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I am a film philistine who had never seen Red Beard or A Woman Under the Influence . I just watched both back to back this week and I can confirm that they are two of the greatest movies ever made. They both overwhelmed me and I have no further words.
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A movie worth a watch, Luther: The Fallen Sun. It doesn't do much for Idris Elba but his presence is enough for me. It's edgy but not really stimulating. It's on Netflix. If you have Netflix give it a peek. 1 to 10 I give it 7. If you watch it where do you rate it?
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YEAH Ke Huy Quan!!!!!
I don't care about the Oscars really but he gave a beautiful performance in everything everywhere and I was extremely happy to hear that he won. |
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| TDRock wrote: | YEAH Ke Huy Quan!!!!!
I don't care about the Oscars really but he gave a beautiful performance in everything everywhere and I was extremely happy to hear that he won. |
Short Round baby! Wow, a Vietnamese person won an Oscar...never thought I'd see that day.
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| jonnybravo wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | YEAH Ke Huy Quan!!!!!
I don't care about the Oscars really but he gave a beautiful performance in everything everywhere and I was extremely happy to hear that he won. |
Short Round baby! Wow, a Vietnamese person won an Oscar...never thought I'd see that day. |
That was awesome. From the moment Ariana DeBose was in tears as she read his name thorough his entire acceptance speech.
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | jonnybravo wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | YEAH Ke Huy Quan!!!!!
I don't care about the Oscars really but he gave a beautiful performance in everything everywhere and I was extremely happy to hear that he won. |
Short Round baby! Wow, a Vietnamese person won an Oscar...never thought I'd see that day. |
That was awesome. From the moment Ariana DeBose was in tears as she read his name thorough his entire acceptance speech. |
Hell yeah that was so touching. Goonies for life!!!
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| TDRock wrote: | YEAH Ke Huy Quan!!!!!
I don't care about the Oscars really but he gave a beautiful performance in everything everywhere and I was extremely happy to hear that he won. |
His character in EEAAO is probably my favorite depiction of masculinity in any piece of media ever. I'd also like to say I don't really care about the Oscars but I adored EEAAO and I'm glad that it won a lot. |
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| tox wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | YEAH Ke Huy Quan!!!!!
I don't care about the Oscars really but he gave a beautiful performance in everything everywhere and I was extremely happy to hear that he won. |
His character in EEAAO is probably my favorite depiction of masculinity in any piece of media ever. I'd also like to say I don't really care about the Oscars but I adored EEAAO and I'm glad that it won a lot. |
Easily my favorite performance of the year. When my husband and I watched EEAAO, I thought it was weird, sure. But I was certainly entertained throughout, even as it starts off a little slow, and as the characters started going through their various selves in their multiverses, I was blown away at how convincing Quan was. He pulled everything off so believably, so beautifully. His range of emotions and personas, chef's kiss. The movie was released pretty early in the year, well before awards buzz would build up, and I remember saying to my husband "he should win awards for this." And he did!
The fact that he is also one of the most lovable actors in quite some time and has the story that he does just adds to everything for me. I am so, so happy that he won. I thought he and Stephanie Hsu gave the two best performances in the film, not that I'm taking anything away from Michelle Yeoh. As for Jamie Lee Curtis' win, well, I think we all know why that happened, not to be cynical. She's good in the part, but come on. |
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"The Daniels" as a potential future of Hollywood filmmaking bums me out, but I admittedly hate the contemporary millennial video game/social media culture they represent that - much to my own self-loathing - I inhabit most days.
Wong Kar-wai movies are patient and contemplative even at their busiest and most dialogue heavy. Hands, cigarette smoke, the movement of clothing on our bodies are all worthy of Wong's sensuous, caressing camera. "The Daniels" are the antithesis of patience and contemplation. Everything in their movies has to be over explained, hyper fixated on, and punctuated with a wet fart. The irony of them aping In the Mood for Love, a film that ends with the main character whispering his secret love soundlessly into a small pit in the stone of a wall in Angkor Wat, is that "The Daniels'" EEAAO can never shut up even when it focuses on mute rocks with googly eyes at the end of oblivion, a sure sign that they as well as everyone my age and younger are now hopelessly, terminally online. We are the main characters. We will never, ever shut the (bleep) up.
But at least it's a better movie than Green Book.
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Also, Nope is ten times better than Everything Everywhere All at Once.
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| Weird take imo, I love contemplative movies and In the Mood for Love was great. EEAAO doesn't try to be that, and that's fine. The entire metaverse conceit, and the loud chaos of it all, is very much supposed to be a reflection of modern existence in the internet era. That's the point. And I don't really think most of that is over explained, there's a lot going on in the movie and different people pick up on different things that speaks to them. |
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| ChickenStu wrote: | | tox wrote: | | TDRock wrote: | YEAH Ke Huy Quan!!!!!
