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TenderLovingKiller® said:
I just include Kill Bill, vol. 1 and vol. 2 as a single movie since I rarely just one one without watching the other.

Great listI would Include Mad Max: Fury Road, John Wick, Atomic Blonde, and Aliens.
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Yeah I think most people would include Aliens. I think I just prefer the 1st one by such a wide margin that it skews things for me. And Fury Road and Atomic Blonde (also underrated) are excellent.

I'm like the only person on the planet that wasn't crazy about Wick. The Russian villians and overall plot were so generic that I struggled to care that the action was so well done. Haven't even bothered with the sequels but have been considering it lately. Maybe I'll do the 2nd one after the game.

Thackeraye said:
Was it not turned into a tv series as well? Never watched it.
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It was but I never got to it before it was canceled.
 
DownIsTheNewUp said:
Yeah I think most people would include Aliens. I think I just prefer the 1st one by such a wide margin
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I completely agree with this but I can appreciate Aliens for what it is as well.
DownIsTheNewUp said:
I'm like the only person on the planet that wasn't crazy about Wick. The Russian villians and overall plot were so generic that I struggled to care that the action was so well done.
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Yeah, I don’t really care about the plot at all. It’s shot beautifully and the action unrelenting and feels real.
 
DownIsTheNewUp said:
I'm like the only person on the planet that wasn't crazy about Wick. The Russian villians and overall plot were so generic that I struggled to care that the action was so well done. Haven't even bothered with the sequels but have been considering it lately. Maybe I'll do the 2nd one after the game.
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I think JW2 might be my favorite? I remember feeling super impressed with how they raised the stakes and expanded on the lore of the High Table. Three was still fun but far too stagey with its setpieces and action sequences. I didn't have as many complaints with JW4, so that raised its quality of fun back up again.
 
EvanBenner said:
I think JW2 might be my favorite? I remember feeling super impressed with how they raised the stakes and expanded on the lore of the High Table. Three was still fun but far too stagey with its setpieces and action sequences. I didn't have as many complaints with JW4, so that raised its quality of fun back up again.
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This.

Three has some bits that fall the wrong side of uncanny valley for me, where Wick turns into a superhero. Two has the best action for me.

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2 > 4 > 3 > 1

One doesn't really stand out to me much, it feels like bland dvd fare before they started to expand on the universe. Three is fun but bloated. Four is also bloated but features 3 or 4 of the best action set pieces of the last 20 years. Two strikes the perfect balance of intriguing world building and moderate-scale action setpieces before it started to balloon (for me).
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
So Saltburn is just a Gen Z update to The Talented Mr. Ripley then, huh? I feel like a lot of the movie went out of its way to be “provocative”. I guess at least all the pop culture references will make sense now.
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I had fun whilst watching it but as it wrapped up and as I've thought about it since it's sat worse with me. Kinda like Promising Young Woman, I feel like I know what topics/themes the filmmaker's talking about but no idea what they think they're saying.

Plus 99% of the pop culture in a movie set in 2006 being culled from 2007 made me a little nuts. While I was watching I thought "maybe they're being deliberately cheeky;" now I think "just set the movie in 2007."
 
Bull Shannon said:
I had fun whilst watching it but as it wrapped up and as I've thought about it since it's sat worse with me. Kinda like Promising Young Woman, I feel like I know what topics/themes the filmmaker's talking about but no idea what they think they're saying.

Plus 99% of the pop culture in a movie set in 2006 being culled from 2007 made me a little nuts. While I was watching I thought "maybe they're being deliberately cheeky;" now I think "just set the movie in 2007."
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I figured it turned into 2007 as the school year progressed. There was a Christmas party fairly early that Ollie and the other psycho/nerd weren’t invited to. I would assume he didn’t “meet” Felix 2007 so the majority of the film would take place in 2007.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
I figured it turned into 2007 as the school year progressed. There was a Christmas party fairly early that Ollie and the other psycho/nerd weren’t invited to. I would assume he didn’t “meet” Felix 2007 so the majority of the film would take place in 2007.
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I thought they were at a "Class of 2006" party right before the summer, but I also admit my viewing experience was chatty (honestly a fun way to enjoy the movie and helped with the "don't think too much on it" of it all). Wikipedia corroborates the summer 2007 setting though, so I guess it was way spot on, Deathly Hallows and all. 🙃
 
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Bull Shannon said:
I thought they were at a "Class of 2006" party right before the summer, but I also admit my viewing experience was chatty (honestly a fun way to enjoy the movie and helped with the "don't think too much on it" of it all). Wikipedia corroborates the summer 2007 setting though, so I guess it was way spot on, Deathly Hallows and all. 🙃
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LOL! I was wondering what was the anachronism that jumped out at ya. I noticed all the fantastic music but I couldn’t tell if it came out in 2003 or 2008. I wasn’t a Harry Potter fan so the book release dates wasn’t something of note. There were the movies they were watching, The Ring and Superbad but I can’t say either of those films release dates stuck with me either. I think The Ring was from the early 2000s though.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
LOL! I was wondering what was the anachronism that jumped out at ya. I noticed all the fantastic music but I couldn’t tell if it came out in 2003 or 2008. I wasn’t a Harry Potter fan so the book release dates wasn’t something of note. There were the movies they were watching, The Ring and Superbad but I can’t say either of those films release dates stuck with me either. I think The Ring was from the early 2000s though.
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It was the MGMT, Low, Superbad, and Harry Potter that really got me, all squarely summer '07 trappings. I was 21, so while it may have been a cruddy year/era I must protect it.
 
The Denmarkian Wonder said:
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Bull Shannon said:
It was the MGMT, Low, Superbad, and Harry Potter that really got me, all squarely summer '07 trappings. I was 21, so while it may have been a cruddy year/era I must protect it.
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I was 24 in 2007 and my post-collegiate “adult” life from that time all just kinda blurs together.

For the record I enjoyed 2007. The lead up to first Obama term, I was full of wide-eyed optimism.
 
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