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unorthodox 9/10 a separation 7/10 the wolf of wall street 1/10 in bruges 8/10 the green hornet 7/10 the 5th wave 1/10 nebraska 8/10 captain america 1/10 |
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we die young 2/5 |
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arrival - trivial piece of shit, cosmos as geopolitics, human existence as dead daughter |
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I thought it was a good yarn, not sure I buy the daughter as a pro natalist symbol rather than a contingent plot device, the movie wasn't really about that as a theme. I can't find it right now but I read a review of it that called it an Obama-era liberal fable about how technocratic expertise would save us, or words to that effect. |
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and this may play to the technocratic angle but isn't one of the points that we need to learn new ways to speak that transcend a stale geopolitical framing |
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I hated Captain America the first time, then gave it another shot and enjoyed it as self parody |
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well, yes, you use the transformative encounter with an alien language that irreversibly changes the meaning of time and human existence to improve relations with mean militaristic china. |
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i didn't think so much of the daughter thing as natalist (i mean it did disgust me like all breeder propaganda does), it's more that it's such a facile stand-in for what a life amounts to. you see the child is cute so it was worth it even though it is sad that she dies. |
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aw cmon, all the countries are going batshit, as she's trying to contact china her own army guys are trying to break in and frag her. what's wrong with a fable about overcoming nationalism? i didn't think so much of the daughter thing as natalist (i mean it did disgust me like all breeder propaganda does), it's more that it's such a facile stand-in for what a life amounts to. you see the child is cute so it was worth it even though it is sad that she dies. Well yeah that's what natalist / antinatalist positions are about, is it ultimately worth it, and antinatalists say no. My own stupid position is that the side you take is determined by affect and it's very hard to impossible to argue someone into changing their mind on it. Maybe the experiences you have change your brain chemistry and you consequently change your ideas. |
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the child is irrelevant i just mean there are other aspects of life than making a damn baby!! how does she feel about her own future past the next seven or so years, about her entire life collapsing into one timeless unit, about being always already dead and forever reborn. notice she hasn't even been supplied with a past. the political fable is unpleasant precisely because it unthinkingly assumes the most boring crisis of looting and war as a natural result. that what brings the world together is a sentimental phone call instead of, you know, the most significant event in human history that just happened, is insulting and ideologically foul. |
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quite naturally amidst all these technocratic and geopolitical convulsions that atomise, isolate and scatter us like dust in a whirlwind, what grounds and binds us to our common humanity, and crystallizes our disparate lives into a framework of meaning, is our human-scale relationships to family members, with all their humble lumps, triumphs and tragedies |
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otherwise what are we? commoditized, fungible value generators to be plugged in wherever we're needed, with no permanent connections or identities aside from our credit histories and drug prescriptions |
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yeah i mean you're really solidifying the reactionary themes there haha there's a lot more to common human experience than family trees. i like weather and seasons myself, and joke's and stories and myths and dreams and trauma and the desperate search for justice in an unjust universe. i don't hate humanity enough to believe that such a worldchanging event would divide instead of unit us. |
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plus, look, this is not actually a story about humanity. it's a story about two characters, the linguist woman convincing the bad chinese general to be good instead. great man theory with humanity as the background threat. unsurprisingly, there seems to have been none of that in the original short story. it's trivial screenwriter but-there-needs-to-be-conflict nonsense. |
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They're not great men, the plot twist is that their saving grace is the small particulars and personal details of their individual lives, and how they connect through that rather than through an abstract generalized sense of "humanity". And if you're going to celebrate mass man and myth at the expense of the personal connections between particular lives, isn't that the real fascism? And isn't myth full of great men? I'm going to recommend another sci fi movie about mass man versus personal connection, it is called The Giver. trigger warning it also has babies |
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by myths i meant the folk stories that connect us over the world and through time >_< stop misunderstanding me i've been an universalist on record |
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like, shit, you know what i mean, you read the epic of gilgamesh and you think hey yeah i relate to whoever thought this up |
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I will not be baited into making an "I identify as Sumerian" joke. Nice try, dariusgriffin. |
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if i was in a cave i would make hella cave paintings |
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I just enjoy watching the cool shadows tbh "Cool shadows. Recommended!" - Rotten Tomatoes |
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i read that stallone himself has said that escape plan 2 is a horrible movie |
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encounters between the personal and the cosmic is one of my favourite kinds of story, here's a few good ones abel ferrara's 4:44 the chillest of apocalypse movies solaris of course close encounters of the third kind the one with the bad family man even the supposedly cold 2001 with its people jogging and having birthdays and playing chess and space toilet arrival only pretends to be like these so it can better sell its banal story of conflict and growth |
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The common thing in Close Encounters and 2001 was people turning their backs on their families and their humanity and undergoing transcendence and transfiguration, and in Arrival just the opposite happens, and that bugs you ideologically not because it's a bad movie I think. (it's also for sure not as good as those other ones) I watched Close Encounters again not long ago and it holds up so well, even the effects look fresh. Good old Richard Dreyfuss and his mashed potatoes. 4:44 I've not seen, have to add it to my list. |
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no i mean i think close encounters dad is very much in the wrong, but that's what makes the movie interesting! i like families to be depicted as real social entities, more than generators of fuzzy feelings the most striking thing about close encounters is the robertaltmanness of it imo |
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the gunman - 4/5 |
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true story - 2.7/5 - wonderfully average with just enough intrigue to keep you occupied for 90 minutes |
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Synecdoche New York, gonna give this a little over 4/5 because I felt the absurdity detracted from the tragedy in a way that made the film less engaging. Anomalisa, Charlie's next turn in the director's chair, was arguably less tragic and more absurd (stop motion, Tom Noonan's voice) but far more engaging and moving. |
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eat pray love 5/5 lost in translation (rewatch) 5/5 |
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how old are you Archipelago |
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by the way, i hope you fucking die!!! hello to, what's, o h f u c k o f f |
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"the most striking thing about close encounters is the robertaltmanness of it imo " you need to fucking step back m8 |
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Wilhelm Hartnell |
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anyone watched Jonathan Glazer's other two movies Birth (2004) and Sexy Beast (2000)? |
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sexy beast is brill, not a minute wasted in it, proper lean "fuckin bouldahh!" |
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cool! |
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Bad Moms : 3/3 hot moms! Would watch again. |
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i watched scanners by david cronenberg and i give it a 7 out of 10 |
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still didn't watch the fly yet |
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fitzcarraldo - 9/10 |
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You need to see Videodrome. Plus points for the soundtrack. |
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i did my favorite after naked lunch enjoyed crash as well |
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actually i watched naked lunch a long time ago i should see it again maybe i like videodrome better |
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I saw Naked Lunch a long time ago at the cinema. All I remember is some weird creature that was mainly ass. |
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it is very homoerotic |
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Mermaidman, good taste in movies or not, you are rubbish! I’m not sure what you’re doing exactly but I think I’m going to make sure you can never return if you continue being this disappointing. What you’re doing (and you know what I mean) shows you don’t really give a shit about anyone but yourself. |
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LOL! but i don't know what you mean |
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The typewriter than turned into a cockroach that spoke out its ass? and the people with udders on their head |
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remember when he sprinkles/rubs the powder on the bug's anus?? |
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guys anyne watched this motherfuckeur's movies? |
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