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Game Over, Man - 5/10

Workaholics made a dumb-as-shit lampoon on the mid-90s action thriller movie (Die Hard). It's really uneven but there's a handful of scenes that are actually damn funny. Lots of ridiculous gore. Tons of cameos. Lots of penises. Streaming on Netflix right now.

I agree with your assessment though I'd put it closer to 7/10 just because the funny bits are fucking hilarious. It is so goddamn over the top though. The amount of gore was surprising.

I also watched "Big Bear" on Netflix this weekend. I'd give it a 6/10. It was pretty funny but a little out there. Decent cast. Worth a watch if you're lookin for something and nothing is catching your eye. Has the guy from Tucker and Dale/A good old fashioned orgy.

I don't feel like creating threads for them so:

Hostiles: (previously mentioned in this thread) post-cavalry movie with Bale, as a veterant who fought indians all of his adult life, tasked to escort a dying captive indian chief and old nemesis to his home land. If you take each scene independently, there is a lot to be said about the dubious writing with the western / war clichés and the eyebrow raise worthy representations. As a whole, you also have some head scratching character progression, but still, there is something that works very well in this movie with the accumulation of bleakness. This is one dark movie about violence. 7.5/10

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot: Biopic of quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan by Gus van Sant. The film mostly focuses on Callahan's time in AA meetings as the discussions that take place allow to go to different episodes of his life as well as, through confessions and introspection, paint an intimate portrait of the man. This is all well crafted, but I must say it left me mostly cold (I guess I have a hard time empathizing with alchoolics or with quadriplegics who date Rooney Mara). Joaquim Phoenix is pretty good, as he often is, but the high note of the movie is Jonah Hill delivering a particularly enticing performance as an AA sponsor. 6 / 10

A Quiet Place - 9/10. Will talk more in the thread but if you have a free day this week I'd DEFINITELY see this awesome movie in premium theaters before Rampage pushes it aside, I watched it in Dolby Cinema and it was worth it. Not much dialogue (~20 lines) in the movie but a lot of atmospheric sound and its a visual treat. Extremely tight plot and story, 90 minutes absolutely FLIES by.

Vigilante Diaries - 3/10. Impulse buy from the Target $3 bin based upon the cover artwork and curious about seeing Jason Mewes in something other than buddy-porn. Why not right? Yeah...

Everything about the movie is cringe worthy, from the acting to the dialogue to the story itself to the special effects (blood spatters appear 1 sec too late behind people getting shot, etc). It might be mildly entertaining to have on in the background while playing on the computer or something - the action, while shitty and nonsensical, is gory and a bit funny - but that's about it.

The new Ghostbusters was enjoying and did from beginning to end. 7/10

Spiderman Homecoming bad reviews are fake news. 8/10.

Thor Ragnarok it was good got a little too Australiany. Had heavy notes of GotG, but that's not bad, bridged gaps maybe. Strange is being groomed to be duce ex. 9/10.

I watched Rouge One again last night. I saw it in the cinema when it came out, thought it sorta sucked then, but on a 2nd viewing:

6.5 / 10

I certainly liked it more on a 2nd viewing. Knowing what it was going for and the tone etc it was doing.

It wasn't going for a cutesy angle trying to sell toys. It just is what it is, a stand alone movie in the Star Wars timeline. Gritty tough foot soldier battles, plus some good ship to ship combat. And the cinematic feel with the well known score and visual style work really well.

There's problems with it, yes. The main male protagonist coldly kills an innocent man during his first 5 minutes on screen. The bad choice to have General Tarkin and Leia done using CGI = uncanny valley. I tried to look past it but NO it's just too strong. Damn it, just get a similar looking actor . . . like they did with Mon Mothma. That works.

Just got back from eight days of intense move watching at the Far East Film Festival in Italy. Here are, in no particular order, the best ones (rated 4 or 5 out of 5).

Steel Rain : pretty topical south korean espionage action thriller with a hint of comedy about a former north korean operative finding himself in the middle of a chaotic military coup in North Korea while the south is trying to understand wtf is going on.

