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Hard Truths - all the usual strengths of a Leigh film but felt a little slight compared to Secrets & Lies, which it reminded me of.

The cemetery scene lacked the meat to really justify the pivot even though MJB sold is as well as anyone could.

“What’s a baby need pockets for” got a big laugh out of me.
 
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The movie is basically an hour or so of quite tedious set-up and exposition, and then two extended action sequences, one on a submarine and the other involving biplanes, which, to be fair, are very well-executed. The way the action keeps cutting between four different things at the end, all of which reach their climax simulatenously, is an absolute masterclass in editing.

Overall, It’s ok I guess, I just preferred the M:I movies when they were more about clever heists than Tom Cruise doing huge crazy stunts. I favourite of the franchise is Ghost Protocol, which had two heists - the Kremlin and the Burj Khalifa.

And I’m still bitter about them killing off Ilsa, my favourite character, in the last one. Hayley Atwell does reasonably ok as her replacement, but I feel it would have been a better movie if Rebecca Ferguson had still been there at the end.

In a movie about a rogue AI threatening nuclear armageddon that’s full of silly coincidences and rather on-the-nose callbacks to previous movies, by far the most unbelievable thing is that America would elect a black woman as president.
 
Fear Street: Prom Queen

It's been a while since I've seen them, but I remember the original trilogy being decent. This is awful. Bland, generic, and predictable from start to finish.
 
SmashedHombre said:
Fear Street: Prom Queen

It's been a while since I've seen them, but I remember the original trilogy being decent. This is awful. Bland, generic, and predictable from start to finish.
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I had to watch the other 3 Fear Streets for a project, and they ranged from bad to really shit. The best of the 3 was the one set in the far past. Sounds like the new one is right on brand.
 
A Real Pain (2024).
Mark Zuckerberg and Roman Roy are in this as cousins who visit Poland to see where their grandmother lived before fleeing the Nazis.

Essentially it's neurotic Zuck and motor-mouthed Roy riffing for 90 minutes, with a tour group of 4 people as living props. Apparently this Oscar-winning performance by Roman Roy was supposed to be... something. I don't know what. He's annoying as feck. Like, you can't really imagine a world where he doesn't get punched in the face everyday, but in this film he ends up winning people over through brute force.

On a technical level, Roman Roy is a shitty actor. You might enjoy his shtick, but if you start noticing how every scene contains multiple continuity errors because he can't decide if he should talk with his hands in his pockets, or his hands waving around like sick birds, or one in and one out, then it gets super distracting.

Meaningless film, unless one did not know about Nazi death camps in Poland.
3/10
 
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Crazy Stupid Love (2011). A re-watch.
I really like Emma Stone in this movie. She and Ryan Gosling make a good couple, they have good on-screen chemistry. I used to think it was one of the few rom-coms that weren't braindead. In the intervening years, however, this movie has tarnished. There are some truly cringe moments in it. The dissolution of a 25-year marriage between Steve Carrell and Julianne Moore has some moments that are relatable to (probably) most married couples. It has an almost European ending to it, which is a nice change of pace, but overall I am seeing the flaws now where I didn't see them before. Ryan Gosling with his shirt off though, hubba hubba.
5/10

How many times is a movie meant to be seen? The classics, I feel, can be seen every few years and you still get almost the same satisfaction out of them. Alien, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, The Shining, The French Connection, Wages Of Fear, The Battle Of Algiers, Bicycle Thieves, The Conformist, The Godfather -- these movies never ever diminish in quality. Were they made for repeated viewings? I doubt it. Even movies I thought were excellent, like Past Lives, Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Everything Everywhere All At Once, -- I just don't feel like seeing them again.

Most movies are almost like a magic trick, where you are amazed by something and then it's over, but if you go see that exact same magic trick again -- or worse, you learn how the trick was done -- then the whole thing falls apart. The only movies I've seen in probably the last decade that I would ever want to watch a second time are little puzzle-box films that have inner mousetrap mechanisms that I find clever (Arq, Synchronicity, In the Shadow Of the Moon, Time Crimes, Time Trap) typically involving some kind of time looping device that makes you essentially rewatch the same film multiple times in the same viewing.

