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Trespassers [2019] :

(* Also released under the title : Hell Is Where The Home Is *)

Trespassers is one of the best dumb movies I have seen in a long time. Nothing the characters do makes sense. Still, the direction is top notch and the movie is intense.

It all starts with 2 couples renting a secluded home for the weekend - the couples are dysfunctional, to put it mildly.

About 20 minutes in, a woman knocks on the front door and asks to use the phone. Given the fact that both guys are 6'4" and ripped, I'd expect them to calmly let her in. Instead, they panic like scared children.

Things go bad and there's a death. The cops come, and so does a 2019 version of the Manson family, and we finish the movie with a 20 minute blood bath.

Needless to say, Trespassers is a mess. Having said that, you can cut the tension with a knife, so kudos to director Orson Oblowitz. If he'd just put a leash on the over-the-top writing of Corey Deshon, we might have something special.

5.5/10

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kihei said:
When this screened at TIFF in 2013, Watanabe was there to introduce the film. At one point he asked Eastwood why he made the property available for a Japanese remake. Watanabe said that after Sergio Leone ripped off Kurosawa's Yojimbo to make A Fistful of Dollars, which helped make Clint a big star, Eastwood thought it was the least he could do. One of those stories that may be apocryphal, but I hope it's true.
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That's really interesting. I was wondering what Eastwood thought. Maybe I should've figured that he had to have signed off on it. Thanks for sharing that.
 
OhCaptainMyCaptain said:
Nightcrawler - 9/10

I have been meaning to check this one out and finally got around to it. Damn glad I did. Fantastic movie. Well paced. And it goes without saying, but my goodness is Gyllenhaal is amazing.​
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One of the best performances of the decade. It blows my mind that he didn't get nominated for an Oscar.
 
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Three Kings (1999) - 6.5/10

I feel like it's a good movie in the context of 1999 and a more average one today. The interplay between the 3 or 4 leads is far better than the actual conflict or drama which I found a bit sappy.

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Love that scene :D
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She was quite obnoxious in that movie come to think of it, it's probably the black curly hair that gets me.
 
Under the Silver Lake - 8/10

I guess I really liked it for it's strangeness. I thought Garfield was great in it.


Brightburn - 5/10

Kid needs a beaten is all I can say.

-ghoste
 
Avengers: Endgame.

with f***ing everyone.

You already saw this, know how it ended and know if you liked it or not.

I dunno, I was never that invested in the whole Marvel Universe thing. I saw the last few...and the Guardians of the Galaxy ones. The whole thing kind of reminded me of the end of Lord of the Rings, when they were trying to cram in all the various endings for everyone and reestablishing the Marvel world after undoing the Thanos-snap from Infinity Wars (and if you saw Infinity Wars and didn't think the whole sequel wouldn't revolve around undoing the Thanos-snap, then turn off your computer and please just go bang your head against the wall or something). Wasn't really into Hawkeye's new hairdo and full sleeve tat...and his archery superpower is and always has been just lame. Fat Thor was also kinda lame. As was the necessary pity party of the entire first hour before Ant-Man turned up and the plot required everyone to snap out of it and advance the plot.

Yeah, for a movie franchise that made all the money...it's really not all that.
 
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Akira - the Japanese anime.

I’ve watched this many times but it’s only now that I can be honest and say it’s actually not that exciting. Definitely worth watching if you haven’t seen it but otherwise
 
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Mama (2016) Directed by Vlado Skafar 7C (very good film, very challenging)

Let's start with the plot. My first time through Mama, I didn't get it. I thought this was an artsy movie about a mopey older woman and a mopey younger woman. They moped about, often in pretty natural settings, and director Vlado Skafar, sort of a one-man Slovenian New Wave, shot film, often gorgeous film, of them moping about. Skafar stays on the surface of their existence and lets the audience figure out what agonies take place within. It is a highly visual cinema and an approach that may have influenced recent Terrrence Malick works though he does this sort of thing less compellingly and far more vacantly than Skafar does. Such an approach makes great demands on the viewer, demands that Skafar appears to see as quite reasonable as his approach, ideally anyway. leads to kinds of fundamental truths that differ from the usual movie-going experience. Others saw a more coherent plot than I did, suggesting that knowing something about the director is a pre-condition to understanding his work--always a dicey proposition. It turns out that the film is about a worried mom trying to find a way to help her seriously addicted daughter get her life back. Reading that description after I saw the movie, it made sense but also seemed almost irrelevant. What the conflict between the two women is isn't as important to Skafar as the human struggle it represents--something that can warp the very core of one's existence. It is humanity under duress that he observes, eschewing dialogue for very long stretches, in the hope of using images to come up with some universal truths about the human condition. In fact, I would say he has developed his particular style as a means of plumbing these depths which can ultimately beggar any attempt by language to describe or explain them. So we look intensively at the exterior of these women's lives to hint at the great emotional forces that churn within. Fair enough. But I have some problems. For starters, Skafar's approach is not so much a melding of style and content as an exercise in pure style, one that makes the content seem arbitrary and even irrelevant as though if we just look at the expression of deep feeling we will understand the truths that lie beneath the surface. However, and here is where the style has its limits, it is hard to seek universal truths without delving into the particular, something Skafar eschews almost like it were a distraction. As a result, these women are more archetypes than individuals. Still, Skafar is doing something quite different than what everybody else is doing. When it doesn't work, Skafar risks banality and incoherence, but when it does work, there is a loveliness to the film that is based on his perception of the fragility of human beings. You don't find such emotions recognized, let alone delivered, every day at the movies.

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Prisoners - 10/10

Not saying this movie is perfect, but it was perfect for me. Wow. This has to be up there among my favorite movies ever. I was hooked from the beginning and it never stopped.
 
