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  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    They Cloned Tyrone is pretty good. I think everybody here would vibe with it. Also, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Venture Bros Movie, Sisu (purely for the Nazi killing, just gotta ignore the history before that), wandering Earth 2, and as far as Marvel slop goes Spider-verse is still the best of it.

    Oh, and if you want slop of Nic Cage having fun being Nic Cage, Renfield and Sympathy for Devil.

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      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        Yeah, I get that, a lot of movies and shows bug me when they get like the most charismatic guy in hollywood to play the space nazi or asshole with superpowers or something but I felt like they did a pretty good job of demonstrating how the characters were victims of circumstances created by the system? Lol, I mean, I'd like to say I don't think anybody walked away from watching the movie thinking that it was endorsement of that kind of behavior, but we know how people are nowadays. So, yeah, I get ya.

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    • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      mfw barbie doesnt win every category at the game awards. Its all ogre now shrek-pixel-despair

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    Beau is afraid... definitely not for everyone.

    Hey, want to spend an entire movie feeling uncomfortable, confused and a little angry?

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Only now realized that I've barely watched anything from this year. But I thinks that's because I've been busier than usual. Infinity Pool was very interesting but I don't know if I fully vibe with the Cronenberg (Jr) style.

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  • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I have 0 idea if its gonna be good but Im a sucker for the setting of Napoleon dont even care if its not historical.

    Then again Im not a big movie guy.I mostly watch cartoons and anime with the odd show peppered in. I just prefer my entertainment to be 60min at max usually since I do breaks inbetween to do other stuff or work on something.

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  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Show

    2022 was an excellent year for movies but I think 2023 was pretty good too.

    Movies I've liked so far:

    The Killer

    Oppenheimer

    Barbie

    Killers of the flower moon

    Blackberry

    Past Lives

    John Wick 4

    Dungeons and Dragons

    Are you there god, it's me margaret

    Films I'm looking forward to seeing (but haven't yet)

    Anatomy of a fall

    The boy and the heron

    Monster

    Blue jean

    Viduthalai: Part I

    The Stroll

    Kokomo city

    Pictures of Ghosts

    Mami Wata

    Sira

  • robinn_IV
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    1 year ago

    Saw X, Scream 6, and Across the Spiderverse were good. Haven’t seen most of these.

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        • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]
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          "Saw" movies are simply a celebration of the summer slashers which have always celebrated the art of gore and the unsympathetic cast. I hated them at one point in fact, never understood why people liked em. but I've learned through my wife's love of the genre to enjoy them.

          I've come to see they're not enjoyed the way i connected with movies in other genres. Unlike most (?) movies, you aren't supposed to form a bond with or see yourself in these characters, they are there to die horrificly for your enjoyment.

          You know it's not real, and the buzz you get from watching an imaginative kill well executed graphically is great fun, and everything and everyone is fine! It's harmless! So chop em up baby, show me a spectacle!

          • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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            1 year ago

            To be fair saw ten is pretty brutally racist if the analysis by the podcast Horror Vanguard is to be believed. I've not seen it yet

            • robinn_IV
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              Damn I’ll listen to their episode on it later. Just from watching the movie I have no idea what this is referring to.

              Edit: Just listened and agreed on most stuff. I did notice the yellow filter use but I didn’t notice they took it off with the white lady.

              Side tangent, they say it’s clear the films take the side of Jigsaw being a hero, but i disagree with that. I mean you’re clearly meant to sympathize with the first two people in Saw X, as well as root for Amanda while she tries to get Garbriela out (although the film is also sadistic). The only person who’s portrayed as pure evil and worthy of “punishment” is the blonde millionaire lady, and she survives, which is in line with Jigsaw’s philosophy, while Mateo is killed on a technicality.

              But there are clearly characters who are portrayed as doing bad things with the aim of making the viewer root for their death, Saw 3D having tons of examples. At the same time, while in some cases Jigsaw’s methods are seen as rehabilitative, there are also cases where it’s criticized. For example there’s the lady who chopped off her arm (from I don’t remember which movie, but it’s after 3) who scoffs at Jigsaw (Hoffman’s version, which is also seen as a corrupted version of Kramer, but what he did in this case is no different from something Kramer would do) when asked if she learned to appreciate her life, talking abt how the only benefit she received was handicap parking. It’s very clearly meant to show that Jigsaw’s philosophy does not necessarily rehabilitate people.

              There’s even a deleted scene in 3 where Kramer’s Jigsaw says he was wrong before he dies according to the DVD commentary.

          • clayh@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Yeah but Saw (and similar tortureporn movies) focus on the realistic, gruesome violence (often in closeup). That was never a selling point of the “summer slashers” you are trying to wax poetic about.

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        Scream 5 has a better final sequence imo but I also think the side-characters in the movie were very forgettable, and 6 did a better job w that.

        I agree with the cop dad stuff but we’ve always had that pig nonsense in Spider-Man w Captain Stacey.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Disney animated films were particularly meh this year. Elemental was too cliched, Wish looks godawful. Unironically, the Mario movie has a better shot at the best animated film Oscar than either of these (it’ll go to either Across the Spiderverse or The Boy and the Heron).

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      • PKMKII [none/use name]
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        Nimona was really good, and yeah I’m sure Disney would’ve neutered it. Still don’t think it’ll win the Oscar though, especially with the Academy’s bias against streaming platforms.

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I loved Beau is Afraid! I have no idea who I could recommend it to but I went with a friend and watched a 3 hour anxiety movie together.

    I also really liked Barbie, skipped Openheimer though. It was some good dumb fun. I bought it, rewatched it a couple times too.

    And that was pretty much it for me for theatres this year, oh well.

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      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Uncut gems, it's also pretty out there and symbological rather than literally happening yo Beau (although, who's to say I guess - the stuff he's seeing and feeling is true to him and us as the audience)

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    literally the only movie I watched from that roster was John Wick and I enjoyed it immensely

    man this sucks, I can never find the time and/or energy to watch films anymore

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      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Past Lives isn't really a romance movie. It's about how people who immigrate as children can feel stuck between worlds, and the romance is sort of just an aspect of that.

  • windowlicker [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    tetris is probably my least favorite out of all of these. i can't believe we got a poorly made anti-soviet propaganda film based on one of the best video games of all time. the scene where pajitnov is like "nobody smiles here in russia because there's nothing to smile about" was laughably stupid. the movie was straight ass all the way through with poor pacing and super boring characters (generic evil KGB man is definitely not an overused trope at this point...).

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It's a movie about regional licensing laws, which could've had something funny about the interaction between the late Soviet system and the western systems, but they did the conservative thing of getting too mad before they could get the joke out.

  • SpanishSpaceAgency [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I liked killers of the flower moon, but I also get not wanting to watch a 3.5h movie.

    I also have heard good things about Anatomy of a Fall, but haven't seen it yet.

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      • SpanishSpaceAgency [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        the subject matter is interesting

        And also absolutely infuriating, but I guess all of us on here are used to that pain

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