it's a film about the experience of alienation and dislocation, the struggle to make sense of environment and experience. abstraction, fragmentation and coldness work as elements of the narrative, not mere style for style's sake.
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Thursday, 22 January 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
what he said
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 January 2015 23:54 (nine years ago) link
id say enter the void had a trippier take on non human perspectives, despite still being from the POV of an actual human. glazer should have done that peep show/lady in the water-POV type thing maybe, so we never even see the alien. that might have been interesting and more challenging (after all, a lot of people would probably never have checked this out if it wasnt for scarjo/scarjo being naked). do have an allergic reaction to po-faced analysis of this movie however which i am trying to work through.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 22 January 2015 23:55 (nine years ago) link
this isn't available on Blu-Ray at the video store, and it seems like a Blu-Ray (as opposed to DVD) kind of movie. how should I see this?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 23 January 2015 04:54 (nine years ago) link
this reminded me of Morvern Callar more than anything else (which is a film I love)
― akm, Friday, 23 January 2015 05:11 (nine years ago) link
It reminded me of Morvern Callar too!
― polyphonic, Friday, 23 January 2015 05:16 (nine years ago) link
morvern callar has one fantastic shot (of a spaced-out drug-addled partygoer) that sticks really strongly in my mind
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 23 January 2015 05:21 (nine years ago) link
it's kind of a grainy film, I think dvd would be alright (several xposts)
― akm, Friday, 23 January 2015 05:27 (nine years ago) link
"humorless" is a fair charge i guess, but i think any overtly funny moments would've broken the spell and seemed out of place.
Should have been a bloopers reel over the end credits with ScarJo's funniest Glasgow pickup moments.
― Alba, Friday, 23 January 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
only way to fix it's lack of Kubrick is to get it remade by spielberg, with a 45-minute coda about her quest to become a real girl
this ignorant shit never gets old, does it
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 January 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
uh SJ using the lamp is very funny
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 January 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
it's a fucking joke, morbs. relax.
― Brio2, Friday, 23 January 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
waiting for the pron remake, personally.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 23 January 2015 14:46 (nine years ago) link
Alba otm
― mh, Friday, 23 January 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link
She picked up a total ned, that is comedy.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
But I think this film would have done fine without humour. Don't see why it would need it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
I don't think anyone is actually advocating for the injection of humor into the film, Robert
― mh, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
i said it seemed like a blu-ray film b/c it's so DARK (literally--lots of black) and blacks come across better in HD
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, January 23, 2015 6:25 AM (3 hours ago)
otm, one of the year's few genuine laugh-out-loud moments for me (re supposed humorlessness)
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Friday, 23 January 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
the kid screaming on the beach as motorcycle alien returns got a groany laugh in the theatre when I saw it
― Brio2, Friday, 23 January 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
Tough crowd.
― Alba, Friday, 23 January 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
with clenched teeth
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 January 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
whoa
this was great
um, i uh
being a visible self is hard eh. also she felt like less predator, more...end-point
legit horror movie. the bit with the men trapped underwater was possibly the most startling thing i've seen in years if not ever
glazer doesn't so much have a style as have every style almost effortlessly at his disposal
the score was quite astonishing
scar-jo spoon-jar confusion got a laugh, just like that
uh
this felt complex, progressive, daring and genuinely menacing. also felt like the film glazer's been wanting to make the whole time
those reviews c&pd upthread are deeply and almost frighteningly stupid
― pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Saturday, 7 February 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
"legit horror movie. the bit with the men trapped underwater was possibly the most startling thing i've seen in years if not ever"
If I would have watched this as a kid, I would have been terrified.
― xelab, Saturday, 7 February 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Anyone else keep half expecting Limmy to turn up in this?
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 08:17 (eight years ago) link
or russ abbott
― conrad, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 09:03 (eight years ago) link
sorry - russ abbot
― conrad, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 09:08 (eight years ago) link
or Rab C Nesbitt
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 09:19 (eight years ago) link
etc etc
alex salmond
― conrad, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 09:45 (eight years ago) link
mel gibson
― conrad, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 09:46 (eight years ago) link
would have been a totally different film if glen michael had taken the lead role as glazer originally intended
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 09:50 (eight years ago) link
Sean Connery
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 10:02 (eight years ago) link
Andy Murray
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, September 1, 2015 9:50 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so it became a film about the abject feminine by accident? /reductive
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 10:08 (eight years ago) link
no it was a joke
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 10:58 (eight years ago) link
They've painted blue feet on the right side of the escalator. Everything is wrong today
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 11:01 (eight years ago) link
totty the robot haring around the countryside on a motorbike
― conrad, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 11:03 (eight years ago) link
One thing confused me in this film : she picks up a guy with a hibs scarf who has a glaswegian accent
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
And as the dudes are mainly on secret camera he must actually be a weegie hibee
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
Yes, in the confusion stakes, that whole space alien thing was, in comparison, a doddle
― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link
uh oh
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
Er, I am not being sarcastic. I am quite taken with the idea that the REAL weirdness of the film is to do with football
― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 19:49 (eight years ago) link
Apologies. I was constructing some dread internal lambast but <150 posts in 12 years is quite unbelievable restraint and I bow to your mastery
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
Neil would you just... touch me
― seriously what if i were romeo in black jeans (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link
once a month is ample
― oddesseslessness (wins), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
Perhaps we shall draw Pope Neil into an argument which triples his net ILX contribution and draws him tragically and inexorably down to our level
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
Hooooooly shit
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 September 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
otm
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 September 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
Great film
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 September 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link