MidnightCowboy
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Seeing Taxi Driver as a kid would have probably made me pretty jaded. I don't know that an 8 year old should watch Scorsese movies, but hey at least they are good movies.
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TheKaeptain
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Nice. I was 9 when I first watched Taxi Driver. You're teaching him well.
Freewheelin'
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Hey guys, is there an Oscar prediction thread?
nope.
ViewtifulJC
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Her for BP
Michael B Jordan for Best Actor
Coens for BD
Brie Larson for Best Actress
Drug War for Best Foreign Film
Academy pls
Messofanego
Banned
If this is not a joke post, I approve. If he asks about the sex (comes out here on Friday so I'm only going off what I've heard), that's great if you'll get to teach him at an early age rather than those pathetically bad "sex ed" classes in school that don't match the reality of the situation or don't even teach about the separation from porn and reality expectations of sex.
Freewheelin'
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Ah okay :lol, I'll post the one me and temporarily dearly departed Wilbury came up with here then! - http://letterboxd.com/nathanrb61/list/academy-award-nomination-predictions-2014/
megamerican
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Yeah I can't tell if you're fucking around or not. I will say this though, my dad always took me to see shit I shouldn't have been seeing and let me rent whatever. Those were some good memories and we still get a kick out of some of them today. When you treat a kid with respect it means a lot to them.
Freewheelin'
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Inferno313
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The Makeup and Hairstylists guild nominated Bad Grandpa for their awards... That's pretty solid evidence for it to get an Oscar nom.
i watched the first episode of true detective and it confirmed that i'm okay not watching tv - i think the central concept is fine, but woody and matthew are dull and i mean shouldn't it be set in texas and have them play themselves? and gosh i spent a lot of time rural part of louisiana and it doesn't feel like this awful fake x-files via bronte thing. i know this is asking alot, but 60 minutes or whatever is like most of a noir, this just feels slow and boring in comparison.
matthew's world is ghetto is the most embarrassing thing spoken.
matthew's world is ghetto is the most embarrassing thing spoken.
I thought McConaughey was great. A lot of his role is stuff that could very easily strew sophomoric but he sells it so well that when he calls human consciousness a mistake it has the right weight. Woody definitely hasn't been given much off the bat, though.
And I feel like we've traveled this path before, but it truly is just a different set of expectations-- if True Detective were a movie and that were the first 60 minutes of 90 I'd be groaning. knowing it's an eight hour ordeal spread out over weeks, I take pleasure in spotting the germs of conflicts to come, and even in how the narrative structure kinda slooowly builds itself right before your eyes.
And I feel like we've traveled this path before, but it truly is just a different set of expectations-- if True Detective were a movie and that were the first 60 minutes of 90 I'd be groaning. knowing it's an eight hour ordeal spread out over weeks, I take pleasure in spotting the germs of conflicts to come, and even in how the narrative structure kinda slooowly builds itself right before your eyes.
...Joke post?
Her: Terrific film with an ending that gives you a lot to think about and isn't immediately satisfying (in a good way). Lots of lines really hit home for me, definitely one of the best films of the year.
Frozen: Liked it a bit more my second time viewing it. I think it's about on par with Tangled despite being less funny and skewing a bit younger. The soundtrack and subversive ending really elevate it in ways that Tangled didn't.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2: Pretty mediocre throughout despite some fantastic art direction and visuals. It feels like it really suffered from the lack of talent that made the first film.
Gravity: Still awesome on repeat viewing, love the choreography and cinematography more than anything else in years. Probably the best directed film of the year by virtue of its' singular vision and tightness in execution.
The Wolf of Wallstreet: Very self indulgent and could have used another editing revision. Tons of scenes where characters' lips weren't in sync with their speech and tons of other editing oddities. Still immensely entertaining and well directed despite those flaws. Also most likely Leonardo DiCaprio's best performance yet simply because of how broad and varied it is. His commitment to the physical gag towards the end of the film cannot be denied.
