Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| Dec 2013

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Yes, it was a success! We have screenings booked in LA and Tucson and more coming, plus some potentially huge news.

Snowman Prophet of Doom said:
Slowness has less to do with plot than it does with overall content.

Malick's movies don't have fast-moving plots, but there's quite a bit happening in any particular segment of film.

The Dominik movie I don't think can say the same thing. Last time I tried to watch clips from it, I was kinda struck by how overdone it was.
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Yeah, I was really glad he called out and said Malick movies aren't slow. Always thought that was a weird description.
 
I watched Beauty and the Beast last night.
I managed to find a blu-ray copy that still existed and I wanted to see the transfer of it. (The transfer is fucking beautiful).

I'll say this, that movie is still really good and holds up really really well. Like surprisingly more so than I thought it was going too.
 
Can't figure it out, do you want to be like me, or do you want to eat me?

omgkitty said:
That was a joke. Not really sure how that film could have a sequel. I'm hoping it's more like his longer cut will get released.
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He played along and then you just trampled your own joke, smh.
 
Speaking of animation that looks fucking beautiful on blu-ray, I watched Princess Mononoke yesterday and it looked gorgeous. Also liked the film itself a lot more than the first time I saw it. An epic adventure, beautiful music, inspired character design...Good stuff.
 
Divius said:
Speaking of animation that looks fucking beautiful on blu-ray, I watched Princess Mononoke yesterday and it looked gorgeous. Also liked the film itself a lot more than the first time I saw it. An epic adventure, beautiful music, inspired character design...Good stuff.
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Japanese blu ? Or swedish ?

Sadly we have to wait for Ghibli blus to be released in the west AND be content with inferior transfers compared to the unaffordable japanese ones.

Can't wait to have Mononoke and Spirited away anyway. These two are so perfect I could rewatch them endlessly.

Totoro, Ponyo, Howling's castle and Nausicaa just got released in the UK too.
 
Side Effects

Not enough Channing Tatum to offset the dubious depictions of women,
non-straight women
, mental illness, and psychiatry. When Jude Law's character said he wanted to see her more than once a week I wanted to laugh.
ViewtifulJC said:
I think we largely agreed on it being Femmeworth
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But I don't even like Twitter.
 
Watched quite a few movies recently:

The Wind That Shakes the Barley - 5 stars
In Bruges - 4 stars
Dallas Buyer's Club - 4 stars
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 4 stars
 
Heathers: Well that was a bit odd. Kind of a proto-Mean Girls, albeit with a ton of surreal turns that would never make it in a movie now, to say the least. Christian Slater is utterly unbelievable as a young man; he seems more like present-day Christian Slater, but pumped full of botox and doing a really bad Jack Nicholson impression.
 
Currently streaming Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

This movie is brilliant. I'm extremely torn between Jean Baptiste's brilliance/passion as a perfumer
and his lack of self control which leads him to murder just to preserve the scent of his kills.
 
Watched Only God Forgives.

Not quite sure how to feel about it. Visually it's fantastic that's for sure. Everything else... Well Jury is still out on that.
 
Divius said:
You have one hour to reach a decision. Court dismissed.
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I'd vote for a stay of execution, but I figured what the hell. Let's light this candle.

Honestly, I think the film is only compelling in the first 10 minutes and the last 15 minutes. Everything in between seems incredibly drawn out to me while still being visually appealing. If it had more going for it in the middle, I think I would've had a more definitive answer.
 
Beauty and the Beast

I don't think I've seen this since I was 2 or 3. Great film with some impressive cinematography. Those backgrounds in the beginning were gorgeous.

I may as well binge on the rest of the classics.

Sleeping Beauty

Another movie I haven't seen since I was little. Man, Maleficent was chilling and creepy, especially her theme when she's luring Aurora into her castle.
 
Watched two scifi movies recently:

First was the time travel indie drama Safety Not Guaranteed which I thought was very good. Enjoyed it more than Primer because I felt it did a much better job dealing with man's struggle against his own limitations and presenting the technology as an extension of that, which to me is a staple of good scifi. (this comes from someone who personally does not believe travelling to the past is possible). I felt the movie held together well and the acting was very good all around. I guess this is what happens when a director with a focused vision is able to realize it with a small, capable team.

Second was Oblivion, also scifi but big budget this time. Went in without knowing anything about the movie (never saw a trailer) and thoroughly enjoyed it. The Genesis parallels were a nice touch but overall the movie was by no means deep. Still, visually and aurally striking and for the most part made sense enough to hold your suspension of disbelief. A little too Hollywood at times and some of the action sequences could have been toned down. I feel if the secondary story threads were replaced with something more sophisticated, and Tom Cruise's character made a bit more interesting in the process, this could have been a real classic. As it is it's still very pleasing, but doesn't live up to its potential (which is a compliment to the better elements of the film).
 
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Dead Man

The soundtrack elevates the film into something really special. This is a deconstructed western that feels somewhat surreal at times and very poetic. Some great performances especially from Johnny Depp. One of the best films of the 90s.

