Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| March 2017

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So I went and saw Kong, but since I saw it in IMAX, there's a little something else to say first.

Six minutes of Dunkirk.

Holy shit. Now, I know it's a Nolan movie, so I figured it would be pretty darn good at minimum, but those six minutes were wild. It's all settled on the docks and in the air above Dunkirk, and while the dock stuff was beautifully shot and well executed, it was the air-to-air moments that are what took me by surprise.

The IMAX screen I go to is always a little louder than necessary, so the room shakes like hell when they want it to. The sound is the key to Dunkirk, where the plane's engines, the banking, the shots fired, all were rumbling around me. Tom Hardy plays one of the pilots, and it was an incredibly thrilling scene. It takes a lot for my mouth to open in delight of a scene, but that one got me.

I was not so excited for this movie, but if it's two more hours of that sort of filmmaking, this could be something special.

Then there's Kong: Skull Island.

I liked it. I liked a lot of it. But hoo boy, the dialogue was bad news. Characters dying were kind of brushed off rather than lamented or celebrated in any way. Scenes ended so abruptly that it felt a little jarring.

But man, the scenes that worked, they worked well. The action scenes are top notch, the cinematography and visuals are some of the best in a while, and Kong himself was well worth the admission.

It's just a shame about the rest.
 
I rented Moonlight last night on Amazon. One of the most beautiful films I've seen. I'm glad it won best picture even though for me personally La La Land edges it out by very very little.
 
Just saw Kong: Skull Island and had a helluva good time. The only thing that bothered me was that you could tell the movie was edited to hell and it really shows. Scenes and shots fly by so quick that it felt like I was watching the movie on fast forward. It was still a fun time and a great summer flick, it's just too bad that WB forgot how to edit their movies, like seriously WTF WB?
 
Inceptional said:
Just saw Kong: Skull Island and had a helluva good time. The only thing that bothered me was that you could tell the movie was edited to hell and it really shows. Scenes and shots fly by so quick that it felt like I was watching the movie on fast forward. It was still a fun time and a great summer flick, it's just too bad that WB forgot how to edit their movies, like seriously WTF WB?
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I love it! I had no issue with the editing. Loved the Cubs stuff!!!!
 
gamz said:
I love it! I had no issue with the editing. Loved the Cubs stuff!!!!
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You might not have had issues but as a student of editing, trust me when I say that there are huge issues with the choppy editing in the film. I still enjoyed it quite a bit as well though which tells you how strong the action and visuals were. Also, go Cubs!
 
Inceptional said:
You might not have had issues but as a student of editing, trust me when I say that there are huge issues with the choppy editing in the film. I still enjoyed it quite a bit as well though which tells you how strong the action and visuals were. Also, go Cubs!
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For me it was the way scenes abruptly ended, like there was meant to be more but it was right on to the next thing.
 
Burial Ground I heard of this overy a Halloween marathon and was interested. So when I see it was on Shudder today I said hellz yea. Then I watched it. This was a total turd. Not really much I liked quite honestly.

Then I watched

The Crying Game Which I knew about some of it by reputation. Yea...this isn't my kind of movie. The love story part isn't my thing but it was actually not what I thought was terrible. I mean there's supposed to be this big emotional death scene early on that made me laugh out loud for how absurdly it happened. Then the whole thing was like a shitty Hallmark movie with a big wang reveal scene that I also found hilarious. I don't know, a bit better delivery and this would have been a lot better. Just felt cheap. I did find out that the one guy in here played Ra in Stargate so that was cool. Otherwise this was two stinkers for my night...boo
 
kevin1025 said:
For me it was the way scenes abruptly ended, like there was meant to be more but it was right on to the next thing.
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That's definitely the biggest issue. You can tell they just straight cutoff scenes right in the middle of them. Hell, if the film had been edited down anymore, it would've just been a two-hour montage, kind of like Suicide Squad.
 
kevin1025 said:
So I went and saw Kong, but since I saw it in IMAX, there's a little something else to say first.

Six minutes of Dunkirk.

Holy shit. Now, I know it's a Nolan movie, so I figured it would be pretty darn good at minimum, but those six minutes were wild. It's all settled on the docks and in the air above Dunkirk, and while the dock stuff was beautifully shot and well executed, it was the air-to-air moments that are what took me by surprise.

