Truman Show.
Truman Show.
Are you Truman or the supporting act? I can see how that film could provoke a few internal thoughts (we're in a simulation!) but having watched it a few times, I'd say you could look at it different. He lived in a bubble unaware that he was being watched by the masses and that his life was basically one big lie, an act (at least that was my take on it) made worse by those he cared for or who cared for him were all actors, a giant theatrical show for the real show, Truman but twisting it around into real life, we do sort of live in a bubble now, we are watched even if we think we aren't and there are so many actors on this planet, we call them two faced today that it is difficult to find a real Sylvia(?) someone who cares enough to want to set you free from the bubble you've come to be inside, incapable of seeing that you are in fact being played whilst others get paid but if you do find one, or he/she finds you, its possibly the best feeling in the world.
Not quite in love nor in need of the relationship thread but in the last 18 months or so I really realised that two people in particular are my Sylvia. Just wanting to set one free instead of getting paid.
Inspired post, I'm sure you'll agree.
I feel you on Jaws and Arachnophobia, Smiff. I also accidentally saw Alien far too young which also traumatised me.
See now Alien I imagine would/was alright because I was fascinated with space as a young kid but although I can't prove it, there has to be some correlation between arachnophobia and my fear of spiders. I remember once my elder brother stopped over and crashed on the floor in my room, I gave him my duvet but then felt something crawl across me late at night, jumped right on top of my bro, turns out it was a feather from the pillow that blew across my chest.
I also once encountered what I deemed an intelligent spider, I spotted it late, grabbed my trainer and tried to get it but it kept dodging me. Not even joking with the word dodge. The only way to get to it would have been to move the unit that I was using as my shield. Spider knew what it was doing.
Which part sets you off? Quality film too, that.
I don't think a film has ever done this for me. If anything I was a bit iffy with spiders as a kid but watched Arachnophobia no bother.
On the topic of watching films too young, Scarface had me shook.
Robocop put years on me but this might by my only dumb film fear.
RoboCop is a great shout. Seeing Murphy being beaten to death was pretty horrible. There was a film about shop mannequins coming to life which shit up for ages.
The horror film... I hope.
I watched 2 films recently.
King Richard was very good. I wonder if Big Willy will win an Oscar.
Free Guy was very bad and dreadfully boring.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...1f8015afde10e9
Nicolas Cage has made a career of biting into his roles with seemingly reckless abandon, even as he strayed further and further from studio movie making and sunk his teeth into indie cinema.
Now, in a deal sealed with a vampire's kiss, Cage is returning to a big-studio movie and will play the meaty role of Dracula in Universal Pictures' monster movie Renfield.
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With the new Matrix coming soon I'm contemplating rewatching the trilogy.
But then I thought I should rewatch the Godfather trilogy instead.
First films aside, I can't remember much at all.
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Are you on about The Matrix there? Because you can't be saying The Godfather Part II is no good, surely.
I wasn't. Was saying that as a whole they're not very good.
On The Matrix, 2 and 3 are absolute turd.
Matrix 2 was so bad, I didn't even see 3. What happens?
Even more pontificating, but slightly fewer endlessly boring action scenes.
Morpheus turns heel.
Matrix 1 is alright. 2 and 3 are complete turds.
Godfather 1 and 2 are good. The third one is meh.
Godfather 3 felt like a clip show without the clips.
"Remember this from the first one? Ah, y'do. Anyway, he's Sophia Coppolla reading lines poorly."
It was ahead of it's time by today's standards. Like the RLM review of Ghostbusters Afterlife 'remember this? Remember that?'
I watched The Shape of Water over the weekend. It's pretty good though I didn't quite love it as much as the hype it got at the time.
Michael Shannon plays a good bastard though, as ever.
Turns out Godfather I is one of the most overrated films of all time.
Part II seems better (stuff happens) but man it’s long. Went to bed when it reached “intermission.”
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We're all going to the world's fair is absolutely fantastic. Slow burn coming of age web creepypasta nosleep horror drama. Incredible central performance by Anna Cobb. I'd say its the most effective 'horror' of the year.
We got Disney+ for the kids today. Is there anything on there worthwhile for adults?
No Superhero or Starwars shite, I said for adults.
Can I borrow the account for Nomadland bro?
You're not allowed an opinion anymore.Based on DC Comics' acclaimed series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, the drama "Y: The Last Man" traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey.
Just watch it, in six months you'll have no idea whether you liked it or not anyway.
They have a decent back catalogue of stuff via Star.
I have no idea what a cisgender is but Im guessing its a fairly new comic.
Ive only ever watched the Mandalorian on it and a quick skim through the catalog would suggest that wont change for the time being.
So a male then.
Promising Young Woman is alright, Godzilla vs Kong is not.
So normal then.
My pronouns are it / that.
I watched Terminator: Dark Fate last night having seen it's available on Disney+.
It is not very good.
Given they're clearly determined to keep making films under the banner the obsession with sticking to the Connor story doesn't do them any favours and the dumb reason they came up with to justify Arnie's presence in this one was pretty lol.
The unforgivable with Sandra Bullock is actually pretty decent.
It's basically a Force Awakens-style "here are the franchise's greatest hits please like it" and one of those "this sequel picks up from the best film in the series please disregard everything you saw after that."
I was deeply bored but both RT scores suggest I may be in a minority.
Dark Fate is crap and suffers from the same problem all sequels since T2 have had: they can't top the T1000. They keep trying, but they can't. They could take it it a different direction and be more interesting, maybe not Salvation levels (it gets kudos for trying).
Raya and the Last Dragon is actually pretty good.
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