I say this as someone who watched Highlander on my own at an evening showing!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
Huh, doesn’t feel like Meek’s Cutoff came out ten years ago.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8"
let's all remember Digby The Biggest Dog in the World and other Children's Film Foundation classics to remind us of when our mum used to use 50p sat morning matinees as de facto childcare and leave us in a crowded cinema with a load of paedos and weirdos nostalgia, to defend a very ropey allistic idea that watching movies should be a communal activity... absolute bollox mate!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:18 (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Dear me you live in a very intense world
― or something, Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
as opposed to a world of bland acceptance?
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
where cheering a nolan movie is a formative experience? i give up .
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
Come on nobody is doing that here
― or something, Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
could have sworn someone just recently posted that a vociferous crowd adds to the experience of watching a Nolan movie
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
it's my own personal vision of hell and other posters might beg to differ, but I'm not making it up.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
I admit that the crowd I saw Certified Copy with was gasping and hollering.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
if my Dark Knight/Inception Nolan movie theater experiences involved people cheering the films on I didn't hear them because the music was way too deafening
― Dan S, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
I was talking about experiences when I was young, seeing films like Carrie and Cries and Whispers with college crowds, watching Taxi zum Klo and early Haynes films at the Castro Theater, etc
― Dan S, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
" when I saw it with a full crowd"jesus what a fucking depressing concept of watching movies.. like a football match.― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkno I'm not on the wind up, just struggling to conceive of how lots of people in a cinema improves a movie experience .. it doesn't stack up with me I'm afraid.― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkif there is one thing that history teaches us it's that "the crowd" is such an intrinsic part of good art! I mean if it was movies of landed gentry getting liquidated to cheering crowds i'd take that. But fuck it when it is loud dickheads cheering a fucking Nolan movie― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink"I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8"let's all remember Digby The Biggest Dog in the World and other Children's Film Foundation classics to remind us of when our mum used to use 50p sat morning matinees as de facto childcare and leave us in a crowded cinema with a load of paedos and weirdos nostalgia, to defend a very ropey allistic idea that watching movies should be a communal activity... absolute bollox mate!― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkI say this as someone who watched Highlander on my own at an evening showing!― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkas opposed to a world of bland acceptance?― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkwhere cheering a nolan movie is a formative experience? i give up .― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkcould have sworn someone just recently posted that a vociferous crowd adds to the experience of watching a Nolan movie― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinkit's my own personal vision of hell and other posters might beg to differ, but I'm not making it up.― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 9:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
jesus what a fucking depressing concept of watching movies.. like a football match.
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:36 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
no I'm not on the wind up, just struggling to conceive of how lots of people in a cinema improves a movie experience .. it doesn't stack up with me I'm afraid.
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:49 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
if there is one thing that history teaches us it's that "the crowd" is such an intrinsic part of good art! I mean if it was movies of landed gentry getting liquidated to cheering crowds i'd take that. But fuck it when it is loud dickheads cheering a fucking Nolan movie
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 7:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
"I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8"
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 9:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Psycho
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 May 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
Why would you take anything but the films into consideration?
― flappy bird, Saturday, May 23, 2020 4:30 PM (four hours ago)
well,
― silby, Sunday, 24 May 2020 04:25 (three years ago) link
At first, at least
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 May 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
let's all remember Digby The Biggest Dog in the World and other Children's Film Foundation classics to remind us of when our mum used to use 50p sat morning matinees as de facto childcare and leave us in a crowded cinema with a load of paedos and weirdos nostalgia, to defend a very ropey allistic idea that watching movies should be a communal activity... absolute bollox mate!― calzino, Sunday, May 24, 2020 10:18 AM (four hours ago)
― calzino, Sunday, May 24, 2020 10:18 AM (four hours ago)
one hell of a classic Rick and Morty ep― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 2:53 AM
― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 2:53 AM
― Bleeqwot (sic), Sunday, 24 May 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
When I saw Certified Copy a young woman in the audience gave a quiet but earnest “yay!” when Kiarostami’s name appeared. I thought it was endearing and it’s stuck with me.
