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Watched Alex Garland's Men. The ending is quite something, I'll say. Body horror starts off pretty nuts and only keeps getting more and more disturbing. He puts you front and center of it all. The CGI/practical effects look good, knowing Garland I'm sure he probably spent hours upon hours of looking at footage to come up with something truly horrific. I've seen some gross out body horror, this up there.

It's ultimately kind of what the movie will be known for but I was enjoying the visuals and the acting was great. A downside was I felt the material felt like it started to be stretched thin a bit before we get to the climax. But if you want a unique nightmarish experience, go for it.
 
Just watched the new All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix. 2 1/2 hour movie and it was great. I’m heading to France in about 10 days and we have some days scheduled for WW1 and WW2 history. Trench warfare was hell and I’m excited to learn more about it where it happened.
 
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Bucknutz said:
Just watched the new All Quite on the Western Front on Netflix. 2 1/2 hour movie and it was great. I’m heading to France in about 10 days and we have some days scheduled for WW1 and WW2 history. Trench warfare was hell and I’m excited to learn more about it where it happened.
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By far the best historical production on WW1 that I had the befit of happening across was the Blueprint for Armageddon series by Dan Carlin. For a long time he had it available for free on his website but now it looks like he's charging $15 for it.

Blueprint for Armageddon Series – Dan Carlin

www.dancarlin.com www.dancarlin.com
 
I watched The Northman. It was ok but a little too witchcrafty imo.


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fishonjazz said:
By far the best historical production on WW1 that I had the befit of happening across was the Blueprint for Armageddon series by Dan Carlin. For a long time he had it available for free on his website but now it looks like he's charging $15 for it.
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Al-O-Meter said:

Blueprint for Armageddon Series – Dan Carlin

www.dancarlin.com www.dancarlin.com
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I’ll take a look at this. I have a basic understanding of WW1 and I’m interested in learning more. Thanks for the suggested content.
 
Watched Nope. I liked it but I really felt the running time, this is a slow movie. I remember reading that the chimpanzee sequence came from one of Jordan Peele's dream, thats pretty wild. One of the stronger scenes from the film, I enjoyed Steven Yeun's characther arc im this. There are some really great scenes and the creativity on display is enjoyable, I just dont know if it all quite comes together for me but I did enjoy it a lot more than 'Us'.
 
I watched Thor love and Thunder and thought it was great. Very funny. The goats were hilarious and Thor's sidekick (dude make of rock) is so funny. Good fight scenes, good villain (took me forever to figure out who played the villain), some decent emotion to it. Loved the scene in the palace of the Gods or whatever when thor killed zeus. The farewell scene between thor and star lord was hilarious. Just good fun all around. I almost always love the marvel/avengers movies.
 
Watching the new Hellraiser movie now. Almost halfway through and its pretty good so far.
 
Man there is a real dearth of good movies in theaters right now. Of course I think we have been in a lull for a while. Even the ones I have been able to go see weren't all that great. Went to see the Avatar sequel, found it very meh, the story derivative, the SFX GORGEOUS beyond description. A technical tour de force and a plot failure. Again the white hero saves yet another group of natives, but of course one he needlessly put in danger in the first place. Like he has learned NOTHING during the intervening years. They stripped all the power of the toruk makto or whatever he was in the first movie (you know, the Jesus white savior role), and still had just him in the final fights. I don't want to give too many spoilers so I will just say the "villain", if you can call him that, was a supreme dud. How non-creative and carbon-copy can you be about the whole thing. Really it boils down to a fish out of water (see what I did there?) comes to appreciate a native group, then defends them from the white incursion. You know, Dances with Wol...uh, I mean Avatar...uh, with the way of water added on the end of the title. They could have just kept the last title because it was literally the first movie with different scenery complete with completely implausible resurrections. Yeah, now that I think about it more, it is less a meh and more just a dud. If you go see it, do it for the ground-breaking special effects and just wear earplugs and pretend it is a documentary of alien life. During the "action" scenes go to the bathroom and get some snacks. You won't miss anything. Everyone is exactly the same again in the end anyway, no one grew or changed. It is all like a sitcom, re-setting for the next episode. Blech.
 
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