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The Ridley Scott criticisms I found ridiculous.

I feel like this critique misses the forest for the trees. You correctly identify a lot of the symbolism and themes around media, but when you said it lacks any deeper meaning that really irked me. The entire film is an allegory for being a pre-transition trans person. I think it really tried to be obvious with the whole awkward teenage cross-dressing scene and scene where the antagonist *literally* traps a woman in a mans body as torture, but somehow people missed it.

A lot of people (on reddit) pointed out this is a rip off of some other horror show made for kids, I looked it up, and its downright SHAMELESS how much it is ripping off something else. I mean its truly shameless this is allowed...

...it's not virtue signaling to tell a story where the race of the character is relevant to the plot. You know what IS virtue signaling though? Bringing it up when it wasn't relevant to the story you WERE talking about. I'm so sick of hearing about this everytime a black actor just exists in a movie. Why even bring it up if they weren't doing it here?

Great review: you put into words really insightful and dense topics in a clear and articulate way. Paraphrasing spanish philosopher Ortega, "clarity is the philosopher's courtesy" and you excel at that. This movie is surely thick as a brick but in an "erotic" or "playful" way that invites the viewer to take a deep dive in its themes and I feel like you beautifully encapsulate this sentiment.

I feel like everyone on the internet likes criminals like Ted Bundy OJ Simpson and everyone else that's bad. That's why I'm upset it's like you can't be a nice caring person I know you're good bullied nice people finish last sorry I'm just sad because a lot of people think criminals are funny or interesting most men on the internet are obsessed with Tonya Harding I don't know why❤

Love you, Maggie. ❤❤❤

Great review as always. I feel as an “odyssey” it definitely needed more layers and variation. I totally agree that it thinks it’s saying more than it really is.

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"You can't fight in here, this is the war room!" Dr. Strangelove

At the beginning of the film I was convinced it was going to be Goodfellas crossed with Sons of Anarchy it certain it certainly has the influence of Scorcese with its editing and musical drops, but by the end I felt it had more in common with a film like This Is England (2006). The Bikeriders isn't trying to be a mob crime epic, what its doing is detailing the twilight years in the golden age of motor cycle clubs, when they were just social clubs for working class bike enthusiasts before the culture was subsequently hijacked by criminals and fanatical dregs. Similar to This is England (2006) which documents the original Skinhead movement as a culture of working class kids who just wanted to listen to reggae and ska before it was hijacked by far right facist thugs. The best thing that could be said about The Bikeriders is that it works extremely well as a companion piece to Easy Rider (1968) which it references towards the end as a melancholic ode to an era long gone. 8/10 my favourite film of the year so far.

Cillian Murphy, just coasts on the same stoic hard face persona with zero range or emotional expression, and by Oppenheimer i was exhausted.

Jesus Christ I went to watch it yesterday, LOL, I couldn't even finish the damn thing. Boring empty shallow repetitive horrible acting, hate that cheesy dude, Taylor-Joy is a robot omg so baaaad!! It adds nothing to me, 100% uninteresting Mad Max movies. Never gonna watch this crappy franchise or saga or the hell you wanna call this shit, ever again. Blaaaaarrgghhhh Mad Max makes me wanna 🤮 inside Chris Hemsworth mouth. Top #1 most horrible actor ever.

I absolutely loved it. I was expecting to see evo's , conehead shovels, or god forbid Yamaha viragos, all mixed up up where they didn't belong. But everything seemed totally period correct! Even all the cages looked spot on for whatever years they were portraying. Brought back a lot of good memories.

Just see this and yea quite enjoyed it, the synth heavy soundtrack and the cinematography were particular highlights.

