Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| October 2016
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I was. Beta just ended last week and they alluded to it launching shortly, so if I remember correctly, it should be this month.
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George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Inside Out was pretty good and had a handful of emotional moments. Don't really see what all the hype was for, though.
Lumpy Onion
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Zootopia was damn good. I am normally not a Disney fan but this just felt like a good movie overall. Solid characters and plot progression/mystery that wasn't just a vehicle for jokes. I was surprised how emotionally invested I got in the themes. Totally lived up to the hype.
bunbun777
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Watched Neon Demon last night, wow what an overtly evil movie. I mean I wasn't that surprised but figured it wouldn't be so in your face. Heavy symbology and afterwards I read Fanning's quote that they all acted as if "possessed" on set, and that the movie was about so much more, yea.
I assume it's us only, too?
PassiveObserver
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A Touch of Sin - 2013 (Dir. by Jia Zhangke)
Oo wee this thing was good. I've only seen one other Jia Zhangke film before this, Still Life. But his meditative pace along with a strangely affecting modern China backdrop has made me a complete fanboy. I want to see all his films now, with 2015's Mountains May Depart sitting on my Netflix queue. A Touch of Sin is a bit of a departure from his usual low-key stories, with plenty of violence and releases of tension. Felt Tarantino-esque at points, especially with this shot of a bloody backseat and one of the best smiles I've ever seen in a movie.
Oo wee this thing was good. I've only seen one other Jia Zhangke film before this, Still Life. But his meditative pace along with a strangely affecting modern China backdrop has made me a complete fanboy. I want to see all his films now, with 2015's Mountains May Depart sitting on my Netflix queue. A Touch of Sin is a bit of a departure from his usual low-key stories, with plenty of violence and releases of tension. Felt Tarantino-esque at points, especially with this shot of a bloody backseat and one of the best smiles I've ever seen in a movie.
TuckingFypo
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Today I went to the cinema for the first time in over two years. A ticket cost me £2.50, any other cinema and it would probably be £7-8. Anyway, it probably won't get much love here but I went to see Bridget Jones' Baby. There were quite a few blokes there surprisingly.
It's not the sort of genre that I'd usually watch though I did watch the previous movies. I thought that it got a bit stale in the middle but the comedy made up with that. A lot of it was corny but I did laugh quite a bit, depends on your sense of humour! My sister is an absolute twat for casually dropping in a conversion that
I might go again this year. Are there any promising upcoming comedy or horror (if good horror movies still exist) movies?
It's not the sort of genre that I'd usually watch though I did watch the previous movies. I thought that it got a bit stale in the middle but the comedy made up with that. A lot of it was corny but I did laugh quite a bit, depends on your sense of humour! My sister is an absolute twat for casually dropping in a conversion that
Darcy dies...and he didn't even die! It's better that it wasn't true but fuck off with that.
I might go again this year. Are there any promising upcoming comedy or horror (if good horror movies still exist) movies?
From da 31 days o Halloween
Sweet ass picture right? Yeah Beyond the Black Rainbow isn't that picture. It starts off amazing like Lost was at certain times, some mysterious unknowns, some awesome sci-fi stuff...then it kind of doesn't do shit. There was a cool horror film here but this just didn't live up to its potential.
Glass Rebel
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I was at the 12th Zürich Film Festival and saw 10 movies (one of them wasn't part of the festival) so I'll split this up in 3-4 posts. Gonna rank them on a scale from "Didn't like it" to "Liked it". In more or less chronological order:
War on Everyone
2016, John Michael McDonagh
I'm a huge fan of buddy cop comedies but this didn't do much for me, which is a shame because I really like the cast and the chemistry they brought to the movie but it just wasn't very smart about what it was doing. It was vulgar and offensive for the sake of being... well, vulgar and offensive, without offering any meaningful commentary on it. The race/religion/ethnicity jokes fell completely flat 9 out of 10 times. I'm not gonna claim that I didn't laugh but it felt like the scriptwriter had some ideas for skits involving two very shitty cops and then they tried to write a movie around it. Didn't like it.
Little Men
2016, Ira Sachs
Bittersweet film about two families and the friendship between two boys. I don't even know how to describe it, it just felt like one of the most authentic snapshots of life that I have seen in a movie. Sachs and Zacharias did a fantastic job with the script but I really gotta give it to the two leading kids for selling this. If you've forgotten what friendship between teenagers was like, watch this. Liked it.
