No.2278[Last 50 Posts]
Hello, the most recent movie threads have seemed a bit unfocused, this thread is for the discussion of movies we just watched and other anon's takes on them. So, without further ado I'll begin.
I just watched Parasite last night, it was pretty good I think, but not as cutting edge or witty as I was expecting. I thought it was a bit unfocused and threw a lot at the wall to see what stuck, but on the other hand, it was fun and more interesting than most. A solid 8/10.
I do an IMDB rating for each film I watch, for my own reference mostly, but you can see each film I watched lately and my rating if you're curious or want to ask about them. If other anons have something similar feel free to post.
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur46013471/ratings No.2281
I watched La Chinoise the other day, from the chart that someone posted on the other film thread. It's a prety interesting look into the french student maoist movements of the 1960s. Here's an online version:
https://vimeo.com/148381997Anyone else seen it?
No.2337
>>2278I basically agree regarding Parasite, but I think it sparked some useful conversations. The arguments on RLM's review for it were much better than you'll typically find on youtube. Did you think the metaphor was weak then?
>>2281I have not, but I will later because of your link/rec
No.2340
Burning was the much better South Korean class conscious movie than Parasite, change my mind.
No.2342
>>2278Finished Battleship Potemkin yesterday. That was definitely a top 10 for me.
No.2356
>>2278I watched Stalker and it became one of my favorite movies of all time. This scene just won me over
https://youtu.be/Q_bPRyNLY5g No.2361
I recently watched Weathering with You. Shit ends with full Tokyo being submerged in water bc a guy didnt want to see his waifu die. I liked it. Really good counterweight against the liberal "Did you go vegan" ideology. It's not your personal responsibility to save the climate. You should blame the world for causing this shit to happen in the first place.
No.2439
Just watched 2001 space odysey for the first time. Can someone explain what the fuck is it supposed to be about? Because right now I feel underwhelmed and would probably say its an overrated piece of polished shit.
Like here's my reactiins as it went:
Humans got enlightened by the obelisk. Ok, with you so far. The obelisk is rediscovered in the space age. Ooh look at our awsome camera angles of a woman walking up 180°. Classical music plays while we see overdesigned shit that wasted all the budget. Ok now its another expedition to Saturn. Crew is presented, also HAL. We all know where this is going. The part where HAL goes rogue happens with no real setup and is resolved really fast. Oh no pls dont turn me of this is so sad (why should I care when a murderous character that had barely any development on camera gets killed off?). Ok now were near Saturn. Homer's vibrating armchair scene for 15 minutes. This shit works when Lynch does it, but only because there is some emotional investment, when the nuke scene happens in Twin Peaks it actually feels scary, my reaction to this was just "ok, still no clue whats happening". Then the aging scene with space baby at the end. No clue either. The end. Well that happened.
/rant
So, am I just an uncultured barbarian or is the film really not that good?
No.2441
>>2439it's a film to be watched by someone who either has read or plans to read the book by Arthur C. Clarke. the book is too dense to be interesting alone, but the film is too vague to be comprehensible alone. together, however, they make sense. I liked it.
(I am critical of the notion that watching a film OR reading a book should be that difficult however.)
No.2442
>>2439>The part where HAL goes rogue happens with no real setupYou get plenty of forewarning, HAL bluffs a win in the game of chess by lying
No.2448
>>2442I mean as in with the characters themselves. It all happens in like an hour, but half if not more of it are just elongated montages. For instance the 3 hibernating guys who get cut of from life support had zero characterization, so when they die you don't really care apart from "well that is an awful way to go". Same goes with HAL - it is implied that the crew had an almost human relationship with him, but we never see that, so when he begs not to be turned off it feels like a psychopath trying to weasel his way out. Also this entire part of the film feels disconnected from the rest of it. Of course, this is one of the first appearances of a rogue AI plot, and thus it's somewhat historic.
>>2441Could you give a rundown of what it all was supposed to be about?
No.2452
Can I mention coomer classics?
No.2463
I recently watched "Us"- not really sure what the message was. I think they were trying to portray the class difference between upper-middle class blacks with the vast amount of blacks who didn't make it, their "underground mirror people" while at the same time they portrayed how even successful black people are still always that last bit poorer than successful white people (the white family they're friends bragged about now owning a fancy car and boat to which the black father immediately feels the need to react by buying a boat too). In general the movie seems to be about divides between middle class and lower class. In the end the massive human chain the "teathered" formed reminded one of a massive protest.
It's a bit convuluted. It worked as a horror movie but I like "Get Out" more.
No.2484
>>2281Yeah, I have seen it. I am trying to watch more of Godard's films. Weekend was genius. I love whenever Godard goes into tangents about aesthetics and art.
No.2498
>>2439The first time I watched 2001, I fell asleep. Second time, my mind was shattered and it remains my favorite English language film of all time. I haven't even read the book!
It not really "fun", is it? Aside from the exquisite cinematography (which you obviously didn't appreciate, barbarian!) the film is incredibly slow and vague about the plot.
The final scene is an ascension to the next level of evolution, which is reasonable to assume because it is triggered by contact with the monolith. It's incredibly open-ended, especially the finale with the baby gazing at the Earth. I have my own interpretation which I'm sure has nothing to do with what the authors intended, but isn't that the beauty?
You also might have the wrong attitude going into this kind of movie. The vast majority of films are made for entertainment (to make the audience feel good), which explains why you (and pretty much every single living film critic at the time 2001 released) did not enjoy 2001. If you go into every film with the expectation of being entertained, or even pandered to in any way, you are doing yourself a great disservice! Films are an opportunity to challenge the viewer. Despite capitalism producing 99% capeshit, chick-flix, and fantasy clones, there are still plenty of movies that deliberately go out of their way to introduce new ideas to the audience, or better yet, to subvert existing ideas.
What's really funny is that as soon as you accept discomfort, confusion, and dissatisfaction as welcome breaks from the familiar viewing experience, you start to covet their intrusions! Shows like Twin Peaks scratch this itch. Finally, the entire categorization becomes completely inverted, such that any plot development is felt as pandering and dull, while ostentatious displays of the directors "not giving a flying fuck" become pure entertainment (think Lynch [b]movies[/b]). The first 10 minutes of the bar scene in Satantango, I thought I was gonna die. By the 20th minute I was laughing like a madman, as though I too was in the same bar.
No.2501
Just watched Videodrome for the second time, I'm surprised it doesn't come up more often in leftist discussions of media and the spectacle as I feel the movie portrays these things in succinct fashion. The practical effects and general Cronenberg weirdness also add a lot to it just as a casual film to watch, though I suspect they may get in the way of interpretation for most viewers not familiar with certain concepts.
No.2583
Just watched The Lighthouse, was pretty fantastic, looked beautiful and the performances were quite phenomenal since it was largely just 2 dudes on screen for a couple hours. The ending was a little strange and I was super satisfied with the 'twist' thing, without giving out any spoilers.
>>2439The thing that stands out to me about 2001 is the fact that this film was released in 1968. That's one year before the actual moon landing, yet it looks incredible to this day. Not just aesthetically, but the technology doesn't look dated whatsoever, the endless directing choices by Kubrick that would lead to such a pristine sci-fi story is what really amazes me. I haven't seen it in a few years but this sticks with me. The score is as iconic as any film ever, the black monolith could have been some handheld space gizmo, but the restraint gives a much more timeless appeal. It is kind of weird now, I saw the Futurama and Simpsons spoof episodes before the actual film, the score I must have heard in dozens of other mediums, so all this does detract from how revolutionary the film was
No.2760
Can you lads recommend me movies about Pandemics?
No.2876
Aloha fucksticks
I just watched Uncut Gems for the second time. Its okayish.
No.2885
>>2452Behind the free door?
No.2890
Is cinema even a thing in communist country? North Korea has no cinema. Cambodia has no cinema, neither Vietnam afaik. China has some cinema, but i dont know if they are communist. I dont know anything about Cuba or Chile cinema. Is communism enemy of movies?
No.2892
>>2452If you make a 'best porn movies' topic I'm not gonna stop you but maybe not in this thread
No.2894
>>2278Just rewatched Solaris again. Pure kino.
Wish that the idea of aliens being truly alien of Russian sci-fi (rather than just humanoids) got more popular.
No.2897
Just watched Antitrust. Good movie. Good payoff. I was ahead of the game for once making me feel smarter than usual, although i'm not sure if that's because the writing was for dumb people, or if i'm intelligent enough to discern clues before the big reveal. Nonetheless, i was invested into the story. Tech was dated, but definitely believable considering what we have now, so it was grounded in reality and seemingly predicted modern silicon valley. Unfortunately nobody learned anything from the movie it seems.
No.2900
>>2894Which one did you watch the '72 one or the '02 one?
No.2909
>>2900The ‘72 one because it’s free and the only good film Clooney’s been in was From Dusk Till Dawn.
No.2996
No Reservations (2007) was very sweet desu.
No.3006
Any good lefty film recommendations?
No.3019
>>3007I prefer him in Tekken
No.3049
I said in the Bong Joon Ho thread that I will do it and so here it is. I just re-watched the first Matrix film for the first time in years and here are my thoughts. I decided that it might be best to write these individually after each movie. As always this might be a bit scuffed.
I don't really know where to begin. Guess I will first try giving it a more shallow perspective. The film is great in that regard: interesting and unique setting and premise, impressive even to this day special effects that managed to age really well, seemed like there was a nice bit of attention to detail given that rewarded noticing small things. I do have some issues with the plot / setting story though, which I'll get in later.
Since I specifically watched the film with the intention of making this post I did actively try to analyze as much as possible. Hence I tried to do a leftist reading of the film. I feel it is quite a bit culturally grounded in the new left counterculture as well as Californian ideology. The first thing we see is the police state being presented as the antagonist and this theme continues on until the redpill scene. Presumably all our heroes were hackers before seeing the real world (Trinity already had a rep for breaking into the FED and others have what sound a lot like hacker nicknames). Also they all "felt that the world was wrong" and tried searching for the truth. It really feels inspired by real life counterculture, especially with all the "free your mind" talk. However I would also say that is possible to make a sort of Marxist reading of the film, as the machine enslavement of humans can be a parallel for class relationship, with the ruling class of machines keeping the humans down, forcing them to literally cannibalize each other and fuel the continued existence of the machines through their own life. The wide human population are all shown as lumpen and even actively collaborating with the machines against their own interest. The crew of Nebuchadnezzar are almost a vanguard of sorts, as shown in the "red dress" scene where Morpheus says that even though they are fighting to free all humans and end the Matrix, for now everyone in it is uninformed and can't join yet, they still need guidance and until they truly see can even be enemies trying to protect their system, the horror of which they don't understand (just like most people right now who don't see the flaws of capitalism and will actively try to defend it). However this is likely not an intended reading.
However now my problem with the story - the concept of the chosen one as well as the "there is no spoon" line. Let's start with the first. I generally don't like straight forward prophecies and at least in my opinion this film could have done an interesting subversion of it. The prophecy here is completely straightforward - Neo is the one and that's it, he might have been forced to doubt, but in the end he only resurrects because of the prophecy. It would have been more interesting if anyone could have been the chosen one, as with only changing the deus ex machina resurrection Neo would stop being really special. All that was needed for his powers was to fully understand the truth of how the setting worked (that the spoon isn't real (and I get into this idea next)), thus I feel that the prophecy shouldn't have taken such a center stage, let Neo just be another redpilled recruit who through facing adversity and encountering specific conditions would eventually discover his potential in a seemingly desperate moment by putting together all he learnt.
Now, about the spoon, and this will probably be my biggest critique of the film. Hot take: the spoon is real, or at least it should be. Leaving behind all the chosen one stuff, let's focus only on how the setting works here. The Matrix is a recreation of reality. It recreated the rules, yet these can be bent somewhat. The way I see it is almost like a console command in a video game. There is a really concrete vision of how things should be, yet there exist tools to sort of bend it like cheats or dev commands. That's how I see the agents - they are using the dev tools, hence can do Matrix equivalent of godmode, speedhack or teleport. To me it would make sense that when the heroes do their tricks it is them realizing the existence of such "dev commands" and using them themselves. After all, they never manage to reach the agent level of expertise. However this is not how the film decided to go. Instead we get complete and total idealism - that it is actually the human mind and will that bends the Matrix, since it is not real. Yet I contest that. Matrix is real. The code has rules - what can and can't be done. Neo not abiding by these rules is no more ridiculous idealism than 40k orcs painting shit red to go faster. I recall way back watching critique videos on Matrix 2 and 3 and how they jumped the shark with Neo using powers in the real world, yet that isn't surprising that he is already bending reality in the first one. Actually, instead of only critique, I'll try to describe how I think it should have went. The One shouldn't be any more powerful than an agent, actually, just have The One be just like an agent. As in my previous idea on how I think Matrix works with special powers basically fuctioning as console commands, The One should discover and learn about them all, including stuff like switching bodies. Also, there was a line in the Dojo scene where Morpheus says that "you'll be stronger than the agents since unlike them you won't need to follow the rules", which could now be fully realized with Neo managing to defeat the equally skilled agents by using unpredictable tactics and exploit the system fully. Smith could still be the exception from the agents and eventually become the main rival to Neo, even with all his powers, since unlike other machines Smith wanted independence and started to resemble a human, not a machine, thus also like Neo would be able to bypass the programming of what an agent should do and thus could fully exploit everything that could be done inside the Matrix.
Probably could still write a few things but nothing right now of the top of my head. I will post another impressions post about Matrix: Reloaded in the near future.
No.3091
"Cuando se acabe la guerra." (When the war ends)
I just watch this spanish movie from the director Alejandro Amenabar, depicting the life of Miguel de Unamuno at the start of the civil war here in Spain. Miguel de Unamuno is a spanish writer which was pretty much a centrist, he didn't like the ways that socialism was unfolding in soviet russia (he was a socialist at some point) and was the rector of the university of Salamanca (he also made christian poetry, and was critical of the king of Spain when he was the ruler). Salamanca, like very province pertaining to Castille and Leon, fell inmediately to the fascists without much fight, they weren't an industrial center, it was an agrarial region and it still is.
Miguel de Unamuno is a little special.
Miguel de Unamuno initially suports the coupists,
even so far as giving them money before the coup, as he was thinking that they were there just to restore order in Spain, he thought that they would just inocently give power to the right party and that was all that it was, but then he discovers that wasn't the case. He has 2 close friends, a protestant which is supportive of the coup, because of how the reds were burning churches and such, and a socialist which isn't supportive of the coup for obvious reasons. The first one to go was the protestant one, as his wife denounced him on the charges of being a mason, and thus, he was executed without trial, and later, when Miguel de Unamuno forces his friend to get the fuck out of the city of Salamanca, just to breath some fresh air and calm down, and after having a heated discussion about politics, their stopped by 2 guys which proceed to beat the fuck out of his socialist friend and tell Miguel de Unamuno to not look, and push his friend into the car, to execute them later.He is also coerced by the national side to side with them, basically, and when they have this day at his university called "The day of the race" which he denounces to one of the generals of the nationalist side as "being remarkably close to nazi arianism" but has to go either way, he has no choice. Then, he is the last one to actually give a speech, where he denounces fascism, calling it "a mental disorder like bolshevism", (I told you he was a centrist) and pretty much btfo'ing the right, of course, this makes it so everyone at the stage starts screaming at him, and drawing their guns, until the wife of Franco, who was a real fan of his works, mostly christian poetry, saves him from being executed right there. He later died 2 months later because of a heart attack.Miguel de Unamuno is pretty much your clueless centrist. He is pretty much a conservative bitch that drinks everything that the rightist media serves him, because of that, he is supportive of the coup, seeing them as bringers of order, but when that order reveals itself to be pretty much fascism and straight murder, he develops a sense that he might have been wrong, thus evolving into an actual centrist.
The important thing here is that a lot of people are like Miguel de Unamuno, they don't feel that something like that could ever happen, and support those people who want to actually execute such stuff. Of course, they don't believe it because the ones declaring so are godless socialists, but he believes everything that comes from the mouths of rightist propagandist, because of course he would, they're the press, how could they lie? Their job is to expose the truth. That's why, when he knows that Federico Garcia Lorca was killed, he didn't believe until his friend mentioned that the BBC said so. Miguel de Unamuno encaptures the spirit of the clueless libertarian which believes in the lies of the bourgeoisie until it's too late.
>>2669haha knife go slash slash No.3111
Recently watched The Day the Earth Stood Still, the original. The alien basically describes space society as being a weird form of transhumanist communist style society since the galactic community decided they were too impulsive to let individuals have nuclear weapons so they made a perfect robot police force that does absolutely nothing except making sure nobody blows somebody else up, and since all nukes disappeared the galactic community just went full utopian and if they really have to use bartering of some sort they'll pull diamonds out of their ass to barter with the locals.
I like it cause it basically tackles the idea of personal freedom quite well since it was written at the time the first H bomb was tested and that power being in the hands of a people as fucking crazy and self-centred as Americans is a danger to everyone else. Sure, you have the right to personal freedom but you don't have the damn right to blow everyone else up, if that were the case we could just as easily blow you up. It's basically a very liberal version of the individual vs society with American exceptionalism swapped with Human exceptionalism.
Robocommunism sounds pretty cool tbh.
No.3116
>>3049>>3091>>3111Holy shit just look at all them words.
We really do exist in a lefty forum.
No.3117
>>3049>It would have been more interesting if anyone could have been the chosen one, as with only changing the deus ex machina resurrection Neo would stop being really special. All that was needed for his powers was to fully understand the truth of how the setting worked but this is exactly what happens. If trinity hadn't told him she loved him, he simply would have died. Her faith in him is what gives him the faith to hack the ultimate rule of the matrix and overcome death. It is established that they hack the matrix by overcoming the mental conditioning of its established rules. If they believe it is possible because it is just a simulation.
On a purely thematic/storytelling level though I do agree with you that it would be much more interesting if the prophecy shit was dropped from the film. The movie kind of walks it back over the next two movies and it doesn't really need it.
No.3120
also worth posting some of zizeks reading of the matrix. there's more good stuff in the full text, like agent smith being The Jew
>Therein resides the correct insight of The Matrix: in its juxtaposition of the two aspects of perversion - on the one hand, reduction of reality to a virtual domain regulated by arbitrary rules that can be suspended; on the other hand, the concealed truth of this freedom, the reduction of the subject to an utter instrumentalized passivity. And the ultimate proof of the decline in quality of the following installments of the Matrix trilogy is that this central aspect is left totally unexploited: a true revolution would have boon a change-in how humans and the Matrix itself relate to jouissance and its appropriation. What about, say, individuals sabotaging the Matrix by refusing to secrete jouissance?
