Minus the "fun," I'd argue
as current-release films about three absolutely awful people interacting with each other go, it's a rollicking lolfest compared to Burning
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
didnt u think Sacred Deer was "fun." Eric?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
isn't Eric from the Midwest? "Fun" is watching snow melt into a martini glass.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
^turning into Bob Hope
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 December 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
you were never really here was really good. Never saw Kevin, or talked about him
― flappy bird, Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:33 (five years ago) link
Still in my bottom 5 for the year
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:36 (five years ago) link
Down with gentrified genre movies
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 22 December 2018 05:38 (five years ago) link
also, down with Lanthimos doing arch unfunny "costume pictures"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 December 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
Eric, Alfred, and Morbz need their own board imo
― circa1916, Saturday, 22 December 2018 09:04 (five years ago) link
(meant kindly)
― circa1916, Saturday, 22 December 2018 09:05 (five years ago) link
good morning
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 December 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
xp You could call it "I Love Film"
― brokenshire (jed_), Saturday, 22 December 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
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
― love craptually (Eric H.), Saturday, 22 December 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
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!
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 23 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
Aw, I love that film. No youtube premium in Denmark :(
― Frederik B, Sunday, 23 December 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
We're currently trying to find Infinite Football, but it's nowhere!
― tangenttangent, Sunday, 23 December 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
Roma = total fucking garbage
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
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), Monday, 24 December 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
It is mystifying to me why people rave about Cuarón films
― tangenttangent, Monday, 24 December 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd),
We've been eagerly promoting it as twaddle for the last month.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 December 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
xp really. there’s nothing about his films that you can recognize as something some people would get excited about. huh.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Monday, 24 December 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
just so thoroughly pedestrian, even the cinematography was a letdown.
― flappy bird, Monday, 24 December 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
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.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
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...
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
Roma = total fucking garbage― flappy bird, Monday, December 24, 2018 2:52 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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 Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
and fwiw I saw it in a theater
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 04:10 (five years ago) link
I wish y'all were film critics
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 04:19 (five years ago) link
That doesn’t stop it from being contrarianism!
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
don't get me started on the C word
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
lazy way of dismissing a dissenting opinion - I was genuinely let down by this
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
So you insisted telling us on two separate threads
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
yæs
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 22:29 (five years ago) link
Romæ
― love craptually (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
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
― 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.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
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.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
_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.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
the third harry potter
― there are no good podcasts (||||||||), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
It was good
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
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.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
And I stopped watching Harry Potter voluntarily after the first one.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
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.
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
There are 10 seconds of hot man on man in that movie.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
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.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Harry Potter 3 is one of the better books and one of the worse films imo
― imago, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
j.lu - it was shot on digital in colour, a 70mm b&w print is definitely a gimmick
― sans lep (sic), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
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.
― I Feel Bad About My Butt (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link