Veteran: A hard boiled cop gets involved in the very fishy case of a truck driver who supposedly killed himself while he was in the process of picketing a corporation to complain about abusive termination and unpaid work. This korean film starts with absolutely brilliant comedy but then things get pretty dead serious.

Take Me To the Moon: Taiwan is actually the world leader in brilliant teenage romantic comedy (as seen with Café Waiting Love). There is always this mix of light humor, fleeting nostalgia and heartfelt but doomed romances. These are always bittersweet film. In this case, a taiwanese guy is on a business trip in Japan and use this opportunity to visit the girl he loved in high school only to realize the dreams she had then never materialize. Through a Deus Ex machina he finds himself back in 1997 and tries steer his friend away from her present predicaments.

The Battleship Island: Steroid boosted WWII action drama about korean "workers" brought to a japanese island dedicated to coal mining. And when I say workers, I mean slaves.There are some problems with the historical accuracy and with the anti-japanese discourse, but it is mostly jaw dropping awesome.

1987: When The Day Comes : South korean historical drama / political thriller based on the very real story of a pro-democracy activist who died as he was tortured by the anti-communist police and how their lame cover-up attempt blew in their face. This won both the audience award and the Black Dragon award (kinda the critics award as it is from a sub group of the audience consisting of professionals and serious movie goers - as in idiots like me who watch almost 60 films in 9 days).

One Cut of the Dead : ... it's very difficult to write about this japanese movie as I feel the best way to enjoy it is to watch it without prior information other than it being all about a single take zombie movie. Let's just say it starts as a "so bad it's good" kind of thing and that, through some super clever writing, it turns into a "so brilliant you hardly can believe it" movie. Let's just say that the people who left 20 min into the movie probably still don't know how this cheap trash ended up N°2 in the audience awards! Pure comedy genius.

Youth : breathtakingly stylish chinese chronic about the life of some member of a military art group during the chinese Cultural Revolution and beyond (late '70s to mid '90s). Dubbed sometimes the chinese Spielberg because of a string of highly successful films, director Feng Xiaogang is probably more free than most to tackle such highly political subject without turning it into some sort of propaganda machine (for this see chinese's Black Hawk Down: Dante Lam's Operation Red Sea...).

Little Forest : korean adaptation of a slice of life japanese manga about a girl who goes back to the countryside and engage in farm work and in cooking with home grown products as a kind of therapy. Very simple and sweet movie.

Mori, The Artist's Habitat : one day in the life of japanese painter Morikazu Kumagai at 93. Mori explores his garden, as he has done for the past 30 years and people come and go. This philosophical yet lightly comical biopic is another of Shuichi Okita's quiet masterpiece.

Brotherhood of Blade 2: The Infernal Battlefield : In this chinese saber movie, a member of the imperial guard investigates some murders that might be related to a greater conspiracy to over-through the emperor. Complicated plot is complicated are it's scheming and double-crossing galore.

The Chase : An aging landlord teams up with an ex-cop to solve a 30 year old cold case that just got hot again. South Korea at work again with a nice mix of comedy and thriller

The Legend of the Demon Cat : in this Japan-China co-production directed by Chen Kaige, a japanese monk specialized in exorcism teams with the imperial scribe to find out what a mysterious talking cat is up to...

For something completely different, I just saw The Rider, a drama set in the Dakota rodeo scene. The whole cast is made of non-professional actors playing just slightly fictionalized versions of themselves. This helps make some scenes extremely poignant and also allows for some breathtaking and nerve-wracking saddle breaking scenes. In a way, it's a kind of rodeo and docudrama version of The Wrestler: a broken man is confronted with the fact the only thing he lives for might kill him. 8/10.

