All the many morons shitting on this movie for being too long is cracking me up. Is that what marvel movies do to your brain? It was engaging throughout. Why the hate?
I loved it!
All the many morons shitting on this movie for being too long is cracking me up. Is that what marvel movies do to your brain? It was engaging throughout. Why the hate?
It's another "guy making the poster didn't bother to account for the billing order" movie.
>It was engaging throughout.
You're full of shit. It was a fricking snoozefest. Another money laundering scheme where everyone involved was phoning it in. I shut it off about the time benecio del taco was interviewing the rat haired scanner guy. I just ran out of fricks to give and went back to the stack of 1960s Japanese Yakuza flicks I'm working through.
You’re exactly what I’m talking about. It’s embarrassing
Black person I have been a NEET longer then you have been alive. I have seen EVERYTHING(a lot of it more than once). I am scraping the bottom of the barrel of the most obscure genre shit imaginable. I would LOVE for there to be good new movies coming out but that's not the timeline we are living in.
You didn’t even make it halfway through this film because you have a disgustingly short attention span. Your opinion is invalid because you’re too much of a dozy cow to even commit to watching a film all the way through.
It's not about my attention span it's about the ability of a given piece of media to hold my attention it either does or it doesn't. I have a virtually unlimited supply of things to watch. I don't need to analyze it any deeper than "did it hold my attention."
>It's not about my attention span it's about the ability of a given piece of media to hold my attention
Nothing can be done if you have the attention span of a goldfish which clearly you do so it is about that.
>this paving is nothing like my Pokémon episodes! I give up!
That’s you.
Pic related held my attention.
It’s only 93 minutes, goobrain.
93 engaging minutes.
>I would LOVE for there to be good new movies coming out but that's not the timeline we are living in.
I just realized I gotta walk this back. Nefarious was good. A movie that is essentially two people talking in a room and it held my attention.
Okay NEET, give us some good recommendations of some hidden gems youve discovered throughout your NEEThood
>loves to watch jap movies
>thinks he knows kino
Pick one
Midwits (including some reviewers) currently seem to feel aggravated when they're faced with entertainment that's not dumbed down for imbeciles.
The movie has a lot ambiguity, some of it unresolved, but all it requires in terms of fully understanding the plot and the metaphor of the title is a standard amount of attention.
Exactly. Some of the criticisms I’ve seen really expose how painfully stupid the average viewer is. For example I saw a lot of “what happened to Eli?” And it’s like it was spelled out really fricking clearly I thought.
Yes. In Eli's case it is quite literally presented in big words for the viewer-- I can understand some people unfamiliar with the product not getting it but it's otherwise obvious
>Why the hate?
I like it, we need more movies like this
Plot doesn't make sense tho. Why choosing such a gruesome method of murder that will bring a lot of heat on Justin Timberlake's character when with the help of the corrupted police departement you can make her disappear without a trace?
Because staging a gory crime of passion murder makes it look like it wasn’t a police hit job. They were angling to frame the ex-husband anyway.
To further elaborate a closed frame job is much neater than an open missing persons case. JT knew the ex-husband was banging his gf, he was a weirdo with no alibi, checkered past, and most importantly the wig fibers on her body were from the art piece at his house which were likely planted there for the purpose of incriminating him. That’s why they were so stoked to close the case give BTD his medal of valor plus 20k and move on.
Why anyone would have suspected the police in the first place? She was still married to a drug dealer. There are hundred reasons why she could have disappeared without anyone thorougly investigating it
Whenever a murder occurs both law enforcement and the press start connecting the dots. Since part of the police officers were in on it, they had to find a plausible culprit since self-incrimination was rather unlikely to say the very least
Ok you don't like the missing person scenario. It was not really my point to start with, my point being why staging such a barbaric crime in the house of the couple knowing it will bring a lot of media attention and heat on Timberlake's character. It really seems like the weirdest method for a cover-up. If I was tasked with the job, a murder-suicide scenario involving the drug dealer husband seems 10 times more credible and a lot of easier to get away with.
