HBO max is the worst streaming service I will stand by that. Mostly because I love infinity train and the only way to watch it by
Yo-ho-hoing and sailing the seven seas.
I fear no man
but that thing:
The carrot minigame from bowser's inside story
it scares me
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Yes. I would say watch infinity train but you can’t because hbo max is dumb. But why watch a good show when Velma exists.
I’m done with being negative now. So Tennessee exists now laugh haha.
I fear no man
but that thing:
The carrot minigame from bowser's inside story
it scares me
As it's Valentine's thingy I was trying to think of a decent lovey dovey/xxx/relationship movie to watch tomorrow and inadvertently came up with my top movies for Vday list.
Truly Madly Deeply, it's like Ghost but British so therefore it’s a better film obviously. It’s probably my favourite performance from the late great Alan Rickman.
King Kong, it's a giant monkey fighting so he can be with his hot blonde girlfriend.
Three Thousand Years Of Solitude, if I ignore the wonky third act this is maybe my favourite film of last year. It basically boils down to two strangers, one a romantic and the other a shrew divorcee debating the idea of love.
Blue Is The Warmest Colour, forget it's much talked about love making scenes what sells the film to me more than anything else was that raw and honest bit where she was trying to get back together with her ex.
Paint Your Wagon, I saw it after coming across the film during the day on the telly thinking it's a 60s Westerner with Clint Eastwood in the mould of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly only to see it’s a musical about a polyamorous relationship and how the town judges them. Going into it expecting a completely different movie actually made it better since you have to ask yourself questions like what exactly is this oddly charming thrash film, why is The Man With No Name singing instead of blasting fools or why am I even still watching it?
Secretary, spanky spank.
High Fidelity, I'm not sure the London to Chicago translation works or that it's aged well but a guy over intellectualises his past break ups is fun to watch as he has to come up to the realisation that he was the ahole in them not her plus the soundtrack slaps. The show with Zoe Kravitz was decent too.
The Lobster, you will either love it or hate it but at least we can all agree on it’s bloody weird.
Gone Girl, then b’s be crazy. A story about the lengths a wife has to go to for the perfect happy marriage and how unappreciated it is by her lazy husband.
Amour, old fogeys are capable of love too! It's proper heart-breaking stuff however it’s French and French is the language of love.
Chasing Amy, I really liked the ending of this guy comes up with an idea that he's so confident in it will fix his insecurities with his relationship only for her to be utterly disgusted by it. The highlight for me is a moment when two of the characters are at a bar swapping stories about how they got various scars and injuries from their past relationships which made me go oh, that's happened to me too, I'm not alone.
The Audition, often remembered for its big final act but no one talks about how she was in the right. She was tricked with the audition (#metoo anyone) and all she asked for was to be loved which he couldn't do.
Well......it is certainly of it's time, if you are easily offended by Toxic Masculinity, Homophobia, Post traumatic stress syndrome, dont watch it.
But the story overall is just mental, a guy creates a mannequin, it comes to life (as its a re-incarnation of an Egyptian Princess), but only he can see her moving, until he saves her for an industrial wood chipper which is found in the back of a department store.
Well I think it was one of Kim Catrell (Samantha from Sex in the City) and James Spader (Ultron, Blacklist etc) first films
I know I am late to the party, but I just got done with Wakanda forever. I enjoyed my time with it overall. It has all of the worst parts of the MCU and just movies in general these days. It is way, way, too long and filled with ***** production values and action scenes that look like they were created by AI in post and inserted into the film at random, which add absolutely nothing to the wider film and could easily be removed. I also personally don’t like anti-vax weirdo Letitia Wright (along with claims of her also being both homophobic and transphobic) being rewarded with Shuri's arc in the film. But that isn't really something I can hold against the film itself, and Wright is in fact quite good in this film.
I just didn't really expect them to face Boseman's death head on like they do or treat the subject with the kind of maturity that they do. I also have said it before but at this point the MCU is basically too big to fail, and while it is cool when they use that fact to have a movie where three different Spider-Men team up to fight villains from old movies, I also think it is cool when they use that fact to explore a topic like grief through a series of unique, strong, female voices of colour. Even five years ago I'm not sure an MCU film like this could have existed, and I feel like the film is an achievement and celebration just for existing. The fact that it is also just generally a good time is almost a bonus.
While I wasn't a fan of every design choice it went with, this is still one of the most visually striking films I've ever seen. Also certainly never boring to watch, with a blatant edginess that is oftentimes unintentionally hilarious with how hard it goes. It'd most definitely be considered "problematic" in this day & age, but it's so over the top with it that it's fun.
Consisting of 4 (or really, 3) different independent storylines that occasionally cross paths, it has a structure that still feels pretty unique as well, though it has a full on credits roll after each one which kinda messes with the pacing (at least the extended version does this, it's been awhile since I've seen the theatrical cut).
InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time (Blu-Ray)
Pretty much just a longer, generally better animated, episode of the TV series. Now, that's not inherently a bad thing, but there's really no reason to watch it (& probably the other movies) if you aren't already a fan of the show.
I do wish I could have given it a higher score though. Not that a 3/5 is bad or anything, but InuYasha was THE anime for me in middle/high school (and I'm currently going through the show again & still love & connect with it), & while I liked the movie, I wasn't in love with it. Maybe it's because I used to watch all the movies annually & there's a bit of burnout, maybe I just wasn't in the right mood, who knows.
FYI, I mention a score because I just copied over my Letterboxed review, & the only (modern) trailer I could find is for the 4 in 1 Blu-Ray release, so I'll probably re-embed it for every single one of these when I get around to the others, lol.
@RR529 Sin City was a great film, my favourite saying is "Modern Cars now a days just look like Electric Shavers" also Elijah Wood as weird clawed attacker with glasses. @Rambler But they still made a second film (which was no way as good)
I liked Sin City as it looked amazing and loved the pulp noir feel but it is pretty juvenile though which I can't decide actually works for or against it.
@Bunkerneath Well yeah but problematic movies are still being made today and always will be. Progressive is a work in progress or something witty like that.
The first two that comes to my mind recently is Blonde, an intentionally eww take on Marilyn Monroe that feels more like exploitation than a film about exploitation (it's very much one of those films based on a true story that you look up afterwards to see how wildly wrong they got everything) with one highlight being her unborn CGI fetus telling her off for having an abortion, they could at least be subtle with it like Juno which everyone seemed to like. The other is Death On The Nile which features a cast made up of so many problematic actors it's just missing Gina Carano and Kevin Sorbo to complete the full set.
watching a couple of movies on Netflix this weekend
Astro Boy
Missing Link
then on Tubi, i might watch a documentary called Direct to Video Straight to Video. Not entirely sure but I think i watched some of that before like last year
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