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Same with those, AND Python stuff. And the Naked Guns. There are some comedies I still find hilarious. Clue, some of the lighter Coen movies, Kevin Smith's comedies etc...
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More horror movies for the pile.

Nosferatu (2024) - Really enjoyed this one. I still think Herzog's version is the best, but this had great performances all around and I appreciate the different character approach to Orlok.
Weapons - I hated the teacher and her story so much that I almost turned it off 15 minutes into it, but then we met the other characters and it got much better.
The Gate - My wife requested this for nostalgic reasons, but it was super boring. I suspect this was originally a Poltergeist-inspired, kid-friendly cash grab.
Sinners - I was vaguely aware of the premise so I went into it expecting Get Out, but it was just Fright Night. Really odd choice to set a vampire story in 1930s Jim Crow Mississippi and make racism barely a part of the story. All of the CGI cotton fields and unnaturally smooth jalopy rides kept pulling me out of the immersion, too. The whole movie felt like a wasted opportunity.
 
RunestoneCowboy said:
expecting Get Out, but it was just Fright Night.
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Awww see I *was* aware of the premise, so I was *delighted* by an excellent version of Fright Night (which is a movie I adore) although maybe more like reverse-From Dusk Till Dawn?
At any rate: I loved it, but I get how expectations could derail this one.

I do think Smoke’s final run at the guys who set all the circumstances up sort of hit home the racism angle. Don’t wanna say too much here because the movie is fairly recent and I don’t want to spoil the whole ending, but while Remmick himself was not the intended consequence (who could predict that??), the guys who sold the joint to SmokeStack were definitely setting them up for Bad Things to happen later on. Hence Smoke’s reactive moves in the morning. That’s what I got out of it, anyway.
 
AceofKnaves said:
Awww see I *was* aware of the premise, so I was *delighted* by an excellent version of Fright Night (which is a movie I adore) although maybe more like reverse-From Dusk Till Dawn?
At any rate: I loved it, but I get how expectations could derail this one.

I do think Smoke’s final run at the guys who set all the circumstances up sort of hit home the racism angle. Don’t wanna say too much here because the movie is fairly recent and I don’t want to spoil the whole ending, but while Remmick himself was not the intended consequence (who could predict that??), the guys who sold the joint to SmokeStack were definitely setting them up for Bad Things to happen later on. Hence Smoke’s reactive moves in the morning. That’s what I got out of it, anyway.
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I just read a couple think pieces explaining the racist undertones of the vampires' integrationist message so I guess those were lost on my white perspective, but I also just disagree with folks on either side of the political spectrum arguing that segregation can be beneficial.
 
OK, let’s say you . . . hate Leo di Caprio and think he’s a smug, lazy actor . . .
. . . can you still still through One Battle After Another?
Everyone is saying it’s great but hoo boy I despise Leo.
Worth it?
 
RunestoneCowboy said:
I just read a couple think pieces explaining the racist undertones of the vampires' integrationist message so I guess those were lost on my white perspective, but I also just disagree with folks on either side of the political spectrum arguing that segregation can be beneficial.
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I don't think the notion was that segregation wasn't beneficial overall. More that the integration the vampires offer isn't actual equality, it's an attempt to pull people out of their culture to be consumed, literally, by another one (parallels to Native American history there, and I don't think it's coincidence they're who is chasing our lead vampire in the beginning). Vampires offer gentrification of the soul. Spiritual hair-straightener.

I do think the racism angle is there throughout. It's in the two different stores that Grace's family runs for different clientele. It's all over the tension in Mary's character. And it's definitely in the ultimate fate of the club and who really owned it. It's just that the movie isn't per se *about* the racism. It's not as much about an external conflict as internal ones. It presents the world as it is, and then is letting you see how the characters feel they should fit into it, instead of focusing on their conflicts directly with it.

Actually, for my money I wasn't so much reminded of Fright Night. The analogy I threw out to friends when I saw it was it's like an arthouse auteur version of From Dusk Til Dawn. And I sort of liked that it did have some layers to it, but was still ok with being fun. that musical bit (you know the one) was not what I was expecting in a good way.

Just my read of course. Honest folks can disagree.
 
AceofKnaves said:
OK, let’s say you . . . hate Leo di Caprio and think he’s a smug, lazy actor . . .
. . . can you still still through One Battle After Another?
Everyone is saying it’s great but hoo boy I despise Leo.
Worth it?
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Yeah I want to see this but I don’t like Leo or Sean Penn as people generally. Will wait for the digital release.
 
I don't like Penn, either. I don't understand how he still gets work after the Madonna thing. He's the weak link in the film, IMO.
AceofKnaves said:
OK, let’s say you . . . hate Leo di Caprio and think he’s a smug, lazy actor . . .
. . . can you still still through One Battle After Another?
Everyone is saying it’s great but hoo boy I despise Leo.
Worth it?
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That's a tough one. I'm not a big Leo fan, but I admit he's very talented. The run he's on this century is nothing short of amazing. Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, Inception, and on and on.

I think he's leveled up as an actor since The Wolf of Wall Street, too. He's got real comedy chops now. Wolf, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Killers of the Flower Moon, and now One Battle After Another are all legitimately hilarious.

OBAA is unmistakably Leo's movie, but I think it's worth any distaste to see it. It's the defining movie of the Donald Trump era, IMO.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Gangs of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Revolutionary Road, Shutter Island, Inception
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Heheheh those are movies in which I find him unwatchably awful, haven’t seen The Departed though. I like him OK in . . . J Edgar, Django Unchained, maybe some of Killers.
Honestly, I don’t think he’s talented at all. He has one of the most jarring, screechy, untrained voices I have ever heard onscreen. Like Lina Lamont from Singing in the Rain.
TheSameIdiot said:
He's got real comedy chops now.
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Woof, I think he’s funny as rectal cancer.
TheSameIdiot said:
OBAA is unmistakably Leo's movie, but I think it's worth any distaste to see it. It's the defining movie of the Donald Trump era, IMO.
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well, my wife really wants to see it, so I probably will. I love the rest of the cast, Penn included.

Funny story: I was a featured extra on Catch Me if You Can and was in the plane for the whole shoot of the scenes where he is flirting with the stewardess. Spielberg was a total gentleman, gently suggesting that Leo stick to the script for ONE SHOT and then he could improv or whatever, Leo completely IGNORED him and never hit the lines, finally after a couple hours Spielberg (who never lost his cool) just called it. Leo then skipped down the gantry, hawk-tuah’d a huge loogie into a garbage can, got on a segue and started doing donuts in the hangar.
Tom Hanks never missed a line or a mark the whole shoot.

Fuck Leo.
 
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