What movies are you watching?

[spike]

Absolutely loved The Northman, from its nightmarish imagery to the weirdness of its camera work and its unrelenting score and hellish sound design. It's beautiful, haunting, poetic and suitably ludicrous. Really glad I watched it in a theater, it's a movie that really benefits from immersion. Had a great time with this.

[Farmer John]

Northmen unite!

[JuanHamm]

I gave The Master a second watch last night. It's a very well acted movie and obviously very well made, but I still don't love it. It's good and I enjoyed watching it, but there's definitely something missing.

I still haven't seen Magnolia and I have only seen a few once, but at the moment I'd rank PTA like this-

1. There Will be Blood
2. Licorice Pizza
3. Boogie Nights
4. Phantom Thread
5. Punch Drunk Love
6. Inherent Vice
7. The Master
8. Hard Eight

4-6 I need to watch again, so they could move around.

[spike]

Northmen unite!

Lenny’s god is a corpse nailed to a tree.

[Jorge]

I gave The Master a second watch last night. It's a very well acted movie and obviously very well made, but I still don't love it. It's good and I enjoyed watching it, but there's definitely something missing.

I'll tell you what's missing. Your brain!

[JuanHamm]

I gave The Master a second watch last night. It's a very well acted movie and obviously very well made, but I still don't love it. It's good and I enjoyed watching it, but there's definitely something missing.

I'll tell you what's missing. Your brain!

I wanted to love it Jorge, I swear.

I'd still give it a solid 4 bags popcorn.

[Anders]

Road To Perdition.

Also going to see Mystic River and Kill Bill: Volume 1.

[tree_]

Great list, Juan. I do think you should try magnolia though

[JuanHamm]

Great list, Juan. I do think you should try magnolia though

I fully intend to. I'm just dragging my feet a little because it's the last one. I want to rewatch Phantom Thread, Boogie Nights and Inherent Vice first as well. I have a feeling Phantom Thread is going to jump up the list upon rewatch.

[tree_]

What enhances the Phantom thread experience for me is viewing it through a fairytale kinda lens

[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_]

Haha how is that, trag?

[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_]

You’re weird

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I almost agree with Tom on The Master. I don’t know if I’d define it as something missing for me, but there is something that just doesn’t fully click for me as it does with you guys.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Some aspects are really awesome, like A+ Boston drama. Others are awful, just the most melodramatic, pitiful use of talent.

The final scene between Penn and Linney is so tough to watch.

I agree.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I was a big Road to Perdition fan back in the day. I’d welcome a rewatch.

[VinylGuy]

yeah, i agree with Trag on Mystic River.

I really like the film, and the first time i saw it i loved it, but there are super weird scenes and moments.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

If I recall correctly it just continues falls apart as it goes because I seem to remember really enjoying the set up.

[Anders]

I was a big Road to Perdition fan back in the day. I’d welcome a rewatch.

Really enjoyed it. Probably even slightly more than I did when it was new.