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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
The indie theater near me was playing The Matrix for Trans Day of Visibility!! Of course I had to watch it. Honestly it still holds up pretty well, my only main qualms are the deus ex machina a bit, and also that they kinda made badass Trinity into just a love interest. Such is the 90's I guess, but overall it's still a great movie. I can kinda see why chuds co-opted it into their red pill nonsense, but honestly chuds are kinda dumb and can't see context besides "guns cool" and such and such.
I watched two movies this past weekend: Roofman and Twelve Monkeys.
I'd been wanting to see Roofman ever since I learned they were making a movie out of this story (which I'd first read about a couple years ago and became fascinated by). I also love Channing Tatum. I'd say this is a solid 7.5. Tatum and Kirsten Dunst are great. They made some changes to the story for dramatic/narrative purposes but one change toward the end flipped the order of some events and it made Tatum come off as a little impulsive (if I'm remembering how things played out), which didn't really vibe with his intelligence that had been established consistently throughout the movie. I very much enjoyed this overall.
Twelve Monkeys is one I've been wanting to see for a while but could never find it available on streaming services I subscribe to, so when it popped up on Prime the other day, I put it on almost immediately. Wow, Brad Pitt was incredible in this. I got a little lost in the plot for a minute and went to verify something and accidentally spoiled the ending for myself, so the reveal about the zio didn't hit quite as well as it should've, but overall I thought this did time travel really well. I started to believe halfway through that Bruce Willis really was inventing things in his brain, and so it was nice to have the psychiatrist start to try to convince him of the truth he'd been certain of in the first half of the movie. (A lot of the hitchhock references went past me, but they're clearly important with how piled on top of one another they are at the end.)