I, a 37 year old huge Beavis and Butthead fan, take this challenge.
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GasBandit
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Yeah, but you're an "old soul." Amirite?
They did surprisingly well at keeping it true to what it is. If you go in expecting a Beavis and Butthead movie, you won’t be disappointed.
GasBandit
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Exactly. There are universal rules for B&B, and as long as you remember those constants (such as "Adults who do not know Beavis or Butthead will always give them the benefit of the doubt despite obvious idiocy") it's easy to keep rolling with the humor.
"mature for their age" is the usual turn of phrase on this forum.
"mature for their age" is the usual turn of phrase on this forum.
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Favorite movie of the year. I feel like this movie spoke to me on a deeply personal level, and were someone to ask me to explain it to them, all I could do is shrug my shoulders and suggest they watch in hopes that they assembled the same message that I did. Fantastic film.
Favorite movie of the year. I feel like this movie spoke to me on a deeply personal level, and were someone to ask me to explain it to them, all I could do is shrug my shoulders and suggest they watch in hopes that they assembled the same message that I did. Fantastic film.
"It's a supper trippy multi-dimensional sci-fi story about the importance of family"
Which doesn't come close to describing how awesome it is.
As a nihilist, I also felt it was a surprisingly good representation of nihilism, both positive and negative variations
My partner and I both cried watching it... but at very different points. (the mother/daughter angle got her, what got me was the father explaining he also fights by being kind)
It was sincerely one of my favorite movie-watching experiences in recent memory. I was laughing my ass off AND in awe AND emotionally invested AND intrigued by the plot AND just having fun for what felt like every single frame of it.
I just love that Short Round played the dad.
And he fucking killed it. He may have been away from acting for awhile until recently but he was the heart of this movie
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Is A24’s First Movie to Hit $100 Million Globally
The A24 movie starring Michelle Yeoh has crossed $100 million at the global box office.
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I’m under 40 and had literally never seen anything Beavis and Butthead before and I liked it.
GasBandit
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... Were you high?
GasBandit
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Well, I found it funny too. Since you haven't seen it, you might also check out Beavis and Butt-head Do America. It's 20 years old but more of the same.
figmentPez
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Been watching a lot of movies lately, so here's a bunch of short reviews:
Dave Made a Maze
Weird, but in a good way. This is kinda horror lite, it has horror-ish thing happen, but it doesn't build suspense the way a horror movie does. The suspense feels more like a slacker comedy, or the build up to fridge-horror with heavy notes of the dread that comes with being depressed. People are dying, and it's funny, but with the knowledge that it will bother you later. I thought it was very interesting, with some great visuals.
The Man From Toronto
Dumb and occasionally grating, but mostly fun and it had some really great fight scenes.
Tenet
I hated this. I was checked-out halfway through. I didn't like the characters, I didn't like the storytelling, I didn't like the way the time travel was handled. It did not click with me at any point.
Rampage
It was okay as an action movie, but pretty terrible as a Rampage adaptation. It's pretty much all modern giant monster stuff, and none of the campy B-movie tropes of the game. A Rampage movie should have had people turn into the giant monsters, not another "evil corporation tries to turn animals into weapons" plot.
Gozilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs Kong
I had fun with both of these, but I liked the latter a lot more.
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
I didn't make it 10 minutes into this one before I ragequit. The opening of the movie is Poison Ivy getting brutally murdered. She's not a supervillain, she has no powers, she's just there to be cheesecake and get fridged. I have no interest in watching a movie that treats Ivy so poorly.
My Neighbor Totoro
The most striking thing about this movie, to me, was that Totoro roars loudly but isn't depicted as scary. That seems uncommon to me. I really liked the movie, but it is a classic for good reason.
Hellboy (2019)
Holy crap was this bland. It tries so hard to have horrific imagery, but there's no punch to any of it. The jokes don't land, the dialog feels weak, the action scenes just kinda mush their way around, Hellboy feels far too small (and they don't let him shoot the Samaritan until after the plot of the movie is over). I couldn't tell you why, but it just doesn't work. All the parts seem to be there, but something is wrong with almost all of it.
The Sea Beast
Absolutely fantastic movie. I highly recommend it. Wonderful storytelling, great visuals, loveable characters. Go watch it.
Dave Made a Maze
Weird, but in a good way. This is kinda horror lite, it has horror-ish thing happen, but it doesn't build suspense the way a horror movie does. The suspense feels more like a slacker comedy, or the build up to fridge-horror with heavy notes of the dread that comes with being depressed. People are dying, and it's funny, but with the knowledge that it will bother you later. I thought it was very interesting, with some great visuals.