I saw Etat de siège (State of Siege) the other day. A french political thriller made in 1972 by Costa-Gavras. Apparently this film was for the longest time pretty difficult to see in the US (now available at least in the Criterion collection), possibly because it is not so loosely based on the kidnapping and subsequent death (not a spoiler as the movie starts with the corpse being found!) of Dan Mitrione in 1970. He was a CIA agent training the uruguayan police in 'counter-insurgency techniques' (read: torture leftists). Other than the subject matter of US involvement in Latin America's politic (still white hot at the time the film was made), the film is pretty impressive in the way it deploys its story. There are very few lines in the first 30 minutes of the film as we see the police combing the city until they find the dead man, followed by some official press conferences, a funeral and then we get a flash back of the lengthy and complex abduction... And when the film is not a silent thriller, it is all about language: press conferences, official statements, interrogation, etc. It's riveting, but it is also miles away from today's mainstream canons (in a way you could find some sort of similar energy in a film like Zero Dark Thirty).

I watched "unacknowledged" last night.. Alien/UFO declassification doco .. Seemed strange to me as there was lots of people coming out saying yes they are here and I can die for telling you type thing, but they are still alive and the show is being aired .. Lots of it is stuff I've seen or read before and I enjoyed it but there just seemed to be a problem with it.. Shadow government don't want us to know about their secrets and don't want us to see this but by letting us see it they can ridicule the makers of it and call them crazy.. Lots of good points about false flags and pointing at things like 9/11 but not directly saying anything

SuperFly - 6/10. Really dumb, unintentionally hilarious new movie by "Director X" (wtf) thats got a script written by a 12 year old kid who just watched Goodfellas, Scarface, and 18 hours of gangster rap music videos. Its got tons of "this is serious hard gangster scene" that will have you bust out laughing, like gangbangers who dress and look like retards and can't even mumble their lines. Really fun watch though, lots of violence, drugs, alcohol, cars, titties and ass. Michael Williams (Omar) did this movie instead of being the bad guy in Solo, maybe a smart choice after all.

Has a fantastic threesome (wholesome kind, not devils threesome) in the middle of the movie as well so that adds 1 to the score

Be interesting to see how the REEEEEEs react to this movie, it pretty much treats all women as cum dumpsters but given that 90% of the cast is black I have a feeling you won't hear a peep about how misogynistic it is.

main star looks exactly like The Weeknd

The Night Eats the World

Zombie apocalypse, guy stuck in his apartment, lots and lots and lots of I Am Legend (the book, not the Will Smith movie), pretty slow, not that good. The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price way back from 1964 remains the best version of the story that I've seen.

American Animals - 3/10

Millennials are at it again, they've invented a new film category the "cringe heist". A heist so poorly planned and executed its like watching The Office x Oceans 8. Probably the only movie so far I've regretted watching. There's a good 6 minute heist scene near the end of the movie but the rest of it is 20-year old guys pontificating on life. The only thing worse is hearing middle age women talk about their dreams or teenage girls talk about love.

Go see Lucky Logan, Baby Driver, or Den of Thieves (Gerard Butler at PEAK Butler) instead, way better heist/fun movies.

Hesher -

I wouldn't really say it was good or bad, just weird.

Gintama (live action movie) -

Never watched the anime or heard about it before so maybe that has an impact on my enjoyment of the movie but I loved every minute of it and laughed a lot. 10/10 IMO and after it ended I saw there is a 2nd one coming out in August in Japan (dunno when that means it'll be watchable for me but will be a definite watch).

The Endless

Two brothers return ten years later to a cult they escaped from and mysterious things start happening.

Slow, didn't like hardly any of the characters, couple neat ideas but overall pretty bad.

Uncle Drew - 7/10. The trailers make it look pretty meh but it was a fun, safe summer movie about basketball. Main guy was great, and surprisingly I didn't find Nick Kroll too annoying, cuz normally he bugs the fuck out of me. Shaq was hilarious as were the other famous basketball players, although I don't really know any of them. No political messaging or anything, just a wholesome "be your best, Jesus is great, friends are important, don't ever give up" kinda message. No nudity or sex, one brief male ass shot at the end but for humor.

Main guy was great and hilarious, the chick he ends up with is a smoking hottie like a foot taller than him which is really ultimately a great positive message to send to all the short, fat nerds out there.