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Post by ganews on Mar 12, 2024 21:49:00 GMT -5
Wow, 90 seconds of ads every 15 minutes on Amazon Prime. I guess I'm never going to use this service again. Too bad, because this is the only way I would watch a movie like Horns, stumbling upon instead of seeking out.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 15, 2024 20:06:18 GMT -5
We were just watching Dune part two, and when Paul yells "I'm not the Messiah!" I whispered to Mrs. Floyd "He's a very naughty boy."
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 16, 2024 7:45:58 GMT -5
We were just watching Dune part two, and when Paul yells "I'm not the Messiah!" I whispered to Mrs. Floyd "He's a very naughty boy." . Paul: you are all individuals! Stilgar: I'm not!
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 16, 2024 9:40:47 GMT -5
Tonight I learned that Villeneuve's film Enemy is based on Jose Saramago's novel The Double. Wow, I didn't know that at all. I haven't seen the film, but I've read the book. In the Dunc thread some of you were saying that you've seen the film. Have any of you read the novel? Curious to know what kind of an adaptation the film is. I saw Enemy but haven't read the book. As I mentioned in the Dunc thread, I think there's a throughline of isolation and miscommunication to Villeneuve's filmography that's apparently been there since the beginning. It tracks that he considers the Fremen an allegory for the Quebecois.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Mar 16, 2024 11:23:29 GMT -5
Tonight I learned that Villeneuve's film Enemy is based on Jose Saramago's novel The Double. Wow, I didn't know that at all. I haven't seen the film, but I've read the book. In the Dunc thread some of you were saying that you've seen the film. Have any of you read the novel? Curious to know what kind of an adaptation the film is. I saw Enemy but haven't read the book. As I mentioned in the Dunc thread, I think there's a throughline of isolation and miscommunication to Villeneuve's filmography that's apparently been there since the beginning. It tracks that he considers the Fremen an allegory for the Quebecois. Great sandworm fishin in Quebec!
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Mar 16, 2024 21:19:16 GMT -5
Front row at Zone of Interest
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 19, 2024 18:27:40 GMT -5
Does the film version of "Zone of Interest" say anything that I wouldn't get by visiting Auschwitz? Because I've done that. I've done the tour of the museum and grounds. And if you've never done this, believe me, it is quite memorable. Visceral. The museum there is excellent at getting across what actually happened. I'm a bit wary that the film might just annoy me. I think I'd be okay with the book version, but with the way it was adapted, I'm not sure.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Mar 20, 2024 15:27:58 GMT -5
Does the film version of "Zone of Interest" say anything that I wouldn't get by visiting Auschwitz? Because I've done that. I've done the tour of the museum and grounds. And if you've never done this, believe me, it is quite memorable. Visceral. The museum there is excellent at getting across what actually happened. I'm a bit wary that the film might just annoy me. I think I'd be okay with the book version, but with the way it was adapted, I'm not sure. It's definitely not focusing on the actual horrors that took place but on the banality of evil. You hear plenty of terrible things happen but you see very few on screen: it's just this Nazi family's normal life. I don't think it says anything about the banality of evil that hasn't already been said, though. It's fascinating from a sound design perspective but if you don't need more reminders that the Holocaust was monstrous you wouldn't be missing out if you didn't watch it.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 20, 2024 18:29:35 GMT -5
Does the film version of "Zone of Interest" say anything that I wouldn't get by visiting Auschwitz? Because I've done that. I've done the tour of the museum and grounds. And if you've never done this, believe me, it is quite memorable. Visceral. The museum there is excellent at getting across what actually happened. I'm a bit wary that the film might just annoy me. I think I'd be okay with the book version, but with the way it was adapted, I'm not sure. It's definitely not focusing on the actual horrors that took place but on the banality of evil. You hear plenty of terrible things happen but you see very few on screen: it's just this Nazi family's normal life. I don't think it says anything about the banality of evil that hasn't already been said, though. It's fascinating from a sound design perspective but if you don't need more reminders that the Holocaust was monstrous you wouldn't be missing out if you didn't watch it. Thanks. Yeah, the Auschwitz museum itself actually does deal with that. And I already understand that people lived around Auschwitz, because I've been there, and seen where it is located, and the surrounding area. I am, however, interested in the piece you mention, which is the sound design. So, I maybe will check it out for that.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Mar 21, 2024 8:24:45 GMT -5
Shoutout to the person on Bluesky who just did a double feature movie night where they watched "Clue" and then immediately watched "Clueless"! Living it up!