The Man From Toronto
Dumb and occasionally grating, but mostly fun and it had some really great fight scenes.
Tenet
I hated this. I was checked-out halfway through. I didn't like the characters, I didn't like the storytelling, I didn't like the way the time travel was handled. It did not click with me at any point.
Rampage
It was okay as an action movie, but pretty terrible as a Rampage adaptation. It's pretty much all modern giant monster stuff, and none of the campy B-movie tropes of the game. A Rampage movie should have had people turn into the giant monsters, not another "evil corporation tries to turn animals into weapons" plot.
Gozilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs Kong
I had fun with both of these, but I liked the latter a lot more.
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
I didn't make it 10 minutes into this one before I ragequit. The opening of the movie is Poison Ivy getting brutally murdered. She's not a supervillain, she has no powers, she's just there to be cheesecake and get fridged. I have no interest in watching a movie that treats Ivy so poorly.
My Neighbor Totoro
The most striking thing about this movie, to me, was that Totoro roars loudly but isn't depicted as scary. That seems uncommon to me. I really liked the movie, but it is a classic for good reason.
Hellboy (2019)
Holy crap was this bland. It tries so hard to have horrific imagery, but there's no punch to any of it. The jokes don't land, the dialog feels weak, the action scenes just kinda mush their way around, Hellboy feels far too small (and they don't let him shoot the Samaritan until after the plot of the movie is over). I couldn't tell you why, but it just doesn't work. All the parts seem to be there, but something is wrong with almost all of it.
The Sea Beast
Absolutely fantastic movie. I highly recommend it. Wonderful storytelling, great visuals, loveable characters. Go watch it.
Dave
Sea Beast was one I caught with Hailey and we both loved it. It clearly has borrowed a lot of elements from How To Train Your Dragon, but I love all of the characters. There is a side plot that seems to come and go without resolution, but it didn't bother me too much.
I am glad to see that Dave Made a Maze is being seen and appreciated. I was very intrigued when I first saw a trailer for this movie just before it's release and it was an instant buy for me as well as been a favorite of mine to show people whenever possible. It's unique and rather clever, despite sometimes still not quite understanding their breakdown of challenging relationships. Visually it is stunning, especially considering the LITERAL cardboard budget they worked with. I love how the film gets gory without ever actually getting gory in the least bit. I often show it to folks in the film industry who take an even deeper appreciation for it.
Sea Beast was one I caught with Hailey and we both loved it. It clearly has borrowed a lot of elements from How To Train Your Dragon, but I love all of the characters. There is a side plot that seems to come and go without resolution, but it didn't bother me too much.
figmentPez
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I remember first seeing the trailer here on Halforums... Wait, it's been five years?! I have no sense of time. (Also, I never would have found the original post of the trailer if I hadn't made a minotaur penis joke.)
figmentPez
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Whoops, posted this to the wrong thread:
Lightyear
UGH. This was a disappointment. The plot is just a mish-mash of other stories mixed with tropes. The opening text says that this is the movie that Andy's toy was based on, and even acknowledging that a lot of classic toys had very little to do with the movies they were based on, this does not feel like the movie that gave rise to the Buzz Lightyear action figure. When the teaser trailer came out, the makers said that this was it's own thing, and not the movie Andy watched, so what's being said about the movie and what's said by the movie don't even agree.
Quote from Toy Story, "Right now, poised away at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet! I alone have information that reveals this weapon's only weakness." Zurg isn't called Emperor in Lightyear. He's not building a weapon, he's not threatening to destroy planets, he's not at the edge of the galaxy.
I think this confusion over what the movie was supposed to be is why it turned out to be such an obnoxious lump of barely connected moments. I was down for a movie that re-imagined Buzz Lightyear. I would have been down for a movie that was a better version of the animated series (which felt like something that could have inspired the toys in Toy Story). This movie wasn't either.
In fact, there's an existing franchise that this movie took way too much from:
This is one of the worst Pixar films I've seen. I enjoyed Cars 2 more than Lightyear.
Lightyear
UGH. This was a disappointment. The plot is just a mish-mash of other stories mixed with tropes. The opening text says that this is the movie that Andy's toy was based on, and even acknowledging that a lot of classic toys had very little to do with the movies they were based on, this does not feel like the movie that gave rise to the Buzz Lightyear action figure. When the teaser trailer came out, the makers said that this was it's own thing, and not the movie Andy watched, so what's being said about the movie and what's said by the movie don't even agree.
