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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 6, 2017 17:25:01 GMT
Nocturnal Animals (2016) -- The real plot (the one starring Jake G and Michael Shannon) is ugly and unpleasant and left me feeling dirty. The framing device (starring Amy Adams) had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the other plot, and was as aimless as the core story is ugly. 3/10Julieta (2016) -- This isn't so much one movie as three shorts put together. Trouble is that despite Almodovar using his visual magic, the script is never very interesting; they're all simple drama stories without anything to pull you in outside of Pedro's flashiness. And although that may work for the first two, the last one is such a poorly written mess full of unresolved questions that it damages the goodwill I had towards the rest of the movie. I guess the movie as a whole isn't bad, but it's pretty basic stuff filmed by a very interesting director. 6/10Manchester by the Sea (2016) -- Lee isn't a bad character on the surface, but the movie never truly develops him. He has no arc. He's just a depressed guy and the movie is supposed to be a tearjerker because it shows his life being awful. And all the rest of the characters are simply there to  off of him and show how much his life sucks... except for the kid. Oy vey, the kid. Nothing wrong with Lucas Hedges here, he's fine. It's the script turning him into a bunch of running gags and excuses for jokes that aren't actually funny that ruins him. I would like to see how his father's death actually affects him... but he's just as shallow as Lee. There's never an arc, never any development, just the same guy beginning to end. How did this win a damn Oscar for it's screenplay? 4/10Megan Leavey (2017) -- It's a crowd pleasing, moneymaking true story that is ultimately pretty shallow, but it does a great job with the formula. The early bits of her becoming a Marine and then a K9 handler are a little eye-roll worthy, but when the story moves to Iraq and shows her truly come into her own as someone with a purpose and a job she loves, it shines. Megan's aimlessness upon getting back from Iraq is especially strong, because it shows how easily she sinks back into the life she despised before the Marines, showing her own self-loathing and inadequacies coming back full force as she caves in and lets herself suffer when she has nothing to strive for. And that dichotomy between Megan with a purpose/Megan without a purpose is what makes the film so strong. Sometimes, it's easier to give in and just wait for death, because your enemy is yourself. Only by acknowledging that and actively fighting it every day does Megan come out of her own death and into something resembling life. 7/10
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Post by Film Socialism on Nov 6, 2017 18:24:28 GMT
Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950) - 8, great film that is just so modern feeling throughout, has a lot of eerie vibes as well. would make a great double viewing with Pompeii.
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (Hyams, 2012) - 8, another great film which starts as a somewhat conventional revenge action film yet then goes into an extremely lynch inspired world before concluding with the genre pleasures that it promised at its beginning. crazy film and the best one i saw last week.
Thor: Ragnarok (who cares, 2017) - 4.5 highlight of marvel's latest output i've seen but still heavily derivative and way too long, takes itself too seriously
Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) - 7, kinda fun kinda not
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Post by Miles Morales on Nov 6, 2017 18:31:54 GMT
Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950) - 8, great film that is just so modern feeling throughout, has a lot of eerie vibes as well. would make a great double viewing with Pompeii. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (Hyams, 2012) - 8, another great film which starts as a somewhat conventional revenge action film yet then goes into an extremely lynch inspired world before concluding with the genre pleasures that it promised at its beginning. crazy film and the best one i saw last week. Thor: Ragnarok (who cares, 2017) - 4.5 highlight of marvel's latest output i've seen but still heavily derivative and way too long, takes itself too seriously Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) - 7, kinda fun kinda not Lol, Ragnarok doesn't take itself seriously at all. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2017 18:42:18 GMT
Julien Donkey-Boy- 9.5/10
The Passion of Joan of Arc- 8/10
Greenberg- 7/10
The Crowd- 7/10
The Florida Project- 7/10
Frances Ha- 8/10
A Ghost Story- 7.5/10
Dawn of the Dead (original)- 9/10
Sunrise- 8/10
The Haunting (original)- 7/10
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Post by Deceit on Nov 6, 2017 19:43:17 GMT
Videodrome (re watch) - 8.5/10
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (re watch) - 8.5/10
Black Moon (1970) - 8/10
Eyes Without a Face - 8/10
Frances Ha - 9/10
The Squid and the Whale - 9.5/10
Eraserhead (re watch) - 9.5/10
The Color of Pomegranates - 9.5/10
Audition - 9.5/10
Cannibal Holocasut - 6/10
The Burning - 7.5/10
Freaks - 7.5/10
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Post by oneflyr on Nov 6, 2017 19:57:24 GMT
Evil Dead II - 7
The Man Who Sleeps - 5
Brief Crossing - 8 hard to think of anyone who explores sexual relationships and sexuality in general better than Breillat
The Lost City of Z - 9
Good Time - 7
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Post by Sharbs on Nov 6, 2017 20:02:52 GMT
The Wolf of Wall Street [re-watch] (2013) - 10/10
The Counselor (2013) - 6.5/10
Bloody Sunday (2002) - 8.5/10
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) - 6/10
Deep Red (1975) - 8/10
Spirited Away (2001) - 9/10
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - 7/10
I Am Love (2010) - 7/10
America (1924) - 4.5/10
Lake Mungo (2008) - 6.5/10
The Florida Project (2017) - 9/10
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - 7/10
Princess Mononoke (1997) - 8.5/10
Free State of Jones (2016) - 6/10
Free Fire [re-watch] (2017) - 7/10
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) - 6/10
The Shining [re-watch] (1980) - 10/10
The Lost City of Z [re-watch] (2017) - 8/10
Ponyo (2008) - 6/10
We Own the Night [re-watch] (2007) - 8.5/10
In the Mood for Love [re-watch] (2000) - 9.5/10
