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I saw a long time ago what I think was a short film, there was an astronaut in a moon-like environment, he would take a pearl from a flower and shake it, apparently causing earthquakes back on planet earth. by the end the earthquakes are so strong he loses his connection to mission control
does anyone know the name?

>>44160
>it is 60% cgi, and it isn't kino cgi like that Russian movie from the same time "T-34" (2018)
Sure there's cgi but it's never seemed too much. The rejection of hero lone wolf bullshit and
emphasis on cooperative group behaviors maybe make me blind to it. I'm pretty china pilled now after a lifetime of western war slop.
>"T-34" (2018)
Yeah, kino af. All the Russian WW2 stuf is kino to me, even the nationalist shit. Maybe it's a reaction to so much western nationalist shit.
>imo we have yet to see actual high-budget, high-quality chinese historic content
None of these do it for you? My personal selection of the best China war slop from the last 20 years from yts torrents.
Shadow
2018
The Eight Hundred
2020
Snipers
2022
Home Coming
2022
Water Gate Bridge
2022
The Sacrifice
2020
The Battle at Lake Changjin
2021
Railway Heroes
2021
City of Life and Death
2009
Red Cliff II
2009
The Message
2009
Red Cliff
2008
Assembly
2007
The Taking of Tiger Mountain
2014

>>44178
water gate bridge was good

now post dynasty slop, I need that shit

im watching the original "all quiet on the western front" from 1930. havent seen it before, gonna see how it is.

>>44409
If you like it try Paths of Glory next

Tonight ill be watching Lessons of Darkness (1992) It is a Werner Herzog film so it will probably be good. So far im about 4 minutes in and the dread is thick.

>>44421
well that was depressing and artfull. Very Werner Herzog

You guys like the Blues Brothers? Its my favorite movie

>>44477
It's great, just watched it again recently with my girlfriend who saw it for the first time. Lotsa fun.

>>44477
one of my favorite films.

Guys, what do you think about the upcoming Mufasa movie? Despite how shitty Disney movies have become (including Mulan which at least had potential despite being largely unnecessary) this and Snow White seem to have learned from the Sonic movie and listened to criticism. The animation is much better than the cartoon remake, and the movie itself seems to be filling the blanks in lore which the fans of the first cartoon and its direct-to-video sequel are gonna enjoy. Plus it's just a fun experiment to try and fix what went wrong with the live-action remake. The creators behind the movie seem to have had a genuine passion while making it.

>>44563 (me)
Also, Chinese Mulan movie best Mulan movie.

Tonight i have a remake of the classic zombie movie. Night of the Living Dead from 1990. I know the Original was a critique of racism in the USA, while also being pretty misogynistic. I believe the remake's main character is the woman form the first movie, hopefully, it does a better job of portraying women as something other than traumatized jabbering logs.

>>43880
>lol. Is that a ruler or something that he's holding? All the pics I've seen could be from one of those Ayn Rand movies.
Yes very Atlas Shruggedlike.

>>44178
Red Cliff 1 & 2 are amazing. crazy to me theyre not more popular

Finally saw the Barbie movie, and, while the production quality was poor for the 145 million budget, and it was a bit short, it was surprisingly genuinely radical and Feminist to the point I'm shocked Mattel signed off on it. Bold decision to make the film about Karen Carpente, loved the film's subversive use of conservative 50s iconography (barbie dolls, the "scare film", etc) to tell the story of karen carpenter and her struggles with anorexia and addiction, as well as 50s american culture more broadly.

Not sure how it made so much money though. if anything I'd've thought mattel would lose money because the unlicensed music would cost them a lot in court and the strong sex scenes, language, and drug use would mean that it won't be able to target the expected family demographic.

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/casual-viewing/

>Netflix execs tell screenwriters to have characters “announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have a program on in the background can follow along”

>They also have thousands of micro-genres including “casual viewing” which is used for movies/TV that go down best when you’re not paying attention.

movies funded by streaming services are designed to be watched with a phone LOL

>>44860
I can see them making these new casual viewing shows are going to be using ai even more

>>44860
>which is used for movies/TV that go down best when you’re not paying attention.
Why not just listen to music or a podcast at this point?

Anyone here saw Nosferatu? How was it? Hasnt premiered in my country yet, I have been really looking forward to it, Eggers is a masterpiece machine.

