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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:45 am    Post subject:

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Was Knives Out a bit too cheeseball to anyone else? Did the corniness work for you?


The impression I have taken away from the trailers is that is exactly what they were shooting for and that is exactly why I want to see it.

It looks like a silly sendup of the murder mystery genre with an All-Star cast designed to make it work.

And having seen your post, I'm even more encouraged to see it.


Yeah the old school, over-the-top camp is sort of the whole point.


In other words, a modern day Clue.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:45 am    Post subject:

In answer to BVH's funniest movies of the decade:

The Wolf of Wall Street
Grand Budapest Hotel
21 and 22 Jump Street
This Is The End
Horrible Bosses
Long Shot
Booksmart
Ted

Edit: forgot about Seven Pyschopaths. Sam Rockwell always cracks me up.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:34 am    Post subject:

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ocho wrote:
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Was Knives Out a bit too cheeseball to anyone else? Did the corniness work for you?


The impression I have taken away from the trailers is that is exactly what they were shooting for and that is exactly why I want to see it.

It looks like a silly sendup of the murder mystery genre with an All-Star cast designed to make it work.

And having seen your post, I'm even more encouraged to see it.


Yeah the old school, over-the-top camp is sort of the whole point.


In other words, a modern day Clue.


Exactly!
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:36 am    Post subject:

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What movies from the past decade made you laugh the most?

For me it's some combo of:

The Other Guys
Wolf of Wall Street
Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stoppin'
Grand Budapest Hotel
They Came Together
The Beach Bum

It's a very white list, I know. Looking forward to the replies. Let me know.


MacGruber

Good, funny movie. I need more.


How sad that I can’t think of any others that haven’t been named? Film comedies are in a bad place and have been for a while now.

I’ll break the rules a little bit and mention a TV show, which is probably the funniest and overall best show of the last decade: Nathan For You.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 11:25 am    Post subject:

loslakersss wrote:
In answer to BVH's funniest movies of the decade:

The Wolf of Wall Street
Grand Budapest Hotel
21 and 22 Jump Street
This Is The End
Horrible Bosses
Long Shot
Booksmart
Ted

Edit: forgot about Seven Pyschopaths. Sam Rockwell always cracks me up.


for me..

Everybody Wants Some!!
The Nice Guys
Sorry to Bother You
Parasite
The World's End
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
I, Tonya
Jojo Rabbit
Thor Ragnarok
Brothers Grimsby
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:06 pm    Post subject:

How could I forget Jojo Rabbit
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 1:38 pm    Post subject:

I need to avoid social media until I can watch Marriage Story tomorrow. So many Adam Driver memes.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 12:30 pm    Post subject:

Go check out Dark Waters if you can. Todd Haynes directs the crap out of it and it's rage inducing. Trust no corporations.

Also A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Equally well-directed by Heller, but emotionally uplifting.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:13 pm    Post subject:

Todd Haynes is still out here killing it with Wonderstruck and Dark Waters. I predict time will be kind to all of Haynes' late career work, not just Carol.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 2:00 pm    Post subject:

loslakersss wrote:
In answer to BVH's funniest movies of the decade:

The Wolf of Wall Street
Grand Budapest Hotel
21 and 22 Jump Street
This Is The End
Horrible Bosses
Long Shot
Booksmart
Ted

Edit: forgot about Seven Pyschopaths. Sam Rockwell always cracks me up.

The Jump Streets! I think those Lord and Miller fellas have some talent.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 2:01 pm    Post subject:

panamaniac wrote:
loslakersss wrote:
In answer to BVH's funniest movies of the decade:

The Wolf of Wall Street
Grand Budapest Hotel
21 and 22 Jump Street
This Is The End
Horrible Bosses
Long Shot
Booksmart
Ted

Edit: forgot about Seven Pyschopaths. Sam Rockwell always cracks me up.


for me..

Everybody Wants Some!!
The Nice Guys
Sorry to Bother You
Parasite
The World's End
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
I, Tonya
Jojo Rabbit
Thor Ragnarok
Brothers Grimsby

I still need to see Everybody Wants Some!!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 3:47 pm    Post subject:

ocho wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
ocho wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
What movies from the past decade made you laugh the most?

For me it's some combo of:

The Other Guys
Wolf of Wall Street
Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stoppin'
Grand Budapest Hotel
They Came Together
The Beach Bum

It's a very white list, I know. Looking forward to the replies. Let me know.


MacGruber

Good, funny movie. I need more.


How sad that I can’t think of any others that haven’t been named? Film comedies are in a bad place and have been for a while now.

I’ll break the rules a little bit and mention a TV show, which is probably the funniest and overall best show of the last decade: Nathan For You.

Finding Frances is a movie and deserves serious best of the decade consideration.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 07, 2019 5:09 pm    Post subject:

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I need to avoid social media until I can watch Marriage Story tomorrow. So many Adam Driver memes.

This score is not it. Thankfully it's infrequently used.*

This is the movie where I realize Noah Baumbach is not for me. This is a good movie. This is a film with Adam Driver being exceptional portraying the Platonic ideal of a Baumbach protagonist. There are so many wonderful supporting performances from Alan Alda to Meredith Weaver.

But this is also more of Baumbach's precious privileged, somewhat childlike, insular mental masturbation that doesn't stroke me the way I like it even as it eviscerates the predatory divorce industry and mocks LA ("but...the space"). It's arguably Baumbach's best and it nonetheless makes me want to re-watch War of the Roses, Winter Sleep, or Hong's The Day After instead.

