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TenderLovingKiller® said:
Heard about this on NPR Morning Edition…

I hope this ends up on a streaming service. It looks stellar.
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I watched this via a paid stream a while back and it's enjoyable but not great. It spends a lot of time telling Susanna's story which is interesting but not really what I was hoping for. It's worth watching if you're a fan of Guy, but there's still a good opportunity for someone to make a definitive Guy Clark documentary.
 
Because its just that time

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kvetcha said:
@Bull Shannon I'm not sure I've felt so quietly gutted by a cut to black since No Country for Old Men.
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TLJ nails that monologue. And the lost look on his face...oof.

It says too much about how online I am that I want someone to do one of those mashups where the Endgame audience is reacting to "on your left," but they're getting pumped during the dream monologue, then collectively lose their shit when he says "and then I woke up."
 
Bull Shannon said:
TLJ nails that monologue. And the lost look on his face...oof.

It says too much about how online I am that I want someone to do one of those mashups where the Endgame audience is reacting to "on your left," but they're getting pumped during the dream monologue, then collectively lose their shit when he says "and then I woke up."
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That is among my favorite movie endings of all time, so I'm with you. I still remember how it felt to just sit in a dark theater afterward, marinating in it.
 
kvetcha said:
@Bull Shannon I'm not sure I've felt so quietly gutted by a cut to black since No Country for Old Men.
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I can also say that I don't think reading a book and watching its adaptation have ever felt so similar to me, and not in a "they kept the story exactly the same" way that too many people want in an adaptation, but that they really managed to bring the novel to life on the screen.
 
We're no zombie flick fans generally but we both enjoyed Train to Busan.
when Don Lee got it we were both like awwwwwww

The American version casting should be interesting,

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JohnnyCashFan said:
We're no zombie flick fans generally but we both enjoyed Train to Busan.
when Don Lee got we were both like awwwwwww

The American version casting should be interesting,

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Love this film. Its such a simple concept but works incredibly well. The main actor, Gong Yoo, also plays the Salesman in Squid Game.

The second really doesn't do it justice in my opinion. It drops the simplicity with too much going on and it drifts into a way-over-the-top (for a zombie film) plot.
 
I was a little worried because i read a couple of harsh reviews before, but i actually enjoyed Ghostbusters afterlife ( who strangely is named Ghostbusters Legacy in germany) . I cleraly banks on 80s Ghostbusters nostalgia and stranger things huge ausdience but it does this quite nicely with the new cast. Some reviewers critized that it excludes the female ghostbusters movie from the continuity, but i think that movie ( which i also enjoyed a lot) was never in this continuity with some of the original cast appearing as different characters the original ghostbusters never mentioned.
What i do not like that much though is the ideas that some of the producers seem to have about creating a ghostbusterrs universe akin to marvel or dc out of this cause i just can´t see there beeing enough interesting different strories in there. You don´t really need someone in a ghostbusters overall to tell a ghost story
 
No movie captures the craziness of the season like Home For The Holidays. It’s easily the best movie Jodie Foster ever directed. Also the cast is so good. Holly Hunter, Robert Downing Jr., Dylan McDermott, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Steve Gutenberg, Claire Danes, heck even David Strathairn has a small role.
 
Rewatched Kill Bill 1 & 2 this past week. I just can't picture them as one big movie; it feels so much like 1 is one thing, and 2 is another. Between the Robert Rodriguez guitar stings, the instant demystifying of Part 1 (the Crazy 88 weren't really 8 guys, the wedding was just a rehearsal, the instantly-humanizing front-and-centering of Bill), and the way The Bride's narration is replaced with long scenes of other people talking about The Bride...2 is shaggy where 1 is tight. And Vol. 2 also introduces some aspects of Tarantino's work which have really challenged me over the following decade and a half, namely the long stretches of dialogue where someone carefully overexplains what's about to happen, as well as the way his characters become fervent fans and mouthpieces of QT's pop-culture obsessions rather than extensions of them.

Not to be down on Vol 2; its only sin is being a near-perfect movie standing right next to a perfect movie, and honestly the chapter with Elle is the best part of both movies.
 
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