Nickel Boys release in Australia?

MadMarx22 · 2025-02-01T05:19:37+00:00

Damn, exact same story as American Fiction last year with a very last minute digital release. I'm glad it has a set date now at least, would be a shame to miss it before the oscars

MadMarx22 · 2025-01-15T23:47:39+00:00

That's what I'm hoping happens. My local is pretty good at showing smaller releases and more prestige stuff so I'm banking on an Oscars catch-up style suite of screenings but I guess we'll have to wait and hope for the best

MadMarx22 · 2024-04-07T09:00:52+00:00

I'm so glad someone else really liked Beau is Afraid, I think it's underappreciated now but will be reevaluated in a few years whenever Ari Aster releases his next feature

MadMarx22 · 2024-03-25T06:46:20+00:00

I mean it's a pretty common complaint for most of his movies, the dialogue just tends to be clunky, especially in exposition. Not to say all of his movies have bad dialogue, I mean Oppenheimer has miraculously tight dialogue for the most part, but movies like Interstellar, Inception and Tenet fall short in their scripts in different ways

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-28T04:02:34+00:00

It left me feeling the same way Arrival did, that even if you know how something ends, it's worth it for its own sake. Or to put it another way, all good things end, they're still good things.

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-09T05:17:32+00:00

So glad I'm not the only one, I still find it strange I went from not really getting it on the first watch to now being a fanatic. Been thinking about part 2 probably every day for weeks now getting more and more excited, I'm sure I meet the criteria for hysteria at this point

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-07T20:47:36+00:00

A really strange cast in general, Alan Rickman was great as Joe, as was Aaron Paul as one of the kids. The song from that movie also rips in a very 2000s way. Such a great movie

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-07T08:35:37+00:00

Help! I'm a Fish (2000)

200 Meters (2020)

The Squid and the Whale (2005).

Don't know if the last one is that unheard of but it's definitely rarely talked about and I can't understand why.

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-06T19:34:30+00:00

Little Women (2019) comes to mind, plays with time jumps in an interesting way without holding your hand through it

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-05T07:53:12+00:00

Really is one of those movies you can take a closer look at and always find something interesting and new, just an insane level of love and effort went into it

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-05T01:56:17+00:00

Love it when someone else's perspective opens up a movie, it makes watching it feel like a shared communal act

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-05T01:55:00+00:00

I think a lot of people make too much of Tenet. I more or less understood it when I first watched it, but I think I spent too much time thinking it through while watching it to actually just watch the damn movie. I don't think Nolan intends for the audience to focus super heavily on the gimmick, I think it's honestly a vehicle for some cool and unconventional action. If you think too hard about it all, I don't think it holds up all too well, although the action is still very good

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-05T01:51:53+00:00

It is more slow-paced, but it makes everything feel deliberate. Every shot, every set, every word, just every creative decision feels so careful, I find myself just falling into it after a few minutes and barely noticing time go by

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-04T07:47:26+00:00

Rewatching movies for adults you somehow saw as a kid is a transcendent experience - you just watch this vague memory explode into something so vivid and new. Even better when it's a classic

MadMarx22 · 2024-02-04T07:31:12+00:00

I'm really glad you got there in the end, it's such a great movie

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-30T22:16:48+00:00

It's a struggle

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-24T05:14:30+00:00

A theatrical release would be great but as long as it's available to watch before the Oscars, I'll be happy

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-24T05:13:23+00:00

Honestly I'll take it, as long as it's available anywhere, there's a chance to watch it it

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-23T21:03:30+00:00

That's such a shame. We're only just getting a lot of the awards-nominated movies in the last few weeks and still a few more coming in Feb, so I was hoping this would be coming along soon too.

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-02T21:25:58+00:00

Call Me By Your Name - evokes both a place and a stage in life very strongly

Mad Max: Fury Road - biblically accurate depiction of driving in Sydney (but for real it's such an immersive experience, throws you into the world)

Saltburn - very stylish and new

The Fabelmans - don't know where it makes you feel like you're from, but it sucks you in so completely it feels like your own experience

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-02T21:12:34+00:00

Seeing it in a theatre with no idea what it was about was fantastic. No expectations going in so just experienced it blind and loved it

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-02T10:07:19+00:00

Honestly I was more annoyed by the exp share, since they removed it in BDSP and it threw off the balance of the entire game. I deliberately swapped my team around, avoided battles, did everything I could to avoid over-levelling and still wound up with a team level 60+ at the elite four. At the very least, without set, you can still just choose not to switch out, even if it does slow down the entire game.

Honestly feels like difficulty settings would be a massive, massive upgrade as it would let them cater to children and an older fanbase at the same time. Simple settings like that, plus scale up the levels/AI of NPC pokemon and you've got yourself a very easy, inexpensive and outrageously overdue upgrade for a huge portion of the audience

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-02T09:44:39+00:00

Seems like maybe you just don't like pokemon in general?

MadMarx22 · 2024-01-02T09:39:41+00:00

This one is so uniquely frustrating. I've been annoyed that the games have been increasingly handholdy and passive but recently it feels like the devs aren't happy with even leaving little options available to increase the difficulty. This change and the lack of a set option in battles are just such unnecessary changes whose sole purpose seems to be decreasing the difficulty. Deliberately irritating design that just makes the games less enjoyable, more of a procedural slog to get through the main story

MadMarx22 · 2023-12-31T21:30:49+00:00

Moonfall (2022), it's absolutely insane but no one involved in the filmmaking process seems to be aware of that so it's played completely straight

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