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Watched the By Any Means trailer expecting standard Wahlberg tough guy stuff and now I’m annoyed because it looks like he showed up for this one 

Him playing Greg Scarpa makes way more sense once you know Scarpa was a real Colombo mobster working as an FBI informant

Wahlberg has always been better to me when he plays a slightly unhinged asshole instead of Generic Action Dad™

Getting some of that old Departed energy here and I’m kinda into it

Finally took the time to sit down and watch Dune. For reference I’m not a huge sci fi fan but I can appreciate it. I remember watching the one from 2000 but I never watched the 80s one because I was too young (45F for context)

First of all Timothee Chalamet is a very handsome young man, I can see what the fuss is about in my mom friend groups.

But importantly, there were so many parts of the movie I just didn’t follow. I had a tough time understanding the different factions and the different politics. On top of that I had a tough time following what was going on. Is this the kind of movie where I needed knowledge of the books going into it? Or the type of movie that needs to be watched more than once?

Don’t get me wrong it’s a beautiful movie and I want to keep watching the second one in preparation for the third one. But I just want some help appreciating it!

Saw a clip on TikTok about a week ago. A young boy keeps turning up injured/mutilated. In the scene I saw he's at a doctor's office with his parents, telling the doctor about "them" taking him — nobody believes him. Another

Now I want to be clear and say that I'm not trying to start a debate about the quality of the prequels. Instead what I'm trying to do is to start a discussion about something that I have speculated about for a while now.

When it comes to the prequels, whether or not you like them you cannot deny that when they were released there were a lot of older Star Wars fans who grew up with the OT who despised them. That had a big influence on not just the the decisions that were made by Disney in the sequel trilogy but also on the Star Wars fandom in general and the way people discuss movies and filmmaking especially when it comes to things like the amount of resources, a director not having anyone saying no to him or her etc. They also made a lot of older fans automatically very sceptical about movies that ahve a lot of computer generated effects. Now it's worth to think about the fact that it wasn't always this within the majority of the fandom. If you go on YouTube you can see videos were they are interviewing fans who had seen the first trailer for The Phantom Menace and they were all super excited. Now if you've seen any of the trailers for that movie then you'll know that Lucas made no attempt whatsoever in hiding the fact that there was gonna be tons of computer generated effects in the movie yet that didn't stop fans from dying to see the movie. The mindset as we all know certainly changed for a lot of fans though after they had seen all three films.

The reception to the prequels had an especially big inflluence on how people discuss movies on YouTube since they lead to the Plinkett reviews which had a big impact on how people review movies online. What those reviews above all showed was that people were willing to watch negative movie reviews that were as long as a feature film. While comedic negative reviews on YouTube had already become popular prior to that with Nostalgia Critic it was still something new to have a review that long.

But what do you think it would have been like if the prequels had been embraced by the older fans? Let's say that Lucas had managed to get other directors and writers onbaord which results in a prequel trilogy that is universally beloved by both older and younger Star Wars fans. What would have been different in that case? How would that have impacted the sequel trilogy in such scenario?

What would it have been like with film discussion in that case? Would people still have talked as much about how a director should not have too many resources, no one saying no aswell as being very opposed to having a lot of computer generated effects in a movie. Now when itc omes to the later I'm sure that there would still have been a lot of people who would have prefered practical effects but would it have been to teh same enormous degree though?

What I find particulary interesting to think about in regard to online film discussion is that in such a situation we would not have had the Plinkett reviews of the prequels at all. I truely don't think that there would have been nearly as many super long negative reviews/ video essays on YouTube about why movie X is terrible if it weren't for them, or I do at the very least think that they wouldn't have been as popular as they ended up being in our universe.

I apologize if this comes across as a bunch of rambling and I know that this is a very specuative thing to discuss but I would love to hear your thoughts.

Hi everyone, I feel like I've searched the entire internet and still haven't found what I'm looking for, so as a last resort, I'm asking for your help.

I'm looking for a movie I watched a long time ago. The plot revolved around two elderly men / retirees from England (or somewhere in the UK) who lived next door to each other in an apartment building / tenement house. They shared a dream of finally moving to sunny Australia to spend the rest of their lives there, and they were saving money together for this trip.

