Never seen Hamilton but that seems like the Lin-Manuel Miranda way.... catchy songs that I can tap my toes to but ultimately fade from my mind....

Hamilton def lives rent free in my mind personally. its on D+.

Would be interested in a thread where Destor gives his top ten or FAVE FIVE songs from musicals....

I know Frank Drebin would be very interested in it too

i cant rank order my babies :(


(but just list the sound track from A Goofy Movie and call it a day)

Let me tell you from the perspective of the father of a 3.5 year old; those songs do get into your subconscious after multiple watch throughs. Infectious. I’ll often find myself singing “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” at work (she’s singing it right now actually :lol:).

They’re all pretty much “ear worms” for me. Every song. I think it’s been said but the collection of songs is arguably the best of any Disney movie (any movie full stop perhaps). Moana has some great songs (also written by Lin Manuel) but I don’t think the whole set is as strong but it’s not far off.

How many times have you seen Moana, Destor? Or was it an instant thing where on one watch those songs were just there?

Watched 7 Psychopaths last night. 7.5/10. Cool idea. Very quirky. And Colin Farrell tends to shine in more offbeat roles. Sam Rockwell and Chris Walken together were an added chef's kiss, plus Woody was on good form as the baddy.

I can provide better reviews if I'm actually taking notes because right now I'm just pulling from memory. The only thing holding this movie back from a higher rating is there's a certain tone that I wouldn't necessarily call timeless.

ive only seen moana once.

Encanto felt very similar to Moana.




Moana's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better, and I'm not a fan of musicals AT ALL.

Not the first time but

A League of their Own is off the charts.

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Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness: 3 and 1/4 stars out of 4

It's dumb. It's fan-servicey. It deals with a subject in which I'm not interested. And I'm sure Sam Raimi directed every action sequence on a random narcotic he pulled out of a bingo tumbler for each day of filming.

That said, the heart of this film, like most Marvel films, is with the characters. Their wants. Their goals. Their feelings. Yes, they're dealing with something completely ridiculous and it's not appealing to me but I'm taking this ride with characters I get and that I like. What they do makes sense and it's relatable. It's just being done against a backdrop of craziness and imaginative effects.

Like Spider-Man: No Way Home, don't take any of my Negative Nancy-ness to heart. It's a roller coaster that virtually Marvel fanboy and fangirl is going to be giddy about, especially in the second act. Saying anything more will almost dip into spoiler territory so I'll just offer my positive recommendation. Mid-credit and post-credit scenes do exist but the latter is kind of a dumb let down that only calls back to something earlier in the film.

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness - 6.5/10

This one was profoundly stupid and very entertaining.

It’d help if you’ve seen WandaVision and What If?

A Serious Man... very very good... coen brothers a paragon of jewish excellence... didnt realize this was an allusion to the book of job till my friend mentioned it... "slow burn" type of film... lots of stuff "unresolved"... really good... thanks...

I reviewed that in this thread. I loved it, didn’t even think about the Job comparison.

Don’t Breathe-7/10
Don’t Breathe 2-6/10

First one is a very tense, claustrophobic home invasion movie that gets wavier as it goes, especially the twist in the third act. There’s no real good guys in this. Just shades of gray characters doing bad things with at least decent or understandable intentions.

Second one is still a home invasion movie, but it’s significantly more violent and faster paced but lacking in the tension of the first. But still enjoyable.

The Nightingale-8/10

An enslaved Irish woman employs the help an indigenous black man to track down the british military officer and his cronies who took the life of her husband and newborn. The actor who played Billy was stellar. The whole movie was, really, although it got a bit long but had a satisfying ending.

The Rental-8/10

Dave Franco directed horror about 2 brothers and their significant others take a vacation at a beach side rental home to unwind. They find out they’re being recorded with hidden cameras, which caught one brother cheating with his brother’s girl, leading to all hell breaking loose. What I liked about this one was mostly the third act where the violence kicks in, because it’s not a happy ending and the question “how do they beat the bad guy” is answered definitively; they don’t.

Calibre-8/10

2 childhood buddies venture into the countryside of Ireland to go hunting and up killing a father and son. One on accident and the other out of defense, and attempt to cover it up. Loved the build up to when their awful deed is finally discovered. A good jocote with lots of tension.

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness - 7.5/10. Another perfectly entertaining, perfectly forgettable movie from the Marvel/Disney factory complex.