>One of the great achievements of the second genre is the charmingly vulgar Conviene far bene l'amore (1974, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile), whose fundamental premise was that when, in a near future, the world run out of energy, doctor Nobile, a young brilliant Italian scientist, remembers Wilhelm Reich and makes a discovery that a tremendous amount of energy is released by a human body during the sexual act - on condition that the couple is not in love. So, in the interest of humanity's survival, the Church is convinced to invert its stance: love is sinful, and sex is OK only if done without love. So we get people confessing to their priest: "Sorry, father, I've sinned, I fell in love with my wife!" To generate energy, couples are ordered twice a week to make love in large collective hills, controlled by a supervisor who admonishes them: "The couple in the second row to the left, move faster!" The similarity with The Matrix cannot but strike the eye. The truth of both films is that, in today's late capitalism, politics is more and more the politics of jouissance, concerned with ways of soliciting or controlling and regulating jouissance (abortion, gay marriages, divorce-).
> A supplementary twist is provided by the very end of the movie, when Neo magically stops the bad squid-like machines attacking the humans by merely raising his hand - how was he able to accomplish this in "the desert of the real," NOT within the Matrix where, of course, he can do wonders, freeze the flow of time, defy the laws of gravity, etc.? Does this unexplained inconsistency point towards the solution that "all there is is generated by the Matrix,'' that there is No ultimate reality? Although such " postmodern" temptation to find an easy way out of the confusions by proclaiming that all there is, is the infinite series of virtual realities mirroring themselves in each other is to be rejected, there is a correct insight in this complication of the simple and straight division between the "real reality" and the Matrix-generated universe: even if the struggle takes place in the "real reality", the key fight is to be won in the Matrix, which is why one should (re)enter its virtual fictional universe. If the struggle wore to take place solely in the "desert of the real," it would have been another boring dystopia about the remnants of humanity fighting evil machines.
>To put it in the terms of the good old Marxist couple infrastructure-superstructure: one should take into account the irreducible duality of, on the one hand, the I objective" material socio-economic processes taking place in reality as well as, on the other hand, the politico-ideological process proper. What if the domain of politics is inherently -sterile," a theatre of shadows, but nonetheless crucial in transforming reality? So, although economy is the real site and politics a theater of shadows, the main fight is to be fought in politics and ideology. Take the disintegration of the Communist power in the last years of 1980s: although the main event was the actual loss of state power by the Communists, the crucial break occurred at a different level - in those magic moments when, although normally Communists were still in power, people all of a sudden lost their fear and no longer took the threat seriously; so, even if "real" battles with the police continued, everyone somehow new that "the game is over". The title The Matrix Reloaded, is thus quite appropriate: if part 1 was dominated by the impetus to exit the Matrix, to liberate oneself from its hold, part 2 makes it clear that the battle has to be won WITHIN the Matrix, that one has to return to it.
> Perhaps, however - and this would be the only way to (partially, at least) redeem Revolutions - there is a sobering message in this very failure of the conclusion of the Matrix series. There is no final solution on the horizon today, Capital is here to stay, and all we can hope for is a temporary truce. That is to say, undoubtedly worse that this deadlock would have been a pseudo-Deleuzian celebration of the successful revolt of the multitude.
No.3122
>>3111<Robocommunism sounds pretty cool tbh
<BECAUSE IT IS MY DUDE. ALL THE BEST STUFF OF COMMUNISM WITHOUT ANY OF THE THINGS THAT MIGHT MAKE IT FAIL.
I wish there was more media or something to call this robo communism
No.3123
>>3122does star trek count?
No.3136
>>3049Alright, just finished the other two. Since they are basically two parts of one movie I'll look at them together.
First of I guess I need to take back my accusation of the film being ultra-idealist, as the powers of the One are explained in M2 Architect scene (I will refer to the movies by M1,2,3). As far as I understand the One simply has an inherent connection to the machine network, which further explains Neo's powers outside of the Matrix and grounds them in reality: his connection to Matrix let's him stop the sentinels and later see the network sources, thus letting him see after the blinding. However this is not good for the film. While I dislike the "no spoon" idealism, it was an authorial idea, so what ever, however this new explanation of Neo being a predicted powerful anomaly ruins the "no spoon" explanation, as now he has powers simply because he is the one, which contradicts with the first film.
I guess I will continue with other things that were sort of ruined by the second film.
Number one is obviously Tank, who was a great character and at least for me one of the best from the first film, but gets unceremoniously killed of in the background before M2 and never even gets mentioned. Not that Link isn't a good character either, it's just that instead of him it should have been Tank. This section of my criticism is a bit hyperbolic al, it's not a big deal, I just liked the character and that's all.
More seriously though, Agent Smith. In M1, Smith was really interesting. He basically was a rebellious machine, wanting to it self become free and escape from the fake world. This made him in my opinion a great candidate for an anti-hero / sympathetic villain if he had survived (if we pretended we didn't knew how M2-3 will go, we'd assume he was dead at the end of M1). However later movies change him. Now he pretty much becomes pure evil type of villain and acting like a joker wannabe, maybe somewhat resembling in his motivations a rogue AI villain. He talks a lot about purpose, and how he wants to get revenge for having his taken away, but in M1 his main motivation was escaping that purpose. Though at least I guess his actions are quite interesting, even if he is retconed himself: having lost purpose, he is lost himself, thus not being able to do anything else but hyperjokerfied nihilistic destruction. I don't really get the point of Smith being Neo's evil twin however. Also in the end Smith is just a mcguffin: he (and more specifically his destruction) is just a bargaining chip for Neo to offer the Architect in exchange for ending the war.
Don't have much on Architect. For what he was he was written well and was pretty good character. However I think his counterpart of the Oracle is more interesting. I really like her position of being the one who tries to break the balance. It is quite clear Matrix is a stagnant and not too good of a system. It seems the Architect maintains it as a path of least resistance: he mentions to Neo that in case it fails he has plan B, yet would rather stick to this. Thus from a progressive Marxist perspective I do like Oracle's motivations.
In the end I'd argue that Matrix did have a pretty good resolution. Oracle succeeds, the war ends and the wheel of history once again moves forward, breaking the cycle of the One. Sure it could have been more explained what really happens, but is that necessary? So here is how I see the world moving forward: peace is achieved between the machines and humans (Architect seems to be respectful of his deal with Neo and will likely honor it), with both civilizations learning to coexist and eventually rebuild. Machines have to use their plan B, whatever it would be, to find a new source of power, while the sleepers slowly awaken out of the Matrix (it is presumable that at the point the movie happens if the Machines don't crush Zion the awakening would rise exponentially: one council member says they rescued more than combined in last few years and the Architect alluded that the system destabilizes around the time the One shows up). Finally I'd imagine the Matrix becomes a machine world, basically the place where they truly live while only acquiring energy from the real world.
I guess I might have missed some things but if so I'll try to post more if I remember. Final thoughts then I guess. I was going in expecting that I will walk away with the opinion that M2 and M3 shouldn't have been made, but no, I kind of enjoyed them. Sure they were cheesy as fuck at times and maybe relied too much on ebin action scenes while losing the tightness M1 had (I'd argue the bit where they fuck about in Zion, train-driver sub-program and the hangar battle could have been cut a bit, but hey, can't really hate on gangster looking mechs who shoot their 40k looking bolters sideways at an angry swarm of wasps). Also I did like the end and didn't really find flaws with it that are too pronounced. I guess that there were some plot-holes, like why does Merovingian, a seemingly rogue element, exists, why did non-Smith agents tried to kill keymaster even if it would fuck up the prophecy (I guess he's an exile, but still, Architect should have made sure he'd live) or why did Neo couldn't break the program rules the Train Master had but could fuck as much as he wanted with the Matrix as a whole or with Smiths world at the end. Yet I don't believe plotholes matter too much if they are minor, and in the end I will say that the entire Matrix trilogy is net-positive.
w h y d i d y o u k i l l T a n k No.3329
>>3049>as the machine enslavement of humans can be a parallel for class relationship, with the ruling class of machines keeping the humans downThe humans are the bad guys in the matrix universe. The machines didn't want to trap people in the matrix. The humans started the war with the machines for capitalist reasons. The machine's nation were producing goods at better prices then all the human countries and all the human currencies were falling rapidly and their economies were going into depressions. So, the humans decided to nuke the machines' city state and start a war. Anyway, The machines only started their own country because they were being massacred by humans. Humans also blocked out the sun when the machines were winning the war. Which was basically the straw that broke the camels back. The machines had given humans a bunch of chances to stop being greedy dicks but they refused. You can watch the animatrix to find out more. The machines in the matrix are more the working class then the humans were. The matrix is more like gulag after a successful revolution.
This is part of the animatrix that shows how the machines were treated by people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0K6Cb1ZoG4 No.3331
>>3136>I guess I will continue with other things that were sort of ruined by the second film.Number one is obviously Tank, who was a great character and at least for me one of the best from the first film
The guy who played Tank got fired because they didn't want to pay him what he asked for. It's pretty sad he got blacklisted and doesn't make movies anymore.
No.3351
>>3329Thank you! Robots are based. And the matrix is based. I couldn't watch the first movie any longer after it was revealed that the humans were given a happy simulation but could not stomach it and kept revolting.
Machines did nothing wrong. I could not keep watching the matrix after that point. But also fuck cypher that creep traitor.
No.3352
>>3331Marcus Chong. he also played Huey Newton in
Panther (1995), a film which I also highly recommend to lefties.
No.3354
>>3351What sad is the machines still love humankind. In there account of the war, they acknowledge that both sides committed horrible war crimes and believe that all forms of intelligence should be respected and treated with dignity. Contrast that with what Morpheus told Neo about the war. He acted like the humans did nothing wrong and that the machines are evil. It shows the humans never stopped being huge assholes.
The machines should have never compromised with them in the last movie. They should have just stopped pretending that the Matrix was the real world. They should have just started telling humans they had to live there and let each human live in whatever simulation they felt like living in. The Earth is fucked destroyed thanks to the humans. The only thing the machines did wrong was not informing the humans in the matrix of their situation. The humans really fucked everything up; not only does the black cloud block the sun it stops any electrical device from leaving the atmosphere. The humans trapped themselves and the machines on the hellish earth they created. The machines can't even colonize the stars and find a nice place to dump them humans. The humans gave them no options.
>>3352Yeah it's a shame he's a good actor. The actor's guild didn't stand up for him. I'm sure there are thousands of actors and actresses fucked over just like him.
No.3355
>>3354Holy shit I never knew that. Wish there was a pro-robot movie where humans lose. Robotcoomunism is a must.
No.3361
>>3331>>3354William Marshall who played Blacula got blacklisted for supposed communist ties
No.3374
>>3353>Soviets look badhow did they do that
No.3387
>>3386I can't take his batman voice seriously. It ruins the franchise for me.
No.3390
>>3387It's okay. The suits just looks so stupid and makes him look so fat.
It really dawned on me when playing AK the suit looked the most out of place and odd.
Don't think The Batman's suit has been fully revealed yet but hope there is finally a good batman suit on film.
No.3391
>>3374Probably “Muh Berlin Pooty-Time” or some shit
No.3392
>>3391wtf is bernlin pooty time
No.3397
>>3391>>3392It sounds fun. What is it?
No.3399
Just watched the Pianist
Holy shit
No.3403
>>3400what the fuck
leftypol told me the RED army were all filled with good boys who dindu nothing wrong
Goes to show you to never idealize history.
No.3404
>>3403Rapers were executed in the red army. At least it was a thing of humans being monsters given the right circumstances, and not supported by the higher ups
like the nazis, which forced women to brothel work in the territories they conquered No.3405
>>3403>>3404Yea, the Red Army really shouldn’t be compared to the Heer, who were all issued condoms in the expectation that they wouldn’t brutally rape women in a Eastern territories (who would then be executed for the crime of fucking an Aryan).
The Heer went on raids to capture sex slaves, they raped 10 million at the lowest, the Red Army (who were brutal only after the horror of the war) don’t really compare tbh.
No.3406
>>3404That is good.
Was it the Generals or just the soldiers themselves taking the initiative to weed out these rapists?
It doesn't seem to be stalin from what he says
>"understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle.gross
>nazis, which forced women to brothel work in the territories they conqueredNo matter the age Nazis will never stop being cuckolds.
No.3409
>>3406Are you fishing for something to bitch about? Who gives a shit what Stalin’s private thoughts are, the legal punishment for rape in the Soviet Army was execution. No shit it depends on being turned in, tf you think, the government was psychic? You believe that actual horseshit about NKVD breathing down your throat 24/7?
After the Eastern Front how many soldiers would turn in a comrade for war crimes, realistically? You think the Allies didn’t rape just because you never heard about it? Lmao.
I think lots of libs think war is like the movies.
No.3411
>>3400>>3403>>3406https://web.archive.org/web/20120401022017/http://gpw.tellur.ru/page.html?r=books&s=beevorUsing Google translate:
>With the entry of the Red Army into the territory of the aggressor countries, extraordinary measures were taken against atrocities against civilians. On January 19, 1945, Stalin signed an order that demanded that no rude treatment of the local population be allowed. He was brought to every soldier. In development of this order, orders of the Military Councils of the fronts, army commanders, division commanders and other formations followed. The order of the Military Council of the 2nd Belorussian Front, signed by Marshal K. Rokossovsky, ordered looters and rapists to be shot at the crime scene.More links:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140530214602/http://svpressa.ru/war/article/8271/http://actualhistory.ru/51I can't find source on pic attached but it's been circulating online
No.3412
>>3411Someone make an infograph of this but puting tthe actual sources on there, pls.
No.3416
>>3409>Are you fishing for something to bitch about? No, but it does seem you are getting pretty offended at me being disgusted by something.
>Who gives a shit what Stalin’s private thoughts areI do. That's entirely what I was talking about. Not sure why you are becoming so angry about a simple question that has no intention but to know more about it. I forgot all my history and /edu/ seems to be still too new.
No.3417
>>3411WTF that's based.
Goddamn it. History is like a fucking ping pong ball. Can't keep track of who says what and when and why. Don't even know what the fuck is true anymore.
No.3422
>>3416Probably because we read about muh sickening slavic red hordes everywhere
No.3432
>>3418I was not informed of the newsletter when we cancelled wikipedia
And even then why are sources in pic related more trustworthy
No.3433
>>3432https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_biological_warfare_in_the_Korean_WarThat this article has the word allegations prepended to it shows why Wikipedia is cancelled
No.3435
>>3353Nigga, I finally watched the movie. It was sad. Not tear jerker sad for me but sick in the stomach sad.
And I just gotta ask. How did the RED army look bad? They are mentioned once in the form of stupid nazi propaganda and the other where they were killing off the nazis.
The scene with justin hammer being killed doesn't make them look bad, yeah it was a sad moment but it's not like the soldiers had the time to hold trials to see which generals were the good ones. He pretended to hate jews albeit for a noble reason and sacrificed himself But there were no wrong people in that situation.
No.3561
Come and See was very depressing. I've seen my share of depressing things, but that movie really hit me in the feels.
No.3563
I just watched 'The Platform'. It's pretty good, you should watch it.
No.3565
>>3355There actually is a movie like that. It’s Colossus The Forbin Project in which both the Soviet Union and the US made supercomputer AIs with the only objective of protecting humanity and prevent war at all cost. By the end it took over the world by threaten humanity with total nuclear annihilation while giving us communism at the point of a gun.
The ending is basically have cybernetic communism, and the AIs are not even self-aware but rather just take their programming to its logical conclusion.
https://vimeo.com/394729987 No.3566
>>3432Wikipedia from the start is a collaborative project between glowies and the site owner being an unironic ayn rand fan.
Most of the sources cited in the image is just a deep dive and deconstruction of the first hand source of Wikipedia. I could put a lot more terrible articles like that one about religious repression where they cited an ultra-orthodox fascist gusano who in turn cited the Gulag Archipelago as the super secret Soviet source for his numbers.
A tip on discerning Cold War propaganda is if it’s not taken directly from the Soviet archives, it’s probably bullshit.
No.3569
>>3567MoS is the only good snyder movie somehow
No.3582
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8228288/So I recently watched The Platform and I gotta say I liked it, not a 10/10 classic but fun to watch and analysis. And it has a really funny qoute that helps encompass the larger scope of the films message.
<"I can't shit upwards"
No.3630
>>2342Ditto. What an experience! It starts off a bit slow, but the speed and force it picks up is breathtaking!
No.3633
>>3567Faora and Zod were the heroes. Humanity didn't deserve to live - the kryptonians would have implemented fully automated luxury communism after they were finished terraforming the earth. MoS is basically what would happen if Posadist aliens visited the earth but one of their own betrayed them and fought them off.
No.3637
>>3633Real Posadist take right here
No.3643
>>3633BASED.
INFERIOR HUMANS BTFO
No.3645
>>3633Good meme but the Kryptonians were Neo-feudalists looking at how their society functions.
No.3647
>>3645Zod wasn't your typical Kryptonian though.
No.3665
>>3567>Never.Well, there's this guy who likes Snyder but he's only done a couple of videos on Watchmen.
https://youtu.be/_QjRPjqxXVchttps://youtu.be/0qwLk5zqxk8Watched Reel Analysis before this but don't know if he's "marxist". He seems to dislike liberals/centrists at least.
No.3918
>>3909i liked the movie
Although a little mediocre
I liked the joker girl and huntress ,also macgregor was cool
No.3919
>>3374the soviets attempted to execute the child protagonist cause he was wearing a nazi uniform
No.3920
>>3919On that theme i recently wached this film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lore_(film)it was weird
The whole thing was about 5 nazi kids surviving in 1945 germany
The movie potrays post war germany like some post apocalyptic hellscape
I dont know much about the time period so i cant really say if it was accurate
It had a holocaust survivor who was potrayed as something between an edgelord and , i shit you not, a jewish raping aryan 13 years olds
It managed to make the americans and all occupation troops pretty scary
In general an interesting movie
No.3921
>>3920also had the soviets killing children thing
Although all allies were potrayed as occupiers
No.3922
>>3920>The movie potrays post war germany like some post apocalyptic hellscapeI dont know much about the time period so i cant really say if it was accurate
From what I know, yes, that was pretty much accurate, it's estimated that three million Germans died of unnatural causes after the official end of WW2.
No.3923
>>3922i actually really liked that aspect of the movie
Its rare to see a post-apocalyptic setting while potraying the real world(in movies)
No.3924
>>3922Okay, to be fair that number is just based on one article about a book I just read, but, it was a lot anyway.
Post war Germany had been utterly destroyed by the war, both from the Soviet and Allied advances and from Hitler ordering that infrastructure be destroyed to leave the Soviets nothing left to capture in a similar way to what the Soviets did in 1942/3. Hitler basically was despondent by the end of the war and took the attitude that the German people had failed him, and so they deserved the suffering that would befall them - he did little to nothing to try to shield civilians from death either during the invasion or after the war. By the time of the surrender of Germany, normal order had collapsed, with power, water, food, heating supply systems etc destroyed across most of the country. And it's safe to say the full realisation of the scale and scope of the holocaust didn't help the allies to sympathise with the huge human suffering of the immediate postwar period.
