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We're no zombie flick fans generally but we both enjoyed Train to Busan.
when Don Lee got it we were both like awwwwwww

The American version casting should be interesting,

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JohnnyCashFan said:
We're no zombie flick fans generally but we both enjoyed Train to Busan.
when Don Lee got we were both like awwwwwww

The American version casting should be interesting,

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Love this film. Its such a simple concept but works incredibly well. The main actor, Gong Yoo, also plays the Salesman in Squid Game.

The second really doesn't do it justice in my opinion. It drops the simplicity with too much going on and it drifts into a way-over-the-top (for a zombie film) plot.
 
I was a little worried because i read a couple of harsh reviews before, but i actually enjoyed Ghostbusters afterlife ( who strangely is named Ghostbusters Legacy in germany) . I cleraly banks on 80s Ghostbusters nostalgia and stranger things huge ausdience but it does this quite nicely with the new cast. Some reviewers critized that it excludes the female ghostbusters movie from the continuity, but i think that movie ( which i also enjoyed a lot) was never in this continuity with some of the original cast appearing as different characters the original ghostbusters never mentioned.
What i do not like that much though is the ideas that some of the producers seem to have about creating a ghostbusterrs universe akin to marvel or dc out of this cause i just can´t see there beeing enough interesting different strories in there. You don´t really need someone in a ghostbusters overall to tell a ghost story
 
No movie captures the craziness of the season like Home For The Holidays. It’s easily the best movie Jodie Foster ever directed. Also the cast is so good. Holly Hunter, Robert Downing Jr., Dylan McDermott, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Steve Gutenberg, Claire Danes, heck even David Strathairn has a small role.
 
Rewatched Kill Bill 1 & 2 this past week. I just can't picture them as one big movie; it feels so much like 1 is one thing, and 2 is another. Between the Robert Rodriguez guitar stings, the instant demystifying of Part 1 (the Crazy 88 weren't really 8 guys, the wedding was just a rehearsal, the instantly-humanizing front-and-centering of Bill), and the way The Bride's narration is replaced with long scenes of other people talking about The Bride...2 is shaggy where 1 is tight. And Vol. 2 also introduces some aspects of Tarantino's work which have really challenged me over the following decade and a half, namely the long stretches of dialogue where someone carefully overexplains what's about to happen, as well as the way his characters become fervent fans and mouthpieces of QT's pop-culture obsessions rather than extensions of them.

Not to be down on Vol 2; its only sin is being a near-perfect movie standing right next to a perfect movie, and honestly the chapter with Elle is the best part of both movies.
 
I watched Mystic River last night. I'll watch prettymuch any oscar-bait movie I've never seen if the premise is intriguing.

It was fucking awful, I've never liked Clint Eastwood as a director but its like he didn't even try here. It feels like it was made by a first year film student with a big ass budget. Everything from the blocking to the shot selection was all over the place. There's one scene that just involves a conversation between 4 people at a table, and Clint cuts every 3 seconds to another redundant angle, just going everywhere and breaking the 180-degree rule.

The 3 principal actors are all veterans of their craft, they probably just did their thing with little direction (Which is good, the acting was the only thing that got me through this movie).

It's so bad it's making me reassess Eastwood's directing credits to see if there's actually anything of worth there. Needed to vent about it somewhere.
 
Meet the Robinsons is such an underrated movie, I've loved it since I was a kid and it holds up now. It has an absurd amount of charm and creativity, and a really good message. If you have Disney+ and have never seen it, I recommend giving it a watch if you're in the mood for something kid-friendly.
 
Thackeraye said:
Being made to watch A Castle at Christmas. As a Scot I was offended 2 minutes in. Cary Else’s’ accent is brutal. I’m going to have to drink through this…
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the biggest problem with that movie is weirdly that Elwes and Shields are overqualified. accents aside, their acting is a little…too nuanced?

these movies only work if everyone in them is operating at the level of a high school play.
 
We havn't found much in new Christmas movies this year, Boy Named Christmas was meh like the reviews, and the Hallmark channel watchers in the house have not been impressed so it's back to the classics.
 
JohnnyCashFan said:
We havn't found much in new Christmas movies this year, Boy Named Christmas was meh like the reviews, and the Hallmark channel watchers in the house have not been impressed so it's back to the classics.
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If you don't mind something dark, Silent Night just came out via AMC+


also, 8-Bit Christmas on HBO Max...not great, but fun nostalgia if you grew up during the time period of Nintendo...


And I hear that Comedy Central has a parody of a Lifetime/Hallmark style xmas film on tonight with Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch in it called A Clusterfünke Christmas that could potentially be funny.
 
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