:)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
If the film is a mess, it is a mess of too many out-there ideas, not a mess based on a lack of focus or competence. My kinda mess, in other words.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
this is America
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/vI46GbM.jpg
9. Eighth Grade w/d: Bo BurnhamUS 2018 digital274 points, 11 votes
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
I think it's an astonishing movie, easily one of the best coming of age movies to come out this decade. Perhaps not saying much, but Burnham's script & direction are subtler and more deft than I would have ever expected he was capable of judging by his comedy, and Elsie Fisher's performance is just remarkable. Some familiar tropes and notes hit through the first half, but the second half veers off into its own very quiet and intense thing. There's so much dignity and courage in Fisher's character and Burnham doesn't linger on or milk what you'd expect: the absent parent, the awkward sexual encounter, the first crush, the active shooter drill (!). The closing father-daughter speech by the fire at the end is as powerful as the end of Call Me By Your Name. It just wrecked me.― flappy bird, Wednesday, August 1, 2018
― flappy bird, Wednesday, August 1, 2018
tt and I started watching a Burnham stand-up routine on Netflix and were enjoying its gay misanthropy, but then we got suspicious and looked him up only to discover that he wasn't gay, which completely ruined it― imago, Wednesday, August 1, 2018
― imago, Wednesday, August 1, 2018
People in this very thread are saying thinks like 'It just wrecked me'
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
If I'm at all underwhelmed with this movie as a whole, it's far outweighed by my level of disregard for anyone who feels the need to speak out at length about it.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
It's fine--I liked the kid with all the sauce packets--but as a directorial debut, this placing over Boots Riley's is kinda laughable.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
that quoted story has a happy ending: we saw this movie and liked it and voted for it
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
fantastic use of anna meredith
also it completely looked and felt like contemporary youth culture, which most filmmakers don't quite capture
it was... fine
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
This was in 3rd place of the 4 movies about teenage girls I voted for
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
damn I forgot to vote for that one too lolGreat movie I stand by my post
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
hey now that everyone is looking at this thread should I see a revival of It's a Gift tonight or watch the debate
W.C. Fields >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> American politics
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link
Feel very out of step w/ this poll - loved Roma, didn't like Buster Scruggs or First Reformed (which I'm guessing will place v high) much at all, both of which to my mind failed as horror films - give me Dr Terrors House of Horrors or Amityville Horror 2: The Possession over either of them.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
elsie fisher was incredible and her relationship with her dad was sweet. appreciated the movie but the rush of pre-teen anxiety that came back to me while watching probably ensures that i don't watch again.
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
both of which to my mind failed as horror films
you thought Buster Scruggs and First Reformed were horror films? ok
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
he's referring to citation upthread of horrors within Scruggs. two of the six are horror stories tbf
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
lol that's a veerrrrry big stretch imo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
as a directorial debut, this placing over Boots Riley's is kinda laughable
the points are not that far apart! and they're doing very different things as directors - Burnham is creating a space for Fisher to deliver a startlingly open, emotional performance. Riley is taking loads of elements of the modern capitalist world, reducing and focusing them, collaging a heightened vision out of them like a sample-based track.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
we'll talk about FR when it wins this thing but it's only horror insofar as our lives are horror [/trite]
― imago, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
i didn't mean they were horror genrewise (thank Christ)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
both Meal Ticket and The Mortal Remains would fit in any pre-1960 prose horror anthology without you blinking an eye
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
lol I see what you did there
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
"if we use this completely outdated genre definition that p much nobody references anymore, it fits right in!"
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
also yeah I suspected as much
I'll wait for Ward to explain himself, maybe that post was just garbled and he was referring to Hereditary and Mandy
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
it fits for when the film is set / the source material for the adaptations were published. I don't know that there's any other genre that better fits Mortal Remains in 2018 either!
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
although we shouldn't dwell on darkness
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XJFRf4q.jpg
8. Un beau soleil intérieur [Let The Sunshine In] d: Claire Denis w: Claire Denis, Christine AgnotFR 2017 digital278 points, 11 votes, 1 #1
I had thought Let The Sunshine In slight and unworthy of Denis and Binoche.― j.lu, Monday, May 6, 2019
― j.lu, Monday, May 6, 2019
assumed this was a vampire movie
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
OK, four of my remaining five will make it.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
I watch the Depardieu denouement frequently.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
In my top five. Binoche has been marvelous the last decade.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
xpost
I really didn't think I was being 'garbled' or eccentric in describing them as horror films! Buster Scruggs is a portmanteau horror film - the supernatural/'black humour' is present in every episode to greater/lesser extent, and the last episode - group of ppl in a carriage find they are trapped in hell, or purgatory - really is identical to the ending of at least two different Amicus portmanteau horror films. The illustrated chapter headings were similar (in intent) to the illustrated chapter headings in Creepshow, another portmanteau horror film. First Reformed is most closely modelled on Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, and Dreyer's Ordet, which ends w/ a supernatural event, and which was the key influence - acknowledged - visually etc on the Exorcist. First Reformed - with it's gory corpse shots and concluding act of bloody self-flagellation - really did feel like a mannered, slow-cinema pastiche of Taxi Driver to me - and surely it's not being wayward to think that Taxi Driver can be read/experienced as some kind of horror film - of the existential kind, at least.
LOL and I thought Let the Sunshine In was terrible too!
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
first one i voted for today
― devvvine, Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
i was the #1
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
english title is a crime
― devvvine, Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
Didn’t hate it but it didn’t do anything for me. The last scene was nice.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
i like a good dark antiromantic comedy that delivers no hope.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
found this one mostly charmless save for the very ending
― Simon H., Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
if I wanted a hopeless antiromantic comedy I'd just start dating again ayooooo
was interesting to me what Denis appeared to be saying with this film about the main character’s obsession with her (self-perceived) romantic failures. also, the ending was just enigmatic enough
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
I hope Denis starts making a film a year from now on.
― Shite New Answers (jed_), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
have been watching a lot of Denis films this past year, and am impressed by the wide range of milieus they are set in
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
High Life will make my 2019 list.
Spoiler!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
mine too!
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:33 (four years ago) link
not mine
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:36 (four years ago) link
Binoche was incredible, but I also thought the writing was really great in this film
― Dan S, Thursday, 27 June 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link