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Post by Nikan on Aug 7, 2021 9:12:13 GMT
Nice, informative series this seems.
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Post by Nikan on Aug 10, 2021 5:18:54 GMT
Random, but had to post this.
Think how a "walk into a superiors room" could be filmed any differently at this point...it's hilarious too. The camera, the sound of steps, the editing, the lighting, the acting... *chef's kiss*
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Post by Nikan on Sept 10, 2021 18:53:09 GMT
Uh-oh.
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Post by Nikan on Sept 23, 2021 12:59:33 GMT
Props to him for trying not to spoil the bloody Psycho at this day and age
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Post by Nikan on Feb 16, 2022 9:49:34 GMT
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Post by Nikan on Mar 13, 2022 19:55:05 GMT
How Glengarry Glen Ross evokes our ugliest, yet truest feelings... the fact that it's the motherfucker of all "actors movies" is just beside the point.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 13, 2022 20:20:50 GMT
How Glengarry Glen Ross evokes our ugliest, yet truest feelings... the fact that it's the motherfucker of all "actors movies" is just beside the point. That was a great analysis vid. I've seen GGR a lot on stage - with a lot of big actors and it's amazing how much better the film is - and I've never seen a bad version of the play either - it's just that the movie is uncanny and cuts so much harder. Besides being one of the best acted films - it also could be studied for its cast and the casting - all 7 main performers are either Oscar winners (6 wins) or Oscar nominees (29 nominations across the 7 actors ?!?) and also 6 Tony wins across them also.........that has to be the most impressive complete cast of actors ever assembled Interesting side note : Paul Newman came very close to playing Levene - like they were ready to roll with him in the role and he dropped out at the last minute but you can't imagine him playing it - or I can't - after seeing Lemmon..........that whole cast is perfect because everybody fits the role but adds something to the role at the same time. They are all in such a zone.......
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Post by Nikan on Mar 13, 2022 20:35:00 GMT
How Glengarry Glen Ross evokes our ugliest, yet truest feelings... the fact that it's the motherfucker of all "actors movies" is just beside the point. That was a great analysis vid. I've seen GGR a lot on stage - with a lot of big actors and it's amazing how much better the film is - and I've never seen a bad version of the play either - it's just that the movie is uncanny and cuts so much harder. Besides being one of the best acted films - it also could be studied for its cast and the casting - all 7 main performers are either Oscar winners (6 wins) or Oscar nominees (29 nominations across the 7 actors ?!?) and also 6 Tony wins across them also.........that has to be the most impressive complete cast of actors ever assembled Interesting side note : Paul Newman came very close to playing Levene - like they were ready to roll with him in the role and he dropped out at the last minute but you can't imagine him playing it - or I can't - after seeing Lemmon..........that whole cast is perfect because everybody fits the role but adds something to the role at the same time. They are all in such a zone....... It's one of those rare ones for sure. My personal ranking of the boys change every.single.time (The video also made me realize how many neat close-ups there are in it)... The fact that Newman dropped out in the final moments honestly sounds like a blessing to me. It may have been interesting to see what he'd do with a character like this but come on... he looked too "royal" to be here, while Lemmon is too perfect. *Have you seen the version with Pacino featuring as Shelly by any chance?
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Post by Barbie on Mar 16, 2022 21:02:57 GMT
Me reading this thread bc I’m such a pleb when it comes to film analysis:
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Post by Drish on Mar 16, 2022 21:29:48 GMT
Me reading this thread bc I’m such a pleb when it comes to film analysis: Omg same here! It's like I've so much to say about the film but I never find words to frame it eloquently like so many of the great writers here.
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Post by Barbie on Mar 16, 2022 22:43:19 GMT
Me reading this thread bc I’m such a pleb when it comes to film analysis: Omg same here! It's like I've so much to say about the film but I never find words to frame it eloquently like so many of the great writers here. I’ve also forgotten stuff I learned in English/Language Arts classes in grade school. Like all the shit we learned when we wrote book reports (which I hated), I forgot 😂😭
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Post by SZilla on Mar 18, 2022 5:20:47 GMT
Great informative and levelheaded video critiquing the Disney Star Wars trilogy. Puts a lot of my feelings about the new trilogy into words better than I could come up with. It's certainly a more specific video, but I think a lot can be gleaned from this video's explanations of the mistakes of Disney's Star Wars, and to its credit it's also told in a clear and casual way, rather than the angry manner that I've seen a lot of new Star Wars critiques go with.
