One of the best films this decade. Aside from Inside LLewyn Davis, this is Oscar Isaac's best performance. I always appreciated that he was just a guy trying to play it straight laced while everyone around him was corrupt as fuck. The marketing for the film played it off as Isaac being some brooding mafia guy when in reality that wasn't the case.

The blood mixing with the oil in the end is pretty telling stuff.

I liked A Most Violent year a lot in some ways, but I remember feeling pretty let down. I'm not sure why, but I felt like it didn't quite make it to the finish line without losing something along the way.

There were some really good scenes.

Watched The Thin Red Line this evening. Phew. Long ass movie and during the final third, it felt like an endurance test. I managed not to fall asleep, but I think Terence Malick has a way of making his whispered, slow motion voice overs feel corny as hell. You could parody some of his attempts at being poetic and no one would know it from the real thing.

Much better than Tree of Life, but still not a movie I'd like to rewatch.

I definitely wouldn't go that far. I thought that he did well with the role but it came off as a bit stale at points. I give the film a 3.5/5 because I think it didn't reach its full potential.

I can't remember the details so well anymore. I think the parts with Julian were the strongest of the film. I have to admit I thought Isaac was perhaps a bit robotic at times.

Interesting. I agree that Ivan's childhood is probably his most linear film (and therefore least "tarkovsky-like"), everything after that starts to become more abstract. I did dig some parts of The mirror though, on a purely visceral level, didn't understand a thing about it. Same for most of his other movies, but he was such an original author you can't help but be captivated by his imagery. Maybe when I'm a bit older and smarter I'll give them all another try...:)

Does anyone have stimulus Tuesday where they live? $5 films? It's a Godsend, gonna check out Blackkklansman soon. Nothing but good things I'm hearing.

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"Patient Zero". It could have been a great film..really it could of. It has famous actors like Matt Smith (Dr Who), Nataly Dormer (Game of Thrones, The Tudors), John Bradley (Game of Thrones aka John Snow's sidekick). It has an interesting plot (Matt Smith as a type of Zombie whisperer who has been bitten but never turned..he is trying to find patient zero..and he finds that zombies are much more sentient than the unturned humans think).

What it turned out to be was one big, hot mess of a zombie film. It seemed like Matt Smith and the GOT guy were just competing on who can speak with a worse American accent while Natalie Dormer played a completly unbelievable doctor. I agree with one person who wrote that this film had originally been shelved by Sony and should never have been released. Because it could have just been a great tax write off and that was all it was meant to be.

It wasn't even a "So bad it was good" film. It was just bad. And to top it off, a certain character was killed in the beginning who should not have been killed. But I guess he was just as bored by the film as those watching it and wanted an easy out.

Just got this on VHS, as a huge Bobcat fan, I liked it. Its no Shakes the Clown though.

*could have

Just watched Demolition.
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It's a bit strange. The ending is a slight cop out by way of resorting to conventions where the movies was really quite unhinged up to the last few scenes. I don't really mind. What this movie made me think about was something that's been sitting in the back of my mind for a while. I read a Sunsan Sontag essay by the name "Against Interpretation" a couple months ago and it never really left my mind.

Basically, I think that the common way to discuss the merits of a movie is overly contrived, intellectualized bull****. A movie is a series of impressions that can't be boiled down to some "message" that is then judged in it's coherence or lack thereof. I felt very mentally engaged by Demoltion. It was rich in all sorts of small mental reactions, like empathy, finding a character interesting or offputting or likeable, liking the music, striking imagery, etc. The sum of these experiences is what the movie really is. Everything else is an attempt to rationalize the film and boil it down to some neat little intellectually explainable package that isn't actually what the movie was like when I watched it.

I'm basically saying that I don't need to understand why I liked it even if it's somewhat poorly rated on Metacritic and RT. It's like how I can't tell you why I loved Spring Breakers so much. It seems like it should be a dumb movie, but it felt somehow like it touched upon some great truth. Something that you ruin if you try to explain it. I realize that I simply feel a movie - like a piece of music - and that I have no interest what so ever in the traditional way of rationalizing the experience and analyzing what the "message" might be.