Everything Everywhere All At Once a much better Multiverse of Madness movie :y:

Bitches be up in the multiverse these days...

Doctor Strange 2: 8/10


Ill save my full thoughts for the spoiler thread but i really enjoyed it. Sam Rami with big evil dead energy here

Moonfall - 2/4

Mental. Roland Emmerich is just taking the piss now.

The Northman 4/5?

My first trip back to a movie theater in 2 years. And I don't get a complete movie. The wind was whipping outside and made the power flicker. Projector in my theater went out and I guess got fucked up. So they moved me across the way to another empty theater. I think they put me ahead a 5-10 minutes.

Regardless, great flick.

The Northman

violent as hell... good though... didnt need to be able to follow the details of the plot too closely to know what was up. Good twist or two, nice scenery etc, seems insane that ppl used to pillage all the time and take them as slaves

Can't Hardly Wait

There were like 3 smash mouth songs in this movie and they used the same song for when the ppl kiss that they used in The Office UK... some cheap laffs, 90s stuff is funny to me tho

Drowning Mona

really fucking funny...

Drowning Moana


fuckinger funnier

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers - 7.5/10

One of those fun "spot the cameo/reference" movies with a decent enough story.

I knew you’d watch that.

The Matrix: Resurrections - 5/10. Easily the worst of the sequels. Just no real story or point to it..... but hey they did a "meta" thing where they acknowledged that it was a pointless sequel so maybe it is just brilliantly self aware.

Night Moves

ended up on my "list" somehow... prolly some rando on twitter recommended it... decent Moralsfilm... filmed up there in them oregon lakes that i was hanging out on back in The Oregon Trail... that "Peter Sarsgaard" guy was in it, looked really familiar but I think I only knew him from Garden State (2004)... played this while grinding my characters job levels up in ff5

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - 4.5/5

Woooohoooo! This was a fun ride!

Lol I completely forgot this movie until I randomly watched that a couple months ago for the first time since I was like 13. Same with The Big Lebowski....good shit
.

Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers - 6/10


i enjoyed this a whole lot. is it a member berries movie? ya. but it really has its finger on pulse on what animation nerds of that era will respond to.

Looks like the Wachowski sisters did manage to pull the wool over at least one of your eyes.
Self awareness is worth nothing when used to acknowledge stunning mediocrity.

I suppose “The Matrix: Resurrections” is to “The Matrix” as The Wachowski sisters are to the former Wachowski brothers - a fucking terrible remake. We know it cost a lot but we ain’t happy about how it was spent.

I was being v sarcastic when saying that acknowledging that it was a pointless sequel was brilliant....

You’re fucking bad at sarcasm bro.

This happened recently with you and somebody else.

Get with it man.

Sarcasm would be 10/10 bro.

Bro.

i caught what lock jaw was selling

I’ll punch you right in your fuckin eye bitch!

I just became unemployed Destor, don’t hunt me down and mangle me like some poor mailman or whoever that guy was what spine you broke…

Shit man what happened?

Hope everything turns out well for you

hey you can punch me thats fair game. just leave my fucking dog out of it.

I love dogs.

Watching the new Gervais special.

He rips into women straight away.

Gravy.

Dead baby joke, now back to slagging off trannies.

This is good.

This is real good.

Now onto saying he’d rather watch Louis CK masturbate than try to watch Nanette.

Gervais just swinging for the fences.

The Swimmer (1968)

This is the fucking stupidest movie ever... Some guy decides he wants to "swim home" by going in various ppl's backyard pools, except he's like some sex pest trying to rape the women. This thing sucks

“Stranger By The Lake” is a pretty phenomenal film about murder, swimming and gay sex.

Not a big fan of the ass munching but the rest was on point.

Little Children

another good Moralskönflikt from the time period where you could write characters who don't have cell phones...

That’s a great film. Jackie Earl Haley should probably have won an Oscar for that.

Yeah he was really good... didn't have a lot of screen time though...

Blow Out - 8/10

You can definitely see how the Kennedy assassination was living in the minds of people at the time; roughly 10 years later. Travolta is excellent here. DePalmas writing is very strong. it ranks high ion both their bodies of work.

Licorice Pizza - 8/10

Certainly PTA's most grounded piece. Cinematography is very strong. Its almost like Anderson is allergic to close ups and i really love that. he has the camera take a voyeurs position being just far enough away to allow the audience feel like a spectator into private conversations. several long drawn out ones. the themeing is very strong and uses this story of youth to explore the bartering nature of sexual selection. not his best work by any stretch but a very good film and the male lead will likely have a very leggy future.

