joz123
Potato del Grande
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Just like the Saw movies. First one was great then just kept getting worse.
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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5.5 / 10 may be fair for this. It isn't the worst movie ever but it by no means is good. Barely mediocre.
As it turns out filming most of the movie underwater isn't as suspenseful here as you might think. There are other movies that have executed this well and playing on the fear of drowning and the unknown of the depths. Here it is just annoying. Is one large voiceover of everything. Bad camera shots. The idea of "Let's put a Haunted House underwater" is one idea too far.
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Pasture- 3/10 - A woman wakes up and has no idea where she is or who she is. She is being taken care of by a couple, one of which claims to be her sister. The story starts fine and then nothing ever happens. Like really...nothing. I would have liked it better if she had turned out to be a dolphin that learned to speak. It's boring and I have no clue how we finished it. The main actress gets nude a few times. That's the highlight basically.
TBT-TheBigToe
Gemcutter
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This was a "leave your brain at the door" type of movie and is assomely craptacular.
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Leadsalad
Cis-XYite-Nationalist
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Watch Outland with Sean Connery.
I really miss 80’s sci-fi movie sets, and the pacing.
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Does this imply you had somehow not seen Con Air before? How is this possible?
"Put the bunny back in the box."
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Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
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The sad part is that the only reason the first one was good was because nobody would fund them, so they had to do everything low budget and relied on solid writing, acting, and suspense rather than just braindead torture porn. Saw 2 (and all the rest of the garbage franchise) is what they wanted to make all along.
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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Directed by some chick named Krsy Fox that is apparently some Canadian musician/writer/director/actor? Never heard of her and she spells her name like an idiot. This bodes well.
Basically it is a series of shorts about a demon thing killing a bunch of people mourning after the suicide of their friend Ruby (Krsy). It is kind of interesting in a low budget film school project way. Not a lot happens. Most scenes are shot in one room/location with two people interacting or in one case a crazy person. The first and last “chapters” are the most involved and interesting. That is being extremely gracious though. Had some decent stuff going for it.
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2149: the aftermath-. 6/10
This is Hallmark science fiction and I didn't hate it. In a post apocalyptic society people are confined in silos, they live alone and work. That's it. The main character escapes and finds paradise. That's the start of the movie. Good setting, better than it should be acting and even though the story is straight Hallmark, it's not terrible. No nudity, shame.
This is Hallmark science fiction and I didn't hate it. In a post apocalyptic society people are confined in silos, they live alone and work. That's it. The main character escapes and finds paradise. That's the start of the movie. Good setting, better than it should be acting and even though the story is straight Hallmark, it's not terrible. No nudity, shame.
Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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I really liked this but hesitate to give it more than a 7/10 and maybe just a 6.5/10. But I really did like it.
The synopsis for it is about as much as you need to know. But there aren’t any religious or superstitious or spiritual overtones. The setup is just that and the whole movie that unfolds deals with more interpersonal and intrapersonal things.
Everyone does a great job. Benedict Wong is good. Tony Hale is great. Winston Duke also plays his party very well but I was only familiar with him from Us (bc I forgot about Black Panther about 10 seconds after finishing it). Zazie Bennett want terrible but she just kind of existed. The other supporting cast was good as well.
Not sure what to compare it to exactly. IMDB seems to say Terrence Malik which I can see a little. I kept thinking of What Dreams May Come or Solaris (Soderbergh). Probably helpful that I have a lot of personal things going on that make the movie, currently, relatable.
The only real negative for me would be the ending. No doubt Duke does a great acting job but it comes off very art class, mastubatory, long winded, and way too much. I understand the purpose but think it could have been achieved much more simpler.
Slaanesh69
Millie's Staff Member
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The Discovery - Netflix 2017
Surprisingly, it is directed by Alex Orlovsky.
I have had it in my Netflix queue for a VERY long time. I had just finished watching Motherless Brooklyn after about 7 separate sittings and fast forwarding through at least a third of it, so at this point I was just looking to get movies out of my queue. My attention span seems to be short.
The Discovery was well acted and the premise was interesting and decently used. The ending gets a little weak but the last couple of minutes are ok. I watched it in one sitting and that seems to be a rarity of late.
Jason Segel known for shitty comedies and How I Met Your Mother was more than decent in a serious role. I hate Redford like slow poison now but he wasn't in the movie much.
1 Sitting/10 - which I guess is my best rating. It's not THAT great, but it's probably the only way I can review a movie now.
