Seen any good movies recently?

[claypoolfan]

Here to echo the longlegs was really bad sentiment

[scoots]

Jul 21, 2024 20:57:18 GMT -6 scoots said:

Anyway, I'm going to a free showing of The Crow tomorrow at a local theater. Fuck yes.

This was fun. Soundtrack while waiting in the theater was nothing but songs from 1994, and the trailers shown prior to the movie were all 1994 releases. They also had Dark City showing in the lobby.

Kind of fun seeing this on a big screen for the first time. It's for the most part a really well done action flick. I haven't seen it in something like 20 years and missed how closely this resembles some of the scenes from Dark City, particularly the shots following the crow through the city. Both movies are really good and it's wild how much of a drop Proyas had after that. 

[Kamera]

[kb]

holy fuckin shit, happy birthday to me the day after my birthday: shaun of the dead being rereleased in theaters.

[scoots]

We went to see Sunshine on the big screen as part of a sci-fi series in Denver with the Nature and Science Museum. Totally forgot what what a wild ending it has - it almost switches into horror mode for the last 20 minutes or so.

Kind of funny to have a scientist come on afterwards to try to do a Q&A and he's left trying to explain plot points because he started off the conversation by saying the science "doesn't make any sense."

[Kamera]

This looks like a Letterboxd 3/5, but I still want to see it. Also Nicholas Braun does the worst Jim Henson impression.

[dij22]

Twisters is legit awesome.

Glen Powell is a superstar. I've never seen Daisy Edgar Jones in anything before but I thought she was great too.

[venom]

Aug 9, 2024 10:34:14 GMT -6 dij22 said:

Twisters is legit awesome.

Glen Powell is a superstar. I've never seen Daisy Edgar Jones in anything before but I thought she was great too.

i watched Hit Man on a flight yesterday and thought it was a good plane movie and powell was a big part of that.

daisy edgar jones was in Under the Banner of Heaven. she has a few notable scenes. the series overall was pretty good if you're into that sort of cult/crime thing.

[dij22]

Rewatched Three Billboards last night and I really liked it. Rockwell's character was way more cartoonish than I remembered, but other than that it still holds up. Not nearly as good as In Bruges or Banshees of Inisherin, but still very good.

[Kamera]

[jazzpolice]

40 film set is really cools

[munkivelli]

Aug 15, 2024 17:42:10 GMT -6 jazzpolice said:

40 film set is really cools

I counted and I think I only own the Criterions of 7 of the films in the set (one of which is just a DVD), so during a 50% flash sale, this might be tempting

[irvred]

I like the idea but I’d rather have the individual boxart than one single gigantic grey-ish package.

[munkivelli]

Aug 15, 2024 17:45:22 GMT -6 irvred said:

I like the idea but I’d rather have the individual boxart than one single gigantic grey-ish package.

I like it as an exploration piece, because a lot of them I haven't seen...however, I could probably use Criterion Channel for that same purpose ..I just like shiny new things...it would also cost a lot more to have the standalone versions of the films.

[thebosma]

I’ve seen 31/40 and can confirm that all of the ones I’ve seen are bangers

[scoots]

Yeah, can't justify that price point. That's a wild collection, though.

Are all of those movies actually available on Criterion Channel? Might need to subscribe.

Actually kind of curious how that works - are Criterion designated movies available on the service, or is it more complicated than that?

[thebosma]

It’s more complicated than that but a lot of films in the collection are permanently featured on the channel. The rest is grouped by their different collections. Some stuff will cycle on for only a month. It’s worth noting that a film being on the channel doesn’t necessarily indicate its future presence in the collection but films have made that jump before I’m sure

[Kamera]

I’m just glad Paper Moon is finally getting the Criterion treatment so that reply guy on Twitter can finally shut up.

[zircona1]

I was more excited about last month's announcement.

I don't think I'll buy it, but I want to watch Gummo again. Same with The Doom Generation.
And hell, I already have a non-Criterion edition of The Long Good Friday, but I might get this new edition just for the subtitles.

[llamaoftime]

I think this might be the funniest trailer ever created

[clouddead]

Aug 21, 2024 8:53:37 GMT -6 llamaoftime said:

I think this might be the funniest trailer ever created

www.vulture.com/article/did-the-megalopolis-trailer-make-up-fake-movie-critic-quotes.html

[llamaoftime]

Aug 21, 2024 19:15:52 GMT -6 clouddead said:

Aug 21, 2024 8:53:37 GMT -6 llamaoftime said:

www.vulture.com/article/did-the-megalopolis-trailer-make-up-fake-movie-critic-quotes.html

It looks like they may have taken down the trailer off the official channel, I'm guessing over this

I think this whole thing is hilarious, I'm seeing this movie day one

[munkivelli]

Rebel Ridge was excellent.