Désordre
1986, Olivier Assayas
The oldest movie I've seen at the festival. I think it was restored because they gave the director a price or something. It's supposed to be a drama but by the end it most of the cinema was laughing at the ridiculousness of the turns the story takes, all of them accentuated by this one fucking piece of music that they use over and over and over again like a punchline. Apparently Gabriel Yared, who won an Academy Award for his work on The English Patient, composed it. It's an insult to the man's work. Didn't like it.
War on Everyone
2016, John Michael McDonagh
I'm a huge fan of buddy cop comedies but this didn't do much for me, which is a shame because I really like the cast and the chemistry they brought to the movie but it just wasn't very smart about what it was doing. It was vulgar and offensive for the sake of being... well, vulgar and offensive, without offering any meaningful commentary on it. The race/religion/ethnicity jokes fell completely flat 9 out of 10 times. I'm not gonna claim that I didn't laugh but it felt like the scriptwriter had some ideas for skits involving two very shitty cops and then they tried to write a movie around it. Didn't like it.
Little Men
2016, Ira Sachs
Bittersweet film about two families and the friendship between two boys. I don't even know how to describe it, it just felt like one of the most authentic snapshots of life that I have seen in a movie. Sachs and Zacharias did a fantastic job with the script but I really gotta give it to the two leading kids for selling this. If you've forgotten what friendship between teenagers was like, watch this. Liked it.
Désordre
1986, Olivier Assayas
The oldest movie I've seen at the festival. I think it was restored because they gave the director a price or something. It's supposed to be a drama but by the end it most of the cinema was laughing at the ridiculousness of the turns the story takes, all of them accentuated by this one fucking piece of music that they use over and over and over again like a punchline. Apparently Gabriel Yared, who won an Academy Award for his work on The English Patient, composed it. It's an insult to the man's work. Didn't like it.
UberTag
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There was a genuine quality to the lead performances that really struck me... and yet there was this huge juxtaposition that felt highly unsettling in that all of the extras "felt" like extras. Whether it was kids or adults the background riff-raff felt noticeably like the bit parts that they were while I'm watching these uncannily real leads play off one another. It was rather distracting.
The kids were great, though... especially Michael Barbieri.
Watched two movies recently
Warcraft
Was ok i mean nothing special. The orcs where kinda awesome and if you ever played WoW like me it was cool to see some areas of the game in the movie. 7/10
Burnt
I have a real interested in the world of cooks and cousine so i had to watch the movie.
Well it was enjoyable but that's it. Cooper was good. 6.5/10
Warcraft
Was ok i mean nothing special. The orcs where kinda awesome and if you ever played WoW like me it was cool to see some areas of the game in the movie. 7/10
Burnt
I have a real interested in the world of cooks and cousine so i had to watch the movie.
Well it was enjoyable but that's it. Cooper was good. 6.5/10
UberTag
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Glass Rebel
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I agree somewhat with this but it didn't bother me that much just because of how good the leads were.
Watched ep1 of Luke Cage, found it pretty boring.
As expected, since the fighting was the only thing saving DD.
When these Marvel characters have to keep up the story with their platitudes and cliched phrases alone, it gets pretty dull, pretty quickly.
I liked the dude playing the villain tho, he was intense.
I wasn't familiar with Cage, but he's such a "good guy", that there was barely anything interesting about him to latch on to.
Of y'all think it gets better though, i'll keep going, it's hard to judge a tv show from 1 episode.
As expected, since the fighting was the only thing saving DD.
When these Marvel characters have to keep up the story with their platitudes and cliched phrases alone, it gets pretty dull, pretty quickly.
I liked the dude playing the villain tho, he was intense.
I wasn't familiar with Cage, but he's such a "good guy", that there was barely anything interesting about him to latch on to.
Of y'all think it gets better though, i'll keep going, it's hard to judge a tv show from 1 episode.
Discotheque
Banned
i quit after 4. love how it's so predominantly black in it's casting but it's just a really boring show man. the bad guy in here does some great work in Moonlight btw, look for him in that.
been going through some mario bava movies in honor of October. god damn, i didn't realize how amazing his movies looked. very solid use of atmosphere. i would definitely be up for owning some of these on bluray if the transfers are dope.
