Movies You’ve Only Just Watched

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I was on the fence on whether or not I would go watch it. Going off of what I thought of Deadpool 2 (being the worst cinema experience I had and cringy humour that didn’t work for me), from that I have decided not to give it my time or money. The reviews and overall Metacritic score perfectly reflects my expatiations of the film. I loved the first film though.

I’ll save my hard earned cash and letting my parents babysit our daughter, for Alien Romulus instead. I’ll catch it on Disney+ some day. Then again I might not. It doesn’t seem to lift the bar for the MCU, which was strongest with Winter Solider a 7/10 film. However If it could live up to Logan and Days of Future Past then I would gladly give them my time and money.

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I just got back from Deadpool and Wolverine. Wow, it’s such a fun action film. Tons of surprises and omg I’m both in awe and afraid at what the entire budget must be for this film between production AND marketing. Ryan and Hugh have been on a duo press streak for a while now! I just can’t escape them online!

It was a great Deadpool movie that sticks to its guns and guts and gore and sex jokes omg, and even has a few running jokes from previous films which I really enjoyed!
Also plays with A LOT of toys from Marvel’s toybox of previous films, MCU or not… And even had a sizeable inclusion of the TVA that I loved to see return from Loki and they once again nailed their aesthetic and presentation.

The Villain(s) of this film did a great job and I think that specifically Emma Corrin and Matthew Macfayden looked like they had a really fun time with their scripts and not taking themselves too seriously.

Also I think I caught that Dopinder’s actor was no longer doing a stereotypical indian accent? Neat, IMO. Shows some interesting growth as a character and not just playing his voice off as a joke.
They DO drop the R-slur later in the film. Not glorifying or using it against someone, but just egch…

I think I’d slot this between the last two deadpool movies. 2 > DPW > 1. I just LOVE the found-family arc and trying to help a misguided kid plot from 2, this one has some great heartfelt moments but doesn’t cut as deep with eeeeverything going on in the plot and cast.
Plus 2 has that epic song from Celine Dion so I’m biased, eh?
This one DOES have a fantastic opening credits scene that Marvel Studios doesn’t do all that much.

Spoilers spoilers!!

RIP Agent 47 just kidding…

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RIP Wade and Vanessa’s relationship. So sad they had them break up off-screen kinda.

Was surprised to see Paradox be revealed as a bad guy that DP had to stop. None of the marketing showed that. And especially after Loki series, where the TVA is changed for the good, it was a nice surprise seeing a rogue section of the agency try to prune timelines the old-fashioned way.

It was extremely surprising to see characters from every branch of Fox. That Chris Evans cameo really got me stunned, I totally forgot about him as that character.
Definitely felt like one big celebration of the Fox films as a whole with the big montage at the end credits. Great stuff. (I haven’t seen all the old ones, I just recently saw the OG X-Men film with legends Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen)

I have ZERO clue what Channing Tatum was saying 75% of the time. I’m glad they made a bunch of jokes about it, and Wade “translated” for him later, but whoof! What the HECK was that?? Boston-French, or something??
“Who is your Dialect coach??!”
(Also, I happened to see an “old” photo of the entire Fox cast of films together earlier this morning, alongside Tatum who was slated to have his own Gambit film that got cancelled. So thankfully I was filled in on his “Marvel debut” jokes in the film and how it was some big deal lol, didn’t know he was gonna be in this film tho!.)

If I have a few gripes with the plot (and this is kinda due to my own expectations, but)

  • they never had a payoff to that Thor crying joke that’s set up and constantly referenced. Maybe in another film?

  • Alioth is a nice addition, but like… just after DP&W jump back into their home world, it munches the cast at the Ant Man Skull but Nova is still fine a scene later, and the TVA can just… bring back everyone who got munched in the Void at the end? How? Huh? :thinking:

  • And at the end, Wade is… kinda back right where he started, only he saved the world from dying. I guess this lets him live his life with his people, and they can just call him in whenever they need a deadpool crossover. I just expected a bit more interaction with the established MCU… (Especially since we start with Wade in the Sacred Timeline, I expected him to go back again later) Welp, hopefully next time the OG DP crew get some more time to shine alongside Wade too.

