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I like Coogler and root for him, but Sinners doesn’t look like my kind of movie. Plus I never like when one actor plays twins or two characters, etc. It’s such a distracting gimmick. Oh look, one touched the other one or handed him something — cool!

I’ll probably see it eventually, but overall I’d like him to get away from the Creeds and Wakandas of the world and get back to the kind of story he actually told well — Fruitvale Station.
 
Sinners -- Really a remarkable film with a set of fine performances and a unique historical presentation. The core story and the supernatural trappings were interesting, but the stylistic presentation is more what makes it one of the best of this year.

Another one of the top five so far is Warfare. This is a true story, a simple one, with astounding realism in its depiction of the worst horrors of modern combat. It has scenes that are extremely difficult experiences for the audience, along the lines of the opening of Saving Private Ryan or the sniper scene in Full Metal Jacket. Great films can do almost anything, and if soldiers in our world have to live these events it's not asking too much of us to see a realistic depiction of war, like this film shows us with supreme direction, acting and writing.
 
Sharp Corner -- Very good film, with a strong and pretty eccentric performance by Ben Foster. This reminds me of greater films like Todd Haynes' Safe and Michael Shannon's acting tour de force of Take Shelter. Though those two stories are far different in details, the general theme of this one is likewise about a seemingly ordinary person who is gradually losing his mind to obsessive thoughts.
 
Centerpiece said:
“Flow”
Out of Latvia.
No dialogue so don’t worry about subtitles.
Incredible film. You should watch it.
Academy Award winner
Festival de Cannes winner
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I finally watched Flow recently, on a plane. Really enjoyed it and I’m not an animation guy. Worthy of the acclaim it got.
 
duluoz said:
I’m not much of a zombie/horror guy, but this trailer is so insanely good that I’m interested:
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It’s almost time for this one.

I rewatched 28 Days Later, and 28 Weeks Later (for the first time) in the last few weeks. It looks like they’re stepping it up a bit for this one, in terms of the post-apocalyptic world that developed after the Rage Virus outbreak. My expectations are up there, especially after that original trailer.

Not my type of movie but I’m definitely looking forward to it, feels like an event.
 
an0maly said:
Sharp Corner -- Very good film, with a strong and pretty eccentric performance by Ben Foster. This reminds me of greater films like Todd Haynes' Safe and Michael Shannon's acting tour de force of Take Shelter. Though those two stories are far different in details, the general theme of this one is likewise about a seemingly ordinary person who is gradually losing his mind to obsessive thoughts.
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Really enjoyed Take Shelter, that’s a dark one.

Hadn’t heard of the other two, though I have liked Todd Haynes’ stuff.
 
Watched John wick 4 last night.

“Can you get me close to Sacre Cœur?”
“We got you”

They proceed to let him out at the Trocadéro????

He had to go through 75 fights and get hit by a dozen cars cuz they can’t read a map???
 
duluoz said:
Really enjoyed Take Shelter, that’s a dark one.

Hadn’t heard of the other two, though I have liked Todd Haynes’ stuff.
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Haynes' Safe is to me a masterpiece, and one of the most Kubrickian films I have ever seen (meaning here emotional remove and sharp observations of humanity, and highly formalized visuals). Extremely subtle film with I think Juliene Moore's best performance. A top five film of the 90s for me.

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Saw Drop - This attempt at a thriller annoyed me, got dumb and dumber, which I consider not at all thrilling.

Saw The Amateur - Some sort of variation on the first three Bourne films (the 3 best action films ever, to me), but with a computer nerd. It was as awkward as it sounds, but I guess watchable as some sort of revenge-er-tainment. Rami Malek's performance was flat and dull.

Saw Black Bag - Super clever, a lot of fun, not all that believable. This could end up being one of the best of the year, but that only is, given this is not a very good year for films yet.
 
Saw 28 Years Later today. It is VERY different from the first two; really more of a deviation. There are certainly moments of gore and thrills, but the infected are mainly found on the periphery of this character-driven story. If you're expecting 2 solid hours of action, this is not the movie for you.

I still enjoyed it, even with the notable change in tone from the first two.

Trailer:
 
korgguy1971 said:
Saw 28 Years Later today. It is VERY different from the first two; really more of a deviation. There are certainly moments of gore and thrills, but the infected are mainly found on the periphery of this character-driven story. If you're expecting 2 solid hours of action, this is not the movie for you.

I still enjoyed it, even with the notable change in tone from the first two.

Trailer:
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Yeah I mentioned this here a few days ago. Haven’t seen it yet but likely soon.

I also found out it’s the beginning of a new trilogy. Which made me roll my eyes more than it excites me. Studios get so greedy and just beat their IP into the ground these days.

But I’m still curious to see how it is. And the frenetic bloody action scenes are the least interesting things about it for me. “Gore and thrills” usually bore the hell out of me, so I won’t miss that element if it’s not prevalent.
 
korgguy1971 said:
Saw 28 Years Later today. It is VERY different from the first two; really more of a deviation. There are certainly moments of gore and thrills, but the infected are mainly found on the periphery of this character-driven story. If you're expecting 2 solid hours of action, this is not the movie for you.

I still enjoyed it, even with the notable change in tone from the first two.

Trailer:
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I was generally impressed. There are several small problems I have with aspects of the story, like why take a boy into the extremely dangerous outside world for "training" at extreme risk, when that could wait a few years until he far more capable in every way. I still think this is slightly goofy zombie lore for these constantly "28" franchise films, and not close to how great the ideas are in the game The Last of Us. I did laugh at the new notion of a fat slob zombie--I suppose laughter was not what they were going for.

The entire set piece of the finale was pretty stunning, but less so, accompanying the Big Idea weighty attempt at philosophizing about life and death in our world. Some critics loved that to extreme degrees.

Again, overall, it's an amazing film in some ways, much above the other 28 time frame movies.
 
Took my son to see Jurassic World Rebirth. It wasn’t a good movie but it was entertaining enough. I mainly paid to see dinosaurs chasing and eating people and got that. The plot was wafer thin, the characters had almost no depth and gave us very little reason to care about them, and they constantly made idiotic decisions. The end was also very anticlimactic and for several minutes I felt like something big had to happen after that.

And what I’m about to say could be considered a spoiler but it’s really not IMO: With two possible exceptions, once you meet all the characters who are going out on the big adventure together, you pretty much immediately know who is going to die fairly early on and you soon know which character is going to get their comeuppance in the end.
 
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