Okja is wonderful, would highly recommend. Snowpiercer is a good laugh as well.


Just wanted to say I loved Sorry To Bother You, it was a bit disjointed in how it jumped from scene to scene but I loved how it ramped up the craziness as it went along, there was no way in hell I saw that last 20-30 minutes or so coming. It's resistance of a nice hollywood liberal ending was very impressive as well.

Snowpiercer is a laugh? huh

2freaky4church1 said:

Snowpiercer is a laugh? huh

I know you, of all people, would be laughing along.

deebee said:

slyjackson said:

Great film I just loved it it kept me interested and thrilled throughout the whole film.

Yeah - great plot twists, as events start to spiral out of control. I liked the social commentary too. Would be interested to see more by Bong Joon-ho - maybe starting with Okja.

Okja is a very good movie, and I didn't expect at all anything that happened in Parasites, I thought it was just a socail commentary but far from what happened after the family left to go camping.

deebee said:

slyjackson said:

Great film I just loved it it kept me interested and thrilled throughout the whole film.

Yeah - great plot twists, as events start to spiral out of control. I liked the social commentary too. Would be interested to see more by Bong Joon-ho - maybe starting with Okja.

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jaawwnn said:

Okja is wonderful, would highly recommend. Snowpiercer is a good laugh as well.


Just wanted to say I loved Sorry To Bother You, it was a bit disjointed in how it jumped from scene to scene but I loved how it ramped up the craziness as it went along, there was no way in hell I saw that last 20-30 minutes or so coming. It's resistance of a nice hollywood liberal ending was very impressive as well.

Cheers - will give Okja and Snowpiercer a look.

Yeah, Sorry To Bother You was certainly a bit lumpy in parts, but I loved the imagination of it. Was also a breath of fresh air to see a contemporary Hollywood film that came from that perspective, which was funny and sharp in its satire, but also had some heart.

deebee said:

DiminutiveRocker said:

YES!!!! I loved this and I love Stanfield who I came to know in Donald Glover's Atlanta.

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Yeah, he's great in Atlanta. (Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long for a new season of that.) And I thought he was perfect for this role.

I hope it comes back in 2021. It's one of my favorite shows, and I think Glover is a wunderkind. Stanfield was also quite good in "Get Out"-

Lured (1947) - British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic-poem clues to the cops.

I had never seen Lucille Ball in anything prior to her first TV sitcom so this film-noir was a pleasant change. 3.5/5

Sexton, you did not see those films.

2freaky4church1 said:

Sexton, you did not see those films.

I confess I chose these movies just to troll you. Wait until you see the next few in my queue that I haven't posted yet.

Comanche Station (1960)

Another from director Budd Boetticher with Randolph Scott. I'm beginning to understand that these Budd Boetticher movies from this era are one body of work and this was the last movie out of six total. Great movie from beginning to end with twists and turns with a mic drop ending, so well done.

This movie has the western landscapes but relies more on the writing then typical westerns of this era. Randolph Scott is a great good guy in this movie. Claude Atkins was a television actor that I would never put as a bad guy but he was meant to do westerns.


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Console Wars (2020) - It was 1990: Sega, startup gaming co. assembled a team to take on Nintendo, world's greatest video game co. A make or break conflict pit brother against brother, Sonic against Mario, American capitalism against Japanese tradition.

The first half which gives the history about how the Genesis got off to a rocky start and eventually became a rival with Nintendo was fascinating, but the 90 minute documentary is padded with uninteresting filler, with little focus on the games of both systems. The Playstation, which was the eventual winner of the console wars, is not embraced. 3/5

Alpeis (2011) - A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.

It's a bit of a mystery what the business is about initially, but once it becomes clear, I was all in. And the payoff when it all goes awry at the end is worth it. 4/5

There is a sad Prince joke in the film too.

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Sexton, you hip to Jonathan Rosenbaum?

2freaky4church1 said:

Sexton, you hip to Jonathan Rosenbaum?

I have not read any of his critiques. Godard apparently respected him very much though so maybe I will.

