Would you recommend it to others?

  • Sunny' 🌻
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    203 months ago

    The Boy and The Heron

    A truly excellent movie made by Ghibli, fantastic studio with some really high quality films. Definitely recommend giving it a watch.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      Same here, although I confess I wasn’t blown away by this one. I often find that while Ghibli films always crush it on the imagination front, the writing can be hit and miss. I understood the autobiographical origin of the plot, but there were several parts that felt underdeveloped or poorly explained. Overall, was good but definitely not up there with Mononoke or Spirited Away, imo

      • Sunny' 🌻
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        13 months ago

        I do agree, not their best one. Although I really like the animation in this one.

  • @[email protected]
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    163 months ago

    The Life Aquatic

    Wes Anderson movies are an acquired taste. But this one in particular is very accessible, and very funny. And it has a very emotional ending.

    The only thing an uninitiated viewer needs to know is that the effects are intentionally low-budget. Just take them as seriously as the characters do, you’ll warm to them.

    • Coskii
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      63 months ago

      My first time watching this movie I stopped paying attention about 30 minutes in. Some time later the final act started and I was drawn back in. I have since watched it from start to finish about 5 times. Which doesn’t sound like a lot, but I’m the kind of person who doesn’t generally watch a movie more than once.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      That’s my favourite Wes Anderson film! The story and design are beautiful and the writing is brilliantly clever.

      the effects are intentionally low-budget

      Some of them are for aesthetic reasons, but this film was actually pretty expensive to make. Famously it did a lot of damage to WA’s reputation among Hollywood execs because the studio greenlit a high budget for him and gave him a lot of creative control and the movie ended up doing really poorly at the box office. It cost 50M to make and only earned 25M in box office sales.

    • d00phy
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      33 months ago

      Right up there with Tenenbaums for me. Wasn’t as impressed with it when I saw it in theaters, but it really grew on me. Still get the feels when Queen Bitch plays at the end.

  • @[email protected]
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    153 months ago

    I guess I’ll be the thread’s normie:

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    And yes I would recommend it. (If one is a fan of the genre of course)

    • Pope-King Joe
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      43 months ago

      Same. I’d recommend it to almost anyone, especially if you liked the previous ones.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      Yeah, that’s the most recent movie for me, too. I thought it was all right; I’ve been listening to a lot of Insane Clown Posse recently so a lot of the jokes weren’t as shocking/outré as I think they were trying to be. But it definitely had its moments, like the… uh… “fingers to the face” scenes and the… “skin-related incident”.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      Same! Loved it. Deadpool is now one of the best Marvel and Fox comic book movie trilogies in that it manages to nail all 3 movies. Have only seen that with Captain America and Guardians (imo).

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      23 months ago

      The 1st one? I saw them listed in Kodi as of recently… And I didn’t remember there were 3 movies lol, I only remember about 2…

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        Yes the first one! The TV show is alright but they have different voice actors and artists so it’s not as good but the story line is still wholesome af.

  • @[email protected]
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    83 months ago

    In theater, deadpool and wolverine. Plot was silly but holy fuck the movie itself was incredible. Won’t spoil it but they’re are some great surprises for 90s kids. I felt pandered to in the best way.

    At home, the mask. Girlfriend hadn’t seen it. Warned her that I remembered it being amazing when I saw it ages ago, but it might not hold up. It held up. Chick chicky boom.

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    63 months ago

    Treasure Planet for the first time… It was a ride, I liked the animation and the old Disney style actually got me thinking if it had gaming adaptations… And ofc it had them… I want to at least try one (for nostalgic reasons), but I am unsure if the PS1 or PS2 version is the right one to go.

  • @[email protected]
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    63 months ago

    Watched Dune pt 2. I personally didn’t like the rewrites to the story, but I enjoyed Villeneuve’s artistic style.

    Regarding if I would recommend the movie, I’ll paraphrase a video review I saw: “I would recommend it to anyone who liked the first one and hasn’t read the books”.

    • Rolivers
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      33 months ago

      Hmm I thought the movies don’t make enough sense to someone who didn’t read the books.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        Yeah, I can see that as well. The storyline in part 2 felt very rushed imo, which might make the overall story confusing without the prior context of the books.

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    63 months ago

    Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). While not The Blob or Night of the Creeps, it’s pretty fun.

  • Buglefingers
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    63 months ago

    Nausicaa of the valley of the wind. A Studio Ghibli film.

    Yes, would definitely recommend! A classic. It’s older at this point but still a great movie

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      23 months ago

      Nausicaa SLAYS. If you’re in the US, there are often annual “Studio Ghibli Fests” that show Ghibli movies on the big screen, btw. The manga’s amazing too, you can often find it in libraries.

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    53 months ago

    Interstellar. It was like the 4th or 5th time I’ve seen it, so yeah, I’d definitely recommend it if you’re into sci-fi epics.

    The last movie I saw for the first time was Barbie. I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It also didn’t take itself too seriously, despite having a very positive message for women.

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    53 months ago

    My partner and I are watching every movie that Arnold Schwarzenegger has ever been in, no matter how small the role. We just finished watching Scavenger Hunt from 1979 and it was fucking horrible. By the far the worst movie from his early days in film. It’s not that he made it bad, the movie in and of itself was bad.

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    I just watched one, like 30 minutes ago. It’s Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Earth Symphony

    It’s about music, and honestly animated films about music are some of the coolest films, as they can have infinite imagination of synchronizing and visualizing the music.

    I know Doraemon isn’t that popular in the west, but it’s one of the top franchises here in Asia.