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Has anyone with Amazon Prime watched John Campea's documentary "Movie Trailers: A Love Story"? It got in the top 5 on the documentary category at a couple of festivals recently.
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) - 7/10
I'm already a bit worn by the modern American neo-realist cinema of the second half of the past decade. Couldn't we just have gotten mumblecore to go more mainstream instead? It was far more fun with its wit and quirkiness as compared to films like this one. I don't mean to criticize it too much, it's a good film but just that bit of joylessness prevents it from being one I want to rewatch or come back to.
One underrated aspect of the film though for me was the strong unspoken relationship between the girl and her friend/cousin, don't see too much of that in film but it was nice.
I'm already a bit worn by the modern American neo-realist cinema of the second half of the past decade. Couldn't we just have gotten mumblecore to go more mainstream instead? It was far more fun with its wit and quirkiness as compared to films like this one. I don't mean to criticize it too much, it's a good film but just that bit of joylessness prevents it from being one I want to rewatch or come back to.
One underrated aspect of the film though for me was the strong unspoken relationship between the girl and her friend/cousin, don't see too much of that in film but it was nice.
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Blade Runner (Scott, 1982) - 9/10
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017) - 8/10
Both re-watches, with no change to their previous ratings.
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, 2017) - 8/10
Both re-watches, with no change to their previous ratings.
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Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse
with the voices of animated people
Spider-stuff happens in this animated spider-origin story updated for the modern hip-hop/electro/club banger music set. Miles Morales is a teenage kid in New York who just wants some slack from his monolithic block of a cop dad. His much smaller nurse mom (the two of them having sex must have been like breeding a Great Dane with a Chihuahua) gives him cuddles and encouragement, but Miles likes to hang with his cool uncle, who vaults the gates of an abandoned part of the NYC subway with him so they can get their spray-can artistry on. As fate would have it, this leads to Kingpin's underground test chamber where nefarious stuff is happening. Miles is bitten by a weird space-shifty spider...but that's just the beginning. He meets the real Spiderman before he takes an unfortunate tumble, but Kingpin's experiment succeeds beyond his wildest expectations. The multiverse opens up, only to deposit other Spider-folks into Miles' version of NYC. But there's still trouble...
Updated version of the Spiderstuff that I can only imagine pissed off legions of online edgelords with its newness and cultural woke-ness. But it's not bad, actually. Takes a while to get going but does actually entertain once you get past the tedious origin story stuff. Not as high on it as some of the ratings I've seen, but still watchable. I can honestly say it's as good as any Spiderman movie I've seen. Bit of a world's tallest midget kind of thing...but it's pretty good.
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with the voices of animated people
Spider-stuff happens in this animated spider-origin story updated for the modern hip-hop/electro/club banger music set. Miles Morales is a teenage kid in New York who just wants some slack from his monolithic block of a cop dad. His much smaller nurse mom (the two of them having sex must have been like breeding a Great Dane with a Chihuahua) gives him cuddles and encouragement, but Miles likes to hang with his cool uncle, who vaults the gates of an abandoned part of the NYC subway with him so they can get their spray-can artistry on. As fate would have it, this leads to Kingpin's underground test chamber where nefarious stuff is happening. Miles is bitten by a weird space-shifty spider...but that's just the beginning. He meets the real Spiderman before he takes an unfortunate tumble, but Kingpin's experiment succeeds beyond his wildest expectations. The multiverse opens up, only to deposit other Spider-folks into Miles' version of NYC. But there's still trouble...
Updated version of the Spiderstuff that I can only imagine pissed off legions of online edgelords with its newness and cultural woke-ness. But it's not bad, actually. Takes a while to get going but does actually entertain once you get past the tedious origin story stuff. Not as high on it as some of the ratings I've seen, but still watchable. I can honestly say it's as good as any Spiderman movie I've seen. Bit of a world's tallest midget kind of thing...but it's pretty good.
