TrumanBurbank
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If not, make it. And state that no mention of blockbusters.
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If not, make it. And state that no mention of blockbusters.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Why? Let the buttholes put Avengers on their lists.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
No one would post if you made note to avoid blockbusters, or there'd be lots of whining lol. Might as well have the discussion here. Avengers would win anyways (or TDKR).
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I don't feel like I could contribute to a Best of 2012 until I see all the movies from this year I still want to see. Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Lining Playbook, Les Mis, Django, Amour, etc...
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Yes. There's lots I haven't had the chance to see.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Not until end of January.
Both of them seem to be getting plenty of hate on this board.
Rhomega Beta
Member
ParaNorman. This movie was OK. Premise is similar to The Sixth Sense. Good for introducing kids to the zombie genre, but otherwise I didn't care much for it.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Oh that is right. Oh well, made one now anyways. Someone can make a more elaborate one for all those buttholes and the cool kids can use mine then.
Referring to other posters as buttholes seems rather elitist to me. It's just a difference in taste, not a reflection of intelligence.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
maybe the buttholes ARE the elitists
yeah, didn't think about that, did you
#datselfdeperication
yeah, didn't think about that, did you
#datselfdeperication
Watched Let the Bullets Fly the other night and it was pretty damn good. The dialog and the composition of all the scenes were seemless and entertainable. Great westerner if anybody is interested.
And just today, i checked out Marie Antoinette(?) directed by Sofia Coppola. Went in expected the worst but it was pretty descent. Would like to watch it on Blu-ray whenever it comes out.
Now waiting in the theater for Django Unchained.
And just today, i checked out Marie Antoinette(?) directed by Sofia Coppola. Went in expected the worst but it was pretty descent. Would like to watch it on Blu-ray whenever it comes out.
Now waiting in the theater for Django Unchained.
Today I learned, I'm a butthole.
Kilgore Trout
Member
My favorite bit of info about this movie:
Out of curiosity, did you see the 135 minute version or the 108 minute version? I just watched the shorter cut recently and thought it was as good as I remembered the original being, but with less night club scenes.
oof that 2012 movies thread got stupid fast and was closed nearly as quickly. I'll never get people calling out a list just because they haven't heard of the films on it. and if you follow film blogs regularly, you had to have heard of at least 3 of those on au's list. Anyway I was typing up my unordered shortlist of 25 for fun while it was being closed so I might as well post it here:
Girl Walk // All Day, Pitch Perfect, The American Scream, Looper, Sleepwalk with Me, Cosmopolis, Bernie, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, The Skin I Live In, The Dark Knight Rises, Shut Up and Play the Hits, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grey, The Raid, The Cabin in the Woods, Kill List, Tim and Eric’s B$M, Goon, The Avengers, Skyfall, Wanderlust, The Innkeepers, Anna Karenina, The Comedy, Brave
And now a question: Kino has this Michael Haneke DVD boxset. reviews say the video quality is problematic but watchable. should I go for that or just get the r1 blus that I can along with some other films? EDIT: nm think I'm just going to get this David Lean/Noël Coward set.
Girl Walk // All Day, Pitch Perfect, The American Scream, Looper, Sleepwalk with Me, Cosmopolis, Bernie, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, The Skin I Live In, The Dark Knight Rises, Shut Up and Play the Hits, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grey, The Raid, The Cabin in the Woods, Kill List, Tim and Eric’s B$M, Goon, The Avengers, Skyfall, Wanderlust, The Innkeepers, Anna Karenina, The Comedy, Brave
And now a question: Kino has this Michael Haneke DVD boxset. reviews say the video quality is problematic but watchable. should I go for that or just get the r1 blus that I can along with some other films? EDIT: nm think I'm just going to get this David Lean/Noël Coward set.
AgentChris
Member
Premium Rush: Good fun. The story was dumb but JGL and Michael Shannon's ham acting were entertaining.
Lincoln: I feel like this is easily Spielberg's strongest film since Munich. It was a bit long in the tooth, and I eventually lost count of the number of times that Lincoln began to tell an inspiring story while John Williams' music swelled up in the background, but DDL completely owned the role. What a fucking talent.
