Caught Chef again this week and forgot just how fun it is. After the start, where JF is fired and reveals how distant he is with his son, the rest of the film is just feel good as they bond, make great food and just bounce off each other with chemistry.
There was no conflict or drama towards the end for someone to them redeem themselves etc., it was just nice and something I'd love to watch more of.
So any suggestions would be awesome!
Truly a hidden gem. If you haven't seen this one then you are missing out. This film is more horror than sci-fi, so while I love Fire in the Sky and Contact those films aren't exactly horror films. Extraterrestrial, on the other hand, is full blown horror once it starts to heat up.
10/10
It was easily one of my favorite horror films the year it was released, I still rewatch it without getting tired of it. IMHO the creature's pretty terrifying because there really didn't seem to be a way to defeat it.
I really loved the soundtrack, overall look & atmosphere throughout as well as the performances & scares, loved Maika Monroe's performance and slight John Carpenter-esque moments in the film. It really felt like a 80s horror film Carpenter would've done after Halloween. What did you think of it? What were your favorite scenes or scares? And what did you think of the creature?
Somewhere around the end of Goodnight Mommy, I started thinking about The Wailing. I could say a lot of amazing things about the latter film, but the thing thatโs stuck with me the most from it is the ambiguity in its climax. As the protagonist grapples with the decision to either return home and save his family or wait for a trap to capture the demon tormenting them, we as the audience are just as clueless as he is. Can we trust this strange woman who tells him to wait so she can help him, or do we trust the shaman who tells him that he must get home?
Goodnight Mommy hints at a similar sort of ambiguity, but itโs undermined by the obvious nature of its twist. The manner in which Elias and Lukas torture their mother is horrific, but so is the notion that this woman is merely an imposter with sinister motives. I think the young actor playing Elias does a great job portraying the conflict between horror at his own actions and his desire to learn the truth.
The problem is, Goodnight Mommy decides to drop a twist on us: Lukas is dead, and Elias has been interacting with a figment of his imagination this whole time. So yes, that is his real mother, not some identical imposter. But this easy answer to the mystery is far less interesting than ambiguity would be, not least of all because itโs so obvious.
โข The film might as well tell us right away that Lukas is dead, as the opening scene shows the two boys playing until Lukas disappears. The last shot before the title card is Elias floating alone on the lake, calling out for his brother and getting no answer.
โข The mother refuses to cook for Lukas, never looks at or talks to him, and tells Elias to stop talking to him.
โข There are multiple references to โthe accident.โ
The whole โthis character was dead all alongโ twist is pretty played out regardless, but it doesnโt help that the film tips its hand so heavily. I was already disappointed when its third act devolved into torture porn rather than something more aesthetically or psychologically interesting, but it might have been tolerable if it were able to play with the audienceโs sympathy in the way The Wailing does.
I love the premise of Goodnight Mommy as itโs sort forth initially, but Iโm let down by what the twist turns it into. A mysterious woman in creepy bandages pretending to be two childrensโ mother for unknown purposes? Thatโs creepy as hell. A story about a kid torturing his mom because heโs having hallucinations about his dead broth
... keep reading on reddit โกAs I've pointed out in one of my threads, almost every single films with the budget of $100 million or over started to be released either in IMAX or RealD 3D or even both. Only a very tiny number of big-budget films didn't get released in either formats. I will make a list of those films with a separate list of direct-to-streaming services big-budget films. Keep in mind, this will be based on how it was released in the United States.
Films with the budget of $100 million or higher that were released in cinemas without any IMAX or RealD 3D releases:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
-Budget: $125,000,000
-Total gross: $755,356,711
-Director: Francis Lawrence
-Composer: James Newton Howard
-Country: USA
-Main language: English
-Studio: Lionsgate
-RottenTomatoes rating: 69%
-RottenTomatoes average: 6.3/10
-Metacritic: 64/100
-Runtime: 123 minutes
-Film negative format: Digital
-Aspect ratio (Blu-ray standards): 2.40:1
-MPAA: PG-13 - Intense sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images and thematic material.
-BBFC: 12A - Moderate violence, threat
-Note: Released in RealD 3D in some international territories.
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
-Budget: $127,000,000
-Total gross: $363,204,635
-Director: Shawn Levy
-Composer: Alan Silvestri
-Country: USA
-Main language: English
-Studio: 20th Century Fox
-RottenTomatoes rating: 47%
-RottenTomatoes average: 5.0/10
-Metacritic: 47/100
-Runtime: 98 minutes
-Film negative format: Digital
-Aspect ratio (Blu-ray standards): 1.85:1
-MPAA: PG - Mild action, some rude humor and brief language.
-BBFC: PG - Mild comic violence, mild threat
-Note: Released in IMAX in some international territories.
Fant4stic (2015)
-Budget: $120,000,000
-Total gross: $167,882,881
-Director: Josh Trank
-Composer: Marco Beltrami, Philip Glass
-Country: USA
-Main language: English
-Studio: 20th Century Fox
-RottenTomatoes rating: 9%
-RottenTomatoes average: 3.6/10
-Metacritic: 27/100
-Runtime: 100 minutes
-Film negative format: Digital
-Aspect ratio (Blu-ray standards): 2.39:1
-MPAA: PG-13 - Sci-fi action violence, and language.
-BBFC: 12A - Moderate violence, brief bloody moments
-Note: RealD 3D release scrapped.