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A Christmas Horror Story (2015) - 4/10 (Disliked it)
This is a Christmas horror anthology, except that the four tales are interwoven, instead of being shown sequentially. One is about Santa fighting zombie elves, another is about three teenage students breaking into their school at night to investigate murders that happened there, another is about a family that goes into the woods for a Christmas tree and comes back with something else and another is about a family hunted by Krampus on a trip. It's all very loosely woven together by a radio DJ played by William Shatner (who does nothing but sit behind a mic in his half dozen scenes, so don't watch it for him). The rest of the cast are unknowns, but the acting isn't bad, considering. It's a low budget movie, but doesn't look it too much. There's a good bit of gore, at least in the Santa tale. Some of the tales had potential. My main problem is that I didn't feel any connection to or excitement from any of them. I think that that's largely because the movie jumped to another tale just as one was picking up steam. It might've helped to have a more sequential structure in which most of the tales were shown uninterrupted. Anyways, because of that, I lost interest and was waiting for it to end. Most of the RT reviews seem to like it a bit better, though, so it maybe depends on what your expectations are.
This is a Christmas horror anthology, except that the four tales are interwoven, instead of being shown sequentially. One is about Santa fighting zombie elves, another is about three teenage students breaking into their school at night to investigate murders that happened there, another is about a family that goes into the woods for a Christmas tree and comes back with something else and another is about a family hunted by Krampus on a trip. It's all very loosely woven together by a radio DJ played by William Shatner (who does nothing but sit behind a mic in his half dozen scenes, so don't watch it for him). The rest of the cast are unknowns, but the acting isn't bad, considering. It's a low budget movie, but doesn't look it too much. There's a good bit of gore, at least in the Santa tale. Some of the tales had potential. My main problem is that I didn't feel any connection to or excitement from any of them. I think that that's largely because the movie jumped to another tale just as one was picking up steam. It might've helped to have a more sequential structure in which most of the tales were shown uninterrupted. Anyways, because of that, I lost interest and was waiting for it to end. Most of the RT reviews seem to like it a bit better, though, so it maybe depends on what your expectations are.
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Last Night (1998) Directed by Don McKellar 8A
Last Night is Canada’s entry into the end of the world sweepstakes, and it is like no other film in the sub-genre. It could not be more Canadian. We focus on about a dozen people, principally Patrick (Don McKellar) who plans to die alone in his apartment, his parents and two of their female relatives, his sister and her husband, a friend of Patrick who is busy living out his sexual fantasies, and Sandra (Sandra Oh), a woman Patrick meets by chance on the last day. They are waiting for the world to end at midnight. The reclusive Patrick is trying to help Sandra find her husband with whom she has agreed to commit suicide for symbolic reasons in the very last moment before the global annihilation arrives. There is one violent death in Last Night, but in Canada the world ends just about the way you might expect. People get together with family and friends; Randy Bachman puts on a concert in North York with six-hundred other rock guitarists; couples have sex for the last time; people flock to Nathan Phillips Square like it’s New Year’s Eve; and some guy goes jogging. Patrick and Sandra become friends (lifelong friends, you could say) in the course of the day as everyone waits for the inevitable moment when all will cease to exist. Last Night is a lovely, humane film, and I am irrationally proud that it is set in Toronto.
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2 is better than one
Just watched one of my favorite Hitchcock films-Dial M for Murder. Love Ray Milland in this. Just aces as the calculating ex-tennis pro who has an intricate and seemingly fool proof plan to off his unfaithful wife played by Grace Kelly. 9/10.
The Two Popes (2019) directed by Fernando Meirelles
In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) unexpectedly invited Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) to the Pope’s summer retreat. The two Catholics could not be more different theologically in their perspectives of the future of the Catholic Church and in personality and engage in a series of verbal jousting matches of wit and faith. What Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio doesn’t realize is that Pope Benedict XVI is planning to retire and is sizing Bergoglio up to be his successor, who we now call Pope Francis. Mixed feelings about this film. As a film, it is an absolute showcase of two world class actors at the top of their game, and it is worth the price of admission to watch them do their work, and the film is a lot funnier than a film about Popes would lead you to believe. But on the other hand, the film’s content is a clear rehabilitation piece of the Catholic Church, which while acknowledging the evil the Church has done, for example the Church’s child sex scandals and Bergoglio’s role in Argentina’s military dictatorship, it is a clear defense of the status quo through weak reformism and doesn’t really reckon with the Church and its legacy. Instead, the film prefers to focus on the Popes eating pizza and watching soccer and absolving Pope Benedict XVI and the Church of their sins. A vanilla bio-pic clearly written by the Academy’s current darling Anthony McCarten whose resume (Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour, Theory of Everything) is full of them.