Has the world changed or have I changed?
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
A Real Pain (2024).
Mark Zuckerberg and Roman Roy are in this as cousins who visit Poland to see where their grandmother lived before fleeing the Nazis. Essentially it's neurotic Zuck and motor-mouthed Roy riffing for 90 minutes, with a tour group of 4 people as living props. Apparently this Oscar-winning performance by Roman Roy was supposed to be... something. I don't know what. He's annoying as feck. Like, you can't really imagine a world where he doesn't get punched in the face everyday, but in this film he ends up winning people over through brute force. On a technical level, Roman Roy is a shitty actor. You might enjoy his shtick, but if you start noticing how every scene contains multiple continuity errors because he can't decide if he should talk with his hands in his pockets, or his hands waving around like sick birds, or one in and one out, then it gets super distracting.

Meaningless film, unless one did not know about Nazi death camps in Poland.
3/10
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Wing Attack Plan R said:
Crazy Stupid Love (2011). A re-watch.
I really like Emma Stone in this movie. She and Ryan Gosling make a good couple, they have good on-screen chemistry. I used to think it was one of the few rom-coms that weren't braindead. In the intervening years, however, this movie has tarnished. There are some truly cringe moments in it. The dissolution of a 25-year marriage between Steve Carrell and Julianne Moore has some moments that are relatable to (probably) most married couples. It has an almost European ending to it, which is a nice change of pace, but overall I am seeing the flaws now where I didn't see them before. Ryan Gosling with his shirt off though, hubba hubba.
5/10

How many times is a movie meant to be seen? The classics, I feel, can be seen every few years and you still get almost the same satisfaction out of them. Alien, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, The Shining, The French Connection, Wages Of Fear, The Battle Of Algiers, Bicycle Thieves, The Conformist, The Godfather -- these movies never ever diminish in quality. Were they made for repeated viewings? I doubt it. Even movies I thought were excellent, like Past Lives, Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Everything Everywhere All At Once, -- I just don't feel like seeing them again.

Most movies are almost like a magic trick, where you are amazed by something and then it's over, but if you go see that exact same magic trick again -- or worse, you learn how the trick was done -- then the whole thing falls apart. The only movies I've seen in probably the last decade that I would ever want to watch a second time are little puzzle-box films that have inner mousetrap mechanisms that I find clever (Arq, Synchronicity, In the Shadow Of the Moon, Time Crimes, Time Trap) typically involving some kind of time looping device that makes you essentially rewatch the same film multiple times in the same viewing.

Has the world changed or have I changed?
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Crazy Stupid Love is a modern classic. What is wrong with you?
 
SmashedHombre said:
Fear Street: Prom Queen

It's been a while since I've seen them, but I remember the original trilogy being decent. This is awful. Bland, generic, and predictable from start to finish.
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I thought Mean Girls + Drop Dead Gorgeous + every teen slasher movie cliche ever. The dance routine was basically the one from Mean Girls.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
Crazy Stupid Love (2011). A re-watch.
I really like Emma Stone in this movie. She and Ryan Gosling make a good couple, they have good on-screen chemistry. I used to think it was one of the few rom-coms that weren't braindead. In the intervening years, however, this movie has tarnished. There are some truly cringe moments in it. The dissolution of a 25-year marriage between Steve Carrell and Julianne Moore has some moments that are relatable to (probably) most married couples. It has an almost European ending to it, which is a nice change of pace, but overall I am seeing the flaws now where I didn't see them before. Ryan Gosling with his shirt off though, hubba hubba.
5/10

How many times is a movie meant to be seen? The classics, I feel, can be seen every few years and you still get almost the same satisfaction out of them. Alien, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, The Shining, The French Connection, Wages Of Fear, The Battle Of Algiers, Bicycle Thieves, The Conformist, The Godfather -- these movies never ever diminish in quality. Were they made for repeated viewings? I doubt it. Even movies I thought were excellent, like Past Lives, Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Everything Everywhere All At Once, -- I just don't feel like seeing them again.

Most movies are almost like a magic trick, where you are amazed by something and then it's over, but if you go see that exact same magic trick again -- or worse, you learn how the trick was done -- then the whole thing falls apart. The only movies I've seen in probably the last decade that I would ever want to watch a second time are little puzzle-box films that have inner mousetrap mechanisms that I find clever (Arq, Synchronicity, In the Shadow Of the Moon, Time Crimes, Time Trap) typically involving some kind of time looping device that makes you essentially rewatch the same film multiple times in the same viewing.