Overall I really enjoyed it, I also kind of liked that they decided to
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Overall I really enjoyed it, I also kind of liked that they decided to
not directly show Lincoln's assassination
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Playtime (Tati)
This was a blind watch, but I didn't watch it blind. By the time I finished the whole story, Tati's film had blown my mind!
Playtime puts most other satires of modernity to shame. Through the interweaving of Hulot's goofy travels with subtle views into people's new lives, the director lets viewers interpret comical happenings on their own terms. Because Tati prefers medium and long shots to more intimate close-ups, the audience never attaches itself to any other character but Hulot, and even Hulot sorties in and out of center view like a free radical. This strategy of skipping through sketches of urban life does drag in areas; the middle part of the nightclub half of the film feels a bit too tedious compared to more densely-loaded sequences. But Tati never fails to deliver perfect plays on new manners, new failures, and new cognitive dissonances that drive people through their hectic environment of modern Paris.
I particularly enjoyed the cinematographer's grasp of the importance of mirrors and reflections. Hulot quickly fails for the simulacra around him, once confusing a steward's double image for the real man. Elements like this, and many of the individuals first seen at the airport from which Hulot emerges, constantly reappear as if they were all part of the same play (which makes sense: this is Playtime for a reason!). Even though movies like Slacker have used similar approaches to satirizing and sealing a specific audiovisual atmosphere (though that film lacks any protagonist), none are as hermetic and slickly defined as Playtime's brisk affair. Nothing is what it seems, and both a constantly-shifting skyline and betrayals of personality seem to envelop Hulot and his kind in beautiful chaos.
In short: Playtime's a screen phantasy, and Joe Bob sez check it out.
*****
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Drunken Angel (Kurosawa)
This is an interesting introduction to Kurosawa, at least for me.
As one of the first films on which Kurosawa found his social voice (not to forget: his top acting collaborator in the '50s and '60s), Drunken Angel stands between formative works and middle-period masterpieces. It's got awkward transitions between sequences, at least one strange break in character development that services the plot without further elaboration, and ends on a brutally sad note that I didn't see coming. Though it tackles contemporary issues in post-war Japan, what happens to Matsunaga both disproves and proves Doctor Sanada's thoughts on the yakuza, that they always screw up no matter what. Not even the meager redemption Mifune's character brings to his friends can fully cleanse the murky future, symbolized by a festering bog in the middle of their neighborhood.
Perhaps that's the way it'll turn out, though. Drunken Angel sticks true to its title because of the surrounding hopelessness, expecting its viewers to struggle alongside rational Sanada as he tries to keep his life together. Violence finds its way through empty threats, and diversions like dancing and drinking simply distract each character from their problems and personal inconsistencies. As the drunken angel of lore, Sanada cannot bring himself into a position through which he can defeat an antagonizing gangster like Okada. Likewise, it's not as if Matsunaga knows what he's up against either, having to contend with a different kind of personal decay unrelated to Sanada's propensity for alcohol (—instead, his honest hustling leads him towards disease). It all comes to head within the last several minutes, and it all pays its worth in this exquisite drama, tinged with noir and flanked by Japanese melodrama.
Joe Bob sez check it out!
****
—I've never smelled any nice buttholes in my life before, though.
This was a blind watch, but I didn't watch it blind. By the time I finished the whole story, Tati's film had blown my mind!
Playtime puts most other satires of modernity to shame. Through the interweaving of Hulot's goofy travels with subtle views into people's new lives, the director lets viewers interpret comical happenings on their own terms. Because Tati prefers medium and long shots to more intimate close-ups, the audience never attaches itself to any other character but Hulot, and even Hulot sorties in and out of center view like a free radical. This strategy of skipping through sketches of urban life does drag in areas; the middle part of the nightclub half of the film feels a bit too tedious compared to more densely-loaded sequences. But Tati never fails to deliver perfect plays on new manners, new failures, and new cognitive dissonances that drive people through their hectic environment of modern Paris.
I particularly enjoyed the cinematographer's grasp of the importance of mirrors and reflections. Hulot quickly fails for the simulacra around him, once confusing a steward's double image for the real man. Elements like this, and many of the individuals first seen at the airport from which Hulot emerges, constantly reappear as if they were all part of the same play (which makes sense: this is Playtime for a reason!). Even though movies like Slacker have used similar approaches to satirizing and sealing a specific audiovisual atmosphere (though that film lacks any protagonist), none are as hermetic and slickly defined as Playtime's brisk affair. Nothing is what it seems, and both a constantly-shifting skyline and betrayals of personality seem to envelop Hulot and his kind in beautiful chaos.
