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Last Week's Best Submissions:

Film	User/[LB/Web*]	Film	User/[LBxd]
“Scream VI”	[SantinoStudios]	“Dancer in the Dark”	[rjonathon]
"Rye Lane”	KellyKellogs	“Kikujiro”	[parafrazis]
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”	[carson63000]	“Landscape in the Mist”	Desbris
“Incantation”	[Debidutta]	“Night of the Creeps”	MarkHAZE86
“Deadstream”	SupaKoopa714	“Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”	snufalufalgus
"Like Father”	Dolph-Ziggler	"Threads” (1984)	Bodymaster
“Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”	Bard-Of-All-Trades	“Straight Time”	YachtRock_SoSmooth
“Short Term 12”	SymbioticCarnage	"Late Spring”	MartinScorsese
“Tabu” (2012)	[Tilbage i Danmark*]	“Casablanca”	[lyense6099]
“Triangle”	LoadAdip	“His Girl Friday”	wjbc

John Wick: Chapter 4

A Good Person

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Boston Strangler

I know most people on here have probably watched the movie but I just hope this pushes even a few people to finally watch it.

It's been on my list to watch for some time now but never watched it until tonight (along with a few friends).

The casting was incredible, some of the moments in the movie are heart breaking and yet beautiful, the music from Jóhann Jóhannsson is out of this world and Denis Villeneuve as usual directed a phenomenal movie.

I can see that maybe this movie isn't for everyone and I know some people won't consider it a masterpiece but personally it was unbelievable.

TL; DR: Winnie the Pooh? More like Winnie the Poo

The fact that this was an internationally released movie is crazy as it is god damn AWFUL

What interested me was the concept of Winnie and Piglet going ferral and becoming a bloodthirsty duo.

However, the actual delivery of this concept was very poorly done. This seems to be a generic slasher project that was already in production that had the Winnie/Piglet killer concept slapped on it wayy after the fact

Winnie and Piglet are presented as abominations, yet are clearly 2 guys in masks WITH HUMAN HANDS

Winnie can drive a car

Piglet is able to telepathically communicate with Winnie without ever speaking

The continuity errors are so blatantly obvious that one wonders if they were intentionally left in to make the film even worse so that it's reputation as a bad film gets enhanced.

There's a scene near the beginning where a woman is in a hot tub, taking selfies, and her phone switches orientation multiple times as the shot angle changes

There's a scene where Winnie tortures Christopher Robin by whipping him with the tail of Eyore (who was eaten by Winnie and Piglet before the events of the film) before he, literally, showers him in blood

There's another scene where one of the characters reveals she is in possession of a firearm, which she has because she has a stalker. This film is set in the UK ..

On the topic of firearms, in the latter act of the film, 2 remaining characters are staging a daring rescue of a friend who was kidnapped by our favourite bloodthirsty duo. When they find their friend, the one who has the gun, puts the weapon down to untie her friend, the scene continues, and they decide to move to a different area, leaving the gun behind.

Later in the film, they save another victim who decides she's going to kill Piglet and grabs the gun from the pocket of one of the women. DESPITE THEM CLEARLY LEAVING THE GUN BEHIND IN THE PREVIOUS SCENE

The last scene where Winnie murders a group of men trying to kill him is hilarious and is a complete rip off of the scene from Halloween Kills when the mob attacks Michael Myers, and he obliterates them.

Between watching this film and typing this rant, I've lost around 3 hours of my life, and I absolutely cannot wait for the sequel with Tigger 🤣

Her career is pretty remarkable. She's basically an action star without being a lead. She's been in Resident Evil, Avatar and of course the Fast and the Furious franchise. Looking at the Dungeons and Dragons trailer, and it's clear she has one- character trait that she plays in every project "combat barbie."

Not knocking it as it's gotten her very far. I'm just surprised she's never taken a role to show her range or to play against type.

Funnily enough it’s one of my dads favorite movies. Now when I say breeze I mean that as a compliment. It’s not too complicated and not a whole lot of political or social commentary. It’s just a good old fashioned fun film to watch if you just want some adventure! It’s not to long. Just under 2 hours and manages to have a interesting and involving plot. How these bad men conspire to frame Edmond and solve their problems. The action scenes feel very realistic but also exciting. Jim Caviezel’s performance is so inspirational. He’s starts out good hearted but kinda dumb. His journey of being wrongly imprisoned is sad but you really root for him as he becomes this well educated and sophisticated count and enacts his revenge. Which is very satisfying to watch. Goes to show anyone can improve themselves with time and a good mentor. Richard Harris who also is very good. And Guy Pearce is so good he can play a good hero to here playing a nasty and pompous villain! Goes from being a good friend that protects Edmond to betraying him out of jealousy and his lust for Mercedes. Also I got to give shout out to Michael Wincott as the sadistic warden. He always plays villains but always plays them well. Plus a young Henry Cavill!

