Under the Skin (2014) dir. Jonathan Glazer

it's a fucking joke, morbs. relax.

waiting for the pron remake, personally.

Alba otm

She picked up a total ned, that is comedy.

But I think this film would have done fine without humour. Don't see why it would need it.

I don't think anyone is actually advocating for the injection of humor into the film, Robert

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

uh SJ using the lamp is very funny

― 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)

the kid screaming on the beach as motorcycle alien returns got a groany laugh in the theatre when I saw it

Tough crowd.

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?

with clenched teeth

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

"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.

Anyone else keep half expecting Limmy to turn up in this?

or russ abbott

sorry - russ abbot

or Rab C Nesbitt

etc etc

alex salmond

mel gibson

would have been a totally different film if glen michael had taken the lead role as glazer originally intended

Sean Connery

Andy Murray

would have been a totally different film if glen michael had taken the lead role as glazer originally intended

― 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

no it was a joke

They've painted blue feet on the right side of the escalator. Everything is wrong today

totty the robot haring around the countryside on a motorbike

One thing confused me in this film : she picks up a guy with a hibs scarf who has a glaswegian accent

And as the dudes are mainly on secret camera he must actually be a weegie hibee

Yes, in the confusion stakes, that whole space alien thing was, in comparison, a doddle

uh oh

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

Apologies. I was constructing some dread internal lambast but <150 posts in 12 years is quite unbelievable restraint and I bow to your mastery

Neil would you just... touch me

once a month is ample

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

Hooooooly shit

otm

Great film

good movie imo

Missed it 5 years ago but it’s in my top 10 of the decade now, damn

Such a striking and iirc ultimately sad movie.

It remains my favourite film of the decade.

It’s very good but I really found it too hard to watch and couldn’t finish it. Beach scene fucked me up.

(also what club would be playing "sandstorm" in this decade...)

― lex pretend, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:59 AM (four years ago)

lol lex.

Great film and whoever it was upthread who said it was Patrick Keiller-esque was otm.

Dang, everyone's so weepy about the baby scene! Maybe someone came by and saved the baby!

I thought this, but the SJ character hears on the radio that a man's body was found and the mother and child are missing and they've called off the search 'cos of fog, which seemed like an unnecessarily cruel bit of info.

One of the few films I've been majorly excited about that actually exceeded my hopes - that opening sequence blew my mind and there's not a wasted frame after that.

beach scene was very tough to take. kinda stunned that someone called it "hilarious" upthread, unless that was supposed to be a joke.

Extremely tough, and also the most shockingly alien in perspective. Kicks the film into high gear.

has anyone else read the book? it's very very different but also good.