[_tunic_]

 

Most horrible special effects you've ever seen, for a big budget movie.

 

[tw2113]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

 

Most horrible special effects you've ever seen, for a big budget movie.

 

but would you watch again?

[Severian]

Originally Posted by _tunic_

 

Most horrible special effects you've ever seen, for a big budget movie.

 

Lmao, I thought this was from the ‘60s or ‘70s for some reason and I was about to ask what you expected, but nope, it’s from 1981. Post-Star Wars!

Still, I’m not sure the capabilities were really there for anything much better. But then again what do I know, not much

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Severian

Yeah, but, like, ideally there would be some shred of redemption — somewhere.
This movie is bleaker than fuck. It’s like misery porn masquerading as black comedy. It’s well made but fuck it I am too old to pay to be bummed the fuck out.

It’s also a metaphor for the Irish civil war, so that’s in the background. But holy hell I’ve seen literal WAR movies that are vastly more enjoyable and vastly more upsetting that still manage to be worth the time and energy.

Reading that the author/director (also did in Bruges) had the cast set and the "story" 9 years ago, and that until midawy through production, did not know how the film would end, made me so fucking mad. I don;t wanna see no fuckers and their half-assed ideas. They think it is tragic, when it is actually torture.

[tw2113]

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Reading that the author/director (also did in Bruges) had the cast set and the "story" 9 years ago, and that until midawy through production, did not know how the film would end, made me so fucking mad. I don;t wanna see no fuckers and their half-assed ideas. They think it is tragic, when it is actually torture.

Yikes.
But I did love In Bruges. And Seven Psychopaths. And Three Billboards. He’s one of my favorite directors I think, but fuck Banshees.

[_tunic_]

Originally Posted by tw2113

but would you watch again?

possibly in like 10 years when I've forgotten that I've already seen it a long time ago. But I would much rather see that one again than the two movies I saw in the last few days

 

Yuck! The poster already makes me want to vomit.
There's nothing good in this movie

 

This movie was OK, but it's sort of a typical movie that's written by Luc Besson. Very chaotic, too many story lines, some characters are really lame especially Amber Heard's. Haven't seen many movies with Kevin Costner lately, he's OK in this one.

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

i haven't seen this, but wouldn't such illuminations into people's characters be one of the important social functions of fiction? the exploration of morality, relationships, etc?

i mean... there are a lot of stupids who think other people love them when they actually don't. abused people have what's called a "fantasy bond". easy to name, but harder to illustrate.

again i'm saying this *not having seen the movie.* and i probably won't, having read your reviews, hahaha. i'm just going by what you say in this bit i'm quoting, about the uses of fiction.

I wouldn't let anyone put you off watching The Banshees of Inisherin. I found it hilarious, yet it also raises interesting existential questions and mocks the absurdity of the Irish civil war.

[Rob Instigator]

Watched La Strada with wife on Valentine's Day yesterday. Wonderful film.

I never saw it before. I made the mistake of watching some of Fellini's more relationshippy films, hated them, so I avoided all his films.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Watched La Strada with wife on Valentine's Day yesterday. Wonderful film.

I never saw it before. I made the mistake of watching some of Fellini's more relationshippy films, hated them, so I avoided all his films.

fuuuuuuck, la strada, amazing!!

fellini before lsd is better than fellini after lsd.

maybe look for "i vitelloni" next. about useless young men wandering aimlessly.

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Originally Posted by Diesel

I wouldn't let anyone put you off watching The Banshees of Inisherin. I found it hilarious, yet it also raises interesting existential questions and mocks the absurdity of the Irish civil war.

funny thing, but the discussion eventually made me wanna see it after all hahaha. plus now i'm a fan of brendan gleeson since i saw him in "the guard", which was fucking hilarious. the character he plays there is great.

anyway i saw in bruges some years ago, it was okay but i didn't find it extraordinary or anything.

but anyway turns out the banshees etc is on hbo max which i just cancelled after the holidays so i'll have to wait to watch it maybe this summer or maybe next year or something. there's too much damn tv these days lol.

[Severian]

 

Pretty good in the Salinger-lite way most Baumbach (and a lot of Wes Anderson) films are. A bit aimless, but generally that works in the film’s favor. Ah, the malaise of emerging adulthood for creative/academic types.

[tw2113]

Ah Greta

[Bertrand]

Ah Greta too...

Last watch was John Byrum's Inserts, with a wonderful Jessica Harper and a Richard Dreyfuss who wanted to forget the shooting of Jaws that had just preceded.
No ellipse at all, wonderful acting.
Great flick.

I wanted to watch it after a Youtube clip from a Phantom of the Paradise reunion where Harper reflected on how three of her first films bombed (the third being Suspiria) to become kinda cultish (kinda applying to Inserts since Byrum never went that much farther after that).
The film was supposed to be a porn movie. A guy had told Byrum "write me down a porn flick and you'll shoot it". He started writing. But it didn't pan out as planned and there was no porn in it. Eventually someone produced it as it was quite cheap - 5 actors, no more, a single setting and that was it, the story being the shooting of a short porn film by a former promising director from the 1920s.

