ViewtifulJC
Banned
Because every scene goes on for about ten beats too long. That wedding sequence is like a feature-length film into itself.
The warning signs of the excesses of Heaven's Gate were all there!
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Because every scene goes on for about ten beats too long. That wedding sequence is like a feature-length film into itself.
The warning signs of the excesses of Heaven's Gate were all there!
afternoon delight
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You're both breaking my heart here guys. Just because they let scenes "breathe" doesn't mean it's excessive. It's a beautiful and haunting film that doesn't deserve yer distaste.
Yeah, I ENJOY the wedding sequence and every small character facet that is revealed within it.
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TheKaeptain
Banned
You should watch Year of The Dragon.
Expendable.
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2/21
Expendable.
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IFC previously said it was but delayed it for some reason.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Saw Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy. Convoluted uninvolving borefest. I couldn't give one shit for anyone there. I assume it works best for those familiar with the book or the show (I'm not), but I'm of the opinion a movie must work on its own. The movie begs for a rewatch, I don't think I'm willing to give it one though. 5/10
I saw Side Effects on Wednesday.
I wasn't sure what to expect going in, and half way through, it all felt like pretty standard fare. That's when it sort of turns on you and becomes a very different movie up to the end. A lot of movies that try this sort of twist tend to drop the ball, but Soderbergh managed to keep it going.
Although none of the performances really jumped out at me, it was a solid effort all around.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. 4/5
I wasn't sure what to expect going in, and half way through, it all felt like pretty standard fare. That's when it sort of turns on you and becomes a very different movie up to the end. A lot of movies that try this sort of twist tend to drop the ball, but Soderbergh managed to keep it going.
Although none of the performances really jumped out at me, it was a solid effort all around.
Overall, I really enjoyed it. 4/5
TheKaeptain
Banned
Die Hard 5: I had fun. Bad movie but worth the price imho. I went in expecting the worst movie imaginable after the critics slammed it. But it was pretty enjoyable.
The bridge on the river kwai: Seeing Holden again after Sunset Blvd. was great and seeing Alec Guinness is something non-Star Wars for the first time was cool
Didn't expect the turn of events in the middle of movie (scenery change). Liked it a lot.
The bridge on the river kwai: Seeing Holden again after Sunset Blvd. was great and seeing Alec Guinness is something non-Star Wars for the first time was cool
Didn't expect the turn of events in the middle of movie (scenery change). Liked it a lot.Messofanego
Banned
I thought I didn't get into it at first, but when I watched it again as a movie about aging spies I really got into the atmosphere of paranoia and ambiguity. Also, nice to kick back and bask in watching the British dream team just perform.
Liquidsnake
Banned
Brotherhood of the Wolf HD DVD
What an awesome movie. So far ahead of its time. If the special effects were just a bit better, it could have been legendary. Is there a blu ray version available? The camera work and direction are phenomenal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What an awesome movie. So far ahead of its time. If the special effects were just a bit better, it could have been legendary. Is there a blu ray version available? The camera work and direction are phenomenal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Net_Wrecker
Member
Wat r u doin
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Older release, usually. We still have some old HD-DVDs at our house.
Net_Wrecker
Member
Huh, looks like it still hasn't released on BD in all territories yet. Okay, Liquidsnake. You get a pass on this one.
I haven't read the book or seen the miniseries, but I loved it, was completely enthralled.
Liquidsnake
Banned
I know man I know. But Its just for some rare movies.
It's pretty hilarious that Michael Mann had to change the title for his Red Dragon adaptation to Manhunter just because that movie bombed. Hollywood suits are hilarious.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Because the voting members turned the film off when they saw he was already blessed enough.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
They thought he was too big a dick.
The best part was that everybody in the cast and crew hated the new title, but they couldn't do anything about it because the producer of the film was also the producer of Year of the Dragon.
"See Michael? People hate dragons, and I've got the pending write-off to prove it!"
Auron_Kale
Member
Ended up watching Aliens last night.
Nothing says Valentine's Day like a Facehugger & Chest Burster... Oh and melting due to acid.
