Chen G. 3,940 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 The director has much more control over the editing than the writing, though. Directors like Eastwood, Scott and Spielberg are really dependent on having a good script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,008 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Chen G. said: Eastwood isn’t a screenwriter. And it really shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tydirium 1,166 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Koray Savas said: The production design is so richly detailed. I discover something new every time I watch. Yep, and I bet! It's one I definitely will have to rewatch (and sooner rather than later). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,008 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Tydirium said: Watched Aronofsky's THE FOUNTAIN and it really made an impression on me. Frankly I think its RT critics score is waaay too low; in my eyes it's a masterpiece. Except that it's completely nonsensical. Great score though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tydirium 1,166 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Just because there is more than one possible way to interpret the story does not make it "nonsensical". It enhances the film, imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 The plot is fairly straightforward. It’s a story about accepting mortality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,008 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Says the guy who finds meaning in Lost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said: Says the guy who finds meaning in Lost! Lost is an emotional rollercoaster that takes basic archetypal themes and explores them through a frame of philosophy and religion. Simple stuff man! Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,323 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Darren Aronofsky usually rubs it in a little too much, for my taste. Of the movies I've seen of him, I enjoyed The Wrestler the most and Noah the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Noah sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,367 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Everyone that likes their movies dark and (specially) disturbing should have in Aronofsky their pope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 I liked NOAH. It took diabolical liberties with the narrative, but it was interesting to see the Nephilim, and I appreciated the way that it didn't skirt the "Noah naked" episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Alexcremers said: Darren Aronofsky usually rubs it in a little too much, for my taste. Of the movies I've seen of him, I enjoyed The Wrestler the most and Noah the least. What else have you seen? I still need to watch Noah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,323 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Just now, Koray Savas said: What else have you seen? I still need to watch Noah. Pi, Black Swan, Mother, The Fountain and Requiem For A Dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Oh, yes! REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is a good one. My abiding memory of that is of Ellen Burstyn being menaced by a refrigerator. Bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 3 hours ago, Alexcremers said: Pi, Black Swan, Mother, The Fountain and Requiem For A Dream. Well you’re just missing Black Swan then. Check it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 8 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I liked NOAH. It took diabolical liberties with the narrative, but it was interesting to see the Nephilim, and I appreciated the way that it didn't skirt the "Noah naked" episode. Do they show Abraham's bosom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Black Swan was eh. Mother! was okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,323 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 6 hours ago, Koray Savas said: Well you’re just missing Black Swan then. Check it out! I mentioned Black Swan. I have it on DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 I have it on tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,323 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Video 2000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Alexcremers said: I mentioned Black Swan. I have it on DVD. I’m blind then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,367 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 11 hours ago, Not Mr. Big said: Do they show Abraham's bosom? That's a weird way to say dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 35 minutes ago, Edmilson said: That's a weird way to say dick Oh come on. Everyone knows bosom means butt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pellaeon 593 Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Fiddler on the Roof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,342 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 The Enforcer - 'Dirty' Harry Callahan comes up against the 'People's Revolutionary Strike Force' whilst continuing to clash with his liberally-minded superiors who - horror of horrors! - lumber him with an inexperienced female partner (Tyne Daly). Not the best of this series, but not too bad with a nice balance between the mayhem and the humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles This may be the greatest movie ever made. Full stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bollemanneke 3,334 Posted February 21, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 21, 2020 2001. Wow. I just don’t know what to say. Two years ago, people on this forum were astonished that Close Encounters didn’t make me wonder and feel curious. Well, now I finally wonder. What an experience. The only thing I still want to know is what Hal was going to do if Dave hadn’t stopped him. Incidentally, Hal was my very first screen reader and it was not intelligent at all, couldn’t locate the braille display connected to the PC it was running on and basically had trouble with everything else. The use of music is fantastic as well. Not sure how I feel about the re-use of certain pieces yet, but I’m quite confident I will not like whatever Alex North came up with instead. KK, The Illustrious Jerry, Holko and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I’m genuinely curious bolle, how 2001 functions without a visual medium. And that it moved you regardless, goes to show the power of the work. The Illustrious Jerry and bollemanneke 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bollemanneke 3,334 Posted February 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2020 Well, in this case the audio description was really good. A good narrator can be really important, but here it was obviously critical. Case in point: I was unable to enjoy/understand Minority Report because the descriptions were terrible. What I found really interesting is that even though I have absolutely no idea of what light and dark is, the entire Jupiter sequence was still spellbinding because the way he described it made it... I don't know, comprehensible? I think I found is as odd, weird and captivating as normal people. The Illustrious Jerry, Naïve Old Fart and KK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Last Monday, I watched STAR TREK NEMESIS. I liked it so much that I watched it again, last night. I really don't understand all the animosity towards this film. Yes, there are inconsistencies. Yes, you can drive a Greyhound bus through some of the plot holes, but is it really worse than "Have you noticed how your boobs have firmed up"?! It's easily my favourite of the TNG films. It