Movie Thread

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

For sure. You never go full Sanic.

[Lindsay's Liver]

"Black Christmas". 1974.
I love that the director of the family favorite "A Christmas Story", Bob Clark, also made maybe the best Christmas slasher movie ten years earlier. I think this is still great. It's creepy and fast-moving. It's also one of the films that helped lay down the rules for what a slasher movie is. I even love the ultra-70s fashion and wallpaper.

I don't get into watching Christmas movies every December (I know some people who are way into that), but if I'm going to watch one, this is my pick.

[Old Black Man]

Good choice my friend.

[rabidtictac]

I don't watch [holiday movie] on [holiday] because that's normie as fuck.

[CuckTurdginson]

My Christmas was spent watching Private Parts from 1997.

God, Howard Stern used to be genuinely talented. Trolls remorse will really destroy a motherfucker.

2018 Howard is licking Hillary Clinton's boots, 1998 Howard would've had a bit about how the Clintons marriage would be more successful if Hillary sucked a little dick once in a while.

The movie is pretty good, if dated. Probably my favorite 'slobs vs snobs' story?

[Rushy]

I watched the Matrix Resurrections for the first time.

It's a shame the script is very cluttered and convoluted, because there's a lot of good ideas in here. I enjoyed all the jokes and parody of legacy sequels, and the way the narrative kept drawing parallels between the past and present. The explanation behind Neo and Trinity's survival made a fair amount of sense. The recasting of Smith and Morpheus was something I did not think could work, but did. It made Neo and Trinity seem more isolated and emphasized the passage of time.

The film has two primary issues. One, everything is far too complicated. It's not really clear what the situation is with the Machines. Some of them are peaceful, but others are still evil. There's apparently a truce, but also humanity are in hiding. It's not clear why humans take the massive risk of trying to free Trinity when that could lead to open war again. Smith is still around because reasons, then I guess they convince him to be an ally off-screen, then he's the main bad again until he disappears at the end of the film (did they defeat him or not?).

The second issue is that the cinematography is really dreadful. It looks digital and cheap. I don't know what the budget was but it gave me the impression of a direct to video action film. The editing is too fast and you can't enjoy the action properly. Neo is mostly reduced to Force Pushing his way out of every situation. Also, the colour tinting. In the previous films, you had green for the Matrix and blue for the real world. I know they changed that the end of the third film, but something similar should've happened here to enhance the visual language of the film. Like maybe the Matrix is very saturated while the real world is dull. Instead, it's all the same. That kinda bothered me.

[Old Black Man]

Saw Nosferatu 2024, it was decent.

[Liar Revealed]

Saw Nosferatu 2024, it was decent.

Worth torrenting, then?

[CuckTurdginson]

Getting shut out of Oscar conversations, I noticed. Arthouse fuckers all like Eggers, and its a hit so far; movie's sophisticated enough to overcome the 'no horror movies' barrier. You'd think it would fit in nicely.

I wonder how much of that could be attributed to retribution against Lily Rose-Depp over her dad (even though she hasn't and never has spoken up about his woes).

[Old Black Man]

Saw Nosferatu 2024, it was decent.

Worth torrenting, then?

I’d say so yeah.