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[dr lopez]

even worse moonrise kingdom + campy hitler bit = comedy poison

[Limo]

Haven’t seen that. And I personally found campy Hitler fairly amusing, so I guess it’s a bit of a ymmv thing.

Currently beginning to lean towards “it should have been lighter.”.

[Nebraska]

found this excruciatingly boring. really confused what anyone finds so fascinating about this guy and the guy making 'hereditary' and 'midsommar' but at least this guy's films sound interesting on paper. willem dafoe is clearly having too much fun with this role whereas the other guy seemed a mixture of being aloof and confused- but then again, i didn't care.

this was so much better but WTF? the director basically chronicles his ex-wives private life; from a lesbian relationship, interracial bf to the eventual birth of her daughter from that relationship i.e. he films her giving birth in his apartment solo on a makeshift bed of newspapers.

i didn't really get the feeling the film had any message behind it (perhaps the obsession with the main subject?) yet i somewhat felt like i got something deeper beyond the superficial voyeurism out of it

[TRiP]

JoJo Rabbit
 

Glad to see Waititi is still on top form, hopefully he'll continue to do the writing/directing/producer shtick and not sell out too much to Hollywood. Excellent performances and enjoyable throughout! He's one of few directors who can blur the lines between kid/adult films so well. 

[Lada Laika]

Was sick yesterday so I watched the Suspiria remake for some reason. It definitely has a couple of cool moments but good lord, that movie severely needed another pass in the editing bay (and probably in the script stage too - it's overwritten like crazy). Shame, because the few cool scenes were legitimately good. 

[IDEM]

On 1/11/2020 at 4:45 AM, Nebraska said:

found this excruciatingly boring. really confused what anyone finds so fascinating about this guy and the guy making 'hereditary' and 'midsommar' but at least this guy's films sound interesting on paper. willem dafoe is clearly having too much fun with this role whereas the other guy seemed a mixture of being aloof and confused- but then again, i didn't care.

Yep, an overhyped hipster wankathon that was painful to watch deflate into utter pointlessness (except being a textbook example of style over substance).

[Dpek]

I enjoyed The Lighthouse immensly.

[dr lopez]

On 1/10/2020 at 10:45 PM, Nebraska said:

found this excruciatingly boring. really confused what anyone finds so fascinating about this guy and the guy making 'hereditary' and 'midsommar' but at least this guy's films sound interesting on paper. willem dafoe is clearly having too much fun with this role whereas the other guy seemed a mixture of being aloof and confused- but then again, i didn't care.

 

definitely not enough 70s LA TnA smut

[beerwolf]

Midsommer - 8.5/10

Moneyball - 6.5/10

Wedding Crashers (second time) - 8/10

The Dawn Wall - 8.8/10

Kingsman 7/10

[Braintree]

Yesterday I had an open afternoon, so I watched El Camino, You'll Love Me When I'm Dead, and The Other Side of the Wind.

I really wish Welles was able to finish it before he died so we could get a version that wasn't compromised. Seemed far ahead of its time and very surreal. I thought it was interesting that the film in the film was almost more real than the behind-the-scenes style footage of "actual events." The dialogue was strange in the facet that it was a mishmash of movie-style quotes plus how people actually talk. Who knows how it would have turned out had he finished it.

El Camino was good. Definitely a fitting epilogue to the series.

[Rubin Farr]

Anyone seen this?

 

[cruising for burgers]

5 minutes ago, Rubin Farr said:

Anyone seen this?

 

 

 

i have it sitting on my hd for some time now but never got around to seeing it... i feel like i'm gonna quite like it though... that one and also this one:

 

Edited January 14, 2020 by Tim_J

[Rubin Farr]

Looks like some Lord of the Flies type shit

[cruising for burgers]

indeed...

[cruising for burgers]

why would they? the original is so much fun...

[Nebraska]

dayum this was bad. kinda feel bad for miller & co for the box office failure as i don't see how this once warrants it's embarrassing fate while other remakes go on to make enough to wash their face. 

in all honesty, i found the mackenzie dame and linda hamilton incredibly unlikeable - basically annoying. so them two acting as dual bodyguards for dani was incredibly taxing to watch. arnie basically shows up to do what the other two girls should be doing before the whole thing collapses onto itself. the end.

what a mess

[xxx]

RE: The Lighthouse...did we watch the same movie? I was glued to the screen and cackled right along into the descent with them. I found it gorgeous, disgusting and wildly imaginative. I've always been a sucker for repackaged classics e.g. O Brother, Where Art Thou, Scotland, PA., etc. At a minimum, I thought WATMM's heart would be stolen by all of the close quartered farting. I know I was immediately sold on Dafoe gas. 

[Squee]

Terminator Dark Fate

Man, someone needs to put this franchise to rest. Or I guess, this movie just did. I'm surprised at how bad the effects looked? Like, really surprised. I got The Matrix Reloaded vibes from it.
Anyway, it's easy to shit on a movie, so I'll focus on the good stuff: Arnold. For some reason I really liked him in this movie even though he didn't really do anything. But I laughed out loud when he said his wife found him "extremely funny". I guess I was in such a state of shock over the movie that THAT was what it took to breathe some life back into me.

[dr lopez]

8 hours ago, xxx said:

RE: The Lighthouse...did we watch the same movie? I was glued to the screen and cackled right along into the descent with them. I found it gorgeous, disgusting and wildly imaginative. I've always been a sucker for repackaged classics e.g. O Brother, Where Art Thou, Scotland, PA., etc. At a minimum, I thought WATMM's heart would be stolen by all of the close quartered farting. I know I was immediately sold on Dafoe gas. 

yeah it was good, some people just don't understand a movie about dudes rocking

[cwmbrancity]

It’s alright, has some sweet flourishes. The Willem D/Neptune scene, eyes beaming, fuck yeah. It captures the elements really well, but Robert P? Watched more interesting chairs. The sound design was the highlight. Alan Splet style winds, booming breakers, the horn thingy, like the storm itself was alive. The ending was unnecessary though.

Spoiler

Would’ve packed more punch if he’d rowed out into the sea, capsized & been embraced by the mermaid while drowning.

 

[Nebraska]

wow, this was incredibly entertaining. it switches from exploitation to stylistically artsy in the same scene making for some head-damagingly weird visuals. basically nami matsushima gets chucked into prison for the attempted murder of an ex-boyfriend; who just happened to be an undercover cop- who used to capture a yakuza clan. once inside prison though- she begins to coz havoc with the warring female gang groups before everything leads to an all out war betwix prison personnel and guards. and guess what's the root of all this debacle

[cwmbrancity]

Richard “no outsiders” Harris/10. Anyone else & this would’ve remained mawkish. 

[cruising for burgers]

19 minutes ago, Nebraska said:

wow, this was incredibly entertaining. it switches from exploitation to stylistically artsy in the same scene making for some head-damagingly weird visuals. basically nami matsushima gets chucked into prison for the attempted murder of an ex-boyfriend; who just happened to be an undercover cop- who used to capture a yakuza clan. once inside prison though- she begins to coz havoc with the warring female gang groups before everything leads to an all out war betwix prison personnel and guards. and guess what's the root of all this debacle

what is that?

[Nebraska]

11 minutes ago, Tim_J said:

what is that?

female prisoner 701: scorpion

Edited January 16, 2020 by Nebraska

[cruising for burgers]

much obliged dude