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The [Movies] Thread in Which We Don't Accidentally Spoil Movies, Goddammit
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I recall a lot of commentary on Zootopia that tried to force the allegory into a direct commentary on, say, Black Lives Matter, or blacks, or Hispanics, or slavery. And then criticized the movie because it didn't map perfectly.
Yeah, they kind of missed the point.
Not to be that kind of pedantic nerd, but I do have a linguistics/Japanese degree that I need to justify. Names in Japanese media often do have deeper meaning, but this is a case of a false homonym. The Shin (新） in Shin Gojira (which is the same as Shin Seiki Evangelion) means new as was pointed out. Shinji's name is spelled in katagana which is unusual for a Japanese protagonist and makes deciphering the meaning behind his name ambiguous. It could be 新字 "new character" but most people take it as 信じ as in 信じる "to believe". 新時 as in New Age I think is also a good theory, but it's a little non-standard. Regardless the shorthand for Gojira would use the whole syllabary e.i. Shin-Go, which makes the whole argument moot.
That's all. I'll go shuffle off back to the corner now.
It was pure crap, like so bad I just stopped watching it which is not something I usually do. It was just violently unfunny. So disappointing.
On the other hand The Intern was fantastic. Just a good natured and enjoyable movie.
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Man, TMNT 2 sucked and it would have been sooooooo easy to fix. Do like the trailer and play "It's Tricky" for 90% of the run time. I went to that movie with no expectations except that "It's Tricky" would play during the freeway fight. What a letdown.
To be completely fair the ending of the book of Job, on which ASM is substantially based, has been leaving rabbis, priests, scholars, and readers in general confused and frustrated for over 2000 years.
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Yeah, the film really kinda died out. Of course, on the other hand, my one buddy who skews really hard Libertarian absolutely loved the ending. So maybe it was a different target audience?
A less than glowing review for the new Japanese Godzilla. It appears the movie primarily focuses on the politicians responding to the threat of Godzilla, who here is a stand-in for both natural disasters and foreign aggression.
I just watched Event Horizon again, recently. Not quite the same, but y'know, sorta kinda similar.
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I kinda wanna see it, but I'd rather see that new Mechanic movie, despite Alba being in it, but that ain't playing for another month what up with that Statham could totally beat up Damon. And Wild Card is a good decent Statham Vegas movie watch it please ok thank you
What movie has done this?
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Well Sunshine, of course!
It also borrows it's primary dramatic arc from one of my least favorite films, Event Horizon, i.e.; "Fuck, I dunno, space and... well space so they all go fucking crazy and kill each other."
Ray Bradbury wrote that plot years ago, better, and several times.
How would you have gone with it?
I think films like this really seriously undersell the endurance of the human psyche in the face of mortal peril. A typical firefighter on a good day keeps it together better than this crew of Ritalin babies.
Well actually from what I have heard, the problem is not that it is not very good, the problem is that it is unnecessary.
There review I read (BBC review) stated that the direction was fine, acting was fine, cast was fine, etc. Visuals etc were all good.
It just was yet another Bourne story. The original Bourne trilogy had a story arc. This did not do anything to expand it, revive it, etc it. Matt joked when he had finished Ultimatum that if they did another Bourne movie it would be "The Bourne Redundancy"
And the consensus is that it is. That while it's nice to see the band all back together, we are happy enough with the old albums and the new album is just updated covers of the old songs. Or maybe a best of album. I mean its nice, but not really great.
I will watch it on Sunday, so I will give you guys my opinion. Spoiler Alert. I am a big Bourne fan.
As far as Trey goes, he makes a mistake that kills the captain, destroys their oxygen supply so some or all of the remaining crew will die before they can even deliver the payload, much less survive the return trip, and nearly put an end to the entire human species. I'd say the psychological stress was warranted.
For Searle, he was stranded on a dead spacecraft, alone, with no hope of rescue. Your not going to watch this guy living out what's left of his life in the movie, so either you have to just drop that plot thread and leave the audience to wonder about him, show him dying of other causes, or you can have him go out using his relatively interesting obsession with light. I was OK with them using the latter and I'm not sure it would have necessarily improved anything if they implied he only did that after seeing the mission was successful or after living alone for a long time.
I feel like the filmmakers wanted to be absolutely sure they created a version of Godzilla that couldn't come to be presented as a hero or even a lesser evil like older incarnations of the character were. It's pretty much the polar opposite of Legendary Pictures' Godzilla.
I'm also seeing some people referring to the movie as GINO 2.0 (Godzilla in Name Only, a term originally used for the 1998 American Godzilla), but I myself am really interested to see it.
Moon proved that you can tell a story about existential horror, the degeneration of the body leading to the fear of degeneration of the mind, the machinery and apparatus that supports space travel being slowly revealed as a source of terror and dread, all without stepping beyond the realm of good speculative science fiction and into an episode of Supernatural.
I know it's unfair to criticize Sunshine by saying "Well, it's no Moon", but I liked Moon and I disliked Sunshine. And I know when the movie lost me, too.
Well I also love Supernatural so the issue isn't that I don't like hokey stuff.
But you know how you said that you love genre shifts? I don't. I kinda want to get what I expected. abrupt shifts in tone tend to alienate me from a film. Sunshine is a pretty good example. Shaun of the Dead is the classic one though. When the film shifted to melodrama I just got up and left. The movie essentially ended for me right there.
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And yet for some inexplicable reason I loved From Dusk til Dawn. I still don't know why that film's genre-shift was acceptable to me but others aren't. Possibly it was fascination with seeing just how far Clooney's fake tattoo went...
Sunshine there absolutely is one but for me the strong points are strong enough to forgive it
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No it went from comedy zombie horror to all of a sudden the lead is sobbing about his dead mother and it was just ugh what even is this.
That's not the first time the movie had a serious thing happen, serious things happened throughout in between the comedy stuff.
you even recognize it as comedy zombie horror
where is the horror part if there are no stakes for the main characters?
I thought it blended the genres expertly and I didn't find a single problem with the gradual escalation, it all fit the tone quite nicely!
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Eh, must agree to disagree. It gave me tonal whiplash!
Went into this movie with tempered expectations knowing about negative reviews
Enjoyed the ride
As credits rolled my gf asked me if I liked and I said I did
Over the next 45 seconds I talked about it and brought my conclusion down to "enjoyed it but it could have been better"
10 minutes later I was absolutely furious with it.
I'll write more tomorrow but the conclusion that the movie is unnecessary is both correct and selling it's problems short.
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