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Post by RagnarokMike on Dec 29, 2019 11:44:05 GMT
Movies like Uncut Gems kind of piss me off, remind me how good Sandler actually is as an actor, and most of his recent "efforts" are just lazy phone ins for a pay check. Basically the Pip farting on the snare drum of movies.
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Post by Emperor on Jan 1, 2020 16:04:29 GMT
Casablanca (1942) People often talk about 1941's Citizen Kane as being the greatest movie of all time, an opinion I don't understand in the slightest because the movie is a chore to sit through. But I understand that this claim comes from a perspective of storytelling in movies and film-making technique as opposed to a mass appeal kind of metric.
In the same way, people talk about Casablanca being the greatest romance story ever put to screen. While I don't quite share this opinion, I at least understand where it comes from. This is a love story at heart, set in the backdrop of the Second World War, where Europeans have fled to Casablanca in an attempt to head to neutral ground in the USA. The vast majority get stuck in Casablanca, of course, so the city is a cultural melting pot, quite a nice setting for such a movie.
Casablanca is not a conventional love story, in the sense that it doesn't follow the template of a more modern romantic movie and it isn't drowned in emotion. Probably such a template did not exist back then. In fact, there is relatively little interaction between the romantic leads, but each of their scenes are meaningful and full of desire, although this is mostly implied rather than said outright. You could make the argument that it isn't really a love story because there are many other factors at play, although the love between Bogart and Bergman's characters drives more or less everything that happens, particularly the iconic final scene.
It's a very good film but I'm not sure if I can give it a full recommendation. Don't think it would be to many people's tastes.
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Post by theend on Jan 1, 2020 17:10:48 GMT
Watched Hellraiser for the first time since it came out. Wow, that movie was crappy. Not sure how it became a legacy.
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Post by System on Jan 1, 2020 17:22:40 GMT
The Gentlemen
What a film to kick off New Year’s Day!
Brilliant crime film that is hilarious and doesn’t take itself too serious while still being a gritty film. All the performances are great but Hugh Grant stole the show..also Henry Golding is going to be a huge star in the next 10 years.
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Post by Lionheart on Jan 1, 2020 20:53:05 GMT
Casablanca (1942)People often talk about 1941's Citizen Kane as being the greatest movie of all time, an opinion I don't understand in the slightest because the movie is a chore to sit through. But I understand that this claim comes from a perspective of storytelling in movies and film-making technique as opposed to a mass appeal kind of metric. In the same way, people talk about Casablanca being the greatest romance story ever put to screen. While I don't quite share this opinion, I at least understand where it comes from. This is a love story at heart, set in the backdrop of the Second World War, where Europeans have fled to Casablanca in an attempt to head to neutral ground in the USA. The vast majority get stuck in Casablanca, of course, so the city is a cultural melting pot, quite a nice setting for such a movie. Casablanca is not a conventional love story, in the sense that it doesn't follow the template of a more modern romantic movie and it isn't drowned in emotion. Probably such a template did not exist back then. In fact, there is relatively little interaction between the romantic leads, but each of their scenes are meaningful and full of desire, although this is mostly implied rather than said outright. You could make the argument that it isn't really a love story because there are many other factors at play, although the love between Bogart and Bergman's characters drives more or less everything that happens, particularly the iconic final scene. It's a very good film but I'm not sure if I can give it a full recommendation. Don't think it would be to many people's tastes. I don't know what kind of people you hang around, but I've never heard Citizen Kane even mentioned by anyone outside of film school or major film buffs working in the industry. Though yes, among that particular minded group of individuals many do consider it as such. You don't understand it, not because it was a chore to sit through, but because you have not yet welcomed the theory of Filmology into your heart. It being a chore to sit through is your subjective experience, as it is the experience of many who watch it for some reason. Personally, I enjoyed it thoroughly and never once thought anything of being bored. It probably just happens to be a film that is enjoyed by certain personalities. But yes, the technical/objective aspects are why it is considered the best. You already agree with Filmology, you just don't know it yet and want to fight it.
As for Casablanca, I am very glad that you got around to this and enjoyed it. I certainly don't agree with it being the greatest romance story either. Maybe the best story that centers around a romance, but the actual romance part wasn't particularly romantic.
I somewhat disagree that this one wouldn't be to many people's tastes though. I think Casablanca has a certain charm about it, similar to the beloved PW favorite The Apartment, that most couldn't help but enjoy. It is certainly far more widely-appealing than Citizen Kane and I don't doubt most PWers might like it. And that is specifically because it isn't particularly a "romance story" but more about the goings-on during the romance, which leads to a really cool and funny tale.
I found a good article about it to maybe stir up some people's interest:
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Post by PB on Jan 3, 2020 22:39:18 GMT
Citizen Kane is one of my favourite films and it’s never a chore to sit through it.
