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Ok, finished watching The Acolyte. Final score is 7/10.

This show is definitely overhated by the Star Wars fandom, to the point that it's absurd.

It is *easily* better than dog crap like Kenobi, Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and the latest Mando season.

Those shows are carried by fan service and people's emotional connections to the actors, but their production values and plotlines are straight trash.

Acolyte is something fresh in a sea of nostalgia baiting. It doesn't rely on big SW names, it's not part of the Marvelized "Filoni-verse" where the Galaxy must be the size of Peoria and everyone knows everyone else or happens to stumble across all the biggest names.

The basic plot, which moves pretty quickly, is a young woman is seeking revenge on 4 Jedi for a tragic event that occured in her past, and as part of her revenge she is taken on as an apprentice by a Sith lord to gain the skills and powers to take on these 4 Jedi.

The show does some stuff really well. The fight choreography is just *chef's kiss* easily some of the best in all of Star Wars. I never thought the term "Headbutting a lightsaber" would be a sentence that not only would make sense but also look cool AF but here we are.

The core mystery of the show is also reasonably well handled. The writers had to come up with a reason Jedi do some bad things and make some bad calls and they handled it fairly well. It reinforces that the Jedi before the events of the prequel films were becoming overly bureaucratic and wrapped up in politics, and less guided by the will of the force.

On the meh side of things, the main actress just isn't a terribly compelling character, and her backstory and flashback scenes aren't particularly gripping, but they don't overstay either. The show also has some odd tonal inconsistency, at the start seeming like a show for little kids and then rapidly accelerating into something definitely not for kids.

Luckily the story is bolstered by the Jedi Sol (played excellently by Lee Jung-Jae who learned English for this role) and The Stranger (played excellently as well by Manny Jacinto).

If you're looking some sci-fi pulp fun with great fight scenes and enough plot to keep you paying attention you could do a lot worse than Acolyte.
 
GodisanAtheist said:
Ok, finished watching The Acolyte. Final score is 7/10.

This show is definitely overhated by the Star Wars fandom, to the point that it's absurd.

It is *easily* better than dog crap like Kenobi, Book of Boba Fett, Ahsoka, and the latest Mando season.

Those shows are carried by fan service and people's emotional connections to the actors, but their production values and plotlines are straight trash.

Acolyte is something fresh in a sea of nostalgia baiting. It doesn't rely on big SW names, it's not part of the Marvelized "Filoni-verse" where the Galaxy must be the size of Peoria and everyone knows everyone else or happens to stumble across all the biggest names.

The basic plot, which moves pretty quickly, is a young woman is seeking revenge on 4 Jedi for a tragic event that occured in her past, and as part of her revenge she is taken on as an apprentice by a Sith lord to gain the skills and powers to take on these 4 Jedi.

The show does some stuff really well. The fight choreography is just *chef's kiss* easily some of the best in all of Star Wars. I never thought the term "Headbutting a lightsaber" would be a sentence that not only would make sense but also look cool AF but here we are.

The core mystery of the show is also reasonably well handled. The writers had to come up with a reason Jedi do some bad things and make some bad calls and they handled it fairly well. It reinforces that the Jedi before the events of the prequel films were becoming overly bureaucratic and wrapped up in politics, and less guided by the will of the force.

On the meh side of things, the main actress just isn't a terribly compelling character, and her backstory and flashback scenes aren't particularly gripping, but they don't overstay either. The show also has some odd tonal inconsistency, at the start seeming like a show for little kids and then rapidly accelerating into something definitely not for kids.

Luckily the story is bolstered by the Jedi Sol (played excellently by Lee Jung-Jae who learned English for this role) and The Stranger (played excellently as well by Manny Jacinto).

If you're looking some sci-fi pulp fun with great fight scenes and enough plot to keep you paying attention you could do a lot worse than Acolyte.
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And I thought the concept of a female witch group on some faraway plenty, with powers of the force, was fucking cool and they were cool, but I think that was a bridge too far for a lot of Star wars fans incels. I thought it was a nice change of pace and the Star wars universe is definitely big enough to support that story
 
Bugonia. Basically a movie with four actors. I loved it. Stone and Plemons were excellent. Now I gotta go watch pretty little things.

Edit: Alexandra Daddario heard us talking about her and filed for divorce. she knows we are available now and wants some

www.tmz.com

Alexandra Daddario and Andrew Form Separate After 3 Years of Marriage

Alexandra Daddario and Andrew Form have made the decision to end their marriage ... TMZ has confirmed.
www.tmz.com www.tmz.com
 
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I watched

The Electric State - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7766378/

Starring Millie Bobby Brown and, unfortunately, Chris Pratt.

