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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 29, 2024 22:13:23 GMT
"This time James Spader doesn't fight just one Keanu Reeves, but multiple Keanus."
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 29, 2024 21:58:54 GMT
You are going about your day and start to wonder why you're hungry again, and then realise you were due to eat hours ago?
Happened to me the other day.
Btw, am I on your ignore list? Guess I got my answer. Can't remember what I said to piss him off, though. 🤔
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 29, 2024 21:52:59 GMT
I wrote a handful. The one I wrote for The Departed is actually on the first page of user reviews.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 29, 2024 14:39:16 GMT
How about American Pie and its cast? Remember a time when that movie was a cultural phenomenon and nearly everyone in it had about four years of mainstream leading roles? This will probably piss off Prime, but I love that the most successful person as of now was a borderline extra and one of like two minorities in the entire movie, John Cho.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 29, 2024 14:33:46 GMT
I'm pretty sure they actually did say that after Bee Movie.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 29, 2024 14:31:52 GMT
Final Destination 3 Final Destination 2 Final Destination The Final Destination Final Destination 5 To Jann's point, why do you consider 5 worse than The? My rank: FD FD5 FD2 FD3 TFD
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 29, 2024 12:16:06 GMT
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 22:04:56 GMT
As a "Nolan slurper", you should know that "Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space." But yeah, Neo's love for Trinity is what caused him to reject the machines and risk everything in Reloaded, so it was a pretty powerful thing - particularly as an energy soruce for the machines. Now Tenet, there's a movie I couldn't follow. Tenet is best understood in a very general sense. “Don’t try to understand it. Feel it.”
To me, that line was a desperate plea from Nolan to the audience. It’s also the best (and only) way to enjoy the movie.It's also a memorable quote from Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. But fair enough.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 6:39:20 GMT
I think a simple way of loooking at is that the human characters are fighting for humanity, non-rogue programs are fighting for machines, and rogue programs are fighting for themselves. In regards to Resurrections, the machines held up their end of the deal and there was peace for a time, but then the machines got into a civil war with each other over the growing lack of energy resources and the bad faction won out. I think the Morpheus/Smith recastings were stictly due to Fishburne and Weaving not returning for whatever reasons. In the reality of the film, Neo and Trinity are also recast but they see themselves and each other as Keanu and Moss. "I suppose my main issue is that all four movies are written like a traditional movie(s) and there’s little to explain that except *long* monologues" - they're all pretty subtext heavy, the first three as philosophical/spiritual exercises about all kinds of potentially different things, and the fourth as a meta joke about being forced to make an unnecessary sequel. Fair enough. The more I’ve read up on it (for the first time) and with your explanation, it makes more sense. Within the world at least. I understand the irony of me being a Nolan slurper and criticizing this type of thing, but it all seems very convenient and “just trust me bro.” But as I said above, I respect the effort a lot and the Wachowski’s deserve a lot of credit for being deep-diving pseudo-philosophically with their over-arching story. Another main question I have, which I think will be nothing but an argument, is why is Trinity and Neo’s romance so over powered? That didn’t make much sense to me in Resurrections. As a "Nolan slurper", you should know that "Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space." But yeah, Neo's love for Trinity is what caused him to reject the machines and risk everything in Reloaded, so it was a pretty powerful thing - particularly as an energy soruce for the machines. Now Tenet, there's a movie I couldn't follow.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 6:03:56 GMT
Merovingian was another rogue program that basically set up shop in the Matrix as a crime boss. The Keymaker was designed to bring Neo to the Architect, which he did. And Smith taking over the Matrix hadn't really been planned by the machines, which is how Neo was able to use it to broker a peace deal and spare that Zion in Revolutions, rather than let the machines destroy it and create a new Zion as he was supposed to in Reloaded. Some humans wont accept the fake reality of the Matrix no matter what, so Zion becomes a neccesary evil for the machines, with The One as their "messiah" figure. To keep it from becoming too unwieldly, the machines eventually destroy Zion and the cycle begins again with a new Zion and new One, rinse and repeat. Neo is the 6th, but unlike the previous Ones, he refused to go along with machines. To be fair, that makes more sense. Also not to sound like a dumbass, the movies meld so many characters with so many motivations that it all blends together. Not to mention Resurrections, which seems to make everything bad again. And part of the whole thing with it is that the movie is aware of this and the ridiculousness of Morpheus and Smith being recast. But it makes little sense to me. I think a simple way of loooking at is that the human characters are fighting for humanity, non-rogue programs are fighting for machines, and rogue programs are fighting for themselves. In regards to Resurrections, the machines held up their end of the deal and there was peace for a time, but then the machines got into a civil war with each other over the growing lack of energy resources and the bad faction won out. I think the Morpheus/Smith recastings were stictly due to Fishburne and Weaving not returning for whatever reasons. In the reality of the film, Neo and Trinity are also recast but they see themselves and each other as Keanu and Moss. "I suppose my main issue is that all four movies are written like a traditional movie(s) and there’s little to explain that except *long* monologues" - they're all pretty subtext heavy, the first three as philosophical/spiritual exercises about all kinds of potentially different things, and the fourth as a meta joke about being forced to make an unnecessary sequel.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 5:39:18 GMT
