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>>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.

Have you seen Fellini's 8 1/2? It is a favorite of mine… Not really important, I just wanted to ask, as I watch more than just Czech stop motion.

ayy!!! now i know where the http://sabo.xyz logo is from

I watched it and fucking loved it.
Do you like a filmmaker called Jan Svankmajer? I LOVE this movie called "Conspirators of pleasure" I tell nearly everyone I meet to watch it even though it makes me look like a complete weirdo. But it's just too good.

>>45765
svankmajer's "little otik" is a masterpiece to me

i asked deepseek why hollywood hasnt shown a cyberpunk dystopia movie.
Sure theres blade runner but thats like a scenery movie.
it said the matrix almost didnt make the cut and that mr robot was the slop we were craving for and itvshoukd be good enough.

>>45767
Scifi is always a gamble due to high budgets for CGI and they don't want to gamble on a non franchise

Sinners is much more about Delta blues than it is about vampires, still better than either Black Panther movie

>>45771
I was watching that in theaters yesterday and walked out - it was pretty boring to me. So do the vampires win or what

>>45793
Kind of, they fast forward to 1992 and (vampire) Michael B Jordan and Hailee Steinfeld are revealed to have survived the whole jukebox massacre and lived in the shadows through the decades to confront the old version of the main character (played by Buddy Guy) and they share memories of before the night.

TVTropes morons are physically incapable of paying attention to a movie. The very idea is offensive to them.
(From the TVTropes page for Lake Mungo and Blow Out)

i love watching films but "film twitter" (or tiktok or instagram or…) is an absolutely terrible culture full of people whose only method of evaluation for a film outside of technical specs is whether it "whips ass", demonstrates "dudes rock", or if you "love it to see it, folks"

What do smart people do? Read books? Hmmm… what if we had a movie with a guy SO smart that he’s read EVERY book and knows EVERY math but he’s still like a cool humble down to earth blue collar guy

they're making a live action version of how to train your dragon

>>1660
>Metropolis
>A Tier
Ummm workers doing anything other than praying and waiting for a great man to save them… is le bad. Showgirls… also le bad.

Thoughts on Gaidai? I've watched nearly all of his films, with my favourite being his take on 12 Chairs, curious to see what /hobby/ thinks of him.

> The live-action ‘LILO & STITCH’ remake has already earned more than the animated movie.
> The film opened to $341.7M globally.
Honestly climate change destroying human civilisation might be a good thing at this point.

>>46089
>IS NOTHING SACRED ANYMORE???
Who cares. The trailer looked alright. Looks kinda watchable. Still looked a little bland. Looks like it will be good for children, you know, the target audience?

>>46090
>complaining about endless remakes makes you some American memeword
K.

>>46089
This, unlimited climate revolution against the civiliSSed world

>>46089
The real question is why don't they just do theatrical re-releases every 20 years like lucas did with star wars? It's free unlike filming a whole ass remake and animated movies don't really age that much.

>>46097
This makes more money and Disney has done many rereleases.

>>46098
Is there some breakdown of audience demographics? Because, who watches this crap? How does it keep making money? Now obvious answer is children, but wouldnt children prefer animated version?

>>46099
>>46099
Well disney doesnt do 2d anymore. This is basically an animation considering one of the titular characters is full cgi. I don't know that kids really even prefer animation tho. I watched a lot of acted kids movies and even mixed live action and animation kids movies growing up, I think a lot of the acted ones did well, it is just the cartoons are more critically acclaimed.

I watched Sinners. The scene where they're playing music and all the ghosts of past and future black and Chinese musicians appear was kinda cringe. I understand what they were going for with it, all the best and most iconic music and culture of the USA was made by black USAnians but the juxtaposition of a modern DJ and rappers and rock stars with the old timey blues came off as silly.

Any good films yet this year? Everytime I look at new releases its celebrity documentaries, war propaganda, and cop propaganda.