It's terrific.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2023 13:25 (one year ago) link
It gets the Alfred B+ by me
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2023 13:43 (one year ago) link
Aftersun rules
― jaymc, Monday, 16 January 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
Despite my reservations, Frankie Corio gives the best youth performance I've seen in a very long time
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 16 January 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
it's a heartwarming, wistful memories of dad movie isn't it? I've seen people praising it but I've not felt very tempted to watch it as yet.
― calzino, Monday, 16 January 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
Wistful, sure. Dunno about heartwarming.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 January 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
Saw a poster for Tar after coming out of a re-screening of Roman Holiday (Wyler, 1953). I can see the value of wanting things like this: light script (with stuff beneath if you wanted to go there), beautiful leads with chemistry, the right length of 90 minutes so no overstaying.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 February 2023 09:58 (one year ago) link
Films are absolutely all too long these days. Or rather, they spend too much time in the 2 1/2, 3 hour zone. Give me 80 min or give ne 4 hours.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 6 February 2023 10:49 (one year ago) link
Very few films justify the length of over two hours.
And the most repetitive but truthful comment is to say that x film was great but 20 mins too long.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 February 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
It's become especially noticeable since 2020, as if COVID killed editors.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 February 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
It's weird because something frivolous, fun, but also nicely made and played, that doesn't speak to anything contemporary and 'short' would be just the ticket after 2/3 years of no cinema.
(I am not looking too closely so I'm sure those things are about, but what dominates attention -- and is sadly on my radar -- is stuff like Tar rn)
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 February 2023 13:30 (one year ago) link
Length=$ in the streaming era, everyone wants inventory
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 February 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
A nice side effect of this for me personally tho is that Bollywood/Kolywood/Tollywood productions no longer seem daunting. I used to avoid that territory because of lenght issues but now they're just the same size as yet average thing at the cinema.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 6 February 2023 13:52 (one year ago) link
On my most tinhat days I suspect Hollywood is actively killing off the movie format in order to force people toward prestige TV, where minutes watched is the base metric, not admissions.
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 6 February 2023 13:56 (one year ago) link
It's like one of the metrics for an app. The 'best' ones are usually judged as the ones you never log away from.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 February 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
I tend tor reserve posts here for awful-looking prestige-y things, rather than bullshit that has no reason to exist in the first place, but: 80 for Brady
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 9 February 2023 19:47 (one year ago) link
^^Ditto for that gruesome looking Tom Hanks thing; too obvious x 10 for this thread, but some kind of nadir for him based on the trailer I saw.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 February 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
fuck yeah I don't need to see Hanks play a lovable ignorant racist dummy
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 February 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
this scene so fucking unserious son pic.twitter.com/Cqjk7gUqky— yo raheem is dead somebody shot em (@mrmovedathand) March 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 March 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
i rewatched john wick 2 last night and that scene is so fucking good
these movies do not take place in the real world hope that helps
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 March 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
Yeah it's no different than a film in the John Wooniverse
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Saturday, 18 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
The John Wick thing has totally passed me by so "doesn't take place in the real world" helps.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 March 2023 10:59 (one year ago) link
I have news for you about every other film.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 20 March 2023 13:16 (one year ago) link
No please no more news I can't cope.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 March 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
Air
who fuckin cares about this story
― Will.I.Am's fetid urine (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 April 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
And it played on many screens at my local arthouse in a city where two shut down in the last year.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 April 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
trailer feels like a parody...like in Maxx Barry's snarky ad-firm satire Syrup, where the characters sell the idea of a film "starring Coca-Cola."
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 April 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
Brand origin stories are the new biopics -- Air, Pinball, Flamin' Hot, etc.
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 10 April 2023 20:02 (one year ago) link
Avoiding on squeamish grounds rather than quality control grounds:
DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICAVerena Paravel, 2022Plunging into the viscera of human bodies, the directorial duo behind Leviathan open up glistening worlds of ecstatic abstraction. Never shrinking from grit or guts, this fascinating documentary surfaces in underfunded Parisian hospitals, where doctors inject a good dose of humor into disrepair.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 22 May 2023 10:32 (eleven months ago) link
This weekend I sat through the trailers twice for About My Father and You Hurt My Feelings; this was three times too many.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 22 May 2023 13:46 (eleven months ago) link
Extraction 2. Don't even try to fool me with this one, Letterboxd mutuals
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 14:15 (ten months ago) link
Both Barbie and Oppenheimer
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 09:49 (nine months ago) link
I'd watch a Gerwig-directed Oppenheimer.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 10:19 (nine months ago) link
Juding by box office it seems I'm not the only one avoiding the new Indiana Jones.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 10:35 (nine months ago) link
I would avoid that, but my sister wants to go. If it's at an Alamo Drafthouse, I can get regularly replenished drinks during the screening.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 17:38 (nine months ago) link
And I would watch a Nolan-directed Barbie. They should have traded movies.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 21:31 (nine months ago) link
Barbie played by Tom Hardy
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 21:43 (nine months ago) link
Oppenheimer played by Saorsie Ronan.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 21:45 (nine months ago) link
Wonder if Oppenheimer will cover the goings on in the Congo as detailed in parts of this piece, rather than torturing a guy's conscience for three hours?
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n12/kevin-okoth/poison-is-better
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 July 2023 14:47 (nine months ago) link
First trailer for Ridley Scott’s ‘NAPOLEON’ starring Joaquin Phoenix. pic.twitter.com/Ab301ec9fN— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) July 10, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 10 July 2023 20:40 (nine months ago) link
lots of english actors and Joaquin Phoenix doing stupid 'Allo 'Allo! accents and lots of tedious cgi naval battles... no no no fuck off
― calzino, Monday, 10 July 2023 20:46 (nine months ago) link
lol, will probably still watch it tho!
― calzino, Monday, 10 July 2023 20:50 (nine months ago) link
This'll be better than Joker for sure! idk I'll give Ridley some slack when it comes to a period movie with big epic battles but that's based probably solely on Kingdom of Heaven.
― omar little, Monday, 10 July 2023 21:02 (nine months ago) link
I think I still prefer the never-made Kubrick one.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 06:10 (nine months ago) link
I continue to be sulky that the 1927 version is still not officially available in Region A. Has Brownlow's work been for nothing?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:34 (nine months ago) link
Gotta get me a polyvision compatible tv.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:43 (nine months ago) link
Sound of Freedom
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Saturday, 15 July 2023 20:42 (nine months ago) link
Yes, not even morbid curiosity will get me to see that. But is there a thread around for discussion of the right-wing media-industrial complex in general, or this specific film's distribution model?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 27 July 2023 19:09 (nine months ago) link
There's always this short-lived thread: Favorite Right-Wing Movies
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 July 2023 19:12 (nine months ago) link
one of these types of movies comes out every couple weeks now:
Dumb Money is a 2023 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich and chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 18:59 (seven months ago) link