Cutthroat Island (1995) - 4.5/10
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) - 8/10
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Post by Sharbs on Nov 6, 2017 20:08:07 GMT
Thor: Ragnarok (who cares, 2017) - 4.5 highlight of marvel's latest output i've seen but still heavily derivative and way too long, takes itself too seriously just out of curiosity, how does these differ from other Vulgar Auteuristic(?) works say Bay or Snyder that you seem to be championing? Not saying I disagree because most everything Marvel has been really bland recently, just don't agree on this one. |
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Post by Film Socialism on Nov 7, 2017 3:53:43 GMT
Thor: Ragnarok (who cares, 2017) - 4.5 highlight of marvel's latest output i've seen but still heavily derivative and way too long, takes itself too seriously just out of curiosity, how does these differ from other Vulgar Auteuristic(?) works say Bay or Snyder that you seem to be championing? Not saying I disagree because most everything Marvel has been really bland recently, just don't agree on this one. this is going to be kinda hard to adequately put into words but i'll try take a recent bay film. Transformers 5 is a good one for example. i don't think this is a great film by any means, but i do like it. the reason where i think this succeeds and something like a marvel film falters is because marvel's films are calculated and try too hard to compromise in a way. something like a huge budget bay film feels entirely of his own vision and there's a purity in something like that (and a pwsa Resident Evil film, and a snyder adaptation, and a lucas prequel, and what else have you) and how it treats itself entirely as a genre film rather than some fusion piece that i really admire. because, on every level really, there isn't anything more realistic or not-silly about Thor: Ragnarok and The Dark Knight Rises than there is in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter or Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, but because the mode that these studio films tend to play out in is one that tries to create a coherent drama comedy scifi spectacle as opposed to something absolutely batshit (which is what i would describe most VA films as). Thor doesn't work on a dramatic level compared to actually great dramatic films (i would say this is true for films by VA directors as well), anything it has to say conceptually seems to be by accident, it isn't funny, and it really doesn't feel like a genre film because it's too busy trying to do all these other things at once. but where this ambition feels invigorating in something like Pirates 3 it just comes across as overly compensating in something like a marvel film. i phrased this horribly but i'm currently writing a piece on the latest Resident Evil film which will hopefully put my words better |
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Post by Film Socialism on Nov 7, 2017 3:56:34 GMT
Stromboli (Rossellini, 1950) - 8, great film that is just so modern feeling throughout, has a lot of eerie vibes as well. would make a great double viewing with Pompeii. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (Hyams, 2012) - 8, another great film which starts as a somewhat conventional revenge action film yet then goes into an extremely lynch inspired world before concluding with the genre pleasures that it promised at its beginning. crazy film and the best one i saw last week. Thor: Ragnarok (who cares, 2017) - 4.5 highlight of marvel's latest output i've seen but still heavily derivative and way too long, takes itself too seriously Blazing Saddles (Brooks, 1974) - 7, kinda fun kinda not Lol, Ragnarok doesn't take itself seriously at all. that's why there's a huge dramatic ending about how that city is the people not the location or w/e and the whole movie appeals to nationalism on a v serious level, i mean these films definitely take themselves seriously. they aren't campy, they are very concerned with the actual dramatic aspects of their stories (though not to the extent that fucking Guardians of the Galaxy is luckily), i mean something like Army of Darkness doesn't take itself seriously. but this film surely does. |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Nov 7, 2017 5:22:23 GMT
My time is absolutely consumed between work, school, and maintaining something vaguely resembling a social life so all I watched this past week was a re-watch of Army of Darkness (surprisingly not the first mention of that film on this thread) which was fun if not the superb bit of genre entertainment that its direct predecessor is.
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Post by Pavan on Nov 7, 2017 6:28:39 GMT
The Rite (2011)- 5.5/10
Trick 'r' Treat (2007)- 6/10
The Howling (1981)- 6/10
The Beguiled (2017)- 8/10
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)- 7.5/10
A Ghost Story (2017)- 8/10
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)- 7/10
Wind River (2017)- 7.5/10
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Post by ibbi on Nov 7, 2017 20:25:37 GMT
Ragnarok, which I liked, The Death of Stalin which I loooooved, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer which made me need to take a shower.
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Post by mhynson27 on Nov 8, 2017 2:43:15 GMT
and The Killing of a Sacred Deer which made me need to take a shower. Without going into spoilers, what does this mean? |
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Post by stephen on Nov 8, 2017 4:41:08 GMT
The Glass Castle: This movie is the cinematic equivalent of temporary insanity at the workplace.
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 8, 2017 6:10:18 GMT
The Glass Castle: This movie is the cinematic equivalent of temporary insanity at the workplace. Do elaborate. I can't quite make sense of that line. |
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off of him and show how much his life sucks... except for the kid. Oy vey, the kid. Nothing wrong with Lucas Hedges here, he's fine. It's the script turning him into a bunch of running gags and excuses for jokes that aren't actually funny that ruins him. I would like to see how his father's death actually affects him... but he's just as shallow as Lee. There's never an arc, never any development, just the same guy beginning to end. How did this win a damn Oscar for it's screenplay? 4/10
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