Man of the West (1958)

The westerns-I've-heard-about-but-never-seen marathon continues with this Gary Cooper classic. Gary Cooper is a legend and he shined in this movie. Julie London was the female co-star and really good in this as well. I realized she was the main nurse on Emergency!, a television show from the 70s.

Good movie, great story line with a cool character arc. Love a movie that keeps you guessing and slowly puts the piuzzle together for you. Well written even though it kind of felt like a B-movie. Filmed in widescreen CinemaScope (relatively new in '58) with some great California locations.



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Seven Men from Now (1956)

Another from the Budd Boetticher and Randolph Scott partnership of westerns. After several of these movies, it's clear that the most important person in these movies is the writer, Burt Kennedy. The story and plot is the best thing about all of these movies and why they could make them on such a low budget.

The other theme seems that there's always a woman to protect or to fall in love with in these films. Gail Russell is the actress in this that holds her own within the mostly male cast. Lee Marvin as one of the bad guys was great with so much presence on screen. He was a master at being the bad guy for most of his career.

The plot was engaging and kept my interest from begining to end. Locations were perfect as well as the entire production. For a movie that's over sixty years old, this film holds up and is a must if you're a fan of the genre.


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The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Of course I've seen this movie before, it's in my DNA at this point. Recently bought the original trilogy in 1080 with all the extra bonus stuff. To see it in the resolution was like watching it for the first time...it was kind of a strange experience.

Carrie Fisher was a model...some of the shots and the way the lighting was placed, it's something I've never paid attention to. Speaking of models...Billy Dee Williams had it all and I love how he played the role.

The high res shows some of the creature limitations in a lot of spots but I just don't care at this point. Best of the orignal three, I was reminded of my love of Yoda, the big reveal, Hoth and ending it on a somber note. It holds up even with some of it's clear technical production limitations.



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[EDIT] OMG this movie is 40 years old!

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S2DG said:

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

[EDIT] OMG this movie is 40 years old!

To compound the headfuck of realising how old certain films are, I like to go back a similar amount again - e.g. to consider that the end of WWII was closer to the year The Empire Strikes Back came out than the year we're in now is. A young sprog born on VJ Day would have been 35 as he and his missus queued to watch the first Star Wars sequel, whereas a child the couple welcomed into the world that same year they watched Han Solo get frozen in carbonite would be 40 this year.

deebee said:

S2DG said:

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

[EDIT] OMG this movie is 40 years old!

To compound the headfuck of realising how old certain films are, I like to go back a similar amount again - e.g. to consider that the end of WWII was closer to the year The Empire Strikes Back came out than the year we're in now is. A young sprog born on VJ Day would have been 35 as he and his missus queued to watch the first Star Wars sequel, whereas a child the couple welcomed into the world that same year they watched Han Solo get frozen in carbonite would be 40 this year.

Thanks for even further perspective...


I'm going to go get these kids off my lawn now...

The Devil All the Time (2020) This film boast an excellent cast led by Tom Holland, Riley Keough & Robert Pattinson. I found it to be thought provoking and yet a tad depressing at the same time. It is an adaption of the the acclaimed novel of the same name by Donald Ray Pollock, who also narrates the film. I give it 4 out of 5

deebee said:

Sorry to Bother You (2018)



For a hoary old red like me, this was a rare treat.

OK, I saw it last night, and I have to confess that I haven't slept much all of last night after seeing those horses!!!! (besides everything else, a telling example of what can be done with CGI to tell a story!) The CEO of the co., to me, bore a strong resemblance to Jack Dorsey from Twitter.
A Truly Horrifying movie.

S2DG said:

deebee said:

To compound the headfuck of realising how old certain films are, I like to go back a similar amount again - e.g. to consider that the end of WWII was closer to the year The Empire Strikes Back came out than the year we're in now is. A young sprog born on VJ Day would have been 35 as he and his missus queued to watch the first Star Wars sequel, whereas a child the couple welcomed into the world that same year they watched Han Solo get frozen in carbonite would be 40 this year.

Thanks for even further perspective...


I'm going to go get these kids off my lawn now...

I watched a populist movie for 2freaky.



Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan.

Many great-looking individual scenes don't quite mesh into a unified whole. It's a mediocre Avengers film when compared to the superior other three movies in the franchise. 3.5/5