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^if that movie wasnt kinky enough for you I'm worried about you 
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| ocho wrote: | | ^if that movie wasnt kinky enough for you I'm worried about you |
What can I say, I need a lot more High Life (bleep) boxes in every movie I see.
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I just watched The Art of Self Defense this weekend. It was very interesting, and pretty funny. A pretty blatant meditation on toxic masculinity and just how ridiculous and comical it can be but also how damaging it is.
I also caught up on some old flicks this weekend. Blade Runner was good, looking forward to watching the sequel. And saw Before Sunrise and Before Sunset which are great movies where you just spend time watching 2 characters having a conversation. |
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| Into The Spider-verse on Netflix was a great animated flick and is a top 3 Spider-Man movie, IMO. Amazing that we got 2 of the best Spidey movies with 6 months of each other. |
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| loslakersss wrote: | I just watched The Art of Self Defense this weekend. It was very interesting, and pretty funny. A pretty blatant meditation on toxic masculinity and just how ridiculous and comical it can be but also how damaging it is.
I also caught up on some old flicks this weekend. Blade Runner was good, looking forward to watching the sequel. And saw Before Sunrise and Before Sunset which are great movies where you just spend time watching 2 characters having a conversation. |
I recently watched the entire "Before" trilogy, and I've come around to it as a quietly brilliant film exercise even superior to Boyhood, but since they are discreet films in a cinematic universe, I have to give all my praise to Before Sunset where Hawke and Delpy's chemistry is off the charts and it has one of the truly sublime endings in recent American movies. That all American romantic comedies should be as thoughtful, patient, character driven, and actually funny and romantic. One of the truly great American films of the 2000s, imo, up there with PTA, Tarantino, and the Coens' best of that decade.
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(bleep) yes! Watch Scorcese roll in with the best film of the decade in October 2019 on freakin' Netflix.
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As a totally random aside, narrative art is typically at its worst as an efficient delivery system of moral affirmation.
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Looks even better than I thought it would. Could Netflix have the best movie of the year this year? Oscar?
Although, it'll be hard to top OUATIH |
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| Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | loslakersss wrote: | I just watched The Art of Self Defense this weekend. It was very interesting, and pretty funny. A pretty blatant meditation on toxic masculinity and just how ridiculous and comical it can be but also how damaging it is.
I also caught up on some old flicks this weekend. Blade Runner was good, looking forward to watching the sequel. And saw Before Sunrise and Before Sunset which are great movies where you just spend time watching 2 characters having a conversation. |
I recently watched the entire "Before" trilogy, and I've come around to it as a quietly brilliant film exercise even superior to Boyhood, but since they are discreet films in a cinematic universe, I have to give all my praise to Before Sunset where Hawke and Delpy's chemistry is off the charts and it has one of the truly sublime endings in recent American movies. That all American romantic comedies should be as thoughtful, patient, character driven, and actually funny and romantic. One of the truly great American films of the 2000s, imo, up there with PTA, Tarantino, and the Coens' best of that decade. |
I love these movies so much.
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| ocho wrote: | | ^if that movie wasnt kinky enough for you I'm worried about you |
Returning to this, a lot of the movie felt like a pantomime of other creators' more interesting fetishes. Cinephelia for kinky movies isn't much of a kink, and watching a movie work through the director's funny pants feeling as a kid when watching Wicker Man for the first time just makes me want to watch Wicker Man for the fourth time instead.
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| Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | ocho wrote: | | ^if that movie wasnt kinky enough for you I'm worried about you |
Returning to this, a lot of the movie felt like a pantomime of other creators' more interesting fetishes. Cinephelia for kinky movies isn't much of a kink, and watching a movie work through the director's funny pants feeling as a kid when watching Wicker Man for the first time just makes me want to watch Wicker Man for the fourth time instead. |
I would submit that there's plenty of room for Wicker Man and films that are influenced by Wicker Man.
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| If you are into Korean thrillers check out Memories of Murder (2003). The acting, cinematography, and twists and turns are fantastic. |
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| The Juggernaut wrote: | | If you are into Korean thrillers check out Memories of Murder (2003). The acting, cinematography, and twists and turns are fantastic. |
Director Bong just won the Palme d'Or for "Parasite." Also check out his criminally underrated "Okja," the great "Mother," and his uneven but certainly worthy of viewing "Snowpiercer." |
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| golden armor wrote: | | The Juggernaut wrote: | | If you are into Korean thrillers check out Memories of Murder (2003). The acting, cinematography, and twists and turns are fantastic. |
Director Bong just won the Palme d'Or for "Parasite." Also check out his criminally underrated "Okja," the great "Mother," and his uneven but certainly worthy of viewing "Snowpiercer." |
He's a great director, I've seen all of those except Parasite. Will have to check that out when it's released in the US |
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A lot to respond to, but as a random aside, I stand by my claim earlier in this thread that The Sisters Brothers is along with The Hateful Eight and The Assassination of Jesse James... the definitive post-Unforgiven western film.