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Post by Nikan on Mar 18, 2022 7:13:37 GMT
Here lies my problem with The Power of the Dog (or rather, the acclaim it's getting) btw - beyond it's little surprises (as for where it's plot is headed) and wasting Kristen Dunst, at it's center replacing the myth of the west with closeted homosexual relationships is the only thing it got going on for it (or all I got from it, though I don't think I'm missing much else)... and Ang Lee did that better 20 years ago anyway.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 18, 2022 11:23:35 GMT
Here lies my problem with The Power of the Dog (or rather, the acclaim it's getting) btw - beyond it's little surprises (as for where it's plot is headed) and wasting Kristen Dunst, at it's center replacing the myth of the west with closeted homosexual relationships is the only thing it got going on for it (or all I got from it, though I don't think I'm missing much else)... and Ang Lee did that better 20 years ago anyway. This was an interesting video which I agreed with and disagreed with in equal measure. The commentator is Andrew Klavan who wrote (adapted) a personal pacinoyes favorite movie A Shock To The System with Michael Caine - and who I suppose people on here will dismiss as a Right Wing loony (he's not, he's just a conservative Republican - they are people too yanno ). He's mostly right about Tarantino but mostly wrong about De Palma and Hitchcock - or not wrong but incomplete - I've talked about how Hitchcock's imitators created a new culture of film that went beyond Hitchcock ( De Palma, Argento, Chabrol, Polanski) and they did - but to call it a "degraded culture" merely because it's a copy - is stretching it I think - and he cherry picks Obsession to prove his point but not Dressed To Kill which would disprove it. However, I get the "general" point and I'd like to give a similar example that proves his points - and how film in general can become a trap in "reflecting the culture" and "guiding the culture" : Serpico, The French Connection, Se7en, Fargo, NCFOM are all "great" movies 30+ years apart - which were big hits - which show the cops as heroes yet when you reflect back on them you remember their failure - which has a corrosive effect - the cops can never win because there's so much evil in the world, criminals can never be stopped because there's so many kinds of evil to do........the audience tacitly aspire to be the criminal in some way. it is almost incomprehensible to make a movie about a cop as a hero ........or a good honest cop...... It's a cultural trend that is obviously wrong or exaggerated to be a "lie" - yet the movies present it as "profound" - the same way that movies portray the suburbs as dull or "hiddenly" evil (which David Lynch "started", but it isn't his "fault") - because to portray them as anything else would be to encourage their most troubling aspects to some - white, wealth, family, marriage, privilege. I would love to see a movie - set in the present day US - about a heroic cop who lives in the suburbs with a nice marriage amd kids - yeah right - and you just CAN'T make it in 2022 - yet people come on here all the time and talk about how "daring" PTA, Nolan, Scorsese, Spike Lee are - they are not (or at least not in the way that "experts" sell what is "daring" to you) -even though I like a lot of their work. Whenever there's a "type" of movie that CAN'T be made .........you will have what Klavan is talking about here - whether you like a specific movie or not (I had TPoTD as my #3 of 2021 but it is a deconstruction of a type - where the type it's deconstructing no longer even exists to modern audiences - which raises the whole question - how important was the "classic" Western anyway?) ........ It matters a whole lot that Peter kills Phil - the whole point of the dramatic arc - while Phil has no wife or any children who will be turned into a widow and grieving family - I mean I praised the script a lot in my review ..........and even I think that let's the audience off the hook at the same time it stacks the deck........ Movies stack the deck like this ALL the time - and not just Hollywood movies - Parasite - an even better movie than TPoTD imo - does it with utterly stupid narrative points - letting the housekeeper back in the house, literally ignoring your dying IN FRONT OF YOU daughter which no father has ever done in the history of the world - EVER - but sells the social class struggle so well by having those points couched deep within the narrative - so much so that the audience will tie itself in knots justifying those stupid script choices (and that's fine, I do that same thing with DePalma ...........constantly ).
