Movies Talk

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for anyone hesitating on michael shannon please consider this picture

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his finest moment?? he was great in Nocturnal Animals though

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Michael Shannon is one of the best around. I don’t particularly like REM, but I considered checking out his REM cover band just to share air with him for a while. Mads also has the juice.

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Shannon’s approach is heavily text-work based which is close to my heart, and it shows in his performances! He absolutely rocks

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I’m in the theater waiting for the Minecraft movie to start. It’s 70-80% kids and most of the rest (including me) parents. Will report back when I’m safe.

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this made me cry

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Minecraft Movie:

Better than the Super Mario Bros. movie, almost as good as Sonic. Fun acting all around (Matt Berry’s cameo is a highlight). Some nonsensical plotting and butt jokes to be expected. Good nods to mechanics.

The kids as an audience were actually fine - appropriate ooh-ing and aah-ing. They got most worked up about seeing a Creeper coming up behind a character - good stuff. The audience member who most annoyed me was a guy who sat down 15 minutes into the film and asked if the seat next to me was taken. I said no. A minute later he asked if my son and I would move over so his friend could sit with him. No, I whispered.

There is an essay to be written in one of the main characters (Billy Mitchell meets Macho Man) owning a used game store and how that game store was designed. Unreliable first look at it - looked like it focused mostly on Western-coded gaming media (and also a Double Dragon like), but that’s a pretty loose read.

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I feel like the correct play here would have been to ask you to move over immediately rather than a minute later

Just watched The Thin Blue Line
It’s alright but a bit repetitive

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Also, just watched Linda Linda Linda (2005)

i first listened to The Blue Hearts a few years ago and really liked this movie. Bae Donna was a nice surprise and i smiled when i learned that the sensei in the movie is Hiroto Kōmoto’s brother.

What the hell is going on with the MC movie?
I went to McDonald’s yesterday, my gf and I were in awe at how ugly the designs are. Then I see footage of theatre riots (second slide, sorry for the ig link)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIK-MXisnxA/?img_index=1&igsh=MTV0MDg0NDF1MjJlbg==
Has the zoomzoom uprising begun?

jk I remember what teenage movie hype was like, throwing stuff like this. but… yeah

finally watched the third part of richard linklater’s before trilogy, before midnight - loved it! maybe my favourite of the three, but the entire series is fantastic.

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Love the Before movies.
Individually, each of the films are pretty good. Taken as part of the whole, as a trilogy, I think they’re the greatest romance films ever made.

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I watched Princess Mononoke in theaters earlier this week and have thoughts, but first I just want to say that I’m still wrapping my head around the live-action Lilo & Stitch trailer. What is the intention of creating a visual representation of Stitch that allows me to understand what it may be like to accidentally hit him with my car?

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Die Hard 2 isn’t that good is it? But I still enjoyed it.

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It’s an odd one. Basically a crummy retread of the original with a lesser cast of baddies, but still satisfying in the end. Kinda ā€œWe have Die Hard at homeā€ energy.

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Die Hard With a Vengeance was as good as i remembered it. There’s a few silly things but come on it’s all filmed in the city and they actually blew up a department store in the beginning. Can you imagine that now? Rules.

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So this coming weekend (April 19-20) is Wrestlemania weekend, but on my end, it’s DOCUMANIA weekend! DOCUMANIA IV to be precise, in which I will once again be a guest programmer for SICKOVISION (Twitch), and sharing some of my favorite documentaries.

But before that, via the FORT90 FILM CLUB [IN EXILE], I will be showcasing some of my faves from DOCUMANIA I-III, and kicking things off nice and proper is…

Coming up next is a movie that is entirely comprised of dash cam footage, which doesn’t sound like conceptually, until one realizes that it’s Russian dash cam footage…

Third up is a movie that I took Mrs. Fort90 to very early into our relationship, which was her first sign that I was ā€œthe oneā€, aka she really loves cats & if that’s you too, then you’re gonna love…

Fourth up is a documentary by the same director by the oft showcase, at least on my end, DOOMED LOVE…

And last but not least is legit one of my all time favorite documentaries, and perhaps the most obscure of the lineup, and that’s saying a LOT I know…

The stream will again be via the alt account, starting around 8PM-ish EST…

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