DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:21 am
Also, 'Snowpiercer', his prior film, is really really good.
We watch 'Ad Astra' Saturday night. Kinda slow and ponderous...trying too hard for the 2001 vibe.
Cosign on Snowpiercer. Interestingly, some of the same class issues that are so prominent in Parasite.
Looking forward to what he does next.
As a follower of Asian films, there are a ton of movies like this, talking about social issues. I find it amusing that the Oscars has only discovered Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2000 and Parasite 2020. Like there are no other Asian films before or after. Let's see what happens in 2040.
In the modern era, only one other Asian film has one the Foreign Film Oscar besides these two. Departures in 2008, which was a great movie about the social taboos of running a funeral home.
After being a jackass, wanted to say that while the Oscars has ignored these films, I've had somewhat of an interesting insight into certain subset of the Asian film genre: Re-makes.
I went to high school with a guy named Roy Lee, who specializes in taking popular Asian films and convincing the rights owners to remake them in English speaking versions. (The thinking when he first started, which is hard to argue with, is that American audiences wouldn't sit through movies with Asian actors and subtitles.)
First big hit he "produced" was The Ring, then The Grudge, and the Lake House. This success allowed him to attach himself to The Departed and now he's more a mix of the two types of movies - remakes and traditional movies.
My wife was pretty good friends with the dude, and we all partied quite a bit. He was an odd bird, a bit of an asshole... My wife liked him, so there must've been something there to like.
You can lead a horse to fish, but you can't fish out a horse.
Roma was a piece of garbage. Just because a 2018 movie is in black and white and not in English does not as it a good movie. Criterium Collection....weak. Plot matters. Especially when the dialog is weak. And Kung Fu baby daddy is a joke.
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:31 pm
Roma was a piece of garbage. Just because a 2018 movie is in black and white and not in English does not as it a good movie. Criterium Collection....weak. Plot matters. Especially when the dialog is weak. And Kung Fu baby daddy is a joke.
Heresy! I love that film.
Watched "Rocket Man" tonight. Feh. But a painless way to spend the evening with my wife and daughter.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
I can’t decide whether the last 15 minutes made it better or worse. I’m going to find myself thinking up alternate endings that didn’t involve that. Or that. Or THAT
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:31 pm
Roma was a piece of garbage. Just because a 2018 movie is in black and white and not in English does not as it a good movie. Criterium Collection....weak. Plot matters. Especially when the dialog is weak. And Kung Fu baby daddy is a joke.
Heresy! I love that film.
Explain Pruitt. And I want at least 3 sentence on kung fu baby dad's intimidation kung fu at the training field.
wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:31 pm
Roma was a piece of garbage. Just because a 2018 movie is in black and white and not in English does not as it a good movie. Criterium Collection....weak. Plot matters. Especially when the dialog is weak. And Kung Fu baby daddy is a joke.
Heresy! I love that film.
Watched "Rocket Man" tonight. Feh. But a painless way to spend the evening with my wife and daughter.
I thought it was wildly superior to Bohemian Rhapsody.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:31 pm
Roma was a piece of garbage. Just because a 2018 movie is in black and white and not in English does not as it a good movie. Criterium Collection....weak. Plot matters. Especially when the dialog is weak. And Kung Fu baby daddy is a joke.
Heresy! I love that film.
Watched "Rocket Man" tonight. Feh. But a painless way to spend the evening with my wife and daughter.
I thought it was wildly superior to Bohemian Rhapsody.
No interest in the Bohemian Rhapsody, but my daughter who has seen them both agrees with you wholeheartedly.
"Rocketman" was painless shlock - the classic biopic so amazingly satirized in "Walk Hard"
As for "Roma," it was technically brilliant. The long scenes were astounding, and...
A couple scenes will linger in my mind forever. That whole sequence from the time they arrive at the furniture store to get a crib to the end of her holding the dead baby is unlike anything I have ever seen. It blew me away and left me in a puddle of tears.
