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Post by munkivelli on Jun 5, 2020 21:31:28 GMT -6
Shirley was a fantastic film. Watch it. (It's on Hulu now)
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Post by thebosma on Jun 5, 2020 21:56:48 GMT -6
Without modern technology like the internet and letterboxd I would have never found out that sthubbins and I watched The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie at the same time. What did you think?
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Post by andrewvb on Jun 5, 2020 22:24:05 GMT -6
Shirley was a fantastic film. Watch it. (It's on Hulu now) i vastly preferred it to madeline's madeline. it was pretty damn funny too.
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Post by andrewvb on Jun 5, 2020 22:25:34 GMT -6
Without modern technology like the internet and letterboxd I would have never found out that sthubbins and I watched The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie at the same time. What did you think? lol i just watched l'age d'or
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Post by alady on Jun 5, 2020 22:57:04 GMT -6
Ooo I'm gonna watch Shirley this weekend
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Post by munkivelli on Jun 5, 2020 23:16:49 GMT -6
Shirley was a fantastic film. Watch it. (It's on Hulu now) i vastly preferred it to madeline's madeline. it was pretty damn funny too. I kinda feel like I loved them equally for different reasons, but I respect that. Shirley was definitely more polished and relatively accessible, but I think both films are awesome. Madeline's Madeline has an amazing scrappy energy to it, for lack of a more exquisite way of putting it (I suck at words).
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Post by rango420 on Jun 5, 2020 23:28:00 GMT -6
i haaaaaaated madeline's madeline. it was like birdman but somehow more vapid and boring despite birdman already one of the most boring and vapid movies ever made
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Post by neader on Jun 5, 2020 23:46:29 GMT -6
Finished Ep 9 tonight. The stuff that originally bothered me I still thought was dumb but going in knowing what would happen and the time since I first saw it to digest definitely made me hate it less. With that being said still overall a bad movie, but it MIGHT have beat 2 in my rankings. Fun watching it with my roommate who has never seen it before. Spoilers ahead but right before Kyle and Rey kissed he kept saying please don't kiss please don't kiss and when Rey was on Tatoniee and asked her name he said don't say Skywalker please don't so that was very entertaining for me.
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Post by munkivelli on Jun 6, 2020 1:17:02 GMT -6
i haaaaaaated madeline's madeline. it was like birdman but somehow more vapid and boring despite birdman already one of the most boring and vapid movies ever made We all have our things, but much like The Farewell, I completely disagree with you ✌
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Post by sthubbins on Jun 6, 2020 14:08:26 GMT -6
Without modern technology like the internet and letterboxd I would have never found out that sthubbins and I watched The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie at the same time. What did you think? Really liked it. I appreciated how matter of fact it is about everything.
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Post by thebosma on Jun 6, 2020 14:17:28 GMT -6
Without modern technology like the internet and letterboxd I would have never found out that sthubbins and I watched The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie at the same time. What did you think? Really liked it. I appreciated how matter of fact it is about everything. I’ll need some time to process but I definitely enjoyed it as well
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 14:03:17 GMT -6
the Scream, Queen! documentary on Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is on Shudder now and it's terrific. so fucked how the lead actor was treated but i would say he gets a fair amount of resolution by the end.
also Friday night with Joe Bob was Mayhem (goofy af and gets less and less coherent as it goes on, but a certainly fun time) and Testuo The Iron Man (this whole trilogy still rules but the first one is just a mesmerizing mindfuck of sexual fantasmagoria)
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Post by andrewvb on Jun 7, 2020 18:35:41 GMT -6
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Post by krentist on Jun 7, 2020 20:34:48 GMT -6
Magnificent Seven - I feel like this movie should be more sick. As it stands it's kind of just Seven Samurai plus white saviorism. Yul Brenner's supposed to be BALD
Devil in a Blue Dress - had fun. Story is kind of a mess but there's a lot to like here. Don Cheadle rules.
The Professionals - Richard Brooks probably belong in the underrated bucket. This movie is fully sick. The raid on the Hacienda is just masterful. Also didn't feel the need to hold my nose at the politics here which is good for a Western from that era.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 23:58:00 GMT -6
holy fucking wow not really sure how i feel about this yet but it's an absolutely visceral and gorgeous piece from start to end
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Post by thebosma on Jun 8, 2020 6:30:40 GMT -6
I’ve tried to watch Berberian Sound Studio a couple of times and either I’ve been in the wrong mood or it sucks ass and we’ve turned it off part way through each time. Glad to hear that Strickland can make a good movie
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 7:11:07 GMT -6
I’ve tried to watch Berberian Sound Studio a couple of times and either I’ve been in the wrong mood or it sucks ass and we’ve turned it off part way through each time. Glad to hear that Strickland can make a good movie this is actually the first Strickland film i've seen! i really wanna see BSS as it seems like my kinda thing tho but yeah this one pulled us in pretty immediately and kept us interested all the way through. i will say it makes a few turns that are rough to follow if you have certain expectations, but if you kinda just roll with the Lathimos style absurdism mixed with all the homages to Argento, it's a pretty wild ride.
