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Saw Game Night last night. Very disappointing for a well-rated film. Much of the humour fell flat imo. Jason Bateman was phoning it in. Character drama was dull. Not good folks, we hate to see it.
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Tarantino was on the Rewatchables podcast. Heās doing three, all movies of his choosing, and they started with Dunkirk. I thought it was a good episode even though I donāt hold that movie in as high regard as he and one of the hosts do. Canāt wait for the next two.
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Strong disagreement. This was one of the funniest movies Iāve ever seen. I went back to see it again in the theater.
I will be the centrist that says some parts were really funny and others not so much.
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It had a few good points, Jesse Plemons was good, there were a few laughs, but if there were any really funny bits I missed them. It was all slapstick and smart-assed pop culture asides. Itās driven by a plot which ought to have characters in danger, but the movie never even tries to create any tension, it instantly defuses any scene which ought to be tense. The result is this weird tonal blancmange which tries to subsist entirely on one-liners, most of which arenāt funny.
It would have worked better as a black comedy with some real menace in it and the laughs used to defuse tension, which is what I assumed I was getting from the poster:
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anyone seen Fahrenheit 11/9???!!
im about to pop it in the VCR!
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Interesting! I experienced it as a black comedy with just enough menace to need those big laughs to defuse the tension.
Why not reel to reel?
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Finally theyāre releasing it
https://twitter.com/NewMutantsFilm/status/1214184847079399426
Hopefully itās the Demon Bear Saga
I hope itās good. Those actors have literally grown from children to adults waiting for the movie to release (2.5 years).
Made by the same folks that did the excellent adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars, and Josh Boone is a real fan of the old New Mutants comic line. He gets what makes that team special.
Iām really curious to see how it turned out. There were of course massive reshoots scheduled, but those got canceled, and instead Boone was reportedly given the freedom to recut the movie to fit his vision, not Foxās, and to remove any references to existing X-Men films so that if itās a success, Disney will consider using this as a jump-point for introducing mutants into the MCU.
I donāt think that will happen unless the movie is a massive commercial and critical success, but early test screenings put it on the same level as the first Deadpool. That would be amazing.
Anyone seen Two Popes? I like the stars but am not into Catholicism so idk what to think here
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Itās good. Deals with regret, religious conservative vs religious liberal conceptions of the good. Hopkins is good but the other actor is extremely good
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Iām curious to see everything that happened behind the scenes too. My understanding is that the reshoots were because Fox wanted it to be way more horror than superhero, which doesnāt seem like a bad way to go even if they didnāt keep any of the reshoots. I like Marvel movies when they lean into another genre other than superhero, like Captain America 2 did making it more like a spy thriller.
I canāt see it being a massive success on par with, say, Thor or Iron Man though as it seems geared more towards the teen market. Which is fine.
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Ouch.
His name is Jonathan Pryce. He has had a very long and distinguished career.
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Shame!
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Just about 2/5ths my way through The Irishman
darn good if you havenāt already.
I had seen him in stuff but I was typing while walking and didnāt have time to look it up!
Everyone keeps talking about how amazing Irishman is, so I checked out this guyās earlier movies. Have you guys seen Goodfellas? Itās not bad!
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Go see Little Women. Itās a beautiful masterpiece. Top 3 of the year for me for sure.
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