The scene with the guy who knocked up the maid in the training was showing the paramilitary training that so many young goons underwent at the time.
From Time:
The events of Roma follow the horrific legacy of 1968. As the family drama unfolds, tensions within the city begin to boil. Campaign posters and signs touting the PRI appear in several scenes, while Fermín (Jorge Antonio Guerrero) a young man whom Cleo dates, is shown training with several hundred young men as part of a secretive paramilitary force.
These political stresses come to a head in Roma’s depiction of another event that rocked Mexico to its core: the Corpus Christi Massacre, which provides the backdrop to one of the film’s most climactic scenes. On June 10, 1971, a crowd of protesting students was attacked by the Halcones, or “Falcons,” a group of young government-trained paramilitaries intended to pass as a rival student faction. Armed with knives and bamboo sticks, the thugs killed dozens of demonstrators, and the clash sent shockwaves throughout the country.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
I can’t stop thinking about that. There’s a lot of obvious Coen Brothers influence the whole time, but that ending is basically Raising Arizona made way darker for a 21st century audience. So maybe it was all necessary.
I can’t stop thinking about that. There’s a lot of obvious Coen Brothers influence the whole time, but that ending is basically Raising Arizona made way darker for a 21st century audience. So maybe it was all necessary.
I think it was all necessary. And I thought the last few scenes after the crazy shit happened were incredibly powerful. It was a pretty haunting final scene for me. (I thought the acting by the actor who played “Kevin” was fantastic throughout the movie and have been thinking a lot about how his character ended up.)
Shirley wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2020 12:49 pmBohemian Rhapsody suuuuuucked. It was bad enough that I have no interest in Rocket Man.
I happened to finally see Rocket Man last night as well and I totally agree that BR sucked ass, but Rocket Man was good. A solid B+/3-stars (out of 4) movie.
Johnnie wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:49 pm
Watched Gone Girl tonight with everyone. Fuck, that movie is crazy.
oh yeah it is. Rosamund Pike is awesome in that movie.
Nominated for the Oscar. She should've won it. Hell, Simmons did the '5 year Oscars' thing again, and it came to my attention how criminally underrepresented that movie was.
There wasn't a person who I watched it with that didn't have some very strong reaction to the entire thing.
mister d wrote:Couldn't have pegged me better.
EnochRoot wrote:I mean, whatever. Johnnie's all hot cuz I ride him.
Ford V Ferrari was a perfect airplane movie. Well done...and Christen Bale was great. Tracy Letts was an eye-opener as Henry Ford II. The guy is a really good actor, in addition to being a playwright.
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:12 pm
Ford V Ferrari was a perfect airplane movie. Well done...and Christen Bale was great. Tracy Letts was an eye-opener as Henry Ford II. The guy is a really good actor, in addition to being a playwright.
I liked it much more than I expected to.
You know what you need? A lyrical sucker punch to the face.
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:12 pm
Ford V Ferrari was a perfect airplane movie. Well done...and Christen Bale was great. Tracy Letts was an eye-opener as Henry Ford II. The guy is a really good actor, in addition to being a playwright.
I liked it much more than I expected to.
Same here. Although...I think Matt Damon is in the Harrison Ford moment of just saying 'Fuck it...I'm being myself' instead of acting.
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:12 pm
Ford V Ferrari was a perfect airplane movie. Well done...and Christen Bale was great. Tracy Letts was an eye-opener as Henry Ford II. The guy is a really good actor, in addition to being a playwright.
I liked it much more than I expected to.
Same here. Although...I think Matt Damon is in the Harrison Ford moment of just saying 'Fuck it...I'm being myself' instead of acting.
Except good.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:12 pm
Ford V Ferrari was a perfect airplane movie. Well done...and Christen Bale was great. Tracy Letts was an eye-opener as Henry Ford II. The guy is a really good actor, in addition to being a playwright.
I liked it much more than I expected to.
Same here. Although...I think Matt Damon is in the Harrison Ford moment of just saying 'Fuck it...I'm being myself' instead of acting.
