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Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 6:44 pm Post subject:
ocho wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
ocho wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
Anyone watched Woman in the Window on Netflix?
It is stunningly bad. I can’t believe all those actors were attracted to this thing.
Interesting. That echoes what I've read from a lot of critics I like, but it looks pretty and super indulgent, which are my kryptonite.
Nobody is having fun here. It’s just a story you’ve seen a million times before done poorly. You’ll see every twist coming from a mile away. Looks horrible. It plays like a bad stage adaptation of a student film with a big budget.
Hitchcock did it over 60 years ago. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
It is stunningly bad. I can’t believe all those actors were attracted to this thing.
Interesting. That echoes what I've read from a lot of critics I like, but it looks pretty and super indulgent, which are my kryptonite.
Nobody is having fun here. It’s just a story you’ve seen a million times before done poorly. You’ll see every twist coming from a mile away. Looks horrible. It plays like a bad stage adaptation of a student film with a big budget.
Hitchcock did it over 60 years ago.
No (bleep), so what? _________________ Under New Management
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Posted: Thu May 27, 2021 8:14 pm Post subject:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
ocho wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
ocho wrote:
Baron Von Humongous wrote:
Anyone watched Woman in the Window on Netflix?
It is stunningly bad. I can’t believe all those actors were attracted to this thing.
Interesting. That echoes what I've read from a lot of critics I like, but it looks pretty and super indulgent, which are my kryptonite.
Nobody is having fun here. It’s just a story you’ve seen a million times before done poorly. You’ll see every twist coming from a mile away. Looks horrible. It plays like a bad stage adaptation of a student film with a big budget.
Hitchcock did it over 60 years ago.
No (bleep), so what?
?
Just adding to ocho's observation with a piece of film history in The Film Thread . . .
Sounds like you're having a grumpy day. Hope tomorrow goes better for you _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
It is stunningly bad. I can’t believe all those actors were attracted to this thing.
Interesting. That echoes what I've read from a lot of critics I like, but it looks pretty and super indulgent, which are my kryptonite.
Nobody is having fun here. It’s just a story you’ve seen a million times before done poorly. You’ll see every twist coming from a mile away. Looks horrible. It plays like a bad stage adaptation of a student film with a big budget.
Hitchcock did it over 60 years ago.
No (bleep), so what?
?
Just adding to ocho's observation with a piece of film history in The Film Thread . . .
Sounds like you're having a grumpy day. Hope tomorrow goes better for you
Relax, Felix _________________ Under New Management
How many terrible Oscar nominees from the 2010s were better than Joker?
Like...Birdman was easily better. I haven't seen Green Book. Was Green Book better?
I haven’t seen The Joker.
You're better off. How was Green Book?
It’s not a great film, but I enjoyed it. My guess is it’s probably better than The Joker, since, based on reviews, it’s just Taxi Driver through a dryer.
How many terrible Oscar nominees from the 2010s were better than Joker?
Like...Birdman was easily better. I haven't seen Green Book. Was Green Book better?
Anyway, with Cruella hitting theaters and Joker 2 being greenlit, a timely piece from Stephanie Zacharek on villain origin stories:
Quote:
In the early days of comic strips, comic books and adventure serials, the role of villains was relatively simple: they were foils, figures whose badness was a delectable given, designed to contrast as boldly as possible with the selflessness of heroes. At the same time, they were free in a way heroes are not. Their job was to behave badly, often with irresistible glamour on their side. (Hello there, Catwoman.) They could be just as compelling as heroes, often more so. And because most of us strive to be good most of the time, it’s cathartic to give in now and then to the allure of being bad. We don’t need to work that hard to identify with most villains. Certain aspects of their characters—like the desire to break stuff, for no good reason—are also alive in us. We just know better than to give those urges free rein.