In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) unexpectedly invited Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) to the Pope’s summer retreat. The two Catholics could not be more different theologically in their perspectives of the future of the Catholic Church and in personality and engage in a series of verbal jousting matches of wit and faith. What Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio doesn’t realize is that Pope Benedict XVI is planning to retire and is sizing Bergoglio up to be his successor, who we now call Pope Francis. Mixed feelings about this film. As a film, it is an absolute showcase of two world class actors at the top of their game, and it is worth the price of admission to watch them do their work, and the film is a lot funnier than a film about Popes would lead you to believe. But on the other hand, the film’s content is a clear rehabilitation piece of the Catholic Church, which while acknowledging the evil the Church has done, for example the Church’s child sex scandals and Bergoglio’s role in Argentina’s military dictatorship, it is a clear defense of the status quo through weak reformism and doesn’t really reckon with the Church and its legacy. Instead, the film prefers to focus on the Popes eating pizza and watching soccer and absolving Pope Benedict XVI and the Church of their sins. A vanilla bio-pic clearly written by the Academy’s current darling Anthony McCarten whose resume (Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour, Theory of Everything) is full of them.
Katalin Varga (2009) directed by Peter Strickland
In rural Romania, a woman (Hilda Péter) travels through the forests and mountains with her son (Norbert Tankó) to track down two men who abused and impregnated her. A rape revenge drama, shot on a micro-budget (I think it was made with around $25,000), the film makes the most of its budget to make a confident and engaging film. With haunting imagery and set mostly in a countryside without paved roads where people travel by horse drawn carts, the story appears like a timeless fable even though it is set in the modern age. The ending seems a little incomplete, especially noticeable as the film is a slim 79 minutes long, but overall a good film with great performances, especially by Hilda Péter as the titular character.
In rural Romania, a woman (Hilda Péter) travels through the forests and mountains with her son (Norbert Tankó) to track down two men who abused and impregnated her. A rape revenge drama, shot on a micro-budget (I think it was made with around $25,000), the film makes the most of its budget to make a confident and engaging film. With haunting imagery and set mostly in a countryside without paved roads where people travel by horse drawn carts, the story appears like a timeless fable even though it is set in the modern age. The ending seems a little incomplete, especially noticeable as the film is a slim 79 minutes long, but overall a good film with great performances, especially by Hilda Péter as the titular character.
Sound of Metal
3.30 out of 4stars
Hmmm, how should I summarize this, well in 2 ways I think. 1, It's a movie about an ex-addict, occupational drummer dealing with his loss of hearing and search for meaning in life. 2, it's a movie that fully delves into the community of deaf people along with the hardships and technological/living advances they have been granted involving their "handicap". Riz Ahmed is just as good as the writing and directing going on here, all worthy of oscar nominations. This movie really is an encompassing experience.
Palm Springs
2.75 out of 4stars
Groundhog day timeloop movie with comedy and a dabbling of romance and existential and reflective themes involved. Not something you would think of seeing Samberg starring and behind the production of, but definitely exceeds expectations.
Midnight Sky
2.25 out of 4stars
Visually awesome and near perfect, but storywise, it drags and should probably have been 30minutes or so shorter, otherwise written much more intricately. There are a lot of interesting elements in here (new life sustainable planets, one man's reflection on life as he faces the end, space travel in the future, etc), but none of them are explored beyond scratching the surface.
3.30 out of 4stars
Hmmm, how should I summarize this, well in 2 ways I think. 1, It's a movie about an ex-addict, occupational drummer dealing with his loss of hearing and search for meaning in life. 2, it's a movie that fully delves into the community of deaf people along with the hardships and technological/living advances they have been granted involving their "handicap". Riz Ahmed is just as good as the writing and directing going on here, all worthy of oscar nominations. This movie really is an encompassing experience.
Palm Springs
2.75 out of 4stars
Groundhog day timeloop movie with comedy and a dabbling of romance and existential and reflective themes involved. Not something you would think of seeing Samberg starring and behind the production of, but definitely exceeds expectations.
