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This movie is about vapidness to an extreme and pathetic degree, it's really good but I'm not sure I liked it for the same reasons the dudes in Cannes did.
It's about old/young dysphoria where if you are young and good looking everything works for you, because everybody the younger version of the protagonist interacts with is a stupid gooner or the capitalist ready to make money on gooning, and everybody the older protagonist interacts with is dismissive of that old hag (who still look incredibly good until her life force or whatever is taken). Both at their prime are still less beautiful than my wife btw.
In the end the younger one kills the older one, she thinks she can live her free life, but she sacrificed her future in a "it's dialectic you see" move, because they are all paranoid and refuse to communicate, they prefer to suffer and fuck around between each other rather than with the bizarre organization that gave them that power which is very american.
I loved the gore in general but I'm bad at metaphors and knowledge of hollywood and such so I'm sure I missed all of the stuff that made that the best screenplay of whatever, I would say Infinity Pool was slightly better than this which, in the words of Peter Griffin, insists upon itself.

Stephen King when somebody adapts one of his shitty books into objectively a masterpiece but they didn't faithfully adapt the 700 pages dedicated to the backstory of the ghost who says "boo!" in one scene which revealed they died from being nagged to death by their bitch whore wife

"(…)
I arrived​ in Cannes with a terrible line from Sélection officielle ringing in my head: ‘To paraphrase Woody Allen,’ Frémaux writes, ‘Cannes is like sex: even when it’s not good, it’s good.’ No one is immune to a degree of corniness when it comes to Cannes. David Lynch’s Cannes Diary, a ten-part series of short missives documenting his experience as jury president in 2002, is primarily a vehicle for him to indulge his love of café au lait, pain au chocolat, baguette avec fromage and vin rouge. He praises the French as ‘the greatest lovers of art and protectors of art in the world’ and looks on everything with childish wonder. That wonder extends to the theatres, where audiences clap and cheer at the tacky festival animation, in which the red staircase floats up into the sky. In Lynch’s words: ‘Everybody knows about carpet. And everybody knows the colour red. So you put those two things together and you get red carpet. But there’s nothing like the red carpet at Cannes.’

Was this Cannes as good as bad sex? Bad sex is usually short. At Cannes, screenings run from 8.30 a.m. to past midnight. If you are a programmer or distributor, it’s typical to watch as many as six films a day. Members of the press rush off to file their reviews or record their podcast ‘takes’. Tickets are released at 7 a.m., four days before each screening, and disappear in seconds. It’s common for screenings to be illuminated by dots of light, as people try to book one film while watching another.
(…)”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n12/daniella-shreir/diary

social fascists at the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/best-movies-21st-century.html
<Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust narrative defies convention. Using the bones of Martin Amis’s novel of the same name, Glazer focuses on the day-to-day life of the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), who reside next door. They garden to the soundtrack of mass murder as the ash of human bodies falls from the sky. It’s a disorienting watch that shows just how easy it is to live with monstrosity, every so often jolting you out of your skin with Mica Levi’s unnerving score.
These soulless PMC Zionist writers are those very same petite bourgeois nazi degenerates

social fascists at Rolling Stone:
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-movies-of-the-21st-century-1235200512/
>Jonathan Glazer‘s take on Martin Amis’s 2014 novel is a portrait of hell from the periphery. An S.S. officer (Christian Friedel) and his family live in the housing area surrounding Auschwitz; they throw pool parties and take afternoon tea with friends while chimneys belch black smoke in the distance. Glazer strips away the imagery we now associate with Holocaust dramas and puts his high-formalism style to perfect use, presenting an absolutely chilling look at how normalization works — at some point, you simply stop hearing the barking dogs, gunshots, and human suffering happening right outside your own backyard. This is what the banality around the banality of evil looks like. And Sandra Hüller, playing the officer’s raging wife, once again convinces you that she’s one of the most fearless international actors working today.
fearless international liberal Zionist puppet, maybe

I watched Black Dog, a 2024 Chinese film directed by Guan Hu. I don't have much to say about it except that it's a beautiful film. Lots of beautiful shots of the Gobi desert and the rural town in which the plot takes place. The film is very melancholy. Focusing on the people on the fringes of a booming society. Whom prosperity has not yet reached. Their struggles, thoughts, and interpersonal problems. And how they overcome them together as best they can. It kinda drags toward the end. Buy anyway, I recommend it.

>S comes before A in the alphabet
American Education strikes again

>>46395
S tier comes from japan dummy

JurASSic World AFTERBIRTH gets a ZERO out of ten from me because all the ANNOYING characters LIVE and the CUTE FRENCH TOMBOY DOESN'T.

Film Review: James Gunn’s Superman Cements Israel’s Villain Status in the American Imagination
https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/19/film-review-james-gunns-superman-cements-israels-villain-status-in-the-american-imagination/

any fans of Michael Mann around here?

Avatar 3 trailer dropped. Appears Cameron will be introducing hotter Navi kinds with each installment.

Yesterday I watched 2 movies, one being Y tu mamá también, about a woman going on a roadtrip with two horny petty bourgeois teenagers because she discovered that she will soon be dead from cancer. Of course this is a kind of a "coming of age" story where the woman has sex with both of the teenagers and teaches them to manage their emotions, but what makes this movie so special is that it contrasts the abject poverty of many Mexicans with the petty bourgeois life of the 3 main characters.
It's not like they saw poverty and instantly became class traitors though. The end has the two teenagers "straightening out" and going to university like their parents wanted them to, which I think is more interesting.

