Yea I love it as well
I can understand criticism of Guy Ritchie going back to the well. And most people, and Iād agree with them, would rank LS2SB>>Snatch>>>>>>RNR/Gentlemen.
To me, itās like if a favorite band made a new album that had a lot of similarities to a previous albumā¦Iām still gonna listen to it and enjoy it. Especially if the kind of album that I like from them has only come out 4 times in 20 years.
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Damn, Criterion Channel has some great shit:
https://twitter.com/criterion/status/1352284016083431424?s=21
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Just before my son was born and I had time and stuff I got deep in to Seijun Suzuki thanks to a cinema here having a retrospective. Gate of Flesh, Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter are all mind boggling.
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I am new to the Criterion Channel but there are dope-ass movies on that service.
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I always wanted to be the sort of person who has and has watched hundreds of fancy Criterion Collection DVDs.
We oughtta add a Criterion Day to the weekly watch party schedule. Maybe put it on Friday once the Oscars are over? Or we could watch one on Tuesdays since those are for cult classics.
You Americans stay up way too late for me, Iām afraid. Though Iād maybe try and watch in more euro friendly hours.
I only put it at 9pm EST for everyone else (currently eyebooger for Friday/Oscar night). I am available to shift any Criterion viewing time to fit your schedule.
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One Night in Miami 
Itās an imagined meeting between Malcolm X, (then) Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown on the night of Clayās win over Sonny Liston. Most of the movie is just the four of them talking in a motel room. Great writing and an amazing cast are all thatās needed to turn that thin premise into a 5 star story.
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We are watching that tonight for Oscar night. Nice to know we can look forward to a good one 
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Well, maybe. We donāt often agree on these things.
Iāll eat my left shoe if Regina King made a bad movie.
It was outstanding. Watch party thread has commentary from me and eyebooger.
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Snowpiercer
Bong Joon-hoās movies are fine, maybe even good, but the dude has been way overhyped.
Idea for his next movie: A bunch of zombies surround an apartment building. The poor people on the bottom floor must fight them off while the rich people in the penthouse arenāt bothered at all. At some point itās revealed the zombie outbreak was caused by the rich people polluting.
Looking up his IMDB he already made a movie kind of like this. What a joke. Could we get a little subtlety for once Bong?
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I somewhat agree with this, especially for his later films, but on the other hand I think it is a bit unfair given how āunsubtleā the current state of the world is or seems to be. For instance your zombie scenario is actually not that far from the reality of climate change in the next decades right?
Anyway if you want a more subtle view on class warfare in South Korea (with a more āpoeticā style), I would recommend āBurningā (lee chang dong, 2018).
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I loved Parasite but never understood why Snowpiercer got so much acclaim. The premise seemed way too thin to sustain an entire movie.
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I liked Parasite but I didnāt think it was amazing. The exaggerated upstairs/downstairs metaphors were clever, but I found the plot as well as some of the acting to be meh.
I think of Snowpiercer a bit like Inception. They were both high concept nonsense that I really enjoyed in the cinema, but then, when they come up on the internet, it seems like a lot of people think that a lot of other people think theyāre a little bit profound. But I can never quite get to the bottom of if anyone actually does think them a little bit profound. I do feel like some people must, it gets good marks on ten. They shouldnāt, though.
My favourite bit of Snowpiercer is when theyāre all outraged that the green gunk is insects. Given the setup Iād have put insects in the top 5% of things it could possibly have been made of. Personally Iād have been dancing a jig. āIt was only insects! Thank God, it was only insects!!ā
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