In short: Playtime's a screen phantasy, and Joe Bob sez check it out.
*****
•
Drunken Angel (Kurosawa)
This is an interesting introduction to Kurosawa, at least for me.
As one of the first films on which Kurosawa found his social voice (not to forget: his top acting collaborator in the '50s and '60s), Drunken Angel stands between formative works and middle-period masterpieces. It's got awkward transitions between sequences, at least one strange break in character development that services the plot without further elaboration, and ends on a brutally sad note that I didn't see coming. Though it tackles contemporary issues in post-war Japan, what happens to Matsunaga both disproves and proves Doctor Sanada's thoughts on the yakuza, that they always screw up no matter what. Not even the meager redemption Mifune's character brings to his friends can fully cleanse the murky future, symbolized by a festering bog in the middle of their neighborhood.
Perhaps that's the way it'll turn out, though. Drunken Angel sticks true to its title because of the surrounding hopelessness, expecting its viewers to struggle alongside rational Sanada as he tries to keep his life together. Violence finds its way through empty threats, and diversions like dancing and drinking simply distract each character from their problems and personal inconsistencies. As the drunken angel of lore, Sanada cannot bring himself into a position through which he can defeat an antagonizing gangster like Okada. Likewise, it's not as if Matsunaga knows what he's up against either, having to contend with a different kind of personal decay unrelated to Sanada's propensity for alcohol (—instead, his honest hustling leads him towards disease). It all comes to head within the last several minutes, and it all pays its worth in this exquisite drama, tinged with noir and flanked by Japanese melodrama.
Joe Bob sez check it out!
****
Buttholes ≠ taints. The latter's the former, but the latter the former often ain't.
—I've never smelled any nice buttholes in my life before, though.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
The term "buttholes" is a joke anyways. You are more likely to see something like the Hunger Games or the Grey on my top 25 list than some bullshit like Lincoln or Beasts of the Southern Wild.
I don't think I am intelligent anyways but I do have better taste than most buttholes.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
I don't think the quality is poor on those Kino DVDs say like the DVD qualities say of something like Wereckmeister Harmonies or Prospero's Books but there is a region free blu-ray of Cache at least.
brianjones
Member
what did people like about Anna karanina?
Kiera knightly is the worst
Kiera knightly is the worst
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Still can't wait to see Anna Karenina.
Keira was great in P&P, Atonement and A Dangerous Method.
My excitement for Karenina mostly comes from Joe Wright, however.
Keira was great in P&P, Atonement and A Dangerous Method.
My excitement for Karenina mostly comes from Joe Wright, however.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
So I don't post much here anymore and have mostly retired to letterboxd but here are some films in a crazy cut and paste from letterboxd's export files:
11/11/2012 The Canterbury Tales 1972 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-canterbury-tales/ 3
11/11/2012 Savages 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/savages-2012/ 0.5
11/12/2012 All the Light in the Sky 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/all-the-light-in-the-sky/ 2
11/13/2012 Arabian Nights 1980 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/arabian-nights-1975/ 4.5
11/13/2012 Smashed 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/smashed/ 3
11/13/2012 Skyfall 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/skyfall/ 2.5
11/13/2012 Miami Connection 1987 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/miami-connection/1/ 4
11/14/2012 Daisies 1966 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/daisies/ 4
11/15/2012 Chungking Express 1994 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/chungking-express/ 5
11/16/2012 Safety Not Guaranteed 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/safety-not-guaranteed/ 2
11/16/2012 First Position 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/first-position/ 3.5
11/17/2012 Walkabout 1971 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/walkabout/ 3.5
11/18/2012 Pierrot le Fou 1965 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/pierrot-le-fou/ 4
11/20/2012 The Sessions 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-sessions/ 2.5
11/20/2012 Wreck-It Ralph 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/wreck-it-ralph/ 2
11/20/2012 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/bridget-joness-diary/ 4
11/20/2012 Street Trash 1987 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/street-trash/ 3.5
11/21/2012 Silver Linings Playbook 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/silver-linings-playbook/ 2.5
11/25/2012 F for Fake 1973 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/f-for-fake/ 5
11/26/2012 The Boss 1973 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-boss-1973/ 3
11/27/2012 Life of Pi 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/life-of-pi/ 3.5
