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Shrecknet posted:There is a moment in the Cameron Diaz/Selma Blair stinker The Sweetest Thing where, in the middle of the restaurant, they stand up and have an extended musical number about penises. No matter whether this is diagetic or musical theater style fantasy, the implications of either are terrifying. So... good?
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I liked Ferrari and can easily recommend it, but it's the first time I've felt unsure about an Adam Driver performance. It may just be how the character is written (or... how he actually was) though, there's just a distance in every scene and he never really opens up. Penelope Cruz puts in a real one though for sure.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Holy poo poo how could I forget Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7? Close but it's actually "One sings, the other one doesn't ".
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'm afraid I'll come across as glib now but it just felt like, for a lack of a better term, a whole movie in a trailer. The premise itself is sturdy, a depiction of suburban normality literally outside the walls of an extermination camp. And there are glimpses of one world breathing down the neck of the other: the stuff with Hedwig's mother is probably most effective, but I have to be honest, it's way too respectful of the sentimentality of these people. I strongly disagree. It felt anything but cheap and trite to me. I can just about see how it could have felt like that to someone else but it’s a real stretch for me. Hedvig’s mother is the only person who expresses the smallest amount of disquiet at what is happening for the whole film. And Hedvig irritatedly burns her note. That’s hardly respectful of their sentimentality.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Sans Toi is, as the young people today say, a banger. I love when a movie or song or album goes from hip to happening to groovy to far out to radical to bitchin' to cool to lit to fire to GOATed as successive generations discover it.
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Bright Bart posted:I love when a movie or song or album goes from hip to happening to groovy to far out to radical to bitchin' to cool to lit to fire to GOATed as successive generations discover it. I think you're like four behind, internet goes way fast now for kids
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In terms of like a non-musical film that has a ton of music in it, I don't think you can beat Nashville.
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Basebf555 posted:In terms of like a non-musical film that has a ton of music in it, I don't think you can beat Nashville. I wish I liked Nashville half as much as I like that final number. Altman’s style just pushes me away, I find his movies dreadfully boring, but I can’t deny Nashville having an all-timer ending.
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felt the same way about The Player didn't help I watched it into the 2000s. Pacing for a satire just dragged
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The Peccadillo posted:Man Jim Breuer is ... not doin' great They’re not saying boo they’re saying broooooo-er
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Nashville is most definitely an Altman film, so yea if you aren't into that then it won't change your mind. But it has like 4 or 5 songs that just run in my head for days after I watch it, I don't think you can find another film with better original music.
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The Long Goodbye is one of my lowest rated films on letterboxed. I just don't get Altman at all
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Gaius Marius posted:The Long Goodbye is one of my lowest rated films on letterboxed. I just don't get Altman at all i like some Altman but The Long Goodbye doesn't do anything for me either, despite loving Chandler and neo-noir. i kind of find Elliot Gould annoying in general though.
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I feel like a lot of Altman talk tends to be about his style of shooting dialogue because it's a naturalistic approach with all of the crosstalk and everything, it's pretty unique. But for me a bigger part of his appeal is the overall production design. When you watch an Altman film you're getting a fully realized immersive world along the same lines of a P.T. Anderson or someone like that. I guess you could call them vibes movies, but the reason the vibes work so well is because you're totally immersed in them in a way that most directors can't achieve.
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Dec 29, 2023 17:02
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Altman's sensibility is almost exactly what I like in movies, wandering observations of the ways people interact with each other. Neither fully individual nor indistinguishable masses, stories that aren't readymade or stop and start cleanly. Adapting Raymond Carver is as contrived and artificial as he got, which is a good thing.
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therattle posted:I strongly disagree. It felt anything but cheap and trite to me. I can just about see how it could have felt like that to someone else but it’s a real stretch for me. Hedvig’s mother is the only person who expresses the smallest amount of disquiet at what is happening for the whole film. And Hedvig irritatedly burns her note. That’s hardly respectful of their sentimentality. I feel you. I think I came off as unnecessarily harsh, I just have super high expectations for Glazer and can only see the flaws.
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The Peccadillo posted:Man Jim Breuer is ... not doin' great I am very confused by this tweet. And not sarcastically... are they seriously saying that's good standup? The video cuts off at the middle of literally every joke and moves to a new one. Am I having a stroke? edit: also lol at the byline for that Twitter account. "Comedy legends @julieklausner and @scharpling team up for a journey through the best and worst of pop culture." Who?? BonoMan fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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I absolutely adore McCabe & Mrs Miller but I’ve never been able to get fully onboard with any other Altman film I’ve seen, although Gosford Park is fun. Anyone who also struggles with Altman, I’d recommend you try that one - McCabe, I mean. Maybe you’ll feel the same way as me.
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McCabe and Gosford Park are the two that I like. 3 Women is pretty good too.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i like some Altman but The Long Goodbye doesn't do anything for me either, despite loving Chandler and neo-noir. i kind of find Elliot Gould annoying in general though. elliot gould in california split lina from singing in the rian ziggy from the wire HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Altman's sensibility is almost exactly what I like in movies, wandering observations of the ways people interact with each other. Neither fully individual nor indistinguishable masses, stories that aren't readymade or stop and start cleanly.
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I had to write a paper on Nashville once and ended up watching parts of it over and over to transcribe stuff, it had a spell on me.
