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This movie rocks they ruined PR2 but discuss that also

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I've had this movie kicking around on my hard drive for a while and I finally decided to watch it. I wasn't expecting much and it still fell far below my expectations.

I won't get into too many spoilers but the central ideas of the movie simply don't make sense. There are so many holes in how it works when you spend five seconds thinking about it and the way they try to handwave it all away in the movie is kind of hilarious.

Speaking of hilarious, the best parts of the movie were when it was unintentionally funny. There are banger lines like, "My back! I need my calcium!" Or when a five year old girl gets pregnant and gives birth in the span of a few minutes. Everything was exposition dumped too, characters were constantly telling the audience exactly what was happening on the screen. "I'm cutting you with this rusty knife that my kids found earlier in the movie. The rust is like poison in your blood. This is an example of Chekov's Gun!"

M Night isn't known for his witty dialogue but it's exceptionally bad here. And it's delivered in a weird, stilted, Yorgos Lanthimos-type manner except I don't think it was meant to be intentional.

I do not recommend it even as a "turn your brain off" thriller type movie. It's awful. The central premise is moderately interesting but it's executed poorly. The only redeeming quality is that Thomasin McKenzie is a fricking smokeshow and she walks around in a bikini the entire movie. Very distracting.

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oh and movie blunder! He's driving on the wrong side of the road!

Tis the season of frick the Movie Theater as always

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Dont wastw your time/money. Just saw it. It was very very very very very veryvery very very boring. 2hrs of talking and 10minutes of cars driving 35mph with a little shaky cam.

So they're supposed to be at Alexandretta (Iskenderun) in the late 1930s. It's portrayed as some kind of Arab banana republic. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

France had ambitions in the Levant. As early as the 1860s it's obvious that France is backing the Maronites, Russia the Orthodox Christians, and Britain the Druze.

By ww1 the frogs were demanding all of greater Syria plus a huge chunk of Anatolia. Kids, back then nobody had played EU4 so the concept of core provinces didn't exist yet. So the French invade Turkey, and this gets mixed up with the Armenian genocide in complex ways and I don't really know the details tbh. But the Turks win. France has the best army in the world but Britain is trying to cockblock them and America is against the whole imperialism thing in general.

So the French get Syria but not Turkey. There is a dispute over the area around Alexandretta (Iskenderun). This is across the mountains from Syria but still very much tied into it. The League of Nations actually did something right and had a referendum done there (1936 iirc but I'm phoneposting from bed and y'all don't deserve me looking it up ).

Turkey won and got the land. It's now called Hatay province.

Thanks for coming to my exercise in distracting myself from not having children at Christmas.

I've watched about 20 minutes of it and it's even worse than I was led to believe.

Sandler is insufferable as usual, so I guess I can't complain about that. But none of the jokes are set up well; they're just gross-out humour or extremely weak slapstick done badly.

The product placement is more egregious than any film I've seen, except perhaps Power Rangers (2017).

Supposedly this film cost $80 million to make. How is that possible? That is more expensive than Joker (2019). The Japs just released a special-effects blockbuster for $16 million. Where did all that money go?

and they only did it so they could make terrible puns at the end of the movie

the later brosnan bonds were so bad

It's a pretty fantastical movie that obviously shouldn't be taken too seriously. I mean they've got a Nazi army in Cairo in 1936 with panzerfausts and goofy flying wing airplanes. But I argue that it works so well because it does a good of giving the characters relatively realistic motives and abilities.

Cairo 1936.

Right from the start it's already already establishing just what level of badass Indy is. He finds Forrestal's body and mentions how good he was. This tells us if Indy survives he must be even better, but also shows us that he's worried because he knows he's not indestructible.

When he gets back home he proposes going to Marrakesh to steal the idol back from Belloch. The other guy is like "no listen we're going to do even more based than that instead".

Marion is the kind of empowered woman that dumb millenial c*nts imagine they could be. She's cunning and resourceful but also completely helpless if she gets stuck in the wrong situation. She's aggressive with a dash of arrogance and half a cup of crazy but still feminine. She doesn't need a man to tell her what to do but she'll grudgingly follow if one has a good idea. And most importantly she doesn't try to beat men with her upper body strength like foids in post-1990s movies always do.

Karen Allen is incredibly sexy throughout the whole movie even though she's usually fully dressed. Foids take notice: Not being a bimbo is actually really attractive.

Indy is much the same. He reminds me of Phillip Marlowe. He's a really smart guy, pretty tough, knows a thing or two about trouble. But he's not Superman. He lost the idol because Belloch was better at politics and finding allies. He can't win a fist fight with the big buck bosche. He's always either one step ahead or behind of the enemy, using his wits and struggling desperately to keep up. Compare that to millennial slop like the dogshit Jack Reacher tv show where the guy can do anything because he's bigger than everyone else and has magical intuition.

Peepee Powell is my favorite Marlowe.

Belloch is great too. Dude just wants to learn more about God and how the universe works. They can actually have themes more profound than capeshit's "dae think being evil is bad" because the adversary has a motive that we all share and is usually considered a good thing.

A radio for talking to God? My foot is gonna communicate with your butt.

Then there's the Nazis, who Belloch manipulates into being his minions. Unlike him these guys are cartoonishly evil, so we can have our cake and eat it too. Talk with Belloch and slaughter mindless krauts with an SMG. It works because the Nazis really were that cartoonishly evil.

Nazis. I hate these guys.

Finally we get to the really powerful characters in the story. The final boss is God, who is like... imagine you're playing SWTOR and there's a world boss who is level 200. In the end you realize that while we squabble over a box there is someone way more important really calling the shots.

And then the final final boss is the glowies. They have immense power because they're the kind of people who are responsible enough to just put the box away and not open it. God I wish that irl today responsible people actually had power.

Putting the box in another box and returning it to the state it was found in. Really is a Rod Serling/Saki tier ending.

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This is sadly better than current Simpsons

Honestly watch the full scene here, this is one of the best sequences from one of the best episodes ever:

"We now bring you 'Homer Simpson: Portrait of an Butt-Grabber' "

"oooh, portrait! Sounds classy."

9.5/10. Unironically nearly perfect.

If I had one critique, it's that while 99% of the dialogue was great, at two points in the movie (as soon as they get to Sleddale Hall and later the tea room scene), a woman speaks one, maybe two lines of dialogue.

It's unfortunate that there had to be women, but I guess things like that happen. Perfection is hard to attain.

Anyway there was a lot of gay stuff in the movie: highly recommend.