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Truth or Dare is easily the worst movie I have seen all year

The movie is shit by itself but what really turns it into a turd is the ending

The main character willingly uploads a video to youtube so that the entire world is now under control of this game.

Yes you heard that right. The main sacrificed the lives of millions/billions of people just so she could live.

This doesn't even mean the main character is safe because the game is still being played....all it means is that the main character bought a couple of extra months to live at the cost of the entire world
 
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Truth or Dare is easily the worst movie I have seen all year

The movie is shit by itself but what really turns it into a turd is the ending

The main character willingly uploads a video to youtube so that the entire world is now under control of this game.

Yes you heard that right. The main sacrificed the lives of millions/billions of people just so she could live.

This doesn't even mean the main character is safe because the game is still being played....all it means is that the main character bought a couple of extra months to live at the cost of the entire world

I read your breakdown of the ending cause I know I'll never see it. Filmed looked like an awful rip off of It Follows + Final Destination.

Now from your description of the ending it also sounds sort of like the underrated thriller Nerve with Dave Franco and Emma Roberts. Only much, much shittier.

I think It Follows had a good conceit in terms of you not only wanted to pass the thing on but you wanted to make sure you told the person how to pass it on and gave them as much information as possible so that they would have a chance to stay alive. Because if said person dies, you're right back in line as the next victim.
 
Watched Bergman's Persona for the first time in probably 15+ years, remember enjoying it as a mind bending late night viewing but certainly connected much more this time around even if any exact reading of it still isn't easy.

What stood out as well for me is that post millennium its influence has arguably become stronger than ever, I mean Mullholland Drive is the obvious one but more recently Black Swan and in a lot less specifically in closeup heavy mysterious/intense dramas (often with with two isolated women), even goes so far as to throw in some sex(indeed I think a strong contender for the most erotic scene ever filmed despite showing no nudity). I do struggle to think of a film pre 1970 that feels more contemporary, even among European new wave films I think its quite unique on focusing so heavily on performances by facial expression alone. Certainly doesn't play second fiddle to anything modern visually either, years spent on monochrome photography since perhaps has made me better able to appreciate that.

I have yet to see a single Ingmar Bergman film. What would you recommend to start with?
 
I have yet to see a single Ingmar Bergman film. What would you recommend to start with?

I'm not really an expert with a lot of my viewing being along time ago(when C4 and the BBC still put arty films on TV in the UK) but I'd certainly recommend Persona as every bit as good(or better) than the similar modern films I mentioned. I think you see claims that cinema hasn't dated rather too often but in that case it really is true, bar a few issues like film stock and some designs it really does feel like it could have been released a few years ago.

I probably am going to have to get around to seeing more of his late 60's/70's work, maybe set a weekend aside to watch the extended Fanny and Alexander.
 
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I have yet to see a single Ingmar Bergman film. What would you recommend to start with?
The Seventh Seal all the way IMO. Then Wild Strawberries, the Magician, and the Virgin Spring. Smiles of a Summer Night is an uncharacteristic Bergman comedy from that same time period and very charming. Once you've gotten through those move on to his 60's and 70's era films, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Silence, Persona, Hour of the Wolf, Passion of Anna, Cries and Whispers. Scenes from a Marriage was a great six-part TV series entirely written and directed by Bergman, one of the best things he's done IMO.

I really love Bergman films. To me he's on the level of Kubrick, Hitchcock and Kurosawa.
 
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The Seventh Seal all the way IMO. Then Wild Strawberries, the Magician, and the Virgin Spring. Smiles of a Summer Night is an uncharacteristic Bergman comedy from that same time period and very charming. Once you've gotten through those move on to his 60's and 70's era films, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Silence, Persona, Hour of the Wolf, Passion of Anna, Cries and Whispers. Scenes from a Marriage was a great six-part TV series entirely written and directed by Bergman, one of the best things he's done IMO.

I probably am going to have to get around to seeing more of his late 60's/70's work, maybe set a weekend aside to watch the extended Fanny and Alexander.

Chickenluver wins the Bergman nomination game vs moreorless87 on account of not mentioning Fanny and Alexander at all.

Though moreorless87 still gets high points for his perceptive Persona write-up.
 
Chickenluver wins the Bergman nomination game vs moreorless87 on account of not mentioning Fanny and Alexander at all.

Though moreorless87 still gets high points for his perceptive Persona write-up.
haha I still haven't seen that. Is Fanny the most unfortunate given name? Maybe not in Swedish, but it sounds funny in English.
 