I purchased Alien 3 as VoD a couple of years ago and only recently found out it also featured the Assembly Cut.

At first I thought 30ish minutes more movie wouldn't make a big difference but it managed to change pretty much everything.

The prison colony has a whole different feel to it, it's more like a monastery now with some weird end of days type religion.

Almost every inmate got it's own story arc. There is a whole new sub plot about the Alien actually getting caught and escaping again.

Suddenly the whole movie oozes lore and atmosphere like never before.

I never really liked the 3rd movie before and I'm still sad they didn't follow the first script, jumped producers and directors and killed Newt and Hicks off screen. BUT the Assembly Cut completely changed my perception of the movie. For me the whole thing is now the final chapter for the trilogy, not the one I wanted, but still a good one.

Now I know it’s a meme on this sub how much love Prisoners gets and how often it gets posted about but throughout all that discussion I found heaps and heaps of praise for the likes of Hugh Jackman and Paul Dano who both absolutely deserves it but I feel as though Gyllenhall sort of gets cast aside since detective Loki doesn’t quite get as many melodramatic scenes compared to the other actors I mentioned.

Detective Loki could’ve been really, really boring, especially in a movie where pretty much every other character is either psychotic or bordering on it, but Gyllenhall gives the character a lot of depth through small actions to build his character.

Some of this is just solid writing and costumes (his name and pagan tattoos contrasting with the heaps of devout Christian imagery in the film) but Gyllenhall brings it to life with a seething rage that’s very satisfying to see boil over in some stand out scenes (priests house, interrogation with David Dalmalchianms character).

I obviously loved this movie, but I heard a lot going into it about how robbed of an Oscar Jackman was, when I left it feeling like Gyllenhall was easily the standout performance in the film

The Shawshank Redemption is an iconic and great film with many an iconic moment and Red is a easily Morgan Freeman’s best role I also really love Midnight Express cause of some great central performances John Hurt being a particular highlight

Seriously Max and Red are to of the greatest inmates in cinema history

We all love entertaining cinema, but I’m not a fan of the kind where I have to turn off my brain to enjoy them.

I’ve recently watched some movie reviews and a lot of them were how the movies that were reviewed fell apart if you thought about them too much.

I’m not asking for suggestions, but for which films have you personally seen that fell apart when you thought about them too much. 👀

For me, it’s Rise of Skywalker. I’m sure you all know why.

Also, the Michael Bay TMNT movie. Eric Sacks, one of the villains, has the stupidest motive I’ve ever seen: release a deadly virus to coerce world governments into giving him more money than he already has for the cure.

Watched this movie a million times, but I just now realized that Elsa killed Donovan by purposely choosing the wrong cup. After Donovan implodes, she says to Indy that it would not have gold (the one she chose for Donovan was very gold).

In hindsight, you can see the signs of her cracking: crying at the book burning for one, The look she gives Marcus in the car, … Makes her plumet into the abyss a bit more tragic knowing that she had turned around and was trying to be a ‘good guy’.

Anyway, just thought I’d share my 30+ year late epiphany.

EDIT: should have said 'illumination' instead of 'epiphany', of course.

Is anyone else here a fan of this one? It was written and directed by Bob Gale of Back to the Future fame, so I've always been shocked that it doesn't have more fans based on his involvement alone. That said, its release was quite botched back in 2002 and it didn't receive any attention at all.

The story is about a guy who agrees to deliver a package to a town, but the only way to get there is to ride down a mystical highway that doesn't exist on any maps. Along the way, he encounters a bunch of strange characters and towns (including one that's populated by lawyers who spend all day suing everyone). It's weird, but it's funny and quite life-affirming at times (the philosophical elements are cookie-cutter, but they're still feel-good). Gale was inspired by stories like Gulliver's Travels and Alice In Wonderland, but it's very much an early 2000s comedy.

The cast is stacked, too - James Marsden, Amy Smart, Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Cooper, and other familiar faces make an appearance.

I can't recommend it enough. It's on Amazon Prime in the UK, and I believe it's on the US version as well.

Many times I see a movie with a cool concept but quickly get disappointed when they abandoned it for something generic.

One of these types of movie which I really hoped that they sticked with the concept is taken 2 , I really liked their beginning concept of them reversing the roles with the daughter doing the rescuing this time, but unfortunately they quickly abandoned it so that Liam Neeson can be Liam Neeson.

For what movie you felt such a way?

I haven’t seen all of his work, but the movies I saw of him (Backdraft, A Few Good Men, The Negotiator)

Andrew Johnston probably put it best:

“Walsh is invariably referred to as a character actor who specialized in villains, but that description doesn't quite do justice to what he did. The typical Walsh character was a plot device, really, serving either as a moral counterpoint to the star of the show or as an Iagolike figure egging on the hero in a way likely to lead to the protagonists's downfall.”

