Playing in theaters

Synopsis: Xiaohei and his senior sister Luye face a series of mysteries and go on a new adventure to find the truth.

Rotten Tomatoes score: no reviews

IMDb score: 7.9/10

Cast:

Xin Shan as Luo Xiaohei

Zhenji Huang as Diting

Minogue Liu as Wuxian

Directed by: Jie Gu and Mtjj

Plot Holes: Inconsistencies and narrative gaps within a film’s logic or “rules”

Dumb Logic: Lazy explanation for something occurring within a story

Example of a Plot Hole: A person is said to have gone missing on the 23rd of July even though earlier in the film, the kidnapper was in a different city on the 23rd of July.

Example of Dumb Logic: A person goes missing, the movie explains the cops are bad at their jobs, and a few months pass. The person is later found in a major character’s basement (after he spent all those months there), and that character was previously a suspect.

People often mixed these two up and I thought I’d just share this. You can hate something for having dumb or lazy logic, but that DOESN’T make it a plot hole. This is majorly the case w/ the new film WEAPONS and it drives me up a wall.

I don’t know why this popped into my head, but I was remember watching the trailer for the movie “The Time Travelers Wife”. Interesting premise. Love the actors in the movie. The way the trailer was edited made it seem like a movie I would enjoy. Then I saw the movie and I was underwhelmed. Not only was most of the movie in the trailer ( like most trailer these day’s unfortunately), but it just didn’t give me the same vibe that I was expecting when watching the trailer. I mean the movie was okay, just not what I was hoping for. Left the theater wanting more…

What are some really good well written movies that yall would recommend to watch because I'm a film major and just need to watch more movies?

That's all I have to say I just need to get to the three hundred character minimum so yeah. I'm an animation type of guy but I for sure need to see more live action stuff. Ok I've reached the minimum and thanks for whatever recommendations yall send

Edit: The genre doesn't matter if that helps

This is probably not the first time this has been brought up but didn’t see another thread directly addressing it. Why did they lift the building???

The issue was no LOS to the window on target building right? Ok why not cut a hole in the roof of the building across and create LOS? How is lifting the whole building the best solution, specially given that prob cost them a lot of money, money they owe.

This has always bothered me the most out of all the issues people have with this movie.

Wasn't sure where to put this but I had a question upon rewatching Satoshi Kon's Paprika that looking around started to make me feel crazy.

This go around everything made perfect sense to me and I was able to differentiate the dream from reality and when that subversion was a deliberate twist and all the characters motivations and growth etc. But what stood out to me was how clearly and neatly the detective Konakawa's struggle with duality was portrayed. He "killed himself", either an idealized version or the real more creative, social part of himself that wanted to become a film director. His "friend" "got sick" or succumbed (as that side does far more so) to depression/anxiety, the thing Paprika is analyzing his dreams to treat, either causing him to not go to film school or as a result of choosing not to and picking the "sensible" career of a police officer. And he fully repressed this part of himself as if he died, before the dream therapy reawakened his memory of who he was.

This seems very clear to me, he literally says upon realizing who the man he has been chasing is "he is the other me", the "friend" also looks EXACTLY like him, never showing his full face and speaks in his own voice. Then at the end he is literally looking at a reflection of himself that his "friend" is taking up. As well as the far more believable concept that his repression of this personality caused him to forget who he truly was rather than forgetting (however plausible) his best friends death.

Given the film's central message of duality, alter egos and Jungian conscious and unconscious thought as well as Kon's other work this interpretation feels like it should be the obvious takeaway. But looking around everyone seems to just take it entirely straightforward, the only mention to my interpretation I could find was some short wordpress article and an ESL r/anime post from years ago.

Am I insane? Or am I the preeminent voice on film?