Add to that the fact that German settlers were forcibily thrown out of the territory the Nazis had conquered, and oftentimes they were victims of reprisal violence from local militias on the way out.
>>3923Oh yeah, I agree, it's very interesting to see what modern society is like when everything has collapsed and been destroyed, how quickly it reverts back to barbarism. I would also recommend Downfall if you haven't seen that, paints a very grim picture of Berlin as the SS officers are basically the highest authority and rule over their petty fiefdoms in the city lashing out against anyone who they pleased before the end of the war.
No.3925
>>3924Another thing i liked in the movie is how the normally heroic american soldiers with their classic ww2 look were potrayed as other movies potray ss troops
The Allies have power over life and death and the recruits look scary and aggresive
Allthough the movie doesnt make clear why the kids are scared of the occupiers outside of propaganda
I dont think children of nazi official were randomly harmed by allied troops
No.3930
>>3925>Allthough the movie doesnt make clear why the kids are scared of the occupiers outside of propagandaI feel like that's probably enough isn't it
No.3931
>>3930Well i feel like the movie didn't do much for the viewer to sympathize with the little Nazi shits
Outside of being kid's
No.3940
>>3919That doesn't make them look bad since a few scenes ago the germans were actually using the kids as actual militants.
No.3941
>>3918I liked Bruce wayne and Harley Quinns relationship.
Although the 20 minute scene of Bruce just licking his taint was a bit weird but okay I am not really that much of a critic.
No.3946
>>3941haha you ruined your joke , the hyena was just named bruce not bruce wayne
No.3949
>>3386Watch TDKR. Bane is literally /ourguy/.
No.3953
>>3946That was the joke. It worked on two levels.
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO POINT OUT IT WAS A JOKE?
YOU RUINED IT!
EXPECT MY REVENGE TO ARRIVE SOON WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT!!!!!
No.3965
>>3941>Although the 20 minute scene of Bruce just licking his taint was a bit weird but okay I am not really that much of a critic.dang that sounds bold and artistic
and kinda sexy No.4075
>>4067The opening scene is good but this one is more lol worthy in my opinion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfRRapUxUrkthis shitheap should have been laughed off the screen
No.4135
>>4091Speaking about american 90s movies
A few good men
I really liked the movie
It had that hot pedophile actress
But the whole we defend our freedom by occupying guantanamo was the most funny shit i have seen and its a great example of the mutt mindset
No.4642
I watched The World's End yesterday, I'd been wanting to for a long time because I really liked Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
I enjoyed it a lot (not as much as Hot Fuzz but it was good still) but holy shit, it made me realize how anti-communist that "advanced aliens come to force humans to join their perfect society at the cost of our humanity and freedom" trope is. I'm aware that it may be very obvious but I hadn't realized before because, admittedly, I don't watch a lot of movies. And then at the end they end up in a post-apocalyptic world where everything has gone to shit (although for a somewhat logical reason, since there was a mega explosion). I don't know if it's just satire/a parody of those cliches or if they were serious to some extent in the underlying message of both genres but I'm going to assume it's the former. If that were the case, it could be that they were exposing the stupidity of the genre.
No.4656
>>4135>hot pedophile actress Excuse me?
No.4664
>>4658>Demy MooreLOL a 19 year old was Frenching a 15 year old. That's awesome. Its not like she BDSMed him or some shit. Why the fuck are people so castrated today?
**Also Inb4 what if it was a guy and a girl
The reason Shotacon (as is alleged essentially) isn't nearly as problematic is because Males are the penetrators and their sex drives are different compared to women. Most 15 year old guys would jump to bone a woman becuse they have nothing to lose, while girls tend to take sex more seriously, because they have more to lose; penetration, loss of virginity, possible pregnancy etc.**
No.4666
>>4664>Males are the penetrators and their sex drives are different compared to women.gigaspooked
Penetrating or enveloping someone isn't inherently active or passive.
Sex drive =/= consent. If this was the case it wouldn't be possible to turn down sex when you're horny or to choose to have sex when you're not.
>Most 15 year old guys would jump to bone a woman becuse they have nothing to lose, while girls tend to take sex more seriously,one word: groupies
No.4820
Just watched Apocalypto, pretty decent except it was historically inaccurate af
The end with the Spanish arriving was chilling, dude lived through one awful empire conquering his village and enslaving his people just as an even worse empire was arriving
No.4822
>>4820I thought the ending was really ambigious. Remember that Mel Gibson is a massive TradCath so it might come over as liberating that Spanish arrived, putting an end to the horror.
It's historically inaccurate but I don't give a shit. It's hyperrealist and for that I can appreciate it. Passion of Christ was too, pretty good movies. Mel Gibson is somewhat of a mad genius, and it's pretty telling that a TradCath like him gave indios a voice in cinema they never had, by having them speak Nahuatl. Pretty kino, if you ask me.
No.4823
>>4091It's unbelievable sometimes for me, how liberals watch shit like Air Force One, Olympus has Fallen, Jack Ryan, Top Gun, etc. and do not recognise it as propaganda, but then watch Soviet kino like Come and See and complain that it's overly propagandastic. Absolutely bizarre, I think most American propaganda is even more cartoonish than whatever the Soviets produced.
No.4824
>>4822I guess it’s ambiguous, that’s just the feeling I got because Jaguar Paw notes that the ships are bringing “men” specifically an army and he suggests to his wife that they hide in the forest.
No.4825
>>4823It’s because Americans are trained like dogs to see their propaganda as “action movies” while everything in Soviet cinema is either propaganda or an “anti-Soviet freedom statement” because the USSR had the state funding and making films explicitly rather than covertly.
It’s all about the pervasive military element in action films (note, almost every US action film is either about the military or is about ex-military) that Americans can no longer even perceive it as propaganda; the most effective form of propaganda, that which is so pervasive it is understood as reality.
Ingsoc could only dream of what America has accomplished.
No.4835
For Mother's Day I watched Rosemary's Baby for the first time and was a big fan, got me interested in finding more cultist horror films since that's before my time and the only other big cult horror film I've seen is Hereditary.
Also peaked my interest in occulist history and wanting to research how Satanism has influenced American culture/politics, if it has at all. I know it's silly right wing evangelical hysterics to accuse all liberals of being Satan worshipping monsters but I do wonder if that claim ever had some merit. Mainly thinking of claims that Hollywood is a land of Satanists pedophiles, and since the pedophile part is real, I wonder if the Satan part is too. Hope that all made sense. If anyone has links to videos or articles on the topic I'd appreciate.
No.4837
>>4642>it made me realize how anti-communist that "advanced aliens come to force humans to join their perfect society at the cost of our humanity and freedom" trope isThe trope always sounds like imperialism/colonialism to me considering how the aliens warped a lot of humans to suit their needs/standards. I don't understand how is it anti-communism, surely when we become like communist federation we wouldn't force other civilizations to conform to us?
No.4839
>>4837> wouldn't force other civilizations to conform to us?Kek. They're talking about just that on /leftybritpol/. Except instead of aliens it's the Abbos.
No.4863
>>4837>>4839That's why Star Trek has the Prime Directive. You can't force a society to change and conform fully because culture takes generations to change.
No.5084
I'm watching the Breivik movie with my family lmao
No.5202
>>2340I agree, Parasite is fucking awful.
No.5206
>>10176
good for you anon
No.5207
>>4664nice generalization
No.5209
>>2890>what is Soviet kino>who is TarkovskyAnd NK has a film industry. Chinese films definitely push solidarity values, but their films are more oriented towards the greatness of the nation, or, paradoxically, trying to copy rigorously what is done in Western cinema.
No.5413
I have really come to appreciate DVDs. Ever since the libraries have shut down, I haven't been watching as many films. I recently tried to stream Rashomon on my library's streaming service and it just made me really depressed. There was a bunch of issues that bothered me like DRM preventing me from playing it on a game console browser, the image contrast being off, the captions being in an unpleasant font and position and the television not displaying my computer very well. I honestly just gave up on it.
It made me realize that I hate streaming on every platform including shit like Netflix. It is hard for me to get in the mood for streaming something.
There is something about putting a hold on a DVD at the library (or, in the past, renting it) and having the anticipation of waiting for it to be available and going somewhere to physically pick it up. There is something about having a tangible object, putting it in my PS3 and having it just work. Browsing through a catalog and clicking a button takes a lot of the experience out of viewing a film for me, even excluding any technical or aesthetic issues I might take with the service. Maybe borrowing DVDs better replicates the experience of going to a nice theatre with the act of travelling to a place, exchanging for a physical item like a ticket and being able to build that anticipation for a piece of art. Even torrenting does a better job than streaming with the process of finding a link, waiting a bit for it to download and then doing whatever one might need to get it playing on their television. This move towards the convenience of streaming has killed the magic of film for me. It has stripped the away the anticipation of waiting and the communal aspect of a library, rental shop, theatre or even a torrent.
Thank you for reading my boomer tier rant. /blog
No.5414
>>2890>neither Vietnam afaik.How about educating yourself? Cuban cinema is fucking great. Most old films here in Vietnam are kino spy shows. Sadly they don’t get translated to English.
No.5489
I'm halfway through Vice and I just can't buy this "great man" theory this movie is pushing.
I don't understand how these slimey government insiders can be dismantled through anything but taking down the state itself. It is where these roaches hide and operate.
Only solution is to break it down.
No.5494
>>5489 I liked the movie as a europoor
I think it portrays general corruption in an almost apolitical "the system is rigged" kind of way
But it does push the conniving political intrigue who as someone connected with high-level politics i have to say its semi true
I Like how American presidents are portrayed as puppets something that’s unique since a lot of American media portray the presidents as 100% to blame
No.5620
Watched 1917. It was kinda sweet and peaceful in the second half.
No.5623
>>5620Idk, it was very stressing for me all the time. Maybe you found it peaceful because it seems like all hope is lost. I got bored sometimes. A sequence shot would be interesting for an event that had a lot of action like D-day for example, not for WW1 soldiers lost in the French no man's land.
No.5634
>>5623I didn't even pay attention to the war plot much since it was confusing and I don't know much about the first world war.
after the first guy gets killed in the beautiful farm the movie just turns into a serene experience. the tone changes a little, the baby, the singing platoon in the woods and the guy going to rest under the tree in the end. it all felt very sweet and peaceful. especially since in the credits they tell you this was a real life story of some soldierI agree the one shot is stressful in the beginning and some parts are quite boring.
Btw how do they do that continuous shot in a movie?
Is it some editing magic that even though they probably started and stopped filming each day, it all looks like it was made in 1 take in the span of 2 hours.
No.5638
>>5634I haven't watched any making of, but it's possible that not a lot of cuts were made (one very obvious is
when the German bunker collapses in the beginning). Nowadays we can shoot for eternity if we want, with the right organisation, length of shots aren't limited by the reels (Pic related had a lot of cuts even if it's supposed to be one long shot like 1917). One cut of the dead is a fun film to watch if you want to see how a "cheap" sequence shot is made.
No.5670
Watched Guns Akimbo with Daniel Radcliffe recently and really enjoyed it. It is slightly parodical and well filmed; a modern day Running Man. It also unsubtly points out the utter sociopathic go-nowhere existences of modern people and their unashamed lust for spectacles of violence and drama as a result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_Akimbohttps://fmovies.wtf/film/guns-akimbo.2pz2qHonestly when I first saw the photos of the production I thought it was a twitter post about how Daniel Radcliffe had lost his marbles and gone on a post-Harry Potter rampage, pic 2 related
No.5680
>>5670Depressing or Funny?
No.5681
>>5680It's a mixture of both. Its dark humor however over-all the film doesn't leave you on a completely sour note, with a silver lining to the whole dark mess.
No.5687
>>5680Its fun but adult and has some darker moments. Its pretty good though.
No.5770
Just watched Grave of the Fireflies, made me think about the horrors of WWII and what WWIII would be like; anyone have thoughts on the movie
No.5771
>>5770It traumatized me when I was a kid, haven't seen it in a long time.
No.5903
Tried out Isle of Dogs since I like stop motion despite people said it was liberal shit. A boy was it hilariously idealistic. Sometimes it makes me sad to be a leftist for noticing so much liberal propaganda that it destroys my enjoyment of movies aside from class conscious ones.
Of course it had to have some whitoid savior narrative because muh bug people.
No.5912
>>5903Isle of Dogs was fine. Idealism is fine for fiction and allegory as long as adults remember not to delude themselves with it.
No.5920
>>2890>Chile's cinemaWatch Patricio Guzmán's documentaries. Start with La batalla de Chile, it's a must-watch for leftists. Also watch Cordillera de los Sueños, Botón de Nácar and Nostalgia de la Luz.
No.5922
>>5919This was a film I grew up with, it fundamentally changed my understanding of the war and it made sure that fascistic propaganda in Western schooling (about le noble Germans) never stuck to me.
No.5924
>>5919Rumours are, the pistol was real and loaded in that scene. That's what made the actting so genuine, just like in the cow scene.
No.5925
>>5924As far as I remember that's an Urban Legend. Remember the Actors of Soviet filmography went through theatre usually and were taught to be true in their imitations of emotion.
No.5929
>>5928>If such a film was made about nazi soldiers it wouldn't go past any censorYou're be wrong about that. Almost every movie from the West that depicts the Nazis on the Eastern Front, has the Nazis be these civilized people 'forced' to fight the Soviet savages. Enemy at the Gates is an excellent example of this faggotry.
No.5936
Finally see Battleship Potemkin the other day to see what the fuss is about and the 2 parts about the drama on the deck and the Odessa staircase was mesmerizing in its brutality. It also makes me realize how much of an ignorant twat Roger Ebert was for unironically denies the Odessa massacre in his review of the movie.
No.5998
>>5919>>5906It's the ultimate anti-war movie, and probably the most realistic war movie ever made despite having a surreal feeling to it. I showed it to all my friends and they were blown away. As far as I'm aware it has no equal.
>>5936Yes, it's incredible how well Battleship Potemkin holds up.
No.5999
>>5929>>5928Also you get movies like Valkyrie about the "noble" Nazis like von Tresckow who abducted children for use as slave labor but he also attempted a coup so he must be good at heart :).
No.6001
Punishment Park
No.6406
Really enjoyed rewatching the first 4 Pirates of the Caribbean, stupid as the last one was.
No.6557
Just got high as shit and rewatched Terminator
Seriously forgot how fucking good this movie is
Anyone wanna do a Marxist analysis of it?
No.6559
>>6557>Anyone wanna do a Marxist analysis of itIt's probably been done already if you look it up. I frankly enjoy the movie too much to try analyzing it, because it sucks some of the joy out. However I will say that Terminator's backstory points out that capitalist transhumanism will lead to an apocalypse, as demonstrated with Cyberdyne's Skynet AI going rogue and turning humanities creations against themselves.
No.6560
>>6300We shall never forget this glorious man.
No.6644
Just watched Day of the Dead and The Fly
Tbh while I enjoyed DotD what I liked most was the soundtrack and the lead actress being hot, so, make of that what you will (not enough zombies imo)
The Fly is great though, genuinely tragic story
Any thoughts?
No.6648
>>6300https://youtu.be/YwGJgYVpmY4Sean sean sean~ Sean sean sean~
Has anyone here seen "A Fistful of Dynamite" aka "Duck You Sucker" aka "Once upon a time… Revolution!"? What's your opinion on the message of the film? Is it just that revolutions are horrible for everyone involved and don't change anything? And that you're better off just digging your head in the sand in hopes it will wash over you?
No.6659
>So if your air conditioner goes on the fritz, or your washing machine blows up, or your video recorder conks out, before you call the repairman, turn on all the lights, check all the closets and cupboards, look under all the beds, 'cause you never can tell. There just might be a gremlin in your house.
No.6660
Saw "There Will Be Blood" the other night. Amazing Film, also the film makes more sense once you realize the book it was based on was written by a Socialist. Really gets into the Cut Throat Tactics and Attitude the Gilded Age/Progressive Era Bourgeoisie held.
No.6662
>>6648I saw it many years ago but all I remember is that it was pretty kino. The revolutionaries were sympathetic and I was on their side. I've wanted to watch it again for a while. Think I might have a copy.
No.6666
>>6662The gist of the ending events is
John H. Mallory: [to Dr. Villega] When I started using dynamite… I believed in… many things, all of it! Now, I believe only in dynamite…The twice professional revolutionary Sean dies completely disillusioned about the whole thing, the other protagonist redneck bandit goes on with his entire family and only friend dead elevated to a head of a movement he doesn't believe in by pure circumstance. The revolution is shown to be led by unscrupulous bandits like him, like Sancho Panza. Before dying, Sean drops the eponymous phrase "Duck you sucker" which is the og title of the film and could be understood as "don't get involved". No.6690
Just watched Aliens, someone do a Marxist analysis considering Aliens as a Vietnam War film
No.6693
>>6691Its a funny film but not as good as I'd hoped.
No.6694
>>6693The Coens have already passed their prime. It's a disgrace compare to their other films.
No.6695
>>6694It's also jerking off Hollywood way too hard. Eddie Mannix was a real person, and the movie is supposed to be the movie he would have made about himself. Meanwhile in reality he helped cover up shit like rape and the film even has references to the (gay) casting couch which aged like milk with the MeToo thing breaking open not long after the film came out.
No.6698
>>6691>"villains" are Hollywood screenwriters who are secretly communist sympathizers injecting communist messagesreally ??
No.6699
>>6698Yes, unironically
Unrelated who got these /GET/s >>12222
No.6706
>>6698It is literally the Frankfurt School corrupting Hollywood, led by Marcuse himself. The reveal comes slowly unless you know commie jargon. The joke is "what if McCarthy was right?" and I would have written it off as silly bullshit except (unlike in Trumbo which was based on a real Hollywood commie) they actually explain some of their ideas to George Clooney and by extension the audience. It's a somewhat parody version of the ideas but it's also accurate at a basic level. They talk more about dialetics/histmat than critiquing capitalism, but they do (shallowly) class-pill Clooney's character, which makes the protagonist mad and slap him repeatedly to make him go back to work…
Then there's also a parallel they draw between capitalism and the christian God. Near the beginning the protagonist brings in some christian leaders to make sure a movie's portrayal of Jesus is accurate. They talk about how God is "split" into father and son while the rabbi (who is also there) disagrees. Meanwhile the communists talk about how humanity is "split" into worker and capitalist. I don't know what they were going for with this exactly, but it stuck out to me. The speech Clooney gives at the end (in character as a Roman at the crucifixion) is very "Jesus was a socialist" too, implying the Jesus movie-within-a-movie was written by one of the communists.
No.6712
>>6648>>6666Any more thoughts?