11/27/2012 Network 1976 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/network/ 3.5
11/28/2012 The Conformist 1970 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-conformist/ 4
11/28/2012 Abel 1986 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/abel/ 4
11/28/2012 The Baby of Mâcon 1993 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-baby-of-macon/ 3
11/28/2012 The Puffy Chair 2005 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-puffy-chair/ 3.5
11/29/2012 Lincoln 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/lincoln/ 1
11/29/2012 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/au-hasard-balthazar/ 4
11/29/2012 A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/a-charlie-brown-christmas/ 5
11/30/2012 The Exterminating Angel 1962 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-exterminating-angel/ 4.5
12/1/2012 Alps 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/alps/ 4
12/2/2012 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/ai-weiwei-never-sorry/ 2
12/3/2012 Purple Noon 1960 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/purple-noon/ 4
12/4/2012 GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/glow-the-story-of-the-gorgeous-ladies-of-wrestling/ 3
12/4/2012 A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge 1985 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-part-2-freddys-revenge/ 3
12/4/2012 Anna Karenina 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/anna-karenina-2012/ 4
12/4/2012 Killing Them Softly 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/killing-them-softly/ 2
12/7/2012 Local Color 1977 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/local-color-1977/ 3.5
12/8/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/ 4
12/9/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/1/ 4
12/10/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/2/ 4
12/10/2012 Apocalypse Now 1979 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/apocalypse-now/ 4
12/10/2012 Head 1968 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/head/ 4.5
12/11/2012 Psycho 1960 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/psycho/ 4
12/11/2012 Hitchcock 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/hitchcock/ 2
12/11/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/3/ 4
12/12/2012 Simple Men 1992 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/simple-men/ 4.5
12/12/2012 Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/inside-rooms-26-bathrooms-london-oxfordshire/ 5
12/12/2012 Media: A Zbig Rybczynski Collection 1987 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/media-a-zbig-rybczynski-collection/ 4
12/12/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/4/ 4
12/13/2012 The Warped Ones 1960 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-warped-ones/ 4.5
12/14/2012 Elena 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/elena-2011/ 3
12/17/2012 Gremlins 1984 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/gremlins/ 3.5
12/18/2012 Die Hard 1988 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/die-hard/ 5
12/18/2012 Scarface 1983 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/scarface-1983/ 3.5
12/18/2012 The Snowman 1982 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-snowman/ 4
12/19/2012 Woman in the Dunes 1964 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/woman-in-the-dunes/ 4
12/19/2012 Pleasure Garden 1953 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/pleasure-garden/ 4.5
12/19/2012 Breakaway 1966 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/breakaway-1966/ 5
12/19/2012 The White Rose 1967 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-white-rose/ 2
12/19/2012 Vivian 1965 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/vivian/ 3
12/19/2012 Marilyn Times Five 1973 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/marilyn-times-five/ 2.5
12/19/2012 A Necessary Music 2009 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/a-necessary-music/ 0.5
12/19/2012 Sans soleil 1983 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/sans-soleil/ 3.5
12/19/2012 Animation Masks 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/animation-masks/ 3.5
12/19/2012 Solipsist 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/solipsist/ 1
12/20/2012 Vertical Features Remake 1979 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/vertical-features-remake/ 4
12/21/2012 Babo 73 1964 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/babo-73/ 3.5
12/21/2012 La Grande bouffe 1973 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/la-grande-bouffe/ 4
12/23/2012 Art Com #14: Rebel Girls 1993 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/art-com-14-rebel-girls/ 3
12/24/2012 Imposters 1979 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/imposters/ 3
12/24/2012 Flirt 1995 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/flirt/ 4
12/24/2012 The Kid 1921 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-kid/ 5
12/25/2012 The Falls 1980 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-falls/ 5
11/11/2012 The Canterbury Tales 1972 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-canterbury-tales/ 3
11/11/2012 Savages 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/savages-2012/ 0.5
11/12/2012 All the Light in the Sky 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/all-the-light-in-the-sky/ 2
