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Tell me why I'm wrong, and if not, repudiate this maudlin, caricatured, two-dimensional, simplistic, cliched, sappy, melodramatic, piece of cinematic legend.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2434741

Couldn't find a "TV" or "television" comm (which we need).

What did everyone think of the finale? I liked it! Finally, a good ending for once. Great stuff, good ending. Just what I wanted.

And it ended logically too.

Of course, this is a later set-up for Thrawn.

We got no Palpatine in the end there.

Lots of impressive shots from the cinematography. Well-done angles there.

Glad Omega became a pilot for the Rebel Allliance.

At least some people get their happy ending in the end in this galaxy.

Too much war and too much "dark times."

We need good stuff happening for once, otherwise what they fight for is worthless.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2396953

Check it out.

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Watch.

I can see why some people didn't get into The Green Knight but I love it. I also love The Canterbury Tales and of course A Knight's Tale.

I donno if anyone else got this out of the film but I saw it as a portrayal of the other side of the Golden Rule that I feel that philosophies and society fail to acknowledge.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

Should you expect to be treated as you have done unto others?

The green scarf is defying that expectation.

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Good stuff. Well, not really. Heavy subject matter, if anything. And the retching sound at the end was all too real for me (as someone that once went through an OD).

Honestly, I do like the subject matter of fascism (and especially neo-fascism nowadays). There's the pre-fascist era, when it was just being developed, from the 1890s onward, and then there's when it was actually coined by Benito Mussolini onward. And then there's post-1945. Operation Paperclip, the rise of the white power movement in the 1980s and the terrorist attacks of the 1990s. And not to mention the "fourth empire" of the Ku Klux Klan during the Obama years.

I live in Virginia and that's where the fiasco at Charlottesville happened with people invoking the "great replacement theory" meme, and you can connect that to "white extinction anxiety" during the late 1800s to 20th century.

The movie evoked all these thoughts for me and the normalization of it. I see it with several of my family members too. We are living through the growth of a new fascism in the United States, I feel.

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This will be me when I'm making a movie:

They just feel right. Imagine fighting for the communist revolution wearing a cool long black coat and cool undersized sunglasses, listening to chuds crying that you store their manly aestheticerino.

I’m too sad from fear of going homeless and jobless, so I’m gonna watch The Crow for my first time rn. I wish all other 90s/2000s edge fans a very good life and a very soon communist revolution. :3

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This is BIG.

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I'm not surprised, but then again, I am a member of this org lmao

Lily Gladstone has made history as the first Indigenous woman to win Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama at the Golden Globes.

The “Killers of the Flower Moon” star took home the award on January 7 for her portrayal of real-life hero Mollie Burkhart in the Martin Scorsese epic.

“Killers of the Flower Moon” follows the serial killings of Osage Nation members in 1920s Oklahoma, led by organized crime mastermind William Hale (Robert De Niro) and his nephew Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio), who was married to oil heiress Mollie (Gladstone). The murders lead Mollie to ask the newly formed FBI for help in solving the case.

Gladstone beat out fellow nominees Annette Bening (“Nyad”), Sandra Huller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Greta Lee (“Past Lives”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), and Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”) to make history at the 2024 Golden Globes.

Remember this whole thing. Read a one sentence summary of Nicolas Cage's 'dream scenario' and it sounds similar. Excited to go watch it tonight!

Pls dont roast nicolas cage, he has feelings too

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Interesting article. Bayard Rustin was also an anti-communist but considered himself a socialist. He was often lumped in with "the Establishment." He did work with MLK, Jr., who himself worked with communists, but he was considered to the right of MLK. Still, he did leave a legacy and was considered good a politicking and getting what he and his constituency wanted, from what I understand.

I am interested in developing a consistent rating method for movies (and tv series).

I found https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/aeb0ce/how_do_you_rate_movies/ there are some nice comments/ methods and I think I may not achieve a consistent rating method for myself. Simply because I may think that some cool and innovative technique is cool today won't be cool tomorrow anymore.

Moreover, I don't like a movie like Avater anymore, which I liked 14 years ago, my taste is different today. And Avatar isn't as impressive today like it was 14 years ago. Should my disliking of the weird sci-fi characters influence the rating or should I look at professionally and rate it on what the movie ought to be.

On a good day I may sit through a lengthy movie, on another day I won't.

What's your take on it?

So I was surprised to find it screening in a big name movie theatre near me in Canada. Didn't really know much about it, was just surprised to find a Chinese language movie in a non-Chinese theatre in Canada and was pretty curious so I went in and watched it. (I wanted to watch a movie anyway, decided to watch that instead of what I originally had in mind.)

I really liked it, highly recommended. I'm by no means a movie expert, but here's my review of it.

It tells three intertwining stories all relating to organized cybercrime. A programmer who accepts a fake job offer and gets kidnapped to work for an internet fraud operation; a down on her luck model who accepts a job at an online casino, run by the same cybercrime ring, and is similarly held captive and forced to continue well after she wants out; and a victim of said online casino and other rigged illegal gambling operations who bankrupts himself and his family. It's based on real cases and major busts that have happened in Southeast Asia, and the director interviewed over 10,000 people affected by organized cybercrime, and modeled the story closely to their real experiences. His goal was to use this movie to educate people about how cybercrime rings work, how they manage to evade authorities, how and why they employ human trafficking (which is not something one immediately thinks of when considering internet scams and illegal casinos), and how and why people fall victim to them.

Overall, I think it was an extremely powerful film and one that is sorely needed in this day and age where cybercrime and cyber fraud is rampant and tons of people fall victim to it every day. From a literary perspective, I really liked the three intertwining stories that all converge at the end, it's something that has been tried a lot in various types of media and is pretty hard to do well, but when it is done well it's a really cool experience. All of the protagonists were easy to sympathize with and had realistic motivations and actions (which makes sense considering this is based on true stories). The brainwashing of the victims and how their wills are broken by their captors is also very powerful and something that has been documented to happen in real life. In terms of cinematography and dialogue, I personally liked it being a Chinese person who is fluent in Mandarin, but there are some cultural and general "trends in film making" differences between Chinese and Western cinema, similar to Bollywood and Western movies, so I suspect it might feel kind of weird to people who are only used to Western movies, particularly English-language ones, something to keep in mind while watching but I don't think it takes away from the film itself at all.

The English subs also left something to be desired IMO. Since I understand both Mandarin and English I did a bit of comparing, and it seems to be similar to how Japanese anime is dubbed, where it is more of a formal translation of what is being said, and is missing most of of the emotion, expressions, and cultural context, IMO an English dub would have been better for the local market (I'm gonna get murdered by the subbed anime crowd for saying that), though I personally would have still preferred the original Mandarin version since it's my first language.

All in all I highly recommend it. Though, CW for violence, human trafficking, suicide, and implied sexual abuse if you do decide to watch it.

Finally watched Tenet. After all the hype and discussion on Reddit when it was released, I was expecting some sort of neigh-on impenetrable profound piece of cinema, but it's just Primer with action sequences.