Panoptic Sweep
-
Posts
117 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Downloads
Store
Everything posted by Panoptic Sweep
-
Yeah that is funny your second guessing of their thought processes
-
Rewatched The Hitcher the other day. A forgotten classic? I don't see people mentioning it much.
-
what's the right way? 1) look at what's praised heavily on watmm 2) do the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKpQgEyjNdM
-
Stop watching films wrong.
-
Fuck, now I've got to watch it all.
-
This is really good. Checking her other videos too, she's really talented. I love comedy monologue stuff.
-
Need to see this. have only heard great things. i had some bad things to say about it on bdb, it got spoilers though: sicario - i've now seen four of his last films and every single of them was utter shit. every single time i questioned myself and thought "hmm, maybe i'm wrong about him and the critics are right" and endured yet another one of his horribly written, utterly contrived and overwrought cinematic excrements. it's like he simply doesn't get what cinema is supposed to be. he somehow gets to hire good actors, cinematographers, composers etc, but simply doesn't know what the fuck to do with them as they get lost in his stupid direction and idiotic writing (not his duties, but still). what is the point of a 15 minute segment of a motorcade going into one direction and then back? that gorgeous but yet again completely pointless shot of marines going into the sunset, it's just laughably stupid, really something a cinematography freshman would proud himself on, why was it even used in that particular instance? the horribly conceived exposition with regards to del toro's character's motives before he goes rambo on the final boss, which is guarded by a whooping 5 people. and emily blunt's job is to just act totally appalled and bewildered at how morally/legally problematic this whole ordeal is without expressing anything else during the whole film, as if her character lives in some alternate reality where everything proceeds exactly by the books. the stupid traffic-esque intervention of "but look at how the other side is experiencing it". the whole thing just reeks of self importance and utter banality when it comes to its message or opinion or whatever it even is. "oh look how horrible it all is (all while sort of glorifying and feeding off this violence for cinematic purposes) and how america is probably bad too". I thought Sicario was very good. The main selling points are the cinematography and the tense 'build-up' scenes which I thought were both very effective. I liked Emily Blunt as the audience's avatar, outraged but ultimately powerless at shady deals unfolding. Del Toro did a lot with very little, wish they had had more scenes together actually. Not sure what amazing revelations you were expecting from a film of this type. I mean - just because it isn't Michael Bay-level dumb doesn't mean it isn't ultimately entertainment.
-
I am, whats your user/page?
-
Yes there is a cake floating nearby and he fancies a bit
-
Creep was a decent watch. With found-footage you have to suspend your disbelief a bit more than usual - even for horror - and this was a prime example of that. It sounds like you already had your mind made up before you went in, cwmbrancity. It got very silly, but I think it was intentionally funny at times, the bathtub scene established that pretty clearly I thought, and Duplass was just really watchable and intense which turned out to be enough for me and probably a lot of other people. 3/5
-
Keep that shit to 4chan please. No one with any brain capacity is interested.
-
Oh, you!
-
That is horrible music.
-
Couldn't make it to the end of this. Obviously there was some big moment coming but I couldn't be bothered spending any more time with Kumiko, just wanted her to get hit by a train or something. Loved Bunzo though. Hah, that little scamp.
-
I thought this was hilarious. The guy in the yellow was not hiding how much he was feeling it, and good for him. VERY GOOD. CULTURE SHOCK.
-
I'll keep giving gawker clicks as long as it pisses off people like this chump.
-
Getting into music as a teen, I made two purchases on the same day, Tri Repetae ++ and Endtroducing..... I immediately favoured the latter and played it incessantly, yet in hindsight that must have only been a phase lasting 6 months. I kept getting drawn back to TR++ Those sounds, the dystopian atmosphere, the minimalist artwork were pulling me in. My (terrible) attention span was the only thing stopping me from really getting into it. Slowly, though, I came around, not least because Draft 7.30 had come out a year later, and Theme From Sudden Roundabout was so overpoweringly SICK that I knew I had to keep digging. Despite its surface simplicity, listening to TR++ yielded 7-8 years later I found I was still hearing new things, which while typical of Autechre isn't a feature I associate with absolutely all of their work. That aside, all of their albums apart from Oversteps and Exai have needed a good 5+ years to 'bed in' properly.
-
Kids these days wouldn't even know an Autechre feedback delay if it jumped out of their Subway footlong. Sad.
-
Limmy 4 Life.
-
Quite easy to unsee, actually. Effortless even.
-
Only just spotted the fingers. Cheeky.
-
They don't call this place General Banter for nothing, folks.
-
So what are they?
-
Can you point me in the direction of films in that vein that you think are better, please?
-
So in other words, it was no Species?
