Movies: Last Movie You Watched and Rate It | Cinema at the End of the World Edition
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Rabid Ranger
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Watched Fletch Lives recently. Doesn't age well from a PC perspective (that dream sequence at the beginning...lol) but still plenty of laughs. 7/10.
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Glass Lips (Majewski, 2007) – This was first presented as an art exhibition of 33 short films, presented on different numbers of screens, that weren't meant to be seen in any particular order. I'm sure the quest for meaning must have been a lot more interesting in that format. The resulting motion picture put together by Majewski – a 100 minutes experimental film with no dialogues – feels a little stiff. Once you've understood the basic narrative points, you lose most interest. The film has a few flashes of brilliance, but not enough to sustain the viewer's engagement, and it's not aesthetically impressive enough either (there again, quite a few nice touches, one absolutely amazing shot of a landscape reflecting in water looking like a very weird Rorschach test, but the guy ain't Roy Andersson and most of the “weird” is mild at best). 4.5/10
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Can`t comment because I don`t know the director`s body of work. Would think that taking the story and making an interesting film would be a pretty good challenge. Should probably re-watch Cast Away to compare but I enjoyed both films.
NyQuil
Big F$&*in Q
I think it's pretty underrated for a sequel.
"I be Calculus Entropy. You be Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher?"
"I be Geometry Fletch. She be Trigonometry Ross."
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Rabid Ranger
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NyQuil
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I kind of wanted to see Ryan Reynolds do the character in a reboot.
He's one of the closest I can think of.
Rabid Ranger
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NyQuil
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Chili
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My favorites are probably his last ones (in that order: 1) The Phantom of Liberty / 2) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / and 3) That Obscure Object of Desire), but L'âge d'or is an absolute must (especially since you seem to have an affinity for older films - and it might just be his best film anyway). In between, you'll also find a few unique films, The Exterminating Angel for example.
Belle de Jour
Un Chien Andalou
The Exterminating Angel
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Young and the Damned (Los Olvidados)
Are probably his best known work. He's most known for his avante-garde and French/Spanish work. Had no idea he did Robinson Crusoe, an English language literary adaptation. But he's a big figure in non-Hollywood film
Good suggestions. I'd add The Milky Way, which is Bunuel's guided tour through Catholic Church heresy, Viridiana, and Simon of the Desert.
Rabid Ranger
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Ikiru (1952) - Directed by Kurosawa (8/10)
A drama about a career bureaucrat who has been tirelessly dedicated to his boring job nearing the 30 year mark. When he finds out that he's been diagnosed with a terminal illness he tries to come to terms with his life and situation in an attempt to finally truly Live his life. Takashi Shimura puts in another masterful performance. Of the 5 films I've seen him in thus far I find this to be his best performance. The film has many themes and vignettes which remain very relatable even to this day. Watched on HBO Max.
A drama about a career bureaucrat who has been tirelessly dedicated to his boring job nearing the 30 year mark. When he finds out that he's been diagnosed with a terminal illness he tries to come to terms with his life and situation in an attempt to finally truly Live his life. Takashi Shimura puts in another masterful performance. Of the 5 films I've seen him in thus far I find this to be his best performance. The film has many themes and vignettes which remain very relatable even to this day. Watched on HBO Max.
KallioWeHardlyKnewYe
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Weekend and 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her. Did a Godard double feature with a pair of movies he released in 1967. It wasn't intentional but the pairing really underscored what I both like and dislike about Godard. Both are stuffed with his political and societal rantings, but one has at least a passing semblance of story and character while the other eschews such old fashioned ideas almost entirely. Unsophisticated as it may be, I prefer the former to the latter. I don't mind being ranted at, but at least give me something to hold on to. Weekend has a pair of venal but amusing protagonists making their way through an ever more crumbling society. There are laughs (not to mention some striking camera work) interspersed with the lecture. No such luck in the more rambling, essay-like 2 or 3 Things. While I respect his willingness to experiment, with nothing familiar for me to lean on, I felt like I spent 90 minutes with an obnoxious dinner guest insisting that there's no way I can be fully aware of the situation in Vietnam because I also happen to buy Lava soap.
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From books on films, I've made up several lists of films I'd like to see and L'âge d'or was on one or two lists, will definitely check it out. Thanks for all the suggestions folks.