Loved this movie

I love the fact that the movie focused on the emotions rather than the shock value of the sex. I thought Humbert was initially motivated by lust, then by crazed jealousy and insecurity, but somewhere along the way he actually fell in love. Lolita appeared to be just a sexually naughty young girl, but the ending revealed that she had been passionate and obsessed with Quilty all along, thus rendering Humbert a tragic figure. Seen from a lens of genre tropes, Lolita is a sort of a twisted take on film noir, with bratty Lolita as the femme fatale love interest and overly insecure Humbert as tragic protagonist. So it is hilarious because of these subversions of the character archetypes. But credit to Kubrick for playing out the tragedy in an emotionally real way.

Rear Window, The Searchers, Rashomon, The Ladykillers, Dracula. The 50s is not my favourite decade, for sure, but there are several great films and many I have yet to see (most of Fellini and other Italians). I also love Grahame and In a Lonely Place. But I keep thinking i must re-watch Vertigo. I see the great craft and art, but it did not get me on a gut level at first watch foreign language films to recommend: Rocco and his Brothers, Ballad of a Soldier, Rififi

isn't it nice when you always can put everything in a philosophical coating with general perspective dip about generations and other bs, even a simple story about an old imbecile dreaming of f-ing a school girl. sick society.

He got recognized when he was working in Broadway then once he worked with Martin Scorsese . Where they both lived in the same neighborhood.. and knew each other as teenagers but De Niro is timeless..he’s not overrated only when he gets into politics. All his roles are definitely interchangeable. But his role is killers of the flower moon was killer definitely villainous and by far the most interesting. De Niro is legend has never been once overrated. Has only evolved but at the same time There are roles where he seems a little out of place or touch

Gladiator, zodiac, the departed, black hawk down, public enemies

Or the duelist by Ridley Scott and bad lieutenant

City of God is 1.

I've never seen a movie build up so much tension just to wuss out with a predictable and disappointing ending! Director lost his balls I guess!

I need to watch this again.

Really? Cult classic

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Idk. I had a good time at the theater. The fact that George Miller at 79 made this is awesome. Hes using todays tools like a giddy kid coloring in his drawings.

5. Carrie 4. Rosemary’s Baby 3. The Witch 2. The Shining 1. Hereditary || honorable mentions: The Wicker Man (the original), Cure, Audition, The Ring, Identity, VHS, Blair Witch Project

I've seen Kubrick's Shining adaptation pop up in more than a few reviews for The Zone Of Interest, as if it's some obvious cinematic inspiration - it is very much not. The truth is that the formal techniques used in The Shining (slow zooms, snap-zooms, POV shots, flowing Steadicam, cross-cutting, stylistic lighting, helicopter shots) are so far outside of Jonathan Glazer's visual language in Zone as he goes out of his way to avoid using these and other techniques. So, how exactly are these two similar? I mean, they're both creepy movies but by that logic I could compare Zone to The Babadook or Insidious (which is just as ridiculous as comparing it to The Shining). Even their temperaments are diametrically opposite; The Shining is dramatic and heavy-handed in everything it sets out to do* while The Zone Of Interest is undramatic, voyeuristic, observational and subtle. *I'm not saying this is a detriment, I'm a fan of everything Kubrick does in that movie, I'm just pointing it out for the sake of the comparison. I mean, for fuck's sake, the 'Kubrick Stare' became a meme for a reason, yet he's still regarded as this 'subtle' filmmaker. There's a huge gap between the movies people think Kubrick made and the movies he actually made - just as there's the myth and mystique of him as this elusive figure vs. the regular-ass Roseanne-loving dude he was (not to mention the persistent misconception that he abused Shelley Duvall, which she has explicitly debunked). The compositions are similar but, again, it would be an outright stretch to compare them. So what is this comparison to The Zone Of Interest based on, exactly? I think trying to unpack that lies probably somewhere in Rodney Ascher's Room 237 about the cumulative effect of how The Shining became a cultural black hole. Again, there's the misconception that Kubrick was a perfectionist, so when we have clear continuity errors they're blown out of proportion. Kubrick was more focused on performances than he was on chair placement but when you see him through the lens of an infallible genius, a chair moving from one part of the frame to another means 'secret ghosts.' Jonathan Glazer's movies have that air of mystique and perfectionism so maybe that's why the Kubrickian stereotype is laid upon him and his work...despite having nothing to do with The Shining.

