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Mark Ruffalo probably wish he was 20-something.
User 479360
Banned
Ghostbusters: Well, I wasn't going to give this movie money at first. Then I heard it was good, and was itching to go see it. So I did, with a friend, and bought two tickets. I got the 3D part of one for free, though, in a weird way, so that was nice.
Overall, I liked it. It had some pacing problems, but it was funny and a solid reboot or whatever it is. I'd watch it again sometime.
Overall, I liked it. It had some pacing problems, but it was funny and a solid reboot or whatever it is. I'd watch it again sometime.
Cipher Peon
Banned
Saw Ghostbusters (2016)!
Great cast, excellent color pallete.
Poor pacing and editing, awful script, HORRENDOUS cameos, and inconsistent animation and score.
The movie that Ghostbusters (2016) most reminds me of is Jurassic World. A disposable and pretty movie that banks on nostalgia to the point of insulting my intelligence, that has fun characters but a bad script. On the other hand, Jurassic World had the good sense of NOT being a reboot (instead doing something almost as lame and pretending movies didn't exist). Ghostbusters (2016) was a reboot to frame a different side of the story with the property, but it was completely unutilized, which is where a lot of my frustrations come from. If it has to be a reboot, fine I can deal. But sell me on why, and GB didn't nail it at all. And whenever it was time for fanservice, it was... it was just so hard to sit through.
Best part of the movie was when
showed up and I yelled
"Hey, it's
! I loved you in
!" at the same time a friend of mine yelled
"Hey, it's
! I loved you in
!"
We high fived after that.
ALSO I took pics of me at a Suicide Squad ad because OH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED FOR SUICIDE SQUAD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Great cast, excellent color pallete.
Poor pacing and editing, awful script, HORRENDOUS cameos, and inconsistent animation and score.
The movie that Ghostbusters (2016) most reminds me of is Jurassic World. A disposable and pretty movie that banks on nostalgia to the point of insulting my intelligence, that has fun characters but a bad script. On the other hand, Jurassic World had the good sense of NOT being a reboot (instead doing something almost as lame and pretending movies didn't exist). Ghostbusters (2016) was a reboot to frame a different side of the story with the property, but it was completely unutilized, which is where a lot of my frustrations come from. If it has to be a reboot, fine I can deal. But sell me on why, and GB didn't nail it at all. And whenever it was time for fanservice, it was... it was just so hard to sit through.
Best part of the movie was when
Sigourney Weaver
"Hey, it's
Sigourney Weaver
Cabin in the Woods
"Hey, it's
Sigourney Weaver
Finding Dory
We high fived after that.
ALSO I took pics of me at a Suicide Squad ad because OH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITED FOR SUICIDE SQUAD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
Member
When I see films like Mustang, I wish I was smarter, more articulate, whatever. Mustang is one of the best films I can recall seeing in a long time. It's very nearly perfect in my eyes. Unfortunately though, I'm not the kind of person that can sum up my thoughts with such beautiful words, like a lot of cool people can, so.
It looks amazing. It has incredible music. Incredible acting by everyone, specially the girl playing Lale, which according to the internet is only 13, which is just crazy. A fantastic story of hope living through the darkest times, of sisterhood, family, of a culture which is determined to keep the 5 sisters of the story down, yet they all refuse to bow without a fight.
I'm trying to think of a criticism of this film, but I can't think of one? I really can't. Fantastic from start to finish, and this was a 2016 release in the UK so the 2015 date isn't right.
It looks amazing. It has incredible music. Incredible acting by everyone, specially the girl playing Lale, which according to the internet is only 13, which is just crazy. A fantastic story of hope living through the darkest times, of sisterhood, family, of a culture which is determined to keep the 5 sisters of the story down, yet they all refuse to bow without a fight.
I'm trying to think of a criticism of this film, but I can't think of one? I really can't. Fantastic from start to finish, and this was a 2016 release in the UK so the 2015 date isn't right.
mariachi507
Member
Which one did you go with?
