2010's Best Movies: 10 Years Later

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

as opposed to a world of bland acceptance?

where cheering a nolan movie is a formative experience? i give up .

Come on nobody is doing that here

could have sworn someone just recently posted that a vociferous crowd adds to the experience of watching a Nolan movie

it's my own personal vision of hell and other posters might beg to differ, but I'm not making it up.

I admit that the crowd I saw Certified Copy with was gasping and hollering.

lol!

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

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

" 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) 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"

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) bookmarkflaglink

I say this as someone who watched Highlander on my own at an evening showing!

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:22 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

as opposed to a world of bland acceptance?

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:37 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

where cheering a nolan movie is a formative experience? i give up .

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 8:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

could 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) bookmarkflaglink

it'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

Psycho

Why would you take anything but the films into consideration?

― flappy bird, Saturday, May 23, 2020 4:30 PM (four hours ago)

well,

At first, at least

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)

one hell of a classic Rick and Morty ep

― calzino, Saturday, May 23, 2020 2:53 AM

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.

(Opening credits, I should specify)

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!

Works better for martial arts films than Kiarostami, I must say

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

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”

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.

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 bookmarkflaglink

Lol when the BFI re-opens you should be made it's director!

The Dark Knight was really good. A clown blows up a hospital! How isn't that your idea of fun?!

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.

Classic r+m ep is that

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!

Michael Bay has made good movies as well. Jesus christ

steady on

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!

...

Are you the new Turrican?

that is a low blow!

very rude making fun of our endless frat party here in the USA

good to see the best movies poll getting deep into the oeuvre of auteurs Bay and Nolan

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.

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.

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).

it's amazing how much the British infer from "full crowd"

I think I only caught it on TV one night because people talked it up as a copy of Marienbad.

― 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

More beautiful conceptually and visually and more mysterious.

Different leagues imo

more like Last Year at Mariengood

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 time

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

it's amazing how much the British infer from "full crowd"

― 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

more like Last Year at Mariengood

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, May 25, 2020 2:01 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^ slept on and otm.

Voted for Certified Copy a second time.

im not voting in any of these

do u think I fucking remember how good any of them were

except Banksy deserved capital punishment

xp not sure you knew how good any of them were then

(glad to see you back tho)

not been away