Killing Deer one was not my favourite 2017 film about deer, but I still really liked it. Given how much I loathed the Lobster, I expected nothing from it but it fell apart excellently.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CoWDPZH.jpg
12. Blade Runner 2049 d: Denis Villeneuve w: Hampton Fancher & Michael Green 186 points, 11 votes
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
It was boring and turgid but the music and the look of the film were amazing. A lot of cool ideas that went nowhere in the end and yes I know it was a sci-fi movie but jaysus it was daft. Lacking any too intensity tbh. I've yet to see a Denis Villeneuve film that hasn't bored me yet.― Michael B, 6 October 2017
― Michael B, 6 October 2017
Listened to the score today - haven't seen the film - and it's exactly what I expected : a very precise, very loud pastiche of Vangelis' og score. A hack copy, if you will.― Capitaine Jay Vee, 7 October 2017
― Capitaine Jay Vee, 7 October 2017
pro - pretty movie, good sound, good costumes, good scenery, cool futurist ideascon - bad script, bad acting, huge plot holes, tired story, predictable, jared leto, sexism, bad philosophical ideas― the late great, 7 October 2017
― the late great, 7 October 2017
this movie was lame
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
another joke? alas i suspect not
in my bottom 3
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
I like how this list is split between utter corporate rehash/branded garbage and unwatchable art films though - the state of cinema today, I guess
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
lol unwatchable
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
unwatchable?
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
how many of the art films have you watched?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
none, they literally could not be watched
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
my only hot take for today is that BR2049 was way more sexist than mother!
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
unless we're talking about one or two of the boysy shockmeisters cos they are hard to take sometimes but i wdn't really call them art
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
Blade Runner 2049 could have lost Leto and about a half hour of flab, but otherwise I liked it.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
i loved blade runner 2049 lol. i know i'm wrong
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
Blade Runner 2000 is the only film to feature a key creative recurring from earlier in the list
there was only one vote for Three Billboards IRL
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
It's nice to agree w/ Morbs and Shakey that Blade Runner 2 sucked
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
I loved Blade Runner 2049, it was my #6 I believe. Didn’t read Do Androids or watch the first movie until maybe a month before I saw 2049 and I liked it much more than both. Such a gloriously bleak and haunting world, captured PKD’s essence than most adaptations of his work. I thought it functioned as a tone poem and a mood piece, I didn’t care about the original movie or book and find this so much more engrossing and sad on a grand scale. Stunning movie.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
wait, you thought this movie captured PKD's essence more than a PKD book?
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
the original movie and the book are irrelevant to how bad BR 2049 was
but since you brought it up it fundamentally *misses* PKD's essence imo, which is that humanity is defined by empathy (and not by, like, whether your memories are real or who your daddy was)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
No, the first movie and other adaptations. I liked it a lot more than the book, though.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
movies shouldn't really bother being re-tellings of books tbf
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
not as good as total recall imo
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gaY1LBY.jpg
11. The Lost City of Z w/d: James Gray 197 points, 11 votes, 1 #1
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
i was also sorta bored by this, but not in an aggressively unpleasant way, since i still realy liked it. struck me as appropriate to the whole sober approach of the movie to never really allow the Ravel piece that pops up a few times to really take up all the space on the soundtrack--it always seems rather muted.― ryan, 6 April 2017
― ryan, 6 April 2017
i promised myself i was never gonna fuck with BR 2000 but if i keep hearing how pretty and boring and vapid it is i'll probably end up seeing it eventually, plus Jared Leto has somehow become a guilty pleasure of mine
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
the original movie and the book are irrelevant to how bad BR 2049 wasbut since you brought it up it fundamentally *misses* PKD's essence imo, which is that humanity is defined by empathy (and not by, like, whether your memories are real or who your daddy was)
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
it's extremely pretty and boring and vapid, nood xp
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
a very unconventional "man's adventure" period piece, still need a second viewing. had it #10
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
plz switch to discussing Lost City
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
Didn’t see it, carry on
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
The Lost City of Z felt, to me, like the kind of movie that might have been a major Hollywood release in decades past, but is treated as arthouse fare these days. I liked it.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
the first of 2 Robert Pattinson appearances in countdown
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
Not much in the scores between #11 and #10.
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PzNAgao.jpg
Oh, I'm sorry, I'll read that again.
https://i.imgur.com/GYgHLNs.jpg
10. A Quiet Passion w/d: Terence Davies 200 points, 11 votes, 2 #1s
too low, beautiful film
― devvvine, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
my #1 and #2
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
respectively
there's a hallucinatory clarity to Gray's film that has nothing to do with Boorman or Herzog; he's one of a kind among American directors.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
agreed
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
finally, would make out with Charlie Hunnam in the tall grass
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
Lost City was really pretty, especially in some of the final shots.
― jmm, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
For some reason I completely slept on both of those. Might watch one tonight
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
hadn't heard of the Gray film, sounds p interesting. will put it on my list
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
I had completely forgotten about that! (/repressed)
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 26 July 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
hey we liked the other one!
― imago, Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
Quote for A Quiet Passion:
Sigh. I was the lone voter for more than half my ballot, including my #1. Fucking release dates...― Frederik B, Thursday, 9 March 2017
― Frederik B, Thursday, 9 March 2017
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:07 (five years ago) link
second view of AQP: future Governor Nixon still excellent, as is Ehle, but some real problems in the script and supporting cast. Knocked it to my second ten.
sic stick to the open-mike nights
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 July 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link