Has the world changed or have I changed?
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You've gotten older. You'll be craving beef dripping, tuberculosis and unfiltered cigarettes soon. It's nostalgia. You've seen it all before.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
Crazy Stupid Love (2011). A re-watch.
I really like Emma Stone in this movie. She and Ryan Gosling make a good couple, they have good on-screen chemistry. I used to think it was one of the few rom-coms that weren't braindead. In the intervening years, however, this movie has tarnished. There are some truly cringe moments in it. The dissolution of a 25-year marriage between Steve Carrell and Julianne Moore has some moments that are relatable to (probably) most married couples. It has an almost European ending to it, which is a nice change of pace, but overall I am seeing the flaws now where I didn't see them before. Ryan Gosling with his shirt off though, hubba hubba.
5/10

How many times is a movie meant to be seen? The classics, I feel, can be seen every few years and you still get almost the same satisfaction out of them. Alien, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, The Shining, The French Connection, Wages Of Fear, The Battle Of Algiers, Bicycle Thieves, The Conformist, The Godfather -- these movies never ever diminish in quality. Were they made for repeated viewings? I doubt it. Even movies I thought were excellent, like Past Lives, Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Everything Everywhere All At Once, -- I just don't feel like seeing them again.

Most movies are almost like a magic trick, where you are amazed by something and then it's over, but if you go see that exact same magic trick again -- or worse, you learn how the trick was done -- then the whole thing falls apart. The only movies I've seen in probably the last decade that I would ever want to watch a second time are little puzzle-box films that have inner mousetrap mechanisms that I find clever (Arq, Synchronicity, In the Shadow Of the Moon, Time Crimes, Time Trap) typically involving some kind of time looping device that makes you essentially rewatch the same film multiple times in the same viewing.

Has the world changed or have I changed?
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I've seen this twice and I love it.
 
Waterloo

20,000 soldiers, 2,000 horses, 5,000 trees transplanted, six miles of underground irrigation piping, 2 bulldozed hills and 6 months of training in Napoleonic war tactics. The result is the greatest argument in favour of practical effects.

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The highlight of Waterloo is its extras. The sheer amount means the camera records the smallest moments but on a colossal scale. How the uniforms fit slightly differently on every solider, the unique facial expressions of the cavalrymen charging into battle and even the comical death screams are all distinctive. Results in a film about Napoleon ending up dispelling the myth of great man of history.

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Along with realising Napoleon life is can’t fit into one film Bondarchuk also correctly presents his anti war views as nothing more than a hollow scream against the nationalist mass murder. It’s to his credit that at no point does war looks enjoyable for the audience(Something which most war films fail to achieve).

The casting has Rod Steiger doing his best divorced dad impression of the french dictator. Despised by all of Europe, kicked out of the family home and fronting a hairline which is desperately hanging on yet there’s still a spark of genius left. Christopher Plummer brings an upper class melancholia vibe to Wellington. War is hell but what else are men to do.

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Imo it’s a film which showcases the possibilities of collective art. A Masterpiece

10/10
 
Sweet Square said:
Waterloo

20,000 soldiers, 2,000 horses, 5,000 trees transplanted, six miles of underground irrigation piping, 2 bulldozed hills and 6 months of training in Napoleonic war tactics. The result is the greatest argument in favour of practical effects.

GYlHcWUXUAArKZ2


The highlight of Waterloo is its extras. The sheer amount means the camera records the smallest moments but on a colossal scale. How the uniforms fit slightly differently on every solider, the unique facial expressions of the cavalrymen charging into battle and even the comical death screams are all distinctive. Results in a film about Napoleon ending up dispelling the myth of great man of history.

GYlHcUqXkAAWp0s


Along with realising Napoleon life is can’t fit into one film Bondarchuk also correctly presents his anti war views as nothing more than a hollow scream against the nationalist mass murder. It’s to his credit that at no point does war looks enjoyable for the audience(Something which most war films fail to achieve).

The casting has Rod Steiger doing his best divorced dad impression of the french dictator. Despised by all of Europe, kicked out of the family home and fronting a hairline which is desperately hanging on yet there’s still a spark of genius left. Christopher Plummer brings an upper class melancholia vibe to Wellington. War is hell but what else are men to do.

GGkKqoEWsAELmXu


Imo it’s a film which showcases the possibilities of collective art. A Masterpiece

10/10
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I watched this last year. The battle scenes blew my mind.
 
Saw a quote from Scorsese today regarding Casino: “There’s no plot at all. It’s three hours, no plot. So you know that going in. There’s a lot of action, a lot of story, but no plot.”

This helps me understand what happened on Moon Flower Killers. I honestly think that had I known this, that he was going for this as far back as Casino, I would have appreciated his later films more. DiCaprio still sucks donkey dick, but I probably would have been able to absorb the feel of the film better had I known this.
 
