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TenderLovingKiller® said:
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Very much looking forward to The Bike Riders, Killers of the Flower Moon, Drive Away Dolls and the Killer.

Here's my top 15 for the year so far. Been a very good year even before award season stuff.

1. Return to Seoul
2. Bottoms
3. Openheimer
4. Asteroid City
5. Past Lives
6. Barbie
7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
8. Across the Spiderverse
9. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
10. No Hard Feelings
11. Blackberry
12. Infinity Pool
13. Talk to Me
14. Dungeons and Dragons
15. Beau is Afraid
 
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Bohnjaggs said:
I'm still surprised that you have Toy Story 3 at the top
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Bohnjaggs said:
I do agree that TS 2 is better than the first but 3 didn't do much for me. I've only seen it once though.
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The third one made me cry and was in a coin flip with Blue Valentine as my favorite film of 2010 until I saw Dogooth a couple years later.

I think its probably my favorite Pixer other than Wall-E. But I haven't seen it since it came out.

Maybe we both need to give it a rewatch?
 
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The original Mad Max is kind of a mess. I didn't know what i expected but I was thinking of something more apocalyptic. I've only seen Fury Road and wanted to watch the rest of it before Furiousa. I imagine it was meant to be a low budget b-movie. I hear the 2nd one is better than the first so I'll probably get to that too.
 
zomgbear said:
The original Mad Max is kind of a mess. I didn't know what i expected but I was thinking of something more apocalyptic. I've only seen Fury Road and wanted to watch the rest of it before Furiousa. I imagine it was meant to be a low budget b-movie. I hear the 2nd one is better than the first so I'll probably get to that too.
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The first movie is sort of a microbudget Aus-ploitation film. I quite liked it, but The Road Warrior is where the series becomes what you might expect if you'd only seen Fury Road beforehand.
EvanBenner said:
Dang.

But I'm also kind of not surprised. Gareth Edwards' only real win so far in my book has been Monsters.
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TenderLovingKiller® said:
The review I read said that the move is technically well made but has no point of view.
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That is one of its many issues, yes. It feels like more thought was put into any individual aspect of the art design than the themes, worldbuilding, characters, dialogue, internal consistency, anything else. Gareth Edwards is inarguably an excellent visual stylist, but I seriously question how capable he is of telling a story. And I'm not just talking about the high-level structure of the thing; even the editing decisions he makes within individual scenes is often baffling. It gives the whole thing the rickety feel of a self-published Amazon novella. It just looks really good.

Shaky Worldbuilding Example: The lead character is meant to have been an undercover operative in the vaguely problematic and exoticized Republic of New Asia, having spent months/years trying to track down Nirmata, the creator and spiritual leader of modern AI. In this nation, Americans are viewed with massive suspicion and seemingly arrested on sight. But, for some reason, our protagonist doesn't speak the language, like...at all. Any of the languages, actually, since the people of the RNA seem to speak and comprehend Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean interchangeably, while any and all Americans in the film just yell at people in English and then use a speak-and-spell translator to understand responses (something which actually implies that every Asian person in the film knows English). At some point the movie drops this and everyone just speaks English. Weirdly, the simulant characters speak with the actors' native accents, though that's more of a curiosity than a complaint.

So much of this movie feels like it was outlined on a napkin, and no further thought was put into it before they fired up the design department.
 
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Bohnjaggs said:
I do agree that TS 2 is better than the first but 3 didn't do much for me. I've only seen it once though.
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DownIsTheNewUp said:
The third one made me cry and was in a coin flip with Blue Valentine as my favorite film of 2010 until I saw Dogooth a couple years later.

I think its probably my favorite Pixer other than Wall-E. But I haven't seen it since it came out.

Maybe we both need to give it a rewatch?
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Rewatch time!!!
 
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