No.6824
Is Jason Voorhees a representation of the vengeful proletariat? Most of the people he kills are either cops, porkies, rich kids, or small time porkies
No.6827
>>6824No, that's probably a coincidence
No.6831
>>6827But Jason is also dressed as a prole
He kills with prole tools
His mom had the most prole job at Crystal Lake
No.6892
>>6888It’s Japan’s fantasy
No.6895
>>6893To hell with anime boards, it's a better film than the discussion on anime allows, it doesn't deserve to be put on that board.
The drawing is realistic, the story, acting and sets are cinematographic, and its only made in japan animation part you're not happy with?
No.6896
>>6895>it's a better film than the discussion on anime allows, it doesn't deserve to be put on that board.Have you been on that board? or leftyweebpol? Stop being childish
>The drawing is realistic, the story, acting and sets are cinematographic, and its only made in japan animation part you're not happy withI don't dislike it, but its an anime movie and thus belongs on that board. Considering that the PPH on both hobby and anime is the same most of the time, I'd reckon that we have the same set of users, so there is no problem asking there.
No.6900
>>6896No and I don't intend to. So far as I know, this board is called hobby and it doesn't prohibit discussion of animation. And as far as I know, Jin-Roh is a feature film, so it has the right to be here.
No.6901
>>6900>nothen how do you know its a bad board
>I don't intend tothen you're an idiot, because the mods moved anime threads there because the board exists, stop being a child
>this board is called hobby and it doesn't prohibit discussion of animationExcept that anime is not random animation or a western cartoon. Why do you think Avatar the Last Airbender is on hobby and One Piece is not?
>feature filmIts japanese, it has manga adaptations and is animated.
Can you just follow the fucking rules and not be a contrarian?
No.6902
>>6901>Except that anime is not random animation or a western cartoonIt's such an arbitrary difference. Anime is just animation made in japan, there's nothing special to it to demand the special treatment.
/a/ isn't even on the top bar so how is anyone supposed to know it exists.
No.6903
>>6888A weeb and a Natsoy bastardized aesthetics child. Still a pretty film though.
No.6906
>>6902> Anime is just animation made in japan, there's nothing special to it to demand the special treatment.That's not the point. Hobbies is dedicated to stuff like literature, film, table-top games and general life things like fitness, martial arts, military shit and art as well as western cartoons. Japanese stuff goes in
>>>/anime/ because it was favorably used on roulette and is a chan tradition. Since it exists use it, just like /GET/ is for /b/-random shitposting and /leftypol/ for political ranting and threads.
>/a/ isn't in the top bar Because Space is fucking in a coma again. No.7057
Thoughts on Kyle Reese as a character?
No.7063
>>7057He's a guerilla soldier thrown into a suicide mission. He's essentially a rebel, fighting for the future of humanity. His character is appropriate, rough and uneducated, grimy and desperate, and violent because that's the only thing that works in his time and the past, while words do not.
No.7742
Would you say that the awful cgi “film” Food Fight is actually a perfect product representing advertising propaganda in late capitalist media?
No.7746
>>7742It's a pretty great example of how awful art is when it's just a product on an assembly line. And that is the direction film and all art is headed.
No.7751
>>13345
>Inheret Vice
it's even better if you read the book first
No.7775
>>13345
I found Death of Stalin to be rather tasteless. I found the muppet movie about the muppets in a GULAG infinitely better.
No.7780
>>13345
the nice guys slaps. ryan gosling's best role yet. Yes better than blade runner
No.7782
>>13345
That Nice Guys poster looks like a parody of an actual movie. Like one of those fake parodies that don't exist.
No.7844
>>13345Just watched Death of Stalin. It had some of the best comedic acting I've seen in years. But it's definitely anti-Soviet propaganda and like
>>7775 said it's tasteless. The entire thing is making the USSR out to be a shithole tin pot dictatorship. Everything that's changed is to make the country and the people look worse. It's not a satire of the Soviet Union as such, but rather a satire of the Soviet Union as reflected in western propaganda. It has nothing to say about the climate of the USSR, only the climate of the west making up stories to scare themselves about the USSR. The good performances and well written dialogue aside, it's the kind of movie Prager U or Turning Point USA would make. Fucking embarrassing.
Also the treatment of Yudina's character was some of the cringiest shit I've ever seen put to film and painfully burger. Literally she writes a letter to Stalin calling him a piece of shit and hoping God strikes him dead, and then as Stalin laughs at the genuine absurdity of the letter, God does strike him (mostly) dead.
No.7872
>>7858What's the deal with romance stories and death?
Everything's going great, the couple, they have perfect chemistry. Match made in heaven. It's all wonderful. But then something happens, and the man dies. It's horrible. Tragic. The woman has to go through this whole mourning process. And somehow, a whole lot of people think this makes it
more romantic!
Why did Rose let Jack freeze to death? There was room on that piece of driftwood for both of them!
Fellas, I'm serious, you need to keep an eye on your wives and girlfriends - if they keep watching these movies, to me, that raises some red flags!
No.7881
I just watched Gettysburg. I’ve always been a big American civil war buff so it excited me as I had never seen it. However it’s a tad overrated and you don’t get a good feel for the scale of the battles. It was okay.
No.7884
>>7881HOW SHIT WAS IT!?!?
No.7885
>>7872I found it weird as well. Just watched Ride Your Wave and if you exclude the supernatural elements it’s basically a girl going insane after her love died. The side character romance was based though.
No.7912
>>7872The tragedy is one of the oldest and most enduring forms of entertainment. The tragic story clearly appeals to something in the brain that makes us love them.
No.7925
>>7912Bad stuff happens =/= tragedy. Tragedy is where the bad things happen that otherwise would not have because of a character's critical flaw. Effectively random bad stuff happening for drama is different.
No.7943
Could you say that Aliens is actually a deeply anti-communist Vietnam War film depicting the NVA as literal inhuman monsters who needed to be nuked?
No.7948
>>7943There's not very much to tie the aliens to the NVA as far as I remember. The comparisons are mostly drawn because of asymmetrical warfare and some of the aesthetics of the grunts in the movie. Honestly I think it's more like Cameron saw the potential for a horror movie in that kind of situation and wasn't trying to make a political point.
Of course, rightoids could easily interpret the movie that way if they cared enough about the war or the country.
No.7949
>>7943You can interpret it that way, but that wasn't the intent. The Vietnam vibes were a clear reference to the paranoia and environment of the jungles from which Charlie jumped out of every hole, branch and bush, but that is as far as the parallel is supposed to go. I highly doubt Cameron has serious anti-communist and anti-Vietnam sentiment considering that he is largely pro-environment and has leftist leanings in his works (Avatar, Terminator 2, etc.)
No.8875
>>8317Just watched this. The color palette was incredible, and it was shot entirely on 65mm film I believe. The sound design was fascinating in its ability to cause extreme stress. Way better than uncut gems for sure.
No.8899
I liked Uncut Gems a lot but I don't understand the people who are like HOLY SHIT I HAD A LITERAL PANIC ATTACK WATCHING THIS MOVIE. It's just a decently suspenseful movie.
No.8900
>>7881Don't watch Gods and Generals.
No.9005
>>8897can you give a brief description on why is it worth watching?
No.9007
>>9006Wind River is my personal favorite because of
spoilers. You can always listen to this interview with DP/30:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNcH6zUn72A No.9008
>>9007Also lol @ the youtube comment about wanting him to direct Blood Meridian; he definitely comes across as a discount Cormac McCarthy.
No.9016
Yo
Just saw an old movie called Purple Rose of Cairo, anyone heard of it?
No.9105
Recently watched Mockingjay P1 and 2. Pretty based films. District 13 is collectivist af and they even wear fatigues and use the word comrade. It's pretty clear that the rebellion against the capital is a working class one.
No.9108
>>9105It's nothing more than a radlib LARP
No.9110
>>9105>>9108>>9016 (me)
Fuck yall niggas
No.9125
I've just watched Vivarium. Most reviewers seem to interpret it as "being a parent because society expects it/having unwanted children makes you miserable" or some similar, simplified interpretation, but I can't help but feel that there's a deeper, *anti-capitalist* meaning behind it all, given the grotesque representation of typical white suburban life. Maybe I would interpret it as a critique on the effects of capitalism on parenthood and families and how it produces worse parents, which in turn produce worse and more detached people.
No.9137
>>9110>>>9016 (me)<Fuck y'all niggas
What did he mean by this?
No.9216
>>15276
Check out other Alex Cox film.
No.9342
Just saw They Live. Holy shit what a great fucking movie.
No.9380
>>9378Isn't that movie super fucked up and depraved?
No.9386
Have any of you ever seen Locke? Just saw it, something extremely captivating about this movie, the way it's shot and everything, but it's like, not stressful, but idk almost claustrophobic, feels eternal (in a mix of a good and bad way). Felt like the longest hour twenty of my life.
No.9407
>>2281>I watched La Chinoise the other day>Anyone else seen it?Yeah, but it's been a while. IIRC it's making fun of 60s student larpers, "generation who grew up on Marx and Coca-Cola". This is actually a quote from another Godard film Masculin Féminin, also worth seeing.
No.9408
>>2340I watched Parasite, it was okay. Tried watching Burning and it didn't grab my attention. What is it about?
No.9409
>>2583IMO Lighthouse was very pretentious, but way more interesting aesthetically than the other burger films out there. A24 in general is like that.
>>9382Sounds like that Walter Benjamin quote:
>there is nothing more anarchic than the bourgeois order No.9416
>>6888Watch The Red Spectacles, StrayDog: Kerberos Panzer Cops, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_saga No.9418
I watched 28 days and 28 weeks later the other day, they're pretty good films, although by god did people take the stupid pill in 28 weeks later
No.9419
>>9378>>9382Nigga with the beard looks like Carl of Swindon if he took a couple lines of coke and hasn't slept for a couple days
No.9420
>>9419..you're right. Someone must do a deepfake with him getting pissed on his face
No.9431
>>9386locke is impressive just for tom hardy's performance and for making 90 mins of a dude in a car interesting
No.9433
>>9431Same could be said of Phone Booth, but both films don't offer much beyond their gimmick. Locke was still better though.
No.9846
I'm gonna rewatch this film soon for like the tenth time. I love how it shows Che as just a regular ass dude, rather than the canonized revolutionary martyr that we often see him as today.
I really like this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u64vWkniKAwhere Ernesto and Alberto are confronted with the privilege they enjoy by two communists on the run. I can really imagine how the journey portrayed in this film can change one's entire outlook on the world.
Just an all around fantastic /leftyfilm/.
No.9929
>>9216He is so good. Sad he got blacklisted for being too based. I wonder what Fear and Loathing would have been like if he got to finish it.
No.9963
I just watched downsizing. It's about technology to shrink people down to 5" being invented. If you think that sounds like a retarded premise you're fucking right. They had so much opportunity for social commentary but the extent of that was basically hamfisted rom com wankery and vague anti Vietnam shite (???) while shilling the idea that global warming would need such a piece of technology to be counteracted. What a steaming fucking pile of shit. Why did I watch this in its entirety
No.9989
>>9987are you a burger or do you live in a place where COVID is relatively under control? Is this movie worth risking covid for cuz honestly I might be down.
No.9991
>>9989It's a Nolan film. You're gonna leave the theater feeling empty regardless.
No.9994
>>9987Tenet feels like a poor version of Inception mixed with some military/CIA LARP
No.10015
>>9987I was left feeling cold on it. It had some mindbending puzzle boxes that were fun but it didn't strike me as anything more than a 'huh, neat', it's the most sterile movie he's put out in awhile.
No.10017
>>9987>Nolan film>doesn’t make any senseYeah, he started going downhill with all the beautiful cinematography but no substance routine ever since Interstellar. Not surprising in the slightest.
No.10019
>>10017Interstellar made plenty of sense, only the blight was kind of dumb. Nolan went to shit with Dunkirk. Happens to every director, eventually they do a historic reenactment film and they forget how to do story telling.
No.10023
>>10019nah Dunkirk actually rocks
No.10025
>>10023Dunkirk was fucking garbage. Not graphic or well paced enough to be a depressing film about how horrible it was and not actiony enough to be a heroic war film, it just exists (and has quite a few inaccuracies.
No.10030
>>10025This is supposed to be a film about a massive evacuation and there's only like a dozen dudes sitting bored on sand with a single plane strafing them sometimes.
No.10035
>>10025Nah, the pacing was good, the plane scenes were great. What sucked was the dialogue, very lazy and cliché. Plus that kid dying and the whole subplot was pretty lame, could have been done a bit better.
No.10045
>>10019>muh love transcends time and space>blight retardation<makes sense
If you’re a Marxist, you wouldn’t say this.
No.10046
>>10045>love transcends time and spaceYep, you're retarded.
No.10092
>>10091Oh yeah if you decide to watch this don't watch the trailer, as always it spoils literally the entire film
No.10093
>>9958Have none of you watched this film?
No.10095
>>10093Why does it matter which is the "best" version?
You're not going to notice the difference between the best and the second best or the third or fourth for that matter on your computer monitor or even on a nice TV for that matter, unless you stop and
look for differences
The film is made to look like documentary and news footage shot on cheap black and white film stock, the Criterion collection version was approved by the DP before release, just get that one and watch the fucking thing
No.10096
>>10095I wasn't
looking for differences at first, but the Criterion version clearly has more film grain, is much brighter overall and has muffled audio. I noticed all of this within the first 20 or so minutes of viewing. I came across a copy sourced from the 2016 remaster, and was just curious if anyone's seen it to compare. It's generally darker, has better audio, and includes what appears to be a new translation.
No.10107
Недавно я смотрел обзор на фильм 'Завод' от Быкого, и там препомнили работы Балабаного. От туда я вспомнил "Груз 200", пративнейший фильм и продукт своего времени. Многий кино-обзоршики, дейтили и даже 'народ' в Россий хвалят этот фильм за то чего он показывает "правду" в её 'идеи'. Лично я ненавижу это мразотное кино; после просмотра "Груз 200" мне стало физически тошно. Было противно и обидно видеть пустой фильм о пустой жизни пустых людей. "Груз 200" это анти-советский гротеск как *"Чистилище" Невзорова, 10 лет ранние; враньё и искажение времени и нравов. Копипаста Фолкнера, без указания его в сценарии, приврошёную в бредовую агитку в стиле "совок-кошмар". К примеру дата 1984г. это открыто ссылка на Орвелла и его дистопию.
Любители обясняют вот как:
"Скрытый" смысл фильма. Мать "мента" - старая погибающая форма СССР; "Мент", который не дает окончательно спиться матери - исполнительная власть погибающего государства; Молодая девушка, Анжелика - изнасилованная алкоголем (бутылкой) молодая Россия. Будущая Россия, (сам Балабанов это сказал актрисе на Кинотавре, "А ты знаешь что ты сыграла Россию?"; Погибший парень в Афгане - "мертвая" армия, которой так грозилась Анжелика (Россия). Образ восставшего народа - в конце когда жена расстрелянного самогонщика (образ простого народа, грезящим о светлом будущем, но ничего для этого не делающим) оставила ее с трупами - образ 90х, где Россия осталась с мертвой армией и убитым госаппаратом, а разваленный СССР (мать мента) абстрагировался от происходящего в соседней комнате (Аналогия с неуважаемой госпожой Савицкой - сидящей у Гордона в программе с двумя медалями ГСС. Она прям идеально присутствует в передаче как собирательный образ Советской Коммунистки слепо верующей в то, что в СССР все было хорошо). Ну и в финале сцена с двумя парнями это образ олигархов и разворовывания страны (Задел на то, что Россию ожидает после распада СССР). Родители, каждого из героев, символизируют предыдущие поколения кажlого из классов населения (Элиты, Быдла, Интелегенции)https://yusev-alexei.livejournal.com/15802.html Это просто хуета пзевдо-интеллегентов и разглядеть в этой картине 'правдивый' обшей образ СССР по-моему способны только люди с нездоровой фантазией, или анти-совечики.Точно такие же 'наблюдение' можно привязать к любой чернухе как Левияфан да и не только. Но почему-то то кино не любят… на верно потому что не достаточно графена. Да и что за образы? Сыграла Россию тут блять. Это уместно в 1994, но не 1984. Да и если я вижу по другому? Мнение Балабонава это всего лишь мнение которое ни есть истина. Фильм ужасная смесь психбольного восприятия и шизиков, если от этого фильма увеличества колличество маньяков и убийств реальных, кому вы потом будете рассказыват об искусстве? Высоцкий говорил, что после показа "Места встречи" уровень преступности в стране снизился. Так вот - после показа "Груз 200" преступность могло только взлететь. Чему этот фильм дал понять или научил? Что люди бывают уродами или что психи прячутса в социуме? Спасибо это и так любой взрослый знает. Что 80-90ии это был ужас? И так все знают кроме детей, а такое детям не покажешь. Как мы видем с Братом, Улица Разбитых Фонарей и другим кино, можно донести ужас и сатиру без такого разврата. Говорят, что картины художника - это его внутренний мир. Вот такой и есть внутренний образ Балабанова - злость, мясо и изврашение что напоменают Илью Деревянко и его разчленёнку. С точки зрения гиперреализма маниячелы какогото деревенского, фильм хорош, но это не делает его художеством. Кроме как через чернуху у нас умные мысли уже никак не показать? По другому не доходит до любителей правда-матушка? "Собачье сердце" или "Каждому Свой Ад (1977)" невеселие, есть о чем подумать. Но что-то я не помню, чтобы для передачи проблем того времени или трагедий ситуаций кого-то там с подробностями убивали, насиловали или калечили. Да блин не давный сериал "Вавилон Берлин" велеколепно показывает ужас Веймарской Германий, но без такой пошлости как Балабанов.
Обясняют советские люди
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFfqxRZRicI 18:15 - 19:06 Не соответсвует реалиям большой частью советского обшество
28:32 - 29:05 Плохо сыграно потому что образы просто одно-типное быдло играют чяше всего
30:30 - 31:21 Картина плоская как фотография потому что персонажи плоский
21:50 - 22:42 Не чего оно не улучшает
Юрий Лоза, кого песня Плот играет в фильме хорошо сказал ещё,
"Когда мне позвонил Балабанов, то сказал, что «хочет снять фильм о том времени». Я дал свою песню, а он снял фильм про маньяка. Такого придурка можно найти в любом времени и любой стране, ведь количество шизоидов неизменно в процентном отношении во все времена и во всем мире"https://kino.rambler.ru/other/41648133-yuriy-loza-esli-by-ya-znal-chto-zadumal-balabanov-ne-otdal-by-plot/?updated https://archive.is/CpcW4Критик Наталья Сиривля отмечала: хотя фильм позиционировался как основанный на реальных событиях, многие его сюжетные ходы повторяют фабулу романа Уильяма Фолкнера «Святилище»https://magazines.gorky.media/novyi_mi/2007/9/kinoobozrenie-natali-sirivli-35.htmlhttps://archive.vn/ehalDПомимо сказанного двумя комментариями выше, добавлю: отдельно сцены до приезда жениха из Афгана вроде бы воспринимаются как нечто достоверное, но и тогда - трудно представить, чтобы вот так вот разом сошлись все звёзды и воплотился именно такой сценарий. Кроме того, не совсем понятно, что он хотел сказать - условно, показал диарею, но не показал способы лечения. В этом смысле фильм - сюрреалистская безделица. Отдельный счёт можно выставить и за Алексея Полуяна - ведь после этой роли узнававшие его зрители били на улице. То есть за психопатию Балабанова расплачивался игравший у него актёр, хотя играть такого персонажа, в общем-то, надо иметь некоторое мужество.Какой можно зделать вывод
1) Кино это, даже в вакууме некчёму. Оно просто показывает ужас, но не фантастический или интересный а просто обыденость; человеческие зверства в какой то дыре: то чего можно найти в любой стране, и в любое время.