Killer Joe

Friedkin back in full force. I did not expect to enjoy the film so much. Matthew McConaughey gives the best performance of his career and Juno Temple is superb in the supporting role (this is one of the best ensemble cast performances in very long time). That chicken leg scene was jaw dropping.
 
Out of the Furnace

Great performances from everyone, especially Harrelson. Plays a scary/crazy mofo very well. The movie almost had the perfect ending shot in my opinion, but it went just about 10 seconds too long
 
Los ilusos

A bit too clever for its own good and the last ~20 min. aren't that great, but overall, I thought it was immensely interesting, perfectly paced, both beautiful and hilarious at times. Good to see that there are young Spanish directors doing originative work.
 
hal9001 said:
Killer Joe

Friedkin back in full force. I did not expect to enjoy the film so much. Matthew McConaughey gives the best performance of his career and Juno Temple is superb in the supporting role (this is one of the best ensemble cast performances in very long time). That chicken leg scene was jaw dropping.
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I went into this one expecting it to be just OK, but holy shit did I enjoy the hell out of it. Everything about it was fantastic.
 
I watched 4 movies today. Here is my order in ranking:
out of 5
1. The Oregonian - *** 1/2
2. The Embryo Hunts in Secret - *** 1/2
3. Lenny Cooke - ***
4. The Great Beauty - *
 
Life Is Sweet: 9/10. Have you noticed this guy makes the best movies? This was absolutely hilarious, except when it wasn't, and then it was incredibly tragic. The Aubrey character was a bit over the top but Nicola broke my heart. And it has that guy that gardened from Another Year that I liked. Subtitles: ON.
 
Borgnine said:
Life Is Sweet: 9/10. Have you noticed this guy makes the best movies? This was absolutely hilarious, except when it wasn't, and then it was incredibly tragic. The Aubrey character was a bit over the top but Nicola broke my heart. And it has that guy that gardened from Another Year that I liked. Subtitles: ON.
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Mike Leigh is pretty much a golden boy. I have yet to see a film I dislike from him out of the like 6 or so I have seen.
 
Every Mike Leigh film I see only increases my appreciation for the man.

and I'm glad I'm not the only one who watches them with subtitles
 
That's the Leigh I wanna start on. There's still some B&N deals going on...

Speaking of golden boys: Ozu's 110 years young, 50 years gone in eastern time-zones. Google's done a banner for him:

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So I decided to see Gojira (1954) to see why people want a cheesier Godzilla movie from the new movie. A Godzilla that is a good guy.

I'm guessing those people just haven't seen the original, because the tone is dead serious. This is another case of franchise revisionism like what happened with talk of the Evil Dead remake.

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Godzilla is a force of nature who has survived since the times of the dinosaurs, and nuclear bombs did nothing to it. Godzilla is not a good guy.

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The movie is bleak as hell throughout. Not a single joke is cracked. There is no levity.

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Even when they find a solution to defeat Godzilla, it's not a moment of joy. It's a last resort, a moment of desperation and sorrow.

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It ends on a sombre note, backed by the melancholic prayer.

The cinematography (Masao Tamai) is great, most of the times you can't tell it's a man of the suit because of how low to the ground the camera is and there aren't many intense close ups of the face to give away the rubber suit. Ichiro Minawa's sound effects are iconic and spine-tingling. Movie totally holds up. It sounds like this new movie wants to stay true to the original than people's twisted version of a not-gritty, non-serious Godzilla.
 
hal9001 said:
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Dead Man

The soundtrack elevates the film into something really special. This is a deconstructed western that feels somewhat surreal at times and very poetic. Some great performances especially from Johnny Depp. One of the best films of the 90s.
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Really loved this movie when I saw it a while back. Need to watch it soon definitely, beautiful.

I've never seen Gojira, probably should before the new one.
 
Godzilla comes across as an out-of-date occupation movie made in the mid '50s, if only because the director chooses to portray the disaster clean-up effort that way (and grand choruses of women all martial!). I like it, but not as much as I was expecting.
 
Inside Job

Great documentary. Surprisingly funny. Mostly rage inducing.

Before Midnight

Great movie and my favorite of the three. The argument scene in particular stood out.

Argo

Much better than I expected after not caring for The Town.
 
iuxion said:
Great documentary. Surprisingly funny. Mostly rage inducing.
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I watched Thin Blue Line recently (which was fantastic) but the entire time I couldn't help but think it's a shame that so many great documentaries are about injustice.

Actually a quick look at Letterboxd says that's not true at all, I probably just gravitate to them because of liberal guilt, but still. Also Zelig is listed as a documentary.
 
Borgnine said:
I watched Thin Blue Line recently (which was fantastic) but the entire time I couldn't help but think it's a shame that so many great documentaries are about injustice.

Actually a quick look at Letterboxd says that's not true at all, I probably just gravitate to them because of liberal guilt, but still. Also Zelig is listed as a documentary.
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Have you watched Murder on a Sunday Morning ? If not, watch Murder on a Sunday Morning.
 
Catching Fire - something about Suzanne Collins' shitty prose brings out the best in mediocre directors (Gary Ross, Francis Lawrence) cos just like the first one it was awesome.
 
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