films you've seen recently and would NOT recommend

shakahislop

shakahislop

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saw Aggro Dr1ft last night. harmony korine or someone pretending to be him came out to do an introduction wearing a sort of bank robber mask, talked for about one minute, said that he has realized that it's a religious film, said that he loved us all, told us to let the film wash over us. that cinema is a hotbed of performative laughing and people were really going for it with this one, laughing to show that they noticed details, laughing to show that they thought it was cheesy, laughing to show that they were above it all, but they got bored of that about halfway though. film is somehow really boring despite the visuals, it was like a long metal gear solid cutscene or a screensaver, was only 1h 20 and i was still looking forward to it ending. the colours were good, once again it all looked like a vape. am generally really interested as well in this thing of disgust at sexual excess that i keep noticing all over the place, that's really in this one, lots of garish neon sexless shots of strippers wiggling their bottoms about.

i think US film is in a weird and new place at the moment. it doesn't seem as dead as i thought. feel like i'm always seeing things i haven't seen before.
 
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shakahislop said:
saw Aggro Dr1ft last night. harmony korine or someone pretending to be him came out to do an introduction wearing a sort of bank robber mask, talked for about one minute, said that he has realized that it's a religious film, said that he loved us all, told us to let the film wash over us. that cinema is a hotbed of performative laughing and people were really going for it with this one, laughing to show that they noticed details, laughing to show that they thought it was cheesy, laughing to show that they were above it all, but they got bored of that about halfway though. film is somehow really boring despite the visuals, it was like a long metal gear solid cutscene or a screensaver, was only 1h 20 and i was still looking forward to it ending. the colours were good, once again it all looked like a vape. am generally really interested as well in this thing of disgust at sexual excess that i keep noticing all over the place, that's really in this one, lots of garish neon sexless shots of strippers wiggling their bottoms about.

i think US film is in a weird and new place at the moment. it doesn't seem as dead as i thought. feel like i'm always seeing things i haven't seen before.
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You should program your smartphone to vibrate at random times upon which you laugh uproariously, making everyone else look like complete morons.
 
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rubberdingyrapids

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la chimera was utterly irritating for me. its gotten endless raves but it was mostly like the film version of whimsical indie. also ridiculously longer than it needed to be.
 
DLaurent

DLaurent

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Synecdoche, New York.

I like Charlier Kaufman as far as Anomalisa and Being John Malkovich go, but this was pretentious! I don't usually call things that.
 
DLaurent

DLaurent

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Narrow Margin.

Too basic a plot padded out by action scenes, would have been better if someone like Paul Verhoeven directed, but not the worst Hackman film I've seen, which would be Targets... which had some awful acting from Matt Dillon and poor chemistry with Hackman.
 
Murphy

Murphy

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Gladiator 2

Night shift crew garbage. In the haze of chaos I recall cheap shit baboons, a rhino rider, an amphitheatre done up as a massive pool, some awful legacy nonsense, can’t remember anything else. Oh yeah a pair of wannabe creepy English looking emperors and a semi decent attempt at a Roman D-Day landing intro

can’t remember much/10
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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I watched the remake of I Spit On Your Grave from 2010 I think and, well it was ok, fair enough they didn't pull any punches with the nastiness; video nasty meets torture porn I guess you could call it. But except for the sheriff - a new character who is not in the original as I recall - the baddies weren't that evil. Well, I mean they gang-raped her and left her for dead etc but they just didn't have the charisma to exude any real menace in the build up to that, they were just some standard red-neck jocks could have been cut out of any hillbillies run amok type film. Ultimately seemed completely pointless to remake it, there was nothing added to the original and all its scuzzy raw power was lost.
 
DLaurent

DLaurent

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The Fog. It's not that I don't think it's well enough made and stylised, just creepy seance scenes freak me out.
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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gumdrops said:
seconded on the lost in translation/smugness hate too, but i did like the virgin suicides and somewhere. even marie antoinette had redeeming features. i dont know if there is a non-smug/irritating wes anderson film though.
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virgin suicides is like a time capsule now
 
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