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Ted 2 - It certainly had it's funny moments throughout but I think the first one was better overall and with the way it ends I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Ted 3
 

vern

Member
I'm not a movie buff, maybe watch 10-15 movies per year in total. So don't know why I'm posting here lol but I'm bored so:

1. What's your favorite Movie? Ghost dog
2. Who's your favorite director? Jim jarmusch or Quentin Tarantino
3. Who are your favorite actors/actresses? Judge rheinhold (when I was a kid, now I dont have one)
4. Favorite Genre(s)? Drama I guess
5. What's your favorite performance in film? Not sure, possible Sam Jackson in pulp fiction


Recently watched: Insidious.

Overall: Horrible movie. Boring, not scary, really fuckin dumb.

+ Rose Byrne
+ old lady in a gas mask made me laugh

- everything else
 

hal9001

Banned
Terminator Genisys
I have to say I am quite surprised at how much I enjoyed this film. Don't trust the reviews at all. I thought all the timeline twists and plot was a very clever way of turning everything on its head. Honestly for the first time in a long while, I had no idea where a films story was going to pan out or how events would unfold. It was nice just to see things go somewhere new. Even the cgi which I thought from trailers looked awful wasn't as bad in the film. All the actors were decent and the script had a nice balance of being serious but just meta enough to cheekily give a few winks here and there. One of my favourite moments in the entire franchise was the scene when
John, Kyle and Sarah are reunited as a family together and he finds out who is dad is (albeit for a few temporary moments before things go bad).
For the first time ever they have a glimpse at what could have been together and I thought that was rather touching moment. I've always been a huge terminator fan so I consider this to be a worthy third film behind T1 and T2 in the rankings. Great closure and I just wished that at the end they could've
somehow saved John and been one big happy family with their pet Terminator cruising along the sunset happily ever after into a future that is unwritten.
 
Magic Mike XXL - 5/10 - I didn't get it, but maybe thats just me. It looked very nice though.
Terminator Genisys - 5/10 - it was entertaining enough I guess.
Minions - 3/10 - I was really disappointed by this one cos i happen to be a big fan of the minions and the despicable me films, but they don't got what it takes to carry a 90 minute movie alone. And Sandra Bullock is terrible.
Knock Knock - 3/10 - what absolute hot garbage this is. I expected better, I got worse.
Mr Holmes - 6/10 - its an ok film. Not a great Sherlock Holmes film. But Ian McKellen is great.
Danny Collins - 5/10 - it was alright.
 
Did my annual Terminator 2 rewatch so I could forget Genesys. Yep, still awesome. Also, I think I'm getting sentimental in my old age, cuz I fuckin' cry evry tiem. It used to just be at the end when the T-800's terminator, but now I'm a mess when Sarah embraces John for coming to the rescue at Dyson's crib, when earlier she was a real bitch about it escaping the asylum. She saw him as an object the first time, but after she stopped herself from terminating Dyson she saw him as her son. Its not just the machine that learns to be human.

Like for fuck's sake, this isn't THAT difficult, Hollywood blockbuster guys. Just SOME kind of humanity or a character arc will gave shape to your story. It doesn't have to be subtle or nuanced, just give me some kind of coherent dramatic spine we can latch on to. I'm not even sure who the fuckin' protagonist in Jurassic World is. No drama, no structure, no NOTHING. There are just things happening for 90 minutes and then it ends.
 

big ander

Member
Did my annual Terminator 2 rewatch so I could forget Genesys. Yep, still awesome. Also, I think I'm getting sentimental in my old age, cuz I fuckin' cry evry tiem. It used to just be at the end when the T-800's terminator, but now I'm a mess when Sarah embraces John for coming to the rescue at Dyson's crib, when earlier she was a real bitch about it escaping the asylum. She saw him as an object the first time, but after she stopped herself from terminating Dyson she saw him as her son. Its not just the machine that learns to be human.

