It should've been obvious to you that i was talking about movies made unskillfully, not directors or actors choices.

High Tension will shred your nerves to pieces.

Kinda sounds like The Wailing, by Korean director Na-Hong Jin.

One of Hitchcock's things was suspense.

A bomb that explodes is not as terrifying as a bomb that does not explode.

These days it seems that 'suspense' is all jump scares, and with CGI, it is easy to have huge bombs going off everywhere.

Also you might have to fight off Kubrick's Droogs about who is the most 'auteur'.

I'd recommend but I wish they'd kept to the true story. I dont need forced car chases and KGB menacing children on a balcony. The cold war aspect was more than enough for a filling stew. Hell, they omitted the Russian co-developer who also came to the States and ended murdering his wife and kids. There's enough crazy in the true story without adding in generic bullshit

Green Room

The Menu

Ready Or Not

Please don’t eat the daisies

Flip that as well for a massive box office success and popular deem it instantly overrated

Place beyond the pines

Unanimously referred to as the Master of Suspense. That's what puts him in GOAT conversations. Certainly no one before him could influence an audience onto the literal edge of their seat the way Hitchcock could using cinema as his medium. There's now a long line of renowned directors who largely employ his methods to build that same sense of excitement and anxiety.

I want a ton from Jake Johnsons Spiderman haha

Just mentioned today that, imo, it's kind of getting old that every time someone nowadays mentions Kevin Spacey, even if only in the context of his (often highly acclaimed) work, they always have to make a disclaimer about what he's done irl, and especially their opinion of it.
Like guys, we know.
Everyone even remotely interested knows already.
Like someone said, you can appreciate Spacey in his movies without supporting his life choices.

Add Magallanes on prime video

Exactly! The most original music is taken from a completely different film, which is then extremely similar to another Zimmer score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaRJdTwO5hM

When it comes to friends/family/co-workers, I'll only recommend films that i think are in their wheelhouse after talking about other things they liked.

My grandma isn't going to get a damn thing out of watching The Godfather except that it was horrible about the horse. Meanwhile my cousin would probably be riveted.

As for critics, their job should be to inform THEIR audience. If you have a national generic audience, you should recommend/pan things with no particular person in mind. I would say something like Top Gun Maverick is exactly the type of film a national critic would review with everyone in mind. Versus a critic working for a horror website, they should review films with horror hounds in mind.

That said, it's actually wise to find specific critics or reviewers that have similar tastes to yourself - it'll give you a better idea if you should spend your time watching something.

The whole ghost army thing was kind of lamely adapted in RotK. The relative ease with which they dispatched the forces of Sauron at Minas Tirith is almost insulting to the men of Gondor and Rohan who gave their lives at the siege and on the Pelennor Fields.

It’s my second least favorite thing about the movies after the omission of the Knights of Dol Amroth.

MMIW?

Because I can show that every judgement of a movie's quality is based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions, and is therefore, by definition, subjective.

The camera being out of focus can communicate a character being disorientated, or act as a shorthand for a quick motion, or direct the audience's eyes to something more important in the shot, or maybe a filmmaker wants to make a dreamlike film, where like in a dream, it feels impossible to focus. Leaving the camera out of focus is just yet another tool in a filmmaker's belt, and using that tool isn't "objectively bad." Similarly, having actors mumble their lines is a choice to try for a more realistic conversational style at the expense of clarity, it is neither an objectively good or bad thing, just a personal decision made by a creative.

The idea that every movie should be clear in its message and visual presentation to be "good" (an opinion I see repeated a lot) is much like believing that realism is the only valid style of painting. It's pretty silly to me, but then again, it's all subjective so it's perfectly fine if you have that opinion just don't pretend you are objectively right.

Ya, this is my point.

thought it was a good movie! it seemed to track the true story, although with really obvious added hollywoodisms like the car chase. but like how they kept most of the legal issues in, despite it being sorta dry.

ohh didn't realize ghislaine was his daughter. what an interesting family haha.

Why do you think Ghislaine became a child pimp for billionaires? Well, firstly I think the dark triad personality runs in the family, but also, she couldn't give up being a one percenter when they lost everything in the first bankruptcy/criminal trials. Gotta hang onto that social status no matter what, huh.

Btw, Kevin, her bro went bankrupt yet again about 10 years ago and was banned from being a company director again. He and his brother now run a think tank "studying jihadi terrorism"........which I think we can all agree is probably a front for something dark.

I guess Red Dead Redemption 2 was realistic after all.

Quite often underrated or overrated at the same time, depending on who's doing the rating.

Someone recently told me that Jack Nicholson was underrated ...

Yup.

Nah. I’ve been too nice to you.