Said producers got to help a few other directors like Bill Forsyth whose Local Hero is a joy.

[Rob Instigator]

Watched 3/4 of Closer, at the request of my wife, and fuck if it was not the most pointless shit since Banshees of Iniisherin.

I COULD GIVE A FUCK.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Severian

 

Pretty good in the Salinger-lite way most Baumbach (and a lot of Wes Anderson) films are. A bit aimless, but generally that works in the film’s favor. Ah, the malaise of emerging adulthood for creative/academic types.

Originally Posted by tw2113

Ah Greta

Originally Posted by Bertrand

Ah Greta too...

ah greta three! hahaha. yeah, she's adorable.

i've somehow ended up watching this about once a year lately, maybe, and always like it, even though her character is so damn cringeworthy, hahahahaha, trying to keep up with the trustafarians and finance bro wags.

*MANY SPOILERS COMING* but hey this is an old movie already

i don't read it as a purely creative/academic thing though, i see mostly a class misfit in a gentrified new york that no longer offers viable options for the aforementioned "creatives." and a middle class person among rich kids she maybe used to know in college.

i mean back in the lydia lunch days she would have been a squatter somewhere in alphabet city, storming the streets with public performances, but in this century she has to fit into some sort of bourgeois respectability, not just mere adulthood, and find a select venue supported by millionaire's donations for their own cultural enjoyment.

so im glad she wakes up to her socioeconomic reality and sorts out her deranged class fantasies, but her solution feels like a bit of a betrayal to me, and maybe jt's even a bit fake? because there is a lot of difficulty even after an awakening. there are no magical solutions, especially after your eyes are open. where is that magical mailbox located? (asking for a friend, lol)

i mean, to borrow an overused term, baumbach himself is a bit of a nepo baby, hahaha, so we can't ask him to delve into the subject of real deprivation and class struggle and rebellion. so for frances it all amounts to just a temporary embarrassment. at the end of the movie she has planted her own flag but more than anything else she's ready to rejoin the dinner parties, aka "society".

but anyway, regardless of what i see as its blind spots, i like the movie a lot, part because of her and part because the french new wave homages are quite charming.

but yeah, it doesn't offer a real out, does it? adapt + comply. which, sure, adaptation is essential for survival but... here i did not see one iota of protest or rebellion, which the french new wave had in spades. she just has longing for consumption and status, and then frustration, and then ultimately an easy american dream style "success".

oh, the bit of psychology that it portrays really well i think is that phase in young woman's lives where they have these very intense friendships that almost feel like romantic relationships but then they drift apart, usually over some man, and it's often the same man the compete for (but not here, although who knows).

[Rob Instigator]

fo real though CLOSER SUCKED ASS.

natalie Portman is a terrible actress. I do not buy her in anything. She is wooden, boring, and has the emotional range of a 12 year old girl.

I have always hated dipshit Jude Law. SHITTY actor. worst thing in everything he has been in.

Julia Roberts was so fucking BORING.

I hate self-serving plays converted into masturbatory films. Fuck Mike Nichols too. All his shit sucks.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

fo real though CLOSER SUCKED ASS.

natalie Portman is a terrible actress. I do not buy her in anything. She is wooden, boring, and has the emotional range of a 12 year old girl.

I have always hated dipshit Jude Law. SHITTY actor. worst thing in everything he has been in.

Julia Roberts was so fucking BORING.

I hate self-serving plays converted into masturbatory films. Fuck Mike Nichols too. All his shit sucks.

oh right i was gonna ask you if closer was the one where those 4 people interfuck/crossfuck somehow. i can't remember a thing about it. i used to like mike nichols more when i was younger and stupider, like when i first watched "the graduate" and loved it. not anymore.

catch-22 was good though. i never read the novel but the movie was okay and highly educational about the ways of the world.

i also can't stand natalie portman. she's pretty for sure, but annoying as fuck. more annoying than anything else.

jude law is 50/50. he's good at some stuff (mr. ripley, the young pope, anna karenina). chris rock making fun of him at the oscars ages ago was hilarious. it starts here lol: https://youtu.be/caObUaz7oOc?t=150

julia roberts i used to find unbearable as a young romantic lead, but as an old person she's very good at some parts. it boils down to she's great when not relying on her teeth. e.g. she does miserable extremely well. so i liked her tons in 2 tv shows lately: "homecoming" and "gaslit". you might like homecoming on amazon, it's some vaguely dark present day post gulf war science fiction shit. gaslit was about the nixon watergate shitshow and it was good and at times hilarious although depressing because of the way history rhymes in america and the stupids never fucking learn.

[Severian]

 

Good-ish. Some creepy moments. Quite paint-by-numbers in terms of plot but there was some good gray matter here and there.

It’s no Barbarian, but it’s a damn sight better than Black Phone, which sucked ass like that was its job.

[Skuj]

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.

Jesus. It might be the greatest film I've ever seen.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Skuj

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.

Jesus. It might be the greatest film I've ever seen.

oh i missed that one...

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it's on hulu, huh?

i'll have to catch it the next time i subscribe

i want to write about what i saw last week but don't have time right now