The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
-Budget: $115,000,000
-Total gross: $164,989,338
-Director: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
-Composer: James Newton Howard
-Country: USA/China
-Main language: English
-Studio: Universal Pictures/Perfect
... keep reading on reddit โก
So i dont know if this movie was in English or in a foreign language, bc a the time my English wasnโt that great and I thought British accent was another language lol. Its about teenagers group of friends who enter people houses to steal & destroy it i think they were gang or homeless teenagers, who will play with knives and then they will get into a serious fight with each other they were a troubled teenager basically. except there is one girls who went to the master bedroom and played dress up it looked like she was fanatasizing about it. it turn out itโs actually her house and she knew that her werenโt there. It reveal that she is pregnant and ran away, and her neighbor who also she had a relationship with and he was like where were you all this time something like that. Her friends were surprised bc they didnโt knew she was pregnant until she gave birth. The whole setting of the movie was in the house.
Dukhtar (ุฏุฎุชุฑ; meaning โDaughterโ in Urdu) is a 2014 Pakistani drama-thriller film. The film stars Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza, Saleha Aref, Asif Khan, Ajab Gul and Samina Ahmad.
Dukhtar follows the story of a mother, Allah Rakhi, and her ten-year-old daughter, Zaineb, who run away from their home to save the daughter from an arranged marriage to a much older tribal leader to seal a peace deal between two rival clans. Allah Rakhi herself was married off at a similar young age and cannot bear to allow the same to happen to her daughter. Dukhtar follows their escape and journey across Pakistan to freedom.
The movie focuses on themes of freedom, challenging rigid traditionalism, and the personal choice to find love in life. It has some great cinematography, showing off the protagonistsโ journey from the mountain provinces to Lahore.
It was released in Pakistan on September 18, 2014. It was selected as Pakistan's Official entry in the category Best Foreign Language Film for the 87th Academy Awards.
Trailer with English subtitles is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cdrR5Nh2eU
Full movie available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKbJBt7vpEw
Only version with English subtitles I can find is here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ug7wz
Salafi trigger warnings: Music, women without their hair covered, gender mixing, human emotion (besides anger), and acknowledgement of human dignity.
In Season 1, Episode 9 โAlles Ist Jetztโ (โEverything Is Nowโ), Martha Nielsen is sitting on the couch in the Nielsen family home livingroom watching Baran Bo Odar and Jantje Frieseโs 2014 film โWho Am Iโ. As Franziska Doppler walks down the stairs and the hallway, a scene from the movie is visible on the television screen, very briefly (34:43 - 34:48). In the scene, the filmโs protagonist is shown performing a magic trick in which he makes three sugar cubes โdisappearโ in his hand (turning four into one), after which he states, โevery detail countsโ.
In Season 1, Episode 10 โAlpha und Omegaโ (13:03 - 14:24), Mikkel, while in the hospital in 1986, performs a magic trick in which he makes a sugar cube โdisappearโ from underneath one overturned-cup and โreappearโ underneath another. Then, after discussing Master Zhuangโs paradox (with Ines), reveals the presence of two sugar cubes, one underneath each cup.
basically it's an Japanese animation movie about a schoolgirl who goes into a world of foxes somehow which her now-dead mom told her about in a story when she was young. Also related to mirrors and stick-airplanes somehow
Now, for context, my all time favorite Godzilla movie is the original 1954 classic. The 62 version of Godzilla vs King Kong being my second favorite. Then the 1998 rounding out my top three. I know to many that's considered heresy as many don't even consider it's Godzilla, which they nicknamed 'Zilla, to be a real entry in the series. I, however, do.
If it hadn't been for the 98 Godzilla film, I never would have become a fan of the series at all. I was a youngster at the time, and I got sucked into the hype for it's release. I even had my mother buy one of the plush toys of Zilla, one which also acted as a puppet, with a button to squeeze inside his head that made him give off his trademark roar. And yes, I was under 13 when it was released, but I still got taken to see it, and I loved it. The cast was pretty damn good. I actually liked Matthew Broderick in the lead, even with some of the ridiculous lines he said ("That's a lot of fish"). Hank Azaria and Jean Reno were pretty damn good as well, along with Harry Shearer and others. I loved the attack scenes, especially Godzilla rising out of the Hudson, boats cascading off his back and cars crashing into one another, and the more horror like scenes with the babies in Madison Square Garden. And especially the cab chase sequence near the end.
The reason I like the 98 film over the 2014 the most, is that the new series feels more like a rehash of the older Godzilla films from the 50s to the early 90s. Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, etc. And of course, Godzilla vs. King Kong from 1962. It just feels like they're the same movies, with updated effects and new actors, and that's frankly boring to someone who's seen many of the originals. The 98 film went in a different direction, a different type of Godzilla that was familiar enough, yet fresh. It was fun, fast paced and action packed. I still own the VHS copy I bought in 1999 with my pocket change, and still watch it to this day.
I'm sorry if you think it's dumb. But, the 98 film will always be better to me than the 2014 one and it's sequels.
It was easily one of my favorite horror films the year it was released, I still rewatch it without getting tired of it. The creature is pretty terrifying because there didn't seem to be a way to defeat it.
I loved the soundtrack and atmosphere throughout as well as the performances & scares, loved Maika Monroe's performance and slight John Carpenter-esque moments in the film. It really felt like a 80s horror film Carpenter would've done after Halloween. What did you think of it? What were your favorite scenes or scares? And what did you think of the creature?
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