Glass Rebel
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Part 2 of my Zürich Film Festival short reviews, this time two documentaries:
Starless Dreams / Royahaye dame sobh
2016, Mehrdad Oskouei
Iranian documentary about female juvenile delinquency. It's mostly set in a rehabilitation facility for these underage girls who have committed all sorts of crimes. Gut-wrenching. Oskouei is relentless in showing what kinds of horrors these girls were put through and at the same time also offers a perspective of innocence. I was close to tears multiple times. Sadly had to leave 10 minutes before the end but I Liked it.
Safari
2016, Ulrich Seidl
Probably my favourite film of the entire festival. It's a documentary about tourist hunters in Namibia and I think South Africa. It sort of follows four separate groups of German/Austrian hunters and holy shit is it grotesque. There's a back and forth between prolonged hunting scenes and staged shots that look like creepy portraits. What I found really impressive was how you basically never see or hear anyone except the people depicted in the film, giving the viewer almost the impression that these hunters were presenting themselves. Seidl himself was there after the screening and he claimed that he aims to show things as they are, which I find pretty interesting. Apparently the people shown in the film were totally ok with the things they said and did and gave him the ok (which I assume to be true because otherwise it probably wouldn't have been released) and yet I couldn't help but feel that I was watching something appalling and perverted. Either way, it's impressive filmmaking. Liked it.
Starless Dreams / Royahaye dame sobh
2016, Mehrdad Oskouei
Iranian documentary about female juvenile delinquency. It's mostly set in a rehabilitation facility for these underage girls who have committed all sorts of crimes. Gut-wrenching. Oskouei is relentless in showing what kinds of horrors these girls were put through and at the same time also offers a perspective of innocence. I was close to tears multiple times. Sadly had to leave 10 minutes before the end but I Liked it.
Safari
2016, Ulrich Seidl
Probably my favourite film of the entire festival. It's a documentary about tourist hunters in Namibia and I think South Africa. It sort of follows four separate groups of German/Austrian hunters and holy shit is it grotesque. There's a back and forth between prolonged hunting scenes and staged shots that look like creepy portraits. What I found really impressive was how you basically never see or hear anyone except the people depicted in the film, giving the viewer almost the impression that these hunters were presenting themselves. Seidl himself was there after the screening and he claimed that he aims to show things as they are, which I find pretty interesting. Apparently the people shown in the film were totally ok with the things they said and did and gave him the ok (which I assume to be true because otherwise it probably wouldn't have been released) and yet I couldn't help but feel that I was watching something appalling and perverted. Either way, it's impressive filmmaking. Liked it.
Discotheque
Banned
will check out starless dreams and little men whenever they pop up on a streaming service or something.
damn shame war on everyone isn't turning out too hot. his last movie, calvary, was one of the best films i saw that year. very cynical and depressing dark comedy.
edit: actually never mind, variety review was pretty positive about the movie, got me a bit more optimistic about it now.
damn shame war on everyone isn't turning out too hot. his last movie, calvary, was one of the best films i saw that year. very cynical and depressing dark comedy.
edit: actually never mind, variety review was pretty positive about the movie, got me a bit more optimistic about it now.
Fancy Clown
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Yessss, get on that Bava train. Arrow's blu of Blood and Black Lace is amazing. Unfortunately most of the best Bava Blurays seem to be region B locked tho.
Glass Rebel
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Part 3 of my Zürich Film Festival short reviews.
Paterson
2016, Jim Jarmush
Adam Driver as a bus driver by the name Paterson in Paterson, New Jersey. It's ironic because he writes poetry that doesn't rhyme. All jokes aside, this was almost too pretentious for my tastes and the poems appearing on screen in that corny font didn't help here. You basically follow this Paterson fellow through a week of his life with his weird girlfriend Laura, their dog Marvin and a bunch of people from Paterson. When he's not driving his bus, walking Marvin, hanging out in a bar or listening to his girlfriend's unrealistic dreams and ambitions, he's sitting in a park working on his poetry. I thought Adam Driver was absolutely stellar in this which made the actress who played Laura appear even more out of place. There's a weird quality to her acting which I find difficult to explain. It's not bad acting per se, it's just that it feels like it's made to appear like obvious acting on purpose. Not sure if that makes sense. Also Method Man makes a short appearance. Liked it.
