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The film Pinocchio 2022 is a touching story about loss and love, of fathers and sons, of hope and the renewal of it, but most importantly of the tragedy of mortality and what it means to be human.

JadedSkywalker said:

Also reduce or get rid of all the Jesus allusions. Like i get it and i respect that the director is a Christian but it gets overwhelming after a while.

Never seen MOS, but I’ve never been keen on the “Superman is Jesus” angle regardless of the portrayal, and I say that as someone who comes from a Christian background and still retains an affinity for Christianity. Siegel & Shuster were Jewish; Kal is a Moses analog with a bit of Samson thrown in.

Avatar 2.

I would say his Dawn of the Dead reflects his style even less.

Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), one of Hammer’s best horror flicks.

I watched Full Metal Jacket a few days ago, but even now I have almost no words for how great that movie is. As of right now, I seriously think it’s my favorite Vietnam movie of all time. It may be the most “real” feeling depiction of the war that I’ve ever seen: no hyper-stylized melodrama, no grand Shakespearean speeches about the true meaning of freedom, just a cold, unforgiving look at how decent people can be turned into monsters. Some people complain that the movie has no real point, but I’d argue that was very much intentional: Vietnam was a long, ugly conflict, with the lines between “good” and “evil” being basically nonexistent. The fact that there is no point is, ironically, the point.

Finally saw Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery last night. It was… an interesting movie. I’m not sure if it was good, but it was certainly interesting.

The thing you need to know before seeing Glass Onion is that it’s not really a murder mystery. It seems like one at first, but it’s not. It’s really more of a middle finger to tech billionaires (especially Elon Musk), disguised as a murder mystery. If you go in expecting biting social commentary with all-too recognizable personalities and an incredibly cathartic ending, you’ll be pretty pleased. But if you go in expecting an intelligent, intricately-plotted thriller like the first movie, you’ll walk away disappointed.

Overall, it’s a pretty good movie in its own right, but the original movie is way better. I’ve watched the original several times by now, but I doubt I’ll ever rewatch Glass Onion more than once.

The Last Crusade is the best Indiana Jones movie and y’all are just wrong.

On topic, Sunset Boulevard. We saw this at the Alamo Drafthouse and it was pretty great on the big screen.

Fair enough.

The last movie I watched is Give It A Year, with Rose Byrne and Rafa Spall.

There will be spoilers of the movie, so don’t read if you don’t want spoilers!

Man, what I can say? I really loved Rose Byrne since I saw her playing Dormé in Star Wars. But this… This is too much. I can’t stand this movie at all.

The thing is… Basically, there’s this married couple. They really want to make the marriage work, but they really can’t, because they have feelings for other people. Now, a good ending would have been them overcoming all of this and learning that, while marriage is about compromise and sacrifice, in the end it’s worth it. But no, in the end they just break up and go with the other people they have feelings for. Ugh… I just hate this!

I am one of the few romantic people left in the world, and I still believe in love and marriage, so I REALLY hate when stories end like this. I mean, I understand that you can’t control your heart and everything, but it would have been waaaaay better if the movie made you understand that there’s no hope for them from the beginning. Instead, the movie makes you have hope for them until the very end, and then destroys every hope in the last scenes, where they just break up and go away with their other love interests. It just sucks.

Spartacus01 said:

The last movie I watched is Give It A Year, with Rose Byrne and Rafa Spall.

There will be spoilers of the movie, so don’t read if you don’t want spoilers!

Man, what I can say? I really love Rose Byrne since I saw her playing Dormé in Star Wars. But this… This is too much. I can’t stand this movie at all.

The thing is… Basically, there’s this married couple. They really want to make the marriage work, but they really can’t, because they have feelings for other people. Now, a good ending would have been them overcoming all of this and learning that, while marriage is about compromise and sacrifice, in the end it’s worth it. But no, in the end they just break up and go with the other people they have feelings for. Ugh… I just hate this!

I am one of the few romantic people left in the world, and I still believe in love and marriage, so I REALLY hate when stories end like this. I mean, I understand that you can’t control your heart and everything, but it would have been waaaaay better if the movie made you understand that there’s no hope for them from the beginning. Instead, the movie makes you have hope for them until the very end, and then destroys every hope in the last scenes, where they just break up and go away with their other love interests. It just sucks.

I find these types of stories frustrating, too. Though my frustration springs from polyamorous sentiments.

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Finally got around to watching this classic, and you can almost imagine Gene Roddenberry and a young George Lucas sitting in the theater furiously taking notes.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Not good when you try to take it seriously, but it’s a fun, lazy afternoon kind of Bond movie.