JT had an alibi and zero marks on him. The heat would not have been on him.
>why staging such a barbaric crime in the house of the couple knowing it will bring a lot of media attention
It deflects the attention from anything other than a passion crime, which is often violent.
Killing the woman in a deserted house was much simpler than staging a murder-suicide: the ex-husband could be framed (or even better killed during a situation likely provoked by the black cop) afterwards. JT had an airtight alibi (the friend).
Because they can’t just make everyone go missing especially when they’re police officers with giant lake houses and Rolex watches they would absolutely look suspect after the first couple times.
Their objective was killing the woman before she'd talk, hence the murder was planned so as to take the scent off a criminal money laundering scheme and as
says twist the narrative into a crime of passion type thing.
zero trannies, zero "men are evil, women stronk" moments, and zero mentions of "white man bad"... which is incredibly rare in the past 5 or so years of streaming services releases. it's not really that great of a story, but there's some good acting performances going on here, and whoever did the casting nailed the selection.
Yes. The fact that it understandably avoids comatose, tired ESG "guidelines" probably had cowardly reviewers being overly negative when writing about it. Yesterday some anon posted a review from The Wrap where the guy was criticizing the movie for being "stylish" when the cinematography is undeniably beautiful, creative and one of Reptile's unquestionable strong points.
It also has a black character that's either incompetent or crooked (his involvement with the other cops' scheme remains ambiguous), and ESG tries to force nonwhite characters written as powerful or super duper experts
The cinematography was incredible. I was really surprised it was the director’s first film but seeing that he’s done a ton of music videos it kind of makes sense. A criticism I saw a lot was the soundtrack being heavy handed but it didn’t really bother or distract me at all.
There was an emphasis on that one song (Angel Of The Morning) and the director did the faux non-diegetic sound effect (a song apparently being played for the viewers and suddenly stopping when a characters stops a car or closes a door) more than once but none of those choices seemed grating.
The OST has a bit of bombast here and there but was aligned to the movie's atmosphere and the scenes it was highlighting (the first view of the woman's corpse for instance)
i have a lot to say about Cleary as well, i thought he was one of the more interesting characters and the actor that player him has been on my radar for about 20 years, he had a small but good part in Garden State. back to the style/cinematography, i only have 1 real complaint and i might be alone on this and thats okay. i just thought the "blood splatter on the camera lens" effect near the end was particularly tacky and took me out of the moment. this isn't a 3D movie is it? so why put that effect in
>Cleary
The way he was written is incredibly nuanced. Ultimately, the scene where he "loses" his gun to the ex-husband is what makes me think he was in on it, not least because as shown later Del Toro's colleagues knew he was a sharp shooter.. The actor did very well, keeping a type of blanket, nondescript vagueness to the character.
As to the blood, it was a bold choice. The way the scene was framed in close-up and maximum tension was kino though
That plus the scene with JT in Eli’s apartment. We don’t see the other guy but JT says “you guys know eachother?” Or something. It wasn’t BTD so the only other person WE saw meet Eli was Cleary.
Very good point. I remember the scene
it's the best kino we got in a loooong time
about to watch it, do you get to see alicia silverstone's fat brapper?
Clothed. At first she's seen as the average 40ish housewife but there are some developments which are signaled by the director by filming her from side angles which highlight her surprisingly great ass
she's always had a pawg
Funny because in The Lodge (a great horror movie where she has a decisive cameo role) she looked really haggard and despondent, but that was in line with her character. In Reptile she looks peppy and more sexual
you weren't kidding, that profile, it just sticks out so far. Good movie too.
It was decent but the ending was too abrupt, should have spent AT LEAST 10 more minutes on the third act.
Wouldn't have minded for it to be a mini series either, good production quality, the only moronic part was the hot constructor wanting to frick that ugly past-wall hog.
From the cellphone call montage on, it's more or less clear who the culprit were. The following act is just carefully connecting the dots
What are you talking about? The movie goes from "OH SHIT THIS IS WHAT REALLY IS GOING ON" to "ALL THE BADDIES GOT ARRESTED AND EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER" in less than 5 minutes, the entire ending montage is beyond moronic and rushed.