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
i just watched The Invitation on Netflix this morning. really enjoyed it! i liked how it kept you guessing who was the crazy one. The ending was good.
i wouldn't recommend watching the trailer before the movie but here it is anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-mp77SZ_0M
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_invitation/
http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt2400463/
i wouldn't recommend watching the trailer before the movie but here it is anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-mp77SZ_0M
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_invitation/
http://gb.imdb.com/title/tt2400463/
Vampirolol
Member
The fundamentals of caring: this movie was a surprise. Well written, well acted, well shot. Very good.
Casino Royale: still the best bond. Probably among my favorite action movies ever.
Casino Royale: still the best bond. Probably among my favorite action movies ever.
Fancy Clown
Member
Watched some of the David Lynch shortfilms that were on the Eraserhead bluray.
Six Men Getting Sick. This one is more of a audio/visual version of a painting than a film, and is like 30 seconds on a loop, but I thought it was very cool. The art is very nice, and there's enough absurdity there to make it as funny as it is disturbing.
The Alphabet. Sort of a longer form version of what he explored with moving paintings in the previous short, but this time mixing in some live action as well. It comes across as a sort of cross between Terry Gilliam's Monty Python cartoons and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. This is definitely on the creepier side of the spectrum, especially the ending. A lot of disturbing sexual imagery in the painted sections too.
The Amputee. A lot of what made his later Rabbits so creepy is used to make this one pretty funny. A woman gives a dry and cryptic narration of a soap-operay letter she's writing about tangled relationships as she calmly smokes a cigarette as a doctor (who I believe is played by Lynch himself) cleans her amputated leg stumps, which disgustingly and hilariously start spraying blood and pus everywhere, which doesn't seem to bother her one bit. Lynch shot two versions of this to test two different film stocks for AFI, but they both looked equally shitty to me.
Premonition Following an Evil Deed. My favorite of the bunch, and clocks in at just under a minute. Lynch made this as part of a competition where filmmakers were given 55 seconds of film and got to shoot using a Lumiere camera and had a number of restrictions they had to meet to film in the same way the Lumiere brothers did (only natural light, no sync sound). Lynch gets the absolute most out of his 55 seconds with a totally disturbing and dreamlike film that manages to pack an enigmatic punch. It's like a fully formed Lynch film condensed to a minute and has an amazing silent film style. Loved Angelo Badalamenti's music for it too. I watched this like 3 times in a row, I couldn't get enough of it.
I still have yet to watch The Grandmother which is by far the longest, at half an hour in length, but after these I'm excited to watch it.
Six Men Getting Sick. This one is more of a audio/visual version of a painting than a film, and is like 30 seconds on a loop, but I thought it was very cool. The art is very nice, and there's enough absurdity there to make it as funny as it is disturbing.
The Alphabet. Sort of a longer form version of what he explored with moving paintings in the previous short, but this time mixing in some live action as well. It comes across as a sort of cross between Terry Gilliam's Monty Python cartoons and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. This is definitely on the creepier side of the spectrum, especially the ending. A lot of disturbing sexual imagery in the painted sections too.
The Amputee. A lot of what made his later Rabbits so creepy is used to make this one pretty funny. A woman gives a dry and cryptic narration of a soap-operay letter she's writing about tangled relationships as she calmly smokes a cigarette as a doctor (who I believe is played by Lynch himself) cleans her amputated leg stumps, which disgustingly and hilariously start spraying blood and pus everywhere, which doesn't seem to bother her one bit. Lynch shot two versions of this to test two different film stocks for AFI, but they both looked equally shitty to me.
Premonition Following an Evil Deed. My favorite of the bunch, and clocks in at just under a minute. Lynch made this as part of a competition where filmmakers were given 55 seconds of film and got to shoot using a Lumiere camera and had a number of restrictions they had to meet to film in the same way the Lumiere brothers did (only natural light, no sync sound). Lynch gets the absolute most out of his 55 seconds with a totally disturbing and dreamlike film that manages to pack an enigmatic punch. It's like a fully formed Lynch film condensed to a minute and has an amazing silent film style. Loved Angelo Badalamenti's music for it too. I watched this like 3 times in a row, I couldn't get enough of it.
