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Post by * on Apr 8, 2019 20:06:45 GMT
Finally found the first two john wick movies on ultra hd. So hyped for 3.
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Post by vertigomez on Apr 9, 2019 22:09:54 GMT
HYPE HYPE HYPE  Watching pet sematary tomorrow. Anyone see it? I haven't seen the orignal. I haven't seen this one but I've seen the original. Can't wait to check it out! |
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Post by * on Apr 9, 2019 22:28:02 GMT
HYPE HYPE HYPE Watching pet sematary tomorrow. Anyone see it? I haven't seen the orignal. I haven't seen this one but I've seen the original. Can't wait to check it out! Ok you have my attention with an animated Addams family. |
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Post by * on Apr 11, 2019 1:49:15 GMT
Anyone see Shazam? Watching it this weekend.
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Post by * on Apr 14, 2019 6:18:11 GMT
So Shazam was pretty enjoyable. Not gonna be able to see endgame opening weekend, if you don't have a ticket yet good luck.
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Post by yourfunnyuncle on Apr 15, 2019 23:22:17 GMT
Saw Wild Rose at the cinema today. What a great film. Jessie Buckley is a wonderful actor and a fine singer, though I guess those not used to Scottish accents might need subtitles...
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Jul 31, 2019 7:45:31 GMT
So being the 80s aficionado that I am, I bought the rare (and expensive!) soundtrack to an 80s film called "Tomboy" as well as the movie itself. The film was much better than I expected, and the soundtrack is quite enjoyable.
I just thought it was funny that the song that drew me to the film called "It Must Be You" by Debbie Lytton was only featured for a few seconds as an instrumental and then again briefly at a party scene in the background where it wasn't even audible! Some of the songs featured in the film were also either not released or done by a different artist on the soundtrack - which is always disappointing!
It was a fun film though, and I know I will put on the soundtrack on my record player plenty of times!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2019 3:48:04 GMT
Just saw the new It movie. It was okay. But the opening scene was really disturbing because it has some pretty intense and realistic hate crime violence against a gay couple. If you’ve read the book, you know what happens. But they cut it out of the 90’s miniseries, so most people didn’t realize it was a part of the story. Both my husband and I commented how that was the most disturbing part of the movie. Which says something about a film with a supernatural child-eating clown monster.
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Post by yourfunnyuncle on Sept 7, 2019 23:39:23 GMT
Just saw the new It movie. It was okay. But the opening scene was really disturbing because it has some pretty intense and realistic hate crime violence against a gay couple. If you’ve read the book, you know what happens. But they cut it out of the 90’s miniseries, so most people didn’t realize it was a part of the story. Both my husband and I commented how that was the most disturbing part of the movie. Which says something about a film with a supernatural child-eating clown monster. There are definitely valid arguments not to include such a scene, but I suppose that's the point King was making. Trans-dimensional child-eating clowns don't actually exist, whereas violent intolerant arseholes are all too real and common, even in seemingly idyllic semi-rural small towns, and as such they are far more frightening. |
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Sept 8, 2019 4:32:56 GMT
That scene is based on an actual real hate crime, so I'm not sure that capitalizing from that is something ethical to do, more so when Stephen King is a writer that doesn't bother with LGBTQ prominent characters or when he does it they end up dead or still miserable in the closet. Also I think I'm super jaded of dealing with straights TM on social media defending this scene and his almighty writer when it was not necessary at all, it does not add anything to the plot or the narrative but only showing how miserable we are and how we cannot be happy no matter what. Many people called me out about "but it is the book!1" "but it's not 2019!1", well I know the movie is not 100% faithful to the book and the movie is set in 2016 (the first one was in 1988) so no reasons to beat up gay people using shitty tropes, killing two of them (Adrian and Eddie) and letting the one who survived in the closet. The straight couple? Happy ending. Even an eldritch entity like Pennywise could not defeat that. Straight love, the strongest thing in the world ![=]](//storage.proboards.com/6753349/images/NNfvNlqrJvooyVjrmCMt.png) The worst thing? Reading queer people saying "IT Part 2 said gay rights!", are we that stupid or do we really have low standards? I think both. Meh. |
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Post by Lee on Sept 8, 2019 7:11:27 GMT
I won't be seeing It in theater for sure. I still haven't seen the first 1 for that matter, but reading about this certainly moved it down my list of must-see to...maybe I'll catch it for free at some point in the future if it becomes an option. I still own the original and that's fine for me.
