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Post by mhynson27 on Sept 18, 2022 19:36:10 GMT
Women Talking Sooo good, but the fuck was that cinematography/colour grading??? Buckley MVP I've seen many a person mention the visually flawed nature of the film - what exactly is the deal there? Is it basically ugly digital with all the color drawn out? Or does the movie actually have a look but just a dark and unpleasant one? (I understand that I'll see that for myself when the trailer comes out but I'd like to know your opinion ) The saturation is just really dull and grey. Which apparantley was a specific creative thematic choice from Polley, but it just doesn't work at all imo.
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Post by JangoB on Sept 18, 2022 19:49:41 GMT
I've seen many a person mention the visually flawed nature of the film - what exactly is the deal there? Is it basically ugly digital with all the color drawn out? Or does the movie actually have a look but just a dark and unpleasant one? (I understand that I'll see that for myself when the trailer comes out but I'd like to know your opinion ) The saturation is just really dull and grey. Which apparantley was a specific creative thematic choice from Polley, but it just doesn't work at all imo. Thanks mate! I personally found Away From Her to be pretty ugly from a visual standpoint as well so I'm not that surprised.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Sept 18, 2022 22:14:10 GMT
The Woman King - Gina Prince-Bythewood doing her best Ridley Scott impression. And it pays off like gangbusters.
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Post by stabcaesar on Sept 19, 2022 16:36:10 GMT
Written on the Wind (1956) - It's so goddamn soapy but I can't say I didn't enjoy the shit out of it lmao. Dorothy Malone was MVP with a bullet. 7/10. Romeo and Juliet (1968) - I like the production value of this film. The costume design in particular is quite immaculate. The problem though is Romeo and Juliet in itself is too exhausting and stupid a story for me to enjoy any of its adaptations, especially one that stays so true to the original play. 5.5/10. Sunflower (1970) - Story-wise it's a standard war-torn love story, but holy fuck, Loren and Mastroianni made me aaaaaache. I even thought the Russian woman was spectacular in her few brief scenes. The final 20 minutes or so were beyond devastating. 8.5-9/10.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 19, 2022 19:02:27 GMT
Pleasure (2021). I think I need a long cold shower.
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Post by Pavan on Sept 19, 2022 19:35:29 GMT
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)-
Weird, goofy, a little gross but very creative and offers lots of fun with a heartfelt ending. Deftly touches the macro and the micro. Michelle Yeoh is fantastic. One of the year's best films- 8/10
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Post by Miles Morales on Sept 19, 2022 22:36:49 GMT
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)- Weird, goofy, a little gross but very creative and offers lots of fun with a heartfelt ending. Deftly touches the macro and the micro. Michelle Yeoh is fantastic. One of the year's best films- 8/10 Was there any weird censorship? Thinking of rewatching it with my sister in theatres today.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 20, 2022 1:59:40 GMT
Pearl. That monologue!!!
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Post by Javi on Sept 20, 2022 18:36:44 GMT
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) - 4/10 Nope (2022) - 3/10 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) - 2/10I think, if someone from the past (or future) had the misfortune of watching these 3 in a row, they might have no choice but to conclude the 2020s were the dumbest movie era of all-time. All 3 are fashionable hackjobs - shiny, expensive-looking (though they might be cheaply made), incoherent, "meta" or "philosophically" hip. They're upfront about their bad taste and their crummy so-smart-it-hurts ideas to as to free themselves of criticism. If they're self-conscious, it's because they're in the know... Of the directors involved, only George Miller has any talent, making his failure the most embarrassing though the movie is the least bad. Who imagines let alone visualizes Solomon's court like this? Why does the Ottoman Empire look like a sauna in a videogame? Modern mysteries for modern times? Hollywood hokum isn't new - but I'll take De Mille's fake "ancient" backgrounds over Miller's digital orgies every time. More importantly, how does an "ode to storytelling" function without a story? I like to think Miller is so consumed by Mad Max he's incapable of doing anything else properly. Nope has cool-looking night scenes.... that's all I can coherently say about it. Is Peele gently mocking Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Are the aliens a metaphor for consumerism and/or "white" spectacle? Even spelling out the "enigmas" make one cringe. At least Get Out was moderately amusing. Still, what beats the Gen Z version of existentialism aka Everything Everywhere Etcetera Etcetera aka a sentimental idiot's fusion of Sartre/Camus/Lovecraft/The Matrix? The movie says the universe is relativistic but it can be navigated by love. It also delights in a cosmicist view - human beings are puny specks of crap in an overwhelmingly vast universe - what used to be the mantra of depressed teenagers becomes, depressingly, the mantra for all. It certainly seems written, directed and edited by a teenager - possibly a teenager hooked on Marvel and ashamed of it. Like many a self-help book, it's really about understanding what your teenage daughter's going through. A hip "enlightened" movie like this may not be English-centric (it has a few subtitles!) or male-centric or white-centric or even geocentric, but it's certainly emotion-centric: it says that salvation is in your immediate emotions; "feeling" is the center of the universe. That's exactly what soap operas have been saying all along, and they weren't nearly as insufferable about it. I wish I could enjoy Michelle Yeoh's performance, but no superhero could handle the amount of crap thrown at her. (And I thought the 2010s were bad )
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Post by mhynson27 on Sept 21, 2022 4:18:24 GMT
Analyze This
Watched this in halves on 2 different flights, 2 weeks apart.