The Salesman / Forushandeh
2016, Asghar Farhadi
Drama actor couple working on a staging of Death of a Salesman has to move into a new apartment that used to be inhabited by a prostitute and one evening the wife gets attacked by a former client which throws their life into disarray. I loved how this went to show the stress on the lead characters without ever getting too melodramatic. They get angry, they get emotional, they get irrational and yet it maintains very reasonable level of energy throughout the movie. I am not sure how to feel about it focusing mostly on the husband Emad even though the wife was attacked but seeing him go through these changes which lead to the third act was very satisfying. I think it has to do with Farhadi trying to juxtapose Emad's struggles with Willy Loman's. Either way, the aforementioned last act is pretty damn great and incredibly tense in such a surprising way. Definitely going to check out Farhadi's past works now. Liked it.
Paterson
2016, Jim Jarmush
Adam Driver as a bus driver by the name Paterson in Paterson, New Jersey. It's ironic because he writes poetry that doesn't rhyme. All jokes aside, this was almost too pretentious for my tastes and the poems appearing on screen in that corny font didn't help here. You basically follow this Paterson fellow through a week of his life with his weird girlfriend Laura, their dog Marvin and a bunch of people from Paterson. When he's not driving his bus, walking Marvin, hanging out in a bar or listening to his girlfriend's unrealistic dreams and ambitions, he's sitting in a park working on his poetry. I thought Adam Driver was absolutely stellar in this which made the actress who played Laura appear even more out of place. There's a weird quality to her acting which I find difficult to explain. It's not bad acting per se, it's just that it feels like it's made to appear like obvious acting on purpose. Not sure if that makes sense. Also Method Man makes a short appearance. Liked it.
The Salesman / Forushandeh
2016, Asghar Farhadi
Drama actor couple working on a staging of Death of a Salesman has to move into a new apartment that used to be inhabited by a prostitute and one evening the wife gets attacked by a former client which throws their life into disarray. I loved how this went to show the stress on the lead characters without ever getting too melodramatic. They get angry, they get emotional, they get irrational and yet it maintains very reasonable level of energy throughout the movie. I am not sure how to feel about it focusing mostly on the husband Emad even though the wife was attacked but seeing him go through these changes which lead to the third act was very satisfying. I think it has to do with Farhadi trying to juxtapose Emad's struggles with Willy Loman's. Either way, the aforementioned last act is pretty damn great and incredibly tense in such a surprising way. Definitely going to check out Farhadi's past works now. Liked it.
Christ The Affair is one hell of a boring tv show. These guys spend their time fucking, crying, buying marmalade and fucking again. was expecting much more from West and Wilson
watched a Korean movie called Hahaha. It was a nice dramedy, loved the slow moving story and atmosphere
watched a Korean movie called Hahaha. It was a nice dramedy, loved the slow moving story and atmosphere
Messofanego
Banned
I found The Affair fun.
Is just full of a lot of filler bullshit, and the whodunit plot that is completely out of place.
The psychoanalysis episode in Season 2 is great.
Also, how did you expect more out of West? He's absolutely great in it, if anything it's the plotting that has problems.
Him and Maura Tierney are the best part of the show, and it's the best performance I've seen from West anywhere.
Androidsleeps
Member
I just wanna say that Zero Days (2016) and Tickled (2016) are two great documentaries that should be watched by everyone. I think Tickled will get the Oscar next year.
