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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    They killed their own golden goose. Far too many subpar quicky conversions that lacked any depth, theaters turning down projector bulbs, and forcing too many tentpoles to be 3D against directors wishes. The price was too steep (in theater and at home) to validate the bulk of the media being far from impressive. Only a handful really used the tech well. Avatar is an example of a film being greatly improved by its tech. Viewed in 2D, its faults become glaring. Prometheus, Fright Night...its not a big list of great use of 3D, while the list of piss-poor ripoffs is endless. I saw Phantom Menace in 3D rerelease (if only to show the kid a Star Wars movie in theater), and there might have been two scenes that felt like they had any depth. It was watching a darkened 2D version with glasses.
    Just saw Titanic 3D at home, an absolutely superlative 3D post conversion. Mesmerizingly beautiful image.
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    • Dark (S3) ✦✦✦½ [-]
    • Fall (Mann, 2022) ✦✦✦½ [-]
    • Ms. Marvel (S1) ✦½ [+]
    • Dark (S2) ✦✦✦✦
    • Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
    • Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
    • Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
    • Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
    • Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • H4Z4RD (Govaerts, 2022/BE) ✦✦½ [-]
    • Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
    • Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) ✦✦ [+]


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    It's amazing how quickly Hercules (the Dwayne Johnson one) tries to erode my goodwill. I'm about 20 minutes in, and it's de-mystifying his fantastical labors (the hydra was goons in snake masks, for example) while sticking Herc into the role of army general, commanding and teaching soldiers about how to form a sturdy phalanx.

    What the hell is this, and why even bother?

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    Stopped Hercules after about 25 minutes, just don't have the time.

    Picked back up with The Sword in the Stone, the original Disney animated film, which is intermittently cute and has at least two truly fun sequences (the horny squirrel and the wizards' duel). It's surprisingly episodic, though, and though Wart/Arthur might be functional enough for children to imprint upon his wide eyes, he doesn't really have anything to him. Diverting, although you wonder if they were secretly hoping to to make another three movies that would build more on Arthur's character.

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    Do you have a cinema blindspot you've been pushing aside due to its length?

    I finally watched one of mine: The Best Years of Our Lives. Its 170 minutes initially scared me, but it's a monumental film. I'm so glad I found time to watch it.
    Sure why not?

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    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


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    Quote Quoting Watashi (view post)
    Do you have a cinema blindspot you've been pushing aside due to its length?

    I finally watched one of mine: The Best Years of Our Lives. Its 170 minutes initially scared me, but it's a monumental film. I'm so glad I found time to watch it.
    The Decalogue for me.

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    Quote Quoting Watashi (view post)
    Do you have a cinema blindspot you've been pushing aside due to its length?

    I finally watched one of mine: The Best Years of Our Lives. Its 170 minutes initially scared me, but it's a monumental film. I'm so glad I found time to watch it.
    Great flick.

    Agreed with Ezee on The Decalogue. Also Tarkovsky, like Stalker (160 minutes), because I had such a hard time engaging with Solaris. The Leopard.

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    Quote Quoting Watashi (view post)
    Do you have a cinema blindspot you've been pushing aside due to its length?

    I finally watched one of mine: The Best Years of Our Lives. Its 170 minutes initially scared me, but it's a monumental film. I'm so glad I found time to watch it.
    I posted something similar to this on all the movies I had queued up but haven't watched yet because of how long they are.

    Lawrence of Arabia was one of them. 222 minutes long. Fuck that.
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    Marie Antoinette (2006)

    This film is already divisive upon release, but one shudders to think how it would be received today in many circles based on subject matter, if even Richard Linklater’s recent and typically gently empathetic approach (to another somewhat privileged group) can court controversy. But this works so well because the protagonist completely exists in a bubble, where our knowledge of history helps frame and add to watching this insular life, with the real world only intruding towards the end. And in depicting that bubble Sofia Coppola may never have again a more perfect subject to match her aesthetics and background. The stately and stuffy of usual period dramas are shredded in favor of woozy, dreamy, intimate point-of-view insides the opulence. At the middle of it is someone not without blame but also a young, lost girl thrown into a strict system and a heap of expectations without much real guidance. For most of its running time, the film is able to both indulge in this ravishing high of a lifestyle and meditate on how empty most everything else for her is, and only falters towards the end when the transition of the real world breaking in is a bit wobbly. Perfect, haunting final scene though. 8/10
    Midnight Run (1988) - 9
    The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
    The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
    Sisters (1973) - 6.5
    Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5

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    Do you have a cinema blindspot you've been pushing aside due to its length?
    Berlin Alexanderplatz, not just for the length but because I want to read the book first and still haven't gotten around to it.
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    I posted something similar to this on all the movies I had queued up but haven't watched yet because of how long they are.