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Post by Nikan on Mar 18, 2022 13:25:34 GMT
Here lies my problem with The Power of the Dog (or rather, the acclaim it's getting) btw - beyond it's little surprises (as for where it's plot is headed) and wasting Kristen Dunst, at it's center replacing the myth of the west with closeted homosexual relationships is the only thing it got going on for it (or all I got from it, though I don't think I'm missing much else)... and Ang Lee did that better 20 years ago anyway. Serpico, The French Connection, Se7en, Fargo, NCFOM are all "great" movies 30+ years apart - which were big hits - which show the cops as heroes yet when you reflect back on them you remember their failure - which has a corrosive effect - the cops can never win because there's so much evil in the world, criminals can never be stopped because there's so many kinds of evil to do........the audience tacitly aspire to be the criminal in some way. it is almost incomprehensible to make a movie about a cop as a hero ........or a good honest cop...... I would love to see a movie - set in the present day US - about a heroic cop who lives in the suburbs with a nice marriage amd kids - yeah right - and you just CAN'T make it in 2022 - yet people come on here all the time and talk about how "daring" PTA, Nolan, Scorsese, Spike Lee are - they are not (or at least not in the way that "experts" sell what is "daring" to you) -even though I like a lot of their work. Whenever there's a "type" of movie that CAN'T be made .........you will have what Klavan is talking about here - whether you like a specific movie or not (I had TPoTD as my #3 of 2021 but it is a deconstruction of a type - where the type it's deconstructing no longer even exists to modern audiences - which raises the whole question - how important was the "classic" Western anyway?) ........ It matters a whole lot that Peter kills Phil - the whole point of the dramatic arc - while Phil has no wife or any children who will be turned into a widow and grieving family - I mean I praised the script a lot in my review ..........and even I think that let's the audience off the hook at the same time it stacks the deck........Your last bit puts it in words perfectly...and I'm going to continue my day thinking if Brooklyn Nine-Nine could be considered more "daring" than Scorsese. who knew... For real though, wonder where the Arts go from "deconstruction" now; what next chapter is left there to be explored......
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Post by SZilla on Mar 29, 2022 18:31:21 GMT
Video on the cinematography of The Batman. Goes into some interesting detail on the lenses and what exactly they do. Neat stuff
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Post by Nikan on Apr 1, 2022 10:27:21 GMT
Another one from Klavan. It's not a new argument at all and I'm usually fond of Spielberg.... but hey when is jabbing at a famous director not fun!
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Post by Nikan on Apr 10, 2022 7:43:55 GMT
Any other film butchered in it's theatrical release at this level?
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Post by Nikan on Apr 16, 2022 20:02:51 GMT
"Whose film is it anyway?": on our interpretations
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 17, 2022 8:13:08 GMT
"Whose film is it anyway?": on our interpretations That's a great clip and in The Irishman there are several scenes that play with interpretation besides that one from a filmmaking or thematic frame of reference.........which reminds me - those oranges in The Godfather movies - they totally mean something ammiright? Oh and what about the end of Taxi Driver - is that a dream or really happening - I mean I'm sure people totally agree on that 100% (um)............no matter what Paul Schrader says.......I mean, fncking writers ...........pffft
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Post by Nikan on Apr 18, 2022 7:31:53 GMT
pacinoyes I think some readings are somewhat more correct that others though (and yes, definitely not writers' you're kidding?)... I watch The Power of the Dog let's say and form a reading / opinion on it, then I see Armond White begin his take on it like this: Now that's a strong use of (or playing with) language; from a guy who has participated in detailed queer-representation discussions more than me, has seen more films etc... I don't buy it wholeheartedly yet ("It's not ANY woman it's his mother ffs") but it's still a fascinating accusation... His politics do get in the way he consumes movies (isn't that the case with everyone though?) and maybe he attacks the filmmakers' character with other intentions I don't know... but his opinion starts to affect mine a little, especially when the next day Campion calls Sam Elliot a B-I-T-C-H or something like that (because God forbid someone says anything less-than-stellar about your film) part of me does go "well maybe White was up to something" trying to make her look like she's in a protected-from-criticism circle... no one's perspective is "complete"/out-of-the-questions but some people's are... closer to the work's "truth" if that makes sense... the reasons could vary. You may understand Scorsese's Catholicism (enough even to call it's BS, read it in a way he didn't intent to) or Olive Stone's leanings somewhat "better" if you're American, or more well-read than general audiences, and so on....... anyway having a nice day aren't we?
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Post by Nikan on May 2, 2022 14:03:51 GMT
I'm addicted to Jesse Tribble. Original, informative takes (especially on Watchmen and House M.D) without sounding somewhat annoying like many other channels like his... This might interest you Martin Stett
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Post by Nikan on May 7, 2022 19:40:38 GMT
There's a good chance that y'all are familiar with the YourMovieSucks channel... this might just be Adum's masterpiece. A Complete feast of deconstructing a shameless cash-grab, and how "little things" make all the differences when you're (re)telling a story...
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Post by Nikan on May 27, 2022 20:45:33 GMT
Let it be pain then...
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 27, 2022 18:35:25 GMT
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