Near the end of the film, one of them passes away (I think in his apartment), and the other one finds him and is completely devastated. Eventually, though, he decides to fulfill their shared dream and moves to Australia on his own.

I don't remember the cast and unfortunately don't recall any other details. I'm looking for this movie because I really feel the urge to watch it again, but I just can't remember the title and it's driving me crazy. Does this ring a bell for anyone? Any help with the title would be greatly appreciated!

Godfather Part II is exceptional, while the third film is often seen as fairly poor.

Aliens is regarded as sublime, Alien 3 is very much not.

Terminator 2 Judgement Day is generally seen as the best film in the franchise (I still like the first one). The third one is mostly carried by Arnie.

Lethal Weapon 2 arguably has better villains than the first one (Joss Ackland’s best peformance arguably). The third one fees like a regression and the villain is pretty small fry.

Only exception I can think of is possibly Die Hard With a Vengeance (I personally prefer Die Hard 2, but Samuel L Jackson is decent in the third), but you still feel like you would rather be watching the more interesting Gruber brother, Hans rather than Simon.

Went to AMC Scream Unseen tonight. Movie sucked. Bought a 4 pack of beer (Conehead Haze by Zero Gravity for anyone interested, favorite beer on the planet). Looking for a movie to watch to make me forget It Ends. What should I watch! Looking for low brainpower, easily enjoyable films

Why do filmmakers like Christopher Nolan make movies that feel like commercial blockbusters, even though their movies are also highly acclaimed, critically praised, and considered great works of cinema? His movies become huge blockbusters, to the point that even so-called art films or Oscar-bait movies often cannot compete with them commercially.

For example, Christopher Nolan was inspired by Kurosawa's Ran to make The Odyssey. I recently watched Ran, but I found it very boring, dull, uninteresting, and unengaging. On the other hand, Nolan's The Odyssey looks so great, engaging, and entertaining.

Another example would be Tenet. I have watched it about five times, and I still didn't understand half of what was happening every single time. Yet, even though I didn't understand it, I completed the movie and remained engaged for most of it.

Another example is Quentin Tarantino. People often say that Tarantino can be absurd, while Scorsese "hits the spot." But I personally find Scorsese's movies dull and uninteresting, while Tarantino's movies are extremely engaging. They hook me almost instantly.

For example, The Hateful Eight. If this movie had been made by another director, such as Scorsese or Denis Villeneuve, I probably wouldn't have watched even 10 minutes of it. Yet The Hateful Eight is one of my all-time favorite movies.

It isn't about old movies either. 12 Angry Men is one of my favorite movies of all time. However, when I watch Alfred Hitchcock movies, such as Strangers on a Train or similar older films, I often feel bored and can't even finish them.

Another example is that I sometimes feel like I don't enjoy movies unless they are in English. Then I watch movies by Bong Joon-ho, and I am instantly hooked.

You wouldn't believe this, but one of my all-time favorite movies is Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. It's a movie about menstruation, and the weird part is that I'm a male. How am I able to relate to a movie like that?

I also watched Spielberg's Schindler's List, which many people consider one of his greatest movies and one of the greatest films ever made. I watched it and thought, "It's okay." Then I watched Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, and it became one of my favorite movies of all time.

Most of the time, when someone recommends a movie to me and says, "It's a masterpiece," there is probably a 98% chance that I will hate it.

At the same time, I often fall in love with movies that have been heavily criticized or disliked by both critics and general audiences.

People recommend directors like Andrei Tarkovsky to me, saying that he makes great psychological movies, but I sometimes can't even get through the first 10 minutes.

So, what exactly is wrong with my movie taste? Why do I connect so strongly with some movies that other people consider mediocre, while I find many universally acclaimed masterpieces boring and uninteresting?

