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PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2019 9:58 pm    Post subject:

Since we're talking about films of the 2010's, I really enjoyed The Revenant. I have no issue with Spotlight winning Best Picture at the Oscars, but I thought Leo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy were absolutely fantastic, and it was some of the most beautiful cinematography I've seen on screen. Yes, the plot was simple, but that is often effective in westerns or wilderness-westerns, which is basically what this was. (Think of how simple Open Range was in terms of the plot, a film I thought was great.)
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PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2019 11:45 pm    Post subject:

Speaking of The Revenant (which I quite liked), I find it interesting how another one of IƱarritu's highly touted films, Birdman, was oddly omitted from that list. Personally, I liked it. I thought that the whole one-take gag was pretty hip, and Keaton probably should've won best actor during its award season. But I don't think that film's aged too well since it came out in 2014, and I do feel it was a tad overhyped. Watching it now, it just comes across as a bit hollow and gimmicky, sort of like a poor man's All That Jazz. Decent 7/10 movie for me. IƱarritu's tour-de-force will always be Amores Perros.
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PostPosted: Sun May 12, 2019 11:57 pm    Post subject:

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I didn't like Birdman at all.
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PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2019 10:12 pm    Post subject:

I might be an early advocate of High Life as the best film of this decade. Maybe.
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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2019 12:56 pm    Post subject:

What you guys think about Loqueesha movie?

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/ny-loqueesha-white-chicks-jeremy-saville-marlon-wayans-20190514-h7rlxjlvpjbpvcggero43ivmxm-story.html
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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2019 10:09 pm    Post subject:

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What you guys think about Loqueesha movie?

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/ny-loqueesha-white-chicks-jeremy-saville-marlon-wayans-20190514-h7rlxjlvpjbpvcggero43ivmxm-story.html

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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2019 10:10 pm    Post subject:

ChickenStu wrote:
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I didn't like Birdman at all.

Why not?
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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2019 1:10 am    Post subject:

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I didn't like Birdman at all.

Why not?


I'll try to explain as best as I can. Sometimes I like strange or mind-bending movies, and sometimes I don't. I just didn't like it, didn't find it to be a satisfying experience. Didn't love the shooting style (where it was almost like the whole movie was one long continuous scene), though I know some will say the total opposite. And while I did think Michael Keaton's performance was great, I find Emma Stone to be overrated, and that big monologue where she tears into her father I found to be, how can I say this, overwrought and too preachy. As if it's not something an actual person would say, but something that a screenwriter would write if they were pontificating.
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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2019 4:13 am    Post subject:

Baron Von Humongous wrote:
governator wrote:
What you guys think about Loqueesha movie?

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/ny-loqueesha-white-chicks-jeremy-saville-marlon-wayans-20190514-h7rlxjlvpjbpvcggero43ivmxm-story.html

Not appropriate for this thread.

I'll move it
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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2019 7:14 am    Post subject:

governator wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
governator wrote:
What you guys think about Loqueesha movie?

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/ny-loqueesha-white-chicks-jeremy-saville-marlon-wayans-20190514-h7rlxjlvpjbpvcggero43ivmxm-story.html

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I'll move it

lol thanks.

It looks racist as (bleep), tbh.
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PostPosted: Thu May 16, 2019 7:21 am    Post subject:

ChickenStu wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
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I didn't like Birdman at all.

Why not?


I'll try to explain as best as I can. Sometimes I like strange or mind-bending movies, and sometimes I don't. I just didn't like it, didn't find it to be a satisfying experience. Didn't love the shooting style (where it was almost like the whole movie was one long continuous scene), though I know some will say the total opposite. And while I did think Michael Keaton's performance was great, I find Emma Stone to be overrated, and that big monologue where she tears into her father I found to be, how can I say this, overwrought and too preachy. As if it's not something an actual person would say, but something that a screenwriter would write if they were pontificating.