11/13/2012 Arabian Nights 1980 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/arabian-nights-1975/ 4.5
11/13/2012 Smashed 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/smashed/ 3
11/13/2012 Skyfall 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/skyfall/ 2.5
11/13/2012 Miami Connection 1987 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/miami-connection/1/ 4
11/14/2012 Daisies 1966 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/daisies/ 4
11/15/2012 Chungking Express 1994 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/chungking-express/ 5
11/16/2012 Safety Not Guaranteed 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/safety-not-guaranteed/ 2
11/16/2012 First Position 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/first-position/ 3.5
11/17/2012 Walkabout 1971 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/walkabout/ 3.5
11/18/2012 Pierrot le Fou 1965 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/pierrot-le-fou/ 4
11/20/2012 The Sessions 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-sessions/ 2.5
11/20/2012 Wreck-It Ralph 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/wreck-it-ralph/ 2
11/20/2012 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/bridget-joness-diary/ 4
11/20/2012 Street Trash 1987 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/street-trash/ 3.5
11/21/2012 Silver Linings Playbook 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/silver-linings-playbook/ 2.5
11/25/2012 F for Fake 1973 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/f-for-fake/ 5
11/26/2012 The Boss 1973 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-boss-1973/ 3
11/27/2012 Life of Pi 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/life-of-pi/ 3.5
11/27/2012 Network 1976 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/network/ 3.5
11/28/2012 The Conformist 1970 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-conformist/ 4
11/28/2012 Abel 1986 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/abel/ 4
11/28/2012 The Baby of Mâcon 1993 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-baby-of-macon/ 3
11/28/2012 The Puffy Chair 2005 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-puffy-chair/ 3.5
11/29/2012 Lincoln 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/lincoln/ 1
11/29/2012 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/au-hasard-balthazar/ 4
11/29/2012 A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/a-charlie-brown-christmas/ 5
11/30/2012 The Exterminating Angel 1962 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-exterminating-angel/ 4.5
12/1/2012 Alps 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/alps/ 4
12/2/2012 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/ai-weiwei-never-sorry/ 2
12/3/2012 Purple Noon 1960 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/purple-noon/ 4
12/4/2012 GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/glow-the-story-of-the-gorgeous-ladies-of-wrestling/ 3
12/4/2012 A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge 1985 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-part-2-freddys-revenge/ 3
12/4/2012 Anna Karenina 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/anna-karenina-2012/ 4
12/4/2012 Killing Them Softly 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/killing-them-softly/ 2
12/7/2012 Local Color 1977 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/local-color-1977/ 3.5
12/8/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/ 4
12/9/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/1/ 4
12/10/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/2/ 4
12/10/2012 Apocalypse Now 1979 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/apocalypse-now/ 4
12/10/2012 Head 1968 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/head/ 4.5
12/11/2012 Psycho 1960 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/psycho/ 4
12/11/2012 Hitchcock 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/hitchcock/ 2
12/11/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/3/ 4
12/12/2012 Simple Men 1992 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/simple-men/ 4.5
12/12/2012 Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/inside-rooms-26-bathrooms-london-oxfordshire/ 5
12/12/2012 Media: A Zbig Rybczynski Collection 1987 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/media-a-zbig-rybczynski-collection/ 4
12/12/2012 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-story-of-film-an-odyssey/4/ 4
12/13/2012 The Warped Ones 1960 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-warped-ones/ 4.5
12/14/2012 Elena 2011 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/elena-2011/ 3
12/17/2012 Gremlins 1984 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/gremlins/ 3.5
12/18/2012 Die Hard 1988 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/die-hard/ 5
12/18/2012 Scarface 1983 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/scarface-1983/ 3.5
12/18/2012 The Snowman 1982 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-snowman/ 4
12/19/2012 Woman in the Dunes 1964 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/woman-in-the-dunes/ 4
12/19/2012 Pleasure Garden 1953 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/pleasure-garden/ 4.5
12/19/2012 Breakaway 1966 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/breakaway-1966/ 5
