What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

The Batlord · 11-18-2014, 10:02 AM

Man Bites Dog

Watched this on a spur-of-the-moment the other day. Like Cannibal Holocaust with a black sense of humor. Best thing about it has to be that, even though it was absurd and tongue-in-cheek, it was still a brilliant look into the persona of a sociopath: charming and charismatic 90% of the time, even when he's doing terrible things, but as time goes on, he slowly becomes more and more manipulative. And when something doesn't go his way, all of a sudden his nice guy act stops. Usually a movie about someone like this spends all its time making them look like a creepy monster, and while this one did as well, it's lighter side made him seem a likable and fun guy to be around at the exact same time... you know, unless you're black. Can't say that I loved the movie, but it was definitely a fun watch.

P.S. Thank god for anime subs. If nothing else, they've trained me to be able to watch subtitled movies and not look like a dumb American.

**Frownland** · 11-18-2014, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Man Bites Dog

Watched this on a spur-of-the-moment the other day. Like Cannibal Holocaust with a black sense of humor. Best thing about it has to be that, even though it was absurd and tongue-in-cheek, it was still a brilliant look into the persona of a sociopath: charming and charismatic 90% of the time, even when he's doing terrible things, but as time goes on, he slowly becomes more and more manipulative. And when something doesn't go his way, all of a sudden his nice guy act stops. Usually a movie about someone like this spends all its time making them look like a creepy monster, and while this one did as well, it's lighter side made him seem a likable and fun guy to be around at the exact same time... you know, unless you're black. Can't say that I loved the movie, but it was definitely a fun watch.

P.S. Thank god for anime subs. If nothing else, they've trained me to be able to watch subtitled movies and not look like a dumb American.

It's also a pretty biting poke at the media with the documentarians recording all of the murders and doing nothing about them.

GuD · 11-22-2014, 07:53 PM

It only took an hour to start getting interesting. Rich people who can barely do anything for themselves playing detective to get away from their boring lives. The ending was so nonchalant and just... sloppy. I've only seen a few Allen films and so far this one is my least favorite... snoozefest galore.

**Frownland** · 11-22-2014, 07:55 PM

^havent seen that one. Have you seen Purple Rose of Cairo or Zelig? Those are his best IMO.

And Midnight in Paris can suck it.

Chula Vista · 11-22-2014, 08:04 PM

Out of the Furnace.

Starts very slow and takes a while before you become invested in the characters. What a freaking cast and they all act their asses off. Glad I stuck with it.

Spoiler for Trailer:

**Janszoon** · 11-23-2014, 12:17 AM

Headhunters (2011)
A nice bit of modern noir from Norway about an art thief who gets entangled with the wrong person. It has kind of Coen-ish feel to it—tense and brutal but it also doesn't take itself too seriously.

Mondo Bungle · 11-23-2014, 02:32 AM

passively watching analyze this on motel cable

~~James~~ · 11-25-2014, 08:30 PM

The Ascent (1977)
Holy crap, this is one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. It deals with the standard war movie trope of some soldiers sent behind enemy lines but does it in such a magnificent way that it is far and away the greatest film about war I've come across. The shot composition and the pacing are masterful, and it's really sad that the director died young and this was her last film. I feel if she was given a chance to make more we'd truly have a female director on the list of filmmaking giants. The performances though, they make this film a classic. The two leads are devastating, with every single expression on their faces displaying a multitude of emotion. You can tell just by looking at these men that the war has had no mercy. What really seperates this from the genre though is the message of the film, which has a strangely poignant philosophical edge, examining death in a really interesting way.
Five stars, couldn't recommend this enough to any fan of cinema.

**Frownland** · 11-25-2014, 08:32 PM

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The Ascent (1977)
Holy crap, this is one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. It deals with the standard war movie trope of some soldiers sent behind enemy lines but does it in such a magnificent way that it is far and away the greatest film about war I've come across. The shot composition and the pacing are masterful, and it's really sad that the director died young and this was her last film. I feel if she was given a chance to make more we'd truly have a female director on the list of filmmaking giants. The performances though, they make this film a classic. The two leads are devastating, with every single expressions on their faces displaying a multitude of emotion. You can tell just by looking at these men that the war has had no mercy. What really seperates this from the genre though is the message of the film, which has a strangely poignant philosophical edge, examining death in a really interesting way.
Five stars, couldn't recommend this enough to any fan of cinema.

I love that film. I'm a massive Tarkovsky fan, but that's probably my favourite movie out of Russia.

~~James~~ · 11-25-2014, 08:36 PM

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I love that film. I'm a massive Tarkovsky fan, but that's probably my favourite movie out of Russia.

This is the first Soviet film I have seen outside of Tarkovsky and Battleship Potemkin, but it truly blew me away in a way the others didn't. I can't stop gushing about it.

11-22-2014, 07:53 PM	#14663 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	It only took an hour to start getting interesting. Rich people who can barely do anything for themselves playing detective to get away from their boring lives. The ending was so nonchalant and just... sloppy. I've only seen a few Allen films and so far this one is my least favorite... snoozefest galore. __________________ I spit bullets in my feet Every time I speak So I write instead And still people want me dead ~msc

11-22-2014, 07:55 PM	#14664 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	^havent seen that one. Have you seen Purple Rose of Cairo or Zelig? Those are his best IMO. And Midnight in Paris can suck it. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

11-22-2014, 08:04 PM	#14665 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Out of the Furnace. Starts very slow and takes a while before you become invested in the characters. What a freaking cast and they all act their asses off. Glad I stuck with it. Spoiler for Trailer: __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

11-23-2014, 12:17 AM	#14666 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Headhunters (2011) A nice bit of modern noir from Norway about an art thief who gets entangled with the wrong person. It has kind of Coen-ish feel to it—tense and brutal but it also doesn't take itself too seriously. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

11-25-2014, 08:30 PM	#14668 (permalink)
~~James~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 4,483	The Ascent (1977) Holy crap, this is one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. It deals with the standard war movie trope of some soldiers sent behind enemy lines but does it in such a magnificent way that it is far and away the greatest film about war I've come across. The shot composition and the pacing are masterful, and it's really sad that the director died young and this was her last film. I feel if she was given a chance to make more we'd truly have a female director on the list of filmmaking giants. The performances though, they make this film a classic. The two leads are devastating, with every single expression on their faces displaying a multitude of emotion. You can tell just by looking at these men that the war has had no mercy. What really seperates this from the genre though is the message of the film, which has a strangely poignant philosophical edge, examining death in a really interesting way. Five stars, couldn't recommend this enough to any fan of cinema.