What films are you watching right now?

A must watch… reminiscent of a film-version of ILP on a bad day. The exchanges got rude and crude, but were oh so funny.

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15 2015 ‧ Crime/Action ‧ 2h 10m

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Despite having solid field training, CIA analyst Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) has spent her entire career as a desk jockey, working hand-in-hand with dashing agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law). Using high-tech equipment and a hidden earpiece, Susan is the guardian angel who helps Bradley avoid danger. However, when Bradley is assassinated by Bulgarian arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne), Susan wrangles her way into her first undercover assignment to help capture Boyanov and avenge Bradley.

Release date: 23 May 2015 (United Kingdom)
Director: Paul Feig
Featured song: Who Can You Trust
Box office: 235.7 million USD
Screenplay: Paul Feig

Parasite

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The Lighthouse


Both are outstanding, but excel in different ways. No spoilers, here. Parasite is about current times and is masterfully calculated and structured. The Lighthouse takes you to another time and which you’ll also probably need subtitles for. The Lighthouse is a more experiential and cinematically beautiful experience. If I had a critique of Parasite it would be that, while clearly skillfully composed, it is a bit too forced perhaps undermining its point. For The Lighthouse, it’s the opposite - I’m not sure that I totally get it - but it captures something so intriguing that it is the one I’m likely to watch multiple times.

you know interracial paring in the media is still a fairly new thing so it’s going to strike most of us as odd and some of us as unsettling. but i’ll tell you what. i just watched this movie, and the last thing on my mind was what color they were. and why was that? because what transpired between these two people was so extraordinary that all i was able to see was how human they were. perhaps that’s what it takes to imagine getting beyond the racial divide; extraordinary things that bring out the human spirit and make things like ‘race’ an insignificant triviality in light of them. problem is, real life is not made of such extraordinary things, and when they do occur, it’s always an exception. but the point remains and you only need to see it once, if even in a hollywood movie. there are circumstances that, if brought about, make people of any race equally human if and when some struggle demands it. and that’s why racism still exists today; because those folks haven’t been given an opportunity to experience extraordinary circumstances in which someone’s ‘race’ would be the least of their worries. life is too easy. that’s why the races are still fighting.

anyhow, this was a great movie and i’m gonna ruin it for you. so these two are on a plane over the mountains and the sonofabitch crashes in the middle of nowhere. now they gotta fight to survive. and what happens when two people fight to survive together? they fuckin bond, that’s what they do. they fuckin bond like no bonding you’ll ever do unless you go through the same shit. and when they get back to the world, that ‘everyday life’ they used to have don’t mean nothin no more. i mean you can’t just walk away from someone you almost died with, someone who saved your life, after saying ‘okay that was pretty intense. well, take care now, bye-bye then.’ no. that’s not how it works in extraordinary circumstances. you’re gonna hunker down with that person for the rest of your life, and what color you happen to be means fuck all.

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The Bad Batch

The best dystopian thriller I’ve seen in a minute. Being a Jim Carey fan I remember making a mental note to see it when it came out, after watching the trailer. But I totally forgot about it like six months ago. Just tonight I happened upon it at a Redbox rental… but I didn’t know it was that movie because Carey wasn’t on the cover picture. A few minutes into it I see Carey pushing the shopping cart through the desert and I’m like ‘holy shit that’s that movie I wanted to see!’ luck of the draw man.

I clicked on the link to the trailer, but it turned out not to be the trailer but the film, so I watched the film as dawn broke… with a power nap here and there in-between.

I saw the moral to this story straight away… stay away from god damn deserts, where communities that look like they belong in the circus reside, and the only good thing about deserts, are desert raves… only make sure you’ve got a ride home afterwards, or you’ll end up limbless where they’ll be thrown on an open grill to keep the circus-freak community on swole with free protein courtesy of your limbs.

Now why couldn’t they just keep chickens or goats or something. :confusion-scratchheadyellow:

Carey was totally unrecognisable to the end, and was that Keanu Reeves as the polygamistic multi-impregnating cult-leading Svengali? God truly was, their DJ.

Sort of. So those of the bad batch are society’s undesirables, and instead of being incarcerated, they get exiled beyond the border of Texas to a lawless wasteland. You got that much.

There’s two opposing groups in the movie. The rogue cannibals and the citizens of ‘Comfort’, who aren’t cannibals. They grow gardens and eat rabbits instead of each other. Comfort is protected and fortified by armed guards who keep the rogue cannibals out. Reeves, who’s obviously modeled off of the Jones cult guy from Jonestown, is the leader of Comfort… and they love him because he gives them plumbing and drugs. And Carey is a hermit not part of either group. So that’s the basic outline of the movie.

