regmcfly wrote:

My best was a 3% Streep 4 words with

Spoiler:

postcards from the edge

I got a different 3% for that

regmcfly wrote:

My best was a 3% Streep 4 words with

Spoiler:

postcards from the edge

That’s nice. I was mainly coming up with a plethora of 3 word answers. I randomly got 3% for 

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The one that was the least obscure was the one that took me the longest - an animated Meeta Streep movie.

Got a couple of 3% scores, but I’ll be honest - they were mostly thanks to the predictive text thing offering me obscure sequels….

Cracking scores there mind

I didn't, I tried The Breadwinner for Jolie animated and it said no. So I assume it just wants acting credits, not producer.  I'd probably have gone with Death Becomes Her if I'd had a guess left.

Scoring’s interesting looking at the most commonly guessed results. I went with a couple of popular ones but in categories that people didn’t use.

So - lots of strategy to can use even if you only think of famous stuff…

Evil Dead Trap (1988) - TV host Nami is the star of a late-night show that broadcasts home video clips that people have sent in. However, one day she receives a gruesome and rather convincing snuff film shot at an abandoned military base. She takes a small crew to investigate but horror ensues.

This is pretty well produced in many respects but the writing is really uninspired and mediocre. There are also some weird quirks to it - one of the secondary characters is played by an adult actress the studio wanted to try to showcase as a legitimate actress, who has a gratuitous sex scene early in the film. There are also uncomfortable overtones of misogyny, with the earlier objectifying scene joined by a gratuitous rape scene later in the film.

This won some praise upon release and as a physical production it is competent with some decent horror effects. However, the script just has no real spark of inspiration behind it and lets it down. ★★★☆☆

You can be blasé about some things, Skond, but not about Titane.

I didn’t really understand the rules of that film quiz first time round. Now I do and look forward to having another go tomorrow.

I had a go at that Vulture game and got 2,637. Basically just going for the least obvious answers I could think of.

Managed really low percentages on all but the final corner - I got a 30% for the animated Angelia Jolie film and it fucked my average.

It told me I was in the top 0% of players, so I think it’s borked.

Only seen Prisoners once but thought it was incredible.

She couldn't get over Jake's blinking but I am absolutely a Gyllenhaal apologist (despite me really not liking Donnie Darko)

afgavinstan wrote:

Will concede Pike is still absolutely incredible in Gone Girl. Truly amazing. It's other bits of it don't quite hit as well today.

The is something that will never leave my brain, truly unhinged Se7en editing with Reznor and Ross making it worse.

Prisoners seems a bit gimmicky today, but I'm with you on big Jake. I'll even go see Road House.

Dune: Part Two (2024) - Another two-and-three-quarter hours of leisurely-paced desert action. Some people were going really apeshit over this after the screening finished, I thought it was fine? It was fine.

I enjoyed it more than the original, which felt like a movie-length prologue. Stuff actually happens, plot threads actually have resolutions and the action focuses down on three characters who get meaningful amounts of stuff to do.

As the film goes on, I think it becomes clearer and clearer where Star Wars pulled from the original book. Not that it feels retroactively derivative, but it’s noticeable. Effects were nice in IMAX but didn’t feel like anything particularly innovative or revelatory.

I was surprised how much of this felt prologue-y given we’d already had a whole long movie of introduction. This one didn’t actually feel particularly long for its runtime but it’s hard not to feel the whole shebang at five-and-half hours feels a little bit inefficient. Could it not have been a very tight, very long single movie?

I was worried when people were saying there is set-up for a third film that it would be MCU-style endless set-up with no resolutions but I thought this wrapped up the two-film plotline pretty well while leaving the door open to the now-inevitable third film. Good but not the second coming for me. ★★★★☆

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) - This has a perfectly cromulent central storyline but it’s like Sony commissioned a sixth-former to execute the script. The writing is poor. It seems like there is meant to be some kind of abuse theme going on but it’s so mangled that it doesn’t work. There’s also a number of moments that outright don’t make any sense:
* There’s a scene of Carnage going apeshit in a prison where, because the symbiotes are sensitive to sound, there is just inexplicably no alarm going off despite prisoners being let out left, right and centre.
* In a scene where Eddy and Venom have a falling out, a guy shouts at them to keep it down… but he’s not a neighbour, just a random guy walking past the flat in the street. Why does he care?
* There’s a scene after Eddy and Venom have fallen out where Venom possesses a random guy at a Halloween party in a bar. There’s a bunch of stuff in this scene that suggests Venom is inadvertently drawing parallels to queer pride (“I’m out of the Eddie closet” is the example in my notes) yet there’s nothing in the imagery to suggest it’s a gay bar - it’s like it was originally intended to be but an executive kiboshed it, leaving a lengthy scene that doesn’t really make sense. (Edit: I just went back and checked the establishing shots - absolutely nothing about it being a gay bar and a woman attempts to hit on Venom just before he makes the quoted line).
I preferred this to the first film (the story hangs together better and the colour grading is less generic) but it seems like a combo of poor writing and perhaps some executive interference have cocked it all up. ★★☆☆☆