I agree with this assessment of Birdman, but I still enjoyed it for Keaton's performance.
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PostPosted: Tue May 21, 2019 1:56 pm    Post subject:

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Official Trailer
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PostPosted: Tue May 21, 2019 2:11 pm    Post subject:

Cutheon wrote:
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Official Trailer


looks good..I was going to watch Wonderland tonight...same town 12 years later I might want to check out Once Upon a Time in America again
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PostPosted: Tue May 21, 2019 5:41 pm    Post subject:

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Official Trailer


My most anticipated movie of the year. Also look forward to getting the soundtrack. QT always has a knack for sniffing out those great, obscure tunes that nobody remembers.
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PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2019 1:10 pm    Post subject:

"The Turin Horse" is a masterpiece. I've been trying to get to the last few movies on that best of 2010s list that I haven't seen. I finally saw this the other day. It is certainly one of the best movies of the last decade. If you are not familiar with Bela Tarr, his films can be challenging. However, if you are not intimidated by austere and sparse films, then, viewing "The Turin Horse" will be a very enriching experience.
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PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:10 pm    Post subject:

This is pure cinema:


"My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo..."
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PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:13 pm    Post subject:

Baron Von Humongous wrote:
This is pure cinema:


"My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo..."


Crank that one to 11, man.
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PostPosted: Thu May 23, 2019 7:18 pm    Post subject:

golden armor wrote:
"The Turin Horse" is a masterpiece. I've been trying to get to the last few movies on that best of 2010s list that I haven't seen. I finally saw this the other day. It is certainly one of the best movies of the last decade. If you are not familiar with Bela Tarr, his films can be challenging. However, if you are not intimidated by austere and sparse films, then, viewing "The Turin Horse" will be a very enriching experience.

Seconded. It's a slow rolling apocalypse in gorgeous B&W that seems to perfectly capture our time. If ever the overused term "unflinching" was appropriate, it fits Tarr's The Turin Horse like a velvet glove cast in iron.
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PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2019 11:49 am    Post subject:

Richard Brody deserves to be critiqued for his irrational affection for Joe Swanberg, not for being an old, out of touch cishet white guy just because he didn't love a women-led teen buddy comedy.
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PostPosted: Sat May 25, 2019 3:56 pm    Post subject:

Go check out Booksmart if you can during the holiday weekend. It's a legit funny, light teen buddy comedy with two chaarming leads in Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) and Kaitlyn Dever (Justified, Short Term 12) who quietly steals the movie.

Wilde's directorial debut is impressive - a couple uneven moments, but the film's highs are quite high including a bravura climactic sequence that I think along with the lead performances will keep folks coming back to Booksmart in the future.

Criticisms: it's a total fantasy with no real teeth, but there's nothing wrong with a well-executed light gross-out comedy now and then.
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2019 2:01 pm    Post subject:

Baron Von Humongous wrote:
Go check out Booksmart if you can during the holiday weekend. It's a legit funny, light teen buddy comedy with two chaarming leads in Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) and Kaitlyn Dever (Justified, Short Term 12) who quietly steals the movie.

Wilde's directorial debut is impressive - a couple uneven moments, but the film's highs are quite high including a bravura climactic sequence that I think along with the lead performances will keep folks coming back to Booksmart in the future.

Criticisms: it's a total fantasy with no real teeth, but there's nothing wrong with a well-executed light gross-out comedy now and then.


seeing it in an hour per your recommendation
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2019 4:40 pm    Post subject:

PHILosophize wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
Go check out Booksmart if you can during the holiday weekend. It's a legit funny, light teen buddy comedy with two chaarming leads in Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) and Kaitlyn Dever (Justified, Short Term 12) who quietly steals the movie.

Wilde's directorial debut is impressive - a couple uneven moments, but the film's highs are quite high including a bravura climactic sequence that I think along with the lead performances will keep folks coming back to Booksmart in the future.

Criticisms: it's a total fantasy with no real teeth, but there's nothing wrong with a well-executed light gross-out comedy now and then.


seeing it in an hour per your recommendation

*under pressure*
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2019 7:44 pm    Post subject:

Re-watched Collateral tonight. I like Mann films, but it's not good.
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Re-watched Collateral tonight. I like Mann films, but it's not good.


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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2019 9:51 pm    Post subject:

Updated 2019 top flick list (U.S. theatrical/streaming release):

High Life
Amazing Grace
Under the Silver Lake
Transit
Apollo 11
Dragged Across Concrete
Long Day's Journey into Night
The Beach Bum
Us

Honorable mention: High Flying Bird and Booksmart
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