A24 4,333 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 28 minutes ago, Sharky said: Fincher should've stuck to music videos. That was his true calling. Music videos are dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Doesn't Spotify have them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Oh, I'm pretty sure they still make 'm, but the art is dead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, Alexcremers said: Oh, I'm pretty sure they still make 'm, but the art is dead Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Yes, really ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 This clip is recieving critical acclaim...hmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Margo Channing said: Dirty Dancing Evil youngin defies her honourable father by uniting with a hooligan who teaches her ungodly dancing to sinful music! Fun movie, really! Funny how distintly 80s music creeps into movie set in 1963. I've still never seen it. Roadhouse is good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Its a classic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 2 minutes ago, Stefancos said: This clip is recieving critical acclaim...hmmmm. Doesn't mean a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 So you don't think its been imaginatively done? Hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Good music videos are still being made. Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I wonder why Alex doesn't think so? Hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Nobody cares, that's why. I guess you youngsters weren't around when music videos were king. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 You do realize youngsters today spend hours and hours on YouTube, right? Music videos are incredibly popular. I’d venture to say the most popular videos now are watched more than any at the height of MTV’s popularity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 With videos reaching billions of views, I’d say that’s a certainty. Alex is just being his ol’ out of touch self. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Alex only uses YouTube for ASMR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 7 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: You do realize youngsters today spend hours and hours on YouTube, right? They spend hours and hours on youtube, not to watch music videos, but famous youtubers. Get with the times, disco. Or you can read the gazillion articles on the web about how dead music videos are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 So thats what your kid is doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 He watches: No really, it's brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 1 hour ago, Disco Stu said: You do realize youngsters today spend hours and hours on YouTube, right? Music videos are incredibly popular. I’d venture to say the most popular videos now are watched more than any at the height of MTV’s popularity Grandpa Creamers is out of touch with how the young 'uns consume media, particularly music these days. They basically live on YouTube and consume all their music there. I believe Vevo is one of the biggest channels on the site. And the stars themselves, the Taylor Swifts, the Little Mixxes and the Bruno Marses, they all try to out do one another with the latest in glossy overproduced videos for dem precious Likes. Some though are really quite good, I've noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 I'll see if Belinda Carlisle has a channel... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 The Cell Okay serial killer thriller with neurotech as it's gimmick resulting in stunningly surreal imagery resembling a Clive Barker film. But all that visual pizazz merely disguises how conventional it is. Howard Shore's score is noticebly effective and ominous - some real LOTRish moments in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted May 27, 2018 Share Posted May 27, 2018 Wings of Desire Fucking precious film. Bruno Ganz is excellent of course but Peter Falk absolutely steals the picture. Goddamn what a ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 mother! Bizarre, twisted, and horrifying. Just like Christianity! I’d slide it in as my third favorite Aronofsky, behind The Fountain and Black Swan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 14 hours ago, Sharky said: Fincher should've stuck to music videos. That was his true calling. (On the subject of Iggy Pop videos) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,013 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Watched The Revenant last night. It was one of the UHD discs that I picked up as it's supposed to be a good looking one. The film itself is good, not great. It's certainly well made and nice to look at but ultimately doesn't really go anywhere or say much. Still, it manages to transport you into this amazing, yet completely real, world and that's something only good filmmakers are able to do. So yeah, I enjoyed watching it but didn't enjoy it as much, if that makes sense. But that's the problem with every Iñárritu film I've ever watched. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Same for me. Film lacked what is known as 'the human element'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 8 hours ago, Muad'Dib said: Wings of Desire Fucking precious film. Bruno Ganz is excellent of course but Peter Falk absolutely steals the picture. Goddamn what a ride. I'm going to watch this. Muad'Dib 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,287 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 15 hours ago, Alexcremers said: They spend hours and hours on youtube, not to watch music videos, but famous youtubers. Get with the times, disco. Or you can read the gazillion articles on the web about how dead music videos are. 1 94 out of the 100 most viewed YouTube videos of all-time are music videos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 And you only have to look at the number one to realize that music videos and music are dead.. BTW, people check it for the wobbling ass. The rest is bought views! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,013 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 1 hour ago, Alexcremers said: Same for me. Film lacked what is known as 'the human element'. It wants to be a (good) Terrence Malick but ends up being Apocalypto. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Hey! Apocalypto is aces! Not a five-star film by any means, but aces nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,013 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Did I say it wasn't? Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 I just don't think Apocalypto misses the human element. I mean, its certainly more of a straight-forward action film than it is a drama, but the characters are fine. I certainly didn't want them to have their hearts ripped out! And, on the flipside, despicable villians (which those in Apocalypto most certainly are) are just as important as sympathetic heroes, so that we are invested in their downfall. I also find it amazing for a filmmaker to make a film so clearly outside of his established visual style: the transition from the steady, very-composed Braveheart and Passion of the Christ to the hand and body-held cameras and extreme close-ups of Apocalypto is the inverse of the Friedkin's transition from The French Connection to The Exorcist; which is to say nothing of the spectacular use of digital cameras: one of the first big productions to have do so. Its also the first film Gibson actually co-wrote. As such, its Gibson's most "visionary" work (as Martin Scorcese called it), even if it isn't his most dramatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,013 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 No one said Apocalypto is missing a human element. I was replying to Alex's post, making a general comment about the film. Not specifically replying to his point. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood's face grimaces when his superiors use terms like "miranda" and "bill of rights" in a well-honed police thriller that doesn't shy away from making Police brutality and vigilantism a viable way to keep the streets safe from child-killing scum. One of the first films of its type to show people taking the law into their own hands when the law fails them. The film was controversial in 1971 and remains so today, mainly because the effectiveness of Don Siegel's direction and Eastwood's still classic portrayal of Harry Callaghan. Filmed mostly in and around San Francisco with impressive panoramic shots in anamorphic wide screen, Dirty Harry remains a landmark "cop" film, referenced, followed upon and imitated countless times, but never really bettered. Lalo's eclectic but restrained score is equally influential. ***1/3 out of **** Unlucky Bastard and James 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James 119 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Princess Mononoke (1997) There some demons and gods. I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 And Magnum Force has such a cool title. You just know you're watching a macho movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Which are basically uncool like Chuck Norris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Not when Don Siegel is directing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Since Harry's portrayal features traits of a sociopath and leaves conclusions about this to the audience (for instance when Harry rejects the bill of rights when it doesn't fit his agenda in the commander's office) i never found this movie disagreeable like, i. e., 'Death Wish'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 When you have an evil homicidal maniac on the loose and the law just ignores it, what do you expect Harry to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,333 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 I expect him to arrest the troubled individual so he can receive the proper treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Sissy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 It is my staunch belief that ambiguity, even if the usual braindeads do not recognize it, should be applauded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 37 minutes ago, Alexcremers said: I expect him to arrest the troubled individual so he can receive the proper treatment. Does it invalidate a movie if you disagree with it's morality, Alex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Its main character's, rather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 5 hours ago, crocodile said: No one said Apocalypto is missing a human element. I was replying to Alex's post, making a general comment about the film. Not specifically replying to his point. Karol You mentioned a Mel Gibson film, so he had to come out full force to prove you wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Not at all. I don't care for The Passion of the Christ, for instance. But he is a filmmaker whose work I very much appreciated. Who knew this actor would be such a good director? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 5 hours ago, Stefancos said: Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood's face grimaces when his superiors use terms like "miranda" and "bill of rights" in a well-honed police thriller that doesn't shy away from making Police brutality and vigilantism a viable way to keep the streets safe from child-killing scum. One of the first films of its type to show people taking the law into their own hands when the law fails them. The film was controversial in 1971 and remains so today, mainly because the effectiveness of Don Siegel's direction and Eastwood's still classic portrayal of Harry Callaghan. Filmed mostly in and around San Francisco with impressive panoramic shots in anamorphic wide screen, Dirty Harry remains a landmark "cop" film, referenced, followed upon and imitated countless times, but never really bettered. Lalo's eclectic but restrained score is equally influential. ***1/3 out of **** I said this satirically about Starship Troopers earlier, but Dirty Harry is one of my absolute favorites. The sequels are cute, but rarely have the edge and earnestness of this one. Lalo Schifrin's score is one of my absolute favorites: while I think Schifrin is a much better composer than film composer, this is one of the few projects where his sensibilities and the film's intertwine beautifully. As far as the morality angle that you guys are referring to, I don't remember much in the way of counterarguing Callahan's beliefs. As you mention, his superiors constantly deride and reprimand him for his off the rails conduct, but I seem to remember Harry still being painted more or less as the "hero". If there's any ambiguity, it'd be in that the film is pretty objective in depicting Harry's actions, it doesn't celebrate them. Am I recalling this accurately? Overall, a film that, as you mention, remains relevant 40+ years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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