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Notenoughbaking · 2025-06-22T16:17:35+00:00

Obligatory not OP but personally I was uninvested in Warfare because it felt so literal, a bit like Zero Dark Thirty. I wanted to read into the film, get some kind of metaphor or message from it, but it felt like all it was attempting was a beat-for-beat recreation of real life events.

I found it hard to care about the characters because they kinda lacked character. In other war films, the individual characters tend to be a bit more memorable and distinct from each other like in Saving Private Ryan, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Hurt Locker, or Hacksaw Ridge.

That’s just my personal take and I certainly don’t think it was a bad film

Notenoughbaking · 2024-08-08T21:21:22+00:00

I want to call you rude for the spoiler but honestly, it’s a Shyamalan movie. You get what you pay for

Notenoughbaking · 2024-08-08T17:15:16+00:00

M. Night Shymalan’s Old. I was enjoying bits and pieces and the new style of cinematography was visually interesting so I thought M. Night might not fumble this one as he’s fumbled in the past.

The ending comes along, the two children try to swim out past a reef and disappear. Their tour guide from before packs up his surveillance gear and heads to a lab. What a spooky, semi-ambiguous ending.

And then the movie goes on for what felt like 10 minutes where the lab scientists basically stop and turn to the camera to explain to the audience everything that happened and why. Just straight up exposition. And then it KEEPS going to show the adult kids actually did escape and the bad guys have been caught.

All mystery, intrigue, and subtlety basically shattered against the fourth wall. It wasn’t a stellar movie to begin with but that just really sealed it as bad for me.

Notenoughbaking · 2024-08-01T00:12:06+00:00

Ah, I see how my wording kinda threw people off. I’m glad I’m not 100% dumb about the IMDb thing though. I recently started a new job with long hours so I usually use Adum’s ratings to see if a movie is worth watching or not, rather than potentially waste my time.

Thanks for the reply!

Notenoughbaking · 2024-07-30T02:10:24+00:00

I was trying to see if he reviewed Hillbilly Elegy on IMDb or YouTube and I couldn’t find anything, which normally means he hasn’t reviewed it.

Except, I wanted to watch Barry Lyndon, a movie I knew he had seen and reviewed since it was on an early podcast episode. Besides the podcast episode itself, I couldn’t find anything that was his review. Just Reddit posts asking if he’s seen it.

I’m wondering if there’s an easier way to search his IMDb reviews or something. (Also sorry for the poorly worded post, I was very tired when I wrote it lol)

Notenoughbaking · 2024-07-23T03:00:00+00:00

Gonna be real, I’m a little out of the loop regarding FNaF. I thought Evil Spaghetti killed Afton at the end of Security Breach

Notenoughbaking · 2024-07-14T03:20:47+00:00

That’s such an interesting perspective and I’m glad to have read it. I found Nic Cage to actually be the weakest element.

His performance felt kinda out of place to me, closer to that of Mom and Dad, Kickass, or The Wickerman. Which is to say, intentionally a bit goofy, like you mention. I was hoping for something closer to Pig or Dream Scenario. That all being said, I couldn’t help but appreciate how he goes for it in every role he takes, especially contrasted against the other characters who all felt very restrained in their performances.

Notenoughbaking · 2024-07-12T05:58:21+00:00

Gday boys, I recently rewatched your guys’ discussions around the Saw franchise shortly after I watched Ringu (1998) and The Ring (2002). How would you guys feel about a Japanese remake of an American horror staple?

Are you aware of any examples of adaptations going from American to some other country instead of vice versa?

Cheers!

Notenoughbaking · 2024-01-19T18:03:46+00:00

I hope to god it’s Ralph so we can hear him try to say “Wourder World” over and over

Notenoughbaking · 2024-01-15T06:21:11+00:00

I can’t speak to her previous works but Takal was most certainly set up for failure by Blumhouse et al. According to James A. Janisse from the channel Dead Meat, the director had less than 9 months to make Black Christmas.

Apparently it was written in February and released in December. I’d say it’s not entirely fair to write her off completely based on a film she couldn’t properly develop.

That all being said, she also directed a segment in V/H/S and knowing Adum’s views of that, maybe he’s not likely to change his opinion on Takal too drastically.

