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  1. 16 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Wife and I saw this and it was damn good. Yeah, it's propaganda and all that shit, but I love that they didn't pick a side and now people are up in arms about it instead of understanding it's shot through the eyes of the reporters. 

    Jesse Plemmons character was unsettling, which was a major bonus. 

    He's in it for all of 15 minutes and steals the show. As is typical for Jesse Plemons.

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  2. Just got back from the theater and wow. My son and I both thought it was amazing, but I don't think the trailer gives you a good idea of the movie itself, which is much more bleak.

    My degree is in journalism and this movie had me thinking about the photo from the Sudan in 1993 of the child and the vulture. The photographer, Kevin Carter, won the Pulitzer for it and took his own life a few months later. It re-ignited the whole debate about objectivity in journalism and what the role of journalists is in volatile situations. Are they just there to document and record, or do they step in and try to help? My stance has always been that we are humans first and that journalism, as necessary as it is to a free state, is a job and comes second to helping people. I will grant that that is an idealistic position and I've never been a war reporter. I'll spoiler the next part.

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    Civil War does a great job of straddling that line, but at the end I think it lands on the side of "humans first", with Lee sacrificing herself to save Jessie. Jessie will turn into Lee (but will die younger), but by the time she's Lee's age, there won't be any remnants of when the 50 states were united. It'll be full-on dystopia. And by that point, everyone will be in survival mode and modern ethics will be a relic. There'll be no need to debate this topic because it will be irrelevant.

    War renders all of this irrelevant. We all return to our base elements when we're knocked down several rungs in Maslow's hierarchy. Kirsten Dunst is fantastic at portraying someone who was raised in a world vastly different than the one she ends up living in. I hope she gets some recognition come awards season.

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  3. On 4/23/2024 at 10:30 PM, wutang75 said:

    Abigail. Not as good as Ready or Not but definitely worth seeing. Agreed with others they messed up giving it away in the trailer. That kid (also in Matilda) is a little badass. She killed it.

    Ha, I had the exact same thought about it re the comparison to Ready or Not. We definitely still enjoyed it, though.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Superhero said:

    Have you seen the latest Ryan Gosling one?

     

    Oh yeah, this one's amazing. I think it's the longest break I've ever seen. Poor Heidi Gardner kept apologizing the next day but it's so damn funny.

  5. On 4/23/2024 at 12:14 PM, TexPx said:


    Yeah that series was great. Only watched the first new one and to me it came across as a bit forced and scripted.

    This is how I felt, too. It's not bad but Conan Without Borders seems a lot more genuine. The Haiti episode is awesome and reminds me of the No Reservations Beirut episode.

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  6. Some of it's gross and some of it's gorgeous. Ooty is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. The city roads can be terrifying - somewhere I have a video from when my coworker and I took an auto-rickshaw through the streets of Bangalore and ever time I watch it I just hear circus music playing in my head. And re: the weather, Bangalore's weather in the summer is shockingly wonderful. I was there for two weeks in July and the highest it got was 80 F.

    That said, I haven't been to Delhi but I have an American friend who lived there for a long time with her Indian husband and yeah, it doesn't sound like somewhere I'd want to live, between the weather and now dumpster fires. 

  7. On 4/19/2024 at 12:40 AM, Biff Tannen said:

    Watch the new Hot Ones with Conan on YouTube if you want to see one of the most insane things you’ve ever seen ever. 

    I was completely grossed out but couldn't look away.

  8. Ella Purnell is in Yellowjackets, which is fantastic. I had no idea she was British until someone posted it upthread. With her American accent she sounds like Emma Stone.

    I'm only in episode 4 but I loved the Matt Berry cameo. I would listen to that man read the goddamn phone book.

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  9. Saw this today with my 15-yo son and and we both loved it. Good pacing, creepy, and a sidekick character who's a dead ringer for Guillermo from Kimmel. David D. does an amazing job. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets some award nods for this role.

  10. On 3/30/2024 at 7:06 PM, Parliament said:

    Tremors (1990).  Good as I remember.

    "What the Hell kinda fuze is that?"


    "Cannon fuze."

    "What do you use it for?"

    "My cannon."

    This is one of my favorite movies ever. 

    "I'm a victim of circumstance."

    "I thought you called it your pecker."

  11. Went to an advance showing of this at Alamo South Lamar tonight. It's not the greatest movie I've ever seen but is still fine for what it is. If you like The Omen you'll like it as a prequel. I've never seen the sequels and felt like I was missing something at the end so I may check those out.

     

  12. On 4/2/2024 at 11:32 AM, MrBig said:

    Nobody should be abusing anyone. The point is that Billy Zane didn’t start flipping tables and slapping Rose around until after he caught her dancing with Jack in third-class and posing topless for his art. He wasn’t slapping her around until she got that Dawson dick.

     

    Ok well it's still not ok to slap someone around even if they are cheating on you.

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