Like for fuck's sake, this isn't THAT difficult, Hollywood blockbuster guys. Just SOME kind of humanity or a character arc will gave shape to your story. It doesn't have to be subtle or nuanced, just give me some kind of coherent dramatic spine we can latch on to. I'm not even sure who the fuckin' protagonist in Jurassic World is. No drama, no structure, no NOTHING. There are just things happening for 90 minutes and then it ends.
It's really a problem. past couple years I've felt like an alarmist thinking this, but now with the combo of continuing Marvel and Jurassic World I truly think it's a problem that mainstream filmmaking is incompetent when it comes to the very basics of narrative and drama. The other day I was the one person in a group who didn't like JW at all and someone tried to defend it with "It's a huge blockbuster, crazy things happen for a while and that's it. Hard to expect a solid plot from that." All it really took was repeating that back for multiple people to agree with me that yeah, maybe the very basics of character development and story structure are worth asking for. heh
 

Blader

Member
Did my annual Terminator 2 rewatch so I could forget Genesys. Yep, still awesome. Also, I think I'm getting sentimental in my old age, cuz I fuckin' cry evry tiem. It used to just be at the end when the T-800's terminator, but now I'm a mess when Sarah embraces John for coming to the rescue at Dyson's crib, when earlier she was a real bitch about it escaping the asylum. She saw him as an object the first time, but after she stopped herself from terminating Dyson she saw him as her son. Its not just the machine that learns to be human.

Like for fuck's sake, this isn't THAT difficult, Hollywood blockbuster guys. Just SOME kind of humanity or a character arc will gave shape to your story. It doesn't have to be subtle or nuanced, just give me some kind of coherent dramatic spine we can latch on to. I'm not even sure who the fuckin' protagonist in Jurassic World is. No drama, no structure, no NOTHING. There are just things happening for 90 minutes and then it ends.

Guess you weren't paying attention to Bryce Dallas Howard's arc where she learns to shoot a gun and masters the art of heel-running.
 
I don't even think the original JP was a masterpiece or anything, but it still works like gangbusters if my theater re-release viewing was anything to go by. Dr. Grant doesn't like kids as the beginning, over the course of the movie he bonds with kids. There ya go, a family friendly journey that can give your movie shape, so it doesn't look like a bunch of random dinosaur setpieces just happening.

I'm not asking for a big character study like Citizen Kane or Laurence of Arabia in these summer blockbusters, I'm just lookin' for the basics of storytelling here. Cause and effect. Set ups and pay offs. Characters learning and changing over the movie in a logical way. John Connor uses his hacking card machine to steal money out of an ATM, which sets up him using the device to break into Cyberdyne and giving him something important to do besides running away. Arnold keeps dropping/reaching for that last grenade in the grenade launcher, delaying gratification till he comes over the gear in his Big Damn Hero moment with the launcher and blows up the T-1000. The T-800 breaks into/hotwires another car cuz he doesn't know any better and John just grabs the keys in the overhead mirror("Are we learning yet?"), and near the end when T-800 is about to do it again, he looks in the overhead and finds the keys.

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This CANNOT be that difficult.
 

Divius

Member
Any movies similar in dialogue/setting/feel to Mad Men? I just finished the series and now there's a black hole in my heart.
 

Window

Member
Any movies similar in dialogue/setting/feel to Mad Men? I just finished the series and now there's a black hole in my heart.

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Saw Macross:Do You Remember Love? It's pure spectacle and it's fantastic at it. The love story (which is the main hook of the show) is weaker here but the time constraints posed by a film eliminates a lot of the excess from the show (for one the power of culture is less laughable here, but it's still ridiculous). The title song is so good.
 

big ander

Member
Any movies similar in dialogue/setting/feel to Mad Men? I just finished the series and now there's a black hole in my heart.

Around the airing of the final half-season Weiner programmed a retro series of the 10 movies that most influenced Mad Men. They were a good mix of obvious canon dramas and less acclaimed 50s and 60s movies:
THE APARTMENT
Dir. Billy Wilder. 1960, 125 mins. With Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine.

NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1959, 136 mins. With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint.

BLUE VELVET
Dir. David Lynch. 1987, 120 mins. With Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper.

LES BONNES FEMMES
Dir. Claude Chabrol. 1960, 100 mins. With Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran.

VERTIGO
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. 1958, 128 mins. With James Stewart, Kim Novak.

PATTERNS
Dir. Fielder Cook. 1956, 83 mins. With Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley.

