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The Mercy - 6/10 - Perfectly passable, interesting little story, don't back yourself into a corner, then into another corner.

Captive State - 8/10 - Dovetails nicely with all my conspiracy theories, but was it about fascism or foreign invasion?

robert patt said that he didnt understand his own role or what was happening in tenet for 3 months on set.

he speaks with a lot of candour about his roles, especially all that twilight stuff and how it was just such bloody nonsense.

of course there’s a corner of the internet and nolan fanboys who will take a statement like that from a lead actor as a sign of the director’s ‘sublime genius’ or whatever. nolan just 2 smart 4 u. christopher nolan fans are like that person in your friend group who keeps trying to use long words in conversation and using them wrongly.

Don't forget more time travel and parallel universes and messing with the viewers concept of reality in Westworld (yes I know it's technically his brother, but don't try to tell me that's not Christopher Nolan splooging all over it).

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Tenet 6-7/10

I feel like a lot of the plot was created in service of the type of special effects Nolan wanted to use.

If anyone has seen it I would like to talk about the plot I'm detail..

Gave it a second watch. I would call it a solid 7. I still don't understand how people going backwards and forward at the same time can exist in the same place and I have zero desire to research any of it in fan subs.

Coming 2 America. I saw it so you all wouldn't have to. Easily the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Terrible, terrible movie. Not worth dissecting.

Probably enjoy, even

Coming 2 America, 52% on rotten tomatoes. About where I guessed it would be before I even looked. One of those titles where critics compete to see who can put the most burn in a one-sentence summary. Amazon has it plastered all over prime video. "#1 movie in America."

I'm beyond even being irked by the "cute" title that's impossible to say unambiguously without appending the year. The first movie was in '88. This is a Ghostbusters level of necromancy.

Watched "American Experience: The Mine Wars" instead.

e: fwp and not movies, but american gods s3 is apparently via starz subscription only. would normally be annoyed by the switch, but season 2 was a mess and I read that season 3 was worse. too bad, season 1 was kind of cool for what it was.

Vice 7/10

Some great moments but the film feels disjointed and rushed, which also fucks with the pacing. The narrator moments are not a good addition in this film and break the immersion in the story. It's a similar formula to the Big Short, but the subject matter there is much more suitable for these in between explanatory breaks. Vice also has way too much ground to cover and as a result it doesn't do it well. The early neocon days, 9/11 and the iraq war from the white house may well have been separate movies.

The best part is the acting. The cast is fantastic. Also very much enjoyed Carell's rumsfeld.

Watched some new Zombie movies I have never seen before.

George Romero's 2007 Diary of the Dead. 7/10
  His 5th and second to last of the Dead films.
It is one of those Blair Witch Project "found footage" type movies. It was really ahead of its time in terms of the genre considering the early try at it by the director was hamstrung by the fact that small digital cameras and smart phones had not been invented yet.

While there were plenty of times where characters did not make the best decisions, the characters occasionally acted in ways that were non-standard for a Zombie movie. They acted like I expect people to act and not like they are movie characters. I appreciate that about Romero movies. I could say more about this but tl;dr.

House of the Dead, 4-5/10

One of the infamous Uwe Boll video game movies. It is in fact named after those bulky Arcade Machines.

I suspect after watching this movie that people were being overly unfair to the director back in the day. It won't win an as Oscar but Hollywood are SJW and Disney. Zombie movie convention usually downplays sexuality. Having to shoot your lover in the head? Big Yikes. But Uwe Boll has no issue putting in topless girls, general nudity, makeout sessions, etc. While that may seem problematic to have in a movie about the dead eating people, what kind of incel doesn't like seeing a girl naked? This movie was unlike other Zombie movies in other ways too. There was one long action movie shoot out that was actually pretty cool since Zombie movies don't really do that sort of thing. Um other interesting stuff, there was no viral outbreak type event in this one. Instead it was a 500 year old necromancer that was doing all of this. So more points for being different and keeping true to the video game story.   


I watched both sequels. Would you like to know more?

The iphone came out in 2007 but the movie was filmed beforehand.

So both sequels: House of the Dead 2: 7/10
                         Survival of the Dead 8/10

Was looking forward to this movie but maybe not anymore.

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Not a fan of smart Zombies but I guess they have to be fast to balance our the military people angle.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Brah, Blair Witch Project came out in 1999. Didn't need smartphones.

He didn't want Blair Witch Project quality footage.

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2021-04-13 19:11:38)

The 1990 remake of the the original Night of the Living Dead, 9/10

I never actually watched the original 1960's one but have seen bits and pieces and know the broad outline and some iconic bits. So I was only knew about half of what would happen. I still enjoyed this movie a lot and from what I understand a lot of stuff was changed in the remake and probably for the better. The only 1 point I took off is that there could have been less "boarding up the place" shots/moments. Like they spent half the movie "boarding the place up" or discussing "boarding the place up".

Hmm?