Films Recently Watched

  On 10/30/2023 at 7:44 PM, logboy said:

you picked up on similar things here as also found in ‘american psycho’ i think. i didn’t really, but what you say makes sense.

there are similarities but i think the killer is depicted more like a regular person

, whereas in american psycho the finance bro is a really over the top psycho. it's less a film about a character losing his grip on reality and more a story about someone with a completely inauthentic lofty personal philosophy that he adheres to while pretty much disobeying every principle throughout the film. that's more "life like" and really made me think about how our culture is so obsessed with performative ideologies that mean nothing as they are never tested or brought into action, and when challenged they evaporate into thin air. it's almost like the narration was like his "posting" online. 

where i think this has a secondary humor is with respect to fincher himeself, a director known for operating under very similar principles to those articulated by the killer: total control, clinical distance/lack of empathy, rejection of improvisation, etc. i feel like he was having fun with this. 

The Ritual. 4/10. Sound design was annoying, characters were flat, but it had some kinda cool camera work & I'm a sucker for haunted forests

Mediocre Hammer, some really bad acting, Oliver Reed mostly broods and mumbles his way thru it, then goes wolf in the final act that’s kind of laughable. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16300962/

Cuando acecha la maldad

can't decide if it was ludicrous or horrendous... there's one scene particularly that I thought I wouldn't be able to stomach... but then there's several cringe silly faceplam scenes that outweight the horror ones so I made it to the end...

edit: i also saw the last saw...

  On 11/2/2023 at 1:18 PM, cruising for burgers said:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16300962/

Cuando acecha la maldad

can't decide if it was ludicrous or horrendous... there's one scene particularly that I thought I wouldn't be able to stomach... but then there's several cringe silly faceplam scenes that outweight the horror ones so I made it to the end...

 

 

edit: i also saw the last saw...

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Yeah that Spanish flick was weird. The one brother kept reminding me of Mel Gibson, each time he appeared I was like oh here comes Mel Gibson's long lost brother. Something about the beard and surly demeanor. Acting was good and the idea was genuinely creepy, as was the execution of it until it dropped the ball and I lost interest around three quarters of the way through. The beginning was fantastic though. 

this Matt Johnson dude is kinda new to me... I've watched operation avalanche before and i thoroughly enjoyed it...

now I've watched this new blackberry one which is cool as hell as well...

a friend recommended me nirvana the band the show before but att I didn't co-relate... anyway it's downloaded and ready to watch...

but first I'm gonna watch his 1st movie... the dirties...

him and his team have a really unique style, i highly recommend their stuff but i guess most of you are already into it...

  On 11/2/2023 at 1:18 PM, cruising for burgers said:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16300962/

Cuando acecha la maldad

Yeah uhm..I think we can just call it When Evil Lurks  

We don't need bold underlined italics either

lol

Four Lions. As hilarious and strangely heartwarming as I remember it being. Cool to see it’s free to watch on YT except for when the ads kick in at a 275% decibel increase. Fuck. Also I’m sure most of you know but it’s got a bit of Aphex Twin added in at the end for good measure. 

After that I saw in the comments that Riz Hamed was also the lead in Sound of Metal so I gave that a watch on prime. Much lighter subject matter than Four Lions but way heavier in tone. Not sure why I slept on it for so long. Great film and great performance.

my friends and I shout "radicalize the moderates" just about every day

harry potter

  On 11/3/2023 at 9:39 PM, cruising for burgers said:

this Matt Johnson dude is kinda new to me... I've watched operation avalanche before and i thoroughly enjoyed it...

 

now I've watched this new blackberry one which is cool as hell as well...

 

a friend recommended me nirvana the band the show before but att I didn't co-relate... anyway it's downloaded and ready to watch...

 

but first I'm gonna watch his 1st movie... the dirties...

 

 

him and his team have a really unique style, i highly recommend their stuff but i guess most of you are already into it...

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I've only seen Nirvanna the band the show, which is good dumb fun. Will check the other stuff out 

  On 11/5/2023 at 2:48 PM, Silent Member said:

I've only seen Nirvanna the band the show, which is good dumb fun. Will check the other stuff out 

Blackberry is my favorite movie of this year. Excited to see where this guy goes

  On 11/5/2023 at 1:16 PM, dr lopez said:

my friends and I shout "radicalize the moderates" just about every day

the Barry character was outrageous. 

10/10 really dark satirical movie. I didn't watch any trailer which made it even better

  On 10/30/2023 at 5:16 PM, Alcofribas said:

*the killer semi-spoilers*

Yeah this is exactly how I experienced this movie. His voice-over lines are delivered like half-assed tweets to calm himself down while demonstrating zero self-reflection, he just cranks up The Smiths.  Found myself laughing at times the theater was silent so I don't know if it tracks with everybody.  But I can also see this being "yeah I get it who cares" for some people too.  Taut and straight without the narrative twists in Fincher's best work.  I loved it and it might be his funniest

Did you guys watch the killer in cinema? On Netflix it says next Friday and sailing the high seas didn’t wash it ashore either 

  On 11/6/2023 at 12:19 AM, o00o said:

Did you guys watch the killer in cinema? On Netflix it says next Friday and sailing the high seas didn’t wash it ashore either 

Yeah it's the blink-and-you-miss-it Netflix strategy of putting it in a few theaters for a weekend or two before it drops on streaming.  Like, I wanna say a few dozen theaters nationally got this.  I'm a big fan of Fincher so I drove to the nearest showing 2 hours away.  No idea if this is being shown outside of the United States.

Really lame because this film rocks in the theater. The sound design / soundtrack and bass is very slick, I'm glad I made it out to see it.  Frustrating they can't just give The Killer a standard wide release.

damn that was intense... 10/10 ???

  On 11/5/2023 at 6:17 AM, Hail Sagan said:

Sound of Metal

this was my favourite movie from that year.

Watched a documentary about Little Richard. Loved it.

  On 11/6/2023 at 5:04 AM, cruising for burgers said:

 

damn that was intense... 10/10 ???

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Indeed, this one stayed with me for a bit! True story too.   

  On 11/6/2023 at 10:57 AM, kichiguy said:

True story too.   

spoiler alert: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/02/10/a-murder-predicted-in-a-galician-hamlet-the-true-story-behind-the-film-as-bestas_6015195_4.html