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Post by Javi on Jan 21, 2020 19:57:16 GMT
I think I'd rather watch Catwoman (2004) or endure Meryl Streep's teeth in The Iron Lady than watch this again. What about Cats (2019)? Not brave enough for that
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Post by Zeb31 on Jan 21, 2020 21:35:54 GMT
- This one for my brazilian fellows. Even though I love Bacurau and it deserves to be the face of brazilian cinema in 2019, I think The Invisible Life is a much better movie and one that appeals more to my taste. Invisible Life is fine and the four main actresses are all fantastic, but having read the novel seriously diminished my appreciation for the film, because Aïnouz and his co-writers completely altered the tone of Martha Batalha's work and stripped it of all of its joy and irony, instead replacing them with an overpowering sense of tragedy that is so torturous and relentless it ultimately dulls the story's impact. The women in the novel aren't just victims; Eurídice, Guida and Filó are all remarkably resourceful characters who manage to take some control of their lives within the narrow confines of the society that surrounds them. They start lucrative businesses from inside their homes, they create art, they develop skills and learn trades, they provide safe havens of happiness and comfort for one another— AND MOST FUCKING IMPORTANTLY, Eurídice and Guida reunite when they're around 40 or so, and they go back to being part of each other's lives. Eurídice spending her entire life believing that Guida is dead, never ever seeing her again, eventually being committed to an insane asylum, and finally discovering Guida's letters in her old age in an inexplicable deus ex machina are fabrications from the screenwriters that only serve to push the film further into unabashed melodrama. Which is a stylistic choice I have no problem with in theory, except Aïnouz and co. do it by sacrificing everything that made the women three-dimensional and interesting on the page. Batalha is a lot more successful at painting a realistic portrait of everyday life because she instills all of her female characters with loads of warmth, personality and individuality, and she's much more attuned to the ways that happiness and misery coexist side by side, which makes both the gleeful and the sorrowful moments land with much more poignancy. Maria Caú laid this out better than I could: reducing once richly layered women to the condition of perpetual victims, removing their agency and then treating us to 140 minutes of them getting humiliated, spat on and raped non-stop without any of the novel's countless counterpoints crosses the threshold from compassion into exploitation. And again, I don't think I would've been quite as bothered by this if I hadn't seen this same story told elsewhere in much richer fashion. (Also, Gregório Duvivier as Antônio is the worst, most head-scratching casting decision of the entire year for me. I have nothing against him as a comedian and his HBO show is damn great, but I can never see him as anything other than himself. He plays Antônio like he's in a YouTube comedy sketch, and he basically ruins all the scenes he's in.) I imagine that Invisible Life works much better to foreign audiences than Bacurau because it requires a lot less historical and political context (both of the country at large and of their filmmakers' personal lives), so it makes sense that it was submitted for the Oscars; but Mendonça Filho and Dornelles win this one quite handily for me. Poderoso psicotrópico >>>
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Post by cheesecake on Jan 21, 2020 22:07:06 GMT
ScarJo deserves her nod for Jojo Rabbit. Agreed, I thought she was wonderful.
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Post by cheesecake on Jan 21, 2020 22:09:52 GMT
Saoirse Ronan’s status as an awards darling is largely unfounded Florence Pugh was not that great in Midsommar and I’m still undecided whether she’s pulled off anything noteworthy in Little Women. Her cry-face looks like a literal emoji ☹️ Yes. Couple that with so many members here trying to portray them as great beauties and/or sexy bombshells - it makes it all the more annoying. It's annoying that people find them beautiful?
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 21, 2020 22:11:13 GMT
ScarJo deserves her nod for Jojo Rabbit. I thought she was great too. I'll go a step further and say I liked her quite a bit more than Pugh.
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Post by cheesecake on Jan 21, 2020 22:13:30 GMT
ScarJo deserves her nod for Jojo Rabbit. I thought she was great too. I'll go a step further and say I liked her quite a bit more than Pugh. I consider Johansson far and away the best of the nominees.
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Post by stephen on Jan 21, 2020 22:26:28 GMT
I thought she was great too. I'll go a step further and say I liked her quite a bit more than Pugh. I consider Johansson far and away the best of the nominees. I'll go one further: Johansson would be the best winner in the category since Spencer.