Wish it was the Director's Cut, but eh, wasn't going to argue with what was being shown on whatever premium channel I was watching last night.
Nothing says Valentine's Day like a Facehugger & Chest Burster... Oh and melting due to acid.
Wish it was the Director's Cut, but eh, wasn't going to argue with what was being shown on whatever premium channel I was watching last night.
Perfect Blue
Banned
La bête humaine by Jean Renoir - Trains, trains, and more trains. Renoir takes the classic Emile Zola novel and adapts it to the screen beautifully. The film tells the tale of a disturbed working man called Jacques Lantier who after witnessing a murder, falls in love with the accomplice Séverine Roubaud. Renoir's films always seem to have a theme of his characters trying to free themselves of whatever personal torture they are enduring and it's no different here. Jacques is tormented by his mental illness and Séverine by her controlling husband. Séverine during her affair with Jacques eventually tries to convince him to murder her husband and free them both.
The interactions between the characters is so modern. The whole film just screams "FILM NOIR!" and it totally is. Séverine herself is the prototypical femme fatale character that appears in so many noir flicks. The photography in this film just blows my mind. Renoir's camera follows the characters so smoothly as they go about their day to day lives. The first scene that simply consists of Jacques on his train (that he named Lison). We're taken through the French countryside from Paris to Le Havre, these train scenes are such a beautiful sight to behold. Renoir also manages to sneak in a lot of night and rain shots that have near-perfect lighting. Honestly, Renoir manages to surprise me every time I see one of his films. They are a joy to watch and demonstrate that characters, dialogue, and great sets and photography make a great film. 5/5
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne by Robert Bresson - A slow-paced romance film about an aristocratic lady scorn by love who tricks her ex-lover into marrying a cabaret dancer and prostitute. This was Bresson's last film with professional actors.
The stunning María Casares plays Hélène, the scorned woman, and dominates the film. Every time she's on screen you can't help but admire the way she is manipulating the others to get her revenge. Agnès is the cabaret dancer who has had ambitions of becoming an opera singer but bad times have descended upon her mother and her. Jean is Hélène's ex-lover, a somewhat melodramatic character. I was rooting for Hélène the whole time and wanted Jean to get his heart broken.
It's a great film and the perfect entry into Robert Bresson's filmography. The character's interactions are very modern and there's some nice shots in here like the Bois de Boulogne itself, a dreamy-looking park with a beautiful waterfall. Most of the film takes place in a dark and cramped atmosphere. The characters even mention that they only seem to meet alone when it's raining. Robert Bresson is a master of cinema and it's a shame he isn't mentioned among the Hitchcocks and Kurosawas because he definitely deserves to be up there. 4/5
Skyfall by Sam Mendes - Third time is a charm. Still awesome and a pleasure to watch. Incredible cinematography, pacing, and Craig brings another stellar performance that only he can do. 4.5/5
The interactions between the characters is so modern. The whole film just screams "FILM NOIR!" and it totally is. Séverine herself is the prototypical femme fatale character that appears in so many noir flicks. The photography in this film just blows my mind. Renoir's camera follows the characters so smoothly as they go about their day to day lives. The first scene that simply consists of Jacques on his train (that he named Lison). We're taken through the French countryside from Paris to Le Havre, these train scenes are such a beautiful sight to behold. Renoir also manages to sneak in a lot of night and rain shots that have near-perfect lighting. Honestly, Renoir manages to surprise me every time I see one of his films. They are a joy to watch and demonstrate that characters, dialogue, and great sets and photography make a great film. 5/5
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne by Robert Bresson - A slow-paced romance film about an aristocratic lady scorn by love who tricks her ex-lover into marrying a cabaret dancer and prostitute. This was Bresson's last film with professional actors.
The stunning María Casares plays Hélène, the scorned woman, and dominates the film. Every time she's on screen you can't help but admire the way she is manipulating the others to get her revenge. Agnès is the cabaret dancer who has had ambitions of becoming an opera singer but bad times have descended upon her mother and her. Jean is Hélène's ex-lover, a somewhat melodramatic character. I was rooting for Hélène the whole time and wanted Jean to get his heart broken.
