Topic: Last movie you watched? (Read 104066 times)

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I think I was just talking about how these kinds of characters in movies so often say things that are deceptively simple but fraught with profound meaning. Or like all the characters talk like they are reciting some encapsulating line from a poem. I'm not criticizing it really, it's just a way to write dialogue I guess. Maybe I'll be able to think of some examples the next time I bring this up.

I don't mean accents, that's not really much to do with language.
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I think I was just talking about how these kinds of characters in movies so often say things that are deceptively simple but fraught with profound meaning. Or like all the characters talk like they are reciting some encapsulating line from a poem. I'm not criticizing it really, it's just a way to write dialogue I guess. Maybe I'll be able to think of some examples the next time I bring this up.

I don't mean accents, that's not really much to do with language.
it's just one of those essential things writers need to do to keep things interesting, really. very few people actually talk like literary characters, and if you wrote a story that was purely realistic it'd be exceptionally hard to make it anything but boring.

i always thought of stories like this as an idealized representation of those sorts of peoples rather than something closer to a factual representation of one.
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i watched a couple movies recently.

s&man. interesting, often disturbing movie. really clever, actually. it's a documentary of the underground horror movie making industry that actually works in a storyline alongside. hard to review this movie. it's well done, but really creepy and, again, disturbing.

the orphanage. the one from spain. really, really well done. it bills itself as a horror movie, but that's not really true. it's more of a mystery/drama, i suppose. pretty great little film.

true grit. i really loved this. i have to admit, though i am a huge, enormous fan of john wayne, i somehow had never seen this movie (or i did, and i was just too little to remember). but the coens once again totally nail it. it's really awesome, funny, and at times a true homage to westerns. great atmosphere.

black swan. i did not know this was aronofsky going into the movie, but by about halfway i had guessed it. beautiful and creative movie. really dark, psychosexual story that reminds me of certain parts of the french lieutenants woman (heavy theme of sexual repression). go watch this. requiem and pi did certain things better, but black swan is magnificent in its own way.

tron. i hated everything about this movie. really, really awful.
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Jesus Dada is that screencap from the new blu-ray release because that is ridiculously high-res.
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dada lured tim curry into his house and took a photo

that's actually what tim curry looks like he has to wear heavy makeup to do other work
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I watched Barton Fink last night.  The John Turturro/John Goodman dynamic was entertaining, as were the various characters with their commentary on Hollywood.  The seemingly disjointed symbolism was dizzying, though.  I read the some of the Coen brothers' commentary on it, and didn't understand the point in most of it, as if they're throwing in these devices for the hell of it.  This might be something I have to view again to fully appreciate.
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dada lured tim curry into his house and took a photo

that's actually what tim curry looks like he has to wear heavy makeup to do other work
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Jesus Dada is that screencap from the new blu-ray release because that is ridiculously high-res.
Just a 720p torrent but yeah I suppose it's from the blu-ray release.
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I don't remember the regular DVD looking that sharp and the bluray just came out recently so if you downloaded it within the last couple of months then yeah it probably is.
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saw black swan again. man. what a magnificent, beautiful, and human movie. love it.
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grabbed what is supposedly the ultimate version of orson welles' Mr. Arkadin off of netflix. really interesting movie that i never got around to sitting down and watching. kinda doubt it'd be of much use to anyone that isn't a major welles enthusiast though. it's a very good, but very imperfect movie, due in large part to the fact that welles didn't get to edit it himself and the editing of the restructured version ended up being dictated primarily by things welles had told peter bogdanovich thirty years ago.

the movie itself ranges from kinda resoundingly imperfect to really stunning. some of the performances are incredibly good(redgrave, tamiroff), and some are phenomenally empty(arden). you could tell at some point welles gave the lead a very short leash because the guy goes from HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE'S DOING AT ALL to vaguely appropriate from scene to scene. or maybe he just grew tired of picking apart every scene and just let the guy ruin the movie? also, it's a ridiculously beautiful movie, which i wasn't really expecting from something everyone was [justifiably] calling a disaster. he would have had something really special on his hands if everything went well with the project, as even everything basically being smashed to incomprehensible pieces on the editing room floor couldn't interfere with how excellent the shot composition is almost uniformly throughout the entire film.

