I'm guessing it was Brad Pitt high as shit. When he said the horse line I died laughing. Still pretty hilarious.Quoting quido8_5 (view post)
I'm guessing it was Brad Pitt high as shit. When he said the horse line I died laughing. Still pretty hilarious.Quoting quido8_5 (view post)
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
Haha, this a great scene indeed. I was referring to []Quoting DFA1979 (view post)
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
Yes that part was fantastic, too.
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
Where do you guys recommend I start with Yasujiro Ozu's work? He's a filmmaker I've read a lot about but have never seen his films before so I'd like to clear up that blind spot.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
Watched Manhunter for the first time in 20 or so years. To say my taste in film has matured is an understatement.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I'm not sure if you mean that you liked it better or worse lolQuoting Scar (view post)
Whatever you can get your hands on. I've yet to see a bad Ozu movie.Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Ha. I’ve gained more appreciation for the style. The finale was always awesome, but when you see Lambs when you’re 13 and don’t watch Manhunter until after Hannibal, you expect Hopkins as Lecter, and seeing Brian Cox threw me.Quoting Skitch (view post)
Anyways, I certainly like it much more these days.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I started with Late Spring and it felt like a good jumping off point.Quoting Ivan Drago (view post)
buzzes like a fridge...
I haven't seen any Ozu since I was a teenager, so take this with a grain of salt, but I remember preferring Late Spring to Tokyo Story.Quoting Paranoid Android (view post)
Thanks for the recs so far, guys!
Also I thought about posting my Letterboxd review for Yi Yi in the Battle of the 00s thread given that's where it's being talked about, but I'd rather post it here for discussion purposes:
Yi Yi is an almost three-hour long Taiwanese epic that follows a family over the span of a year after their grandmother suffers a stroke following a relative's wedding. The incident provokes them all to try and make their lives more fulfilling in different ways. While Magnolia makes real life into a cinematic spectacle through powerful monologues and Biblical parallels, Edward Yang's final film makes it a spectacle just by filming it as it unspectacular, yet equal parts arduous and beautiful at the same time. The travels and experiences of each family member as well as the connections and reconnections they make along the way are photographed with powerful intimacy in gorgeous compositions as if the audience is eavesdropping on them from afar, while the sound design and mixing immerse viewers from scene to scene in its diegetic atmosphere, and the performances are powerful in their naturalism. Yi Yi is a film that provokes nostalgia and wistfulness, proposes thoughtful ideas about how people experience life, and tells sobering truths about mortality and regrets as well as the consequences of one's choices. That said, it's also a poignant reminder about how lovely the act of existence is, and one of the best films I've ever seen.
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Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
Hmmm...I really didn't like The Hateful Eight very much.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Yeah, all that setup for THAT ending?Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Me neither; so many dialogue-spewing caricatures... SO many!Quoting megladon8 (view post)
The dick sucking stuff was just...wtf level 10,000.
Many of the individual parts are impressive. The photography is gorgeous, the performances are fantastic all over. But QT is at his most self indulgent and...kinda gross.
The N word use is just too damn much. Dude, you have a problem.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
MatchCut Watch Party tonight. 8PM EST. Feature: You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Movie chosen at random from five MC watch queues.
Let me know if you want to join.
The third viewing I noticed some more things I didn't catch the other two times. The score and color schemes particularly but also how intense the film mostly is throughout. It really centers on a lot of smaller details that are nailed really well, too.Quoting Scar (view post)
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
Huh I loved The Hateful Eight but I did figure it wasn't one of QT's more well liked movies due to its length and being mostly a slow burn movie.
Blog!
And it's happened once again
I'll turn to a friend
Someone that understands
And sees through the master plan
But everybody's gone
And I've been here for too long
To face this on my own
Well, I guess this is growing up
Kids today have no appreciation for the classics ...
Crocodile Dundee 2 > Crocodile Dundee
Glad I could play my small part in it!Quoting Irish (view post)
FWIW Dundee II is too long/slow, lacks the humor of the original, repeats a few too many of the original's beats, and the villain is woefully unthreatening. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
Letterboxd
The Harrison Marathon - A Podcast About Harrison Ford
That's a random movie Mal watched.
*cough* Mike’s older than me. Which site is that? One I should’ve joined ages ago?Quoting Irish (view post)
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Guessing LetterBoxd. Find me at ScarOfWar. I’ll continue to update it during down time.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I'm megladon8 on Letterboxd if anyone wants to add.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."