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The New Film Thread

Clrnc

Watched Nope. Love it, like the other 2 Peele's film.

Daniel Kaluuya must be one of my favorite actors of modern cinema, and an Arsenal fan too!

Qwiss

He narrated All or Nothing.

Mirth

I watched Nope too - thought it was fantastic.

Burnwinter

Rest in peace Jean-Luc Godard. One of the true greats, albeit also renowned for being one of the true great dickheads.

RocktheCasbah

Off to see Jaws in the IMAX on Thursday. For a film I've seen about 50 times, I'm ridiculously excited to see it on the largest screen in the country.

Coombs

Burnwinter wrote:
Rest in peace Jean-Luc Godard. One of the true greats, albeit also renowned for being one of the true great dickheads.

Jean-Luc Godard wrote:
Le communisme a existé une fois en deux fois quarante-cinq minutes, au stade de Wembley, lorsque le Honved Budapest a battu l’Angleterre par 6 buts à 3. Les Anglais jouaient individuels, les Hongrois jouaient ensemble.

Asterix

A mate hired a small cinema on the weekend and about 30 of us watched 2 films. The first was a French film called Hors Normes or The Extraordinary (also seen it translated as The Specials). It's a really moving film about people who care for kids with extreme autism. Vincent Cassel is excellent in the lead role, but the supporting cast are all great too. It's based on a true story and makes glad there are people in life who take on these roles. We should do so much more to support them. I think we should judge our societies on how they treat the most vulnerable, and we don't do it very well very often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Specials_(2019_film)

Then for something completely different we watched Interstellar. I hadn't seen it on the big screen - great experience.

banduan

Coombs wrote:
Jean-Luc Godard wrote:
Le communisme a existé une fois en deux fois quarante-cinq minutes, au stade de Wembley, lorsque le Honved Budapest a battu l’Angleterre par 6 buts à 3. Les Anglais jouaient individuels, les Hongrois jouaient ensemble.

😆 did he really say that.

Burnwinter

😆 Yes, he was a massive troll.

KingslandBarge

Decision to Leave was a recent treat on the big screen. Really well shot and cut by Park Chan Wook, whilst actors were able to elevate a decent enough plot. Perhaps too much left implicit.

Burnwinter

Lovely film, that.

The first half was so good, so impeccably made across the board that I whispered to my mate "Damn, this is so good" about an hour in. The pace flags a bit when the action moves to the coast, but when you realise the metaphorical significance of what Park's bringing home … yeah, it's arguably a masterpiece. I think it's my favourite film of his and although I don't love all his works, there's some pretty good competition.

KingslandBarge

Burnwinter finally got around to watching BoP last weekend. Though EotS left a more lasting impression on me, I enjoyed this!
From the get go it was a visually lush and pretty film; the traditional dresses, the humid and arid Colombian scenery, the almost surrealist gemeinschaft locale in the middle of nowhere. It felt like the drug business was the plot vessel with which to explore the shift from tradition to modernity, the simultaneous erosion of the family unit and its key traits seeping away like sand between fingers. May have to go by arawakan dictionary next time I'm at the bookstore!

Burnwinter You stumped me initially with this one, and I had to cast my mind back to the movie and actually contemplate the metaphorical significance a bit more critically. Wherever I got to, it made me appreciate the move more.
In talking Korean cinema with a mate a couple months back, he recommended The Wailing - totally different genre and style, it was engrossing and pretty enjoyable so worth a watch. Though it seems to be highly revered with a big cult following.

Burnwinter

WILD IS THE WIND is a pretty interesting Netflix feature from writer-director Fabian Medea.

Imagine a dark, cynical small town police procedural set in South Africa that gets even bleaker exploring apartheid and race politics.

QuincyAbeyie

Watched the Avatar sequel. It's a nothing plot and the middle hour should've been cut in half, but the visuals are amazing. The last hour is just one amazing setpiece after another. I didn't think they'd raise the bar for special effects again, but it really put MCU movies to shame in that respect.

Asterix

I love seeing stuff about how movies are made, for instance the hours and hours of LOTR making of on the box sets.

This however is quite insane. I quite like the Mission Impossible movies. I know they're not everyone's cup of tea, but you have to respect the dedication of Tom Cruise and the team to put this together for what will no doubt be a few seconds of film footage.

Gazza M

Asterix the LOTR extended edition special features are yet to be topped to this day.

Claudius have to admit I was a bit caught off guard by how immersed I was in avatar 2. as you say, the story is a bit ho-hum and drags in spots, but as an overall entertainment package it was very engrossing

Claudius

Love these movies. Best action series out there. Was on a game drive this week in South Africa. (Can share pictures if I figure out how). The ranger told me that they’re rented the reserve and airstrip next door for six months to shoot scenes for this movie. They were also near Cape Town where I saw they they had turned one of the wineries into a Spanish village. Was disappointing because I had really wanted to go that day

Claudius

Watched Avatar. Simple story albeit overly long, but just technically brilliant. I always thought the first Avatar was the only movie worthy the 3D price. This one is even better - the animation is rich and seamless throughout, incredible water scenes, whether inside or above the water. And rapid action sequences aren’t discombobulating. It really puts Marvel, DC etc to shame.

Burnwinter

The Cruise bit he did recently where he finished "See you at the movies!" while riding the wing of a propeller aircraft was pretty typical of his current brand …

Watched GLASS ONION yesterday. Having really enjoyed KNIVES OUT, I found this instalment hard to focus on and dull, with little emotional investment possible. Feel like if your brief is "whatever characters you like on a billionaire's island" you can do better than a misogynist streamer and a talkative starlet. And Ed Norton is way beyond succeeding with this sort of role, if he ever could in the past.

If anything the fact the coterie of weirdos around Sam Bankman-Fried, and actually living in FTX's all-glass Bahamas penthouse, made the prescience, invention and daring here look a bit scarce. The final act was also pointless as far as the genre was concerned.

Claudius

Burnwinter Glass Onion was standard Netflix movie fare. It was an atrocity.

Burnwinter

I didn't hate it that much @Claudius, it's actually vaguely comforting to find someone who disliked it more than me! But it was emotionally evacuated—weird thing to say about a comedy whodunnit.

At certain points this film asked me to get involved in what the characters were experiencing and I really couldn't give a shit. And when that happened I realised that Johnson hadn't done anything effective to make me give a shit. It reminded me of the epic failure of the romantic development in LA LA LAND.

Don't make a film about revenge without giving us something to hang onto.

THE GRAY MAN was pretty bad along the same lines. I do agree Netflix have a bit of a problem sticking the landing with these productions, they're good at pulling talent together and quite daring with their ideas, but … a lot of them suck for some reason.

The whole cinema release / streaming release dichotomy is a big problem, because even with today's large household screens, the way Lean shot LAWRENCE OF ARABIA just doesn't function at home.

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