OT: 119th Obsequious Banter Thread: April Foods Day

[Rebels57]

i need to see Nosferatu

It's well made and looks great, but I didn't connect to any of the characters and so I didn't get much out of it. Also didn't love the Count Orlock design.

I’ve seen Dune and Anora and enjoyed both. Anything else worth a watch here excluding the Dylan biopic and Wicked? @Magua

The Substance is probably my favorite movie of the year. Not for the faint of heart. Crazy ass body horror, but so f***ing original and Demi Moore is unreal in it. Lots of nudity between here and Margaret Qualley so that's fun too lol.

Conclave is excellent too. A lot more thrilling than you would expect from a movie about the Vatican picking a new Pope.

 

[ajgoal]

I’ve seen Dune and Anora and enjoyed both. Anything else worth a watch here excluding the Dylan biopic and Wicked? @Magua

We were discussing movies with toe a few pages back. He also needs recommendations.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

We were discussing movies with toe a few pages back. He also needs recommendations.

I assumed one tag got me both Maguas.

 

[ajgoal]

 

[Magua]

I’ve seen Dune and Anora and enjoyed both. Anything else worth a watch here excluding the Dylan biopic and Wicked? @Magua

I thought A Real Pain was fantastic. It missed Best Picture (terrible omission), but I very much recommend over some of those. I might see The Brutalist in IMAX next week. I might be intrigued in seeing I’m Still Here, but truthfully, it’s a relatively weak year for the awards movies, as I see it. I’ve been wanting to see the animated movie, Flow, as well. It’s Latvian and non-dialogue.

I defer to @landsbergfan on Wicked. He’s seen it a dozen times so far, I believe. His family is like Herb Brooks: “Again.”

 

[landsbergfan]

I thought A Real Pain was fantastic. It missed Best Picture (terrible omission), but I very much recommend over some of those. I might see The Brutalist in IMAX next week. I might be intrigued in seeing I’m Still Here, but truthfully, it’s a relatively weak year for the awards movies, as I see it. I’ve been wanting to see the animated movie, Flow, as well. It’s Latvian and non-dialogue.

I defer to @landsbergfan on Wicked. He’s seen it a dozen times so far, I believe. His family is like Herb Brooks: “Again.”

Wicked is the only one I’ve seen from that list. As many times as we have watched the movie, I’ve heard the songs 3x more.

Assuming by excluding it from the question of movies worth watching @JojoTheWhale already has plans to watch it?

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Wicked is the only one I’ve seen from that list. As many times as we have watched the movie, I’ve heard the songs 3x more.

Assuming by excluding it from the question of movies worth watching @JojoTheWhale already has plans to watch it?

I can't do musicals. There's something in my brain that just starts screaming immediately upon hearing that specific voice affectation. But I understand that's a problem with me, not the movie.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

I can't do musicals. There's something in my brain that just starts screaming immediately upon hearing that specific voice affectation. But I understand that's a problem with me, not the movie.

We fish off the same pier.

 

[Rebels57]

I thought A Real Pain was fantastic. It missed Best Picture (terrible omission), but I very much recommend over some of those. I might see The Brutalist in IMAX next week. I might be intrigued in seeing I’m Still Here, but truthfully, it’s a relatively weak year for the awards movies, as I see it. I’ve been wanting to see the animated movie, Flow, as well. It’s Latvian and non-dialogue.

I defer to @landsbergfan on Wicked. He’s seen it a dozen times so far, I believe. His family is like Herb Brooks: “Again.”

A Real Pain was indeed excellent. So was A Different Man with Sebastian Stan. I wish he got nominated for that instead of playing Mango Mussolini.

One movie that got ZERO love and I can't figure out why is Blitz with Saoirse Ronan. WWII Period pace, epic scale, has all the ingredients you would think would appeal in award season.

 

[ajgoal]

I can't do musicals. There's something in my brain that just starts screaming immediately upon hearing that specific voice affectation. But I understand that's a problem with me, not the movie.

That explains why you haven't seen The Producers. Though I'd have preferred they'd kept Brad Oscar and Cady Huffman in their roles, rather than replacing them with Ferrell and Uma Thurman, when they'd kept every other main cast member.

 

[landsbergfan]

I can't do musicals. There's something in my brain that just starts screaming immediately upon hearing that specific voice affectation. But I understand that's a problem with me, not the movie.

I used to feel that way. Not sure what changed exactly. Whether it was my crush on Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge, seeing Book of Mormon on Broadway, or watching Hamilton. Somewhere along the line I started seeing them as something more than movies that got interrupted by songs. Please understand my starting point was going to Les Miserables with my wife and asking her a few minutes in if they’re going to be singing the entire time?

