This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2018

didnt u think Sacred Deer was "fun." Eric?

isn't Eric from the Midwest? "Fun" is watching snow melt into a martini glass.

^turning into Bob Hope

you were never really here was really good. Never saw Kevin, or talked about him

Still in my bottom 5 for the year

Down with gentrified genre movies

also, down with Lanthimos doing arch unfunny "costume pictures"

Eric, Alfred, and Morbz need their own board imo

(meant kindly)

good morning

xp You could call it "I Love Film"

Glenn K’s top 50 or so: https://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2018/12/zama-martel-the-ballad-of-buster-scruggs-coen-and-coen-the-other-side-of-the-wind-welles-mandy-cosmatos-hale-coun.html

Just watched Museo, having realised it was added to YouTube Premium (of all platforms) a few days ago. Though not quite as lovably breathless as Güeros, it was just as affecting and recognisably his. I love that combination of wide-eyed idealism and cynicism, and the whole thing seemed to capture very well the feeling of trying frantically to regain meaning in the corporeal when loss in its various guises is creeping in at the edges.

And it's a Christmas film!

Aw, I love that film. No youtube premium in Denmark :(

We're currently trying to find Infinite Football, but it's nowhere!

Roma = total fucking garbage

I can’t tell if this is just contrarianism or not! I guess I’ll have to watch it.

no I went last minute today because it's leaving theaters & three separate people told me it was great and used the same word, "overwhelming." Nope

It is mystifying to me why people rave about Cuarón films

I can’t tell if this is just contrarianism or not! I guess I’ll have to watch it.

― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd),

We've been eagerly promoting it as twaddle for the last month.

xp really. there’s nothing about his films that you can recognize as something some people would get excited about. huh.

this is the first time I've been let down by him, probably the hype, probably wasn't in a good mood & didn't get good sleep. still, even having only read Alfred's part in the back and forth about the movie on here, I'm completely with him. this isn't a movie that would make my top 10 or 20 of the year even if I saw it in ideal conditions.

but yeah y tu mama, the 3rd harry potter, children of men, and gravity were all great imo

just so thoroughly pedestrian, even the cinematography was a letdown.

It's not that there's nothing to like, but the relatively rapturous critical responses for all of the aforementioned (even Y Tu Mama Tambien to a lesser degree) has seemed a bit much (though that could go for a lot of people tbf). Maybe I was being over-zealous with 'mystifying', but I'm just not a fan at all.

I just find his films bloated and a struggle to get through. Films like Children of Men and Gravity just felt weighed down (no pun intended) with overly long scenes and repeated motifs and themes wanting for exploration. I'll still watch Roma though...

Roma = total fucking garbage

― flappy bird, Monday, December 24, 2018 2:52 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I am taking your statement at face value, but apparently Netflix is sending out a 70mm print (mind you, that's a classic Oscar-baiting tactic these days). If I am going to see Roma, in the face of all the criticism here, is it worth waiting to see what a big-screen presentation can do for it?

I already said this in the Roma thread, but I don’t think its that good looking of a movie. It looks like an HD image set to B&W.

Of course, I watched it on Netflix, so I can’t directly speak to the theatrical experience.

j.lu - I suppose so, yeah. I’d go to see almost any movie in 70mm tbh. But I agree, it’s not a good black and white, it’s v boring digital. And aside from a few scenes I can’t imagine the size of a 70mm image improving my opinion of the movie.

and fwiw I saw it in a theater

I wish y'all were film critics

We've been eagerly promoting it as twaddle for the last month.

That doesn’t stop it from being contrarianism!

don't get me started on the C word

lazy way of dismissing a dissenting opinion - I was genuinely let down by this

So you insisted telling us on two separate threads

yæs

Romæ

this is the first time I've been let down by him, probably the hype, probably wasn't in a good mood & didn't get good sleep. still, even having only read Alfred's part in the back and forth about the movie on here, I'm completely with him. this isn't a movie that would make my top 10 or 20 of the year even if I saw it in ideal conditions.

but yeah y tu mama, the 3rd harry potter, children of men, and gravity were all great imo

― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:45 (two days ago) Permalink

Its quite something how the same human being can both think and type the 1st and 2nd para of the post above.

Going to watch Bros again. pic.twitter.com/QzLmtkVbXO

— John Rain (@MrKenShabby) December 25, 2018

I wish I'd seen this on the big screen but it had a really limited run I think.

_this is the first time I've been let down by him, probably the hype, probably wasn't in a good mood & didn't get good sleep. still, even having only read Alfred's part in the back and forth about the movie on here, I'm completely with him. this isn't a movie that would make my top 10 or 20 of the year even if I saw it in ideal conditions.

but yeah y tu mama, the 3rd harry potter, children of men, and gravity were all great imo

― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:45 (two days ago) Permalink_


Its quite something how the same human being can both think and type the 1st and 2nd para of the post above.

the third harry potter

It was good

I’ve never been disappointed by him per se. I disliked Y Tu Mama back in ‘02 but I didn’t really know who he was back then so.

And I stopped watching Harry Potter voluntarily after the first one.

I was in the Harry Potter fandom while the movies were coming out, but even back then I wouldn't have defended them as films. While I do have general favorable impressions of Cuarón, they are heavily dependent on the hot man-on-man action in Y Tu Mama Tambien and the space for slashy interpretations of Prisoner of Azkaban. Slashgoggles on too tight ya me.

There are 10 seconds of hot man on man in that movie.

Prisoner of Azkaban is where Rowling's plotting starts getting pretty sloppy (but just before she apparently stopped using the services of an editor), but Cuarón spins a solid adaptation out of it. At the time, I was mostly impressed that he landed the gig as his follow-up to Y Tu Mama Tambien.

Harry Potter 3 is one of the better books and one of the worse films imo

j.lu - it was shot on digital in colour, a 70mm b&w print is definitely a gimmick

xxxpost: Yes, but giving the fangirls explicit homoeroticism was like parading a gazelle in front of starving lions.

And a DC-area date for that 70mm Roma print hasn't yet been announced, but it's the sort of thing AFI Silver is likely to get as part of its Oscar-bait catch-up series.

why is this same argument going on simultaneously in two threads, my bookmarks experience is descending into a spiral of deja vu