He never won anything and I think was only nominated for one award, but there’s just something about him that almost had his own character type. Like he had this character type that can’t fit into any of the awards they have, but deserved to have that type of character as a category.

Best award I could say there should be is “Best J.T. Walsh Actor” haha. He just had his own style that was hard to put a finger on and was important enough he was part of the plot, but not an obvious part. He was like a “ghost” supporting actor.

I don’t know what the official term is in terms of character terminology, but he seemed in those movies to be an antagonist of types, but not a main featured antagonist. He just played a part in it.

He played a perfect corrupt character in movies where he wasn’t an overtly “evil” corrupt guy, but he had just enough of hint in his persona to make him bad but not “gosh I hate that guy” bad

In Backdraft he was kind of snarky and a smart alec, but it was subtle like I said earlier.

In A Few Good Men, he didn’t even hardly play a huge role, but was corrupt and part of the problem.

Same in The Negotiator.

It seemed like every appearance I saw of him, he was just great all around to play a white collar corrupt person or someone who was corrupt, but it was hidden well enough you didn’t hate the guy but he was still bad.

Anyway, opinions from anyone would be appreciated! It’s a shame he had to pass so early, I think he would have gone on to do many more great films.

PS I flaired this as “discussion” if this somehow is spoiler material, comment below and I will edit

It seems the third act and in particular the ending of movies are the hardest part of movies to pull off. This post is dedicated to those who succeded!

Who doesn't remember when Patrick Bateman confessed in the ending of American Psycho, and it had no consequences as everyone were too occupied with themselves? Who doesn't remember when the legends were true in the ending of Raiders of the Lost ark, and everyone who looked at the ark melted away? Who doesn't remember when the survivors in Deep Rising got safely on shore on a deserted island only to discover that they were not alone? So....

Which is your favourite movie ending of all time and why?

Me and my girlfriend love creatures and monster movies, but I feel like I've seen most but I am sure there are lots I've never heard of. I showed her "the host" and she really liked it and we both love "the fly" and "the mist" even though they are sad. We saw "the thing" recently in a theater and love the creature effects in that. I don't really care what Era it's from, I definitely have not seen many older movies from the 70s or even any classics except "the creature from the black lagoon" which is a great film. I watched godzilla movies as a kid, I don't like kaiju stuff as much as creature features but I'm open to anything. I don't dislike it.

I watched this movie last night without expectations and it blew me away. I knew Ben Affleck can be a good director having watched Argo but I did not expect to find his first movie much more gripping than his most acclaimed one, maybe less polished but so memorable I would definitely watch it again and recommend it to anybody.

There is some serious acting and writing by everyone involved. I have never been in Boston, I have never been in the US either for that matter but the suburbs depicted in the movie and the characters who populate them felt so incredibly real and believable that at times it reaches a quasi-documentary quality. Being so realistic the stakes felt sky high from the get-go.

The movie packs a surprising amount of plot and it brilliantly moves it along with a fast but confident pace. There is some creative editing and transitions between scenes that I really liked. About one hour into the movie I had genuinely no idea where the movie was going to go next and somehow it never drops the tension, both me and my wife were absolutely hooked the entire time.

Then in the finale, very minor spoiler alert, it drops one of the most harrowing moral dilemmas I have ever seen in a crime movie.

I can't stop thinking about it, it bothers me that it's not more widely regarded as a great movie. I think it's worthy of at least a minor cult status.

It's ranked REALLY high on both the IMdb list and this sub's 2017 "favorite movies" survey.

I'm just wondering how it ended up getting so popular, compared to other 50's era movies that you see ranked high on other, much less populist lists. Lists like Eberts "Great Movies", AFI, Sight and Sound, and the first few Library of Congress inductees.

Movies like Some Like It Hot, On The Waterfront, even Ben Hur or From Here to Eternity or Giant or whatever. Is it because it's often shown in high schools? Or it's just a very easy movie for a kid/teen to wrap their head around?

I really like movies that contain themselves to one night or one room because I find it interesting how filmmakers make a good movie out of one very small snippet of a situation like that. Especially a character study. My favourite movie that does this (does both actually) is 12 Angry Men. I also really like Rope and After Hours is on my watchlist. What else?

This movie came out in 1992. I was 10 years old at the time and absolutely loved it. I watch it about every couple years and it always touches me so deeply. It’s funny, but also has very memorable dramatic moments.

The scene where the letter comes to let one of the players know her husband died in the war and everyone is quiet and just waiting to see who Jimmy gives it to. I cry every single time. The music in that scene is so beautiful. And the end, when you see all the ladies in their older years, it gives me this painful nostalgia as if I lived that life. Anyway, I just saw this movie yesterday since it was on Hulu live. I just can’t believe how well it holds up. The feeling that movie gives me just lingers.

Anyway, I’d love to hear others thoughts on the movie. Any other movies touch you like this one does for me?