#101

mental. it’s already ‘out there’ right…?

#102

Out in Korea already, out in the US in October - really annoying we have to wait so long, it’ll be out on DVD/digital in the US by February

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#105

Big fan of the Other Guys and its amazingly audacious credits sequence

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#106

directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah

Well that at least explains why that opening spinning shot on the car lasted for at least a second before switching elsewhere!

Obviously no Michael Bay makes me hopeful this could be closer to a tight 100mins rather than the bloated mess of BB2, but it didn’t really ‘zing’ from that trailer, did it?

#107

i’m really trying here but i find this absolutely pathetic. have they…have they literally never seen a film before?

i thought there had to be some nuance i was missing but it is literally “a film about a bad person endorses that bad person”. as for the “debateably neurodivergent” bit…what the fuck.

#108

Feel kind of conflicted with this kind of stuff. Main worry is the feeling that this logic implies q capitalistically the purpose of film / art is entertainment and what “audiences want to see” (always irks me, that sort of language) rather than anything more than that, but then it is also part of a huge all-consuming entertainment franchise.

Also fully accept my point probably is really stupid

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#109

remember in bowling for columbine, how we laughed when that idiot christian said, not everyone who sees a toyota ad goes and buys a toyota…but a few do.

this is the exact same energy. nothing has happened. they are inflicting paranoia and mental illness on themselves and their followers over a film they haven’t seen, that has so far caused zero shootings. i’m cynical enough to believe this is some elaborate marketing strategy at this point. has to be.

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#110

Just want to reiterate what I said before, this film isn’t even out for another month (and has only been seen by a handful of reviewers so far) and people are already losing their minds over it, it’s insane.

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#111

Watched Leto this morning and loved it. Nice one.
Archipelago and Phoenix were cool too

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#112

The Informer was incredibly fine, got better as it went on but probably not much you haven’t seen in a cop drama before. Rosamund Pike is good in it and I mostly went for her.

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#113

By this metric what is the point of psychology and psychiatry also? If a person does bad things and hurts people, why should their reasons for behaving as they do ever be explored? They are just bad now, end of story, and any further exploration is just giving them “excuses”.

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#114

There’s quite a lot on there I’m excited to watch Pig, The Student, The Needle) but I’ve not got round to. Almodovar retrospective’s putting some good stuff on

#115

Just watched Faces Places for the second time. It’s absolutely lovely, isn’t it?

I’ve had a nice wee developing relationship with this film. We were in Provence in 2015 and saw one of JR’s artworks in a wee village (without realising who it was by); Two years later, a work experience student was singing JR’s praises and it clicked I’d seen his work; I read about the film last year, watched it, but I probably got more from the novelty of seeing one of the featured works than the film itself. I watched it again this evening and finally appreciated it for what it was - a wonderfully quirky snapshot of a relationship between two artists as they travel through rural France. 5/5

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#116

I can see where takes like this (as in the tweet) are coming from.

Incels and the like are an issue, and if there’s going to be a large-release likely-to-be-very-popular film, that could potentially validate their terrible worldviews, that’s a huge concern.

My guess is that this film won’t punish Joker for his actions, and by the end he’ll have gained independence/respect/renewed manliness for rebelling against society and refusing to be emasculated. I can see incels being way into that, which makes me feel very uneasy…

I think this is going to have a similar trajectory to fight club TBH. Adored at first but in twenty years when someone says it’s their favourite film the response from a lot of people will probably be “ew”.

FWIW I think Joker looks great and it’s one of the few films left for this year that I’m quite excited to watch.

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#117

Fight Club is still pretty highly acclaimed these days.

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#118

Joker just won first prize at the Venice Film Festival, this is going to go down well…

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#119

might be worth giving the bad clown a thread of his own at this point; a kind of quarantine zone

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#120

Yeah, though maybe closer to the actual release date?