28 Film Discussion Threads Later

**endingcredits** · 10-07-2010, 02:20 AM

Quoting Yxklyx (view post)

I love the shot where they're on the boat and the camera is looking up with Scheider in the frame and a shooting star streaks across the sky.

This one?

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**Boner M** · 10-07-2010, 05:44 AM

w/e (& beyond)

Story of the Late Chrysathemums (Mizoguchi)
Le pont du nord (Rivette)
Close-up
Fury
California Split
Buried or I'm Still Here at da moobies

**Skitch** · 10-07-2010, 10:22 AM

Quoting number8 (view post)

Even if there wasn't already one, why would I do that?

Because you're funny and people like you and I'm drunk and from Ohio.

**MadMan** · 10-07-2010, 10:25 AM

Quoting Scar (view post)

As one can imagine, I'm going to completely disagree with this statement.

So do I. Jaws may no longer crack my Top 20, but its still a brilliant movie. Part of me wants to dislike it because it ushered in the modern idiotic blockbuster, but then everytime I catch it on TV I'm reminded how awesome the entire movie really is. At least several scenes are worthy of being included on "Best of" lists.

Weekend:

*Trick 'r Treat (2008)
Whatever else is horror related that I find worthy of viewing on Netflix. Yes sir, its that time of year again...

**Ezee E** · 10-07-2010, 01:13 PM

Dang, Buried is only playing in one theater this weekend.

WEEKEND:
The Secret in their Eyes
The Killer Inside Me

**Skitch** · 10-07-2010, 03:21 PM

I'm rather irritated about AMC letting the MPAA pressure them into pulling Hatchet 2. Yay freedom!

**MacGuffin** · 10-07-2010, 04:27 PM

Quoting MadMan (view post)

Whatever else is horror related that I find worthy of viewing on Netflix. Yes sir, its that time of year again...

There is a lot.

**MadMan** · 10-07-2010, 07:02 PM

Quoting MacGuffin (view post)

There is a lot.

Yep.

Skitch the MPAA doesn't care about freedom. Or artistic creativity.

**baby doll** · 10-07-2010, 10:04 PM

Weekend:

Catfish (Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, 2010)
L'heure d'été (Olivier Assayas, 2008)
I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009)
Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1971)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987)*
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)

*I've been trying to squeeze this one in for ages, but can never find the time.

**transmogrifier** · 10-07-2010, 10:34 PM

Really surprised at how little I liked Ratcatcher. It's a "genre" that I tend to like, the low-key, fly on the wall, free-wheeling realistic view of childhood, but by God, it's just so hollow and disconnected. There are certain stabs at poetry (like the mouse to the moon and the wheatfield) that would have worked if the rest of the film was in support of them, but it isn't. Instead, it is a plodding dirge to the grinding poverty of the 1970s in Scotland, with no true insight into the characters and deeply conventional at its core. The relationship between the boy and the girl who loses her glasses is an indie staple, for example, that is in no way elevated, or tweaked, or even made interesting on the narrative surface. And it trades in cheap contrasts too, like the "happy" party at home after the awarding of the medal cynically followed by something that deflates that happiness.

What a disappointment.

**Skitch** · 10-07-2010, 10:45 PM

Quoting MadMan (view post)

Yep.

Skitch the MPAA doesn't care about freedom. Or artistic creativity.

I was being sarcastic. I'm thinking of a strongly worded email to AMC.

**StanleyK** · 10-07-2010, 10:47 PM

Quoting Qrazy

Haha. Classic.

What? The other parts are shorter.

**MadMan** · 10-07-2010, 10:59 PM

Quoting Skitch (view post)

I was being sarcastic. I'm thinking of a strongly worded email to AMC.

I figured as such. And the MPAA is dumb. Maybe if they weren't controlled by the studios, they'd actually having a rating system that wasn't horribly inconsistent and clearly dumb. My problem isn't with the ratings system (even though honestly if people don't care if their kids go see R rated movies, that's not my problem) but how its conducted and the fact that the MPAA at times is a gigantic censor board. Plus I still can't believe they gave Amelie an R rating, among other stupid decisions.

**DavidSeven** · 10-07-2010, 11:01 PM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

Really surprised at how little I liked Ratcatcher. It's a "genre" that I tend to like, the low-key, fly on the wall, free-wheeling realistic view of childhood, but by God, it's just so hollow and disconnected. There are certain stabs at poetry (like the mouse to the moon and the wheatfield) that would have worked if the rest of the film was in support of them, but it isn't. Instead, it is a plodding dirge to the grinding poverty of the 1970s in Scotland, with no true insight into the characters and deeply conventional at its core. The relationship between the boy and the girl who loses her glasses is an indie staple, for example, that is in no way elevated, or tweaked, or even made interesting on the narrative surface. And it trades in cheap contrasts too, like the "happy" party at home after the awarding of the medal to Da being cynically followed by something that deflates that happiness.

What a disappointment.

Hated this film.

Was attacked for the opinion back in the day, so glad to have someone of like mind on this. I believe I described the characters as cardboard cutouts or walking cliches, maybe both, rendering any insight into their interactions insignificant. Agree that it is a completely empty experience, on the whole.

**transmogrifier** · 10-07-2010, 11:03 PM

It does seem like a very Match Cut type of film.

**Sven** · 10-07-2010, 11:06 PM

Haven't seen Ratcatcher, but your words perfectly describer her Morvern Callar.

**Qrazy** · 10-07-2010, 11:27 PM

Quoting StanleyK (view post)

What? The other parts are shorter.

Well Part I is a little longer than the prelude. But realy I was thinking more so of his longer version of the film The Art of Vision which is a superimposition of all of the various roles of the film which came before. It clocks in at a bit over 4 hours. If I remember correctly even the later parts of Dog Star Man feature a fair bit of repetition of earlier sequences though.

**Sycophant** · 10-07-2010, 11:33 PM

The Non-Sensationalist Take on Hatchet II’s Theatrical Run

Movie's got more stupid publicity now than it would have had otherwise. Go it.

**Raiders** · 10-07-2010, 11:56 PM

Ratcatcher is the best film of 1999.

**Boner M** · 10-08-2010, 12:27 AM

Both of Lynne Ramsay's flicks are great. Comeback, plz.

**transmogrifier** · 10-08-2010, 12:47 AM

Quoting Raiders (view post)

Ratcatcher is the best film of 1999.

My wireless lie detector machine is going haywire at the moment.

**DavidSeven** · 10-08-2010, 01:02 AM

Quoting Raiders (view post)

Ratcatcher is the best film of 1999.

Whoa, whoa. Let's not sully the good name of 1999 cinema by putting that dreck at the forefront.

**transmogrifier** · 10-08-2010, 01:03 AM

Quoting Boner M (view post)

Both of Lynne Ramsay's flicks are great. Comeback, plz.

The Lovely Bones would have been just as bad with Ramsay at the helm. A different, morose, disconnected kind of bad, but bad nonetheless. Bam! You're up.

**Boner M** · 10-08-2010, 01:32 AM

Quoting transmogrifier (view post)

A different, morose, disconnected kind of bad, but bad nonetheless. Bam! You're up.

A good kind of bad, y'mean.

**Raiders** · 10-08-2010, 02:57 AM

I stand by my statement. Perhaps there are indeed better films from 1999, but of the 90 I have seen, it's the best.

I also like Morvern Callar, but to a lesser extent and mainly due to Morton.

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