I noped out after the trailer.

I felt obligated to watch it as a Sopranos fan. They ruined virtually every recognizable character. Adolescent Tony was especially underwhelming. Silvio was an even more cartoonish rendition of himself if you could imagine that. Tony's parents were watered down versions of themselves especially Lydia. And uncle Dickie was somewhere between a mobster and a bad fonz impression... The pinky swear scene was especially cringe lol



Add in a half baked racial justice angle where the Newark riots were happening and the black gangster character was cooler than any of the mobsters yet still ultimately uninteresting... They should've left the **** the **** alone that show was perfect

Adaptation - Always been a huge fan of this but caught an insane amount of intricacies toward the whole meta that are just ****ing brilliant this time around. Pretty much the perfect screenplay and Francis Ford Coppola Jr.'s best role.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Virtually every shot in this movie is some real masterful ****, bro. Then it hits you in the face with the oneness with nature, the confrontation of death and memory, generational divide, the impact of dehumanizing others, and tons of really intriguing philosophical/political undertones. Really floored me all the way through.



Oh, and a lady ****s a fish.

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Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) by José Val del Omar

Pure eye candy, one of the trippiest things I've ever seen.

It was Benchley. He was so upset and shocked about the backlash that followed the film, the amount of sharks killed, that he spent most of/the rest of his life studying oceanography and trying to spread the word that he got it wrong.

Spielberg I don't know. He just directed it, Benchley wrote the novel it was based on. I expect the Big S just assumed Benchley knew his stuff.

Tbf educating yourself on sharks makes them even more ****ing awesome but it doesn't exactly make swimming in the ocean feel any safer.

It doesnt, true, but it makes you aware that you're far more likely to get hit by lightning than eaten by a shark, and that even if you do get bitten they're not going to swallow you or chew you up, as we don't taste good to them. If this has been known at the time of Jaws' release, I guess it might not have made the movie so scary but it would also have saved too many hotheads from going off half-cocked on shark hunts, thinking they were Richard Dreyfuss.

Of course sharks are dangerous, but only a) if upset by swimmers or b) they mistake you for a seal or something or c) there's blood in the water. I'm not saying you can just jump in among a shoal (school? Shoal?) of Great Whites or Tiger Sharks and say "how's it goin' shark dudes?" but you also would not need to beat a hasty retreat in terror, leaving a brown stain in the water behind you, the moment you saw a triangular fin. It was made too much of that "sharks are killers" and also the sizes were greatly exaggerated. But worst of all, the scene when Quint gets eaten - that would never, ever happen. That's more your T-Rex really. If they swum. And still existed.

Mind you, sharks will never get me. I'll drown first, as I can't swim. Hah! In your FACES, sharks! :cool:

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Capricorn One (1978)

Enjoyable hokum. Haven't seen this since I was a kid, and it doesn't really stand up that well, though it is watchable. Terrible, terrible dialogue throughout, and whoever had the crazy idea that O.J. Simpson could act needs to be shot. Luckily he has fewer lines than a woman in a fifties movie, but still. Painful. The premise is fun - NASA faking a trip to Mars and then the return flight burns up in the atmosphere, leaving the three unlucky astronauts on the run from the government for the heinous crime of being alive when they are officially dead - and Telly Savalas steals the show as a hard-bitten, racist, misogynist (probably) and sexist crop-duster pilot, but it's very of its time. Huge, HUGE plot holes, but if you can unplug the rational side of your brain for an hour or so, it can be a fun movie.

I wouldn't say recommended, but I wouldn't turn the telly off if it was on either. Brings back some memories for me, so there is that.

Dune

Pretty much everything you'd expect it to be, a by the numbers sci-fi spectacle. Extremely faithful to the book, which reads like a screenplay anyway.