Dallas Buyer's Club: Overlong but terrific.
but it's like literally a waste of time, we know because matthew is a good actor a lot of the demons they have multiple scenes showing/telling us about like it doesn't trust its actors more than its script. also like stuff like decalogue or even true cinematic work like out 1 or satantango opening hour doesn't have this weirdly repetitive structure, which based on the framing device can't really matter all that much.
TheKaeptain
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you know... I think you just hit the nail on the head as to why I don't like most TV shows.
The trusting the script over the actors thing is interesting, I do think TV is a more written medium. Plot points are explained and re-explained, clarity is priority #1 90% of the time. What's happening rarely wows, it's the execution or just the mere event of it happening that can grip...I dunno, this is a big can of worms. and I don't want to use the term "novelistic" and all because as much as people like to use it it doesn't make sense. "novelistic" is disingenuous. but the medium really is different in key ways, and while I'm finding myself unable to explain exactly why I think TV's still of immense value (beyond the whole cultural forum stuff that hasn't been relevant since the '80s--well sort of) I can say I find it the opposite of a waste of time.
I guess the only other thing I can think to say is that the repetitive structure is comforting on a lot of TV and I like that. like, I love sitcoms. Sitcoms follow a really extremely rigid storytelling structure. they're structured around flashes of dynamism within long-term stasis, and thus repeat themselves. That's always been something I've relished in the form, though. So there is that old argument, then. That the long-form storytelling of TV provides a frame of comfort, where you kind of know what you're getting each week and that's exactly why you keep coming back. a counterargument I've seen to that is that getting pleasure from repetition is cheap pleasure, but I disagree with that strongly.
I guess the only other thing I can think to say is that the repetitive structure is comforting on a lot of TV and I like that. like, I love sitcoms. Sitcoms follow a really extremely rigid storytelling structure. they're structured around flashes of dynamism within long-term stasis, and thus repeat themselves. That's always been something I've relished in the form, though. So there is that old argument, then. That the long-form storytelling of TV provides a frame of comfort, where you kind of know what you're getting each week and that's exactly why you keep coming back. a counterargument I've seen to that is that getting pleasure from repetition is cheap pleasure, but I disagree with that strongly.
well i think the people who like horror or myself who really like noirs like predictability of stories and the style and the genre trappings, but i feel like they trust you to both know the history of the genre and to go with the characters - and the plot (like what really is the plot in the big sleep?) isn't very well defined which gives it that style (and allows to it have that expressive visual style) that even great shows like homicide never really get which i think is more true of the actual written word and films relationship with authors (faulkner adapting chandler?!) more so than tv legacy vis-a-via comics or serialized literature.
bright lights big city and chabon's work is more filmic in tone, structure and i guess trust then anything about the history of novels as either being paid by the word or as serialized writing. watching sherlock and true detective this week i think helped me understand why movies are all 2:30 - 3 hours long now.
i wouldn't say that the actual value of the artform is less, but i can't come back to for comfort food because i mean i never had tv events with the family around murder she wrote or empty nest or whatever. i didn't mean the tv is a waste of time, but having matthew act the part but also him buy drugs from hookers is a waste of time.
bright lights big city and chabon's work is more filmic in tone, structure and i guess trust then anything about the history of novels as either being paid by the word or as serialized writing. watching sherlock and true detective this week i think helped me understand why movies are all 2:30 - 3 hours long now.
i wouldn't say that the actual value of the artform is less, but i can't come back to for comfort food because i mean i never had tv events with the family around murder she wrote or empty nest or whatever. i didn't mean the tv is a waste of time, but having matthew act the part but also him buy drugs from hookers is a waste of time.
Femmeworth
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We need a swoon translator. (At least I hope I'm not the only one that has to give some of his sentences multiple passes with or without use of Google.)
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I'll give this a shot.
