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    Went to see Flow in the theater this last weekend. It was really good.

    That said I don’t really go to the theater much; the last one I saw before that was The Northman two years ago.

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    Hmm, either Oppenheimer or Poor Things I think. I support new IPs in Hollywood in concept, but a lot of them just don’t interest me is the problem. Looking forward to Nosferatu this month tho!

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    The price of movies is too damn high to go out and watch them. My system at home is far more comfortable and costs barely anything.

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    One new IP coming right up!
    Here you go… Rebel Moon
    Enjoy

    (jkjk I love new IP but not all of them are bangers)

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    Hundreds of Beavers.

    And I watched it by just sort of holding my eyes open while the video file played on my computer screen.

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    This year I would’ve loved to see A Real Pain but it was only showing at one theater near me and only for one showing that I couldn’t make. For original movies I actually had access to in theaters, last year I saw Dream Scenario, American Fiction, Polite Society, Theater Camp, Zone of Interest, Problemista and Poor Things. All great. I also watched Rotting in the Sun on Mubi’s app and it was just okay.

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      Every iteration of me from 1994 to now is coming to your home to kick your ass right up and out past your teeth for calling the OG Crow a bad movie.

      Yes, most of us will be in face paint. Some of us may have black trench coats on. There may even be some hammer pants, but we won’t talk about that.

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      Seriously, there’s nothing inherently wrong with remakes but why do it if you’re not trying to make it BETTER? Or at least substantially different? Do a different take on the material, don’t just swap the CG animated boy for a real life actor while leaving everything including the CG animated dragon as it was, for fuck’s sake.

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      Remakes that are better than the original:

      The Thing

      The Fly

      The Blob

      Invasion of the Body Snatchers

      Cat People

      Hmm. I’m noticing a trend here.

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    There was a theory somewhere that this is about power play. If you produce Spiderman 245, power shifts away from the director and towards the production company. Less artistic freedom, more money management. If you let the director create their own movie, they are mostly in charge of how things go, movies become more artistic and less focused on money (alone).

    I have nothing to confirm this and don’t remember the source I have that from except “the internet”

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      Also, for those interested in more mature movies: Juror #2. I had good expectations and was not disappointed. At least, not by the movie. There were only a handful of people in an already small cinema room, only a week after release. Meanwhile, Gladiator II is drawing a lot of public.

      While I love shitting on CEOs and business people as much as the next left-oriented person, this trend in the movie industry is very much, at least partially, at fault due to many of the consumers.

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        Juror #2

        Thought provoking in that everyone who wants to convict is “because he’s a piece of shit, whether or not it is unlikely he did it”. How do you tell people they are pieces of shit themselves, without them reactively thinking you are? Is the big thought experiment this film provokes.

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    Movies and shows that I have watched this year in no particular order and not all released this year:

    The Beekeeper

    Iron Claw

    Say Nothing

    Altered States

    The Substance

    Oppenheimer

    Peaky Blinders (rewatch)

    Kneecap

    In The Name of the Father

    The Batman

    Lord of the Rings (rewatch)

    The Departed (rewatch)

    Deep Space Nine (haven’t finished)

    The Devil’s Own

    Sicario

    Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?

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      Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?

      If you think of teenage girls as people, tons of people liked it when it came out. They also liked the books.