Die Hard is not only a Christmas Movie, it’s the second best behind It’s a Wonderful Life.
Adam Driver deserves best actor over everyone ever so simmer down with your Sandler’s and Phoenix’s.
The Last Jedi is fantastic because it’s the first Star Wars film since The Empire Strikes Back to do anything different or interesting. It has flaws but it doesn’t have ewoks.
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Post by Ness on Jan 3, 2020 23:04:45 GMT
It has flaws but it doesn’t have ewoks. Yeah, but it has porgs which are way worse.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Jan 3, 2020 23:55:41 GMT
. It has flaws but it doesn’t have ewoks. Just say it has flaws, no need to be redundant.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Jan 4, 2020 11:23:45 GMT
Dora and the Lost City of Gold-Actually ended up being a pretty decent family film, nothing to write home about, but fairly enjoyable, with some good chuckles. Though the 1 second of live action Backpack you get is the thing of nightmares.
Ready or Not-Fun little schlock horror/comedy, other than the horror trope of the dumb bitch making bad decisions, can't say there was much I didn't like about the movie. Not ground breaking or a must watch, but well worth at least a single view.
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Post by 🤯 on Jan 5, 2020 19:28:21 GMT
All, can we take a minute here to talk about how great Failure to Launch is?
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Post by nath45 on Jan 6, 2020 19:54:33 GMT
Joker
I’m late to the game on this, but. It’s every bit the masterpiece they say it is. But it’s easily one of those movies to be enjoyed every once in a while, I wouldn’t be putting it on every single week.
JP deserves the praise, I don’t care for the Golden Globes, I believe he won, and rightly so. What a performance. Comparisons to Ledger, it’s, a different performance all together, two distinctly different characters and different turns as the clown prince.
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Post by Lionheart on Jan 7, 2020 2:59:49 GMT
All, can we take a minute here to talk about how great Failure to Launch is? What!? Where is the context for this? Did you just watch it? I thought it was pretty funny.
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Post by RagnarokMike on Jan 8, 2020 10:17:26 GMT
Finally caught Brightburn, nice little pick from Gunn, lulls a bit here and there, but mostly enjoyable...a solid take on common "What if Superman was a dick?" model, except more "What if Clark Kent was a dick?" Definitely shows the actual destruction such a being could cause. Doesn't quite hit greatness, but a mostly successful effort, I'd watch it again, but maybe not go out of my way to do so. Nice little easter egg at the end: Much like Split being a surprise sequel to Unbreakable, a credit scene puts this movie firmly in the same world as Super, creating a Gunn cinematic universe. I'd love to see a series based on the other characters mentioned in the sequence.
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Post by 🤯 on Jan 8, 2020 12:37:23 GMT
All, can we take a minute here to talk about how great Failure to Launch is? What!? Where is the context for this? Did you just watch it? I thought it was pretty funny. I refuse to provide any context. But I enjoyed it as well. So... We're alike!? Yuck. 🤢
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Post by Lionheart on Jan 8, 2020 15:47:34 GMT
Just saw Jumanji: The Next Level and it got a long round of applause from the people in the cinema when it ended. This is why we can’t have nice things. (It wasn’t bad but of ALL the films out there?) Conversely I saw Inception on release day and a fair portion of the audience walked out before the 20 min mark. It’s hard to find a fair portion of intellectual types together in one place but it sounds like you were in their midst. That movie was awful. I would have walked out too. They were probably just too dumb to understand the plot and raged out in frustration.
Or they were expecting more action early on over pseudo-intellectual babbling.
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Post by Lionheart on Jan 8, 2020 15:48:03 GMT
What!? Where is the context for this? Did you just watch it? I thought it was pretty funny. I refuse to provide any context. But I enjoyed it as well. So... We're alike!? Yuck. 🤢 You like almost all of my posts...who do you think you're fooling?
We are like blood brothers.
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Post by thereallt on Jan 8, 2020 17:47:05 GMT
Aquaman
Absolutely LOVED it. Sure certain parts are a little cliché, but sometimes that is a GOOD thing. There is nothing wrong with sending the fans home happy and Aquaman does that in spades. Nothing terribly original but the execution is absolutely first rate.
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Post by 🤯 on Jan 8, 2020 20:36:36 GMT
I refuse to provide any context. But I enjoyed it as well. So... We're alike!? Yuck. 🤢 You like almost all of my posts...who do you think you're fooling? We are like blood brothers.
Wait, are you UT's alter?
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Post by UT on Jan 8, 2020 20:51:12 GMT
You like almost all of my posts...who do you think you're fooling? We are like blood brothers.
Wait, are you UT's alter? Ew bro. That’s personal.
