FILM THREAD

[solidsnake]

Wish Wes Craven made more movies likes Serpent and the tie dye. Talk about an insane shoot. He really didn’t make that many good movies but he had the potential to make lots.

[solidsnake]

Wow didn’t know rai.nbow had a filter.

[antipasto]

Sept 27, 2024 21:12:47 GMT -5 solidsnake said:

Sept 27, 2024 20:31:19 GMT -5 antipasto said:

I love ghosts of mars

I still remember, well over two decades later, how weird Clea Duvall getting beheaded looks.

I saw it for the first time a couple years ago. My buddy and I were buzzed off the beers and decided to throw it on for a laugh. We ended up having a blast

[andrewwhatever69]

Wolfs is pretty fun. Clooney and Pitt = sold

[jaredfromsubway]

Watched Total Recall in 70mm. The sickest. Given that it was a sold out screening and there was at least 20 open seats is encouraging me to wait in the Standby Line for The Brutalist 70mm screening next week.

[solidsnake]

Oddity got added to Shudder, so I indulged this morning before the family was awake. Great movie. Super cool to see the director expand on tonal and thematic stuff from Caveat. As posted earlier in the thread, there’s a twist and I had that pegged in no time. But the second twist, which I thought the movie telegraphed several times, never dropped.

[andrewwhatever69]

I still need to watch caveat. I enjoyed oddity. I was told I shoulda watched that first. But it was super late and my friend said caveat is more of a slow burn. But it’s on my list for the week.

Wolfs is some pretty dumb fun. Worth watching.

[thezman]

societyifmegalopolis.jpg meme

That's the movie

[waste of space]

All these reviews trashing Megalopolis are just making me more excited to see it tonight.

[jimmyspudboy]

I just got back from seeing The Substance. What a movie.

[Aaron]

Been dodging Taking Of Deborah Logan for years because I just assumed it was bullshit, then I saw some chatter on here about it a week ago.

Movie rocked and was a real pleasant surprise. Super well-done and that little swerve in the cave at the end was awesome lol. Didn’t see that coming.

[thezman]

Sept 28, 2024 15:59:21 GMT -5 waste of space said:

All these reviews trashing Megalopolis are just making me more excited to see it tonight.

I saw a lot of 'Southland Tales' comparisons and that made me expect something a lot more incoherent than what I saw.

Reminded me more of a $120 million Neil Breen movie. (Obviously way more smoothed out but sure okay.)

Some of the actors take the script into a more campy direction, Aubrey Plaza kills it. Loved what she did.

[solidsnake]

Sept 28, 2024 19:08:10 GMT -5 thezman said:

Sept 28, 2024 15:59:21 GMT -5 waste of space said:

All these reviews trashing Megalopolis are just making me more excited to see it tonight.

I saw a lot of 'Southland Tales' comparisons and that made me expect something a lot more incoherent than what I saw.

Reminded me more of a $120 million Neil Breen movie. (Obviously way more smoothed out but sure okay.)

Some of the actors take the script into a more campy direction, Aubrey Plaza kills it. Loved what she did.

Umm, “120 million dollars blown by autist with a camera” is @ way better sell to me than “old auteur flies too close to the sun, resulting in the highest of highs and lowest of lows.”

[thezman]

I'm not trying to sell you on anything, just describe what I saw :)

[waste of space]

Megalopolis was definitely a pretentious mess, I'm just trying to process whether it spent more time being entertaining or insanely boring.

[dogmeat]

Sept 28, 2024 18:50:20 GMT -5 jimmyspudboy said:

I just got back from seeing The Substance. What a movie.

saw it for the second time yesterday, was cheering during the last 20 minutes while everyone in the theater was horrified, laughing, or confused

[andrewwhatever69]

Sept 29, 2024 9:47:26 GMT -5 dogmeat said:

Sept 28, 2024 18:50:20 GMT -5 jimmyspudboy said:

I just got back from seeing The Substance. What a movie.

saw it for the second time yesterday, was cheering during the last 20 minutes while everyone in the theater was horrified, laughing, or confused

When I saw it, the theater was going fucking crazy for the final act. That shit was wild. They definitely said “fuck it. Let’s go apeshit” for the last 20. God I love that movie.

