So is it like Rise of Skywalker then where it’s just so dumb you can’t look away?
I’ve never watched TRoS and never will, so I can’t comment on that.
Jurassic World: Dominion.
I should hate this movie, instead I had a great time watching the movie.
C-3PO isn’t annoying, he’s lovable and funny.
I think I might change my PT answer to Padme… Natalie Portman’s acting in RotS specifically was a whole new level of cringe…
I don’t agree with her being the most annoying, but Natalie absolutely phoned in ROTS. It makes me feel like she saw all the bad reviews for the previous two and just gave up.
Hayden was doing a better job then her in literally every scene (I actually think Hayden did a good job, any lapses in his performance are directing/writing issues). He should’ve gotten top billing since he was literally the main character.
Hayden Christensen clearly had no clue how to play Anakin in AotC, add given Lucas is notorious for not knowing how to work with actors, you have a recipe for disaster. In RotS he had a better grasp of Anakin as a character, and thus losened up and played the role far more naturally. Hayden is the kind of actor who needs guidance from directors.
PT: Padme. I hate overly idealistic characters in fiction.
OT: No one, really.
ST: Finn. He’s a total bufoon.
For some reason I always associate the movie with the late 1980s rather than the early 1990s.
I only know about the comic series from the movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which I very much enjoyed.
I lowkey hate A Quiet Place.
Overall I thought the movie was good, but the pro-natalist undercurrent rubbed me the wrong way.
I despise Whiplash (2014).
Several professional musicians have dismissed it as a very distorted interpretation of the music world
The Last of Us.
I’ve never played the game, but this show hits me pretty hard.
The other day I told an old girlfriend she’s a gorgeous girl. Later on I remembered she’s 35 years old, so it would be more appropriate to say she’s a gorgeous woman. She still appreciated my compliments, so I guess I’m fine there.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the most boring and unwatchable Quentin Tarantino film ever made. It’s a film that’s nothing more than 2 hours and 5 minutes of setup followed by 35 minutes of payoff. The only reason people like it is because of those last 35 minutes and that’s it.
Problem is by the time of the climax I was far too bored to care, so all in all it was nothing but a three-hour long borefest for me.
I suspect the reason this movie got such positive reviews was a case of The Emperor’s New Clothes, where people refused to acknowledge the movie was terrible simply because Tarantino directed it.
I’ve always been fond of this quote from Errico Malatesta, an anarchist*:
“Violence (physical force) used to another’s hurt, which is the most brutal form of struggle between men can assume, is eminently corrupting. It tends, by its very nature, to suffocate the best sentiments of man, and to develop all the antisocial qualities, ferocity, hatred, revenge, the spirit of domination and tyranny, contempt of the weak, servility towards the strong. And this harmful tendency arises also when violence is used for a good end. […] Anarchists who rebel against every sort of oppression and struggle for the integral liberty of each and who ought thus to shrink instinctively from all acts of violence which cease to be mere resistance to oppression and become oppressive in their turn are also liable to fall into the abyss of brutal force. […] The excitement caused by some recent explosions and the admiration for the courage with which the bomb-throwers faced death, suffices to cause many anarchists to forget their program, and to enter on a path which is the most absolute negation of all anarchist ideas and sentiments.”
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-violence-as-a-social-factor
*Equating anarchism with chaos always triggers me. But I can’t fault the noob for that.
This part reminds me of the character of Lord Asriel from His Dark Materials. Throughout the books he’s constantly fighting against organized institutions but is a very shitty father to Lyra.
Yes.
Funny thing about big butts, we laugh at women with big butts when we’re kids, but find them irresistible when we’re adults.
Rewatching the TPM what bothers me the most about how Obi-Wan is written is that despite not yet being promoted to full Jedi Knight, he’s already one of the most observant, by-the-book members of the Jedi Order in contrast to Qui-Gon who is very much a maverick.
I sometimes wonder if Lucas got his papers mixed up because the characterizations should have been the other way around.
I hope we get to see the live-action debut of Fenn Rau.
My biggest issue with the first 35mm scan of Jurassic Park is how washed out the colours are. This print has more vibrant colours which I approve.
The new sample frames have a subtle yellow tint, so watch out for that.
blindly applied my newest calibration for the scanner (based on comparison to 35mm print for TPM trailer) which I think is getting to be pretty close (at least for the other stock) and they look a touch less yellow now:
Gorgeous!
Satine Kryze’s New Mandalorians get a massive point deduction in my book for employing cubism as their art style of choice. I hate cubism with a passion.
I prefer Bo-Katan’s approach, always battle-ready, but not battle-seeking.
(Very unpopular opinion incoming)
In my personal opinion, the 1980s were when pop culture (music especially) started to flush down the toilet. (This doesn’t mean that EVERYTHING from the era was bad, but there was, IMO, an overall decay in quality.
What really bothers me the most is the persistent obsession with 1980s pop culture.
Seriously? Will it ever end?
The Blues Brothers is hailed as one of the greatest comedy movies of all time, but when I watched the whole movie one night at no point of the movie did I even chuckle. Seriously? This is considered one of the greatest comedies of all time?
Yeah, I always crank up the colour saturation on my screen whenever I watch the 35mm scan.
My biggest issue with the first 35mm scan of Jurassic Park is how washed out the colours are. This print has more vibrant colours which I approve.
The new sample frames have a subtle yellow tint, so watch out for that.
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.
I think the biggest irony of the movie is that the main character, private Joker, is constantly talking about how’s he training to become a killer, and in the end his only confirmed kill is a mercy kill, and this mercy kill is a teenage girl who was taking down all these supposed trained killers with relative ease.
I think Luke’s death would have worked if it felt in any way inevitable. I remember watching it for the first time and thinking ‘Oh that’s neat, Luke made an illusion so that he could live’, and then he goes and dies immediately afterwards. Sure, it’s established that Rey would die if she projected herself across the galaxy, but Snoke can do it without breaking a sweat so it just makes Luke canonically no more powerful than Rey and weaker than Snoke, a guy who dies in one of the most embarrassing ways imaginable.
It’s basically my problem with Anakin Skywalker being a “Chosen One”.
We’re constantly told how special Anakin is and how strong he is in the Force but he never does anything out of the ordinary in terms of using the Force. He doesn’t stand out from any other Force wielder who came before.
After five years without a PC my new laptop arrived a couple of months ago. First thing I did was play Mass Effect Legendary Edition because way back then I only played ME1 and never got around to playing ME2 and ME3. It felt so satisfying to finally go through the rest of Commander Shepard’s journey on my own terms, customizing Shepard’s armor to my liking, romancing who I wanted to and making all the decisions I wanted to make after nearly fourteen years of anticipation and having nothing but YouTube videos to see how those decisions played out. Feels great to finally get that out of my system.
Man Of Steel. Beginning of the movie is good and the film is overall decent for a Superman movie. What gets old is the 40 minute long explosions and fight scenes. Maybe reduce that by half and make the tone a little more brighter and hopeful and you’d have a great Superman film. 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.
I know everyone acts like this movie somehow ruined Reeve Superman but to me it is overwhelmingly reverential of those films almost like an amped up remake of Superman 1 and 2. Except it is darker and Superman half self doubt, he is almost emo and brooding. And because it is Snyder everything has to be giant scale and epic even when it doesn’t really have to be, or super serious.
Man of Steel is IMO the least Snyder-y of Zack Snyder’s filmography.
