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Post by therealcomicman117 on Jan 28, 2019 20:55:14 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 28, 2019 23:55:24 GMT
This was so beautiful.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Feb 18, 2019 22:22:27 GMT
Started off strong but began to lose me more and more as it went one. Lots of genuine beautiful and moving moments through. Some great performances but none that would make my personal lineups (although Brian Tyree Henry probably would if they gave him more than one scene). Definitely don’t think this was robbed by missing BP and BD. I’ll be ok with King winning but I’d much prefer either of the ladies from The Favourite.
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Post by Zeb31 on Feb 26, 2019 2:46:38 GMT
This... this was magnificent.
Just jaw-droppingly beautiful in every way. My God.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Feb 26, 2019 20:19:00 GMT
It was basically a soap opera nicely shot and saturated with fine music up to the point it was like eating cotton candy. Kiki Lane’s acting is way too green, Stephan James is better but they struggle to give individuality to such common characters in common situations, I’d say the biggest attribute of the film are the little hits of the outside world and how affects them. But overall is a very self-consious film, the narration, the stills, King’s trip, Henry scene, doesn’t gel together at the end.
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Post by getclutch on Mar 1, 2019 5:34:35 GMT
The performances are excellent and it's well worth seeing for those, but many of the characters are underdeveloped.
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Post by JangoB on Mar 11, 2019 15:00:31 GMT
Man, does it feel awesome to get back to watching movies after a month without them!
I just wish I loved my return-movie a little bit more than I did. The trailers made it seem like it was gonna be a step-up from the already excellent "Moonlight" for Jenkins but I ended up feeling less impressed by what he did here. This film showcases a sturdier and more precise directorial approach than his Oscar-winning 2016 outing, but it felt to me that Jenkins's pull towards more clearly defined formal qualities took a little something away from the raw emotionality of the story. A lot of the time the movie felt a bit like a high-gloss perfume commercial to me with those countless slow motion shots, carefully lit close-ups and so on. The Wong influence is still very strong with Jenkins but I just wonder whether this was the right material on which to amplify those formal accomplishments so much. Perhaps a simpler aesthetic would've helped the tale of those two young people resonate with me more. And even with that in mind, Jenkins is unfortunately no Wong - the film is very well shot but it's not quite astonishing visually. It's all probably meant to have an absorbing haunting effect but it didn't entirely work for me.
That being said, there's a lot of good in the film too. While some found the two leads to be a bit weak, I couldn't help but feel the love and the connection between them, and performance-wise they did well. My favorite scenes have to do with their families which is something I wish Jenkins would've explored a bit deeper (and which would've made the final scene more powerful). I felt like I was observing a true family unit with the love and devotion to the children being palpable and real. Regina King and Colman Domingo were the total MVPs for me here, providing the heart and wisdom to the piece. And I do have to give Jenkins credit for beautifully crafting the moments of tenderness between the tragic lovebirds. Which is why I wanted him to be less occupied with the aesthetics of it all and dive deeper into the immediacy of the emotion and heartbreak of the characters' plight. "Moonlight" had a wonderful balance of those things but here the weight is pulled more towards the formal aspects, taking a little bit away from the power of the story. But it's still a good picture.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 31, 2019 1:34:35 GMT
This is two hours of pornography. We watch pretty faces look at each other with love in their eyes while bad shit happens to them and the movie hits us over the head with the INJUSTICE THAT BLACK MEN FACE IN 'MURICA!!!!1!1!! It's a movie that hides its lack of three dimensional characters behind the OTT formalism. It hides the lack of real emotion in an overbearing musical score. It hides that it has nothing to say about race behind its insistence on making the audience feel like shit.
Yeah, I hated this one too. Bring it on, 2018! Throw everything at me! I'm a masochist and I can take every First Reformed, Burning, A Star is Born and If Beale Street Could Talk you can supply! I'll never give in, no matter how much critically acclaimed garbage you're full of!
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