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Post by thebosma on Jun 8, 2020 7:17:51 GMT -6
I’ve tried to watch Berberian Sound Studio a couple of times and either I’ve been in the wrong mood or it sucks ass and we’ve turned it off part way through each time. Glad to hear that Strickland can make a good movie this is actually the first Strickland film i've seen! i really wanna see BSS as it seems like my kinda thing tho but yeah this one pulled us in pretty immediately and kept us interested all the way through. i will say it makes a few turns that are rough to follow if you have certain expectations, but if you kinda just roll with the Lathimos style absurdism mixed with all the homages to Argento, it's a pretty wild ride. These are the things totally absent in BSS so I'm happy to hear that it's present in this one. I've been meaning to check it out but this definitely moved it up on my list
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 7:55:46 GMT -6
yeah i was surprised how funny it is. (again, in a Lathimos way. the world has very ridiculous rules that make no sense and everyone speaks and behaves in very peculiar manners for no reason.) which maybe will make it more enticing than his other films.
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Post by wanny on Jun 8, 2020 7:59:43 GMT -6
Watched Ready Or Not over the weekend, great flick.
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Post by sthubbins on Jun 8, 2020 8:19:37 GMT -6
weekend pictures
-The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - covered above -Portrait of Jason - kinda disappointed by this, though I had very high hopes based on recommendations and descriptions. It's pretty compelling but doesn't have a lot of thrust until the filmmakers start openly provoking him which just feels desperate. Worth watching regardless -The American Friend - I dig Wenders' style so much. Very cool movie, maybe a little underbaked but that's kinda part of what makes it cool. loose and meandery vibe. Ganz and Hopper rule. -Blue Chips - peaks with the first scene but a decent flick with some fun basketball playing and cameos
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Post by dij22 on Jun 8, 2020 15:26:17 GMT -6
Watched Bounce a couple nights ago. Affleck is a cool advertising guy who gives his plane ticket to another guy so that dude can get home to his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, earlier. The plane crashes. Affleck tracks down Paltrow and they slowly fall in love.
I dunno the first half really worked for me. Super melodramatic but maybe I was just in a mood to be sad during a big dumb Miramax movie. I thought both of the leads were great, and I thought Affleck demonstrated real actual growth from his previous work. His first role where he was able to be understated successfully for a long duration.
The second half just completely falls apart though. The entire movie seems like it's leading up to this huge reveal of Affleck's secret but that just fizzles out in two seconds and it turns into a bizarre courtroom drama.
I wish Gwyneth Paltrow would stop selling snake oil and start acting again.
Affleck Rankings 1.) Good Will Hunting 2.) Dazed and Confused 3.) Shakespeare in Love 4.) The Way Back 5.) School Ties 6.) Dogma 7.) Mallrats 8.) Chasing Amy 9.) Going All the Way 10.) Bounce 11.) Armageddon 12.) Phantoms 13.) Forces of Nature 14.) Glory Daze
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Post by rango420 on Jun 8, 2020 22:01:37 GMT -6
Friedkin Rankings: Tier 1 1. Excorcist 2. To Live and Die In LA- Every scene in this movie ruled. William Peterson has the most insane energy ever caught on film and its got nonstop Wang Chung what else could there be. 3. Sorcerer 4. Cruising - I had no idea this was a straight up slasher movie with an all time soundtrack. Very gay. Very hot. Very ac*b. Great movie. 5. The French Connection
Tier 2: 6. The Boys in the Band
Tier 3 7. The Night They Raided Minsky's 8. The Birthday Party 9. The Brink's Job
Tier 4 10. Deal of The Century - Parts of this are very good, and its politically on the money and prescient as both anti-Reagan and anti-Drone satire but every 5 minutes the movie changes tones and almost none of them work. The Gregory Hines fighter jet scene was straight out of Decker.
Tier 5 11. Good Times
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Post by teekoh on Jun 8, 2020 22:12:53 GMT -6
Having seen roughly 6 movies in my life I have a hard time seeing everybody put French Connection in some second tier.
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Post by rango420 on Jun 8, 2020 22:36:32 GMT -6
Having seen roughly 6 movies in my life I have a hard time seeing everybody put French Connection in some second tier. this is a fair complaint I have re ordered the list for you your welcome
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Post by teekoh on Jun 8, 2020 22:49:38 GMT -6
Your accommodation is much appreciated. I will try to watch some of the other aforementioned films.
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Post by Kamera on Jun 9, 2020 10:28:19 GMT -6
They released the trailer on 6/9, sick.
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Post by zircona1 on Jun 9, 2020 12:12:22 GMT -6
Watched Bounce a couple nights ago. Affleck is a cool advertising guy who gives his plane ticket to another guy so that dude can get home to his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, earlier. The plane crashes. Affleck tracks down Paltrow and they slowly fall in love. I remember enjoying this when I saw it, so much so that I have it on DVD. It was one of the first DVD's I bought, a 'buy 2 get 1 free' previously viewed deal at a video store. (The other 2? I think it was Cast Away and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). I'll have to rewatch it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2020 12:56:05 GMT -6
for anyone who doesn't have Netflix, 13th is available for free on YT
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Post by krentist on Jun 9, 2020 13:52:12 GMT -6
I watched it last night & today. Still ambivalent on whether she's actually good at movies or if she just gets by on making factually correct movies with good politics. I liked it just fine but a lot of the info is old news to me. I think all the credulous boomers who believe MLK solved racism need to give it a watch, however.
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