What movies are you watching?

[Jorge]

I laughed at the decapitation scene but I also think Hereditary oscillated wildly between being chilling and cartoonish.

This is more or less how I felt.

It's a real beautiful-looking movie though

[Strat]

Toni Collette is fantastic though.

[tree_]

Totally. Oscar-worthy performance 100%.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

is it better than Midsommar? I do not get the acclaim for it at all

[tree_]

I love both cinematic motion pictures close to equally.

[Jorge]

It is much better than Midsommar

[VinylGuy]

is it better than Midsommar? I do not get the acclaim for it at all

yeah, its better but i also love Midsommar. But they are two different beasts.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i’m going to hate watch Midsommar this weekend

[LetMeSleep]

Nightcrawler.

A+

[epilogue]

Nightcrawler.

A+

I still need to see this.

[tree_]

I love Nightcrawler but the music and some inconsistent tonal issues bring it down to about a B- for me.

[LetMeSleep]

The music is perfect.

[tree_]

The music would more fit something closer to a Friday Night Lights than a dark pycho-thriller like this.

[LetMeSleep]

Disagree. It follows Lou and his attitude perfectly. Very 80s dark synthy meets post rock.

Sound design is great for this.

[VinylGuy]

Nightcrawler.

A+

I still need to see this.

I looooved it. I sure need to re watch it.

[tree_]

Disagree. It follows Lou and his attitude perfectly. Very 80s dark synthy meets post rock.

Sound design is great for this.

Yeah, I can see that. I know what they were going for, I just disagree with that direction. The audience doesn't see the movie from his eyes, they see him as a deranged sociopath. That's the music the audience needs. Not what's in his head.

[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.

[tree_]

It's just odd. It would be like if during Hannibal Lecter's scenes in SOTL, the music followed his "victories" and completely ignored how f'd up and evil he is. Discombobulating and unnecessary. Music should enhance and coincide with the audience's feelings, not clash with them, IMO.

[Jorge]

That's kind of reductive. Music can do a lot more than that.

[tree_]

That's kind of reductive. Music can do a lot more than that.

That's what I get from the music in the movie, though. It doesn't strike me as emotionally complex or fitting. More like one-dimensional and inappropriate.