Surprisingly, it is directed by Alex Orlovsky.
I have had it in my Netflix queue for a VERY long time. I had just finished watching Motherless Brooklyn after about 7 separate sittings and fast forwarding through at least a third of it, so at this point I was just looking to get movies out of my queue. My attention span seems to be short.
The Discovery was well acted and the premise was interesting and decently used. The ending gets a little weak but the last couple of minutes are ok. I watched it in one sitting and that seems to be a rarity of late.
Jason Segel known for shitty comedies and How I Met Your Mother was more than decent in a serious role. I hate Redford like slow poison now but he wasn't in the movie much.
1 Sitting/10 - which I guess is my best rating. It's not THAT great, but it's probably the only way I can review a movie now.
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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This was the longest 1hr 54min of my life and I've spent time in some miserable places from hospitals, to funerals, to catholic weddings. At one point I paused it to go to the bathroom and make another drink thinking it was about the midpoint. Nope, it was 30 minutes in. The movie just kept going and going and going.
4/10 for me. It had a couple of pretty good creature / vfx for what I hope was an absurdly low all around budget. The lead actress was the only one doing anything to hold the movie together.
Slaanesh69
Millie's Staff Member
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High Life
Some French director's first English movie attempt, putting death row inmates into space on a one way science mission. It was apparently some deep metaphor of being in prison, but it did not come across clearly to me.
The whole thing was convoluted and miserable. Every scene lasted 30 seconds or more too long, purposely to increase discomfort but all it really did was increase boredom.
The acting was decent enough, the concept was mildly interesting, but as a whole it was pretentious garbage. Would not recommend. 2/10 sittings, which is an unusually good score for a movie I called garbage but it was really late and I was vegetating on the couch and didn't want to go to sleep yet or change what I was watching.
Some French director's first English movie attempt, putting death row inmates into space on a one way science mission. It was apparently some deep metaphor of being in prison, but it did not come across clearly to me.
The whole thing was convoluted and miserable. Every scene lasted 30 seconds or more too long, purposely to increase discomfort but all it really did was increase boredom.
The acting was decent enough, the concept was mildly interesting, but as a whole it was pretentious garbage. Would not recommend. 2/10 sittings, which is an unusually good score for a movie I called garbage but it was really late and I was vegetating on the couch and didn't want to go to sleep yet or change what I was watching.
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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3/10? 4/10? It is just boring. Just very boring. At some point they probably thought it was interesting and had some good ideas but nothing happens. I guess this was originally titled Entagled and was changed to Multiverse, maybe different names for different markets.
Here's a snippet of the director's bio from IMDB:
Born in India, Gaurav moved to Russia at age 18 to study at the prestigious Russian Institute of Cinema (VGIK) founded by Sergei Eisenstein. There he studied under the tutelage of Vadim Yusov and Aleksander Knizhinsky, the legendary cinematographers of Andrei Tarkovsky, and six years later he graduated with a Master's Degree in Cinematography & Film Direction.
So, yeah... maybe he just has to work out the kinks and put that education to use. There are 1 or 2 interesting scenes but nothing nearly worth suffering through the whole 1.5 hours.
Really really random appearance by Marlee Matlin. No idea who she was related to or was doing a favor for to get in this role. Likely not the strangest favor an Academy Award winner has filled.
Caliane
Avatar of War Slayer
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Ghost in the shell (2017)
2/10.
what a piece of shit. Everyone in the thread all talking about scar jo and the whitewashing, not nearly enough about the hollywoodization of the storyline.
Puppet master is now human.. her brother.. who lived in the same shelter as her.. and the big bad is the corporation she works for, who stole her memories. are you fucking kidding me?
they call her "Mira"
Mokoto is supposed to be teenage runaway, Japanese girl in this movie... dies and is put into 33 year old Scar jo's body. Thats... uh..
2/10.
what a piece of shit. Everyone in the thread all talking about scar jo and the whitewashing, not nearly enough about the hollywoodization of the storyline.
Puppet master is now human.. her brother.. who lived in the same shelter as her.. and the big bad is the corporation she works for, who stole her memories. are you fucking kidding me?
they call her "Mira"
Mokoto is supposed to be teenage runaway, Japanese girl in this movie... dies and is put into 33 year old Scar jo's body. Thats... uh..
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Big Phoenix
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
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IMO premise behind that movie was "hey how can we string together some notable scenes from the anime into a movie?".
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