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 No.5801[View All]

Hello, the most recent movie threads have seemed a bit unfocused, this thread is for the discussion of movies we just watched and other anon's takes on them. So, without further ado I'll begin.

I just watched Parasite last night, it was pretty good I think, but not as cutting edge or witty as I was expecting. I thought it was a bit unfocused and threw a lot at the wall to see what stuck, but on the other hand, it was fun and more interesting than most. A solid 8/10.

I do an IMDB rating for each film I watch, for my own reference mostly, but you can see each film I watched lately and my rating if you're curious or want to ask about them. If other anons have something similar feel free to post.

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur46013471/ratings
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 No.6086

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Watched this recently, not sure how I feel about it. Certainly a well made movie but how accurate is it?
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 No.6087

>>10459
Continuing to go through Aronofsky's works.

Watched Pi the other day. While its deffinetly very well made, I hate its message. Just more of the obscurantist tower of Babel tier shit about how man can never and should never grasp the universe. But as I said, its deffinetly well executed, especially the acompanying track.

Today I watched Requiem for a Dream. Really fucking bad vibes right now. Honestly this might be one of the few if not the only foreign films that manage to reach the levels of grim that is my native Lithuanian literature. Like, from the first 10-20 minutes I realized that it is like watching a slow motion train crash. However, this doesn't make the film bad. I'd argue that this might very well be the single best anti-Amerikkka films out there, not because it shows the nations imperialist crimes, but the absolute horror that is the life of American citizens. Didn't really notice the cinematography much. Also the bait and switch with "spring" never coming after "winter" was really great, even if it contributed to the depression value.
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 No.6088

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I recently watched a 3 hour long german movie "Never Look Away" (2018) and it was really fucking amazing - it's about a german artist who is born in nazi Germany, then goes to school in east Germany, and graduates in west Germany. I am usually really picky with my movies, but I assure you this movie is fucking amazing. The reason it's so long isn't because it's super complex, but rather that this movie likes to take time to build up scenes, which I personally really enjoyed - lots of good camera work in there.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/never_look_away

A couple of films that have been on my mind lately:
Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Brilliant use of atmosphere to build dread, both through how it uses the settings of each of the murders (it begins as a procedural about murders with the hallmarks of a serial killer, except that each is done by a different person who claims to not remember doing it) and through its deteriorating recurring settings. I discovered it a few years ago I think, and it might be my all time favorite now.

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Francesco Rosi. I saw this one last year when the newly restored and uncut version was released in the US. I'm thinking about it because I'm mad about that version not getting a bluray or streaming release. It's a 4-hour Italian epic about a city doctor who gets sent to some far flung, backwards village by Mussolini's government because he's been hanging out with his communist friends too much. It's a fascinating and very comfy (even if occasionally horrifying) depiction of what life was like at that time, and it gives a very good diagnosis of how bourgeois small-town governments and elites form their self-serving aristocracy that holds the common people in contempt. Unfortunately like I mentioned it's hard to find but if a screening happens near you, I highly recommend dropping everything to see it.
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 No.6089

Zapata! was made by a rabid anticommunist who sold people out willingly to the HUAC. Someone care to explain that one to me?
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 No.6090

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Just watched Love and Monsters and it was great. For a low-budget cheesy monster movie, it has good plot, fun characters, fairly good CGI and practical effects and a nice message. The monster designs are creative and really carry across the whole "mutant" idea, and reminds me of some other works of science fiction with similar premises. It's a shame it didn't go to theaters but what can you do.
I won't go into the details of the good parts yet, because it's a new movie and I don't wanna spoil it for anyone until after they've had a chance to watch it.

Paramount's own trailer description is the best nonspoiler summary,
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

I enjoyed it the same way I enjoyed Pacific Rim or Zombieland and there's a lot of good stuff to find. It's available on fmovies.wtf (Have uBlock Origin and Popupblockers) and is plenty of fun to watch.
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 No.6091

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Just watched Battlefield Earth, what are our thoughts on the whole "so bad, it's good" phenomenon?
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 No.6092

>>11341
I always enjoyed it. It is in essence a cheesy movie in the same way films like Predator or Independence day are. Some cool alien concepts, some idea of human struggle against impossible odds and some decent acting and effects with the gaps filled in with cheese and tropes.
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 No.6093

>>4835 I just watched "Hereditary" after seeing Midsommar and my God what a good movie. The VVitch is okay too.
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 No.6094

