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RR529

Watched Eternals this morning.

Certainly very visually accomplished and the fight scenes could definitely be kinetic, but it felt a little slow & bloated (and I don't think any of them really stood out in terms of personality other than Kingo).

I feel like if you're the kind of person to really like the first two Thor movies, you'd probably like this. More of an epic/drama feel without much of the trademark MCU humor/quips (though there is some).

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@Gryffin I remember thinking Antiporno was a tad too on the nose whilst I watched it, maybe that was just me though as arthouse lovers seemed to like it. It's definitely not a good porno so huzzah, it's a great antiporno!

@RR529 I know some of the people who worked on Eternals, it was nice see my mates names in the credits. Although the highlight of Eternals for me was coming out of the cinema and debating with my missus about who was hotter Selma Hayek or Angelina Jolie. I fully back Selma Hayek!!!

Not directed at any one in particular but I'm so bored of talking about Marvel movies and shows now, even though I'm still watching everything the week of release and I'm excited to see those obscure funny book stories I read on the big screen. Maybe it’s because I’m too much of a gatekeeper or I don't take it as seriously as others but there are other movies/shows that I found more interesting when dissecting them. Either that or listening to folk complain about how Disney have made everything woke, they are real Spider Man fan as they read the bullet points of the Clone Saga on wiki or hardcore fans complaining it’s not close enough to the source material ALL THE TIME has just become tiresome.

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@Gryffin - I love Woman in the Dunes (and Solaris to a lesser extent), so will check out the others on your list.
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@jump @RR529

Wow! I can't believe I found someone who has actually seen Antiporno. I totally get your point about its being blunt. I just rewatched Tag this weekend and still love it. I'm going to rewatch Antiporno soon.

I'm also fairly burnt out on Marvel, or at least the discourse. What's funny is that I think Disney is sticking TOO closely to the comics. Take the Skrull, for example. As comic book drawings, they work. As live-action film characters, they're ugly as sin. Really, they look horrible, and I have nothing but pity for the poor souls who need to sit in make-up for four hours. I'd bet that comic readers are a minority of MCU fans at this point, so I think they should start leaving them behind, honestly (and I'm a comic reader myself). Just make choices that are better for film and for the universe your presenting as film. Not everything needs to match up 1:1 to the comics now. In fact, I think it's detrimental.

Here's my Eternals review
https://letterboxd.com/gryffin/film/eternals/

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Hey thanks for the recommendation! I've never heard of it. It's streaming on Criterion, apparently. I've been meaning to queue up a few movies I want to see from there, actually, so this is a good opportunity to subscribe for a month. I'm super interested to hear your thoughts about the other movies on my list, if you get a chance to see them. Definitely @ me. I write little reviews of some movies lately, including some of these: https://letterboxd.com/Gryffin/films/reviews/

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jump

@Gryffin the annoying thing is the one Marvel show I really want to talk about is Legion but nobody has seen it. There’s so many ideas running about in the show I want/need to talk them out. It’s just fudging amazing which isn’t surprising as the show runner was the guy that did the Fargo series plus he is a big comic fan so he got the character. It recently got added to Disney+ so I’ve just finished watching the entire series for the second time.

For all of the complaints about Marvel them sticking close to the source material seems to work. Plus something that has always annoyed me is when in a movie they change something so in the comics it has to be changed too like Spider Man’s organic shooters or Magneto is no longer Wanda and Quicksilver’s Dad.

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I've been doing something since the start of the year that I think anyone who regularly watches movies should do: a word document with every movie I've seen this year. I already have most Spider-Man movies, Zootropolis and most recently Shazam on mine and I think it's just a great idea to be able to look back on it at the end of the year and see which one was you favourite (spoilers: it's probably either going to be No Way Home or Shazam, watched the latter there for the second time recently, even better than the first).

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RR529

Rookie of the Year - More of a kid centric Baseball film that sees 12 year old Henry able to pitch at the professional level after recovering from a broken arm, and his talents may just be the answer to the Cubs ailing season.

It's ultimately just fluff & a bit uneven (for example his mom's boyfriend seems like a nice enough guy at the start, then they seemingly forget about him for a large chunk of the movie so the mom can form a romance with one of the Cubs players, only to randomly drop him back in again later as a mustache twirling villain conspiring to end the mom's budding romance & trading the kid off to another team for a big payout for himself without much of a buildup between the two), but hey, I like going back and watching these old 90's movies I missed as a kid, and it makes a nice change of pace from all the meticulously produced modern blockbusters.