But somewhere along the way—a development nurtured, if not born, in the comic-book world with Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s dazzling 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke—villains began to push their way to the foreground. No longer just breaking stuff for no good reason, they were now pleading for our understanding—sometimes, as in Phillips’ Joker, with the cloying neediness of a thrift-store clown painting. Now we’re stuck with villain backstories that are little more than rote exercises in psychological depth, stories that sap our imagination rather than igniting it. It’s no longer enough to just accept, and revel in, a character’s badness, allowing their miscreant behavior its own aroma of mystery. Now we get elaborate explanations of why and how, in stories that build an illusion of moral complexity even when, in reality, they risk nothing at all. To borrow a line from Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game, “In this world, there is one awful thing, and that is
that everyone has his reasons.” Among our fictional bad guys, reasons have taken the place of the glorious, naked id. Villains are no longer enigmatic, exciting cautionary figures; they’re homework.
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 3:10 pm Post subject:
panamaniac wrote:
Tenet was really disappointing. So long, repetitive and convoluted.
It was overhyped. I tried to watch it 4 times. Never got into it. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Tenet was really disappointing. So long, repetitive and convoluted.
It was disappointing. There are no real characters or human emotions to be found. It’s all an exercise in plot. I can’t say it’s a good movie.
And yet, it felt like a fun ride that I enjoyed being on. Maybe I admired the audacity of it and I certainly appreciate any spectacle for adults these days that doesn’t involve capes. I probably would never watch it again but I wasn’t regretful that I saw it. _________________ 14-5-3-12
Tenet was really disappointing. So long, repetitive and convoluted.
It was disappointing. There are no real characters or human emotions to be found. It’s all an exercise in plot. I can’t say it’s a good movie.
And yet, it felt like a fun ride that I enjoyed being on. Maybe I admired the audacity of it and I certainly appreciate any spectacle for adults these days that doesn’t involve capes. I probably would never watch it again but I wasn’t regretful that I saw it.
The acting felt cold and detached. Like every actor was independently in their own lane. No real flow or interplay to be found. I also found myself cringing hard at Kenneth Branagh’s exotic gangster accent. So phony. Should have just cast the babayaga dude from John Wick. The set pieces are also fairly tasteless, the final battle sequence of faceless soldiers going up against thin air fell so profoundly flat that I actually burst out laughing. I think it was maybe trying too hard to be adult. I love Nolan, but I think he would benefit more from having a strong producer type to rein him in creatively these days.
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 4:07 pm Post subject:
panamaniac wrote:
jodeke wrote:
panamaniac wrote:
Tenet was really disappointing. So long, repetitive and convoluted.
It was overhyped. I tried to watch it 4 times. Never got into it.
That’s like 20 combined hours Joe, good grief.
Nope. Never watched more than 10 maybe 15 minutes of the film. I tried at least 4 times. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Tenet was really disappointing. So long, repetitive and convoluted.
It was disappointing. There are no real characters or human emotions to be found. It’s all an exercise in plot. I can’t say it’s a good movie.
And yet, it felt like a fun ride that I enjoyed being on. Maybe I admired the audacity of it and I certainly appreciate any spectacle for adults these days that doesn’t involve capes. I probably would never watch it again but I wasn’t regretful that I saw it.
The acting felt cold and detached. Like every actor was independently in their own lane. No real flow or interplay to be found. I also found myself cringing hard at Kenneth Branagh’s exotic gangster accent. So phony. Should have just cast the babayaga dude from John Wick. The set pieces are also fairly tasteless, the final battle sequence of faceless soldiers going up against thin air fell so profoundly flat that I actually burst out laughing. I think it was maybe trying too hard to be adult. I love Nolan, but I think he would benefit more from having a strong producer type to rein him in creatively these days.
It felt to me like the concept of depicting the “inverted” stuff on screen was so compelling and consuming to him that everything else was hastily thrown together without much consideration. The acting felt detached because there’s nothing here for the actors to play. They’re just plot pawns. Nolan is in a class of his own in the sense that he makes heady blockbusters for adults that cost and make a lot of money. I’ll forgive him an indulgence. Just this once. _________________ 14-5-3-12
Yeah it seems like Nolan will sometimes find a gag or gimmick and go all in with it. Sometimes it’s good and has a shelf life, other times it’s overplayed and gratuitous.
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 10:40 pm Post subject:
Cruella was a surprisingly good movie. It took twists and turns that actually threw me. It's not often a movie captures my undivided attention. It starts slow. Once it kicks in it moves. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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