Their motto should be… cannibalise or be cannibalised. Maintaining those physiques obviously takes a lot of protein, huh.

I also got that Prom, but I didn’t like or care for either community… be a cannibal or be impregnated by Comfort’s Dream, where he really will comfort you… if you’re of child-bearing age and not averse to being part of a harem and brushing hair.

Comfort, is preferable, in the survival stakes, and the only moral choice out of the two… but, tbh, when she woke up in chains, I thought they were gonna have their way with her… I never saw that storyline coming. :open_mouth:

:-k whole lot of movie for so little story.

It didn’t pull its punches I suppose, and if you took the time to string its symbology together I guess you could pull out a few pearls of wisdom, but meh, an overall “if you are ostracised by genteel society you will, one way or the other, lose ownership of your body.”, is a 5 minute cautionary cartoon at best.

But lol, you’re looking at the man who thought ordering “Zombie Strippers” from amazon was a good idea, so what the hell do I know.

One thing that always bugs me about dystopian movies is the characters’ lack of affect. No-one ever carves a leg off someone who’s still alive and pleading with them, has a cook-out, then goes back to working on their pecs with their bruhs unless it’s either extremely ritualized or already deeply inculturated. Neither does someone lose an arm and a leg, then hop straight back on the normal-functional-human-being bus a couple of days later. Cognitive dissonance is a thing etc.

Jim Carey probably read the script, thought, “yeah, they can knock out all my scenes in a day or two” took the paycheck and gave it to orphans or whatever he does these days.

you guys gotta keep dystopian movies in their element and understand that one can only go so far in writing/directing them. The plotlines aren’t gonna be very elaborate.

I just watched two John Cusack movies back to back. Never again. Never again.

Just watched jojo rabbit. Very very good.

Watched ‘Platform’

Beckett , in a twisted Desade reformulation with a romantic air of regressed destructural hallucination ,
A rose is a rose is a rose, fallen petals.

In ‘Sausage Party’ the food is alive, it’s a-liive… perishables versus non-perishables.

Food with feelings… can food have feelings?

Shalako
1968 ‧ Action/Action/Adventure ‧
1h 53m

Initial release: 1968
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Screenplay: Hal Hopper
Box office: 1.31 million USD
Distributed by: Cinerama Releasing Corporation (USA), Anglo-Amalgamated (UK), Bavaria Film (W. Germany)

Watching: How To Train Your Dragon… I know, I know, I’m late to that movie party.

How to Train Your Dragon
PG 2010 ‧ Drama/Fantasy ‧ 1h 38m

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Hiccup, a Viking, must kill a dragon to mark his passage into manhood and be initiated into his tribe. However, he ends up doing the exact opposite by befriending a deadly Night Fury.

Release date: 31 March 2010 (United Kingdom)
Directors: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Produced by: Bonnie Arnold
Story by: Cressida Cowell
Music composed by: John Powell
Screenplay: Dean DeBlois, Adam F. Goldberg, Chris Sanders, William Davies
Production company: DreamWorks Animation
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Budget: $165 million
Box office: $494.9 million

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Freaks, surprisingly not bad.

Watched last night… I ain’t even seen Ride Along 1 yet… did the same thing with Guardians of The Galaxy, which didn’t spoil my viewing pleasure in the slightest.

Ride Along 2
12A 2016 ‧ Action/Comedy ‧ 1h 42m

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James takes Ben along to pull the plug on a drug racket involving an influential businessman, Antonio Pope. However, with Ben’s wedding day approaching, the two have little time to expose the crime.

Release date: 22 January 2016 (United Kingdom)
Director: Tim Story
Budget: 40 million USD
Box office: 124.6 million USD
Producers: Ice Cube, Will Packer, Matt Alvarez, Larry Brezner

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Have just watched Rambo, Last Blood. Poor old Rambo has become a very embittered old man, now. Hardly surprising the way he’s been treated, I suppose.

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The monster of Piedras Blancas.

A cult classic. Retroactivelly it is fun and a real riot. The sets are charming post WW 2 era , the acting charmingly filled with frozen bits, taking sudden fractured discontuinity for a ride, as if all emotion results from series of afterthoughts.

Some animated entertainment, on a mid-Covid19 May Saturday early-afternoon… I recall seeing this film before, but it was such a long time ago, that it was like I never had, but it’s always the ending that becomes familiar and gives it away that you did…

Frankenweenie
PG 2012 ‧ Animation/Horror ‧ 1h 27m

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Viktor invites trouble when he revives his dead pet dog Sparky after it is hit by a car. Now, Sparky looks like a monster and terrifies Viktor’s neighbours.

Release date: 17 October 2012 (United Kingdom)
Director: Tim Burton
Featured song: Strange Love
Budget: 39 million USD
Box office: 81.5 million USD