The message isn't the movie.

Frontière(s) - This whole movie really needs to calm down. And everyone needs to stop trying to be so hard cuz they be lookin' like fools. So there's that and not much else to say about the movie. Highly unoriginal and stereotypical with some decent but unextraordinary splatters. It rips off a lot from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and any number of modern torture movies that suck like Hostel, although this is leagues better than that at least. Hostel is terrible. This movie has Nazis. I'm not into this brand of action horror. It did have at least one good horror moment though aside from the killings. 2.5/5

Synecdoche, New York - This didn't become my favorite movie ever or even one of them like I thought it might have the potential to, but I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like it's not a great and groundbreaking movie. Unfortunately this'll be a case of me not being able to exactly articulate what it was that didn't hella click with me, being a dumbass and all. The only other Kaufman movie I've seen was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and I liked that better. Synecdoche is funnier though, and a lot whacker if the surrealism. A lot of people'll tell you it's a movie to watch with emotions rather than logic, and that's pretty agreeable to me. The timeline is absurd and hard to make sense of, but feelings still run deep throughout the whole thing. It seems to me like a portrait of an artist obliviously decomposing and self-destructing, with everything and everyone around him only breaking him down more. There's a lot of fantastic shots too. I dunno, maybe I'll have to watch it again to figure out more to say. Still 4/5

天浴 [Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl] - After watching this it dawned on me that it's the only Chinese movie I've seen (pretty sure). I would learn after this that the Orient is rampant with empathetic themes and sorrow. This movie was good but never flooring to me. It's slow (though that's not a problem with me considering the following movies in this post) and bleak and sparse, depicting a young girl sent away to the countryside to assist a nomad farmer. The film centers around homesickness, I'd say, that only grows as the protagonist doesn't return when she was promised she would. Various people that stop by say they can make it so that she can get back, only to take advantage of her is all sorts of ways while her host watches on in despair. Sad ending, though I didn't tear up, the movie didn't do enough to establish the emotional bond. 3/5

二十四の瞳 [Twenty-Four Eyes] - The story here is so simple but so nice. A schoolteacher watching her students grow up in wartime Japan. And boy do these kids love their teacher. Similar to what I said about Mary and Max, numerous sad events occur to really connect with the viewer before the ending comes around to make you realize that life is beautiful. I cried here, majorly. I imagine if you've ever had a strong connection with a teacher it would hit even harder, I never did and it still got me wrecked. It's slow and long but so humble and heartwarming. Seriously, these kids' admiration stays strong until they're adults, never forgetting their teacher the whole way. The end made me so happy I couldn't breathe. Only giving it4.5/5 because there's a lot of singing filler.

東京物語 [Tokyo Story] - There's hardly anything to do with a plot here, and that makes it all the more genuine. Even slower in pace than Twenty-Four Eyes, it's a simple view into the lives of a Japanese Family. There's so much to connect with here though it didn't make me cry as much as before. Its simplicity makes it hard to say a lot, but this is a highly emotional piece of film. 4/5

山椒大夫 [Sansho the Bailiff] - It's hard to find much fault with this movie, except maybe the title. Yeah Sansho was a major character but I wouldn't say he's worthy of the namesake. Either way, this is completely transcendent. Utterly beautiful cinematography, bold music, and emotions turned to 11. It's all about endurance, the strength to be no matter the circumstance. Yes, it made me cry again. 5/5

There's a 2 dollar theater where I live that always plays older movies. Sometimes they show recent ones but it's rare.

Whats's your zip code?

Watching the HBO documentary about Andre The Giant. At his max, he was ~ 7'4" & 550 pounds [2.24 meters & 250 Kg].

Paris, Texas was so good I can't even handle it. One of the best looking and feeling movies ever. 5/5

Still working through my list. Watched the rest of the Indiana Jones trilogy, then The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, and Mars Attacks, purely to see Joe Don Baker in something that wasn't Mitchell.

I think Buckaroo Banzai is next.

