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Post by Hachiman on Dec 26, 2018 20:30:16 GMT -5
You know, if it weren't for the triumphant music at the end, Bambi would be the story of the child of a single parent who grows up into a deadbeat dad like his own father. Honestly, that is always how I read the movie. I knew so many kids with one absentee parent that I always hated watching Bambi. It was somehow just too close to reality for my childhood neighborhood, right down to the scene of his mom telling him his dad is some tough dude in the neighborhood who is clearly in the vicinity but also has no interest in his offspring and mom just kind of being cool with that. All Bambi's mom needed to say is "now go get ready for church" and the picture would have been depressingly complete.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Dec 26, 2018 22:28:37 GMT -5
You know, if it weren't for the triumphant music at the end, Bambi would be the story of the child of a single parent who grows up into a deadbeat dad like his own father. Honestly, that is always how I read the movie. I knew so many kids with one absentee parent that I always hated watching Bambi. It was somehow just too close to reality for my childhood neighborhood, right down to the scene of his mom telling him his dad is some tough dude in the neighborhood who is clearly in the vicinity but also has no interest in his offspring and mom just kind of being cool with that. All Bambi's mom needed to say is "now go get ready for church" and the picture would have been depressingly complete. In its defense that’s what deer actually do, but once you anthropomorphize the animals to Bambi’s degree leaving in “animals are not people and do things that would be shitty if they were” elements of naturalism can be kinda discordant.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Dec 29, 2018 11:51:50 GMT -5
"- Oh, you're a filmmaker. What movies did you make, maybe I've seen some of them ?" - Oh, you know, things like...
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Post by ganews on Dec 29, 2018 22:09:26 GMT -5
I did not remember that the anti-stink product in Holes (Shia Labeouf's best movie) was called "Sploosh". Heh.
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Post by oppy all along on Dec 31, 2018 1:52:53 GMT -5
Favourite movies of 2018 (in alphabetical order)
'Black Panther' - A black superhero movie so good the Academy tried hotshotting an entirely new award to make sure it won an award. 'Eighth Grade' - A grounded and realistic depiction of middle school in the age of social media, so the scariest movie ever made. 'The Hate U Give' - A furious and confrontational screed against institutional racism which is getting criminally little awards buzz. 'Leave No Trace' - A beautiful and very sad story about a dysfunctional single parent and teenage daughter. 'Mandy' - Nic Cage hunting down demon bikers and a cult after they mess with his girl, but the whole thing is on LSD. 'Paddington 2' - Just the most wholesome thing ever put to film. 'A Quiet Place' - Jim from The Office makes a tense as fuck horror movie about family. 'Roma' - Beautifully made. 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' - An out of nowhere incredible animated superhero movie with a star-studded cast that looks fucking fantastic and pulls at the heart strings. 'A Star Is Born' - I am, and will always be here for a romantic musical melodrama starring Lady Gaga. Get her that Oscar!
Honourable mentions: 'Avengers: Infinity War', 'Blockers', 'Mission Impossible: Fallout', 'Sorry To Bother You', 'Widows'
There are a whole lot of notable 2018 movies that I'm planning to see but haven't gotten to yet: The Favourite; If Beale Street Could Talk; Mary Poppins Returns; Can You Ever Forgive Me?; The Wife; Boy Erased; Mary, Queen of Scots; Beautiful Boy; Cold War; Shoplifters; Burning; and Free Solo. Damn I still have a lot of movie to go.
Also Vice but I'm not planning to watch that at all.
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Post by kitchin on Jan 5, 2019 7:00:03 GMT -5
Saw a movie on Epix about Watergate's Deep Throat. Mark Felt, The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017), with Liam Neeson and Diane Lane. Informative and fairly tense. The dialog was a lot of shameless info dumps, and the color was extremely blue, but what the hey, if you're going to watch a Watergate movie, you're going to watch a Watergate movie. As for the history, you hear a lot that the Washington Post team got over-glorified and the NYT was neck and neck with them, but Time magazine earns some glory in this one. The Robert Redford effect is displaced by the Bruce Greenwood effect, playing the Time reporter. You have to go to Wikipedia to find out it was Time's lawyer who disclosed Deep Throat's identity to Nixon.
For you comedy fans, Wendi McLendon-Covey plays the sturdy backstop secretary, listening in on every call, as is the way in D.C. offices, and providing emotional support for her principle by silently making faces. Diane Lane, as Mrs. Deep Throat, apparently did great work but had most of her scenes cut. She comes off as more shrewish than the brilliant woman, Wikipedia, again, says she was.
