Farm Film Report

[diet_orange]

Good morning posters, and I call you posters because who else would be up at this hour? Consider this an open review thread for anybody who's recently seen a movie, old or new, and wants to throw in their two cents about

Just got done re-watching Videodrome, one of my favorite films. It's about a tv executive who shows "everything from softcore porn to hardcore violence" on his rinky-dink little network. He wants something that'll really put them on the map. Thankfully his "video pirate" locates a program called "Videodrome", which is basically the outright torture of political prisoners (?). However nothing is truly what it seems and I will not spoil it as it's something that needs to be experienced. Some of the line deliveries could have been done better, especially by James Woods, but given what his character Max Ren is experiencing, you can kind of brush it off

 

[Deleted member 660650]

Good morning posters, and I call you posters because who else would be up at this hour?

But Earth is round and it spins in its axis therefore it causes time-zone differences therefore where I'm it's almost sleeping time.

 

[Neb Lleb]

Good morning posters, and I call you posters because who else would be up at this hour? Consider this an open review thread for anybody who's recently seen a movie, old or new, and wants to throw in their two cents about

Well, recently I finally watched The Matrix Resurrections, a legacy sequel to The Matrix Trilogy. On my revisit of the sequels (Reloaded and Revolutions), although I had always loved Revolutions for its themes of unity, its intense action (notably the siege of/rush to Zion and both of Neo's battles with Smith) and it not being as dependent on ancillary media, I was surprised to see that Reloaded held up pretty well despite its pacing flaws, noticeable CGI in certain scenes, and featuring the Matrix answer to the Droid Factory, the Zion rave.

I canNOT bring myself to say anything good about Resurrections however. Whereas Reloaded and Revolutions were made to expand the world and provide further resolution to Neo's story, Resurrections was made for the sole purpose of being a form of therapy to co-creator Lana Wachowski, who had lost her parents and decided to bring Neo and Trinity back to life as a coping mechanism. The end results are EXACTLY what you'd expect a legacy sequel made as therapy to be like: The characters are unimaginative, the plot is inane, shamelessly self-aware gibberish, the ways the movie undoes the perfect ending of Revolutions are infuriating, the dialogue is wack, and it doesn't feel like it's a part of the same universe as the trilogy, Animatrix, Enter the Matrix and Path of Neo with some truly odd lore developments that clash with what we saw in the larger franchise prior.
Once it was revealed the Merovingian was alive, and that he was characterised as an insane Bum with an army of evil hobos.... That was the moment when I took the Red Pill and got out. I think that it might be the worst film sequel I have ever seen.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

Resurrections was made for the sole purpose of being a form of therapy to co-creator Lana Wachowski

That's part of the reason, but initial reason is Warner bois would enforce a Matrix movie without the original directors or not, and the director decided she better give a message to make fun of Warner bois and mindless fans who want a sequel from a series that ended as intended so it shouldn't have "resurrected" so watching this satire was fun for the movie as intended intentionally made bad to give a message, not for mindless fans or unrelated clueless people to enjoy lol.

 

[Neb Lleb]

That's part of the reason, but initial reason is Warner bois would enforce a Matrix movie without the original directors or not, and the director decided she better give a message to make fun of Warner bois and mindless fans who want a sequel from a series that ended as intended so it shouldn't have "resurrected" so watching this satire was fun for the movie as intended intentionally made bad to give a message, not for mindless fans or unrelated clueless people to enjoy lol.

COPE. SEETHE. MALD. Subversion for subversion's sake is NOT satire. And it's not good storytelling. And the moment you accept that, alongside the film's sole existence as therapy, will be the moment I can move on with my life.

 

[Deleted member 660650]

COPE. SEETHE. MALD. Subversion for subversion's sake is NOT satire. And it's not good storytelling. And the moment you accept that, alongside the film's sole existence as therapy, will be the moment I can move on with my life.

Hard to break it to you but your opinion cannot change facts lol.

 

[Neb Lleb]

Hard to break it to you but your opinion cannot change facts lol.

Shameless Defenses. Are not. FACTS.

That's it. I'm blocking you. You are a prime example of a smug self-righteous stan who has to defend bad fiction no matter what.

 

[Neb Lleb]

So, tonight, I recently watched Tales from the Hood, a horror anthology that puts an african-american themed twist on the formula; with each story themed around a common problem that haunted such societies back when the movie was released and still do to this day. It's honestly some of the most fun I've ever had with a horror film, as it effortlessly delivers genuinely fun EC Comics-inspired stories that also use these social injustices in unique ways that benefit the stories rather than hamper them.

ICYW, My favourite segment has to be the second story ("Boys Do Get Bruised"). Using the concept of parental abuse as the basis for a parable of a kid who is being haunted by a monster and can't convince the people around him about it is genuinely solid and interesting, and the way the villain is defeated is honestly genius and in-line with what it's saying about perspective and reality.