Not a movie I’ve watched yet, but a movie I think I’m going to watch in the near future; can anybody tell me about/recommend In Bruges?
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Uh sort of a Black Comedy I think, I have seen small bits of it and they always made me laugh though plus Collin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson have such great chemistry together.
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I don’t like dark comedy at all, but I love that film. Ferrell and Gleeson are fantastic together and Fiennes plays a great character too. It’s very slow and dramatic and then there are these small explosions of totally irreverent humour. Totally worth your time.
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Saw Barbie yesterday, was alright.
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it’s very very good.
funny. bleak. surprising. superb dialogue.
that’s all ya need.
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Barbie is wildly good. They nail the costumes and set design, the cast is spot-on, especially Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling omg, the story takes some deep dives into emotional, head-shakingly-real directions, and overall is a really fun commentary on self-worth, potential, respect, hypocrisy, gender roles and the experience of the modern day.
Calm down Greta Gerwig, wtf, I thought this was supposed to be a big Mattel ad, wow.
Also props to Mattel for allowing themselves to be mocked so openly like that.
America Ferrera with that monologue was fantastic.
(Ken jail meme)
Me and who 
Allan was a surprising character that I loved by the end of the film. A total outsider to the groups that doesn’t feel like they fit in the stereotypical gender roles of Barbie or Ken. I feel like there’s room for a non-binary interpretation there.
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It’s here! It’s finally here, the opening 10 minutes of the film I can watch and rewatch again and again and AGAIN, it’s so goooooood
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I’m gonna GUSH about S-V even more. Thanks to its digital release, I now have access to clean cuts of the opening logos of the film!!
The openings (to both) are some of my favourites in film, since they play around a lot with designs and styles for the company logo, and it’s just neat to see new versions of established, unchanged designs!
What’s neat is that each film has their own “Spider-Verse-themed” logo for most companies – if you pause it just right. They flip by fast! Even more so in the wildly unstable ATSV!
ITSV Spider Logos: ITSV opening logos clip
Sony [N/A]
Columbia Pictures:
Marvel:
Sony Animation:
Pascal Pictures:
ATSV Spider Logos: ATSV opening logos
Sony:
Columbia Pictures:
Marvel:
Sony Animation:
Pascal Pictures:
Lord Miller Prod.:
ATSV BONUS:
Blue Marvel logo (sketchbook themed??)
Brief blown-up Pascal logo w/ spider
For just two frames after the SonyAnim logo above, this homage to a classic Spidey panel appears.
these artists were worked to the bone for details and damnit I’m not gonna let it go unnoticed!
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Watched that new Spider People movie. Had a good time like the previous one.
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Went out to the movies to see Mad Max: Fury Road, Black and Chrome ed.! (Black & White version!)
Its been like 7 or 8 years since I first saw the movie, so I’ve forgotten a lot, and it was great fun!
The setting is super wild and cool, with people scrounging for an ounce of water and worship cars like gods.
People’s vehicles are doled out with any number of spikes, explosives, human skulls, or fused car bodies to become frankenstein monsters of a vehicle.
All I kept thinking of was the video game of around the same time. They captured the desolate, insane, lonely setting really well. Plus the action and vehicle use felt inspired by the film a lot.
The black and white version made the film seem a little more artsy I think. The original film already had a great use of its colour pallette and lighting. The contrast between the orange dunes, blue sky, and dark blue nights.
This version makes the harsh environment stand out in great ways. The sky, harshly cut off by crumbling rocks. The dark sandstorm everyone barrels towards. The little black dots rushing across the screen in an impressive wide shot…
Gosh, this movie already had some awesome cinematography, music, and story (Furiosa is a damn cool protagonist and it’s a shame her spin-off film has been trapped in dev hell)
So it was cool to experience this again, stripped down to its most basic colour pallette!
(Apparently George Miller’s original vision for the film was b&w… so this kind of revives that for the home release).
The theater we were in didn’t have the best mixing… a lot of the dialogue often got drowned out by SFX or music, but it’s okay. There isn’t too much talking in this film anyway.