Wicked specifically has a lot of storyline that doesn’t pay off until part 2 but the story is really cool. Some absolute bangers for songs. It’s tough because the songs are much better once you understand the story but the movie is quite and investment (part 1
Movie is longer than the entire broadway musical)

 

[Magua]

I used to feel that way. Not sure what changed exactly.

 

[landsbergfan]

I don’t consider that a musical. It’s a masterpiece

 

[DancingPanther]

I can't do musicals. There's something in my brain that just starts screaming immediately upon hearing that specific voice affectation. But I understand that's a problem with me, not the movie.

YES YES YES

It's also the overly corny lyrics for me. I just. I'm sorry. I can't do it. I know this is a me problem

 

[Lord Defect]

I can't do musicals. There's something in my brain that just starts screaming immediately upon hearing that specific voice affectation. But I understand that's a problem with me, not the movie.

Only musical I enjoy is Anna and the Apocalypse. Christmas themed zombie musical. It somehow just works.
Oh, nightmare before Christmas is fun too.

 

[mja]

I thought A Real Pain was fantastic. It missed Best Picture (terrible omission), but I very much recommend over some of those. I might see The Brutalist in IMAX next week. I might be intrigued in seeing I’m Still Here, but truthfully, it’s a relatively weak year for the awards movies, as I see it. I’ve been wanting to see the animated movie, Flow, as well. It’s Latvian and non-dialogue.

I defer to @landsbergfan on Wicked. He’s seen it a dozen times so far, I believe. His family is like Herb Brooks: “Again.”

Honestly, I've liked some of these, but have loved none of them. Flow is a nice little film. Conclave was entertaining but feels like a play. It's good, not great. I found A Real Pain to be stellar at times but like Conclave a little too writerly. For whatever reason, I have a really tough time taking anything Dune seriously; Dune 2 did nothing to change that.

 

[Superman33]

I'm partying like it is 2020 over here, rocking a positive Covid Test.

I have a mystery illness that causes my muscles to twitch involuntarily and my joints stiffen up. When I start getting sick that gets worse so I usually know when something is about to go down. A little after noon today I proclaimed, "Oh no. It has begun." Symptoms were getting minimally worse until 6 when at the dog park my service dog gave me multiple "hugs" in a row and then sat himself in front of the gate to leave. He knows what is up. Within the hour I was in a full on, whole body, violent Parkinson style body shake. Just every muscle cramping and twitching at once. It lasted for about 12 minutes and slowed down to a slower whole body tremor with random spots popping for the next 45 minutes when I passed out until about 10:40.

The only time it has gotten that bad before is when I had Covid. Luckily I had a test at home and that positive T line for Covid didn't need 15 minutes to show up. It only needed 5 seconds, it might as well have yelled NEW HIGH SCORE at me.

 

[Magua]

Honestly, I've liked some of these, but have loved none of them. Flow is a nice little film. Conclave was entertaining but feels like a play. It's good, not great. I found A Real Pain to be stellar at times but like Conclave a little too writerly. For whatever reason, I have a really tough time taking anything Dune seriously; Dune 2 did nothing to change that.

You’ve seen more than me probably, but my perennial hot take: the best foreign language movies most years are better than most of the Best Picture ones. This just feels like a completely forgettable year for these award movies. I have a strong hunch I’ll admire much of the The Brutalist while thinking it falls short overall or gets indulgent.

There’s a mountain of old movies and foreign movies I spend more time working through than the new stuff. Honestly more rewarding.

 

[landsbergfan]

Honestly, I've liked some of these, but have loved none of them. Flow is a nice little film. Conclave was entertaining but feels like a play. It's good, not great. I found A Real Pain to be stellar at times but like Conclave a little too writerly. For whatever reason, I have a really tough time taking anything Dune seriously; Dune 2 did nothing to change that.

I am a huge fan of the popcorn bucket

 

[trostol]

 

[Beef Invictus]

That explains why you haven't seen The Producers. Though I'd have preferred they'd kept Brad Oscar and Cady Huffman in their roles, rather than replacing them with Ferrell and Uma Thurman, when they'd kept every other main cast member.

I was lucky enough to go into The Producers blind, and the only thing more insanely funny than the scene where they find a script called "Springtime for Hitler" is when the musical actually debuts

Edit: My favorite musical numbers are by Mel Brooks so it is dawning on me that maybe I'm not such a musical fan

 

[Jack Straw]