Glass Rebel
Member
Last part of my Zürich Film Festival short reviews:
Lady Macbeth
2016, William Oldroyd
So here we have a period drama on a laughably meagre budget (less than $1m iirc) featuring like 2-3 separate sets that look as scarce as can be and a cast of largely unknown actors. It has no right being this good. And yet it is. Florence Pugh as Katherine is basically sold to "Lord" Alexander something something, the son of Boris something something, to provide him an heir. Sadly, Alexander appears to have a hard time getting into the mood for Katherine and would rather make her stand naked with her back facing him and rub one out. His father is similarly disappointed with her neglecting her "duties as a wife". All of this leads to her becoming so sexually frustrated and deprived of love that she looks for it somewhere else and finds it in Sebastian, a servant. Of course this does not go unnoticed and Katherine ends up poisoning Boris and kills Alexander in self-defense when he finds out about the affair. Up to this point the movie features some very impressive cinematography and a very compelling character arc supported by excellent acting. You can tell that Oldroyd has a background in theatre, even though this is his first film, because the aesthetics are on point. And then Teddy, presumably Alexander's illegitimate son and now legitimate heir, shows up and all my enthusiasm left my body. Whereas everything before felt like a natural trajectory for both Katherine and the plot, Teddy's appearance did not. All the buildup in tension and energy from the deaths of Boris and Alexander was brought back down to a crawl and it's telegraphed from a mile away that the only way for the story to go is for Teddy to die. And then they kill him and the resolution to that felt like such utter bullshit because it relied on another unnatural plot contrivance (the servant Anna, who knows everything, going mute and practically insane). The first two thirds of the movie made a virtue out of its restraint and it's inexplicable to me why they completely throw it out of the window by the end. Even more devastating is what this means for Katherine's character. Birch's script appears deceptively intelligent in the beginning. Katherine gets increasingly reckless and ruthless but it's all justified in the treatment she receives by Alexander and Boris. Her desperate devotion to Sebastian almost makes you feel pity for her because you can tell it comes from a place of pain and loneliness. For most of the running time Lady Macbeth is strongly feminist and critical of the patriarchal structures of the time. The murder of Teddy, however, in the way it's set up and executed, makes Katherine appear like a hysteric lunatic, a depiction of women so prevalent during the time Lady Macbeth is set in, that it makes me wonder how they could miss the irony of it. My initial reaction when I was sitting in the cinema was that the movie was utter trash. After some long contemplation I don't feel as negative about it anymore, despite my issues with it. At first I Didn't like it now I Don't know.
Hell or High Water
2016, David Mackenzie
Basically a western set in modern Texas starring Chris Pine and Ben Foster as two heisting brothers followed by racist cop Jeff Bridges and his half-native-half-Mexican partner Gil Birmingham. They go from town to town, robbing small banks with little risk to pay back the mortgage for a farm their late mother left them. It almost went overboard in depicting these Texan ghosttowns and how shit the bank crisis has been for the region. Almost. Very entertaining if sombre drama that had a few spots of levity thanks to Ben Foster. I grew tired of Jeff Bridges' racist tirades and I don't think it needed that sniper scene close to the end. The scene between Pine and Bridges on the farm was tense as hell though and had me at the edge of my seat. Liked it.
Magnificent 7
2016, Antoine Fuqua
Saw HoHW after this, which diminished my opinion. Denzel was cool as usual. Crisp Rat was Crisp Rat. I liked the diverse cast. Otherwise it was a very by the numbers Hollywood movie that brought little new to the table. Liked it.
Lady Macbeth
2016, William Oldroyd
So here we have a period drama on a laughably meagre budget (less than $1m iirc) featuring like 2-3 separate sets that look as scarce as can be and a cast of largely unknown actors. It has no right being this good. And yet it is. Florence Pugh as Katherine is basically sold to "Lord" Alexander something something, the son of Boris something something, to provide him an heir. Sadly, Alexander appears to have a hard time getting into the mood for Katherine and would rather make her stand naked with her back facing him and rub one out. His father is similarly disappointed with her neglecting her "duties as a wife". All of this leads to her becoming so sexually frustrated and deprived of love that she looks for it somewhere else and finds it in Sebastian, a servant. Of course this does not go unnoticed and Katherine ends up poisoning Boris and kills Alexander in self-defense when he finds out about the affair. Up to this point the movie features some very impressive cinematography and a very compelling character arc supported by excellent acting. You can tell that Oldroyd has a background in theatre, even though this is his first film, because the aesthetics are on point. And then Teddy, presumably Alexander's illegitimate son and now legitimate heir, shows up and all my enthusiasm left my body. Whereas everything before felt like a natural trajectory for both Katherine and the plot, Teddy's appearance did not. All the buildup in tension and energy from the deaths of Boris and Alexander was brought back down to a crawl and it's telegraphed from a mile away that the only way for the story to go is for Teddy to die. And then they kill him and the resolution to that felt like such utter bullshit because it relied on another unnatural plot contrivance (the servant Anna, who knows everything, going mute and practically insane). The first two thirds of the movie made a virtue out of its restraint and it's inexplicable to me why they completely throw it out of the window by the end. Even more devastating is what this means for Katherine's character. Birch's script appears deceptively intelligent in the beginning. Katherine gets increasingly reckless and ruthless but it's all justified in the treatment she receives by Alexander and Boris. Her desperate devotion to Sebastian almost makes you feel pity for her because you can tell it comes from a place of pain and loneliness. For most of the running time Lady Macbeth is strongly feminist and critical of the patriarchal structures of the time. The murder of Teddy, however, in the way it's set up and executed, makes Katherine appear like a hysteric lunatic, a depiction of women so prevalent during the time Lady Macbeth is set in, that it makes me wonder how they could miss the irony of it. My initial reaction when I was sitting in the cinema was that the movie was utter trash. After some long contemplation I don't feel as negative about it anymore, despite my issues with it. At first I Didn't like it now I Don't know.
