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(I want my Clerks spinoff with the Yoga-Hosers duo, dammit.)
I watched Magnificent Ambersons finally. It's a gorgeous film, with some incredibly sharp dialogue.
"I doubt if I could make it much plainer, but I'll try. You're not wanted in this house, Mr. Morgan. Perhaps you'll understand this." (door slam)
That is one hell of a movie
Spoiler for what seemed like an obvious plot thing, but spoilers.
John died almost immediately following t2, take that other movies and the whole point of both t1 and t2...
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I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
I typically perform in films with an all-Male cast.
Like Glengary/Glenross?
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In addition, as soon as the events of T1 transpired the timeline was changed, Sarah now having foreknowledge of the future, going off-grid and beginning to plan for the machine war, there's no reason for a new movie to tie itself in any way to him.
I hate it already
This movie literally ignores anything that isn't t1 or t2.
And then shits all over those movies both in killing john, and then from the sounds of it, Sarah with shitty characterization.
I mean I've only seen spoilers on it so maybe the person spoiling it had a grudge, but I dunno the previews tend to make me believe its just a bad movie, which is in line with post t2 sequels but still sucks.
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I don't feel like it shits on T1/2 though. The future changed the past changing the future so
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That (the bolded in the second spoiler) is totally a back of the box quote.
"Spectacular!"
"Basically the plot of ET but with a murder machine!"
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Still, really a really well performed and crafted film. Special shout out to Cho Yeo-jeong, whose performance is central to the film being able to do most of what it does.
The best way I can describe it is like fantastic sex without the orgasm. The foreplay is fantastic, the post-coital glow leaves you basking in its wake, but if you're looking for some kind of mind-blowing eruption, it's not really there. It goes through the motions, and there is a fantastic climax sequence (that is executed so well that you don't think about how difficult it must've been to pull off until after the credits start rolling).
But the plot itself feels almost...inevitable. And I don't mean this in a bad way. You know what is going to happen because the movie isn't trying to play coy with you; it isn't trying to give you a Game of Thrones Season 8 plot twist. It knows the story it is trying to tell, and tells it well. Sometimes it's OK to just cuddle. Sometimes all you want is the warmth and the closeness and the falling asleep in each other's arms.
For all the buzz that Joker is receiving, Parasite is, frankly, the superior film. In the former, the entire movie is almost single-handedly carried by one actor's performance. In the latter: the entire cast is fantastic, the story is original and entertaining, and the direction and cinematography are top-notch and make much better use of less-extravagant settings.
Hell, that was kind of the premise of the finale cliffhanger.
Terminator: Genysis
They are right, those movies ARE crimes against cinema. If they were called "The destructator:genisys" and it was part of a different franchise... ok, they would be mediocre but entretaining action flicks.
But they are not random summer flicks, the compete directly with T1 and T2, whatever love or hate they get it is, and should be, in comparison with the two good first movies.
My dark secret: I liked Robocop 3 (PG-13) when I first rented it on VHS a million years ago.
I disagree about the plot feeling "inevitable." Yes, once enough pieces are on the board, you might have an idea of where it's going... but they kept adding ingredients long after I'd expected it to boil over already.
Also, I agree that this is the superior film to Joker, if you're looking for a film about living in a society. This film is better-shot, better-written, less derivative, and contains a lot less gross and unnecessary punching down on various outgroups that undermines any points it was trying to make. Also, the characters' actions are all internally consistent. Nobody is a cardboard cutout who does something just so the filmmaker can justify retaliation against them.
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I could be okay with the whole
That is some fuckawful moviemaking right there.
Jeepers creepers!
Ari Aster has cemented himself as a filmmaker whose films I must see, but will not especially enjoy, because enjoyment is not what they strive for. They are beautiful films that tap into our darker selves and show us things we really don't want to see.
Midsommar in particular is a gorgeously shot movie about loss and grief and the toll they take on doomed relationships.
It's deeply unsettling from start to finish, beginning with a cruel tragedy and never letting you settle in from there. Great use is also made of the fact that the film takes place north enough that it's almost always daylight; none of the horrors occur under cover of darkness, and the constant sunlight is wonderfully oppressive.
Anyway, expertly made movie that I'm glad I watched and never want to see again.
Still funny.
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At this point I believe every noir genre has been covered, so the film takes a pretty simple premise and has fun with it; korean detectives, especially as shown in the films, are pretty much mobsters themselves with how they operate, so why don't we have a detective team up with a gang leader to capture a serial killer, who also tried to kill the gang leader? Adding the enemy of my enemy is my temporary friend works well since it's not presented as a murder mystery, just a ticking clock scenario, and the killer is the right amount of believable crazy in how he operates, it's able to not be dragged down by too much friction between the sides and the fleeting nature of good and bad teaming up.
It's really a showpiece for Don Lee, the heavy hitter supporting actor who's been in every big korean movie in the past decade as the supporting actor (he was the only good guy on Train to Busan, the working class muscle dude), and him getting to play the nice-but-not-nice mob boss who uses his strength almost like The Kingpin was a nice change of character for him. There's a scene near the end where they recognize how much of a tank he is compared to normal korean people and use it to great effect in what might be my favorite single scene in film since Tony Jaa double knee'd Paul Walker through a door and down stairs in Fast 7. There's also a strong soundtrack piece that might be considered the theme but it needs to be stolen by other films to get notoriety, it's a mix of using the stupid bwaaam but also adding in a bit of Pacific Rim that carries the notion of "oh you done fucked up now." Meme potential = off the charts, could even surpass screaming lady vs. dinner cat!
Add to it the film is only 100 minutes because they didn't add extra love subplots or anything, the film is tailored to appeal to western audiences, so give it a shot. Nice character changes, right amount of violence for a k-noir without going over the top like other movies, good acting, solid 8/10.
I found it funny when Ray fell under the ghost's thrall in the second one. The ending was really far fetched though.
If you go for an in depth explanation of multiple timelines and multiverse theory, human determination to survive in the face of almost certain doom, or a plot that makes sense for more than 5 minutes after you leave the theater... Maybe not so much.
Still, kind of impressed by how ice cold New John is.
Dani though, she saves Grace (this movie's Reese) from a gang of scavengers post Judgement Day, raises her from a child in the post apocalyptic hellscape, turns her into a cyborg super soldier (sure, Grace "volunteered" on the verge of death, but it's got to be pretty easy to twist a young, starving mind to that kind of devotion when you're the one making sure they have food to eat), and then sends her into the past so she can deliver the makeshift weapon that's going to allow Dani to defeat her own terminator.
The makeshift weapon? The power supply that's keeping Grace alive and functioning.
That's just... damn.