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La Historia Oficial (The Official Story) [1985] - 7/10
A difficult film to watch as Argentina's Peso continues to collapse and they continue to face increasing inflation (1 $USD = 103 Argentine Pesos this year vs 84 Pesos an year ago). The IMF continues to get their firm grasp on the Argentine economy so what makes this film sad is you see how quickly wealth can go away. The Argentine economy was relatively healthy, this film shows plenty of rich people and Argentina has/had the infrastructure of a developed country but that same wealth doesn't exist to the same extent today. Bad monetary policies and dealing with the devil/IMF quickly evaporates it though as the Argentine Peso has never hyperinflated but has had decades of erosion which is getting worse. The biggest downfalls of a currency based on examples like Venezuela or Zimbabwe have been government interference in industry and bad monetary policy and Argentina to a degree ticks off both checkmarks. They have however been allowing in bitcoin miners and as El Salvador tries to transition to bitcoin to get out of the clasp of the IMF, it might be a promising sign but I doubt Argentina will ever be allowed to get to that point. It should be a warning sign, a well-developed economic country can have its middle class be absolutely ruined within 20-40 years which is a relatively short period of time. We aren't immune from it. Canada has higher debts and a more vulnerable economy as per capita than the rest of the G7. Our credit ratings have not been downgraded but the same thing happened with subprime mortgages until credit bureaus caught on and downgraded them, then it was a quick collapse. Argentina continues to battle with slowing industries like trying to uphold their soybean industry and climate change helps none of this but at the end, thriving industries will not help you if your country's rich slowly suck the money out of the economy and you have to inflate your currency just to service the interest payments on your debt. The US happily raises the debt ceiling regularly and it still has the power of the reserve currency but they also have to keep printing ridiculous amounts of money to first inject stimulus to prevent the stock market from throwing tapering tantrums to then make that debt cheaper which just becomes an all-consuming cycle. In the meanwhile, we're told that the Fed has everything under control and things will get back to normal with the same policies which have allowed us to get to this point. 6%+ official inflation which most people are feeling as closer to 10-20% year-over-year inflation thanks to central banking policy. We'll be absolutely f***ed if we let them continue on like this like Argentina did.
The move was alright.
A difficult film to watch as Argentina's Peso continues to collapse and they continue to face increasing inflation (1 $USD = 103 Argentine Pesos this year vs 84 Pesos an year ago). The IMF continues to get their firm grasp on the Argentine economy so what makes this film sad is you see how quickly wealth can go away. The Argentine economy was relatively healthy, this film shows plenty of rich people and Argentina has/had the infrastructure of a developed country but that same wealth doesn't exist to the same extent today. Bad monetary policies and dealing with the devil/IMF quickly evaporates it though as the Argentine Peso has never hyperinflated but has had decades of erosion which is getting worse. The biggest downfalls of a currency based on examples like Venezuela or Zimbabwe have been government interference in industry and bad monetary policy and Argentina to a degree ticks off both checkmarks. They have however been allowing in bitcoin miners and as El Salvador tries to transition to bitcoin to get out of the clasp of the IMF, it might be a promising sign but I doubt Argentina will ever be allowed to get to that point. It should be a warning sign, a well-developed economic country can have its middle class be absolutely ruined within 20-40 years which is a relatively short period of time. We aren't immune from it. Canada has higher debts and a more vulnerable economy as per capita than the rest of the G7. Our credit ratings have not been downgraded but the same thing happened with subprime mortgages until credit bureaus caught on and downgraded them, then it was a quick collapse. Argentina continues to battle with slowing industries like trying to uphold their soybean industry and climate change helps none of this but at the end, thriving industries will not help you if your country's rich slowly suck the money out of the economy and you have to inflate your currency just to service the interest payments on your debt. The US happily raises the debt ceiling regularly and it still has the power of the reserve currency but they also have to keep printing ridiculous amounts of money to first inject stimulus to prevent the stock market from throwing tapering tantrums to then make that debt cheaper which just becomes an all-consuming cycle. In the meanwhile, we're told that the Fed has everything under control and things will get back to normal with the same policies which have allowed us to get to this point. 6%+ official inflation which most people are feeling as closer to 10-20% year-over-year inflation thanks to central banking policy. We'll be absolutely f***ed if we let them continue on like this like Argentina did.
The move was alright.
He's a huge figure. He is on the same tier with Ray, Bergman, Antonioni, Fellini, Visconti, Truffaut, Godard, Bresson, Tarkovsky, Kubrick, Hitchcock, and Ford.
The movie is way more than all right. And this is one of your idiosyncratic "reviews" that just leaves me shaking my head. With you, I think the trees get in the way of the forest way too often.
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Swagger (Babinet, 2016) - Of course, no documentary is objective, but this one has a "cool" approach that tries - in between often irrelevant talking head teenagers - to show us their world through their eyes. These vignettes are poorly done, and the romanticized views of their grubby reality (they even go into sci-fi mode at one point) ain't offering much. I know these kids, they're the French cousins of the kids I'm working with, and I know they have so much more to say than what's presented here that every minute lost on a kid explaining the last episode of his favorite tv show or explaining how Mickey Mouse is in fact a monster that feeds on children made me a little angrier at the movie. If you're a big fan of the Kulechov effect, you might enjoy the inserts of the kids waiting on their next question during the other kids stories, as if they were listening to them even though they're clearly not in the same spaces, but otherwise you'll just think it's dumb and manipulative. 4/10
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Belly (1998) - Genuinely great stylization, some intentionally and unintentionally funny moments (I mean, I'm fairly certain that DMX's sole direction is: Say these lines to the fella next to you.) that makes it easy to see why it's become such a cult classic. The plot is ordinary, but not any more ordinary than something like, Scarface, which has received a ton of acclaim and I legitimately prefer Belly. There's definitely some issues with the pacing and the cutting from scene to scene that could have been ironed out and helped the flow of the story, but I still enjoyed it.