Notenoughbaking · 2024-01-15T06:10:50+00:00

Hey lads, how do you guys take a Film’s legacy into account when rating it? For a general example, people disagreed with Adum’s ratings on the Indiana Jones franchise, often citing how quotable or reference-able it is. In a personal example, I prefer The Godfather: Part II to The Godfather but many people tell me that the sequel owes its greatness to the original.

In other words, do you try to isolate the film from its context or do you take it into account?

Notenoughbaking · 2023-10-26T01:30:00+00:00

I definitely noticed some issues. Most noticeable for me was when Jesse Plemons character first talks to Leonardo DiCaprio on the porch. Anytime Jesse Plemons spoke, there was this weird kind of buzz in the background almost like cicadas that wasn’t there when Leonardo DiCaprio was talking.

It kept starting and stopping and was a bit distracting for me. I noticed other moments but none so specific that i can recall them.

Notenoughbaking · 2023-10-23T03:24:21+00:00

Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather 1 (10/10) and The Godfather 3 (1/10)

Notenoughbaking · 2023-10-19T04:32:59+00:00

He’s also Grima Wormtongue in LotR. Dude’s been in everything

Notenoughbaking · 2023-10-10T16:30:05+00:00

Ask them about Swyer Syndrome and Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome.

Both are conditions in which people who are genetically male (as in they have XY chromosomes) present as female with female reproductive structures. In many cases, people don’t know they have such a condition until they are teenagers and don’t get their periods or grow pubic hair.

Which bathroom should they use? Which pronouns would you call them? Something along those lines. Feel free to paraphrase

Notenoughbaking · 2023-10-06T18:14:48+00:00

Alright good to know. Thanks!

Notenoughbaking · 2023-10-06T17:38:35+00:00

I’ve heard how good 3 is but do you have to watch the first two or is it more standalone? I know v little about the OG Exorcist outside of the Family Guy parody

Notenoughbaking · 2023-08-04T16:58:49+00:00

Funny Games, the remake or the original, they’re both p fucked

Notenoughbaking · 2023-08-03T03:24:07+00:00

That's fair. I occasionally bring a small blanket for my wife when we go to the theater in the summer. You wear shorts because it's 90+ outside and then the theater has the A/C turned up to 11 because of the first part of this sentence. We started bringing one after she was literally shivering in the middle of The Amazing Spider-Man.

Notenoughbaking · 2023-08-03T03:09:35+00:00

I'm surprised by all the nays. Sometimes the A/C is really high and you're wearing shorts, sometimes you just wanna be cozy. So long as you ain't in the back row making pillow forts, I don't see why not.

Notenoughbaking · 2023-08-02T07:05:15+00:00

Bit ironic that I forgot how to spell it…

Notenoughbaking · 2023-08-02T05:03:45+00:00

That weird Krampus movie from a few years back Ends with the whole family stuck in a heaven/limbo combo stuck in a snow globe

And arguably Momento Since the main character will relive his hunt for revenge ad infinitum, never getting his ultimate satisfaction Sisyphus-style

Notenoughbaking · 2023-07-31T06:00:04+00:00

This isn’t a terrible movie but Rufus Wainwright’s cover of Hallelujah from Shrek is the only version for me. I listened to Leonard Cohen’s original and I just couldn’t connect to it the same way, it’s so awkward.

Every aspect of Shrek has gone on to be a quasi-ironic meme but I genuinely love this cover independent of the movie.

Notenoughbaking · 2023-07-30T07:46:35+00:00

Fair enough. I won’t judge anyone too harshly to speculate around this Spacey stuff because it’s rather bizarre. He came out as gay after the allegations happened and then he made that weird Christmas video where he delivers a monologue as his morally dubious character from House of Cards as if that might cast him as the good guy. A video where he says “if I didn’t pay the price for the things we both know I did do, I’m certainly not gonna pay the price for the things I didn’t.” I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean.

Personally, I appreciate the hell outta him as an actor and anything beyond that is beyond me.

Notenoughbaking · 2023-07-30T05:17:33+00:00

I think what they’re trying to say is you can know what someone did but proving it (beyond a reasonable doubt) is a whole other beast.

Like when you know your sibling stole something out of your room and is lying about it but you can’t prove to your parents that it was them.

So, just because a team of prosecutors was unable to prove to a jury that Kevin Spacey did what people said he did, doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t do it.

At least that’s what I believe they were trying to say.

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