Midnight Sky
2.25 out of 4stars
Visually awesome and near perfect, but storywise, it drags and should probably have been 30minutes or so shorter, otherwise written much more intricately. There are a lot of interesting elements in here (new life sustainable planets, one man's reflection on life as he faces the end, space travel in the future, etc), but none of them are explored beyond scratching the surface.
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You know how some people have movies they watch for Chritmas/Holidays? I never had one like that because I thought it was lame. But I'm going to go with two now since I no longer have that 2 week break from school/uni and don't wanna end up watching films I don't like during the holidays.
So I picked Gregory's Girl and Knives Out as my two holiday films. Gregory's Girl just because it's a pleasant film that's sunny but not in a Wes Anderson type of way and reminds me of the summer. Knives Out because it's a really f***ing good movie.
Where Is The Friend's Home (1990) - 7.5/10
A nice little movie but emphasis on the little. It feels like a very simple low-key story and I never can translate those into being masterpieces as others do but it is fairly enjoyable and cute but also sad. Adults....what a buncha bastards.
So I picked Gregory's Girl and Knives Out as my two holiday films. Gregory's Girl just because it's a pleasant film that's sunny but not in a Wes Anderson type of way and reminds me of the summer. Knives Out because it's a really f***ing good movie.
Where Is The Friend's Home (1990) - 7.5/10
A nice little movie but emphasis on the little. It feels like a very simple low-key story and I never can translate those into being masterpieces as others do but it is fairly enjoyable and cute but also sad. Adults....what a buncha bastards.
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There was a little controversy at the time about the means used by Kiarostami to get his young actors crying, but I don't remember clearly what it was about. Anyway, the real genius of the Koker trilogy lies IMO in the second chapter. The rigid realism of this first entry only serves its deconstruction in the next two.
Ahmed did another similar themed one called Mogul Mowgli this year, which he also helped write. This time, it is more focused on his heritage, and while it is messy at parts, Ahmed is able to capture the helplessness of being struck down by a disease, just as a person is about to reach new heights. I have not seen Sound of Metal, but based on your review, Ahmed seems to have a good grasp of people who deal with sudden tragedy that will change the course of one's life.
Last Night (1998) Directed by Don McKellar 8A
Last Night is Canada’s entry into the end of the world sweepstakes, and it is like no other film in the sub-genre. It could not be more Canadian. We focus on about a dozen people, principally Patrick (Don McKellar) who plans to die alone in his apartment, his parents and two of their female relatives, his sister and her husband, a friend of Patrick who is busy living out his sexual fantasies, and Sandra (Sandra Oh), a woman Patrick meets by chance on the last day. They are waiting for the world to end at midnight. The reclusive Patrick is trying to help Sandra find her husband with whom she has agreed to commit suicide for symbolic reasons in the very last moment before the global annihilation arrives. There is one violent death in Last Night, but in Canada the world ends just about the way you might expect. People get together with family and friends; Randy Bachman puts on a concert in North York with six-hundred other rock guitarists; couples have sex for the last time; people flock to Nathan Phillips Square like it’s New Year’s Eve; and some guy goes jogging. Patrick and Sandra become friends (lifelong friends, you could say) in the course of the day as everyone waits for the inevitable moment when all will cease to exist. Last Night is a lovely, humane film, and I am irrationally proud that it is set in Toronto.
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McKellar is one of the most underrated performer we have in this country. While his films have various degrees of success, at the very least, they are all thoughtful, and there are depths to them. At the moment, he seems to be content with appearances in Canadian productions, but I hope he directs a movie soon.
It is also nice to see Sandra Oh's earlier works. Even from the start of his career, it is clear that she knows her craft, and I am always happy to see minorities get big roles in mainstream pictures.
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Carlito's Way (1993) - Couldn't finish/10
The cliches, Pacino's ridiculous Spanish accent, I couldn't do it lol. Was half way through, saw I had another hour left, and thought nah, I've seen this done much better before. Always disappointed when a highly rated 90s film lets me down.
