Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:

DLaurent

DLaurent

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What's that NY heroin addict film that soundtrack inspired Aztec Mystic - Jaguar. Just low budget trash and not very good. Dunno why I thought of that, but watched it recently, and not very good, same as Fantastic Planet.
 
dilbert1

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Wages of Fear was masterful. Pure sacrifice to the Moloch god of Capital. **SPOILER** At first I felt having Mario die on his way back to town was a little too morally cathartic, but then again the oil company got what it needed in the end without having to pay a dime. Still though, the whole town celebrating despite the tragic deaths of three of its residents to no benefit of their own, Mario’s girlfriend dancing with her rapist tormentor as her cruel lover drives gleefully to ill-gotten but hard-won freedom… a “happy” ending would’ve been more sinister. I damn near cried when that washed up gangster Jo finally croaked, and seeing his severed leg underneath his pant was horrifying. A bit reminiscent of Treasure of the Sierra Madre but don’t remember that one being nearly as dark. The oil boss who rounds them up for the job was hilarious. Great movie.
 
dilbert1

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Going out to see Carrie Thursday as a first movie date with new girl. Neither of us have seen it. Will report my experience of course
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

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versh said:
Have you seen Munich?
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i saw this yesterday and thought it was a bit bland to be honest. but i think all spielberg movies are like that, dull and predictable. i think jurrassic park was his best movie. the thing with munich i didn't really understand is why would you film a real story that is already so potential and then make up all these weird parts that just make the movie look dumb? the best example being that maffia (?) guy in france and the dutch girl they went after, both are made up and give the movie a cartoonesque quality. it was full of all these archetypes, here's the funny bomb guy, here's the tough guy that has no remorse, then there's the femme fatal, the charismatic maffia guy, etc, etc.
 
shakahislop

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not sure this counts as much of a contribution to this thread but i watched Mustfa the lion king film and, well, it was a children's film and was exactly what you'd expect, i'd been drinking a lot to be fair and the cinema brings cocktails to your seat as you watch so i drank even more, it was kind of a nice blur with no tension
 
line b

line b

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shakahislop said:
the cinema was inside a sort of futuristic money extraction machine in downtown brooklyn
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A lot of theatres in compounds like that in Chicago too. They barely need humans to operate so it feels you and all the other patrons are wandering the soon to be ruins of a freshly collapsed brave new world.
 
sus

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shakahislop said:
the cinema was inside a sort of futuristic money extraction machine in downtown brooklyn
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That whole compound is nuts, I always get lost in the yuppie food court basement where they sell $14 mochi balls

Love that theater tho, the trick is bringing a flask of whiskey and just ordering cokes for mixers. Watched some Star Wars reruns that way
 
C

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In order of how good they are:

1. Aggro Dr1ft. One of the best films of 2024 BUT I'm a big harmony korine fan AND I was really mullered on skunk. It's like watching a painting, he's used infra-red and other cameras to completely alter the look of the film, so it's like watching VR. "Story" is so-so and keeps repeating itself, but it doesn't matter. One thing I really liked is that thd characters seem to have "avatars" of themselves IRL so eg one of them psychs himself up for a fight by generating angel wings. I think this is how it might be in the future. Less VR and more MR ie mixed reality so you can bring a sniff of your online persona into consensus reality?

2. Bird, by Andrea Arnold. Definitely her best film so far, it's the same territory, both geographically and thematically, as her previous best, fish tank, but she ups the "magic" ante in a very enjoyable way. Great soundtrack as usual, massive amounts of blur which my wife loved. Surely Britain's greatest living auteur?

3. Mad max furiosa. Unbelievable that George Miller is still at the helm, the original road warrior was 70s I think. So a comfy 50 year directing career. And it's solid. Definitely not as good as road warrior or mad max 2 (my fav mad max) but better than thunderdrome and Fury Road.

Extremely kinetic as always but good emotional dept to match thd violence. Starts getting a bit repetitive but then they wheel Tom Burke on who I rate. Plus there's an excellent bit at the very end featuring an odd tree/man hybrid, so it was always gonna be 10/10.

Shout out yorgos cos rewatched poor things and it's a bit baggy but still excellent.
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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catalog said:
In order of how good they are:

1. Aggro Dr1ft. One of the best films of 2024 BUT I'm a big harmony korine fan AND I was really mullered on skunk. It's like watching a painting, he's used infra-red and other cameras to completely alter the look of the film, so it's like watching VR. "Story" is so-so and keeps repeating itself, but it doesn't matter. One thing I really liked is that thd characters seem to have "avatars" of themselves IRL so eg one of them psychs himself up for a fight by generating angel wings. I think this is how it might be in the future. Less VR and more MR ie mixed reality so you can bring a sniff of your online persona into consensus reality?

2. Bird, by Andrea Arnold. Definitely her best film so far, it's the same territory, both geographically and thematically, as her previous best, fish tank, but she ups the "magic" ante in a very enjoyable way. Great soundtrack as usual, massive amounts of blur which my wife loved. Surely Britain's greatest living auteur?

3. Mad max furiosa. Unbelievable that George Miller is still at the helm, the original road warrior was 70s I think. So a comfy 50 year directing career. And it's solid. Definitely not as good as road warrior or mad max 2 (my fav mad max) but better than thunderdrome and Fury Road.

Extremely kinetic as always but good emotional dept to match thd violence. Starts getting a bit repetitive but then they wheel Tom Burke on who I rate. Plus there's an excellent bit at the very end featuring an odd tree/man hybrid, so it was always gonna be 10/10.

Shout out yorgos cos rewatched poor things and it's a bit baggy but still excellent.
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with andrea arnold shes one of the people where you can tell she's had a different background to the rest of the people who get to make films everything rings more true thats why she can hit harder than the florida project anora man they're both going for the same thing but she's closer to having lived it rather then having her nose pressed up against the glass fascinated
 
vershy versh

vershy versh

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vershy versh said:
Rewatched Metropolitan last night and there's some overlap with the Saltburn discussion, particularly what Biscuits was saying here:



Also the whole thing of the outsider temporarily falling into these upper class people's social circle:

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Watched this again last night. The whole thing's just drenched in festive melancholy.
 
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