12/19/2012 The White Rose 1967 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-white-rose/ 2
12/19/2012 Vivian 1965 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/vivian/ 3
12/19/2012 Marilyn Times Five 1973 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/marilyn-times-five/ 2.5
12/19/2012 A Necessary Music 2009 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/a-necessary-music/ 0.5
12/19/2012 Sans soleil 1983 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/sans-soleil/ 3.5
12/19/2012 Animation Masks 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/animation-masks/ 3.5
12/19/2012 Solipsist 2012 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/solipsist/ 1
12/20/2012 Vertical Features Remake 1979 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/vertical-features-remake/ 4
12/21/2012 Babo 73 1964 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/babo-73/ 3.5
12/21/2012 La Grande bouffe 1973 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/la-grande-bouffe/ 4
12/23/2012 Art Com #14: Rebel Girls 1993 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/art-com-14-rebel-girls/ 3
12/24/2012 Imposters 1979 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/imposters/ 3
12/24/2012 Flirt 1995 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/flirt/ 4
12/24/2012 The Kid 1921 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-kid/ 5
12/25/2012 The Falls 1980 http://letterboxd.com/altulster/film/the-falls/ 5
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
My review for Letterboxd:
Joe Wright is becoming one of the more interesting directors that no one gives as much acclaim as he should receive and "Anna Karenina" seems like another worthy addition to his canon. Running heavy on a style that is cross between Peter Greenaway and Baz Luhrmann, this production compacts the heavy billion page book into a glorious theatrical melodrama two act. The only hiccup in the entire film is when the setting doesn't go grandiose but it doesn't happen all too often.
brianjones
Member
Seriously? She was easily the worst part of the movie
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
I think the whole movie is the worst part of that movie honestly.
She was overacting a little bit, but it wasn't that bad. She's been great in all of Wright movies. And yes, Wright's one of the most interesting recent directors, Anna Karenina is easily my most anticipated film this year.
brianjones
Member
it's definitely not a good movie but highlighting Keira's mouth breather performance is absurd.
8BitsAtATime
Member
Sadly i redboxed the new resident evil movie out of boredom......wtf is this shit.
48fps thoughts - You do get used to it after a while, but a fair 20 minutes in. Definately distractingly jarring at first. I didnt hate it once used to it, but the future of movies this is not. Along with the 48fps the general lack of content in the movie itself, increased CGI and cheap LOTR cameos the whole thing seemed like a theme park attraction rather than a classic movie, like 3 hour version of one of those "4D movies" (without the 4th dimension)
Messofanego
Banned
Holy Motors
Didn't like it. Or more like, I didn't care for it. I don't know much about the director or whatever. After the first hour where the movie straight up tells you what it's all about, there's not much else to say and it felt like the rest was just going through the motions. I get it, this is the new cinema. Where we're going, we don't need cameras. Method acting gone too far. Truman Show in real life. The idea is cool. It was just boring as a movie for me, didn't care about what was going on.
This is the one part of some surreal movies that fail to catch my attention is when I'm put at arms' length from the characters. I'm not invested in anyone or anything, it's just a bunch of style over substance. No straight person, everyone's crazy. Maybe that's unconventional against story code, but it takes me out of the immersion. "Fine, just show me your next set and actors that are doing weird stuff".
There are some enjoyable parts like the accordion march, the website tombs, and
the limos talking to each other like Toy Story
I get why critics are fawning over the movie. It's a bit of a self-indulgent wankfest for them (even shows old silent reel interludes), but why not over Cloud Atlas that does the same thing of different genre homages as little vignettes but with actual characters, acting effort, and stuff worth investing in? Because this one is indie but Cloud Atlas was big budget, so tearing down bigger ambition is fine like they did with The Fountain? Wachowski hate? Too sentimental?
Expendable.
Member
Yeah, I enjoyed Holy Motors but don't quite get the unabashed love. I have yet to read any criticism where people adore it for more than just being something completely different (not that that's a bad thing).
the depiction of the restrictive, formal "dance" of that society as actually being on that stage allows the film to say a lot about how acting within and without society's norms changes individuals and how concepts of pure emotion/love can or can't function within those institutions.
I watched GlenGarry Glen Ross. Bad movie, good parts, but a disaster. Everything about it is like a play, dialogue, plot, scenes. The movie is basically a play and I know the source material is a play but still, why bother making a movie then.
