I want to make a quick rec to everyone here and reading this thread!

Give HBO's The Wire and/or AMC's Breaking Bad a shot if you haven't already. Fantastic shows. Absolute pinnacles of television dramas.

I want to make a quick rec to everyone here and reading this thread!

Give HBO's The Wire and/or AMC's Breaking Bad a shot if you haven't already. Fantastic shows. Absolute pinnacles of television dramas.

Sorry to Bother You: Charm
Annihilation: Fucking Awesome
Tully: Abysmal

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1/3.

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tully: charm
annhilation: fucking awesome
sorry to bother you: abysmal (solely because of the third act. if i had stopped watching before that it would easily be a great movie)

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This ain't it, chief.

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it absolutely is.

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how do you go from a perfect satire about companies like amazon or google to something as crude and horrible as equisapiens? i get that it's still a part of the commentary but there are hundreds of thousands of better ways to go about it than sending the movie into an entirely different realm.

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This ain't it, chief.

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I don't get how you understand the horse part of the commentary and not see the metaphor contained therein. In a whole movie that's full of anticorporate messages about as subtle as a brick to the face, the fact that the company literally sees its workers (workhorses, get it?) as a means to get a more efficient labor source fits right in, down to the part where government sides with the moneymaking entity even with evidence of employee abuse. The whole point isn't that equisapiens are a thing, but that a CEO seeing that as an ideal method of cheap and easy labor isn't exactly much of a stretch. It's allegory in the same way the main character being named Cash Green is.

Have you never seen a surrealist film before.

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I was expecting a cute quirky comedy that had roots in realism

I have a couple.

I like Janelle Monae.

That's a really bad trailer.

None of those dolls are ugly so the name of the movie is wrong.