DEAR HEART
Dir. Delbert Mann. 1964, 114 mins. With Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury.

THE BACHELOR PARTY
Dir. Delbert Mann. 1957, 92 mins. With Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden.

THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
Dir. Jean Negulesco. 1959, 121 mins. With Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker, Joan Crawford.

THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY
Dir. Arthur Hiller. 1964, 115 mins. With James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas.
He also wrote a few sentences on each here.
 

Blader

Member
I don't even think the original JP was a masterpiece or anything, but it still works like gangbusters if my theater re-release viewing was anything to go by. Dr. Grant doesn't like kids as the beginning, over the course of the movie he bonds with kids. There ya go, a family friendly journey that can give your movie shape, so it doesn't look like a bunch of random dinosaur setpieces just happening.

I'm not asking for a big character study like Citizen Kane or Laurence of Arabia in these summer blockbusters, I'm just lookin' for the basics of storytelling here. Cause and effect. Set ups and pay offs. Characters learning and changing over the movie in a logical way. John Connor uses his hacking card machine to steal money out of an ATM, which sets up him using the device to break into Cyberdyne and giving him something important to do besides running away. Arnold keeps dropping/reaching for that last grenade in the grenade launcher, delaying gratification till he comes over the gear in his Big Damn Hero moment with the launcher and blows up the T-1000. The T-800 breaks into/hotwires another car cuz he doesn't know any better and John just grabs the keys in the overhead mirror("Are we learning yet?"), and near the end when T-800 is about to do it again, he looks in the overhead and finds the keys.

This CANNOT be that difficult.

At the risk of sounding like damn hypocrite since I enjoy (most of) the Marvel machine movies, but Problem 101 with summer blockbuster screenwriting these days/years is that the release date is given priority. You announce a date for your film, and then work backwards from there. So right from the start there's immense pressure to deliver a screenplay by a certain day. Who the fuck can write like that? Even for people who write better under deadlines, stories aren't done until they're done -- until they've been written and rewritten and rewritten, with scores of edits in between -- not when principal photography starts (and even then a lot of blockbuster scripts are worked on piecemeal throughout shooting). Throw in focus-tested hooks and studio mandates and it's a minor miracle that there any scripts for these movies at all -- there's just too many conditions and nowhere near enough time to make even basic story structure work as well as it should.

That's why Fury Road's screenplay works so well -- partly because it's an unambitious story, so there isn't a lot of room for plot holes or sequel build-ups anyway, but Miller also had *years* to think about and storyboard each moment. Not that there weren't deadlines (that came and went :lol) on that movie too, but it also didn't have the same time crunch that 90% of other blockbusters have to struggle under either.
 
Magic Mike XXL - 5/10 - I didn't get it, but maybe thats just me. It looked very nice though.
Terminator Genisys - 5/10 - it was entertaining enough I guess.
Minions - 3/10 - I was really disappointed by this one cos i happen to be a big fan of the minions and the despicable me films, but they don't got what it takes to carry a 90 minute movie alone. And Sandra Bullock is terrible.
Knock Knock - 3/10 - what absolute hot garbage this is. I expected better, I got worse.
Mr Holmes - 6/10 - its an ok film. Not a great Sherlock Holmes film. But Ian McKellen is great.
Danny Collins - 5/10 - it was alright.

So no reason to go out to the cinema right now, thanks heh. Might see Timbuktu from home on curzon home cinema.
 

swoon

Member
Around the airing of the final half-season Weiner programmed a retro series of the 10 movies that most influenced Mad Men. They were a good mix of obvious canon dramas and less acclaimed 50s and 60s movies:

He also wrote a few sentences on each here.

best of everything was going to be my suggestion based on the first episode. wonderful movie, deserves a new life.
 
Did my annual Terminator 2 rewatch so I could forget Genesys. Yep, still awesome. Also, I think I'm getting sentimental in my old age, cuz I fuckin' cry evry tiem. It used to just be at the end when the T-800's terminator, but now I'm a mess when Sarah embraces John for coming to the rescue at Dyson's crib, when earlier she was a real bitch about it escaping the asylum. She saw him as an object the first time, but after she stopped herself from terminating Dyson she saw him as her son. Its not just the machine that learns to be human.