Los Enchiladas!

This is the movie Mitch Hedberg wrote... spent a lot of time trying to find it before realizing it was just on YouTube. Funny... a couple of his jokes off his cd's are in it but there's a lot more Hedberg-style insight into random stuff... funny... good... kinda like "Waiting" but less happens, but funnier... kinda explores the monotony of working in a restaurant and how you start to perceive the idiosyncracies of different ppl from being around them a lot... chef character was really funny

^this is my post from july 2007. i watched this movie a bunch that summer because it was on IFC a lot. I remember not really "getting it" but still liking it. I watched this movie again a couple weeks ago and realized it doesnt make a lot of sense, even though I "got it" now, and it kinda fucking sucks. I've sworn off the 10 point rating scale but I'll make an exception here to update this score to a 4 out of 10. Theres a bunch of memorable moments and good songs and carrie ann moss is maybe the hottest woman of all time in this movie, but nothing really holds it together

Moonfall. I dunno, 4/10 maybe? It's not terrible but it ain't good outside of eye candy. Special effects are amazing which is the point here, but theres too much going on and too many people who just don't seem important enough to there. Plot points that just get abandoned or never explained in the first place. Was clearly set up for a sequel but there is literally negative chance that happens with the way this bombed at the box office after the kind of money they spent on it.

It absolutely is terrible, but it’s a great movie to talk over.

I think Roland Emmerich is just showing us his clout now.
To be fair he’s not wrong to do it. Joe Eszterhas did it all through the 90’s without once having to touch the product or create anything remotely watchable. He just wrote outlines and sold them for millions.

There are cinema geniuses, and then there are Hollywood geniuses.
I guarantee Roland Emmerich lets the studio do the actual work. Much like Michael Bay.
Build a name then exploit it.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

I didn't like this movie but I appreciate that it took some risks, I just didn't like the risks. This movie made me feel guilty for liking movies which was an interesting risk to take but it just annoyed me. A lot of it was uncomfortable and makes you confront aging and your family and that isn't bad, I just didn't enjoy it. It got too like "bogged down" in itself and started to feel insane

I loved "Im Thinking of Ending Things." liked it better than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. book is good too. wildly different 3rd act though.

Freaky Friday

so stupid... the early 2000's Avril Lavigne poser punk "aesthetic" was truly the worst shit ever... plus this movie is racist against asians

So it’s the Lohan/Curtis version?

What the hell man, you always go classic…

I did that with Fever Pitch and paid the fucking price.

Hahaha fair play man, fair fucking play.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - 5/10

First 1.5 hours of this just under 2.5 hours long movie is pretty naff and feels like nothing happens..... then it gets alright once the "endgame" is revealed.... was better than the second one I guess where nothing happened the entire movie and was just a "set up sequels/franchise" material...... this one at least had a story that eventually started and ended. "Weird" at the main braud of the franchise being written out to just a cameo... rumours that it is because she "spoke out" against JK Rowling.....

Maybe she distanced herself from it, not the other way around.
I bet she still got paid.

Almost Famous

pretty good

Mean Streets (1973) - 7/10

i had wrote thing but lost it. everyone is a bit green but still a good film. the themes of sin and adolescence come to a fine boil.

Pieces of April

good, kinda slow. another movie that couldnt really work after like 2003 because cell phones would have made the plot pointless...

Dan in Real Life

Good... sweet. Didn't know this was the movie that "put it on my tab" line that I always used to say comes from

Her - 9/10


There are atleas 5 levels of analysis just after 1 watch so i wont get into the plot. there's too much to comment on and process. What i will praise is Phoenix's performance. the bulk of this film is him in close up and he carries the film effortlessly. He's definitely a generational talent that probably will never get the credit he deserves no matter how much credit he gets.

Operation Mincemeat - 3/5

Just your standard World War 2 true story.

Double World - 2.5/5

Dead Don't Die (2019)

Jim Jarmusch film with Bill Murray and Adam Driver and Chloe Sevigny

8/10

Very fun horror movie. Good cameos. Lots of fan service to people who like horror movies. Doesn't take itself seriously.

Can understand why many mouth breathers didn't like it.

Recommend

Teen Titans Go to the movies.