There's a B-plot about their daughter having disappeared into the commune world of California, and Deep Throat, coincidentally or not, crossing the line on his FBI investigation of the Weather Underground. The W.U. drew on the same crowd as the communes and sometimes hid out in them. By the early 70's the revolutionary violence was heading towards the farcical tail end of Patty Hearst and the SLA (not depicted in the movie), but we know that only in retrospect. At the time it was just a hell of a lot of bombings, including at the Pentagon. The commune movement likewise evaporated like a fad, with just a few built to last.
Deep Throat's depicted playing a lot of heartless bureaucratic hardball at the FBI, but hanging onto a few old school values. Good movie? No, but brings the facts. Good man? Well, Nixon was afraid to expose him and Reagan pardoned his conviction (and light fine) for his Weather Underground abuses. Yet there's a credible case he was the linchpin to bringing down Nixon.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 6, 2019 23:03:41 GMT -5
Ugh, and Green Book wins at the Golden Globes. I know it is just the Golden Globes, but there were better films nominated there. I'm going to be saying this a lot this Awards Season, aren't I?
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Post by oppy all along on Jan 6, 2019 23:48:42 GMT -5
The two triumphant movies of the Golden Globes, Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 6, 2019 23:59:08 GMT -5
The two triumphant movies of the Golden Globes, Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody.
Green Book is going to win at the Oscars, isn't it? The movie about racism which is designed to make white people feel good. We'll have to see what the nominees are. Will this be another year where the film I like the least wins?
I haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody, yet.
Edited to add: I've long since understood that the best film doesn't always win. I understand my favorite film rarely wins. But it really sucks when the film I like the least wins. (I'm looking at you, "Crash".)
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Post by Nudeviking on Jan 7, 2019 0:15:23 GMT -5
The two triumphant movies of the Golden Globes, Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody.
Green Book is going to win at the Oscars, isn't it? The movie about racism which is designed to make white people feel good. We'll have to see what the nominees are. Will this be another year where the film I like the least wins?
I haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody, yet.
Edited to add: I've long since understood that the best film doesn't always win. I understand my favorite film rarely wins. But it really sucks when the film I like the least wins. (I'm looking at you, "Crash".)
I feel your pain. My favorite films never win anything that isn't listed in a rapid fire series of onscreen graphics about awards awarded earlier in the day. Whether this is because I like shitty films or because the Award Association of Hollywood has no idea what a good movie actually is, is a matter of debate.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 7, 2019 1:36:24 GMT -5
Green Book is going to win at the Oscars, isn't it? The movie about racism which is designed to make white people feel good. We'll have to see what the nominees are. Will this be another year where the film I like the least wins?
I haven't seen Bohemian Rhapsody, yet.
Edited to add: I've long since understood that the best film doesn't always win. I understand my favorite film rarely wins. But it really sucks when the film I like the least wins. (I'm looking at you, "Crash".)
I feel your pain. My favorite films never win anything that isn't listed in a rapid fire series of onscreen graphics about awards awarded earlier in the day. Whether this is because I like shitty films or because the Award Association of Hollywood has no idea what a good movie actually is, is a matter of debate.
I've liked a lot of films that got bad reviews, and I liked films that got great reviews which didn't win at the big awards. So, it may be both!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 8:12:20 GMT -5
Silence of the Lambs is like the only time the Oscars have ever gotten it "right".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2019 8:48:04 GMT -5
My top whatever movies of the year, I don't know how many I can actually remember seeing before I compile this list, but here we go.
1. Mission Impossible: Fallout - It was the dopest of the dope 2. Halloween - I just really enjoyed there being an actual good Halloween sequel 3. BlacKKKlansman - This is definitely better served being seen in the theater with a crowd of uncomfortable white people 4. Black Panther - Ryan Coogler is the director who most knows what being cool means 5. Hereditary - It stopped for 40 minutes to make it a fucked up dark comedy about a family dealing with the death of a loved one and then some weird shit happens 6. Game Night - Jesse Plemmons is really good 7. Blockers - If you liked this you should also watch Neighbors 2 8. Mandy - Chainsaw fight! 9. A Quiet Place - It succeeded at what it wanted to do, and was very effective at causing suspense and some scares, the best part is that it was only like 90 minutes! 10. Venom - It was super weird, and felt like it should have been made in the early boon of super hero movies in the 00s, but it was still very fun. 11. Ant Man and the Wasp - A very sweet movie about a man who just wants to be there for his family by finishing up his house arrest while running a business that helps ex-cons get on their feet, that is sadly sidetracked by superhero shit 12. Incredibles 2 - It was a fun heartwarming family film that I liked more than the original 13. My Hero Academia: Two Heroes - It was a decent story involving my favorite Anime going today, not much more I can ask 14. Annihilation - I didn't really like it, but not because it was bad. It was very well made in fact, but just wasn't emotionally invested at all. Still think about it to this day, so that's a good thing at least. 15. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - It is the best Jurassic Park sequel(which really isn't saying anything). The first half sucked, but the second half was the greatest Dino Crisis adaptation we will ever get 16. Avengers: Infinity War - Was literally half a movie, and so far a half of movie where the main character has an idiotic motivation and just makes everything dreary when he is around 17. Bad Times at the El Royale - Someone really wanted to make a Tarantino film, but without anything that actually makes Tarantino films interesting/good 18. Pacific Rim Uprising - Just lifeless, boring, uninteresting big budget trash
Not Ranked: Vice - I literally have no clue where to actually rank it. It isn't a bad film, it is very well made and succeeds at making the point it wants to make. The central character though is Dick Cheney..... who can really like that?
