Steve17
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Post by Steve17 on Feb 16, 2017 2:27:44 GMT
I saw La La Land last Saturday. I thought it was a great film, I'm just not as over the moon about it as others are. 8/10
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Post by bob-coppola on Feb 16, 2017 2:45:09 GMT
Hidden Figures. So glad this movie was made, and I honestly loved Taraji P. Henson in it
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Post by Viced on Feb 16, 2017 5:26:40 GMT
The Magnificent Seven (2016) - some of the action is good, but jeez this was incredibly uninspired. Pretty crappy/cliche ridden script and no one in the cast rose above it. Peter Sarsgaard may be the most miscast performance of the year. 5.5/10
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 16, 2017 16:26:27 GMT
Lion. I really, really liked this. I think Kidman is best of the nominees and Pawar was outstanding. Glad to see someone else mention Pawar. I thought he was MVP, and much more worthy of recognition than Patel (who was still good, but not on the same level as his younger counterpart). Mhm. It's a real shame he wasn't nominated.
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Post by taranofprydain on Feb 16, 2017 18:10:17 GMT
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983): Exceeded my expectations. This is one of the best live-action Disney films. Looks great, well-acted, scary, beautifully written, and some (though not all) of the special effects are still stunning 34 years later.
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Post by DeepArcher on Feb 17, 2017 4:08:16 GMT
I watched Swiss Army Man and Christine today. The former was a good bit of fun and creativity until it collapsed under its own weight in its third act. Conversely, the latter was a bit of a chore to sit through at first, but slowly built to a gripping second half.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 17, 2017 4:09:21 GMT
20th Century Women. All of the movie's great moments don't really build up to anything and it's soooo disappointing because I was in love with it for the first 60 minutes. After that, the movie drags and then peters out.
EDIT: saw Lion a few days ago and I'm totally jumping onto the Pawar train. He was so fucking adorable.
But am I the only one who nominates Mara? I wonder, because I loved her performance but I haven't seen anyone mention it. Kidman is even better (she's definitely the MVP for me) and she's my new runner-up for supporting actress, but I think Rooney's work is grossly underappreciaited in Lion.
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Post by ohbananas91 on Feb 17, 2017 8:52:26 GMT
Split, I really liked it, it was creepy and kind of intense. McAvoy is incredible here, it was easy to see what indentity he was playing based off of the mannerism and ticks of each one. I liked that it didn't have a twist ending too.
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Post by JangoB on Feb 17, 2017 11:04:15 GMT
Rewatched The Queen. Excellent picture. Wish it were a little longer tbh. Mirren is amazing and it was very entertaining to read the list of all the awards that she won for it. Gurl basically lost like two of them, utterly sweeping the rest. That's the Kween for ya.
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tobias
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Post by tobias on Feb 17, 2017 11:08:34 GMT
Shorts from Aleksandr Petrov (who is way too unknown btw, maybe the best animation director working today but he can't get the funds for his feature, despite major acclaim for like all of his works):
The Marathon (1988) - Extremely simple but well excecuted - 7,5/10 The Cow (1989) - Good, very simple, yet involving and inspiring - 8/10 The Dream of a Ridiculous man (1992) - One of the very, very best short films I have ever seen. This is up there with the cream of the cream. It's based on Dostojewski's book and much more complex than Petrov's other work 10/10 My Love (2006) - Amazing animation work and great storytelling. This is again at it's core a very simple story about coming of age and first love. However the excecution is top notch and the entire conflict is very palpable, very imidiate and very real. Despite it's brevity it tackles the theme of young love much more gracefully than most films would even hope to. 9/10
I have seen Petrov's other 2 films a longer time ago and have been aware of him for 3 years, ever since I saw The Old Man and the Sea (after having read the book) but they are also very good. You should watch them all!
I also watched A Moment of Innocence (1996) - and it's hard to really express why this film is so great if you want to keep it short but it's very human and very real, you can feel all the hurt but also the joy behind it. On one side, it's a very simplistic film, on the other side it's somewhat complex. However you just have to watch it for yourself, everyone should watch this, it's only 75 min. and probably the best Iranian film ever (maybe at least, I'm no expert but it's even better than Close-Up which was my favorite up until now). 9,5/10
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Post by harlequinade on Feb 17, 2017 11:28:01 GMT
Under Fire - 6/10 - good cast and Harris stole the show with what must have been 10 minutes of screen time. The movie was quite forgettable but I can see why the music was nominated
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Post by lee on Feb 17, 2017 15:17:50 GMT
Inside Llewyn Davis - 8/10 Palo Alto - 8/10
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Post by jakesully on Feb 17, 2017 16:21:48 GMT
bought Copland and watched it for the first time (can't believe I've never seen it before). It was really good (esp Sly).