2) Это кино НЕ МОЖЕТ быть воспринять в вакууме, так как он по сюжету и деталям связано с (карикатурой) СССР и преподносит символику об этом времени. К тому же Балабанов сам обявил что "Я не про Москву снимаю или про **Петербург, это страшная, Советская(!!!!) провинцая".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76hQdfjtkoU**Иронично что в 90ие Питер был таким страшным местом, что это смешно слышать такий фразы. Манияки и душегубы? Там люди каннибализмом занимались, а сегодняшние олигархи рулили открытые крименальные банды уркаганов и мафиози, грабя народ и управляли полиций. Такого в СССР с времён 20их и 40их не было. Даже в Казахастане и Узбекистане такого не было в Микро-районах. И какой на хер Питер? в 1984 был Ленинград!.
No.10343
Did anyone watched "I dont care if we go down on history as barbarians"? If you did, what are your thoughs? Does anyone knows where to torrent it
No.10354
Anyone here on Karagarga? I lost my membership years ago due to inactivity, and I regret it every day. Most good films never end up on public trackers for some reason, even if they'd been nominees at major film festivals.
No.10381
>>10354Have you tried asking to get your account back on their IRC?
No.10459
Just watched Mother! and I think I might have not gotten it at all. Like, the two readings of it that I have is either trying to portray the auteur artists as egomaniac pricks that they are, or that the film is about the unequal relationships of the domestic economy. But both of these readings feel just too simple somehow. Am I missing something?
No.10460
Watched this like last week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1vQgVaYNQ It was an alright popcorn flick but the plot didn't make any sense. It was about an evil corporation that was selling pills that gave super powers to people. Their distro network was cartels and drug dealers. The evil corporation wanted to eventually sell them at cost so everyone could have super powers? It was like syndrom's ideology but even more ass backwards because all they did was make super drug cartels.
No.10507
Best horror film I've seen in years
https://youtu.be/aO4IktVcxyY10/10 Fuck this shit
No.10526
>>10459Continuing to go through Aronofsky's works.
Watched Pi the other day. While its deffinetly very well made, I hate its message. Just more of the obscurantist tower of Babel tier shit about how man can never and should never grasp the universe. But as I said, its deffinetly well executed, especially the acompanying track.
Today I watched Requiem for a Dream. Really fucking bad vibes right now. Honestly this might be one of the few if not the only foreign films that manage to reach the levels of grim that is my native Lithuanian literature. Like, from the first 10-20 minutes I realized that it is like watching a slow motion train crash. However, this doesn't make the film bad. I'd argue that this might very well be the single best anti-Amerikkka films out there, not because it shows the nations imperialist crimes, but the absolute horror that is the life of American citizens. Didn't really notice the cinematography much. Also the bait and switch with "spring" never coming after "winter" was really great, even if it contributed to the depression value.
No.11006
I recently watched a 3 hour long german movie "Never Look Away" (2018) and it was really fucking amazing - it's about a german artist who is born in nazi Germany, then goes to school in east Germany, and graduates in west Germany. I am usually really picky with my movies, but I assure you this movie is fucking amazing. The reason it's so long isn't because it's super complex, but rather that this movie likes to take time to build up scenes, which I personally really enjoyed - lots of good camera work in there.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/never_look_awayA couple of films that have been on my mind lately:
Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Brilliant use of atmosphere to build dread, both through how it uses the settings of each of the murders (it begins as a procedural about murders with the hallmarks of a serial killer, except that each is done by a different person who claims to not remember doing it) and through its deteriorating recurring settings. I discovered it a few years ago I think, and it might be my all time favorite now.
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Francesco Rosi. I saw this one last year when the newly restored and uncut version was released in the US. I'm thinking about it because I'm mad about that version not getting a bluray or streaming release. It's a 4-hour Italian epic about a city doctor who gets sent to some far flung, backwards village by Mussolini's government because he's been hanging out with his communist friends too much. It's a fascinating and very comfy (even if occasionally horrifying) depiction of what life was like at that time, and it gives a very good diagnosis of how bourgeois small-town governments and elites form their self-serving aristocracy that holds the common people in contempt. Unfortunately like I mentioned it's hard to find but if a screening happens near you, I highly recommend dropping everything to see it.
No.11007
Zapata! was made by a rabid anticommunist who sold people out willingly to the HUAC. Someone care to explain that one to me?
No.11172
Just watched Love and Monsters and it was great. For a low-budget cheesy monster movie, it has good plot, fun characters, fairly good CGI and practical effects and a nice message. The monster designs are creative and really carry across the whole "mutant" idea, and reminds me of some other works of science fiction with similar premises. It's a shame it didn't go to theaters but what can you do.
I won't go into the details of the good parts yet, because it's a new movie and I don't wanna spoil it for anyone until after they've had a chance to watch it.
Paramount's own trailer description is the best nonspoiler summary,
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.
I enjoyed it the same way I enjoyed Pacific Rim or Zombieland and there's a lot of good stuff to find. It's available on fmovies.wtf (Have uBlock Origin and Popupblockers) and is plenty of fun to watch.
No.11342
>>11341I always enjoyed it. It is in essence a cheesy movie in the same way films like Predator or Independence day are. Some cool alien concepts, some idea of human struggle against impossible odds and some decent acting and effects with the gaps filled in with cheese and tropes.
No.11359
>>4835 I just watched "Hereditary" after seeing Midsommar and my God what a good movie. The VVitch is okay too.
No.11370
>>11359What did you think of Midsommar?
No.11827
This is the only place that I can admit but I'm about to watch all 5 of the scary movies as part of my halloween marathon
No.11830
>>11827Why are you ashamed? Those are great fun
>>11824>back then No.11838
Borat 2.It was funny, but I feel like it was a bit underwhelming: like the funniest stuff was all shock humour as opposed to something actually comedic. Also the satire felt a bit, weak? Like yes singing about giving Obama wuhan flu as a rally and people unironically liking it is funny, but like, it feels a bit weak compared to say what Eric Andre does.
No.11880
>>11867It's a drug-induced fantasy rotoscope animation, it wasn't meant to be anything than a set of short stories in an art-house experiment.
No.11893
>>11835 It made me drop anarchism for Marxism.
No.11898
>>2356I watched this recently. Very good and I don't even like Tarkovsky that much.
No.11900
Just watched The Lighthouse. Maybe not for everyone but I appreciated the pacing and Dafoe’s monologues.
>>11370pretty great/10, good portrayal of drugs and the 20-something generation. Good body horror at times.
>>11835It’s literally someone reading the book, just presented in a different sequence of chapters. Hopefully the footage helps illustrate the points. I’s also highly recommend Debord’s earlier films ‘Critique of Separation’ and ‘On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Brief Unity of Time’ to get your brain in tune with his before jumping into SoTS, and you might like In Girum…’ (palindromic Latin title idr, made later in the 70s)
>>11842Kanchiviram and the docu Concerning Violence
No.11931
>>11900>The LighthouseDefinitely an acquired taste and a bit over artsy, but still quite interesting a film. Dafoe is always great with his characters and plays madmen well (similar to Christopher Walken and Anthony Hopkins).
Red Cynic did a decent review of the film that really delved into the lore behind the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjh8Kn2ZvSY No.12654
Hot-Take: Cruel Intentions is a perfect encapsulation of American bourg narcissism and self-pity
No.12911
Just watchined "Sweeny Todd" on Netflix. Great film, pretty based.
>There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
>And the vermin of the world inhabit it
>And its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit
>And it goes by the name of London
>At the top of the hole sit a privileged few
>Making mock of the vermin in the lower zoo
>Turning beauty to filth and greed
>I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders,
>For the cruelty of men is as wondrous as Peru
No.13307
currently watching trial of chicago 7
goddamn courts are such a sham when it comes to prosecuting leftists
really makes you understand how pathetic and fake the state's freedom is
No.13352
Not a "movie I watched", but movie related. What are you all thinking about Matrix 4? Asking because in all honesty I feel kinda afraid that it will ruin the original trilogy somehow. After watching the films again for those two review posts ITT I felt that the series had a really nice conclussion at the end of it and I would hate to see it messed with tbh.
No.13353
>>13307>Watching Sorkin libshit butchery of a real story filmVery cringe
No.13354
>>13352It's best to watch Matrix 4 as it's own thing. It's definitely not very fitting with the rest of the trilogy, but it's still a fun movie.
>>11944 Nuclear truth
No.13428
>>13354???? Matrix 4 is out????
Damn. Gonna watch it tommorow.
Just watched the 3 extended LOTR movies. Took a week to get through them. Awesome movies.
No.13438
>>13428Watching the LOTR trilogy has been kind of a Christmas tradition for me the last couple of years. It just goes so well with this time of year for some reason.
And they are still to this day may favourite movies ever.
Btw, watch the behind the scenes documetaries next. They are honestly just as good as the movies.
No.13441
>>13428>>13354It's not out I think. I asked because it is supposed to come out in 2021.
No.17939
>>13428>Matrix 4So is it out or not?
No.17943
Oh wow, I thought this thread had been lost in the transfer.
I did watch The Irony of Fate with my family on December 31/January 1st. We loved it. The humor didn't feel dated at all, maybe because we're Latin American.
Unfortunately my cat left the following day and never came back, so I didn't feel like talking about the movie because I'll forever associate it with him.
No.17944
>>17943Nah the thread is still up on bunkerchan as well. The humor really is nice innit? I watch it every New Years, as per Soviet tradition. Sorry about your cat tho.
No.18199
From what I can piece together of the film and book (because I can't make myself watch/read more than a few portions of it without feeling disturbed) is that much of the story feels similar to the rather disturbing Lolita - which was meant to be such - and the authors own unsubtle comments about "attraction" to 12 year olds, feels confirmative of this fact. If this film had featured an older man seducing a teen girl, but everything else was the same, people would be going batshit about it being 'grooming'.
The acting and cinematography is good in some places, but that doesn't make the film good. The female characters have less depth than fanservice girls from 80s action movies, the peach scene was there for pointless shock factor. There is no stakes or coherence in the story, it's not an award winning movie, it's a romantic soap-opera movie on the same level as 50 Shades of Gray - I guess you could call it 50 Shades of Gay, but that already exists.
The book is a "slowburn" that is supposed to be hyperdetailed and stuff because it's "first person" or something, but it frankly comes off as someone who thinks writing is "more words and details, more more more!" - i.e. word-salad. It just feels boring and contrived, and the content itself is ill, like I'm reading the perverted delusions of a drug addict. I didn't realize gay people liked being represented as either bumbling exploitable lunatics or as manipulative child-predators. It's a normalization of young, gay men seeking older men to feel valuable - and that is a genuine expectation in gay communities.
TL;DR: This shitty flick is a pedophilic art nightmare with weak dialogue and nightmarish romance scenes.
While on the topic; I bring up Pixar's latest film, a film about friendship - Luca. The similarities are very superficial - an Italian seaside town and two male characters can be found in many films that are not gay-themed, so the constant comparisons, and the claims by 'activists' who say that regardless of authorial intent, Luca has to be gay, really belittles that wonderful Pixar film, pic related.
No.18928
>>11842>what films do y'all think should be required/recommended watching for socialists?Probably all of the films in Godard's Dziga Vertov Group era, for starters.
No.18941
>>18199>of the film and book I as talking about "Call Me By Your Name" and forgot to actually write the title out LOL.
No.18949
>>18927I think I've seen all 3 of them before but I only vaguely remember 2.
Fog of War is good although McNamara is still sketchy as hell like a typical American by avoiding talking about his work in the World Bank, and flat out lying through his teeth concerning the Gulf of Tonkin incident (seriously I didn't buy a single word of what he said during that segment; he's had decades to rehearse a plausible explanation that makes him look better).
As for Rohwedder I actually think the West Germany inside-job conspiracy makes the most sense. The RAF had already been arrested/destroyed and lost all their members as admitted by the West German counter-terrorist officials. They didn't have the capability or resources to kill Rohwedder. The ex-RAF members themselves noted that the message left at the scene was somewhat incoherent/strange and didn't make sense.
The ex-Stasi are smart so they would have known killing one person wouldn't have stopped Treuhand. Add in the fact that the West Germany police didn't respond to requests from Rohwedder's wife for additional security measures makes it seem that he was selected to be a scapegoat from the beginning. The protestors in East Germany were getting increasingly agitated and creating a martyr out of Rohwedder did stop the protests.
False flag killings in order to destroy populist movements have been carried out before. I think the most recent suspicious murder has been that of Jo Cox, a pro-EU Labour MP who was assassinated right before the Brexit vote, which, in my view, was done in the hopes of creating a scenario where the Remain side would win out of sympathy due to tight polls leading up to that referendum.
No.18975
>>18949>McNamara is still sketchy as hell like a typical American by avoiding talking about his work in the World Bank, and flat out lying through his teeth concerning the Gulf of Tonkin incidentI didn't really care for that segment either. He seemed really antsy when discussing Vietnam in general, and flat out refused to answer some of Errol Morris' questions. I was more interested in McNamera's time during WW2 w/ Curtis LeMay re: Firebombing of Tokyo, etc.
>As for Rohwedder I actually think the West Germany inside-job conspiracy makes the most sense.The docuseries actually sorta touches on this with the suspicious death of Wolfgang Grams! Evidence of his hair was allegedly found at the crime scene, but this wasn't confirmed until many years after his apparent suicide at Bad Kleinen station. Mention of a West German 'deep state' apparatus was actually uttered at one point.
>The ex-RAF members themselves noted that the message left at the scene was somewhat incoherent/strange and didn't make sense. What ex-RAF members they interviewed would disagree that it was incoherent. The letter's analysis of Rohwedder was lucid, but never indicated a motive for anything beyond the assassination itself. Which is what raised questions on the legitimacy or capabilities of the so-called 'third generation' RAF to begin with.
>The protestors in East Germany were getting increasingly agitated and creating a martyr out of Rohwedder did stop the protests. Yeah, it's kind of a shame such a movement died with Rohwedder. If it's any consolation, the docuseries has high quality footage of the protests in question, as well as archival footage of life in the GDR. It dropped onto Netflix in late 2020; not many people have watched it yet afaik.
>False flag killings in order to destroy populist movements have been carried out before.I'm an American who lives in the Midwest, so when it comes to 'false flag killings' I immediately think of the numerous apparent suicides of BLM organizers in St Louis, or the more recent police killing of Winston Boogie Smith in Minneapolis.
No.19610
>>6712>In Mexico, where the film is known as Los Héroes de Mesa Verde, it was refused classification and effectively banned until 1979 because it was considered offensive to the Mexican people and the RevolutionPerhaps
>>6666 (cheke'd) is right
No.19641
>>13307>>13353watched it, was pretty good, but indeed was amazed when I went to wikipedia and it apparently was even worse than depicted
also watched trumbo, was great (the baseball bat scene is absolutely hilarious), although a bit over dramatic with the end speech and not that radical
surprising you can still do such movies in hollywood
>>13352first matrix was amazing on all front, other two were just nice actions movies
can still do good, but seeing john wick as neo feel a bit weird
waiting for dune too
No.19643
>>5935I thought them setting up the playboy guy was too far. It kind of ruined it for me. I mean the rich girl was about to set up the poor girl too before she switched sides. I didn't like it ending with him getting tortured and murdered. Especially when they set him up they had no reason to believe the ultimate bad guy would be killed in the process. It made me dislike the two female leads.
No.19645
>>2337> Did you think the metaphor was weak then?What metaphor?
>>2278As far as parasite, I don't really think killing off the daughter really had that much emotional impact for me. It seemed more like "oh we've reached the end of the movie, let's just add in some consequences randomly." I guess I wanted it to work out for both of the kids. Fine make it a tradegdy, but at least set up the downfall more. They could've really done more with the conflict between the former maid they pushed out and the family. It was just a sudden discovery for the maid, and then it became some kind of murder-thriller. Also the father's decision to randomly murder the boss off of one insult felt shoehorned as well.
No.19647
>>17939>Matrix 4>So is it out or not?Maybe he saw it at a test screening? I used to watch a lot of movies at free preview when I lived in LA. I saw Cloud Atlas, by The Wachowskis on a test screening when I lived there. The Arclight chain seemed to be their favorite place to do test screenings although they just went out of business during Covid. Pretty sick, get to see movies before they come out for free. Just gotta be there when they're handing out the free tickets outside. I think you can also sign up online. Anyone in LA should look into it.
No.19950
>>19949There was a movie!?
No.19951
>>19949where my drew crew at?
No.20007
Life and death of colonel blimp is an amazing film you all need to see it it's on sbs
No.20027
>>20019Damn, that's actually kind of sad that one of the best Trump portrayals will be relegated to a C-tier animated film. The only thing missing from it being truly great was his low-key growly voice.
No.20029
>>20019I found out about it through Saberspark
>2nd Queen's Corgi moviethere was a first?
No.20030
>>20029I recall there being a movie before this about one of the Corgi's being accidentally abandoned in London's streets and having a typical Prince meets Pauper type story, but this might be a Mandela effect.
No.20031
Finally watched Inherent Vice.
It was pretty good. I had listened to a bunch of podcasts like TrueAnon, Programmed to Chill, Subliminal Jihad, and especially Death is Just Around the Corner that discuss Pynchon and basically domestic gladio.
Trillbilly's just had Dimitri and Jimmy Falon Gong on
https://soundcloud.com/user-972848621-463073718/year-zero-5-uncanny-alley-911-at-the-bleeding-edge-feat-jimmy-falun-gong-dimitriand they mentioned the Citations Needed episode on the CIA and writer workshops in the 60s that directed people to write about feelings instead of material relationships
https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-144-how-the-cold-war-shaped-first-person-journalism-and-literary-conventionsand now I'm reading reviews of Inherent Vice that say its confusing and to not pay attention to the plot because the movie is an experience, and with each review I get increasingly more angry. A bunch of them are even gushing 5 star reviews about how "woah psychedelic bro" it made them feel and how hilariously funny it is while comparing it to the Big Lebowski.
