Movies You Are Looking Forward To In Cinema 2025
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Quote:At this very moment, you could be watching an excellent copy!
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Originally posted by ANONYMOUS1:
Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)
I was just coming here to mention this one. I'd never heard of it until 2 minutes ago while looking at The-Numbers.
A sci-fi black comedy directed by Bong Joon-ho that's in English?
Yeah... I'm sure I'll be watching this one eventually.
Don’t pay to watch Mickey 17 at the movie theater when you can watch it at home for FREE.
Mickey 17
Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy
Mickey Barnes has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job... to die, for a living.
Bittorrent Link: AE7140F3DB97BC3FDEBAC6193301F68F76E8AEE4
https://x1337x.cc/torrent/6357378/Mickey-17-2025-1080p-TELESYNC-x264-C
OLLECTiVE/ <-- the / at the end is very important. Without the / there is a "404 Not Found" error.
Complete name : Mickey.17.2025.1080p.TELESYNC.x264.COLLECTiVE.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 7.69 GiB
Duration : 2 h 10 min
Domestic Releases:
March 7th, 2025 (Wide) by Warner Bros.
March 7th, 2025 (IMAX) by Warner Bros.
International Releases:
February 28th, 2025 (Wide), released as Mickey 17 (South Korea)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Mickey-17-(2025)#tab=summary
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Originally posted by second:Quote:At this very moment, you could be watching an excellent copy!
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by ANONYMOUS1:
Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)
I was just coming here to mention this one. I'd never heard of it until 2 minutes ago while looking at The-Numbers.
A sci-fi black comedy directed by Bong Joon-ho that's in English?
Yeah... I'm sure I'll be watching this one eventually.
Don’t pay to watch Mickey 17 at the movie theater when you can watch it at home for FREE.
I would never even consider downloading a copy of a movie that was currently in theaters, for the very same reason I never use the self-checkout lanes.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:It is certainly not because you have a fully functional moral compass sensing right and wrong. Trumptards either lose or are born without the ability to imagine alternative actions they could take at any moment. A lack explaining why Trumptards appear to be robots, unsuccessful ones. There is only one path for them -- downward.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I would never even consider downloading a copy of a movie that was currently in theaters, for the very same reason I never use the self-checkout lanes.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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These scenes are from the recent movies “Gladiator II,” “Megalopolis,” and “The Apprentice.”
The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.
By Namwali Serpell | March 8, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-literalism-
plaguing-todays-biggest-movies
A warrior is in a prison cell. His guard approaches and shows him the wooden sword that he will receive once he has earned his freedom. The warrior grabs it, uses his unlocked cell door to knock the guard down, and places the sword’s tip on the guard’s throat. He drives it in as one might hammer a post, a coarse and grisly death. Then, for some reason, swaying back and forth, the warrior yells down at the corpse, “Wood or steel, a point is still a point!”
An ailing magnate lies in an opulent bedroom. His young, gold-digging wife enters with her lover, with whom she chats cynically about the old man’s condition. “What do you think of this boner I got?” the invalid drools defiantly, gesturing at a pointy peaky in his lap. He pulls aside his clothes to reveal a golden bow and arrow, with which he shoots his wife. Then, for some reason, as the phallic arrow pierces her in the chest, he says, “You Wall Street slut, this is your closing bell.”
A blond, blue-eyed real-estate mogul goes to the mayor’s office to propose a new project. He plunks a model down on the desk: a little black tower with all-caps gold letters at its base reading “TRUMP TOWER.” He gives his spiel, with a stilted swagger. His lawyer offers a few words to soften the deal. Then, for some reason, the mayor asks, “And what are you gonna call it?” The mogul leans back and tells us what we already know: “Trump Tower.”
These scenes, from the recent movies “Gladiator II,” “Megalopolis,” and “The Apprentice,” respectively, are examples among many—so many!—of what I’ve started calling the New Literalism. This isn’t a new genre but a new style. Each of these films belongs to its own genre—action/adventure, sci-fi/drama, and drama/history, respectively—and none of them seems interested in the filmic tradition of documentary realism, not even the bio-pic.