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Post by themoviesinner on Feb 17, 2017 17:41:20 GMT
I rewatched Yearning (1964) (Mikio Naruse) - 8/10, an excellent drama film which was intimate and emotionally gripping, featuring some lovely performances.
I also watched Summer With Monika (1953) (Ingmar Bergman) - 7/10, which is another strong entry in Bergman's filmography, even though I thought it dragged a bit at parts. I think the film does a good job portraying the playfulness of teenage love, but also the concerns and difficulties of married life. The two main characters were also superbly written.
Last film I watched was The Unknown Girl (2016) (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) - 7/10, which I also liked a lot. The Dardenne brother manage to convey a sense of mystery that makes the rather thin story a lot more interesting and the theme of guilt is explored rather effectively. The only downside is that the ending felt quite unconvincing.
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Post by Sharbs on Feb 17, 2017 17:42:18 GMT
Milk 8.5/10 One of my favorite ensembles I've ever seen. Penn and Brolin were especially excellent, The only thing that bugged me was the lighting in particular the scenes at night in the streets; I thought that was a bit distracting
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Post by celestedoria on Feb 17, 2017 18:51:11 GMT
Rewatched snippets of Titanic on tv. Today MA reminds me Titanic - everyone knows it's sinking but people can't decide wether to stay on the ship or jump...
I have only watched the whole of Titanic once or twice. Usually I just watch the beginning, up until Jack and Rose meet - the dialogue is too corny to stomach. Then I watch the iceberg hitting and the beginning of the catastrophe. Not the door scene, it's too harrowing.
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Post by ScarletDubois on Feb 17, 2017 21:54:12 GMT
The Salesman - a very high 8/10. Yep, this cemented Farhadi as one of my favorite currently working directors. He has an uncanny ability to create unbearable suspense out of the most empathetic human dramas.
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Post by bobbystarks on Feb 17, 2017 22:07:40 GMT
The Salesman - a very high 8/10. Yep, this cemented Farhadi as one of my favorite currently working directors. He has an uncanny ability to create unbearable suspense out of the most empathetic human dramas. Watching it today! Hope I love it. I don't know how the man is able to make the deepest, most gripping and layered soap operas out there, but he does it so well.
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Post by ScarletDubois on Feb 18, 2017 0:02:07 GMT
The Salesman - a very high 8/10. Yep, this cemented Farhadi as one of my favorite currently working directors. He has an uncanny ability to create unbearable suspense out of the most empathetic human dramas. Watching it today! Hope I love it. I don't know how the man is able to make the deepest, most gripping and layered soap operas out there, but he does it so well. Do share your thoughts later!
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 18, 2017 0:24:18 GMT
Deepwater Horizon - ***1/2.
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Lubezki
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Post by Lubezki on Feb 18, 2017 11:28:12 GMT
Point Break (2015) - Absolute rubbish. 2/10 Tower (2016) - /10. What a stupendous achievement.
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erickeitel
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Post by erickeitel on Feb 18, 2017 15:22:59 GMT
Tower (2016) - /10. What a stupendous achievement. Didja vote for it in the ICC Awards for Best Documentary?
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erickeitel
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Post by erickeitel on Feb 18, 2017 15:35:41 GMT
Split - The First Shamylan I've seen since The Village. There were good things about it—the close-ups allowed James McAvoy to fill the screen with all his nuances as an actor, and he did the transition from each personality without reducing himself to caricature. On the other hand, only one of the three female captives is relevant and the other don't do much other than scream. The final act is especially ridiculous: if all you had to do was say his full name to calm him down, why didn't the doctor just do that from the get go? And how does it only work once? And why does he crawl on the walls like an X-Man? Shamylan's assistance on bathos is as baffling as ever, but at least he has some craftsmanship to go with it. 6/10
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Post by moonman157 on Feb 18, 2017 16:08:28 GMT
And why does he crawl on the walls like an X-Man?
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Post by bobbystarks on Feb 18, 2017 18:10:26 GMT
So yeah, The Salesman kicks ass. Goddammit Farhadi, you're officially my favorite writer-director working today. The whole thing was gripping all the way through, INCREDIBLY acted, super well paced (those 2 hours fly by), and Jesus Christ those last 30 minutes were intense as all hell. He put so much moral complexity in such a small amount of time and made me feel every ounce of it. And he does this with every fucking movie I've seen of his.
All I have to say is:
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