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*Street Art Pack downloaded
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Nimona is really super good. I Really love the message and metaphor behind the film. (Total trans/non-gender/sexuality-normative, or even just total outcast ‘Us vs. Them’ mentality. Hits hard, many times. 
) Holy cow. The animation is playful, expressive, zany, Nimona is WILD I love her so much, and the movie is is pretty dang funny and surprisingly heartbreaking. Wow.
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Not exactly a spoiler, it happens fairly early on, but
“Can’t you just be a girl? It would be better…”
“Better for WHO?..” 
This line cuts so deep into the real question behind it, omg I love it.
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Finally saw Oppenheimer yesterday, and thought it was really good.
Great score by Ludwig Göransson.
Beautifully shot.
Very well acted.
A story that will stay with you for days.
My main problems were:
Run Time / Structure:
After a certain point the movie feels like it should be wrapping up from a story telling structure perspective. It doesn’t. It continues for what feels like a good hour or so. Considering the film was told using three different time lines I feel like the order scenes were showed could potentially have fixed this so that the climax of multiple time lines aligned better.
As it is, it almost felt to me like there were two stories told in sequence.
Loud Music:
The music is, once again too loud in comparison to dialog. It’s not like you can’t hear what people are saying, but the music is loud enough that it commands more attention than what is being said in moments where I can’t imagine this was the intention.
Special Effects:
Beforehand the statement that there’s no CGI in the movie fascinated me. After having seen it I honestly think it was a mistake. The core effects moment of the film felt underwhelming to me, basically just filling the screen with a closeup of some fire or whatever (I know they did some complex compositing but I didn’t really feel like it had much of an effect on me).
There’s also the moment where we see what I assume is Oppenheimer imagining multiple nukes exploding all over the Earth at the very end which looked cheap to me.
(But the sequence was still bone chilling)
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I watched a modern sniper movie last night. It is an ukranian movie, luckily it was available in hindi audio on amazon prime videos. There was only two audio language - original ukranian or hindi, no english. Maybe the languages depends on region.
Sniper: The White Raven
It gave the “Enemy at the Gates” movie kind of feeling but on modern sniper.
Watch a few quality european movies like T-34, All quiet on the western front etc etc. Kindly suggest more of these.
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yeah, it’s a great movie. my kids love it too. it’s a lovely, fun pro-trans allegory and chloe-grace moretz is perfect in the role.
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Yes, it is a patriotic Ukrainian movie.
I suggest White Tiger (2012), In The Line of Fire (2020).
And, of course, Come and See (1985), for the Russian side.
Narvik (2022), which shows the Norwegians, is also pretty good.
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We saw Oppenheimer last night. It was good! Great, even! Not the best cinematic experience or whatever, (and honestly I like Barbie much more lol) but it was enjoyable!
It interpreted a lot of events of Oppy’s life, from the early knowledge-chasing years to being put as head of the Manhattan program, to after… it was impressive how much it covered.
The actors did a really great job, and I can see Cillian and Robert DowneyJr. getting Oscar noms for this, they were fantastic.
In terms of some negative nitpicks, I have a few that distracted me a bit.
I will say that Nolan’s infamous trope of characters not being heard very well comes back here. Either drowned out by the score, the background noise, or just bad audio work…
Some key conversations I had trouble following clearly.
Up until I’d say halfway through the film I didn’t quite like how the film kept jumping around between early-life, post-bomb-life, the Senate hearing and the Security hearing.
It finally got into a steady rhythm of mostly-chronological retelling of events lightly broken up by tangents in the “future”.
It also didn’t help that there are very few scenes that seem to last more than a minute, so it’s a breakneck pace and rarely do you get to dwell on one moment before it’s time to see the next “event”.
Also, sidenote, what was with Nolan’s use of “chapters” in this?
The first minute opens with "1. Fission, then half a minute later it’s on to “2. Fusion” then… were there any others? I didn’t notice any, and I found it silly that I barely understood the significance of using them at all.
