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What have you watched recently? 3D!

johnny_ultimate · 2018-12-17 18:04:29

You people just keep on watching films, don't you? We have reached the contractually-mandated 10,000 post limited in thread 2, so here's another one. It's like the first two, but with gimmicky 3D added and a no-name director taking over from the well-known one who directed the first two. Here's the first thread:…

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#3692 30-10-2025 12:56PM

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I think I liked this more than most people. I'm not 100% sure that the three retellings of the same short time period completely worked but I liked the ending; I thought that not having a definitive outcome ramped up the horror/reality of nuclear war. Like, literally any scale of outcome was possible and leaving that space or question in your mind was a more insidious way of making you think about it.
As mentioned above, has definitely made me want to rewatch some of her other movies. Never cared much for Zero Dark Thirty but definitely must rewatch the Hurt Locker (does anyone know if it's on any of the main streamers?) and might even reconsider Strange Days. Point Break is a stone classic which gets a rewatch every few years anyway and Near Dark is in the pile to be watched.

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