Lord_nikon
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was preatty good to me
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Pretty good. Think Zombieland with monsters.
I have been watching Love after Lockup with my girl. Season 2 is the longest and it is fukkery at its finest.
I am trying to type the story lines here but why bother, if you want to see true fukkery watch this show.
I am trying to type the story lines here but why bother, if you want to see true fukkery watch this show.
Opening Act was pretty good.
this episode of TNG
TheNatureBoy
Veteran
Some solid action, particularly the climax of the film. Story/concept was the same thing in a slightly different coating.
I'm fine with the franchise being done.
and meek was surprisingly good
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
Saw a bunch of these a while ago but forgot to post about them.
I thought the hate against this film was just folks mad that Dev Patel plays a Charles dikkens character. Turns out the entire film features color-blind casting so besides Patel you also get other characters played by black and Asian people in all kinds of family relationships. It does feel a bit weird to see a fully dark skinned black mother play the mother of a posh white dude but I didn't mind it. The first half of the film is a bit disjointed as all the separate players get introduced in what feels like segmented scenes, but everything falls nicely into place in the second half where all the characters come together. It's a joyous and fun affair.
A film that starts out alright but just becomes plain mediocre. Interesting premise where a teenage girl with cancer meets an older boy who is a free-loading junkie. She's attracted to his freedom and it offers a nice pace from her dysfunctional parents. Too bad it falls into a poor drama trap with undercooked characters and not being nearly as clever or honest as the makers clearly think it is.
Okay-ish drama that relies strongly on the powerhouse performances by Jude Law and Carrie c00n. He's a stock broker who left Britain to try his luck in America, but after recent financial troubles moves back with his American wife and their two children. He rents a large mansion she's not sure they can afford, but his insistence to keep up appearances and live a richer lifestyle than they can afford starts to tear into the family relationship. It's from the writer/director of Martha Marcy May Marlene and if you have seen that you'll know what you get. A close-up slow-burner of things falling apart, with no big dramatic conclusion, because they don't happen in real life. Mostly serves as evidence #34 that Jude Law is on a strong tear.
Some films just give you the idea that really anyone can write a screenplay. This is such a film. A story that feels like a writer got paid to turn a logline into a plot synopsis and after it got greenlit and was given half a day to turn it into a script. It's a film that plays out in the most general fashion. There's a bankrobber (Neeson) who talks very broadly about how he robs banks, even when he gets into "specifics". There are FBI agents who go about their investigation without coming close to anything you could mistake for actual procedures. They're FBI so they're cops and cops talk to people and occasionally take close looks at objects to get to the bottom of things. At 90 minutes you can't help but feel like 45 minutes of the film is just plot filler. In the 80s they could've probably made a classic tv-show out of this synopsis. Instead it's 2020 and it's Liam Neeson saying yes to any Taken-style film his agent offers him.
I thought the hate against this film was just folks mad that Dev Patel plays a Charles dikkens character. Turns out the entire film features color-blind casting so besides Patel you also get other characters played by black and Asian people in all kinds of family relationships. It does feel a bit weird to see a fully dark skinned black mother play the mother of a posh white dude but I didn't mind it. The first half of the film is a bit disjointed as all the separate players get introduced in what feels like segmented scenes, but everything falls nicely into place in the second half where all the characters come together. It's a joyous and fun affair.
A film that starts out alright but just becomes plain mediocre. Interesting premise where a teenage girl with cancer meets an older boy who is a free-loading junkie. She's attracted to his freedom and it offers a nice pace from her dysfunctional parents. Too bad it falls into a poor drama trap with undercooked characters and not being nearly as clever or honest as the makers clearly think it is.
Okay-ish drama that relies strongly on the powerhouse performances by Jude Law and Carrie c00n. He's a stock broker who left Britain to try his luck in America, but after recent financial troubles moves back with his American wife and their two children. He rents a large mansion she's not sure they can afford, but his insistence to keep up appearances and live a richer lifestyle than they can afford starts to tear into the family relationship. It's from the writer/director of Martha Marcy May Marlene and if you have seen that you'll know what you get. A close-up slow-burner of things falling apart, with no big dramatic conclusion, because they don't happen in real life. Mostly serves as evidence #34 that Jude Law is on a strong tear.
Some films just give you the idea that really anyone can write a screenplay. This is such a film. A story that feels like a writer got paid to turn a logline into a plot synopsis and after it got greenlit and was given half a day to turn it into a script. It's a film that plays out in the most general fashion. There's a bankrobber (Neeson) who talks very broadly about how he robs banks, even when he gets into "specifics". There are FBI agents who go about their investigation without coming close to anything you could mistake for actual procedures. They're FBI so they're cops and cops talk to people and occasionally take close looks at objects to get to the bottom of things. At 90 minutes you can't help but feel like 45 minutes of the film is just plot filler. In the 80s they could've probably made a classic tv-show out of this synopsis. Instead it's 2020 and it's Liam Neeson saying yes to any Taken-style film his agent offers him.
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
This one needed a post of it's own because it's
It's based on a novel I originally believed was considered controversial because of the content but apparently also because the writer falsely claimed it was autobiographical before its release and rumors of plagiarism. Regardless, it is also controversial because of its content which involves a young Jewish boy wandering through Eastern europe during WWII and encountering every possible form of malevolence, deviance, violence and depravity as he is abused by nearly everyone he encounters, also in every possible form. At a running time of over two and a half hours it's a brutal visual of the inhumanity of WWII far beyond what just the Nazis did. Shot in stark black & white this could almost be mistaken for a forgotten classic from the 60s if it weren't for the fact that occasionally some familiar faces pop up. And sure, while seeing Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgard in an European production makes sense the appearances of Harvey Keitel and Barry Pepper took me a bit out of the film. Still, the film is intense and brutal and plain brilliant in its nihilism. Masterpiece.
This one needed a post of it's own because it's
It's based on a novel I originally believed was considered controversial because of the content but apparently also because the writer falsely claimed it was autobiographical before its release and rumors of plagiarism. Regardless, it is also controversial because of its content which involves a young Jewish boy wandering through Eastern europe during WWII and encountering every possible form of malevolence, deviance, violence and depravity as he is abused by nearly everyone he encounters, also in every possible form. At a running time of over two and a half hours it's a brutal visual of the inhumanity of WWII far beyond what just the Nazis did. Shot in stark black & white this could almost be mistaken for a forgotten classic from the 60s if it weren't for the fact that occasionally some familiar faces pop up. And sure, while seeing Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgard in an European production makes sense the appearances of Harvey Keitel and Barry Pepper took me a bit out of the film. Still, the film is intense and brutal and plain brilliant in its nihilism. Masterpiece.