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 21, 2024 9:40:43 GMT -5
Shoutout to the person on Bluesky who just did a double feature movie night where they watched "Clue" and then immediately watched "Clueless"! Living it up! They needed to throw in Without a Clue for a triple feature.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Mar 25, 2024 20:35:16 GMT -5
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Post by Pedantic Editor Type on Mar 26, 2024 9:34:10 GMT -5
Caught Ghostbusters: Afterlife on cable yesterday (though I was also making dinner for part of that time, so I didn't see every second). (SPOILERS) First off, how on earth is Ernie Hudson 78 because that man looks amazing. Overall, I thought it was really enjoyable, with enough nostalgia for the die-hard older fans and a great young cast for a new storyline. A bit fan-servicey, but with lots of love. Wish Carrie Coon had a bit more to do. Weird and a bit sad to see ghost-Harold Ramis. I won't rush out to see Frozen Empire in theaters, but if it follows in the same vein, it'll be worth catching on cable in three years
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Apr 4, 2024 11:35:33 GMT -5
No one has ever tried to remake a Marx Bros movie.
Nor should they.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 4, 2024 11:38:09 GMT -5
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Apr 4, 2024 14:19:51 GMT -5
I had forgotten about Brain Donors, but I'd consider it more as "inspired by" the Marx Bros rather than a true remake, in much the same way I'd consider Hudson Hawk to be inspired by the Three Stooges. Brain Donors is overall a better movie, if I'm remembering it right, although HH has it's moments. Does BD follow the plot of a previous Marx Bros movie? I should rewatch Brain Donors.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 4, 2024 15:56:42 GMT -5
I had forgotten about Brain Donors, but I'd consider it more as "inspired by" the Marx Bros rather than a true remake, in much the same way I'd consider Hudson Hawk to be inspired by the Three Stooges. Brain Donors is overall a better movie, if I'm remembering it right, although HH has it's moments. Does BD follow the plot of a previous Marx Bros movie? I should rewatch Brain Donors. I haven't seen it or A Night at the Opera in ages; I remember Brain Donors being highly similar plot-wise but you're probably right it's not an A-to-B remake.
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Post by ganews on Apr 4, 2024 18:29:26 GMT -5
Whoa. All I remember is Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello synchronizing themselves while working apart by singing the same song. Maybe I need to revisit this.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Apr 4, 2024 20:32:11 GMT -5
Whoa. All I remember is Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello synchronizing themselves while working apart by singing the same song. Maybe I need to revisit this. Richard E Grant and Sandra Bernard chew up the scenery wonderfully as the villains, and David Caruso is very weird as a mute thug.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Apr 5, 2024 15:22:03 GMT -5
Richard E Grant and Sandra Bernard chew up the scenery wonderfully as the villains, and David Caruso is very weird as a mute thug. Hudson Hawk was the first non matinee time movie my folks let me take a bus to go see with my friends on our own flick. We got coffee at a diner after seeing it. We felt like super mature 12 year olds that June evening. I haven’t seen it since and don’t want to tarnish my generally positive memories of it by revisiting it given its reputation. But I recall it being more part of the whole “Let’s humor him with his whole Bruno/musical thing to keep him happy so he’ll keep doing blockbusters” era (much preferable to the “Let’s exploit a man with a horrible disease to make cheap direct to Redbox schlock” era) more than being specifically slapstickish.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Apr 5, 2024 15:34:55 GMT -5
Hudson Hawk was the first non matinee time movie my folks let me take a bus to go see with my friends on our own flick. We got coffee at a diner after seeing it. We felt like super mature 12 year olds that June evening. I haven’t seen it since and don’t want to tarnish my generally positive memories of it by revisiting it given its reputation. But I recall it being more part of the whole “Let’s humor him with his whole Bruno/musical thing to keep him happy so he’ll keep doing blockbusters” era (much preferable to the “Let’s exploit a man with a horrible disease to make cheap direct to Redbox schlock” era) more than being specifically slapstickish. I remember an interview when Willis was promoting the movie and someone asked him if it was influenced by the Stooges and he got a big grin and said "It has Stooge-like qualities, you might call it Stooge-esque."