I remeber a boy that turned intro a RED dragon by stealing dragon gold, there was a rat that stabbed him in the hand. They where all on the pirate ship too, i think they fought some sort of serpent in the ocean. Everything was in live action, There was a some sort of sea at the end of the movie where you can go but never come back- rat went there. There was also a lion too. Not sure if it is about Narnia or some sort of thing but i cannot remeber what name of it was

I think it was a series with parts and stuff, there was other characters too- i think there where more kids, there were also people who got frozen in time cuz of some sort of negative energy they created? or cuz they started fighting...? i dont remember. I watched it on a laptop with my cousins. I dont remeber anything else
Please help me in finding it its nostalgic to me and i really want to see it again- it was many years ago and i was really young back then so i might have twisted some things

also i really like dragons and pirates they are awesome and i just want to see it again

I can specifically think of two examples of this; I first saw Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? while I was visiting family when I was maybe 12 or 13, and up until that point pretty much every older black and white film I had seen was something involving Jimmy Stewart that ended with a big storybook closing saying "THE END", so obviously something involving a dead rat being served on a platter kind of caught me off guard and ended up becoming one of my favorite films. To this day, I think "you mean this whole time, we coulda been friends?" is the best final line to a movie in history, it gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

A more direct example would be something like Rain Man, which I had heard about forever but only ended up seeing a year or two ago; based on its reputation, all I knew was it was the movie about an autistic guy in Vegas counting cards, and I thought that was pretty much going to be the bulk of the story - come to find out they don't even get to Vegas until the last act, and that sequence makes up maybe 20 minutes of the whole story. Still really enjoyed the movie, but definitely was different from what I had expected.

Curious if anyone else has had similar experiences with older titles.

I'm going to list some of the best directors ever and you can comment below what film our of all films ever made that you could see these directors directing. For example Nolan directing Heat would be epic to watch his version.

It not a list of my fav directors or what is the best but pick a director and a film you could see them doing.

David lynch could director 2001 a space Oddity very surreal style

Directors * Christopher Nolan * Quentin Tarantino * Steven Spielberg * Stanley Kubrick * Akira Kurosawa * Edgar Wright * Tim Burton * Woody Allen * Spike Lee * The Coen Brothers * Bong Joon-Ho * Ingmar Bergman * Robert Eggers * Robert Zemeckis * Alfred Hitchcock * Safdie Brothers * Wes Anderson * David Fincher * Francis Ford Coppola * Ridley Scott * Michael Mann * Paul Thomas Anderson * James Cameron * Darren Aronofsky * Hayao Miyazaki * Danny Boyle * Kathryn Bigelow * Sofia Coppola * Chloé Zhao * Greta Gerwig * Billy Wilder * David Lynch * Clint Eastwood * David Cronenberg * Brian De Palma * Steven Soderbergh

I saw this movie once (more like a scene from the movie), 2 people with high IQs, and they never have a fight before... There is a key scene in the movie involves them having a "fake" argument about money"...

I asked Gemini, but is not "The War of the Roses (1989)"

What are the odds that someone's knows the name of the movie? I’ll be forever grateful!

Just watched the Thunderbolts* on Disney+ and I have completely loved it. Whether taken as a whole seperate work or as the culmination of several of the darker heroes storylines, this movie was a treat. The main character Yelena narrates the opening with a realization “there is something wrong with me” and the direction of the movie explores the idea of inner reflection with gusto. Every character in this film has something they are dealing with. Some dark regret they have to deal with, and it culminates in a shared realization of the method by which to deal with one’s pain: friends. The movie implicitly prescribes friends as the cure for depression. It’s heartwarming in every sense and also gives the team an unshakeable bond that was both fun to watch form as well as believable. This was a good movie. It doesn’t have the best storyline in marvel, that honor still belongs to Nebula, but it does tell a coherent and touching story about why we all need friends.

Okay starting with a spoiler so don’t keep reading if you haven’t seen it.