>The movie goes from "OH SHIT THIS IS WHAT REALLY IS GOING ON" to "ALL THE BADDIES GOT ARRESTED AND EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER"
Instead of unrealistically wrapping it up in 5 mins or so the movie gradually moves towards its conclusion and justice being enacted.
If you only realized those guys were in on it in the lake house final scene you were massively filtered.Also that was not a montage, it was a set piece.
The cellphone montage happens some 40 mins earlier, when a rapid sequence of phones ringing and calls being answered by different people in a quick alternating present time/flashback is shown. The culprit are all clearly shown in that brief scene and afterwards the movie changes gears and becomes about BdT's investigation in order to connect the dots and find conclusive evidence.
It was only when he got inside the house in the last 5 minutes of the movie that he realized how high up everything went and that the other guy that gets killed was basically forced to do it.
They "wrap it up" by showing 5 seconds of the fbi riding in a golf cart, absolutely moronic and unsatisfactory.
The one that got filtered was you, moron.
>It was only when he got inside the house in the last 5 minutes of the movie that he realized how high up everything went
Kek no it wasn't. The only doubt he still had was whether Marty was in on it or not-- something which became probable when he insisted on going along and practically certain when he said he wanted to go to "the bathroom".
Cops are wary by nature and BdT's character knew exactly what to do: he never gave Marty the benefit of the doubt.
>They "wrap it up" by showing 5 seconds of the fbi riding in a golf cart, absolutely moronic and unsatisfactory.
You're embarrassing yourself with your distracted stupidity, simply cut your losses and STFU. That scene is a simple logical extension of what happened previously. It was obvious to non-moronic viewers that JT's character would be arrested, the movie didn't need more than a few secs to show that
>Justin Timberlake
Dropped
He actually did fine in this.
He's a good actor. His job in this one was perfectly fine and he's also good in Inside Llewyn Davis and The Love Guru (he also does comedy roles well)
Why in every cop movie, the main cop is some guy that doesn't actually do anything or show any urgency and just gets lucky.
Not true, particularly not in the case of Reptile
Redpill me on why I should watch this, I literally just saw it pop up on Netflix but know nothing about it
It's a beautifully shot procedural/mystery that respects your intelligence and rewards attention. It has 2 or 3 subplots that remain more or less open-ended but the core puzzled is beautifully solved. Also BdT is a kino actor, the entire cast does great. For those who like her, there's a Sky Ferreira non-singing cameo
It bored me. Although it was mildly interesting when singer dancer man had a shoe box full of buds in his chest of drawers. I mean who does that? That shit is going to get so dry.
>hey we should get that slithery guy who makes a snake sound in last jedi for our reptile movie
>im lovin it!
This is so lazy shilling Jesus Christ
It was incredibly boring tbh, atleast there wasn't a ton of homies in the movie, only positive thing I can say about it, but a boring movie is a boring movie.
I think I can grow a moustache like that
Just watched. Enjoyed more than any newer movies I've seen in the last few years
Its a great movie but too long. Its easy to understand.
Reptile is the name of the movie, why? I am missing something?
Because baddies are cold blooded and the prostitute that dies finds a literal reptile shed skin on the house, i guess alluding to the fact that the reptile (husband) is inside the house.
It has several meanings both literal and metaphorical:
-the killed woman has a snake skeleton tattooed along her spine;
-she finds an ominous dried snake skin that foreshadows her own demise;
-the bite marks on her and Benicio's hands are vaguely connected to the idea of snake bites;
-the faucet BdT's character buys resembles a snake-- which he "tames" in the end after his wife covers his bruised hand with wax (whose removal also resembles a snake shedding her skin) and then the faucet becomes responsive to his hand gestures. The flow of life (water) is restored and the faucet/snake is under control
is that elon musk in the foreground?
every marvel movie is 2 hours at least
I liked it but can one of you film school twinks explain to me the relevance of the snake skin/skin on hand (scene at end).
Nevermind
has already done it thanks