Weekend:
Iron Man
The Big Red One
The Bird People of China
Weekend:
Iron Man
The Big Red One
The Bird People of China
Sounds about right actually.Quoting Spinal (view post)
Well, I already know about your insanity.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
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) ***
I didn't comment on it initially simply because I'm so nonplussed by the film's reputation that I don't think anything'll sway me. I'm not familiar with the specifics of the Czech political situation at the time, but representing its leadership as a bunch of bug-eyed, lying, scheming curmudgeons doesn't strike me as particularly brilliant... which wouldn't be a problem if the film was visually appealing, well characterised, or actually funny. OK, a few scenes made me smile and the final shot was quite effective, but I think the extremely brief running time is the only thing keeping my opinion back from 'hate'.Quoting Spinal (view post)
Broad characterizations are a common element of farce.Quoting Boner M (view post)
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) ***
I guess it's that I don't find the film very effective as a farce. The audition for the 'beauty queens' scene could have been funny had it lasted a couple of minutes... instead it drags on forever to the point that I nearly wanted to fast-forward it. I went back to read your review at the old site where you said it's about "the way in which authority can value pageantry over people", and that never crossed my mind while watching it because to me Forman doesn't care about anyone onscreen except as amusingly ugly puppets for the delivery of a social message. Not my cup of tea.Quoting Spinal (view post)
PS: don't let my rating turn you off the films in my sig with high ratings... I immediately thought of you while watching Forbidden Lies and highly recommend it.![]()
I think the film criticizes that mode of thinking in the character of the priest. The ending refutes the priest's claim that God would not contradict the usual workings of nature. It certainly doesn't come out and say that God exists and works miracles, but its power stems from it presenting an event with no ready explanation, an event that contradicts our understanding of the world, an event that we can only accept if we are "capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason" (Keat's original definition of Negative Capability, according to Wikipedia).Quoting fasozupow (view post)
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
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I don't recognize the film you're describing and can only assume that you watched some shady Australian bootleg.Quoting Boner M (view post)
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) ***
Quoting Spinal (view post)
Well... consider myself pwned. :frustrated:Quoting Boner
Today at lunch, it was me, three other students, a few faculty members, Paul Mazursky, and Jeff Garlin. It was pretty fun!
Old as the hills.Quoting fasozupow (view post)
It was my #1 of last year! Totally took me by surprise. I can't fathom hating it, so, glad you liked it.Quoting DavidSeven (view post)
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
I should negative rape you for this. MirrorMask is a masterpiece. Go buy Sandman and get some culture going.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
My advice to all of the board is: never watch Container. Only at gunpoint, and even then try to duke it out. It's all I've seen from Modysson.
Wow. Now THAT I can't fathom... I really can't. But I suppose it's an unorthodox pick in a year where TWBB and NCFOM dominated top tens, so kudos for that.Quoting Milky Joe (view post)
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
What a few hundred years ago people didn't realize breathing = life?Quoting fasozupow (view post)
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The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
That's what I mean, if they had made it obviously a coma I think it would have been much more potent in both regards... faith or lack of faith... the way it is it just strikes me as somewhat overwrought.Quoting Antoine (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Obviously you'll never hack it as a knight of faith.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
lists and reviews
How is making it more amiguous a bad idea... it's barely amiguous, everyone there is like... omfg a miracle I believe! Fuck that.Quoting Melville (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Thank god for that.Quoting Melville (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
So, Southland Tales was definitely a film of some type.
My expressions while watching it:
:P
:|
:crazy:
If your issues were tonal I doubt the second film will correct that... I think it'll be more of the same (which I loved).Quoting fasozupow (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Damn, I didn't find it really all that funny as some seem time but it strikes me as a solid up and coming director early type film... like some of Polanski's early works.Quoting Boner M (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
You're really misinterpreting negative capability as I have been taught it... negative capability is leaving questions open... freedom vs. determinism, dream vs. reality, faith vs. doubt, etc.Quoting Melville (view post)
Ordet concludes the question fairly pro-faith, pro-God.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I've heard good things about Sandman and will get to it at some point... but Mirrormask is not a masterpiece (and Stardust is simply awful)... it's a unique, middling fantasy... relatively nice imagery, some inventiveness but with a middling script and very poor drama. I'd rather rewatch Rou's The Kingdom of False Mirrors than Mirrormask again and both have their fair share of flaws.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I just don't care for the kind of ambiguity that you want. If the character was in a coma, no questions would even be raised. The ending would just be an everyday event. Sure, someone who has faith that God's hand is in every event would say that God caused this particular event, but such an explanation would add nothing—if everything works according to our everyday notions, then saying God is responsible is superfluous. There's no tension in the ambiguity, since each each explanation works just fine on its own, and the nonbelievers have no new reason to believe.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
My knowledge of negative capability is limited to quotations from Keats, so you're probably right that I'm misinterpreting it. But the ambiguities and contradictions that Ordet points to strike me as much more profound than simply saying "maybe it was God or maybe it wasn't". Have you read Fear and Trembling?Quoting Qrazy (view post)
I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, blacksmith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad?
lists and reviews