey hats and suits who seem to have an unusual interest in Murdoch.
Visually, Dark City is fantastic, dark and grimy, a nameless, sunless city outside of time. The CGI is great, if a bit dated, though in a way that I think adds to the timeless eeriness of the movie, and serves as a precursor to the massive shifting cityscapes of Inception and Doctor Strange.
I won’t go too much into the plot (an irony that will become apparent in a minute), but mysterious weirdness happens. I felt like they could have gone deeper in exploring some of its themes, but it works well enough to make the movie not entirely reliant on it’s amazing atmosphere.
I saw the original version a couple of times when it first came out, but now, after watching it for the first time in 20-ish years, I went back and rewatched the opening of the theatrical version and, holy shit, the studio really screwed them over. Worried about a confused audience, they made them add an opening narration…and I’ll be damned if that asshole (
) Kiefer Sutherland doesn’t just outright tell you, like, all three of the major twists/revelations in the movie within the opening minute. 
Frankly, it’s a testament to how good the movie is that even with everything being spoiled it was still as compelling as it was back then. I’m not sure what else they changed in the director’s cut (it’s 10 minutes longer), but just that one omission takes an already good movie and makes it infinitely better.
(Seriously, if you haven’t seen it, avoid the theatrical cut like the plague. And if it’s the only option, at least mute the first minute or so of the movie, until you see the closeup of Kiefer’s watch.)
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Freddy
Watched this psychological thriller suspense hindi movie last night, rewatching it again. The acting of the Lead Actor Kartik Aryan (who is an underdog) nailed the movie. The storyline is well arranged (IMDB rating is more than 8) and bends your mind in some parts.
Next time be careful when you visit a Dentist.
As the trailer shows, everyone bullies and teases the Dentist Freddy and he is sad and low mostly in the movie, but he never gives up and when he smiles, he scares the viewers 
Spoiler: he does some agent 47 job- murder
It is available in disney plus with english subs.
The dialogues are very less with some are of english.
There is news that some cricits says it was good if it was released on theares. Good that bollywood movie is moving from love, song and dance to hollywood content based movies.
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Finally watched the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
It was very fun! Loved how it added in a classic “animated Christmas special” vibe to the beginning and end, and was overall a very funny, and at parts demented, Holiday Special about misguided kidnappings for the sake of holiday cheer.
The entire ending sequence with everything lit up was great, and the Special had a great use of rockin’ Christmas songs. The two original ones here (especially the one in the intro) were great.
Maybe I’ll watch it next year! (And I might have to, if the next Guardians film is gonna be the last – and surely break my heart)
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I watched yesterday The Fablemans, that was the best movie of 2022 (and I watched lots of movies this year), great performances, great character developments, great plot twists, overall an incredible movie you all should experience.
A Spoiler meme for whoever watched it already:
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No Country For Old Men
Can somebody explain what I just saw?
For real, explain it to me.
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The world doesn’t make sense for an older fella with an old fashioned sense of justice, with ideals of good and evil, right and wrong. Sometimes good guys do bad things because they’re desperate and nobody believes in them; sometimes bad guys do bad things and don’t even have a reason, they don’t even really know why they want to do things; and sometimes a story comes to an end that has nothing at all to do with anybody even involved with the story.
The world is crazy, stop trying to figure it out. That’s what you just saw.
Javier Bardem’s character of Anton is also what you saw, and he’s basically The Joker without the laughter.
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Banshees of Insherin. It’s just as dark and about half as funny as In Bruges. Farrell and Gleeson’s chemistry is still there. I’d watch any movie with both of them in it no matter how dull the plot sounded.
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinoccio
What a breathtaking awe-inspiring version of this story, with beautiful animation a wonderful message and absolutely inspired character design and story changes.
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I don’t know if this counts because I haven’t seen it nor do I intend to but I’m not sure what’s funnier/sadder about some of the commentary I’ve seen about Avatar: The Way of Water: that is does in fact appear to just be the first one again, that the story appears to be just as paper thin “but you should definitely spend more to see those incredible visuals in 3D” 
, or that some seem to be disappointed in the story or lack thereof (again) and there still some of those who recommend it due solely to the visuals (again). Some of them seem to (finally) be waking up to the (myriad and massive) shortcomings of this franchise nobody asked for but… Anyway, apologies, just wanted to rant a bit; I’ve been dreading this opening weekend since it was first threatened all those years ago. I don’t even think I hate this franchise or the people who blindly defend it, I just wish neither existed (or that the films were worthy of their defenders) and that the franchise wasn’t going to be forcing itself on us for the next half decade…
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I’ve actually read a review a short while ago that only the scenes of Pandora’s environment and the Na’vi themselves are good, and that the effects for several scenes come across like they’re pulled from a PS5 cutscene, and that the humans have an uncanny, soap opera look to them from the motion filter. In other words, the very thing this series banks in, that it operates on the most advanced technology currently possible for filmmaking, isn’t even completely true anymore. So, yeah, Cameron can crank out his third one and close this up, and he should do that and skip on the other sequels he had in mind, because really, nobody cares. Ooh and aah at the visuals, but we could put them on a screensaver.
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Come one man even a basic Google search shows that isn’t true. Cameron and Weta had to employ new technology and CGI techniques to make the underwater scenes. This was one of the first articles I ran across after simply typing “Avatar 2 technology”.
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The only returns I had on Avatar is : it’s some of cinema’s best in “transporting into a world”, and is not here for the story. And the technical aspects are some of the most advances existing. Admittedly in a way that can help the rest of the industry
The issue as a spectator : video games exists for that.
Avatar is the movie equivalent of a book that is really really good at describing scenes and movements. It’s impressive for the techniques and inside the specific art. But there are better medium for it. In this example movies.
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Completely true, dude. I said, it’s not completely true anymore. And I did specify, in regards to the scenes of the alien world and the aliens themselves, it’s still doing it’s thing, but that same care doesn’t seem to have covered the entire film. And, again, this isn’t my conclusion; I haven’t seen the thing yet. This was a review I read a couple hours ago. Go tell them that new technologies and techniques were used.
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It isn’t the public’s job to go over this sort of shit, they have editors for a reason and they are supposed to look into this shit. This fucking stupid take-up-mindshare, baiting style journalism is killing the medium, journalists need standards again not fucking business metrics.
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Well, considering that part about how parts of the movie live up to the standards of tech presentation and others don’t, I think they’ve covered that, but that’s my take away after reading it. I’m sensing some discontent with something more fundamental at play here, so I’ll leave you be with that.
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