Movie Thread

[Guest]

Videodrome was always a fav of mine.


I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

[Complicity]

Videodrome was always a fav of mine.


I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

I wonder if JewRapio believed he was going to "get into New(prepubescent)Flesh".
Too bad my favourite Scanners has a bad ending, with Darryl killed by his faggot brother without the creation of the Superior, Properly Evolved Future(tm).

[Guest]

This is the gayest thing I've ever seen.

[TheManWithNoPlan]

That’s a fucking hot take you got there.

[veris leta facies]

1917 (2019)

If you are going to watch this, I suggest not reading anything about it. I know I most likely wouldn't end up liking this as much as I did if I'd known the plot. All I knew about this was that it's some message delivery mission movie set in the WW1, directed by Mendes and it won some oscars. Some of these arouse positive, some negative expectations towards the film.

Mendes definitely isn't an action movie director, his two Bond films proved this. He has an eye for cinematography and the skill to produce visually amazing shots, but if the script of the movie is lacking, he is unable to do anything about it. Skyfall was visually impressive, but the end of the movie was complete mess because of the shitty script. Spectre was occasionally cinematographically savvy, but plotwise pure nonsense from start to finish. The Academy Awards were maybe some kind of guarantee of some kind of quality something like 15 years ago, but today award wins are mostly a sign of the film adhering Hollywood’s exact dogmas of political correctness. 2019 oscar-winning war movie directed by Sam Mendes, does this have any chance of being even tolerable?

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Actually, it was. As expected, the film was real treat for eyes. The amount of effort they went through to create an authentic WW1 battlefield was impressive. Continuous camera work with minimal cuts made the movie immersive and I really did dig how they made suspension with the soundtrack. The movie on blu-ray looked and sounded phenomenal in my home theater. It seems that for once those Academy communist cocksucers were right in rewarding this with best cinematography and best sound mixing. During the first half of the film I was quite surprised; is this really going to be some kind of masterpiece? Well, of course not. Here comes the second half with its pacing problems and script-stupidities.

Although the movie was an audiovisual masterpiece through its duration and sometimes ascended to nearly surreal level in a sense of Come and See, I just couldn't overlook how the movie completely stops for almost 10 minutes straight when the protagonist finds a woman with a baby in the ruins. The movie was slow-paced enough, it really didn't need such idling phase. They got nothing interesting out of that language barrier thing, it all felt like the drawn out scene was there just to insert some quota-womyn in the film. The final 30 minutes also sank into familiar Mendes-nonsense. Sometimes he just doesn't know when to stop and scenes will drag on to their own detriment. The protagonist runs through firey streets and enemy gunfire ad nauseam till he drips into the water to be taken away by a river's current and Blam, now he found the battalion he was looking for like that, like they were only about a mile away from the hellish war zone, here they are sitting under trees and listening sombody singing calmly.

Mendes, Mendes never changes, but at least this was true feast for eyes and ears and overall I was pleasantly surprised as I was really expecting something much worse. The movie should be viewed on the largest possible screen with proper surround sound system. Otherwise there's no point. 7/10

[Sieg Zeon]

I like Scanners, never got around to seeing the sequels, about time I do.

[CuckTurdginson]

Scanners has sequels?

[Kugelfisch]

I didn't know that either.

[Complicity]

There are 4 of them, all b movies not made by Cronenberg.
Scanner Cop was pretty fun, kinda like I Come in Peace.

[Guest]

I always confuse Scanners with Screamers.