The other movie I watched was A Boy and His Dog since I had heard about it inspiring Fallout. I can definitely see its gritty and wacky elements going on to inspire Fallout, although I will say that Fallout 1-2 have a decidedly less negative attitude about ""human nature""

Just watched picrel. Surprisingly 👁️pilled. Didn't know shit about the actual bank robbery and related fuckery it's based on but after reading about the background and some speculation around it nothing would surprise me. The Royal Family, MI6 spooks, mobsters, the international drug trade and sexual blackmail in 70s London. It's definitely whitewashed in places and ends on a fairy tale note with all the criminals being put away and the benevolent status quo being restored but overall not bad, especially for a Jason Statham flick. Worth a watch in the age of Epstein.

I watched the first two movies of this trilogy with my girl and it was actually very good, even if you're alone I would recommend, it's essentially fast paced intelligent dialogue between two people who have a lot of chemistry and not much else and it's great

>>46428
Yeah…..

I was absolutely obsessed with Neytiri after Avatar 1 came out. Like madly in love with a fictional character, I felt butterflies in my stomach when she was on screen. Thank God that eventually burnt out.

That evil one looks pretty good to me.

>>46495
People wanna talk about Jeffrey Epstein but forget about Jimmy Saville

>>46495
It's based on a real story, btw. iirc at the time story got spiked with a d-notice and didn't really go far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_robbery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygxe102ydo

>>46536
>People wanna talk about Jeffrey Epstein but forget about Jimmy Saville
Saville was weirdo retired radio DJ who lived in a council flat, raping children in hospitals and so on, it wasn't the same as a guy who lived on his own island operating a global pedo operation for blackmail purposes.

As someone that grew up with WKUK, this movie has a lot of that sketch comedy dna but somehow it works with the horror elements. I’m not sure it deserves 95% critic score but I was never bored and all the performances were great.

>>46540
I heard about Zach having a new movie out but I still did not watch Barbarian yet.

>>46541
Both movies are good but Weapons is better, best to go into both knowing absolutely nothing

>>46428
He said the story gets really crazy after 3. It's probably going to make a shitload of money just like the first 2 and he'll get to do all 5. 2 kinda felt like it was treading water but that seemed intentional to set up bigger things for the rest of the series. 3 needs to have more developments and from the trailer seems to actually be giving weight to the events of 2 and pushing the characters forward. The visuals are going to be impressive regardless of the story.

>>46357
>John Dies at the End in the same tier as all of Hitchcock
what are you smoking

>>46540
I don't understand the hype behind that movie, it's fine but the payoff was just not good for such a meandering plot. Really liked the comedy horror bits and I particularly like the actress that delivered them but I felt like it was really working towards something bigger and then it didn't

>>46546
It’s been a pretty piss poor year for movies so far, I can understand where you’re coming from in terms of the mystery but the homages to both Chainsaw Man and Day of the Dead won me over.

>>46548
>Chainsaw Man
I haven't see chainsaw man but now that you mention it the second portion of the movie feels very Jojo-ish, I looked into it and it seems that Blue Hawaii works in a similar way to the Weapons voodoo, right down to how the victims run, though I think it's just more that they're drawing from similar sources.

>>46544
OP here, I put John Dies at the End because I made love with my wife for the first time when it was on, good catch of you but also I think it is a very interesting movie

>>46540
Laughed a lot more than I expected I would. The end was pure slapstick comedy.

eddington

John Carpenter is the best film maker of all time if you only count movies that were made to entertain you.

<Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a CALL OF DUTY movie and even pitched his vision and idea to Activision
<Activision got spooked by Spielberg wanting full control of the movie and its direction, and instead made a deal with Paramount
what the FUCK how r-worded do you have to be to do this

>>46604
He did make a call of duty movie. It's called saving private ryan and band of brothers.

>>46606
Not to bring vidya into the kino thread but CoD 1-3 (WW2 CoD) are peak CoD. It's been all downhill since Modern Warfare dropped.

>>46608
I guess it really helps your game to just take the best setpieces from top Hollywood movies verbatim and stitch them together

"Bottoms" (2023)
Finally scratched it from the backlog and it was way better than I expected. It is an astute satire of both modern fascism and the liberal reaction to it: appeasement and compliance. It presents itself as a parody of the usual cliches not only in western romantic comedies, but also K-dramas and streaming-oriented media in general, but the mask slips rather easily and it makes it clear that those element are only there for comedic relief.

Vidrel is a good example: the fight parodies action movies, but what makes the scene funny is that nobody reacts negatively to the guy kicking the girl in the head, instead they feign consternation at the protagonists for not being completely pure and politically correct.

anyone here uses rateyourmusic to rate movies?

I'm here to tell everyone to watch "Time" (2006) by Kim Ki Duk. Try to watch it blind without knowing anything about it. Legit one of the wildest rides I've ever had watching a movie. Ever.
One of those movies that make you think "how in the fuck is this not considered a massive classic?"

>>46357
Kubrick was a master of cinema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-KBqOFgDQ

I just went to see this. You may think that this is an intolerable film about white cis men getting cancelled or whatever and I'm here to tell you that you'd be right but it's also actually really good. The first proper post-woke film to actually deliver. It's also the first 2010s period piece, I think? Not many people are catching onto that.

>>46761 (me)
On the post-woke aspect, some namefags on USApol will be very happy to see this movie. Not saying who exactly who but you will know them by their reaction to it.