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    The General Movie Thread

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    Just finished CIVIL WAR. I think people were expecting a true war film but that's not what it is. Even though it had some tense action there is some deep underlying art in the film. Basically the film is a snapshot or photograph of what a modern USA civil war could look like but with no explanation, narration or "world building."

    Overall I thought CIVIL WAR was a good film and better than all the crap fan service sequels I've seen this year.

    Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Sept 6, 2024

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    1 hour ago, Hikuro said:

    It wasn't bad, not anywhere near as good as the first film....

     

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    Lydia being a talkshow ghost hunt psychic medium sellout was a bit of a head scratcher, and I was sort of at this toss up of Ray, the boyfriend, either being some sort of black widow scammer or someone who really is just attention starved who wants to be noticed all the time. 
    Beetlejuice's ex-wife as some sort of villain really felt shoe-horned and totally unnecessary, think she got less screen time than Keaton did in the first movie! You could had the family all back at the house for Charle's funeral, which btw, wow....that was something of a death, yikes, Astrid meets Jeremy while fed up with Lydia and the boyfriends antics, get scammed cause he's dead and the reason's why and Lydia could been using Beetlejuice to help save Astrid crossing into the afterlife while also coming to terms with Astrid's missing dad's whereabouts and get some closure with the dad saving Lydia and Astrid from Beetlejuice.
    Still have Dilia's death by the snakes, reunite with Charles, and be done with it. Instead, we got this sort of a mess of a movie with a very awkward and pointless ending credit. 
    Every time Keaton is on screen it sort of feels messy and all over the place unlike the original film almost as if Burton really doesn't have a good idea on what to do with the character. Beetlejuice having a sort of Bio-Exorcist business with a hord of shrunkin head minions which I don't think that ever gets sorted out at the end was funny, but sort of pointless.....I felt pretty bad for Bob. 
    And the voice overs and song montages, wtf? 

    Truthfully I got more holes I can poke at that just doesn't make sense than people can with things like Terminator Zero or Alien Romulus that I think were standup productions.
     

     

    I'd like to see it but I'm completely burnt out from sequels this year.

     

    [Warner Bros] Minecraft - The Movie

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    1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

    I can't keep up with the Gen Alpha speak...is cursed worse than sigma?...at least they didn't refer to it as being skibbidi...or would that be a good thing? :unknw:

    Yeah, I'm too old for it I guess 😱

    I had to ask my daughter what "cursed" means. She said its when a Minecraft mod makes the game look realistic 🤣

    Yamato 2202

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    54 minutes ago, Duke Togo said:

    I'm late to this party. I started watching 2022 last week on CR and am 9 episodes in. So far I am not enjoying it as much as 2199. 2202 just is a bit too convoluted. At least early on.

    That's late alright, lol. But yes, consensus is that 2202 was very disappointing.

    Also...

    YYUUUUUUUKKIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!

     

    The computer and electronics super geek thread

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    Anandtech was a easy site for PC tech reviews so it will be missed. Thankfully there are others out there that can take its place.

    On a side note my 7 year old ACER Predator XB252Q monitor died while I was on vacation last week and replaced it with ASUS TUF VG259QM. Both are 24in size at 1080p with a 40hz higher refresh to 280hz and IPS for the Asus from 240hz and TN panel with the ACER so it was a slight upgrade. I didn't want to go higher res as my current rig can't support it at an acceptable FPS.

    I liked the ASUS TUF VG259QM so much that I bought a second one as my children's monitor for their shared gaming laptop as playing on a laptop screen is bad for their eyes.

    It did have me looking at 4K OLED gaming monitors, I see they've come along a good with the cool features. So I'll get a 4K monitor when I buy a new PC with a nVidia Geforce 50XX GPU and will hand down my ASUS TUF VG259QM to my daughter when we buy her own gaming laptop as birthday gift all this time next year.

    I won't build a new PC as I don't have the time, space or patience like I've had before, lol.

     

     

     

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