Like for fuck's sake, this isn't THAT difficult, Hollywood blockbuster guys. Just SOME kind of humanity or a character arc will gave shape to your story. It doesn't have to be subtle or nuanced, just give me some kind of coherent dramatic spine we can latch on to. I'm not even sure who the fuckin' protagonist in Jurassic World is. No drama, no structure, no NOTHING. There are just things happening for 90 minutes and then it ends.

i just rewatched the first two terminator movies recently too. came off very impressed with them still

posted my thoughts on the second in the genisys thread
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=170944358&postcount=1298
 

big ander

Member
Inside Out - 6 or 7/10 Admirably mental health-forward message that smacks of having been breathlessly worked backwards from. did not give a shit about bing bong or whatever. Lava is bad and ugly and the song sucks.
Coming to America - 6/10 turned this on hoping to laugh a bunch and because july 4th. it's not all that rollicking. However it is surprisingly savvy as a breakdown of how class in capitalist society corrupts genuine emotions, especially within black families.
Life Itself - 8/10 diffuse perhaps, James ties the individual subjects that could be movies of their own (particularly the At The Movies saga) into Ebert's guiding philosophy of tenacious empathy. See you at the movies.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - 5/10 tries to be interesting, at least.

Reading this as I scrolled the thread, I laughed so hard.

Interesting. I loved it, but can understand those criticisms. Although I didn't need any more insight, I expected that even in a deaf framework, crime/violence/prostitution especially in a not particularly affluent area of that country would all be evident in a sheltered but not closely monitored boarding school where the adults have no idea what's going on. I found it more tragic but believable that this would happen and not as much sadistic exploitation. That scene made me wince because it's rarely shown in cinema in such detail and then the brutal ending solidified that this was a world of violence among kids who know no other way (protagonist gets bullied and then can't take it anymore). I didn't find a problem with the acting, it was convincing to me with these kids in that naturalistic way. Cool to see a negative take on the film.
Missed this: that scene was indeed shocking, and I'm not at all against revealing the organized crime in a community, but The Tribe didn't tell me anything beyond "violence creates violence, man" while refraining from examining their deafness and how it alters their lives in any interesting way.
best of everything was going to be my suggestion based on the first episode. wonderful movie, deserves a new life.
Yeah? I'll have to move it up my queue. At the time I read his picks the Mann films and Patterns sounded most interesting but none are on netflix dvd.
 
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - 5/10 tries to be interesting, at least.
Pretty much how I felt. A film comprised of hits and misses. I had pretty high hopes for this one and while I liked a bunch of stuff they did, I was hoping for a really nice payoff which never happens. Some great moments but ultimately it was disappointment after all the praise initially. Still worth a look but I really wish I could give it a higher recommendation. 6/10
 

swoon

Member
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Yeah? I'll have to move it up my queue. At the time I read his picks the Mann films and Patterns sounded most interesting but none are on netflix dvd.


I don't love the Mann films (though i wonder why he chose bachelor party over something like company of men) and haven't seen patterns, i really like everything, though not having seen anything beyond the first episode of mad men beyond it's look it's more like sex in the city than what i imagine mad men is like.


netflix dvd/streaming really took a dive once warner starter their own service. i'm pretty sure all these films from there.
 

Ridley327

Member
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island concludes this telling of the legend of Musashi Miyamoto in grand fashion. A welcome cast culling between films helps put the focus of the film fairly square on both Musashi and his great rival Kojiro Sasaki, as both men find themselves preparing for their eventual duel in their own ways. We haven't quite said goodbye to the women in Musashi's life, but they're used better here than they were in the last film. The excellent visual palette of the films reach their apex with the long-anticipated duel, which is set during sunset on a beach, and outside of a couple of obvious rear projection shots that must have come during post-production, it's about as visually stunning a fight as you could ever hope for. Otherwise, everything that's been great about the films continued to be great, and it's hard not to be impressed with how well things turned out in the end for the entire enterprise. A most satisfying epic on the whole, and a pretty great third installment to wrap it all up.
 

