Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid

anomalisa is a great title for a mediocre mid-90s indie record

dlh's thing on youth and esl kinda makes me want to see it, or at least make a movie that uses the same trick to some effect

Non-english speaking people has been doing this for decades.

'Oh look at this stupid director, he isn't even a native English speaker, and he still thinks he can make a global film! lol, what a weirdo.'

'Meanwhile, isn't Eddie Redmayne amazing as a Dane, let's give him all the oscars!'

i think there was more to dlh's claim than that tbh

Anything with "today's comedy superstars" US version - people I generally find unfunny (Louis CK, Tina Fey, The Amy's Schumer and Poehler) ---everything I've seen them in up to now a resounding dud so no thanks.
Anything by Lanthimos
"Anomalisa" was a real chore.

Also - no more Baumbach. Or Ben Stiller ( he just seems fed up in everything).

obv non-native english speakers direct movies in english all the time. feel like writing movies in english is at least rarer but of course there is nothing silly about that either. it can just be noticeable is all, and when your leads have voices as distinct and culturally situated as michael caine and harvey keitel it's more noticeable. you sometimes see a milder version of this quality when yanks/brits write for brits/yanks.

or when woody allen writes for anyone.

Youth was so wack

Youth and A Bigger Splash are both showing at the local arthouse but they both sound so boooring. Youth in particular and not even a Maradona cameo can make it appealing.

Anomalisa is great and everyone should watch it btw

It isn't the 'real' Maradona in Youth, fwiw

Kinda looking forward to nu-Malick. Partly because I haven't caught anything he has put out at the cinema so I didn't get annoyed. Plus the new one has good post-cinema conversation potential.

Oliver Stone's Snowden thing

What's the point of that?!

story ticks so many Stone boxes he probably feels obliged to run thru the motions

As long as he can shoehorn in the Cuban gay mafia its ok I guess.

Gonna pay p close attention to my studious avoidance of Christopher Nolan's ouevre from now on, I think I might not watch interstellar this week

Tom Hiddleston double; High-Rise/I Saw The Light

High Rise (Ben Wheatley, 2015) - say no to adaptations of unfilmable books. Can see why greats like Nic Roeg left this alone for a guy who I see has directed television to pick up.

I see nic roeg has directed television

A lot of it in the mid-90s. Britpop was a tough time for everybody.

I don't see how High Rise is unfilmable tbh

a guy who I see has directed television

lol at being bothered to research Wheatley enough to know this, but not bothered enough to consider his actual film work.

But hey, it's the negative thread so carry on as you are. Sadly I can't think of any more current things to hate on, I'm sure I will be back soon though.

Wasn't doing "research", just looked at a couple of wiki pages.

While everyone else wasted their time on British cinema I watched Manoel De Oliveira's last film. A real, proper film.

One single screening #RIPCinema

:D

Wheatley's "A Field In England" is freaky brilliance. Am looking forward to watching "High Rise".

^that's not the spirit! ;)

Ok! Here's one: Am avoiding the ugly Batman/Superman bs by that auteur-for-bros Zach Snyder

That French film that isn't about Florence Foster Jenkins

Do you mean 'Frears'?

Haha omg just realised that there's an actual ffj biopic coming out as well! Not seeing that either tbh

He, yeah, and it's directed by someone whose name could have been an auto-correct from French. I still don't really get what film you're talking about, though?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_(film)

Wiki tells me it's from last year but it just came out hers.

Do we have a thread listing examples of the turner and hooch/k9 phenomenon? Feel like every message board must have one. And it is a bank holiday.

I think we did have a thread for something of the sort, but can't for the life of me think what it would have been called.

Clooney stock advice kidnap on air capitalism thriller oh just fuck off

lol I don't even know what that refers to but what the hell I'll throw my weight behind this campaign

I think we did have a thread for something of the sort, but can't for the life of me think what it would have been called.

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this otoh is not good enough, it is good friday and I have nowhere to observe that one time there were two magician movies

Start a new one anyway! If someone else remembers they can link it up, but it's probably from 2003 or something.

And actually I think I might just be thinking about 'animal versions of buddy cop movies' (b/c of the examples you used) rather than 'two films about the same thing coming out at the same time'.

sorry I wasn't clear!

A hearty fu for making me Google it, but it is called money monster

fuck off that isnt true

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/speed-sisters

Lots of docs like this - I mean I'm sure its fine but it could also be a 20 min segment on BBC News 24.

Anyway, a lot of 'this will be in Storyville in six months' and then its on it and I won't watch anyway.

Birdman, The Revenant, death--betting on death.

Saw Birdman. Not gonna see The Revenant, because fool me once...

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/announcements/steven-spielberg-season-coming-bfi-southbank-summer?utm_content=bufferf69a2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer

Burn it down.

tale of tales is like the ultimate one of these

why is hail caesar a 'cast to avoid'? don't coen bros have the same cast in every movie? do you avoid all their films?

Tale of Tales was a pretty big disappointment to me. I ended up writing about how like Arabian Nights it showed the bankruptcy of it's production country, only with ToT it's kinda inadvertently.

idk during the ostensibly moving part i was distracted by actually knowing hamlet as a play

a very pretty film but textually kind of misunderstands art in the broadest and dullest way

I agree with that point too. The moving parts happened before The Big Show. There's a regrettable subgenre of film about art-as-therapy; it never gets old, especially in this era of easter eggs

you’ve already missed its theatrical run and its Oscar nom encore screenings, a bit late to start avoiding it now

It's on at my local fleapit as we speak! Which I'm avoiding.

well that’s CURRENTLY avoiding

Seeing a lot of people on Bluesky who loved the F1 movie and either I'm crazy or all of them are.

Bit weird to make a movie about a key

Apologies for only posting here to subvert - I'm pretty sure that there's no chance that Spaceballs: The New One will be any good, but Mel Brooks is spending some of his 100th year on the planet shilling for it, so fuck it, I guess I'm going to the movies.

This one seems like ... a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rsbp150Lw