"That’s kind of an enigmatic take"
lol otm, i kinda disgree with every assertion in that sentence.
this was ok.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
Eazy, you wanted to hang around... vermin?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
Saw it the other day. I hated the other Lanthimos movie I saw (The Lobster), but liked this quite a bit. It reminded me of Barry Lyndon a little.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
^blasphemy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
natural light, period piece
comparison falls down bcz The Favourite is not so boring that you ossify to death halfway through
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
Well, tbf that's where comparisons to any Kubrick film fall apart.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
weirdly significantly better than i expect oscar winning films to be
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
yeah wigs wigs wigs
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
xp Well, were it not for Olivia Colman's natural charisma, it would've gone 0-for-10 there.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 March 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
weisz was best imo
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
phantom thread is better tho
― flopson, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
flop otm
― boobie, Wednesday, 13 March 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
"are you here to seduce me or rape me?"
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 March 2019 02:52 (five years ago) link
"were you sent here to ruin my evening, or possibly my entire life?"
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 14 March 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
shot, chaser
― flappy bird, Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link
Just viewed. I was enchanted until the last 5 minutes, and really wish this could have stuck the landing.
The Draughtman's Contract (likely Lanthimo's major inspiration) is a better film (though the available video transfers from 16mm aren't), but this will remain in rotation.
― contains pieces the size of a child's esophagus (Sanpaku), Thursday, 14 March 2019 05:42 (five years ago) link
Really? I thought the ending was perfect! They both realized they were trapped, but were in their own separate versions of reality. After all of the harshness of the preceding story I thought it was kind of moving
― Dan S, Thursday, 14 March 2019 06:33 (five years ago) link
this was okay, mostly just reminded me that every 10 years or so everyone in the industry appears to develop an insatiable need for an artsy royals/costume drama to enthuse over
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 July 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
But especially if it lets loose with the c-word throughout.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 8 July 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
Dangerous Liaisons, Marie Antoinette, etc. Something about combining the grotesquerie of prior eras' ruling classes and then rendering them "human"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 July 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
er combining portraying
thought this was really excellent -- Rachel Weisz is becoming one of my "favourite" actors (her failed attempt at seducing the queen immediately after returning from her traumatic accident was darkly hilarious) and i always enjoy Colman and Stone, though i was most surprised by Hoult in this. he's vv funny and also extremely fucking tall, i mean he really downplayed that height in Fury Road w/that hunched over gait i guess but damn. i thought this looked great and just generally the ending was really something else, abrupt but appropriately so. Anne realizing the cruelty of Abigail in that moment and turning on her was quite the moment. i enjoyed the general uselessness of the male characters and the cinematography was really beautiful.
― omar little, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
"Anne realizing the cruelty of Abigail in that moment and turning on her was quite the moment.”
yes! and Abigail realized that she was trapped right at the same time. it was a great ending.
― Dan S, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
Shakey, that's a bizarre argument ocnsidering that 'costume dramas' aren't a static genre. We wouldn't say the same about acclaimed sci-fi, film noir, etc. We can have more than one good genre film per quarter
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:35 (four years ago) link
more lesbian cutthroatery than costume genre
think YL will produce something less fashionably pandering next
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
The Favourite wasn't even close to a, ah, favorite of mine last year, but I remember it being #1 in the box office for several weeks and grossing well over $500 million, thanks to its fashionable pandering
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
proof positive!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
it shtunk but as usual Shakey doesn't know why
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
you know that was a joke, right
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
I have absolutely no memory of last winter's box office
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
it grossed $96 M worldwide, close enough for I don't give a muddy pile of 18th-century ordure
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:35 (four years ago) link
doesn't stop you and Shakey from being wrong
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
this is a weird stand to take; it's as if Lanthimos betrayed you by essaying another film into which he poured his usual obsessions, successfully or not.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:39 (four years ago) link
To think that Lanthimos pandered by making a film in a genre that its makers struggle to get financed
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
it wasn't a SPIDERMAN reboot and cost $15 million, of course they struggled
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
i watched this while i was flying to turks and caicos to, uh, get myself in the mood for vacation?
i remember it more fondly now a couple months later. my immediate reaction was that i wanted it to be funnier.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
I’m not sure I understand exactly what his obsessions are, except maybe portraying extreme outsiderness and the feeling of being uncomfortable in one’s body, but I really did like this film, more than any other of his. I'm looking forward to Pop. 1280
― Dan S, Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
Dude needs to lose the fisheye
― flappy bird, Friday, 12 July 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
I liked the fisheye in this and don’t remember him using it in any previous films
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Friday, 12 July 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
Lanthimos commented somewhere that the fisheye was motivated (in part) to distance his film from his influences (Draughtman's Contract, Barry Lyndon).
― despondently sipping tomato soup (Sanpaku), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
That's interesting. The fisheye worked really well. There are also scenes that are actually candle-lit, I suspect (re barry lyndon)
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
I think about the draughtsman's a lot with regard to this.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
like the cinematography in this.
rachel weisz was a revelation (to me, who am not familiar with her filmography).
still haven't liked any of lanthimos' films as much as dogtooth
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
never saw the draughtsman's contract, it's on my list of films to watch this year
― Dan S, Friday, 12 July 2019 23:38 (four years ago) link
xp She's great and extremely fanciable, obv, but I didn't find her performance to be any better than any of the other main characters. Everyone is excellent in it. YL clearly has a profound engagement with actors/ performances.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
I meant to say that I didn't find her a revelation because I always think she's extremely good.
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Friday, 12 July 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Friday, July 12, 2019 7:28 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is interesting. i haven't seen the draughtsman's contract in years but would be curious about how you see them relating. there is a certain formalism and they both have some episodic plotting. maybe it's just tough for me to relate greenaway to anything.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
I relate Greenaway to Derek Jarman, not that their styles were that similar, I guess because they were both experimental British filmmakers from the 1980s-1990s
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 July 2019 00:26 (four years ago) link
Not hard to find Lanthimos namechecking Draughtman's Contract in at least 4 interviews.
4 Oscar-Nominated Directors Reveal Their Biggest Inspirations
During preproduction we looked at different films — some of them period, some contemporary — in order to be inspired in different ways. We looked at period films that made bold choices in the past and were creative in how they dealt with the genre including Amadeus (Milos Forman), The Madness of King George (Nicholas Hytner), The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway) and Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman) in terms of tone but also visually.
― despondently sipping tomato soup (Sanpaku), Saturday, 13 July 2019 06:03 (four years ago) link
I loved the first episode of The Great - ploughing much the same furrow as The Favourite (right down to Nicholas Hoult's obnoxious performance), but it's one I apparently can't get enough of.
― chap, Monday, 4 January 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link