Oh yeah and I was really hoping for a Fox-to-Marvel logo transition at the very start, but alas, we can’t have everything. Loved the “Screw you Fox, I’m going to Disneyland!!” joke :joy:

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Well I would assume it is supposed to be a Cajun accent given the character he plays…

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I am not familiar with that character so… huh. Okay.

(I HAVE seen like two episodes of the OG XMen cartoon, and I’m pretty sure I heard him speak french in those, so I guess that’s my explanation for it huh.)

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Evidently. Because being Cajun is a big part of his character, not for nothing that his unofficial moniker is the Ragin’ Cajun

Well that is because Cajuns are French, the are culturally and ethnically descended from the original French settlers of what is now called Nova Scotia after they were exiled by the British. They have their own distinct culture from France with a subtler variation of the language, it leaves people native to the Delta with a distinctive American accent as well.

Most writers will have Gambit speak normal French because it is far easier to do that then to learn Cajun French simply for the mannerisms of one character or because they might not have been aware of the difference at all.

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6 posts were merged into an existing topic: TV Show Discussion Thread

I cast teleport on your TV discussion!

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Hey @schatenjager the OX crew reckon that the new Borderlands movie is probably the greatest cinematic masterpiece since Citizen Kane: don’t bother watching their video to confirm this, just get out there and see the movie…

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Alien: Romulus

That’s it, my first Alien movie watched at the cinema.
The film does not revolutionize the genre in any way, it is a well-constructed stand-alone, which looks most like Aliens, with an ending that resembles Alien: Resurrection, which I liked less (because humanoid derivatives are ugly and uninteresting).
The parts with the facehuggers are the most stressful, because the spectators know them well now and there are really many of them.
Some beautiful images in space were filmed.
The passage of the acid that is suspended by gravity is very cool.
The background music adds to the oppressive atmosphere.
The duo between the heroine (seen in Civil War) and the android is strong.
Iconic lines have been reused.

At first, it was necessary to have an excuse to visit the abandoned station, then the objective very quickly becomes having to flee.
The argument of the company’s scientists, seeking to save humanity from diseases (instead of waiting for its natural evolution), does not hold water, because it is clear that their alien synthesis is not the panacea, on the contrary. But they are very stubborn.
A well-known android is making a comeback unfortunately, but the actor (deceased) is very good.

I would say the first part is similar to the original movie, with the classic process of the xenomorph being born, and then the hunt of this latter is rendered null when we realize that… an entire nest is infesting the ship!
Since there are only the main characters, we don’t see many deaths.
I would have liked to see more diversity among the aliens, as seen in the video game Aliens: Fireteam Elite, where there were at least six species.
For those like me who loved Alien: Isolation, you’ve found your film, even if the tension drops when the characters have a gun in their hands.

If you like the saga, don’t deprive yourself of going to watch it.
I can’t lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies.

Also, Fede Álvarez: where is the queen??

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Just watched Be My Cat: A Film for Anne. It’s about a sick, twisted dude obsessed with Anne Hathaway who’s trying to shoot a film so that he can send it to her. I’ve been on kind of a found-footage horror kick all week, and this definitely stuck out to me among the bunch. It’s captivating and genuinely disturbing, it’s the kind of movie that makes you feel uncomfortable until you remind yourself that it’s all just performance. I loved it. It’s free on Tubi, just make an account if you don’t already have one.

https://tubitv.com/movies/491721/be-my-cat-a-film-for-anne

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Loved Alien: Romulus. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

It doesn’t quite touch the first two, of course, but Fede nails the 70s blue collar sci-fi aesthetic and if I didn’t know better I would swear he shot a good chunk of the movie on the set of Isolation. Only thing missing was a Working Joe. :disappointed:

I have mixed feelings about resurrecting Ian Holm and a few (callback) moments felt flat–even Andy seemed puzzled about why he added “you bitch” after “Get away from her”–but the movie’s tense and visually impressive–zero g acid lives up to the hype–with really good performances from Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson. And baby xeno? xeno baby? fleshy boy? is creepy as hell.

