Movies you're looking forward to!

[Buck_Mulligan]

Here are the top-grossing movies of 2024. I rejoice that I've seen none, and pray fervently that I will never have to...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-top-grossing-movie-worldwide-in-2024/?utm_source=Visual+Capitalist+Infographics+%28All%29&utm_campaign=1c782e2cce-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31b4d09e8a-1c782e2cce-46294961&mc_cid=1c782e2cce&mc_eid=a1cf378e0c

[DJChameleon]

~I'm so hipster and edgy that I hate everything that is popular and if I saw something popular by accident I would poke my eyes out.~ 

I saw 11 of them and they were pleasing to various degrees.

[Buck_Mulligan]

I'm much too old to be hipster or edgy. Popular culture has always and still does generally leave me blank.

[Lexi Darling]

Saw this trailer the other day, looks very much up my alley.

[DJChameleon]

Saw this trailer the other day, looks very much up my alley.

Aw this trailer gives so much away.

The first teaser trailer was much better. It left you under the impression that they were a legit couple going through some DV abuse.

[Lucem Ferre]

Here are the top-grossing movies of 2024. I rejoice that I've seen none, and pray fervently that I will never have to...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-top-grossing-movie-worldwide-in-2024/?utm_source=Visual+Capitalist+Infographics+%28All%29&utm_campaign=1c782e2cce-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31b4d09e8a-1c782e2cce-46294961&mc_cid=1c782e2cce&mc_eid=a1cf378e0c

I haven't seen any of those either. Some I plan on getting to. Deadpool & Venom will be some good slop. IDK about A Quiet Place, but I expect Alien to be pretty good.

[Buck_Mulligan]

From Semafor, no direct link. I've read elsewhere that it is very pro-Israel, and that at 215 minutes it doesn't feel overly long.

A new film is resurfacing a debate over the controversial "brutalist" style of architecture. The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as an architect, is an Oscars frontrunner after a Golden Globes win. Brutalism involves "extensive use of concrete" and stark, hard-edged forms, Artnews reported, and is divisive: Incoming US President Donald Trump banned its use in federal buildings during his first term, although Joe Biden overturned the order. Brutalism is low-cost, and architects like that it reveals buildings' true materials and nature, rather than hiding them. But it is usually unpopular with the public. One resident described the FBI's brutalist Washington, DC headquarters as "a prison with windows, just a concrete slab stuck in the middle of the city."

[DeepMinder]

[Buck_Mulligan]

Gaming is not my thing, but this doc is getting good reviews. GuyBrush may know more...

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ibelin-release-date-trailer-news

[Guybrush]

Gaming is not my thing, but this doc is getting good reviews. GuyBrush may know more...

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/ibelin-release-date-trailer-news

Yes, I have seen it.

It is good, both heart warming and sad. But only watch it if you can tolerate awkward teenage romance as it plays out in World of Warcraft 😅

They re-enact scenes with World of Warcraft avatars.

[costa_oscura]

Nosferatu.  ...I know, it's already been in theaters  , but I rarely go out to the movies these days.  It's on streaming services now, but still costs too much to rent.  I'm waiting for the price to come down to watch it.  I like most of Robert Eggers' stuff, my favorite being The Witch.  I'm hoping Nosferatu holds up.

[DJChameleon]

This is right up my alley.


Also Nosferatu is now on Peacock I think but if you don't have that it's around on the seven seas.

[costa_oscura]

Also Nosferatu is now on Peacock I think but if you don't have that it's around on the seven seas.

Thanks.  Yeah, I noticed it show up on Peacock the other day, so I got into it on Sunday.  Gorgeous movie, but most of the horror felt more cartoonish than truly frightening to me.  Bill Skarsgard was completely unrecognizable as Orlok and I give him props for mastering an ancient reconstructed Romanian language, which he speaks through most of the movie.  That was truly impressive.  Lily-Rose Depp looks so much like Isabelle Adjani from Werner Herzog's 1979 Nosferatu film, I had to keep reminding myself I wasn't watching Adjani on screen.  I liked it a lot, but The Witch remains my favorite Eggers film so far and the scariest in his repertoire, imo.