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Film Club thread 2.0

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  • StormtroperStormtroper
    I know there's a Russian company with that name but they're more into opera theatres and more into theatres of war.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    I watched The Woman King and to those who may be concerned I want to say, I have not been transformed into a strong blax womynz. It's a decent movie, if less than cold have been done with source material, and set in an underutilized setting with some quite gorgeous costuming.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    Well I didn't mind the existence of that movie, I kind of don't mind a lot of stuff, but I do know of an intense alt-right guy who was like "This movie will be successful" and I was like ?????

    Anyways I haven't seen a movie since M3GAN, despite wanting to. Conversely, I have read a lot.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Relatedly: I've found myself occasionally (in anime-related conversations) arguing that CGI isn't inherently bad, too.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    One of the benefits I've gotten from being into 3DCG is an appreciation for CGI, that it's not magic and a lot of effort goes into it, and that if I don't like what I'm seeing I can at least try and figure out how it was done.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Honestly I feel that CGI gets an unfairly bad rap.

    Meanwhile, that which we see in a fictional production is a part of the in-universe events no matter whether it's CGI or "real". The only way the latter is more impressive is if we are evaluating based on the skill (or perhaps the daring) of the actors and stunt crew. That is an evaluation of a performance, which I guess is a thing but is just not quite the same thing.

    Meanwhile, if the overuse of CGI makes it look less spectacular in comparison, such desensitization to spectacle only exists as a meta-textual interpretation.

    On the other hand if CGI looks awkward, let's not forget the various quirks of live action and hand-drawn animation, where they aren't necessarily fully realistic either -- just that we've gotten used to them.

    Anyway that's my personal take.
  • StormtroperStormtroper

    I know I posted the first one, like, four posts ago, but I wanted to post this because the part at 5:30 about faking behind-the-scene shots is wild.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    a) I had a top 10 favorite movies list saved to a txt file that I have now somehow lost. I should have posted it here.

    b) I will never see the Barbie movie because the hype was too much and also all the stuff I found out about the plot made it clear the America Ferrera character wasn't the central part of the point and Ryan Gosling eats up too much screen-time.

    c) Darn, I still haven't watched that video.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2024-03-16 08:06:37
    TIL the Wilhelm Scream recording has been found:
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    edited 2024-04-22 04:23:34
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    I watched a movie for the first time in who even knows how long!

    It was Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen's New York Minute.

    I don't have a whole bunch of time to discuss it, but basically it's a "we need to traverse New York" type movie, with a small emotional core to drive the characters (they haven't really communicated properly since their mother died).

    Notes:
    • Ashley's character, Jane, is implied to be a Republican (despite being like, 16), which is interesting because she's not evil or extremely stupid (but in fact, the smart one). She's meant to contrast with her sister, who is a rock rebel/presumed future Democrat.
    • This movie prominently features a plot where Mary-Kate's character, Roxy, is trying to get to a Simple Plan music video shoot. I'd never heard this song before, but it's pretty good.
    • A plot where a Chinese salon is a front for a music/movie piracy ring is very spot on for like, 2004, considering this is when people still cared about pirated DVDs I guess.
    • The plotline where a dog eats an important computer microchip seems to be more Disney Channel episode than big-budget-ish movie.
    • I was surprised at how much physical comedy this movie included, considering it stars two petite blond twins.
    • Nobody ever mentions how the main characters are about 17/18 but their love interests are a college student guy and a guy who clearly looks like he's already at least 23ish.
    • At one point, you can see pirated copies of a non-existent sequel to one of yet another Mary-Kate and Ashley movie, Holiday in the Sun, being sold on the street.
    • The thing with Mary-Kate and Ashley constantly accidentally tormenting Darrell Hammond's character was funny.
    • There were dolls based on this movie, but later in the movie they get so many cool looks that I wish there were doll of those too. Of course, these would be dolls from 2004 that were exclusive to America that I could never get, but at least they'd exist.
    • I am 100% amazed that I have never read a Vox article about this scene.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Been re-watching old The X-Files episodes and it got me thinking about a few things.

    Like, obviously that old "heroic conspiracy theorist" angle is just not the same thing in the age of post-truth, but it made me wonder about the default bogeyman of the time. Back in the day, in post-Cold War USA, the big bogeyman was their own government. Right now it would probably be over-entitled big baby billionaires or something like that. And conversely, Mulder and Scully were fighting the system, but at the same time, they were a part of the system as FBI agents, and it wasn't really much addressed. Today, in the age of All Cops Are Children Born Of Liaisons Considered Illegitimate By Dominant Patriarchal Society, that'd probably not pass. At least, not pass if the showmakers were really out to depict them as against the system.

