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[ErasureAcer]

Anyone else see these? Bought Rise about a week or 2 ago and saw Set a couple days ago.

These movies are the greatest "chick" flicks I have ever seen. Especially the 2nd one...I was floored by how PERFECT that movie was. Anyhow, all the good press on the 2nd one is making the first one climb the amazon best seller list(was top 10, now top 15). If you're into good dialogue and romance in movies done to perfection then you gotta see these movies(although the 2nd one is almost out of my local indi theater...like a week left).

It's funny to see the depth of Hawke's acting abilities(I just recently saw Gattaca for the first time). He's definitely one of my favorite actors now.

 

[sc0la]

Saw sunset with a buddy of mine over the 4th of july weekend. The dialog was essentially flawless, and I really enjoyed it.

I would take my GF to see it but the closest theater is a hundred miles away.

Its good stuff though. Check it out if you are looking for something totally different and totally not hollywood.

 

[ErasureAcer]

Yeah, if the movie is in someone's city it is worth seeing. Sunset pretty much shows what happened in the first one with a couple of flashbacks.

 

[demon]

Would I have to see the first before seeing the second?

 

[sc0la]

Would I have to see the first before seeing the second?

No. I still have not seen the first.

 

[sefskillz]

We had a few threads goin on these but neither had been this successful I've been a HUGE fan of Before Sunrise for about 5 or 6 years now and I finally was able to see Before Sunset last week. Actually went and saw it 2 nights in a row. It was really good and I was not disappointed a bit.

Check out Tape next, another Linklater dialog driven movie with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman.

 

[ChumsGum]

I too was a fan of the first and will go out and see the second flick. The first was filled with smart dialogue and from what I'm hearing the second has more of the same.

 

[border]

Yeah, my thread on the film died pretty quickly. Here's the old thoughts and impressions:

When I first heard about this project, I was pretty furious. The prequel (Before Sunrise, 1995) has always been one of my favorite films and probably the only romance film I really ever liked (much less loved). It's a crime if you never caught the original, which was about an American and French student meeting on a train to Vienna and spending the evening together, developing a very strong bond with each other but being forced to separate at the night's end. The ambiguous "Will they meet again?" ending of Sunrise was perfect because it engaged the viewer's imagination after the film had ended, and I thought it was pretty cheesy to go back and tack on something. After thinking on it and reading some reviews from the film festivals, I started to become cautiously optimistic. It took an excruciatingly long time for this independent film to reach the screens of Jacksonville, and now that it finally has I can say that this film is a great followup (it feels dirty to call it a sequel).

It's not just the same film from 9 years ago with a different setting and new dialogue, it has a style that's pretty different. In Sunrise, the city of Vienna was more or less the main third character, with its citizens and landmarks dominating the film. But with Sunset, the city of Paris fades into the background. The third dominating presence here is the single night that the two characters spent together in the previous film. It's not dwelt on for all 80 minutes, but unconsciously it is under the surface all the time. It very much reminds me of the awkwardness of running into old girlfriends, and how you're never sure whether you should just try and have a polite, normal conversation or whether you should bring up or reminisce about the old times you spent together. Even when you both try to keep it formal and distant and pretend that you're just average acquaintences, the gravity of the past is still there. Of course this is cinema, so our two protagonists do eventually begin to deal with how their Vienna night affected them, and that's where some of the best dramatic moments come from (Julie Delpy delivers one particularly strong monologue during a car ride).

I have to say that I liked the original film better, but loved this one as well. I could definitely imagine some people prefering Before Sunset, since it's a bit less idealized and more mature. This will be the first time in years that I actually go see a film twice in the theatres, so that probably says a lot....

 

[Oni Jazar]

Easily one of the best movies of the year. Also one of the most daring, mostly due to the fact that the movie plays out in real time and secondarily because of how it ends.

This and the original are perfect date movies.

 

[Naked Snake]

I only saw Before Sunrise, I own it on DVD, and really love it... Is the second one related? Sequel? Never heard of it.

 

[Oni Jazar]

Yes. It continues the two characters nine years later. Don't want to give too much away

 

[sefskillz]

Yep, I have loved Before Sunrise for years and Before Sunset was just so amazing and so perfect as a sequel. The conversations aren't as good imo, but to see how the characters have matured and changed makes it all worthwhile. Awesome, awesome movie.

There's a trailer up at: http://wip.warnerbros.com/beforesunset/