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Virtua Quest

spreadsheet should now be up to date! let me know if anything is off

i'll quit if i lose even 5 minutes of progress

yeah when i got to the "You're a fucking inanimate object" line i didn't laugh but i was like "oh that's where that's from"

it just occurred to me i confused pear with grape

i am not to be trusted

i've never heard banana

i've heard grape more than banana

Johnbobb posted...

In hindsight, I think a part of me was still hoping someone would notice and talk to me, as much as I also just wanted to be alone.

yeah i've definitely felt this before and can recall one specific occasion where a person unknowingly just talking to me helped put it out of mind

and yeah i would be absolutely livid at having to pay for that shit they label "care"

fucking hell

hoping the best for you in the future

iiicon posted...

I noticed it happened whenever an outside element was introduced to a Reynolds or their household, like when Tim pulls up on the house for the first time and the perception of the house is just off enough to be unnerving.

ooh yeah that makes sense.

i actually had not seen anything with her before Sound of Metal

nobody nominate Ready Player One though lol. that honestly looks like a movie i would absolutely despise

if Killing of a Sacred Deer was picked, it would have been two with Colin Farrell

Sacred Deer spoilers

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Thoroughbreds (2017)

this was the first time i saw Anya-Taylor Joy in anything and she was great, as was Olivia Cooke. i laughed out loud several times during this and it's all moments involving her character, which isn't really surprising given the other characters. probably the biggest laugh out of me was when the stepdad asks Amanda what her mom is busy with and she says "Chemotherapy" and he just walks off. it was a familiar laugh like i felt i've seen that situation or a similar situation before but it just got me. The dialogue between the two girls when they're talking to a third party (stepdad, Tim) is really entertaining how Amanda just follows up with a quip and they're kind of in a rhythm and i can buy that they were previous best friends who are falling back to their groove. again, it's a familiar-feeling setup but still enjoyable.

there's a lot of moments where the camera just shfits focus. unsure about whether it was intentional or some technical thing i'm unfamiliar with but it felt a lot more noticeable here than other films/videos. the first time is within like three minutes of the opening where Amanda is looking out into the backyard(?) and the worker/pool cleaner(?) walks by.

i think the line that stood out to me the most was after the chess scene and they had just talked about Amanda killing the horse and Lily brings up the plan for the stepdad again. Amanda says, "Are you looking at me?" (?) and Lily responds with "Only because you're the only person here." Like she sees Amanda as a pawn to get what she wants and in the end, Amanda is fine with that. I love the shot of her in the end where she is looking at the picture of their younger selves and the horses. Previously, she had been looking into mirrors and practicing smiling and here we see her first "real" smile.

SwiftyDC posted...

Not sure what that ending was about but at least write her back saying THANK YOU! Lily's stepdad was totally right about her, treating people like they're her maids in life.

yeah it's so fitting that the few scenes we see the stepdad, one of them is him chewing her out for smoking in the house and snapping at the mom for fussing after he's super irritated following an injury. like that's what justifies her reason for murder in her limited, spoiled teenage worldview.

but i don't know if i believe Lily when she says she just "threw it away." like throughout the film she's shown lying or being dishonest ("tutoring," college admission plagiarism, the party, etc.) and Amanda breaks through to her a bit in the beginning confronting her about it, and in the end, Lily breaks and comes clean about actually killing her stepdad and framing her for it. probably that moment of what she saw as pure honesty combined with the realization of "living a meaningless life" pushed her into "well i might as well be of use to her" territory. but after Lily kills the stepdad, she places herself in Amanda's arms. she's obviously shaken up and wants to feel any amount of safety/comfort. was she fine with using Amanda for that as well because "she was the only one there" as she said before? maybe. but Amanda was also like the only person she was honest with and I can see her just lying to Tim because you're not "supposed" to be in contact with an old friend who murdered your stepdad. most people would not want anything more to do with someone if they did that. But in Lily's case, Amanda actually didn't do that and i thought it was ambiguous whether Lily viewed Amanda as really just a pawn or something more.

overall, i liked it. 7-maybe-8/10 for me.

oh well thanks to that player i guess!

no longer paying attention to AR now besides the three dispatches per week for the grails whoo

oh

i did what TRE said and i got tier 15. that was like the easiest thing wtf

was it just a coincidence that i got matched with an opponent who only had a 4-man team when i've been going up against 5+ so far? or is there something about using base stat totals that match you with easier opponents?

clarification: non-mythics with blessings don't add to your score? they just give you stat boosts if you have a mythic on the same team?

i love going in with those kinds of expectations and then finding out i was completely wrong. wish i could remember which movies i had that for because i've definitely had that in the past

for Thoroughbreds all i read was two girls and something about murder and that felt like too much to me lol so that's the level i'm at. i knew i should have stopped after the two girls part

oh wait what do we mean by "read up" because i took it to mean even looking at the little blurb/premise on sites

but i see now it makes more sense to see it as things beyond that? either way sometimes i don't even know the premise of a movie before watching it if i'm already familiar with the director

i will only read up on it if like i have an actual choice or am completely unfamiliar with the director/any actors. even when i do read up on something it's very minimal. if i already know the director or like any of the big main actors, chances are i'm going in blind. i never watch trailers either.