The IMAX screen I go to is always a little louder than necessary, so the room shakes like hell when they want it to. The sound is the key to Dunkirk, where the plane's engines, the banking, the shots fired, all were rumbling around me. Tom Hardy plays one of the pilots, and it was an incredibly thrilling scene. It takes a lot for my mouth to open in delight of a scene, but that one got me.

I was not so excited for this movie, but if it's two more hours of that sort of filmmaking, this could be something special.
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Supposedly, according to Nolan, the film is exactly a bunch of suspenseful scenes one after the other.

Fancy Clown said:
Body Double: Not content with sleazing up Hitchcock's voyeuristic thrillers Psycho and Vertigo in 1980's excellent Dressed to Kill, Brian De Palma returns to his id's fetishistic stomping grounds, this time swapping out Psycho for Rear Window. Showing absolutely zero restraint, De Palma maximizes the perverse and pornographic nature of the voyeurism inherent in cinema in increasingly unsubtle ways, eventually throwing the nebbish protagonist into a literal pornography. If that sounds like a criticism, it's not. What it lacks in the subtlety of Hitchcock's classics, it makes up for in its layers of absurdity, providing both endlessly fun sequences, and acerbic critiques of its audience (and male orieniented cinema heroics in genral...and De Palma himself) through the surrogate (or should I say...body double?) protagonist, who merely succeeds in objectifying his beautiful neighbor with his gaze as he ineffectually attempts to "protect" her, coming off nearly as perverted as his more murderously inclined partner in stalking (imagine if Jimmy Stewart stuff Kim Novak's panties in his pocket after following her around town).

While the plot and its twists are predictable and not entirely compelling, the journey is made oh so thrilling thanks to De Palma's continued skill at staging beautifully shot sequences of suspense (along with his aforementioned idiosyncratic sense of humor and sleaze). He attempts to one-up his virtuoso museum sequences from Dressed to Kill with an even more ambitious ménage à trois of stalking and suspense set in a multi-tiered outdoor shopping mall. Expect plenty of long tracking shots, split-diopters, mirror reveals, and every other De Palma staple in his workshop of thrills. While this may not be the best De Palma movie, it could very well be the most De Palma movie, and that alone makes it worth a watch.
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The music in it is just fucking exquisite. From Donnagio to the beautiful usage of Frankie goes to hollywood.

Melanie was fucking hot in it

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He just goes all the way in it. It's just unfiltered De Palma. I love this movie so much.
 
kevin1025 said:
So I went and saw Kong, but since I saw it in IMAX, there's a little something else to say first.

Six minutes of Dunkirk.

Holy shit. Now, I know it's a Nolan movie, so I figured it would be pretty darn good at minimum, but those six minutes were wild. It's all settled on the docks and in the air above Dunkirk, and while the dock stuff was beautifully shot and well executed, it was the air-to-air moments that are what took me by surprise.

The IMAX screen I go to is always a little louder than necessary, so the room shakes like hell when they want it to. The sound is the key to Dunkirk, where the plane's engines, the banking, the shots fired, all were rumbling around me. Tom Hardy plays one of the pilots, and it was an incredibly thrilling scene. It takes a lot for my mouth to open in delight of a scene, but that one got me.

I was not so excited for this movie, but if it's two more hours of that sort of filmmaking, this could be something special.
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yep. the trailers were just ok, wasn't expecting too much from it. but that IMAX preview was absolutely insane. just edge of your seat tension throughout the entirety, the music and editing was so good. and the sound design, oh my god. I thought I was gonna go deaf it was scary loud.

this could actually be his best movie if that is any indication.
 
Just saw John Wick 2 last night. Loved it. The plot was ridiculous (who cares) but the action was great and it was slightly grittier than the first (which I enjoyed).

Also, somewhat impossible not to root for Keanu in movies.
 
True Savior said:
The music in it is just fucking exquisite. From Donnagio to the beautiful usage of Frankie goes to hollywood.

Melanie was fucking hot in it

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He just goes all the way in it. It's just unfiltered De Palma. I love this movie so much.
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No lies detected. I love how De Palma's movies usually at least have one mind blowingly awesome and elaborate sequence in them, and Body Double has like 3 of them, with the Frankie goes to Hollywood section being one of them.
 
Atraveller said:
I personally felt the ending montage didn't have the kick it wished it had. That one Bojack Horseman episode packed more emotional punch.
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Fancy Clown said:
I thought the ending had a lot more heft than I expected it to and is largely why the movie works for me, but regardless of the affect that's what the intent was.
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I usually prefer a happy ending to any other kind. I get enough real life in my real life, so movies tend to be escapism for me. That being said, I've been watching enough of them to appreciate the finer points of bittersweet endings.

