What movies are you watching?

[LoathedVermin72]

Rewatching The Post. Man, this movie kinda floors me. Spielberg's natural intuition for composition - and I mean everything that entails: blocking, framing, lighting, camera movement, editing - is just unparalleled. I didn't even notice the first time (and no one seems to be talking about) how many floating long-takes are used, which I think is because they are so organic and seamless - the opposite of the show-stopping showiness of someone like Alfonso Cuaron. He always thinks about how each shot and cut will affect the whole of the work. There's one beautiful one near the beginning where the camera tracks characters while being separated by a row of desks before cutting through an aisle to get closer and then following them into an office and gracefully moving around them to the other side of the room. Just effortless, fluid, magnificent. Never calls attention to itself - it simply breathes naturally. The film is buoyed by constant, subtle visual vitality.

On top of that, Spielberg's love of character idiosyncrasies is in full effect; again, I keep noticing things I didn't catch the first time around, especially with Streep's character. Taking off her large earring to answer a phone call, for example. Just an consistent stream of tiny details to give the characters (and the movie) a sense of life and personality. My god, what a talent he is.

Verm can you tell me more about the ghost/skeleton/shrouded figure please.

Nope, I’m mystified. I kept my eyes out for it this time. It’s a little scary, TBH.

[epilogue]

Rewatching The Post. Man, this movie kinda floors me. Spielberg's natural intuition for composition - and I mean everything that entails: blocking, framing, lighting, camera movement, editing - is just unparalleled. I didn't even notice the first time (and no one seems to be talking about) how many floating long-takes are used, which I think is because they are so organic and seamless - the opposite of the show-stopping showiness of someone like Alfonso Cuaron. He always thinks about how each shot and cut will affect the whole of the work. There's one beautiful one near the beginning where the camera tracks characters while being separated by a row of desks before cutting through an aisle to get closer and then following them into an office and gracefully moving around them to the other side of the room. Just effortless, fluid, magnificent. Never calls attention to itself - it simply breathes naturally. The film is buoyed by constant, subtle visual vitality.

On top of that, Spielberg's love of character idiosyncrasies is in full effect; again, I keep noticing things I didn't catch the first time around, especially with Streep's character. Taking off her large earring to answer a phone call, for example. Just an consistent stream of tiny details to give the characters (and the movie) a sense of life and personality. My god, what a talent he is.

Verm can you tell me more about the ghost/skeleton/shrouded figure please.

Nope, I’m mystified. I kept my eyes out for it this time. It’s a little scary, TBH.

It's this little moment that has me more interested in seeing this movie than anything else.

[LoathedVermin72]

I think you’d like the movie.

[Jorge]

It is really good

[epilogue]

I really want to see it but my wife really doesn't. I'll have to watch it one of these nights when she's working late.

[epilogue]

Maybe I've mentioned this before but I have this weird birthday tradition. I didn't intend it. It just sort of happened. For the past few years I've gone to go see a Jason Sudeikis movie on or the day after my birthday. I've either gotten super drunk during the movie or gone in super hungover. To honor this budding tradition, last night, my wife and I drank too much whiskey and watched Kodachrome. We did not like it very much. But Ed Harris is amazing.

[bune]

The last movie of his I watched was Colossal. That was such a good movie, and so different from what I expected from him as an actor. It started pretty much what I thought it would be like but it got pretty dark. Such a great movie.

[epilogue]

The last movie of his I watched was Colossal. That was such a good movie, and so different from what I expected from him as an actor. It started pretty much what I thought it would be like but it got pretty dark. Such a great movie.

Colossal was my Booze & Sudeikis birthday movie last year!

And I really loved it. It's by far the best of the Booze & Sudeikis movies I've seen.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[gardenparty]

Super Troopers II

can't recall the last time i had laughed that much in a theater

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

wife has never seen Training Day so we watched that. Still awesome. Are any other Fuqua movies worth my time?

Not really. The Equalizer is a piece of shit.

[The Argonaut]

wife has never seen Training Day so we watched that. Still awesome. Are any other Fuqua movies worth my time?

Shooter is a bit of a hidden gem, and I actually like his King Arthur. Southpaw is also good

[The Argonaut]

Stumbled across an interesting movie on Netflix that I'd never heard of before: Last Knights. It stars Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman, and is kind of hard to explain. The best I can come up with is that it's a samurai flick that takes place in a post-racial dystopia 1000 years ago in the future. Really, it's just a samurai movie with a multi-ethnic cast and a white leading man, but whatever. Apparently, there was no U.S. theatrical release.
It's not stupendous or anything, but it's better than its 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, for sure. Worth a look. Good movie for a night of easy, action viewing.
It's also just perfectly in my wheelhouse: a samurai movie starring Clive Owen is the stuff of dreams for me.

Bump from jan 2017 because my writeup of this movie is dope as hell.

[epilogue]

wife has never seen Training Day so we watched that. Still awesome. Are any other Fuqua movies worth my time?

I don't even think Training Day is worth your time.

[LoathedVermin72]

Fuqua is hit or miss. I love Southpaw and Brooklyn’s Finest.

[BurtReynolds]

I liked Tears of the Sun.

[VinylGuy]

Tragedy Girls.

Awesome awesome....a fun, violent, gory movie with great performances. What a great surprise. Oh and that ending!!

[Bi_3]

"Wind River" - Mixed about this one, the rape metaphor was just too in your face.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.