Which movies have you watched recently and felt like talking about?

Eurotrip. I think Scotty knows now.

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My baby takes the morning train...

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- Worst twins ever!
  
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I watched Poor things recently and it's one of the best movies I've seen in the last few years. It's visually stunning, the actors are phenomenal and the story is quite interesting and original.

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This Poor Things, I take it? It definitely sounds different!

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- Yes that one. It's very strange, a tad disturbing but absolutely great.
  
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Saw it in the theater. Well worth the money.

My only gripe was the black dude playing the cynic on the ship. Dude can't act. Flawless movie otherwise.

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I've been meaning to watch it as well! I enjoyed what I've watched from Yorgos Lanthimos so far (Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer).

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Overall it was great. Can see why it is sweeping the awards.

My main gripe with the movie was that the dialogue was occasionally clunky. Like there were two (2!) different scenes where a character threatens to shoot another "in the fucking head" and it's delivered like a gag but without any real setup. It might be too long as well but less sure of that criticism.

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I finally got around to watching They Cloned Tyrone. Really good and I'm glad I went in knowing as little as possible about the movie.

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Yes! This movie was crazy!

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I watched wonka the other day. I don't know, good movie. I haven't heard anything about it or anyone talk about it. It has that nice surreal look to it, i only read while watching the movie that it's a musical. I'm kinda glad it's more movie than musical. It has quite the cast, but timmothée chalamet still stole the show.

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Me and a buddy of mine were talking about this the other day and while I enjoyed the movie quite well myself my buddy said something that really stuck with me about this movie. He was saying he feels that they chose the wrong part of Wonka's life for this. Would have been a much more interesting story were it set after his factory was built and he was at the height of who he is.

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- My willy wonka knowledge is close to 0, i didn't really like both other movies tbh. Whwn i heard there is a new one i really didn't care for it at all. Now i kinda want more, but i'm not sure if the height of his success would be very interesting. I think they only ever talked about it. All we know (i think) is that he really wants nothing else but making chocolate, and chocolate for everyone, and he doesn't care about the bottom line. In the other movies he's a loner and only hangs out with oompa loompas vecause he doesn't trust people (i think). So the in between would be the betrayal or why he's choosing to be a shut in weirdo.
  Now thinking about it, wonka isn't really a prequel, it's a different story, because in the last one his father was a dentist or something who didn't want him to chase his dreams.
  
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I had fun with Wonka even if I didn't like it overall. It would have been better if Wonka had been killing people the whole time and wouldn't even be out of character. He's basically an insane chocolate wizard, wish they'd have leaned into that just a little more.

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- I mean, he was really nice and loved people. All he cared about is chocolate and the friends he barely knew. Even gave away his last money to a stranger. I would assume that was way before he got weird weird.
  
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The Marvels is not bad at all. Better than Iron Man 2 or 3, Thor 2 or 4, Ant-Man 3, Black Panther 2, the Ultron movie, or any standalone Hulk movie (not entirely fair, I know), and equivalent to the "good" Ant-Man movies or GotG 2. It's also better than Captain Marvel, and Brie Larson is finally making the character her own. Good chemistry among the leads, the switching dynamic is visually interesting, and the entire cast brought in from Ms. Marvel remains endlessly enjoyable. The "need" to have watched everything is there but dramatically overstated in complaints I've seen.

Now, to be fair, the plot is too episodic and disjointed, and the villain is once again an underdeveloped cipher with tantalizingly nuanced motives that aren't explored, and the movie certainly is more cohesive if you've kept up with your homework. Honestly, though, if you watched Captain Marvel and caught the trailer for Ms. Marvel you'd be fine, though again, you'd be missing one of the more delightful (if still a bit uneven) recent Marvel projects.

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rewatched the first X-Men from 2000 recently

still a banger

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Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? 🌩

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- Same thing as everything else ⚡⚡⚡
  
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Madam Web wasn’t so bad it was funny, just drab

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Is that Madam Web related to Spider-Man, or an entirely different Madam Web?

