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>>47099
A Unit 731 movie?
Based China

>>46891
How does it compare to the korean original

>>47099
It's a mediocre, purely artistic movie. Some scenes are so unrealistic that they're laughable, and some are deliberately comical, which doesn't suit this type of movie. The actress playing the commander is bad and her Japanese sounds weird. I don't like that everything is so sterile, clean and aesthetical. In my opinion, historical movies should be dirty and realistic.
>>47106
I haven't watched it but I've heard that the original is much worse

>>47099
Its a shitty squid game movie that has nothing to do with UNIT 731 outside of it being namedropped, they turned UNIT 731 into a game show.
Watch the men behind the sun instead if you're looking for a realistic documentary.

Watched the 80's Running Man movie for the first time in 10 years and found it to be better than I remembered

>Dead to Rights
this one is really good, highly recommended, rewatchable
>Dongji Island
trash, i'm surprised it has any good reviews at all

how the fuck am i supposed to take the oscars seriously when almost every voter is a fucking moron

i am not watching that new sappy chloe zhao or the new mental health pixar slop. let alone all the glorified student films in the live action short film category. i don't understand why dedicated cinephiles feel compelled to do a more thorough investigation of the nominees than the actual members of the academy

The new 28 Years Later rocks, it improves the first movie

what did y'all think of Eddington?

>>47213
It was too long but alright.

Speaking of which I just watched 'Bugonia', it was mid and the ending 'twist' is bad

>Gezhi Town
poor acting and weird chinese humor but some destruction scenes were good
I liked the ending scene where a chinese rambo was firing a machine gun with huge recoil and spitting blood

i watched this movie. it was cute.

Supergirl was unsurprisingly super shit lol, I watched the Cohen brothers' True Grit after and it's literally insane how much Supergirl fucked it up

The 90s and 2000s were probably the peak era for movies about just about anything. You could find well made mid-budget historical action and political dramas about dead kings, Communists, Fascists and obscure historical revolts, all with solid budgets, good action and usually strong performances.

>>47931
>you want a $16 million Oscar-winning movie that would cost $200M+ today about a Che's legendary motorcycle journey? sure, here you go.
>you want an action movie about one of Buddha's disciples who used to be a notorious bandit? absolutely.
>you want a $15–20 million movie about some Canadian who served as a battlefield medic for the CCP? say no more.

it's honestly kind of insane how these kinds of movies are basically impossible to make today, whether because of the subject matter or the change current production design.

Just rewatched Castaway. I had forgotten the opening of the film and how it's set during the privatization of Russia. The sculptor lady's husband is a cowboy LARPing businesschud living in Moscow and two-timing his wife with a Russian "girlfriend" i.e. taking advantage of impoverished locals with his foreign money. Tom Hanks is an asshole consultant whose first scene is yelling at a warehouse full of workers they aren't being efficient enough. The entire atmosphere is really grim and ugly.

Modern day FWWM/Lost Highway. Don't let the low letterboxd ratings/reviews fool you either since its the same website where imperialist propaganda like American Sniper is rated higher than this.

>>47934
Maybe that’s the reason why they had him get in that plane crash and get stranded on the island

I've seen this movie getting glazed hard as the best film ever for years so when I finally decided to watch it a couple days ago I thought it wouldn't live up to the hype but no, it really is an AMAZING movie.
I really get why it blew everyone's minds back in the 40s

>>47952
>I've seen this movie getting glazed hard as the best film ever for years so when I finally decided to watch it a couple days ago I thought it wouldn't live up to the hype but no, it really is an AMAZING movie.

Kek this was my exact same experience. After years of having people telingl me The Beatles were the greatest band ever I ended up dissapointed as fuck after listening to their discography. With that experience in mind, I watched Citizen Kane expecting it to be mid and glazed for no reason. How wrong I was, Orson Welles is actually that good.

Just downloaded Akahige, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Ikiru.

>>47936
someone described it as a "movie that would make andrea dworkin homicidal" i dunno what it means but it's on my watchlist, normally we don't get screenings of b-tier experimental horror movies over here but i dunno

>>47931
>>47932
One of my favorite films from that era is The Alamo. I honestly can't imagine a movie like this being made today. The Mexicans are portrayed as a little better overall, but still not exactly great, just less awful than the Texans, who are shown as hypocritical slave owners. I guess that was the politics of the time. both sides were bad, but one was objectively worse.

man what a turd, i can tell some queer people are bending over backwards to defend this massive swindle, pretending that having fetishes that are only ever able to be experienced through the screen is some unique queer experience (like there's a shortage of cis-het men who are into vore or getting crushed under the feet of giantesses), or that writing self-insert fanfiction is some inscrutable queer experience, like having Scully from the x-files say the words Alternate Universe was some secret code and not the most cringe worthy thing ever. I have to say, if you really are an offline cis-het man from the outside looking in, then this just confirms every bad preconception about trans people being at the same time, hella pretentious but also toddlers that need the crust from their bread removed otherwise they'll throw a fit. At times video essay (the movie interrupting itself to point out transphobic beats), at times garbage SNL sketch, but never a real movie. I will never watch a Jane Shoenbrun, err thing, ever again in my life.