So today i just watched the movie Project X so if you’ve never seen the movie its a 18+ movie where there is 3 teenagers (Thomas, Costa, J.B) host the biggest party with apparently to Thomas at the end there was around to 1500 to 2000 people and now im gonna explain why i think its the best movie in my opinion which yes there is probably better movies in some people opinion but i think this is the SHIT and let me shut the fuck up and talk about the movie so basically the movie starts off with Costa and the camera man which i forgot his name and they walk to Thomas’s house where his mom catches Costa talking about the Party and Costa makes a Lie to not
Make Thomas in trouble and Thomas’s mom tells costa why is there a camera Costa says it was for a movie for Thomas’s birthday and then Costa goes to Thomas’s room and annoys him while hes taking a shower im not gonna spoil the whole movie just to talk about the main event so costa invites 1500 people which is a world record honestly to come to the body and they hired 2 DJ’s 2 security guards who are kids and they start the party while Thomas is stressing out because he doesn’t know if they’re is gonna be 1500 people coming in and he thought it would be a few people like 50 or 60 people but nah its a rave at his house and then they start the movie and they put a sign where it says only naked girls in the people and the signed actually works and they have a blast then they get a complain from there neighbors where he says he says there is to much noise and he wants the party to end and then the neighbors gets tased and the neighbors Slaps a minor and says to costa that he is gonna call the cops if it doesn’t end and costa says if he does he will say to the cops he slapped a minor so he goes home and he calls the cops anyways and the cops talks with Thomas and Costa and says there is no one and then the cops ask to search and Costa says that by law he Can’t if someone denies it which idk if it’s true because i only follow the law i know so then the cops left because there is “no one” and then the party restarts and then the one security goes to the house which i forgot to say it because it was before the neighbors called the cops and then they continue the party which they broke a gnome which there was ecstasy and they even made Thomas’s dog Milo fly with ballon’s in the beginning of the party and also they put someone with dwarfism in the oven and when he got out of the oven he hit everyone in the balls and even crashed Thomas’s dad’s car and then near the end of the movie the police got called again and was a fucking war to make everyone leave and at the end Thomas was Fucked because he had his house on fire and his parents eventually found out which his dad was a little upset but still was proud because he made the most legendary party on earth and Thomas then had a girlfriend and promised her that he will only have a birthday party with her and nobody else and the movie ends and i didn’t explain the whole movie because i don’t want to ruin the people’s experience which i already spoiled the start of the movie and also it was heavily inspired by a person in Australia that did the same thing back in 2008 except there was only 500 people, and here is my review

REVIEW:
I honestly think it was awesome and really good which also the camera man was a character and the camera man at the same time and i will give it out of ten a 10/10

(and btw i didn’t use Punctuation’s because i didn’t have time to put punctuation’s because i was in a hurry because i have a life. and i find this funny because this is my first post on reddit and they take punctuation seriously here and this is a post about the Project x movie not about punctuation)

I want to create an online film club to make a community of film interested people that like talking about and discussing what they watch. There would be a weekly film that we would all watch and then talk about it. Just like a book club but for film. If you’re interested you can dm me or comment on here. If there is enough interest or support we can get this thing going!

There’s a kind of acting in newer movies that I’m finding increasingly unbearable. It’s not exactly bad acting. It’s more like everyone seems intensely aware of being watched. Huge warm smiles, scrunched-up eyes, cute little reaction faces, constant demonstrations of charm and likability. Characters don’t just seem happy or affectionate; they seem to *perform being happy and affectionate for us*.

“Instagram acting” is the best term I can think of. Like acting that has absorbed the grammar of social media: be expressive, be charming, show your reaction, make sure your personality is always visible.

Older movies obviously had broad performances too, but people seemed more comfortable just having a neutral face. They could listen, stare, be awkward, reserved, unpleasant, or hard to read. Not every emotion had to be immediately displayed.

The thing that bothers me most is that the character seems to have an awareness of being perceived that should belong only to the actor.

And I do wonder whether growing up in a culture of constant self-presentation has something to do with it. We’ve spent 15+ years training ourselves to experience things partly through how they will look to other people. It would be strange if that had zero effect on acting, writing, or directing.

Am I imagining this, or is there already a term for it?