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Post by Miles Morales on Sept 22, 2022 11:59:05 GMT
Everything Everywhere All at Once (rewatch) - 10/10
Had to wait six months before it arrived in Indian theatres but it was absolutely fucking worth it. Even better the second time and it plays so so good on the big screen. Absolute cinema.
I also loved the fact that the only thing censored was "bitch" while the dildo/buttplug fights and multiple "fucks" were passed through the censors lmao.
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Post by Pavan on Sept 22, 2022 17:38:05 GMT
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)- Weird, goofy, a little gross but very creative and offers lots of fun with a heartfelt ending. Deftly touches the macro and the micro. Michelle Yeoh is fantastic. One of the year's best films- 8/10 Was there any weird censorship? Thinking of rewatching it with my sister in theatres today. I don't remember any abrupt cuts or mutes.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Sept 22, 2022 17:47:44 GMT
The Banshees of Inisherin Fecking hell, this was brilliant. Is it more like In Bruges or 3 Billboards?
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Post by Miles Morales on Sept 22, 2022 20:31:32 GMT
Was there any weird censorship? Thinking of rewatching it with my sister in theatres today. I don't remember any abrupt cuts or mutes. Yeah there were no censors in my screening either, apart from "bitch" being bleeped (which is hilarious since they kept the multiple F-bombs intact). If Palhaj Nilahani was still in charge there's simply no way this would pass the censors, a concern that Anurag Kashyap had.
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Post by mhynson27 on Sept 23, 2022 5:08:20 GMT
The Banshees of Inisherin Fecking hell, this was brilliant. Is it more like In Bruges or 3 Billboards? I mean honestly, definitely has elements of both. But I guess In Bruges.
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Post by Barbie on Sept 25, 2022 6:45:52 GMT
Everything Everywhere All At Once - 5/10
this is a stupid movie filled with the cringiest humor. It’s corny but they think it’s edgy or rather so out there just bc they used buttplugs and dildos. I saw a comment that said it felt like 2014 atheist humor and Reddit humor, yeah I see that
The only good part of this movie is the acting particularly from Yeoh, Ke Huay Quan, and Stephanie Hsu
Sorry to say but I feel like some people including critics on Twitter hyping this movie to high heavens are doing so only bc of ~representation~ bc it’s a story about an Asian family and the cast is diverse. It’s tokenization, and I fucking hate that bullshit
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Post by popperthekungfudragn on Sept 25, 2022 15:29:19 GMT
Ghost Story (1981, John Irvin) FTV - 4.5/10
In spite of the four Hollywood legends in the lead, I didn't really care for this one. I found the novel pretty boring and the film was even worse.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Sept 25, 2022 19:15:56 GMT
Deliver Us From Evil - Take all the horror movie clichés and add in all the cop movie ones as well. Wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so damn boring.
Speak No Evil - Awkward moments =/= horror!!! Fucking hell, people! STOP! Then of course once it actually evolves into a horror film, it's got the most boneheaded, stupid premise you could imagine.