Currygan

at last, for christ's sake
Magic Mike XXL - 5/10 - I didn't get it, but maybe thats just me. It looked very nice though.
Terminator Genisys - 5/10 - it was entertaining enough I guess.
Minions - 3/10 - I was really disappointed by this one cos i happen to be a big fan of the minions and the despicable me films, but they don't got what it takes to carry a 90 minute movie alone. And Sandra Bullock is terrible.
Knock Knock - 3/10 - what absolute hot garbage this is. I expected better, I got worse.
Mr Holmes - 6/10 - its an ok film. Not a great Sherlock Holmes film. But Ian McKellen is great.
Danny Collins - 5/10 - it was alright.

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I wish I had enough time to watch that many movies in a theater. But then again I wouldn't even bother with most of them


Hollywood Party. For some reason I never watched more than 30 minutes, or the ending, or some parts in the middle. Finally watched the whole thing and it's just completely hilarious. I'm not a huge fan of that particular brand of slapstick humour but Sellers was so gigantic he made every single scene a riot. What a great comedy, 9/10
 
So no reason to go out to the cinema right now, thanks heh. Might see Timbuktu from home on curzon home cinema.

Thats just my own opinions mind :)


Oh and Jurassic world - 5/10 - it was alright. I've never seen the originals, so I couldn't tell you what they were like, but I was incredibly uninterested and invested in this one. Love Chris Pratt though!
 

Divius

Member
Single Man

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Saw Macross:Do You Remember Love? It's pure spectacle and it's fantastic at it. The love story (which is the main hook of the show) is weaker here but the time constraints posed by a film eliminates a lot of the excess from the show (for one the power of culture is less laughable here, but it's still ridiculous). The title song is so good.

Around the airing of the final half-season Weiner programmed a retro series of the 10 movies that most influenced Mad Men. They were a good mix of obvious canon dramas and less acclaimed 50s and 60s movies:

He also wrote a few sentences on each here.

best of everything was going to be my suggestion based on the first episode. wonderful movie, deserves a new life.
Thank you, much appreciated. I've seen some of these already but will definitely look up the rest.
 

MikeMyers

Member
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, 1983)

I like Cronenberg, and Christopher Walken as an actor, but it felt like for a good amount of this film there was no real conflict.
 

Blader

Member
Grand Illusion
The best war prison ever, why would anyone want to leave? I liked it a lot, particularly Jean Gabin. Also, had no idea Erich von Stonheim was also an actor -- not sure if that his was his regular trade as opposed to directing, but he did a great job.

The Rules of the Game
Sorry, I liked Gosford Park better. Had a hard time getting into this, mostly because I couldn't keep the actors straight. I mean, Robert and Andre look practically identical! Peer pressure rating: 10/10.

A Man Escaped
My first Bresson, really enjoyed it. Maybe a little overly narrated, but I liked the minimalist style. I also just dig prison break-out movies in general.
 

Currygan

at last, for christ's sake
Grand Illusion
The best war prison ever, why would anyone want to leave? I liked it a lot, particularly Jean Gabin. Also, had no idea Erich von Stonheim was also an actor -- not sure if that his was his regular trade as opposed to directing, but he did a great job.


The Rules of the Game
Sorry, I liked Gosford Park better. Had a hard time getting into this, mostly because I couldn't keep the actors straight. I mean, Robert and Andre look practically identical! Peer pressure rating: 10/10.

A Man Escaped
My first Bresson, really enjoyed it. Maybe a little overly narrated, but I liked the minimalist style. I also just dig prison break-out movies in general.

the GOAT
 

thenexus6

Member
Terminator Genisys

So, that was a movie. It was incredibly stupid, dumb and pointless. But I enjoyed it in a incredibly stupid, dumb and pointless way.

God this franchise has gone down the toilet, from two absolute classics to these movies.

A couple of points.

- There was some whack CGI, I have seen better stuff on youtube short films. I mean jeez this is a TERMINATOR and a AAA summer blockbuster the effects should be way better than this.

- Some of the T1/T2 characters are obviously recast to match the first movies. Most of them looked way off though. I didn't mind JK Simmons though.

- Sarah Connor just didn't work for me. She's like a girl scout in this movie compared to Linda Hamilton.

- Arnold was having fun. I think he was loving it, I enjoyed him on screen. (the real him not crapping CGI version)

- As I expected Byung Hun Lee
was hardly in the movie. Bit of a shame.