The cliches, Pacino's ridiculous Spanish accent, I couldn't do it lol. Was half way through, saw I had another hour left, and thought nah, I've seen this done much better before. Always disappointed when a highly rated 90s film lets me down.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) - 5/10 (Didn't like or dislike it)
During WWII, British officers (David Bowie, Tom Conti) and their Japanese captors butt heads and try to understand one another. It's a British-Japanese drama that deals heavily with cultural differences, primarily honor and shame. Directed by Nagisa Oshima, it's about as far from his earlier In the Realm of the Senses as Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut was from Full Metal Jacket. Bowie gives a surprisingly good performance... which includes singing really badly in one scene and then later saying "I wish I could sing" with a totally straight face while the camera holds on him for 10 seconds afterward. I'm not sure if the director realized that the latter would be funny to Westerners and undermine the serious scene that it takes place during. Despite the title, the film has almost nothing to do with Christmas. There's just one scene at Christmas that lasts only a couple of minutes and the title is spoken only there and once else in the film. That was rather disappointing, but that's not why I didn't like it. The film just felt a little dry, melodramatic, strange and boring to me. I did like the theme about understanding your enemy that the film does get across, though, and that partially redeemed it. I just wish that the execution had been more enjoyable.
During WWII, British officers (David Bowie, Tom Conti) and their Japanese captors butt heads and try to understand one another. It's a British-Japanese drama that deals heavily with cultural differences, primarily honor and shame. Directed by Nagisa Oshima, it's about as far from his earlier In the Realm of the Senses as Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut was from Full Metal Jacket. Bowie gives a surprisingly good performance... which includes singing really badly in one scene and then later saying "I wish I could sing" with a totally straight face while the camera holds on him for 10 seconds afterward. I'm not sure if the director realized that the latter would be funny to Westerners and undermine the serious scene that it takes place during. Despite the title, the film has almost nothing to do with Christmas. There's just one scene at Christmas that lasts only a couple of minutes and the title is spoken only there and once else in the film. That was rather disappointing, but that's not why I didn't like it. The film just felt a little dry, melodramatic, strange and boring to me. I did like the theme about understanding your enemy that the film does get across, though, and that partially redeemed it. I just wish that the execution had been more enjoyable.
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Looks like it's also on Vimeo On Demand. About 5 euros was the price shown, not sure if I could've bought it.
Watch Movie Trailers: A Love Story Online | Vimeo On Demand
8/10
A holiday classic
watched that one recently myself. One of my favourite 80’s movies for sure. Man, John Candy and Steve Martin were really good together.
Twelve O’Clock High (1949) Directed by Henry King 7A
It’s a bit too long, and it is almost all talk, no action, but for my money Twelve O’Clock High is still among the best war movies ever made. Its subject matter is far from the norm—the incredible stress that comes with command. In 1942, at a point when only the American Air Force is involved in the war in Europe, General Savage (Gregory Peck) is an Air Force Colonel who is ordered to take over command of a bomber division whose former leader has become too concerned with the welfare of his flyers and not enough concerned with the success of his mission. The mission is an important one, to establish the effectiveness of daytime blanket bombing in Germany-occupied Europe. Peck is not a maniac by any means but he does bring an iron hand to his mission, so much so that the pilots under his command demand a transfer. He puts them off long enough to prove his and their mettle. Then the question becomes is he beginning to get too attached to the safety of his men for the good of the mission. One of Peck’s finest performances is made possible by a thoughtful, intelligent script, strong character development, and perfect casting.
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Fando and Lis (1968) Directed by Alexandro Jodorowsky 3Z
Fando and his paraplegic girlfriend Lis attempt to travel to the mythic city of Tar where allegedly some transcendent form of ecstasy awaits. This is gonzo weird, all-world self-indulgent, pretentious wanker director Alexandro Jodorowsky's first feature length film and I wish to God it had been his last.
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Fando and Lis (1968) Directed by Alexandro Jodorowsky 3Z
Fando and his paraplegic girlfriend Lis attempt to travel to the mythic city of Tar where allegedly some transcendent form of ecstasy awaits. This is gonzo weird, all-world self-indulgent, pretentious wanker director Alexandro Jodorowsky's first feature length film and I wish to God it had been his last.
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Yeah, it's well known that there's too many movies trying to do things differently, and too many artists doing their own things. Not liking it is one thing.
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I was just waiting for your response.
Yeah God knows there's too many movies trying to do things differently, and too many artists doing their own things. Not liking it is one thing.
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