It’ll be interesting to see how it shakes out after a couple of rewatches, but it could end up being my favorite of the post-Cameron movies. :+1:

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My fiancé and I just got home from watching Alien: Romulus, while the grand mother was babysitting our daughter.

I had a great time with Romulus, I loved that it pulled threads all the way back to Prometheus and Covenant. Even if it isn’t the conclusion to the trilogy we never got.

The ending, was a big fucking nope. I audibly said “Jesus fucking Christ” all while my fiancé coiled up in horror. If you are pregnant, don’t watch this film.

I feel the same way, I would have preferred if they used Michael Fassbender instead. In some ways I think it would make more sense for the franchise overall.

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Romulus was not my cup of tea. It looked good and the big action sequence towards the end was fun. I don’t know why filmmakers would put in so much effort into something so determined to be unoriginal.

Anyway, I’m here because I saw TRAP this weekend and wanted to recommend it to y’all because although the second half was pretty dumb, the first half has big Hitman energy.

Also I have a Letterboxd if anyone wants to check it out. Trap is not reviewed there yet but Romulus is: ‎Chris’s profile • Letterboxd

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Lake Mungo

I can barely describe how much dread this film inflicted on me. Lake Mungo completely fucked my nerves and tested my sanity all throughout. What makes this film so scary is that it leaves enough room for imagination. The situation is so bleak that you want everything you see to be real. The shitty camera footage and the zoom ins on the disfigured faces in the dark actually triggered my primal fear of the dark.

Without spoiling: the scare towards the end fucked me up so bad I started to feel nauseous, got goosebumps and started sweating over my entire body. It felt like an actual nightmare come true. I feel sick thinking about it. Don’t look it up, watch the movie. It’s better with the buildup.

Lake Mungo is good at playing psychological games. The themes of loss and hope intertwined with horror is a bitter pill to swallow. The imagery is very unsettling to watch, but the feeling it reflects on me is pure sadness. Being haunted by a ghost of the past and not finding the closure and acceptance you need is hard. Showing the viewer distant images of unexplained figures in the background only reinforced both the dread and hope in me. Even when the movie makes you think there is an explanation, it pulls no punches and completely turns that theory upside down again.

Things that usually fuck me up in horror movies are unexplained things happening in the background (in the dark) and uncanny valley figures. I can confidently say Lake Mungo checked all the boxes and scared me. From the start to the very last second of the credits. Which is rare for a horror movie.

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Terminator Zero, it’s not a movie. It’s anime terminator tv series. I been looking forward to this series with great anticipation.

Currently I’m on ep.6. It’s kinda awful, I’ll finish it to see how it ties up. For a R-rated animated show it feels like it’s targeted towards pre-teens. I have no real idea who it’s for, it’s certainly not for me. I have a hard time seeing how it’s for fans of the original films.

The premise evolves around a family in Japan. The father seeks to create his own AI to combat Skynet before it goes online. But things doesn’t go according to plan. The show is split between the father talking vaguely about humanity with an A.I and the kids, their babysitter and the babysitter’s babysitter running from a terminator.

There is currently no real explanation for how the father knows about Skynet and judgment day. Other than “dreams” he’s awfully vague about. The children are stereotypical archetypes, dumb, smart and sensitive. The father not much different, he’s stoic and removed.

The show is also full of technology that doesn’t exist in any of the sequels taking place in the 90’s early 2000’s. Full fledged service robots, robot pets that basically look like their toy counterparts from the early 2000’s. It’s an odd choice to suddenly fill the universe with technology that mirrors films like I. Robot. And expecting the viewer to just accept that robots are everywhere in 1997, before skynet is operational. It’s Japan so it’s alright, they got wacky advanced technology.