Hell or High Water
2016, David Mackenzie
Basically a western set in modern Texas starring Chris Pine and Ben Foster as two heisting brothers followed by racist cop Jeff Bridges and his half-native-half-Mexican partner Gil Birmingham. They go from town to town, robbing small banks with little risk to pay back the mortgage for a farm their late mother left them. It almost went overboard in depicting these Texan ghosttowns and how shit the bank crisis has been for the region. Almost. Very entertaining if sombre drama that had a few spots of levity thanks to Ben Foster. I grew tired of Jeff Bridges' racist tirades and I don't think it needed that sniper scene close to the end. The scene between Pine and Bridges on the farm was tense as hell though and had me at the edge of my seat. Liked it.
Magnificent 7
2016, Antoine Fuqua
Saw HoHW after this, which diminished my opinion. Denzel was cool as usual. Crisp Rat was Crisp Rat. I liked the diverse cast. Otherwise it was a very by the numbers Hollywood movie that brought little new to the table. Liked it.
Clue: 5/10. Guess this was the 80s version of a shit movie based on a video game.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: 7/10. Starts off as a film about statutory rape and goes from there. Like Say Anything, again has that early Cameron Crowe quality of portarying teenagers and their problems with respect. Too bad he then went on to become the worst filmaker since the dawn of time. Also I don't really know how else to say this but there's some really great tits in this movie.
The 'Burbs: 4/10. Apparently the idea was "look how eccentric the people in the suburbs are," but there's eccentric people everywhere so why am I watching these ones? Much too long and really there are no jokes. Why would I laugh at a chubby guy who overeats, it's a serious problem in America we need to do something.
Hunt For The Wilderpeople: 7/10. Really cute. Makes me sad we've lost Taika.
The Ipcress File: 5/10. So it's like a cross between Clockwork Orange and bowl of mushy peas. Surprised how little I liked it since it's supposed to be the anti-Bond.
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World: 6/10. Not enough focus on memes.
Truth: 4/10. A lot of great actors getting together to finally tell the story no one wanted to hear. An excruciatingly detailed and earnest procedural about a typeface.
Goodbye to Language: 1/10. Ohhhh fuccckkk offfffffff
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: 7/10. Starts off as a film about statutory rape and goes from there. Like Say Anything, again has that early Cameron Crowe quality of portarying teenagers and their problems with respect. Too bad he then went on to become the worst filmaker since the dawn of time. Also I don't really know how else to say this but there's some really great tits in this movie.
The 'Burbs: 4/10. Apparently the idea was "look how eccentric the people in the suburbs are," but there's eccentric people everywhere so why am I watching these ones? Much too long and really there are no jokes. Why would I laugh at a chubby guy who overeats, it's a serious problem in America we need to do something.
Hunt For The Wilderpeople: 7/10. Really cute. Makes me sad we've lost Taika.
The Ipcress File: 5/10. So it's like a cross between Clockwork Orange and bowl of mushy peas. Surprised how little I liked it since it's supposed to be the anti-Bond.
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World: 6/10. Not enough focus on memes.
Truth: 4/10. A lot of great actors getting together to finally tell the story no one wanted to hear. An excruciatingly detailed and earnest procedural about a typeface.
Goodbye to Language: 1/10. Ohhhh fuccckkk offfffffff
Infernostew
Member
You're dead to me.
The Virgin Spring (1960): This film opens with the least convincing depiction of starting a fire ever, and ends with...
Wow, Bergman, you went soft there for a moment. I have to imagine the content here was considered incredibly graphic by the standards of 1960, though it's on the tame side today. There are some pretty powerful scenes, though the setup of Karin's character and what happens to her is borderline cartoonish.
a physical manifestation of the grace of God?