Quote from Toy Story, "Right now, poised away at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet! I alone have information that reveals this weapon's only weakness." Zurg isn't called Emperor in Lightyear. He's not building a weapon, he's not threatening to destroy planets, he's not at the edge of the galaxy.
I think this confusion over what the movie was supposed to be is why it turned out to be such an obnoxious lump of barely connected moments. I was down for a movie that re-imagined Buzz Lightyear. I would have been down for a movie that was a better version of the animated series (which felt like something that could have inspired the toys in Toy Story). This movie wasn't either.
In fact, there's an existing franchise that this movie took way too much from:
It's "Lost in Space" with Buzz Lightyear shoehorned in, right down to a time travel plot where an older version of a character, obsessed with changing the past and getting home, is revealed to be the villain. Throw in a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits and a dozen other tropes, wadded up in a structure that doesn't even hold together as well as the Meat Sandwich the movie tries so desperately to make a gag out of.
There's barely any Star Command to speak of. At the end the movie throws in a line about the "Galactic Alliance"... what Alliance? Who is this lone colony allied with? If they've gotten in contact with other humans/civilizations, why do they still need to find a power source to go home?
There's barely any Star Command to speak of. At the end the movie throws in a line about the "Galactic Alliance"... what Alliance? Who is this lone colony allied with? If they've gotten in contact with other humans/civilizations, why do they still need to find a power source to go home?
This is one of the worst Pixar films I've seen. I enjoyed Cars 2 more than Lightyear.
I actually liked it, even thought it better than it had any right to be.
I also liked it. I didn’t go into it with any expectations, I enjoyed it for being a movie.
I liked it, but it felt more like an animated movie made for adults, instead of an animated movie made for kids that adults could enjoy. My kid enjoyed it, but I’m pretty sure he forgot all about it 5 minutes after he left the theater and hasn’t asked to watch it again. As opposed to the Toy Story movies that he still rewatches.
Lightyear
I don't really know what I expected going into this. My expectations weren't particularly high. But I actually came out of it liking it. Not loving it. It's not Pixar's best, but it's not their worst, either.
It felt like kind of a pulpy sci-fi adventure and that was fine. I completely forgot about Zurg supposed to be "Emperor" Zurg, so that didn't bother me. I did like how they gradually introduced elements of his toy, like his laser and wings.
And at first, I wasn't crazy about Sox the Cat. I thought he was maybe a little too cutsey in aesthetics compared to the rest of the film. But dammit, they got me, because by not even halfway through the movie, I was like, "I WOULD SACRIFICE MYSELF A THOUSAND TIMES TO PROTECT THIS CAT."
Still, yeah, I dug this one. It was a fun action space adventure by way of old pulps.
I don't really know what I expected going into this. My expectations weren't particularly high. But I actually came out of it liking it. Not loving it. It's not Pixar's best, but it's not their worst, either.
It felt like kind of a pulpy sci-fi adventure and that was fine. I completely forgot about Zurg supposed to be "Emperor" Zurg, so that didn't bother me. I did like how they gradually introduced elements of his toy, like his laser and wings.
And at first, I wasn't crazy about Sox the Cat. I thought he was maybe a little too cutsey in aesthetics compared to the rest of the film. But dammit, they got me, because by not even halfway through the movie, I was like, "I WOULD SACRIFICE MYSELF A THOUSAND TIMES TO PROTECT THIS CAT."
Still, yeah, I dug this one. It was a fun action space adventure by way of old pulps.
Belle
DAMN fine film, Mamoru Hosoda definitely shows his Digimon/Summer Wars cred making this!
DAMN fine film, Mamoru Hosoda definitely shows his Digimon/Summer Wars cred making this!
Prey (2022)
I can't decide if this is better than the original Predator movie. I'm leaning towards it being the best. At the very least, it's certainly the best Predator movie since the original by a wide margin.
The more I think about it, the more I think it really is better than the original. Damn, it's a good movie.
I can't decide if this is better than the original Predator movie. I'm leaning towards it being the best. At the very least, it's certainly the best Predator movie since the original by a wide margin.
The more I think about it, the more I think it really is better than the original. Damn, it's a good movie.
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You know, the trailer didn't wow me. It looked like another predator movie but with more modern sensibilities to attract modern audiences (strong female protagonist, throw in some minorities, etc). But with all this praise in the thread, I'm gonna have to watch it.