Movies Thread

[BlooVooDoo]

Incredibly affecting, rang very true.

I love One Battle but I think I’m giving this one the nod. I can’t imagine there will be a better picture this year.

Looking forward to seeing this. I loved Renate Reinsve in The Worst Person in the World.

 

[theel4life]

 

[an0maly]

Saw this one, and enjoyed it immensely. It's actually a relief at times, to get a beautifully made and truly subtle film, in which emotions of characters are genuine, but those of the audience are not manipulated in cliché ways. Not on the same level, but this film reminds me of some of the greatest subtle masterpieces of film, in things like Days of Heaven or Paris, Texas.

 

[an0maly]

Finally got around to this one, I’d been putting it off, since a 2.5 hour picture that drags us back to the heart of the pandemic wasn’t screaming my name.

I give it a B/B-. It tried to pack in way too much and got pretty messy and very violent… but it underscores some important messages, especially about social media and the perils of being too online, conspiracy spiraling, etc.

Worthwhile, but it needed 20-30 mins trimmed off.

Caught up to this as well, after avoiding it due to some reviews. I dislike this film, with its scattershot, aimless narrative, and worse, completely ineffectual attempts at satirizing American culture and paranoia. The latter task--which lately should be easier than shooting dead, motionless, large fish in a barrel--escapes always awkward director Ari Aster, whom I do not regard as any sort of major talent. The end of this film tries to do so much it just gets hopelessly lost.

 

[GoHeelsweeeehoooo]

My daughter has been reading The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara and we are planning on watching the film adaptation Thursday night - I've heard the movie is pretty faithful to the book and had some stunning scenery

 

[sringwal]

Caught up to this as well, after avoiding it due to some reviews. I dislike this film, with its scattershot, aimless narrative, and worse, completely ineffectual attempts at satirizing American culture and paranoia. The latter task--which lately should be easier than shooting dead, motionless, large fish in a barrel--escapes always awkward director Ari Aster, whom I do not regard as any sort of major talent. The end of this film tries to do so much it just gets hopelessly lost.

I think its best moments were when it followed the Western formula. We definitely saw this most clearly in the opening scene, but also a few times later. When it deviated from the formula, however, it started to fall apart. There was some excellent acting, particularly from Phoenix, but I'm not sure how much I cared about any of the characters by the end of the story.

 

[theel4life]

Saw this one, and enjoyed it immensely. It's actually a relief at times, to get a beautifully made and truly subtle film, in which emotions of characters are genuine, but those of the audience are not manipulated in cliché ways. Not on the same level, but this film reminds me of some of the greatest subtle masterpieces of film, in things like Days of Heaven or Paris, Texas.

It was an amazing film. Throwback type movie.

 

[duluoz]

I think its best moments were when it followed the Western formula. We definitely saw this most clearly in the opening scene, but also a few times later. When it deviated from the formula, however, it started to fall apart. There was some excellent acting, particularly from Phoenix, but I'm not sure how much I cared about any of the characters by the end of the story.

I read that Ari Aster had it written as a western and had been developing it when the pandemic hit, and he overhauled it to include those topical elements. I appreciated what he was trying to do, but it just got kinda muddled.

Agreed that Phoenix was good, as usual. Pascal was fine, everyone else mostly fine. But Emma Stone is starting to wear thin on me. I loved her in Poor Things, but that started a string of roles with Yorgos and this one with Aster that are so off-centered that it’s all adding up to be a bit much. This is partly why I’m not all that excited to see Bugonia. Yet another role with her as an emaciated bug-eyed weirdo. I think she’d be wise to swing back toward more conventional roles for a while.