Definitely a good sign when one of the first things someone thinks of as a reaction to a movie is that it is lore heavy
frankly might be a refreshing change of pace for an MCU film if the focus is on worldbuilding over CGI punchfests
My worry here is that the "worldbuilding" is going to basically be expo dumps about how the eternals are going to fit into the MCU rather than anything that makes this movie specifically feel richer.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Someone should go to DC and make a New Gods movie that is colorful and fun, as a contrast to Eternals
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AtomicTofuShe's a straight-up supervillain, yoRegistered Userregular
The more I think about The Green Knight the more disappointed I am that all that really pretty art direction and design went towards not really doing anything at all.
Like, I'm sure it was some kinda big brain metaphor that only the smartest of Intellectuals™️ would understand and maybe I'm just a big ole dumb, but it felt so disjointed and had so many intentionally weird directions it took it felt very much like it was trying way too hard to be C I N E M A.
It was a weird sort of whiplash being a Rob Zombie fan, as I like a lot of the dudes music and he’s got the horror aesthetic down perfectly so when I heard he was gonna do a horror movie I thought, “huh, that could be cool.” But after trying a couple, oh boy, do I not vibe with his kind of horror.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
The more I think about The Green Knight the more disappointed I am that all that really pretty art direction and design went towards not really doing anything at all.
Like, I'm sure it was some kinda big brain metaphor that only the smartest of Intellectuals™️ would understand and maybe I'm just a big ole dumb, but it felt so disjointed and had so many intentionally weird directions it took it felt very much like it was trying way too hard to be C I N E M A.
I don’t understand a lot of what that movie was doing but I enjoyed whatever it was.
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astrobstrdSo full of mercy...Registered Userregular
The more I think about The Green Knight the more disappointed I am that all that really pretty art direction and design went towards not really doing anything at all.
Like, I'm sure it was some kinda big brain metaphor that only the smartest of Intellectuals™️ would understand and maybe I'm just a big ole dumb, but it felt so disjointed and had so many intentionally weird directions it took it felt very much like it was trying way too hard to be C I N E M A.
I don’t understand a lot of what that movie was doing but I enjoyed whatever it was.
I mean, visually it was cool enough that it's worth a watch just for that. But I feel like the moment you start trying to dissect it it kinda falls apart.
My read was very much the young man in love with life having to come to terms with his mortality. The invincibility belt being his sort of "out" that he finally has to let go under the realization that nothing can stop death.
There was also some cool stuff going on with the old, residual pagan magic and the adaptation of Christianity that I thought was cool.
According to the director it was a movie about having mommy issues and a failure to launch and I absolutely did not pick up on any of that at all.
Wow The Last Duel flopped hard. I guess it's a bad idea to bet $100m you can get people over 30 to go back to the theater during a pandemic.
I barely heard of it and I pay attention to movie shit online. Marketing seemed like shit
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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They should have slapped together a quick-cut trailer of all the big sword hits with the lady giving her testimony in voiceover while a lute cover of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction plays underneath.
I saw one trailer for the Last Duel when I went to see Venom. I saw nothing there that would compel me to venture out from home to see it like I would need to for Carnage.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
Hail Hydra
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
the main reason I think Rob Zombie's Munsters will not be very good is because in addition to being unable to make a good horror movie, he also is unable to make me laugh
if you want to find out just how humorless and unfun a Rob Zombie comedy can be, go and sit through El Superbeasto
the main reason I think Rob Zombie's Munsters will not be very good is because in addition to being unable to make a good horror movie, he also is unable to make me laugh
if you want to find out just how humorless and unfun a Rob Zombie comedy can be, go and sit through El Superbeasto
Do not, under any circumstances, go sit through El Superbeasto
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Rob Zombie makes movies that Rob Zombie loves and apparently Rob Zombie loves boring movies that try way to hard.
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astrobstrdSo full of mercy...Registered Userregular
Paul WS Anderson and Len Wiseman wish they were half the wifeguy Zombie is.
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There’s shitty bad and shitty good. His are shitty bad.
Even the sun shines on a dog’s ass some days
Yeah if you try and argue with me that House of 1000 Corpses is as shitty-good as Malignant is? Brother we're gonna have words
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Had a gift card so I picked up After Life, Throw Down, An Autumn Afternoon, and Solaris this time around
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frankly might be a refreshing change of pace for an MCU film if the focus is on worldbuilding over CGI punchfests
Rob Zombie's movies are bad and also boring and miserable, there's zero joy to wring from them
I'm sure he is is a fan of the source material, but he seems almost uniquely unsuited to create a new Munsters
My worry here is that the "worldbuilding" is going to basically be expo dumps about how the eternals are going to fit into the MCU rather than anything that makes this movie specifically feel richer.
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This, but unironically.
Do it, Zombie, you coward.
I was so looking forward to that Ava Duvernay and Tom King movie
Like, I'm sure it was some kinda big brain metaphor that only the smartest of Intellectuals™️ would understand and maybe I'm just a big ole dumb, but it felt so disjointed and had so many intentionally weird directions it took it felt very much like it was trying way too hard to be C I N E M A.
what if it means nazis get killed twice
Yeah the sad part of all this is we were going to get that thing
And then they decided "naw"
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Counterpoint:
I don’t understand a lot of what that movie was doing but I enjoyed whatever it was.
I suppose that hinges on whether you consider Edgar Wright bad. Thanksgiving is by far the best thing Roth has ever dreamed up.
I knew exactly what this was from the still.
But hey, we're getting an actual Wright horror this year!
Arrive Hungry, Leave Stuffed
is quite possibly the greatest tagline of all time.
Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu, though.
I mean, visually it was cool enough that it's worth a watch just for that. But I feel like the moment you start trying to dissect it it kinda falls apart.
There was also some cool stuff going on with the old, residual pagan magic and the adaptation of Christianity that I thought was cool.
According to the director it was a movie about having mommy issues and a failure to launch and I absolutely did not pick up on any of that at all.
I barely heard of it and I pay attention to movie shit online. Marketing seemed like shit
Edit: Of course that cover already exists.
if you want to find out just how humorless and unfun a Rob Zombie comedy can be, go and sit through El Superbeasto
Do not, under any circumstances, go sit through El Superbeasto
I should start doing theme months every month.
Watch The Chaser
Watch The Chaser!!!!
Is this about Quidditch?