Franchescanado posted:

My usual walk-away feeling of a Smith movie is "flat".

Dogma is, on paper, an epic. Fallen angels defying a missing God for their own path towards immortality, a woman chosen to save all of existence from the apocalypse, with the devil/demons trying to interfere, all during a road movie.

However, none of this comes across. Road movies imply travel, which there is none. There's no propulsion, movement, driving force. I don't feel like I'm following anyone, or going anywhere. I feel like the scene ends and they built a new scene when I wasn't looking. Demons should imply danger, but they're just hockey kids that whack people with sticks, or poop monsters that just fall apart, or Jason Lee being smarmy. The battle for heaven and hell and existence? It's a colorless scene set in an urban environment. Climactic battle? Shooting some wings and then a quick stab. Denouement? Alanis Morissette honking the bored protagonists nose and Alan Rickman being charming despite everything.

Nothing has weight. Nothing moves. It's stagnant.

The real hero is Alan Rickman, because he's the strongest part of the movie.

edit: Also, gently caress Kevin Smith for getting Selma Hiyack to do his movie, and saying "You know how you did a strip tease during From Dusk 'Til Dawn just three years ago, and how it was super popular and everyone loved it? I want you to do the same thing, another strip tease, but this time you're an angel instead of a vampire." Dude can't be original to save his dick.

Inspector Hound posted:

The moon landing interpretation had some of the best evidence My favorite parts were really the analysis of the movie itself. I never noticed the impossible window or the kitchen weirdness. It made me realize how much attention to detail there is in the movie. What are some other good films-about-films? Because

girth brooks part 2 posted:

I just saw it for the first time a couple months ago. It's a fine movie, and I enjoyed it, but it cemented in my mind that Leonardo DiCaprio can't act. It seemed so painfully in obvious to me in this particular movie because everyone else owns their roles, and Leo is just kind of there in comparison.

Human Tornada posted:

Gangs of New York is a little frustrating because it's a good movie that has a great movie hidden somewhere inside of it. IMO if it were edited down by about a half-hour it could be considered top-tier Scorsese.

rngd in the womb posted:

Just finished Eastbound & Down. What an incredible ride. Thanks, whoever recommended it to me in this thread!!

Basebf555 posted:

They're too focused on every season having a ridiculously complex twisting and turning plot.

Nroo posted:

The battle scenes in Hacksaw Ridge were like if you took the already borderline macabre black comedy of the opening of Saving Private Ryan and exaggerated it to Sam Raimi splatstick levels. It was very bizarre to have that in the middle of what was otherwise an unremarkable movie that felt like it was trying to sell you on a specific worldview that the director seemed to either not understand or agree with.

Also I know it comes with the territory for American films on the Pacific Theater of the war but it felt really off to portray the Japanese the way they were portrayed in what was ostensibly a film about a compassionate pacifist.

Nroo posted:

I should've stressed "borderline", I personally don't think it's funny or was intended to be. But for what it's worth the 2 times that opening scene was shown in highschool classes I was in, the bit from the video posted above drew some laughter each time. There's other bits in the scene that work as "jokes" with a set up and gory punch-line: Hanks dragging a guy for a while only to look back and he's now dragging nothing but a torso, and the bit with him turning to a radioman repeatedly until the third time he's missing his face. It's shocking and upsetting imagery meant to emphasize how random and cruel the violence is but the execution of it at points could also be set to Curb Your Enthusiasm music.

Meanwhile, I thought it was hilarious in Hacksaw Ridge when 2 minutes into the first battle some dude charges holding a legless corpse as a shield with one hand and firing a massive assault rifle with the other. I wish the rest of the film was on that level.

Nroo posted:

The battle scenes in Hacksaw Ridge were like if you took the already borderline macabre black comedy of the opening of Saving Private Ryan and exaggerated it to Sam Raimi splatstick levels.

Nroo posted:

...I said it wasn't funny? Only that certain violent parts were oddly done in ways that could be seen as a punchline and twice saw classmates laugh at them? It's an issue with SPR that I don't like and have a problem with.

Basebf555 posted:

It's absurd, it's guys running headlong into wave after wave of machine guns, it's patently ridiculous(and heroic, and one of the most important moments in world history, etc.). Those "jokes" are there to demonstrate the absurdity and complete randomness of war. It's not funny, but they're structured like jokes because there is a joke going on, and the joke is on humanity.

So immature high schoolers laugh at it because they think they're the only ones who get the joke, because they're so "edgy" or whatever. Really though, we all get the joke but once you have enough life experience you realize that Death could play the same joke on you at any time, and that's not so easy to laugh at. Tragedy is when I stub my toe, comedy is when you fall off a cliff, etc.

K. Waste posted:

and that's always the lamest reason to do anything

Timby posted:

Doesn't he put a body into acid in, like, the second episode?

Hat Thoughts posted:

Which version?

tweet my meat posted:

So like going from a terrible movie to another terrible movie? Sounds about right, Bad Santa sucks rear end.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

Timby posted:

I wish I could get into Master of None, I really do. But Aziz Ansari has always been a complete non-starter for me.

Boywhiz88 posted:

Traffic is peak Topher Grace

fishtobaskets posted:

Patton Oswalt has a new special on Netflix in case you want to cry tears of burning sadness and belly laugh at the same time somehow.