all of the other movies would have benefitted from more surfbort imo
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 22 April 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
the "best picture" category should be replaced with "most surfbort"
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 22 April 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
*by, not with, prepositions are hard
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 22 April 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
and your game is soft
;)
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
I get the feeling Nomadland is gathering steam because many of the people watching it think of it as political when imo one of its biggest flaws is that it's *not* political.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 April 2021 12:53 (three years ago) link
It seems to be bending over backwards not to be political but it’s also empty enough that anyone can fill it with whatever level of political subtext they prefer be present.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Friday, 23 April 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
It is a pleasant and sometimes affecting drama about grief. Nothing more, nothing less.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 April 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
I've posted a couple of these monthly Zoomcasts I do with two friends; we talked about Sound of Metal the other night (also Town Bloody Hall, but it's a different clip).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Q_Q2U85SU
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 April 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
trying to watch all of these in the last week
Sound of Metal - engaging but dumb. a thinly disguised rehab movie.Nomadland - pretty but there's nothing thereMank - i dug the bad audio but otherwise it's very "why am i watching this". gave up halfway through.The Trial of the Chicago 7 - the most aaron sorkin ever
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 24 April 2021 02:56 (two years ago) link
Greil Marcus on Nomadland: "At least there aren’t any Leonard Cohen songs."
It's a good putdown, but--and I'm not a huge Cohen fan myself--McCabe & Mrs. Miller minus those Cohen songs just wouldn't be the same film or nearly as good.
― clemenza, Saturday, 24 April 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
I like to think that Nomadland being the frontrunner is just overdue recognition for The Rider
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Saturday, 24 April 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
Watching Nomadland now and damn if this doesn’t match up a LOT with the conditions depicted in Phil A Neel’s _Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict_, tho deliberately shedding any political-economic talk
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 25 April 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
The Rider is the superior film, but Nomadland is great and obviously political. It's just not a treatise, it's a story about people. "But isn't it cowardly to show Amazon and not make a specific point about its awfulness?". Amazon/ billionaires making bank out of low wage jobs and the people who desperately need them are awful, but I think this film does right in observing life as a daily routine, not story beats or spectacular horror, I think it's more powerful because more believable to see these bad places just be a part of the characters' everyday life. Bob in the film: "If society was throwing us away and sending us as the work horse out to the pasture, we work horses have to gather together and take care of each other. And that's what this is all about. The way I see it is that the Titanic is sinking." There's camaraderie and joy in finding together just as there is despair at the system throwing people in the water to care for one another, and acknowledgement of the betrayal.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 25 April 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
Mank is like Ready Player One for the TCM set. A tedious, self-congratulatory, and pointless film.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
ugh, promising young woman. what a void of a film
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 3 May 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
If only! It's a Death Star exploding.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 May 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
my sister loved Promising Young Women, kind of scared to check it out now
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 May 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
i'm so proud of the fake rape revenge film for not depicting the rape directly and yet managing to include a scene of traumatic violence against a woman anyway
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 3 May 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
even then i feel like i would enjoy it 20 percent more had someone taken the reins of the music supervision
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 3 May 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
the music was terrible
― Dan S, Monday, 3 May 2021 22:24 (two years ago) link
the last twenty minutes are just so rotten
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 3 May 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
what does this movie bring to the table that jennifer's body didn't a thousand times better
furious at this fucking movie
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 3 May 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
Sound of Metal - engaging but dumb. a thinly disguised rehab movie.
I don't know if thinly disguised as much as just misleadingly marketed!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 May 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
well I was expecting a live film of an Iron Maiden concert so I was particularly disappointed
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 May 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
I thought it was going to be a tour diary of a noise rock duo, so same.
Actually I thought it was pretty good, but because Ahmed and Raci were so good. A good case of the right actors elevating the material.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 May 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
sound of metal is an incredible film
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 July 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
Otm
― Spottie, Friday, 8 July 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
the only one of these that i'm interested in rewatching
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 8 July 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link