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| gromit |
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A possible fun discussion:
Films you hate from this decade and why. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2018 12:19 pm |
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"Ah, The Tree of Life, which provoked quite the TEFS chat..." - bartist
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 3:40 pm |
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gromit wrote: A possible fun discussion:
Films you hate from this decade and why. |
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| whiskeypriest |
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billyweeds wrote: "Ah, The Tree of Life, which provoked quite the TEFS chat..." - bartist
What is TEFS?
You know me and acronyms. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:57 pm |
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whiskeypriest wrote: gromit wrote: A possible fun discussion:
Films you hate from this decade and why. leads my list.
I just rewatched it and commented in Couch last week.
It's too shaggy and sloppy.
Joaquin Phoenix does what he can with it.
But it's fairly pointless and really needed tightening up.
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I think Toni Erdmann is my choice of awful. And surprisingly it has a fairly sizeable cult following, with an American remake in the works. I think "German comedy" is all you really need to know. But it was so lame and forced, and a climactic scene towards the end is really misguided. Nothing funny or likeable about it.
I think that would be painful to rewatch, and I can't imagine an American version is going to be any/much better. |
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whiskeypriest wrote: gromit wrote: A possible fun discussion:
Films you hate from this decade and why. leads my list.
Your Highness, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Snowpiercer, The Hangover 2, The Man with the Iron Fists (although I don't remember why I disliked it so much), A Million Ways to Die in the West, The Lego Ninjango Movie, Barbershop: The Next Cut, Leviathan |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:16 am |
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Yeah, I thought Uncle Boonmee was pathetic.
Dumb, goofy, boring, pointless.
That also was an inexplicable moderate art film hit. |
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:21 am |
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer was more art house fare that rubbed me the wrong way. It just seemed so contrived and meaningless.
A dopey revenge drama that made no sense. |
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For me, films qualify for loathing if they come with some promise of literary weight. Inherent Vice fits that criterion. A movie called Lego Ninjango I can't loathe, and the title alone would probably ensure I would skip it. (unless I learn that it somehow relates to Django Reinhardt, the great jazz guitarist, somehow resurrected in Legos - I'd pay evening price for that)
I should have stuck with 3EF, which seemed to be the common usage here. Adding the S for Society was just confusing.
Snowpiercer was just witless crud. |
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SPOILERS FOR "TULLY"
Seriously, this movie has quite the plot twist and so I'm going to type a couple of run-on sentences in here, just in case you absent-mindedly kept reading past the SPOILER ALERT or somehow have the notion that maybe you can stop reading before it gets too spoilery. No. I am going to really really spoil this movie if I even obliquely allude to the plot twist in the final reel. OK, then.
The movie started out for me as a fairly standard indie dramedy with some fairly standard off-the-shelf parts about modern family life, and middle-aged motherhood, and the amusing rigors of affluent suburban life. I probably would have bailed, if not for a strong cast - Charlize Theron, Mark Duplass, Rob Livingston and a new-ish face, Mackenzie Davis, who plays the "night nanny" that Theron's wealthy brother hires for her as a support system for a middle-aged mom with a newborn and a couple of kids already (one of them is "quirky," which is apparently the term that everyone in the movie settles on for the autistic/Asperger's boy).
But then the nanny offers an extra service that seems quite above and beyond the call of duty - and which you wouldn't expect to see in her CV. The scene is a bit surreal, but the film presents it a way that dulls the edges of implausbility enough to keep you thinking it's real and maybe this is something that's even a trend in some part of the country you don't live in.
From this point on, the movie had me well-hooked. And, looking back, I don't quite understand how I didn't see the Big Reveal coming at the end. Plenty of bread crumbs were dropped for me. I usually can smell this particular twist coming a mile away. I can imagine real pleasure in watching again, knowing the true status of Tully the nanny, and considering the clever allegorical story that it all becomes when you understand that status. |
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gromit wrote: whiskeypriest wrote: gromit wrote: A possible fun discussion:
Films you hate from this decade and why. leads my list.
But it's fairly pointless and really needed tightening up.
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2018 8:31 am |
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For "The Sisters Brothers" one almost has to redefine "genre-bender." There are at least four genres represented in this memorable film from the directorial hand of Frenchman Jacques Audiard. It's a very dark comedy, a violent thriller, a family drama, and (most obviously) a western, but one unlike any other. Two hired killers, the brothers of the title, meet two other men, a gold prospector (it's set in the 1850s) and a detective taking him to his fate at the hands of the Sisters brothers. And by the end of the movie you feel you've known all four of them all your life.
But no amount of plot description could suffice to explain the unique aura this movie imparts. And the acting could not be bettered: all four leads (John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as the brothers, Jake Gyllenhaal as the detective, and Riz Ahmed as the prospector) are brilliant. Reilly (comic, touching, layered) in particular is award-worthy. And the supporting cast is likewise well-chosen and extraordinary. This is a keeper for all time. I can't wait to see it again (preferably with subtitles, since some of the dialogue is mumbled on purpose). Those who love "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" will adore this film. And those (like me) who seriously dislike "M&MM" will probably still love it. Bottom line: make a beeline. |
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