What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

Justthefacts · 08-14-2017, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by eric generic

Using gay as an insult in 2017...

Do you not realize all the depressed kids out there that are struggling to come to terms with themselves (and how they are subsequently treated / portrayed)?

Seems to me you're pretty fucking gay.

Trollheart · 08-15-2017, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Great film that does so much with so little. I am a bit worried that it will age poorly on a further viewings though.

I'd agree with this. Because there is basically nothing else to concentrate on - literally: no change of scene, no other characters who are not voices or, in one case, a brief face on a tiny phone screen on a video - there's nothing I think to reward subsequent viewings. Still, for what it was, I thought it was pretty great. But yeah, definitely not something you would watch twice.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

So if I wanted to look up war movies with that 1700s, march in formation and unload with mass musket volleys kind of battles from the Revolutionary War and Napoleon and ****, what the hell do I even look up?

You could try docus and dramas on Napoleon. I watched a few: think one is called Napoleon and Josephine. There's also The Charge of the Light Brigade, and surely other, older type movies.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Ya, that movie was so much better than I'd imagined. Reynolds developed into a really good actor during his career.

Spoiler for Spoiler:

Absolutely. Two great twists near the end. Heart rending, and yet, in its way, totally satisfying. Glad the writer/director didn't cop out at the end.

Chula Vista · 08-15-2017, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Absolutely. Two great twists near the end. Heart rending, and yet, in its way, totally satisfying. Glad the writer/director didn't cop out at the end.

Ever seen the original Dutch film "The Vanishing"? That also didn't cop out like the American remake did.

**Frownland** · 08-15-2017, 04:08 PM

I felt like whether he (this is your chance to stop reading because I'm not feeling like spoiler tags) lived or died would have felt like a cop out either way. The combination/fakeout approach subverted that.

Chula Vista · 08-15-2017, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I felt like whether he (this is your chance to stop reading because I'm not feeling like spoiler tags) lived or died would have felt like a cop out either way. The combination/fakeout approach subverted that.

????? Splain Lucy.

**Frownland** · 08-15-2017, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

????? Splain Lucy.

Dark and depressing endings are a cliche of their own these days. I'm guessing you know that happy endings that tie things together are cliche too. The ending teases the latter and follows through with the former, and in doing so manages to not be a cliche.

Chula Vista · 08-15-2017, 04:56 PM

Which movie you talking about?

Spoiler for The Vanishing:

**Frownland** · 08-15-2017, 04:57 PM

I've seen and love The Vanishing more, but I was talking about Buried.

Mondo Bungle · 08-15-2017, 07:31 PM

Paprika is one of my new favorite movies. It's so so nice and gay and I love everything about it. I wish I could see it for the first time every time

~~MicShazam~~ · 08-16-2017, 01:58 AM

Master & Commander.

It was allright. Some of the ship scenes were confusing and a couple of them made little sense to me, but it was fun none the less.

08-15-2017, 04:08 PM	#19994 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I felt like whether he (this is your chance to stop reading because I'm not feeling like spoiler tags) lived or died would have felt like a cop out either way. The combination/fakeout approach subverted that. __________________ 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

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Which movie you talking about? Spoiler for The Vanishing: The ending of this is terrifying on two levels. Not only is the guy going to suffocate but after 3 years he now knows his wife dealtt with the same unimaginable terror. __________________ “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.”

08-15-2017, 04:57 PM	#19998 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I've seen and love The Vanishing more, but I was talking about Buried. __________________ 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

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	Master & Commander. It was allright. Some of the ship scenes were confusing and a couple of them made little sense to me, but it was fun none the less.