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Old one rotted away
>>821Threda for discussing or just sharing your impressions of movies, TV shows, cartoons and the like.
No.23215
>>23214Being a pilot has actually been one of the two professional I had as a kid... bad eyes forced me to choose the other.
No.23216
>>23215Forklift operator?
No.23222 KONTRA
>>23213>Top GunI saw it 3 years ago. I laughed so much at the extreme homoerotic tension I couldn't breathe. I guess the planes were cool too
No.23223
>>23222>uses terms like "reddit proleslop">constantly thinks about homosexualsErnst, ich...
No.23232 KONTRA
>>23223I live with my time
No.23235
>>23232So you're saying you're, as the kids today say, an NPC?
Vanilla Ice doesn't dig.
No.23274
Just saw some trailers, and the new Superman looks like a better comedy than the new Naked Gun (although I will admit I chuckled at Liam Neeson in a
skirt)
Superman REBOOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFU8U4UVUBsNaked Gun REBOOT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-N8IIq_8IThe worst thing is that Liam Neeson actually can be funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvVFvqd3lqAI have no intention to watch any of that, but I figured the average /int/ audience might be inclined to watch reddit proleslop.
No.23276
>>23274I'm sucking up any Nielson and/or Neeson slop when it's free on Prime.
Also the OJ father sob joge had me giggling.
No.23314
>>23222The director is gay and Top Gun is basically a gay movie. Most people don't realise that. Even the actors didn't know.
No.23317 KONTRA
>>23314The director also didn't know that he was gay.
No.23331
>>23317Those are the worst kinds!
No.23702
Memoir of a Snail: sad and kind Australian cartoon about psychological defenses, LGBT rights, religious fanaticism, exploitation of child labour.
(I liked it)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron: it's about American Freedom, and how American people, horses and eagles appreciate it among STUNNING NATURE OF OUR LAND. Unusual and extremely good visuals, especially for 2002. Made by real professionals, very high IQ, FANTASTIC PATRIOTS.
(lovely children cartoon)
Easy Rider: yyyyeeeeeaaahhh ROOOOCCCCKKK. Democracy is in danger! While we ride bikes, take drugs and have careless sex, hippies are dying from hunger, human rights activists drink themselves to death, and racist rednecks are trying to restore slavery! What has happened to our America? Let's defend democracy together.
(fine movie, better watch a bit drunk)
Breakfast at Tiffany's: maybe I'm too bigoted, but I failed to take love story of gigolo and escort model seriously. Watched it rather as a comedy.
(It's OK)
No.23754
>>23702>Watched it rather as a comedy.It IS a comedy, fool! I don't even know if Blake Edwards ever did sonething else.
The book does not have a happy end, btw.
No.23758
>>23754If it's supposed to be a comedy, why doesn't it even have laughter track?
No.24448
>The Phoenician Scheme
New Wes Anderson flick. I liked it more than Asteroid City, mainly because it had an actual story, barely any meta shit and less Scarlett Johansson (not that I don't enjoy looking at her, but every single of her "serious" performances has been very tedious).
It's about some weapons/business dealer who has pissed of basically every government in the world and has also survived a bunch of assassination attempts and now thinks about his legacy, the eponymous "Phoenician Scheme". For that he summons his daughter from the covenant she was put in years ago. Shenanigans ensue.
What can I say? If you like second best Anderson's films you'll probably also like this, if you don't, don't bother.
>The Boat That Rocked
German title "Radio Rock Revolution". A british comedy-ish from 2009 (never heard of it, but it could have been shown in the same cinemas as Wes Anderson or french films). It's about pirate radio in the UK in the 60s.
It's mainly nostalgia bait for boomers who think that every single rock and pop song from the 60s and 70s is a masterpiece and that something like Mighty Quinn is peak lyrical genius.