for something like this topic where i'm going to be watching the movie anyway, i'm going in with as little information as possible.

early lead but fell short at the end

Next movie is Thoroughbreds (2017) directed by Cory Finley

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i "learned" it from Austin Powers when i was like 13 or whatever

there's no real deadline to watch stuff by so no worries

oh. Thoroughbreds is on hulu if you have the livetv addon which is why it doesn't show up on justwatch

anyway only one i've seen is Killing of a Sacred Deer. wouldn't mind seeing it again but i'll vote for

Thoroughbreds (2017)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)

i always go for subs if possible but i suppose for "bad" movies dub can add to the hilarity factor

but i saw a trailer and it had it dubbed. it sounded awful lol

streaming availability

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) - None
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - Netflix, kanopy
Thoroughbreds (2017) - Fubo, FXNow
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) - kanopy
Guardians (2017) - i found a thing on ShoutFactoryTV? i never heard of this site but i checked out the link and it seems to be the full movie with subtitles and no ads (could just be my adblock). i have no idea how long it's staying up, if there are viewing limits, etc. despite what it says on justwatch, it is NOT on kanopy

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you didn't respond to my last two @s so i took you off the list. did you want to be on it? i know you said only have Netflix so if you want, i can also just @ you if the movie we pick happens to be on netflix or something

Vote for any and all movies you would be interested in seeing for the next week (~Jan. 22nd, NA). The movie with the most overall votes wins. You may rank your votes from most preferred to least (do not rank movies you would not vote for) so I don't have to @ you back in case of a tie. If you do not intend to vote and are fine with whatever wins, please reply with "No Vote" so there is as little of a waiting period as possible. If you list multiple movies in your vote but you are not ranking them, please include "Not Ranked" along with your vote (I will assume they are ranked otherwise). Please vote by Friday, Jan. 22nd, 8:00 PM EST/5:00 PM PST

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Thoroughbreds (2017)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)
Guardians (2017)

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ok so i don't really care about AR since the draw of the game for me is collecting heroes but the last goal for lv. 15 of the heroic path or whatever it's called is to reach T15

are there any easy-to-set-up units that I can just throw together for a Defense team at that range? i know T15 is not that high relatively speaking but I hate learning new modes so if there's some bullshit i can just abuse to help me out here i'll do it lol

i'm between 13/14 right now

like DUessel's pretty insane right?

i hate the thought of being an inconvenience to people almost more than anything else tbh

and while inconvenience is an understatement for this specific situation, the mindset just extends to everything else

like when i was 16 or something i was hanging out with some friends and just fucking around with his scooter outside. and eventually we decided to go over to another guy's house. and i somehow forgot about the scooter and left it outside like a fucking idiot. like hours later when i realized, i ran for like 20 minutes back to the place and it was gone. so i went home at that point and just cut up my arm with one of those paper cutting blades before going back to where my friends were to tell him how much i fucked up. like obviously it's not the scooter itself that was the big deal for me but the fact that i made like the stupidest preventable mistake.

yeah my biggest fear is like inadvertently catching it and then giving it to someone who got a severe case and ended up passing away

like how the fuck do i live with myself at that point especially if it was my mom or something

and YET that's happened to so many people over the course of this pandemic

fuckng hell

oh wait there was apparently a deleted scene about that

from imdb trivia:
In a deleted scene, Ray and Ken are lying in their beds discussing Ray's murder of the priest and the little boy. Ray ponders over why he was sent to kill the priest, guessing it was likely pedophilia. Ken counters that Harry was behind a land-buying deal that the priest opposed. These two explanations are coincidentally two different motives that are suggested for the archbishop's murder in Primal Fear (1996).

Johnbobb posted...

It's dreamlike and beautiful and also boring and ugly, depending on the day and the perspective.

yeah i saw an interview or something about this at one point and they mention this and how Bruges is like a heaven for Ken while it's a hell for Ray

Camden posted...

Also, with no explanation for why he was killed outside of guesses based on what some of his brethren have been up to over the years in real life, I kind of felt bad for that priest. Ray is suicidal over killing the child but the seemingly innocent priest is just another day at the office?

it was his job so it really was "another day at the office" lol

i presume he'd put to rest any qualms he had about killing potentially innocent people if it was his job when he decided on that line of work

considering the only information we were shown that could be related to that is Harry's strict "code" concerning kids, I would just assume that that had something to do with the reason for the hit on the priest.

my mom was talking to a former coworker and she was telling my mom that both her parents and two sisters all died from covid in the span of like a month

i never met her but fucking hell

@Raka_Putra did you watch Sound of Metal or In Bruges? if so, it's your turn to recommend. if not, we can push you back to next week and Johnbobb has this week.

