FILM THREAD

[thezman]

May 28, 2024 22:08:49 GMT -5 Osama Vinladen Jiménez López🎅🎄 said:

sometimes it’s just a ~~vibe~~

I want a vibe, atmosphere driven story from a Wong Kar-Wai movie, or I don't know, 'Paris, Texas', not a war movie that's a workplace drama about photojournalists haha

Dune 2, Furiosa... this is the year of a sandy Anya Taylor-Joy <3

[andrewwhatever69]

May 29, 2024 14:56:14 GMT -5 thezman said:

May 28, 2024 22:08:49 GMT -5 Osama Vinladen Jiménez López🎅🎄 said:

sometimes it’s just a ~~vibe~~

I want a vibe, atmosphere driven story from a Wong Kar-Wai movie, or I don't know, 'Paris, Texas', not a war movie that's a workplace drama about photojournalists haha

Dune 2, Furiosa... this is the year of a sandy Anya Taylor-Joy <3

I fucking love Paris, texas

[jaredfromsubway]

I wasn't sure if I would like Stress Positions during the first 20 minutes, but I loved everything afterward. Very dense takedown of the generational gap between millennials and Gen Z, along with ripping on lazy liberalism, particularly from corny whites who represent themselves as voices for the marginalized. The only good COVID movie besides Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn.

[I Gave You Power]

Furiosa absolutely fucking slapped.

I like Fury Road a BIT more but I can easily understand why somebody would prefer Furiosa. The revenge story, the world-building, the new locations and cast of characters, just fantastic shit.

I also LOVED the final scene. Such a simple but fucking smart segue between the two films, especially for anyone who will be watching them back-to-back.

[I Gave You Power]

May 29, 2024 14:56:14 GMT -5 thezman said:

May 28, 2024 22:08:49 GMT -5 Osama Vinladen Jiménez López🎅🎄 said:

sometimes it’s just a ~~vibe~~

I want a vibe, atmosphere driven story from a Wong Kar-Wai movie, or I don't know, 'Paris, Texas', not a war movie that's a workplace drama about photojournalists haha

Dune 2, Furiosa... this is the year of a sandy Anya Taylor-Joy <3

Bingo.

You can’t make a movie about our current deteriorating climate as a country and the thousand powder kegs within and be like “well it’s just a ~vibe~”.

I’ll watch Only God Forgives when I want a vibe because there is zero pretense of anything important there. Just neon and fists, as the good lord intended.

[Osama Vinladen Jiménez López🎅🎄]

You can’t put vibes in a box bro

[Ian MacFlai]

i haven't seen civil war but "collapse of an empire" is definitely a vibe, i'm feeling it every day 

[thanksforthedress]

Challengers: A perfect distillation of the floundering of a generation of American Male tennis players. Been 20+ years since a slam and this movie proves why with the intoxicating excess that only someone like Guadagino can provide

[Aaron]

Been thinking about “A reeba durché” in Brad Pitt’s Inglourious Basterds voice all day and no clue why

[oatmeal]

I hated every single character in Challengers, but I was horny the entire time

[Aaron]

Sounds like winning to me

[antipasto]

I don’t think I’ve seen a new movie since Saw X. I might try to catch that new Viggo movie this weekend

[Aaron]

May 31, 2024 21:49:16 GMT -5 antipasto said:

I don’t think I’ve seen a new movie since Saw X. I might try to catch that new Viggo movie this weekend

MAN.

There’s a lot of really great shit that’s come out in the last year. Saw X rocked for sure, but there’s so much you could check out. Depending on your preferences, I’m sure there’s at least a couple to scratch the itch. 2023 was legitimately one of my favorite years for movies all around. But I’m also hard-rocking so what do I know.

[antipasto]

May 31, 2024 21:51:08 GMT -5 Aaron said:

May 31, 2024 21:49:16 GMT -5 antipasto said:

I don’t think I’ve seen a new movie since Saw X. I might try to catch that new Viggo movie this weekend

MAN.

