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I just rewatched Don Hertzfeldt's It's Such a Beautiful Day for the third time and yeah, it's legit one of the greatest films ever made.
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I saw Gaspar Noe's Love (in 3D!!!) last night and the more I think about it the more I like it. Despite having graphic hardcore sex it's somehow the least offensive of his movies as you can walk away feeling dirty but not like you've had your life sucked out of your eyes. The 3D has a couple gimmicky moments in not one but two ejaculation-towards-the-camera scenes but at the same time it's well used in nightclub or street scenes (I would kill to see Enter the Void in 3D if I wasn't sure it would give me brain damage after). He also gives the sex scenes an almost painterly feeling by framing it from above and it's probably the classiest way you can film that kind of thing, the soundtrack is pretty good which helps. Acting is inconsistent and dialogue is hammy but the actors have chemistry. Oh and Gaspar Noe very obviously inserts himself and his career into the movie but it's funnier to see that unfold than to write about it. Edit: The guy next to me in the theatre was fidgeting a lot and that made me uncomfortable.
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Oct 5, 2015 02:56
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Literally The Worst posted:the dope rear end construction site parkour scene from casino royale is still super dope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U43Oj5lxGug
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Oct 5, 2015 02:56
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Johnny English 2 is surprisingly good, especially considering how dire the first one was.
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Oct 5, 2015 03:13
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Samuel Clemens posted:Johnny English 2 is surprisingly good, especially considering how dire the first one was. It's an underrated little comedy in my opinion. I love the Casino Royale-lite sequence where Rowan Atkinson keeps up with a crazy parkour guy by just, like, opening doors and walking through them. Slate Action fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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Oct 5, 2015 03:29
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Other TV stuff I've been meaning to talk about: Trevor Noah seems to be pretty good, though it's obviously hard to judge right now. It's still very much a show that seems like it's at least half writers that were there before so it pretty much feels like Noah is just kind of putting his own spin on the jokes I'm used to coming out of Stewart. Still, he seems very comfortable already and he brings an energy that was slowly sucked out of Jon over the years. It is also downright weird having a guy that is actually talented at doing voices and accents in that chair. The new corespondents also seem good and the recorded segment they did this week was one of the best they've done in quite some time. I'm pretty optimistic and I hope it doesn't sort of lose something like The Nightly Show seemed to over time. Also the new Muppet show is weird. I like it and I find it funny but it feels strange to have The Muppets in such a cynical, bitter, world-weary, bordering on joyless show. Once in a while the whimsy comes through but it seems to be a show made by people that make Bert and Ernie gay jokes rather than some genuine extension of The Muppets. I'm not calling "childhood violated" or anything here (as I said I like it) it's just really weird to watch. In actual movie chat: Paddington was far more blatantly pro-immigrant than I was expecting. Good little, surprisingly well made kid's film thought that fell into a lot of tropes, but did them well. axelblaze fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Oct 5, 2015 |
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Oct 5, 2015 03:40
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Frances Ha managed to cheer me up after a lovely couple of days.
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Oct 5, 2015 04:24
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Haha, holy poo poo, Nauru is closing Australia's contentration camps, aaaah, everything is ... still hosed but aaaaah my country's being stopped from torturing asylum seekers in camps haha
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Oct 5, 2015 04:51
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Cacator posted:He also gives the sex scenes an almost painterly feeling by framing it from above and it's probably the classiest way you can film that kind of thing That's honestly a li'l dissapointing
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Oct 5, 2015 05:15
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The Peccadillo posted:Haha, holy poo poo, Nauru is closing Australia's contentration camps, aaaah, everything is ... still hosed but aaaaah my country's being stopped from torturing asylum seekers in camps haha I remember seeing the loving comic book the Australian government distributed in Afghanistan about those things and it made me loving sick so good job Nauru.
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Oct 5, 2015 05:36
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Anonymous Robot posted:Mighty Max was how I first learned about economic inequality. My rich friend had two of the big magma monster set. Why did he need two? He wouldn't part with one of them for anything I could give, though. Destroy the bourgeoisie. I still have this in a box of junk somewhere I'm pretty sure. The best part of it was the lava dude on a motorcycle with tank treads that came out of one of the legs. Never did watch the cartoon though. Also speaking of Jack Reacher, I Don't Even Own A Television has an episode on Killing Floor. Haven't listened to it yet, but the Wild Animus and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance episodes were fantastic.
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Oct 5, 2015 05:42
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Wow, I never read a single Bond book and had no idea Ian Fleming was such a huge piece of poo poo. Oh, by the way, the best Bond film is North by Northwest.
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Cacator posted:I saw Gaspar Noe's Love (in 3D!!!) last night and the more I think about it the more I like it. Despite having graphic hardcore sex it's somehow the least offensive of his movies as you can walk away feeling dirty but not like you've had your life sucked out of your eyes. The 3D has a couple gimmicky moments in not one but two ejaculation-towards-the-camera scenes but at the same time it's well used in nightclub or street scenes (I would kill to see Enter the Void in 3D if I wasn't sure it would give me brain damage after). He also gives the sex scenes an almost painterly feeling by framing it from above and it's probably the classiest way you can film that kind of thing, the soundtrack is pretty good which helps. Acting is inconsistent and dialogue is hammy but the actors have chemistry. Oh and Gaspar Noe very obviously inserts himself and his career into the movie but it's funnier to see that unfold than to write about it. Okay, now I'm hyped.
