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books are better for sci-fi i think. using your imagination is 1000% more effective than any FX budget.
no. using your own imagination is basically replacing the artist, it's stupid. i guess there's stuff that you can't do in film, but where images, sound and the sense of experience matters (like pretty much all the time) books are quite inept. it's mostly the technical/cost issues that are the reasons for the common "oh, but you can't really compare a film to a book" book hipster retorts. films to books is like notation to actual, recorded musical performance.
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don't know where else to post it but i almost died just reading the headline:
https://pitchfork.com/news/sigur-ros-under-investigation-for-tax-evasion-report/
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just seen it. felt very sharply divided to 2/3 and a 1/3, and i thought the first two thirds were a poorly conceived. despite having a bit of an off kilter feel which i liked, it mostly seemed like it just had some tasks to fulfill. some exposition, some important lines of dialogue, a few cool scenes, a bunch of tropey horror/thriller scenes, a bunch of annoying, inter-cutting flash backs to reveal portman's character some more. all of it just didn't amount to some kind of enveloping, cinematic experience that i think was called for. maybe it was overly compressed or something because i'm sure there's much more to other characters in the book than what they are in the film. their journey in the shimmer is probably much more detailed and developed and doesn't feel like jumping from one highlight to another.
but the last third is just hands down stunning and completely disarms any criticism. the accompanying score is equally amazing, especially during the part with the alien blob expanding/evolving. from the music i know i think only autechre sometimes approach that level of complete otherworldliness. so thanks to the strength of that last third it did leave me quite impressed overall, there's a strange aftertaste after you've done with it.
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star wars 8 - the whole rey and ren convo and her exploration of the asshole of the dark force was probably the most interesting and original thing in the whole star wars franchise. that sequence with the mirrors and shit and her suddenly switching to narrating her own experience as if in some kind of altered state but which turned out to be a dialogue with ren was unexpectedly brilliant, it was like some actual thought and inspiration was involved in that. besides that it's all complete tedium and checking the "things that have to be in the star wars film to optimize profits" checklist. it's like the only sensible tactic the resistance can come up with is suicide, so we get to experience pretty much 3 identical climaxes just with 3 different settings, and that's probably like half of the film alone. the awful cgi camel stampede, benicio del torro, laura dern, the ethnic diversity chick - all awful, miscast and pointless.
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the towels are killing me
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did a gallbladder removal operation yesterday (fucking stones) and my anesthesiologist's name was Dr. Noob (really), though it's actually possible that his is pronounced as Knob.
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yeah, that was a funny choice for a climatic scene.
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thelma - kinda blueballed after watching this, expected more from these two guys. visually it's very pretty and elegant, all very painstakingly and professionally shot and directed, the score is good. a couple of really effective scenes. but overall it's a bit of a messy pile of all kinds of ideas, themes and allegories that don't really synergize to create a really engaging and moving experience. repressive christian upbringing is bit of a too easy target for those guys, they showed before that they can handle more contemporary and complex stuff. this scandinavian affection for elegance and understatement seems to be masking a not too well thought out script.
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babylon berlin is lush.
still very good.
it's a funny mix of verhoeven's black book, moulin rouge, noir and netflix. the main characters are slippery and multi-thronged and are interesting to follow. in the background are the commie and (soon to be) nazi forces working to reshape germany of that era, the latter, the creeping militarism and nationalism and the spaces it fills is especially well portrayed. the commie thing is a little sillier, especially the invincible kardakov. it leans more towards pulp than towards serious, historical beardstroking and realistic and sophisticated screenwriting, but it does deliver all the necessary goods when it comes to providing the former. the production, the visuals and sounds, the acting, it's all terrific.
and of course it goes fucking stupid in season 2, aping the worst high end american tv moves and cliches. just can't win with this shit nowadays.
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if you already have a decent plus smartphone and headphones without ridiculous impedance and sensitivity - you don't need a portable music player. pretty much any smartphone from both apple and samsung in the last 5 years will have a very good headphone output.
They only look stupid if you look stupid
lol. that would make a great marketing slogan for apple.
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multi-thronged
the fuck is that...
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babylon berlin is lush.
still very good.
it's a funny mix of verhoeven's black book, moulin rouge, noir and netflix. the main characters are slippery and multi-thronged and are interesting to follow. in the background are the commie and (soon to be) nazi forces working to reshape germany of that era, the latter, the creeping militarism and nationalism and the spaces it fills is especially well portrayed. the commie thing is a little sillier, especially the invincible kardakov. it leans more towards pulp than towards serious, historical beardstroking and realistic and sophisticated screenwriting, but it does deliver all the necessary goods when it comes to providing the former. the production, the visuals and sounds, the acting, it's all terrific.
