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[Duderonomy]

ppadilha said:Two Popes - I thought was good. Watch if you're into being fed propaganda by the Catholic Church.

You mean religious LOL. I really like both the main actors, but Spot Light is my kind of Catholic film. See also a 2015 Chilean film called The Club.

Co-sign Knives Out: nothing groundbreaking, but good acting and it moves along nicely.

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

Star Wars was like, dumb popcorn fun for kids - if there's a positive to me it's that it hopefully nails the coffin shut on the original trilogy as a thing that a certain generation venerates as the birth of such a universally beloved fictional world and convinces that generation that this thing can not sustain that meaning if it is to be an ongoing business concern and media property. I honestly think the old movies were the closest thing to the creation of a new shared mythology on a level of the kinds of things that 300 years later would have become religions in the past. But within the framework of modern intellectual property law and the business structure of the media now, it won't find its wings as a shared culture of fantasy that can include everyone.

And as for the experience itself I'm not one to excuse other big special effects movies as dumb popcorn fun (I hate Marvel movies for example) so I don't really excuse Star Wars either.

 

[ketan]

jojo rabbit is pretty great - what did others think?

it's a hysterical farce of a syrupy coming-of-age set deep within the heart of nazism/anti-semitism. i thought the story could have be wilder... but it's a tough/taboo subject and i think the film ends up appealing to a wide range of people (awkward laughs gave way to howls in our screening). and if it was wilder, it could come off as a more careless/gonzo take.

and that's not tw's style, anyway - he's a legend of making broadly appealing but weirdly satisfying movies. recently found out that there's a tv series based on "what we do in the shadows" (already in season 2!) and it's the best news the wife and i have had since she got pregnant with our youngest (not greatly exaggerated btw).

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

I am a big Taika supporter as a veteran of low budget NZ film (which of course means I met him at one point and gave him my homemade cookies) but I don't think Thor was Waititi enough to overcome the juggernaut it was a part of, so I didn't really get into it. I really want to see Jojo Rabbit to make sure he's still got the touch after that, but in a related note to your pregnancy news, our first child literally came the day we had planned to see it.
So I might have to stream it with a baby sleeping on my chest. Getting through a lot of movies that way these past weeks. Still gotta see the other current releases I haven't got round to - Parasite, The Irishman, Uncut Gems, that Clint Eastwood one about the '96 Olympics bombing. I welcome further opinions about any of those!!

 

[ketan]

klezmer electro-thug beats said:

but in a related note to your pregnancy news, our first child literally came the day we had planned to see it.

Nice one - congrats!
You must be tired right now...

 

[Electrode]

Congratulations!

I saw "Ford vs. Ferrari" last night at the Egyptian Theater. It was two and a half hours well spent and I would recommend it to someone even if he or she is not a car enthusiast. I have cursory knowledge of auto racing, for the most part based on museum collections and simulation video games I used to play, but have trouble remembering all the makes and model numbers associated with the who's-and-when's. So to that end I got a lot out of it. The racing sequences and, like OUATIH, period detail was the main draw for me; buddy comedy and "little guys against the corporate suits" plot being secondary. I wouldn't put it up there with John Frankenheimer's gold standard, pre-CGI "Grand Prix" and I enjoyed Ron Howard's "Rush" more but there was never a dull moment here. I have yet to see "The 24 Hour War" doc, though.

 

[dizzybull]

There is a movie called "What Did Jack Do?" on netflix that popped up as a recommendation. So I figured what the hell. Watched it with the wife. It was only 17 minutes. It's a David Lynch film so you already sort of know shit is gonna be weird going in. We laughed. Awkwardly a few times. The next day I had to watch it again and this time I laughed more. There is something about it. It doesn't have "joke" jokes per se - I guess what makes it funny is that the dialog feels like an AI program was written to analyze a bunch of film noir detective interrogation scenes and then try to write one. So it gets close to right... but not right... and get some awkward uncanny valley shit that makes you question what it even means to have human consciousness in the first place that computers can come close to mimicking it and yet so very very far away.

Anyways, it's only 17 minutes so check it out.

 

[ketan]

ketan said:


the lighthouse is truly wow. heavy guy maddin vibes but still really watchable somehow. :slow burner: i didn't see the witch - another one i've got to catch up on now for sure.

Looks like this is just hitting the UK now - can't recommend enough if you like weird, difficult movies that pay off.

The Lighthouse review – Robert Pattinson shines in sublime maritime nightmare

For his follow-up to The Witch, Robert Eggers launches a salty story of two men trapped in a turret

www.theguardian.com

 

[Duderonomy]

Electrode said:
I saw "Ford vs. Ferrari" [...] I have yet to see "The 24 Hour War" doc, though.

Yeah... is there an established term for Yank-washing yet? I liked both Ford vs Ferrari & the Netflix doc 24hr War, but
and it’s a massive “BUT”

I got U-751 vibes from both. Shelby was approached by Ford and given the brief. Aside from supplying the Ford V8 engine, just about everything was done in England by English engineers. The GT40 car chassis was an English sports car (Lola). The first three models were designed, constructed, and tested in England... I guess I should be thankful they didn’t write out the English driver from the story in favour of an American too.Shelby had already used this template with the Cobra: sold in America as the Shelby Cobra, this car was designed, engineered, tested and even assembled in England, shipped to California where Shelby’s team would put in the transmission, and HEY PRESTO, you’ve got another Netflix doc about this amazing American sports car that started beating Chevrolets. What a genius Shelby was. Just have everything made in England ;-p

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

Ford's WRC entry has always been 100% English, hella F1 teams are based there, clearly there's a pedigree. But yeeeeah we do that... I mean, I haven't seen "The Last Samurai", but it sure looked like a movie about Tom Cruise being the last samurai.

