Red Mosquito

LV can you recommend a film for me to watch tonight that I'd like?
I think our main / only common ground is Pacific Rim.

Any ideas?

dimejinky99 wrote:LV can you recommend a film for me to watch tonight that I'd like?
I think our main / only common ground is Pacific Rim.

Any ideas?

I'll throw out a relatively unknown suggestion I think you might appreciate (based on, I dunno, mostly nothing I guess): http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0094849/

think i'll go see hell or high water tonight

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:LV can you recommend a film for me to watch tonight that I'd like?
I think our main / only common ground is Pacific Rim.

Any ideas?

I'll throw out a relatively unknown suggestion I think you might appreciate (based on, I dunno, mostly nothing I guess): http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0094849/

my thread was better

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:think i'll go see hell or high water tonight

meh

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:think i'll go see hell or high water tonight

meh

it's either that, edge of seventeen, or allied

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:think i'll go see hell or high water tonight

meh

it's either that, edge of seventeen, or allied

edge of seventeen looks amusing I guess

nevermind I finished watching the whole trailer.

BurtReynolds wrote:nevermind I finished watching the whole trailer.

what do you have against teenage girls?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:nevermind I finished watching the whole trailer.

what do you have against teenage girls?

The pretty girl is just so uncool and doesn't fit in! What a nerd.

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:nevermind I finished watching the whole trailer.

what do you have against teenage girls?

The pretty girl is just so uncool and doesn't fit in! What a nerd.

story of my life

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:think i'll go see hell or high water tonight

meh

yeah, this one didn't do a lot for me

Watching edge of seventeen.

I like it.

Woody is brilliant

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:think i'll go see hell or high water tonight

Yeah man. Thats the one. Fuck the others...

VinylGuy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:think i'll go see hell or high water tonight

Yeah man. Thats the one. Fuck the others...

i'm not really getting the mass appeal to this one, vg...the performances were good (haven't seen foster in years), and there were other things i enjoyed as well...but i found the soundtrack distracting, visually mediocre, and the plot seems like it'd be more appealing on paper than presented here

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:think i'll go see hell or high water tonight

Yeah man. Thats the one. Fuck the others...

i'm not really getting the mass appeal to this one, vg...the performances were good (haven't seen foster in years), and there were other things i enjoyed as well...but i found the soundtrack distracting, visually mediocre, and the plot seems like it'd be more appealing on paper than presented here

Oh the soundtrack is so good. Its Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Its just beautiful.
You though it it vas visually mediocre? I thought it looked stunning.

Hell or High Water was decent, but there wasn't enough there to really put it over the top for me. I agree it was a good looking movie though.

just curious, what exactly did you guys find visually stimulating? it was fine, just little jumped out at me

I'm with Lenny. It looks all right, but it's nothing special. The performances are great. The script is awful and seriously hampers the movie; way too much didactic exposition and sledgehammer point-making. Mackenzie excels at filming effective violence and creates a few great set-pieces worthy of the Coens, but that's about it.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:just curious, what exactly did you guys find visually stimulating? it was fine, just little jumped out at me

For me, I think the first thing is how spirals are used. There's a great coiled snake visual metaphor throughout. It's first seen in the very beginning of the film, in the way the car moves through the scene and the mounting sense of danger that winds with it. And then throughout the movie there are constant references to rattle snakes. Of course there's significant payoff for this at the climax of the film.

Beyond that I think the color palette is fantastic. There's a great sense of dust and heat in every image which ads so much to the tone and the overall atmosphere. The use of light is lovely. Good use of thirds. Yeah, I think it's excellent.