Films Recently Watched

the bronsan bonds still had some of that campy ridiculousness that needs to be in a bond movie for it to be a bond movie, yes they were pretty shit, but the daniel craig movies have had little of that, far too serious, little effort to encapsulate the essence of bond.

nothing will ever top Moonraker, 70s laser war in space ya'll, plus Jaws in love.

Tree of Life. First Malick I've watched. Pretty blown away. Beautiful film.

  On 10/18/2015 at 12:33 AM, hello spiral said:

Tree of Life. First Malick I've watched. Pretty blown away. Beautiful film.

Go rinse your eyes out with a dose of Days of Heaven, makes every other Americana film curl up like a wounded animal and howl.

Hitchcock's Rebecca - Lawrence Olivier snakes his oil hips towards an easy target then lets her into his shallow existence. You can almost see his slippery tongue and gaze into her eyes in every scene. Tells you more about the character of anglophiles than a thousand period dramas played by thespians. Bloody A and fires/10.

i tried watching Tree of Life but as soon as the kid 'grows up' and Sean Penn is walking around in the painted dessert, things started to get super fucking cheesy art-fag to the point where I almost felt like I was watching a mid-90s Enigma chillout video on MTV. Parts of it were definitely good.

Rise of the Art-Fag! Long live the Art-Fag! Can we get an Art-Fag-Hag?

Interestingly Cooney and Lashi are Farsi for a similar thing.

  On 10/18/2015 at 10:13 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

i tried watching Tree of Life but as soon as the kid 'grows up' and Sean Penn is walking around in the painted dessert, things started to get super fucking cheesy art-fag to the point where I almost felt like I was watching a mid-90s Enigma chillout video on MTV. Parts of it were definitely good.

lol that's harsh but pretty much what I remember too. Gotta give it another watch though, I didn't know what I was getting into when I first watched it

  On 10/18/2015 at 10:13 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

i tried watching Tree of Life but as soon as the kid 'grows up' and Sean Penn is walking around in the painted dessert, things started to get super fucking cheesy art-fag to the point where I almost felt like I was watching a mid-90s Enigma chillout video on MTV. Parts of it were definitely good.

Have to agree with you on the ethereal beach scenes. Almost feels like a christian message at the end, makes me cringe

It felt to me like a christian message all the way through.

But I think the main problem of Tree Of Life is its self-absorbent innocence. People can't really connect with it because we have demons inside and know that the world isn't B&W, which this movie kind of is. Well, let's be fair, the whole movie is about letting go of a memory of a dead brother, but this is so heightened and made sacred that you can't really "get" it if you're not Terrence Malick. A very high-budget meditation on something very personal. Kind of ignorant if you ask me but it also had some really beautiful moments which kiiind of make up for it.

Is anyone familiar with the "Tree of Life" in Bahrain? I've seen it and it's pretty massive, in the middle of nowhere, hence its "miracle" status.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Life,_Bahrain

  On 10/19/2015 at 8:10 AM, Dpek said:

It felt to me like a christian message all the way through.

But I think the main problem of Tree Of Life is its self-absorbent innocence. People can't really connect with it because we have demons inside and know that the world isn't B&W, which this movie kind of is. Well, let's be fair, the whole movie is about letting go of a memory of a dead brother, but this is so heightened and made sacred that you can't really "get" it if you're not Terrence Malick. A very high-budget meditation on something very personal. Kind of ignorant if you ask me but it also had some really beautiful moments which kiiind of make up for it.

was gonna say, it dwelt on christian themes all the way through.

I'm confused though, what exactly was B&W in this film?

  On 10/19/2015 at 8:22 AM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 10/19/2015 at 8:10 AM, Dpek said:

It felt to me like a christian message all the way through.

