What was the last film you watched?

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The "live" action version of "Lady and the Tramp". Again, another attempt at turning the children into insensitive beings who can´t watch a traditionally animated film. The original is one of my fav Disney classics but I tried to be positive. Anyway, I gave up at the end and admitted I was watching a piece of shite.

The dogs look extraterrestrial and possessed by a demon every time we hear what supposedly are their voices. The whole concept is extremely manipulative: they want to sell it as an ideal world where there is no racial discrimination and everybody lives happily after but actually what we get is...

A different take on the much-criticized fairy tale where, as you remember, every Disney heroine lived to be saved by a royal hunk. Instead, we get here what I described in the previous paragraph: they are feeding the young audiences with the idea that white people are a minority, that dogs do not (and must not) procreate (they insert at the end "adopted" pets instead!), that Siamese evil cats are racist but Egyptian evil cats are NOT (!!!!!!), that you can call a character by a male name and he may look like a male dog but actually make him talk as a woman and show him disguised as such by his very neurotic owner...is this a way to admit in a Disney movie that transsexual/non-binary/cross-dressing people are ok? Because if they really try to do that, they are seriously unhinged.

If "The Lion King" was a mess and a time waste, this is pathetic for the contrast between what they wanted to do and what they have achieved. The movie is stupid and dumb, and there are so many things confirming this that they even oversee the fact that a female should not be put into a jail with other (male) dogs. You know why, don´t you?

I´m fearing already for the future disasters of this sad era of Disney...

PS: I admit that their intention was good, but the outcome is very wrong. They just don´t know how to make movies anymore. At least this one wasn´t shown in theaters...

PS 2: The saving grace, F. Murray Abraham as Tony in the spaghetti scene, one of the few respected by the writers/director...though they avoid to show human couples looking at the moonlight in case someone can suspect they are doing the dirty deed...

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"Knives Out". Good fun, though some actors are wasted...

 

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- I finally finished "Captain Marvel" after three attempts...Dumb, dumb, dumb...
- "Betty Anne Waters", a very good biopic starring Hilary Swank from a decade ago.
 

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Last Christmas

My idea of a silly pleasure. I did love the music of George Michael as a soundtrack, and Emilia Clarke is great for these kind of rom-coms because she makes me care about what happens to her.
 
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Game Night (2018)


Smug, entitled, middle-aged Americans act like the smart-talking sassy teenagers from Scream for no reason other than, apparently, because.

The constant pop-culture references were tedious. The lines were driven home with all the subtlety of the circus. One got the sense that the self-conscious actors thought they were incredibly clever to be delivering "funny" lines in a "naturalistic" way (which amounts to weird emphases, annoying pauses and saying "OK" at the end of sentences).

The self-indulgent existentialism of the three couples was highly unnecessary. Who cared that one couple wanted a baby and were having problems conceiving. Or that there had been infidelity in another relationship. Or that the third couple (the completely un-hilarious slow young guy and his incompatible date) weren't really sure if they were a couple. It's all there to pad out the wafer thin plot.

In place of actual intelligence was an over-abundance of self-awareness and a series of heavy, unoriginal twists which changed the reality of the film, each of which reduced my already fragile investment.

In terms of tone, one felt that it purloined from much of Nineties pop culture. Primarily sitcoms (the traditional game night scenes were lifted directly out of Nineties Will & Grace, while the "look how funny I am" delivery of dialogue had all the smugness of Friends - which at least had actual funny lines to support it) and the meta-horrors like Scream and Final Destination. On that level, it was quite accessible to me. But there was really nothing new. It was nowhere near as original as it seemed to think.

Although it doesn't sound like it, there was something strangely watchable about it. But I couldn't watch it again. Probably.
 

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I´d been wanting to watch this for years and last night I did, at last. It´s an outrageously funny black comedy with a young(er) Nicole Kidman playing a very ambitious "weather girl". The cast includes a lot of actors who went on to bigger things, especially Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck, here as two very shady, sex-addicted high schoolmates. The end is very somber, which is a sign of how great Nicole was playing this character... because you kind of feel sorry for her.

 

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Last night I watched "Love, Simon". As outdated as one of Bill Cosby´s jerseys. "Glee" was Shakespeare compared with this (the parody of a Glee-like number must be the best scene here, btw...)
 

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It's been a little while since I watched a recent movie I could truly enjoy :( Most of new movies taste like crap to me... But there are a little few ones, I did love, deeply.
Midsommar is the first to come in mind. I loved, loved, loved that movie. So many Vikings cultural references, so many attention to details, foreshadowing, subliminal images (look at the trees... Yes, maybe you will see something you wouldn't see, if you don't pay attention). The movie is so fascinating. Nothing is "under the nose". You have to pay attention to everything : dialogs, sound, set, background set. You will even need to do some internet researches if your not familiar with some culturals Vikings myths and stories. Best movie of 2019. And I know a lot of people you juste hated it. Mainly because they were expecting something easy, with jump scares and explanations, à la BlumHouse.

It's a slow burn but but gradually gains momentum as it reaches it's very dark and effed up crescendo. Very atmospheric and unnerving, and you never quite know where it's going. I didn't really understand what was going on some of the time but that kind of added to the suspense. The performances are great, especially Toni Collete. All in all a pretty good modern horror movie.

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Same director than Midsommar actually . Again, I would say the same about Hereditary: everything is in the dialogues, the details, the set, the sounds. it's like a puzzle. When you connect every pieces, you can see the masterpiece.
 
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