Dec 10, 2015

Better than Tangerine
Armond White is jealous.

 

Dec 10, 2015

Remember that quote you took about Pauline Kael? I feel like the Sixth Man is one of those films for me. I have a relationship with it and can't think straight lol. Same with Good Burger which I saw last week. I underrated my feelings to get the ratings

 

Dec 12, 2015

Slant Magazine posted their top 25 movies of 2015 and it was really interesting as usual...

http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-films-of-2015

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. In Jackson Heights
3. Timbuktu
4. Horse Money
5. Magic Mike XXL
6. Hard to be a God
7. Heart of a Dog
8. Blackhat
9. The Assassin
10. Chi-Raq
11. Li'l Quinquin
12. Taxi
13. Queen of Earth
14. The Look of Silence
15. Heaven Knows What
16. Jauja
17. The Forbidden Room
18. Phoenix
19. Carol
20. Creed
21. Mistress America
22. Son of Saul
23. Of Men and War
24. Eastern Boys
25. 45 Years

 

Dec 12, 2015

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  In the Mood for Love 2000
  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Dec, 2015
  
  Absence and repetition are both effacing and intimate in this masterfully shot and economically narrated poem.
  
  92/100 - Amazing.
  
  1 like
  
  
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  The Fool 2014
  ★★★★ Watched 10 Dec, 2015
  
  Strongly directed and well photographed depiction of corruption and hypocrisy in a small Russian town. Both literary and cinematic.
  
  83/100 - Great.
  
  1 like
  
  
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  Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 2015
  ★★★ Watched 10 Dec, 2015
  
  A little hipster-meta-cliche Sundance Juno thing is going on, but it shows a palpable love of film and has a very touching and well directed ending.
  
  73/100 - Good.
  

 

Dec 12, 2015

Fury Road is officially the most overrated movie in my lifetime.
Hard to be a God is brutal. I'm a sucker for modern black and whites.

You know the light up, whistling yoyo? I got one of those for Christmas one year. Those scenes in the mental asylum would not happen today. Love the quirks of the 90s.

 

Dec 12, 2015

Fury Road is the best. Stop the hating!

I finally saw Creed this week. Given the reviews, I was expecting it to be good but even with elevated expectations, I was still surprised by just how great it was. Pop filmmaking at its very best imo...where both formula and franchise are invigorated by a fresh and strikingly authentic take. While I felt many of Coogler's writing and directing choices in Fruitvale Station were misjudged, his approach here both on the page and behind the camera is remarkably confident and assured. Definitely wasn't expecting this to be Top 10-caliber.

Saw Spike Lee's Chi-Raq as well, which was also great. With its use of text on screen, its forceful social message, and just its sheer moment-to-moment, anything-goes inventiveness, I was reminded of some of Godard's best work.

 

Dec 12, 2015

That's the the problem! If you aren't gushing over it, you're in the minority and nobody wants to be there. The conformity of opinion surrounding it is so weird.

I gave it 3/5 (closer to 3.5), but I have no strong feelings about it now. I can't even remember most of it. I suppose you could say that the theater experience carried it, but I made sure to watch this on Blu Ray on a widescreen with surround sound. I can only imagine how much more numbing the experience would have been in IMAX.

 

Dec 12, 2015

 

Dec 12, 2015

Fair enough...I'll accept it...

 

Dec 12, 2015

I think you need a rewatch!

 

Dec 12, 2015

You yourself said that your opinions diverged more with your peers during your studies than with the average person. You would certainly expect this kind of discourse to be not only the norm but necessary in the world of criticism. There is a modern trend (one that @captain awesome posted an article about in this thread) for occasional overwhelming conformity in support of something. This is happening in the music world as well with albums such as To p---- A Butterfly being championed much the same. You have to question it a little. It's almost cult-like. This has very little to do with my personal, rather positive, outlook on Fury Road and more to do with what I've observed about its reception as a whole.

 

Dec 12, 2015

lol, I definitely agree with that, and I can accept you don't like it as much. You seem to like it just fine. 3.5 is a fairly strong rating. I was kind of just being facetious, saying if you don't remember it you ought to rewatch it (as if all films you cant remember you ought to rewatch, even though it's not really practical nor what you'd want to do with a film you don't love). I don't mean to come off as saying you NEED to rewatch and therefore you WILL fall in love with it or anything like that. If anything nothing will change. Just kinda riffing on your post in what I thought was a nice light manner lol

Maybe it should have said
I think you need a rewatch :P:P:P:D:P LOL

 

Dec 12, 2015

Lol, I wasn't really offended. Just elaborating on my position.

 

Dec 12, 2015

yeah i feel like theres a few modern factors (social media, blah blah)... but its also, this is something people feel passionately about (generally) so as a result people have a habit to feel passionate about all the things they see too. in the other words, you can be a film lover and not always love films-- which imo trips up some people

 

Dec 12, 2015

I think I'm about ready to post a list, though I really want to see Chi-Raq & Our Little Sister, I'll probably do a top 15 or top 20 on LB at the end of the year.

I'll just post what I have as a top 10 at the moment.

1. Carol
2. Blackhat
3. Cemetery of Splendour
4. Creed
5. Magic Mike XXL
6. Amy
7. Queen of Earth
8. It Follows
9. Inside Out
10. Los Ausentes

 

Dec 13, 2015

seeing Carol tomorrow.

 

Dec 13, 2015

How come I keep seeing so much love for Magic Mike XXL? Thoroughly enjoyed the original, but I have no idea why the sequel exists

 

Dec 13, 2015

no mad max

 

Dec 13, 2015

Would be in my top 15. This is exactly what Charlie was saying tbh and I'm with him on that. I think the film is fantastic, but just because I don't have it at the top of my list people catch feelings.

 

Dec 13, 2015

Have you seen Macbeth?