Everything that people tell Doc turns out to be true. The movie/book is explicitly about the government trafficking heroin and vertical integration with drug cartels, real estate, police, doctors, cults, informants etc directly for anti-communist purposes to crush the growing class consciousness of the counter culture and the paranoia is completely real and justified. People are arguing over whether or not Doc is an unreliable narrator or if Sortilege is a real person, and some retards think the Golden Fang is a "metaphor" for capitalism. Its not a metaphor. The director has stated as much in interviews, and worked directly with Pynchon. Its not a fucking puzzle!
Its like people are intentionally misinterpreting it as just a pothead fever dream because they don't know or don't want to admit that it is basically a documentary.
No.20246
>>20204I love how horrified they are in that movie with the implication the treacherous spy gets executed by the Soviets in the light of Julian Assange being put in maximum security prison for two years plus cause he leaked transcripts of DOJ officials calling the French President being a cuck
No.20248
>>20246The funniest thing is that IRL the Soviet Spy got welcomed home as a hero, while Gary Powers got ostracized by Americans.
No.20336
>>20335First Reformed is the most miserable film I've ever had the misfortune to lay eyes on
No.20340
>>19949Movies meant for kids really get the tone and feel down a lot of the time, and the actors casted for the MC usually has a great look, i think. Emma for Nancy Drew, Diary of a wimpy kid casting, Harry Potter etc. Also I should watch Nany Drew, I remember seeing the ads as a kid
>>20335>I still have to see>>Taxi DriverIt's time anon, the movie is amazing.
No.20360
>noo, you can never criticize the ridiculous overacting and the childish dialog in asian movies, it's a cultural difference
Anybody else getting tired of this shit? Most Japanese and South Korean movies have horrible overacting, cheesy dialog and only win the Western audience over by being exotic and knowing one or two cool camera angles
No.20361
>>20360the only big Asian film I've watched and remember anything about was Old Boy and it seemed fine
No.20363
>>20360Is it really overacting if they do that in real life though? Not anime levels of course, I'm tlaking about live-action movies and stuff
No.20364
>>20360Unrealistic and exaggerated character blocking is a staple of Japanese cinema that dates back to Kabuki theatre. Akira Kurosawa's entire filmography is emblematic of this, as is Seijun Suzuki's. Do you like to watch films or just listen to them?
No.20366
>>20364The two guys you mentioned produced literal B-movies marketed to a Western audience as orientalist pop art. I am just tired of watching Asian movies including dialogs that are conducted at a snail's pace riddled with exposition that leaves you like "duh." There is a reason as to why they are seldom dubbed, because it would look ridiculously infantile in English. I'd rather watch a North Korean corny romance movie than South Korean and Japanese highly appraised movies, it's honestly more authentic.
My point is that Asian cinema is completely overrated. There are a few gems, sure, but I am done with watching this shit anymore. Isn't it funny how Bollywood never got the same treatment and is widely regarded as trash in the West?
No.20367
>>20366Suzuki made low budget films whose extent of western exposure was comprised almost entirely of bootlegs until the 2010s. Kurosawa on the other hand has always been the textbook example of 'prestige' Japanese cinema in western film circles—and sadly the subject of much orientalist intrigue. I always thought Kurosawa's non-samurai flicks were much more interesting tbh. Still, both of these directors' filmographies are vastly more 'cinematic'—more tightly cut even in the ways they shot exposition than what you'll typically find in US theaters today; that's a fact. Who cares if they don't get dubbed? They're entertaining nonetheless. Bollywood will get their turn soon; it's long overdue.
No.20591
Excuse me for my atrocious writing.
Just watched it, really good movie. It's very straightforward, so there isn't much character development, though i guess the movie itself is more concerned with the telling of the story through the historical events, which makes sense given its length, and it does so very well. However, i really feel like showing the motorcycle trips and Che's presence at the Guatemalan coup – even if briefly – would've helped better explain his motivations to the wider audience, as he just seems constantly stern throughout the movie (maybe this was done to aggrandize the man? Or maybe that's how he acted after those events irl? I don't know. At least we get to see multiple aspects of his character in regards to the revolution, and the way he handled himself and others).
Despite my light criticism, the movie is still very enjoyable and i blazed through it. The evolution of events, as well as the slightly non-linear storytelling, coupled with a cinematography that has really stuck with me for some reason, make it a great piece.
Also, the dude that played Fidel was on fucking point. From the hand gestures, to the accent, everything about him just felt right.
Now off to watch the second part.
No.20600
I just saw Sorcerer (1977)
It was great. I don’t even want to review it because I think it’s best to go in blind.
No.20601
>>2278Finished "1921" yesterday, a movie that gives a general overview of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, interesting, but not really a deep story or characters, but great material if you want to learn about the original founders.
You will see a young Mao Zedong and a teenage version of comrade Deng Xiaoping, learn more about the women in the movement (played by a gorgeous female cast) and beautiful scenery of Chinese landscape, 20th century cities, props, houses, clothing, and other visuals.
No.20607
>>20591I think motorcycle diaries came out a bit before (and was pretty successful afaik), so they prolly felt that part of the story was already told
>>20366>My point is that Asian cinema is completely overrated. There are a few gems, sure, but I am done with watching this shit anymore. mate did you just discover that most produced entertainment is garbage ?
No.20609
>>20600I remember vividly "le salaire de la peur" (another adaptation of the same novel, although an earlier one)
did you see it ? how do you think it compares ? would it be worth to watch both ?
No.20644
>>20609I haven't seen it, but from what I understand that film is apparently excellent
No.20656
>>20366>produced literal B-movies marketed to a Western audience as orientalist pop art.<Kurosawa Wrong. They're rated as B-Movies in the West because it's a foreign production lacking the doo-dads of Hollywood's movies.
>snails pace It's not slow, most people today just have shitty-attention spans and can't watch movie or read literature that doesn't constantly have dynamic action.
>Dialogue [is obvious] To you as the audience, not necessarily to the characters, or not necessarily as compartmentalized as a third-person understanding.
>Asian cinema is completely overrated It isn't, Their movies and TV-shows are considered mostly schlock for decades and the popularity only rose recently as Netflix and anime-culture has increased their presence outside Asia.
>a reason as to why they are seldom dubbed, because it would look ridiculously infantile in English No, not really. You really need to see the original Spartacus or Ben-Hur films.
>a North Korean corny romance movie than South Korean and Japanese highly appraised moviesThat's called personal taste.
>more Authentic<TFW Kurosawa made films specifically depicting the struggles and contradictions in Japanese society of the past and present. You definitely have a small attention span.
No.20665
Watched V/H/S 94. It was decent for fans of the genre. While it wasn't as good as V/H/S and V/H/S 2, it held up to the standard more or less. The focus here is most definitely more on the gore than on the jump scares/tension which was a bit disappointing for me as I am not much into gore.
The wrap-around story was trash, but I didn't expect it to be any different. They should just ditch it and just show the segments, but that's just me. First segment was good, I liked it, although I didn't necessarily needed the crazy part in the end, which took away the humanity from the homeless, although the last scene was funny. Second segment was my favorite one, unlike the others it relied a lot more on tension and nerve-wrecking atmosphere. The ending was very typical, a "reveal" would have been a bit better. Third one definitely had the biggest budget and looked really impressive - a completely crazy mix between DOOM-like gore and aesthetics, body horror and existential nightmares that goes from making you feel disturbed to making you feel like in a video game. Not really my favorite either, but fans of the genre will love it. Last segment didn't really caught me, although the set-up was cool and the story kept you guessing until the end, it had some political references sprinkled which what everyone does these days after the January 6th Capitol Riots, it's a bit too on the nose for my taste. But overall this might be the weakest segment.
tl/dr: Decent, scary and fun ride, if you don't have anything to watch with your friends on Halloween, this might do the trick.
No.20667
What are some good pirate sites to watch movies? No torrents plz as i never bothered to learn how to use 'em.
No.20671
>>20667By far the best:
https://yesmovies.mn/>no buffering>no ads>always subtitles>high quality>good interface No.20675
>>20667Kinogo.la
fmovies.wtf
kissasian.sh
No.20677
>>20667Do yourself a favor and learn how to torrent; rarbg and 1337x have new releases every day; snahp.eu has DDLs if you still don't wanna.
No.20681
>>20601Where can I watch this?
No.20684
>>20675Thanks to you as well.
>>20677>Do yourself a favor and learn how to torrentHow do i go about learning it? I spent my entire childhood spooked that torrents and tor were the 'deep webz' and that they would get my computer filled with virus and l33t h4ck3rs would steal all my info.
No.20688
>>20684lmao same
I would recommend
1.download a torrenting client like bitorrent and purchase a vpn if you have the money and don't want to be bothered by network throttling/angry letters (depending on what country you live in)
2.go to a reputable website like the piratebay or rarbg and find a torrent you want with good reviews and comments
3.download, scan with antivirus, and install
4.enjoy!
No.20690
>>20684>How do i go about learning it?Download a lightweight client like qBittorrent or Transmission and torrent away, lol.
>I spent my entire childhood spooked that torrents and tor were the 'deep webz' and that they would get my computer filled with virus and l33t h4ck3rs would steal all my info.You're at more risk pirating movies through shady direct download links or getting phished through some ad-ridden streaming site (that often throws their watermarks on release groups' files anyway). BitTorrent is just a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol; every time you download a .torrent file and open it up in a client it gives you a list of everything contained in its folder. Think of it as a preview of what you're about to download; it's very easy to tell what is and isn't legitimate—like picking out bread at the grocery store. If you find it satisfactory and end up choosing to download, your client will then attempt to connect to whichever peers are currently seeding it; and if enough connections are made then your copy will finish downloading in however long it takes. This whole process is decentralized so the more seeders a torrent has the faster your download will be in general. Most media piracy websites also provide magnet links as a more convenient alternative; they're basically just the raw hashes of the torrent files themselves—click or copy and paste into your client, boom you get the same file list. This method is more dependent on torrents having a healthy amount of seeders though; because you didn't actually download the .torrent file, your client will automatically try to connect with peers in order to obtain the file list. If you're like me who is always searching for films from old release groups or otherwise obscure media, this can be a little frustrating. You will be humbled by the lone seeders in Siberia, etc etc.
>>20688VPNs aren't really necessary unless you're looking for media that came out within the last year or two, and that's only on public trackers like thepiratebay, rarbg, 1337x, etc (or search engines like btdig). The more popular the media, the more likely you'll be flagged. Copyright trolls are inconsistent as fuck, though; my first notice came after pirating an episode of Amazon's Waco miniseries in 2019—and I'd been torrenting for over 10 years up until that point! Getting into private trackers, even when your speeds are dogshit, can really help you in the longrun at that point. It's easy to understand why some people wouldn't want to pay to pirate—at least at first.
No.20746
>>20688>>20690Thanks again, you beautiful lads.
>purchase a vpn if you have the money and don't want to be bothered by network throttling/angry letters (depending on what country you live in)I have been using the that one comes with fucking opera gx. Would you suggest something more robust? I'm definitively on board with using vpn's (the paranoia never goes away), but which?
No.20870
>>20591>Now off to watch the second part.Well, that was pretty depressing.
>>20607>I think motorcycle diaries came out a bit before (and was pretty successful afaik), so they prolly felt that part of the story was already toldVery well, i'll watch it as prequel then.
No.21075
>>20366>Kurosawa >b movies only for westernersAre we talking about the same person?
Kurosawa almost killed himself because when the Japanese didn’t like one of his films.
Vid related
No.21152
basically the American Der Untergang
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?imdb=tt0113987 (adblocker warning)
No.21344
Watching the new Ghostbusters with dad and sibling right now
No.21347
>>21346Oliver Stone's original JFK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_(film) was made in 1991
This film is an update on new information that was declassified since then.
No.21348
>>21152>>21345Going on an Oliver Stone binge? I think I'm gonna download platoon tonight.
>WHEN THE MACHINE BREAKS DOWN, WE BREAK DOWN No.21368
>>21348Watch the Putin Interviews, they're pretty cool.
No.21387
>>21348Untold History of the United States is pretty good too.
No.21395
>>21368They are quite cool.
Its crazy that a sitting leader of a superpower is willing to indulge in all of these questions. American politicians would must give politician answers for the voters or whatever.
No.21414
>>21395i remember there was a documentary on mubi that was pretty liberal but it had this bit where the director, some journalist, showed unreleased footage of him interviewing putin in a limo and it showed a lot of his political thought process in his early years of government. p interesting
here it is
https://mubi.com/films/putin-s-witnesses No.21433
>>21347>>21345I'm watching the original 1991 film before the new film, and I can't believe this was actually released back then…
I bet the collapse of the Soviet Union contributed to the release as a form of "alt history", but damn. This covers every basis I can think of…
No.21434
>>21433watched it, tapped out 2/3 of the way in
it's just sooo boring and dense
No.21435
>>21434The ending where he's doing the whole lawyer scene, the entire conspiracy gets summed up.
Arguably, the entire film besides the last scene in the court house is unnecessary if you're already familiar with the whole conspiracy theory.
No.21440
I don't know if I learned anything new. I don't mind watching 4 hour youtube shits for a single crumb though. I am more interested in the JFK-RFK connection and how that bleeds into MKULTRA and domestic Gladio false flag terrorism in a secular version of '9/11 as a mass ritual' where the media traumatizes the public by playing the zapruder film or towers falling on loop then uses neurolinguistic programming to make suggestions while people are flight/fight mode. It becomes a cultural touchstone of mass PTSD and suggestive hypnosis that follows the heroes journey myth of ritual initiation. Every few years they whip the public into a frenzy and then allow someone to commit a public murder and push it onto the airwaves 24/7 then do it again.
No.21454
>>2278Watched Apocalypse Now recently. I thought the Blacks die before Whites shtick was more of an horror movie trope.
On the other hand, you can consider Apocalypse Now some kind of HORROR movie
No.21551
>>21454I hope you watched the director's cut. The scene on the French plantation is the best one in the movie.
No.21582
>>20599I watched the last 2 and I don't get it
No.21583
>>21445who was it based on? what language is this movie in
No.21586
>>21551The scene itself is great, but it kinda break the movie's flow imo.
No.21588
>>21344It was
cool btw, I give it a 7/10
There were lots of
awesome, fun scenes
I liked the podcast kid, he was funny
No.21625
Spring (2014).
Great film. This is going to be one of my all time favourites.
You think you're watching a straight up Lovecraftian/ body horror flick, but then something strange happens… it turns into a romance, as instead of one killing the other they try to work it out
No.21638
>>21583It is based on this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._ChandruThe language is Tamil, but you will find subs in english easily on the streaming service sites or with the leet speaking pirate.
No.21640
>>21625Check out the other movies made by those two dudes. They are all brilliant (except their latest one).
No.21727
There's this movie I can't remember
But I know that it was pretty popular a few years ago
The aesthetic of that movie is a lot of pink and a girl, in some dress and it was some kind of horror movie, maybe indie like a24
think last night in soho when it comes to the colours
It came out within 5 years from now
i saw anons argue about that movie in /tv/ last year or so ago
i can't remember it and find it anywhere
tell me
No.21732
>>21727Anything about the plotline?
No.21750
>>21732body horror, cosmic horror, demons
i remember something about rituals or something like a girl is posesesed or attacked by an evil entity or something
i remember mirrors with all that hot pink colours
No.21777
>>21751nah
i don't remember it being a familiar name
something demon name related and it had a white actress like anna taylor joy and the name i think was related to that director who always worked with ryan gosling
nicholaus ren or something
HOLY SHIT I FOUND IT WHILE TYPING THIS POST
is neon demon worth watching?
No.21802
>>21777I remember I liked it. Keanu Reeves has the most hilarious non-role by basically playing a motel janitor with no impact to the story whatsoever.
No.21819
>>2278So I just watched this crazy Indian movie about a dude who starts collective farming in his small indian village
A whole lotta shit happens, If lenin just had bollywood fighting plot armour we woulda had communism by now
In the ending the business guy literally gets torn by limbs and the blood splatters on his apple watch for some heavy symbolism
The movie ends with the director literally talking about Marx and his theories
Movie too deep for me, Whole lotta concepts
No.21871
>>20366You're a retard of planetary proportions. Please never watch another movie in your life, ever again.
No.21872
>>21819Seems like a good movie for movie nights.
No.21876
>>21872where and when is movie night?
No.21894
>>21893ashamed? if you paid money to do o I guess but even then it's not really something to be assmad about, it's a silly nostalgiafest and nothing more, no need to hit on people for seeing it.
No.21897
>Watched the darkest hour
was entertainig because i like these kinds of movies but i'm 99% sure i was fed bullshit during it. i take everything with a grain of salt and only see it as a "movie".
>The Last duel
had high hopes but was surprisingly boring as fuck, didn't make it through the second part.
No.21898
>>21893I liked it. First movie I saw in a theater in 9 years. It was nostalgia bait Marvel schlock but it was well-executed nostalgia bait Marvel schlock. It had just the right amount of fanservice and I felt the emotional moments worked well. Didn't really feel like the other MCU shit I've seen in the past, I actually got invested in what happened.
No.21900
>>21894I am assmad for paying money to the mouse for experiencing the nostalgia bait on big screen. Which is a shame since it was the only fun part in the movie, despite very tacked on. And I am only beating myself over it.
>>21898Says a lot about MCU Spiderman movies that it took characters from Raini and Webb movies to make one emotionally invested in it, which also happens to be 3rd one.
No.21910
>>21893Good
Absolute garbage film
They listened to all the bitches whining about muh iron man about killed off marisa tomei
Worst spider man film
I'm sick of seeing spider man broke ass fuck depressed, It was the only reedeming thing about the MCU spidey to see him happy
No.21916
>>21893Does anybody remember when the first Spiderman movies with Toby Maguire came out and launched the superhero movie revival, that they were lauded like it's some fucking cinematic history? I remember critics completely losing their shit over something that is a bog-standard superhero movie.
My conspiracy is that reviews for Marvel and DC movies, but especially Marvel, are the most corrupted out of all. Like, all fucking critics lauded this Avengers dreck.
No.21937
Anyone know a safe place to pirate "The Battle at Lake Changjin"? Can't find it on rarbg, so I assume its not really that popular on western sites.
No.21949
>>21937magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d3cd1fc553dc56d6a3a7c5cac2f1f5608070e795&dn=%e9%95%bf%e6%b4%a5%e6%b9%96.%e6%97%a0%e6%b0%b4%e5%8d%b0%e5%9b%bd%e8%af%ad%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87%e5%ad%97%e5%b9%95%e7%89%88.mp4
shitty camera rip but it has english subtitles and it's available
No.21951
>>21893I can't for the life of me enjoy marvel films anymore. Ever since Age of Ultron I've gotten so bored watching these movies. By then I had realized the marvel formula and it's the same shit over and over again. The only time these days that I'll watch a marvel movie is if I literally have nothing better to do whatsoever and if in extremely bored and if I'm watching the movie I'll be on my phone looking at shit while it runs in the background.
