Movies

I saw Vice (2018) a few nights ago and it was a very entertaining movie. It’s about Dick Cheney’s life story made by Adam McKay, he also made great comedy movies in the past. I just finished watching Misery (1990) today and it was easily one of the best movies I’ve seen in a while. Great suspense and kinda funny at times, that’s to be expected from the director of the film, Rob Reiner. What have yall been watching lately?

Yes, I have to start with the obligatory: the first time I watched the movie I was disappointed, but upon rewatch I realized how deep the rabbit hole goes, and after tens of hours of studying this movie, I can finally see what a masterpiece it is.

After having spent tens of hours with this movie, I've finally sorted out most of the major questions and have a pretty good idea of what's actually going on. The movie is so hard to wrap your head around though because you basically have to think in four dimensions, and you have to build a mental model for a crystallized universe and keep track of all the actors at all times, and their motivations. Our brains are not made to comprehend stuff like this, so it's understandable that people were frustrated with the movie. However, I think I reduced my odds of developing Alzheimers by 95% during the process of studying this thing and the process itself was very gratifying. Still though, I'm not done building more intuition for the movie so I will definitely be spending even more time grasping the details. I highly recommend committing yourself to the process 👍

It's without a doubt my favorite movie of all time.

come at me brah (or just throw me some questions idk)

At 9 PM EST we are going to start a double feature on Hextube (our viewing platform). The post on Hexbear has a list of CW and other useful info.

The description of the movies according to Wombat:

For this Friday Movie Night, first up is The Host (2006), from renowned auteur Bong Joon-ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer) about a tentacled creature that preys on idiot humans who keep polluting its water. After that is Train to Busan (2016), which is about a zombie apocalypse, but on a train Despite the generic-sounding premise, it has an excellent rating on Letterboxd, so we’re watching it. It is by far the best-known film of its director, Yeon Sang-ho.

Try to be specific if possible. Like horror could mean many things, a fan of classic Dracula films may not like Green Room. An action fan who loves Rocky and Raging Bull may not like The Raid or Inglorious Basterds. That being said, which genres/sub-genres of movies are generally your favorites? I’ve always been a fan of gross-out humor and dumb humor like Jackass and Stepbrothers. I also really love a few movies that are political like Wag The Dog (which Benjamin Norton recommended in a Multipolarista episode) and Мать (1926) I highly recommend that one, it was made in the USSR about the 1905 Revolution

Discussion questions:

What TV shows or films have you watched recently?

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Question of the week:

What TV shows of 2023 are you currently enjoying?

Watched it last night, incredibly hilarious and based 10/10

Discussion questions:

What TV shows or films have you watched recently?

What subscription services are you subscribed to, if any?

Question of the week:

What movies are you anticipating in 2023?

Question of the week is the same as last time since 2023 has barely started.

Communist Twitter seems to be alternating between love and hate for it as usual.

I haven't watched these series of movies. Should I?

I actually really liked The Batman (yeah, yeah, I know it had copaganda, but I honestly liked it much better than the overrated Christopher Nolan films).

I saw this last night and it didn't disappoint. I didn't even know they were making a second one until I was looking for a horror film to watch on Halloween weekend. I loved the first one so I jumped on it immediately. Wow was it ever good.

The eerie, dreamlike atmosphere of pure horror from the first film is gone, which is one of the things I liked to much about it, but the direction they took with it worked so much better. The film had so much more substance to it. It had thought-provoking themes of anti-capitalism, mental illness, and Halloween culture. David Howard Thornton and Lauren LaVera knocked it out of the park with their performances as well. Highly recommended.

I wanted to talk about this for a long time...

So Marvel fans... I'm so fucking tired of them(note I'm not talking about og Spider-Man, I'm talking about MCU exclusively): They are so annoying with their superhero movie worship, they are talking about those movies like they are the movies of all time, masterpieces with masterfully written script and galaxy brain stories, like they are Nolan films in terms of storytelling... And the thing is, these are not just idiots on the internet, even in TV channels where they talk about movies, they are literally, I'm not shitting you, putting MARVEL MOVIES and directors in the same rang with Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and Nolan!!!

They think that their B superhero good guy vs bad guy, good guy beats bad guy after power-up movies are in the same rangs as: GODFATHER, INDIANA JONES, JURASSIC PARK, SCHINDLER'S LIST, E.T., JAWS, STAR WARS, INDIANA JONES, TITANIC, GLADIATOR, INCEPTION, ALIEN etc... And that Marvel movies absolutely deserve to take half of top 10 box office movies(with Endgame being 1st one time) list overtaking timeless masterpieces...

I haven't watched anything lately, but I plan to watch a movie from 1948 about racism and Jim Crow in the USA military while fighting fascism in Germany and all that stuff.

The movie was recommended by scholar Gerald Horne and can be found on Monthly Review.

I do this thread, more-or-less, every seven days (though I probably could've waited till tomorrow since that's the beginning of the week).

Anyways, I just watched:

Sonic the Hedgehog (since my bro wants me to watch the second one with him)

And

The Batman (I actually enjoyed it despite the copaganda, which I expected)

Not exactly Shakespeare, but it was alright and I needed some mindless fun.

Also, I finished Solaris so that's something.

I plan to watch The Batman next week (yeah, yeah, copaganda, but I actually really like what I saw of the aesthetic and the cinematography is supposed to be really good, which, in an atmosphere of movie-making where style over substance is a constant thing... you may as well go for the most well-done stylistic performance; not really condoning "style over substance" so much as I'm being adaptive at this point lmao)

Other than that?

There's apparently a new Guy Ritchie film (which I actually didn't know about).

I have a Criterion account (which I would recommend if you were planning to get any subscription service when it comes to cinema).

Also, there are a few Soviet films I could watch on Criterion so that's something.

"However, none of the events have a mask mandate and the Oscars are only recommending that guests wear masks."

Well, shit.

What are you watching or plan to watch soon?

Also, didn't know Guy Ritchie had another film...

Probably should watch a movie sometime; haven't done so in a long while.

I'm watching Solaris, dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky right now.

Anything else I should watch?

I'm... intrigued.

And I recommend watching the TV show The Longest Day in Chang'an to see Jackson Yee's acting chops. That said: the films mentioned here gives me a lot more stuff to watch.

Anyone else excited?

Watching this rn (at the 1:00:48 mark).

Hope you comrades enjoy it too!