Least favorite out of the three. It felt like I was watching Rise of Skywalker for the first time. The film quickly goes from 0-100 and it stays at 100 for the rest of the time. It doesn't give me enough breathing room to take in everything that is happening or for me to care about the characters. For example, I wish they slowed things down for the conversation Sonic and Shadow had on the moon right after they stopped fighting, it would have added a lot more weight to what they were saying and not feel so terribly rushed. Anyhow, this non-stop fast-pace left me to keep think "huh" whenever something happens. Jim Carrey was really fun to watch, as usual, and was easily the best part of the movie.

The people that keep on hyping this movie up only talk about the references. I don't watch stuff for references, I watch for a good story, or at least one with a good amount of soul. Yes, I know this was targeted towards kids. But if 20+ year old references that are going to fall flat for little kids, are going to be what is carrying this movie, then it's not a great movie. 5/10 at best. I know that even kid me would have been confused watching this. Kids deserve better.

Post credit scene with the army of Metal Sonic immediately jobbing to Amy was another highlight, funniest shit. Dude can't get a break no matter the continuity.

Absurdly high budget only to have worse CGI than a Hulk movie made 20 years ago.

Why don't movie producers realize that people want to see actual werewolves and not something that looks like a mangy hobo or a rabid chihuahua?

Just take notes from that Van Helsing movie, peak werewolf design, and that movie was made two decades ago. It isn't that hard to make appealing werewolves in films, just make them look beasty enough and make them especially look like they can and will absolutely fuck your ass up in multiple senses of that term. That is what people actually want in werewolf movies. Even A Cabin in the Woods got that right, and they had a werewolf for just a single scene. This mangy man-hobo shit needs to fuck off from werewolf movies, it ain't fucking 1930 anymore.

>>44880
Just saw it and now i watching the original. The new one was very good, very dreadful.

>>44880
Coincidentally I just saw the Northman that he directed. Really love the way he presented the way a norseman might have interacted with his belief system.

>>44940
I just watched with some friends. We laughed a lot. Although it had its moments of very good suspence. William Dafoe was amazing. Recomended, I will saw the other versions too.
How much has the medium changed in a century right?

can't find a torrent for nosferatu smh

I fully believe that superhero movie fatigue would lessen if the movies and TV shows would embrace more of the comics' crazier aspects. "Comics are weird" should not be a caveat, it should be a selling point for comics.

Watched Nosferatu friday, pretty good but the jumpscares were a little annoying, aside from the one where Ellen casually walks up behind Anna

>>43863
First time for everything

>>44971
I don't like horror, can I get anything out of this movie?

The original Cape Fear is one of the best movies with some of the most repugnantly reactionary politics.

>>45313
What's the deal? I only know the Simpsons episode.

Watched The Gorge. Very stupid movie. I enjoyed the opening act, even though it's very cliche. I like the aesthetic I guess. It felt like an MGS5 cutscene kinda. Once Miles Teller and Anya Taylor Joy meet, they engage in some very embarassing cross gorge interactions. Then the movie just devolves into pure actio slop which is OK enough. The movie is too long though. 5/10

What's up with Mlies Teller. I feel like after Whiplash he was set up to be a serious artsy fartsy dramatic actor but lately he just stars in slop.

I watched Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new movie: Cloud. It's about an unscrupulous online reseller. It was alright. Has some creepy moments and a surreal air which is a trademark of this director's films. Watching some analysis of it on youtube I had to roll my eyes at people saying that the movie is about capitalism, which I guess it sort of is, but nonetheless it came off as blunt and graceless to just say it like that.

Anyway, spoiler warning. Yoshii, the main character, makes a living buying cheap shit by bulk online and then reselling that shit at a markup. He doesn't care if what he's reselling is medical equipment that people need or counterfeit goods. As a consequence of his obsession (similar to that of a gambling addict) with his "job" he alienates and/or antagonizes many people. As his business grows he moves out of his tiny apartment into a bigger house out in the country with his girlfriend, Akiko. He also hires an assistant named Sano. A local early 20s kid who failed to make it in Tokyo and had return to his home town.

The assistant is the weirdest most surreal character in the movie. He instantly becomes very interested in Yoshii's job and wants to learn all about it. He also pledges a very strange but sincere loyalty to Yoshii, claiming that he's very grateful to him for giving him a job. When Yoshii's new house gets vandalized and the police seem unwilling to help, Sano takes it upon himself to investigate who did it and catch them, which he does. Seemingly beating the delinquent up and instilling a deep fear in him.