Tommy on the uselessness of books: You think another motherf***er knows what you need to do?
Tyrin Turner's small role is superb as well.
Went to the movie theater to see this. Film definitely played into the two leads persona's at the time. Nas being the intellectual, wanting a better life for himself and family. And DMX being DMX. Definitely stylized, since the director was the director of every big hip hop video of the late 90s.
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Mean Girls (2004) - 6.5/10
Everything here is a bit too obvious it feels, too many high school cliches but better quality humour because of Tina Fey's involvement. Linday Lohan was a pretty solid actress throughout and it's interesting seeing a young Elizabeth Banks and Lizza Kaplan but they don't do much beyond playing cliches. I wonder if schools are still this fractured in terms of social status because this was nothing like my high school experience but Americans are obsessed with high school films. It's a shame 2000s films felt the need to go to such extremes, Tina Fey did not direct this as much as it just feels like some noname rolls the camera because visually it looks like any high school film from its time.
The increasing wealth gap in the US probably means a lot of these kids will be in private schools today while there's more equalization amongst other students due to downwards pressure on the middle and working class.
Ooh la la I'm sorry if I considered talking about global inflation as more important than some movie film.
Everything here is a bit too obvious it feels, too many high school cliches but better quality humour because of Tina Fey's involvement. Linday Lohan was a pretty solid actress throughout and it's interesting seeing a young Elizabeth Banks and Lizza Kaplan but they don't do much beyond playing cliches. I wonder if schools are still this fractured in terms of social status because this was nothing like my high school experience but Americans are obsessed with high school films. It's a shame 2000s films felt the need to go to such extremes, Tina Fey did not direct this as much as it just feels like some noname rolls the camera because visually it looks like any high school film from its time.
The increasing wealth gap in the US probably means a lot of these kids will be in private schools today while there's more equalization amongst other students due to downwards pressure on the middle and working class.
Ooh la la I'm sorry if I considered talking about global inflation as more important than some movie film.
KallioWeHardlyKnewYe
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Don’t Look Up. Politicians are bad. Media is bad. Social media is bad. Corporations are bad. Celebrity worship is bad. We’re stupid. The end. It’s not even that I disagree with some (if not all) of these points to varying degrees, but this painfully unfunny fish-in-a-barrel “satire” almost made me want to order a MAGA hat. Almost.
This is the movie equivalent of that Gal Godot Imagine singalong that got roasted — a bunch of famous people being super pleased with themselves descending from the mountain to share how smart and caring they all are with the poor unwashed masses.
It’s punching down — not in the sense that I feel bad for the targets, but in the sense that the jokes are so obvious and basic there’s nary a laugh to be had. I laughed twice, both at lines from Ron Perlman. It’s an incredibly dumb movie that absolutely thinks it is smart. I would be stunned if Adam McKay never mentioned Network or Dr. Strangelove in his pitch for this.
Beyond its overall tone, it completely whiffs on a lot of small things. Adam McKay co-created Anchorman and Step Brothers, a pair of comedies that succeed and endure in large part because of an accumulation of small details (character names, business names, random line deliveries, costume choices, etc.). There’s none of that detail here.
Add to all that, it’s one of the most obnoxiously edited movies I’ve ever sat through. Senseless cross cutting that creates pace but really felt more like sleight-of-hand to distract you from the fact that there’s really no there there.
Earlier this week I speculated that Jean Luc Godard might make for an obnoxious dinner guest. Adam McKay might be worse.
(Edit: I have since listened to a 20 minute interview with McKay and did he reference those movies? You bet your ass he did!)
This is the movie equivalent of that Gal Godot Imagine singalong that got roasted — a bunch of famous people being super pleased with themselves descending from the mountain to share how smart and caring they all are with the poor unwashed masses.
It’s punching down — not in the sense that I feel bad for the targets, but in the sense that the jokes are so obvious and basic there’s nary a laugh to be had. I laughed twice, both at lines from Ron Perlman. It’s an incredibly dumb movie that absolutely thinks it is smart. I would be stunned if Adam McKay never mentioned Network or Dr. Strangelove in his pitch for this.
Beyond its overall tone, it completely whiffs on a lot of small things. Adam McKay co-created Anchorman and Step Brothers, a pair of comedies that succeed and endure in large part because of an accumulation of small details (character names, business names, random line deliveries, costume choices, etc.). There’s none of that detail here.
Add to all that, it’s one of the most obnoxiously edited movies I’ve ever sat through. Senseless cross cutting that creates pace but really felt more like sleight-of-hand to distract you from the fact that there’s really no there there.
Earlier this week I speculated that Jean Luc Godard might make for an obnoxious dinner guest. Adam McKay might be worse.
(Edit: I have since listened to a 20 minute interview with McKay and did he reference those movies? You bet your ass he did!)
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