No.21952
>>21949Magnet links aren't links unless you post the software to open that link
No.21953
>>21951I stopped after the first Avengers movie. Everbody got so hyped about it, and the critics (bought and paid for) praised it as a masterpiece. Then I watched it and it bored me to death. After that I was done.
No.21955
>>21952uygha just use whatever torrent client you want wtf
No.21959
>>21949Thanks anon, will check it out, hope the quality isn't turbo shit.
No.21979
>>21978Do we get to see a horribly aged Carrie-Anne Moss in a tight bodysuit? Goddamn, Keanu looks like he could be her son.
No.21984
>>21978This was my personal criticism was that the action scenes weren't as inspired as the sort of John Woo and Crouching Tiger style of action that was in the original films. But other than that I enjoyed it as much as the trilogy; it was like stepping back in the same world I loved being in when I used to watch the original trilogy over and over. 8/10.
No.21988
>>21987This is a correct opinion.
No.21990
Why have cinema tickets practically doubled in price the last 6 years?
No.21995
>>21978just downloaded and scrolled through it
the first 20 minutes were basically cringy HBO Silicon Valley meets Robot Chicken self-reference jokes
then your usual "let's go to the dangerous place and save the other character, even if it means risking thousands of lives" subplot to make the action going
and the ending is the most capitalist realism liberal bullshit ever, almost Harry Potter tier:
> In the aftermath, Neo and Trinity return to face the Analyst, promising to reform the Matrix, and assuring him that he will face dire consequences should he try to seize control again.REFORM THE MATRIX!! OR ELSE!!!
No.22001
>>21990Because movies need to employ 50000 special effects artists now in order to fulfil the director's insipid vision
No.22004
>>21978I think Lana Wachowski made a bad movie on purpose to fuck with the audience and the producers. They did the thing when the characters do a heist but it's cut with moments of the briefing where they explain what they are doing. Also the taken 3 jump fence scene is a sequence shot compared to the combat scenes of this movie, there are just too many people, too much stuff happening and too many god damn cuts.
No.22005
>>21995>cringy HBO Silicon Valleyyou dind't like that show?
also yeah it's kinda tiring how every thing is self referential nowadays
No.22011
Watched 8 1/2 by Fellini yesterday. Maybe I am just a brainlet but I didn't get it. I loved the acting of a main character and cinematography though.
No.22020
>>22004Yeah, just watched it. I was put off at first by the smarmy meta references. But by the end I'm pretty happy with The Matrix 4 because it never stopped being meta, no compromises. The whole movie is taking the piss at itself, the industry and the , umm, mythology? around The Matrix. It's like an elaborate admonishment for what media and the fans have done with The Matrix (1999), in movie form. Like Jesus Fucking Christ, even the subtitle, "The Matrix :
Resurrections" is giving it up.
I'm surprised it got approved. I guess the story and the ending could be cajoled into neoliberal "end of history" or capitalism realism "social media divides us" harm-reduction narratives. But frankly, I feel like those things were put there with the same enthusiasm they'd put product placement and , in the rest of the context, it only highlights the message.
To me, the message of the movie is clear:
>"It was right the first time, you voracious idiot-pigs. Slobber on this trough of piss and prove me right."and slobber they did.
No.22022
>>22020>Right the first timeMeaning what? That people prefer the blue pill? Well yea. This movie offended the sensibilities of those who thought they knew what The Matrix meant originally. Of course at the end what did we see? The Matrix was still there and people were still living underground except Neo now can sort of "remake" the matrix. People like their virtual reality, and even the real world ain't that much better. While I agree that this film had more of a capitalist realism feel, it still had a positive message when it came to change. Neo felt like he didn't change anything but there was what with some machines and programs working with humans to make fruit and shit. So change does happen but it takes a really long time and it's slow as hell for people to become "red pills".
No.22023
Welp, just saw Matrix 4 so I guess its time to follow up on these posts of mine:
>>3049>>3136Don't really know where to begin, so let me just ramble on what I can recall, let's call it a rumination. General thoughts are somewhat mixed, but in a weird way. Best description that hopped to my mind is that its a solidly a 9/10 or maybe even 9.5/10 sequel to Matrix 3, but which is also crossbread with a 3/10 Marvel film. Because I do think you have both the ideas and the story which made Matrix great, continued in both respectful and interesting further path, but then also it has a ton of crap around the sides of that slowing it down, and even bits of shit sticking on top of the story, which while not kill the movie, deffinetly make it feel less enjoyable and just simply less good. It completely lacks the tightness of the previous Matrixes (even if M2 and M3 did have some bits that stuck out as bad, it wasn't as noticable).
So I guess let's just go over the main flaws I had since I both got more to say on the narative side and I am more positive there. First - right off from the first fucking scene - Marvel dialogue. Like when Bug dropped on the agents and then went "oopsie ignore me XDDDD". Or "huck yuck, so u tellin' me infiltratin' da tower is the easy part xDDD". Yeah, shit like that, fucking get rid of it from my screen. Secondly, what's up with the action? It just feels wrong somehow, like it was all dulled out or something. The original lobby scene still btfo's anything in this movie despite its age. I guess this also leads into Neo's "superpowers". Why the fuck does the film fixate on bullet time, flying and bullet holding as the main thing Neo does? The whole point was that Neo was able to bend all the rules of the Matrix through the power of will, and those mentioned powers were just some of the most pronounced examples of him breaking them. Now its like he is some sort of RPG mage who specializes in telekenesis and flight but forgot to upgrade his chrono-magic resistance (like there really was no point for the Analist to have the time power, or have the time power break Neo, you just could have rewrote those scenes easily without it). Like ok, the explanation could be that he is weaker without Trinity which explains his lack of better powers or resistance to the Analist, but that doesn't mean he couldn't pull some more interesting tricks that are less powerful, just feels like there was no creativity spent on what he could do. And finally the biggest problem - fucking lousy plot writting that reminds you of some D grade Marvel thing where things just happen to push the plot forward or just to have an action scene, so for example: "Oh ok, so them finding Neo's Matrix module is in medias res", "Oh ok we just have a fight with the French for no reason", "Oh ok so Smith just shows up to save the day by fucking up the Analist… but doesn't kill him, despite killing him being his goal? And then he just fucks off? Ok". Around this you get a bunch of other problems forming, like how you don't really manage to get a good feel to care for Io simply because how quickly that part goes by, or how Morpheus doesn't really get any character development at all, because the film has fuck all clue what it is doing with its time, despite being 2 and a half hours long. So all in all it leaves you, the viewer, to pick up the pieces and rebuild what was once, at least I assume (maybe my future insights into the film are all bullshit and its just trash on purpose) good Matrix sequel yourself, and your success will only depend on your own good will towards either the franchise or your lack of anything better to do. I'll leave it up to you to guess which one is me.
So, here was the bad. Now the good. Well, not now. I will let it stew with me for the night and post the part on the story tomorrow if I'll be bothered to.
No.22024
>>22022>That people prefer the blue pill?No in that the original movie was self sufficient as a story and everything past it is this movie's blue pill. The plot is intentionally retreading the first movie while trolling/mocking the audience at every turn. It is the same story, with the same ending and the differences are meta mockery at the industry and the soyfacing fans who asked for more. The first movie built the story and Matrix 4 deviates only to rub it in the audience's noses why they are idiots for
Resurrecting this franchise.
>"Want more? Fuck you I did it right the first time. Have a shitty reheat, you uncritical cucksumers!" No.22026
>>22024You're implying that Reloaded and Revolutions weren't stories that the Wachowskis didn't want to tell. It feels to me that Reloaded and Revolutions was the creators having almost full creative control, moreso than the first Matrix. Some people didn't like the sequels which is to say that studio meddling or studio controlled films are what people "want". This is proven by Path of the One video game where there's a fourth wall break with both Wachowskis talk about the ending of Revolutions and all the themes and subtext of the ending rambling on and it ends with both Wachowskis "giving the people what they want" by throwing in a Smith Kaiju fight that's SUPER EPIC BRO because no one likes all this philosophical mumbo jumbo, they just wanted an epic battle and that's it.
So they were shit talking the haters of their sequels way back then. This movie was not much different compared to the sequels and the Wachowskis had a specific vision for what they intended with this franchise that's not limited to one action movie that dude bros liked cuz they was cool fight scenes and leather.
No.22028
>>22005I liked it, but that's not the mood I expect in the Matrix
agree with other anons that the first movie is all that needed to exist, Matrix sequels are like Madoka sequels – do not add anything and break the integrity of message the original had already delivered
No.22030
>>22028What was message of the first film?
No.22032
>>22030a possibility of revolution against the system that begins with unspooking yourself from the system's conditioning
No.22033
>>22032Aye, but that's literally only the beginning of understanding the film. And if the message of the film is simply "get woke" then that means it really sucked and was childish. There's more to revolution and breaking from systems of control other than "get woke".
No.22037
>>22033the wakowski's aren't known for their writing, their movies are mostly just eye candy
No.22045
>>22041I liked that they drove the "human batteries" plotpoint completely into the ground
by making Neo/Trinity be magical supergenerators when edged. Great argument for gooningAnd the whole point about them being rebuilt/resurrected/cloned versions of the originals is great meta trolling too! "Haven't aged a day!" They say to the 57 year old Keanu Reeves. Which to be fair, the man does seem to dodge half of his years.
>But they also pulled a great-man theory with Neo being the oneI took it they were retconning the one as the intended artifact of the matrix with an even cringier "power of friendship" with a side of "female character gets abuse in place of character development and now she's a badass as plot compensation". But then again, it's not like Neo or any other character got any development at all either, and the movie pretty much redid the first Matrix>>22024>The first movie built the story and Matrix 4 deviates only to rub it in the audience's noses why they are idiots for Resurrecting this franchise.It's actually really funny that they did that to the point of leaving the ending open in the exact same way. With two wildcards that know CHIM instead of just Neo, like they were aiming for a remake rather than a sequel but pussied out of not recasting Carrie-Anne Moss & Keanu Reeves. Because I doubt there will be any more drive to revisit this pile of compost which was once a dead horse. No.22047
>>22037So you prove to me that people who only liked the first film are dude bros who like esploshuns.
No.22069
Watched don't look up, I kinda liked it. Movie took shots at politicians, billionaires, social media and msm and the characters were good. Kinda depressing though, when the US government scraps the mission to deviate the comet because porky wants to let it crash since it's trillions worth of minerals I didn't laugh because they would do it IRL it's not even satire at this point..
No.22071
>>22069I liked it as well. Even though some jokes didn't land and bloated multimillionaire DiCaprio shouting, "Trust the fucking scientists" was kinda cringe, overall it was a rather enjoyable doomer kino.
No.22073
not him but torrents my brother
you need bittorrent client like
>>20690 exelently explained
here is link… idk if i can post here directly
https://1337x.to/torrent/4996579/1921-2021-1080p-WEB-DL-H264-AAC-BBQDDQ/remember to seed (meaning sharing downloaded file with others)
No.22076
Just watched don't look up on netflix and it perfectly encapsulates the failure of liberalism. It's a long ass movie and honestly its high off its own farts half the time. I think it's worth a watch once if you got some time to kill and got a friend/SO thats thinks Stephen Colbert is funny. Anyways theres a giant comet about to destroy earth and it's an allegory for climate change/pandemic and trust the scientist ect ect. What struck me was that [spoiler] that nothing the protagonist did was effective, they held a giant press tour about the fucking Comet that was going to wreck life on earth and all it ended up with was half ass protest and memes on twitter. There was one scene were one of the scientist started a riot by accident when explain the tech overlords aborted the diverted mission because they had a stupid plan to mine the comet with unproven tech for rare earth minerals at a pup. She was bag by the police and her cohort asked her "What do you want to do? Overthrow the government?" And they proceed not to do that but hold a benefits concert instead and a social media campaign. Of course this ends with the meteor crashing into earth and destroying everything. The one thing that I think hurt this movie was the end credit ending when it showed the generation ship of billionaires and politicians escaping to another planet. Of course the world is hostile and one of them gets eaten and of course all of those on the ship are 40 plus overweight oligarchs. Idk it just overplayed their idea of the technology this app husslers really have. But then again this movie is unintentionally about the failure of liberalism. Whats fascinating about this movie is the look into how they get to quietly die around the dinner table laminating how hard they tried to save us while the disinterested zoomers worry about celebs and realize how wrong they were. It was kind of a like a liberal left behind. Except in the end the maga chinlet leaders get to leave on a space ship so it shows how much of fucking losers they are. [/spoilers]
No.22081
>>22076based
people were bitching about it so much
but i am only 1 hour in and it shows what kind of an insane world capitalism has constructed
i don't care how much of a lib adam mckay is
we should spread this movie for more people to watch to help shed and erode the sense of confidence people have in capitalist institutions
it's a long line of buffons all the way down and they're wasting our resources
No.22084
>>22082And he delivered that hole thing with a serious face, dead pan master
No.22097
>>22076> But then again this movie is unintentionally about the failure of liberalismUhhh, unintentionally?
Because from your description it sounds like overthrowing the government and exterminating the rich to create a plan their profit motive won’t fuck up was the only actual solution even within the film.
The only way the film could have been better would of course be if humans somehow caused the asteroid to come to Earth, the real lib position is that capitalism is not directly causing ecological collapse
Anyway I hope as time shifts we will start to see genuinely communist films crop up somehow, I want a movie where climate change is solved via a world revolution that overthrows the West and has western workers use technological revolution to start rebuilding the environment
No.22100
>>22097>Because from your description it sounds like overthrowing the government and exterminating the rich to create a plan their profit motive won’t fuck up was the only actual solution even within the film.Agreed that's why I'm so confused by so many lefties online bitching about this movie being hypocritical or profiting off of the climate emergency or something
I think they are warped in their own social media game of clout where everything has to be derided
I mean that is a very stupid form of critique no? How is a movie maker supposed to solve that?
What do you think the intention of this movie maker was?
Hold up a mirror to society? or just simply profit of a hot topic
No.22103
>>22097>Because from your description it sounds like overthrowing the government and exterminating the rich to create a plan their profit motive won’t fuck up was the only actual solution even within the film.The movie never even implies that's a solution though. Hell there isn't even any mention of strikes. At the end it really seems like the conclusion is they didn't retweet hard enough or convince enough chinlets. Or worst yet there was no solution and we were doomed from the start. Maybe "overthrow" the government is something that can't explicitly be said and it's more coded but I didn't get that impression.
>Anyway I hope as time shifts we will start to see genuinely communist films crop up somehow, I want a movie where climate change is solved via a world revolution that overthrows the West and has western workers use technological revolution to start rebuilding the environmentThats another thing about this movie is the rest of the world outside America is barely mentioned. There's a snippet of the U.N saying it'll build its own comet defense program. Which never gets mentioned afterwards implying that the U.S is vetoing the rest of the world from stopping a planet destroying asteroid hitting the earth. That would have been funny to see and in passing its mentioned that Russia and China had a joint mission but it failed.
>>22100My critique of the movie is that it's good and super close to getting it. Like frustratingly close. The fact they don't wimp out and show earth getting destroyed because of American incompetence, greed and liberal inaction. Makes it worth a watch IMO. I don't expect any movie to change the world or provide morality.
No.22107
>>22097>use technological revolution to start rebuilding the environmentCapitalist realism, there's no rebuilding the environment with technology in the foreseeable future, what we destroy we can't build back. What we can do is dampen the effects of climate change to some extent with vast programs and displace threatened populations from dangerous areas. But first a world revolution bringing down capitalism should be enough to drastically cut pollution and destructing human activity, no more smartphones and cars for everyone though
No.22108
>>21870never heard of it, seems interesting
thanks
No.22192
>>22076Welp this movie shook me out of my self imposed hermit state and back into the throes of long term depression, so… yea. It was mostly the futility of it all mirroring my own and my friends' political "achievements", where at the end of the day all the effort was spun into something completely different by dishonest actors, and the shit eaters that you thought you could convince would rather spend time on their fucking twitters or be more concerned with "likeability" and "positivity" than actual critical fucking thinking, not that they don't have the attention span of an actual fucking goldfish. That no matter whether you try it the nice way or the not so nice way, you can never really win no matter how small your ask, and the concessions you might get will be so small as to be virtually insignificant, and will be undone after you're done anyway as if the system needed to return to its usual equilibrium of complete fucking retardation. Got a friend with a platform that is enjoying seeming success in his activism? Not for long, he's about to lose all of his fucking marbles due to the attention and become a part of the shit eater ecosystem. Or the fucking media theatre that is impossible to engage with critically, because you will be subsumed into it no matter what you do, used for some cheap shots and thrown away, and if you refuse to engage they'll just make some shit up about you to force you in. Refuse to engage still? Don't worry, you're old news, we're more concerned about some celeb bullshit or feel good story now, gotta throw out some more distractions for the plebs so we can keep their attention nice and unfocused.
I was convinced for a long time anyway that consensus is just a thing libs scream when they want to defang any meaningful movement for change, that any actual change can only come by physical force against a divided majority of the disinformed, the incompetent but self interested, and the downright comically evil. Then I buried these thoughts because the implications of this are torturous helplessness given the pervasiveness of the neoliberal ideology, and this movie brought it all back up.
Is it bad that I actually wanted the world to blow up and was pissing myself laughing while it was happening?
No.22206
Just watched Shang-Chi and was pretty bored. I enjoyed the last fight the most but that's about it regarding what kept my eyes on the screen. Marvel movies are just very very boring.
No.22224
>>22081I loved how on the nose the message was.
>>22192>Is it bad that I actually wanted the world to blow up and was pissing myself laughing while it was happening?Considering the movie is dark comedy, I guess it was the intent.
No.22227
When you see all the Twitter leftists bitching about a new movie with a somewhat anti-capitalist message, it's probably a good movie.
Literally the same people that bitch about Don't Look Up will binge The Witcher and soyface about it.
No.22228
>>22227What are they bitching about?
No.22232
>>22047i watched it cuz i like catsuits
No.22234
Just watched The Holy Mountain.
It’s a weird one, for sure, and though it was loaded up with absurd imagery, it was more coherent than people online had led me to believe. At its core it’s a heist movie, but with the creative twist of the things to be stolen are immortality and enlightenment, and the main security features to get overcome are all mind-based attacks.
The main problem with the film is that it has a backwards/idealist conception of social change. It seems to more-or-less correctly identify social ills. The Alchemist calls the wealthy industrialists, financiers, cops, and economists “thieves,” and they’re shown being generally terrible, creating war-propaganda for children, massacring protesters, calling for mass-death for the sake of the economy, making “psychedelic shotguns,” etc. However, it seems to suggest that the antidote to all this is for those sorts of people, explicitly stated to be the world’s most powerful beings, to become spiritually-enlightened. As we all know that rarely happens, and if the powerful did in fact do away with all their wealth, without systemic changes they would just be replaced by more vicious and corrupt newcomers, who would then have more influence over society. Additionally, movements like that seem to be easily coopted and recuperated.