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Post by DanQuixote on Jan 21, 2020 22:38:16 GMT
Pattinson is better than Dafoe in The Lighthouse. Booksmart sucks. Apollo 11 sucks. The final reveal of The Farewell almost ruins the whole film. Leo is better than Brad in Hollywood. Brad gives his best performance yet in Ad Astra and that film is so damn underrated. Jessie Buckley is overrated in Wild Rose. Julie Walters and Sophie Okonedo? Wonderful as ever. Laura Dern's much better in Little Women than Marriage Story. The Being Alive scene is Marriage Story's worst scene. Thank God the final scenes are so great that they save the film. Joaquin Phoenix's performance in the talk show scenes in Joker is by far and away his worst work yet. Hustlers is the best exploration of the mid-2000s economic crisis on film yet. Adam McKay could never.
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Post by stephen on Jan 21, 2020 22:39:50 GMT
Jessie Buckley is overrated in Wild Rose.
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Post by Zeb31 on Jan 21, 2020 22:42:08 GMT
Is it now accurate to say that " Booksmart is the bee's knees" is the true unpopular opinion about that film? Because if so, I'd like to add that.
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Post by Archie on Jan 21, 2020 22:46:46 GMT
Joaquin Phoenix's performance in the talk show scenes in Joker is by far and away his worst work yet. It was fucking embarrassing. I felt so bad for De Niro.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jan 21, 2020 22:48:21 GMT
Oh honey, I've heard it said that without Theron & Robbie, Bombshell would have been a flop!
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 21, 2020 22:50:21 GMT
Oh honey, I've heard it said that without Theron & Robbie, Bombshell would have been a flop! Yeah, they should have double downed and had Watts in the lead role.
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Post by DanQuixote on Jan 21, 2020 22:50:44 GMT
Jessie Buckley is overrated in Wild Rose. Did I include that mainly to annoy you? She's great in Beast though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 22:57:29 GMT
Yes. Couple that with so many members here trying to portray them as great beauties and/or sexy bombshells - it makes it all the more annoying. It's annoying that people find them beautiful? No, that's not what I said. What I find annoying is the guys on here speaking of them (ad nauseam) in the same vein as, say, Charlize Theron.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jan 21, 2020 22:59:40 GMT
Well if it means anything, I'd bang the lot of them!
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Post by stephen on Jan 21, 2020 23:00:10 GMT
Well if it means anything, I'd bang the lot of them! I miss this series. Can we reboot it?
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Post by DanQuixote on Jan 21, 2020 23:03:17 GMT
Well if it means anything, I'd bang the lot of them! Same and I'm literally a homosexual.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2020 23:06:22 GMT
Well if it means anything, I'd bang the lot of them! Just to clarify, this doesn't annoy me.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Jan 21, 2020 23:30:03 GMT
Just to toss my hat in the ring, I typically find imperfection and earthiness more attractive than perfection.
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Post by Film Socialism on Jan 22, 2020 0:18:14 GMT
just to toss my jizz in the soggy waffle, if you're still mirin these "may i speak to the manager" types decked out in fox news attire so they can hit the horny rush limbaugh audiences who dont know how to google porn then please check the mail for your aarp membership card
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Post by cheesecake on Jan 22, 2020 0:47:41 GMT
It's annoying that people find them beautiful? No, that's not what I said. What I find annoying is the guys on here speaking of them (ad nauseam) in the same vein as, say, Charlize Theron. So it's the comparison to someone you find more appealing?
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Post by mhynson27 on Jan 22, 2020 0:58:16 GMT
No, that's not what I said. What I find annoying is the guys on here speaking of them (ad nauseam) in the same vein as, say, Charlize Theron. So it's the comparison to someone you find more appealing? Forget it Cheesecake, it's Tyler.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 22, 2020 1:09:14 GMT
I’ll take it even further: Scarlett Johansson in Jojo Rabbit is the best performance of all-time. She surpassed Brando with that performance.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 22, 2020 1:11:38 GMT
The final reveal of The Farewell almost ruins the whole film. Exactly!
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