MidnightCowboy
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So weird walking out of Her and seeing half of the theater lobby checking their smartphones, including myself. Kind of disgusted me.
Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| Jan 2014
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Would like to hear your thoughts after post-processing, because you seem torn to the poles. Few films can do that.
Femmeworth
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[hype intensifies]
Her was good, but didnt profoundly move me or anything. Its central theme of technology impacting our lives didnt have as strong of an impact as some of the personal relationships the main character had. I really enjoyed the effort to show a futuristic glimpse of the world though, in a casual way that felt natural.
Lone Survivor: 5/10. Anything that wasn't a firefight was dumb as shit. Pretty great recruiting video, probably going to get a fair number of kids to sign up. Basically this movie has blood on its hands.
Wolf Of Wall Street: 8/10. Hilarious. Jonah Hill was absolutely delightful.
Her: So, I'm basically Theo. This was not exactly what I'd call an enjoyable watch. Is this what I have to look forward to? Fuck this motherfucking piece of brilliant bullshit. 9/10.
Dallas Buyers Club: 7/10. Pretty straightforward, maybe too much so, but McCaughney kept me going. He's apparently one of our greatest working actors suddenly.
Hobbit Desolation of Smaug: 7/10. Ever so slightly better the first one. Awesome action but christ does it grind to a halt every now and then, mostly when they're making shit up. My favorite parts were the Dol Guldur things because the source material actually matched the super serious tone. And I don't know what some of y'all are talking about, Smaug looked great.
Grey Gardens: 6/10. I mean you've got to be out there when the characters in the Hobbit seem more grounded then these space cases. This was quite an endurance test.
Y'all see that Godzilla trailer??? Hyped me the fuck up! Didn't see that coming. Jupiter Ascending looks like trash.
Wolf Of Wall Street: 8/10. Hilarious. Jonah Hill was absolutely delightful.
Her: So, I'm basically Theo. This was not exactly what I'd call an enjoyable watch. Is this what I have to look forward to? Fuck this motherfucking piece of brilliant bullshit. 9/10.
Dallas Buyers Club: 7/10. Pretty straightforward, maybe too much so, but McCaughney kept me going. He's apparently one of our greatest working actors suddenly.
Hobbit Desolation of Smaug: 7/10. Ever so slightly better the first one. Awesome action but christ does it grind to a halt every now and then, mostly when they're making shit up. My favorite parts were the Dol Guldur things because the source material actually matched the super serious tone. And I don't know what some of y'all are talking about, Smaug looked great.
Grey Gardens: 6/10. I mean you've got to be out there when the characters in the Hobbit seem more grounded then these space cases. This was quite an endurance test.
Y'all see that Godzilla trailer??? Hyped me the fuck up! Didn't see that coming. Jupiter Ascending looks like trash.
a l'interieur: alright, so the french pretty much make the best horror films i've seen in a long time. this and martyrs were genuinely terrifying. need to watch ils and haute tension soon.
Frontier(s) too, if you haven't.
Also in the same vein, not French, but Mum&Dad is a good one, too.
Although none of those reach the highs of Martyrs, by a long shot.
Same here.
Even the humor didn't click on me. It was pretty meh, even though I understand the main theme.
johnny_park
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Runner Runner - huge pile of shit
Escape Plan - eh..didn't hate it but didn't love it either
Lone Survivor - see above
Escape Plan - eh..didn't hate it but didn't love it either
Lone Survivor - see above
Watched Buster Keaton do his thing in One Week which is not as good as some of his other work I've seen, but was still pretty brilliant nonetheless. The impressive sets (the crooked house, the spinning house) and the perfect physical comedy are just great. Cute girl as well. Anyone have more Keaton recommendations?
Now that I finally saw Easy Rider a while back I could finally check out the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls documentary (I was afraid of spoilers). I knew most of this stuff already, but it was interesting nonetheless. It also reminded me how much Scorsese stuff I haven't seen yet.
I loved the premise and the ideas in Seconds which felt like a suffocating fever dream, partly due to the fantastic cinematography. Hard to believe this was made in '66, it is way ahead of its time.
Now that I finally saw Easy Rider a while back I could finally check out the Easy Riders, Raging Bulls documentary (I was afraid of spoilers). I knew most of this stuff already, but it was interesting nonetheless. It also reminded me how much Scorsese stuff I haven't seen yet.
I loved the premise and the ideas in Seconds which felt like a suffocating fever dream, partly due to the fantastic cinematography. Hard to believe this was made in '66, it is way ahead of its time.
Grady Durden
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Drinking Buddies on Netflix.
Really enjoyed it and I had never heard of mumblecore before.
Really enjoyed it and I had never heard of mumblecore before.