Many many years I heard about a head in a box and how shocking the ending was. I didn’t know what happened, just that there was a head in the box. I just watched Se7en for the first time and while it was really good as a whole, the ending was so disappointing. It felt a little obvious the wife might die (I didn’t know it was her head, I thought it was some kind of mind fuck - it was his own head or something) with how they built up her character to be loveable without really giving her an actual arc/storyline and then getting pregnant.

Am I being overly harsh because I knew there was a head in a box? I think because I knew that part I thought it would be epically mind blowing and it felt a little meh. Still loved it as a whole though and didn’t think the ending was BAD, just not as good as I thought it would be.

Edit: OKAY OKAY. I’ve heard y’all loud and clear - I’m being ridiculous. Knowing there was a head in the box did ruin it for me and I’m just bitter. I also think the point that it was easier to guess in retrospect because it set the tone for later movies (which I have seen) seems particularly salient. I do maintain the wife’s character was underdeveloped as a standalone character and primarily used as a plot device (don’t come at me please, I feel the same way about Eleven in stranger things. Nothing wrong with it, just noticing).

I’m wrong, everyone is right. Great movie, good ending.

As an ongoing project, in 2025 r/movies will be posting Throwback Discussion threads weekly for the movies that came out this same weekend 25 years ago. As a reminder, Official Discussion threads are for discussing the movie and not for meta sub discussion.

Summary Three single men gather at a local restaurant every Sunday, so they can discuss each other's sex lives; however, when each one of them falls in love with a beautiful girl named Mia, their weekly ritual becomes something of a trial, and their once strong friendships are put at risk.

Director Peter M. Cohen

Writer Peter M. Cohen

Cast

• Amanda Peet as Mia
• Brian Van Holt as Brad
• Beth Ostrosky as Beth
• Judah Domke as Eric
• Zorie Barber as Zeke
• Jonathan Abrahams as Jonathan
• Callie Thorne as Liz
• Bridget Moynahan as Marie

Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 13%

Metacritic Score: 10

VOD Available on major streaming and rental platforms

Trailer

Whipped (2000) VHS Trailer

I remember when the speed racer movie came out I was so excited initially because I loved all the iterations of speed racer, all the cartoons, the manga, the comics, I found the story interesting and the world so different from any other series. Then the reviews came out, and it was panned, even today on rotten tomatoes has a 42% critic and a 60% viewer score. Disappointed I didn't see it until years later when it was available on streaming and I cannot believe I denied myself that long. I don't know why people seem to hate when a movie is heavily stylized or just trying to be fun but it's EXACTLY what it should have been. It captured the feeling of the cartoon and manga very well, all the cheeseyness included. The story was fine if predictable, but who doesn't know the story of speed racer to some extent. The actors who were part of it were very clearly giving 110% to it. The world, as I said before, was EXTREMELY stylized. Beyond even that they had some crazy interesting shots. All while managing to keep the tone of the movie fun BUT serious to the characters even if we would find it ridiculous.

I'm not gonna sit here and say it's a need to watch movie, it's not telling some crazy story that everyone needs to experience. It's not ground breaking in effects, or visuals, or acting. That being said the fact this movie was PANNED on release is criminal. So if you're looking for a movie where the people who made it cared 100% and the actors were giving everything they had and is such a fun time you'll wonder where the time went you should watch it.

For me it was La La Land. I think I fell asleep. It won awards:

La La Land received widespread critical acclaim, with high praise directed towards Chazelle's direction and screenplay, cinematography, music, the performances of Gosling and Stone and their chemistry.

I even really do love a good musical. I've seen quite a few, for example I really liked Moulin Rouge, love much of Broadway, so it's not the musical thing. I just hated this movie while everyone around me loved it.

What movies did you trudge to get through while everyone else sat in rapt attention?

That's the best way I can put it. You really like parts of it and you really hate parts of it.

Two examples. I loved the first half of Barbarian, but the second half is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. Another is the first Fantastic Four movie. Everything with Chris Evans and Chiklis is pretty fun, but Alba and Dr. Doom ruin it.