The Official Movie Thread

[arg]

Pacino > De Niro

 

[CiG]

Pacino > De Niro

Blowjobs > handjobs

That's not saying much.

 

[rms]

Da fuq. DeNiro has done so many amazing films

 

[SentinelSlain]

The Tenant and Dredd were both great. The Tenant was the better of the two.

 

[no country for old wainds]

DREDD too blatantly rips off THE RAID for my liking and i didn't like the aesthetic all that much, but it's pretty great pulp nevertheless. THE TENANT is awesome.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Watched Barry Lyndon in the first time in about 8 years. Definitely Kubric's most underrated film. I can't think of a more well executed and realistic period piece, and the cinematography is like a series of paintings, especially in the second half. Ryan O'Neal really plays this character well throughout.

 

[SentinelSlain]

DREDD too blatantly rips off THE RAID for my liking and i didn't like the aesthetic all that much, but it's pretty great pulp nevertheless. THE TENANT is awesome.

Haven't seen The Raid, so I can't comment on that. I didn't like the colours and the use of slow motion very much, but I kind of accepted it. I think those techniques would be better suited to a short or advertisement, not used throughout in a full feature film.

 

[Draehl]

So they're turning Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark into a trilogy. My favorite books as a kid and Del Tori is directing. I just hope they do them in black and white or some similar stylized or high contrast/blurry visual look.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (Jess Franco, 1973) - Despite the tantalizing title, no, this isn't a horror porno. What it however, its the most mental Frankenstein movie ever, where Frankenstein's monster (a bodybuilder spray painted silver) is kidnapped by an evil psychic wizard to mate with his own creation made up of body parts from various Euro beauties procured by his bird woman servant in order to create a master race! There actually is a set-up to all the lunacy but the succession of events is so utterly random the film plays out like a psychedelic fever nightmare that you've been plunged in the middle of and are more than likely to come out of a bit dazed. Very colorful visual design inspired by Italian "fumetti" adult horror comics. Essential 70's Euro cult/trash if you can get in tune with it.

First (French) trailer for Paul Verhoeven's Elle!

 

[rms]

Watched The Martian the other night to fall asleep too, it's such a weird premise. Movie focuses only on people who make decisions based on evidence but throw all that away because Will Hunting got stuck on Mars. Think the camaraderie aspect was way overblown for NASA people, but maybe that's just me.

Anyone have any thoughts on the lack of blacks for Oscar season? The only person that I think could have gotten a nod was Samuel Jackson in Hateful 8 (since his female counterpart with less lines got it for female supporting), but other than that, I don't see it.

 

[JontRevolting]

I saw the Revenant on friday, great film but the ending was a bit shit. As soon as he got his revenge, he sort've seemed like he was thinking that life is gonna to be pretty boring now that the guy he was after is dead, revenge pretty much was the only reason he lived. But his dead wife made a timely appearance and just gave him the 'just take it easy and do fuck all ' which was good.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i hardly ever notice the academy shun a black performance that i think they'd embrace were the actor white. there were quite a few acclaimed movies with black performers this year (not sure about eligibility, date-wise) like CHI-RAQ, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, BEASTS OF NO NATION, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, GIRLHOOD, TANGERINE, MAGIC MIKE XXL, DOPE, even THE FORCE AWAKENS, but how many of those movies were realistically gonna blow the academy away regardless of race?

the so-called 'snubs' people cite are usually just not performances which suit the academy's tastes. the academy is full of boring narcissistic white people who gravitate toward boring narcissistic white movies; they'll happily vote for blacks if they're in those kinds of movies. if folks can't relate to the same things those people relate to, the solution is to stop giving a fuck what the academy thinks, like most of us did a long time ago.

i preferred jennifer jason leigh's performance to jackson's, FWIW.

 

[no country for old wainds]

people accuse cannes festival of sexism every year as well, and i think that has more of a basis (on a few occasions they've snubbed popular, acclaimed female directors for unknown males for no apparent reason), but even then the problem is more with the film industry not giving female directors the same trust/backing and whatnot, and there being a much smaller pool of female directors to choose from vs. male, etc. granted, as supposed pioneers of progressivism i imagine both cannes and the academy could do more to encourage equality than they actually do, but it isn't, like, their job, so what do people expect? if they start introducing quotas or something it'll just cause an uproar from the opposite side.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Watched The Martian the other night to fall asleep too, it's such a weird premise. Movie focuses only on people who make decisions based on evidence but throw all that away because Will Hunting got stuck on Mars. Think the camaraderie aspect was way overblown for NASA people, but maybe that's just me.

i'm not sure i can think of any element of that movie which wasn't overblown.

 

[rms]

Do you think The Danish Girl is going to walk away with some victories this year?

But on the Martian, rather lame but 100% hollywood movie. Ridley Scott can go full director to puppet head like it's nothing.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i haven't seen it. i'm allergic to eddie redmayne at this point, not sure i can handle another two hours of his putrid whispering.

 

[Satanstoenail]

I won't/can't see The Martian because Matt Damon.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i don't mind him but i didn't care for him in this.

 

[CiG]

people accuse cannes festival of sexism every year as well, and i think that has more of a basis (on a few occasions they've snubbed popular, acclaimed female directors for unknown males for no apparent reason), but even then the problem is more with the film industry not giving female directors the same trust/backing and whatnot, and there being a much smaller pool of female directors to choose from vs. male, etc. granted, as supposed pioneers of progressivism i imagine both cannes and the academy could do more to encourage equality than they actually do, but it isn't, like, their job, so what do people expect? if they start introducing quotas or something it'll just cause an uproar from the opposite side.

If they start introducing quotas it will further ruin an already ruined quality control and surely that's more of a reason to not have quotas than some vague assumption of outrage from the "other side" whatever that is.

 

[arg]

is Hateful 8 worth watching on big screen?