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The other night I watched Nightcrawlers, a neo-noir psychological thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. He plays a sociopath who seeks out violent, deadly crimes late at night in order to take pictures and sell them to local TV news stations.

It's a unique film for sure and Gyllenhaal's acting is the best part of this flick. He plays this weirdo so well that the creepiness of his character is disturbing to watch.

Nightcrawlers is a satire of our current media and how they will go to any length to get a great story. And while it's a good film, it's not one that I feel the need to rewatch anytime soon. Recommended though if you haven't yet seen it, if nothing else but for great acting from JG. 7.5/10
 
Maddox said:
The other night I watched Nightcrawlers, a neo-noir psychological thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. He plays a sociopath who seeks out violent, deadly crimes late at night in order to take pictures and sell them to local TV news stations.

It's a unique film for sure and Gyllenhaal's acting is the best part of this flick. He plays this weirdo so well that the creepiness of his character is disturbing to watch.

Nightcrawlers is a satire of our current media and how they will go to any length to get a great story. And while it's a good film, it's not one that I feel the need to rewatch anytime soon. Recommended though if you haven't yet seen it, if nothing else but for great acting from JG. 7.5/10
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I thought Nightcrawler was excellent. Certainly Gyllenhal played the sociopathic main character to a T, but all the supporting performances were great, the story was good and it moved along at a good clip, and visually it was very appealing .
 
Haven't had an opportunity to watch a movie in a while. Watched The Old Guard 2 last night on Netflix. Terrible. Not even close to the first one, and they set it up to have a third installment, which can only be even more of a snoozefest, and I wouldn't care at all if it didn't happen. Charlize had a lot of makeup or filters on to make her look younger and her figure makes me think of a 90s female action star.
 
bubs said:
Went to see “28 Years Later” last night. Found it outstanding on many levels. Ralph Fienes has a small part but a great character and solid acting. Some jump scares, some gore, lots of dread and disturbing scenes. Some family drama. Several thought provoking and interesting concepts introduced as well. And an interesting ending that ties back to a scene from the beginning of the film. Was a great 3rd act to this series. Maybe on par with the original. Nothing woke I could recall, just very well made zombie/post apocalyptic horror.
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Decent for British cinema but subversive.

The village seems to symbolize traditionalism. They're stuck in their ways, nobody cares about his sick mom while daddy is an adulterer who was too stupid to reach out to the old progressive doctor in the forest. Daddy takes our young protagonist to get some kills and of course the young fag is useless. Feeling he has outgrown his people afterwards he decides to ditch dad and take his sick mom to go see Dr. Progress, who doesn't want to kill the zombies but to live amongst them. Some vapid army Swede finds them but he too is a stupid white guy who dies by some big Paki zombie with a prosthetic penis that flaps like a propeller, giving him super human speed. After euthanizing his white mom like a good Caucasian, shipping the newborn they found back to the racist colony, our hero meets some wiggers who are thriving in the land of Big Paki.

Not impressed.
 
Sandalwood Peak said:
Decent for British cinema but subversive.

The village seems to symbolize traditionalism. They're stuck in their ways, nobody cares about his sick mom while daddy is an adulterer who was too stupid to reach out to the old progressive doctor in the forest. Daddy takes our young protagonist to get some kills and of course the young fag is useless. Feeling he has outgrown his people afterwards he decides to ditch dad and take his sick mom to go see Dr. Progress, who doesn't want to kill the zombies but to live amongst them. Some vapid army Swede finds them but he too is a stupid white guy who dies by some big Paki zombie with a prosthetic penis that flaps like a propeller, giving him super human speed. After euthanizing his white mom like a good Caucasian, shipping the newborn they found back to the racist colony, our hero meets some wiggers who are thriving in the land of Big Paki.

Not impressed.
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I haven’t seen the movie so I can’t give your comment a reaction, but what you described is what I thought when I saw the movie Knives Out, the modern take on Clue. Subversive.
 
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