What Maisie Knew
This is a great film about the almost unconditional love young children have for their parents. The film is telling a story that was once written in the 19th century and is now adapted to our time. Julianne Moore plays the mother of Maisie, she's an aging rockstar with a pretty wild life. Steve Coogan is the father, an important arts dealer who travels a lot. The other two key roles are for Alexander Skarsgard (as Moores new boyfriend) and the beautiful Joanna Vanderham (as Coogans new wife and the former nanny of Maisie). When Maisies parents are getting trough a divorce Maisie is being pushed around like a pawn in a game of chess. Both parents in this story are being complete idiots towards the well being of their child. Meanwhile Maisie still loves them very much.
What made this film so good is mostly the acting performances by the five main actors and the great dialogue. On top of that the cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. There were just so many beautiful shots. It's a very warm film dealing with serious issues in a light way. I loved it.
8/10
This is a great film about the almost unconditional love young children have for their parents. The film is telling a story that was once written in the 19th century and is now adapted to our time. Julianne Moore plays the mother of Maisie, she's an aging rockstar with a pretty wild life. Steve Coogan is the father, an important arts dealer who travels a lot. The other two key roles are for Alexander Skarsgard (as Moores new boyfriend) and the beautiful Joanna Vanderham (as Coogans new wife and the former nanny of Maisie). When Maisies parents are getting trough a divorce Maisie is being pushed around like a pawn in a game of chess. Both parents in this story are being complete idiots towards the well being of their child. Meanwhile Maisie still loves them very much.
What made this film so good is mostly the acting performances by the five main actors and the great dialogue. On top of that the cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. There were just so many beautiful shots. It's a very warm film dealing with serious issues in a light way. I loved it.
8/10
I watched that a few weeks back, it was fun very easy going..
Just got done watching Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time
Min-sik's performance is great as always but it can't really save the movie. It lacks a direction and the ending is kind of confusing, makes little sense and is not very satisfying. Can't recommend it.
Min-sik's performance is great as always but it can't really save the movie. It lacks a direction and the ending is kind of confusing, makes little sense and is not very satisfying. Can't recommend it.
Really? Who gave a sit about her before the latest Hobbit?
Of all the cast members of Lost who've gone on to do nothing much, she's surprised me second most. Thought after that show she'd start to get regular big roles, instead it's taken until the hobbit and who knows if she'll stick around afterwards.
(First most is, ofc, Josh Holloway who I thought with M:I--GhoPro was on his way to regular action/thriller roles. didn't quite work out)
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I think Lost has a large pool of surprisingly underused talent
That's fair enough, i'm saying though that she wasn't exactly drowning in success when Real Steel came out.
Oh well, in the end she got it better than Fox anyway (for good reason).
As for Holloway, that Intelligence show looks like a stinker, but you never know, the big public sometimes likes stinkers.
Count Dookkake
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Inside Llewyn Mehvis.
Any more words to that?
Count Dookkake
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Decent performances, except for Goodman, who was too over-the-top for my liking. Music was a'ight. Is always nice to see Greenwich Village on screen.
But overall, meh.
But overall, meh.
Those words have a way more positive attitude than I would have imagined after your intial post
Personally liked Goodman alot. He was playing a man who considers himself very important and did a good job in delivering his lines. For me the roadtrip was one of the highlights in the film.
Felt like watching Stoker again, awesome. Park Chan Wook easily one of the best directors working today..
Yep one of my favorites of last year. Reminded me what great direction looks like.
Messofanego
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Fuck that movie. Ugh. I mean this in a good way.
Oh I had never thought of the ending like that. I thought since it was a super small town, that felt believable
Count Dookkake
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Those words have a way more positive attitude than I would have imagined after your intial post
Meh is acceptable. Not great, not terrible.
Great direction and uninspired writing.
Kilgore Trout
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Cheers. There's been a lot of praise for Stoker, but I thought it became unraveled by the end with a lot things telegraphed far too early, and the twists falling flat.
Sorry to say I'm pretty fucking sick of John Goodman's shtick...he's played the exact same person in his last half dozen movies over the past two years.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I think this was actually my favorite Goodman performance in a Coens movie
It was so charming and the direction so endearing that, if there's uninspired writing, it was overshadowed by fantastic scenes and the tone of the dialogue. Like that dramatic talk between the mother and India and that curtain scene.
And the twisted subtlety... How everything started to unfold, even though there aren't big, unexpected plot twists; the cinematography made the movie speak for itself.