Sweet Square said:
Waterloo

20,000 soldiers, 2,000 horses, 5,000 trees transplanted, six miles of underground irrigation piping, 2 bulldozed hills and 6 months of training in Napoleonic war tactics. The result is the greatest argument in favour of practical effects.

GYlHcWUXUAArKZ2


The highlight of Waterloo is its extras. The sheer amount means the camera records the smallest moments but on a colossal scale. How the uniforms fit slightly differently on every solider, the unique facial expressions of the cavalrymen charging into battle and even the comical death screams are all distinctive. Results in a film about Napoleon ending up dispelling the myth of great man of history.

GYlHcUqXkAAWp0s


Along with realising Napoleon life is can’t fit into one film Bondarchuk also correctly presents his anti war views as nothing more than a hollow scream against the nationalist mass murder. It’s to his credit that at no point does war looks enjoyable for the audience(Something which most war films fail to achieve).

The casting has Rod Steiger doing his best divorced dad impression of the french dictator. Despised by all of Europe, kicked out of the family home and fronting a hairline which is desperately hanging on yet there’s still a spark of genius left. Christopher Plummer brings an upper class melancholia vibe to Wellington. War is hell but what else are men to do.

GGkKqoEWsAELmXu


Imo it’s a film which showcases the possibilities of collective art. A Masterpiece

10/10
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This movie would cost a cool billion to make today. Cheaper just to invade a real country and film it.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
This movie would cost a cool billion to make today. Cheaper just to invade a real country and film it.
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From I’ve seen online it was the most expensive movie ever made at the time of production and really only possible because the Soviet paid for half and used their army.

And of course they spent all this money/ resources only for it to……..flopped at the box office.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
A Real Pain (2024).
Mark Zuckerberg and Roman Roy are in this as cousins who visit Poland to see where their grandmother lived before fleeing the Nazis. Essentially it's neurotic Zuck and motor-mouthed Roy riffing for 90 minutes, with a tour group of 4 people as living props. Apparently this Oscar-winning performance by Roman Roy was supposed to be... something. I don't know what. He's annoying as feck. Like, you can't really imagine a world where he doesn't get punched in the face everyday, but in this film he ends up winning people over through brute force. On a technical level, Roman Roy is a shitty actor. You might enjoy his shtick, but if you start noticing how every scene contains multiple continuity errors because he can't decide if he should talk with his hands in his pockets, or his hands waving around like sick birds, or one in and one out, then it gets super distracting.

Meaningless film, unless one did not know about Nazi death camps in Poland.
3/10
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Ouch, this was hard to read
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
A Real Pain (2024).
Mark Zuckerberg and Roman Roy are in this as cousins who visit Poland to see where their grandmother lived before fleeing the Nazis.

Essentially it's neurotic Zuck and motor-mouthed Roy riffing for 90 minutes, with a tour group of 4 people as living props. Apparently this Oscar-winning performance by Roman Roy was supposed to be... something. I don't know what. He's annoying as feck. Like, you can't really imagine a world where he doesn't get punched in the face everyday, but in this film he ends up winning people over through brute force.

On a technical level, Roman Roy is a shitty actor. You might enjoy his shtick, but if you start noticing how every scene contains multiple continuity errors because he can't decide if he should talk with his hands in his pockets, or his hands waving around like sick birds, or one in and one out, then it gets super distracting.

Meaningless film, unless one did not know about Nazi death camps in Poland.
3/10
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I thought it was pretty good

it did feel like culkin hammed it up a bit to me as well but it's a movie about jewish ancestry and generational trauma, so it's not like he played it that way just for the hell of it
 
Mirage / Durante La Tormenta (2018)
This was the Spanish movie I couldn't remember the name of the other day when I was crying about movies being not worth a second viewing anymore. Found the comments below from years ago, don't know if these Cafites are even still here. Anyway:

As mentioned below, it does have a similar time travel mechanism as Frequency, the Dennis Quaid movie from 2000. I liked Frequency, felt it was one of the better Dennis Quaid movies. It pairs a time loop story with a serial killer angle. A son is able to communicate with his long dead father via carvings in a wooden table, and they (on both ends of the time loop) realize they can find out who killed the wife/mother, a crime that was never solved. It did feel like two movies grafted together.

In my view Mirage is a lot better. Its story has a few more layers and a few more secrets and plot twists. Mirage is about how a woman was murdered and then a child murdered to cover up the first crime, but in reality it's a magical storm that magically magics a videotape into magicking answers to a married couple who move into the house 25 years later.