    Also, when the top TV series are the likes of Game of Thrones and House of Cards, it looks to me like that there's a lot more captivating idea for a show in the amoral global conspiracy trying to out-smart the aliens out to invade Earth so that at least they, personally, won't be affected, than in Mulder and Scully struggling against them.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    edited 2024-07-08 09:29:56
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Writing prompt: a slasher movie set on Labor Day in which a group of young leftists trying to establish a squat in some (temporarily?) hard-to-reach location are menaced by a Vladimir Lenin lookalike armed with a hammer and sickle.

    (Doesn't have a bearing on anything - I just saw the TVT entry for "Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday" and noticed the lack of Labor Day. Figured I post before I forget it.)
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    So, I had this thought that had the 80's era sport movie continued to the present day, we'd sooner or later see a movie about an American gamer going to Korea to compete in a pro Starcraft tournament.

    In the climax, when our underdog protagonist is down to a single marine or something like that, he recalls the words of his Korean-American/retired Blizzard employee mentor, catches the heroic second wind and out-microes the Korean pro contending him for the championship. Our dude wins the match, the Korean tearfully admits his superiority, his ex-girlfriend finally understands what she gave up, end stage left.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    edited 2024-11-30 06:23:01
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    In order to ensure I probably absolutely never see these movies, I guess I'll mention that I suddenly had the feeling to watch some animated movies, including Disney's Chicken Little and the Trolls movie series. I might also watch the Tinker Bell movies and maybe the live-action Ben 10 movies.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    Also I watched Descendants (not 4) The Rise of Red and like, honestly it was a letdown because it quickly became apparent that the whole budget had been spent on the initial Wonderland sequence, the movie lacked a lot of imagination, and literally the only two official 'Descendants' of Disney characters in the first 40 minutes were the two main characters which was just sad.

    Literally the plot hadn't even started yet and frankly I was tired of the songs kind of just being snippets between dialogue too.

    I won't lie, every Descendants movie has a pretty bad final act but this one was vaguely special in a very bad way. I already kind of knew it would be since it didn't get to the place the plot would be taking place until 40m in to a 1h30m movie.

    Anyways, Red (daughter of the Queen of Hearts, and the Queen of Hearts is basically the best thing in this movie) and Chloe (daughter of Brandy Cinderella, which is uh, an idea considering Descendants 1-3 where Chad Charming is a blonde blue eyed guy is an idea and they actually mention him but also, Chloe's dad is Asian so uh...) go back in time to meet their moms and in order to the Queen of Hearts from turning evil and also they butcher like 10 songs along the way (every song is interrupted by a talking sequence like they just couldn't write them right the first time around?).

    So basically Bridget (the Queen of Hearts, whose one song is interrupted halfway despite being the B-E-S-T) is being bullied by Uliana (Ursula's "younger sister" because eh, I guess why not, she's played by Daraa Renee, who I have never liked). Uliana pranks her so bad the sweet and pink Bridget (who is played by Ruby Rose Turner and ngl whoever did the casting for the Queen of Hearts in both scenarios really got the most fun actress for the part considering her adult version is Rita Ora) turns into the evil Queen of Hearts who tries to kill Brandy Cinderella.

    Anywaaaaaaaaaaays so basically this happens at Castlecoming and the thing is Uliana plans to steal a magic cookbook to have Bridget turn into an ogre and this makes Bridget so sad/depressed she breaks and turns evil...(???) even though before her whole character was about being nice and persevering.

    Anyways so Red and Chloe stop Uliana and her band of villains (of which there are a surprising lot like Hades, Maleficent, Captain Hook and some guy who wears a scarf I've already forgotten) and then like, they never even go to Castlecoming or see their young moms ever again they just immediately leave and come back to the future and Rita Ora Queen of Hearts is a good guy suddenly?

    I mean even Uliana doesn't really get beaten by anything they do, she just like gets frozen by the enchantment Merlin put on the cookbook and Chloe and Red just kind of wait for Merlin to get there...?

    Like, the movie essentially has no climax and just kind of ends and Uliana is barely even a villain.

    Unfortunately, I'll 100% watch the next one, if there is one, which I doubt, because this was amazingly bad and the music was not where it needed to be at all.
  • StormtroperStormtroper

    It seems it's going to be a pattern that every January 1st we'll get trailers for edgified versions of works that just entered the public domain in the US.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    As it should be.

    I wonder what, in retrospect, will be found the oddest one. We've already had Pooh as a slasher movie, that's hard to beat.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Recently I've watched Alien: Romulus. I'm told there are basically two kinds of people: those who say it adds nothing new to the series and that sucks, and those who say it adds nothing new to the series and that is great. I'm rather partial to the second kind, seems like. But I don't know if I fully agree. I mean, perhaps it was in one of these post-Prometheus films, I dunno. But that baby thing at the end was a work of some mad genius.
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