Messofanego
Banned
Critics are starved for good movies because they watch a lot of bad stuff compared to people like me, but putting a movie on a pedestal just for being different is dumb. Like, Trash Humpers has people in masks humping stuff and it's something you've never seen before but that doesn't excuse it for being crap.
Layer Cake: Solid. Nothing out of this world amazing but fun.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: OMG WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN THIS BEFORE?
Don't know how or why I skipped out on this but its pretty damn good. Never seen any of the other apes movies but knew of them and the plot sorta, but this has me interested now in watching all the dirty apes movies.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes: OMG WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN THIS BEFORE?
Don't know how or why I skipped out on this but its pretty damn good. Never seen any of the other apes movies but knew of them and the plot sorta, but this has me interested now in watching all the dirty apes movies.
I don't think being play-like automatically makes a film bad and I think disaster is reductive and incorrect, but I know what you mean
haven't seen Motors yet but: highly disingenuous for you to say that everyone liking Holy Motors is a critic participating in a wankfest and is just pretending. as if people couldn't legitimately like a film from an auteur who has been held in high esteem for 20 years, and as if their opinions are automatically wrong somehow. You didn't really even explain why you disliked the film other than saying you felt alienated, which while I haven't seen HM is not exactly an uncommon thing for a film to do. stop characterizing others as starved and masturbatory to explain your reaction and start looking at why you yourself alone reacted that way.
Illithid Dude
Member
I saw the 108 minute version. From what I've heard, the 135 minute version is mostly just more nightclub scenes.
He's mentioned it before, but I don't see it happening, especially if he only wants to make ten films, he's just done his eighth, giving the last two for more Kill Bill seems wasteful.
And I prefer Vol 2, considerably.
I'd like to know this too. All I've heard is that was going to focus on a certain daughter taking revenge on our main heroine.
Just saw A Wonderful Life with James Stewart. The review said I should keep tissues available and that was certainly true by the end. Odd start, kinda hard to follow the plot, perhaps due to slight lack of interest, even stranger turn of events by the end, felt very out of place though it made an excellent point. And the ending was very touching indeed ^^ I think I like it. Not Stewart's finest moment imho but his performance is always impeccable.
For a couple years he talked up Vol. 3 as something he really wanted to do, but recently he said it's probably not happening.
Who are "they"?
The Deep Blue Sea: 3/10. I probably should have done more research as to what I was getting myself in to. I'm sure it's fine if you like that Instagrammed kind of melodrama, but this isn't for me.
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance: 8/10.
City Lights: 9/10. God this was wonderful, best Chaplin. Lots of lols, lots of feels.
Blood Simple: 7/10. I thought I'd sit down to nice little Cohen brother's thriller not the most horrifying movie ever. This was great but god damn, I didn't think I could still squirm like that.
Naked Lunch: 8/10. Talk about your run of the mill talking beetle typewritter movie.
Crash (the good one from 1996): 8/10. Well that was a perfectly normal movie. Nope, nothing weird about this at all.
Killer Joe: 8/10. How the hell did I end up watching two movies about contract killings in west Texas in the same week? This was great, it has Matthew McConaughey in his greatest portrayal of Matthew McConaughey.
It's A Wonderful Life: 9/10. No, I have never seen It's A Wonderful Life. It's pretty good though, should have a bright future in syndication.
The Ladykillers: 4/10. Worst Cohens.
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance: 8/10.
City Lights: 9/10. God this was wonderful, best Chaplin. Lots of lols, lots of feels.
Blood Simple: 7/10. I thought I'd sit down to nice little Cohen brother's thriller not the most horrifying movie ever. This was great but god damn, I didn't think I could still squirm like that.
Naked Lunch: 8/10. Talk about your run of the mill talking beetle typewritter movie.
Crash (the good one from 1996): 8/10. Well that was a perfectly normal movie. Nope, nothing weird about this at all.
Killer Joe: 8/10. How the hell did I end up watching two movies about contract killings in west Texas in the same week? This was great, it has Matthew McConaughey in his greatest portrayal of Matthew McConaughey.
It's A Wonderful Life: 9/10. No, I have never seen It's A Wonderful Life. It's pretty good though, should have a bright future in syndication.
