Very cool.
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That's because Russians see the value in the collective good: everything for everyone. The majority of the globe just hits and runs on torrents because we got ours, fuck everyone else.
I misread as Canadian gods so I got REALLY confused
Yeah, I 100% owe both of those movies a re-watch just based on what yourself and /u/[email protected] have said. I liked the vibe of both but as I said, they somehow just felt like cheap copies of master works.
Dune I think my main issues were pacing and casting. Just generally what they did to some of the characters. I read a couple of Dune books again over the last few years as excitement built around the upcoming film.
They really did my boy Paul Atreides dirty by casting Chalamet in the role. Paul is not supposed to be a simpering, anxious boy...
With that said, the world of Frank Herbert's Dune is one that has proved impossibly difficult to adapt to screen over the years and in terms of overall world building and feel this is by far the closest to hit the mark for the overall world I think. I just feel they missed the mark entirely with some of the characters to the overall detriment of the story and spent a lot of screentime on scenes that don't contribute a great deal whilst ignoring a lot of good source material entirely.
I'm going to track down all of the apes movies and spent a weekend on these and re-watching Dredd, BR2049 and Dune. Been a while since I had a proper movie day! Good chats, all. Thanks for the ted talk ;p
Arrival!! I was searching my brain for that one and couldn't dig it out. Such a great movie! You have just convinced me that I need to re-watch Siciario with an open mind and try again.
Blade runner is certainly worthy of a re-watch too but I was pretty disappointed at the cinema. I'm a huge fan of both the original Blade Runner and Philip K Dick. 2049 might grow on me with repeated viewings but on initial viewing it just didn't hit the mark for me. Same goes for Dune for very similar reasons. Like facsimile of great films; all the ingredients are present but they just haven't resulted in a succulent meal.
It's a similar story for me with the Tarantino movies from this era. Sure, they're better than most films but they aren't in the same league as Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill or even Jackie Brown for me and as a result they feel like a massive step backwards.
Fury Road stands alone as a great movie. Unfortunately for me I was raised on Mad Max! Growing up in Australia the first 3 Mad Max movies are pretty much required viewing to get a glimpse of our imminent future and fury road just doesn't fit into this canon. Again great movie, but it's just an action movie with a dude named Max in it. Imagine making a Mad Max movie without Mel Gibson?!
I can acknowledge Jordan Peele's enormous talent as a director (and writer, producer, actor, comedian...shit don't tell me he sings as well?!) but this Netflix type of schlock is just not for me. Entry-level social commentary dressed up as a horror movie? Come on, show us what you can really do.
I'm pretty surprised to see the Jump Street movies in your list! I don't generally bother watching anything Jonah Hill is in. I find him completely without talent on screen. In general, he plays characters that make my skin crawl but they're all eerily close to his actual personality. He doesn't seem to understand the core concept of acting. You know, where you pretend to be the person you are portraying in the film or play. I feel like he needs to watch this clip on repeat until he stops ruining perfectly good movies. I can't look at him. https://youtu.be/m5CX00i4uZE
I will set about catching up on the rest of your list. Again seeing the Apes movies in the list is a surprise but I'll give them and the rest a crack. Thank you!
If you're so smart, how do you turn the light switch off after you get in bed without firing a shot?
I'll let ya know.
Yeah, 256gb doesn't really get you very far these days. Everything is so bloated, including the operating system.
I hear what you're saying, but I have about 200 games stored on a traditional HDD that only provides me a read speed of about 220MB/s absolute maximum and I have never had a single issue with any game running from it. As you say this could become a problem as devs adopt directstorage but as it stands right now, it's a total none-issue.
I have a 2TB NVME M.2 drive in my PC but don't really see any advantage to putting games on there, that's what bulk storage is for. If you are playing online, 99% of games will have a countdown or otherwise make you wait until the slowest PC is also ready to go. If it's a game that uses loading screens, I really don't care as it still loads pretty damn fast.
Pretty much the only games that I will throw on my M.2 drive is open world games that load as you go if I am on my first playthrough. RDR2 lived on there for a while.
It's been a pretty rough 11 years for Cinema. I am only slightly less harsh than Farman.
In no particular order:
Limbo (2023) Logan (2017) Ex Machina (2015) Whiplash (2014) Dallas buyers club (2013) The master (2012) Parasite (2019) All quiet on the western front (2022) The grand Budapest hotel (2014) Under the skin (2014) The Babadook (2014) Bullet Train (2022)
That is the complete list of films in this time period I have bothered to recommend to friends.
I watch a lot of movies but even my favourite writers and directors have not impressed of late. Even Tarantino has dropped the ball IMO.
On the contrary it has been a great decade for truly weird and disturbing movies but not many in my circle tend to enjoy those and they aren't highly rated.
What the heck did you do with this post? Twice in a row it broke scrolling on infinity. I can't scroll past it.