from an academic point of view it's interesting watching the film as it's probably the first film that really shows welles really developing the major meat of his trademark filmmaking styles that would pace his later movies. don't know if this is of significance to most people though, as most people aren't going to watch f for fake and FURIOUSLY MASTURBATE like i unashamedly do.

as always though, it's more frustrating than anything else that you kinda need to piece orson welles together rather than getting these glowing examples of what he was really capable of. you get someone like kurosawa and you don't need to dig particularly hard to get some clear picture of what he could do. figuring out what welles was like at his best is like this gigantic jigsaw puzzle, as you have bits and pieces scattered over like seven different films. that's kinda why it's not absurd hearing people call themselves WELLES SCHOLARS, since you have these little elements sprinkled throughout his various films that were completely revolutionary that just barely survive despite fifty years of pretty terrible misfortune and the meddling of irritating producers.



on a semi-related note i find it humorously narcissistic how welles would handle leads in movies where he played the BAD GUY himself. in touch of evil, the trial, and mr. arkadin the main character really seems profoundly, almost intentionally clueless as to what the movie is actually about. i'm of the opinion that this was intentional on welles part(maybe not even consciously) so you naturally focus your attention more on welles' character rather than the lead, who is deeply uninteresting and does not react to the happenings of the movie in a way that is at all meaningful. i read somewhere that he even told anthony perkins that the trial was a comedy(it was not), which would explain the unnerving smirk on his face throughout what was otherwise a deeply somber movie.

this is of minimal importance but i think it is a cool observation(also maybe pulling it out of my ass!!!) that probably nobody here will find any interest in. but whatever. at least i am POSTING WORDS ON A DEAD SITE so there.
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also i watched kurosawa's Ikiru a couple weeks ago and want to mention that it is one of the best things that came out of the 20th century. someone could come up to me on the street, poke me hard in the chest and say IKIRU IS THE BEST MOVIE THAT COULD EVER BE MADE, PROVE ME WRONG and i would have absolutely no objection whatsoever.

also if you do not CRY while watching it you are probably an awful person. not aware of a more emotionally engaging movie.
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Tim Curry should be in more movies.

Tim Curry should be in every movie.

I watched "Timer" the other night on Netflix because I was hella bored. I couldn't get over the infeasibility and impracticality of the premise. I could write about 10 pages describing in detail how the whole idea is retarded, but I'll just go ahead and say "it's retarded" instead. Despite that, the movie had some modicum of charm thanks to the actors' performances, and Emma Caulfield is effing hot, so it wasn't a total waste.
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A-Team. Not bad.
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I got a req: gimme your martial arts movies

old new good or bad I wanna see some kung fu movies and I don't know where to start

preferably new though I know I havent seen many of those

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I saw Ip Man a few weeks ago and it was alright. Kind of light on the Kung Fu, kind of heavy on the Chinese Nationalism. I'm not sure if that's exactly a rounding endorsement though.

Jackie Chan (like his old non-Hollywood stuff) is pretty awesome too.
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Jackie Chan (like his old non-Hollywood stuff) is pretty awesome too.

Legend of the Drunken Master.  Watch it in English.  This is a great film.

Oh and also the original Drunken Master was pretty good too, but I don't remember it nearly as well.
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Legend of the Drunken Master.  Watch it in English.  This is a great film.

I was going to say the same!  My favorite in the marital arts genre.

I got halfway through Lynch last night, and it's really entertaining to hear that guy talk and to see him work.  The way he describes his process is encouraging for any artist.
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I've seen drunken master but I might start there its been a long while and I'll check IP too
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I just watched the best setup for some twist in that show "Justified" its not really that great but in the episode "The Collection" its about some murder mystery and a rich guy that stole money and bought some hitler paintings. The collector that goes to appraise the paintings has the biggest collection of them and reveals why he collects them. I can't find a youtube of it but its so fucking hilarious the way he explains it.
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