The Ladykillers: 4/10. Worst Cohens.
Liquidsnake
Banned
Its not even close. ;D
Picture Paris
It's a 30 minute short film running on HBO starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Quite quirky, but the ending comes out of nowhere and is both insane and hilarious. Both my wife and I enjoyed the flick.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
I had never even heard of this movie before cycling through Amazon Streaming a couple nights ago. Decided to give it the rent after watching the trailer. Also pretty quirky I thought, but I enjoyed it. Plus it had Britta from Community in it, which was a plus for me.
It's a 30 minute short film running on HBO starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Quite quirky, but the ending comes out of nowhere and is both insane and hilarious. Both my wife and I enjoyed the flick.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
I had never even heard of this movie before cycling through Amazon Streaming a couple nights ago. Decided to give it the rent after watching the trailer. Also pretty quirky I thought, but I enjoyed it. Plus it had Britta from Community in it, which was a plus for me.
AlternativeUlster
Absolutely pathetic part deux
Holy Motors is his tribute to cinema and just has the character Oscar (if you don't get it with a character's name being that) going around playing out "Oscar-caliber" scenes. It is as simple as that. I adored it and I am not really a fan of Carax either.
Messofanego
Banned
I'm just trying to understand why critics are unanimous over it. I don't remember Rubber being loved this much last year. I didn't know the director was held in high regard for 20 years, thank you for telling me. This is just some politics that you deal with when you check out a highly acclaimed movie that you didn't connect with.
My reasons for disliking the film are pretty obvious. I don't like surreal films that are more style than substance and have not much else going for them. Having the revelation being in the middle of the movie hurt the pacing for me. I didn't care about what was happening because of the paper-thin characters, therefore it was a tedious fare for me. There's nothing particularly noteworthy about it. It had some fun moments that I mentioned, but overall didn't do much for me.
How many more reasons do I need to show my dislike? lol
Eyes Wide Shut - ****1/2 A long, hilarious, pitch black joke told in the depths of the psyche. So fitting for Kubrick's final film. Cruise, Pollack, and Kidman are all brilliant (and Kidman is stunning). Hypnotic cinematography, editing, and sound design you'd expect from Kubrick. The NYC streets clearly being sets yet being such elaborate, near-real constructions further blur the lines between dream and reality. Ending was perfect: after a murky 150 minutes that only cloud distinctions between emotional/moral needs and carnal desires, Kubrick refraining from deciding if one is more important is appropriate. He's too smart to think he can make that decision. Instead you have the protagonists aware of this continuum or gradient and landing on a first step towards figuring things out:
. Definitely going to take some digestion time for me to figure out where this lands in Kubrick's filmography for me, now that I've seen it all, but I'm feeling it's in the bottom of the top third.
Magic Mike - ***1/2 Big ol' blatant themes of capitalism, self-determination, passion, and love told well. Helps that all that is coupled with subtextual themes of the possible gender differences between male and female strippers. at least in my head, Cody Horn/Brooke (who was brilliant and brilliantly cute by the way) was thinking of this. And the wonderful cinematography. I think my main problem is how the other strippers and eventually Adam are really nothing but thin (buff) wallpaper, but that may have been the point.
Why not just give those reasons you've now provided alone to explain your own opinion? To state an opinion you don't need to simultaneously knock every other possible reaction out. That's not how criticisms work.
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Magic Mike - ***1/2 Big ol' blatant themes of capitalism, self-determination, passion, and love told well. Helps that all that is coupled with subtextual themes of the possible gender differences between male and female strippers. at least in my head, Cody Horn/Brooke (who was brilliant and brilliantly cute by the way) was thinking of this. And the wonderful cinematography. I think my main problem is how the other strippers and eventually Adam are really nothing but thin (buff) wallpaper, but that may have been the point.
Is it possible Rubber just wasn't as good as Holy Motors? See, this is my problem: you're trying to explain the more favorable opinions of some foggy critical mass-mind through politics or hierarchy or placebo. Why is it not possible that they just like it.
Why not just give those reasons you've now provided alone to explain your own opinion? To state an opinion you don't need to simultaneously knock every other possible reaction out. That's not how criticisms work.
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