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exclusive my mom's review of the shape of water: "seemed like a parody of Chelovek-Amfibiya (www.imdb.com/title/tt0055844), in the worst possible way."
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babylon berlin is lush.
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lolz, eugene really liked Starlet iirc...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2035630/
and the rocky movie but for drummers, where the kid bleeds from playing like an animal...
apart from what he likes or not, it's always an entertaining read :thumbsup:
and his recent one, the florida project, was nice as well. he has a knack for digging up humanity and kindness from piles of garbage. but i can't stand kids and that obviously severely impacted my enjoyment because their chatter is pretty much a constant background of the film, (which in itself is an interesting move).
la la land - i torrented it, but then i thought "what the fuck was i thinking, why would i watch a musical?" and deleted it after i came to this realization.
i also watched loveless, it's the doom metal of cinema. it's massive, heavy, bleak and kinda repetitive when it comes to ideas it sets to explore. it's basically an improvisation on on pretty simple theme - "modern russia is a depressing and hopeless place". there are some extremely moving scenes in it, and the cinematography is absolutely stunning.
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the crow
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saw this just now and i agree. i really don't get the point of this kind of film-making/script-writing, mixing rape-burn-murder-abusive-husbands with the kind of constant wisecrackery of the latest thor film (is this how mcdonagh imagines people dealing with grief?) and heap of cheap contrivances to produce irony. felt kinda like fargo reenvisioned by an idiot with no taste and no inspiration.three billboards was astonishingly stupid. god i'm getting frustrated thinking about. every character is remarkably unlikable. completely uneven tone since they tried to make this some kind of black comedy? except all the jokes were telegraphed and awful. nothing in this movie was remotely believable. everything was stupid.
no. it's way worse than this.Three Billboards - it deals with the subject of grief intermittently well, Rockwell's arc was decent, but then it meandered all over the gaff. W/out Frances whatsherface, it would've sunk more quickly. John Wyles is usually well cast & shines in most things seen so far with him in, but he barely gets a look in. 6.5/10
I'm not sure film is the art form for you, you seem to hate everything.
i'll do my best effort to like "the square" which i'm planning to see today.
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three billboards was astonishingly stupid. god i'm getting frustrated thinking about. every character is remarkably unlikable. completely uneven tone since they tried to make this some kind of black comedy? except all the jokes were telegraphed and awful. nothing in this movie was remotely believable. everything was stupid.
Three Billboards - it deals with the subject of grief intermittently well, Rockwell's arc was decent, but then it meandered all over the gaff. W/out Frances whatsherface, it would've sunk more quickly. John Wyles is usually well cast & shines in most things seen so far with him in, but he barely gets a look in. 6.5/10no. it's way worse than this.
saw this just now and i agree. i really don't get the point of this kind of film-making/script-writing, mixing rape-burn-murder-abusive-husbands with the kind of constant wisecrackery of the latest thor film (is this how mcdonagh imagines people dealing with grief?) and heap of cheap contrivances to produce irony. felt kinda like fargo reenvisioned by an idiot with no taste and no inspiration.
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radiohead's kid a, on its release day. it was also the first cd i bought.
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feel like this is a zaphod review from around 2013. get your own style bucko.
i was actually going for the late 2009 era.
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frances ha: origins (aka lady bird) - a new film in the acclaimed frances ha franchise about the hardships of american, young, white, indie people who had never experienced anything troubling, interesting, remotely dark or dangerous in their lives. this film is about the coming of age of young frances who has to deal with being a teenager in a good caring family in a hospitable environment. her dialogue lines don't sound human, but are probably an output of an advanced a.i. which was programmed to come up with clever retorts to anything that is said on screen only using the vocabulary of previous frances ha films. the editing of the film also strives for some kind of post-humanism, the scenes are often cut in a way that removes anything of emotional value and of realism of what might happen, and instead leaves you with this affable, self conscious, fast paced quirk. the dramatic climax of the film hangs on the ever-relevant question - "which college should i go to?". highly recommended.
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would I like to watch it on a huge-ass Dolby-vision OLED TV? Yes sure but I don’t have one and they’re expensive.
modern LOLEDS are not that expensive anymore btw, LG OLED55B7 is about 1500$. i've had one and the quality is simply phenomenal and easily beats anything you can get in a cinema. i've had one for a couple of weeks but had an issue with it so i had it returned, but i'm probably buy gonna get another one soon and torrent 4k blu rays stupid hard.
btw, this film sucked.
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if you're not constantly depressed given the current state of things, there's something really fucking wrong with you.
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lol. it's true though.