Vengeance - This was pretty darn good. The WhatABurger bits were absolutely hysterical. Boyd Holbrook is easily the MVP.
Motherly - I liked it. A few twists and turns kept me on my toes... I'm pretty good at predicting what's going to happen with a horror movie, but I didn't see some of this coming.
Blood Punch - I know relive-the-day movies are repetitive by nature, but holy hell this one was just like "COME ON END ALREADY".
The Haunting of the Murder House - Twitch streamers in a haunted house. Starts off okay enough but then once the possession happens, it's just one bad decision after another.
Low Life - Youtuber making gotcha videos and things go south. Sounded like a cool premise, but ultimately just turns into your standard Tarantino wannabe fare.
Killer Concept - Incel: The Motion Picture. Tries to be funny, but isn't. Tries to be scary, but isn't. For a film where they are constantly heaping praise at how smart the one lead is, she turns out to be dumber than a bag of gravel at the end.
Jamie Marks is Dead - At some points in this, I kind of wished I were dead.
Raven's Hallow - So Edgar Allen Poe is the main character in this and that gave me some real hype when I put this on... it is a pox on Edgar Allen Poe.
Pet - Incel: A Lifetime Movie Event. The trailer for this was so damn misleading! I thought it was going to be a cat and mouse game but is really just a horny dude taking a hot serial killer hostage. Oh yeah, she's a serial killer too...
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Post by stabcaesar on Sept 26, 2022 16:43:00 GMT
Seven Samurai - Parts of it I really liked (the flower field for example was stunning) and I thought all (at least most) of the samurai were quite fleshed-out. Still, like other Kurosawa movies, I found the narrative clunky and fractured. Idk if it's his style or it's just me, this problem always makes it difficult for me to enjoy his work, and it's particularly jarring in this case as this movie is really fucking long.
I also really dislike Mifune in this film. I know people love him but I thought he was just noisy and annoying
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 27, 2022 16:17:01 GMT
Speak No Evil (2022) - ~ 7 / 10 but........I'd be really curious of how MAR sees this movie - especially the horror fans........because it is quite accomplished - all reservations aside - and I have a bunch...... Very well made Danish horror film - mostly in English - that is exceedingly cold, clinical and cruel - that is essentially a familial version of (the infinitely better) Spoorloos - but without that film's logical psychology and recognizable, incremental behavior patterns. Speak No Evil is the kind of movie - cold, clinical, unforgiving - that argues - you should never talk to anybody - I mean it - ever - the world is a hellish, horrible place and if you make the mistake to act reasonable and human - you'll pay for it - in a way that misanthropic sociopaths will tell you is profound. That's not Art - that's sophistry - right down to the big ending line that people will quote - which I take as darkly funny but I think people will take as "holy shit!" stuff. Constructed artificially to appear "simple but complex" - it then layers improbabilities on each other specifically to get you pissed off - and then as you get pissed off the movie wants to drag you over to its "side" where it's safe......and you win......and which maybe means you were already on it anyway because sure everybody likes to win. I'm saying it works as a slow burn - but only once - and as you get away from it - you'll remember it working less than it actually does.......and certainly less than fnckin Spoorloos ffs which was built on the foundation of human truths - not half-baked societal commentaries which this movie can't then imbue with logical drama to make you not see the many seams in its construction. Still - if movies are too nice for you in 2022 - and they have been - this might be the bracing stiff drink you need - just as long as you don't overrate it.........which a lot of people will.......especially people who say stupid shit like "I don't like horror movies but you know I really liked Speak No Evil" But, this is something and it will stick to with you.....and it's hard to shake off.....