Anyway, it was generally fun, though it dragged on for a bit too long, or rather suffered from scenes dragging; something I have noticed with british comedy films in general. Their timing is always a bit off, and the humor usually comes from the funny characters - the funniest of which was certainly the humorless minister played by Kenneth Branagh who most certainly fashioned his performance after Michael Palin's performances portraying these kind of men in Flying Circus.
Apart from that it was also about an 18 year old boy who gets sent there by his slut mother and apparently his dad was one of the DJs on the boat, but that's a piece of plot that doesn't really go anywhere and is pretty much resolved incidentally.
The soundtrack is good and it has a bunch of funny scenes, I can recommend watching it once if you enjoy old rock and pop music.
No.24468 KONTRA
>>24448> Seht mich an ich bin so kluk ich schaue langweilige kackfilme die keiner kenntja so kriegstw leah-lisa bestimmt ins Bett du hässliger kleinpimmel
Geh lieber pumpen mongo
(Hopeless...) No.24473
The Apprentice, 2024
Since I'm a poorly informed euro-zoomer. I knew next to nothing about Donald before he ran for office in 2016. I agree with
>>21771, the movie seems tame compared to what I heard from Trump and would earn a truly revolutionary tone if it decided to show more of the spectrum of the american rulling class for the power starved degenerates they are.
La grande bellezza, 2010
Beautiful pictures, creative, funny, poetic and accessible. That's quite an achievement considering it's a movie about a bored Roman socialite in his mid 60s. The party scenes are particularly cool. It's the first Paolo Sorrentino's movie I watch and I definetly want to see the others.
No.24474 KONTRA
Reminds me of 2017 when I went to the Fringe Festival and every other one-person-play was something about Trump.
Eventually when one guy gave me his flyer I said something like "Really, YET ANOTHER Trump play? How original." and something about low-hanging fruits, to which he got a bit butthurt and told me that his is better, promised.
Then again, I am glad the the Trump hysteria isn't as bad as it was after 2016 when all the talentless and unfunny journos and comedians didn't talk about anything else anymore. It's probably the war. Thank you Poutine.
Sage for slightly off-topic.
No.24477 KONTRA
Please remember that threads on specific topics on /int/ aren't for shitposting. There were no further bans issued, but as for now, please contain shitposting in the today or politics thread. Thank you.
No.24478
>>24473>La grande bellezza>Swiss likes itOf course he does! It's made for coming of age people
No.24482
>>24478Shit it’s true… I didn’t even notice the movie was also targeted at my age bracket
No.24486
>>24482Not sure if it is your age bracket but it heavily reminded me of a novel a guy would enjoy reading in his early or mid twenties.
No.24611
I have the urge to rewatch The Godfather.
At this rate it might even overtake Jurassic Park as my most watched film.
No.24615
After i worked my way trough the David Cronenberg filmography a few month ago, i'm about to go on a Terry Gilliam bender.
I re-watched Brazil after i haven't seen it in 15 years or so and watched The Fisher King for the first time.
I skipped 12 Monkeys because i've probably seen it 5 times already. One of my favorite Science-Fiction movies. Next on the list is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
I really liked The Fisher King. I enjoyed the seemless transitioning from comedy to drama every few minutes.
The movie starts with a Radio Dj at work (Jeff Bridges) who talks badly about the rich to his audience but, as it turns out, is one of them himself.
He later learns, that one of his tirades made someone rampage and shoot a few people and he falls into depression and alcoholism.
By Chance he meets a homeless guy (Robin Williams) who, as it turns out, lost his mind and became homeless after the guy mentioned earlier shot his wife and Radio DJ man wants to help him to make it all good again, which involves finding a girlfriend and the holy grail for the homeless guy.
There's also this scene which i adore:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u73s-opueLk And of course there's Michael Jeter (also known as the guy with the mouse in The Green Mile):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmfGLfWqlzAAnd some very typically Terry Gilliam looking scenes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqQoXaD8kgQ&t=85sThe ending kinda sucked which sucks, but you can see Robin Williams peepee if you're into that.
