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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Bipolar

Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 02:22:55 PM

I'm getting the impression that my councilor doesn't understand the concept of PTSD.....

Can you find a new one?

I've been through several

I've told my case manager; I think I might.....
Yeah, good councilors tend to be difficult to find....

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Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...

Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 02:13:58 PM

RIP Shelley Fabares

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...

Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 12:28:39 PM

19) Willard

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Bad Movies / Re: 100 Movie titles that are ...

Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 10:41:34 AM

18. HARRY BROWN (2009)

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Games / Re: Answer the question with a...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:46:04 AM

Where would you like to retire?

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Games / Re: Movie Title Chains

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:29:50 AM

Kiss of the Damned

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:45:40 AM

The Bride (2026)
It only took me a few minutes in before I realizes ... damn. It is not looking good. 

For some reason they do a big dance number to "Putting on the Ritz".
 
The detective that has been following them the whole time jumps out and shoots the Bride a bunch. Then other police show up and open fire on Frank and his Bride and the detective runs. 

THE BRIDE! (2026):
I can't dispute anything Jim says in his review, except:

It isn't Detective Peter Skarsgard who shoots the Bride - he already relinquished his badge in Niagara Falls to secretary Penelope Cruz - which even in whatever year this movie takes place in, a police detective can't do. But anyway, it's the Bride's mobster ex-boyfriend who follows her and shoots her.

Like Jim, I was a bit worried in the early scenes. As the world's biggest living Elsa Lanchester fan, I wasn't interested in some Jessie Buckley bird trying to put her own grubby mitts on the Mary/Bride dual role. Fortunately, THE BRIDE! isn't a remake. I don't know what it is but it isn't a remake.

And, I started to cringe at the "Puttin' On The Ritz" number - as my admiration of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is inversely proportionate to my admiration of Elsa Lanchester....... but Buckley and Christian Bale dance so damn well (spasmodically, monstrously) I was really swept away in the frenzy.

Like Rev. Powell, I love a good trainwreck (as opposed to a bad trainwreck). There were a couple other moments in the screenplay that made me roll my eyes or bite my lip, but Maggie Gyllenhaal's tongue is in her cheek more often than her heart is on her sleeve here, and her direction (as well as the acting) is strong enough to put the material over. I don't actually require my films to make complete sense!

Everybody is good here, though Buckley doing Natasha Lyonne 2/3rds of the time made me kind of just want Natasha Lyonne. Great to see Annette Bening and always a pleasure to see weirdo Zlatko Buric (in everything nowadays). Bale is awesome in the moment after he confronts Jake Gyllenhaal and a great dancer generally (lest we forget SWING KIDS and NEWSIES). Cruz steals the show, however, as "Myrna Malloy". 

3.5/5    Glad it exists.    The bizarre "Ygor"-like maid who looks like Angelica Huston after a brutal bender fortunately isn't Angelica Huston but instead (more bizarrely) Mike Nichols and Elaine May's daughter Jeanie Berlin. Gyllenhaal dedicates the film "to [her] daughters", one of whom has a cameo in the theater playing WHITE ZOMBIE. A Bela Lugosi cameo in a Frankenstein movie - hilarious! 

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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:36:22 AM

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Good Movies / Re: Movies that you never "got...

Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 08:21:57 AM

Make a real dinosaur and film it and I'll watch that.

Since birds are technically dinosaurs, Hitchcock has got you covered

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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2

Last post by Dr. Whom - Today at 08:19:55 AM

Ribbon Hero (2026)

This is an odd one.
It is based on a manga by Tezuka, and it is basically an episodic magical girl story: Monsters attack, girl transforms (somewhat sexily) in hero form, girl beats monsters, rinse and repeat. It also has the somewhat telescoped feel of storytelling that results of trying to compact a long running series in a single movie.

However, stylistically it is all over the place, with your standard series animation switching to more free flowing styles, and even some live action thrown in. The monsters are also CGI'd into the drawn animation, in a jarring way that was all the rage when CGI was new and exciting. It is cut up in a number of 'acts' complete with curtains like Wes Anderson would do.
I looked up the manga, hoping it would give some answers, but it turns out that, apart from some superficial elements, the movie is completely different. It does explicitly reference the manga, though. Lots of puzzling choices were made for what is essentially a pretty run of the mill story.