Key Scenes and Details:

• The Setting: It takes place in space (spaceship or a space station/mining colony). Humans/mercenaries attack the ship, and people are taken hostage. There is an erotical/romantic scene that gets brutally interrupted by the terrorist attack.
• The Prisoners: Captive women are stripped down to plain white underwear (white tank tops and panties), wearing heavy electronic/explosive collars or chains around their necks. They are forced to work on shiny crystals or space diamonds.
• The Tiger Bikini Scene: A tough, short-haired (dark hair) female character is shown topless while changing in the barracks. She puts on a very distinct tiger/leopard pattern bikini. One of the gang members (a psychopath) tries to assault her while she is changing, and she demonstrates her strength by brutally grabbing him by his genitals ("in the eggs") to force him to his knees.
• The Main Hero: A muscular, shorter US-style action hero with a lot of weapons. He helps and rescues an abducted blonde woman.

The basement door opening in Parasite is a masterclass in this, turning a slick heist/comedy into pure tension instantly. Another wild one is the elevator scene in Drive. What movie pulled off (or completely butchered) a sudden, jarring handbrake turn in tone?

I just finished watching this movie (title is the name) and I absolutely loved it - I really don't understand why I've never heard anything about it before, I only found it through randomly searching rotten tomatoes for recent decent movies... If you like movies with time travel, weird shit that constantly keeps you guessing and great characters than this one is for you :)

I don’t want to do a full review of the movie right now, but I finished watching it today. Full disclosure, I started it a few weeks ago and had forgotten about it. It looked absurd, but it was easy to see the callback to old films.

Remembered it again today and started it over to watch with my wife. Laughed the whole way through. Part of why I am posting is because we were talking about how there aren’t any comedies anymore. I don’t know what killed comedy in the past few years but whatever it was, it was efficient.

I loved Looney Tunes growing up, enjoyed Modern Times, but haven’t watched a lot of Buster Keaton. Yes, it’s hella long and I was shocked to see how much movie was left when I paused it at the 20 min. mark, but no, it did not bother me. The sound effects, cinematography, non-stop jokes, somewhat dark humor were great. Funny enough, in my hunt for similar movies, I saw A Town Called Panic, a stop-motion film which is another one that I loved. It’s not going to be for everyone, but damn, I wish they made more films like this, it’s a gem.

They Live (1988)

Rating: 10/10 (PERSONAL FAVORITE)

Watched: August 12, 2026

Like most every teen in North America in the 80s, I was AN ENORMOUS fan of WWF (now WWE). Rowdy Roddy Piper was an instant favorite of mine because of his boisterous, give no shits, say WTF-ever attitude and just the sheer amount of fun that he seemed to be having all the damn time.

Well, I fell out of love with wrestling when Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat miraculously healed from a crushed throat. No joke. I remember being legitimately worried about Ricky, and when he was fine the next week, I was done with wrestling, but my love of Roddy Piper never, ever waned.

At the time, They Live was your standard(ish) John Carpenter thinkpiece about government and corporate overreach, control of the masses, and all the ways they kept us, the people, down. Tossing Roddy and Keith David into the mix was sheer brilliance.

They both worked so well together and they equally managed to give off the vibe that these two very different men had been struggling in the damaged world they inhabited. As ya gotta, I absolutely loved the fight between Nada and Frank, with Nada trying to slap them sunglasses on Frank at every turn.

How could you not? It's one of the most realistic fights out there. There's no fancy moves. There's no tricks. Just two guys whalin' away on each other non-stop, one because he wants the other to wear a pair of sunglasses and the other doesn't want shit to do with shinola.

I won't bore you with the big, overarching picture because if you've seen it, you know what's going on. If you haven't, you have to trust me:

They Live's message is stronger now than ever before. Corporations control the world and it's all bread and circuses out there, man. If you want to see a movie that shows you the straight truth, this one's it.

Now on to something cool that I ONLY noticed because I'm watching a LOT of John Carpenter's movies this month.

In the very beginning of the movie, an old man in the homeless camp says the following line: "Shooting people, robbing banks. A whole lot of people going crazy over some nutty dream they just had. The truth is, this kind of shit happens at the end of every century. It's just people afraid to face the future."

If you catch the reference, awesome. If not, let me fill you in.

That's in reference to Carpenter's movie the year before, Prince of Darkness.

Yes. That's right. They Live exists in the same universe as Prince of Darkness, so even though things shake out the way they do in They Live, everyone on that planet is living on borrowed time ANYWAYS.

Here's to you, JC, for making another badass movie, and leaving Easter Eggs for me to find nearly 40 years later.