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adg211288
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My latest last 100: https://www.listchallenges.com/the-last-100-movies-adam-saw-for-the-first09
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adg211288
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A movie List Challenge with a bit of a difference here, I'm using it as a small poll. I'd appreciate it if MMA'ers had a look.
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adg211288
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I've seen the movie. I actually thought it was quite well done, baring in mind it's disclaimer 'based on truth and lies'.
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Vim Fuego
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I finally got round to watching Lords of Chaos. I can see why the remaining members of the Black Circle didn't like it much. Even with all the creative license taken with the film, no one really comes out of it looking too positively. I don't suppose that was the point of it all, but it reinforced what I felt about it at the time - a bunch of kids playing silly games that got out of control, but who produced some aesthetically original and edgy music, albeit with somewhat questionable themes at times. I loved the brutality of the murders and suicide, not for the sake of violence and brutality, but because of the stark contrast with the almost comicbook silliness and posing which accompanied so much of the image and "aura" created. Compare it to the splatter films which various people were watching throughout the movie (including the lawnmower scene from Brain Dead!) Yes, blood does spurt out of living bodies like that if you make holes in them with knives or guns, and those things are for keeps - the dead don't get a second chance. The saddest thing about the killings and the posturing is that the music will always be tainted by that. Some people will be attracted to it for the danger and edginess of it - the bands with the Dead singer, or the burning church, on the album covers - and not for the sounds contained within those covers. Anyway, I went into it with some reasonably strong preconceptions, and none of them were disproved or much altered by the movie. And I still have the Kerrang! magazine with the interview in question in it.
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adg211288
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So Batwoman is finally starting in the UK. One day before Supergirl returns with Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1, with Part 2 now not scheduled until 8 weeks later.
More important things to worry about in the world right now, but seriously, how hard can it be? Hope Sky/Now-TV doesn't rub further salt into the wound by expiring the episodes of the rest of the shows too quickly, otherwise Batwoman's episode is getting pirated. Don't bloody care at this point.
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TheHeavyMetalCat
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1920s: 0/14 1930s: 2/31 1940s: 6/93 1950s: 12/116 1960s: 24/111 1970s: 49/170 1980s: 76/146 1990s: 141/242 2000s: 223/388 2010s: 290/688
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adg211288
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I reached my 2000 movies seen milestone yesterday. Here is everything* I have now seen, broken down by decade to either shake your head or nod approvingly at.
* except one lone 2020 movie, which will be on the full list only.
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adg211288
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It was only a matter of time before a major celebrity contracted it. Hopefully he will be OK, his wife too who also has it. And anyone else who gets it. Hope all you fellow MMA'ers are taking as many precautions as you can during this time and remember that thinking smart and staying calm is absolutely necessary right now.
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TheHeavyMetalCat
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Tom Hanks has Covid-19.
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adg211288
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Thanks for filling it out Paul. If you're interested the previous Last 100 compilations are at:
I'll have my 2000 movies seen milestone in between 8 and 9. 18 movies to go.
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A miserable 17 for me. There's quite a few there I really should have seen, especially some of the older ones. Fortunately I can get back on Netflix tonight after not having it for 8 days due to my Virgin Tivo box having an error. Had them booked in today to come and repair it and it started working again by itself last night. Hopefully it won't go wrong again!
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adg211288
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That's both good news and bad news. Grave of the Fireflies is one of the ones I most want to see.
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TheHeavyMetalCat
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^ they are releasing them in three batches. You'll get more on April 1st. Unfortunately, for some reason, Grave of the Fireflies is not to be included in the Netflix additions.
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adg211288
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Ah hell yeah, Netflix just added more Studio Ghibli films.
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adg211288
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Random trivia: The oldest movie I've seen, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, is 100 years old today.
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adg211288
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My latest Last 100 Movies Seen For the First Time List Challenge is now online if anyone fancies a go.
I started on List Challenges to promote MMA, but I've posted a lot more movie lists by this point. They get more users and since I have the MMA name as my username still, it does that little bit to put the name out there to be seen. The Metal Music Archives LC account is these days in the top 100 List Makers. I am aiming to try to get it into at least the top 50 one day. Our most used MMA themed list remains the Trad Heavy Metal challenge with 363 users and counting.
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adg211288
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Yes I'm sure he will too, but I can't help but wonder if this is some misguided attempt to tell us that we shouldn't be seeing colour when we look at people, which I don't personally think helps any racism issues. There is political correctness, which really should be synonymous with common sense and decency and there is stupidity. And the human race as a whole feels more and more like the latter every day to me.
But I'm not going to pretend that the biggest issue for me personally in this example is that discontinuity in a franchise is a major pet peeve of mine. Filmmakers should know their franchise and not expect us to believe that a black character grew older and became a white man. That's really all there is to it.
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Most people did not like Justice League so maybe they figured no one would notice if a character who didn't play a big role in that movie was suddenly a different race in the prequel Batman movie. Couldn't care less to be honest. I highly doubt this movie is going to rival Nolan's trilogy, which I think are and will remain the ultimate in DC movies.
But yeah it is an odd choice considering they already established the character as white in this canon. I think Jeffery Wright is a good actor and will play the part fine, though.
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adg211288
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lol just noticed a major casting error in the DCEU. Now I'm okay with recasting actors when necessary which it is in this case because it's for a much earlier set movie, but some effort much surely be made to make it believable right? Not for the DCEU it seems.
The character is James Gordon. In Justice League he was played by J.K. Simmons. In next year's The Batman he will be played by Jeffery Wright. Can anyone see the problem here? Not really sure what to think about this. If the movies didn't exist in the same continuity it wouldn't be a big deal, but they do. Major oversight? Politically correct casting gone mad? Or is the character the DCEU's answer to Michael Jackson? But most likely the DCEU team just realised by now that they really screwed the franchise up as a whole already so may as well just do an anything goes approach.
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adg211288
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Amazon's got some pretty sweet deals on digital movies right now. Just picked up a whole bunch of recent titles for no more than £2.99 a pop. Two of them in 4K:
Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse 4K First Man 4K Leave No Trace The Dead Don't Die In Fabric Light of my Life Forrest Gump Venom Rust Creek The Handmaiden Extended Edition Halloween (2018) 4K
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