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Aronofsky in full nihilism mode, it's a great performance, but the middle section of the film drags somewhat. I think this is the first film without Clint Mansell scoring, and it's a subtle soundtrack mostly, but effective.

  On 2/23/2023 at 2:41 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Aronofsky in full nihilism mode, it's a great performance, but the middle section of the film drags somewhat. I think this is the first film without Clint Mansell scoring, and it's a subtle soundtrack mostly, but effective.

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Making the daughter the villain was brilliant, and no one beats Darren Aronofsky in eliciting an emotional response, you feel the full range of emotions being near Charlie. Including subplots solely through the use of conversation was great as well. This film feels similar to Requiem, as it's not one you want to watch repeatedly.

 

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This movie fucked me up. I knew it was Aronofsky and I knew not to expect a feel-good ride but son of a bitch. I thought about it intensely for a week or so after watching it and while Brendan definitely deserves the accolades, I never want anything to do with it again lol.

Saw Godland. In a theatre full if old people because it was an old people movie. Nice pictures, though, of beautiful Icelandic landscapes. And some people died. Not the worst way to spend 100 minuted (iirc)

New LOTR on its way: 

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/24/new-lord-of-the-rings-films-in-the-works-at-warner-bros

The Whale

I cried/10

I had no idea they made a TV adaptation of Kodemus!

https://archive.org/details/NRKTV-FTEA001271-AR-199001040

I don't understand Norwegian, but the original short story is probably my favorite piece of science fiction writing of all time (not so much because it's a grat piece of writing as because it's such an on-point satire of the way smartphones and the Internet - and especially ChatGPT - are changing the fundamental nature of human societies, except it was written in 1971) so it's pretty easy to follow, and fun to see it done with cheap, Doctor Who quality production values.

Wrong thread.

  On 2/25/2023 at 9:57 PM, o00o said:

New LOTR on its way: 

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/24/new-lord-of-the-rings-films-in-the-works-at-warner-bros

 

Silmarillion or GTFO

amazing sci fi drama in which a small crew of the "star cruiser prometheus" rescue a trio of women from a bunch of bozos that were clearing not treating them right. question is, what do the crewmen of prometheus do with these hot babes now that they have them? 

lots of science friction out of ten

show me more controls... 

  On 3/2/2023 at 8:21 PM, Nebraska said:

amazing sci fi drama in which a small crew of the "star cruiser prometheus" rescue a trio of women from a bunch of bozos that were clearing not treating them right. question is, what do the crewmen of prometheus do with these hot babes now that they have them? 

lots of science friction out of ten

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https://www.yourprops.com/movie/Pleasurecraft%2B%281999%29.html

Darren Aronofsky’s Pi is being re-released in IMAX for one night. Would be killer to hear that soundtrack blasting out of the speakers.

  Celebrating The Dude 

This was ok, not great but not terrible.

the merchant of venice (2004)

great film

  On 3/8/2023 at 8:20 PM, Freak of the week said:

the merchant of venice (2004)

great film

truth or dare (2018)

not so great film

watched Zoolander for like the fifth time or something... still got some laughs out of it somehow. the multilevel stupidity always tickles my brain i guess

watched From Russia With Love, don't think i've ever seen it. was alright but a little bland i guess.

then did Live And Let Die and was pretty underwhelmed for the most part. first half drags, then the second half has a boat chase scene that i swear was like 30 minutes long with campy Cajun sheriffs and a dozen Dukes of Hazard (on/off water) moments. just silliness. oh, they ran their boats over some land? again? for the fourth time? cool man cool. the whole movie felt like a 70s TV show more than a movie...couldn't quite put my finger on why, maybe it was the meandering script? look wasn't great either tho. music was particularly trash/lacking for a Bond film. absolute minutes of action and chase scenes with no score at all. cringey voodoo thing the whole time too. 

Started to watch Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson) but it was a bit late and I was a bit Sunday beered up and I realised this is a film I need to be on the ball with and concentrate on so I’ll leave it until later this week. Oddly enough I don’t know why but I ended up watching Pulp Fiction (which I realised I haven’t see for about 20 years) and I really enjoyed it. Obviously it’s a classic but still I’m glad I rewatched it. 

  On 3/12/2023 at 9:19 PM, auxien said:

then did Live And Let Die and was pretty underwhelmed for the most part. first half drags, then the second half has a boat chase scene that i swear was like 30 minutes long with campy Cajun sheriffs and a dozen Dukes of Hazard (on/off water) moments. just silliness. oh, they ran their boats over some land? again? for the fourth time? cool man cool. the whole movie felt like a 70s TV show more than a movie...couldn't quite put my finger on why, maybe it was the meandering script? look wasn't great either tho. music was particularly trash/lacking for a Bond film. absolute minutes of action and chase scenes with no score at all. cringey voodoo thing the whole time too.

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This is how I want to win an Oscar... with a huge ass photo of myself dead on all the screens in the room.

  On 3/8/2023 at 3:32 AM, cruising for burgers said:

 

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I wish this trend of mini trailers of the trailer you are about to see would just fucking die already. 

it's a tease dude, a tease, get you're shit together ffs...

MAD GOD

bought the blu-ray(and it came with a dvd too which was weird) and watched it last night. This is like 95% stop motion with an odd choice of throwing in a few actors. I’ve always had a soft spot for stop motion and really underestimated how dark and outright disturbing this would be.

I can definitely appreciate the enormous amount of effort that went into it, and despite being dark a lot of the shots are very beautiful like the sequence with the plague doctor, but I have to admit I really didn’t enjoy sitting through Phil Tippet’s trauma. I guess it does a very good job of representing what hell looks like to him (with a heavy influence from Hieronymous Bosh by his own admission). I guess I’m just growing tired of all the dark and edgy shit that seems to be par for course these days. All stabs at dark humor missed the mark for me as well.

I couldn’t imagine what working on shit like this for decades would do to your psyche. I would definitely recommend checking out the special features after watching it though for some insight and background on Phil. Kinda like some of Jodorowsky’s films I have a love hate relationship here. It’s a unique, ambitious, and unapologetic offloading of one dude’s mental illness steeped in heavy symbolism and set in a hellish, Beksinski-an backdrop. It’s impressive but I at the end of the film I was actually more worried about the guy who made it than anything, and even moreso for the people in his life. I just hope that all of what was shown is just what’s in his head and he personally hasn’t been damaged or damaged other lives. I’m normally not the guy to say that type of shit but this was that disturbing. I hope it was a cathartic experience and he can move on to something way less bleak going forward.

Final verdict: Ambivalence. Equal parts brilliant and revolting. Your move, Marvel.