Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[ResAlien]

You all must not visit the Twitter/elon thread. You’re willfully engaging with bait, feel your shame and post accordingly.

I imagine their next post will be to explain how Django painted the poor landowning southern farmers of the time in a bad light as they were actually magnanimous job creators and that's before we get to mentioning the despicable celebration of anti white violence in the film

[PepsiFree]

Loser troll commentary aside, I also watch One Battle recently.

10/10 for me. I loved just about everything about it, though I was unsure about halfway through, it really came together in the end. The acting was phenomenal and the writing was fantastic. My only real critique is the car chase with the POV camera shots made my stomach turn lol.

Also watched Wake Up Dead Man. Maybe 7/10? Like most of the Knives Out movies I found it enjoyable. Not amazing and the reveal felt kind of lacking this time around but they’re just fun films regardless so I’m happy I watched it. I’d love that franchise to keep going with a new one every few years. Daniel Craig remains the best part.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by n00berdeau

I think if you have Sinners and One Battle After Another in your top 5 you might want to re-examine things.

One Battle After Another in particular is quite bad. And it's s about 20-30 IQ points lower than PT Anderson's other films. Not sure why he decided to dumb things down, but it also seems to promote left wing political violence.
Sinners is pretty bad too, and like a lot of people have said, is just a rehash of From dusk Till Dawn, but under the guise of celebrating black music.
And of course, both have a weird violent racist massacre scene shoehorned in. This is becomming quite common in Hollywood, it started with inglorious Bastards and Kingsmen, then Logan, Prey, and now these two. I'm sure there's more, but I dont watch much mov ies these days, because they're mostly terrible.
Eddington, while not great, was much better than both. I'm not really a fan of Ari Aster, but it Eddington was much more interesting.

Blurring the lines between real life politics and entertainment is your first mistake. Some of us can compartmentalize fiction and evaluate it for what it is, and not take it as "promoting" anything IRL.

Imo OBAA was a far better outing than Eddington, and Aster is one of my favorite directors.

Eddington wasn't some masterclass in "high IQ" filmmaking, and certainly had its own share of eye roll inducing moments. Superbly acted, but the film as a whole was pretty drab, and felt like it had even less desire to entertain an audience than the personal exorcism that was Beau is Afraid (also better, I thought).

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Since you need favorable political angles in your media though, I can see why you resonated with the themes of paranoid conspiracies and societal division that center around a vindictive loser sheriff that rebels against health advisories and feels his community owes him something–eventually culminating in him offing innocents and mowing down fictional deep government mercs/antifa adjacent entity. I guess the "right" kind of violence is acceptable violence?

[AC]

Also, it's concerning when someone thinks a movie's thesis or a protagonist's actions have to be 100% in line with your own beliefs or moral structure.

Do you just write off anything that depicts choices you don't agree with? That sounds depressing and intellectually/emotionally unstimulating.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Seems we're finding more and more things that centrist and left leaning people are, in fact, easier going about.

Meanwhile the righty Karens need to vet their streaming options for appropriate political messaging.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

You all must not visit the Twitter/elon thread. You’re willfully engaging with bait, feel your shame and post accordingly.

I imagine their next post will be to explain how Django painted the poor landowning southern farmers of the time in a bad light as they were actually magnanimous job creators and that's before we get to mentioning the despicable celebration of anti white violence in the film

I guess it was less obvious without the Kamala or AOC avatar.