The Official Movie Thread

[rms]

I think species was the first porn I saw

 

[CiG]

All I ever heard growing up was how it had some tits in it lol.

 

[Einherjar86]

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The Little Stranger - Nice little film that flew under the radar of everybody it seems like, cool to see Netflix pick it up as I'd been wanting to see it for ages. On the surface it's a classic haunted house genre film, but there's class analysis and a psychological drama just beneath it. Domhnall Gleeson sells this whole thing for me, he's amazing and unsettling.

I thought this was really good--an understated class drama masquerading as horror.

i also found it incredibly, painfully unsubtle, but i’m also pretty sympathetic to andrew dominik who was clearly ultra bitter about his lack of funding post-jesse james. it’s a shame he’s had such struggles ‘cause that movie was fucking great.

Was it just the multiple shots of billboards and politicians that you found unsubtle, or were there other details?

I guess I'd agree that such details weren't subtle per se (I'd contrast them with, for example, The Big Lebowski's sole inclusion of Bush Sr.), but I'd still say they comprised the background of the film, which I appreciated. Maybe a defter hand would have found a way to weave them more organically into the environment without making them central to certain shots and/or characters' attentions--I'm thinking of films like Vertigo and Children of Men, in which the backgrounds go largely unnoticed, but when you pay attention you see how much work Hitchcock and Cuarón put into them.

 

[CiG]

Species was kinda meh. Some entertaining parts, but boy did that CGI age horrendously.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Species was kinda meh. Some entertaining parts, but boy did that CGI age horrendously.

Yeah the cgi didn't age well, but i always enjoyed the movie. Dumb fun

 

[TageRyche]

Watched some stuff recently:

Boogie Nights - I'm so late on this one but I'm glad I finally got to watch it, I just need to see Magnolia next and I think I've seen all of P.T. Anderson's feature films. After years of being told to watch this by friends I always assumed it was going to be more of a straight up comedy, so I was pleasantly surprised by pretty much everything on screen, it's almost like a Scorsesean treatment of the porn industry. As much as I love Hard Eight from the year before this, it's impressive how much better he is as a filmmaker from that one to this one.

This is an absolutely fantastic movie. Everyone did such a great job in the film and it remains one of my favorite movies.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Fond memories of Species. A late night cable staple. Sleaze with a budget.

 

[CiG]

Yeah I guess I just saw it way too late, and have no nostalgia for it.

 

[challenge_everything]

Think next I'm going with Battle Of Algiers

One of my favourite movies ever

 

[CiG]

Watching:



So far this is fucking awesome, technique-wise it reminds me of Children of Men.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Np

Spoiler

 

[CiG]

Watching:



Edit: Disappointed James Caan didn't crush Kathy Bates' head at the end of Misery like a Troma movie.

 

[Einherjar86]

Watching:

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So far this is fucking awesome, technique-wise it reminds me of Children of Men.

It was fun to watch... but I actually thought the politics of this one were too on the nose, plus ill-conceived.

I'm not sure this counts as a spoiler, but just to be safe:

Spoiler

I know there weren't political conversations in it (as far as I can recall), but I thought it was fodder for leftist conspiracy nuts. The whole "the South will invade northern cities" strikes me as pretty a reductive and fearful reaction from leftists toward conservative states.

I did like the joke about how the invaders thought Bushwick would be easy to take because of--basically--gun control.

 

[CiG]

It was fun to watch... but I actually thought the politics of this one were too on the nose, plus ill-conceived.

I'm not sure this counts as a spoiler, but just to be safe:

Spoiler

I know there weren't political conversations in it (as far as I can recall), but I thought it was fodder for leftist conspiracy nuts. The whole "the South will invade northern cities" strikes me as pretty a reductive and fearful reaction from leftists toward conservative states.

I did like the joke about how the invaders thought Bushwick would be easy to take because of--basically--gun control.

Spoiler

Ha! I thought the whole "we thought you'd be easy targets because of gun control but we forgot about illegal firearms" thing balanced that shit out, but I do agree it was on the nose. The only thing I didn't like about the film was the flimsy and unrealistic political premise, so I feel you there.

Also you can tell it was written by lefties because they think conservatives IRL think places with strict gun control measures in place won't have residents with firearms. Ridiculous, I don't know a single conservative who thinks that, in fact they often make the argument that even if you banned gun ownership people would still find a way to get them.

But whatever I can forgive all that shit because it was such a fun and bleak film. That scene with her blown off finger made me shudder.

For a film focused on a lefty conspiracy theory about southern succession, it sure was pro-gun. Maybe one of the most pro-gun films I've ever seen. Handfuls of people with guns fucked their whole insurgency up. Go buy a gun!

 

[CiG]

Btw keep an eye out for their next movie with Kevin James as a brutal Neo-Nazi lmfao:

 

[rms]

Fond memories of Species. A late night cable staple. Sleaze with a budget.

was it a budget flick? The cast is insane haha

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

was it a budget flick? The cast is insane haha

No I meant it had a big budget behind it. Glossy exploitation with A-list casts died with 90's it seems.

 

[CiG]

Watching:

 

[rms]

Think that's my last Herzog, how is it