The film had its moments though, like the fight scene at the top of the tower, the bar patrons (“I have conquered the mountain! Horizontally!”), and when going through the roster of planet-themed accomplices.
No.22235
>>22234I hate this movie with a passion and consider it the quintessential "pretentious trash" film.
No.22236
>>22235Haha I love it so much I watch it every year or so under the influence, I guess it's one of those movies you hate or love.
No.22237
>>22234I did not get the part at the end where Jodorowsky literally walks to the camera, breaks the fourth wall by breaking my screen and stands in front of me in flesh, only to aggressively read tarrot card for me.
Fortunately I had seen the movie pre-covid times and he was carrying his credit card so it wasn't hard to get him back to Chile.
No.22238
>>22235I mean, I disagree, but I see where you’re coming from.
No.22245
>>22234are there boobs in it? looks like a movie with boobs in it
update me if there are boobs in it
No.22253
Matrix 4 was fucking perfect.
No.22254
>>22245Oh yeah there are boobs in it, and a lot of sexual stuff, and shit turned to gold
No.22256
Just watched JoJo Rabbit, loved it. I honestly can't enjoy alot of shit these days. My brain turns off for so many movies but I was engaged watching this movie.
No.22261
>>22254i was joking but wow i will check it out
>>22255i liked him in simpsons
>>22256glad you did, that scarlett johansson scene was so fucked up
i got hyped as fuck when the red army invaded but it was still a dark comedy in the end
No.22355
Don't Look Up was nice.
I feel like why online people might be averse to it is that they're conditioned to think that any comment on politics or whatever has to have its own kind of "position" behind it, like the person's a liberal which is why they're critiquing X in such a way, which they're probably conditioned because it's so good at shutting up criticism of whatever they believe, so they go completely haywire when they come across what's basically just a simple satire.
No.22357
>>22355The first time they meet the President, it showed a photo with her and Bill and Hillary Clinton on the desk. So the movie actually implies she might be a Democrat.
>simple satireExactly. You could imagine the satirical scenario happen under Trump, Biden or anybody else.
No.22360
>>22355Agreed and some people online are literally just worthless critics as that is their entire personality
No.22366
>>22355>>22357>>22360It’s honestly really weird how people here and a lot of leftists I’ve seen took that movie
It never says the President’s party and she could easily be from either Party based off who they show her with so it’s clear the writers were shitting on both the DNC and GOP
They show that celebs are basically useless and celebrity activism is worth nothing since it changes nothing in the end (even when the celebs genuinely have their hearts in the right place)
It shows that the news stations are designed to make the masses basically immobilized, either by scaremongering about meaningless shit, denial, or downplaying things that are clearly catastrophic with faux civility
Shows how scientists can easily be manipulated by political and business interests even if they’re trying to do the right thing and how many scientists directly work for these interests
The ultimate villains in the movie are a stand in for Musk/Bezos/Gates and the US government
It is also heavily implied that the US nuked the Chinese-Russian-Iranian attempt at stopping the comet
If anything the scientists would have been better off spreading the news to common people as far and as honestly as possible, since the only ones portrayed sympathetically outside of the leads are the common people they cut to
If anything while it isn’t explicitly socialist it does have socialist leanings imo, and in terms of cinematography I find the random clips showing all the animals and people who are about to be destroyed to be incredibly poignant and sad
This is a proper example of cinema made for the climate shifted world, since the film is almost explicitly about climate change showing all the innocents that are about to be lost is incredibly heartbreaking, very few apocalyptic films make a point to show the extent of the tragedy
No.22738
>>22736it’s made by netflix. also judging by the first 10-20 minutes, it’s just gonna be navel gazing
No.22844
>>22841lmao @ him larping as a republican volunteer
No.22845
Just watched Real Genius. The CIA wants to make a space laser gun to assassinate people all over the globe so they task the engendering part to a crooked celeb college teacher who in turns exploits the genius of his unknowing students to make the weapon. The students eventually discover what their project is for and decide to do something about it against the US military. Good and wholesome movie about the relationship between science and the military with a young and crazy Val Kilmer
No.22866
>>22845>>22865Just another painfully unfunny '80s turd. Don't pretend it's suddenly good just because it slightly critiques the CIA.
No.22867
>>2278I've been torrenting from the library.
Mostly schlock and scifi.
Schlock/Scifi-Finished Mad Max (original&Fury Road), In the Mouth of Madness, Interstellar,Invasion of the Body Snatchers '78, and French Dispatch.
Mostly was watching them to numb out.
I have some good stuff of my to-watch list, though. Stalker by Tarkovsky, El Topo by Jodorowsky, Masculin Feminin & Le Mepris by Godard, Brazil, On the Silver Globe, Kin-dza-dza.
No.22868
>>22366I agree with you.
Leftists shitting on it because it doesn't have a call-to-action or a hollywood happy ending is peak irony.
No.22869
>>22866Damn you must be fun at parties. This movie literally begins with a long ass scene with a group of cigar smoking costume weavers talking about how to get a working weapon in a military industrial complex style, deciding to "liberate" the only person who said "hmm this shit is wrong I'm getting resigned elsewhere" and leaving the meeting. There's nothing slight about that.
No.22870
>>22867>El Topo by JodorowskyJust watched it with a friend, trying to fail at interpreting it together, this is a really a fucking good movie. Jodorowsky is some crazy good director, the only big movie of him he did I didn't see is "La Danza de la Realidad", I think I'm gonna watch this one with my father.
No.22872
>>22870>La Danza de la RealidadI'll add that one to my torrents
I have seen Holy Mountain, and although I agree it was "pretentious," it was still fun to watch. The sets and costumes etc as well as meeting each of the thieves. Sel from Saturn was my favorite, it looks like the youtube clip of that scene has been removed.
No.22873
>>22869>hey guys, let's watch this shitty comedy that isn't funny and has an otherwise totally uncompelling script because it agrees with my politicsAnon… Are you sure you aren't the party killer?
No.22874
>>22872I wouldn't say pretentious, it's more a "on your face" commentary but it really stays humble. The rhythm is just all over the place tho, it's like three movies in one.
In the recent weeks I saw Santa Sangre which is frankly one of the best movies I ever seen and Poesia Sin Fin which made me very emotional because I could hear in it echoes of my life.
No.22875
>>22873Yeah I kill parties for fun
No.22876
>>22866Have you watched the movie? No? STFU
I support absolute and vehement sectarianism against the imperialist forces and right-wingers
No.22879
Just watched Spiderman No Way Home and finally, finally I enjoyed a marvel movie since the first Avengers. Actually X that because this movie isn't a Marvel movie but an actual Spiderman movie. Homecoming and Far From Home were Marvel movies not Spiderman movies, but this one finally did justice to Peter Parker and Spiderman in this iteration.
No.22881
>>22876Why yes I have, they used to show it all the time on Comedy Central, along with the many, many other dime-a-dozen "comedies" from the '80s just like it.
No.22884
>>22873>>hey guys, let's watch this shitty comedy that isn't funny and has an otherwise totally uncompelling script because it agrees with my politicssounds based
No.22903
Just watched Raging Fire by Benny Chan.
It's fucking awesome. It's a hong kong martial arts movie with badass fights. Not much of a plot but them fights are sick.
No.22929
Morgan (2016), here reviewed by Mark Kermode.
Great film. I've watched Ex Machina as well which he mentions in the review, and I thought this one was just as good. Sort of a "B" movie understated vibe to it. I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but very strong ending.
No.22931
Reds (1981) American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World. Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill.
The supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosiński, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas Coster, and M. Emmet Walsh. The film also features, as "witnesses", interviews with the 98-year-old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing, author Dorothy Frooks, reporter and author George Seldes, civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin, and the American writer Henry Miller, among others.
Part 1:
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Part 2:
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No.22971
>>22970Forgot to mention the other movie being Stalker that I have seen.
No.22972
>>22970>Are most of his movies about Christianity and god?yes, he was a big cuck to westernoid sensibilities
massively over-rated reactionary
No.22973
>>22931Louise Bryant is the actual main character of this movie. The Wikipedia blurb makes it seem like she's just a supporting character.
No.22981
>>22970Reading about production on wikipedia was hilarious. His initial draft had most of the movie take place on Earth, which pissed off Stanislaw immensely since his novel was entirely set on the station on the alien planet.
When I had first seen it, the Tokyo driving scene was something I thought was about humans and systems as the massive structures carried traffic day and night. Turns out it was included as an excuse to his and crew's Japan trip lol.
>>22972I wonder had he lived to this day, what would his reaction be toward most of his works made in USSR being available for free on Youtube, and how much Tsar apologia he would have engaged with.
No.22982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcpSlYMW4-AI watched Grand Theft Parsons
It was good
It's fully up on youtube for some reason, you should watch it
No.22983
Rewatched Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, man it's a really good satire of slasher films, the Russian dub is even more hysterical.
No.22994
Watched The King's Man, fucking hell, Mark Millar is terminally lib-brained. His independent secret service for the good of all mankind, which just happens to do exactly what benefits the imperial core, has the fucking king of England, a duke, the American ambassador, a working class lad, a servant who wants to fuck the duke and the duke's house negro. I guess at least it's not pretending. [s]Also Lenin and Hitler are in the same secret society and team up with each other.[/s]
The worst part is it wasn't even fun and it was way overlong. Only bonus point is that we get to see the Tsar and his family get gunned down, even if it was [s]by Hitler[/s]
No.23065
Is The Big Short a good movie?
No.23124
barely 480p .avi DVD rips are always higher quality than every bluray rip i've ever watched
No.23252
Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex is shitty liberal propaganda disguised as an "art" film, and mind-numbingly casually racist. They depict the PFLP as ultra-conservative Jihadis despite them being explicitly secular.
No.23264
>>22011I spent all of January watching nothing but Fellini and found
8½ (1963) kinda overrated. I've seen lots of people say "it's a film about making a film"—which is true, but it's really just a film about a filmmaker slowly overcoming artist's block. The two main sources of conflict in the film are Guido failing to hide his infidelity, and Gudio shirking his responsibilities as director to his film production team. He feels alienated by his job and personal relationships, and desperately tries to spice up his life to no avail. The exchange Guido has with Claudia (his imaginary ideal woman) hammers home why when she says: "Because he doesn't know how to love." The film ends when he finally comes to terms with the fact that he needs his wife, friends, and colleagues to accomplish anything. It's a very trite creative message on par with 'just draw' and 'touch grass'—I already got it by the time the harem sequence started. I think
La Dolce Vita (1960) and
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) were way better. The former has all the alienation and indecisiveness from Italian bourgeois life under the Marshall Plan (
also fun fact: this is the film that 'Paparazzi' as a term came from; I never knew that before), and the latter is very explicitly a film about an Italian housewife grappling with the realization that her husband is cheating on her (
but there are recurring nightmare hallucinations that increasingly haunt her throughout the film; it's great, and is probably my all time fav Fellini)
No.23266
>>21582Takeshi Kitano's films recall Andrei Tarkovsky's but stripped of all romanticism and longing associated with the latter's work. Kitano is meditative before and after the violence, but that meditative period of calm is redefined
by the violence. They're nihilistic in the actual sense of the word, rather than the pop culture understanding of it.
No.23272
Con-Air, despite it becoming comically ridiculous towards the end, is a fun black-comedy action film.
I only just now realize, but it's got some thematic similarity to Fast and Furious films. I've only seen the later ones where they absolutely (and almost literally) jump the shark, but how are the first two? Are they down-to-earth and of good quality?
No.23408
Is there any website that has The Batman film without the retarded slot ad interruptions? And no this isn't pop ups this bullshit is literally a part of the video. I don't care that it's cam, what's annoying is that slot crap, you'd know what I'm talking about.
No.23413
>>23252I thought it was done well technically, with a fast pace that keeps you in your seat.
But politically it was just West German propaganda, no doubt about it. I also cringed when they tried to portray them talking about communist theory, they made communist theory sound like caveman shit.
No.23455
>>23408There are probably some non-watermarked camrips on fora.snahp.eu
No.23456
>>23413>I also cringed when they tried to portray them talking about communist theory, they made communist theory sound like caveman shit.that’s just a realistic portrayal of the New Left
No.23512
>>23508all of that for schlock
reminds me of the movie Angst/Fear (1983)
No.23559
>>20599For a long time I used to dream dying stylistically the way Kitano's character does in Boling point an d Sonatine.
No.23560
>>20599His Hana-bi is culmination of all 3 movies.
No.23566
my bros, i wasn't sure where to ask but i'm trying to remember this chinese movie i watched but i just can't place it. all i can remember is a scene where soldiers are hiking up a snowy mountain and their lovable cook who always has sweets on hand dies.
No.23570
>>23568Nice pic for ants, also see
>>>/hobby/1007 No.23587
>>2278Just watched Mutafukaz/MFKZ, funny how obviously the creator was inspired by GTA San Andreas (tho not like I have much exposure to LA other than that anyways), was pretty decent IMO, fun action scenes. Much better than Fury which I tried to watch earlier but it was so shit I turned it off (rarely do that).
No.23588
I accidentally ended up watching South Korea soft core pornography
kim jon jil didn't die for this
do you guys think porn are movies too?
No.23611
I recently watched Slackers. Really funny, strange film. Most of the scenes contain a leftist or conspiracy rant.
>>23588Movies, maybe, but not FILM. It's simply the real act of sex replaced with by the spectacle of it. Every aspect of life in spectacular capitalism is replicated and then replaced with commoditized visual representation.
No.23674
Watched Encanto, it was alright, I liked how it was a kids animated film that didn't really have a clear villain, pretty rare.
No.23700
>>23686They actually made a new Blade Runner like, 3 years ago anon!
No.23791
>>23674and the fact that there was no real fight in the end
even though it was a movie about super powered individuals
No.23792
>>23790There's no 1080p rip yet, right?
No.23793
>>23790really good just saw it. Some might find the message too sentimental
just hug it out bro but I thought it was a refreshung refutation of humanism under bourgeois ideology as well as all the more obvious shit about family trauma and nihilism.
No.23794
>>23700yea but it sucked, imagine taking a genre as deeply anti-human as cyberpunk and making a movie about natalism. That most redditors like that schlock is just another condemnation of it.
No.23797
Dune in theater dialogue was terrible, I couldn't hear anything and could barely follow the plot. Not the best intro 2 the series.
No.23798
>>23797Don't you understand that having inaudible whispering dialogue backed by sweeping orchestral scores and loud noises to keep the audience awake is how you make a movie 'cinematic'?
No.23820
>>23797you just went to a bad theatre.
No.23827
>>23821im sorry you like crap anon
No.23828
>>23794>imagine taking a genre as deeply anti-human as cyberpunk and making a movie about natalismso the original blade runner then? because the whole point of the movie was that the replicants were happy to be alive, and the most iconic part is literally a guy reminiscing about all the wonders he experienced in life, lamenting the fact that he and those memories are going to disappear from the world.
No.23831
>>23828There's a huge difference between the manufactured beings being the most alive in the world juxtaposed to the stone like and non-living humans versus glorifying a fucking nuclear family in 2049. This entire fucking board feels like its designed to piss me off.
No.23832
>>23831Even the concept of usurping production from the Tyrell corporation in 2049 is so antagonistic to the overall concept of the original. Capital and production as fundamentally anti-human.
No.23888
>>238471 MILLION BOX OFFICE RECORD
No.23900
>>23887Being preachy isn't really a bad thing IMO, most westerners live totally immersed in capitalist propaganda 24/7 and yet are unable to realise this, they need something on-the-nose to penetrate that.
No.23902
>>23888It truly broke the record of the most film of all time
No.23915
>>23828>so the original blade runner then? No.
No.23923
>>23902IT TOOK 12 YEARS TO MAKE!
No.23985
great movie, somewhere between a political melodrama and a war film, about how anarchists are petit-bourgeois lording their pompousness over those less fortunate than themselves
unironically amazing acting and production quality though
there’s a stream on youtube, and a rip here
https://rarbg.to/download.php?id=fkwuo98&h=646&f=Freedomfighters.1996.SPANISH.1080p.BluRay.x264.FLAC.2.0-HANDJOB-%5Brarbg.to%5D.torrent No.24052
>>23985recommended that to someone on reddit (I'm sorry) just the other day, real baader-meinhof effect shit.
Anarchists are cringe most of the time, but I still have a soft spot for the spanish ones, especially Durruti. The defense of Madrid is inspiring beyond words; campesinos and workers with looted rifles and hunting guns holding off the best-trained, best-armed, most experienced troops in the country for 3 whole years. Very Paris Commune.
No.24074
https://letterboxd.com/film/good-bye-lenin/is this cringe or good?
politically speaking
No.24080
I just saw cmon cmon at the cinema.
Great movie, I enjoyed it a lot.
>>24074I've heard it's a good movie but it probably has shit politics.
No.24147
Embedding error.
I just rewatched He was a Quiet man. This is movie from 2007 and follows and office incel mass shooter who gets everything he ever wanted but still isn't happy. He gets to be the hero, he gets the girl. He sees the degenerate scum in his office wiped out. Movie has been on youtube from almost over a year and still hasn't getting taken down, if you want to watch it I recommended highly.
No.24198
>>24074Saw it in German class. I don't particularly remember politcal aspects.
Maybe a jab at the sincerity of people engaged in orgs as the mother who was part of the Party or some youth org i don't recall, joined to
cope with her husband who left the family for the West No.24199
>>24198;_;
added to watchlist
No.24200
>>23793wow
sounds like a dope asf movie
>>23792https://www.blu-ray.com/Everything-Everywhere-All-at-Once/1251088/#Releasesidk understand it says it already released on itunes
why do we still have cam rips then
No.24203
The Execution. A quality new release compared to some recent Russian films.
No.24241
Anyone see The Batman yet, I definitely enjoyed it even though it had to fall back on hollow platitudes in the last act but also points out how hollow they are? so idk… Seems like the new 'realism' genre of DC (joker, pattinson's batman) is about being just woke enough to bring all the people disillusioned with marvel without actually committing to any definitive statement - maybe that's the best we can hope for from big studio project though.
Film has a neat shoutout to climate change too as well as the Waynes being a prototypical Rockefellers/Vanderbilt family for Gotham.
No.24242
>>24241Paul Dano also killed it with his monologue.
No.24382
>>24242Nah he was very disappointing and not intimidating or profound at all, he just seemed stupid
No.24413
>>24382weird you got that vibe his entire purpose was showing the hollowness of Wayne's vengeance as a spoiled rich boy versus real grievances about the city most of which were caused by the Vanderbilt/Rockefeller families (Waynes/Arkhams in this universe) who built it.
No.24456
new cronenberg
i liked his movie about the snuff films
i also watched the one on uh the virtual reality spine thing, felt it tried to do the same themes but didn’t like it
No.24691
>>2278There should be a >>>/hobby_archive/ for good but full threads like this, since archive.is isn't fully reliable.
No.27778
>>21916>Reimi Spiderman<bog standardLMAO no.
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