Never saw Avengers 2, Jurassic World and Terminator was dooty, please don't let me down Star Wars.
 

maxcriden

Member
Pretty much how I felt. A film comprised of hits and misses. I had pretty high hopes for this one and while I liked a bunch of stuff they did, I was hoping for a really nice payoff which never happens. Some great moments but ultimately it was disappointment after all the praise initially. Still worth a look but I really wish I could give it a higher recommendation. 6/10

So glad not to be alone on GAF in this. Really disappointed in this film. Felt like standard indie characterswith pretension masquerading as depth. Blegh. Rachel's character was totally underserved too. I realize that was part of the point of the movie but it didn't make me like it any better.
 

pauljeremiah

Gold Member
I saw Amy the other night.

The one thing that kept running through my mind while watching Amy is how much her life runs parallel to Kurt Cobain. Both came from broken homes and turned to both music and drugs as their form of escape. Both poured their hearts in to their creativity. Sadly both ventured too far down the rabbit hole of escapism and were consumed by it.

I really adored Asif Kapadia’s last documentary Senna, it was a wonderful blend of archive footage and audio interviews that shows how cliché the talking heads format is. Asif uses the same techniques here and it works wonderfully too.

The film follows Amy’s life from about the age of fourteen till her untimely death at age twenty seven. The thing that shocks you about Senna’s death is that it was sudden and intense. BANG! His car hits the wall at Tamburello at nearly two hundred miles an hour and we are almost instantly left with the wreckage. In Amy we are shown the slow and horrible self-destruction of the combination of drug abuse, alcoholism & an eating disorder.

There are times when what is shown on the screen is both shocking and heart-breaking. Looking at this fascinating black and white photos of Amy during the height of her fame and as she appears near skeletal, deep dark rings around her eyes, and a faraway look in her eyes.

This documentary is powerful. It holds no punches when discussing both Amy and the people in her inner circle. From her husband to her father and how the majority of the people around her, were purely there to live off her coat tails and cared only about the Amy Winehouse machine then the person herself.

There is no getting away with the fact that this is a sad story; one that is all the more shaming when you consider that it played out so visibly in the public eye. But the public eye is very uncaring unfortunately and all too often empathises when it is far too late. But this film also captures the voice and the humour, so integral to Amy Winehouse. And so while it is impossible to ignore the tragedy, the beauty is here too. This was, after all, a very singular artist whose roots were in jazz, which is hardly music for lightweights.

Amy Winehouse was a proper talent who made music entirely on her own terms. If I was to criticise mildly it would be to say that the film itself might be marginally too long and perhaps goes over some ground more than it has to. But mainly this is ultimately a very worthy attempt to tell what is a complex and contrasting story to the screen with all its darkness and light.
 
Grand Illusion
The best war prison ever, why would anyone want to leave? I liked it a lot, particularly Jean Gabin. Also, had no idea Erich von Stonheim was also an actor -- not sure if that his was his regular trade as opposed to directing, but he did a great job.

The Rules of the Game
Sorry, I liked Gosford Park better. Had a hard time getting into this, mostly because I couldn't keep the actors straight. I mean, Robert and Andre look practically identical! Peer pressure rating: 10/10.

A Man Escaped
My first Bresson, really enjoyed it. Maybe a little overly narrated, but I liked the minimalist style. I also just dig prison break-out movies in general.

Time to watch Sunset Boulevard
 
Grand Illusion
The best war prison ever, why would anyone want to leave? I liked it a lot, particularly Jean Gabin. Also, had no idea Erich von Stonheim was also an actor -- not sure if that his was his regular trade as opposed to directing, but he did a great job. Also I've never seen Sunset Blvd WTF

what

The Rules of the Game
Peer pressure rating: 10/10.

You've done well my son
 

Currygan

at last, for christ's sake
currently watching Habemus Papam and it's just kind of boring as hell. Michel Piccoli is a giant as usual but yesh, gonna crash my face on the table. Tried watching Empire and couldn't take the sheer bollicksery of it. People actually like that show?


