OT: Movies are basically flipbooks for adults (The Newly Annual Non-Pens Media Thraed)

[Randy Butternubs]

Re: Takashi Miike

13 Assassins was pretty badass. And still had a little bit of weirdness to it.

Re: Bronson

What a weird film but awesome performance from Hardy.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

Indeed. Blonde Donna is a pretty easy marker to pinpoint when the writing started to go downhill. Plus, I'm usually able to separate the "art from the artist" as it were, but rewatches are getting tougher considering just how much a deplorable ****bag Danny Masterson is.

Yeah, I’m not a separate the art from the artist person, or at least don’t pay for it, and it’s probably ruined for me to rewatch.

There are also wtf parts played for laughs. Like Fez hiding under Donna’s bed at night to jerk off.

 

[Ogrezilla]

No, it got so ****ty and had such a terrible ending that the show’s legacy is tainted. It was amazing before people started leaving.

I've only seen maybe 2 episodes post-eric

 

[DegenX]

Good idea @HandshakeLin. I've add this to the list of threads in the stickied thread. Or thaed as the case may be

 

[billybudd]

Strongly disagree on Bronson. It's Glen or Glenda pretending that it's A Clockwork Orange. Hardy's performance is decent, but no performance could have been good enough to salvage that movie.

 

[Clare2904]

Unless it’s distinctly terrible directing I can get by with weak visuals but god help anything with a bad plot, weak dialogue or poor pacing. With the exception being that sometimes you let the big, dumb action movie be a big, dumb action movie or appreciate how bad something is.




I live in the gta and every year I say I should go experience some of TIFF and every year I don’t. All I do is pull other people into the same cycle or make them realize they already do the same thing. #nextyear

When I lived in Whitby I went to TIFF in 2013 and went to the World Premiere of Visitors by Godfrey Reggio. Steven Soderbergh, Reggio and Philip Glass did a presentation afterwards and as I was leaving met them by the door. Got two programs autographed and sent one to a friend in London who is a massive fan of Reggio and Glass.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

I've only seen maybe 2 episodes post-eric

Smart. I don’t think I’ve seen every episode of season 8.

When I lived in Whitby I went to TIFF in 2013 and went to the World Premiere of Visitors by Godfrey Reggio. Steven Soderbergh, Reggio and Philip Glass did a presentation afterwards and as I was leaving met them by the door. Got two programs autographed and sent one to a friend in London who is a massive fan of Reggio and Glass.

I’ve really got to go one year.

 

[vodeni]

I don't get to see too much TV nowdays (how could I spending all my free time watching hockey and bsing on this Forum), but one show that really resonated with me, and I binged watch was Get Shorty. I thought since Northern Exposure I have not seen funnier ( in a cerebral way) show, great acting, just fun. Its on some obscure premium channel (i think Epix) but its really great.

 

[vodeni]

Also for some of you movie lovers, your honest opinion on Phantom Thread. masterpiece or big yawn? I am in the latter group, maybe I just don't get it...

 

[Ogrezilla]

Also for some of you movie lovers, your honest opinion on Phantom Thread. masterpiece or big yawn? I am in the latter group, maybe I just don't get it...

Based on trailers I don't think it looks that good, but I plan to watch it because it's Paul thomas Anderson and Daniel day lewis.

 

[vodeni]

Based on trailers I don't think it looks that good, but I plan to watch it because it's Paul thomas Anderson and Daniel day lewis.

I think PTS will not be looked upon favorably in 20-30 years, I think he is hugely overated, but thats me...I like Sprong what do I know...

 

[Randy Butternubs]

How has no one told @Big McLargehuge about this thread yet???

 

[HandshakeLine]

How has no one told @Big McLargehuge about this thread yet???

He knows. He's just too embarrassed to admit that Shaw Brothers films are superior to Golden Harvest ones.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Strongly disagree on Bronson. It's Glen or Glenda pretending that it's A Clockwork Orange. Hardy's performance is decent, but no performance could have been good enough to salvage that movie.

Interesting. What soured you on it, BB?

 

[HandshakeLine]

I don't get to see too much TV nowdays (how could I spending all my free time watching hockey and bsing on this Forum), but one show that really resonated with me, and I binged watch was Get Shorty. I thought since Northern Exposure I have not seen funnier ( in a cerebral way) show, great acting, just fun. Its on some obscure premium channel (i think Epix) but its really great.

I saw that on one of my streaming services and I was wondering if it was worth a watch. I'm a big Elmore Leonard fan, so it has that going for it, but I hated Travolta's version, so...

 

[Big McLargehuge]

How has no one told @Big McLargehuge about this thread yet???

I got the notification and was expecting this thread to be a week old or something

Paul Thomas Anderson made There Will Be Blood...so he's on my good list. I have zero interest in seeing Phantom Thread, though.


I need to get better about seeing movies in the decade they're released in.

 

[KIRK]

Like @ColePens, I could watch Jaws again and again and again.

On another note, I was flipping channels and caught Ordinary People. Had seen it before, but not for years. An example of a movie that wouldn't be made this century.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Also for some of you movie lovers, your honest opinion on Phantom Thread. masterpiece or big yawn? I am in the latter group, maybe I just don't get it...

Somewhere in the middle for me, but more positive than negative. It's a great "mood movie," as I call them -- films that don't necessarily have one specific point/message they're explicitly trying to convey, but rather put you in a state-of-mind and/or feeling that lingers long after the credits have finished rolling (Blade Runner 2049 is another recent movie that fits this categorization for me). I actually caught some of it on a premium channel recently, and was surprised how much more I was enjoying it. Most PTA films probably benefit from re-watches.

Phantom Thread also has one of my favorite movie scores from the past several years, so it's got that going for it as well.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Like @ColePens, I could watch Jaws again and again and again.

On another note, I was flipping channels and caught Ordinary People. Had seen it before, but not for years. An example of a movie that wouldn't be made this century.

Robert Redford is one of those disgustingly talented individuals. I hope he gets a papercut.

 

[KIRK]

Robert Redford is one of those disgustingly talented individuals. I hope he gets a papercut.

It's just odd to think that the finest movie he ever did was the one in which he didn't act. :Laugh:

BTW, I'm a mark for Three Days of the Condor. An underappreciated fave.

 

[vodeni]

I saw that on one of my streaming services and I was wondering if it was worth a watch. I'm a big Elmore Leonard fan, so it has that going for it, but I hated Travolta's version, so...

I did not like that Travolta movie either (although it was heavily hyped if I recall), but this you would like, its weird cast perfectly and really smart and funny

 

[billybudd]

Interesting. What soured you on it, BB?

It's got a sort of Human Centipede 2 thing, where it thinks being loud or weird or visually flamboyant makes it clever, when that all just makes it blatantly annoying. To me, it's a dumb movie that's convinced that it's groundbreaking. I might have liked it better with a worse actor in the lead. At least then, I might have been able to laugh at it.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

It's just odd to think that the finest movie he ever did was the one in which he didn't act. :Laugh:

What are you referencing?

 

[KIRK]

What are you referencing?

Ordinary People (see the post to which HSL was replying . . . Redford directed but didn't star).

 

[UnrealMachine]

While at my parents over the holiday we had Blade Runner 2049 recorded on the DVR but never found (enough) time to watch it. I did rewatch Hombre, which is probably my favorite Western.