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Movies Personal Top 10 Films of 2022 - It's List Time Ya'll
Bloodporne replied to SoberChef's topic in The Performing Arts Centre
It's hard for me to even remember what I watched. The only one that really stuck with me as great would be Banshees of Inisherin. The Northman is absolutely #1 disappointment though, be it a new flick I saw or revisiting something old. Worst piece of shit of the year goes to that Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I actively hate this movie. -
I wish I could find a clip of it online but the whole Jews control the media line will never not bring to mind Jon Stewart on the Daily Show doing a segment about some white supremacist calling TV the Electric Jew. The punchline was him going "coincidentally that was my breakdance name in High School" and it had one of the greatest bad photoshops they ever had on there. It was some old pic of Stewart with an absolutely ridiculous Grandmaster Flash looking studded-out yarmulke and huge shades or something. I almost pissed myself
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Also to add one thing I keep circling back to with some of these Arthouse Horror flicks. Many seem to be essentially semi-inept rehashes of Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. To me, a movie like Men is to Repulsion what a movie like X is to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I get everything, especially at this stage, is heavily influenced by something but there's something extra annoying to me about blatant "template movies" that also fail at it. And not, I don't think Men for example is a 100% rip of the aforementioned either but just something that kept nagging me.
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General Gaming What are you playing today?
Bloodporne replied to CastlevaniaNut18's topic in The Spawn Point
Also, Dead Cells is crack. Bought it as well, booted it up tonight, turned around and 3 hours had disappeared. This game is really damn good so far. -
General Gaming What are you playing today?
Bloodporne replied to CastlevaniaNut18's topic in The Spawn Point
Not I always avoided it because of that but figured hey, I'll finally try it for $4 or whatever it was...how bad can it be hot on the heels of RE1R!? Even the basic act of shooting the zombies feels somehow noticeably worse. Weird game. -
General Gaming What are you playing today?
Bloodporne replied to CastlevaniaNut18's topic in The Spawn Point
I just bought Resident Evil Zero for a few bucks last night. It looks great, it controls well but man, I was two hours in and gave up. This partner system is so obnoxious, the item management sucks ass and is them completely overthinking something that did not need to change and already worked well. First boss fight is a giant...Scorpion! On a train! Okay, no, I'm good. I just replayed RE1 Remake and that game is a masterpiece so I expected this to be at least a chip off that block. It's just fucking annoying. -
I took it as a futuristic take on classic Southern Gothic themes. Coincidentally I've been reading quite a few books of that ilk lately. The obsession with a Christ-like figure coming down the Mississippi for example, very Delta Blues-ish in my eyes. It reminds me a lot of a movie like Inherent Vice, or I guess the Big Lebowski. It's the overall place, like Los Angeles in TBL's case, that's the main character and we're witnessing the weird stories in it. I really, really like this game in that regard, I think it has a really strong sense of place and its mysticism. Since I tend to get wrapped up in things that strike me like this, I went on a deep dive yesterday and checked out some developer interviews. They're very involved in the Steam community surrounding the game and flat-out answer people's lore and story questions and so on. Interestingly, they basically answered "we did what we could with our budget and schedule limitations in terms of scope but trust us, there was WAY more wanted to tell" and they've apparently made the whole lore document they used to write the game available to posters on the Steam board, kind of wild. I might take a dive into that over the weekend if I feel up to and report back.
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I went with two other people and yeah, they thought it was great and were baffled by my reaction to it. I thought it was a rote exercise in style that felt oddly boring and thin despite the endless "intensity" of half-naked men screaming and fighting. Really disappointing film overall and a baffling performance by Skarsgard imo. PS: And yeah, I was really looking forward to it myself because it's Robert Eggers. He's one of those directors that I feel like has a legit masterpiece in him but hasn't gotten there just yet. Northman feels like a misstep but many great directors take those and I'd love to see him come back swinging.
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I was expecting an epilogue of sorts. I thought we would circle back to the people in the fishing huts where we initially got the boat. I didn't mind the weirdness but I felt the abruptness of the end left me hanging. Again, I was firmly expecting to circle back with the folks in the room. I guess I should've brought the Meter back earlier. One of my biggest questions really is
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I think I wrote about it in the "Movies You've Seen" thread but yeah, I loved this one as well. It's one of those movies that kind of just took me with its ride and vastly more bizarre shit could've happened and I would've been on board with it just because I found the world and atmosphere it created so believable and immersive. His sister cursing people out was a real treat every single time! PS: Also big fan of In Bruges. Saw it at the local indie theater when it came out and preordered it on DVD as soon as I had the chance.
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For those who have been married, what did you do for your last name?
Bloodporne replied to Fizzzzle's topic in The Shower
My ex-wife just hyphenated. Gladly our two last names actually sounded decent together. That being said, it was 100% up to her, I felt like that wasn't even for me to have an opinion on necessarily. -
Men - 6/10 I feel like at this point I should just stop writing my thoughts on A24 films on this forum because it's always the same post. I thought Men had a really good setup and very intriguing mystery in the shape of their relationship and marriage. There was some really beautiful atmosphere going on in the first half of the film and I especially enjoyed the soundtrack. Also, some quite gothic scenes here and there, a nice cocktail overall. Then the by now trademark A24-ing occurs and of course shit has to get CUHHH-RAZZYYY. It's not that I don't understand the metaphors for the most part, it's more that I find the execution and the way it ties into the infinitely more interesting issue of their relationship and last day to be just so fucking "arthouse rote". Much imagery, much religion, much psychological stuff! But it felt empty and detached from the actual, interesting conflict to me. It felt like the sequence in the 3rd act were shoehorned in because goddamnit, we'll make em fit. It all felt very haphazardly related. Yes, I get it, bad men birth bad men, men are bad, cycles of abuse, there's some absurdly on-the-nose Adam & Eve shit but why are we truly concerned with this in the greater scheme of things when we know the absolutely devastating personal tragedy at hand? The film spends so much time fixated on Geoffrey (sp?), it just didn't congeal for me at all and felt more like an empty exercise in pretentious imagery with a flimsy excuse that it ties into the actual crux of plot. A lot of potential and so much wasted, the story of A24 films for me at this point. Just because it's ambiguous or surreal doesn't mean it's good and creates a coherent atmosphere. And really, one of those points of the 6 is for the first act's nature photography and the church scene, which I loved.