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Post by Vy on Sept 8, 2019 17:18:55 GMT
Just saw the new It movie. It was okay. But the opening scene was really disturbing because it has some pretty intense and realistic hate crime violence against a gay couple. If you’ve read the book, you know what happens. But they cut it out of the 90’s miniseries, so most people didn’t realize it was a part of the story. Both my husband and I commented how that was the most disturbing part of the movie. Which says something about a film with a supernatural child-eating clown monster. There are definitely valid arguments not to include such a scene, but I suppose that's the point King was making. Trans-dimensional child-eating clowns don't actually exist, whereas violent intolerant arseholes are all too real and common, even in seemingly idyllic semi-rural small towns, and as such they are far more frightening. I'd say that's the point of most of Stephen King's writing, with real-life human horrors being the catalyst for the supernatural horrors or vice versa. The events of The Shining would've gone very differently if Jack Torrance wasn't an abusive alcoholic trying to recover, the events of Pet Sematary would've gone very differently if Louis Creed could process grief in a healthy way, The Mist is much more about the hysteria and paranoia of the people trapped in the supermarket than it is about the supernatural horrors trapping them there, etc. The Jaunt is probably my favorite thing of his that I've read, and that one taps into parental fears of a child disregarding your warnings because you didn't explain them clearly enough.
There are certainly arguments to be made against specific instances and doing it within certain contexts. I certainly understand if this particular example is not everyone's cup of tea. I know it isn't mine, due to it striking closer to home.
Edit: Personally, that's one of the reasons I prefer the Delta Green take on the Cthulhu mythos over Lovecraft's; I like the idea that, even in a world of eldritch horrors and elder gods who could wipe out humanity with an idle thought, humans still have the potential to be some of the scariest and most dangerous beings your average agent or investigator will run into.
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Post by nocte on Sept 26, 2019 16:19:36 GMT
I saw It recently and I wasn't really happy with how they handled LGBT issues, either. I understand when the book was published, the scene with the gay bashing was more the norm at the time for gay rep. It came across antiquated to have "sad bashed gays" being the LGBT focal point in "our current year". It felt like something that seemed more normal for the 80s. Especially disappointing, since It seems to have a pretty big LGBT following. I don't really understand all the Babadook/Pennywise shippers or why this is a thing at all, but I feel like they know it's there and they could have tried to have even the smallest amount of empathy. Honestly, though, Adrian's death didn't even bother me that much in comparison to the gay plot they gave Richie that went nowhere. I read It years ago and didn't actually read Richie as gay, but apparently some people did. I'm not at all against it being added context, the story could use more representation than small side characters getting brutalized. But why didn't they ever have him open up to his friends? The story is about these people's friendship and how they overcome their fears through their shared bond to defeat this eldritch horror together, yet they just left Richie's major, defining fear completely unresolved? When they show the character finding their artifacts, they're giving the character's primary fears and motivations. Richie's is all about his fear of not being accepted as a gay man. It's the one thing Pennywise verbally harasses him about. How are they just going to never have him talk about it to anyone, ever? In the article I linked, the actor, screenwriter and director all talk about how they wanted Richie's sexuality to be overt and I definitely did pick up during his artifact scene that they were saying he was gay, but I feel like they didn't take it far enough and leaving it unresolved was really sad. It feels like even after everything they went though, after they won, he's still closed off from everyone in the one way that they outright said he most feared opening up. |
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Post by Rouccoco on Sept 27, 2019 0:07:10 GMT
don't really understand all the Babadook/Pennywise shippers or why this is a thing at all Babadook is an LGBT icon, because Netflix said so  People are just meme-ing that onto other horror monsters, so I guess pairing them up is another logical step in that meme? |
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Post by nocte on Sept 27, 2019 15:58:00 GMT
Rouccoco I remember that now! We have a Babadook coffee mug from around the time he was at peak meme. lol
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Post by Vy on Nov 8, 2019 4:35:28 GMT
Any other Dune fans?
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Post by disgustednoise on Dec 23, 2019 5:43:41 GMT
Just got back from seeing Star Wars and honest to god I wish I had spent my money on Cats instead.
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Post by mediocreogre on Jan 2, 2020 23:32:43 GMT
Just got back from seeing Star Wars and honest to god I wish I had spent my money on Cats instead. I went to a CATS opening instead of Star Wars. Not a good movie either, but I had way more fun than my friends leaving the SW opening. |
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Post by Lee on May 5, 2020 2:28:39 GMT
So I saw Rise of Skywalker. It was not bad, but it wasn't good either. I did enjoy some aspects of it. Such as Rey's relation to Palpatine. I was never a fan of her parents being "nobodies". Narrative mysteries that go nowhere annoy the shit out of me! However, overall it just felt like it was a whole lot of filler. I know all SW movies do that though, but it never felt as bad for me as this one. Like the whole section of the movie dedicated to unlocking C3PO so he could translate a thing...OMG kill me! |
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Post by Lee on Nov 12, 2020 14:33:49 GMT
I just rewatched the Addams family movies from back when. Good stuff!
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