What movies are you watching?

[Mickey]

Sorry, two of the examples here are Extraction and Six Underground, both bottom-of-the-barrel Netflix offerings?

[Mickey]

I think Jorge is right that most movies are incredibly flat, even if that flatness looks stylized because of CGI, visual effects, etc. Maybe part of what Trag is referring to as the fundamentals that are missing includes fundamentals of compelling camera work. Thinking too about the number of movies that have digitally assembled single takes but which are visually boring even despite this gimmick (e.g. Atomic Blonde, if memory serves).

[Mickey]

Also, and I'm sure only Malloy will be with me on this, but I don't think this has much to do with the expectations generated by someone like Bay, and has everything to do with new financial pressures.

[The Argonaut]

Movies are ugly because capitalism?

[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.

[Malloy]

Also, and I'm sure only Malloy will be with me on this, but I don't think this has much to do with the expectations generated by someone like Bay, and has everything to do with new financial pressures.

yep yep

[Anders]

Angels & Demons

[Jorge]

Blonde is a fucking disaster

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Blonde shamer.

[Jorge]

What's most upsetting is that it could've been so good. All the pieces are there, and individual scenes are breathtaking. But as a whole it feels like an empty farce, fully out of its depth

[Farmer John]

I'm not crazy about that 2h 47m runtime.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I'm not crazy about that 2h 47m runtime.

What if they shaved three minutes?

[Farmer John]

I'm not crazy about that 2h 47m runtime.

What if they shaved three minutes?

Still daunting.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I'm not crazy about that 2h 47m runtime.

What if they shaved three minutes?

Still daunting.

Maybe your as* needs to be daunted.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I’m sorry I said that.

[Farmer John]

I’m sorry I said that.

Don't be! I needed to hear that.

[spike]

Andor got me interested in actually rewatching Rogue One.

[The Argonaut]

Blonde is not a disaster. It's also not exactly a success. Ana de Armas was absolutely fantastic, and I think that without her this movie would've crumbled in on itself and not worked on any level. But she is so good and so real it holds some strained pieces together. It's tough. Dominik was saying "look at how cruel you were to her", but I think he's also cruel to her with this movie more than a few times. It's bold and beautiful and Ana de Armas delivers

[The Argonaut]

I actually have a lot more thoughts about this movie and its (lack of?) complexity, but I'll think on it more and let others see it first before posting again.

Do watch the movie, though, it's not something you should avoid

[Jorge]

Ana de Armas is ok in this

Literally just ok