I watched Annabelle: Creation and it was trash. Will happily forget I watched it.
 
Lol i just bought Jaws on blu ray last week..watched it with my lil nephew and he loved it

Absolute classic. Ideal film to watch around the 4th as well. I'll be watching that one and 1776 as is tradition.
 
Truth or Dare is easily the worst movie I have seen all year

The movie is shit by itself but what really turns it into a turd is the ending

The main character willingly uploads a video to youtube so that the entire world is now under control of this game.

Yes you heard that right. The main sacrificed the lives of millions/billions of people just so she could live.

This doesn't even mean the main character is safe because the game is still being played....all it means is that the main character bought a couple of extra months to live at the cost of the entire world

Did the video get demonetized?
^ See what I did there? demon-etized
demon
get it?

I watched Annabelle: Creation and it was trash. Will happily forget I watched it.

I didn't think it was that bad. That poor crippled girl.
 
I re-watched Jurassic Park, Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park 3.

I forgot how classic Jurassic Park is, it is one of my favorite films of all time, I would also say the same for The Lost World, too. But Jurassic Park 3... the actress and actor who played the 'Kirby' family, who were too annoying. I was happy when the movie ended. Dinosaurs are always cool in movies, but JP3... no

The original is so head and shoulders above everything that came next though that it's kind of a frustrating series to watch.

Still, if there's only one great movie among them it's nice to see that the franchise didn't fall to shit like film series like Terminator and Alien where there were two great ones and then some awful ones (mixed in with the mediocre). I think that at least with Jurassic Park all the sequels are reasonably entertaining.

I was watching some of The Lost World today on cable and it appears to me that it might be my second favorite to be honest. The ridiculousness of Hammond being like, "thank God for site B" when there was never any indication of such a thing existing, and the horrendousness of Malcolm's daughter using her gymnast skills to take out the raptor "You got cut from the team?" pale in comparison to the awesomeness of some of the sequences.

I think the scene where Richard Shciff saves the day when Vaughan, Moore, and Goldblum are hanging over the edge of the ravine is probably one of the best action setpieces in any of the sequels. It is very tense and given enough time to be fleshed out in an exciting way.

The last twenty minutes is nice escapist fun.

Overall, a good one. There were many problematic elements, but I enjoyed it.

I just recently saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It was actually quite entertaining, but you really have to excuse some ludicrousness. A lot of it actually. One of the more interesting things about the JW movies is they want to have it both ways where you're sympathizing with the dinosaurs just being dinosaurs but are also rooting for the human heroes to survive. In the original, you had the t-rex inadvertently saving the day, but it was squarely about hoping the humans survive amidst the chaos. In Jurassic World 2 it's like Blue is Gizmo to the heel dinosaur's Stripe.
 
Besides being better made the original is obviously a film with rather more ambition having something to say about the perils of genetic science run amok and commercialisation. If the franchise had wanted to stick to that then it really should have pushed the idea of the dinosaurs potentially getting off the island, just revisiting the same concept again and again was obviously going to loose a lot of its edge.
 
I watched Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom today and I enjoyed it. I say 8/10. I know the story isn't great, not were some of the decisions made in this movie. But I say I had a fun time watching it. Could have been much worse.

The face-off between the
T-rex and the lion
was pretty cool.

I wonder how Jurassic World: 3 will be. It will be cool to see Dinosaurs and Humans on the same continent.. but won't they all be spread out?
 
This deserves a lot more than I have the time to give it right now - which, fittingly enough, is symptomatic of the issue at hand - but I wanted to make an official post in here: From this point forward, the SMD will no longer be a sticky.

Given the relative inactivity of this thread in recent months and years, especially relative to previous years, I feel (as do fellow Mayberry movie mods Dragon and jei) that it's time to give others this "movie sticky" space. To that end, from here on out, the SMD will just be a regular thread to be bumped as you guys see fit while the SMC will replace the SMD as a sticky. Each week, on a rotating basis that coincides with the weekly club selections and discussions, the current round of the SMC discussion will be stickied.

Obviously, I'm not going anywhere, so I'll certainly be bumping this thread from time to time. And it's not like the SMD is being deleted from existence. I just feel, and I've felt it for a long time now, that the SMC community has been bigger and more active recently than the SMD and I think that it's earned the right to be front and center as the major Mayberry movie community.

So, as the SMC makes it to the majors, the SMD can take a trip back to the minors :D

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Need to watch Sicario 2 but the first one was overrated, good movie but should have been cut down by 20 minutes

Up in the air

a good movie

 
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