I still have yet to watch The Grandmother which is by far the longest, at half an hour in length, but after these I'm excited to watch it.
Oh yeah, that's damn good.
Infernostew
Member
Been super inactive on here lately... sorry guys.
Carnage Park - So I caught this film last night which was only playing 2 showings total over Friday and Saturday and I was super excited to see it after seeing a trailer. Well... it was super disappointing. Not overly exciting and I thought there would be a lot more tension than there was. The editing was completely all over the place too. Story starts out pretty interesting and then eventually gets lame as it went along. It did a pretty decent job trying to capture the late 70s vibe but falls short in most things. What I really liked about the beginning is this sense of openness through the landscape of the national park where the protagonist is being
But I became frustrated as the last act takes place in a
where the cinematography just really shits the bed. Files this under disappointing to meh. 5/10
Carnage Park - So I caught this film last night which was only playing 2 showings total over Friday and Saturday and I was super excited to see it after seeing a trailer. Well... it was super disappointing. Not overly exciting and I thought there would be a lot more tension than there was. The editing was completely all over the place too. Story starts out pretty interesting and then eventually gets lame as it went along. It did a pretty decent job trying to capture the late 70s vibe but falls short in most things. What I really liked about the beginning is this sense of openness through the landscape of the national park where the protagonist is being
hunted by a blood-thristy sniper.
claustrophobic mine
Was alone for the evening, so decided to watch Hush on Netflix. It's a thriller about a deaf-mute writer that resides alone in a house out in the woods and becomes stalked by a serial killer. It's quite a classical serial killer thriller, but it was surprisingly well-made though they didn't do too much with the deaf-mute aspect of it, I felt. The acting of the few cast members was solid and it was a pretty tense movie all in all. For a no-name/non-famous production, it exceeded my low expectations.
User 479360
Banned
Just finished Black Mass, which I watched with a friend. We both liked it. It was pretty good, but lacked some depth and had some issues.
Depp was good in it.
I also watched more than an hour of Spotlight this morning, before I got too tired to keep my eyes open. I planned to finish it this afternoon, but have yet to and will tonight if I can. I thought the subject matter would bore me, but the writing and the acting are both top notch.
Depp was good in it.
I also watched more than an hour of Spotlight this morning, before I got too tired to keep my eyes open. I planned to finish it this afternoon, but have yet to and will tonight if I can. I thought the subject matter would bore me, but the writing and the acting are both top notch.
Messofanego
Banned
I need to see this. Yeah, if a movie is mostly released at film festivals in a year, then for me the year of when it's in general release for everyone is what counts.
Star Trek is an inventive blockbuster that essentially re-introduced the idea of a "re-quel." A clever combination of a reboot and sequel, the actual script might be a bit lacking, but the crew's chemistry and general great acting make this worth watching. There's not a weak part in the cast, and Abrams knows how to direct an exciting feature that both harkens to the past and reinvents space opera for a new generation. The aesthetics might be more obnoxious than slick at points, but the modernization of Star Trek still stays true to the characters. Star Trek is a really fun sci-fi action film that always proves to be a lot of fun.
The Red Shoes (blind buy; first Archers movie!) and Dr. Strangelove
Yeah, I was expecting Stockholm, PA to be Ronan's Martha Marcy May Marlene, but it went in the other direction, focusing more on Marcy's increasingly frustrated attempts to reconnect with her daughter than Leia's displacement. The former could have been an interesting take, however the script just wasn't up to par -- Marcy's descent into madness feels hamfisted and devolves her character into someone more befitting of a soapie.
You are in for quite something. Was discussing that movie with a friend the other day, they jut don't make 'em like that anymore. It's absolutely perfect.
Sing Street - A step up from Begin Again. Very uplifting and feel-good. Great performances, catchy music.
The Andromeda Strain - Was a weird one because I was half-intrigued and half-bored. Funny to see all that 'futuristic equipment' which now looks super dated.
The Neon Demon - Too shallow. But I liked it. Looks gorgeous. Great score. The thing that bugged me the most is that yeah sure Elle Fanning is a cutie but not the be-all-end-all of beauty that this film makes her out to be.