I loved it. It was better than expected for me. I was actually sad to see it end because those characters started to feel like family towards the end. Great performances, amazing period detail and a story about how a family can fall apart due to outsiders coming in and destroying it from within. I will watch this one often on Blu-ray and it's destined to become a cult classic.

Singin in the Rain! Pure joy of a film! Maybe not super deep, but it’s a classic movie in that sense exactly! It’s pure escapism.

Just saw this in theater All the Characters were interesting i like crime/Drama definitely a good movie, end credit pictures of the real Bikers was a nice touch .

Always love your insights! I thought the cast of characters did such a phenomenal job. There was a little bit of it feeling like chunks/installments of a story with the interview portions mixed in with the bikeriders' stories and experiences that made it drag a bit, but overall I really enjoyed the film.

You NEED to watch and review a Spanish film called The Coffee Table. Many people say you need to go into it blind, and I see why. It's fricked. It takes the family tragedy of Hereditary, Antichrist, and The Mist to the next level. I apologize for making a comment having little to do with the video but I saw it and wondered what you would think.

The characters would have had to be MUCH more interesting to not bore me to tears with this predictable and plotless near documentary paced snooze. The last "confrontation"...who DIDN'T know the upstart was going to pull a pistol? As bad as an episode of a streaming show. If that actially happened it should have just been part of a musical montage about the fall of the first generation to the younger criminals, like the end of Goodfellas. Cant believe this was only 90 minutes, felt like over 2 hours. All I thought was "why couldnt I be watching this great Tom Hardy performance in a real movie"?

I finally got around to watching Hitman and I wanted to find a woman’s review. I love Linklater too but this was a full miss for me. Powell is interesting and it’s obviously a showcase for him but the fact that it’s being touted as a love story is infuriating to me. She did NOT consent to having sex with Gary. She was having sex with Ron or so she thought. That is not funny. That is borderline assault or actually the r word in the eyes of the law. I kept waiting for him to tell her the truth and when he does it’s in the middle of a bigger moment and she doesn’t have time to process the information that she’s been sleeping with a stranger who is the opposite of everything she wanted. I thought that was gross. That is all.

She's really hot. But is it enough to watch this....

I’m 10 seconds in and I really hope all christopher nolan films are touched upon. Or Alejandro González Iñárritu. Easily the most overrated directors of the last few decades.

I've noticed that individuals who have previously cheated someone feel uneasy after seeing nocturnal animals. It says a lot about who we are.

Funny she referenced Seven Samurai. Our movie club just watched that!

you articulated everything i had in mind so perfectly!!!! thank you for this.

Great review.

She's so smart I can't even watch her. .. I have to crank myself up for it. I'm pathetic.

I'm not putting in the mental work to narrow it down to 5, so I'm giving you my 6 favorites of the 2000s: 1. Wonder Boys 2. Ghost World 3. High Fidelity 4. House of Flying Daggers 5/6. Lost in Translation/Doubt

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The most disturbing scene I’ve seen ever involving a bad acid trip was the rich son and his Psychiatrist in the TV show/series Ratched back in Netflix released a couple years ago.

I seen it a few weeks ago at a film festival. Austin Butthead was there. Heaps of film nerds were there. I drank red wine all night. Some of the acting seemed inauthentic.but happy not to be watching weirdo Disney movies

Just watched, this is my type of weird. I found myself aching in the final moments as well. The QR code credits honestly blew my mind a bit, simple as it is, especially with that quick mid credit scene. Watching that on my phone after the movie made me feel like I was living in the world of the film. Also love how Bertrand managed to seamlessly morph this into a horror movie in that one section, iykyk

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