Best movie I saw that didn't come out this year: Near Dark - I really want Kathryn Bigelow to make genre movies again.
Movies I haven't seen but want to: First Reformed, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, Teen Titans Go to the Movies, Isle of Dogs, The Sisters Brothers, Tag, Widows, Den of Thieves, Creed II, Aquaman, Overlord
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Post by oppy all along on Jan 7, 2019 22:49:34 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2019 12:49:42 GMT -5
Reading news on the venom sequel and so many people are against venom for seemingly no reason at all. Like they are aghast that people can simply enjoy it just because it is fun and not necessarily of oscar winning quality. Sometimes fun and weird stuff is just fun and weird.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 15:59:35 GMT -5
The Velvet Buzzsaw trailer rips.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jan 10, 2019 18:05:13 GMT -5
The Velvet Buzzsaw trailer rips. The trailer certainly takes a turn half way through. The cheap horror movie vibe of it makes me a little dubious. Still, a lot of good talent involved so...maybe?
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Jan 12, 2019 9:57:09 GMT -5
Did Mike Myers get a finders fee or something for Bohemian Rhapsody? What about Dana Carvey? They're both probably kinda hurting for money these days.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 12, 2019 20:01:46 GMT -5
Did Mike Myers get a finders fee or something for Bohemian Rhapsody? What about Dana Carvey? They're both probably kinda hurting for money these days. He was in it, so kinda?
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 13, 2019 3:58:24 GMT -5
Here's my thought about movies today: Yeah, I'm sure Green Book sucks and it has a good chance of winning Best Picture at the Oscars, but we don't know for sure that this will happen. In fact, since we don't even know what movies will be nominees yet, any movie from 2018 could win Best Picture. Theoretically, Gotti could win Best Picture.
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Post by oppy all along on Jan 13, 2019 5:49:00 GMT -5
Here's my thought about movies today: Yeah, I'm sure Green Book sucks and it has a good chance of winning Best Picture at the Oscars, but we don't know for sure that this will happen. In fact, since we don't even know what movies will be nominees yet, any movie from 2018 could win Best Picture. Theoretically, Gotti could win Best Picture. Any movie except Mandy.
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jan 13, 2019 15:01:03 GMT -5
Here's my thought about movies today: Yeah, I'm sure Green Book sucks and it has a good chance of winning Best Picture at the Oscars, but we don't know for sure that this will happen. In fact, since we don't even know what movies will be nominees yet, any movie from 2018 could win Best Picture. Theoretically, Gotti could win Best Picture. Any movie except Mandy. But just imagine if Nic Cage's chainsaw duel had been set to Barry Manilow's timeless classic......Guaranteed Oscar sweep.
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Post by repulsionist on Jan 16, 2019 16:13:51 GMT -5
Shamelessly cut and pasted from Pinterest to ask if any of you have seen this yet. It's a chuckler.