In an alternate world, there is a big war between sentient household robots, protesting for robot-rights, and those who see robots as appliances. The film thus comes with a massive amount of absolutely fantastic, quasi-Fallout-esque CGI, as the robots are all fully animated.
The plot involves Brown's deceased brother, who one day shows up in the body of a, essentially non-verbal robot. She follows the robot in the "exclusion zone" to find her brother, believed dead in the accident that left her an orphan.

Herein lies the problem.

Brown's character and acting are both superb. Chris Prat .. i still do not understand why you people do this to yourselves. HE CANNOT ACT. He's the same buffoon that he always plays in ever film ever. Even The Rock has more acting range.

So Pratt is starring in a comedy, while Brown is starring in a dystopian drama. And there is no moment in the film where these two things unite.
There's also a horribly miscast Stanley Tucci (very prone to chewing the scenery), a horribly miscast Ke Hui Quan (if he is ever not miscast), an unnecessary Giancarlo Esposito, all of which are acting in a different film, as if the director phoned in sick and said "just do whatever you want".

Which is really sad because the production is *amazing*. Photography, sets, costumes, lights, all absolutely fantastic, even the dialogues are not bad, and i have to say, the actors themselves are not "bad", they are just not acting the same film.

As it is, 6/10 purely for the visuals, because the constant tonal switch is unbearable. Without the Chris Pratt character (and frankly without Chris Pratt) and a reshoot to keep the tone consistent, maybe 7.5/10.
 
One of my favorites from my high school days. Free on YouTube now.

Seven Days In May. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. I say at least 8/10.
 
JujuFish said:
I watched Marty Supreme. Good movie, but damn, has Timothee Chalamet ever been so punchable?
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The Oscars should add a new category for the most punchable actor in a film. I've never seen him in anything besides this, but he does almost too good a job of playing an unlikable, manipulative, completly self centered asshat. I don't think I've ever seen a movie where I wanted to see the main character fail more than this one. I was definitely not rooting for him lol. He did a wonderful job though, I've heard he's actually nice in real life. And the actress who plays his Baby Mama was just about as despicable.
 
So, i just watched 5 episodes of

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27497448/reference/

well, 4 episodes, switched it off at the start of the fifth.

Started off decent, and the production is pretty good, but i just can't get behind the protagonist. He's dumb as a rock, has no charisma, has no particular talent, while everyone else around him is far better in every way.

it's currently at 9/10 on IMDb, so who am i to tell you otherwise.
 
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Bugonia. Basically a movie with four actors. I loved it. Stone and Plemons were excellent. Now I gotta go watch pretty little things.

Edit: Alexandra Daddario heard us talking about her and filed for divorce. she knows we are available now and wants some

www.tmz.com

Alexandra Daddario and Andrew Form Separate After 3 Years of Marriage

Alexandra Daddario and Andrew Form have made the decision to end their marriage ... TMZ has confirmed.
www.tmz.com www.tmz.com
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So you’re saying theirs a chance.
 
i watched

The Bone Temple - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32141377/reference/

and my first impression was "WTF, Ralph Fiennes !?!?" as he is generally a more .. serious, actor, someone who would play a politically-hesitant priest, rather than *anything* that has Zombies in it.

Anyway, so Ralph Fiennes is kind-of the protagonist here, although he doesn't really do much protagonist stuff, in fact he just spends his post-rage-virus-apocalypse days building an open-air bone temple, literally; an ossarium, which is a weird (even for well-educated western traditionalist christians) way to preserve the memory of those who have passed, first because IRL ossariums preserve the bones of people who are significant (there's only a handful worldwide, and it's generally friars preserving other friars), and also because it's the fucking apocalypse and investing your energy in randomly assembling a charnel pit isn't exactly the sort of thing a sane person would do.

He also occasionally studies the rage mutants, who, we soon find out, have really large penises.

There's also a bunch of Children Of The Corn clones who have nothing better to do than to go around breaking stuff in their neat, washed & pressed adidas tracksuits, since they apparently are immune from mundane things like hunger or dirt.

So .. first problem, is that you can't really pair Ralph Fiennes with .. anyone, outside of a certain well-defined circle. It's like trying to pair Ossetra caviar with Fanta. And the rest of the cast is 100% Fanta, so when the two switch between one and the other - and even worse, during the one confrontation they have - the difference is jarring.