looks good, the pace is good, and the score is fantastic late-flowering Jerry. It is - dare I say it - the most subtle, and, perhaps, the most intelligent, of all Star Trek films. The interplay between Picard, and Shinzon is very good, indeed. At the very least, it's the most "internal" of all Star Treks. I've seen the deleted scenes, and, apart from the "new first officer" stuff, at the end, I think that room should have been made for them. Still, it is what it is. I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,334 Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 The shining. I don’t know. The first problem was the fact that the narrator consistently failed to mention that everything was shot in a scary way. As a consequence, the first half sounded like something that was going out of its way to scare me, but failed miserably. I just enjoyed it. Obviously, Jack Nicholson’s performance is truly fantastic, but his wife only has some good moments. I also didn’t like how it ended: not a fan of Stephen King’s paranormal works at all. It would have been so much better had it been a Shutter Island situation in which the whole story was basically a madman’s fantasies. The score works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 The ending is the best part! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 One has to wonder how that very last iconic shot was communicated to bollemanneke. I imagine its effectiveness to be all but lost, if the photograph cannot be seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,334 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 They just said Jack was on it 'grinning devilishly'. I also forgot to mention yesterday that I missed a few scenes in which Nicholson was slowly losing his mind, but maybe that was because we watched the short cut. Now it gave me the impression that he turned up at the hotel perfectly fine, then we have 'one month later' and he's suddenly crazy. But I also read Roger Ebert's review and definitely think it's better now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,342 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Snowpiercer - maybe it's just because I was quite tired last night, but I thought this (apart from a highly amusing Tilda Swinton) was just OK. Overall, I think I preferred how similar themes were tackled in High-Rise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Snowpiercer ain't too popular around here but I quite liked it. The ending was better than average too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,153 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 The Hallelujah Trail, on Blu-ray. Sadly the worst Blu transfer I've seen, it looks like a blow-up of an anamorphic NTSC disc, with tons of artifacts, low resolution and heavy aliasing. The film itself is still great, with wonderful dry humour, perfect no-nonsense performances plus spot on comedic timing by Lancaster and Remick (and Landau and Pleasence). The score remains my favourite by Bernstein. Shame that so much music is lost (missing on the album, with the original tapes destroyed), but not even the film itself has a decent release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HunterTech 982 Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Alien (1979) I liked it! I really appreciated the slow burn quality that it had, plus just how tense it could really get. There were points where my heart was racing a bit, in spite of having already known the general gist. I'm certainly interested in watching Aliens eventually. Not sure about any of the rest. Also: the music was definitely butchered in the film. Admittedly, the most recognizable stuff is there, but a lot of what made the originally written score as interesting as it is definitely got lost in the final cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,367 Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 9 hours ago, Quintus said: Snowpiercer ain't too popular around here but I quite liked it. The ending was better than average too. I like Snowpiercer too, I think it's pretty good. And I remember liking Beltrami's score as well. Need to watch the other Bong movies, though. At least The Host and Okja are on Netflix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Only Bong film I’ve seen is Memories Of Murder. I liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,334 Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Toy story 2. Pretty great, much better than the original movie. Tom Hanks wasn’t as good as he could have been again, but Kelsey Grammar is brilliant (Argh, Sideshow Bob!), though I’m not giving Frasier another chance. Loved the jokes too. The score is predictable, but who wouldn’t love playful music with Western passages? The new song is fantastic as well. One punch sounded really artificial, but the mix is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,488 Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 23 hours ago, HunterTech said: Alien I liked it! I really appreciated the slow burn quality that it had, plus just how tense it could really get. There were points where my heart was racing a bit, in spite of having already known the general gist. I saw ALIEN, on its opening weekend, at the Odeon Leicester Square. I was front row, royal circle. The film was shown in 70mm, and 6-track magnetic. I had never seen a sheer mind numbingly scary film, in my life, and I doubt that I ever shall. It was an overwhelming experience. Holko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,940 Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 What was that line in the movie again? “Perfect...organism.” Perfect indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 On 2/16/2020 at 8:29 AM, Tydirium said: .Frankly I think its RT critics score is waaay too low; in my eyes it's a masterpiece. This makes zero sense. The Rotten Tomato score is simply an aggregation of all the reviews providing a percentage of positve reviews and negative reviews. Your beef should be with the individual film critics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 15 minutes ago, JoeinAR said: This makes zero sense. The Rotten Tomato score is simply an aggregation of all the reviews providing a percentage of positve reviews and negative reviews. Your beef should be with the individual film critics. People always forget this. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 16 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I saw ALIEN, on its opening weekend, at the Odeon Leicester Square. I was front row, royal circle. The film was shown in 70mm, and 6-track magnetic. I had never seen a sheer mind numbingly scary film, in my life, and I doubt that I ever shall. It was an overwhelming experience. For me Jaws and the Exorcist were the overwhelming experiences. For sheer visceral experience Dawn of the Dead is still tops. Soylent Green may be people but people are MEAT. The neck bite scene ..... Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Hang on - so there isn't a a big tomato penning all the film reviews on RT? What? Are you kidding me?? Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,323 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 27 minutes ago, JoeinAR said: For me Jaws and the Exorcist were the overwhelming experiences. It's because they are made in America directed by Americans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Just now, Alexcremers said: It's because they are made in America directed by Americans. A better answer is I saw those two first and was somewhat desensitized. Another way to look at it is Jaws and the Exorcist are superior films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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