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I managed to convince Marvel-cynic friends to watch GOTG1 on the strength of the humour and music, and they were converted. Can't wait to see vol2 on teh big screen.
would also add that all of the "serious" film buffs I know all really enjoyed Logan too.
Yeah sorry Duder, I didn't mean to suggest Logan wasn't decent - I've heard very complimentary things about it- I just can't get with any more miserable superheroes right now. I will give it a look at some point though.
And yeah I watched GOTG2 with a mixture of diehards, the mildly interested and one who not only had no interest in superhero films but hadn't even watched the first one (shout out to my Frau). They all came out of it grinning from ear to ear.
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Watched this last night and it was indeed great. A lot of the audience were really sure about how to react to the suspense in the first hour which was also the strongest part of the film for me.
Funnily enough, apart from the obvious Society comparisons it actually also reminded me a bit of The People Under The Stairs (movie not Thes related).
Ha!I hadn't clicked that was him. It was a really great performance.
[Samuel L Jackson] "Get this motherf@ckin' Limey off my motherf@ckin' screen!" [/Samuel L Jackson]
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This isn't that current as it's a film from 2009 and the director tragically died of malaria whilst shooting a film in Liberia in 2014, but I want to vent about this - I just watched Michael Glawogger's "Contact High" having only ever seen his documentaries Megacities and Workingman's Death.
Both those documentaries are ultra essential (especially Workingman's Death), cold, voice-over-free, observational films with something serious to say about the future of the world.
Contact High is a stoner comedy caper movie where every character with a speaking part either is on mushrooms or is acting like it, which ends when, with nothing resolved, all the protagonists and antagonists and also everybody in the world get high as fuck together. I have never in my life experienced such a difference in directorial style, genre, tone, aesthetic, everything between two movies by the same director. I dare anybody to watch WD and Contact High and name a director who made two more different movies. Very enjoyable, if half for the surprise.
Both those documentaries are ultra essential (especially Workingman's Death), cold, voice-over-free, observational films with something serious to say about the future of the world.
Contact High is a stoner comedy caper movie where every character with a speaking part either is on mushrooms or is acting like it, which ends when, with nothing resolved, all the protagonists and antagonists and also everybody in the world get high as fuck together. I have never in my life experienced such a difference in directorial style, genre, tone, aesthetic, everything between two movies by the same director. I dare anybody to watch WD and Contact High and name a director who made two more different movies. Very enjoyable, if half for the surprise.
I'm gonna czech all that - thanks.
david gordon green goes from george washington/joe/prince avalanche to your highness/pineapple express stuff, and masters all of it, i think. but props to this other guy for crossing the fiction/non-fiction barrier.
david gordon green goes from george washington/joe/prince avalanche to your highness/pineapple express stuff, and masters all of it, i think. but props to this other guy for crossing the fiction/non-fiction barrier.
Yeah I could think of a couple other people who've done both - Herzog is the obvious one, but his documentaries are pretty much dramas and his dramas are pretty much documentaries. Even the mainstreamy ones like Rescue Dawn and Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans are tonally very Herzog.
Oh and I forgot to say contact high is on mubi expiring tonight if you have it. I dunno if it's different in different countries though.
Finally got round to watching Babydriver.
What an absolute crock of shit. Terrible performances by the leads and, Foxx apart, not much better by the supporting case (hungry hands Spacey looked visibly embarrassed). Leaden storytelling, clothes brand soundtrack and clumsy pastich characterisation.
Bunch of shite.
Also watched Personal Shopper.
Greatly enjoyed this, wasn't sure what to expect but actually, ghosts apart, it felt most like a character study - as much inside the head as out of it. Wasn't perfect by any means, particularly some of the heavy handed dialogue, but Stewart was genuinely amazing.
What an absolute crock of shit. Terrible performances by the leads and, Foxx apart, not much better by the supporting case (hungry hands Spacey looked visibly embarrassed). Leaden storytelling, clothes brand soundtrack and clumsy pastich characterisation.
Bunch of shite.
Also watched Personal Shopper.
Greatly enjoyed this, wasn't sure what to expect but actually, ghosts apart, it felt most like a character study - as much inside the head as out of it. Wasn't perfect by any means, particularly some of the heavy handed dialogue, but Stewart was genuinely amazing.
Started Baby Driver, won’t finish it. Guessing Spacey will now be pleading for work like this...
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Started Baby Driver, won’t finish it. Guessing Spacey will now be pleading for work like this...