Then in The Neon Demon's wake I rewatched both Suspiria and Only God Forgives. Former still amazing. Latter I appreciated more than before but still didn't love.
More_Badass
Member
Finally saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. While I think it dragged in some scenes and it's not shocking as it probably was 40 years ago, man, it had some really unsettling scenes.
I really liked that opening. The creaking nails-on-chalkboard camera shutter with the shots of body parts and remains really set the raw tone and atmosphere perfectly
Leatherface's debut was fantastic. I wish more horror movies did that. No build-up, no creepy music or perspective shots or obvious "time-to-reveal-the-monster" set-up. Just broad daylight, Leatherface out of nowhere, hammer to the skull, slam the door. So effective
And of course the dinner scene was just like 15 minutes of madness. Terrifying nightmare stuff, from bringing Grandpa down to him sucking the blood to them sitting around the table and Sally's chair having literal arms and bringing out the hammer.
Probably the most interesting thing about the movie was how much it happens during the day. That makes it scarier in a way. The tropes of modern horror condition you not to expect horrible stuff to go down during the day, and especially not with the suddenness of TCM's horror
I really liked that opening. The creaking nails-on-chalkboard camera shutter with the shots of body parts and remains really set the raw tone and atmosphere perfectly
Leatherface's debut was fantastic. I wish more horror movies did that. No build-up, no creepy music or perspective shots or obvious "time-to-reveal-the-monster" set-up. Just broad daylight, Leatherface out of nowhere, hammer to the skull, slam the door. So effective
And of course the dinner scene was just like 15 minutes of madness. Terrifying nightmare stuff, from bringing Grandpa down to him sucking the blood to them sitting around the table and Sally's chair having literal arms and bringing out the hammer.
Probably the most interesting thing about the movie was how much it happens during the day. That makes it scarier in a way. The tropes of modern horror condition you not to expect horrible stuff to go down during the day, and especially not with the suddenness of TCM's horror
Fancy Clown
Member
Kuroneko. As he did in Onibaba, Kaneto Shindo demonstrates extremely precise control over editing rhythms, crafting scenes that stretch out and build as eerie percussive music drives the tension forward. This time though he swaps out the beautiful and eeire slow motion shots of the tall grass setting, for beautiful and eeire tracking shots through a bamboo grove where much of the action takes place. And while he forgoes much of the horrible griminess of Onibaba in favor of a more restrained, ethereal tone, he captures many of the same themes, of people taking their appetites--both sexual and food driven--to terrible extremes in times when the land is ravaged by war. It's an effective and stylish ghost/revenge/love tale with shades of both Rashomon and Uegetsu. And although the climax doesn't quite satisfy in the same way Onibaba did, it's more than worthy of a watch.
True Savior
Member
Shadow of a Doubt - Alfred Hitchcock
Another exercise of redundancy by Mr. Hitchcock. Teresa Wright is the shinning star of the entire thing, sadly her performance is wasted in a trite, base and unenergetic thriller.
Another exercise of redundancy by Mr. Hitchcock. Teresa Wright is the shinning star of the entire thing, sadly her performance is wasted in a trite, base and unenergetic thriller.
Tickled
I was intrigued by the trailer. It looked really interesting. So my wife and I attended a showing in NYC last night. It was very funny, at times uncomfortable, had a good amount of plot twists, and some lovely filler shots. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I rarely see documentaries in theaters, but this one was worth it.
I was intrigued by the trailer. It looked really interesting. So my wife and I attended a showing in NYC last night. It was very funny, at times uncomfortable, had a good amount of plot twists, and some lovely filler shots. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I rarely see documentaries in theaters, but this one was worth it.
Rhomega Beta
Member
The Bridge on the River Kwai: I do like Alec Guiness in this, as well as the growing camaraderie between Colonel Nicholson and Commander Saito. I also can't think of a better way this movie could have ended.