note about the "watchrate requirement for recommending movies"

i said "subject to change" from the beginning and i did change it like a week ago in the spreadsheet but i guess i never mentioned it in the topic so here it is: You must maintain a 50% watchrate to recommend movies when it is your turn.

reason there's a watchrate requirement in the first place is simply because i think it's more fair to have more active members get to recommend. i said 60% initially because i was thinking further down the line when we had a bigger list of movies but there's a lot of awkward percentages in the beginning so i lowered it to 50% at least for now.

there's a "Stats" page in the spreadsheet where i have watchrate percentages. if you mention you watched a movie during nominations or in any other post, i mark it as watched for you. you do not have to give ratings for it to count. you do not have to rewatch a movie during the week it's recommended to count if you have already seen it (obviously welcome to though). you can have a 0% watchrate, and then say you watched a bunch of the movies the day before your turn to recommend and that's fine too. and again, this is only for recommending movies during your turn (order in spreadsheet). like if you're 10th in the order, that's ten weeks to watch five movies assuming you haven't seen any of the 10 before.

oh i was thinking of Doolittle lmao

is that the one where he pulls a trumpet out of a bear's ass or something

ok but i'll always remember that they chose to play the VIllage People's YMCA at their rallies

like are you trolling and in on it or are you that fucking stupid

honestly yes

i never want to hear about T**mp again unless it's about him getting actually nailed with something they have evidence on him for

hahaha Sausage Party was definitely...a movie. i don't remember hating it though but i have no interest in ever rewatching it lol

my answer would be the aforementioned Animal House, Anchorman or Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

i'm sure there are people who like the latter two here though lol

Guardians 2 wasn't like straight comedy but I remember being in the theater and people were cracking up the whole time at TASERFACE and I AM GROOT and it was the day after my birthday (or was?) and tickets were fucking $18 and i felt like the fucking Grinch because it was the most miserable theater experience i ever had

i never made it that far. stopped watching when the shit rained down on the street or whatever. i did skip around a little but don't remember that part at all.

don't have it marked on letterboxd since i don't mark stuff i never finished. wish it had an "unfinished' option so in the future i don't forget i tried to watch things but just didn't make it

Johnbobb posted...

I think the least funny has to go to either Disaster Movie or Movie 43. Both were irredeemably terrible.

i KNEW this was going to happen so i intended to put a mention about this but my edit was not in time lol. and i def was thinking of Movie 43 too thinking about this question but forgot to mention that

i texted a friend about Movie 43 while watching saying how it was the worst thing i've ever seen and she started watching it. she texted me back later saying she thought it was funny.

Tom Waits!

Suprak the Stud posted...

This was just over a decade ago, and I can't seen like half of this stuff getting into a modern film.

oh for sure. comedies can age just so much worse.

i actually remember my high school econ teacher (very well liked, charismatic, etc.) constantly talking about how The Hangover was the funniest thing he's seen in a while. and then when i watched it i was just kind of like "..." and then he also talked about how Animal House was the funniest movie of all time. so years later i happened upon it on some streaming service, remembered that and watched it. and it was fucking awful.

so obvious follow-up question. What's the unfunniest (though at least somewhat intended to be) movie you've ever seen?

hard mode: you cannot answer with any Adam Sandler comedy, Movie 43, any of the parody Movies (e.g. Date Movie, Disaster Movie, etc.) or any movie made by a Youtuber

Xeybozn posted...

Is your problem more with pure comedy movies that just aren't that funny, or with movies that aren't just comedies having things other than jokes?

i don't know if i would call it a "problem" but i think it's more like "i expected to physically laugh more but didn't and ended up confused about my experience with comedies and laughter". Going into In Bruges with the mindset of "i remember this was supposed to be funny" was so inexplicably distracting because the whole time I'm thinking "that line was funny" or "that was clearly intended to be funny but i didn't find it funny" and shit like that. i don't know why i got so hung up on this but idk i guess i just wanted to laugh?

to clear up, there are still movies classified as "comedies" (Monty Python, Princess Bride, etc.) that i think are great, have humorous moments, but i wouldn't say are "consistently funny." i guess i'm equating that with the memory of me laughing or something. i kind of feel like some fucking weird alien who is trying to learn how to understand what the concept of "funny" is. because i would see moments like "oh that was amusing" or like a minor "heh" but not actually laugh and then think "would i describe this as 'funny'" the way i think of the word?

like I KNOW this might sound weird lol but whatever

and looking through stuff i've seen, i'd say my answer for "consistently funny" would be Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading and Black Dynamite. maybe Hot Fuzz. and i haven't seen Shaun of the Dead in ages. i do like Mean Girls and Clueless but i don't think they're the "consistently funny" i was thinking of. i know it's super popular but i'm pretty lukewarm on Scott Pilgrim honestly lol

a little surprised Emperor's New Groove got two mentions actually. i don't remember much about it and i saw it for the first time only like five years ago

i def like Seven Psychopaths more than In Bruges

we got a new president of the country

now i can go back to my normal level of hate reserved for all politicians /edge