Blader, watch Pickpocket next, the definitive Bresson movie
 

maxcriden

Member
Rewatched Mission: Impossible (1996) for the first time in a very long time. Very good, notably more realistic than the other ones with a cool style. I need to see more De Palma but I especially liked his use of angles during it. Good cast too; Vanessa Redgrave was excellent in her small role

Watch Blow Out next. Intense and underappreciated DePalma flick.
 

Blader

Member
I have seen Sunset Blvd. but it was years ago, way before I knew who von Stronheim even was.

Currygan said:
Blader, watch Pickpocket next, the definitive Bresson movie

It's actually next up! I read a thing once about how it inspired Paul Schrader to write Taxi Driver, which piqued my interest in it.
 
and watch wilder's other great movie with him, five graves to cairo

also what films directed by him have you seen? and not..sunset blvd

Only Some Like it Hot and Double Indemnity which feels pretty criminal. The Apartment has been on my watch list like forever and stuff like Sabrina and Stalag 17 I feel as though I should've watched a long time ago. His catalog is insanely good.
 
Balthasar is quite a bit better than Pickpocket, though that movie is enjoyable in its own right.

The worst Bresson I've seen is his weird "Trial of Joan of Arc" movie, which I remember almost nothing of except that it was almost bafflingly boring.
 

Currygan

at last, for christ's sake
Only Some Like it Hot and Double Indemnity which feels pretty criminal. The Apartment has been on my watch list like forever and stuff like Sabrina and Stalag 17 I feel as though I should've watched a long time ago. His catalog is insanely good.

The Lost Weekend is also titanic in its quality. It's actually my favourite movie of all time. And it's got one of the most terrifying scenes ever filmed, not kidding (well at least for me)
 

Blader

Member
I loved Sabrina, I actually liked it more than The Apartment even if I found its message kind of gross (or the notion of Audrey Hepburn as some sort of ugly duckling totally absurd).
 
The Lost Weekend is also titanic in its quality. It's actually my favourite movie of all time. And it's got one of the most terrifying scenes ever filmed, not kidding (well at least for me)

Guess I've got a new movie to watch, because I haven't been able to get Double Indemnity out of my head since I saw it.
 
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"I sleep with my spats on."

Two musicians witness a mob hit and go on the run when the mob boss finds out about it. What's the best thing to do next? Dress up as women and enter an all female band! This is a fantastic comedy film. Great, witty writing and a stand out performance by the two leads.. It's probably the best feel good comedy that I have seen in quite a while and that's understandable because comedies these days is a terrible genre compared to the old days, these 2 hours went by fast! Simply put it's pure, unadulterated joy. Dat ending too, perfection. Highly recommended!

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Ridley327

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Besides boasting an indelible title, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! dives right into the kind of delirious genre hijinks that one associates with Seijun Suzuki, taking what could have been an above average yarn of undercover cops and giving it an irreverent jazzy vibe, where it's not so much a film that's prized for making sense as much as it is about feeling right. A police station being surrounded by well-armed gangs looking to kill one guy without there being any real action on the part of the cops would make sense in a universe where there are trucks full of would-be drive-by swordsmen, and maintaining cover would go as far as turning a musical number into an impromptu duet on the part of our hero, the ever reliable Jo Shishido. It's a testament to how fun the film is that Suzuki manages to maintain the film's explosive energy for the entire duration, filling it with the kind of great imagery you'd expect and nabbing a great little jazz score (with the occasional musical interlude) to accompany the action. If it's not quite as mind-blowing as his later films would be, it certainly excels at being great entertainment.
 
Just watched Ex Machina. Holy shit is that a mind fuck. Alicia Vikander is damn fine too, don't blame the poor guy one bit. I didn't really see it coming if i'm being honest. So props for that. I also enjoyed how it ended, it wasn't drawn out or overdone, it was simple and effective.

Movie was awesome and a must watch imo for sure.
 

Aporia88

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I just saw Fucking Amal. Don't know how I missed this gem. I liked it quite a bit more than Lilya 4-Ever, a movie I felt lacked a compelling theme outside of depicting pre-destined hopelessness. In contrast, this was a pitch perfect glance into the confusion of falling in love for the first time, which avoided being cliche in large part due to the incredible performances of its two teenage leads. It also has one of the greatest on-screen kisses of all time. Fantastic film: 8/10.
 
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