The Sandlot: A saccharine nostalgia movie notable for the "ball gets knocked into yard guarded by vicious dog" cliche. The climax and scene with Mr. Mertle was nice, but I didn't care much for the movie otherwise.
inb4 "You're killing me, Smalls!"
The Sandlot: A saccharine nostalgia movie notable for the "ball gets knocked into yard guarded by vicious dog" cliche. The climax and scene with Mr. Mertle was nice, but I didn't care much for the movie otherwise.
inb4 "You're killing me, Smalls!"
How has this slipped by you all these years. Literally UNIVERSAL GAF PRAISE.
It's one of those things that when you read the premise, it's easy to dismiss, but then you watch and holy fuck it's absolutely perfect in every way.
I was busy discovering All That Jazz first! Then I waited for a new Criterion sale.
Net_Wrecker
Member
If there's anything I've learned in my travels, it's to never assume anyone's seen anything. I still have stuff I need to watch that people would scoff and walk the other way if I mentioned.
But y'know, gotta go watch independence day 2 and stuff. Real movies, not this artsy junk.
Count Dookkake
Member
Saw this turd at Sundance.
I've only seen one other work by the director and this was an improvement, so at least he's getting better, I guess.
The BFG wears its children book's origins proudly. Spielberg has crafted a delightful film oozing with charm and the type of magic only felt when reading books like Roald Dahl's. Adding to the feel of a storybook is the inherent CGI fakeness of the BFG, who fluctuates from feeling real to looking like a PS4 game character. The other giants fare worse and honestly, if the effects were better, the film as a whole would've probably got a much better reception. Spielberg elevates the material from one of Dahl's lesser novels and makes it an absolute treat packed with lovely setpieces and moments of pure awe. John Williams' pulsing score also amplifies the atmosphere and Rylance's performance really is a wonder. The BFG might suffer from a clear artificiality and thus is a lesser Spielberg, but it's still better than most of the family adventures out there, clearly displaying the director's absolute mastery of the genre.
User 479360
Banned
Spotlight is really good and very well made/acted/written.
MidnightCowboy
Member
I won't accept any Joseph Cotten slander as long as I'm alive.
The Red Shoes is fantastic, i'll happily join the choir.
Hitchcock is hit or miss for me. Recently saw Spellbound. It felt like a psychoanalysis parody. Ingrid Bergman (+ her character) is so out of it, like the very definition of a campy character. And then that glorious skiing scene. I was watching in disbelieve.
July is the month of Kelly Reichardt for me. Recently saw River of Grass, which is a beautiful and fantastic anti-road-movie with a very subtle and very critical humor. It was hilarious that all the store clerks and service workers are black. Or several shots of a train passing by, without ever giving us/me the relief of waiting for it to pass over, so the wide and vast landscape is always hidden behind them. Trains are not a mean to move from point a to b, but moving walls that trap the characters in their city/their lives.
Old Joy set a very different tone that I did not expect. Great idea to make a film about two best buds with no women whatsoever. The film is basically just the trip they do over the weekend and while you can tell that they used to be very good friends for a very long time, there's this subtle and grating tension. That scene with the massage was the best pay-off the film could have had, wiping away all my doubts I had about the aim of that movie. Highly recommended.
Wendy and Lucy, oh god, i wanna die. Michelle Williams is fantastic. The premise is so uneventful and sad. Very much liked it, but it was super sad.
Saw Meek's Cutoff and Night Moves a few years back and remember them both fondly. Maybe I'll rewatch them too. Hope Certain Women will be released asap here.
Also watched Toni Erdmann yesterday. I don't get the hype. It's a competent drama, and while Sandra Hüller was amazing, I didn't find the other title character the slightest bit sympathetic, funny or actually interesting (Toni Erdmann). The setting was well portrayed and I enjoyed the writing of all the not-supposedly-funny scenes. Yet every time the father showed up I couldn't help but be bored/annoyed. You could argue that it's the whole point, but then it certainly went over my head. The other people in the cinema seemed to have a great time since there was a lot of laughter. But most of them were way older than I was, too. Maybe it's an age thing? No idea, but I was a bit let down by the film, especially after I enjoyed Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen and Alle Anderen.
