Jan 15, 2016

This s--- still has me dead

 

Jan 15, 2016

Finally caved and wrote my against-common-opinion review of The Revenant.

[REVIEW] 60/100 - The Revenant (Innaritu, 2015)

Like Birdman before it, this beautifully shot and highly sensationalized film captivates in the moment but disappears into soulless immemory shortly after the curtains close. With each feature film, Innaritu has become more arrogant and mean-spirited, with little love for his characters and even less on screen. For what may appear a humanist tale, the Revenant is far from being humanist. It is Innaritu’s latent sadism become manifest as a perverse, horror-bordering, manipulation of the ego. The men, both white and native, are transformed into blood-lusting savages, an expression of Innaritu’s perverse way of seeing life. The Revenant is not about life or about revenge. It is anti-life and it is anti-human.

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Jan 15, 2016

and a few more:

• 
  Night and Fog 1955
  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Jan, 2016
  
  Bar none the most harrowing document of the atrocities committed in concentration camps during the second world war.
  
  96/100 - Amazing.
  
  No likes
  
  
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  Xiao Kang 2015
  ★★★ Watched 13 Jan, 2016
  
  Not really much of anything but I like the colour palette and vignetting.
  
  70/100
  
  No likes
  
  
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  War Work: 8 Songs with Film 2014
  ★★★½ Watched 13 Jan, 2016
  
  Either the music is arbitrary or the archival footage is arbitrary. Both are incidental and unoriginal, but come together well.
  
  75/100 - Very Good.
  

 

Jan 18, 2016

The Revenant was great. The vision sequences involving Glass's wife are kind of dumb (they don't feel Malick-esque so much as like a Malick parody) and it's also a bit long, could've stood to have about 5 or 10 minutes trimmed out just to keep things flowing, but the film is so well put together and visceral that it's hard to complain. Excellent performances from everyone (especially Tom Hardy.. f--- me he's good) and it's just as thrilling and beautiful and painful as everyone says. For me it's about as high as a B+ can get without becoming an A.

 

Jan 19, 2016

Folks, I, for one, cannot get enough of this Hot Take™

 

Jan 19, 2016

I thought Tom Hardy was pretty good though!

I know everyone is still catching up on 2015, but what are your most anticipated films for 2016? These are the ones that came to mind for me right away...

Silence (Martin Scorsese)
The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
Hail, Caesar! (The Coen Brothers)
Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick) and other Untitled Malick Joint
The Witch (Robert Eggers)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
It's Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan)
The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)
The Unknown Girl (Dardennes Brothers)
Everybody Wants Some (Richard Linklater)
Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)

http://thefilmstage.com/features/our-100-most-anticipated-films-of-2016/
http://thefilmstage.com/features/the-50-best-2016-films-weve-already-seen/

 

Jan 20, 2016

Got a press screening for this Feb 9th.

 

Jan 20, 2016

I hate both of you 'cause I was talking about it months ago and nobody cared.

 

Jan 20, 2016

Classic dew but he's right in this case I think. Hardy was great!

 

Jan 20, 2016

Never said Hardy wasn't great!

 

Jan 24, 2016

Rank the Pusher Trilogy @Vahn

 

Jan 24, 2016

2, 1, 3 for me

 

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Jan 25, 2016

I haven't seen 3, but for me 2>>> 1. I wrote full length reviews of the first two for Next Projection and I gave them 70 and 85 respectively.

 

Jan 25, 2016

A movie about Charles Darwin's time in the Galapagos directed by Terrence Malick. That's the best thing I've ever imagined.

 

Jan 25, 2016

Pretty much what I and everyone else has been saying

 

Jan 25, 2016

that sounds amazing

 

Jan 25, 2016

You should post that in its own thread. It's kind of beneath (points noise in air) the usual crowd in here.

 

Jan 25, 2016

Half in the bag is good though. It would be more appropriate to post something like Chris Stuckman in the actual thread with tha plebs