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Fizza

Just watched Shaun of the Dead for around about the 4th time now.
Watch it.
Then watch it again.
Then watch it again.
Enough said.

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Disney's Jungle Cruise. I thought the first half was very fun. Second half isn't as strong as the first, but it's still a good watch.

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@WoomyNNYes I watched Jungle Cruise when it came out in cinemas last August and thought it was pretty good. It felt very unlike a Disney movie (especially with a goddamn jumpscare, are you kidding me?),which is great, except for the ending which was the most Disney thing I've ever seen. It wasn't even a bad ending, it was just kind of painfully Disney, you know?

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To me a Disney movie isn’t really a Disney-ish unless there’s dead parents, either by killing them on screen like The Lion King and Bambi to traumatise them or having them be always dead to make their back story tragic.

Disney isn’t bubblegum pop, it’s emo pop punk ;p

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@jump I'm kind of relating it to a lot of more modern Disney movies you know? Where everything ends up cheery for the main band of heroes and as for the villains.... well, if you know you know .

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@Fizza So any movie with a happy ending is a Disney movie? ;p

In any case it was not directly aimed you. I was just making a point there's dead parent's everywhere in Disney. Frozen, Finding Nemo, The Lion King etc and even the Disney tween shows like iCarly have no parents. It's propaganda from Disney to let the kids know parent's don't matter as Disney themselves are you real parents, even the films with living parents like Mary Poppins subverts the parent dynamic by telling you it’s actually the parents that are wronguns and they are the ones that need fixin’.

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Gryffin

@Fizza Are you familiar with Letterboxd? It has a diary feature where you can track every movie you've seen. Definitely recommended.

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@Gryffin I am, but I would personally prefer to keep it in my own personal document. It's good though, no qualms about it!

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Fizza

@jump I understand that, it's just that with a lot of Disney movies nowadays, it's not really about physical loss like it was back in the older movies, it's a lot more about mental problems like self-doubt, anxiety, prejudice, depression, that kind of stuff and by the end a few of those movies, almost all of those problems go away and it sometimes feels as though they never existed to begin with, making the previous hour and a half (give or take) feel pointless.
This is only a problem with a handful of Disney films though and the modern ones that take these problems and present them in a captivating and engaging way usually end up being some of my favourite movies of all time.
For example, I recently rewatched Zootropolis, a movie that I feel falls into the previously mentioned camp, and it is one of the best movies I have ever seen in the way it presents its message, themes and world.
This is all subjective of course and I understand your viewpoint of me kind of generalising all Disney films into 'Everyone is happy. The End' but that's just the way I feel about things personally .

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@Fizza One of the reasons I love Up and Inside Out so much, heavy emotional dealings.

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I went to the cinema to see Nightmare Ally. Good flick but it comes in two halves of one of a noir thriller which was okay and plays out as expected (which isn’t a complaint as it was telegraphed beforehand) and the other half of watching the backstory/rise which was the best part of seeing some cool circus visuals and learning of their grifting ways. Still as a Guillermo del Toro film I was expecting some kind of monster to pop up the last second.

Also I spotted the ending within the first 30 mins. It makes me wonder if folk are too condition to movies now as people have seen how structure works from watching hundreds of films so you can see it coming? So it's either have a plot twist coming you can see miles away or put in a stupid plot twist which you reject for not tracking it's logically like M. Night's entire career.

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RR529

the Good Dinosaur - I don't think it'll go down as anything particularly memorable, but it decent enough time with a few chuckles & cute moments, and the almost photorealistic environmental shots were absolutely gorgeous.

Blank Check - It's not realistic in the slightest, but I think if you were a kid in or around the 90's I think there's some fun to be had in the way it absolutely indulges in all the materialistic fantasies a kid of the era would have. While I wouldn't go as far to say I found it offensive, I will say the "romantic" subplot simply doesn't make much sense (I can't imagine the intended audience would care about it in the slightest), and his obsession with it would have made more sense if he was his older brothers' age (lamenting that he's only a couple sweet years away from adulthood & all that). I think it's also somewhat compounded by the fact that while he's supposed to be 12(?) he could easily pass as under 10.

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Took a break from Elden Ring to watch Last Night in Soho and I was pretty disappointed. While it has promise and some bright spots, I was frustrated after the halfway point. I don't know if Edgar Wright's style is a good match for a serious horror/thriller. I swear the timing in some scenes felt comedic. And there were a lot of clichés that bothered me (oh no mean girls, how many people are going to almost get hit/get hit by cars? For real she's in a library using a microfiche?).

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