No.24617
>>24615Cronenberg is cool, what did you watch? I've only watched "Videodrome" and "Naked lunch", but liked both really a lot.
No.24618
>>24617Not that Ernst, but I just recently rewatched The Fly, which is pretty good and certainly hits different between being a gorehound teenager and an adult who has had close relatives be sick.
Scanners is fun, eXistenz is delightfully absurd, A History of Violence (based on a comic by the guy who drew all the Cannibal Corpse covers) I frankly can't properly remember anymore, but I think I liked it. It's certainly different.
Haven't seen more, I think.
No.24624
Currently watching "Ghosts" (GB).
There are actually three different versions - the original bong show, the burger adaptation and now they actually made a kraut one.
GF started watching the american one, which was, besides the current year bullshit, pretty funny, and I have a thing for Rose McIver.
Now we are watching the british version that came first.
It's actually pretty interesting how different the shows are in the way they are shot and the storylines: The original is actually set up in an actual horror movie way, which gives it a parodistic vibe, compared to the american version that is more, let's say, "conventional", in the vein of a regular ensemble sitcom. What you notice though is the higher budget. Some effects in the british version (like when the guy is climbing onto the roof to do something) are laughably bad. However, the jokes that hit hit way better than the american version that always plays it safe (or safe-horny, or safe-edgy, or....).
What I also noticed, or rather realized, was the GB episode where they wake up hungover as fuck after getting right smashed the night before. I don't think they will ever do something like that in the US version.
I haven't seen any episode of the german version yet, and while the ghost cast sounds promising, the ad banner really killed every kind of desire I had - I don't know what it is with german camerawork, and I absolutely despise the typical Netflix look and feel, but something about the way german tv shows are shot is highly unappealing, especially if it's something that *could* be at least remotely atmospheric, even if just in trace amounts. It's ok for Lindenstraße oder Gute Zeiten schlechte Zeiten I guess, but not for something like this. Also, why the FUCK did they also call it "GHOSTS"? It's Germany here. I know, a show (or rather miniseries) called "Geister" already exists, but they could use a subtitle if they wanted, hell, even something silly like "Die total verspukte Erbvilla" would be better. I bet it was again the marketing scum who can't speak proper german anymore's fault.
So far I would say the original show is my favorite, solely on account of laughing louder and because I prefer roit gov'na tohhk to listening to americans (plus, the main girl is a qt3.14 who reminds me of a young Margot Kidder). Also, as usual, the GB show has like 6 episodes per series whereas the american one has liek 20 or so per season, and while so far the quality up to S4 has not been noticeably dropping, I am always suspicions of shows going on for so long. At least it doesn't have a laugh track.
Unrelated to the actual shows I noticed something for me funny: We are watching it not on an official streaming, and the episodes are lifted directly from the BBC, so at the end of each episode there is actually an announcer announcing the next show on BBC1 and whatever comes on on BBC2. I didn't think that was still a thing in the UK.
No.24627
>>24617Naked Lunch was great and of course The Fly.
Those are my two favorites.
Shivers was interesting, i understand if someone doesn't like it but i did. It's about a parasite that jumps from human to human like a STD and turns them into zombie like creatures but they don't eat people, they rape them. Worth a watch.
The Brood: Probably as "normal" as a Cronenberg horror movie can be. Could've been just as well been a Steven King adaption but i liked it alot.
The Dead Zone: An actual Stephen King adaption. Here Christopher Walken can see the future after having an accident.
Both The Dead Zone and the movie Scanners, also from Cronenberg, were made fun of in the same South Park episode. Would recommend.
Videodrome: Great movie, probably my Cronenberg #3 right after Naked Lunch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8BUXKcp8zE Highly recommended
No.24628
>>24627I also watched most others, but those are the ones i would recommend the most.
