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OOFdah. Speak No Evil doesn't play around with its bleakness. A little bit Force Majeure, a little bit Koko-di Koko-da, and a little bit The Invitation (2015).

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Speak No Evil (2022)

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
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getting some Christmas stuff in....
Watched Spirited - the first half was a bit boring... and i hate singing in movies! But I really liked the 2nd half after the story develops. Overall, it's alright! I probably would have enjoyed it more if I were able to fast forward past the songs.

The Santa Clause - some nostalgia here... I had this on VHS when i was younger and used to watch the heck out of it. It somehow still holds up. Some of the acting is a bit hokey but whatever.
 
Also, transporting my soapbox from somebody's status to here, but I don't really understand why Avatar has become the online punching bag that it is in recent years.

The story is derivative, yes, and it doesn't hold up as well at home, but so what? Neither does Dune. Disney has released countless much-worse looking and much-worse written things in the last decade. Why does the cynicism-free, completely earnest original IP that pioneered modern cgi get all the hate? Is it cool or unique to hate because it's the biggest movie ever? Do people still, after all this time, get a lil rush calling it "Ferngully/Dances With Wolves" in spacem Dances With Wolves is ALSO cliche! I don't get it.

Anyway, thanks for listening to me go to bat for a movie that made 3bil dollars. Very excited to see 2 in 3D Friday, as god intended.
 
Bull Shannon said:
I’m hoping Fabelmans will dilute the “let’s reward movies about how important movies are” academy voting block.
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I also think Babylon'll be a bit (a lot) more nuanced and complicated in this sphere than The Fabelmans was.

In any case Best Picture is between EEAAO and Banshees as far as I can tell from precursors rn.
 
ayayrawn said:
Also, transporting my soapbox from somebody's status to here, but I don't really understand why Avatar has become the online punching bag that it is in recent years.

The story is derivative, yes, and it doesn't hold up as well at home, but so what? Neither does Dune. Disney has released countless much-worse looking and much-worse written things in the last decade. Why does the cynicism-free, completely earnest original IP that pioneered modern cgi get all the hate? Is it cool or unique to hate because it's the biggest movie ever? Do people still, after all this time, get a lil rush calling it "Ferngully/Dances With Wolves" in spacem Dances With Wolves is ALSO cliche! I don't get it.

Anyway, thanks for listening to me go to bat for a movie that made 3bil dollars. Very excited to see 2 in 3D Friday, as god intended.
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I'll just say that I barely remember anything from having seen the first one in the theater, and I couldn't name a single character now, so I'm just completely uninterested. The first one was fine, but that's all I can say for it.

I hope it does well and the people who go have a good time.

Edit- Also, when I go see dumb popcorn movies, they need to be under 2 hours.
 
ayayrawn said:
Also, transporting my soapbox from somebody's status to here, but I don't really understand why Avatar has become the online punching bag that it is in recent years.

The story is derivative, yes, and it doesn't hold up as well at home, but so what? Neither does Dune. Disney has released countless much-worse looking and much-worse written things in the last decade. Why does the cynicism-free, completely earnest original IP that pioneered modern cgi get all the hate? Is it cool or unique to hate because it's the biggest movie ever? Do people still, after all this time, get a lil rush calling it "Ferngully/Dances With Wolves" in spacem Dances With Wolves is ALSO cliche! I don't get it.

Anyway, thanks for listening to me go to bat for a movie that made 3bil dollars. Very excited to see 2 in 3D Friday, as god intended.
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I remember being pretty excited for Avatar when it came out. I saw it in 3D and everything. And I was extremely disappointed. It just wasn’t very good, for a variety of reasons. I could appreciate the skill in for creating it, but I just didn’t care for it.

And I know people keep defending it and saying “Marvel movies aren’t that deep on plot either!” and yeah I agree and don’t like those movies at all.

So I think I get what you’re saying. There seems to be even more of a piling on when there are way worse movies out there. But I think because there is and was so much hype, people wanna tear it down or defend it.

And even though I didn’t really like the first one I am still going to give the second one a shot this weekend. Gonna go for IMAX 3D. My expectations are low, so I’m hoping it surprises me. Personally I am just not super into many of the regurgitated superhero movies and reboots and all that. So having this huge blockbuster that doesn’t have this other tie to it seems like a fun experience to have in the theater.
 
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It's true. Warcraft was such a bummer even though there were isolated moments where I could see what he was trying to do with it and it almost worked. I didn't even bother with Mute.
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Funny enough, for some unknown reason, my wife really liked the Warcraft movie and watched it a couple times. I ended up getting it for her on Blu-ray for $1 at an ancient video store that was going out of business in Iowa.
 
Bennnnn said:
I remember being pretty excited for Avatar when it came out. I saw it in 3D and everything. And I was extremely disappointed. It just wasn’t very good, for a variety of reasons. I could appreciate the skill in for creating it, but I just didn’t care for it.

And I know people keep defending it and saying “Marvel movies aren’t that deep on plot either!” and yeah I agree and don’t like those movies at all.

So I think I get what you’re saying. There seems to be even more of a piling on when there are way worse movies out there. But I think because there is and was so much hype, people wanna tear it down or defend it.

And even though I didn’t really like the first one I am still going to give the second one a shot this weekend. Gonna go for IMAX 3D. My expectations are low, so I’m hoping it surprises me. Personally I am just not super into many of the regurgitated superhero movies and reboots and all that. So having this huge blockbuster that doesn’t have this other tie to it seems like a fun experience to have in the theater.
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I enjoy many Marvel/Star Wars movies well enough but also I don’t think they are infallible and if someone wants to goof on them it’s not gonna ruffle my feathers.

I am sure The Avatar sequel will make lots of money and be success enough to launch a whole bunch of subpar OP spin-offs for years to come. It just doesn’t do anything for me personally and that is alright.
 
Hemotep said:
Funny enough, for some unknown reason, my wife really liked the Warcraft movie and watched it a couple times. I ended up getting it for her on Blu-ray for $1 at an ancient video store that was going out of business in Iowa.
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I love a good average movie that merely exists for "entertainment" purposes. A perfect example of this is the Vacation series. The first entry and Christmas Vacation are obviously a cut above the rest, but European Vacation, Vegas Vacation and even the most recent Ed Helms helmed Vacation are very rewatchable IMO.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
I love a good average movie that merely exists for "entertainment" purposes. A perfect example of this is the Vacation series. The first entry and Christmas Vacation are obviously a cut above the rest, but European Vacation, Vegas Vacation and even the most recent Ed Helms helmed Vacation are very rewatchable IMO.
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The biggest bummer with the current state of movie making is there isn’t really a place for these type of “replacement level” comedies. If you make a small budget movie it better be critically acclaimed and be nominated for a bunch of awards. I think of all the 80s and 90s comedies they would show all the time on cable, movies like Tommy Boy or Farrelly Bros. Movies or early Sandler movies, they might still get made today but they end up trapped in the dust bins on Netflix algorithm, whereas back in the day a movie like Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery could burn through their initial theatrical release only to grow exponentially in popularity in the VHS Rental and Cable market. A great example is the John Hamm starting Confess, Fletch or Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar. both these movies woulda killed at Blockbuster and on Comedy Central but as thing sit now I doubt they will never achieve the kind of success they coulda garnered had they been made 25 years prior.
 
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