Dragoon En Regalia
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Finally back on movies, for a bit anyway (going to southern New York this week). Tokyo Godfathers is only the second from Kon I've yet seen, but it's a different beast from what I expected, more of a screwball comedy set in some alternate Tokyo where homeless people camp in droves, ambulances crash into shops frequently and the yakuza assassinate each other at weddings. Despite this zaniness, the three-bums-and-a-baby dynamic is suitably hilarious and heartwarming, making this a Christmas movie with edge and an interest in coincidence. I think the premise limits itself by focusing on how insane circumstances shape human will, since that just leads to more than a few Christmas-miracle situations, but most if not all instances of this avoid sentimentality, instead revealing some darker corner of a character's mind. This is the kind of comedy movie Kon Ichikawa made for Daiei back in the '50s, from what I can gather, so there's another reason I enjoyed this so much. Not to forget: the storyboarding is superlative, the animation carefully off-model in the more comic sections of the plot, and Keiichi Suzuki's music is a welcome addition to the meld.
Messofanego
Banned
This is the only Kon movie I haven't seen, and I bought it a month ago. Great post, I really want to find the time to watch it. If you haven't, watch Millennium Actress omg.
Blood Simple. Despite loving the Coen Bros. I never got round to watching this. Such a great directional debut. Loved the music too.
Looking forward to Inside Llewyn Davis. That and Wolf of Wall Street come out in the same week here, new Scorsese and Coens, that will be a good day.
Looking forward to Inside Llewyn Davis. That and Wolf of Wall Street come out in the same week here, new Scorsese and Coens, that will be a good day.
I agree on Elizabeth Mitchell, she was pretty good in Lost.
I don't remember Kim's performance in particular, but i couldn't stand his wife in the show.
It's also worth mentioning though that some had better characters to work with than others, i mean Kate was a really shitty character, whereas Elizabeth Mitchell's was more interesting (and dramatic).
I don't remember Kim's performance in particular, but i couldn't stand his wife in the show.
It's also worth mentioning though that some had better characters to work with than others, i mean Kate was a really shitty character, whereas Elizabeth Mitchell's was more interesting (and dramatic).
(Yunjin Kim is the wife)
Net_Wrecker
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I'd say starring in 2 network shows since L O S T, and starring in a well received network show 3 seasons deep, respectively, is a pretty good look for both of them, at least relative to Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway who seemed poised to blow up after L O S T
Yunjin Kim voiced in Sleeping Dogs though so that's a success in my heart.....even if it was only some random lady Wei "Muthafukkin" Shen could date.
Lol.
Should've googled.
Then i remember her, and hated her character.
Also i just remembered, in an interview in the dvd extras, either Lindelof or the other fool, said that at the casting, she said she was a pretty huge star in Korea, so i guess she might have some big stuff going on there, that didn't get international traction.
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
After seeing Totoro a few days back I said I was surprised by the simplicity of the plot. It was a film without any of the complicated plot turns and vague characters that Miyazakis films usually have. And now it turns out Castle in the Sky can be put in that same corner, though more comparances between the two are absent. Castle in the Sky is an action packed adventure about a young girl named Sheeta and a boy called Pazu. When the two meet each other for the first time Sheeta is being chased by a mysterious outfit of government people and a gang of pirates. Both parties are after a magic stone Sheeta is wearing around her neck. Slowly the film will unravel it's rather one dimensional plot from their first encounter. But one dimensional is absolutely not a negative point for this film, Miyazaki created a very exciting adventure in which friendship, hunger for power and a lot of explosions follow each other up in a fast pace. The two hours will fly right past you. Accompanied by a great soundtrack this turned out to be one of my favourite Ghibli releases I've seen so far.
8,5/10
So, that's three Ghibli films over the weekend. Gotta love Ghibli.
After seeing Totoro a few days back I said I was surprised by the simplicity of the plot. It was a film without any of the complicated plot turns and vague characters that Miyazakis films usually have. And now it turns out Castle in the Sky can be put in that same corner, though more comparances between the two are absent. Castle in the Sky is an action packed adventure about a young girl named Sheeta and a boy called Pazu. When the two meet each other for the first time Sheeta is being chased by a mysterious outfit of government people and a gang of pirates. Both parties are after a magic stone Sheeta is wearing around her neck. Slowly the film will unravel it's rather one dimensional plot from their first encounter. But one dimensional is absolutely not a negative point for this film, Miyazaki created a very exciting adventure in which friendship, hunger for power and a lot of explosions follow each other up in a fast pace. The two hours will fly right past you. Accompanied by a great soundtrack this turned out to be one of my favourite Ghibli releases I've seen so far.
8,5/10
So, that's three Ghibli films over the weekend. Gotta love Ghibli.
Buckethead
Banned
Actual spoilers tagged below.
It's a pretty complex and interesting movie.
On the exterior, it's this quirky romantic comedy that interests you on it's own merits. I'm a big fan of Lars and The Real Girl so a guy talking to his phone for 2 hours isn't that outside the box for me. Samantha is genuinely funny and it doesn't hurt that she has Scarlett Johansson laying on the husky smoker voice half of the movie.
