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Weekly "What are you watching?" Thread

Yes, it has been 1 week since the last thread. Don't question me.

What have you kinosseurs been watching? How was it? Tell us! :marseytrollcrazy:

Movies:

Wonka (2023) - Saw this one with my mom. It's a really cute family movie! Admittedly there are some deeply Marxist messages, but nothing more than intersecting the convergence of religion, commerce, and police state to protect capital and subjugate workers. Honestly didn't expect to like it, but I couldn't stop smiling. Twinky Tim is really great in this.

Chinatown (1974) - Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown :marseydepressed:. A classic noir starring (arguably) the best actor of all time, Jack Nicholson. Why did I wait this long to watch it? I though it had Chinese people and avoided it.

THX 1138 (1971) - George Lucas movie which came out 6 years before Soy Wars. Experimental and esoteric scifi (corpopunk?) dystopian movie about drugged sexless humans working in robot factories, slowly regaining humanity. I see what it was going for. Sci-fi bros can't stop jerking off over this, but it was ok. Maybe if you never read book and were in a dorm room in 1997-2009 and this hit your brain, you'd feel like you took a redpill idk.

Dream Scenario (2023) - Nicholas Cage in an A24 movie about a boring evolutionary psychology professor who suddenly starts appearing in people's dreams. He becomes a viral sensation and his life pays the toll. Story explores the theme of regular people stumbling into viral relevancy and the toll it takes on their lives, even when they have pretty much done nothing wrong. Decent laughs and Nic Cage makes a coom face.

Napoleon (2023) - Goddarn this movie was some garbage lmao. Only saving grace was Vanessa Kirby mogging the planet. Napoleon simps so hard he destroys the continent for she :marseynapoleon2:. Also wildly historically inaccurate.

Dave Chapelle: The Dreamer (2023) - This one was decently funny. His last special, Dave Chappelle: The Closer (2021) where he just ranted about :!marseytrain:s. Funny blowback, but unfunny show. This new one was actually pretty funny. Unfortunately he ended it with a really gay like 10 minute stool speech about chasing your dreams.

TV:

True Detective: Night Country - LOL

Reacher - (spoilers, but this show is r-slurred so who cares) Basically his Le Special Investigators Unit did like 3 months on a case 11 years ago and they immediately became family??? Frick this was a mid season. Go back to a small cast and beating up goons in small towns.

The Terror - Just started this one. In episode one, the guys who play Brutus and Julius Caesar in Rome are in a scene where someone talks about "Crossing the Rubicon" :marseysoypoint: Show is pretty good though, will stick with it.

Curb Your Enthusiasm - With news that the new season will also be the last, I am in determined to catch up in time. Just started season 6 when the black family moves in. Already funnier than like all of season 5.

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Started watching Your Honor this weekend, mostly because I was bored and didn't have stuff to watch. Surprisingly invested in it, crime procedural starring good ol' malcolm's dad about an accident entangling a judge and a crime boss in n'o'l'n's. Show is well made, well shot, well acted, twists and turns feel surprising and not rote.

Watched Civil War yesterday, wasn't bad, directorial voice seems to be criticizing the journos just as much as if not more than any of the other characters in the movie. Ron Perlman playing Not Donald Trump was interesting, and didn't have any groan moments. I'm not even sure the character was supposed to mock trump, but I'm also pretty far out of the last year or two of politics, so I could be wrong here.

Multiple shots of main journo characters with literal blood on their hands, all the journos, MCs included, shown to be self-serving, cowardly, broken, some negative archetype. Only people shown acting like normal/decent people are the WF soldiers in the third act. If we assume nothing in a movie is accidental, and it's worth considering that the semiotic notes I mention here aren't one-off moments but consistent, then it seems the director is nearly shouting.

I think a lot of people had wingoid knee-jerk reactions to this movie, but watching it yesterday and having been uninvolved in [CURRENT YEAR] politiball homosexery for a while now, I'm willing to say most people missed the director's actual intent, which seems to actually be "I fricking hate journos".

Thoughts? !followers have you seen Civil War? What were y'all's impressions?

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I've known more coherent downies.

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