At the end of the day I don't know why Baumbach films feel small to me while Hong movies feel expansive. Good movie, though. Four out of five stars.


* ETA: (bleep) Randy Newman scored the movie?! I just suck.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 1:24 pm    Post subject:

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Every international and indie arthouse movie of the 2010s:

What about [x] but slow and with boxy aspect ratios?

Ranked:

Meek's Cutoff
Jauja
The Lighthouse

Updated:

1. Tabu
2. Meek's Cutoff
3. Jauja
4. The Lighthouse

These are all very good movies. Give 'em a shot.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:35 am    Post subject:

Saw Waves this weekend, great performances by pretty much every cast member. Really interesting and can be quite the emotional movie, many moved to tears in my theater although it didn't affect me in that way. The way communication - good, poor, or non-existent - caused or avoided tragedy had me thinking a lot.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:37 am    Post subject:

Watched and enjoyed the Irishman this weekend. Yes, it's too long, yes, it is based on a widely debunked story, and yes, the casting is forced. But as a nostalgic, "let's get the gang together for one more run" leisurely stroll through the world of Scorsese, it hits all its marks, even if they are well-worn and unsurprising. Watching Pesci return to the screen with of all things a subdued and human performance was beautiful. It's not a movie to nitpick over plot or casting or de-aging. It's a fond farewell to an era.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:19 pm    Post subject:

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Watched and enjoyed the Irishman this weekend. Yes, it's too long, yes, it is based on a widely debunked story, and yes, the casting is forced. But as a nostalgic, "let's get the gang together for one more run" leisurely stroll through the world of Scorsese, it hits all its marks, even if they are well-worn and unsurprising. Watching Pesci return to the screen with of all things a subdued and human performance was beautiful. It's not a movie to nitpick over plot or casting or de-aging. It's a fond farewell to an era.

Objectively false. Nice post otherwise.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:25 pm    Post subject:

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Watched and enjoyed the Irishman this weekend. Yes, it's too long, yes, it is based on a widely debunked story, and yes, the casting is forced. But as a nostalgic, "let's get the gang together for one more run" leisurely stroll through the world of Scorsese, it hits all its marks, even if they are well-worn and unsurprising. Watching Pesci return to the screen with of all things a subdued and human performance was beautiful. It's not a movie to nitpick over plot or casting or de-aging. It's a fond farewell to an era.

Objectively false. Nice post otherwise.


It is too long from the standpoint of the time necessary to tell its story. Instead, it luxuriates. It's almost as if Scorcese and the guys wanted as much time as they could get, as do guys like me. I would have watched a five hour version.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:15 pm    Post subject:

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Watched and enjoyed the Irishman this weekend. Yes, it's too long, yes, it is based on a widely debunked story, and yes, the casting is forced. But as a nostalgic, "let's get the gang together for one more run" leisurely stroll through the world of Scorsese, it hits all its marks, even if they are well-worn and unsurprising. Watching Pesci return to the screen with of all things a subdued and human performance was beautiful. It's not a movie to nitpick over plot or casting or de-aging. It's a fond farewell to an era.

Objectively false. Nice post otherwise.


It is too long from the standpoint of the time necessary to tell its story. Instead, it luxuriates. It's almost as if Scorcese and the guys wanted as much time as they could get, as do guys like me. I would have watched a five hour version.

I understand now, my bad. I also enjoy how it luxuriated while I felt it moved along surprisingly briskly over its runtime. Broadly I don't know what "too long" means anymore given long-form serialized entertainment binge-watching culture and that the movie I most want to see this year is the 14-hour-long La Flor. I'm not a prude about breaking up a streaming movie whether it's 60 minutes or 600 minutes, but I'm genuinely curious what "too long" means to most folks these days.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:15 pm    Post subject:

I wish they had gotten ray Liotta. But maybe he looks too old to de age.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 5:56 am    Post subject:

Marriage Story:
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alright the crux of the issue is she's jealous of his career and he's a philanderer. she's also mad that he has taste and she doesn't really have taste, and also he's a nitpicking jerkoff like a lot of people who have good taste

https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1204240085392265220
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:50 pm    Post subject:

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Saw Waves this weekend, great performances by pretty much every cast member. Really interesting and can be quite the emotional movie, many moved to tears in my theater although it didn't affect me in that way. The way communication - good, poor, or non-existent - caused or avoided tragedy had me thinking a lot.

Very polarized reactions from critics, which probably means it's worth giving a try to something that seems to be a passion project.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:08 pm    Post subject:

For Sama, a devastatingly poignant and painful documentary told from the perspective of filmmaker and journalist Waad Al-Kateab, is a love letter to her baby daughter, Sama, born in Aleppo after its liberation and before it was retaken by al-Assad's forces in 2016-17. Her husband is an emergency surgeon running one of the few functioning hospitals in Aleppo during the government's siege making for hard viewing of the maimed and murdered victims of sustained Russian/Syrian bombings as Al-Kateab's camera never flinches from the horrible toll on the bodies, psyches, and lives of civilian men, women, and children.

You can find the movie on PBS either airing or streaming as part of the "Frontline" series.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:51 pm    Post subject:

I haven’t seen it (and won’t) but this Richard Jewel movie has to be one of the most insidious releases of 2019, right?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:12 pm    Post subject:

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I haven’t seen it (and won’t) but this Richard Jewel movie has to be one of the most insidious releases of 2019, right?

I am going to watch it in a theater and will report back. The second half of 15:17 to Paris and The Mule has me warming back up to old Clint.
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