Eventually several people whom Yoshii has wronged team up to get revenge on him. They kidnap him and plan to livestream his torture and eventual death. Sano sets out to rescue Yoshii and goes about it ruthelessly. Coldly killing several of the kidnappers until he reaches Yoshii. Onces he frees Yoshii he hands him a gun and they set out to escape from the rest of the kidnappers. Along the way Yoshii himself kills several people. At first hesitantly but with increasing ease. In the end Akiko betrays him threatening him with a gun to give her all his money. In the scuffle Sano murders Akiko and Yoshii is heartbroke about it. Yoshii and Sano escape the scene. While driving away, in the most surreal scene of the movie, Sano tells Yoshii to only focus on making money and that he'll handle the rest. Yoshii asks "Where'll that get me?", Sano responds "It'll get you anything you want. Even things that can end the world", Yoshii says "I'm doomed" as they drive on the only indication of their movement is the moving sunset sky outside the car windows.

Oh god I typed all that shit just to say, I think Sano, who comes out of nowhere and is very unsettling in his willingness to do fucked up shit for Yoshii, represents an aspect of Yoshii's personality that gradually comes out as he slowly loses his morality. In the end he is completely morally bankrupt and ruined. So I guess the film is about how singleminded relentless proit seeking can drive one to moral ruin. But I don't think the film makes a strong overt condemnation of capitalism as a system. It doesn't show Yoshii being driven to unscrupulousness due to a desperate situation of destitution or even being driven to it by internalizing the constantly telegraphed values of our modern hyper capitalist society.

Check out Cloud. It's alright.

I watched that new netflix series Adolescence. It's pretty good. Do teenagers nowadays really have a secret emoji code? That felt kinda corny but I could just be out of touch.

Is The Handmaid's Tale just The Turner Diaries for liberals?

>>45516
yes

>>45518
I knew it

I went and saw Alex Garland's "Warfare." It's an interesting movie since the Navy SEALs get their shit pushed in by Iraqi insurgents and it doesn't really appear to have a "message" at all. It's probably about as realistic of a movie about combat that you can get other than GoPro videos from Ukraine (although those are also limited in various ways because of poor sound and very narrow / telescoped vision).

I wouldn't call the movie a fascist film, but I've thought that it might be something that fascists would make. The only thing I've seen quite like it was Alexander Nevzorov's movie "Purgatory" from Russia in the 1990s. The opening scene is "Call On Me" by Eric Prydz (which the Navy frogmen are watching to hype themselves up before an operation – they actually did this) but that's the only music in the film and it made me think about Futurism and how those guys were enthralled by the human body becoming a biomechanical thing. What I got from the movie is that combat is like experiencing a sudden and extremely violent car crash leading to rapid degradation in human bodily function.

>>45541
The discourse on letterdbox about warfare is so fucking funny.

Reason:

>>45541
>>45541
What the fuck is Alex Garland doing making a movie like that in 20 fucking 25? There's enough glazing and venerating of operators that it can and will be easily taken as a positive portrayal of the military by those that want that. Nobody MAGA or military will see anything negative in it. Iraqi characters corpses or ciphers. I can hear the carefully rehearsed justifications Garland will be giving in interviews already, for the 10% of the audience that care.
>20+ years
>1,000,000 dead
>country full of depleted uranium dust and tumors
>even vance now criticizing the euros for encouraging and participating in the war!!!
>alex fucking garland is making movies about how war iz hell for brave injured operators who were caught on film and in photos slaughtering civilians

>>45551
Garland is a unsubstantial retard. The embodiment of an identity and personality molded by HR. Mendoza, on the other hand, hates Iraqis and loved his time as a Seal slaughtering people defending their homeland

https://x.com/mirr0rball89/status/1911921315000590824

>>1660
>Herzog: Aguirre

Fitzcoraldo is better imo but still peak

is After Hours by Scorsese worth a watch?

>>45567
Yes. It’s really fun. Guy tries to get laid and his night just keeps getting progressively worse due to his own bad decision making. It constantly escalates and the whole thematic direction is solid.

One of my biggest grips with amateur film critique is that I wish people could praise female characters without acting like there has never been a good female character before.

>>45551
I hate Garland and I hated Civil War. I want him to stop making movies forever.