Right down to the fact that the guy Ella dumped at Wembley found love with her roommate. Shown in two cutaways. And the fact that those 2 strangers remembered the Beatles as well was a moronic red herring.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
Watched 1408. This is a John Cusak horror film based on a King short story. Not a big horror fan, but this one was pretty interesting. Apparently they filmed 3 or 4 different endings
Right down to the fact that the guy Ella dumped at Wembley found love with her roommate. Shown in two cutaways. And the fact that those 2 strangers remembered the Beatles as well was a moronic red herring.
I liked it. It was light fare, but pretty enjoyable, if only for another reminder of just how much good music the Beatles made. And I didn't really think he should have felt too guilty for cashing in on those songs. If only he remembered them, how did know for sure that it wasn't all part of a delusion he got from being hit by the truck? That makes a lot more sense than the idea that he somehow jumped into some weird alternate timeline.
Right down to the fact that the guy Ella dumped at Wembley found love with her roommate. Shown in two cutaways. And the fact that those 2 strangers remembered the Beatles as well was a moronic red herring.
I liked it. It was light fare, but pretty enjoyable, if only for another reminder of just how much good music the Beatles made. And I didn't really think he should have felt too guilty for cashing in on those songs. If only he remembered them, how did know for sure that it wasn't all part of a delusion he got from being hit by the truck? That makes a lot more sense than the idea that he somehow jumped into some weird alternate timeline.
I never really listen to the Beatles and haven't for years, but since watching the movie, I've been bingeing on them.
The whole guilt thing was and timeline thing was poorly handled.
And those two strangers that were presented as a threat but who were thrilled that he was bringing the music back? Made no sense whatsoever. Why did 3 people in the whole world remember the Beatles?
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:12 pm
Ford V Ferrari was a perfect airplane movie. Well done...and Christen Bale was great. Tracy Letts was an eye-opener as Henry Ford II. The guy is a really good actor, in addition to being a playwright.
I liked it much more than I expected to.
Same here. Although...I think Matt Damon is in the Harrison Ford moment of just saying 'Fuck it...I'm being myself' instead of acting.
Right down to the fact that the guy Ella dumped at Wembley found love with her roommate. Shown in two cutaways. And the fact that those 2 strangers remembered the Beatles as well was a moronic red herring.
I liked it. It was light fare, but pretty enjoyable, if only for another reminder of just how much good music the Beatles made. And I didn't really think he should have felt too guilty for cashing in on those songs. If only he remembered them, how did know for sure that it wasn't all part of a delusion he got from being hit by the truck? That makes a lot more sense than the idea that he somehow jumped into some weird alternate timeline.
I never really listen to the Beatles and haven't for years, but since watching the movie, I've been bingeing on them.
The whole guilt thing was and timeline thing was poorly handled.
And those two strangers that were presented as a threat but who were thrilled that he was bringing the music back? Made no sense whatsoever. Why did 3 people in the whole world remember the Beatles?
I'm pretty sure you weren't supposed to think too much about how the world forgot the Beatles. It's not a sci-fi movie. It was just a plot device. That said, I agree that the way they handled the two folks who remembered was clumsy.
I'm pretty sure you weren't supposed to think too much about how the world forgot the Beatles. It's not a sci-fi movie. It was just a plot device. That said, I agree that the way they handled the two folks who remembered was clumsy.
You're right.
Sometimes I wish I didn;t graduate in film. Makes me so damn pretentious.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
I know I'm late to the game on this...but '20 Feet From Stardom' is a great movie. And the producers had some great pull to get interviews with Sting, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, and Mick Jagger.
No way they had live coverage of Le Mans back in the day. Was about to say that the villainous Ford Exec was a bit over the top, but my son told me that it really happened that way. Fuck Ford!
ETA: Harrison Ford has sucked for years.
"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
Just watched that Yesterday movie ( on hbo and I stumbled across it). I know you all discussed it a bit a few pages back at some point. I...didn’t hate it? I thought I would hate it.
