Not really worth the time if you've seen Pride, which has the same clash-of-cultures between London queers and a working-class community from the English Midlands. The characters are just a bit flat, which is not helped by the fact that the best one (Lola) is not the focus of the story
This is one of the few films I actually regret watching. What a shambles. Lyonne is great, but there are tons of films and series out that do a lot more with her talents, and that aren't annoying edgelord horror movies that confuse everybody swearing all the time with darkness or meandering non-story with complexity. It doesn't even have the very low thrill of some decent gore.
Like the first one, this movie is dumb as dirt. But I do really like this franchise for the way it uses computers to tell a story. Feels like a cool new way of using film language.
Sandra Bullock in the nineties was so great, and yet she just could not find a director who knew how to make her charm work.
The movie itself the worst kind of book adaptation: instead of focussing on one aspect of this long story, it tries to cram it all in, and the tone whiplashes from high domestic drama to farce multiple times. I blame Akiva Goldsman.
Like all of Rian Johnson's genre pictures, this one is clever, fast, and most of all, fun. After noir and con-men, he now delivers a take on a whodunnit that twists and turns with the best of them. The cast is uniformly great - all these old actors hamming it up as one of those terrible moneyed families - and Daniel Craigs detective is one for the ages. Ana de Armas is fantastic, the direction is crisp and witty, the music is cool, and you just walk away with a big grin on your face
Satirizing the artworld is not exactly new grounds, and the whole thing has become so performative that actual good satire has become very hard (how many artworks could be parodies of themselves if looked at in a different way?). The way to not do it, I feel, is to present pretty dumb stuff and then call the characters idiots for liking it. Dan Gilroy might honestly be the least subtle director in the world, and while that worked for the leary creepers in Nightcrawler, I feel like a satire required a better screenwriter than him. Looks good though
This is the most boring possible comment about a book adaptation, but: read the book. It's much deeper and the film doesn't really add much. Plus all the male leads are in their forties and the women in their twenties which is just awkward.
Not really a standard behind-the-scenes documentary, but rather an insight into Tarkovsky's creative process. You see shots from him directing Offret, with a voice-over reading excerpts from Sculpting In Time, his book on directing. There are also some interspliced bits of old interviews. It's a nicely restrained film that doesn't at all fawn over its subject, but just watches him go about his work, making one of the most celebrated films of all time.
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Movie comment on Barbie
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This was as bubbly and as pop-feminist as I expected, but I didn't expect how weird this would getMovie comment on A Bread Factory, Part One
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Even if you feel like the word 'art' doesn't describe your interests, this is a lovely movie about a community in the style of Altman or Mike LeighMovie comment on Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
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Not as good as Walk Hard, but still pretty goodMovie comment on Blonde
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Don't go into this expecting a biopic. It's a horror movie. It just doesn't seem like one at first.Movie comment on West Side Story
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*takes out cigar* Spielbergs' still got it, baby!Movie comment on Kinky Boots
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Not really worth the time if you've seen Pride, which has the same clash-of-cultures between London queers and a working-class community from the English Midlands. The characters are just a bit flat, which is not helped by the fact that the best one (Lola) is not the focus of the storyMovie comment on Godzilla vs. Kong
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Monke go bonkMovie comment on Pacific Rim
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PEW PEW PEWMovie comment on Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution
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Cool, very visually busy documentary about a sub-subculture in the nineties that is mostly notable for the rebellious art that it inspiredMovie comment on Antibirth
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This is one of the few films I actually regret watching. What a shambles. Lyonne is great, but there are tons of films and series out that do a lot more with her talents, and that aren't annoying edgelord horror movies that confuse everybody swearing all the time with darkness or meandering non-story with complexity. It doesn't even have the very low thrill of some decent gore.Movie comment on Jui kuen
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I did not expect to see Jackie Chan giving his oponent the finger when he ran out of onelinersMovie comment on Unfriended: Dark Web
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Like the first one, this movie is dumb as dirt. But I do really like this franchise for the way it uses computers to tell a story. Feels like a cool new way of using film language.Movie comment on Practical Magic
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Sandra Bullock in the nineties was so great, and yet she just could not find a director who knew how to make her charm work.The movie itself the worst kind of book adaptation: instead of focussing on one aspect of this long story, it tries to cram it all in, and the tone whiplashes from high domestic drama to farce multiple times. I blame Akiva Goldsman.
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“The high-class clientele of this rats nest don’t want no sober house dick!”Movie comment on Knives Out
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Like all of Rian Johnson's genre pictures, this one is clever, fast, and most of all, fun. After noir and con-men, he now delivers a take on a whodunnit that twists and turns with the best of them. The cast is uniformly great - all these old actors hamming it up as one of those terrible moneyed families - and Daniel Craigs detective is one for the ages. Ana de Armas is fantastic, the direction is crisp and witty, the music is cool, and you just walk away with a big grin on your faceMovie comment on Velvet Buzzsaw
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Satirizing the artworld is not exactly new grounds, and the whole thing has become so performative that actual good satire has become very hard (how many artworks could be parodies of themselves if looked at in a different way?). The way to not do it, I feel, is to present pretty dumb stuff and then call the characters idiots for liking it. Dan Gilroy might honestly be the least subtle director in the world, and while that worked for the leary creepers in Nightcrawler, I feel like a satire required a better screenwriter than him. Looks good thoughMovie comment on Double Play
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This is the most boring possible comment about a book adaptation, but: read the book. It's much deeper and the film doesn't really add much. Plus all the male leads are in their forties and the women in their twenties which is just awkward.Movie comment on Regi Andrej Tarkovskij
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Not really a standard behind-the-scenes documentary, but rather an insight into Tarkovsky's creative process. You see shots from him directing Offret, with a voice-over reading excerpts from Sculpting In Time, his book on directing. There are also some interspliced bits of old interviews. It's a nicely restrained film that doesn't at all fawn over its subject, but just watches him go about his work, making one of the most celebrated films of all time.Movie comment on The Incredible Jessica James
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Cute and immediately forgettable.Movie comment on Good Boys Use Condoms
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http://www.xvideos.com/video15063839/good_boys_use_condoms_1998_film_(Yeah, it's on a porn site)
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You can (legally!) watch it here: https://www.npostart.nl/aanmodderfakker/30-07-2018/AT_2106509 (mod-edit: (free) login required)DVD quality on the highest setting.
Movie comment on Victoria
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Little warning: this movie is pretty swell, but the camerawork made me incredibly carsick.Movie comment on Kill Your Darlings
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What a goddamn awful piece of shit. Alan Ginsberg would set his eyes on fire if he had to watch this.Movie comment on Borgman
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This is such a fun movie.Bring the kids.
Movie comment on Room 237
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This movie is completely bonkers, and nothing in it makes any kind of sense.That said, it's still a pretty fun documentary. You could watch it as a really interesting take on how the human mind works when it sees movies.
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