LOVE - Matthew LIllard, Carey Mulligan
LIKE - Jesse Plemmons, Kirsten Dunst
TAKE OR LEAVE - Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart
DISLIKE - Freddie Prinze Jr, Una O'Connor
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 5:18:59 GMT
Worth noting that the main program helping the humans - The Oracle - was something of a double agent and the prophecy was a way of manipulating them. Indeed, the programs are all initially created to serve the interests of the machines, but some go rogue. As we see with the program Smith, he has some form of consciousness which leads to him choosing to stay in the Matrix and do his own thing rather than face deletion, and terminating him required the help of Neo. (as for where you might have missed all this, it's largely in the info dumps given by the Oracle and Architect in Reloaded) I remember the Architect conversation, perhaps I tuned out more than I thought. I’ve seen the original four times and the other three only once (and recently). There’s other characters I don’t really understand, like the Key Maker and the Merovingian. Maybe a better way to put it is that I just wasn’t engaged by these movies. The prophecy itself even seems a little messy and a little nonsensical as far as the machines are concerned (they used the Oracle to manipulate Neo to do their bidding to get rid of Smith, I think?). Merovingian was another rogue program that basically set up shop in the Matrix as a crime boss. The Keymaker was designed to bring Neo to the Architect, which he did. And Smith taking over the Matrix hadn't really been planned by the machines, which is how Neo was able to use it to broker a peace deal and spare that Zion in Revolutions, rather than let the machines destroy it and create a new Zion as he was supposed to in Reloaded. Some humans wont accept the fake reality of the Matrix no matter what, so Zion becomes a neccesary evil for the machines, with The One as their "messiah" figure. To keep it from becoming too unwieldly, the machines eventually destroy Zion and the cycle begins again with a new Zion and new One, rinse and repeat. Neo is the 6th, but unlike the previous Ones, he refused to go along with machines.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 3:43:46 GMT
I like to think I have a good understanding of these movies, so if there's any specific examples I wouldn't mind trying to tackle them. One of my main issues is the difference between the programs and the enslaved individuals in the matrix. Who put these programs in, especially ones that may help the resistance? I understand the reasoning is probably that every program was put in at some point to help the machines (especially the Oracle), but if they’re helping the humans free themselves, why wouldn’t the matrix terminate these systems immediately? I assume there’s a thread/line of dialogue I’ve missed, but that seemed like a massive plot hole that makes the sequels especially fall completely apart. Worth noting that the main program helping the humans - The Oracle - was something of a double agent and the prophecy was a way of manipulating them. Indeed, the programs are all initially created to serve the interests of the machines, but some go rogue. As we see with the program Smith, he has some form of consciousness which leads to him choosing to stay in the Matrix and do his own thing rather than face deletion, and terminating him required the help of Neo. (as for where you might have missed all this, it's largely in the info dumps given by the Oracle and Architect in Reloaded)
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 2:46:32 GMT
You are going about your day and start to wonder why you're hungry again, and then realise you were due to eat hours ago?
Happened to me the other day.
I once went three days without eating anything, but it's more because I was extremely depressed and not hungry, as opposed to "forgetting". Otherwise it's more like I need to remind myself to stop eating. I do it when I'm bored, happy, sad, etc. Btw, am I on your ignore list?
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 2:36:45 GMT
What doesn't make sense about them? People ask me this all the time and I find it hard to answer because I don’t know what I don’t know. But my best deduction is that it doesn’t follow its own logic, until it needs to in order to be convenient (and vice versa). I like to think I have a good understanding of these movies, so if there's any specific examples I wouldn't mind trying to tackle them.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 2:27:36 GMT
What doesn't make sense about them?
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 2:18:21 GMT
how Hatcher deals with the villainous voodoo drug kingpin Screwface. Let’s see - sliced up with sword, eyes poked out, back broken over knee, and impaled at bottom of elevator shaft. Did he survive?
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 28, 2024 1:43:57 GMT
My mom and her mom like/d movies. My grandmother was big on Italian movies, her favorite might have been The Bicycle Thief. My mom likes a little of everything, but favors thrillers I suppose.
Dad also likes movies but I wouldn't categorize him as a movie buff.
Not sure about the rest.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 27, 2024 10:21:13 GMT
I found the script:
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 27, 2024 3:22:48 GMT
How about that one premiering in a few days? You seem like a hardcore RDJ guy. I do definitely plan to watch that one. Watched the pilot and it hasn't really grabbed me yet. I'll probably ride it out though.
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