But I think the main problem of Tree Of Life is its self-absorbent innocence. People can't really connect with it because we have demons inside and know that the world isn't B&W, which this movie kind of is. Well, let's be fair, the whole movie is about letting go of a memory of a dead brother, but this is so heightened and made sacred that you can't really "get" it if you're not Terrence Malick. A very high-budget meditation on something very personal. Kind of ignorant if you ask me but it also had some really beautiful moments which kiiind of make up for it.

 

was gonna say, it dwelt on christian themes all the way through.

 

I'm confused though, what exactly was B&W in this film?

 

Well if I remember correctly, it even started with a monologue about people being either of nature or of grace. And the whole dynamics of the family were father-merciless/mother-merciful. And every event that occurred to the young boys had either a good meaning or bad meaning for them. I agree, the movie had human qualities and it struck a chord with me too, but I were to rationalise, this would be my perception of it

  On 10/16/2015 at 9:33 PM, peace 7 said:

About The Lonely Island... I thought Hot Rod was pretty good. Subtle, but sometimes I laughed really fucking hard. But then again, I sometimes do like well done juvenile shit.

Hot Rod was so great. Everyone hated it so much but damn was it great.

hot Rod was dope.

  On 10/19/2015 at 1:19 PM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 10/16/2015 at 9:33 PM, peace 7 said:

About The Lonely Island... I thought Hot Rod was pretty good. Subtle, but sometimes I laughed really fucking hard. But then again, I sometimes do like well done juvenile shit.

Hot Rod was so great. Everyone hated it so much but damn was it great.

Badlands and Days of Heaven are great movies, I despised Thin Red Line though, and couldn't watch Tree of Life or To the Wonder, rubbish.

The New World is a beaut.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2015/10/19/ghost-in-the-shell-the-new-movie-trailer?utm_source=IGN%20hub%20page&utm_medium=IGN%20%28front%20page%29&utm_content=14&utm_campaign=Blogroll

Ugh, such terrible voice acting.

inside out - an admirable pixar/disney product. it's all very painstakingly constructed as expected, there's not a wasted moment, no missteps, not a minute without something clever and even profound going on, though always covered by a couple of layers of disney's ultrasweet syrop. with that said it's just painfully artless and too calculated (you can really imagine writers and producers ticking boxes - colorful and suitable for kids, some clever but not too clever jokes for teens, some more complex themes for parents, right dosage of sad and fun things happening and so on).

it's kinda interesting how a film about emotions can be so emotionally stunted, all emotional expressions ends with the expressions of those fun but ultimately reductionist characters. a lot of it kinda reminded me of how 5-point likert scales are used in questions related to moods or feelings, so you get this 5^5 matrix of possible emotional states, it's very analytical and probably useful in sciences, but as a film for kids? i dunno. it pumps some positive messages in a neat manner so maybe it's ok and really what it's going for after all. but i dunno, it's incomparable to something like "hedgehog in the fog" in how emotionally affecting the latter is.

Wow that's a serious fuck up

Ghost in the shell I mean

  On 10/19/2015 at 1:19 PM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 10/16/2015 at 9:33 PM, peace 7 said:

About The Lonely Island... I thought Hot Rod was pretty good. Subtle, but sometimes I laughed really fucking hard. But then again, I sometimes do like well done juvenile shit.

 

Hot Rod was so great. Everyone hated it so much but damn was it great.

 

i actually dug hot rod, i thought it was probably the funniest thing he's ever acted in outside of SNL

  On 10/20/2015 at 4:40 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 10/19/2015 at 1:19 PM, dr lopez said:

 

  On 10/16/2015 at 9:33 PM, peace 7 said:

About The Lonely Island... I thought Hot Rod was pretty good. Subtle, but sometimes I laughed really fucking hard. But then again, I sometimes do like well done juvenile shit.

 

Hot Rod was so great. Everyone hated it so much but damn was it great.

 

i actually dug hot rod, i thought it was probably the funniest thing he's ever acted in outside of SNL

 

Sidenote: I've watched it ~10 times.

I just watched Hot Rod because of this thread and it was really fucking funny.