― Chris L, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link
(Opening credits, I should specify)
― Chris L, Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:46 (three years ago) link
I was bit shitfaced last night but still maintain cheering/whooping/hollering in a cinema (unless it's an ovation for the director and cast during a festival type context) is animal behaviour for crass exhibitionists who should be told to shut the fuck up and turfed out by their ear if they don't!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
Works better for martial arts films than Kiarostami, I must say
― while the city bleeps (Matt #2), Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link
Nobody cheers in cinemas in uk is my experience. I have been to things where when the film finished the audience spontaneously gave it a round of applause (and not talking about festivals where the filmmakers are present) and it was fucking weird. A screening where everyone is a-hooting and a-hollering like they apparently do over there would feel v odd
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
This thread should probably not be about Nolan so much but as people have said it’s “dumb fun” that is drab and long and pompous - to piggyback G F-M’s tweet it also tells you everything you need to know about him that he made a “realistic” batman and robin that was 3 hours long and made Robin just some anonymous cop but still ends with the “reveal” of him going “my name? It’s detective robin b. wonder” and everyone’s like “ah, truelly,, the thinking man’s action movie”
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:52 (three years ago) link
This actually was during a festival and I could only hear it because I was nearby. It didn’t come off to me like performative behavior, which I’ve seen plenty of in theaters.
― Chris L, Sunday, 24 May 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Lol when the BFI re-opens you should be made it's director!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 May 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
The Dark Knight was really good. A clown blows up a hospital! How isn't that your idea of fun?!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 May 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
Funny this has come up. Last night I watched the 2nd EP of Ricky and Morty which has a pisstake of Inception.
I think I only caught it on TV one night because people talked it up as a copy of Marienbad.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
Classic r+m ep is that
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 13:13 (three years ago) link
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
Michael Bay has made good movies as well. Jesus christ
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
steady on
― Bleeqwot (sic), Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
f b very much playing up to my ignorant brit imagining on what life is like in mainstream US society, where I imagine anyone who isn't obnoxiously loud and quick to participate in predictable crowd behaviour and generally annoying loudmouthed twaterry in a cinema is branded a commie or a psychopath and shunned by the baying mob! And then brings a gun the next time!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
...
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Are you the new Turrican?
that is a low blow!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
very rude making fun of our endless frat party here in the USA
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Sunday, 24 May 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
good to see the best movies poll getting deep into the oeuvre of auteurs Bay and Nolan
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 May 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
My grandpa (both of us scottish) gave me the impression that cinema in his youth was treated much like pantomine. Cheer when the goodies appear, hiss and boo when the baddies appear. Sounds awful but he loved it.
Sion Sono said he wanted film audiences to be like wrestling audiences and I don't see how that would work with his films. Maybe just a provocation for its own sake.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Mixed feelings about Toy Story 3. I've never cared for the actual animation in Pixar but I think all 3 of the films are quite stirring all the same. Ken was hilarious and they really increased the morbid aspects of the toys-are-alive concept to torment children.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 24 May 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
Toy Story 3 is my least favourite of the four, but I'm enough of a Pixar fanboy that I voted for it anyway (had the Coens' True Grit been here, it would have been a different story).
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 May 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
it's amazing how much the British infer from "full crowd"
― flappy bird, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, May 24, 2020
I can understand people seeing similarities in tone and in narrative confusion with Inception and Marienbad, and they both had annoying scores, but Last Year at Marienbad was so much more amazing
― Dan S, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
More beautiful conceptually and visually and more mysterious.
Different leagues imo
more like Last Year at Mariengood
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, 25 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Yes Dan agree - Marienbad is really good, except I also really like that organ grinding score which goes along with the tone it's striking. Also shows up this earlier post as clueless:
or as this wise-guy put it at the timeI get Nolan's mania about control and architecture but the best films about dreams have a much lighter touch and a greater sense of the surreal― acoleuthic, Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink― imago, Saturday, 23 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink
I get Nolan's mania about control and architecture but the best films about dreams have a much lighter touch and a greater sense of the surreal― acoleuthic, Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― imago, Saturday, 23 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 25 May 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, 25 May 2020 00:06 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
If by "the British" you mean one particularly excitable British person then yeah sure
― or something, Monday, 25 May 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, May 25, 2020 2:01 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^ slept on and otm.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 25 May 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
Voted for Certified Copy a second time.
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
im not voting in any of these
do u think I fucking remember how good any of them were
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
except Banksy deserved capital punishment
xp not sure you knew how good any of them were then
― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 June 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link