[jimmyspudboy]

There were only a few other people in the theater with me, which was kind of surprising. Everyone there was losing it during the last few scenes,
though. I definitely need to see it again.

[Athrenody]

The Substance ruled. Exciting to see a director lean into genre that hard by the end of the film. Also, the theater was packed last night. Good to see.

[antipasto]

My sister gave me $130 on a gift card for the theaters, so it looks like I might catch the substance tomorrow

[solidsnake]

RIP John Ashton. He was 36 in Beverly Hills Cop.

[solidsnake]

With Treat Williams and Kris Kristofferson gone, have any of you guys seen Flashpoint? Pretty good little desert-set border patrol thriller. It was an early HBO film, so it’s on Max.

[jimmyspudboy]

I also watched Civil War this weekend, and another rewatch of The Big Lebowski.

Civil War was okay. There was some interesting cinematography and visuals, but the soundtrack had questionable choices, and the movie felt like it lost steam in the last third.

[crobssssss]

Saw Megalopis today and really don’t know what I watched. I liked some of it and it looked cool but I really know how I felt overall. The entire theatre clapped when the credits hit then we scuttled out.

[jaredfromsubway]

I dug The Apprentice more than I thought I would. I was expecting a lazy hit piece, but I admire that it was human and darkly funny without depicting him favorably.

[thezman]

I got to see the new 4k resto of 'The Fall' (2006) with Q&A with director Tarsem Singh.

I hadn't seen the movie since 2006... I think I saw it in theaters? I loved it at the time but didn't realize that it was panned by critics and bombed so hard at the box office.

Movie is incredible!

The story behind it, knowing that it was basically Singh's 'Megalopolis' (in terms of funding it himself) makes the whole thing so much more special. There's a lot of himself in it, the Q&A was enlightening. Basically over the years he shot so many commercials and used them as a testing place for what he would end up doing here with 'The Fall'. (An example he used was a Coca-Cola commercial where he had a swimming elephant.)

I cried so much. Was thinking about how 'Megalopolis' is so ambitious in many ways but emotionally never struck a cord with me. Movies that can push the envelope of story telling, and be so innovative, while still being grounded in emotions are the goats.

[AL]

Sept 29, 2024 20:41:36 GMT -5 jimmyspudboy said:

I also watched Civil War this weekend, and another rewatch of The Big Lebowski.

Civil War was okay. There was some interesting cinematography and visuals, but the soundtrack had questionable choices, and the movie felt like it lost steam in the last third.

I thought civil war had some cool frames but ultimately a bad movie and the soundtrack makes it worse. Just do a regular movie score. The upbeat shit was clearly meant to be a contrast to the themes but did not deliver.

[Dick Warlock]

Sept 30, 2024 2:37:03 GMT -5 thezman said:

I got to see the new 4k resto of 'The Fall' (2006) with Q&A with director Tarsem Singh.

I hadn't seen the movie since 2006... I think I saw it in theaters? I loved it at the time but didn't realize that it was panned by critics and bombed so hard at the box office.

Movie is incredible!

The story behind it, knowing that it was basically Singh's 'Megalopolis' (in terms of funding it himself) makes the whole thing so much more special. There's a lot of himself in it, the Q&A was enlightening. Basically over the years he shot so many commercials and used them as a testing place for what he would end up doing here with 'The Fall'. (An example he used was a Coca-Cola commercial where he had a swimming elephant.)

I cried so much. Was thinking about how 'Megalopolis' is so ambitious in many ways but emotionally never struck a cord with me. Movies that can push the envelope of story telling, and be so innovative, while still being grounded in emotions are the goats.

legitimately one of the most beautiful movies around, slept on big time because it's never really been available. also Lee Pace rules, he should be in more stuff

[BadScene]

I watched Infinity Pool after people repped it on here when it came out, but knew nothing about the movie.  It kicked so much ass -- I had no idea what was coming next.  

[dammitdammitdammit]

Watched The Hudsucker Proxy last night. Interesting/entertaining movie. But also strange.