The new A.I and service bots, of course turns evil. Here a lot of new inconsistencies turns up. In their uprising we see them indiscriminately slaughter a whole hospital, until the plot dictates that they only kill threats. Liked armed military personnel and police.

Terminator genesys is smarter then this show.

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Well, maybe this explains how SkyNet gets rebranded as Legion and they call it a new timeline based on that somehow.

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Might be what they are trying to achieve, only time will tell.

The show does have its strengths, like anything else. Just awfully executed.

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I finally got around to watching the Venture Bros movie.

It is a film about family. I very much enjoyed it and had a smile on my face the whole time. It’s not perfect, and I wish it’d been 10-15 minutes longer, but that’s because I love the characters and the world, and I wanted more.

:v: Go Team Venture! :v:

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I’ve either forgotten about it or never knew about it… But I came across a clip of a Nicholas Cage movie and now I want to watch the whole thing. :pig: I’ll be on the lookout for it… Maybe it’ll be on Tubi or Amazon Prime.

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Rebel Ridge (2024)

The new Jeremy Saulnier film and therefore, obviously, required viewing. Aaron Pierre stars as an innocent Marine Corps veteran who the local corrupt cops go out of their way to fuck with as he passes through their backwater territory. Both the plot and tone fall somewhere between the underlying sadness of First Blood and the gung-ho wandering badass-ery of [pick any Jack Reacher novel here].

Probably my least favourite of Saulnier’s mainline films to date - Green Room is still the high-water mark, with Blue Ruin hot on its tail - but I still had a really good time with it. As an overall package it’s of a similar quality to Hold The Dark - it’s actually probably a more consistently solid film, but although it finished with a great action set-piece it didn’t have any individual moments that were quite as stellar as the stand-off at the farmhouse in the middle of Hold The Dark. Plus this is the first Saulnier film where [absolute legend] Macon Blair doesn’t feature in an acting role, so by default it has to go below his other movies on the list.

Think people will safely be able to ignore all my qualifiers above and just have a lot of fun with this movie (which has just appeared on Netflix) so it’s a definite recommend from me… just go watch Green Room as well if you haven’t already seen it.

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Terrifier 3,

Admittedly I’m a self professed horror fan. I feel I gotta admit that I’m not an absolute gore fiend when it comes to the genre. That being said I knew what I was getting into since I’m familiar enough with the series and its lore that its creator has made between The 9th Circle into Terrifier 3 of today.

Story is as expected if you seen Terrifier 2. It’s an extension of everything established from the previous film and continues the divine battle between Art and Sienna. The Lore is deep, and albeit requires some prior explanation. A Main Lead gets killed off screen, but this might be a misdirect given an unwritten rule within the Genre is if you never actually see them die, they can always come back. That being said the film ends on a cliffhanger setting up the inevitable fourth and presumably final part to Leones planned story.

Kills,

I can safely say this is the most violent and probably the most uncomfortable I felt watching a Slasher movie. Lack of a better way to put it. If a character encounters Art and his partner chances of them surviving is unrealistic. No discrimination either so that means kids are on the chopping block which for a lot of people is very controversial and taboo.

What I will say is while a lot of the kills are visceral and mean spirited, the one major one involving children is oddly comical lack of a better way to put it given the context behind it.

As for the adults, it’s definitely mean spirited and very violent. Everything between Liquid Nitrogen to Chainsaw rectal exams, the kills are creative, but I was left uncomfortable. There’s a lot of the red stuff and it’s not for the faint of heart. So expect kills to be consistently like the infamous bedroom kill of the 2nd film.

As a slasher film, it achieves its goal. The film within reason is enjoyable, but with an over 2 Hour Length and the film being muddled with lore that requires prior knowledge of the films within this series. Terrifier 3 is an 8/10.

Definitely the better of the two clown movies released this October.

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