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”
There is a meme going around from a “Family Guy” episode in which Peter, the animated comedy’s paterfamilias, confesses to his family that he never cared for “The Godfather.” Why not? “It insists upon itself,” he says with a shrug. A lot of recent productions deserve this scorn—literally. It’s gotten so bad that, lately, the highest compliment I can muster for even the best of them is: “Well, at least it’s a movie.”
The pervasiveness of this trend was evident in the films nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards this year. Several of them reflect phenomena we’ve been bemoaning for some time. We got a science-fiction sequel, “Dune: Part Two,” and a fan-fiction prequel, “Wicked,” both of which use C.G.I. more to operatic ends than to imaginative ones. And we got yet another bio-pic, “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, the latest entry for the social-media rolls of comparing old celebrities with the new celebrities that play them in the movies.
Even the originals of the season, if we can call them that, felt thunkingly literalist. Sean Baker’s “Anora,” the Best Picture winner, is a self-described “Cinderella story” about a sex worker who falls for the oldest trick in the book: the rich trick who wants to marry her. After their hasty Vegas nuptials, the heroine says that she wants a Disneyland princess suite for the honeymoon, to which her bestie helpfully cries, “Cinderella!”
Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substanc
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Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”
Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.
... and chronic self-inserts.
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It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.
Don't know.
The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”
Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.
... and chronic self-inserts.Quote:
It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.
Don't know.
The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen. After the movie, I downloaded the book for free. Comparing the book and movie makes it obvious how Hollywoodization of novels creates bad movies from good books. Make it 17 rather than 7 is what Hollywood does to everything it touches, unaware that seven is beauty while 17 is just a number. The novel, which cost only thousands of dollars to write, is entertainment while the movie, which cost $118 million, is anti-art. If I had seen it at the theater I'd feel cheated out of my time and money, but at home, where it can be paused, or speed-up, or jumped to the end like a novel, the movie is transformed back into entertainment rather than a slog moving at the pace chosen by the director.
Download the free book
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Edward+Ashton
On Friday, I mentioned that the model’s prediction for Mickey 17 depended on the film’s Thursday audience not being dominated by Robert Pattinson and Bong Joon-ho fans, or it at least finding a way to reach beyond that core audience over the weekend. Its final result suggests that it hasn’t really done that. It does have good reviews (although generally not spectacular ones), and positive word of mouth will help it, but probably not enough to come close to justifying its budget.
https://www.the-numbers.com/news/258870830-Weekend-projections-Mickey-
17-tops-the-chart-with-mediocre-19-1-million
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”
Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.
... and chronic self-inserts.Quote:
It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.
Don't know.
The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.
Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?
Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.
Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!
If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?
(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie.
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Quote:I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”
Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.
... and chronic self-inserts.Quote:
It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.
Don't know.
The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?
Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.
Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!
If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?
(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I didn't make the point about Hollywood clear enough. In the excellent novel, Mickey is killed only 6 times. Hollywood can't be satisfied with only 6. That is not nearly enough! Why not make the movie dumber than the book? (Hollywood believes smart people read novels while nitwits go to movies.) Why not kill Mickey 16 times? Each death will be played for laughs, stupider and more pointless than the previous one. That will bring in the nitwit audience. (No. It won't.) Hollywood has reverse Midas Touch, turning gold into turds. Mickey 17 is a $115 million turd. Mickey7 was gold until Hollywood got hands on it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”
Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.
... and chronic self-inserts.Quote:
It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.
Don't know.
The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?
Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.
Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!
If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?
(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie.
)--------------------------------------------------
"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
I didn't make the point about Hollywood clear enough.
Oh don't worry dude. You never make any point, period.
I didn't read it anyway, nor did I read this reply.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:An early test screening of Mickey 17 went “badly, sources say, but writer/director Bong dismissed the results, saying his Oscar winner Parasite didn’t test well, either.” Parasite only had a budget of around $11 million, but Mickey’s budget was around $118 million, not including prints and advertising.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh don't worry dude. You never make any point, period.
I didn't read it anyway, nor did I read this reply.
“Meanwhile, a knowledgeable source told me that Warners had come up with an alternative cut of Mickey 17 that tested 10 points higher,” Puck’s article further reads. “But the director had final cut and got his way.” A source estimates that the movie will fall $100 million short of breakeven at the box office.
https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1936896-mickey-17-warner-bros-c
ut-tested-robert-pattinson-lose-money
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