#1537

don’t like his haircut

#1538

The Joneses - really quite good actually. a lot more affecting than I’d imagined

#1539

Raw - liked it a lot - some stunning imagery and that soundtrack was dreamy. Not all of it worked, especially The room mate’s only characteristic was that he was gay and nothing else, felt a bit one dimensional - not to mention “maybe every gay person just needs to have sex with the opposite sex” narrative but I might be reading too much into that - also, LOVED the last scene.

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#1540

Watched I Am Not Your Negro yesterday, was pretty great/horrible, thought-provoking stuff. Didn’t even really notice Samuel L. Jackson narrating which is actually probably a good thing? Was also nice to hear Kendrick being blasted over the credits.

#1541

I’m not sure if I’d go as far as to say he was one-dimensional, but I do agree they could have fleshed him out a little more.

As for Alex sleeping with Justine, I thought it was to do with the theme of hiding who you are and suppressing yourself. I haven’t properley thought about how it fits in, but I really want to see the film again and think about it a bit more. There’s a lot of ways to read into it.

I definitely didn’t get the impression that the message was “this gay man’s life would improve by having a different orientation” but like I say I need to give it some more thought to process how it fits in with the rest of it. Not sure if I’d go as far as to say Alex is one dimensional, though I would have liked a bit more about him for sure.

But yes, great film. One of the best last shots I can think of.

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#1542

Table 19. Got some shitty reviews but found it quite charming and funny tbh

#1544

Woah

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#1545

I knew nothing about James Baldwin before seeing this, he seems like a really interesting (and prescient) writer.

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#1546

Yeah can’t say I really knew him considering he was a part of such a significant part of recent history

#1547

I’m certainly curious to see what it is. I reckon if they hadn’t ballsed up the sequels, it could have been a franchise as big as Star Wars. But man, they sure fucked it all up.

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#1549

Yeah, Reloaded and Revolutions were bad at the time, but they’re eye-gouging levels of terrible now. Completely mis-managed expectations of what fans wanted, a descent into bewildering gibberish, over-reliance on special effects* and a complete lack of restraint!

*It’s been posted before but the scene in Reloaded where Neo fights loads of agent smiths and it suddenly becomes the cgi of a playstation one era Final Fantasy game looks awful now!

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#1550

yeah, why not

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#1551

The Zion rave scene is one of the worst things ever.

Plus the Matrix sequels had the annoying aspect where they expected you to watch The Animatrix and play the video game to understand everything in the films.

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#1552

Not that we’ll be seeing (m)any of these until late 2017/early 2018, but here’s the Cannes line-up for this year:

I’m sure the new Haneke and Zvyagintsev will both be very uplifting. And the new Baumbach will be every DiSer’s favourite film of the year.

#1553

Enter The Matrix! That fucking thing. I remember liking it, but I was 12.

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#1554

Caught up with Free Fire last night. Arguably Wheatley’s most fully realised film (the ending of Kill List being an abomination). Enjoyable enough.

Yer man Sam Riley really is a terrible, terrible actor though.

#1555

cant wait for new haneke. Supposedly about a wealthy family ignoring the refugee crisis, isnt it?
Cant wait to see how wrong they are!

#1556

The ending of Kill List is good

as is Sam Riley

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#1557

Maybe in Opposite Land.

#1558

Nahhhh. Sam Riley is fantastic in Brighton Rock