    Lawrence of Arabia was one of them. 222 minutes long. Fuck that.
    I will say this, I was not anticipating Lawrence of Arabia for exactly that reason, but I finally went for it about five years ago, and it was so fucking good. I just split it up between two nights.

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    Quote Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
    I will say this, I was not anticipating Lawrence of Arabia for exactly that reason, but I finally went for it about five years ago, and it was so fucking good. I just split it up between two nights.
    Or just wait and watch it on 70mm like I did and have your whole world turned upside down.
    Sure why not?

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    Yeah, Lawrence of Arabia on 70mm is one of my most memorable film going experiences ever.
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
    Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
    Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
    Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***

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    Quote Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)
    I will say this, I was not anticipating Lawrence of Arabia for exactly that reason, but I finally went for it about five years ago, and it was so fucking good. I just split it up between two nights.
    Same with me about a year ago. Blind bought the Blu-ray, assumed I would split it up but was so captivated I watched straight through. It is so fucking good.

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    Not going to see it in 70 MM while I lived in California is up in the top five regrets for me for my California life.

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    I really do need to see Lawrence of Arabia.


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    Didn't realize all the connections between Demy's Lola and Umbrellas of Cherbourg before. I knew the character of Cassard (played by the same actor) was in both but I thought it was just a little wink. But I now I realize... at the end of Lola he's off to Johannesburg involved in some diamond smuggling and now he's a diamond jeweler. Also the young girl Cecile who runs off to... Cherbourg is apparently a close friend of Geneviève who mentions her and both girls have widowed mothers.

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    Speaking of long-ass movies, I watched Satantango. I loved the parts where someone walks away from the camera and we get to watch them walk all the way to the fucking horizon.
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    Quote Quoting Isaac (view post)
    Speaking of long-ass movies, I watched Satantango. I loved the parts where someone walks away from the camera and we get to watch them walk all the way to the fucking horizon.
    It's been a while, but I don't remember that part.

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    Black Orpheus, first viewing.

    I appreciated the carnival context and eventually saw all the music and revelry as a sort of Dionysiac compulsion, which might've been the point for a Greek story. The film manages the trick of being very referential in terms of names, etc. while also splitting the difference with reality. My favorite touch was Death taking off his mask when leaving scenes, like a performer in a theatrical production escaping off-stage. And the enemy being Death himself added even more fatalism to a story shot through with the stuff.

    It was tough to get on board with Orpheus, since he was sticking with Mira long after he should've split up with her. Guy, break off the engagement and get with Eurydice toot sweet. That kept me at a bit of a remove to the story, but there was enough happening around the story to keep things uptempo.

    Can't imagine it becoming a favorite, but glad I watched it.

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    Fergully: The Last Rainforest, first viewing.

    Sometimes-impressive animation (Hexxus, some early computer animation tricks) and an appreciable message can't really make up for the inactive lead heroine or the childish delivery of its eco-friendly message. Between this and Legend, the takeaway is that somebody should've made an adult anti-fairy-tale with Tim Curry as the dark lord hero. Like Maleficent but with real bite to it.

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    Found out a few weeks ago that my wife has never seen Pulp Fiction. She loves Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds, but was too young to see PF when it first came out, and then never got around to it over the years.

    Earlier this week I ordered the entire QT filmography. Each BR was only like $5.99. I had no idea they were so cheap. Some of his movies are still only pay-for-streaming, and seeing how much I love most of his stuff, I decided to just order everything.

    This brings my BR collection up to 14 titles. 8 QT films, the Mad Max films, Nausicaa, and The Ninth Configuration.

    Anyhow, all this is to say that tomorrow night we'll be watching Pulp Fiction. I'm super excited to see it again, especially with someone who has never seen it before. I've seen it dozens of times, and every single time I find more to like about it.

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    Never been a better time to watch Django Unchained. Justice porn.

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    By god, Hateful Eight is a gorgeous movie.

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