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Thread: Sam's Thread of Movie Lists and Chit Chat (w/Jake)

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    September

    1. Apocalypse Now ☆☆☆☆☆
    2. The Godfather ☆☆☆☆☆
    3. Hustlers ☆☆☆☆
    4. Ad Astra ☆☆☆☆
    5. Rambo: Last Blood ☆☆☆☆
    6. Funny Girl ☆☆☆☆
    7. Ready Or Not ☆☆☆
    8. Pain & Glory ☆☆☆
    9. IT: Chapter 2 ☆☆
    10. The Kitchen ☆☆
    11. Downton Abbey ☆☆
    12. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark ☆☆

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    I entirely forgot to watch Ad Astra, although I meant to.

    And I thought Scary Stories looked good. Not enough to watch it, obviously, but still.

    1. The Favourite ★★★★★
    2. One Cut of the Dead ★★★★★
    3. Avengers: Endgame ★★★★
    4. Vice ★★★★
    5. Eighth Grade ★★★★
    6. Apollo 11 ★★★★
    7. The Lego Movie: Part 2 ★★★★
    8. Toy Story 4 ★★★★
    9. The Farewell ★★★★
    10. Us ★★★★
    11. ]Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ★★★★
    12. Midsommar ★★★
    13. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ★★★
    14. Spider-Man Far From Home ★★★
    15. It: Chapter Two ★★★
    16. Diego Maradona ★★★
    17. Between Two Ferns: The Movie ★★★
    18. Aladdin ★★★
    19. Shazam! ★★★
    20. Captain Marvel ★★★
    21. Pokémon Detective Pikachu ★★
    22. Alita: Battle Angel ★★
    23. Fighting with my Family ★★
    24. Velvet Buzzsaw ★★
    25. Dragon Ball Super: Broly ★


    A study in contrast.

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    Ad Astra has a great "eh, what?" moment. Maybe the best one of the year.

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    Joker ☆☆☆

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    It looks like Joker is gonna be a bit hit. It's been reported took in an estimated $39.9 million domestically on its opening day and is expected to take in over $90 million in it's debut weekend. Internationally, it's done about $57 million so Joker is hovering right around the $97 million mark worldwide, so don't be surprised if there's a worldwide total anywhere from $150-$175 million after the weekend.

    I had a feeling the movie would catch fire due to the controversy surrounding it. Human nature being what it is, people are gonna check out something like that. Critical response is sort of mixed for the movie, it's got a 70% fresh rating via Rotten Tomatoes while Cinemascore gives the movie a B+ with those under 35 years old scoring it an A-.

    Joker is a strange movie in some ways. There are a few spoilers so be forewarned. If you went into this expecting anything remotely resembling a traditional comic book movie, then you were really mistaken and I think that's something that's left a lot of critics shaking their heads in confusion. There are no big CGI battles, no dramatic costumes or anything along those lines. It's more of a character study with a ton of social commentary tossed in than anything else, which is really part of the controversy surrounding the film as it does portray Joker, who's real name for this particular adaptation is Arthur Fleck, in a sympathetic light.

    Set in 1981, Arthur works as a clown for hire and lives with his mother. Gotham City is pretty much a degenerating shithole of a city with a rampant crime rate, unemployment rate and poverty level. Arthur has a neurological disorder that causes him to laugh uncontrollably, the technical term for it is Pseudobulbar Affect, or PBA, and the best way to understand it is to think of it almost like Tourette Syndrome in that it's a tick he's unable to control without medication. Arthur regularly visits social services in order to obtain medication to ease the symptoms, though it never completely goes away. Due to various mishaps, Arthur loses his job as a clown for hire, you know like performing at kids' parties or at hospitals and all that. On the way home on the subway, some wealthy executives who work for Wayne Enterprises, owned by Thomas Wayne, attack Arthur for something to do but he manages to kill two of them in self defense before executing the third one. The murders sort of set things off in anti-rich protests among the population with rioters wearing clown masks, which is shown during the trailer. Various mishaps and revelations take place along the way as does the social services program ending, leaving Arthur with no means of controlling his condition and his mental health is deteriorating the entire time, possibly even into the realm of Schizophrenia. .

    What'd disturbed a lot of people about this movie is that it actually has the gall to show Joker as a human being, well duh, rather than the psychotic clown that I guess is supposed to have crawled out of his mother's womb. Some are worried that it'll encourage more acts of violence, such as the more than 300+ public shootings we've had this year alone. Personally, I think it's a load of crap as you've had the same old social conservatives trying to lay the blame for societies woes on movies, TV, video games and music for the better part of the last 40 years and nobody really buys into it. Arthur/Joker is sympathetic in the sense that he didn't ask for what happened to him or choose it necessarily, though he did eventually embrace it because he had no real choice given that his mental stability dropped like pair of dirty drawers in the laundry hamper. There are commentary pieces about the working poor in the movie, those too poor to afford proper health care, necessary programs being cut out due to lack of funds while the rich keep on gettin' richer, etc..