I'd actually read a book that detailed stupid shit like that in Hollywood movies. 1001 Ameri-Washed Movies You Must See Before You Die At The Hands Of The Crumbling Nationalistic Police State For Crimes You Did Not Commit

 

[Jimster]

Duderonomy said:



Electrode said:
I saw "Ford vs. Ferrari" [...] I have yet to see "The 24 Hour War" doc, though.



Yeah... is there an established term for Yank-washing yet? I liked both Ford vs Ferrari & the Netflix doc 24hr War, but
and it’s a massive “BUT”

I got U-751 vibes from both. Shelby was approached by Ford and given the brief. Aside from supplying the Ford V8 engine, just about everything was done in England by English engineers. The GT40 car chassis was an English sports car (Lola). The first three models were designed, constructed, and tested in England... I guess I should be thankful they didn’t write out the English driver from the story in favour of an American too.Shelby had already used this template with the Cobra: sold in America as the Shelby Cobra, this car was designed, engineered, tested and even assembled in England, shipped to California where Shelby’s team would put in the transmission, and HEY PRESTO, you’ve got another Netflix doc about this amazing American sports car that started beating Chevrolets. What a genius Shelby was. Just have everything made in England ;-p

I am a big car-nut, this one is deffo on my list. I know the story, but would like to see it done justice. 25 years ago I blagged a drive in a GT40 replica. It was hard work to drive, no power-anything, but the shove in the back was addictive, it got better the faster you went. It was well-sorted (IIRC it was a Ray Mallock build) but required enormous levels of concentration to keep it going where you wanted it to go at any good lick and I would imagine immense talent to be able to explore its limits (massive props to whoever drove kit like this BITD for a living). I just couldn't afford one. I think they were 50K+ back then.I had illusions of one day having one as a daily driver but after a few laps, you realise:a) You would never get to stretch it in traffic. It would be like forever taxiing a fighter-jet.b) It would be hellishly uncomfortable. My arms and left leg were sore afterwards.I'd recommend karting as a cheaper option, you can drift those all day long in the wet and the speeds (in the cheap ones) are much less threatening to life. Try that in a GT40. You can tell me about it via the Ouija board.

 

[ppadilha]

speaking of fast moving objects, I got roped into taking my friend's 3-year-old to see Sonic the Hedgehog. Not even the little kids in the theater were laughing, but then afterwards my friend's daughter said she enjoyed it, so what do I know.

 

[Jimster]

Jim Carrey = moden-day Jerry Lewis. I can't watch anything he's in. I feel sorry for the TV set.

He was great in "Dumb and Dumber" but that must have been the script.

 

[Duderonomy]

Pet Detective (at the time) was great. Laces out!

 

[Jimster]

Yeah, AVPD (1) was good. And Truman Show. Bruce Almighty - where he's reporting on the Comet strike .... Wow, maybe I do like dude after all.

No wait - Cable Guy.... GOD that was annoying.

 

[ppadilha]

Me, Myself & Irene was pretty good, not just for the fact that it contains one of the greatest single cuts in the history of cinema

 

[dizzybull]

Duderonomy said:

Pet Detective (at the time) was great. Laces out!

Does not hold up. So fucking annoying. I was like “we... as a society... found this funny?”Headline: The Nineties: Not as Dope as You Remember

 

[ketan]

I saw Eternal Sunshine... a year ago and it holds up, although that's more about Gondry... Jim's just being depressed as f*ck the whole time. Man on the Moon and I Love You Phillip Morris are stronger serious acting turns for him.

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

dizzybull said:



Duderonomy said:

Pet Detective (at the time) was great. Laces out!



Does not hold up. So fucking annoying. I was like “we... as a society... found this funny?”Headline: The Nineties: Not as Dope as You Remember

I remember catching snatches of Ace Ventura, Kingpin, Dumb & Dumber etc. on TV even in the 2000s and feeling like "whoa, 9 out of 10 jokes don't hit anymore". I can't imagine what it's like now to watch those.

But then, I heard an early-20s girl waxing poetic on how funny Caddyshack was. She was talking like she was the first person to discover that movie that was ubiquitous on TV for the entire decade of the 90s. Even back then it felt slow and unfunny and out-of-date to my young tastes. Maybe movie attention-span doesn't just continuously accelerate until everybody's just watching farting butts a la Idiocracy, but things actually go in circles. Or maybe it was just one young weirdo.

 

[Electrode]

Reminds me of what my grandfather said, "everyone has his own favorite flavor of stupid". He was a big Three Stooges fan: slapstick, that sort of thing. Grandma was more into "sophisticated" humor: Cary Grant, WC Fields, etc. Their debates at family gatherings about what is "truly funny" were hilarious.

Jim Carrey: his peak was "The Cable Guy". I really liked the dark humor. And there's this too:



Millennial young women just discovering the 90s: I roll my eyes when I see them wearing "Friends" shirts, but then I realize that I am no better as I only recently discovered Monty Python, for example.

Going to see "1917" tonight.