Plus, yes, Adriana Ugarte (Manuel's mother) is really good in this. In both movies, there is a redemptive quality that I really like. They both are concerned with righting a past injustice, with uncovering crimes and truths. I've only seen it once, years ago, but I will probably watch it again to see how addled I was back then. I really enjoyed it the first time.
9/10

Vato said:
Yeah, I've seen that one quite some time ago. Don't remember much of it but I remember thinking it was good at the time. Something similar indeed with Dennis Quaid talking to his younger self through a radio or something similar right?

Did you like Mirage? The main actress was fantastic I thought.
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SparkedIntoLife said:
Have you seen Mirage by the same writer/director, Oriol Paulo? It's enjoyable, 7/10. Paulo is excellent in the mystery genre, although I did see Mirage's twist coming a mile off (and that was OK). Also, The Innocent has recently been released onto Netflix. It's an 8 episode series by the same guy. Warning - for a 15 rating, it's disturbing in parts and has a little too much lingering on blood, T&A etc. The story isn't necessarily as good as the first episode would have you expect but the way the story unfolds is well done and it was intriguing. Not a classic but good fun, and definitely in the same vein as The Invisible Guest. Also two of the main actors in TIG appear in it.
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Superunknown said:
Also caught a Spanish film yesterday, Mirage (Durante la Tormenta), which is a mystery/drama story in the same sort of vein as films like The Butterfly Effect. There's an obvious twist that you can see coming from pretty far away, but it's worked in quite well in a way that doesn't feel too cheap. I liked this. Different sort of film to the last one I mentioned. Only criticism from my point of view is that it starts off as a bit of a thriller, but then changes genre in the final third...which is fine, but I preferred the first third/half of the film tonally. The lead characters are likeable and it sticks the ending, so it has quite a lot going for it. It's also the sort of film that would've also made an interesting short series on Netflix. Overall, it's a decent film to add to the list if you're stuck with what to watch and want something to pass the time.
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Tarrou said:
I thought it was pretty good

it did feel like culkin hammed it up a bit to me as well but it's a movie about jewish ancestry and generational trauma, so it's not like he played it that way just for the hell of it
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It's a very good film and the chemistry between the 2 works well. I don't think you can really appreciate it without accepting that the "trip" they're on is a very particular one where people are on very intimate, personal journeys and in a constant state of vulnerability, and Culkin's character works well in that regard. Eloge's character was also really lovely and moving.
 
Fréwaka (2024)

Simply the best horror film in recent memory, for me.
A haunting blend of psychological drama and folk horror, I won’t give much away, but it builds a slow-burning tension reminiscent of Midsommar and conjures an unsettling atmosphere where personal grief and mythic dread intertwine.


Yet Another Great Irish Horror Film (TM)
We'll see if Bring Her Back will take the crown though.
 
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Rooney in Paris said:
It's a very good film and the chemistry between the 2 works well. I don't think you can really appreciate it without accepting that the "trip" they're on is a very particular one where people are on very intimate, personal journeys and in a constant state of vulnerability, and Culkin's character works well in that regard. Eloge's character was also really lovely and moving.
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I've been on the same trip. The film is completely overrated.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
A Real Pain (2024).
Mark Zuckerberg and Roman Roy are in this as cousins who visit Poland to see where their grandmother lived before fleeing the Nazis.

Essentially it's neurotic Zuck and motor-mouthed Roy riffing for 90 minutes, with a tour group of 4 people as living props. Apparently this Oscar-winning performance by Roman Roy was supposed to be... something. I don't know what. He's annoying as feck. Like, you can't really imagine a world where he doesn't get punched in the face everyday, but in this film he ends up winning people over through brute force.

On a technical level, Roman Roy is a shitty actor. You might enjoy his shtick, but if you start noticing how every scene contains multiple continuity errors because he can't decide if he should talk with his hands in his pockets, or his hands waving around like sick birds, or one in and one out, then it gets super distracting.

Meaningless film, unless one did not know about Nazi death camps in Poland.
3/10
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What a load of waffle.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
A Real Pain (2024).
Mark Zuckerberg and Roman Roy are in this as cousins who visit Poland to see where their grandmother lived before fleeing the Nazis.

