Movie Record 2022 Edition - The Bear and Badger

ShabbyMcCrabby

LivDiv wrote:

20. Alita Battle Angel
Absolute shite. 2 hours of audio and visual noise. Its ugly as sin with zero depth.
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1 point for the CG work?

LivDiv

Yeah. Strictly for some of the technical accomplishment because artistically it was horrible.

poprock

The Tinder Swindler
I’m not really into true crime stuff but this exposé of a con man was well put together. Deserves a [7].

Cos

30. Turning Red
It’s not top tier Pixar but even so there’s plenty to enjoy. Lots of well observed touches throughout and well rounded characters. It was a bit overlong and the final third was a bit dry of laughs but there were plenty of brilliantly funny moments and heart in the film overall to make it a worthwhile watch. Looks fantastic too, of course. [7]

Wookienopants

poprock wrote:

The Tinder Swindler
I’m not really into true crime stuff but this exposé of a con man was well put together. Deserves a [7].

I keep misreading this title as The Tilda Swinton

Moot_Geeza

She's in it I think. Unless my colleague was irked by my question and lied.

Wookienopants

Moot_Geeza wrote:

She's in it I think. Unless my colleague was irked by my question and lied.

Why isn't it called "Tilda Swintons Tinder Swindler"?

Moot_Geeza

Something like that

Moot_Geeza

He stood next to her at a Nick Cave concert once so reckons he's a bit of an authority on all things Swindleton.

davyK

Jojo Rabbit starts off as quite a broad satire but takes a turn off that road into something else. This is a great film - squeezed a tear or two out of me - not afraid to admit.

The cast are universally superb in this enigma of a film - impossible to categorise or forget.

Watching this at this particular time makes me war weary and pretty disconsolate about the state of the world right now - but as the poet Rilke is quoted at the end, No feeling is final.

ShabbyMcCrabby

JoJo

The

Spoiler:

davyK

heh.

Gremill

29. Knives Out
A rewatch, but because I didn't really remember much of it (although as it progressed I remembered more) I really enjoyed it as over again. Superb cast, great script and very funny at times. 8

30. The Matrix
One of the most 90s movies of the 90s. Very Green and at times a bit cringe it's still a cracking action romp even though a lot of it has been memes to death and has lost a bit of its impact. 8

ShabbyMcCrabby

29. Fresh
Aw man, it started so well (love seeing the Searchlight intro again) but it was just so haphazard once it got more horror-y. It was also too long.
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Raiziel

I’ve heard nothing but good about Fresh (until now!). Looking forward to giving it a try.

Dark Soldier

I found Fresh to be great personally, top fun. Agreed on the length though

davyK

The Lighthouse What is this? Psychological thriller or horror film? Maybe both.

I certainly wasn't expecting what I got that's for sure. There's a ton of stuff going on here, Insanity, sexuality, isolation, toxic masculinity, alcohol, secrets, seawater and rain, the foghorn, the light - all adding up to the adventure holiday from hell..

A remarkable film and will require a rewatch at some point. Pattinson is unrecognisable in this alongside Defoe who is comfortably at home in this but equally brilliant.

ShabbyMcCrabby

The Lighthouse is a comedy. A very dark comedy. Took me a little while into it to realise that I was allowed to laugh.

Dark Soldier wrote:

I found Fresh to be great personally, top fun. Agreed on the length though

Spoiler:

davyK

There is comedy in there. The situation itself lends to it. There were times I chuckled. But it gets very dark and screwed up in places.

ShabbyMcCrabby

30. Come True
I love that Shudder is another avenue for horror films to be made but dang I feel this should have been a bigger release. Would have been amazing on a cinema screen. Amazing CG work. The writing was a bit on the nose at times though.
[8 with the writing, 9 for everything else]

Made my sound system worthwhile too. Although my neighbours might disagree.

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Now this is where Raz explains what everything means to me.

ShabbyMcCrabby

davyK wrote:

There is comedy in there. The situation itself lends to it. There were times I chuckled. But it gets very dark and screwed up in places.

"What?"

It is only just moments of comedy but I love that he had that in there. It has a bit of everything really, as you say.

Can't wait for his next one. He's been very coy about it with the story and how it was shot.

davyK

Flatulence always, and will always, extract a laugh.

Raiziel

Hurray! @Shabby saw Come True!

Regarding what’s going…

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ShabbyMcCrabby

Raiziel wrote:

Hurray! @Shabby saw Come True!

Regarding what’s going…

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I can’t say exactly. I watched an interview with the writer/director and he basically said that not all of the film is a coma dream. My guess is she slips into a coma during either the laundromat or sex scene.

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Raiziel

@Shabby

Spoiler:

ShabbyMcCrabby

Raiziel wrote:

@Shabby

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It’s never explained why she’s estranged from her family, and personally I’m really okay with that. I like that the filmmaker doesn’t feel the need to explain everything to the viewer. And who knows how sick she is to begin with, but the sleep program almost certainly triggers something that ends up putting her in a coma.

Also, the reason I go back and forth on whether she slips into a coma sooner or later is because of those vampire teeth at the very end. Just before the sex scene she watches the doctor dreaming of her, and in that dream she has fangs, which could later influence her coma dream.

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ShabbyMcCrabby

31. Seaspiracy
Guy who loves oceans but, apparently, never watched The Cove digs into the fishing industry. Even though it's very one-sided it really does paint a fire and sad picture. I think deep down we know how harmful fishing practices are and if this is even partially true then we're still fucked
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Minkymu

The first pictures of Nic Cage as Count Dracula are out!

Paul the sparky

Oh no

Gremill

Albino Hugh Hefner.

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