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Mioaionios

I tried watching 'Crimes of the Future' yesterday. Emphasis on "tried".
I believe I got 30 minutes in before I turned it off. 🤮

Went to Disney+ and saw 'Up' instead. I needed that palate cleanser, lol.

Mioaionios

Gryffin

@RR529 I'd that the climactic Godzilla fight was the weakest scene in the movie. That's almost always the case, somehow. These movies try to go big or go home with $100 million action finales, and more often than not they just go home.

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Anti-Matter wrote:

Not Disney movies but Dora the explorer live action movie was really bad and cringey.
I put a facepalm when Dora started to sing toilet song and digging a hole for poo. 🤦‍♂️

I freaking loved Dora the Explorer. So fun.

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Mioaionios

@Gryffin
I noticed you write reviews on Letterboxd. I've often thought about doing the same but I'm not sure its community is friendly enough. Seems to me the reviews that often get the most attention are only 1 or 2 sentences long. And the reactions I've read on some reviews aren't always the most pleasant.
How has your experience on Letterboxd been?

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Gryffin

@Tremblucay fair question. I'd also read that in the occasional review that Letterboxd is toxic, etc. That's not my experience, but part of that is how I choose to engage with the site. Using social media healthily is honestly a skill. I've been using the internet since like 1999, so I've had lots of time to understand internet culture and the dangers of social media engagement. I don't use the site in a way that causes grief, for me or others. I follow people who respect, we always have cordial exchanges in the comments. The top rated reviews tend to be short, but that's ok because they're a quick read and almost always a really solid joke. I also don't see Letterboxd as traditional social media. It doesn't really reward toxic behavior and dog piling to the degree that Twitter and Reddit do. You can also set comments to be "friends only" to avoid flame wars. The general rules of internet use haven't changed much since the heyday of forums and irc chat. Don't feed the trolls. Speak with people who are respectful and ignore those who aren't. What the new generation of internet users don't realize is that you're words or arguments or opinion aren't going to change anyone. Conversing hostilely is throwing your energy into an emotional black hole. Everybody loses. The internet is a better place when people approach it as live and let live. My favorite socal media site, if you can call it that, is YouTube. I know there are dark corners of the site too, but I watch the channels I like, and the other people who watch those channels do so because they like them too. So the YouTube comments I read are always either praise, or informative, or inside jokes. Approach Letterboxd with a mindset of curiosity, discovery, and appreciation. Don't try to become famous by being inflammatory, don't judge others for their opinion or experience, and don't become defensive if you're attacked. I've learned so much from Letterboxd and have discovered my favorite movies of all time (so far), and I've had illuminating conversations with other users that were arrived upon through goodwill, like the user who made an excellent comment on my Attack of the Clones review last week. If you like finding new movies and talking about movies cordially, I really do recommend it.

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Mioaionios

@Gryffin
Thanks for the reply. I'm not exactly a newbie on the internet, but I'm always careful of social media channels. I'm not the most stable person as I suffer from depressions and anxieties quite often and get easily triggered.

You're absolutely correct in not getting into arguments online. Disagreement is fine but once they start scolding or swearing, I quickly delete those comments and/or block those users.
By the way, I try to always be civil myself. I will defend my position if necessary but I'll never resort to namecalling. Movies, just like video games, are entirely subjective anyway, but sadly some people don't seem to understand that.

I feel very safe here on Nintendo Life, I love this community, but a big reason for that is it's relatively small. Letterboxd is a much bigger place and I am not sure I'd be able to feel comfortable there. I'm going to think about it some more.

Thanks!

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Mioaionios

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@gcunit I’m of course I’m not joking, Adam Sandler is no laughing matter!

@Gryffin I was pleasantly surprised by Dora too. On paper it sounds like a garbage family film but the girl playing Dora gave an earnest wide performance that kept you from hating it.

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RR529

Just got back from watching Lightyear in 3D.

I actually enjoyed myself. I could maybe see this as a bit boring for really young kids (in fact the family seated in front of us left during the climax as their kids started getting restless & jumping around on the seats), as it's more of a played straight action sci-fi film that happens to be family friendly (with some humor), rather than a kid's sci-fi film. If you like deep space sci-fi (like I do) it's definitely worth a watch.

However, there was probably no reason to make this a "Buzz Lightyear" movie (it practically has no ties to Toy Story, other than an opening blurb mentioning this as Andy's favorite movie of 1995, and one or two catch phrases), they don't even bother to make it feel retro (in a 90's sense) in any capacity, and it's a modern film through & through. So yeah, if you're wanting to watch this as a Toy Story fan, that's probably not the right mindset to go in with (and probably why the film isn't playing well).

As for the 3D experience I thought it was fantastic. Maybe not quite as trippy as Multiverse of Madness, but the effect was used strongly throughout, and was certainly a better 3D experience than Jurassic World Dominion.

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Kermit1doesmath

I re-watched Footloose (1984) It's still the greatest film ever made, with acting and dancing like no other film and a 10/10 soundtrack.

