The Official Movie Thread

[CiG]

Watching tonight:

 

[Bourbon]

First look at Denis Villeneuve's Dune

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Checking this out tonight

Spoiler

@CiG , hope it's decent

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

 

[CiG]

Checking this out tonight

Spoiler

@CiG , hope it's decent

Nice, can't wait to see that. I liked all his other movies (especially Bliss) so I have high hopes.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Nice, can't wait to see that. I liked all his other movies (especially Bliss) so I have high hopes.

Was pretty good,.probably exactly what you'd expect. Awesome cast makes up for any shortcomings. Not saying i know you, but if i know you....pretty confident you'll dig it





Np

aka Zombie

Spoiler

 

[rms]

White people are the problem in the film, 100%; but it's white people in 1962. This is a movie made for a twenty-first-century middlebrow white audience, who can shake their heads disapprovingly at all those pre-Civil Rights-era racists, and take comfort in knowing that "we're better than that."

I guess I am surprised the movie was viewed this way. I don't see it doing a holier than thou comparison for time periods, but I would probably agree it does for those who have a "we are better than the south" racial perspective

 

[CiG]

Watching:



Enjoyed Splice more than I expected, though kinda falls apart in the last 15-20 minutes, but not enough to ruin it. Just devolves into horror cliche a bit.

Edit: Now I'm watching:

 

[no country for old wainds]

yeah that’s how i feel about splice too

 

[Einherjar86]

I guess I am surprised the movie was viewed this way. I don't see it doing a holier than thou comparison for time periods, but I would probably agree it does for those who have a "we are better than the south" racial perspective

I don't think it's consciously doing a holier-than-thou comparison, I just think that's the function it served.

It could be a regional response as well; I have no idea how southern audiences received it. I saw the movie in an upper-middle class, largely conservative Michigan suburb, with my wife's very religious family. After the movie, her grandmother proclaimed how disgusted she was by the nasty language.

And I can tell you right now, there were two black people in the entire theater. While the rest of the audience laughed at Vallelonga's racist comments, they were staring deadpan at the screen. It was uncomfortable to watch them watch the movie.

 

[rms]

Trying to remember what jokes those were. I definitely don't think it's a movie for black people, viewed it as an easy digestion for the green book phenomenon...but sounds like seeing it at the time it came out may have been a significant factor in the film

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

It was uncomfortable to watch them watch the movie.

is that what you do at movie theaters? Watch others watch movies or are you just pulling something our of your ass again?

 

[no country for old wainds]

i did a bit of that once when there were these two bimbos in front of me at a screening of synecdoche new york expecting a zany comedy, it was fun watching the blood drain from their faces as they became aware of their own creeping mortality

 

[CiG]

Bimbos are notorious for their self-awareness.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Watching:

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Watched this again earlier for the first time in 7 years. Loved it just as much as back then. Perhaps even more. If any recent movie deserves a cult with the passage of time, this is it. Shore and Metric's music is lush. My prostate is asymmetrical. This I know.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i consider it a top 3 cronenberg which is high praise coming from me.

 

[CiG]

My favourite since Crash.

Anyways, watching:

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Brian Dennehy passed away yesterday.

 

[Slammed]

I thought he died years ago. For about 15 years every time I saw him in something new I was surprised to see him.
Loved some of the stuff he's done over the years.

 

[CiG]

RIP to a legend.