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What Is The Last Film You Watched? (2023 Films)


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3 hours ago, A24 said:

Is it a movie solely for Barbie fans? 

It's a movie made for those nerdy girls who live on Tumblr, have double degrees in queer/gender studies, dye their hair purple and wear those trendy rectangle glasses. Oh, and their gay friends.

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Well, I like some of the Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig movies (Frances Ha, The Meyerowitz Stories, Marriage) so there was actually a fairly good chance Barbie was up my alley. Sure, they are more Baumbach than Gerwig movies but still ...

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2 hours ago, A24 said:

Well, I like some of the Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig movies (Frances Ha, The Meyerowitz Stories, Marriage) so there was actually a fairly good chance Barbie was up my alley. Sure, they are more Baumbach than Gerwig movies but still ...

 

You're usually not into big commercial franchises, which is what Barbie is.

 

You didn't like Bay's Transformers films, did you?

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16 hours ago, Edmilson said:

It's a movie made for those nerdy girls who live on Tumblr, have double degrees in queer/gender studies, dye their hair purple and wear those trendy rectangle glasses. Oh, and their gay friends.


Yep. Good luck to those who enjoy a DayGlo feminist lecture via a movie derived from a plastic toy, but it ain't for me.  

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14 hours ago, #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal said:

 

You're usually not into big commercial franchises, which is what Barbie is.

 

You didn't like Bay's Transformers films, did you?

 

Those two (Barbie and Transformers) couldn't be more different. Seen who have made it (people rooted in independent cinema), Barbie could have been a different kind of movie than it is now. BTW, the general audience wasn't that crazy about the film either. So if it isn't for me, and not for the general audience that lives and die by big commercial franchises, then who is this movie for? Nobody seems to know. Neither fish nor fowl!

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1 hour ago, A24 said:

...the general audience wasn't that crazy about the film either. So if it isn't for me, and not for the general audience that lives and die by big commercial franchises, then who is this movie for? Nobody seems to know. Neither fish nor fowl!

 

It's probably just that my brain has been pickled by recent alcohol intake, but it looks to me like you're saying that the general audience didn't much like the highest grossing film of the year.

 

Eh?

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1 hour ago, A24 said:

 

Those two (Barbie and Transformers) couldn't be more different. Seen who have made it (people rooted in independent cinema), Barbie could have been a different kind of movie than it is now.

Indeed. Unlike pure commercial schlock like Transformers or Fast & Furious, Barbie at least had indie cinema veterans in it who could do something different and more interesting.

 

Alas, I didn't care for it. But at least the Godfather joke was funny.

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22 minutes ago, Glóin the Dark said:

 

It's probably just that my brain has been pickled by recent alcohol intake, but it looks to me like you're saying that the general audience didn't much like the highest grossing film of the year.

 

Eh?

 

Could it be that many of those people that went to see Barbie thought it was actually overrated? A 6.8/10 score on IMDb seems to indicate that. They wanted to see what the fuzz was about but they discovered that ... there is no fuzz. 

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6 minutes ago, A24 said:

Could it be that many of those people that went to see Barbie thought it was actually overrated?

 

Certainly, but the "general audience" isn't a homogeneous mass who would all rate the film 6.8.  Of the people who rated it on IMDb, more than half gave it a score of 7 or more, and about 40% gave it 8 or more. There definitely is a large constituency of people who love the film. Given its style and subject, it probably shouldn't be surprising that it's more polarising than the average film.

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Knock at the Cabin

 

This M. Night Shyamalan film is terrible, even worse than Old.  This guy has way more bad movies in his filmography than good ones at this point, which is really a bummer.  The story here doesn't even make much sense, and the "twist" is not exciting at all.  Meh

 

It was free on Prime, I believe, when we watched it, but doesn't seem to be any more.

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32 minutes ago, Jay said:

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Knock at the Cabin

 

This M. Night Shyamalan film is terrible, even worse than Old.  This guy has way more bad movies in his filmography than good ones at this point, which is really a bummer.  The story here doesn't even make much sense, and the "twist" is not exciting at all.  Meh

 

It was free on Prime, I believe, when we watched it, but doesn't seem to be any more.

Wait until you see Trap which is IMO far far worst than this one. :lol:

Apart from The Sixth Sense (which once the twist is known has far less value) and Unbreakable none of his other movies really hold my breath. I haven't watch Signs though

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Yes, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable remain the only films of his I truly like.  Signs is dumb, and then its all just bad after that.

 

Great Newton Howard scores, though!

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1 minute ago, Jay said:

Yes, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable remain the only films of his I truly like.  Signs is dumb, and then its all just bad after that.

 

Great Newton Howard scores, though!

No love for the village?

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4 minutes ago, Jay said:

Yes, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable remain the only films of his I truly like.  Signs is dumb, and then its all just bad after that.

 

Great Newton Howard scores, though!

That the only positive thing from those bad movies, there's always a good Howard score and that

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Probably why the last ones are trully terrible.

1 minute ago, filmmusic said:

No love for the village?

It has a nice premised but after 30 minutes it's getting dumb and too long, way tooooooo long

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The Village is pretty good. At the very least it has an incredible JNH score and Roger Deakins' magnificent cinematography.

 

Signs has one of the creepiest scenes in the history:

 

 

It traumatized a whole generation of children :lol:, despite Joaquin Phoenix and the kids talking in Spanish even though this supposedly takes place in Brazil.

 

Haven't seen his more recent stuff (Old, Knock at the Cabin, Trap). They all look like crap, and neither one of them have JNH music.

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14 minutes ago, Davis said:

10/10


I don’t recall ever hearing of this film before. One of the top Letterboxd reviews says “If Black Swan and   Whiplash had a Soviet child”. If that’s even halfway accurate then the film should go to the top of my watchlist.

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I thought that was Jennifer Connelly when I saw the poster!

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11 hours ago, Glóin the Dark said:

If Black Swan and   Whiplash had a Soviet child”.

Interesting description, and quite apt. It was a pleasant surprise. I highly recommend it.

 

 

11 hours ago, Jay said:

I thought that was Jennifer Connelly when I saw the poster!

Younger and very thin Connelly. :)

 

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Across the Spider-Verse. Really loved Gwen’s bigger role. That alone makes it stand out. Still surprised how damn effective the three-note theme is and sincerely hope this score will be as nice on album as it was in the film.

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