Underwater
Director: William Eubank
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Underwater
Director: William Eubank
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I'll be seeing this on Friday.
I have a sneaking suspicion this movie is this year's Lockout.
Nobody saw The Grudge, eh?
Mild yay, its fine. KStew is pretty good and the creatures of the deep ARE creepy. but there's gotta be at least 30 minutes of this somewhere! need more of this movie, efforts in photography and special effects are too good for there not to be!
It's not a marvel of innovation, but this was good shit....when I could see what was going on.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
I really liked it, enjoyed the vibe within the cast, Stewart is excellent, but yeah, you're right, the action is bafflingly difficult to follow.
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
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lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
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I enjoyed the HELL out of this.
Is it true that...
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I would say that was definitely the intent, yes.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
I...dont know? But I can't wait to rewatch this, and I CAN'T WAIT to rewatch this looking for if thats on point.
Me too. Except for that ending.
I liked that this just fucking got on with it, rather than pissing around with backstory and that nonsense. But it kinda became less interesting the more the monsters took center stage. A survival thriller in this location without the monsters would have been great.
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Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
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As Tears Go By (1988) 65
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I also think it's a gross looking movie, with everything blurry and smudgy and only made me want to watch Abyss.
Here's what I mean by gross. There are better ways to shoot underwater, but it's more likely because they weren't actually shooting underwater for this film.
It just looks so much better in Abyss.
It is.
It's a very mild Yay for me. I have to agree with Duke - it's a very ugly looking film cinematography-wise, everything is the same color and tone all the time and the action is always a chore to follow. I like that it's a simple film, doesn't waste time to get to the action and the monsters are cool and definitively "inspired" by the Cthulhu Mythos. While I'm not one of those people irritated by T.J. Miller (I thought he was good in Deadpool at least) his character in this bugs me for a very simple reason - it's one of those comic relief characters that spends the entire movie pointing out references to previous works of pop culture, and I find that a really cheap way to steal shit from other sources while assuring audiences you are still aware for it. People think Tarantino does this but he does not - he integrates the references into the plot, he's not just using something while having a character write it a footnote at the same time.
The more I think about this it gets closer to a Nay for me.
TJ Miller should not have been in this.
Aside from that, I rather enjoyed this one.
In something completely, totally unrelated to the movie, I’m reminded that I need to finish painting the miniatures in Cthulhu Wars.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Or anything.
Is this because of his dickheadness in real life? Or just the context of the film?
It makes me sad to see his perception change after having fell in love with his delivery in Silicon Valley.
Just felt too forced of humor. He wore less on me later in the movie because I can think of a friend or two who would act like that in a pressure situation.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
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Unpopular opinion time: I like TJ Miller’s style and delivery in movies. Of course, it won’t fit in just anything, but he’s fine in this
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Pawn (2020) 62
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My kind of lean and mean thriller/horror, dispensing with exposition or backstory, just going straight for tense survival yarn. Probably half a star added for finding an unexpectedly good ending that's midpoint between everything-solved hokiness and empty nihilism (Life), and it wouldn't work without Kristen Stewart's trademark underplaying, which somehow proves very effective in this context as a sturdy anchor. By contrast, T.J. Miller seems transported from something much pulpier, being the only (loudly) obvious archetype surrounded by relatively real people. 6.5/10
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
This movie blew my mind and made me so giddy.
I've wanted this since I was a kid.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
I've watched this 3 times in 24 hours.
I love everything about this movie. It's fantastic.
I feel the excitement that dinosaur kids felt when they saw Jurassic Park for the first time
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
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