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gromit

Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:57 pm

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9010 Location: Shanghai

Us looked kind of stupid. But I only saw a trailer.
I skipped Get Out as I don't care for horror films.
Those and super-hero films I just ignore. And violent films.
Not for me.
Blockbusters, fantasy and gay films I approach warily.
You get old enough and you learn what you prefer to be ignorant of.

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Befade

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 12:07 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

The thing about Get Out was it’s unexpected turn and it’s humor. I’ll be interested to see how the new Twilight Zone is received. I skip action movies, macho movies (all men), super hero movies, and anything related to comic books. A Fantastic Woman was a great movie but I don’t want to see that director’s lesbian movie or any lesbian movie. I can take a gay guy movie every now and then. I signed up for the new Criterian channel. That will be interesting.

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Syd

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:58 am

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

I can take most kinds of movies as long as they're well done. I do tend to avoid the "Dog's Purpose" type of movies, though I liked "Max," "Megan Leavey," and "White Dog," all of which are movies about trying to restore trained dogs to society. (In the first two, the dogs are bomb-sniffing combat dogs so they're very high strung. In the third the dog has been trained to kill black people.)

Don't like slasher movies and gory horror, but do like suspenseful horror. of which Get Out is a witty example.

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bartist

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:37 am

Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 6958 Location: Black Hills

Get Out is a horror film to the same degree that The Third Man is a chase movie. Gromit, it's a social/racial comedy that uses horror as a clever trope - I don't think it's a horror film in the sense that you mean.

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billyweeds

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 2:24 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

bartist wrote:

Get Out is a great film, period. And Us is very very far from "stupid." Anyone who dismisses Jordan Peele is making a serious mistake.

gromit

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:43 pm

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9010 Location: Shanghai

So is he the new Hitchcock?

(I saw a headline to that effect)

I'm not dismissing him. Just not engaging.
No idea if he's good or not.

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Syd

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 9:23 pm

Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma

gromit wrote:

So is he the new Hitchcock?

(I saw a headline to that effect)

I'm not dismissing him. Just not engaging.
No idea if he's good or not.

No, he isn't. He's something different. Well, maybe when Hitchcock was feeling puckish.

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billyweeds

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:19 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

Syd wrote:

gromit wrote:

So is he the new Hitchcock?

(I saw a headline to that effect)

I'm not dismissing him. Just not engaging.
No idea if he's good or not.

No, he isn't. He's something different. Well, maybe when Hitchcock was feeling puckish.

Hitchcock was my favorite film director of all time. But not when he was feeling puckish. Then he was second-rate ("The Trouble with Harry") or at best pretty good ("Family Plot"), and not half as amazing as Jordan Peele. Except in the half-hour Barbara Bel Geddes starrer on television, "Lamb to the Slaughter." That was terrific.

bartist

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 8:50 am

Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 6958 Location: Black Hills

I don't fully grasp all these self imposed film rules.

Befade will watch "gay guy" films now and then, but not lesbian films. Not sure even what those categories mean, but I am listening.

Gromit chooses "not to engage" with Jordan Peel whose films he has not seen.

Soon I expect a wave of reviews, a la Gary Marantz, of films one hasn't seen but

heard stuff about.

Yes, I'm just razzing you guys, but I thought being a film buff involved a certain level of adventure.

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billyweeds

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 9:21 am

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 20618 Location: New York City

bartist wrote:

Bravo bartist! I second everything you said.

gromit

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:59 am

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9010 Location: Shanghai

Uh, not engaging simply = not seeing. I have no opinion of Get Out, while the Us trailer looked terrible.

I know fairly well what kind of films I like and don't like.
And what I'm probably not interested in.

I used to watch 40+ new films per year. And there were always about 10 that I really disliked. Now I watch about 20 and try to be more selective.
If the int'l and doc selection were as good as it used to be, I'd probably see another 6-8 new films per year.

But the past year or two, I've been more into re-watching films I like, then trying lots of new films. Also, the last few years there have been very few films I really liked.

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gromit

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:01 pm

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9010 Location: Shanghai

Here's my 2018 list:
1. Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2. BlacKkKlansman
3. Green Book

4. OJ: Made in America
5. Bohemian Rhapsody
6. Sorry to Bother You
7. Tully

8. The Death of Stalin
9. Eighth Grade
10. If Beale Street Could Talk
11. Dave Made a Maze

12. I Am Ali
13. This is Life

3 Good films; 2 Stinkers; 8 Middling

Want to See:
Three Identical Strangers
Isle of Dogs
Roma
Won't You Be My Neighbor?

There probably are more, but those made it on to my 2018 list as To See's.

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Befade

Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 3:21 pm

Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 3784 Location: AZ

Gromit........Please see Shoplifting and Capernaum.

Billy......I’d really like to know why you liked US.

Bart......I’ll watch any trans film.....A Fantastic Woman is a fantastic trans film.

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gromit

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 12:08 am

Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 9010 Location: Shanghai

Befade wrote:

Gromit........Please see Shoplifting and Capernaum.

Yeah, those sounded interesting.

I've been to Capernaum, on the Sea of Galilee, billing itself as the City of Jesus. Apparently he formed a gang there and ran wild for a few years until the authorities caught up with him. Then became Zombie Jesus for a short while, etc.
But I think it's a Lebanese film, without much relation to Capernaum the place. Guess I should try to see it and learn where the title figures in.

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bartist

Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:39 am

Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 6958 Location: Black Hills

gromit wrote:

Cool. I was only making the point that others here, who saw Get Out, also made: that it's not really a "horror film." I also avoid most horror films, unless they transcend their genre. Cheers.

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