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Post by ganews on Apr 6, 2024 21:32:35 GMT -5
Goddamn, Ava Gardner in this toga in One Touch of Venus (1948), which is on TCM right this moment, might as well be walking around topless.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Apr 7, 2024 17:38:11 GMT -5
Also the case for Jean Simmons in Androcles & the Lion. It’s honeatly the thing I remember best from the film, luckily more so than the very awkward intercutting of lion footage with obvious man-in-a-costume stuff. It’s frustrating because the film probably was going to be good, initially. Harpo Marx was originally cast as the title character, everyone working on the film felt they’d captured something really special, and then Hughes sacked him because he saw some guy on TV and thought he’d do a better job. He did not. Harpo would have probably been able to get us through some of the suspension of disbelief bits and brought real life to Shaw, which is often a tall order. It’s really too bad there isn’t more good Shaw on film. Bringing life to Shaw’s text on film really does seem difficult—he’s so talky, so much is tell rather than show. So his plays get broken up to bring in more action, like Androcles and, worse, the Devil’s Disciple. Olivier, Lancaster, and Douglas really bring it to the text there, but the movie’s so jumbled it doesn’t work. So much of film works on a level “beneath” language, but Shaw had a near-active active disdain for that level of communication. The performances in The Devil’s Disciple work because of everyone brings massive charisma, even if the film doesn’t have it. Howard’s Pygmalion’s great, in part because Higgins is sort of a Shaw character that’s hit the limits of being a Shaw character, allowing Howard to add something else. A lot of people dislike how the film changed the ending, but I think it worked because Howard brought in a romanticism that feels like an outgrowth of the text, even if it ultimately turns against it. Shaw was asexual, that’s not something to hold against him, but his disdain towards the whole emotional apparatus dedicated to sex while working in a medium where that apparatus is central makes things very hard. Thus we do get, not unwelcome, but pretty blatant plays for bare lust in these classical adaptations: Jean Simmons here, and Stewart Grainger in Caesar & Cleopatra (I’d post a picture, but it doesn’t look like there are any Shavians gay enough to have uploaded pics from his diving/swimming scenes).
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Apr 8, 2024 20:48:33 GMT -5
Maxxxine looks like an interesting addition to the Mia Goth trilogy. I liked X and Pearl.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 9, 2024 2:25:18 GMT -5
It's pretty cool that, having escaped from the shadows of Twilight, both Stewart and Pattinson are doing great work and getting recognized for it.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Apr 9, 2024 20:44:51 GMT -5
What do Force Ghosts do when they aren't giving advice to the living?
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Post by ganews on Apr 9, 2024 20:59:50 GMT -5
What do Force Ghosts do when they aren't giving advice to the living? Watch the living, especially in the shower.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 9, 2024 22:01:36 GMT -5
What do Force Ghosts do when they aren't giving advice to the living? They use the bullshit from Episode IX to reincorporate themselves. These videos are the only good thing about that damned trilogy
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Apr 21, 2024 23:56:08 GMT -5
I started re-watching Poor Things and it occurred to me that if Wes Anderson dropped acid and decided to make a porno, it might look a lot like this.
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Post by Prole Hole on Apr 22, 2024 2:40:14 GMT -5
I started re-watching Poor Things and it occurred to me that if Wes Anderson dropped acid and decided to make a porno, it might look a lot like this. The best description I came across of it was, "Barbie for people who listen to Bjork", which is about as perfect a summary as I could imagine. Don't get me wrong, it's a great film with a fantastic cast but yeah... it's also that.
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