    Phoenix carries the entire movie. He gives a fantastic and often sympathetic performance and there are times you can't help but feel sorry for him because all of us have known someone who, whether by outside circumstances or whatever, is a loser in life that's really unable to do much of anything about it. At the same time, you wonder how much sympathy is appropriate considering who he's destined to be. The Joker ends up a monster but he didn't start out that way. Oveall, I give the movie an 8 out of 10.
    "What Do I Know Of Cultured Ways, The Gilt, The Craft And The Lie?
    I, Who Was Born In A Naked Land And Bred In The Open Sky.
    The Subtle Tongue, The Sophist Guile, They Fail When The Broadswords Sing.
    Rush In And Die Dogs - I Was A Man Before I Was King."


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    Are you a bot?

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    1. The Favourite ★★★★★
    2. One Cut of the Dead ★★★★★
    3. Avengers: Endgame ★★★★
    4. Vice ★★★★
    5. Eighth Grade ★★★★
    6. Apollo 11 ★★★★
    7. The Lego Movie: Part 2 ★★★★
    8. Toy Story 4 ★★★★
    9. The Farewell ★★★★
    10. Us ★★★★
    11. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ★★★★
    12. Midsommar ★★★
    13. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World ★★★
    14. Spider-Man Far From Home ★★★
    15. It: Chapter Two ★★★
    16. Diego Maradona ★★★
    17. Between Two Ferns: The Movie ★★★
    18. Joker ★★★
    19. Aladdin ★★★
    20. Shazam! ★★★
    21. Captain Marvel ★★★
    22. Pokémon Detective Pikachu ★★
    23. Alita: Battle Angel ★★
    24. Fighting with my Family ★★
    25. Velvet Buzzsaw ★★
    26. Gemini Man
    27. Dragon Ball Super: Broly ★


    I'm with you on Joker. It'd go down as a largely forgotten Scorcese homage - like, say, You Were Never Really Here - if it weren't for the license.

    I paid to watch Gemini Man 'as it was intended,' in high frame rate. I can only assume it was intended to look awful.

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    Mayhem Film Festival

    1. The Pool ☆☆☆☆☆
    2. The Hidden ☆☆☆☆
    3. Color Out Of Space ☆☆☆☆☆
    4. Why Don't You Just Die! ☆☆☆☆
    5. After Midnight ☆☆☆☆
    6. Door Lock ☆☆☆☆
    7. Girl On The Third Floor ☆☆☆☆
    8. Extra Ordinary ☆☆☆
    9. Daniel Isn't Real ☆☆☆
    10. Come To Daddy ☆☆☆
    11. The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil ☆☆☆
    12. Vampire's Kiss ☆☆☆
    13. Bullets of Justice ☆☆☆
    14. Vivarium ☆☆☆
    15. VIY ☆☆☆
    16. The Mute ☆☆☆
    17. She Never Died ☆☆

    - Colour Out of Space has Nic Cage ranting about llamas
    - Come To Daddy has somebody getting stabbed with a pen covered in poo
    - The Pool is sponsored by Pizza Hut and has the best dog death in film history
    - Girl On The Third Floor stars CM Punk and he has a shower in which jizz comes out instead of water

    Good festival

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    October

    1. The Shining ☆☆☆☆☆
    2. Doctor Sleep ☆☆☆
    3. Terminator 6 ☆☆☆
    4. Joker ☆☆☆
    5. In Fabric ☆☆☆
    6. Gemini Man ☆☆☆
    7. For Sama ☆☆☆
    8. Abominable ☆☆
    9. Official Secrets ☆☆
    10. Zombieland 2 ☆☆
    11. Countdown ☆☆
    12. Maleficent 2 ☆☆
    13. Judy ☆

    Doctor Sleep is Shining cosplay and Terminator: Dark Fate is a lot of fun when nobody's talking.

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    Ad Astra is the only movie I ever walked out of the theatres on. It was extremely boring, how many scenes of pondering with inner monologue does one film need? Plus my seat was really uncomfortable so I couldn't watch it in comfort.
    Frank: Ludwig?!
    Goon: Drebin!
    Frank: Yeah, I'm Drebin!
    Goon: I have a message for ya from Vincent Ludwig!
    Goon: Take that, you lousy cop!
    Frank: I'm sorry! I can't hear ya! Don't fire the gun while you're talking!

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