You drive down deeper and there's the obvious commentary about technology's influence in our lives. I'm not going to spoil it but Joaquin's late-night chat with a horny girl is funny way of exposing you to the idea that people are able to be more honest and vulnerable when they aren't in the same, physical space. Later on in the movie, the main character
and despite being able to articulate his feelings beforehand, it seemed like he
.
There's a question posed whether or not our internet-based interactions are real or legitimate. It's an interesting question, one that I don't have an answer to. However to help validate that idea, at one point
. I found it funny and heartwarming.
You drive down deeper and you get a question on what makes us human. If we could program machines to write beautiful operas and direct amazing movies, would we want to? Or will we have genuinely lost what makes us human? Amy Adams
. If were capable of simple becoming programs, we'd undoubtedly make better decisions, but would we still be human?
Samantha
I thought this could be tied to polyamory and how people can want relationships with multiple people because as they develop, one person can't necessarily handle their needs. Samantha's intellect
. He
but her capacity is greater than his, so it makes him feel small and unimportant.
There's a couple of moments where I found the technology or society to be inaccurate or too magical for it's own good but the questions that the movie poses are really interesting.
Although, TBH, I had an Ian Curtis/Stroszek type reaction after I left the theatre. It took me to some pretty dark places and I felt like shit.
It's a pretty complex and interesting movie.
On the exterior, it's this quirky romantic comedy that interests you on it's own merits. I'm a big fan of Lars and The Real Girl so a guy talking to his phone for 2 hours isn't that outside the box for me. Samantha is genuinely funny and it doesn't hurt that she has Scarlett Johansson laying on the husky smoker voice half of the movie.
You drive down deeper and there's the obvious commentary about technology's influence in our lives. I'm not going to spoil it but Joaquin's late-night chat with a horny girl is funny way of exposing you to the idea that people are able to be more honest and vulnerable when they aren't in the same, physical space. Later on in the movie, the main character
goes to sign his divorce papers
couldn't be honest with his soon to be ex-wife
There's a question posed whether or not our internet-based interactions are real or legitimate. It's an interesting question, one that I don't have an answer to. However to help validate that idea, at one point
he befriends a kid playing video games and this relationship seems valuable to the kid who they deduce doesn't have his parents around
You drive down deeper and you get a question on what makes us human. If we could program machines to write beautiful operas and direct amazing movies, would we want to? Or will we have genuinely lost what makes us human? Amy Adams
and her husband are clearly wrong for each other but persist in a tense, unhappy marriage because well, they're human
Samantha
eventually develops to a point where she can juggle multiple relationships simultaneously because she's so complex which Theo finds horrifying.
and capacity far exceeds Theo's. Despite his best intentions, he can barely read a couple pages of a Physics book
becomes insecure and this alienates the two from each other
There's a couple of moments where I found the technology or society to be inaccurate or too magical for it's own good but the questions that the movie poses are really interesting.
Although, TBH, I had an Ian Curtis/Stroszek type reaction after I left the theatre. It took me to some pretty dark places and I felt like shit.
You accentuated a lot of points about the movie i couldn't articulate, probably because i saw it with a buzz on. Makes it more interesting for me.
MMBosstones86
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all first watches.
Don Jon - This was.....an interesting movie. Completely different from how it was marketed. I enjoy JGL, but I didn't think this was all that great.
American Hustle - Awesome movie. Bale was just incredible. Pacing was decent, some parts were a little slow. Very well done.
Anchorman 2 - Not as good as the first, but still pretty damn funny. Some bits were done a bit long and the story was pretty shit, but not really a movie i'm going to see for the story.
Side Effects - Finally got around to watching this and....wow. Incredible. Some really good performances and the story kept me guessing. Very enjoyable.
Don Jon - This was.....an interesting movie. Completely different from how it was marketed. I enjoy JGL, but I didn't think this was all that great.
American Hustle - Awesome movie. Bale was just incredible. Pacing was decent, some parts were a little slow. Very well done.
Anchorman 2 - Not as good as the first, but still pretty damn funny. Some bits were done a bit long and the story was pretty shit, but not really a movie i'm going to see for the story.
Side Effects - Finally got around to watching this and....wow. Incredible. Some really good performances and the story kept me guessing. Very enjoyable.
brianjones
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scarlet needs to lay off the cigs
still sexy but a little too raspy at times
what's an Ian Curtis reaction ? A seizure?
still sexy but a little too raspy at times
what's an Ian Curtis reaction ? A seizure?
Park's direction is so masterful that obscures the weaknesses of the script. Few directors working today can pull off something like that.
EDIT: Alain Delon wisdom.
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