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The Peccadillo posted:That's honestly a li'l dissapointing Haha I'm with you
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Oct 5, 2015 06:14
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I've listened to the Hamilton cast album like, three times over the last few days. It's amazing that I went from thinking "ok, this is a little dorky, but weaving Alexander Hamilton's story through a hip-hop narrative is pretty smart" to "oh holy poo poo I need to see this now". Lin-Manuel Miranda is a fantastic wordsmith, and it's so cool that he's managed to have an outstanding Broadway career despite his relative lack of singing abilities when compared to the other best people on Broadway. He totally deserved that MacArthur Grant, and I could see him winning a second Pulitzer too. I just spent a buttload of money on a ticket to see it, January cannot come soon enough.Rageaholic Monkey posted:I started watching Mr. Robot earlier and I just finished episode 4. Fuuuuuuck, this show is amazing. It's easily one of the highest-quality, most cinematic TV series I've seen in years outside of Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul and season 1 of True Detective. Most cinematic shows I've ever seen are Hannibal and Freaks and Geeks.
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Oct 5, 2015 06:41
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"Reacher stepped forward and kicked the fat guy square in the nuts" jack reacher best series ever
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I started watching Mr. Robot earlier and I just finished episode 4. Fuuuuuuck, this show is amazing. It's easily one of the highest-quality, most cinematic TV series I've seen in years outside of Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul and season 1 of True Detective. Someone I know was talking about how good it was on Facebook and I was going to check it out until I found out there isn't an actual robot and then I lost all interest.
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Oct 5, 2015 07:08
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Is Umberto Di worth checking out if I'm not crazy about Bicycle Thieves? Or is Rome, Open City better?
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Oct 5, 2015 07:12
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CPL593H posted:Someone I know was talking about how good it was on Facebook and I was going to check it out until I found out there isn't an actual robot and then I lost all interest. It's really dope. You should watch it.
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Oct 5, 2015 07:13
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Anonymous Robot posted:Is Umberto Di worth checking out if I'm not crazy about Bicycle Thieves? Or is Rome, Open City better? Umberto Deez Nutz imo
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Oct 5, 2015 07:24
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:In one of the episodes, a character gets strangled to death while Two Weeks by FKA Twigs plays. Meh.
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Oct 5, 2015 07:26
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CPL593H posted:Meh.
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Oct 5, 2015 07:31
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Oct 5, 2015 07:52
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sometimes i put on art bell's digital radio station and zone out unbtil something wild catches my attention sometimes that wild thing is that jesus was king of england in AD 10
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Oct 5, 2015 08:05
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Helluva Rick and Morty finale. I'm more sad it's gone for a while now tbh.
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Oct 5, 2015 08:06
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I caught Never Let Me Go (2010) on TV yesterday, it made me appreciate The Island a whole lot more. It's devoid of any action both in the sense that nothing explodes and that the characters lack any sense of agency. I guess that's part of the point, but it got very annoying when Andrew Garfield's character is set up as having a bad temper and when he's told how irrevocably hosed he and his kind are the most the movie can manage is having him scream in a field. Ugh.
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Oct 5, 2015 08:26
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deadly prey is coming out on bluray november 17th that is all
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The Peccadillo posted:That's honestly a li'l dissapointing The very first shot of the movie is a single static take of the two main characters masturbating each other until he finishes if that makes you feel any better. I had to laugh at the people who were coming in to the theatre late.
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Oct 5, 2015 08:48
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Between Revenant and Macbeth, 2015's oscarbait movies look way better than 2014's oscarbait
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Cacator posted:The very first shot of the movie is a single static take of the two main characters masturbating each other until he finishes if that makes you feel any better. I had to laugh at the people who were coming in to the theatre late. I don't know man, that sounds cool, but it depends how it looks. I don't even Gasper Knoe if it's even getting a release here
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axleblaze posted:In actual movie chat: Paddington was far more blatantly pro-immigrant than I was expecting. Good little, surprisingly well made kid's film thought that fell into a lot of tropes, but did them well. everyone made fun of me for wanting to see this movie. Steve Yun posted:Between Revenant and Macbeth, 2015's oscarbait movies look way better than 2014's oscarbait i've been waiting for Justin Kurzel's Macbeth for like three years now. i'm wondering if it'll out-bleak Polanski's.
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CelticPredator posted:Helluva Rick and Morty finale. See you in a year and a half. Maybe more!
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Anonymous Robot posted:Is Umberto Di worth checking out if I'm not crazy about Bicycle Thieves? Or is Rome, Open City better? You'd probably like Umberto D more than you would Rome, Open City. What didn't you like about Bicycle Thieves?
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TrixRabbi posted:You'd probably like Umberto D more than you would Rome, Open City. What didn't you like about Bicycle Thieves? It felt like a good hour-long film stretched to feature length. (Admittedly, I make this criticism about a lot of movies, and I did like it more on a repeat viewing.)
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Oct 5, 2015 14:19
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I guess it didn't live up to the GOAT status it was built up to have.
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Steve Yun posted:Between Revenant and Macbeth, 2015's oscarbait movies look way better than 2014's oscarbait And then Trumbo and Bridge of Spies come along and ruin everything
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Oct 5, 2015 16:09
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I'm optimistic about Bridge of Spies.
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Oct 5, 2015 16:10
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morestuff posted:I'm optimistic about Bridge of Spies. Same. What am I gonna do, NOT watch a Spielberg movie?
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Oct 5, 2015 16:30
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Lincoln and Tintin were both really good, and I just learned the Coen Bros co-wrote Bridge of Spies, so I'm also optimistic. I'm going to a preview screening on Thursday, so I'll report back.
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