the idea of Logan is hilarious.
like I have no idea how or why it exists, but someone was like "what if we made a children's movie ... for adults" and they did it. I know it's not the same, but it's almost like making a billion dollar version of a deviantart drawing where woody and buzz lightyear fuck or something
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
like making a billion dollar version of a deviantart drawing where woody and buzz lightyear fuck or something
This is pretty much the future of cinema.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
"logan" oddly reminiscent of "children of men" in a lot of ways
― . (Michael B), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/BKWloJr.jpg
38. Free Fire d: Ben Wheatley w: Amy Jump & Ben Wheatley 53 points, 4 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
Free Fire being talked about anywhere? Just watched it, I actually found the first act more intresting than the fire fight, which tested my patience. Appreciated it as an exercise, but I don't think they really pulled it off. Some good lines though.― chap, Thursday, 17 August 2017
― chap, Thursday, 17 August 2017
i'm with chap
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
a concept so uninteresting i might never watch another Wheatley film again
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
HuhThis was alright, far from their best
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
cheers for turning into Edgar Wright tho, we really needed two of them
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
This was great fun. Score ANOTHER to ILX's Charlton massive
― imago, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
This wasn't Edgar Wright, it was Martin McDonagh, and better than most of his stuff
― imago, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Logan, Ragnarok – I saw them, didn't get the praise, they ran like overlong MU films
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
living in a world of MU films you're bound to ascribe a bit of gravitas to the extra-long po-faced ones
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
i guess the genre chaff will continue most of today
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/geQUHT8.jpg
37. Happy End w/d: Michael Haneke 54 points, 5 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
I kinda forgot about thisI will make sure to vote for his tv show when it comes out tho
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
That one only premiered in 2018 in Denmark, so nobody should have been allowed to vote for it!!!
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
got added to my revised ballot due to coming out in the US in 2018
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FiiMRzu.jpg
36. Zama w/d: Lucrecia Martel 56 points, 3 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
Zama (Lucretia Martel, 2017) - a very smart adaptation of a not v filmable book where Martel is bringing in her own eye to this skeleton of a story of an utterly ordinary man who cannot go back home. Shades of Apocalypse Now (without the hippie-dom) and Coup de Torchon but its very much its own thing.― xyzzzz__, 31 May 2018
― xyzzzz__, 31 May 2018
Fucking loved this, will rank it very highly next year
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
Saw it at the NYFF last year, gave it a 7/10. Did not open in the US til this spring, so I did not list it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
I loved this loads, only just saw it the other night.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Zama is often inscrutable but beguilingly so.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
This year's list is ... just so very strange.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
free fire v inferior stuff
― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
In a perfect world Zama is a good 50 places ahead of Free Fire. Potentially Wheatley's most underperforming film given the resources.
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Jq5jqvd.jpg
35. God’s Own Country w/d: Francis Lee 58 points, 6 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
God, this Country's toxic now. I had this feeling watching God's Own Country last night which is excellent and very much worth seeing. It's about Brexit and gay sex, so, something for everyone. ― jed_, 6 September 2017
in a perfect world i've seen Zama. fortunately i can go about correcting this thanks to you guys! meantime i make no apologies for wheatley fanboying; free fire was not THAT high on my ballot but i felt the need to include it. think of it as revenge for you all getting high rise wrong
ah here's another one i intend to see
― imago, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
excellent movie, excellent jed quote!
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
the same leading actor was in an ultraviolent Thai prison/kickboxing movie, that I fell asleep watching on sat night.
― calzino, Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Oh man Zama is amazing.
― devops mom (silby), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
Je suis bear movie
I would love to roll around in the mud with those two actors, but GOC was 'just' a good first film
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
I liked God's Own Country okay, but I don't think I got as much out of it as others seemed to. I really liked the end credits photo montage of old timey photos of farmers--meant to imply that gays have always been a part of farming, I guess? If that's the point, I think the film would have been more interesting as a period piece (though, to be fair, there is little to distinguish it as belonging to 2017). I also didn't buy the ending at all. The actor who played the Romanian migrant was fantastic though; I would have vastly preferred the film to have been about him instead.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
There's a scene in the living room where the mom leaves them alone that is the most erotic moment among last year's crop of LGBT films.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
The actor who played the Romanian migrant was fantastic though; I would have vastly preferred the film to have been about him instead him to marry me.
I read grumblings in year-end retrospectives that GOC >>>> Call Me By Your Name because "authentic" and all that, but how so – cuz it has dirt and they speak in thick accents? It's as fantastical in its own way as CMBYN.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
I still haven’t seen this but the still is funny
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Alfred OTM about GOC and CMBYN both being fantasies.
To be fair, I don't want tragedy from the former; just an acknowledgement that things aren't as simple as the film leaves them at the end.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
I didn't get that sense; all the director does is lay out that the mom accepts the relationship cuz she needs the help. It's very much like a William Trevor story.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Does she do a corny speech?
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
next up, two films that placed last year get their shoulders jammed together trying to get back in the door
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
― jeremy cmbyn (wins),
She has four sentences total in the film so
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2O11wb3.jpg
33= Certain Women w/d: Kelly Reichardt 59 points, 3 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
Placed at #9 in 2016, with 8 votes and 223 points.
otm, I think the editing is key to her style. It lets her take those long pauses because her cuts are so good. Sometimes she can get a little on the nose with it, but usually it's surprising and interesting. And she has a good eye for deadpan, which shows up in odd places. The repeated takes of the corgi were hilarious and cute but in a totally naturalistic way -- corgis are hilarious and cute. ― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 6 November 2016
Ah shit I didn’t vote for this in either year for some reason. Easily one of my very faves of whatever year I saw it in and has stayed with me more than some stuff I did vote for
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
I'm just going to vote for Sherlock Jr. every year.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Alfred otm about GoC, except that old woman is the dude's grandmother. Put the subtitles on.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link