[Kamera]

[llamaoftime]

New Tim Robinson movie is getting great reviews out of TIFF and just got picked up by A24. Excited for that one

[llamaoftime]

Alright, so last night I saw Megalopolis and it still feels like a fever dream.

So this was an IMAX special event thing and it had a livestreamed Q&A with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, and Spike Lee. De Niro and Lee have nothing to do with this film, for the record. The first half of this was Coppola talking about his other movies. Spike Lee at one point asked Coppola how they met and Coppola answered by explaining how studios passed on Apocalypse Now and didn't answer the question. We get to the Megalopolis talk and the moderator says that this is a film about the future, and asks the panel "Are you optimistic about the future of cinema?". Coppola gives some long answer that's basically yes, then passes to De Niro. De Niro has barely spoken to this point and seems like he doesn't know how he ended up here, and Coppola nudges him to answer and he says "No. I am not optimistic. We must vote out the Republicans and Trump." Things got great from here. Coppola takes over and says "well you know I made this film with people of different political views and people who were cancelled and we all came together to make this piece of art that really celebrates the whole human family". Also at some point Spike Lee during a random discussion of ancient Rome by Coppola, Spike Lee cut him off to ask if "Black Romans ate cats and dogs?"

A little later, on talking about the film itself, De Niro randomly blurts out "Trump couldn't make this film. He couldn't make anything. He screws up everything." And Coppola goes "You know I went to military school with Trump. We were in the same military academy". The moderator can barely hold it together at this point and starts to prod a little bit and before Coppola gets to deep he goes "Ok and we are out of time".

This was a brilliant way to lead into what is one of the wildest movies I've seen in a minute. By the end, I was fucking crying laughing at this movie. As a comedy, this movie might be a 10/10. The acting was not good at all to where I'm not sure if that was intentional, but it was hilarious. There's even a point where Chloe Fineman flubs a line but fixes it and they just kept that in there. There's a point where Aubrey Plaza has to hold in laughter and breaks mid-scene but pulls it back together and they kept that take, also during one of the wildest funniest parts. The only performance that I thought might actually be good is Shia Lebouf playing one of the craziest and funniest characters I could imagine him playing.

My audience took this movie seriously for a chunk of it but there is a specific scene involving Jon Voight towards the end that I think just broke everyone. The whole audience was just dying at this point and that continued on for the rest of the movie and the last 30 minutes were just a blast. Which was good, because this film really starts to drag in the middle. I absolutely would see this again with a late night audience and some drinks but if they could cut like 30 minutes that would help a ton. This was a 2hr15m movie that felt like it was 3 hours. Didn't help that this theater was really hot in there, I checked the clock a few times in the middle and groaned. This is what keeps this from being a comedy masterpiece.

I can't say that there wasn't anything legitimately good here, there's some really cool shots and worldbuilding that happens at some points. New York being New Rome had some things that were cool. I saw someone say it was lazy to just use New York but I thought the point was an alternate reality thing here that could work. But there is so much of this plot that makes no sense, so much dialogue that is just utterly stupid, set pieces that I'm pretty sure just came from Coppola being blitzed high and thinking it would look cool, a message that by the end becomes absolutely hilarious after everything witnessed here. I feel like a lot of this if you gave me and my team in my 10th grade video making/film class a $120 million budget this is what we would have came up with, except there's no way we could have been this funny

It was a terrible movie. I loved it. I want to watch it again in a packed audience but this time with a strong drink and/or while [redacted]

[chvrchbarrel]

what a post

if i could guarantee a rowdy theater i'd go to this

[zircona1]

Sounds like Southland Tales. I was LOL by the end of that mess.

[zircona1]

The Substance is a fucking trip. Reminded me a lot of Cronenberg's The Fly and Requiem For A Dream. It is not subtle and not for the squeamish - teeth are pulled, backs are split open, faces smashed, and lots of needles are used, most in extreme close up. It was hard to watch at times. It gets crazy by the end, one scene had me laughing out loud. It is hard to forget, though, and the performances are solid.

[doso]

Saw the Saturday Night movie over the weekend. I thought it was fun. LOL’d a lot (more than my fellow moviegoers). There were more famous actors in it than I’d have preferred. It was fast-paced throughout and I liked that it was presented as a minute-by-minute recounting of the hour-and-a-half leading up to the debut of SNL.

Little need to see it on the big screen, though. Would’ve been fine to wait for it to stream.