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by No Good Advice » Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:47 pm
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Fuckk ME! this was bad.
The 2014 Godzilla sure was mediocre, with dumb as bricks characters, but it had a few scenes of awe and sense of scale so I wasn't completely uninterested in this.
This just throws you right into the most disjointed action scenes, jumping unceremoniously from monster to monster with no reason to care, and with characters that maybe have some connection to the first movie? But there's no proper establishing of relationships. They are just sat in this ship shouting meaningless words to each other every so often. All these great monsters are given no build-up and there's no style to the action either.
It's just so BAD
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by jefe górgory » Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:18 pm
I watched You’ll Never Get Rich, with Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire. It was good! Really funny and great dancing. Some charming interplay between Rita and Fred, though they seemed to want to avoid that as often as possible for whatever reason. It’s too bad her career didn’t start about 15 years later when she could actually get respect. Most of the plot lines she’s involved in are a real drag
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by Kenny » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:14 pm
Just watched She's Gotta Have It for the first time. I've only seen 4 Spike Lee movies (This, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X and Bamboozled) but I've thought all of them are really good. I need to see more
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by bongo » Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:21 pm
aububs wrote:bongo wrote:mikes murder is to crime drama as two lane blacktop is to road movie
that sold me on it so i watched it last night and yeah it's really great. can put it in the place if anyone needs it
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by Mesh » Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:36 pm
Kenny wrote:Just watched She's Gotta Have It for the first time. I've only seen 4 Spike Lee movies (This, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X and Bamboozled) but I've thought all of them are really good. I need to see more
Gonna point you toward the flawed, interesting, super earnest Crooklyn. 1st-timed it recently.
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by nosebleeds » Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:13 pm
Clockers is underrated.
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by Spoilt Victorian Child » Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:18 pm
Celiac wrote:I watched You’ll Never Get Rich, with Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire. It was good! Really funny and great dancing. Some charming interplay between Rita and Fred, though they seemed to want to avoid that as often as possible for whatever reason. It’s too bad her career didn’t start about 15 years later when she could actually get respect. Most of the plot lines she’s involved in are a real drag
Been meaning to watch this forever. You Were Never Lovelier is one of Astaire’s best imo.
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by it's the suspense that gets me » Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:19 pm
it's the suspense that gets me wrote:midori (1992)
combo of watching the above film and reminiscing about going deep on anime 'video nasties' in the action film thread lead me to revisit this... idk i've frequently kinda joked about it as being like this achewood strip in film form or "marilyn manson's favorite anime". plot is like "flower girl runs away home to circus where she experiences more abuse, briefly finds 'love', things get worse from there". like yeah literally this achewood strip.
but i dunno, i kinda find some value in that as someone that feels like nothing good ever happens sometimes. it's such a labor of love too, lovingly hand drawn over the course of 5 years. it's still a personal favorite film for me / one of those things that's super inspirational for anyone that wants to make your own film. watching those two films back to back definitely got some morose feelings off of our chests. been a weird weekend.
i watched the live action version of this from 2016... just absolutely abysmal. i have no idea why it exists, especially given that everything that makes it special is relegated specifically to the realm of animation. not only that, it's twice as long as the anime!!!! you put those things together, and it really does everything possible to draw out the stories base level thinness... the scene where the trans woman in the circus is pissing in a lake and she acts surprised to see a dick seriously goes on for like 2 minutes, like, squicking me out at a scene i've never thought twice about while watching the anime, something that goes as far out of it's way to be as transgressive as possible. there's a few animated scenes in it when it wants to aim for surrealism, but they're really cheap and newgroundsy. i'm a sucker for the tetsuya nakashima style really bright heightened reality colors but all that did for me in this was make me wish i was watching kamikaze girls or something instead. it's so cheap it feels like a This Ain't Midori XXX porn parody from the late 00s... idk. ayayayayaya
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by virile » Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:28 pm
i watched a movie where batman gets drunk and teaches high school basketball and does quite a bit of swears to the referees but the batmobile wasn't in it at all he drove a truck
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by No Good Advice » Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:21 pm
Emma (2020)
An extremely Very Good adaptation. Are we suddenly seeing Austen adaptations engaging with the source material in an interesting way? It's not Little Women-levels of an adapted screenplay masterclass, but it's getting closer. Managed to capture the complexities of the main character, the political satire and even some of the intricate innovations of form of Austen's novel (although no adaptation can fully convey the magical tricks of the novel's narrator). Mostly, though, just wonderfully cast and written, beautifully sweet when needed, yet not at all simplistically romantic, like the more confused Austen adaptations.
