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[Reelya]

Anybody have recommendations on comedies adjacent to Baby Mama? It's not my normal cup of tea and is a bit low brow for Tina Fey's usual stuff, but my wife loved it.

IDK that genre too well. Maybe Juno, or Little Miss Sunshine or something.

[Il Palazzo]

The Dune trailer looks good.

[delphonso]

A friend pointed out that as the Dune book series progresses, it makes the point that having a singular leader in power is always a bad decision, even if the ruler is good. I only read the first one, which seemed pretty pro-Atreides - but he pointed out that it might be a topical point to drive home in the films, as the US and other countries suffer from having a very powerful fool in charge.

[IronyOwl]

So your friend wants to hijack the remake of a beloved classic for current political purposes?

Beat him with a newspaper.


Heatstroke (2008) (and boy are there a lot of movies named that) is a SyFy Original. Everything about it is dumb, monsters eat people on an island, and the CGI is a lesson in comedy. The actual textures and such are alright, but their placement over the live action parts is a little... off. There's one scene where they literally just bounce it up and down like an action figure, it's amazing.

[King Zultan]

SYFY originals are some of the cheapest made things but they're also some of the more entertaining movies, probably not in the way the people that made them intended but it doesn't matter much because they still get the paid.

Also I think I've watched most of them and they are just all over the place in terms of quality some are decent and others are just crap.

[Cthulhu]

A friend pointed out that as the Dune book series progresses, it makes the point that having a singular leader in power is always a bad decision, even if the ruler is good. I only read the first one, which seemed pretty pro-Atreides - but he pointed out that it might be a topical point to drive home in the films, as the US and other countries suffer from having a very powerful fool in charge.

I know that movies are a disposable medium these days but putting le drumpf commentary in your movie is giving it a milk tier shelf life.

Also it's not as if trump appeared one day and we decided to elect him, this disaster has been a long time coming and represents all kinds of slow-burn failures coalescing.  We're not suffering from having a very powerful fool as much as a very powerful fool is the most visible symptom of systemic rot in pretty much every part of the whole.  That's why Biden's winning even though almost nobody wanted him at the outset.  He represents a return to "normal" i.e. back when the rot hadn't burst through the surface and we could all pretend it wasn't there.

I haven't even seen the dune trailer, I only watch bad movies.

[delphonso]

I took it more as - maybe the presidency was a bad idea and it's been spiralling out of control for a while.

[Reelya]

A friend pointed out that as the Dune book series progresses, it makes the point that having a singular leader in power is always a bad decision, even if the ruler is good. I only read the first one, which seemed pretty pro-Atreides - but he pointed out that it might be a topical point to drive home in the films, as the US and other countries suffer from having a very powerful fool in charge.

I know that movies are a disposable medium these days but putting le drumpf commentary in your movie is giving it a milk tier shelf life.

That's why you should always code issues in the most abstract way possible. That way people years later will go "omg so relevant".

Consider that conservatives interpret the rebels in Star Wars as being right wing while liberals interpret the rebels in Star Wars as being left-wing. "power is bad" is general enough that people will interpret that loosely enough to be "topical" without any obvious references.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/06/06/star-wars-is-the-ultimate-conservative-morality-tale/

[Yoink]

Re-watched Two Hands yesterday.   
Still a great crime film on its own merit, still a fascinating look at bogandom a couple of decades ago - as well as some timeless aspects of Australian culture that persist to some degree to this day. Or Sydney, at least. I'm hardly an expert, though. When this movie was made I would have been just a few years old, and I'm pretty sure even then I knew Sydney as a place best avoided.    
Great performances from Bryan Brown and Heath Ledger, too, as well as that other guy. And the other other guy who played that one guy, great character that one. And what's-her-name, Rose Byrne or some such? Actually you know what, in my opinion it was just well-acted in general.   
Yes, even the really annoying characters. Maybe especially them.   

[NRDL]

Just watched The Devil All The Time. Holy shit.

Every single actor brought their A-game. The violence and death was genuinely uncomfortable.

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Every fucking creep, serial killer, and no good son of a bitch, on their own was enough to give me the heebie jeebies. But it was Lenora's bungled attempt at removing her noose that made me shout and look away from the screen. That one really hurt.

[delphonso]

Just watched Knives Out - I'm late to the game.

I rather enjoyed it, especially as a fan of mystery novels. It was well written and well directed even if I'm not a huge fan of Rian Johnson

[Il Palazzo]

Just watched The Devil All The Time. Holy shit.

Every single actor brought their A-game. The violence and death was genuinely uncomfortable.

I've had it on my radar for a while now. But I worry it might be an unapologetic downer. One that can be admired for its craftsmanship, but with little satisfaction to give, while requiring major intestinal fortitude to sit through and digest.
So, is it like that? Or does it throw you a bone here and there?

[NRDL]

Oh it's depressing as shit. BUT, you will be cheering at certain points, probably.

[Yoink]

Just watched The Devil All The Time. Holy shit.

Every single actor brought their A-game. The violence and death was genuinely uncomfortable.   

Yeah, I liked it too. Not sure if it was all that memorable, though - I feel like as a book adaptation they may have been sort-of rushing from one plot point to another. With most of the characters it really felt like we were just scratching the surface and there was far more depth to them that we didn't get to see - which I guess isn't such a bad thing, sometimes.   

My thought as I watched it was, "forget murder ballads, if this film was a piece of music it'd be a whole dang murder symphony".   


Also I kinda had to laugh at the whole

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"Sorry I just fatally shot you in the forest, now stare at this nudie picture of your murderous dead sister (whom I also killed yesterday) as the life leaves your body"

part. Like, damn. I probably agree with the content of your spoiler, too.   

[delphonso]

Dune got delayed by nearly a year - which is bonkers.

Anyway, anyone got some good horror movies that are oft-missed? I'm in a real spooky mood lately.