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Caught all the Oscar-nominated animated shorts last night. Everyone: do yourself a favor and watch The Ice Merchants. Bring tissues.

Ice Merchants would be my pick to win, and I think it has a decent chance. I could also see a world where The Boy, The Mole etc wins, mainly because it has a lot of money and names behind it; but I thought it was treacle. My Year of Dicks is really imaginative, thoughtful, and fun; I'd be very happy to see it win.
 
Bull Shannon said:
Caught all the Oscar-nominated animated shorts last night. Everyone: do yourself a favor and watch The Ice Merchants. Bring tissues.

Ice Merchants would be my pick to win, and I think it has a decent chance. I could also see a world where The Boy, The Mole etc wins, mainly because it has a lot of money and names behind it; but I thought it was treacle. My Year of Dicks is really imaginative, thoughtful, and fun; I'd be very happy to see it win.
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I've only seen My Year of Dicks, but really liked it.
 
I like this movie but it is my least favorite of the Sequels/Spin-off movies. I can't help but watch it with a sort of annoyance because a bunch of it feels like it was done just to make the small but extremely loud drop of intel freaks who threw a giant hissy fit over The Last Jedi happy. From the Emperor to Snoke being a clone to Rose barely being in it and "Merry" just showing up and given a bigger role. Luke's part*. Maz being a puppet for some reason instead of CGI. They should have started the movie with a funeral for Leia instead of using unused footage.

They should have had some balls and let Rian Johnson finish what he started. He was going somewhere interesting.

*I really dislike the Luke part in the finale of The Mandalorian. Felt like such a "please the angry nerds" bit.

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I always felt sorry for Oscar Isaac. To have to utter this line with a straight face had to be the hardest acting job he's ever done.

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JJ's a hack. It's telling that I have rewatched the prequels, Force Awakens, and The Last Jedi multiple times but I haven't seen this one but the one time in the theater. It's so mediocre and ham fisted that I can't even take it in. There's no joy in it. There's no logic in it. He basically remade Jedi without any of the charm of that movie.
 
mdmost said:
I always felt sorry for Oscar Isaac. To have to utter this line with a straight face had to be the hardest acting job he's ever done.

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JJ's a hack. It's telling that I have rewatched the prequels, Force Awakens, and The Last Jedi multiple times but I haven't seen this one but the one time in the theater. It's so mediocre and ham fisted that I can't even take it in. There's no joy in it. There's no logic in it. He basically remade Jedi without any of the charm of that movie.
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A New Hope and Empire were on TNT this afternoon.
 
mdmost said:
He basically remade Jedi without any of the charm of that movie.
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Dingdingding!

TFA and ROS are the most soulless, unoriginal rip offs of New Hope and Return I could possibly imagine. There's so many points where plot points make absolutely no sense, all the characters are just caricatures of preexisting Star Wars stereotypes, it's just awful. To think that Disney adopted the old EU, said "No thanks, we can do better" then churned this shit out just makes my blood boil.

It's like JJ took the old scripts, deleted the proper nouns, then filled then back in like a madlib, occasionally adding in his asinine little ideas. Now I don't love TLJ either, but it feels so much truer to Star Wars in comparison.
 
LeSamourai said:
I was sick this week, the only good thing is that I had time to watch Banshees of Inisherin, The Menu, Tár, and Nightcrawler, all for the first time.
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Hopefully you are feeling a bit better now? Annoyingly both me and my girlfriend woke up feeling ill this morning so were just sitting o n the sofa watching films.

Great selections, I haven't yet seen Banshees of Inisherin or Tar but have them lined up to watch.
 
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this was fucked up and an uncomfortable watch. two women traveling the world get robbed in bali so they end up signing up for a three month stint as bartenders at a western australia bar in the middle of nowhere to build up some savings. they end up being fish out of water isolated in a hell they could not have conceived. this is one of the first things the women see when they are brought to the bar, and it only goes downhill from there:

Backpacker documentary, Hotel Coolgardie, shows what Australian outback is really like | The Advertiser


this is a documentary, btw, not a fiction film. don't watch it if you're in a good mood.
 
Creed 3 has some great stuff and some less-great stuff, but I think the great stuff wins out. Jonathan Majors owns whole scenes with his face acting, and the boxing sequences move with real style and energy. Now if they could harness some of that zing in the dialogue sequences! Jordan sometimes seems a little too excited to get to the fun stuff.

Still, a good movie and worthy sequel, and a promising first film for MBJ.
 
I just rewatched the 2015 Fantastic Four movie (pretty sure the first time I watched it I was really really stoned), and I loved it. I'm really disappointed that we didn't get more of these in the universe they created. I don't remember liking it much when I saw it the first time, but I think there was a lot of potential in it that could have led to a great sequel with this cast.
 
Max Sterling said:
I don't like that they used child actors, they don't have distinct voices save Donnie who sounds significantly younger than the rest of them. It looks cool, style wise.


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I like it. They are teenagers after all.

Look at that cast/characters!

“The Mitchells Vs The Machines' Jeff Rowe is in the director's chair alongside Kyler Spears – and the Mitchells influence is clear in the animation on show in the teaser, using a mix of techniques to create a unique, painterly style.
As announced by Rogen at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards this weekend, the voice cast is a mix of well known names and rising stars including Paul Rudd as Mondo Gecko, Jackie Chan as Splinter, John Cena as Rocksteady and Rogen himself as Bebop.
We can also expect to hear Micah Abbey as Donatello, Shamon Brown Jr. as Michelangelo, Nicolas Cantu as Leonardo, Brady Noon as Raphael, The Bear's Ayo Edebiri as April O’Neil, Rose Byrne as Leatherhead, Maya Rudolph as Cynthia Utrom, musician Post Malone as Ray Fillet, Natasia Demetriou as Wingnut, Ice Cube as Superfly, Giancarlo Esposito as Baxter Stockman and Hannibal Buress as Genghis Frog.”
 
Max Sterling said:
I don't like that they used child actors, they don't have distinct voices save Donnie who sounds significantly younger than the rest of them. It looks cool, style wise.


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An artist I follow on instagram has been working on vis dev for this, so I’m excited to see some footage. It feels like they saw lnto the Spiderverse and said “I want one of those,” in a good way.
 
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