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Oh! Some new posts in the Indy 5 thread...

The scenarist and director are not exactly amazing, but they have a decent track record of ok movies. With that taken into acount, this is surprisingly lame. The plot is dumb as bricks and does not explore in any realistic way the themes it set forth. Bad guys getting their comeuppance is not...

This show is very good. It's on Max and will be soon (or already is?) on Netflix, so check it out! The setting is very interesting and was totally unknown to me: San Francisco in the 1870s with tensions between gangs in chinatown, irish workers who see their jobs go to cheaper chinese workers...

There is something very peculiar about this movie. Because all the line are taken verbatim from the transcript, it does not sound like film dialogues. People repeat themselves, digress, get interrupted, misspeak, creating a very unique type of tension you usually do not see in movies. It's all...

A very straightforward '70s style vigilante movie. The somewhat pointless twist is that there is no dialogue. The justification for it is that the main character is rendered mute after being shot in the throat. It's not the first film to try something similar and it's hardly ever good. At least...

Not necessarily a huge fan of the weird-for-the-sake-of-weird ecosystem that is at the very heart of this show, but the clean bande dessinée inspired visuals, the neat, seemingly rotoscoped, animation and the simple but original story make it worth watching.

As of right now this whole category is ranked 27th and the top streams in it have 600 viewers. Clearly, honest god fearing gamers face an existential crisis...

Having recently seen the first two seasons of Slow Horses and the whole five seasons of The Bureau, I would say both shows are good but very different in tone and scope. Slow Horses is written with some caricatural characters while The Bureau leans toward a more subdued approach, trying to keep...

Yeah I saw Providence (in theater even!) and it was ok (maybe my expectations were a little too high), but in the chronology it's set between Season 2 and Season 3 and, without going into spoiler territory, it explains the big changes for some of the characters between the end of season 2 and...

Anyone knows if we can hope for some more Psycho-Pass in the near future? Not like season 3 and First inspector were that great, but still...

Grand Poo World 3 gave us a lot of great content these past few days.

Other than "why not", why?

Very nice follow up to the original game. It finds a clever way to prolong its odd brand of post-humanity philosophical sci-fi story. I found it a little bit less fascinating than the first game on that front. Both stories, from the point of view of the protagonist, are about trying to...

Not bad but nothing special. Made me think of Dexter because of the internal monologue that contradicts the actual events: a character who misunderstands what he is and does.

No love for Johnny Somali and his ilk, but in the battle of the worst between nuisance streamers and the japanese justice system, the japanese justice system wins by several order of magnitude.

I don't think you are being fair here. One of the best anime I saw this year is Slam Dunk The Movie that has absolutely none of that. Even in the Gibli catalogue, you have things like From Up on Poppy Hill that is just a realistic coming of age movie (Miyazaki is indeed a likely culprit though...

Got release today in Switzerland. Hard to rate for me as it is technically and artistically a masterpiece, but it also operates in a genre that I despise: the dream-like adventure. Basically, after the initial third the rest of the movie is an "anything goes" fest with no sense or reason. For me...

It's not like 1.5 billion in ticket sales means 1.5 billion in her pockets though. It's probably a very expensive tour to put together.

Claire Denis directed several singular movies over the years, including a masterpiece, Beau Travail. This 'High Life' is original but, let's face it, a bit shit.

It means comedy is hard.

Finally went to see it. It surprisingly deserves its runtime because of the amount of material and it carries it well as the pace is brisk. Also, subject matter, story and performances are engrossing, which does not hurt. Another surprise is that it is very original in many ways. That being...

Crazy dude that posts a skating video every few years just posted one.

Your compass must be pointing South considering Pacino's scene were the only good things in The Irishman. About this Killers of the Flower Moon, I have been meaning to see it for the past week, but every time the length dissuades me.

The first part was surprisingly well done and entertaining. I will see the 2nd part for sure.

This movie. It is not good. The director can't film action properly so Tony Jaa and Iko Unwais are wasted. The plot is a dusty pile of clichés that does not even have some parody charm to it. Dialogues are bad to the point you can't even blame the actors for the bad delivery. It's not like the...

Jonathan Glazer does not make many movies, but when he does it's, at the very least, interesting and worth watching. I think I already posted it here before, but the opening scene of Birth is so memorable, it's worth reposting.

At surface level, "group of teens vs alien" sounds like an insanely dumb idea from a movie executive that has zero understanding of what the franchise is about. I mean, the Pitch Meeting skit almost writes itself. That being said, another take on the Alien franchise in a self contained spin-off...

This reminds me there were issues with Titanic when it released: some theaters were running it at 25 frames per second instead of 24 to be able to squeeze an additional screening in their schedule.

Not familiar with it all, but the source material is a book. The author of the book made a play out of the trial portion of the story. The 1954 film 'The Cain Mutiny' adapts the book. This 2023 film adapts the play. Hence the title 'The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'.

For a pretty long while this movie is great, helped by the location and the cinematic flair of Fuqua. Sadly, it slowly and surely get dumber and dumber and even the catharsis of gangsters getting their comeuppance does not counterbalance it.

Imagine an art-book of sci-fi illustrations. Big vistas with techno-industrial buildings mixed with south-east Asian architecture, giant spaceships flying above the jungle, Buddhist temples with cyborg monks... a bit cliché but you have to wonder: "What kind of story could take place in this...

2 million views, so possibly well known around these parts, but here is a super nerdy and mindblowing talk about the inner workings of the first moon landing:

Apparently, it turned into a total mess. Like people suing each other, battles over IPs, etc. It feels like it's one of those story of businessmen being somewhat shady and artists being bad managers, but that might be an oversimplification. Anyway, it's unclear if or how the main creative force...

Late to the party. One of the best games of the last few years for sure. I'll let it simmer down for a few days and then I will dive right back with a different take on the protagonist. Believe the hype unless you don't like story-driven games.

Based on a french bande dessinée that also got published in the US. Not familiar with it and its authors though (which is not very surprising since I stopped following the medium years ago).

It's a good idea, a solid production and cast, but, while it is ok, it feels like it did not reach its full potential. PS: I should add that in a strange back and forth, the beginning, when we explore the ship, made be think about a game inspired by that same chapter of Dracula: Return of the...

If anything, I am surprised it has not been done before. I mean you can almost Mandela effect the idea the Walter Hill film was a musical.

Ended up seeing this a while back in theater and was "positively disappointed" to use a regionalism. By this I mean it was significantly better than I thought it would be. It's no masterpiece, but the cast is nice and the pacing is good so it is reasonably entertaining. I am not super fond of...

The Fortnite business model sounds pretty good also, but I wonder if it can only work past some sort of critical mass. There is not much of an incentive to differentiate yourself through cosmetics if there are only 100 players. When there are 100k or 100M though... Apparently, more than two...

Not only the first game had a lot of cool puzzles, the scenario in it and the DLC was some very neat sci-fi. They outsourced the writing for the first game, but they commissioned the same guys for the sequel so we can legitimately be optimistic!