Hitchcock is hit or miss for me. Recently saw Spellbound. It felt like a psychoanalysis parody. Ingrid Bergman (+ her character) is so out of it, like the very definition of a campy character. And then that glorious skiing scene. I was watching in disbelieve.
July is the month of Kelly Reichardt for me. Recently saw River of Grass, which is a beautiful and fantastic anti-road-movie with a very subtle and very critical humor. It was hilarious that all the store clerks and service workers are black. Or several shots of a train passing by, without ever giving us/me the relief of waiting for it to pass over, so the wide and vast landscape is always hidden behind them. Trains are not a mean to move from point a to b, but moving walls that trap the characters in their city/their lives.
Old Joy set a very different tone that I did not expect. Great idea to make a film about two best buds with no women whatsoever. The film is basically just the trip they do over the weekend and while you can tell that they used to be very good friends for a very long time, there's this subtle and grating tension. That scene with the massage was the best pay-off the film could have had, wiping away all my doubts I had about the aim of that movie. Highly recommended.
Wendy and Lucy, oh god, i wanna die. Michelle Williams is fantastic. The premise is so uneventful and sad. Very much liked it, but it was super sad.
Saw Meek's Cutoff and Night Moves a few years back and remember them both fondly. Maybe I'll rewatch them too. Hope Certain Women will be released asap here.
Also watched Toni Erdmann yesterday. I don't get the hype. It's a competent drama, and while Sandra Hüller was amazing, I didn't find the other title character the slightest bit sympathetic, funny or actually interesting (Toni Erdmann). The setting was well portrayed and I enjoyed the writing of all the not-supposedly-funny scenes. Yet every time the father showed up I couldn't help but be bored/annoyed. You could argue that it's the whole point, but then it certainly went over my head. The other people in the cinema seemed to have a great time since there was a lot of laughter. But most of them were way older than I was, too. Maybe it's an age thing? No idea, but I was a bit let down by the film, especially after I enjoyed Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen and Alle Anderen.
Mix Master
Member
Triple 9 was one of the biggest wastes of time I've seen in awhile.
Harrelson,Winslet, Ejiofor, Affleck, etc. look appealing on paper, but in execution the movie woefully lags behind.
I thought It was a bank robbery movie a la heat, but i just got a generic b-cop/revenge movie with a shit plot
disgusting.
Harrelson,Winslet, Ejiofor, Affleck, etc. look appealing on paper, but in execution the movie woefully lags behind.
I thought It was a bank robbery movie a la heat, but i just got a generic b-cop/revenge movie with a shit plot
High Rise - Maybe i wasn't in the mood, but this didn't really click despite having a very great style, and an interesting concept.
I felt like i was forcing myself to follow all the way through.
Also could understand about 60% of whatever Jeremy Irons was saying, with that accent.
I felt like i was forcing myself to follow all the way through.
Also could understand about 60% of whatever Jeremy Irons was saying, with that accent.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
Member
I really wanted to like To Rome With Love. Honestly I did. I like Woody Allen, I like the actors, I like the idea of the movie, so I was super into it. Then I watched it and I realised I didn't like it.
I tried really hard, but its so weird. The 4 stories don't really work, they were really weird and disconnected from each other, in every way. The actors aren't at the top of the game. Woody Allen directing himself is odd. It looked nice I guess? and I liked the music. But thats all.
What a let down.
I tried really hard, but its so weird. The 4 stories don't really work, they were really weird and disconnected from each other, in every way. The actors aren't at the top of the game. Woody Allen directing himself is odd. It looked nice I guess? and I liked the music. But thats all.
What a let down.
It's not your fault. The movie is bad.
It's not your fault. The movie is bad.
I saw Tangerine by Sean Baker. Great fun! Imressive that it was shot with a smartphone. Me and my friend were divided between who of the main characters we like and dislike (she was pro Sin-Dee, Alexandra for me). But yeah, most of the characters are well portrayed, especially like the armenian cab driver. Short, sweet, refreshing. Going in with zero expectations, this was a nice surprise.