OhCaptainMyCaptain said:
Hey, that's the beauty of film. What didn't you like about it?
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I have a list. Let me count the ways...

***

Top 5 reasons why Prisoners is stupid, stupid, stupid (warning : spoilers included) ...

1) 2 little girls go missing and there is only ONE cop working the case because of "budgetary reasons". If it were to happen in real life, police from other cities, the state and the FBI would be involved. It would feel like an army had overtaken the town.

2) After the girls disappear, we are told they were not in the RV - by the CSI. At the end of the film, we find out they were. So... the guy with the IQ of a 10 year old was not only able to drive an RV, he was also able to scrub down the vehicle and eliminate any DNA from the kids.

3) The police don't search the residence of the Number 1 Suspect well enough to find the girls? I guess they don't have police dogs in that town. Again, "budgetary reasons".

4) The crazy father is able to kidnap the Number One Suspect because the police are not watching either of them. Then, no one notices or cares that the mentally challenged man has disappeared.

5) The priest has a dead body rotting in the basement of the church. No one smelled it? He must be using very strong incense!!!

Plus, why did the priest need to kill the man? Why not just turn him in? I guess he was worried about breaking the Confidence of the Confessional and going to hell. So, the priest will get to the gates of heaven and St. Peter will say:

"I see you kidnapped and killed a man. But, on the plus side, you kept his confidence... Come on in Father! We've been waiting for you. (with a slap on the back)"

There were MANY, MANY more.
 
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ORRFForever said:
I have a list. Let me count the ways...

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Top 5 reasons why Prisoners is stupid, stupid, stupid (warning : spoilers included) ...

1) 2 little girls go missing and there is only ONE cop working the case because of "budgetary reasons". If it were to happen in real life, police from other cities, the state and the FBI would be involved. It would feel like an army had overtaken the town.

2) After the girls disappear, we are told they were not in the RV - by the CSI. At the end of the film, we find out they were. So... the guy with the IQ of a 10 year old was not only able to drive an RV, he was also able to scrub down the vehicle and eliminate any DNA from the kids.

3) The police don't search the residence of the Number 1 Suspect well enough to find the girls? I guess they don't have police dogs in that town. Again, "budgetary reasons".

4) The crazy father is able to kidnap the Number One Suspect because the police are not watching either of them. Then, no one notices or cares that the mentally challenged man has disappeared.

5) The priest has a dead body rotting in the basement of the church. No one smelled it? He must be using very strong incense!!!

Plus, why did the priest need to kill the man? Why not just turn him in? I guess he was worried about breaking the Confidence of the Confessional and going to hell. So, the priest will get to the gates of heaven and St. Peter will say:

"I see you kidnapped and killed a man. But, on the plus side, you kept his confidence... Come on in Father! We've been waiting for you. (with a slap on the back)"

There were MANY, MANY more.
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Some fair points. Some I agree with, some I don't. But my love for the film doesn't necessarily come from the technical aspects of the search, which is why I am okay with some of these rather convenient things. What really worked for me was the emotions of the situation, the themes, and the acting. Thought that was all done sooo well. So. like I said above.. my 10/10 isn't necessarily because I think it's a perfect film.. but that it was a perfect film to me, if that makes sense.

I was so caught up in the story that I either missed or didn't care about the "mistakes" that occurred during the film. Pretty much every film ever made will have things you can pick apart, so I like to judge a movie on whether or not those things matter to me when I evaluate the film. In this case, they didn't matter to me. But they did matter to you, and that's 100% understandable as well.
 
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ORRFForever said:
I have a list. Let me count the ways...

***

Top 5 reasons why Prisoners is stupid, stupid, stupid (warning : spoilers included) ...

1) 2 little girls go missing and there is only ONE cop working the case because of "budgetary reasons". If it were to happen in real life, police from other cities, the state and the FBI would be involved. It would feel like an army had overtaken the town.

2) After the girls disappear, we are told they were not in the RV - by the CSI. At the end of the film, we find out they were. So... the guy with the IQ of a 10 year old was not only able to drive an RV, he was also able to scrub down the vehicle and eliminate any DNA from the kids.

3) The police don't search the residence of the Number 1 Suspect well enough to find the girls? I guess they don't have police dogs in that town. Again, "budgetary reasons".

4) The crazy father is able to kidnap the Number One Suspect because the police are not watching either of them. Then, no one notices or cares that the mentally challenged man has disappeared.

5) The priest has a dead body rotting in the basement of the church. No one smelled it? He must be using very strong incense!!!

Plus, why did the priest need to kill the man? Why not just turn him in? I guess he was worried about breaking the Confidence of the Confessional and going to hell. So, the priest will get to the gates of heaven and St. Peter will say:

"I see you kidnapped and killed a man. But, on the plus side, you kept his confidence... Come on in Father! We've been waiting for you. (with a slap on the back)"

There were MANY, MANY more.
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Had to go back to my IMDB rating. Gave it a 6/10, which for me is pretty good, but can't quite remember the film that well. I guess I might too have been a little too generous with it!
 
Probably not threadworthy, but just saw Dora the Explorer with my 3 year old and it was pretty awesome.

Better than any Tomb Raider movie so far and an 88 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ton of great references and jokes in it.
 
Violenza Domestica said:
Had to go back to my IMDB rating. Gave it a 6/10, which for me is pretty good, but can't quite remember the film that well. I guess I might too have been a little too generous with it!
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I'm the exception on Prisoners. I agree the tension was there. The atmosphere was terrific. However, the story made no sense and you had to ignore the ENDLESS plot holes.
 
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