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Old 05-16-2021, 01:34 PM   #2921
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Spontaneous is a really fun take on a teen comedy.

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Old 05-17-2021, 08:26 AM   #2922
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Watched The Woman in the Window this weekend. Meh, it's no Rear Window.

It has quite the cast, probably the nicest compliment I can give it. It would have been an utter disaster at the box office.
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Old 05-18-2021, 02:01 AM   #2923
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Get Out was a fun movie to watch.
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Old 05-18-2021, 06:45 PM   #2924
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So Tenet was interesting. I didn’t get the complaints about the sound quality of characters’ voices; everything was pretty clear on that front. What wasn’t clear was what was going on. The overall plot was fine understandable, but the details were confusing and seemed really inconsistent.

My hearing must be worse than I thought because so much of the dialogue was absolutely incomprehensible to me. I have to watch again with subtitles.
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Old 05-20-2021, 09:36 AM   #2925
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Inception is a hackneyed mess of a movie.
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Old 05-20-2021, 08:58 PM   #2926
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My hearing must be worse than I thought because so much of the dialogue was absolutely incomprehensible to me. I have to watch again with subtitles.
That is a common complaint.
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Old 05-20-2021, 10:46 PM   #2927
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What parts did people think the dialogue was unintelligible?
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Old 05-21-2021, 07:56 AM   #2928
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Mostly the scenes where they have people talking. I looked for some Youtube stuff, but no one actually shows clips in their reviews. So many dialog scenes have overwhelming background noise. Maybe your sound setup works better for it? I've got 5.1 and had a lot of trouble.
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Old 05-21-2021, 08:54 AM   #2929
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Watched Last Action Hero for the first time, thought it was great. Maybe the world wasn't ready for this meta action movie in 1993. Certainly didn't help that it came out one week after a little movie about dinosaur's called Jurassic Park
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Mostly the scenes where they have people talking. I looked for some Youtube stuff, but no one actually shows clips in their reviews. So many dialog scenes have overwhelming background noise. Maybe your sound setup works better for it? I've got 5.1 and had a lot of trouble.

That might be case then, I was just watching on a plain TV. I guess they could have fixed sound levels.
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Watched Last Action Hero for the first time, thought it was great.
Highly underrated film.
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I actually had the Last Action Hero soundtrack on the other day. Anthrax, Tesla, 2 Alice in Chains tracks and AC/DC, awesome.
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If the intent with WW84 was to invoke shades of Batman and Robin, they definitely succeeded.

I have no words for how awful this movie is.
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Army of the Dead is way too long.
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Army of the Dead is way too long.
Is this worth watching? Kind of looks like schlock to me.
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Old 05-23-2021, 01:46 PM   #2936
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Is this worth watching? Kind of looks like schlock to me.
It's a mix of every zombie and heist movie trope but it does them pretty well. I just wish it was about 30-40 minutes shorter.

Edit: The scenes with Tig Notaro are a little off-putting. They added her digitally to replace Chris D'Elia so it's not her fault. I think she did a good job.

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Old 05-23-2021, 01:49 PM   #2937
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It's a mix of every zombie and heist movie trope but it does them pretty well. I just wish it was about 30-40 minutes shorter.
I'm not falling for any more of Zack Snyder's crap.

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Old 05-23-2021, 02:07 PM   #2938
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Army of the Dead was fine. Gives you all you ever need from a zombie movie, gore, death, chunky slimey zombie ooze, bad decisuon from the characters. Yes it runs a bit too long in the tooth. They could have chopped down the final 40.

But overall its a zombie movie, Zach Snyder tried to eff it up and he couldnt. Just too much good zombie movie stuff to miss out on.

Its not Zombieland though. It doesnt even come close.
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Old 05-23-2021, 02:54 PM   #2939
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Started watching Tenant - and while I'm really enjoying it so far, I can't imagine trying to watch in the theatre I don't think there is a movie that I've had to rewind and watch something again so frequently to make sure I know WTF is going on.

The sound mix does also seem really off in some scenes - but I have to think it was a creative choice and not an error.
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Started watching Tenant - and while I'm really enjoying it so far, I can't imagine trying to watch in the theatre I don't think there is a movie that I've had to rewind and watch something again so frequently to make sure I know WTF is going on.

The sound mix does also seem really off in some scenes - but I have to think it was a creative choice and not an error.
Do yourself a favour and turn subtitles on.
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