The production is admirable, the special & extraordinary effects are superb, the photography is by far the best of the series, but the script is really fucking weaksauce.

Idk, im on the fence here, the film isn't exactly a waste of time, but it can't hold a candle to the vastly superior script of 28 Days, despite the horrendous photography in 28 Days. And if you are going in expecting a continuation ... i mean, BY NOW, you should know better.

Anyway, 6.5/10
 
SO !

i watched

Predator Badlands - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31227572/reference/

and it was pretty damn good.

At first i thought it was gonna be just praise for the photography, but i actually liked the characters !

The plot is, back on Predator planet there is a predator that is just not as Predator as the other Predators. Because Predators are kinda like that, they want to kill him. So he escapes to hunt the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the universe, a beast so dangerous even the guys who want to kill the protagonist Predator are scared of it.

So baby Predator goes to this planet and whatchaknow, it's a hell planet - plants with steel blades for leaves, snakes that spit acid, exploding flowers, the works. There he finds a broken down Weiland-Yutani android who teachs baby Predator that strength is in the team.

Fight scenes were decent, if sometimes a tad unrealistic, special effects were perfect, the creatures were all cool, the antagonist is a bit meh, the production, editing, direction were all stellar, the dialogue was good, and someone must have listened in Hollywood because the runtime i just over 90 minutes.

All in all, a great little film.

7.5/10
 
I watched The East - with the love of my life Brit Marling. Also starring Alexander Skaarsgard.

It was a bit of a clumsily written movie, as usual, trying to fit way too much in a shorter runtime, but the characters and the acting and the overall point of the story made it work. Brit Marling is so good. Man I wish they finished the OA.
 
DigDog said:
SO !

i watched

Predator Badlands - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31227572/reference/

and it was pretty damn good.

At first i thought it was gonna be just praise for the photography, but i actually liked the characters !

The plot is, back on Predator planet there is a predator that is just not as Predator as the other Predators. Because Predators are kinda like that, they want to kill him. So he escapes to hunt the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the universe, a beast so dangerous even the guys who want to kill the protagonist Predator are scared of it.

So baby Predator goes to this planet and whatchaknow, it's a hell planet - plants with steel blades for leaves, snakes that spit acid, exploding flowers, the works. There he finds a broken down Weiland-Yutani android who teachs baby Predator that strength is in the team.

Fight scenes were decent, if sometimes a tad unrealistic, special effects were perfect, the creatures were all cool, the antagonist is a bit meh, the production, editing, direction were all stellar, the dialogue was good, and someone must have listened in Hollywood because the runtime i just over 90 minutes.

All in all, a great little film.

7.5/10
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LOL this movie was such complete trash.
 
Iron Lung - I haven't played the video game, so I was kinda lost. This was still pretty freakin great, and impressive that it only cost $3 million to make and is based on an indie video game that has slightly above Doom level visuals. There were lots of tense moments and the sound was really engaging. Mark Edward Fischbach directs and stars in it. He's some popular YTer but I've never heard of him. He does a solid job at both for someone who's not a director or actor. It made me want to go check out the game, which apparently only takes a couple hours to beat. The movie is a bit long at a little over 2 hours. And there are some parts that drag on, but I mostly enjoyed the pacing. It's more suspense than horror, but it's a super dark movie, there weren't any dark humor moments. It's extremely grim from start to finish.

GOAT - A Steph Curry movie, it's a formulaic story about a little guy who overcomes a mountain of adversaries to win. It had an interesting animation style and a fairly good cast of voice actors. As far as kids movies go, it was mostly enjoyable. And it wasn't one of those kiddie flicks with a few over their head adult jokes here and there. It's PG, not sure why maybe because some of the animals could be a bit scary to lil tykes. The lizard character was especially odd and funny. This movie has a ton of heart and kids should love it.

Sinners is back in theaters because of the Oscar nominations, so I saw it again. Either my 3rd or 4th time. Bad ass music, incredible visuals, every actor's great. Jack O'Connell's creepy as fuck, and I just realized he's the creepy as fuck character Sir Jimmy Crystal in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. I hope this movie wins a bunch of Oscars, it really is a masterpiece. Delroy Lindo deserves to win best supporting character he's fucking brilliant here. He's definitely one of the most underappreciated actors in Hollywood. Even in bad movies, his acting is still always solid.
 
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