Fancy Clown
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Speaking of, has anyone seen the new Criterion 4K remaster?
Yeah, it's a beaut
Speaking of, has anyone seen the new Criterion 4K remaster?
There's no doubt that Malick films have a presence of Christian themes but I don't see their presence conforming in line with typical ideas of guilt, repression, penitence etc. Not to say that they aren't there but I think he presents them through a lens of humanism and some weird form of naturalism. The same is true of The Tree of Life. He doesn't put forth any ideas of a causal relationship between suffering and salvation. Like most of this other films, its about people coming to terms with a incomprehensible (maybe indifferent?) universe. Instead of taking a nihilistic view on this, he adopts a more optimistic view. This is what makes his films religious I guess, assigning such a quality to existence. The drawn connections behind the events happen to be incidental (kind of like Kieslowski).
Or at least, that's how I've come to view his films over the past 15 minutes.
That's what i mean.
The guy can't get over his trauma in life, and essentially has the hope that an afterlife will (literally) magically fix everything.
If you don't believe in religion or afterlife, that's a pretty grim take, masqueraded as a happy ending, because the final part is essentially wishful thinking.
The Red Shoes
Finally cracked open my Criterion of this since buying it in July. It was great. Beautiful Techncolor, great performances by Anton Walbrook and Moira Shearer (I was stunned when I heard in the supplements that this was her debut as an actress), and an incredible ballet sequence. I guess I should watch more of these guys' films.
8/10
Mustang (2015): I rewatched this with a friend who hadn't seen it before, my third viewing of the year. What a fucking fantastic movie. I think I ranked this third on my Best of 2015 list, and that rating may be too low.
I went to a viewing party for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Ultimate Edition.
...I loved it more the second time over the first. It's such a glorious trashfire, I can't get enough of it. Everything felt better the second time around.
.........I think I like it more than Civil War, which gets worse which each viewing
Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is one of the best films of the 1940s, and I'd highly recommend going there first if you want to look into their work more. Black Narcissus is also very good, albeit with some dated elements (but if you've ever wanted to see a young Jean Simmons in brownface as an Indian girl...).I guess I should watch more of these guys' films.
IMDB overrates two different kinds of films...Saw Captain America: Civil War this past weekend.
Overall quite bad Marvel action, with heroes/good guys fighting each other, instead of intimidating bad guy with powers. Also what is the deal with making the movie almost 2 and a half freaking hours long? , they could easily cut it down to 2 hrs still having the same typ of content.
Imdb rating says 8.1 which i find laughable.
I give it a weak 3 of 5.
Combo breaker.
Peer pressure's not what it used to be.
Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is one of the best films of the 1940s, and I'd highly recommend going there first if you want to look into their work more. Black Narcissus is also very good, albeit with some dated elements (but if you've ever wanted to see a young Jean Simmons in brownface as an Indian girl...).
I sat through two gems of our generation. The peak of film making.
We Are your Friends. . Well at least this one is coherent and had a plot compared to the other film I will get to. The story of Carter Cole's rise from wannabee producer/DJ to a guy who finds his sound by taking advice literally and just sampling the bejesus out of everything. It's a somewhat enjoyable coming of age story with decent acting. 6-7/10
Spring Breakers. I wish I had this on in the background instead of devoting my attention to it, it may have made more sense. I want my 95 minutes back. This was just nonsense. Harmony Korine is like the awful twin of Nicolas Refn. The only redeeming quality of this movie is James Franco's insane performance of Alien. 2/10.
Part of that was filmed at a house not too far from mine.I've wanted to watch Peeping Tom since forever. Is it easily available anywhere?
I've never actually seen a movie from India.
Part of that was filmed at a house not too far from mine.
Do a lot of peeping toms stop by?
I've wanted to watch Peeping Tom since forever. Is it easily available anywhere?
I might be wrong but I could've sworn I saw it streaming on Hulu.
Don't let Net_Wrecker in that Mel Gibson thread.
I'm going into this hoping it'll turn out to be Before Sunrise with the Obamas. Or at least a close facsimile.
Watching private Ryan for the first time
And when the action scene does kick off, it does so with incredible ferocity, coming out of nowhere, and not lasting all that long, but the stuff they do in it is insane. You can draw a straight line from this movie to the kind of antics that were going on in Fury Road, or almost any other caravan chase scene worth its salt.
John Ford is sitting 2/2 for me, in my glacially paced dip into his filmography.
Just talked to a guy who said Miami Vice was Mann's greatest movie
Net_Wrecker can you get your people, cuz I'm done yo
Just talked to a guy who said Miami Vice was Mann's greatest movie
Net_Wrecker can you get your people, cuz I'm done yo
Just talked to a guy who said Miami Vice was Mann's greatest movie
Net_Wrecker can you get your people, cuz I'm done yo
I was actually just listening to Hip To Be Square right now, so that's pretty weird.
It's better than either Thief, Last of the Mohicans, Collateral, and/or The Insider so I mean
I was actually just listening to Hip To Be Square right now, so that's pretty weird.
You're a Peeping Tom, aren't you?
No lies detected.It's better than either Thief, Last of the Mohicans, Collateral, and/or The Insider so I mean
This explains everything.Why do you think I wanna see that movie so bad??
alright ya'll
I got you now
I got you