I don't care about the Oscars really but he gave a beautiful performance in everything everywhere and I was extremely happy to hear that he won. |
His character in EEAAO is probably my favorite depiction of masculinity in any piece of media ever. I'd also like to say I don't really care about the Oscars but I adored EEAAO and I'm glad that it won a lot. |
Easily my favorite performance of the year. When my husband and I watched EEAAO, I thought it was weird, sure. But I was certainly entertained throughout, even as it starts off a little slow, and as the characters started going through their various selves in their multiverses, I was blown away at how convincing Quan was. He pulled everything off so believably, so beautifully. His range of emotions and personas, chef's kiss. The movie was released pretty early in the year, well before awards buzz would build up, and I remember saying to my husband "he should win awards for this." And he did!
The fact that he is also one of the most lovable actors in quite some time and has the story that he does just adds to everything for me. I am so, so happy that he won. I thought he and Stephanie Hsu gave the two best performances in the film, not that I'm taking anything away from Michelle Yeoh. As for Jamie Lee Curtis' win, well, I think we all know why that happened, not to be cynical. She's good in the part, but come on. |
Stephanie Hsu was great. I can't believe Jamie Lee Curtis won but yeah... I hear Hong Chau was also great but I'd have liked for Hsu to win.
I don't have too much of an attachment to Indiana Jones + I'm generally younger so I didn't know much about Quan before but he knocked it out of the park. The fact that Crazy Rich Asians inspired him to get back into acting maybe will mean people finally stop (bleep) on a fun if conventional romcom for no reason |
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Cocaine Bear Was listed as comedy horror. There is very little comedy. There are some graphic scenes. It wasn't what I anticipated. It's a one time watch. 1 to 10 I give it 6.
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| jodeke wrote: | | Cocaine Bear Was listed as comedy horror. There is very little comedy. There are some graphic scenes. It wasn't what I anticipated. It's a one time watch. 1 to 10 I give it 6. |
Whatever you call it, it's a considerably better movie than the pointless drivel that is Triangle Of Sadness. Literally one of the worst films I have ever seen. I'd rather watch Showgirls again. |
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| ChickenStu wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | | Cocaine Bear Was listed as comedy horror. There is very little comedy. There are some graphic scenes. It wasn't what I anticipated. It's a one time watch. 1 to 10 I give it 6. |
Whatever you call it, it's a considerably better movie than the pointless drivel that is Triangle Of Sadness. Literally one of the worst films I have ever seen. I'd rather watch Showgirls again. |
I rather watch Showgirls anyway.   I've always felt that movie was the reason Elizabeth Berkley didn't win Dancing With The Stars
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| jodeke wrote: | | ChickenStu wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | | Cocaine Bear Was listed as comedy horror. There is very little comedy. There are some graphic scenes. It wasn't what I anticipated. It's a one time watch. 1 to 10 I give it 6. |
Whatever you call it, it's a considerably better movie than the pointless drivel that is Triangle Of Sadness. Literally one of the worst films I have ever seen. I'd rather watch Showgirls again. |
I rather watch Showgirls anyway. I've always felt that movie was the reason Elizabeth Berkley didn't win Dancing With The Stars |
Showgirls is one of those movies where it's so bad that it's actually entertaining, like watching a trainwreck that you can't take your eyes off of. Whereas Triangle is so bad that it's just annoying. We actually turned it off after about 80-90 minutes, something like that. Couldn't take it anymore. It was worse than Don't Look Up for sure, another satire that missed the mark and sucked out loud, but not nearly as badly as Triangle. |
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| ChickenStu wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | | ChickenStu wrote: | | jodeke wrote: | | Cocaine Bear Was listed as comedy horror. There is very little comedy. There are some graphic scenes. It wasn't what I anticipated. It's a one time watch. 1 to 10 I give it 6. |
Whatever you call it, it's a considerably better movie than the pointless drivel that is Triangle Of Sadness. Literally one of the worst films I have ever seen. I'd rather watch Showgirls again. |
I rather watch Showgirls anyway. I've always felt that movie was the reason Elizabeth Berkley didn't win Dancing With The Stars |
Showgirls is one of those movies where it's so bad that it's actually entertaining, like watching a trainwreck that you can't take your eyes off of. Whereas Triangle is so bad that it's just annoying. We actually turned it off after about 80-90 minutes, something like that. Couldn't take it anymore. It was worse than Don't Look Up for sure, another satire that missed the mark and sucked out loud, but not nearly as badly as Triangle. |
DAMN!!! You caused me to watch Triangle Of Sadness. It's nonsensical but I couldn't turn it off because I wanted to know how it ended. There is no end, no conclusions. Woody Harrelson must have been a captain who goes down with his ship. He wasn't on the island. I'm pissed at you for causing me to watch it.  
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