Just watched Judas and the Black Messiah with a Canadian friend.
I think it radicalized him.

just watched badlands starring martin sheen. pretty good movie, martin sheen's character is a very cool guy and i hope i can be more like him someday.

I really enjoyed Buddy, but that’s because I had edibles and drank a decent amount of liquor before watching

Watched the Irish horror movie The Hallow the other night. *nglish couple move to the Irish countryside because the husband is some kind of botanist or something surveying this Irish forest the government wants to sell off. The locals are against it for what seem like superstitious reasons and are generally vaguely hostile to the couple.

The movie's messages seem a little confused but it's fun and genuinely scary in parts. I'd give it a solid B rating I suppose, where it's not mind blowing or anything but if you're looking for something scary to watch for spooky season you probably won't be disappointed.

The new resident evil movie was pretty good.

good god dude

there's a clear thread between matrix resurrections and digger, in that, they're both deeply cynical movies that turn the camera towards the process of movie making itself, examine it, and find nothing but contempt towards it. i wonder if WB execs really hate themselves this much, i understand getting fooled once into making a brechtian piece on cash grabs pretending to be a belated sequel to matrix, but getting fooled twice into making the same movie? it's so fitting that this is the swansong for WB, there's a merger going through with paramount, just as the ellisons are running around like headless chickens to fill their coffers, which may mean an end to WB as it has existed for decades; and Digger, their swan song.

insane fucking movie.

A Hollywood superstar in a ridiculous getup being paraded around through a preposterous premise stuffed with half-baked socio-political commentary that isn't funny nor insightful by one of the industry's celebrated auteurs. But enough about One Battle After Another

chong's dad in cheech and chong's up in smoke was a pretty accurate and memorable social commentary about the dynamics of square conservative bourgeois parenting

>>48129
I love boosters is an awesome movie that was improved by the fact I saw it on acid. Features a dialectical materialism gun that can "deconstruct" things

Harakiri, great anti samurai film from Kurosawa, about class tensions, historical revision, and how the fuedal samurai class has always used concepts like "honor" to whitewash its crimes and blatant sadism.

>>48169
Harakiri was directed by Kobayashi, not Kurosawa.

>>48170

im so fucking retarded

>>48151
Finally got around to seeing this one after I read your post about the dialectics gun. After seeing boots advertise and engage on Twitter I guess I thought it would be… more complex and serious? Idk, it was a fun romp with lefty ideology all throughout, but it seemed to be doing too much all at the same time and was playing into the chaos quite a bit whenever the current gag or scene had played itself. Like the anxiety ball metaphor or the eating souls through pussy or the evil skinless democrats. All interesting bits, but they seemed superimposed over a different movie.

boots riley is mega overrated, and digger targets exactly the kind of movies boots riley makes. i didn't watch "i love boosters" but wasn't "sorry to bother you" a bit too much like fossil fools? tons of movies are going to be seen as fossil fools. digger really is a sucker punch.

Just pointing out not to waste your time watching this. The film's only interesting section is the opening credits which subverts fashwave edits. Other than that the film was trying too hard to be both a pastiche and a tribute to John Carpenter's work without knowing what made his films good.

>>46357
Comrades,
Please watch Thiasos (1975).
Not sure if you can truly understand if you are not greek, but Theo Aggelopoulo's filmography is, in my opinion, the peak of cinema as an artform, and shoul therefore be watched by every progressive partisan, fighting for a better, a more beautiful world. Art from the point of view of the proletariat (the most progressive social force in the sense that it is the class whose historic mission is the liberation of the whole of humanity) is the aesthetic encapsulation of objective reality, serving a vital role in the ideological life of man. In that sense I fully undertake the, in the last analysis, pgilosophicla, weight of my claim that Theo Aggelopoulo's filmography is truly the most complete expression of the fundamantel function of the essence of cinema, as a synthetic art form. In our age of subjectivity of course, it is inevitable that even works of such magnitude and universality require a minimum of individuality and accidental circumstances. However, even if you do not agree with me, I truly think that everyone on this site, potential internationalist comrades in the struggle against capital, should watch at least Thiasos. It is a wholistic view of the most crucial moments of the greek working people's struggle for the new world, put into the most beautiful of aesthetic expressions with means corresponding to the content of the objective. In that way it complets the essential function of revolutionary art.

>>48240
pic is from the hunters (1977) but it is representative of the moody, yet hopeful gaze that characterizes the bittersweet memory of the civil war from the pov of our deafeted communist camp, that Aggelopoulos so beautifully expresses

>>48202
"Fossil Fools?" I only saw "Sorry to Bother You." I thought it was alright if not somewhat forgettable. Maybe one of the lesser of the wave of Black horror films in recent years. Actually I think a lot of Jordan Peele's films were kinda meh and forgettable.

>>48242
Also I'm curious how that movie or Boots Riley's other work(never seen any) relate to Digger.