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- Yes and no.
  
  Madame Web is based on the character of the same name from Marvel Comics, but it does not take place in the MCU, and Marvel Studios was not at all involved in its production.
  
  Madame Web was made by Sony, who still retains the film rights to all Spider-Man related characters. It takes place in the SSU (same universe as Venom, Morbius, and Kraven the Hunter).
  
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I watched "Perfect days" and really enjoyed it.

Funnily enough while watching it thought about the fact that in recent times I've seen a ton of great Korean/Japanese movies and basically nothing from my own country Germany. Well it turns out this one was made by Wim Wenders.

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Bottoms and Nimona, both fantastic movies

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Nimona was a fun movie.

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I recently rewatched the Blues Brothers for probably the 100th time in my life. Normally I can't rewatch movies very often, but that does not apply to this movie.

I love movies like Airplane and any Mel Brooks film and will always laugh my ass off watching those types of films. But the Blues Brothers just makes me happy when I watch it. The only other movie that comes close to giving me the same feelings is The Sandlot.

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I haven't seen anyone say a thing about Asteroid City and it was so damn good. It stole the title of my favorite Wes Anderson movie from Life Aquatic like 15 minutes in. One of the best comedies I've seen in a long time. The alien scene is just the best. Especially when you notice the opening credits say "Jeff Goldblum as The Alien" and you're waiting for it and are like "huh?" When he finally shows up. 🤣

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Interesting perspective. I thought it was his most obnoxious film to date. It was a movie that insisted upon itself and quite frankly bored and confused me. It was like no one said no to Anderson to reign him in at all.

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- Agree 💯
  
  IMO His best movies (like Grand Budapest or Moonrise Kingdom) have an emotional core that counteracts the arch, one-eyebrow-raised-ness, but Asteroid City was just completely self-indulgent, overly convoluted, and emotionally inert.
  
  I found it insufferable and nearly didn't finish it.
  
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- What does "insists upon itself" mean as film criticism? I thought that was a Family Guy joke about Peter wanting to criticise The Godfather but not having the vocabulary to back it up.
  
  Agree that Wes Anderson is on a trajectory where each additional movie is becoming more of a distillation of his style over any actual substance. I still enjoy them for what they are though; each scene is like a miniature diorama.
  
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Got some good conversation going on American Fiction. Also enjoyed talking about Lisa Frankenstein.

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Diablo Cody stated that Lisa Frankenstein is set in the same fictional universe as Jennifer's Body.

...Did it carry those vibes after all this time, if you've watched Jennifer's Body before?

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- I would say so, yes. It's definitely its own thing, but I was reminded of Jennifer's Body plenty of times while watching It.
  
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Just got done watching The Zone of Interest, which was brilliant. Never will you see a more mundane Holocaust movie, and I mean that as a compliment. Truly brings to mind the phrase "the banality of evil".

Also loved Anatomy of a Fall, which was amazing. Great writing, great performances. Excellent movie, all round.

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I'm really looking forward to watching it, however i feel like a movie with a topic like that requires the proper time and mindset. And so far i haven't quite found the time for it yet. But so far i've only heard good things

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- Yeah, you need to be ready to pay full attention, but it's worth it.
  
  The sound design is amazing, so get the best audio setup you can muster.
  
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Fools Paradise. I loved it. Thought it was beautiful, subtle, and weird.

I was absolutely shocked how poorly it has been received. I think most people completely missed the point of the movie.

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Are you a fan of Charlie Day stuff, or did you go in more off the ideas of it? It sounds interesting skimming the Wikipedia page on it.

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- I'm a big fan of Always Sunny, but not much outside of that.
  
  My take on it is this: it's a movie about being a nobody with small, kind of pedestrian life goals, in a time when everyone is trying to be famous and we are inundated by media and celebrity. Everyone in the movie tries to make themselves the main character, except for the actual protagonist.
  
  The most essential question of the film, at a literal and existential level, is this: who is this story about?
  
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