Femmeworth
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On the Waterfront- Really a great film, an American classic. Pretty straightforward but Brando absolutely steals the show every time he's on camera. 8.5/10
The Remains of the Day- I'll be honest, this film is pretty boring. However, Hopkins and Thompson give phenomenal performances, particularly Hopkins. His role as head butler is my favorite that I've seen in a movie. The film is actually quite sad, but it really makes you want to go out and make things happen so you don't have any regrets. 8/10
The Remains of the Day- I'll be honest, this film is pretty boring. However, Hopkins and Thompson give phenomenal performances, particularly Hopkins. His role as head butler is my favorite that I've seen in a movie. The film is actually quite sad, but it really makes you want to go out and make things happen so you don't have any regrets. 8/10
Yeah I can't really argue this, just a difference of values. I love The Big Sleep for being so expressive and leading the audience down hallways not really caring if they bump into furniture due to the plot being an inscrutable mess, but I also love The X-Files despite knowing exactly the kind of stuff that's going to happen within the first quarter of a monster-of-the-week episode. I mean, I'd say shows like Terriers (that one's actually a cool beach-noir and it's only one season) and The Wire complicate that, but it holds true for TV as a whole. The only other barely-pertinent thing I can think to say is that I've only seen two episodes of Homicide and one was an event episode where a guy got caught between a subway car and the platform and it really frustrates your expectations/denies plot satisfaction the way some noir might, especially with how it ends. the other was of course hyper procedural
Its been too long since I last seen 12 angry men
Any who today so far I seen ( i say this because I dont i'll be getting to bed and im on a mission to find something to mush my brain a little)
Hondo - decent movie, run of the mill Wayne imo.
Stand Up Guys - going into this i weary how walken and pacino would work together. i wouldnt call this movie good, but i wouldnt call it a disaster neither. i enjoyed it mostly.
Any who today so far I seen ( i say this because I dont i'll be getting to bed and im on a mission to find something to mush my brain a little)
Hondo - decent movie, run of the mill Wayne imo.
Stand Up Guys - going into this i weary how walken and pacino would work together. i wouldnt call this movie good, but i wouldnt call it a disaster neither. i enjoyed it mostly.
Well it being an 8 part drama, we don't know yet if the two scenes (his general attitude and him buying drugs) were supposed to convey the same message twice, i mean it might very well be, but it could also be a hook for a later plot development.
That being said, and admitting that the Pilot for True Detective, although with a great mood, did kind of go nowhere for most of its run-time, TV shows do this in my opinion, in part because they need to leave a much stronger imprint of crucial information (given the week jump, between one part and the other) and in part because there's an element of voyeurism in TV shows, following characters in useless or redundant sequences, just to establish this trap-relationship.
I mean a movie can do the same in less than 2 hours, but it's not really the same ending result.
I think this is why it's so much easier to get "addicted" to TV shows for people, and also why they need so much time to get anywhere (usually you have to at least watch the first 3 episodes, to get a feel for a serialized TV show).
So yeah, in synthesis i see the repetition in a show like True Detective as a mean to trap the audience in a voyeuristic relationship.
However a film trying to do the same is just annoying, because it doesn't last long enough to make that Stockholm syndrome kick in, hence why i think a 2:30-3 hours bloated movie is just insufferable, whereas i can enjoy an 8 hours marathon of a TV Show just fine.
Evil Rabbit
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Wolf of Wall Street- hellishly funny. Leo is so crazy in this movie. I had no idea how funny this was going to be.
Her- awful. Holy crap awful. How did this movie get such high marks? I can't imagine anyone but the most serious recluse enjoying this. It's so ridiculously corny and unbelievable, not helped by the fact that the acting was bad and seemed forced. Don't bite the bandwagon, it's terrible.
Lone Survivor- meh, it was ok. Not as good as i thought it'd be.
Rush- pleasant surprise, really enjoyed it. makes me want to follow the F1 season again.
Saving Mr Banks- disney corporate blowhard. lets not even get into the fact that the movie is completely inaccurate, Tavers couldn't stand Mr Disney, and in the end hated what Disney did to her story. But in the movie it was all cute and dandy.
Her- awful. Holy crap awful. How did this movie get such high marks? I can't imagine anyone but the most serious recluse enjoying this. It's so ridiculously corny and unbelievable, not helped by the fact that the acting was bad and seemed forced. Don't bite the bandwagon, it's terrible.