I will say, it was really cool how he brought in so much talent into this. Every now and then I kept doing a double-take because I recognized an actor in this I’d never expected to show up. (I hadn’t followed much news of this film so I really only knew the main actor and director, maybe a few like Damon and Downey from trailers, but that’s it.)
Kenneth Branagh, David Dastmalchian, Florence Pugh, Matthew Modine, Dane Dehaan, Josh Peck!?, Rami Malek,
And on Rami, for most of the movie I was baffled that he only showed up for two scenes just to drop a pen and act meek. Where’s the dialogue, Nolan? What did you cut him out of? Thankfully it all pays off great with an intense speech near the end of his research on Strauss’ deals.
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Awww, my dad felt bad that half my vacation got delayed because he got sick in quebec, so to give me one more relaxing treat before going to work tomorrow, he took me to see the TMNT movie. 
Anyway, after finally properly seeing the movie, I can safely say: This was the coolest new animation style I’ve seen since the original Spider-Verse film. 
The movie looks like a sketchbook turned 3D.
Everything looks roughly drawn. Objects and people don’t have clear “boundaries”, as part of their design. Everything looks a little ‘ugly’, to put it in a nice way – it serves the message of the film real well!
I usually hate it when people say “ohh this 3D thing almost looks 2D!” As if one style is inherently more impressive or better than the other…
But man, this movie really does have moments that nearly look 2D, despite being 3D… like, they transcended their own style by how it was all drawn, that’s cool.
The teens playing the Turtles were really fun. Maybe a liiiitle annoying sometimes during one of their many “talking over each other” gags, but it really helped sell their awkward vibe.
They are also heavily, heavily Gen Z. (Them, and the script) Making lots of pop culture references and IRL references. Some might not like that, but I did. Gave them great hooks for frames of reference.
Also, my dad, who like never comments on anything artistic about animated films. (He enjoys them, but not usually for their artistry)
Said it was a wild style, and how he liked how it sometimes looked 3D, sometimes 2D. He looked at it artistically! Woo!
He also said that sometimes it would get very busy - I agree, especially sometimes in close-quarters fights, but most of the time it was great.
The lighting and reflection work in this movie is especially cool mixed with the sketch style.
Everything looks roughly textured, when all of a sudden, WHOA, that pencil can reflect light?? or be affected by another pencil-styled light colour?? Damn cool!!
Go see it please, its very cool and deserves more hype than I’ve (not) been hearing…
The coolest scene had to be the fight-montage in the first third of the film, with all those animation/environment match cuts. OOH WOW.
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Watched 2 movies with my family:
At Home:
Narvik
It is based on real events in Norway. I am not from Norway but still felt touched, world war was really bad time in europe.
Soldiers are warriors, but it is true that Mother is the greatest warrior. The cinematography is appreciatiable, my family members liked it too - inspiring.
Thanks for the recommendation Force_Obscure, looking for next in your list 
Sorry only this trailer was available -
At Cinema:
Jawan (hindi translation double meaning - young or soldier):
I am not a SRK fan, but enjoyed this mass movie (last time was Vikram and RRR). It is a combination of A Wednesday(One Common Man), Expandable, John Wick, Charles Angeles and somewhat inspired by Joker (Dark Knight).
The story has a lesson to goverment and promotes voting by asking question for yourself and kicking corrupt politician or businessmen.
It is an entertaing movie if you ignore the physics in the fight (like RRR). It will be released in Netflix soon. You may try if you want a taste of bollywood movie.
My best part was the music by Anirudh mixed with Raja Kumari’s rap in the title track and Vijay Setupathy - the king of Villian (Antagonist).
English subtitles available -
Remember Hitman 2 Mumbai map Gregory Arthur planned dance with female dancers, here is trending one of a song with crazy ~1000 dancers (Women Prison):
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I still have yet to see this, but I actually just listened to Trent and Atticus’ score in its entirety around 5 this morning because I couldn’t sleep. It was so good, I’m kicking myself for missing this movie while it was still playing at my local theatre.
Edit: oh snap it’s still there, thought it had left. Definitely going this coming week.
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