28 Film Discussion Threads Later

**EyesWideOpen** · 08-19-2012, 04:23 PM

I forgot how great the score for Contagion was.

**Boner M** · 08-19-2012, 04:53 PM

Quoting EyesWideOpen (view post)

I forgot how great the score for Contagion was.

My friend criticised it for sounding too Windows '95, which is kinda why I love it.

**B-side** · 08-20-2012, 12:23 AM

Quoting Isaac (view post)

Nice, thanks.

It seems my taste closest resembles... soitgoes! Of you guys, my lowest TCI is with... you.:lol:

**Russ** · 08-20-2012, 12:25 AM

I never did criticker, but my tastes run equal parts high-brow and low-brow.

Not such a fan of the mid-level brow.

**elixir** · 08-20-2012, 12:41 AM

Quoting B-side (view post)

Nice, thanks.

It seems my taste closest resembles... soitgoes! Of you guys, my lowest TCI is with... you.:lol:

this is mine: http://www.criticker.com/profile/ears550/

b, you're my 39th best tci, so obviously something is amiss...

**Grouchy** · 08-20-2012, 12:42 AM

Criticker has become a habit for me. I never watch a movie without scoring it in the page.

The site itself calls me an "addict".

**B-side** · 08-20-2012, 12:47 AM

Quoting elixir (view post)

this is mine: http://www.criticker.com/profile/ears550/

b, you're my 39th best tci, so obviously something is amiss...

I already have you as a "kumpel" -- whatever the fuck that means. You're listed as my best TCI of my "kumpels" and my 13th best overall.

**Spinal** · 08-20-2012, 03:18 AM

After updating my sig here, updating my personal blog and rating a film on Netflix, doing Criticker just seemed like one step too many.

**transmogrifier** · 08-20-2012, 03:21 AM

Quoting Spinal (view post)

It's been too long since I've seen it, but my basic memory is that the scheme depended upon Scottie acting in ways they could not possibly have predicted. I should probably watch it again soon.

I just watched this again for the first time in about 15 years, and I have to say that this isn't really the case. In fact, the scheme is relatively simple, and only relies on two things: Scottie being a good detective (though Madeleine is able to feed him with all the information he needs anyway) and that he has vertigo.

Apart from that, all they really do is have Madeleine act suicidal and lead him to the Spanish village. There is nothing else really intricate in the set up. Voila, scheme success!

Anyway, I liked this much better the second time around (I was too young and impatient in my first viewing), being able to better appreciate the longing to be loved for who you are rather than who you are pretending to be, and misequating of surface affect for deeper emotional connection.

I do think that the placement of the reveal (the aborted letter) takes away a lot of the potential power of the last third, because I think in this case the knowledge removes a lot of the potential ambiguity. Scottie's obsession would be more unsettling if we were under the impression that he was victimizing a truly innocent girl, and then at the end reveal that in face the girl had an obsession of her own, to be loved again, and could only achieve that by turning back into a fake construct.

Still, gloriously atmospheric and some wonderfully staged shots.

**Qrazy** · 08-20-2012, 03:23 AM

Wow, Hell in the Pacific was shaping up to be a solid little film and then it had that toilet bowl of an ending. Yeesh.

**soitgoes...** · 08-20-2012, 03:29 AM

Quoting B-side (view post)

Nice, thanks.

It seems my taste closest resembles... soitgoes! Of you guys, my lowest TCI is with... you.:lol:

If Criticker says our tastes are similar then it must be true.

::starts a Tony Scott marathon::

**Watashi** · 08-20-2012, 03:43 AM

Apparently Tony Scott comitted suicide. I don't know of its official or just a rumor.

**Watashi** · 08-20-2012, 03:52 AM

Looks like its official now. Jumped off a bridge. Damn.

**Spinal** · 08-20-2012, 04:07 AM

Quoting Watashi (view post)

Looks like its official now. Jumped off a bridge. Damn.

What the hell, I thought you were joking.

Link

**soitgoes...** · 08-20-2012, 04:48 AM

Uh... that sucks, and it's incredibly eerie that I made that post when I did.

**Sven** · 08-20-2012, 04:51 AM

Quoting soitgoes... (view post)

Uh... that sucks, and it's incredibly eerie that I made that post when I did.

Yeah. Kinda creepy reading that in real time.

**transmogrifier** · 08-20-2012, 05:01 AM

Bloody hell. RIP.

**B-side** · 08-20-2012, 05:13 AM

Yeah, I'm still having trouble processing this. Ruiz, Angelopoulos, Marker and Scott all within about a year of each other. Devastating. Granted, Marker was very old, but still. The rest died too young.

**Bosco B Thug** · 08-20-2012, 05:14 AM

It's insanely true. Very unfair, like Angelopoulis. Weird.

No reason not to be glad for the career he's had, if it was leading up to this. Those who enjoy his films continue enjoying them. RIP.

**baby doll** · 08-20-2012, 06:18 AM

Ron Howard posted a tweet paraphrasing Billy Wilder's "No more Lubitsch movies" remark. Now, I think True Romance, Domino, Déja vu, and his short film Beat the Devil are all terrific movies, but is there any Hollywood filmmaker less like Lubitsch than Tony Scott?

**elixir** · 08-20-2012, 06:20 AM

What an absurd thing to even say.

**baby doll** · 08-20-2012, 06:23 AM

Quoting elixir (view post)

What an absurd thing to even say.

That's right, I talk smack about dead people. You gotta problem with that?

**elixir** · 08-20-2012, 06:24 AM

Not really, it's more the strange comparison to Lubitsch (yes, I'm aware of the comment Wilder made).

It's also weird because you say the guy made terrific films, but alright.

**Irish** · 08-20-2012, 06:27 AM

Quoting baby doll (view post)

That's right, I talk smack about dead people. You gotta problem with that?

No, but. I do find it amusing and odd that you're apparently following Ron Howard on twitter. :P

**B-side** · 08-20-2012, 06:36 AM

I don't see the comparison to Lubitsch at all. Mervyn LeRoy or Howard Hawks are far more applicable.

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