Not until you tell me how it was done!
Worth a watch? Herzog docs usually make for a good viewing.
Fallout-NL
Member
Saw Green Room last night. That shit was tight. Even better than Blue Ruin I think.
Worth a watch. It's not especially deep, but as with anything he does I just like to hear him talk about it.
Fancy Clown
Member
Yeah I liked Green Room a lot more than Blue Ruin. However neither film has a very good climax/ending. They both have really intense buildups and great sequences and then kinda fizzle out at the end and don't tie things together in an interesting or meaningful way. Green Room a still one of my favorites of the year though, because the rest of the movie? Oh man I don't think I've had quite such an intense theater experience before. I was legit gripping the arms of the chair for a good chunk of the film.
DarkChronic
Member
Watched Pontypool last night. Conflicting feelings.
First 1/3 of the movie was so-so, a little boring. But it was the setup, so I was being forgiving for the most part while it got going.
INCREDIBLE middle 1/3. Edge of your seat, holy crap, wtf is going on moments. It was fantastic and had me hooked.
Horrible last 1/3. Once a certain character gets introduced it just completely derailed and I lost all interest. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Too bad - had so much potential.
First 1/3 of the movie was so-so, a little boring. But it was the setup, so I was being forgiving for the most part while it got going.
INCREDIBLE middle 1/3. Edge of your seat, holy crap, wtf is going on moments. It was fantastic and had me hooked.
Horrible last 1/3. Once a certain character gets introduced it just completely derailed and I lost all interest. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Too bad - had so much potential.
Discotheque
Banned
I like the show but almost all of the first season is west and Wilson being completely engrossed in their affair more or less. And you get a nice acting showcase scene from Wilson later in the season.
Season 2 they start to follow Joshua Jackson and Maura Tierney too and play around more with that rashomon multiple perspective thing. I love it. Plotting gets pretty stupid at times tbh but all 4 lead performances are solid. Especially west imo.
I'll get on that soon then for sure. Loved that one and the Christopher Lee movie the most so far. Also saw black sunday and sabbath. All of them rocked. I think Sunday and blood and black lace are the blurays I want the most though because I loved the look of those the most.
These Italian guys and their love for killing beautiful women on screen lol.
Its a very inconsistent show, but the work it does on the main characters is great i think, especially in s2.
Jackson is still a somewhat shallow female masturbatory fantasy i think, but also gets better in s2.
Jesus i thought he was dead, ran to check wikipedia.
it's also interesting to see him fail to draw people out, like the family whose daughter's decapitation photos were leaked onto the internet, feels more like a photograph than an interview. the internet addict people don't open up (for valid reasons), Elon Musk is a empty as he seems, etc.
Fancy Clown
Member
As always, click the posters for the review. Gonna finally see The Waling tonight and I'm super pumped.
4) Spider Baby - (Jack Hill, 1968)
5) Five Dolls for an August Moon - (Mario Bava, 1970)
5) Hatchet for the Honeymoon - (Mario Bava, 1970)
Yea nobody ever accused gialli of being particularly progressive in their gender politics
I've seen three more Bava's than you, but none of them are as good as the one's you've already watched. A Bay of Blood is apparently pretty dope though. It's still been fun trucking through his filmography though, as even the weak ones are stylish as hell.
4) Spider Baby - (Jack Hill, 1968)
5) Five Dolls for an August Moon - (Mario Bava, 1970)
5) Hatchet for the Honeymoon - (Mario Bava, 1970)
Yea nobody ever accused gialli of being particularly progressive in their gender politics
I've seen three more Bava's than you, but none of them are as good as the one's you've already watched. A Bay of Blood is apparently pretty dope though. It's still been fun trucking through his filmography though, as even the weak ones are stylish as hell.
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Yeah, same here. It was raw as hell and the desperation of the situation was tangible. Really great stuff.
The ending does kinda fizzle out. But I'm not entirely sure how they could have improved it.
The way Stewart gets it is kinda cool though. That blond girl doesn't fuck around. I liked that.
My whole issue with this movie is
that their in the middle of nowhere but need to be quiet? Fuck that, guns blazing and be done but then we don't have a movie. Across the street from a police station would have been better.
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