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Post by kitchin on Jan 16, 2019 20:23:26 GMT -5
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Lives of Others, The Tourist), has a film coming out, fictionalized, based on the life of Gerhard Richter, the aged contemporary painter whose family was shredded by German history. All the verbs are at the end! Ha, I joke. So I thought FHvD was some ridiculous German Count who was quite clever and lived a life of incredible leisure. As it turns out, according to a lengthy New Yorker story about getting the film made, with a still-living Richter jabbing in annoyances, FHvD sees himself as from a *formerly* wealthy family whose estates dissipated in recent German and Polish history. Yet he does live of life of suspiciously high leisure. As for Richter, they had an absurdly Mitteleuropean agreement about how to publicly discuss what of the movie is true to Richter's life and what is fiction. (Lots of mention of Citizen Kane and William Randolph Hearst by the happily posturing director.) In their agreement, FHvD would only deny what was false, and Richter would only confirm what was true. But Richter found a loophole: he felt he could openly criticize the trailer for the film. Yes, it's that kind of annoyance we came for when we started reading an article about Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Also Nazi ob-gyns who treat their own children; hyper-critical mothers; super tall boys dressing as girls to get into movies; and handwritten letters turning down interviews in existential despair.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 17, 2019 1:29:17 GMT -5
Shamelessly cut and pasted from Pinterest to ask if any of you have seen this yet. It's a chuckler. You should just smoke regular weed instead of synthetic marijuana, repulsionist; it's much safer.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 20, 2019 1:29:58 GMT -5
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Lives of Others, The Tourist), has a film coming out, fictionalized, based on the life of Gerhard Richter, the aged contemporary painter whose family was shredded by German history. All the verbs are at the end! Ha, I joke. So I thought FHvD was some ridiculous German Count who was quite clever and lived a life of incredible leisure. As it turns out, according to a lengthy New Yorker story about getting the film made, with a still-living Richter jabbing in annoyances, FHvD sees himself as from a *formerly* wealthy family whose estates dissipated in recent German and Polish history. Yet he does live of life of suspiciously high leisure. As for Richter, they had an absurdly Mitteleuropean agreement about how to publicly discuss what of the movie is true to Richter's life and what is fiction. (Lots of mention of Citizen Kane and William Randolph Hearst by the happily posturing director.) In their agreement, FHvD would only deny what was false, and Richter would only confirm what was true. But Richter found a loophole: he felt he could openly criticize the trailer for the film. Yes, it's that kind of annoyance we came for when we started reading an article about Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Also Nazi ob-gyns who treat their own children; hyper-critical mothers; super tall boys dressing as girls to get into movies; and handwritten letters turning down interviews in existential despair.
I wasn't too interested in this movie, but now I'm kinda interested? Maybe?
I will say that I loved "The Lives of Others". But when "The Tourist" came out, I figured he just lucked into that earlier film.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 20, 2019 1:32:19 GMT -5
Ugh, and fucking Green Book wins at the Producers Guild Awards. Are you kidding me with this? This guild award is supposed to be about making money, damn it. This film couldn't even do that! It's barely breaking even right now. Even Bohemian Rhapsody would have been better here, because at least that could be justified by "It made a lot of money!"
Edited: Here's our friend Todd posting his thoughts on Green Book:
Todd, this is depressing. How are there actual people who could believe this? And yes, I know "Crash" won an Oscar, but.... that was over a decade ago!
How is this still happening? WHY?!
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Post by kitchin on Jan 20, 2019 8:53:26 GMT -5
Io, a new post-apocalyptic movie on Netflix. The cast is three: Andie McDowell's daughter (Margaret Qualley from the Leftovers), a good actor named Anthony Mackie, and brief clips of idealistic curmudgeon Danny Huston. The sci-fi elements, design and photography make this one watchable, though it's certainly not hard sci-fi. Fingerless gloves with a spacesuit don't make much sense, even on earth. As for the writing, it's the kind of movie that gets worse the longer it runs. At first it's just cornball, but other problems pile up. Terrible dialog, sure, but now they're taking a full night's sleep (at 50% oxygen) when they're on a 26 hour deadline to get halfway around the world in a helium balloon to meet the last rocketship leaving ammonia Earth! They've carefully planned the trip so they can take this sleep break! Because it's adorable! This is Netflix film school material, but still I sort of liked it. The intentions are worthy and humanitarian, and rather than sci-fi or post-apocalypse, it's more firmly in the genre of an adult child unwinding the misguided alternative lifestyle she was raised in, in isolation.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 20, 2019 16:40:24 GMT -5
Io, a new post-apocalyptic movie on Netflix. The cast is three: Andie McDowell's daughter (Margaret Qualley from the Leftovers), a good actor named Anthony Mackie, and brief clips of idealistic curmudgeon Danny Huston. The sci-fi elements, design and photography make this one watchable, though it's certainly not hard sci-fi. Fingerless gloves with a spacesuit don't make much sense, even on earth. As for the writing, it's the kind of movie that gets worse the longer it runs. At first it's just cornball, but other problems pile up. Terrible dialog, sure, but now they're taking a full night's sleep (at 50% oxygen) when they're on a 26 hour deadline to get halfway around the world in a helium balloon to meet the last rocketship leaving ammonia Earth! They've carefully planned the trip so they can take this sleep break! Because it's adorable! This is Netflix film school material, but still I sort of liked it. The intentions are worthy and humanitarian, and rather than sci-fi or post-apocalypse, it's more firmly in the genre of an adult child unwinding the misguided alternative lifestyle she was raised in, in isolation. I almost watched that last night. Still thinking about it.
But, your spoiler section is a head scratcher. Why? Why would they do that? That isn't a long time to go without doing that. So, why? This may be enough to irritate me so that I wouldn't like the film.
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