There’s a lot of really great shit that’s come out in the last year. Saw X rocked for sure, but there’s so much you could check out. Depending on your preferences, I’m sure there’s at least a couple to scratch the itch. 2023 was legitimately one of my favorite years for movies all around. But I’m also hard-rocking so what do I know.

The worst part is that there have been a lot that I’ve wanted to see but I always wait too long and miss them in theaters and then I forget about them what were some of your favorites?

[Aaron]

May 31, 2024 21:53:00 GMT -5 antipasto said:

May 31, 2024 21:51:08 GMT -5 Aaron said:

MAN.

There’s a lot of really great shit that’s come out in the last year. Saw X rocked for sure, but there’s so much you could check out. Depending on your preferences, I’m sure there’s at least a couple to scratch the itch. 2023 was legitimately one of my favorite years for movies all around. But I’m also hard-rocking so what do I know.

The worst part is that there have been a lot that I’ve wanted to see but I always wait too long and miss them in theaters and then I forget about them what were some of your favorites?

Okay, shit, off the top of my head…

Horrorish:

Where Evil Lurks
Beau Is Afraid
Infinity Pool
The Passenger

Dramaish:
Anatomy of a Fall (probably my favorite period)
Zone of Interest
The Promised Land
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Are You There God It’s Me Margaret

Actionish:
Air
Covenant (loved that shit)
The Killer
John Wick 4
They Cloned Tyrone
MI: Dead Reckoning Part 1
Fast Charlie

Comedyish:
Bottoms
The Holdovers
No Hard Feelings
Could probably Margaret here, too, tbh


There was also plenty of fun shit that was straight to streaming like Tetris, BlackBerry, Operation Fortune, etc.

There was a lot last year and that’s just shit that’s coming to me at the moment. But also I love the Sandman and shit movies like Hubie Halloween and You’re So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, so take my apinion with a grain of salt.

[smashedbox]

I thought furiousa kind of stank?

[antipasto]

Hell yeah thanks for the recs, I’ll be sure to check some out asap

[lordcamopantsiii]

Apr 22, 2024 14:42:11 GMT -5 thezman said:

In the process of watching every movie released in 1980 (in the US)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_1980

January was rough, hoping February was better.

Update us. What’s the good, what’s the bad?
Those transitions between decades are always odd. Like the 80’s as we think of it doesn’t really hit until 83.

[jaredfromsubway]

In a Violent Nature was pretty good. I did have some gripes with the last 30 minutes, but there is one exceptionally gnarly kill that made it worth a watch in theaters.

[andrewwhatever69]

Jun 1, 2024 14:42:33 GMT -5 jaredfromsubway said:

In a Violent Nature was pretty good. I did have some gripes with the last 30 minutes, but there is one exceptionally gnarly kill that made it worth a watch in theaters.

Yeah. Just got out of it. It was a bit slow for me. But I also get why. I think I know what kill you’re talking about and yeah that was a doozy. If we’re talking the same one, I kinda feel like they blew their nut with that. And yeah, the last stretch was pretty weird.

[paulkersey]

Everyone keeps talking about THE kill. Goddammit I need to get out to see this movie. The trailer had me hooked. I'll accept nothing less than great, I dont bother going to movie theaters anymore but this might get me. 

[Aaron]

I don’t pay a ton of attention to reviews, but the wildly lopsided critic/audience rating had me refund my tickets for tonight

Just going to wait for it to hit streaming

[jaredfromsubway]

I can see why it's arthouse tendencies will turn off a general audience. It's like Friday the 13th directed by Chantal Akerman.

I liked the idea of what they were trying to do with the last stretch of it, I just found certain aspects of it to be a pretty questionable with the way it was executed.

[PissPig]

Furiosa was fine. Hemsworth just didn't do it for me either, with his distractingly bad prosthetic nose.

