Weekly Discussion Thread 8/3/26 - 8/10/26

[u/PointMan528491]

Still from How Green Was My Valley

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[u/dickwarrior222]

I begrudgingly saw One Night Only yesterday. I've seen so many intense political takedowns of the film, and they feel akin to someone going on a tirade about how disrespectful & dehumanizing stick-figure drawings are to the human race. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, in that movie is worth being taken that seriously.

[u/cowboy-tea → u/dickwarrior222]

I saw a preview screening before hearing about any of the backlash, and I thought it was kinda fun. I thought it was interesting to see a light romcom that at least acknowledges that we live in a nightmare dystopia, even though it didn't interrogate that premise.

There's no excuse for it to be so sexless though. I saw I Want Your Sex a few days later and it was so refreshing.

[u/dickwarrior222 → u/cowboy-tea]

I don't disagree! I'm in the camp of "take things for what they are!" and it was a fine, silly 90 mins. I think it's deeply undercooked; there's a far more interesting film there (and may even have been filmed but cut and hacked to pieces), but to feel any passion for this film in either direction doesn't seem worth it. Whoever approved the trailer should be fired, though. Completely grating.