I expect him to start appearing in Woody Allen productions shortly. Maybe a Polanski or two.I did enjoy his toupee anyway. I'll be sad to see the end of the hairpieces.I actually didn't watch the last twenty minutes and just looked up the ending on Wikipedia. Can't say I feel like I missed much. Drive did it all better.
I finally saw "Chasing Trane" and "Beware Mr. Baker." Trane as expected, Baker as unsettling as was reported. I haven't seen the Lee Morgan film yet, but it is on my list. I also still haven't seen "Whiplash," even though I bought the DVD a year ago. It's around here somewhere...
Most recent classic we watched (sort of antithetical to the thread, I know) was "The Hustler." Still a great movie. Most recent blockbuster was "Black Panther" (see: Black Panther thread)...
GJ
Most recent classic we watched (sort of antithetical to the thread, I know) was "The Hustler." Still a great movie. Most recent blockbuster was "Black Panther" (see: Black Panther thread)...
GJ
Re Baby Driver...
As soon as the main character goes straight from his 15-cop warehouse bloodbath to meet with his cute love interest in her cute diner, I was like... nah. Then he comes to the diner pursued by loads of cops for a bloody robbery and she's like "I'm with you, even though you never mentioned you bloodbath cops and rob banks for a living and I'm just a waitress" and hops in... come on man write a character.
And on a personal note as an editor I get really annoyed at the way people discuss Baby Driver. People talking like it deserved an Oscar for that. It is not a "well-edited" movie. It was well-previsualized and well-blocked to execute the "action on beats" synchronization, but what that means is the edit was already done by the director before anything was shot and no meaningful choices could be made with the footage in the edit. Let alone the fact that good editing should be hard to pinpoint. If it distracts you enough that you notice it on first viewing (or indeed if most untrained eyes notice there was something going on with the editing at all) then it's not really doing what it's supposed to. Moments of counterpoint, sure, but having the whole thing feel like a music video isn't effective, storytelling editing. I can grant that it's an experiment but it's a little like "I am watching an experiment in editing" and not so much like "wow that movie swept me away in its story, action, and characters and I don't even know what was done technically to achieve it!"
As soon as the main character goes straight from his 15-cop warehouse bloodbath to meet with his cute love interest in her cute diner, I was like... nah. Then he comes to the diner pursued by loads of cops for a bloody robbery and she's like "I'm with you, even though you never mentioned you bloodbath cops and rob banks for a living and I'm just a waitress" and hops in... come on man write a character.
And on a personal note as an editor I get really annoyed at the way people discuss Baby Driver. People talking like it deserved an Oscar for that. It is not a "well-edited" movie. It was well-previsualized and well-blocked to execute the "action on beats" synchronization, but what that means is the edit was already done by the director before anything was shot and no meaningful choices could be made with the footage in the edit. Let alone the fact that good editing should be hard to pinpoint. If it distracts you enough that you notice it on first viewing (or indeed if most untrained eyes notice there was something going on with the editing at all) then it's not really doing what it's supposed to. Moments of counterpoint, sure, but having the whole thing feel like a music video isn't effective, storytelling editing. I can grant that it's an experiment but it's a little like "I am watching an experiment in editing" and not so much like "wow that movie swept me away in its story, action, and characters and I don't even know what was done technically to achieve it!"
Yeah, nice little head-scratcher at the end too. It wasn't at all what I expected but I liked it. Finally saw I, Daniel Blake, which measured up.Mother! is almost unwatchable but hard to stop watching, at the same time. I might actually watch it a 2nd time now that I've read up on it a bit more.
Mountains May Depart was really interesting. Many reviewers have a problem with the third act, but I wasn't bothered by it.Girls Trip is sooooo funny. Can't believe they put in the bit about the grapefruit bj.
Also to stretch the boundaries of this thread, Finding Frances - the feature-length last episode of Nathan For You - is hilarious and basically a documentary.
3 Billboards - best film I’ve watched so far this year.
Has anybody watched The Killing Of A Sacred Deer? It’s by the same dude who made Teh Lobster, which was an absolute mind-fuck, so I’ve avoided this new one.
Has anybody watched The Killing Of A Sacred Deer? It’s by the same dude who made Teh Lobster, which was an absolute mind-fuck, so I’ve avoided this new one.
Baby Driver is such a turd. No joke, I lasted about 10 minutes. It kind of serves as a litmus test for people that I would want to hang with. It's like they tapped into the private mind garden of a 15 year old boy to write this. What a cringe-fest. There must be a lot of Rotten Tomatoes reviewers on the studio's payroll.
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