Essentially it's neurotic Zuck and motor-mouthed Roy riffing for 90 minutes, with a tour group of 4 people as living props. Apparently this Oscar-winning performance by Roman Roy was supposed to be... something. I don't know what. He's annoying as feck. Like, you can't really imagine a world where he doesn't get punched in the face everyday, but in this film he ends up winning people over through brute force.

On a technical level, Roman Roy is a shitty actor. You might enjoy his shtick, but if you start noticing how every scene contains multiple continuity errors because he can't decide if he should talk with his hands in his pockets, or his hands waving around like sick birds, or one in and one out, then it gets super distracting.

Meaningless film, unless one did not know about Nazi death camps in Poland.
3/10
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Completely on the nose. It was a charity case to give him that Oscar.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
A Real Pain (2024).
Mark Zuckerberg and Roman Roy are in this as cousins who visit Poland to see where their grandmother lived before fleeing the Nazis.

Essentially it's neurotic Zuck and motor-mouthed Roy riffing for 90 minutes, with a tour group of 4 people as living props. Apparently this Oscar-winning performance by Roman Roy was supposed to be... something. I don't know what. He's annoying as feck. Like, you can't really imagine a world where he doesn't get punched in the face everyday, but in this film he ends up winning people over through brute force.

On a technical level, Roman Roy is a shitty actor. You might enjoy his shtick, but if you start noticing how every scene contains multiple continuity errors because he can't decide if he should talk with his hands in his pockets, or his hands waving around like sick birds, or one in and one out, then it gets super distracting.

Meaningless film, unless one did not know about Nazi death camps in Poland.
3/10
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It’s nothing groundbreaking. but I think given how bereft we are of any indie cinema of late it got a lot of hype. It also helps that roman roy stonks were already high and him being cast adds to it. I felt this was one of those films that would have been made as an indie feature for 3-5million back in the early or mid 2000s by focus features. the type that everyone liked but not oscar worthy or anything of that sort.
 
johnnyteutonic said:
Fréwaka (2024)

Simply the best horror film in recent memory, for me.
A haunting blend of psychological drama and folk horror, I won’t give much away, but it builds a slow-burning tension reminiscent of Midsommar and conjures an unsettling atmosphere where personal grief and mythic dread intertwine.


Yet Another Great Irish Horror Film (TM)
We'll see if Bring Her Back will take the crown though.
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This sounds great, adding to the list!
 
johnnyteutonic said:
Fréwaka (2024)

Simply the best horror film in recent memory, for me.
A haunting blend of psychological drama and folk horror, I won’t give much away, but it builds a slow-burning tension reminiscent of Midsommar and conjures an unsettling atmosphere where personal grief and mythic dread intertwine.


Yet Another Great Irish Horror Film (TM)
We'll see if Bring Her Back will take the crown though.
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My wife keeps making me dodge this one. I'm gonna have to watch it without her. I'll distract her by sending her pictures of cats.
 
Wing Attack Plan R said:
Crazy Stupid Love (2011). A re-watch.
I really like Emma Stone in this movie. She and Ryan Gosling make a good couple, they have good on-screen chemistry. I used to think it was one of the few rom-coms that weren't braindead. In the intervening years, however, this movie has tarnished. There are some truly cringe moments in it. The dissolution of a 25-year marriage between Steve Carrell and Julianne Moore has some moments that are relatable to (probably) most married couples. It has an almost European ending to it, which is a nice change of pace, but overall I am seeing the flaws now where I didn't see them before. Ryan Gosling with his shirt off though, hubba hubba.
5/10

How many times is a movie meant to be seen? The classics, I feel, can be seen every few years and you still get almost the same satisfaction out of them. Alien, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, The Shining, The French Connection, Wages Of Fear, The Battle Of Algiers, Bicycle Thieves, The Conformist, The Godfather -- these movies never ever diminish in quality. Were they made for repeated viewings? I doubt it. Even movies I thought were excellent, like Past Lives, Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Everything Everywhere All At Once, -- I just don't feel like seeing them again.

Most movies are almost like a magic trick, where you are amazed by something and then it's over, but if you go see that exact same magic trick again -- or worse, you learn how the trick was done -- then the whole thing falls apart. The only movies I've seen in probably the last decade that I would ever want to watch a second time are little puzzle-box films that have inner mousetrap mechanisms that I find clever (Arq, Synchronicity, In the Shadow Of the Moon, Time Crimes, Time Trap) typically involving some kind of time looping device that makes you essentially rewatch the same film multiple times in the same viewing.

Has the world changed or have I changed?
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I rated it about the same at the time so I suspect I would rate less generously now.
 
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