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14 hours ago, majestic said:

I want to take this opportunity to apologize to @David Lynch who most likely isn't reading this forum anway that I called Mulholland Drive pretentious cow droppings. I profusely apologize and repent, I have seen the light. Yep.

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4 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:

...Alright, I'm twenty minutes in, and I think I have to call it quits. This is deathly boring.

It is, and it never gets better, although there is one moment in the film that caused me to laugh out loud. Not sure when that was, but I think it was after twenty minutes.

Jessica is looking for Hernan and stumbles across a jazz jam session. Bass, piano, guitar and drums. The camera just holds on Jessica and some other people initially rapturously (then somewhat uncomfortably) watching the performance for one and a half minutes, and then the scene switches to their point of view and one can observe the band.

Clearly art. What could spell out ART any better than some jazz in this piece of art?  

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"Everything everywhere all at once". It's basically a feel good film with a simple message of "Talk to, listen to and all in all pay attention to your family, also be kind", but conveys it  in a fun, non-saccharine way. 

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Downfall (2004). That one German film where the funny Hitler meme videos come from. It's been about fifteen years since I last watched it, and it doesn't hold up quite as well as I thought it would; there's way too many very pointed "how could we have known this would happen"-type inserts that feel clumsy and out of place throughout the film. When the film is just proceeding along without the overbearing moralizations is when it's good, but there are too many such detours that awkwardly feel somewhere between either self-apologist or revisionist.

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Watched the indian bromance movie RRR. It was honestly not bad. Bit too long, though. Could probably cut at least 30 minutes out of it and not miss out on anything. Still, pretty fun action flick for the most of it, and not boring (I have a tendency to fall asleep in nowadays action movies, which I didn't here).

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It reminds me of the trailers they did for late 80s direct to VHS movies, which in itself is really weird.  

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37 minutes ago, Hurlsnot said:

It probably works better in black and white, but I don't get it. Is it supposed to be making fun of The Munsters?

Its a super-love letter to The Munsters; ostensibly a "how-did-they-get-together" prequel showing how Herman met Lilly, married and left Transylvania to move to mocking bird lane.  Lots of references to the show (the Wolfman and Gillman are relative's who appear in the show; Herman's driving outfit from THE MUNSTER'S GO HOME amid other more obscure one) plus the nods the Universal and Hammer Frankenstein and Dracula films).

But the pacing on the trailer is really whack, like it wasn't edited right (or, as I mentioned, was edited to attain a faux 1987 direct-to-video feel.

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"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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On 7/15/2022 at 6:48 PM, Amentep said:

 

People need to let the 80's go.

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RRR

 

So it's ridiculous. Between the CGI animals and the Indian supermen who can fly, this movie is ludicrous. Extreme camp, could not be sillier of it tried.

Somehow it works.

The plot isn't much to write home about, the characters are shallow, and the singing is not my thing. It feels like a pastiche of action films, and that's where the beauty lies. When you think about it, Bheem throwing a cgi tiger at British troops like it's a discus is no less ridiculous than some of the stuff you'd see an action film try to do seriously. By making this stuff just blatantly ridiculous and not slapping coats of paint to try to cover it up with serious stuff, it's able to shine in absurdity. 

"Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic

"you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus

"Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander

"Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador

"You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort

"thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex

"Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock

"Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco

"we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii

"I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing

"feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth

"Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi

"Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor

"I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine

"I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands

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15 hours ago, Raithe said:

 

I'm getting a certain panto vibe...

No Jeremy Irons hamming it up no care.

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9 hours ago, KP wants Blue Velvet said:

RRR

 

So it's ridiculous. Between the CGI animals and the Indian supermen who can fly, this movie is ludicrous. Extreme camp, could not be sillier of it tried.

Somehow it works.

The plot isn't much to write home about, the characters are shallow, and the singing is not my thing. It feels like a pastiche of action films, and that's where the beauty lies. When you think about it, Bheem throwing a cgi tiger at British troops like it's a discus is no less ridiculous than some of the stuff you'd see an action film try to do seriously. By making this stuff just blatantly ridiculous and not slapping coats of paint to try to cover it up with serious stuff, it's able to shine in absurdity. 

I really liked the movie and I'm tempted to check out other indian movies now. My only issue with it was that it did feel a bit too long. There's some flashback scenes that could have been shorter, and then there are flashback scenes that we already saw and showing them again was just annoying, etc.

I really liked how the two main guys became bros. It was a real brodude adventure.

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