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| Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | A lot to respond to, but as a random aside, I stand by my claim earlier in this thread that The Sisters Brothers is along with The Hateful Eight and The Assassination of Jesse James... the definitive post-Unforgiven western film. |
One of these films is not like the others
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| Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" was very moving. I was very impressed with Awkwafina's performance. She was quite subdued and restrained. I would love for her to be considered during awards season. |
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| Omar Little wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | A lot to respond to, but as a random aside, I stand by my claim earlier in this thread that The Sisters Brothers is along with The Hateful Eight and The Assassination of Jesse James... the definitive post-Unforgiven western film. |
One of these films is not like the others |
Your ongoing disdain for The Assassination of Jesse James is duly noted.
I'm also coming around on Bone Tomahawk as a great Western, as well.
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| golden armor wrote: | | Lulu Wang's "The Farewell" was very moving. I was very impressed with Awkwafina's performance. She was quite subdued and restrained. I would love for her to be considered during awards season. |
I'd like Zhao Shuzhen who plays Billie's Nai Nai to get a supporting nod.
My main problem with a mostly wonderful movie was how it was framed with the "based on a true lie" tag line to start and the pre-credits reveal at the end. The movie didn't need that kind of handholding.
I think this review from the talented critic Beatrice Loayza better captures some of my criticisms of a film I still enjoyed quite a bit AV Club.
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| ocho wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | ocho wrote: | | ^if that movie wasnt kinky enough for you I'm worried about you |
Returning to this, a lot of the movie felt like a pantomime of other creators' more interesting fetishes. Cinephelia for kinky movies isn't much of a kink, and watching a movie work through the director's funny pants feeling as a kid when watching Wicker Man for the first time just makes me want to watch Wicker Man for the fourth time instead. |
I would submit that there's plenty of room for Wicker Man and films that are influenced by Wicker Man. |
I accept your submission, but it would be nice to see something even more daring given that we're four decades removed from some of Aster's most overt influences, and more viscerally felt than what we get in Aster's rigid painterly ambitions and vanilla kinks. I think he's a clear talent and I'm hoping for better in the future, especially since he's so well regarded in some critical circles.
This review is harsher than I would be, but it touches on some of my issues with Aster's first two movies and how he's been elevated so quickly in critical esteem:
| Quote: | | Pain is a heavily aestheticized and largely abstract idea in his movies, and by the last reel it’s been rendered useless by circumstance anyway. Once we’ve seen where Aster’s heading, ritualistic bloodletting in both cases, the hours he spends trying to show the turmoil with which his characters live feels as much like an affectation as his cinephilia. The endings of his movies don’t have anything to say about the horrific trauma with which they begin. |
| Quote: | | Incidentally the director Aster most resembles is not Michael Powell, Jodorowsky, or even Eli Roth: it’s Mel Gibson, with his pornographic stripping away of innocence, his repulsion and fascination with foreign cultures, his slow-motion build to acts of violence, and his calculated Steadicam shots designed to disorient viewers. Both constantly interrupt scenes of brutality with refractory periods, implicitly asking, “Can you believe what I just did?” |
Link: Passion of the Zeitgeist
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The neo-Giallo Knife+Heart is worth tracking down and it's a 2018 movie I missed that could quickly climb up my favorites list for that year. I need to find it again after catching it late on Mubi last week, but it's accessible queer cinema about lust on film/film as lust and sub/dom dynamics in art as told through a slasher thriller.
And since it's an interesting subgenre in a film decade that desperately needs more interesting subgenres, the '10s neo-Giallo trend is worth discussing (I'm very late to the party and the blacklash to Peter Strickland has already begun). I don't know if there are many/any The Love Witch or Duke of Burgundy fans on LG.com, but it's a film trend I definitely would love to read more about.
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PSA: The Beach Bum is now streaming on Hulu.
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| Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | Omar Little wrote: | | Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | A lot to respond to, but as a random aside, I stand by my claim earlier in this thread that The Sisters Brothers is along with The Hateful Eight and The Assassination of Jesse James... the definitive post-Unforgiven western film. |
One of these films is not like the others |
Your ongoing disdain for The Assassination of Jesse James is duly noted.
I'm also coming around on Bone Tomahawk as a great Western, as well. |
Not that it's a great western, but there's a French flick called Blueberry starring Vincent Cassel that's worthy of a viewing imo. It's based on the French comic series of the 60s that featured the artwork of the great Jean Giraud (Mœbius). I recently bumped into this movie thinking it would be a dope live action adaptation of the original comic, but the film actually veers into its own thing. It's definitely a flawed picture, however it is one of the more introspective, soul searching and spiritually challenging movies I've seen in some time. I'd recommend it to anyone that fancies a different kind of western. It's a bit of a slow burn and it consciously avoids many of the standard western tropes, but in the end it pays off. |
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I finally watch Hereditary. That was quite unsettling. Also watched Ladybird which I really enjoyed.
Looking forward to some good horror movies coming out; the campy Hide and Seek and then IT: Chapter 2.
Also FYI, Apocalypse Now is getting released this thursday/sunday in IMAX at AMC - it's a new cut that is short than Redux but longer than original. And The Matrix is returning to theaters (Dolby!) in 2 weeks. |
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