Rhomega Beta
Member
Spent several hours going through my Facebook posts, and filled my Letterboxd diary of movies I've seen between 2009-2013. http://letterboxd.com/Rhomega/films/diary/
Count Dookkake
Member
Thank goodness the Robocop remake didn't have a female lead, so that one can make negative comments about it without having a bunch of dorks going on the attack.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
only good thing to come out of the Robocop/Total Recall remakes was getting proper blu-ray restoration of the Verhoeven films out of it.
Saw Tangerine with my Wife last year and it blew us away! We've watched it 3 times since. Movie has so much style and energy.
Death Metalist
Member
True Savior
Member
The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki
The ending is so goddamn beautiful.What a film to end his career. Beautiful blend between charm, delight, realism and melancholy.
The ending is so goddamn beautiful.What a film to end his career. Beautiful blend between charm, delight, realism and melancholy.
After the Rehearsal - Not in the Bergman top tier, for sure, but it still has that hypnotic quality that he brings, when he goes with wall to wall dialogue, for an hour.
Also the short running time makes it easily digestible; i'm not sure why this has become such a pet peeve of mine, in recent years, maybe i'm more apprehensive about my time.
Also the short running time makes it easily digestible; i'm not sure why this has become such a pet peeve of mine, in recent years, maybe i'm more apprehensive about my time.
Fancy Clown
Member
I'm the same way now. I'm like "fuck yes 85 minutes, that's perfect lets do this".
And then I go buy a bunch of 3 hour movies in the criterion sale.
User 479360
Banned
I couldn't sleep yesterday morning and this morning (it's a trend), so I watched a couple of movies:
1) The Judge: I like the cast. The movie, as a whole, was okay. Rather predictable, to be honest. Enjoyable still.
2) Minions: I'm not someone who rushes to see all of the new/big animated movies. I enjoy them for the most part, but also feel that some (ie. some of Pixar's stuff outside of Finding Nemo and the Toy Story series) are overrated.
Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 were two I was a fan of more than most. So I wanted to see Minions.
Minions starts off comically, has a good stylish opening and also has some pretty funny moments. It doesn't all come together, though, because the villain isn't very interesting.
1) The Judge: I like the cast. The movie, as a whole, was okay. Rather predictable, to be honest. Enjoyable still.
2) Minions: I'm not someone who rushes to see all of the new/big animated movies. I enjoy them for the most part, but also feel that some (ie. some of Pixar's stuff outside of Finding Nemo and the Toy Story series) are overrated.
Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 were two I was a fan of more than most. So I wanted to see Minions.
Minions starts off comically, has a good stylish opening and also has some pretty funny moments. It doesn't all come together, though, because the villain isn't very interesting.
old manatee
Banned
Gone Girl: It's faithful to the best parts of the book, and fixes the worst parts. It's probably the best thriller of this type I've seen since Basic Instinct. David Fincher was aware that he was making a deeply silly film and used it to his advantage.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
I watched "The Last Witch Hunter" a couple days ago, and I was totally taken by surprise. Honestly, I picked up the DVD because it looked like it would be a total disaster. Vin Diesel in a kids action movie about witches shouldn't have been anything but awful.
In fact, everything is wrong with this movie. The writers had more story and detail than they could fit into 100 minutes, so everything is kind of rushed, and things you'd like to know more about are just kind of mentioned and then moved past. The dialogue is fucking awful, and there are cliches galore. Somehow, none of this matters.
This movie was just a lot of fun to watch. I think that's due in great part to the movie having so many really good actors in it. Watching this it, I was taken back to those days as a kid when anything with bright colors and explosions was amazing to watch
In fact, everything is wrong with this movie. The writers had more story and detail than they could fit into 100 minutes, so everything is kind of rushed, and things you'd like to know more about are just kind of mentioned and then moved past. The dialogue is fucking awful, and there are cliches galore. Somehow, none of this matters.
This movie was just a lot of fun to watch. I think that's due in great part to the movie having so many really good actors in it. Watching this it, I was taken back to those days as a kid when anything with bright colors and explosions was amazing to watch
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