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🌟🌟 Social 🌟🌟 What's the last film you saw? v. Why doesn’t Peter Jackson wear shoes?

ghostfreak said:
The Boogeyman

Shocktober (Film #24)

On second viewing I think I still feel the same. The last 35 mins are good but the lead up to it isn’t. It’s a very dark film and sometimes you can’t even see what’s going on.

Reminds me of the Slenderman film.

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Have you ever seen “Sinister”? I thought that was a decent “boogeyman”-type story
 
Beau is Afraid (2023)

I've been watching this three (plus) hour long film in bursts throughout my latest bout with COVID-19.

It is the best film I've ever seen. I relate to it so much.

It is - by far - my favourite film of all time.

That might sound crazy, but no other film is even close.

I had a deeper connection watching this film than I ever experienced before with art.

A stunning, dark, hilarious masterpiece.

∞/10
 
Asclepius said:
Watching ( not seen) 'Reptile' ...a contemperory, film noir type with Benecio del Toro, Melissa J. Hart & J. Timberlake.

It's got atmosphere, so far. Review later.
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Really enjoyable movie. No challenge with the plot but beautifully, produced aesthetic & del Toro is always poignant on screen.

*Alicia Silverstone - not Sabrina tTW.
 
Saw the new film in the Exorcist franchise. Mehhh...Beginning had promise but then diversity quotas & bollicky, imitation took place.
Couldn't finish it. Too banal.
Blatty had a beautiful mind. Tbf with Exorcist 3; they reconfigured a meaningful work into a novel, & impactful horror.Now it's run out of any creative steam. Discard, leave it alone, unless it's comedy imho.
 
S.J.B. said:
Beautiful Boy: Tells the story of a father whose son falls into addiction. It was generic, slow, and too long.
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The other book is very good. David Sheff wrote Beautiful Boy about his sons addiction (which the movie is based on). His son, Nic Sheff, wrote a book call Tweak about his addiction which is MUC MUCH more interesting. That I would recommend over the other any time. Shame it was the much lesser book that was made into a movie.
 
Asclepius said:
Saw the new film in the Exorcist franchise. Mehhh...Beginning had promise but then diversity quotas & bollicky, imitation took place.
Couldn't finish it. Too banal.
Blatty had a beautiful mind. Tbf with Exorcist 3; they reconfigured a meaningful work into a novel, & impactful horror.Now it's run out of any creative steam. Discard, leave it alone, unless it's comedy imho.
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I didn't even bother going. 😔
 
Frog Dreams said:
Beau is Afraid (2023)

I've been watching this three (plus) hour long film in bursts throughout my latest bout with COVID-19.

It is the best film I've ever seen. I relate to it so much.

It is - by far - my favourite film of all time.

That might sound crazy, but no other film is even close.

I had a deeper connection watching this film than I ever experienced before with art.

A stunning, dark, hilarious masterpiece.

∞/10
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What exactly was that movie about? I saw a trailer for it at one point but I couldn’t really figure it out…
 
@Burnt Offerings

Beau is Afraid is an experience. If you go into it expecting a normal movie, you will be frustrated. It is art. Leave all expectations at the door. Let it flow through you. It's a fucking freak show.

It is about a man (Beau) trying to get across the country against all odds to see his mother. It is about mental illness and the state of the world. It is dystopian.

It is wildly experimental and very unpredictable. It takes a LOT of chances. Some of them don't work out perfectly, but there are SO many moments of utter brilliance.
 
Frog Dreams said:
@Burnt Offerings

Beau is Afraid is an experience. If you go into it expecting a normal movie, you will be frustrated. It is art. Leave all expectations at the door. Let it flow through you. It's a fucking freak show.

It is about a man (Beau) trying to get across the country against all odds to see his mother. It is about mental illness and the state of the world. It is dystopian.

It is wildly experimental and very unpredictable. It takes a LOT of chances. Some of them don't work out perfectly, but there are SO many moments of utter brilliance.
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Interesting…I do enjoy strange, experimental and/or “art” films, and I think Joaquin Phoenix is a good actor, or at least he’s been in a few films I’ve really enjoyed so I’ll check it out at some point hopefully
 
Beetlejuice. Crazy they slipped an F-bomb, actually two but the 2nd is really quiet and hard to make out, in a PG movie. I know they barely swear otherwise so one fuck could've been acceptable in the 80s, but only Spaceballs and Beetlejuice did it I'm pretty sure.

Otherwise his perversion, wanting to marry a 15 year old, the disturbing decapitated heads and shit. Different times I guess, I don't even think a PG movie can say shit now. Back to the Future had so much cursing for a PG movie I thought it was crazy as a kid. I remember poking holes in a piece of paper for every curse word and it's well over 50.
 
They showed a woman’s tits in “Airplane!” and that was rated PG

Ratings are weird. Some stuff back in the day that was rated PG would probably be rated PG13 today…then again, “Midnight Cowboy” was originally given an X rating upon its release, iirc, and it would definitely just be given an R rating if it came out today
 
Asclepius said:
Really enjoyable movie. No challenge with the plot but beautifully, produced aesthetic & del Toro is always poignant on screen.

*Alicia Silverstone - not Sabrina tTW.
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I really liked del Toro’s character in the “Sicario” movies. The films overall were just so-so imo, but his character was cool I thought. He’s a pretty good, his performances can be both intense & understated
 
mal3volent said:
I didn't even bother going. 😔
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Well you know you missed out on an lot of bullshit, soo, it be all okay.😉

Were all the cool kids, that hate BS exorcist remakes ( so that we don't have to engage in unsolvable talks, about wars in Palestine/Israel) ....shhhh....no one knows😉💜

(Cough! Mossad, cough! CIA! - the best porno, never made!)

 
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The Vampire Lovers (1970)

70s softcore sleaze, very fun. Stars Peter Cushing and Ingrid Pitt, we get to see her beautiful body laid bare a couple times and some convincing lesbian kisses. Enjoyable with surprisingly decent settings.

7.5/10
 
“Renfield”

I watched this one randomly last night. I saw it had Nicholas cage, who I’m a fan of, half ironically and half in a genuine way…I kinda view him like I view DiCaprio, an actor of mostly average ability whose been in some good movies. With cage tho, he’s been in a lotta b-movies too, of varying quality (mostly terrible). Renfield felt to me like an ill fated attempt to try and turn a classic tale of gothic horror (Dracula) into a graphic novel adaptation or some shit. Everything about it screamed that…the way the bad guys were portrayed, the plucky cop character, the pacing and the way the (super)powers were portrayed, all of it. And since I’m not a huge fan of those conventions in storytelling I didn’t much care for it

The special fx in Renfield were kinda weird too imo. There’s a lotta blood&gore but it looks obviously computer generated. I wish they’d go back to practical effects for some of this stuff
 
Just rewatched a bunch of David cronenberg movies. I watched them by order of ascending quality:


The brood:


The dead zone:


Scanners:
 
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