Lone Survivor- meh, it was ok. Not as good as i thought it'd be.
Rush- pleasant surprise, really enjoyed it. makes me want to follow the F1 season again.
Saving Mr Banks- disney corporate blowhard. lets not even get into the fact that the movie is completely inaccurate, Tavers couldn't stand Mr Disney, and in the end hated what Disney did to her story. But in the movie it was all cute and dandy.
Something extraordinary happened. I saw a Dutch film that I actually liked. That has happened like twice before so this took me completely by surprise. It was the wonderfully dark fairytale Borgman; a pitchblack comedy, twisted psychological thriller that felt unnerving throughout. Loved the symbolism, the acting and the big 'wtf did I just watch' feeling afterwards.
Recently watched 'The Shining' again after reading the book for the first time. I still like the look and feel of the film but I can't help feel that Kubrick should have stuck more closely to the book, especially in the way he portrayed Dannys shining.
Now, back to Doctor Sleep...
Now, back to Doctor Sleep...
You didn't like The Assault? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090576/
Oh and I thought Blackbook was great too. Seems like we're only able to make decent WWII movies
B-B-Bomba!
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This was certainly an example of a manipulative film, of those I've seen recently. I teared up in the final scenes, but never stopped wondering how she would have truly hated this film.
I felt like it was only near the end (especially the movie premiere) they moved away from what really happened to give people a comforting feeling. For most part of the movie Travers hated everything they were doing and wasn't cooperative at all. And of course it was manipulative as can be
I'm very conflicted on shit like that.
On the one hand, when we're referring to real, actual, specific people, messing around with what actually happened is scummy.
On the other hand i really, really liked The diving bell an the butterfly, so i have to pretend i don't care, i guess.
Evil Rabbit
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I think the issue is when they shine such a favorable light on Mr Disney and the monster corp over the actual creative writer. They make her out to seem like the biggest bitch, which i'm sure she could've been, but still.
She despised the film, and refused any of the other stories to be used again. This is a big part, because of how Mr. Disney apparently treated her, much worse than the movie made it seem.
How about Rabat? About the only semi-recent Dutch production (together with Minoes) I actually could withstand. Borgman is pretty cool stuff.
GardenSirens
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Watched Star Wars Episodes 1 and 2 the other day with my wife. Starting a run through of all 6 movies. Going to continue on Friday.
kurisu_1974
Banned
Didn't you like Van Warmerdam's other movies? Still have to watch Borgman, but looking forward to it immensely.
GardenSirens
Banned
Starting to watch my favorite of all time: Hook
This is not a joke I'm committing Suicide ! lol I love that scene.
I saw The Best Man and The Best Man Holiday yesterday. Wasn't expecting much from the original but I really enjoyed it, so I went and watched the sequel. Good if your just looking for a light comedy drama, though the sequel is a bit more dramatic.
Messofanego
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Before Midnight not nominated for Best Picture
Expendable would be screaming right about now. Oh well.
Expendable.
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Oh, I knew it wouldn't happen. Actually not too upset at any Oscar noms. Saving Mr. Banks only got one, so I'm a happy camper.
ViewtifulJC
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Oprah was snubbed for Sally Hawkins, so it can't be that bad
he was pretty unremarkable in moneyball, but his performance here was genuinely impressive, especially considering he's jonah hill.
Messofanego
Banned
I've only seen clips but his teeth and accent in the movie are hilarious.
Bob Le Flambeur
My first Melville. It was okay. Took about an hour to get going and then they kinda forgot the whole heist part
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was terribad, and the plot was just a lot of people talking at each other than any actual story progression. I really liked the dynamic between Bob and his police chief friend, though, and wish the movie was more about that. It reminded me a little of Kurosawa's High and Low despite bearing basically no resemblance to that movie.
Army of Shadows and Le Cercle Rogue up next.
My first Melville. It was okay. Took about an hour to get going and then they kinda forgot the whole heist part
literally
death scene
Army of Shadows and Le Cercle Rogue up next.
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