Tony_Tarantula on 22/8/2019 at 21:32
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Oliver is so over the top he's funny even when waaaay over the top. That one was definitely worth some of the eye rolls getting to the finish line which I did not expect and really enjoyed.
He used to be better. Much better, the show went from great to unwatchable very quickly about 2012-2013 ish.
Anyways:
Since I'm still on my eastern-bloc kick....
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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81%2Blgn8BqXL._SL1500_.jpgGreat film about a Stasi officer who is put on a case involving a playwright (because a secret police officer wants him out of the way in order to seduce his woman), and one that is much less known than it deserves to be due the film only being in its native German language.
Harvester on 23/8/2019 at 07:04
Yeah, that's a great movie indeed, I just watched it again, this time with my girlfriend and she liked it as well.
SubJeff on 24/8/2019 at 07:19
Great film.
Now watch Chernobyl.
rachel on 24/8/2019 at 12:20
Earlier this month, I watched (
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Zardoz - The 1974 "Sean Connery in red diapers with suspenders, a pornstache and a gun" flick - And you know what? I was very pleasantly surprised, in fact. Without going so far as to call it
good, it's certainly not the turd it's often ridiculed as, dealing with themes that resonate a lot today, world collapse, class division, exploitation, false beliefs... even if all this is VERY muddled by the fact Boorman was clearly high as a kite when he wrote and directed it. It's not a movie that leaves you indifferent, for sure, and I would say it's one of these movies that would probably benefit from a proper remake, of all things. And I'm not a fan of today's trend of useless remakes. So yeah, I do recommend it to anyone with an interest in sci-fi, it's totally worth checking out.
Over the past week, I've (re)watched quite a few other gems.
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Blue Thunder - 1983 action thriller with Roy Scheider and Malcolm McDowell, one of my favourite movies when I was younger. I'm a sucker for good air-to-air action and the helicopter sequences in this one are perfect. It also still resonates today, what with the entire "big brother surveillance is bad" theme. Can't get tired of it, still a great flick.
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - Yeah I went there! It's got The Rock, Jason Statham, Idris Elba and Vanessa Kirby, and I'll watch anything with the last two. It's stupid, it's unrealistic, and it's ludicrous fun. I had a very good time, and I'm glad I went, because a few hours later I watched...
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The Room - The infamous Tommy Wiseau assemblage he called a movie. A lot's been said about this. Watching this one was hard. HARD. It's impossible to really explain in human terms how utterly bizarre and abysmally bad this movie is, it's fascinating. The nadir of movies. I know it's got a cult following, but I for one am pretty sure I'll never, ever watch this thing again.
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The Pumaman - 1980 superhero movie. Think
Iron Man. Think
Avengers: Endgame. Flip that around and imagine their complete opposite. Whatever you imagine, multiply that by about 1,000, and you may get how utterly, hilariously bad
L'Uomo Puma is. Surfing on the
Superman craze, it's got atrocious special effects, actors that can't act their way out of a paper bag, and Donald Pleasence, who probably needed the check to refit his kitchen or something.
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The Matrix, (
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The Animatrix, (
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The Matrix Reloaded & (
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The Matrix Revolutions - Need no introduction. I've been wanting to revisit the Matrix universe for a while, especially after the sisters came out, and boy this is fascinating. Of course, there's the whole messianic Jesus parallel that's obvious, but it's very interesting to see all the discourse again about living two lives and killing one to become the other through the trans lens, right from the first movie, and that obsession with mirrors and reflections that don't always show what they seem. The end of the subway scene, when paralleled with Lana's personal struggle, is probably the most powerful trans affirmation statement in cinema. I totally have a newfound respect for this movie, it's so subtly layered it blew my mind again, twenty years after...
Animatrix being a compilation is a different beast, but it's interesting that
Program has two characters called "Cis" and "Duo" battling each other, and I wonder if that's intentional. My favourite remains
A Detective Story, I just love the noir aesthetic and the
Alice in Wonderland references that call back to the first movie.
I cannot not take
Reloaded and
Revolutions separately as they're so clearly two halves of the same movie, and they pretty much abandon the whole identity angle to focus on the themes of choice vs determinism, without daring to go all the way. It's very frustrating. I still absolutely love the Merovingian, can't help it but this pompous fuck is a goddamn gem, sadly underutilized in the third. Great themes, lots of questions but in the end they pull a
Lost and barely answer anything...
Interestingly, I didn't dislike the sequels as much this time around, though I wouldn't go so far as calling them good. They're certainly very flawed, and
Revs is much more linear and shallow. Maybe because this time I knew what I was getting into, I don't know. They're a missed opportunity for sure.
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Speed Racer - That was a fun, but so fucking
confusing at times... I knew it was a SFX fest but I didn't expect two full hours in the Acid-Trip Dimension, holy shit. The small kid and the monkey were obnoxiously annoying but once I settled with the fact that it was pretty much a live cartoon, I let all expectations of realism fly out the window and overall I didn't have a bad time. Glad I watched it.
To be continued.
Thirith on 24/8/2019 at 12:28
We actually started watching Chernobyl today, months after 99% of the world watched it and raved about it. Judging from the first episode, it looks extremely well made, well cast and acted, and exceedingly depressing. Which is good: after finishing When They See Us a couple of weeks ago, we had an opening for a depressing series.
Renzatic on 24/8/2019 at 23:32
I just got through my week long bing through Dark. Awesome show all around. The next season is going to be the finale, and I can't wait to see how they tie everything together. It's impressive how the writers have made a show that's built upon what has to be the most convoluted plot in the history of TV, yet present it in such a way so that it's not overly confusing.
...and being the first show I've ever watched subbed in German, it weirds me out how every once in awhile someone will say something that sounds like English with a thick accent, and it means about the same thing in both languages.
Sulphur on 25/8/2019 at 03:20
Considering that English is a Germanic language, it shouldn't be all that surprising.
Thirith on 25/8/2019 at 09:42
Added to which, especially Germans under the age of 40 will use the occasional English phrase way more often than they would've 10-20 years ago, so it's quite possible you also picked up on those phrases.
Renzatic on 25/8/2019 at 18:08
It's more like simple phrases that sound surprisingly similar when spoken casually. In particular, any sentence that starts with who, what, when, where, or why, which tend to get asked a lot in the show, were easy to pick up on after a bit.