No.24629
>>24627Wait, Dead Zone is also by Cronenberg? Shiiet, I've seen that too. Drags on a bit, but it's a nice little flick.
No.24691
>>24627Watched "Scanners", it was epic, his best movie I've seen so far. Next I'm thinking of "The Fly" and also "Crimes of the Future"(2022). I'm a bit worried about what this man can do with modern special effects. Will I ever be able to
unsee it?
> Both The Dead Zone and the movie Scanners, also from Cronenberg, were made fun of in the same South Park episode. Would recommend.https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Cartman%27s_Incredible_GiftThis episode. Thanks, rewatched
No.24717
I don't really know what the message was meant to be, but after i saw the movie i had a shower and when i looked into the mirror afterwards, i felt depressed and i am a man in my 30s. I guess women in their 50s and 60s should be the main audience of this film.
A modern body horror movie with decent enough practical effects.
A middle aged woman gets into a car accident, in the hospital someone gives her an USB stick with what seems to be a very bad commercial for a product that is not really explained. Somehow it is still a sell.
How it works, why it works, payment information and all those things are not mentioned so you can tell that this movie was made by a woman.
Anyway, it's about a "Substance" that creates a second body that is supposed to be a better version of yourself. Both bodies have to be awake for 7 days every 7 days, the other body will be "disabled" in this time. The customer gets told that this cycle has to be obeyd, but not why. Again, a typical woman film.
Visually half of the movie looks like they straight up copied Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg or Alfred Hitchcock, the other half looks like a commercial, a video game trailer or a music video. That might sound negative, but i actually like this mix.
The trailer shows this pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNlrGhBpYjcAccording to wikipedia they used around 21,000 liters of fake blood for this movie and I do believe that. Most of it can be seen in one scene that puts Braindead to shame.
6,5/10 breddy gud, also boobs :DDD
If you take a substance to explain the happenings, you should also explain the substance, that is actually the biggest story flaw i had. I feel like something was missing.
No.24719 KONTRA
>>24717>If you take a substance to explain the happenings, you should also explain the substance, that is actually the biggest story flaw i had.Not everything needs to be explained in detail.
Alien gained nothing from explaining the origin of the Aliens (although that wasn't canon anyway, *cough*), neither did Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Death Becomes Her would also have gained nothing had they explored the background of the substance.
Also, is it not about how women have to always be pretty to get work IN THE BIZ and have to do all that horrible bogging so le ebul misogynistic producers will even be aware of them? That's at least what I could gather from the trailer.
No.24720
>>24719>Alien gained nothing from explaining the origin of the Aliens (although that wasn't canon anyway, *cough*), neither did Texas Chainsaw MassacreIn those movies, you knew everything the main characters knew or even more and that is fine.
In The Substance i had the impression that everyone should be very well aware of everything but i, as the viewer, am not. And i could not find a good reason for that.
This is not like Alien or TCM, this is like Re-Animator.
If Herbert West would not explain his work in Re-Animator, i would be pissed.
No.24721
>>24720>If Herbert West would not explain his work in Re-Animator, i would be pissed.iirc it was never explained. It was just some magical potion that brings the dead back to life.
No.24723
>>24721Herbert West explains death as a biological condition or a sicknes that can be reversed or healed if the brain tissue is still intact and it can "defeat brain death" if administered quickly enough after death.
His invention works by reversing death.
Those are very basic explanations that don't go in depth but they are there. They help to understand the universe the film is based in.
None of those things are explained in The Substance.
I know that, if you take it, a different person which is also supposed to be you will come out of you.
Why? I don't know.
Who made it? I don't know.
Who sells it or is it just given away for free? I don't know.
If you don't care about that kind of thing that's fine, personally i can't think of anything else for the full duration of the movie, so i guess it would be good to know. For me.
If you ever happen to watch that movie, please let me know. I would be interested if you keep that opinion or if you think that a bit of sidestory or just a 2 minute dialogue about the serum would've been a good thing.