>>11359
What did you think of Midsommar?
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 No.6095

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Has anyone watched The Inner Circle?
>The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.
How is it?
Also thoughts on East/West?
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 No.6096

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>>11813
god, posters looked so awful back then
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 No.6097

This is the only place that I can admit but I'm about to watch all 5 of the scary movies as part of my halloween marathon
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 No.6098

>>11827
Why are you ashamed? Those are great fun

>>11824

>back then
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 No.6099

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Has anyone seen the Society of the Spectacle movie/documentary/video essay? Is it a good introduction before diving into the book?
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 No.6100

Borat 2.It was funny, but I feel like it was a bit underwhelming: like the funniest stuff was all shock humour as opposed to something actually comedic. Also the satire felt a bit, weak? Like yes singing about giving Obama wuhan flu as a rally and people unironically liking it is funny, but like, it feels a bit weak compared to say what Eric Andre does.
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 No.6101

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I watched La Chinoise recently with a friend and it made me think, what films do y'all think should be required/recommended watching for socialists?

For me Come and See is a must watch. Soy Cuba is also good.
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 No.6102

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I just watched Heavy Metal (1981) and frankly, the best best story is the Captain Stern trial, the cabby story is nice, but the love story is truly put with a shoehorn, it make me laugh how bad that was.
The other stories are pretty meh to me.
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 No.6103

>>11867
It's a drug-induced fantasy rotoscope animation, it wasn't meant to be anything than a set of short stories in an art-house experiment.
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 No.6104

>>11835
It made me drop anarchism for Marxism.
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 No.6105

>>2356
I watched this recently. Very good and I don't even like Tarkovsky that much.
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 No.6106

Just watched The Lighthouse. Maybe not for everyone but I appreciated the pacing and Dafoe’s monologues.
>>11370
pretty great/10, good portrayal of drugs and the 20-something generation. Good body horror at times.
>>11835
It’s literally someone reading the book, just presented in a different sequence of chapters. Hopefully the footage helps illustrate the points. I’s also highly recommend Debord’s earlier films ‘Critique of Separation’ and ‘On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Brief Unity of Time’ to get your brain in tune with his before jumping into SoTS, and you might like In Girum…’ (palindromic Latin title idr, made later in the 70s)
>>11842
Kanchiviram and the docu Concerning Violence
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 No.6107

>>11900
>The Lighthouse
Definitely an acquired taste and a bit over artsy, but still quite interesting a film. Dafoe is always great with his characters and plays madmen well (similar to Christopher Walken and Anthony Hopkins).

Red Cynic did a decent review of the film that really delved into the lore behind the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjh8Kn2ZvSY
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 No.6108

>>11900
thanks buddy
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 No.6109

>>11931
The Lighthouse was a sequel to Flapjack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8yEVxa5Nsg
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 No.6110

Hot-Take: Cruel Intentions is a perfect encapsulation of American bourg narcissism and self-pity
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 No.6111

Just watchined "Sweeny Todd" on Netflix. Great film, pretty based.

>There's a hole in the world like a great black pit

>And the vermin of the world inhabit it
>And its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit
>And it goes by the name of London

>At the top of the hole sit a privileged few

>Making mock of the vermin in the lower zoo
>Turning beauty to filth and greed
>I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders,
>For the cruelty of men is as wondrous as Peru
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 No.6112

currently watching trial of chicago 7

goddamn courts are such a sham when it comes to prosecuting leftists

really makes you understand how pathetic and fake the state's freedom is
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 No.6113

Not a "movie I watched", but movie related. What are you all thinking about Matrix 4? Asking because in all honesty I feel kinda afraid that it will ruin the original trilogy somehow. After watching the films again for those two review posts ITT I felt that the series had a really nice conclussion at the end of it and I would hate to see it messed with tbh.
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 No.6114

>>13307
>Watching Sorkin libshit butchery of a real story film
Very cringe
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 No.6115

>>13352
It's best to watch Matrix 4 as it's own thing. It's definitely not very fitting with the rest of the trilogy, but it's still a fun movie.

>>11944

Nuclear truth
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 No.6116

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I finally watched the movie that started all.

I have no idea why it's not mentioned more often in critics circle

also mystery of why autistic entities tend to gitta go fast contiunes
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 No.6117

>>13354
???? Matrix 4 is out????
Damn. Gonna watch it tommorow.