It's a great film and the perfect entry into Robert Bresson's filmography. The character's interactions are very modern and there's some nice shots in here like the Bois de Boulogne itself, a dreamy-looking park with a beautiful waterfall. Most of the film takes place in a dark and cramped atmosphere. The characters even mention that they only seem to meet alone when it's raining. Robert Bresson is a master of cinema and it's a shame he isn't mentioned among the Hitchcocks and Kurosawas because he definitely deserves to be up there. 4/5
Skyfall by Sam Mendes - Third time is a charm. Still awesome and a pleasure to watch. Incredible cinematography, pacing, and Craig brings another stellar performance that only he can do. 4.5/5
TheKaeptain
Banned
My professor from last year hated year of the dragon.
It was an Asian American women's class.
Darth Pinche
Member
Top Gun IMAX 3D
It was as cheesey and homoerotic as I remember, but it was awesome on the giant screen. They did a great job with the 3D converstion, especially in all the flight scenes. You really felt the motion and dynamics of aerial dogfights! The conversion process is coming along quite nicely as it felt like it was filmed in 3D. By comparison, the trailer for Jurassic Park 3D look bad (cardboard cut outs bad)
It was as cheesey and homoerotic as I remember, but it was awesome on the giant screen. They did a great job with the 3D converstion, especially in all the flight scenes. You really felt the motion and dynamics of aerial dogfights! The conversion process is coming along quite nicely as it felt like it was filmed in 3D. By comparison, the trailer for Jurassic Park 3D look bad (cardboard cut outs bad)
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
It was a pretty good cast, I just couldn't care for anything happening, neither for the mystery or the characters. The problem was the script.
So, I picked up three movies at the library today. Let me know if they're worth watching:
Gods and Generals - This is the almost 5-hour director's cut.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Memoirs of a Geisha
Also, I watched V/H/S last night. Well-done horror found-footage anthology film, although I don't watch enough horror movies to know what to make of them.
Gods and Generals - This is the almost 5-hour director's cut.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Memoirs of a Geisha
Also, I watched V/H/S last night. Well-done horror found-footage anthology film, although I don't watch enough horror movies to know what to make of them.
Kilgore Trout
Member
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was mediocre.
Memoirs of a Geisha was nice to look at but not much else.
Memoirs of a Geisha was nice to look at but not much else.
Stone Cold (1991)
Fucking awesome pop action flick. How did I miss it in the Nineties?
Lance Henriksen was amazing in it.
Brian Bosworth was entertaining too.
Hell Yeah!
Heat (1995)
I love everything about this movie. From the shootouts to the acting, realism and the music.
When was the last time you saw something like this in a movie.
I've seen the 3 hours or whatever cut, and frankly the whole dead prostitute angle should've been cut out.
And in general felt like it was too long.
Thug Waffle
Member
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
I really enjoyed it up until the secrets got spilled. The entire flow just broke, especially the series of cuts to demonstrate the sister's conflict resolution. Iris and Jack seemed far too willing to help Hannah for not knowing if she was actually pregnant. It's not like Jack implied he would "give his services" again if the first attempt didn't work. Of course they purposely didn't resolve that either.
Pretty much every line uttered by Mark Duplass following the argument was terrible. "I slept with your sister because I couldn't sleep with you" is one of the most god awful lines I've heard in a rom-com.
The Culture Vulture
Member
Well three of the guys in the watch I find incredibly funny and Ben Stiller is playing the straight man so he's not as annoying as he can be in some movies.
Yes the story was predictable, the characters weren't very plausible and the humor was immature (to be kind) but it got quite a few laughs out of me. Doubt I'll ever see The Watch again but I won't be taking a crowbar to the Redbox to get my $1.20 back.
That actually wouldn't work anyways since there isn't any cash in the redbox, it's used for credit card transactions only. Anyways........
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
ANNA KARENINA.