I am also a writer (novelist/novella-ist?) and definitely appreciate good storytelling, regardless of the outcome. I liked La La Land's story. I loved the scene in Seb's at the end. Loved it. It had the punch for me from a storytelling perspective and was woven in very nicely with the intro to jazz discussion earlier.

Now, my wife and sister-in-law, while recognizing the scene in Seb's for what it attempted to achieve, were less enthused by the ending.

I think the difference is this: I will likely re-watch the movie at home and will probably even buy the bluray. My wife is unlikely to bother with it again. My sister-in-law will definitely not watch it again. Happy ending or bust for her. :-)
 
Edge of Tommorow

Or, "Groundhog Day with mech exoskeletons" (Seriously, some oddly similar beats)

A GAF favorite for awhile now.

It's a solid, well directed action flick. Cruise has a nice turn as an entitled cowardly asshole who plays well against Blunt. The alien threat was pretty shallow though, never really got into the Mimics. Also I think I was supposed to care about J Squad but that's hard to do when their
deaths
are the only interesting thing about them.
 
True Savior said:
Supposedly, according to Nolan, the film is exactly a bunch of suspenseful scenes one after the other.
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Oh man, that sounds perfect. They have me for an IMAX ticket, after that preview!

Discotheque said:
yep. the trailers were just ok, wasn't expecting too much from it. but that IMAX preview was absolutely insane. just edge of your seat tension throughout the entirety, the music and editing was so good. and the sound design, oh my god. I thought I was gonna go deaf it was scary loud.

this could actually be his best movie if that is any indication.
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The kamikaze sound was great in the trailer, but its effect (or would it be affect in this case? Since I mean it both ways, haha) during the actual scene with everyone crowded together and looking up in panic, wow.
 
kevin1025 said:
So I went and saw Kong, but since I saw it in IMAX, there's a little something else to say first.

Six minutes of Dunkirk.

Holy shit. Now, I know it's a Nolan movie, so I figured it would be pretty darn good at minimum, but those six minutes were wild. It's all settled on the docks and in the air above Dunkirk, and while the dock stuff was beautifully shot and well executed, it was the air-to-air moments that are what took me by surprise.

The IMAX screen I go to is always a little louder than necessary, so the room shakes like hell when they want it to. The sound is the key to Dunkirk, where the plane's engines, the banking, the shots fired, all were rumbling around me. Tom Hardy plays one of the pilots, and it was an incredibly thrilling scene. It takes a lot for my mouth to open in delight of a scene, but that one got me.

I was not so excited for this movie, but if it's two more hours of that sort of filmmaking, this could be something special.

Then there's Kong: Skull Island.
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Oh nice, didn't know they were showing Dunkirk prologue again. It was worth seeing Rogue One at IMAX just for that.
 
Discotheque said:
Pumped to hear impressions on this. Most anticipated movie this year and da gawd has been 4 for 4 as far as I'm concerned
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Agreed. Plus it has Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey and Jon Hamm. It's got to be a hell of a time.

I guess American Gods premieres tomorrow there too. Malick's is tonight?
 
TheFlow said:
it will review better just because of the cast alone.
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Hasn't worked out that way for Malick's last couple movies, no reason to expect it will here.
The movie's not even out and there are already thinkpieces going up about how Malick's post-2010 style arbitrarily marks him as out-of-touch and not worth examining. Malick's too far outside the mainstream now for the majority of critics and audiences to engage with, which is too bad because Knight of Cups is fantastic
 
big ander said:
Hasn't worked out that way for Malick's last couple movies, no reason to expect it will here.
The movie's not even out and there are already thinkpieces going up about how Malick's post-2010 style arbitrarily marks him as out-of-touch and not worth examining. Malick's too far outside the mainstream now for the majority of critics and audiences to engage with, which is too bad because Knight of Cups is fantastic
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It blows my mind how he's becoming so prolific now, haha. I remember back during college, Tree of Life was such a big deal since it'd been so long.

And yet I haven't watched any of his stuff since Tree of Life. I should really get on that.

Also, is it true Knight of Cups and Song to Song were both filmed back in 2012?
 
MidnightCowboy said:
One day people will realize the cracks started showing with Tree of Life.
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I thought To The Wonder was alright, but hated Knight of Cups. The impressions for Song to Song are negative right now, but I'll wait until impressions from people I trust on GAF and other sites start coming in before I get worried.