No.24734
Flight home, so the rare opportunity to watch movies.
Mickey 17:
I really learned to love Pattinsons acting. Twilight aside, he's actually a great guy and conquered the spot to be the perfect Batman for me.
Still, the movie jumps themes a little too much and feels inconsistent, especially towards the end.
Not great, not terrible, maybe a little expendable.
LOTR: Return of the King:
Well, it's a perfect movie alright, nothing more to add really.
Cells at Work:
A live action adaptation of the manga of the same name.
Starts cheery and visually nicely bizarre, like an episode of Power Rangers.
Does get a bit grim from the mid onward, but actually I loved that movie very much for some reason.
When I have to withhold ass-on-toilet action, I will now probably forever have to imagine muscular Asian dudes cosplaying as my sphincter muscle while screaming to hold the line. And my liver brothel taking care of poor drunken cells...
No.24914
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdC5mFHPldgNew Mortal Kombat 2 trailer just dropped.
Karl Urban as Johnny Cage sold me in an instant, wish it would come to cinemas around xmas tho.
C..can we get Dredd 2 next pleeeease?
First one is peak whimsical 90s guilty pleasure, together with the likes of D&D and such.
No.24950 KONTRA
>>24914>Melde dich an um dein Alter zu bestätigenFUCK YOU YOUTUBE NO WONDER YOU ARE DYING GOOD RIDDANCE YOU FUCKING SUBHUMANS
No.24960 KONTRA
>>24959>implying I am going to log in to my own account just to watch some trailer that might or might not be shitYou dumb fucking retard, do you enjoy being a glass citizen?
Imagine being so unfathomably retarded that you can't fathom someone not WANTING to be logged in and subscribed everywhere. I wish I could spit in your face, you absolute imbecile, you debil blyat, you 89IQ subhuman.
No.24961
Star Wars Episode 1
Had a bit of a hankering for some light entertainment. Since everybody knows the film I won't go into detail, just rate the different setpieces
>GOAT tier
Pod Race, loved it 25 years ago, love it now
>Excellent tier
Jedi vs. Sith, mainly carried by the soundtrack, although the stunt work and choreography is excellent too
>ok tier
Assault on droid control ships, just space pew pew
>silly tier
Every scene where the Naboo fight
>very silly, also shit tier
Every scene with Gungans, like holy shit everything about it is so incredibly bad, especially the Braveheart "battle" against the droids. Everything about it is just so incredibly bad. So, so incredibly bad
No.25042 KONTRA
Resident Alien is a weird show.
Sure, the premise can be fun and what can be done with it and exploring the human condition was shown by e.g. 3rd Rock From The Sun. Also, I just like Alan Tudyk.
Of course since this is the 2020s you can't just have comedy, you have to have a procedural (though that is more due to the alien, who is referring to himself as an alien, being involved with a bunch of those murders), men in black + conspiracies and lots and lots of unrelated (relationship) drama, plus an often very annoying soundtrack.
It has moment that had me laugh out loud and then it has current year writing that makes anyone who isn't terminally online or hollywoodian cringe physically. There was an entire episode about a "girls' night out" smashing the patriarchy, as personified by one of them's husband who is pretty much a modern beta boy, but also the town's mayor, who apparently pays the women less. Also, the women constantly talk about sex in a fashion how a woman would imagine guys talk about sex. Oh, and it has a muslim family, with the little muslim girl wearing a headscarf. She is also one of the smartest people in town and very precocious.
Speaking of the women, the casting is also really weird: Most of them are average at best looking, but they ALL have really fat tits, it's actually pretty amazing. Like someone corralled all those butterfaces and put them on a show.
Also, for a show supposedly set in a South Park Colorado, I can't help but think of Alaska the entire time. Doesn't help it was filmed in British Columbia.
Those kinds of shows are just not for me. I never really managed to get into Monk despite laughing a bunch of times, and I never managed to get into similar shows, like iZombie.