There are few modern-day filmmakers who can rival Joe Wright when it comes to showing such an absolute masterful grasp of the frame. He has such a fantastic understanding of the economy between visual and aural communication that - despite the organic, painterly flow and pace at which action unravels before us, we are always keenly aware that absolutely nothing in the frame is accidental or wasted. The theatrical conceit of the film fit these sensibilities like a glove and better served the characters whose plight - in more than just in a literal sense, are put front and center. There is nothing for them to hide behind; there is not an ounce of fat, nor moment of time to be wasted as each plot development must unfold at the exact same express-carriage tempo in which the scenery is transformed around it. So swift and direct is Wright's hand that leads us through the story - so confident that he's not allowed a glance or utterance to be misunderstood, that scenes even begin to blur into one another, as spatial borders are literally stripped away at the behest the narrative's temporal momentum.
All the players put in fantastic performances. Keira Knightley hasn't been this good since her last pairing with Wright in Atonement. Funnily enough, I felt like Jude Law had signed up for a romanticized version of his character in Closer. The real surprise was Aaron Taylor-Johnson who I never expected anything of - yet held his own perfectly well against some of the more battle-hardened actors he played off.
A lot has been said of the film's production design, and it deserves every bit of praise. Stunning. But more than that, Seamus McGarvey's cinematography hasn't gotten nearly enough due - which is a shame as I felt it was equally impressive and among his very best work.
Dario Marianelli's score was terrific and one of my favourite this year.
I've still yet to see Amour and Cloud Atlas - something that will be rectified over the next two weeks, but this film has just shot to the very top of my Best of 2012 list.
There are few modern-day filmmakers who can rival Joe Wright when it comes to showing such an absolute masterful grasp of the frame. He has such a fantastic understanding of the economy between visual and aural communication that - despite the organic, painterly flow and pace at which action unravels before us, we are always keenly aware that absolutely nothing in the frame is accidental or wasted. The theatrical conceit of the film fit these sensibilities like a glove and better served the characters whose plight - in more than just in a literal sense, are put front and center. There is nothing for them to hide behind; there is not an ounce of fat, nor moment of time to be wasted as each plot development must unfold at the exact same express-carriage tempo in which the scenery is transformed around it. So swift and direct is Wright's hand that leads us through the story - so confident that he's not allowed a glance or utterance to be misunderstood, that scenes even begin to blur into one another, as spatial borders are literally stripped away at the behest the narrative's temporal momentum.
All the players put in fantastic performances. Keira Knightley hasn't been this good since her last pairing with Wright in Atonement. Funnily enough, I felt like Jude Law had signed up for a romanticized version of his character in Closer. The real surprise was Aaron Taylor-Johnson who I never expected anything of - yet held his own perfectly well against some of the more battle-hardened actors he played off.
A lot has been said of the film's production design, and it deserves every bit of praise. Stunning. But more than that, Seamus McGarvey's cinematography hasn't gotten nearly enough due - which is a shame as I felt it was equally impressive and among his very best work.
Dario Marianelli's score was terrific and one of my favourite this year.
I've still yet to see Amour and Cloud Atlas - something that will be rectified over the next two weeks, but this film has just shot to the very top of my Best of 2012 list.
Messofanego
Banned
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
Bah! My Anna Karenina impressions were just lost at the bottom of last page. WOE IS ME.
Messofanego
Banned
Yup, Joe Wright's movies are pretty and tight. Might have to check it out based on your impressions even though the subject matter turns me off.
What happened with Seamus and Avengers? When there's no action, it's an ugly movie.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I'd assume most of us check the last post. Nice impressions, they make the movie sound pretty interesting. I liked Atonement (though maybe not as much as others), and Karenina seems beautiful.
TheKaeptain
Banned
Was the editing not stunning? I'm still mad it didn't even get a nom.
Expendable.
Member
Excellent, glad you dug it. Itching to watch it again, narrowly missed my Best of 2012 list.
Nice! Yeah we posted that but then got an email to take it down -- said it was an early version. Official one likely coming soon.
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