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character that was meant to be portrayed as "cool" by the actor/actress came across as the exact opposite?

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Someone should have gotten sued over Kangaroo Jack for deceiving trailer

If you grew up in the early 2000s, you probably saw a trailer for Kangaroo Jack. The trailer gives the impression that the movie is a screwball road trip comedy about two friends and their wacky, talking Kangaroo sidekick. Except it’s not that. It’s an extremely unfunny movie about two idiots escaping the mob. There’s a random kangaroo in it for like 5 minutes and he only talks during a hallucination scene that lasts less than a minute. Turns out, the producers knew that they had a stinker on their hands so they cut the movie to be PG and focus the marketing on the one positive aspect that test audiences responded to, the talking kangaroo, tricking a bunch of families into buying tickets.

What other movies had similar, deceitfully malicious marketing campaigns?

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What are your most recent discoveries in non-American cinema?

Can be anything, from South Korean, to Spanish, Indian, etc.

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Are there any upcoming movies that you are looking forward?

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Of all the films you’ve gone into blind, which one truly stands out as your favorite find?

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James Cameron hands you the Terminator franchise. What do you do with it?

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Who portrays the most convincing agony in a movie?

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What do you think about "Knives out" movies?

Last one finished shooting, so seems like a good opportunity to discuss the previous ones

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a61903335/knives-out-3-rian-johnson-exciting-update/

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Which movies are you looking forward?

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What were the last VFX that you found impressive? On the opposite, which ones were the worse?

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What is your movie setup? Large OLED TV, beamer? Which kind of sound system do you use?

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Best recent modern Kung-Fu / Martial Art movies?

Haven't looked in a while.

As oldies, Shaolin Soccer is always a fun watch.

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What did you think of Matrix 4? (Spoilers)

Saw a video the other day (not in English unfortunately) with an analysis of how it actually makes sense from a themes and style perspective (e.g. the Wachowski's work on the Sense 8 taught them how to go to a more "impro" kind of directing compared to planning everything with very established plans in their earlier works)

Curious to see what the opinion of the people here is

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What is your favorite summer movie?

Whatever the genre

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Best Movie of 2024 So Far?

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What's your "this has bothered me for way too long" movie moment?

Can be anything, from characters not using objects they have on them, to physics not being realistic, or a very big plot hole.

As an example, one of my friends told me that his pet peeve is that in a lot of sci-fi movies, when spaceships run out of fuel, they stop moving, while inertia and lack of atmosphere should keep them in motion.

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Which directors are you currently following closely?

Asking because I saw another Ridley Scott news and I think that he maybe kind of lost it somehow. Having been in that field for so long, you probably run out of things to tell.

So question to the community: which are your favorite current directors?

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We always regret how most of entertainment is now profit-driven, but what are films or shows that you enjoyed where the directive team had almost complete creative freedom?

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What movie review sources do you use?

Helllo everyone,

Basically title.

I found this very nice list from [email protected], but I was curious to see if you guys had other suggestions.

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Criterion Collection

YouTube

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The Filmcast

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Oscars 2024

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