Hmmmm haven’t seen it but may be to my taste. I suppose it’s particularly American gangster movies I don’t like.
No no Coens are GOAT. Not as big a fan of Miller’s, but it’s an exception.
Samesies. I did like Goodfellas in my 20s but outgrew it.
It’s why I never got into the sopranos. Gangsters are really just bullies.
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What do you think is the appeal?
Asking to the people who enjoy the movies, too.
It’s offering something that’s never made sense to me.
There’s some sort of overlap with Goodfellas vs Wolf of Wall St, but I only finished Goodfellas as an intellectual curiosity. Not even Ray Liotta could save it.
I think it has to do with whether the characters build their empire by outsmarting people (with occasional violence) or are mostly stupid people who succeed through force of violent will.
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Ok but the Sopranos isn’t really about gangsters / the mob. It’s about the dissolution of the American Dream, family, etc.
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I always thought of it more as “this is what America really is, when you strip away the veneer or respectability”. Its more that Sopranos IS the American dream.
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More like a nightmare, then.
Well, yeah.
Just wanted to recommend a random French thriller movie that I haven’t seen in like 15 years, but which I remember enjoying.
Think of this as being in the vein of Silence of the Lambs, Bone Collector or Seven.
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The Castle in the Sky
I’m going to try to watch all the Studio Ghibli movies this year in the order they came out.
This one was ok. I get it was more about the adventure aspect but I could have used some more information about the world they’re in.
They say everyone has at least one good performance in them, but leave it to Tom Hardy to prove some people have one at most.
It was just a matter of time before Tom found a worthy movie. A shot well spent.
It is a film grounded almost solely by the performances, and they are each of them compelling. It is polished to perfection by the subtle immersion of the cinematography and score.
5/5
[X] premise
[X] cinematography
[X] score/soundtrack
[X] compelling point of view
[X] transcendent execution
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Just finished “Soul.” Still crying as I’m watching the credits. God damn you, Pixar. Perfect movie for the new year, as well.
Saw in the credits it was scored by Trent Reznor with the jazz stuff played by Jon Batiste.
Anyway, if you like other Pixar stuff, watch this. Hope there’s no typos because I can’t see through my fucking watery eyes.
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Not sure if any of you were acquainted with former 2p2er Ryan Firpo. He was a frequent poster and broke through in a big way with his excellent poker documentary Bet Raise Fold.
Ryan parleyed his success into serving as the writer for the MCU’s upcoming The Eternals. It seems, however, that while his vision may have been what got the movie off the ground, the movie will now belong to writer/director Chloe Zhao, who is currently one of the frontrunners to win this year’s Oscar for Best Director for her movie for Nomadland.
Previously, it was announced that Kaz Firpo and Ryan Firpo were writing Marvel’s cosmic superhero feature, but in a new interview with Margaret Gardiner (via ScreenRant), Zhao revealed that she’s the writer on Eternals and added that the credits haven’t been updated yet.
Zhao was an unlikely choice to helm Eternals , but it makes even more sense now that we know she was also tasked with working on the screenplay. She’s gained immense acclaim for her first three features and could very well win the Best Director Oscar this year, but while none of her previous films come close to the scope of a Marvel movie, they are each immense in their intimacy and emotional impact. I can’t wait to see how that translates to a story set within the MCU, especially if Zhao was given the same creative freedom that allowed Ryan Coogler to make Black Panther so special, or Thor: Ragnarok so unmistakably Taika Waititi ’s.
I imagine Ryan will at least retain a Story by credit, but it depends on just how far the eventual movie deviates from what he and Kaz established.
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Happy Face is a Canadian drama film, directed by Alexandre Franchi and released in 2018. The film stars Robin L’Houmeau as Stan, a young man from Montreal who tries to cope with his mother’s cancer treatment, which has disfigured her appearance, by disguising himself with bandages and joining a support group for people with disfiguring facial conditions in the hopes of better understanding her situation. Debbie Lynch-White plays Vanessa, the nurse who leads the support group, while the members of the support group are portrayed by real people with facial disabilities, including motivational speaker David Roche and actress and model Alison Midstokke.
Booooooooooo literally and I mean literally the only place this movie is available to borrow is at the Banq in Montreal. C’est la vie.
I’ve heard from one of my sources that after the huge failure of Tenet Christopher Nolan is considering returning to direct another Batman movie and Nolan wants nothing to do with Ben Affleck.
Nuke this headline and the entire website for such laughable clickbait.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1211794.shtml
During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in December 2020, the film’s director Steven Soderbergh revealed that there will be a new “philosophical” sequel to Contagion that may cover similar ideas to the 2011 production, but will be more of an iteration of the previous production than a direct sequel.
Despite the added “philosophical” tone, the core producers of the new sequel remain the same, Soderbergh will collaborate with Contagion ’s screenwriter Scott Burns again, ensuring the film will be made “in time,” as Soderbergh noted that “We have been working on that; we should probably hot-foot it a little bit.”
Needed something really dumb to get my mind off things, so I watched The Naked Gun on Netflix. Pretty much delivered the necessary mindless state, but I had to pause this scene where Frank Drebin gets fired. Even back in 1988 pigs shooting people was enough of a thing that they made it into a joke in the movie:
FWIW, this movie is also the source of the “nothing to see here” meme (if you didn’t know).
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Oh man, this is an outstanding show, didn’t know it was on Netflix.
For now, at least.
This connects to something that I’ve been meaning to post in here. I’ve been getting disappointed by Netflix recently when I put something on my list to watch later, then when I look for it later, it’s gone.
Am I right in thinking that Netflix licenses a lot of stuff for some finite time duration? And do I also remember that you used to be able to see “until when” something would be available on the website?
Because now when I look for any kind of indication of when items will disappear I can’t find anything. Is there any kind of Netflix fan or “tracking” site where somebody is making this information available? Or is there another way for me to make sure I watch stuff when it’s on there, before it goes away?