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My review, which was 100% correct, plus massive reeeeee in comments from incels who can't stand a powerful female lead BIPoC.

Special shout out to @cabalist who necro'd the thread just to spend his five cents.

Apparently the pants she wore at the end were so tight she had to be sewed into them and couldn't drink fluids for fear of pissing herself.

Just finished this horror web series and man was it bad. Just a collection of concepts that are so outlandish they end up as funny rather then scary. It doesn't help that the limited budget really shows it self as stuff that's supposed to be official government videos in universe just look cheap as shit and every monster shot is so blurry and far away its hard to tell what's even supposed to be happening. Its a shame as I liked a few of the videos like the mount rushmore one and the technology company one but most were just too far up their own weird lore. Oh and there are some really dumb forced parallels to modern politics like two separate vids based on Jan 6th

One of the few actually good anime movies, it's a shockingly sparse, surreal, and sublime art film following a young girl and a soldier in an abandoned city. Central to the film is the titular egg, which the young girl is convinced will someday hatch into a bird, while the soldier has doubts. Dripping with rich symbolism, it can be interpreted as a study of faith and makes both direct and oblique references to the classical Western films of Carl Theodor Dreyer, Roberto Rossellini, Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, and Ingmar Bergman, who put such thematic elements front and center in their own work. In many ways, it functions as a litmus test for the viewer, as they are asked to project their own opinions of salvation and the transcendental onto the cryptic final few minutes.

It's well worth 72 minutes of your time to sit there, watch the ploddingly slow but immensely beautiful hand-drawn visuals and letting the hauntingly ethereal soundtrack create a cinematic experience. Also, that scream is one of the single rawest, most pained things I've heard in a film. A+ work for that sequence. Seriously, give this one a shot.

Hollywood needs to stop doing brown face.

https://x.com/JohnLeguizamo/status/1556284900906770433

https://soap2day.to/MczozMzoiMTM5ODB8fDE3Mi41OC4xNzEuMTgxfHwxNjU5ODgyOTU3Ijs.html

Personally, I'm really looking forward to it since I'm a big fan of character drama's and history so I think I'll enjoy it.

Nolan also has a good track record with character driven, philosophical films, so this should be good.

I was a little concerned with the casting of Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, since he doesn't really look like him imo. But as long as the acting's good and the writing's good I don't think it will be an issue.

Predator prequel. There is a direct link between this film and Predator 2.

It was, to be fair, pretty good. The sort of people who think any film featuring a predominantly BIPoC cast is the literal genocide of the white race will be upset, especially when white people do show up in the movie and they're French.

The Predator itself is pretty cool. I think it might be one of the new ones from the movie Predators and it has some nifty new gadgets.

The CGI animals are excellent and the cinematography is v. nice- shades of both Dances With Wolves and Last of the Mohichans. This is also true of the soundtrack which is great.

Film has enough gore to keep people happy and the new Predator daisy cutter mines are satisfying AF.

Questions will abound as to how a legacy foid could do the things this one does- especially her highly-improbable hatchet-on-a-rope thing- but Arnie survived a fall of 30ft into 5ft of water in the first one so frick it: stop being an incel. Also I find this chick to be a far more plausible Predator-killer than Danny Glover sweating everywhere and whispering to himself while fencing fatly with a frisbee like in no. 2.

The ending is surprisingly satisfying and the trap she lays is better than the, frankly shit, one Arnie made in the first film.

Spoiler for doggo-lovers because spent the whole film fretting over whether the pittie-mix thing she has would survive and enough animals die in this film to make it plausible that they might kill this one off:

The dog survives

Finally: there is no post credits sequence so don't waste your time watching the credits. Image is from said credits- why are there so many people nowadays called 'Beavers'?

These are the same guys who did wonder showzen, one of them went off later to be a writer for south park. Do you dramatics like? For those that are new what do you think?

CD Projekt Red finally figured out how to fix their Cyberpunk game-- by making it into a Japanese anime.

Newest entry in the predator universe. Surprisingly good. Some are even calling it almost as good as the first. Anyone else seen it yet? What are your views?

Looks like kino

Yes I uploaded a whole Family Guy episode to rDrama, enjoy the bandwidth Aevann

Season 16 Episode 5: Three Directors

Wiki: https://familyguy.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Directors

Full Episode:

No write up or quick observation like last one I did for Return of the Living Dead. This one really speaks for itself, and I’m more certain will be unfamiliar to a larger number of you. This is one of my favorite spy films. Max Von Sydow is particularly excellent. If you ever wondered where Walter White got his threatening speech he gave to Elliot and Gretchen in the BB finale about “the scrape of a shoe behind you and then BANG, blackness”, he took it wholesale from this movie.

Free on Tubi currently.

Really good black comedy. I found the historical fiction aspects interesting as well. Obviously the situations are fictional but some of the power struggle and details are real.

Amusingly enough was banned in Russia and was denounced as lies by the children of Beria (cope) and Kruschev. Found that ods because you end up respecting Kruschev for unfricking some of Stalin's shit policies that were destroying the USSR.

Overall great film, all the acting is on point the writing is great and the film is interesting.

Oh yeah future bros. You gotta marry a 38 year old 45 BMI woman. Fricking a lifelike doll would be unethical. What if she develops emotions. Having s*x with an obedient ideal wife isn't true love. Trust me, only I can provide true love by getting a headache everytime you want to have s*x and by being a wine mom to three cats because I am infertile because of being a capricorn. Teehee.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/meimeifox/2022/06/26/ken-burns-and-ewers-brothers-spotlight-youth-mental-illness-in-new-documentary/?sh=114baeb0358d

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/town-square/2022/06/27/427851/documentary-hiding-in-plain-sight-youth-mental-illness-airs-on-pbs/

Most of the Ken Burns series of documentaries are incredibly good, detailed and immersive. This is the first one of the whole compendium that misses. It fails to bring enough attention to and to highlight the problem with children growing up addicted to video games and social media and how that is a direct connection to the mental health issues, suicide and school shootings.

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The best part of the movie was explaining to people who hadn't seen it yet "Basically the plot line is that the crickets are too big and there is a food shortage so they assemble the original cast to break into a lab to make the crickets smaller and then ignite a dinosaur war (with a few gun fights and dirtbike chases) and then at the end no one dies and the T-Rex wins a 2v1 against a bigger dinosaur with another dino that is Edward Scissor Hands"

Also apparently nobody in the movie dies or something.

This is what Jurassic park has stooped down to.

At this point it really does feel like they dug back after the corpse of Jurassic Park after milking it dry, then cloned it via mixing it with soy DNA to create this ...this ... whatever the frick it is.

Thoughts?