[thezman]

Jun 1, 2024 0:00:53 GMT -5 lordcamopantsiii said:

Apr 22, 2024 14:42:11 GMT -5 thezman said:

In the process of watching every movie released in 1980 (in the US)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_1980

January was rough, hoping February was better.

Update us. What’s the good, what’s the bad?
Those transitions between decades are always odd. Like the 80’s as we think of it doesn’t really hit until 83.

I'm at 30% of the list so far (55 of the 183 movies.)

My breakdown of the movies watched so far:
5 stars- 2/55 (4%) (Raging Bull, The Shining)
4 1/2 stars- 4/55 (7%) (Good Riddance, Stalker, The Elephant Man, Kagemusha)
4 stars- 10/55 (18%) (The Young Master, Breaker Morant, Airplane!, The Big Red One, Dressed To Kill, Ordinary People, Gloria, Babylon, Altered States, Empire Strikes Back)
3 1/2 stars- 17/55 (31%)
3 stars- 13/55 (24%)
< 3 stars- 9/55 (16%)

The particularly bad ones I had never heard of before... I'm going to guess that'll be a theme ha.

As I get further into watching the entirety I'm going to guess that it'll skew much lower in quality (most of the movies I've watched from 1980 prior to starting this were cherry picked based off my tastes so movies like 'Raging Bull' and 'The Shining' were already watched.) I'm going to guess the remaining 70% of 1980 that I have yet to watch is 3 1/2 stars and below fare.

Like you said, most of this feels like remnants of the '70s, the decade hadn't really taken ahold of the style of film making yet. I do think movies like 'Xanadu' though, were trying to do something different and push into something new with a new decade... this isn't based off anything I've read, I'm just guessing that even though decades are made up, they do affect our psychology and I don't think that differs for creatives (directors, etc.)


Looking at the movies that are coming up... I'm not exactly thrilled to continue this "journey" so I've been making my way through Palme d'Or winners. High art. Maybe that's all I need to cleanse my palette and return to the trough of 1980.

[solidsnake]

Jun 1, 2024 21:42:32 GMT -5 jaredfromsubway said:

I can see why it's arthouse tendencies will turn off a general audience. It's like Friday the 13th directed by Chantal Akerman.

I liked the idea of what they were trying to do with the last stretch of it, I just found certain aspects of it to be a pretty questionable with the way it was executed.

The entire movie I was thinking “Friday the 13th remake/reboot as directed by Kelly Reichardt.” The big kill had me squirming and actually giggling. Four other people were in the theater, two walked out after maybe the 30 minute mark. I thought the last bit was actually pretty masterful and scary. Like most of you, I’ve seen a lot of horror movies and not much gets to me, but I was anxious as fuck. My biggest gripe was just the ADR seemed cheap and basic, not well integrated into the mix. Whatever the director does next, sign me up. Also awesome that I’ve seen two Shudder releases this year in theaters in bumfuck Montana. What a world.

[Aaron]

PCU not being available on any streaming platform stinks. Sucks that some movies get hosed when it comes to streaming and licensing.

[hermano]

I fucked hard with In A Violent Nature. Great shots, all of the kills were a lot of fun imo, it didn’t take itself too seriously. Some of the comedic timing was impeccable. I don’t know if they totally stuck the landing at the end, but it still felt impactful. Definitely glad I caught a showing.

[solidsnake]

Jun 2, 2024 22:27:31 GMT -5 hermano said:

I fucked hard with In A Violent Nature. Great shots, all of the kills were a lot of fun imo, it didn’t take itself too seriously. Some of the comedic timing was impeccable. I don’t know if they totally stuck the landing at the end, but it still felt impactful. Definitely glad I caught a showing.

Yeah, dunno if another movie as memorable will come along this year.

[burp]

I'm watchin some At the Drive In/Mars Volta documentary that came out last year. It's pretty cool, Idk how I feel about their music now but ATDI was a big deal in high school and Deloused in the Comatorium was a pretty huge album for me and my friends (didn't care for anything after it tho).

Like stories about fiery bromances.