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American Animals was surprisingly good. It is about four college students that attempted to steal some books from the special colllections area of a college library including a book of Audobon originals and a first edition Darwin in the early 2000's in order to sell them on the black market . Supposedly it is based upon an actual event and the people who supposedly carried it out are interviewed during the film. A good heist movie but I question a bit of it. Maybe because I used to work in the Special Collections dept. at my University's library but I don't see how one librarian was essentially the main security for these items (besides of course, the scattered motion detectors). Something like these items probably would never be available to the main public to even get close to. At my library we had everything from Babylonian tablets to original Brontë's that were so locked away that you had to go through multiple secure, temperature controlled rooms to even get close.

Honestly, I was the person who used to research auction houses, go into the ordinary stacks (the main library), and retrieve the books to shelve them in Special Collections. I found books worth thousands of USD just sitting there in the main library. Anyone could have checked them out. These guys should have just focused on finding those..they probably would have gotten away with it. But, it is a heist film and those kind of films rarely are made about people trying to take twenty-thirty thousand USD worth of books.

I last saw ONE FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST (1975) on VHS :)

This is probably top 5 films of 2018. I was amazingly blown away by this fucking movie. I love the sequence of them stealing the books Ocean's 11 style and then the actual way they do it. Hilarious stuff.

I last saw 1 FLEW OVER THE COOKOOS NEST (1975) on VHS :)

Yeah :) I thought it was fun when they realized that they had to go through the main library on the way out . Not a sound plan when you are trying to steal really heavy books...

Spoilers guys!

You informed us of that yesterday LOL. What did you think of it?

OOPS did I post it twice??

Im sorry guys....... I love that movie............. I love when jack gets everyone riled up and the lady gives him a dirty look (Around 20 mins) I laugh like crazy!!

It really happened though, so technically you can't spoil history.

last three movies/flims or w/e that ive watched have been:


IT
Snowden
Get Out

all really interesting movies and good.

I like the poster that one of the original members of the
"American Animals" gang designed for the film ( the artist..talented guy).

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The new one or the old one?

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Tom Segura - Disgraceful

Hilarious. Definitely one of the better comedy acts I've seen lately. I've always enjoyed Tom Segura's sense of humor, but he is fantastic this time around. Not that he isn't other times. Most if not all the jokes were winners in my book. Some did fall a bit flat, but not enough to sour the experience or to really consider them as failed jokes because they were still funny. Definitely recommend.

He has one of my favorite jokes ever in one of his older sets. He says that there are people walking around with no teeth and they ask if they can "borrow" $100 and he's like "No, you can just have it."

I'll see if I can find it.

Well I certainly recommend this if you're a fan. I legitimately was laughing through the whole thing.

Children of Men for only the second time since it came out. ****ing brilliant on every freaking level. Definitely in my top 20.

My god, the cinematography alone.

Cuaron... :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

I do not like even a single Coen Bros. film. It's not even hit-or-miss; I reliably don't like their films, whether I knew it was one of theirs when I watched it or not. Is there some great secret I'm on the outside of?


Also the last film I watched was Suburbicon (Coen-written, Clooney-directed) and found it highly predictable and un-engaging.

how could you not like Barton Fink

In stuff like Fargo, their blunt presentation of their really dry humour just kills me.

They are a hit and miss for me, maybe you landed on the misses.

Blood simple, Miller's crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No country for all men are all brilliant. The rest mostly fall flat for me. It's been a while since they made a truly great film though, they might be over their peak...:/

I'm not exactly a huge fan of their movies either. My favourites might be Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading. They're just basic, but funny comedies.

I also quite like a Serious Man and remember liking Fargo. Barton Fink was ok, I guess.

The rest of their movies don't do all that much for me. Inside Llewyn Davis disappointed me big time and was the movie that made me realize that actually, I'm not that into their films in general.

EDIT: Total brain fart here. I somehow forgot that No Country for Old Men is one of their movies. It's one of my favourites of all time. So pretty hit and miss for me as well.

I need to watch that again. Good lookin' out homie.