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by aububs » Sat Apr 04, 2020 2:26 pm
^agree 100%, really enjoyed that movie! it was one of the last things i got to see in the theatre before...the happening
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by palmistry » Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:20 pm
Mesh wrote:Kenny wrote:Just watched She's Gotta Have It for the first time. I've only seen 4 Spike Lee movies (This, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X and Bamboozled) but I've thought all of them are really good. I need to see more
Gonna point you toward the flawed, interesting, super earnest Crooklyn. 1st-timed it recently.
this is spot on. it is a really flawed movie but i love it. low key one of my faves by him
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by mellowgold » Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:32 pm
Dang I really did not like Emma. I was bummed. Mia Goth RULES tho
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by No Good Advice » Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:47 am
mellowgold wrote:Dang I really did not like Emma. I was bummed. Mia Goth RULES tho
What was off about it?
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by shacky » Sun Apr 05, 2020 4:10 am
hey nga what do you think of whit stillman's love and friendship?
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by No Good Advice » Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:12 am
shacky wrote:hey nga what do you think of whit stillman's love and friendship?
Yeah I really liked it, hence my recent optimism about Austen adaptations. Love & Friendship was fully anti-romantic, which is very true to Austen's short story and juvenilia in general. The novels aren't as hardcore ofc, but maintain some of that cynicism and hard edge to the satire and marriage plots, and preserving that side to her in the films is imo an important step towards making them interesting Austen-adjacent works, not just charming movie romances.
I mean, I like some of those simpler adaptations. Some of them are bad, but some are very watchable. I love Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility, maybe because it's my least treasured novel, maybe because Colonel Brandon is perfect in it. But generally they don't represent Austen well.
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by goofjan » Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:35 am
Rewatched
A Simple Plan. so damn good.
plz if u get a chanse put some flowrs on algernons grave kthxbye
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by mellowgold » Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:05 am
No Good Advice wrote:mellowgold wrote:Dang I really did not like Emma. I was bummed. Mia Goth RULES tho
What was off about it?
I didn’t think it got away from the stately 90s period pieces even tho it looked so beautiful
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by brent » Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:46 am
honeyland was amazing
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by mellowgold » Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:52 am
brent wrote:honeyland was amazing
Yes. Thank good someone is watching this!!!
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by John Dark » Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:19 am
Nobody's Fool (1994) - an old favorite and a great character study with a top cast.
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by BlackSugar » Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:56 am
watched amadeus last night. absolutely loved it, f murray abraham is SO GOOD in it. he plays an imperious, conceited, conniving, arrogant, back-stabbing shithead who absolutely hates mozart but just becomes helpless whenever he hears his music. there's so many great scenes of him hiding in an opera hall listening to mozart's work with stricken eyes and a look on his face that is totally "mother FUCKER how is he so good"
it feels a little disjointed and if all you knew about mozart was this movie, you might think all that he did was operas. I also like hulce in the role but would've preferred someone with more gravitas and without the laugh
anyway, great epic movie to quarantine with
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by a long gush from your hole » Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:52 pm
it's the suspense that gets me wrote:Contagion kinda reminds me of what's going on in the world right now. I recommend Contagion if you want something about what's going on in the world right now.
mm, yes. joker (2019) also
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by Mesh » Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:14 am
BlackSugar wrote:watched amadeus last night. absolutely loved it, f murray abraham is SO GOOD in it. he plays an imperious, conceited, conniving, arrogant, back-stabbing shithead who absolutely hates mozart but just becomes helpless whenever he hears his music. there's so many great scenes of him hiding in an opera hall listening to mozart's work with stricken eyes and a look on his face that is totally "mother FUCKER how is he so good"
it feels a little disjointed and if all you knew about mozart was this movie, you might think all that he did was operas. I also like hulce in the role but would've preferred someone with more gravitas and without the laugh
anyway, great epic movie to quarantine with
Often as not my favorite movie ever made and the reason I will always be suspicious of anyone who kneejerks to "movies of plays are bad."
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by mystery meat » Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:42 am
Mesh wrote:BlackSugar wrote:...anyone who kneejerks to "movies of plays are bad."
jesus what kind of dumbass believes this
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by BlackSugar » Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:43 am
yeah no shit, hedwig is my #1 all time movie and fiddler on the roof is probably #3
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by BlackSugar » Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:44 am
was repo man based on a play? because that would be neat
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by rixx » Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:47 am
i really like the film adaptation of ‘doubt’ (2008)
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by Mesh » Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:58 pm
BlackSugar wrote:yeah no shit, hedwig is my #1 all time movie and fiddler on the roof is probably #3
I'd distinguish those as musicals but yeah sure. Or maybe yer kiddin'.
Anyway, I can't be the only one who's come across this strain in criticism at every level. It's this meme/trope out there usually bandied about when people didn't want to listen closely to the words in a screenplay that wants badly to be about them or the camera stood still too long on too austere a set. The terms "cinematic" and "stagebound" get used as cudgels. Last time I ran across a crop of it was around Blank Check's coverage of A Master Builder, which they somehow saw little to no Demme in despite the 2 hours of closeups on one face, another, or two at once. The kind of sentiment out in the smart-person ether that
this review was written as a response to.
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