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Bohnjaggs
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Netflix has picked up one more film. I'll say I enjoyed Glsss Onion more than the first, although I should go back and re-watch that one now.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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My yearly Xmas day tradition, now improved with 4K.
Hemotep
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Watched this a couple nights ago
zomgbear
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You can do what i did. Just go into your profile, download it and reupload the same thing. It was always a GIF.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Love it!
I know it’s a semantics, but personally I think there are “Christmas movies”, in which Christmas plays an integral part of the storyline and then there are “movies that take place during Christmas”, where the events of the plot take place during the holiday season but the Christmas isn’t necessarily vital to the overall story.
Regardless, both types of movies make people happy and that’s all that really matters.
Some of my other favorite “Movies That Take Place during Christmas” movies are…
Die Hard
Metropolitan
Gremlins
Edward Scissorhands
gaporter
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There's also the much rarer "Movies That Take Place during Christmas for One Scene" such as American Psycho.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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ayayrawn
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Sad to say I was not a fan of Glass Onion. Enjoyed the first (7/10 or so), but this one is major diminishing returns imo. Already feels dated with the pandemic and cultural references and reminded me of Don't Look Up with it's obvious message. Yeah, rich people are dumb/bad, no shit. Not much of a mystery to solve either - the whole 2nd half is just exposition. Most of it is just mid, but the ending is legitimately bad.
Confident Rian can pull of better stuff, and I'll see more Knives Out movies, but this one wasn't it.
Confident Rian can pull of better stuff, and I'll see more Knives Out movies, but this one wasn't it.
LeSamourai
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What if Knives Out 3 and Avatar 3 are the same movie?
Bennnnn
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I went and saw Babylon today, alone, and in a theater with only 3 other people in it. I know the movie has gotten wild reactions, with a ton of critics hating on it. But seeing it for myself, it only reaffirms the problem I have with critical consensus. This movie is definitely A LOT, by design. Whether or not you can hang with that, I guess, is up to you. Maybe you’d check out in the first half hour when things are just off the rails excessive, gross, and ugly. But I believe there is a greater purpose here.
This is not a love letter to cinema, or Hollywood. So much of it is a condemnation of the rot in the industry, and the depravity that exists surrounding it. But it also asks the question of is it worth it? There’s way more nuance to it than the way people have described it. By the end, I am left thinking a lot about things. I don’t think it’s super simple at all. I think there are a lot of layers here and some incredible, breathtaking filmmaking. It’s not perfect, sure. But it’s nowhere close to being a bad film. I enjoyed the hell of it personally. It left me with so much to chew on. But I was also fully engaged the entire 3 hr runtime.
Other movies this year have made smarter choices when choosing to make a movie about the industry’s awfulness (see: Nope), but Babylon definitely succeeds in what it’s set out to do.
This is not a love letter to cinema, or Hollywood. So much of it is a condemnation of the rot in the industry, and the depravity that exists surrounding it. But it also asks the question of is it worth it? There’s way more nuance to it than the way people have described it. By the end, I am left thinking a lot about things. I don’t think it’s super simple at all. I think there are a lot of layers here and some incredible, breathtaking filmmaking. It’s not perfect, sure. But it’s nowhere close to being a bad film. I enjoyed the hell of it personally. It left me with so much to chew on. But I was also fully engaged the entire 3 hr runtime.
Other movies this year have made smarter choices when choosing to make a movie about the industry’s awfulness (see: Nope), but Babylon definitely succeeds in what it’s set out to do.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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Thackeraye
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Just finished Glass Onion. Really enjoyed it.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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The Denmarkian Wonder
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This is some "The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg" type musical but weird haha
Bull Shannon
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It’s doing a lot but the end hit me pretty hard. Love the Sparks of it all tho.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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Fun start to the movie.