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Originally Posted by evollove
That trailer made me pee my pants.
But why is Danny McBride in this? And I thought that chick was headed to the alien planet carrying a robot head? I guess all will be revealed soon.
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I've been sick as shit for a week. But only watched two movies.
WHIPLASH- Didn't realize LALALand dude made this. He likes to shoot instruments, I guess. Like that flick, good scenes don't seem to add up to a great movie. Loved the ending though.
HELL OR HIGH WATER - I wasn't going to see this, then I realized Ben Foster was in it, who is my favorite contemporary actor. As it turns out, he was just okay.
I'm getting too old. I can't stand watching nice people get shot in the head anymore. It really fucks with me for days afterward.
Nice snapshot of contemporary economics, though, which I wasn't expecting. It's not a straightforward cops n' robbers film at all.
Otherwise I just watched "old" (2008-2012) Daily Shows and Colberts. Made dying seem not so bad.
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You've hit something squarely on the head (pardon the pun) about "nice people getting shot". As a young film watcher, I was always surprised and took some weird glee in the nasty plot moves where innocent people get shot. Whether its the Tarantino effect or just a better perspective on life and how valuable it really is, I can't stand the nonchalant nihilism some filmmakers take in this. Films like "The Purge" I've walked out on (which is RARE for my sensibilities) and recently, good word of mouth got me out to see "The Belko Experiment" and I just cringed all the way through it. There's enough shit in this world without a slapdash piece of violent-agitprop like that. Give me films with a deeper understanding of the human character like "Arrival", "Brooklyn", "Phoenix" or about 1000 others any day.