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Sept 27, 2022 18:34:56 GMT
Speak No Evil (2022) - ~ 7 / 10 but........I'd be really curious of how MAR sees this movie - especially the horror fans........because it is quite accomplished - all reservations aside - and I have a bunch...... Very well made Danish horror film - mostly in English - that is exceedingly cold, clinical and cruel - that is essentially a familial version of (the infinitely better) Spoorloos - but without that film's logical psychology and recognizable, incremental behavior patterns. Speak No Evil is the kind of movie - cold, clinical, unforgiving - that argues - you should never talk to anybody - I mean it - ever - the world is a hellish, horrible place and if you make the mistake to act reasonable and human - you'll pay for it - in a way that misanthropic sociopaths will tell you is profound. That's not Art - that's sophistry - right down to the big ending line that people will quote - which I take as darkly funny but I think people will take as "holy shit!" stuff. Constructed artificially to appear "simple but complex" - it then layers improbabilities on each other specifically to get you pissed off - and then as you get pissed off the movie wants to drag you over to its "side" where it's safe......and you win......and which maybe means you were already on it anyway because sure everybody likes to win. I'm saying it works as a slow burn - but only once - and as you get away from it - you'll remember it working less than it actually does.......and certainly less than fnckin Spoorloos ffs which was built on the foundation of human truths - not half-baked societal commentaries which this movie can't then imbue with logical drama to make you not see the many seams in its construction. Still - if movies are too nice for you in 2022 - and they have been - this might be the bracing stiff drink you need - just as long as you don't overrate it.........which a lot of people will.......especially people who say stupid shit like "I don't like horror movies but you know I really liked Speak No Evil" But, this is something and it will stick to with you.....and it's hard to shake off..... Pssh. It was crap!
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 28, 2022 20:02:45 GMT
2015 Scavenger Hunt #2
Heart Attack (Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit) This movie could never have come out of the Hollywood machine (independent or mainstream lines). For better or for worse, it is undeniably its own beast, merging crowd pleasing romantic comedy with a harsh character study of a driven athlete. The plot follows a graphic artist named Yoon (Sunny Suwanmethanont), who is so deeply invested in delivering the best work possible that he is able and willing to stay up for four days straight to get a project delivered to a client on time and in the best quality anyone could manage. Heck, he's giddy at the thought: every client is the client of a lifetime, and he's the star that will make their magazine or album covers sell. His issue isn't that he can't afford to slack off: it's that slacking off is a betrayal of the standards he has set for himself. So when an annoying rash begins slowing down his work and removing his concentration, it's akin to Usain Bolt tearing an ACL. He goes to doctors (covertly - he can't let any of his clients know that he's having health issues or he'd lose his business) hoping for a magic bullet to solve all his problems, but instead he gets Imm (Davika Hoorne), a doctor that tells him to lay off the work a little. Take a day off, do something fun, because your body is literally trying to kill you out of revenge for what you're doing to it. But his job is fun. He loves working. Every part of his identity is wrapped up in doing the best work possible. Not one of the top five or someone you get as a second choice, but the best and the fastest and the most reliable. But the doctor is cute, and a one-sided romance begins to play out where he attempts to follow the doctor's orders simply out of a desire to impress her. How hard can it be to actually sleep for eight hours a night or to exercise for thirty minutes a day? He can just... work extra hard to make up for the time lost. Right? The interplay between goofy romance and character study gives the film its unique flavor, but that doesn't necessarily make it a great film. It's a cute one, for sure. I smiled a lot and had some decent laughs (every appearance of one particular character kept me chuckling), and the portrait of a man obsessed with his job is believable enough... but I'm not sure it meshed together all that well. There are two movies here uneasily existing together and occasionally trying to meet halfway, and both of them are fine by themselves. Together, they're... still fine? But I don't really see this as anything more than a curiosity that mixes romantic comedy tropes into a more serious story in a way that isn't seen inside of Hollywood. But you know what? I have nothing against curiosities. But I fail to see why these two elements were brought together in the same movie, aside from Thamrongrattanarit trying it out to see what would happen.
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Post by wilcinema on Sept 29, 2022 18:31:26 GMT
Smile: Really good, honestly. Sosie Bacon is great and the direction is tight and atmospheric. It's not the most original horror out there but it definitely works, and I also loved the ending.
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Post by Miles Morales on Sept 29, 2022 19:43:38 GMT
Avatar - 8.5/10
Seeing this in IMAX 3D is an otherworldly experience.
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Post by Miles Morales on Sept 30, 2022 18:29:06 GMT
Last Year at Marienbad - 10/10
This could've been prevented if the Salgaonkar family was there to remind them about what happened at Marienbad in 1928.
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