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Coaaab posted:after looking down ebert's great movies list, the nashville entry was the one that made college freshman me want to see it immediately. it and aguirre were probably my most formative experiences from off that list. watching the opening shot of aguirre welled up the same feelings as watching space odyssey for the first time, just this awareness that there was this whole other world out there to be in awe of Yea the opening of Aguirre is one of the more mind blowing shots I've experienced just in terms of "goddamn these people are really out there and Herzog captured these images for real. How the gently caress did he do that?" Technically the shot that got me is the second shot of the film, the one that starts at around 50 secs. The way it starts as a distant shot of the line of soldiers and then pans down and the line has continued all the way through the frame and now those soldiers are right in the foreground. Insane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-jLqRnHYXE
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BonoMan posted:I am very confused by this tweet. And not sarcastically... are they seriously saying that's good standup? The video cuts off at the middle of literally every joke and moves to a new one. Am I having a stroke? It's taking the piss mate
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Basebf555 posted:Technically the shot that got me is the second shot of the film, the one that starts at around 50 secs. The way it starts as a distant shot of the line of soldiers and then pans down and the line has continued all the way through the frame and now those soldiers are right in the foreground. Insane. by now, i've seen a lot of my favorite movies on a film/digital print in a theater, but aguirre and zerkalo are the ones i'm most annoyed about eluding me
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Guy A. Person posted:It's taking the piss mate I mean... If the Twitter account was somebody I'd trust I'd get the joke. But looking at that account I'd hardly call it obvious lol.
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First watches of Ferrari and Thief on the same day made me feel like a man. Feel like curling iron to a playlist of Tangerine Dream, Phil Collins, and the Home Depot commercial music. Gaius Marius posted:The Long Goodbye is one of my lowest rated films on letterboxed. I just don't get Altman at all The Long Goodbye fucks and is the closest thing to a real live action Cowboy Bebop.
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Nightmare Cinema posted:First watches of Ferrari and Thief on the same day made me feel like a man. https://youtu.be/Rhl5K0mTSKY?si=yfjbEqLByby3GAOZ
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Thanks, this is on Spotify and subsequently now it's on my gym playlist.
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Altman was really good at depicting that everyone and everything in the entire world is insane, and that that's actually great.
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Basebf555 posted:I feel like a lot of Altman talk tends to be about his style of shooting dialogue because it's a naturalistic approach with all of the crosstalk and everything, it's pretty unique. But for me a bigger part of his appeal is the overall production design. When you watch an Altman film you're getting a fully realized immersive world along the same lines of a P.T. Anderson or someone like that. I guess you could call them vibes movies, but the reason the vibes work so well is because you're totally immersed in them in a way that most directors can't achieve. When Altman was filming A Prairie Home Companion, he was sick with cancer, and so the bond company/insurers wanted a director to shadow him and pick up in case he wasn’t able to complete the film, the person who was nominated: PT Anderson HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I feel you. I think I came off as unnecessarily harsh, I just have super high expectations for Glazer and can only see the flaws. Yep. I had very high expectations too, which was a problem, but there were still lines and scenes that hit like a loving hammer.
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All standup videos are titled like “Florp Shchlomo SKEWERS entitled MILLENNIALS” and it’s just someone talking about twitter, a site that is in a decade long death spiral.
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People inspired to live off the grid after reading Into The Wild are like the people who wanted to be drug kingpins after watching Scarface.
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well why not posted:All standup videos are titled like “Florp Shchlomo SKEWERS entitled MILLENNIALS” and it’s just someone talking about twitter, a site that is in a decade long death spiral. It's turned into one of the archetypal hack comedian types in the last decade. Former archetypes 'I say swear words' and 'gently caress my dick/pussy, I'm so gross' have been replaced with the newer hack archetypes of 'I hate young people on computers' and 'I'm rich but tell stories about how blue collar and poor I am'. Perennial favorite 'I am the edgiest boy and I hate Jews/homos/women' remains strong, however, with Ricky G's latest stand-up special this week.
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BonoMan posted:I mean... If the Twitter account was somebody I'd trust I'd get the joke. But looking at that account I'd hardly call it obvious lol. It's glass eyed gibberish, man He's one of those SNL alums that got brain damage from the partyin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWsSKRh9QTw The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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The Peccadillo posted:For context he was a big successful mainstrean stand-up once and was on SNL for a few years. I think it's probably the unlimited access to drugs that make someone from that show mad as a cut snake now and again Lol no, I know who Jim Bruer is!! My "who?" joke was about the Twitter account that posted it - two people that list themselves as comedy legends and I had never heard of them before. BonoMan fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Dec 30, 2023 |
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BonoMan posted:Lol no, I know who Jim Bruer is!! Yeah but it'd still be wild if a 13 year old I'd never met showed me the clip and sincerely said "check out this genius"
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The Peccadillo posted:Yeah but it'd still be wild if a 13 year old I'd never met showed me the clip and sincerely said "check out this genius" I'm not sure of the point you're trying to make? I don't care about the Jim Bruer clip itself. I was just wondering if that Podcast Twitter handle was posting it sincerely. And after looking at their feed I still can't tell. I think they're sincerely labeling themselves as comedy legends and some of their feed is pretty broke brained stuff.
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Was there a thread for Aranofsky’s the Whale? I wanted to compare Mickey Rourke crushing jabronies in The Wrestler to Brendan Fraser crushing meatball subs in the Whale.
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You wanna rez a dead thread to talk about a non wrestling movie from last year while a wrestling movie is out Be the change you want to see
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I watched The Fableman’s last night. Loved it. I am not saying this as an insult, Paul Dano’s got a super cartoony face.
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