Just watched the 3 extended LOTR movies. Took a week to get through them. Awesome movies.
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 No.6118

>>13428
Watching the LOTR trilogy has been kind of a Christmas tradition for me the last couple of years. It just goes so well with this time of year for some reason.
And they are still to this day may favourite movies ever.
Btw, watch the behind the scenes documetaries next. They are honestly just as good as the movies.
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 No.6119

>>13428
>>13354
It's not out I think. I asked because it is supposed to come out in 2021.
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 No.6120

>>6117
>Matrix 4
So is it out or not?
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 No.6121

>>6089
Sauce on that?
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 No.6122

Oh wow, I thought this thread had been lost in the transfer.

I did watch The Irony of Fate with my family on December 31/January 1st. We loved it. The humor didn't feel dated at all, maybe because we're Latin American.
Unfortunately my cat left the following day and never came back, so I didn't feel like talking about the movie because I'll forever associate it with him.
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 No.6123

>>6122
Nah the thread is still up on bunkerchan as well. The humor really is nice innit? I watch it every New Years, as per Soviet tradition. Sorry about your cat tho.
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 No.6124

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From what I can piece together of the film and book (because I can't make myself watch/read more than a few portions of it without feeling disturbed) is that much of the story feels similar to the rather disturbing Lolita - which was meant to be such - and the authors own unsubtle comments about "attraction" to 12 year olds, feels confirmative of this fact. If this film had featured an older man seducing a teen girl, but everything else was the same, people would be going batshit about it being 'grooming'.

The acting and cinematography is good in some places, but that doesn't make the film good. The female characters have less depth than fanservice girls from 80s action movies, the peach scene was there for pointless shock factor. There is no stakes or coherence in the story, it's not an award winning movie, it's a romantic soap-opera movie on the same level as 50 Shades of Gray - I guess you could call it 50 Shades of Gay, but that already exists.

The book is a "slowburn" that is supposed to be hyperdetailed and stuff because it's "first person" or something, but it frankly comes off as someone who thinks writing is "more words and details, more more more!" - i.e. word-salad. It just feels boring and contrived, and the content itself is ill, like I'm reading the perverted delusions of a drug addict. I didn't realize gay people liked being represented as either bumbling exploitable lunatics or as manipulative child-predators. It's a normalization of young, gay men seeking older men to feel valuable - and that is a genuine expectation in gay communities.
TL;DR: This shitty flick is a pedophilic art nightmare with weak dialogue and nightmarish romance scenes.

While on the topic; I bring up Pixar's latest film, a film about friendship - Luca. The similarities are very superficial - an Italian seaside town and two male characters can be found in many films that are not gay-themed, so the constant comparisons, and the claims by 'activists' who say that regardless of authorial intent, Luca has to be gay, really belittles that wonderful Pixar film, pic related.
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 No.6125

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Watched these 3 documentaries last week. Robert McNamera has somewhat interesting insight on the US war machine during the mid-20th century. Siegfried Müller is a disgusting creature that deserved a much worse death than from stomach cancer; I'm amazed those East German journalists managed to trick him into doing an interview. It's interesting to see a personification of post-WW2 international fascism attempting to justify himself. And the last documentary was localized as A Perfect Crime; it's about the alleged 'third generation' Red Army Faction's 1991 assassination of Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, who was the head of Treuhand, the organization responsible for liquidating and privatizing the former GDR. The crime remains unsolved to this day, and there's a conspiracy theory that it was actually done by former Stasi members. It features commentary by two 'second generation' RAF members as well; really fascinating stuff. I'd recommend watching them all.
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 No.6126

>>6101
>what films do y'all think should be required/recommended watching for socialists?
Probably all of the films in Godard's Dziga Vertov Group era, for starters.
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 No.6127

>>6124
>of the film and book
I as talking about "Call Me By Your Name" and forgot to actually write the title out LOL.
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 No.6128

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>>6125
I think I've seen all 3 of them before but I only vaguely remember 2.

Fog of War is good although McNamara is still sketchy as hell like a typical American by avoiding talking about his work in the World Bank, and flat out lying through his teeth concerning the Gulf of Tonkin incident (seriously I didn't buy a single word of what he said during that segment; he's had decades to rehearse a plausible explanation that makes him look better).