Most of the impressions are that it's "full Malick", so it's either you're into it or not.
 
Icolin said:
I thought To The Wonder was alright, but hated Knight of Cups. The impressions for Song to Song are negative right now, but I'll wait until impressions from people I trust on GAF and other sites start coming in before I get worried.

Most of the impressions are that it's "full Malick", so it's either you're into it or not.
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this seems to be the general census for anything post The New World

anyway. I have watched 3 comedy specials over the week. Amy schumer 2017 special is trash, the rest were amazing. birbiglia and hart <3. Also watched my first Ozu.

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The first silent film I have ever watched. The Idiot prepared me for the scene breaks, but overall it was a basic story. Not much to write about.
 
To the Wonder is my favorite of the recent Malick run, but yeah, I suppose that's a super niche opinion. Voyage of Time is a great IMAX documentary, too.

I'm always in for Malick, though. Never hated any of his movies.

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TheFlow said:
The first silent film I have ever watched.
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:O

Nosferatu.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
I mean, just German expressionism in general...

You have quite a journey ahead of you! I'm jealous.
 
Cripplegate said:
To the Wonder is my favorite of the recent Malick run, but yeah, I suppose that's a super niche opinion. Voyage of Time is a great IMAX documentary, too.

I'm always in for Malick, though. Never hated any of his movies.

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Nosferatu.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
I mean, just German expressionism in general...

You have quite a journey ahead of you! I'm jealous.
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haha I will get there soon.Ozu did quite a few silent movies.
 
Discotheque said:
I don't think anybody has defended the sean penn portion in that movie

But still despite that all the family scenes were incredible and makes the movie come out strong
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I liked the Sean Penn scenes just fine!


Looking through Twitter impressions, sounds like Song to Song is very much in the To the Wonder/Knight of Cups vein. Ah well.
 
Blader said:
I liked the Sean Penn scenes just fine!


Looking through Twitter impressions, sounds like Song to Song is very much in the To the Wonder/Knight of Cups vein. Ah well.
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It was filmed in the same timeframe as those, so that shouldn't be very surprising. Malick's next film Radegund is supposed to actually resemble a narrative.
 
Goodfellas: I'm a '90s kid, so naturally, I saw the Animaniacs segment Goodfeathers, which I liked, even though it wasn't as good as the Warner Siblings or Pinky and the Brain. So here's the source on a couple of references there.

This is a great gangster movie because of the scope of it all. It covers about 25 years, from Henry doing minor work in Brooklyn to working with Tommy and Jimmy. Speaking of Tommy, he's the star here...mostly. Joe Pesci is one of those actors with a distinct screen presence, so I love seeing him in movies. His short temper and "You think I'm funny?" bit make him the best character here. Later it's about whacking people, dealing with a wife who'd rather not be a part of your job, and eventually cocaine. It's a real "Do Not Do This Cool Thing" movie where you get big rewards, but also huge consequences. I don't think it's as great as Scarface, but it's up there.
 
I will defend Terry till my dying breath. I really enjoyed Knight of Cups and hope he continues to release films of that nature at this clip for the foreseeable future.

#teamterry
#malickman
 
David Ehrlich's take on Song to Song:

"SONG 2 SONG: Malick's twirling horndog phase climaxes with an exasperating whimper, but story about the inertia of drifting suits his style."

https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/840396573406298112

"there's a lot to parse here, but it's never a good sign when *i'm* growing restless during a movie that stars Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett"

https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/840397950597644288

Edit: Checking Twitter, it's definitely a love/hate thing going on. Some say it's boring, some say it's fantastic and one of his best, one saying it even poisoned them, haha.
 
Malick?
Divisive?

It has The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Checkmate haters.

I wouldn't be surprised if I dislike the movie though, since I'm going in with expectations of decency.
 
Seems like Song To Song was Malick's last movie of this completely loose style, which makes sense considering it was filmed forever ago. I recall reading somewhere last year that he did an interview (!!!) and said that Radegund is going to be more traditional and structured.
 
Net_Wrecker said:
Seems like Song To Song was Malick's last movie of this completely loose style, which makes sense considering it was filmed forever ago. I recall reading somewhere last year that he did an interview (!!!) and said that Radegund is going to be more traditional and structured.
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And it's Malick's return to a WWII setting, which is cool too.
 
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