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HotGoomba

@RR529 I thought Lightyear was ok. I really liked Socks, the robot cat. I thought that the female captain Buzz was friends with was pretty cool. That's about it, I didn't click with most of the characters, but most of them were bareable.

Minor spoilers underneath

But man, I HATED the Rookies. They were just not a fun trio. All together, they were not interesting, but separately, things are a bit different. The gay captain's granddaughter was fine, but she had this dumb thing where she was afraid of space. I thought that was dumb, and her getting sappy over not living up to her grandma could've been better executed. But the pen guy, I just didn't think he was funny. If the pen was a running gag and actually saved them out of nowhere, I think that would've been funnier than what they actually did with the pen guy. And that old criminal, she's not bad, but she should've been a murderer. I don't know why.

MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW

But the villain, oh god the villain. He was AWFUL. I hated him. At least the alternative Socks was kinda cool. For the two minutes he was alive.

Of course, this movie was completely unnecessary, but whatever, it's been said before.

Didn't see it in 3D since I don't usually watch films in 3D, but I can see this movie working well in 3D.

But yeah, this isn't Turning Red, so heck this movie, 0/10.

Ok fine it's like a 6/10.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAy there.

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@HotGoomba
MAJOR SPOILER
So if Buzz is evil Buzz from the past how did past Buzz stay in the past so he could then go to the future and also why use a device that will age people and not the driver even if he wears a special suit. If there are 2 Buzz's and time travel is in play, could more Buzz's be out there, like if everytime he time travelled he created a time clone that would be neat. But alias this film is a Disney film and you know what people say about them

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RR529

@Kermit1

1. In the original timeline, Evil Buzz kept jumping into the future (like our Buzz was doing) until tech was advanced enough to go back in time. He arrived at a point in time one week before our Buzz's recent jump (this is as far back as he could go with the amount of fuel he had), and thus changed events so current Buzz didn't keep jumping forward to become him.

2. It wasn't the use of a special device that caused him not to age while everyone else did. That is actually how current science believes near light speed travel works. The faster you move the faster in time you move. IIRC, they've done experiments where it's shown that after awhile someone who spends time in space for a year or so is technically a whole second or two "younger" than people back on Earth do to the extra speed they've travelled.

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Rambler

RR529 wrote:

2. It wasn't the use of a special device that caused him not to age while everyone else did. That is actually how current science believes near light speed travel works. The faster you move the faster in time you move. IIRC, they've done experiments where it's shown that after awhile someone who spends time in space for a year or so is technically a whole second or two "younger" than people back on Earth do to the extra speed they've travelled.[/spoiler]

That's just relativity. You can test it on earth with a two highly precise clocks - one at sea level and one at the top of, say, Everest.

They will end up being different by fractions of a second due to relativity. Time will pass quicker at the top of the mountain, due to the weaker effect of gravity.

One astronaut jokingly asked for overtime of about 1/1000 hour as they had aged that much more than everyone else.

Edit - for being younger, and therefore being in the future, that is due to relativity as well, but involves being just below the speed of light (which is currently impossible).
You travel somewhere at just below the speed of light and then travel back to earth. Relative to yourself, you have aged normally, but relative to everyone else, they have aged considerably.

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Mioaionios

Finally saw Men yesterday.
It's an interesting movie with gorgeous cinematography, a haunting score and great acting. The tension was palpable throughout most of the movie, which isn't easy to accomplish.
Unfortunately Alex Garland wasn't able to stick the landing with this one. The third act became so ridiculous that the movie lost all its meaning. 5/10

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Fizza

Finally watched Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness now that it's out on Disney+.

Words can't even begin to describe this one. I'll try to sum it up as best as I can:

* The cameos/reveals were brilliant. Mr. Fantastic, Peggy Carter, Professor bloody X, were absolutely incredible. The way they were brutally murdered was also..... something I'll tell you what but I'll talk more about that later.

* I loved America Chavez. She definitely screamed 'Plot Device: The Character' but her development throughout the film was fantastic (if admittedly somewhat predictable).

* As someone who was gripped the entire time through Wandavision when it was first rolling out on Disney+, seeing closure for that series was nice as well (especially that ending scene with the kids just ooh, that one hit me right in the heartstrings).

* At first I was surprised to see a Marvel movie with a 14+ rating, especially one that seemed so integral to the plot of forthcoming films. By the end however, I was shocked with how it wasn't higher. It is absolutely Marvel's horror movie and you can't convince me otherwise. Witches, extremely violent deaths (poor Black Bolt and Mr. Fantastic good lord), Cthulu creatures, the whole shebang. For christ sake there's a ******* ZOMBIE that rises from a grave that is haunted by the 'spirits of the damned' and then uses them Morbius-style to fly up to a temple guarded by both demons and an eldritch witch. HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH THIS STUFF.

In short: 8/10, prefer the first one, I need to go detox with a more down-to-earth Marvel movie like the Iron Man trilogy because dear god there is too much to digest with this one.

Oh, and the end credits scene was extremely meh.

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