8.5/10

Was pleasantly surprised this movie was quite enjoyable without knowing much of the source material.

Les Miserables

I got interested in this because the high school I worked at put it on and it was really good... I mean it's pretty much a masterpiece and the movie does it justice, not really a surprise. Just so much detail in every single moment. The songs are really really good... Didn't know Ali G played the Master of the House guy... funny

the majority was live in camera too. very little ADR

i think its very importantfor a musical to have as little looping as possible. the performance needs to live in the song. if youre gettin a performance om the se and trying to get the audio in the studio to match that youll always lose the soul of it. its really critical.

Brigsby Bear

lol... really sweet... funny... lotta good Kyle Mooney stuff

Watch “Dave Made A Maze” if you haven’t seen that one yet.

The Prince of Pennsylvania

lol... early keanu reeves... nothing to special

Beavis and Butthead Do The Universe.

10/10.

I have but one bunghole to give.

And I give it to you.

The Black Phone - 9/10

Excellent. Legit creepy.

Unforgiven - 9/10

A little too long, and has hints of Clint’s “one take and let’s go to lunch” style which gives it a lack of polish, but it suits this movie well (as opposed to the Asians in Gran Torino or all of J Edgar). A true classic American western.

Stuck on “Trevor: The Musical” just to see how bad it would be.

I’m now past the ten minute mark. A chubby effeminate lad is being told to wank over nudie mags by his sleazy little Indian mate ostensibly so that he can count his sperm for science. I see a little fat girly lad discovering he hates boobs in the next few minutes. Hopefully there’s a song about it.

Hopefully there’s one when he finds out it’s cock he loves.

I miss Guru Dave.

I may start watching films I have no interest in just to see if any of them are decent but mostly just to have some shit to talk.

Bad musicals could be a fine market for me to review.
I haven’t done that for ages.

Hey the same actress is playing his mother and teacher… she has an unsightly forehead wart that emanates from her hairline so I called it straight away.

If you’re going to Eddie Murphy this thing at least use a fat suit…

Man the kid they used has a hilarious shape to him. He has no tits but a great fat ass and wee belly roll. He looks like a middle aged woman.
Terrible singer too…

I might have to turn this off. It’s not all rib-tickling songs about jacking off.

Twenty minutes into this bitch and I have an hour and a half to go. I might have to give up on this. This is dreadful but for some reason I feel like it’s about to blow my mind so I can’t quite turn it off yet…

Oh no they just did a John Hinkley reference but it went down like a lead slug in Ronald Reagan. One guy audibly laughed like a yokel but no joke was told, the character literally just shoe-horned in a random, disconnected John Hinkley reference in the middle of a scene where her gay son is dancing on his bed.

This cast is full of show kids… the ones with the jazz hands and hugely emphatic facial expressions. There isn’t one normie in here. Even the gayness of the lead is up for debate. He might just be a really talented piece of shit liar, the classic show kid.

Hahahahaha his name is Trevor Nelson.

This is about a young tween boy who loves Diana Ross and wants to force other boys to dance for him.

It’s weird.

This kid would have been found asphyxiated and stuffed somewhere cramped and dark if he went to my school in the 90’s and this shit is set a good decade before and nobody has called him a fag yet.

He keeps saying “Diana[Ross] says” as if that wouldn’t get you a smack in the mouth on the first mention.
This thing has it all wrong. The good guys are the kids that haven’t ruined his life yet.

This is a musical about a delusional fat boy with a personality disorder and no real adult male role models in his life.
The dad is useless so they take him to the priest. He gonna molest that boy…

The priest is giving the boy the sex talk. The priest is clearly bent too.
Asking him if he thinks about boys at night.
Yuck…

The nerd girl is quite good. She’s deliberately being very nasal and it works. Sadly it does sound terrible it’s just fairly believable.

Christ, forty minutes left.

“Everybody at school is saying that I’m a gay.”

Bwahahaha…

Ugh this shit is abject. I think it’s really a bad message to send when the kid is so insufferable that he’d get his ass kicked if he was straight.

Oh sweet somebody did just call him a faggot, then they said he didn’t deserve to live which is a bit harsh IMO.
This is a Disney joint too lol.

Jesus Christ… “Endless Love” while he downs pills individually with a drink.

This is getting a bit fucked up now.

If he dies I’m writing a strongly worded complaint even though I streamed it illegally. That’s how much I needed to see this.