As for Rohwedder I actually think the West Germany inside-job conspiracy makes the most sense. The RAF had already been arrested/destroyed and lost all their members as admitted by the West German counter-terrorist officials. They didn't have the capability or resources to kill Rohwedder. The ex-RAF members themselves noted that the message left at the scene was somewhat incoherent/strange and didn't make sense.

The ex-Stasi are smart so they would have known killing one person wouldn't have stopped Treuhand. Add in the fact that the West Germany police didn't respond to requests from Rohwedder's wife for additional security measures makes it seem that he was selected to be a scapegoat from the beginning. The protestors in East Germany were getting increasingly agitated and creating a martyr out of Rohwedder did stop the protests.

False flag killings in order to destroy populist movements have been carried out before. I think the most recent suspicious murder has been that of Jo Cox, a pro-EU Labour MP who was assassinated right before the Brexit vote, which, in my view, was done in the hopes of creating a scenario where the Remain side would win out of sympathy due to tight polls leading up to that referendum.
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 No.6129

>>6128
>McNamara is still sketchy as hell like a typical American by avoiding talking about his work in the World Bank, and flat out lying through his teeth concerning the Gulf of Tonkin incident
I didn't really care for that segment either. He seemed really antsy when discussing Vietnam in general, and flat out refused to answer some of Errol Morris' questions. I was more interested in McNamera's time during WW2 w/ Curtis LeMay re: Firebombing of Tokyo, etc.
>As for Rohwedder I actually think the West Germany inside-job conspiracy makes the most sense.
The docuseries actually sorta touches on this with the suspicious death of Wolfgang Grams! Evidence of his hair was allegedly found at the crime scene, but this wasn't confirmed until many years after his apparent suicide at Bad Kleinen station. Mention of a West German 'deep state' apparatus was actually uttered at one point.
>The ex-RAF members themselves noted that the message left at the scene was somewhat incoherent/strange and didn't make sense.
What ex-RAF members they interviewed would disagree that it was incoherent. The letter's analysis of Rohwedder was lucid, but never indicated a motive for anything beyond the assassination itself. Which is what raised questions on the legitimacy or capabilities of the so-called 'third generation' RAF to begin with.
>The protestors in East Germany were getting increasingly agitated and creating a martyr out of Rohwedder did stop the protests.
Yeah, it's kind of a shame such a movement died with Rohwedder. If it's any consolation, the docuseries has high quality footage of the protests in question, as well as archival footage of life in the GDR. It dropped onto Netflix in late 2020; not many people have watched it yet afaik.
>False flag killings in order to destroy populist movements have been carried out before.
I'm an American who lives in the Midwest, so when it comes to 'false flag killings' I immediately think of the numerous apparent suicides of BLM organizers in St Louis, or the more recent police killing of Winston Boogie Smith in Minneapolis.
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 No.6130

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I'm not sure I get why people heap praise on this movie. I mean I love Denis and what he did with Arrival, Prisoners, BR2049, etc., so I expected to like this. And like it a lot since it's one of his most highly reviewed films. And I was really enjoying the film and how it intercut between the daughter's POV and the mother's POV for the first 3/4th of it. But damn did the twist that everyone says is so mind blowing and great just fall flat for me and really kind of put me off. I mean maybe it's because I had just seen Chinatown and that plot point didn't feel as fresh to me but it felt kind of contrived.

Anyone else seen this film and get a similiar feel?
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 No.8707

bump
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 No.8709

Watched enough of "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" to say that I saw it.

How much you like the movie depends on how much you liked the GB franchise / early-mid 80s cinema in general.

Seeing the original gang back, albeit briefly, was nice. Ghost Egon was nice and very sentimental. I'm an old person so it would've been nice to have seen a bit more of the OG cast. Kids always act like snarky adults in the movies and, no offense, but I never remember any of my friends or myself acting like that.

The mid-credits scene w Murray & Weaver was a bit stupid, though. Mid- & Post-credits scenes ought to add something / hint at what could be.
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 No.8727

I watched the latest dune movie and it was okay, that's the only mainstream shit I've watched since 2016
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 No.8728

Can any one recommend me some old japanese live action monster movies? Like with the monster of the week like godzilla or where dudes in spandex fight monsters and shit.
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 No.8731

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>>8728
Look up super Sentai on wiki.
Thank me later.

There's thousands of episodes and series after series. I like em all so far. I love the giant robot battles of the guys in rubber suits kek Also Zyurangers was what the used to build power rangers in top of and it's hundreds of times better and more captivating.

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