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[FiggyPudding]

The flashback to that event in Yeun's character's past - why is it in there?! Sorry I can't remember how to do spoilers on this phone so I can't be specific.

[Binky]

The Gray Man, which IMDb tells me cost 200 million to make. I think they spent about $3 dollars on writing, though. You would get a similar experience watching it on mute. It makes me wonder who the secret script tweaker for Marvel was, because the Russo brothers and other writers were the folks also responsible for Winter Soldier and last 3 Captain America/Avenger movies. None of which had dialogue this cheesy. Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans are charming actors, but they can’t sell garbage lines. The plot is unremarkable, close to the Bourne movies or Shooter. But the dialogue is awful.

[scarlet]

Jul 23, 2022 16:23:23 GMT -4 FiggyPudding said:

The flashback to that event in Yeun's character's past - why is it in there?! Sorry I can't remember how to do spoilers on this phone so I can't be specific.

I sent you a PM, but for anyone else who'd like to read this article (warning: it's very spoiler-ific):

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[famvir]

I just saw Spiderman No Way Home, watched it on the back of a seat on a plane, and just now at home before watch Dr. Strange/Multiverse.

I think one needs the No Way Home segue to Dr. Strange.

But how Trippy is Dr. Strange/Multiverse! I actually loved it and can't wait to watch it again, alone this time.

[FiggyPudding]

Jul 24, 2022 10:33:39 GMT -4 scarlet said:

Jul 23, 2022 16:23:23 GMT -4 FiggyPudding said:

The flashback to that event in Yeun's character's past - why is it in there?! Sorry I can't remember how to do spoilers on this phone so I can't be specific.

I sent you a PM, but for anyone else who'd like to read this article (warning: it's very spoiler-ific):

link

Thanks! I'd guessed a little of that, but the rest was really helpful.

[ElleCee]

We saw Nope it was okay but not anything I'll ever watch again. Acting was great but I'm all wtf is going on? I went looking for reviews because I didn't really get it. Some one said it was an allegory about life in Hollywood. That makes the bit about the TMZ guy a bit more understandable.

[sjankis630]

Yeah I had nothing to do last night and the theater near me had $5 Tuesday so I went and saw Nope. I am sort of baffled as to why this has been getting such praise. I was underwhelmed. I think I got the gist but the first 40 minutes were interminable and they could have cut some - including the chimp part - or at least done it all at once.
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I think that the Asian Cowboy somehow thought that the chimp not attacking him meant that he had some sort of affinity with animals and in this case UFOs? He was definitely the reason that the Alien marked the valley as his own as he had been feeding it horses that he bought from OJ's ranch.

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[cremetangerine82]

I saw NOPE yesterday, and I really liked it. I won't compare Jordan Peele's movies, and I feel that some of the audience's disappointment is because of the high bar of Get Out. I thought the nods to pop culture of the past 30 years made it feel grounded in real life (pun unintended) and

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{Spoiler}the chimp's rampage being an allegory of how the Hollywood system can turn and "kill" you, especially for child actors like Steven Yuen's character (PTSD) and his girl co-star (literally scarred). Also, the chimp is a perpetrator AND a victim, since the movie industry had/has a poor record in treating animal actors, especially chimp and horses. The connection of the horse being in what could be considered the 'first" motion picture (Eadweard Muybridge's The Horse in Motion), yet the black jockey is forgotten, another metaphor of how black actors have been sidelined in movies (always the sidekick, never the lead). I also understand the tense dynamic between the two main characters: even if Keke Palmer (great-great-great granddaugther of the jockey) could've been a better horse trainer than her older brother. Keith David's deliberate or unconscious chauvinism made him only see Daniel Kaluuya's character as his successor and not his daughter (always the sidekick, never the lead). I noticed the dark humor of a blonde white woman taken aback by a black man named OJ, TMZ being anywhere sensational or anyone celebrity adjacent, and the metal key in the horse (horses being replaced by motor vehicles - "horsepower"). The nickel could represent 1) how many Americans must "slave" for every coin, 2) virile and strong Otis Sr. being killed by something so small and innocuous or 3) the hypocrisy of the coin's Thomas Jefferson portrait, a man who wrote "that all men are created equal" while owning slaves.

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Haven't seen it yet, but I just ordered a ticket to see Dirty Dancing in a couple of weeks. It's the 35th anniversary, so some theaters are having big screen showings. Luckily for me, one of those theaters is just a 10 minute walk away
Really looking forward to seeing it on the big screen.

[groovethang]

Jul 31, 2022 16:48:24 GMT -4 @stargirl said:

Haven't seen it yet, but I just ordered a ticket to see Dirty Dancing in a couple of weeks. It's the 35th anniversary, so some theaters are having big screen showings. Luckily for me, one of those theaters is just a 10 minute walk away
Really looking forward to seeing it on the big screen.

Thanks for posting this! Would love to see it again on the big screen.