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Post by mikec on Jan 13, 2020 19:26:44 GMT
Finally sat down and over about four days watched The Irishman. I like The Godfather movies and Goodfellas is fun but I’m not a big mafia movie guy and so that’s about where I sat with this one. Felt like I’d already seen this one before, as it was Scorsese doing his same moves on a mob movie, but it’s not like they’re bad moves. No movie should be longer than 3 hours though, so I’ll probably never see this one again.
The aging tech threw me off a few times.
Also watched Brightburn, which was good.
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Post by Big Pete on Jan 15, 2020 15:32:07 GMT
Parasite
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I've been meaning to watch this for weeks now and only just got around to it. Watching it, I couldn't help but imagine what an American adaptation would look like. Not necessarily to shit on the US, but whether I was just giving it an easy pass for being an accessible foreign movie. For me, the first half of this film is so close to being just a good-ish heist comedy with extremely gullible rich people, but then it takes a hard left and keeps going in that direction that I felt completely hooked. I also have to give Joon-ho a lot of credit as it was such a well shot movie and I think the performances were entertaining enough while still feeling authentic. It would have been so easy to make the wealthy idiots, but if anything their worse crime was being so conceited. Definitely watch it. Little Women{Spoiler} So I saw Greta Gerwig's name attatched and the cast and I was sold. I had no idea this was a classic novel and has had a million adaptations until afterwards, but it's a War and Peace style coming of age period piece. The one thing this version does is that it constantly skips between the two different time pieces, where the plot will move forward a few pieces and they'll go back in time just to explain where these characters are coming from. It's an interesting choice and I'd imagine it allows this version to stick out more than it's past adaptations (including the Wynona Ryder/Christian Bale version which I only just learned about - wow). I thought Ronan and Pugh were great in this, especially Pugh who had a fantastic year and really deserves an award for how diverse her roles were this year. You throw in Streep, Dern and Odenkirk in the mix and you've got yourself a damn strong movie.
It's probably the most distant thing you can have to Pro Wrestling, so I couldn't recommend it. However if you just enjoy the craft and you know what you're getting into, it's a really solid film.
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Post by Emperor on Jan 15, 2020 17:14:51 GMT
Has a Korean movie finally breached the Western mainstream? Whoa.
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Post by nath45 on Jan 16, 2020 11:36:42 GMT
1917
The war epic, that might be an early contender for the best of 2020. 2 young British Soldiers must hand deliver a message, preventing 1600 men walking into a German trap. The entire film appears as one continuous shot, and is an absolute master-class in film making. Like Dunkirk, it hides away much of the faces of the enemy, and chooses to tell the story of these few young men on this particular day, rather than exposing a much greater theatre of war or needing / wanting some pompous rhetoric explaining why we are the good guys, and they are the bad guys.
It's a classic.
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Post by Lionheart on Jan 16, 2020 23:35:25 GMT
Has a Korean movie finally breached the Western mainstream? Whoa. It’s probably just because they secured a wide American theatrical release. The director was already well-liked for Snowpiercer so that likely convinced everyone to give it a shot. It is literally the #1 most favorited percentage movie of all on iCheckMovies now at a whopping 20%. His first movie, Memories of Murder, is way better though. I’ll post a longer review of Parasite later.
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Post by Emperor on Jan 17, 2020 16:53:59 GMT
Memories of Murder is phenomenal.
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Post by Lionheart on Jan 18, 2020 21:41:50 GMT
Correction, it was his second movie. I'm not sure why I said that it was his first for no reason. I think I was just reasoning that it is his earliest movie that I've seen.
But yes, phenomenal it is.
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Post by Ness on Jan 18, 2020 22:34:09 GMT
Watched Halloween 6, wow what a mess but makes sense given the story behind it with a legendary producer's cut and a director who only did it for other project promises.
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Post by mikec on Jan 19, 2020 5:40:20 GMT
Caught Knives Out tonight. I didn’t expect to enjoy it, but it’s well constructed and fun. Has a few good laughs too.
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Post by sandylea on Jan 19, 2020 16:53:31 GMT
Bad Boys for Life - I absolutely loved it. The storyline was pretty great, was definitely better than the trailer made it out to be. The action was great, and it was beyond hilarious as well. Honestly this was not for the money grab, they actually put some real effort and heart into it
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Post by nath45 on Jan 22, 2020 11:24:18 GMT
Us
I knows it’s received some critical acclaim, but it hardly reinvented the wheel. Nor is it outlandishly good. It felt like every second B cinema horror flick of the early 2000s. It almost feels like it should have been a Netflix exclusive.
I knew nothing about this movie apart from the basic outline but nailed the ‘twist’ in the first 5 minutes.
Watch it. Move on.
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